Buddy Halo Studios isnt a new studio its a facelift over a decaying corpse. Telling someone to shut up over an opinion is extremely childish.@XD-zg1cr
God whenever an actual lore video drops it makes me think of the early and middle 343 and bungie days of getting constant books, games whatever. I love halos lore so much. It’s filled with nostalgia and it really is just down right iconic.
We do still get books quite often. Just nothing as prolific or as historically important to the overall lore, since it seems the newer lore guidelines are hesitant to add any stories to the past beyond the Master Chief Stories (which ended with Shadows of Reach, another modern story, iirc).
Im sorry but wtf are you talking about? This is nostalgic bullshit. Bungie had 6 books written in like 9 years of Halo . Theres been almost 30 books since then.
@Connor8609 WOW. That comment pissed u right the fuck off didn't it brother? Lol/I'm jk. Not trying to troll you. I just wanted to say that, yea, there have been a lot of books, 'EU' type lore since 343 took over.......but none of those books hold a candle to the original trilogy. The Ghosts of Onyx, them the Kill 5 to kind of follow up on ghost of onyx. Even The Cole Protocol.
Think about the overall impact of all the stories from the bungie days. Granted 99% of the 343 books are phenomenal. The only 343 era books that actually had an impact in the lore were the forerunner saga trilogy of books. We got such good books like ghost of onyx for example that really changed the lore and added to both master chiefs background and also his comrades. 343 In my opinion should’ve done what the earlier books did and stick to a specific cast of characters and make them grow. I doubt it’s just a 343 decision it comes down to the author aswell so I can understand any arguments you’ll make about that. The earlier books and also comic books on top of that all the way up until reach were amazing. No, it’s not just nostalgia so maybe I shouldn’t have just used that word. It was also actual creative skill in story telling. 343’s books are good but they do not compare to the bungie books. 343 made their problematic moves when halo 5 came out and you needed to read and watch videos to understand wtf was going on. With bungie you never had that problem. Maybe reach but that’s it.
“Sealed/Hushed Casket” isn’t a reference to the Gravemind. It’s a reference to Halo CE’s first cinematic. The cryo-room panel on The Pillar of Autumn reads “Unseal the Hushed Casket” before the Master Chief is first awoken at the start of the game.
It feels so much like they're talking about the burial sight of Mendican Bias he went completely mental they don't know if the knowledge he possesses will help them because knowledge is what they view as the greatest treasure or will his insanity override his programing again and unleash horrors upon the universe
In fairness that doesn't invalidate Experia's argument, HALO the franchise is based on a cyclical history, by the end of Halo 1 that gravemind knows almost everything written in the Pillar of Autumn because it contains the memories of like 70-90% of the crew. If we assume this writing is repeated on various pods throughout the human fleet for spec Ops soldiers that wear full suits in cryo the second Gravemind would also posses it, as would anything that talked with Cortana as it also did.
Idk, it still feels like it’s missing the charm of Bungie’s art style. It feels like a cheap imitation. Like they’re just guessing what a Bungie artist might’ve made the new stuff look like
@@YodaOnABenderwdym guessing, you know infinites artstyle is a mix of multiple eras of halo right? You say its missing the charm of bungies style but your really just saying that because it's not exactly bungie it feels like a ripoff which isn't remotely fair
@proxywolfx the brutes in infinite look like lego characters. The vehicles lack detail and look plastic. The monitor design just sucks. The endless seem uninspired/forgettable. I could on and on
It makes a lot of sense. The Chief was there to defeat the Banished, not just Escharum or any other individual. Most of the side objectives were important to the Banished operation.
@@MCSPARTAN501 True but in (almost) every case, each mission of the campaign either dumps you out in front of the next mission or leaves you with a very urgent objective so I'd question where he found the time lol
@@EcthelonEvendil Some objectives are not especially urgent. Since the Banished leaders drop powerful weapons that can be duplicated at FOBs, it's likely that the Chief decided to hunt Banished leaders and rescue captured marines whenever he didn't have to go to the next mission immediately. Each victory not only reduces Banished influence, but can make the Chief's upcoming missions easier in very direct ways.
A great addition (pipe dream cope) would be missions that could come from learning about these. Like an interactable piece or area of the map that would have you play out a part as a marine or covenant member to see how it got to that spot. Pretty much how 343 Guilty Spark was when he found the data recording in the helmet and we saw how the marines got there and what happened. We need more people to get into the lore!
@@SpinningSideKick9000 I still think Reach had THE best weapon and armor designs. I just wish we'd gotten more M6D love. It seems like every game gave us a new version of the M6, but not every Reach gave us the D back.
This is cool, but I wish we got stories on the mainline games and didn’t need to read comics/books/listen to audio logs to understand what is going on in the main story
Very good video, it is worth noting that the stone rings and their relationship with ancient humans connects directly with the first cinematic trailer of Infinite, with the phrase "Enemy within", it is more than likely that this connection existed since the early development of the game. 🙂
Man your passion for Halo and especially flood lore never gets old. I generally don't read or listen to the Halo canon or lore articles and just instead come here to find out what I need to know
I absolutely love watching your lore videos. Your cinematography, presentation and music choices make this my favourite way to learn about Halo and it's many stories.
A realist would say that their story continues in the form of a book or motion comic. An Optimist would say we get a DLC where they accidentally release the flood, despite all the precautions they took to avoid doing so.
Also can we just acknowledge that in the original flood outbreak in Halo CE the flood were already long released by the covenant and in no way actually locked in the room that Keyes and the marines opened up? The flood simply retreated like they did for the chief to get the marines as deep into the facility as possible.
Wasn't it because Chief turned off the security system before that level? Iirc there was a level where Chief fights through an area of the ring leading to the rings security room and that's how the flood was released.
@ a lot of people think that but I don’t think it was. Because Keyes was already on his way to the containment facility by the time the chief did that. The covenant failed to keep the flood in the facility. They mentioned this in the book The Flood as well. And then the CE terminals for truth and reconciliation they have spark talking to a covenant Ai and warning the Ai about the flood. The Ai didn’t care. Lastly it’s stated in the intro cutscene for the game that the covenant got to the ring first because their ships were faster. It’s never stated how early but it could easily have been a few days before the autumn arrived.
@@slicer940 Sounds like a couple plot holes since wouldn't have covenant know how to avoid releasing the flood due to already having encountered them before? Plus wasn't there a terminal showing Spark sending a message to the piller of autumn warning it to turn back or it would be shot down before realizing it's full of reclaimers? The covenant ships would have been shot down if they got to the ring first.
@@AxisChurchDevotee I know about that video but the covenant are known to misinterpret things all the time. That’s literally how the war started. And we still have not gotten a description of what the rings defensive systems are other than sentinels. Plus it’s mentioned that the covenant lost 2 ships that the minor prophet sent to the surface of the ring to the flood before the autumn crashed. And I’m sure if it’s just regular sentinels, they can’t do much against covenant ships so it’s likely any sentinels that did try to stop the covenant fleet would have been destroyed. And plot holes are to blame because Bungie didn’t really flush out things when they released the game. 343 did what they could to add more lore and they did a pretty good job but still left unanswered questions.
@@slicer940 The war started not because the Covenant misinterpreted Forerunner glyphs, but because the Prophets did not like the facts those glyphs revealed.
This is exactly what we need in new Halo campaigns instead of what we have, it's crazy to me how two minor characters are going down a path and exploring knowledge that we as fans wanted to have already explored in infinite upon launch It's so simple as well, this duo has a goal in mind and they're sticking to completing it on top of having a few interactions to grow their personality and that's better then most characters in infinites campaign Who knew that a Jackal and Elite from a background story would have given me vibes similar to that if the old Halo games C'mon Halo Studios it's not that hard to write something interesting, pop off with the new leadership and give us something we'd enjoy
So what you’re saying is “Story release around Christmas. Santa is confirmed in Halo. Santa was an Elite who had a skiff sledge that was pulled by twelve mindless brutes and he left presents at this rings built in his honor by the Endless.”
I would say that saying by the Gravemond "A monument of their sins" have to do less with being a simple statement and more to a memory that was passed down throught time. Gravemind maintains the memories of those who came before him and knows his origin. So to hear it in Infinite only confirms that great travesties occurred thousands of years before. Would love to see the return of the flood because of how much of an integral part they are to the Halo universe.
Hold on, didn't they call Cheif's cryopod in CE a "hushed casket"? I feel like I remember seeing the text saying "Open the hushed casket" in that cutscene
6:00 This is a part of the lore I've always wanted to know more about since the Banished were introduced, what the brutes in the Covenant thought of them and vice versa. Learning the younger members of the species were the ones more interested in the Covenant is super interesting.
As much as I appreciate the lore videos and trying to dissect stuff, but i feel like we're at a point where the more we do it, the more we engage in self-flagellation since I doubt they're ever going to take the story forward in a meaningful way from the source. Also, I feel like all of this storytelling and everything is showing the idea of Infinite being a soft-reboot of Halo, since the story you're telling now could easily have taken place on the original halo, and would make more sense there.
Might be nice if halo studios gave us a Halo: infinite side story game. Featuring a bunch of marines just stumbling on and within a place referred to as mendicant city aka the city maze thing that culminated in chakas and co having a convo with mendicant bias from primordium but with a speaking version of that one monitor from cold storage multiplayer map helping them occasionally chatting them up.
Man this was actually an awesome lore dump and genuine tease for what lies ahead. I bet some of this was supposed to be DLC since it takes place in the aame region of the rings as the campaign
Thanks! Had a problem with my eye for the last 2 months that makes filming hard, gonna have to have surgery at some point early next year to fix it, but I am still filming bits for some videos (like my next one!). Appreciate you asking chief 🫡
I’m guessing these are experiments when they remake the Halo series, adding lore tidbits from all the back stories for Halo Fans and new ones to enjoy once we get to start playing, maybe even getting a Halo 1 dlc or dlcs throughout the series leading up to the new game?
I don’t care if it’s a throw away line or something but the Chief should order all marines to not open any fucking doors on the ring. Like standing orders.
I mean, they have to at some point, right? They're the whole reason the rings exist in the first place. Seems kinda pointless to keep the franchise going if they don't play another role in the overall narrative.
I wonder if in Halo 2 when the Gravemind says, "I'm a monument to all your sins", if it was a reference to cheif being forerunner like how Bungie originally intended. The monitor saying that made me immediately think that could be how the forerunners felt about their efforts with the flood and the gravemind was saying that as if spitting in their descendants face. I think that would've been a cool little subtle hint
Most of the comments in Halo 2 and 3 were references to Humanity being the Forerunners. "A father's sins passed to his son," "Your forefathers wisely set aside their compassion..." "I am a monument to all your sins," etc.
Imagine if a new strain of flood came into being, one that didn't need to hack into a lifeform's central nervous system in order to infect. If that came to happen, it would be terrifying to encounter a flood infected hive of Lekgolo. It would also mean inferior lifeforms like flies and mosquitos could be infected.
My theory to these stone Ring WAS that the Forerunners built them as a way of time travel back and forth throughout the Halo. They would work as small slipspace jumps from one to the next. If all lined up properly and Zeta being fully restored. I no longer think that way. But it ended up being a very clever inside joke of mine where Johnson rolled up in his Warthog and told Master Chief they needed to get to Zeta Halo to go back in time and stop Paramount Chief from getting it on with Covy Lady. Thus erasing the worst of the series and creating a much better one for the fans. lol
This is the only one of these short stories/lore drops that I've read. I must admit, it's not bad at all. And it's still suitably filler enough for it not to act as a replacement for a full story expansion (which should only be done via mainline games, IMO). But I still couldn't shake the feeling that Halo Studios is more interested in truncated transmedia lore dumps, rather than actually continuing a story in-game.
12:49 perhaps this is why the Forerunners considered the Endless worse than the flood? They were immune to the one thing that stopped the parasites, and if they lived and the flood were to somehow return then everything they did was all for nought as with prey being immune to the Halo Array the flood didn’t have to worry ablut starving?
Yes, I think that’s right, but then why not just manually destroy the endless that they found using other means? I think that maybe the Endless must have some kind of reincarnation ability that the Forerunners discovered, which is why imprisoning them was preferred since killing them wouldn’t truly take them off the board.
10:40 I'm all about the idea of the ancient humans making these stone rings as a totem of some kind. But it doesn't seem very realistic when I see Forerunner metals in their interiors. How did they get the metal? How did they shape it? If these are just cave men that have the ability to make such things, then why didn't they do more with the the tech?
What. I. Would. Give. For a halo spin off game in which you play ase these two Elite and Skirmisher, going around the ring, in search for answers and research, encountering humans as the enemies, and leading up to whatever great mistery they find...
12:25 I wonder if those are references to other important events in the Halo timeline. I’d assume Hushed Casket is a reference to Humanity (considering it’s a reference to Halo CE and humanity). So what are the other lines referencing?
I wonder if the Endless are some sort of Ancient Human and Flood/Primordial hybrid. Hence their supposed right to the Mantle as essential a mixture of the two species who were meant to hold it.
A ruuthian skirmisher (not a reach tvaoan) finding wealth in knowledge? Now I've seen everything. Wonder where her story will lead and if we'll see this duo again.
I actually agree, the fact that this is post campaign i think they are purposely planting the seeds to what may be happening in the next game with no only the flood but places we'll go to lime the Palace of pain and the other 3 areas
Honestly, something that is notably missing from Infinite's multiplayer suite is campaign locations. We have almost no campaign locations for multiplayer maps beyond the Tower of Reckoning. Hell, I think we have more campaign maps from Reach in Infinite than we do from Infinite's campaign itself. Imagine if there were campaign lore easter eggs hidden in campaign-themed multiplayer maps...
This would have been great as part of the story dlc for the campaign and I must share that it pains me we never got it. With the multiplayer maps revealing ancient human structures that are clearly made on Zeta Halo after the firing of the rings along with these totems, they show a technological sophistication that this Zetan human population had processed but are now nowhere to be seen. It would have been an amazing subplot to uncover the mystery of what happened to the humans who lived on Zeta Halo. Are they still there? Did they eventually leave? Something wipe them out? I’d love to know one day in a game
@davidpelaez7176 I mean its the first weapon we got in about a year and a half. Who the hell takes that long for a weapon to come out. Yes it has the animations of the assault rifle, and they even messed up the labeling of it, but I saw in a mint blitz video where someone interviewed a currently employed developer. He asked a question about those cut monster type enemies that was supposed to replace the hunters in the campaign, and the guy said, "Cut? I think you mean delayed". Which now means we could get them in as a new boss for firefight.
One thing i have to say is great that halo infinite is finally giving use lore in this game. One thing is for sure though the history of the forerunner is black and with barely any detail is of now. But one thing i hope is that anything coming up in the next coming halo saga, please put more facts about the history of more then just the Halo rings.
Do you think the banished will rebuild the ring, but not to its size like the others, but to its original size, like the first 12? Imagine playing on a ring that big??
@ol6halodude577 keep in mind that the people responsible with how the MCC turned out today compared to how it first launched, they are the ones in charge of Halo now
On Sunday I'm releasing a video that y'all have been begging me for for MONTHS, and trust me, it will be worth the wait 😇
Im shocked you haven't even talked about the new Turok game, Turok Origins.
16:30 hiddenxperia have the logic plague, it was only a matter of time
@@BestBuds840this is what I'm waiting to hear him talk about! He's gotta be so excited
What's your opinion on the new Turok?
Finally sharing those feet pics? That's gonna make a lot of people happy, XP, good on ya!
I like how we are getting these short stories. Still upsets me that we can’t just experience this in the games 😔.
They give you guys in audios to find in the game and yall complain about it, now shut up
Best we'd get is if dedicated fans took the short stories and made add-on campaigns for the game with them.
Buddy Halo Studios isnt a new studio its a facelift over a decaying corpse. Telling someone to shut up over an opinion is extremely childish.@XD-zg1cr
@@QuickScope771 learn how to write first, shut up
@@XD-zg1cr I don't think they meant "expereince this in games as audio logs"
God whenever an actual lore video drops it makes me think of the early and middle 343 and bungie days of getting constant books, games whatever. I love halos lore so much. It’s filled with nostalgia and it really is just down right iconic.
We do still get books quite often. Just nothing as prolific or as historically important to the overall lore, since it seems the newer lore guidelines are hesitant to add any stories to the past beyond the Master Chief Stories (which ended with Shadows of Reach, another modern story, iirc).
Amen, Amen, Amen. Halo's lore is right there with Star Wars in my opinion.
Im sorry but wtf are you talking about? This is nostalgic bullshit. Bungie had 6 books written in like 9 years of Halo . Theres been almost 30 books since then.
@Connor8609 WOW. That comment pissed u right the fuck off didn't it brother? Lol/I'm jk. Not trying to troll you.
I just wanted to say that, yea, there have been a lot of books, 'EU' type lore since 343 took over.......but none of those books hold a candle to the original trilogy. The Ghosts of Onyx, them the Kill 5 to kind of follow up on ghost of onyx. Even The Cole Protocol.
Think about the overall impact of all the stories from the bungie days. Granted 99% of the 343 books are phenomenal. The only 343 era books that actually had an impact in the lore were the forerunner saga trilogy of books. We got such good books like ghost of onyx for example that really changed the lore and added to both master chiefs background and also his comrades. 343 In my opinion should’ve done what the earlier books did and stick to a specific cast of characters and make them grow. I doubt it’s just a 343 decision it comes down to the author aswell so I can understand any arguments you’ll make about that. The earlier books and also comic books on top of that all the way up until reach were amazing. No, it’s not just nostalgia so maybe I shouldn’t have just used that word. It was also actual creative skill in story telling. 343’s books are good but they do not compare to the bungie books. 343 made their problematic moves when halo 5 came out and you needed to read and watch videos to understand wtf was going on. With bungie you never had that problem. Maybe reach but that’s it.
“Sealed/Hushed Casket” isn’t a reference to the Gravemind. It’s a reference to Halo CE’s first cinematic.
The cryo-room panel on The Pillar of Autumn reads “Unseal the Hushed Casket” before the Master Chief is first awoken at the start of the game.
...but calling Zeta Halo a 'Monument to all their sins' most certainly is a Gravemind reference :)
@@HiddenXperia You need stop smoking the flood spores
It feels so much like they're talking about the burial sight of Mendican Bias he went completely mental they don't know if the knowledge he possesses will help them because knowledge is what they view as the greatest treasure or will his insanity override his programing again and unleash horrors upon the universe
In fairness that doesn't invalidate Experia's argument, HALO the franchise is based on a cyclical history, by the end of Halo 1 that gravemind knows almost everything written in the Pillar of Autumn because it contains the memories of like 70-90% of the crew.
If we assume this writing is repeated on various pods throughout the human fleet for spec Ops soldiers that wear full suits in cryo the second Gravemind would also posses it, as would anything that talked with Cortana as it also did.
@@HiddenXperia Considering all the mistakes made around Halo Infinite it could also be some shade thrown at the game🤣
I genuinely love the art design of Infinite. I do.
Idk, it still feels like it’s missing the charm of Bungie’s art style. It feels like a cheap imitation. Like they’re just guessing what a Bungie artist might’ve made the new stuff look like
@@YodaOnABenderwdym guessing, you know infinites artstyle is a mix of multiple eras of halo right? You say its missing the charm of bungies style but your really just saying that because it's not exactly bungie it feels like a ripoff which isn't remotely fair
@@proxywolfx infinite is garbage end of story
@proxywolfx the brutes in infinite look like lego characters. The vehicles lack detail and look plastic. The monitor design just sucks. The endless seem uninspired/forgettable. I could on and on
@@proxywolfx no shit I want Halo to look like Halo. Nobody wanted an art style change in the first place
I guess Annex Ridge going dark means Chief doing the side objectives is canon
Chief always came across as a completionist.
It'd make sense since he pretty much Torpedoed the Banished operation with Atriox gone.
It makes a lot of sense. The Chief was there to defeat the Banished, not just Escharum or any other individual. Most of the side objectives were important to the Banished operation.
@@MCSPARTAN501 True but in (almost) every case, each mission of the campaign either dumps you out in front of the next mission or leaves you with a very urgent objective so I'd question where he found the time lol
@@EcthelonEvendil Some objectives are not especially urgent. Since the Banished leaders drop powerful weapons that can be duplicated at FOBs, it's likely that the Chief decided to hunt Banished leaders and rescue captured marines whenever he didn't have to go to the next mission immediately. Each victory not only reduces Banished influence, but can make the Chief's upcoming missions easier in very direct ways.
By the rings this is a lot of uploads for one week
Still got one more - a vid I teased a few months ago that I've had people begging for daily lol
Plus the hour long interview with The Meaning Inbetween
@@HiddenXperia does this video have a certain wendigoon featured?!?!???
@@PolkaPeter I plead the 5th
@ This week is looking pretty great after all!
I miss despondent pyre...... I feel like she was underused. Hopefully adjutant resolution, has a bigger part to play.
Seems like every female monitor has been underutilized every time one is introduced so far...
A great addition (pipe dream cope) would be missions that could come from learning about these. Like an interactable piece or area of the map that would have you play out a part as a marine or covenant member to see how it got to that spot. Pretty much how 343 Guilty Spark was when he found the data recording in the helmet and we saw how the marines got there and what happened. We need more people to get into the lore!
Something so comfy about watching a HiddenXperia halo lore video while snow falls.
I hate you 😢 I live in the south of the US no snow much here. It was 72°f just a couple days ago.
@ ironically while shoveling my driveway and trying to get to work. I was really wishing I lived in a place that’s was 72 degrees😂
@gesprite8971 Oh, thanks, way to rub it in 😆 🤣
@@Froztittute 😂
“He noticed how empty this sector of the ring felt…”
343- “Lets make a game there!!!!” 3:45
Right! It's supposed to be the best ring, yet we only got one type of landscape and no weather change or anything... Drove me crazy
2:30 "Mind Talon me what you're doing on that ship?"
Boooooo
"You stay where you are! Nothing can be done until my snowman is complete!"
-High-Prophet of Snow
"Sir: groaning at that pun."
Sir, cringing at this joke
"Master Chef, you mind telling what you're cooking on that ship?!"
"Sir, to give the Bomb back their covenant!"
"Permission granted."
Hope HS keeps the art design and just copies it over to URE. And add all the things we should’ve gotten with Infinite
Yeah, t’s my favorite Halo art design since Reach
You might wanna brace yourself for another dog shit game
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I still think Reach had THE best weapon and armor designs. I just wish we'd gotten more M6D love. It seems like every game gave us a new version of the M6, but not every Reach gave us the D back.
This is cool, but I wish we got stories on the mainline games and didn’t need to read comics/books/listen to audio logs to understand what is going on in the main story
I love the fact you get to wake up and make these videos on halo.
Feels good man
Cheers m8s
Very good video, it is worth noting that the stone rings and their relationship with ancient humans connects directly with the first cinematic trailer of Infinite, with the phrase "Enemy within", it is more than likely that this connection existed since the early development of the game. 🙂
I love all your lore dives so much, would you ever consider doing say "Book reviews" of all the Halo novels and short stories? That would be amazing
Man your passion for Halo and especially flood lore never gets old. I generally don't read or listen to the Halo canon or lore articles and just instead come here to find out what I need to know
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Love your video, you do hard work every time, thanks!❤
I absolutely love the work you put into this videos, thank you for this
I absolutely love watching your lore videos. Your cinematography, presentation and music choices make this my favourite way to learn about Halo and it's many stories.
A realist would say that their story continues in the form of a book or motion comic.
An Optimist would say we get a DLC where they accidentally release the flood, despite all the precautions they took to avoid doing so.
Also can we just acknowledge that in the original flood outbreak in Halo CE the flood were already long released by the covenant and in no way actually locked in the room that Keyes and the marines opened up? The flood simply retreated like they did for the chief to get the marines as deep into the facility as possible.
Wasn't it because Chief turned off the security system before that level? Iirc there was a level where Chief fights through an area of the ring leading to the rings security room and that's how the flood was released.
@ a lot of people think that but I don’t think it was. Because Keyes was already on his way to the containment facility by the time the chief did that.
The covenant failed to keep the flood in the facility. They mentioned this in the book The Flood as well. And then the CE terminals for truth and reconciliation they have spark talking to a covenant Ai and warning the Ai about the flood. The Ai didn’t care.
Lastly it’s stated in the intro cutscene for the game that the covenant got to the ring first because their ships were faster. It’s never stated how early but it could easily have been a few days before the autumn arrived.
@@slicer940 Sounds like a couple plot holes since wouldn't have covenant know how to avoid releasing the flood due to already having encountered them before? Plus wasn't there a terminal showing Spark sending a message to the piller of autumn warning it to turn back or it would be shot down before realizing it's full of reclaimers? The covenant ships would have been shot down if they got to the ring first.
@@AxisChurchDevotee I know about that video but the covenant are known to misinterpret things all the time. That’s literally how the war started.
And we still have not gotten a description of what the rings defensive systems are other than sentinels.
Plus it’s mentioned that the covenant lost 2 ships that the minor prophet sent to the surface of the ring to the flood before the autumn crashed.
And I’m sure if it’s just regular sentinels, they can’t do much against covenant ships so it’s likely any sentinels that did try to stop the covenant fleet would have been destroyed.
And plot holes are to blame because Bungie didn’t really flush out things when they released the game. 343 did what they could to add more lore and they did a pretty good job but still left unanswered questions.
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The war started not because the Covenant misinterpreted Forerunner glyphs, but because the Prophets did not like the facts those glyphs revealed.
This is exactly what we need in new Halo campaigns instead of what we have, it's crazy to me how two minor characters are going down a path and exploring knowledge that we as fans wanted to have already explored in infinite upon launch
It's so simple as well, this duo has a goal in mind and they're sticking to completing it on top of having a few interactions to grow their personality and that's better then most characters in infinites campaign
Who knew that a Jackal and Elite from a background story would have given me vibes similar to that if the old Halo games
C'mon Halo Studios it's not that hard to write something interesting, pop off with the new leadership and give us something we'd enjoy
Your videos are honestly awesome, Hidden xperia is the greatest halo youtuber
12:18…hold up… “Hushed Casket” was used in Halo CE for Chief’s Cryopod then they arrived at the ring wasn’t it?
Yes
So what you’re saying is “Story release around Christmas. Santa is confirmed in Halo. Santa was an Elite who had a skiff sledge that was pulled by twelve mindless brutes and he left presents at this rings built in his honor by the Endless.”
Regarding that, I must plead the 5th
And the "Elves" that help him a just a bunch of Grunts
But does one of these Brutes have a bright red shiny nose?
Waypoint Chronicles getting better and better by each new releses!
2:30 The Mind Talons, famous for their usage of the Mind Goblins
I heard they're associated with the Sugondeez
Thank you, hiddenXperia. I read the encyclopedia a couple times and this information is grateful.
I would say that saying by the Gravemond "A monument of their sins" have to do less with being a simple statement and more to a memory that was passed down throught time. Gravemind maintains the memories of those who came before him and knows his origin. So to hear it in Infinite only confirms that great travesties occurred thousands of years before. Would love to see the return of the flood because of how much of an integral part they are to the Halo universe.
Hold on, didn't they call Cheif's cryopod in CE a "hushed casket"? I feel like I remember seeing the text saying "Open the hushed casket" in that cutscene
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6:00 This is a part of the lore I've always wanted to know more about since the Banished were introduced, what the brutes in the Covenant thought of them and vice versa. Learning the younger members of the species were the ones more interested in the Covenant is super interesting.
Well told, I'll be keeping an eye out for this stuff next time I hop in campaign 🤘
He’s blessing us up for the holidays with these uploads, bro doesn’t miss!🎉
11:03 Biased? Mendicantly?
As much as I appreciate the lore videos and trying to dissect stuff, but i feel like we're at a point where the more we do it, the more we engage in self-flagellation since I doubt they're ever going to take the story forward in a meaningful way from the source.
Also, I feel like all of this storytelling and everything is showing the idea of Infinite being a soft-reboot of Halo, since the story you're telling now could easily have taken place on the original halo, and would make more sense there.
Are there other Endless buried away in the Ring, along with some Flood ...?
Leave it to Xperia to try to make everything ominous about flood
Might be nice if halo studios gave us a Halo: infinite side story game. Featuring a bunch of marines just stumbling on and within a place referred to as mendicant city aka the city maze thing that culminated in chakas and co having a convo with mendicant bias from primordium but with a speaking version of that one monitor from cold storage multiplayer map helping them occasionally chatting them up.
Man this was actually an awesome lore dump and genuine tease for what lies ahead. I bet some of this was supposed to be DLC since it takes place in the aame region of the rings as the campaign
Man, I’m completely with you. I do miss the Lord, but I’m glad we get at least little nuggets here in there so we know halo isn’t dead
Such a underrated channel
Aww where's your face? I swear half the fun is seeing how incredibly excited you are to share all this with us. Hope you're feeling well!
Thanks! Had a problem with my eye for the last 2 months that makes filming hard, gonna have to have surgery at some point early next year to fix it, but I am still filming bits for some videos (like my next one!). Appreciate you asking chief 🫡
Thank god, new halo lore.
“albeit somewhat BIASED” was clean bro 😂❤️
Seems like the kind of information that should have been included in the actual game. Even if just through audio logs or something.
Like Chief at the end of Infinite, we're all out here in the (lore) desert.
I’m guessing these are experiments when they remake the Halo series, adding lore tidbits from all the back stories for Halo Fans and new ones to enjoy once we get to start playing, maybe even getting a Halo 1 dlc or dlcs throughout the series leading up to the new game?
"The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead."
What is the track playing in the background at 9:30 ???
I was in your .1% of viewers this year you are the best halo UA-camr, and yes I would like a cookie for that
I don’t care if it’s a throw away line or something but the Chief should order all marines to not open any fucking doors on the ring. Like standing orders.
You keep makin em well keep watchin 👀💜
I hope to God the Flood make a comeback.
I mean, they have to at some point, right? They're the whole reason the rings exist in the first place. Seems kinda pointless to keep the franchise going if they don't play another role in the overall narrative.
But the way they said that the endless were "worse" than the flood, I doubt they Will ever come back
Thank you for mentioning the war skiff
aw shoot .. I gotta back out and continue where I left off on halo books will be right back after this.
I wonder if in Halo 2 when the Gravemind says, "I'm a monument to all your sins", if it was a reference to cheif being forerunner like how Bungie originally intended. The monitor saying that made me immediately think that could be how the forerunners felt about their efforts with the flood and the gravemind was saying that as if spitting in their descendants face. I think that would've been a cool little subtle hint
Most of the comments in Halo 2 and 3 were references to Humanity being the Forerunners. "A father's sins passed to his son," "Your forefathers wisely set aside their compassion..." "I am a monument to all your sins," etc.
"why would you hesitate to do what you've already done?"
@@devonlambert9131 "This is not your grave, but you are welcome in it."
Imagine if a new strain of flood came into being, one that didn't need to hack into a lifeform's central nervous system in order to infect. If that came to happen, it would be terrifying to encounter a flood infected hive of Lekgolo. It would also mean inferior lifeforms like flies and mosquitos could be infected.
Mega Halo reference hell yeah🤘🏻
13:59 LMAO THAT MARINE GOT LAUNCHED INTO THE VOID
My theory to these stone Ring WAS that the Forerunners built them as a way of time travel back and forth throughout the Halo. They would work as small slipspace jumps from one to the next. If all lined up properly and Zeta being fully restored. I no longer think that way. But it ended up being a very clever inside joke of mine where Johnson rolled up in his Warthog and told Master Chief they needed to get to Zeta Halo to go back in time and stop Paramount Chief from getting it on with Covy Lady. Thus erasing the worst of the series and creating a much better one for the fans. lol
Not a lore video without the good old master builder being mentioned
This is the only one of these short stories/lore drops that I've read. I must admit, it's not bad at all. And it's still suitably filler enough for it not to act as a replacement for a full story expansion (which should only be done via mainline games, IMO). But I still couldn't shake the feeling that Halo Studios is more interested in truncated transmedia lore dumps, rather than actually continuing a story in-game.
1:30 Wow is that original (Bungie) Halo concept art? Looks like something straight out of Destiny!
Does this mean since chief landed near a lot of these at the end of infinite that he landed near a palace of pain?
Great video man!!! You're a legend like Bigfoot!!! RIP Campaign DLC 😅😅😅😭😭😭 What could have been...
Wasn't the Hushed Casket the code name from the chief's cryo-pod on the Pillar of Autumn?
they should save these stories for an upcoming halo game and become terminals
You know you're a REAL Halo fan when you become a pimp at sea.
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12:49 perhaps this is why the Forerunners considered the Endless worse than the flood? They were immune to the one thing that stopped the parasites, and if they lived and the flood were to somehow return then everything they did was all for nought as with prey being immune to the Halo Array the flood didn’t have to worry ablut starving?
Yes, I think that’s right, but then why not just manually destroy the endless that they found using other means? I think that maybe the Endless must have some kind of reincarnation ability that the Forerunners discovered, which is why imprisoning them was preferred since killing them wouldn’t truly take them off the board.
Probably for the same reason they kept the flood around. Too study them
Could the endless be related to the huragoks
based on some of the flood designs in the unreal engine teaser im gonna wager that the flood does come back. im hoping for a flood galaxy somewhere
Halo mega bloks mentioned!
10:40 I'm all about the idea of the ancient humans making these stone rings as a totem of some kind. But it doesn't seem very realistic when I see Forerunner metals in their interiors. How did they get the metal? How did they shape it? If these are just cave men that have the ability to make such things, then why didn't they do more with the the tech?
Fun fact the war skin if a reskin of the spectre from halo 2
I was hoping your old lore introductions after I saw that Outro of the credits.
What. I. Would. Give. For a halo spin off game in which you play ase these two Elite and Skirmisher, going around the ring, in search for answers and research, encountering humans as the enemies, and leading up to whatever great mistery they find...
12:25 I wonder if those are references to other important events in the Halo timeline. I’d assume Hushed Casket is a reference to Humanity (considering it’s a reference to Halo CE and humanity). So what are the other lines referencing?
I wonder if the Endless are some sort of Ancient Human and Flood/Primordial hybrid. Hence their supposed right to the Mantle as essential a mixture of the two species who were meant to hold it.
Will you be doing a video on the announcement of the new Turok game?
A ruuthian skirmisher (not a reach tvaoan) finding wealth in knowledge? Now I've seen everything.
Wonder where her story will lead and if we'll see this duo again.
I actually agree, the fact that this is post campaign i think they are purposely planting the seeds to what may be happening in the next game with no only the flood but places we'll go to lime the Palace of pain and the other 3 areas
I feel the flood story has been told.
Honestly, something that is notably missing from Infinite's multiplayer suite is campaign locations. We have almost no campaign locations for multiplayer maps beyond the Tower of Reckoning. Hell, I think we have more campaign maps from Reach in Infinite than we do from Infinite's campaign itself. Imagine if there were campaign lore easter eggs hidden in campaign-themed multiplayer maps...
I honestly thought this was going to be a full-on book.
OMG that Tai lopez reference made me spit my drink, I was not ready 😂
Thanks for sharing
This would have been great as part of the story dlc for the campaign and I must share that it pains me we never got it. With the multiplayer maps revealing ancient human structures that are clearly made on Zeta Halo after the firing of the rings along with these totems, they show a technological sophistication that this Zetan human population had processed but are now nowhere to be seen. It would have been an amazing subplot to uncover the mystery of what happened to the humans who lived on Zeta Halo. Are they still there? Did they eventually leave? Something wipe them out? I’d love to know one day in a game
@@CrawfordPrime we already know all the answers to your questions….
I’m still really really hoping the next Halo game takes place on Zeta Halo
Halo's just a book/short story series now, oh well
Don't worry, it was always better in book form.
4:00 now that development is apparently back on for infinite, that "cut" vehicle might now be a "delayed" vehicle.
A destroyed version of the Skiff is already in the game, some wrecks can be seen in the open world section.
what even makes you think development is back for infinite? the recycled avenger that still has the ma40 sticker on it? lol
@davidpelaez7176 I mean its the first weapon we got in about a year and a half. Who the hell takes that long for a weapon to come out. Yes it has the animations of the assault rifle, and they even messed up the labeling of it, but I saw in a mint blitz video where someone interviewed a currently employed developer. He asked a question about those cut monster type enemies that was supposed to replace the hunters in the campaign, and the guy said, "Cut? I think you mean delayed". Which now means we could get them in as a new boss for firefight.
One thing i have to say is great that halo infinite is finally giving use lore in this game. One thing is for sure though the history of the forerunner is black and with barely any detail is of now. But one thing i hope is that anything coming up in the next coming halo saga, please put more facts about the history of more then just the Halo rings.
im waiting for halo infiniter to drop
Ah, the mind talons. Second only to the great kingyar research group the Mind Goblins-
_I'll see myself out_
When we meeitng on discord LEon!!!! you give me da time of day!
13:58 Than one Marine sure was rude. Sliding right into the other one.
343 best not mess up halo infinite even more than it already is.
Do you think the banished will rebuild the ring, but not to its size like the others, but to its original size, like the first 12? Imagine playing on a ring that big??
Well that would mean if Halo Studios sucks, after all, we would have 3 times the bullshit to get through. Careful what you wish for.
@ol6halodude577 keep in mind that the people responsible with how the MCC turned out today compared to how it first launched, they are the ones in charge of Halo now
Halo Studios: Show, don’t tell!