One thing i like about this cutscene is Lord Hood. He didn't know it at the time, but his split decision to allow Miranda to engage allowed MC to save the galaxy
He did allow chief to take a head off the covenant hierarchy but the covenant, in fact could not activate the halo ring without a reclaimer, which means if the in amber clad didn’t show up, Johnson and Keyes wouldn’t have been captured. But lord hood did help the war end sooner, I don’t think the schism would have happened then and there if chief wasn’t there.
@@Foremostturnip3 Nope. They were marines from the in amber clad. The covenant didn’t keep prisoners very long. That’s why there was a POW medal given to captured marines that survived. They couldn’t have been on there for more than a few days
I love how he quickly he changes his mind, once the slipspace rupture opens. Like he already came to the same conclusion as Miranda before she tried to reason with him.
Sound design on Point. Camera work is Masterfully done. Special effects are well placed. Lighting is superb. Can't ask for more. Would LOVE to be a part of a team that does something so epic.
Actually, the elevator doesn't collapse if you look closely, it just bends and sways from the force of the blast, but stays in one piece as the blinding light swallows it if it and the surrounding area were destroyed instantly it would have essentially de-canonised like...at least half of Halo ODST
General Butterscotch hate to burst the bubble, but it did collapse. That’s why there are a bunch of metal rings all over creation in halo 3s first warthog mission
I love lord hood in halo 2. There is none of this stereotypical "stand down" or "follow your orders", just fuckin "sir we have to follow it" and hes like "lol yeah go on" Same with "give the covenant back their bomb", theres no "we arent risking u", just a badass fuck it go ahead
Considering the energy unleashed by slipspace travel, it's a wonder why nobody has weaponized a remotely operated ship with a slip space drive designed to get in close and blow itself up around important targets.
@@matthewriley7826 Those aren't cheap, nor are they easy to maintain. In Reach, they quite literally called it "the single most expensive piece of equipment" that the UNSC has. In a room containing several Spartans. On board a ship with a MAC.
I feel the same way. There’s just something about in Amber Clad mobilizing mixed with the triumphant music in the background. Miranda’s complete bravery charging into the unknown in pursuit of a ship that dwarfs her own also highlights how fearless the UNSC’s best are.
I remember the first time I ever played this mission, I was SO pissed when this happened. You fought so hard to retake the city, you had that badass sequence where you jump down onto the Scarab from above and wipe out its whole crew... only for that cowardly little shit to destroy it all in the act of running away. How many people died when that globe of flame consumed the city? Kinda compounded by me being the kind of guy who’d reload checkpoints until I got EVERY marine through alive... Catching up to Regret and slowly bashing his head in was pretty cathartic.
Is probably not a big deal when you have Dumb IA and a Smart IA like Cortana, what is surprising is how nimble and how fast the Frigate is in atmosfere, for a moment you forgot is almost a half km spaceship!
Wonder what it would have looked like had that ODST battalion been successfully dropped into that carrier and what sort of wonderful mess they could have done.
When I was a kid, my halo game was 3 and ODST. Now that I see this. That first scene, it makes sense now. I was curious about that for a while. Holy shit.
Before I knew about the lore of slipspace portals in Halo, I thought the implosion was because the other end of the portal led to space so the vacuum of space caused a sort of "ice storm" (I dunno how to describe my thoughts). Then, I learned that slipspace traveling actually takes a couple of weeks so both of the ends doesn't appear at the same time.
@@Legitcar117 I know. I was referencing my favorite version of Johnson's Scorpion introduction. "The Chief is gonna hop in this tank, roll across the bridge, and blow away any inhuman sonova b!+(# dumb enough to get between HIM, and the Prophet of Regret."
When I played odst when this happened during Halo 2, how the hell is the city still intact?? I expected nothing but crumbled ruins of buildings, skyscrapers and glitched error sounds from vergil broken screens. And of course more wreckage from the Space Elevator...
Who else thought when he/she was a child that the covenant dropped a nuke and not an EMP? When i was like 8 and played this mission the first time, i thought that this "nuke" destroyed the city.
Last comment got Sniped by UA-cam... This scene links up with Halo 3 ODST; and is also a good reason not to jump in atmosphere. A lot of science fiction; cartoons, video games, animes and other things of the sort get it wrong that you can teleport in atmosphere; which Slip Space is a form Rosenbridge Jumping. The problem is that once particles hit the speed of light and collide with each other; it causes matter to split apart, which is why the City exploded from the jump point; why the ODSTs barely survived the event and why the city was laid to ruin. A great example of this would be the infamous Holdo Maneuver (I hate Star Wars Trilogy 3 period) where Holdo jumps a ship to light speed and it splits a ship in half. The reality that would be a far bigger and more devastating explosion and if the debris continues at that velocity; any planets or bodies in its path would be subsequently destroyed. So for example an animal girl can't teleport her sword through someone's chest cavity because it would... well blow her and everyone around her up. (Not that I would complain...) Halo got it right that jumping in atmosphere is a bad idea. Still fun; great and well done cutscene regardless.
You can probably mark it up to scifi space magic, but i imagine that when the slipspace portal closes it does so with a lot of force, and since they are in atmosphere at the time it makes a huge shockwave (explosion) unlike in space when there isn't to much effect
I wish it had shown the drop pods from odst colliding
"Radiation!"
"Covenant have set off a nuke?"
"No... The carrier's going to jump! It's a slipspace rupture we need to-"
I remember that at the beginning of ODST
Me too
One thing i like about this cutscene is Lord Hood. He didn't know it at the time, but his split decision to allow Miranda to engage allowed MC to save the galaxy
He did allow chief to take a head off the covenant hierarchy but the covenant, in fact could not activate the halo ring without a reclaimer, which means if the in amber clad didn’t show up, Johnson and Keyes wouldn’t have been captured. But lord hood did help the war end sooner, I don’t think the schism would have happened then and there if chief wasn’t there.
@@cancerousnut7767 Not entirely accurate. They did have captured marines on High Charity. Very easily could have used one of those.
@@Foremostturnip3 The marines came from delta halo because they decided to intercept regret
@@cancerousnut7767 Could have or could have come from other places.
@@Foremostturnip3 Nope. They were marines from the in amber clad. The covenant didn’t keep prisoners very long. That’s why there was a POW medal given to captured marines that survived. They couldn’t have been on there for more than a few days
Still so awesome that, while Chief and the gang were on hot on the trail.
The ODST were jumping, feet first, straight into hell.
I love how he quickly he changes his mind, once the slipspace rupture opens.
Like he already came to the same conclusion as Miranda before she tried to reason with him.
That moment Hood decided to authorize their engagement. Gives me goosebumps, you just know the party is starting.
Agreed!
It’s was either that or condemn the Dawn, the jump would have likely downed the ship otherwise. Great cutscene.
"Ma'am, Slipspace rupture off the target's bow. It's gonna jump - inside the city!"
Flannel Cloth “green light! Green light to engage!”
"Punch it! Get us close!"
“Ma’am without a destination solution...”
We are not losing that ship!
Meanwhile:
Buck: *We are droppin’ into Hell, troopers. Time to grow a pair!!*
Sound design on Point. Camera work is Masterfully done. Special effects are well placed. Lighting is superb. Can't ask for more. Would LOVE to be a part of a team that does something so epic.
unitNitro same here!
Meanwhile Buck’s squad of ODST’s are wondering why a covenant ship just pulled a Houdini on them….
Miranda:Punch it get us close!
(Meanwhile)
Buck:We'rE GoInG tO miSs tHe CArRIer
I always loved how at 1:16 the whole environment starts turning blue similar to how it looked in the first mission in ODST
That’s true, I’ve never noticed that before!
I love how a good majority of New Mombasa is destroyed while the Space Elevator collapses instantly in this cutscene. So pristine and clean!
And while all that is happening, the ODSTs are dropping above the sitting and the majority of them die due to the jump
The city*
Actually, the elevator doesn't collapse
if you look closely, it just bends and sways from the force of the blast, but stays in one piece as the blinding light swallows it
if it and the surrounding area were destroyed instantly it would have essentially de-canonised like...at least half of Halo ODST
General Butterscotch hate to burst the bubble, but it did collapse. That’s why there are a bunch of metal rings all over creation in halo 3s first warthog mission
@@shaggythesilent3726 it does EVENTUALLY get destroyed, yes. But that happens part way through ODST, not immediately from the blast
I love lord hood in halo 2. There is none of this stereotypical "stand down" or "follow your orders", just fuckin "sir we have to follow it" and hes like "lol yeah go on"
Same with "give the covenant back their bomb", theres no "we arent risking u", just a badass fuck it go ahead
I love the raw power behind the engine sounds of the “In Amber Clad” she orders the pilot to floor it!
It sounds like when the uss enterprise speeds up
@@Legitcar117 you aren’t wrong
In-lore. Miranda should be worried about slagging the engines. 😆
MA,AM, WITHOUT A DESTINATION SOLUTION?
WE ARE NOT LOSING THAT SHIP!!
Considering the energy unleashed by slipspace travel, it's a wonder why nobody has weaponized a remotely operated ship with a slip space drive designed to get in close and blow itself up around important targets.
Would make a nuke look like a light sneeze.
They did weaponize it. To destroy a covenant super-carrier above Reach. But it only works a few times…
@@matthewriley7826 Those aren't cheap, nor are they easy to maintain. In Reach, they quite literally called it "the single most expensive piece of equipment" that the UNSC has. In a room containing several Spartans. On board a ship with a MAC.
i love how hood says green light green light to engage
1:15 when dads sneeze
0:35 This is when the ODST's are dropping in... Halo 3 ODST
0:47 in the beginning of ODST when you drop into the clouds you can see this from a different perspective
Call me insane, but I actually rank this above the "Return to Sender" scene
It's up there. They're both phenomenal scenes.
Same, imo
You’re insane. It’s very close though
I feel the same way. There’s just something about in Amber Clad mobilizing mixed with the triumphant music in the background. Miranda’s complete bravery charging into the unknown in pursuit of a ship that dwarfs her own also highlights how fearless the UNSC’s best are.
Halo 2 has some of the most masterful scenes in gaming history
0:02 when you succeed and prove people wrong
I remember the first time I ever played this mission, I was SO pissed when this happened. You fought so hard to retake the city, you had that badass sequence where you jump down onto the Scarab from above and wipe out its whole crew... only for that cowardly little shit to destroy it all in the act of running away. How many people died when that globe of flame consumed the city?
Kinda compounded by me being the kind of guy who’d reload checkpoints until I got EVERY marine through alive...
Catching up to Regret and slowly bashing his head in was pretty cathartic.
@Human-Spider95 Edgy
Gets worse in ODST when you see the covenant come en mass and glass the whole city anyway….
So no one is going to talk about the 10/5 star driving of the pilot
Is probably not a big deal when you have Dumb IA and a Smart IA like Cortana, what is surprising is how nimble and how fast the Frigate is in atmosfere, for a moment you forgot is almost a half km spaceship!
Cortana was with chief . Pilot was on his own make this .
Why do game cutscenes today not look this good
@@petercaballero4880 your right fortnite is king
Its gonna jump INSIDE the city
Wonder what it would have looked like had that ODST battalion been successfully dropped into that carrier and what sort of wonderful mess they could have done.
Oh shit.
Is that why we had the 3 ODST members on the Delta Halo stage?
Wow thats sick.
Eh the carriers shields were most likely active so if they had dropped onto it they would’ve all died.
When I was a kid, my halo game was 3 and ODST. Now that I see this. That first scene, it makes sense now. I was curious about that for a while. Holy shit.
In odst if you pay attention close to the carreir you can actually see the in amber clad fly into the slipspace ruplpture
CAPT. J. Keys,
CDR. Miranda Keys, the apple fell very close to the tree.
Before I knew about the lore of slipspace portals in Halo, I thought the implosion was because the other end of the portal led to space so the vacuum of space caused a sort of "ice storm" (I dunno how to describe my thoughts). Then, I learned that slipspace traveling actually takes a couple of weeks so both of the ends doesn't appear at the same time.
Just the perfect time as ODST is being dropped in.
Lol jumping to death 😢
I wonder if that blast at the end was from the slip space jump, or because there were still inhuman SOBs between Chief and the Prophet of Regret?
Mikanoes it was from the jump to slip space
@@Legitcar117 I know.
I was referencing my favorite version of Johnson's Scorpion introduction.
"The Chief is gonna hop in this tank, roll across the bridge, and blow away any inhuman sonova b!+(# dumb enough to get between HIM, and the Prophet of Regret."
Mikanoes oh gotcha
Miranda went from being a goat in halo 2 to a nobody in halo 3 😢
Got wrecked by a needler
When your girl said she wants to go on spontaneous adventures, but what she means is tailing a Covenant cruiser across the galaxy on a whim.
god i love those little ships so much
I would have liked to see the ODST Argue moduls lose the counter at the time of the shock wave.
If you think about it if in amber clad missed that portal by one second the explosion would have tore them to bits afterwards.
Very likely
That would have been cool, it could have been a way to tease odst on the xbox one.
0:36 my brain when my cats ready to jump in my area n mess with stuff
When I played odst when this happened during Halo 2, how the hell is the city still intact?? I expected nothing but crumbled ruins of buildings, skyscrapers and glitched error sounds from vergil broken screens. And of course more wreckage from the Space Elevator...
They then proceeded to get infected by the flood.
Wonder if that's what happens when matter and anti-matter collides
I liked the scene where In Amber Clad tries to catch up, leaving behind a ball of blue lights.
Who else thought when he/she was a child that the covenant dropped a nuke and not an EMP? When i was like 8 and played this mission the first time, i thought that this "nuke" destroyed the city.
Shoulda called Field Experiment Cutscene
You know how many times I say “punch it”because of this scene and the “punch it chief”
15 clicks of the deck!
Well the thing is they were looking for something inside the city of old mombasa
Slipspace Rupture: The Covenant's own Tsar Bomba.
EPIC!
Halo 2 have the best cutscene ever 0:16 Johnson :( 0:23 Miranda :(
when the convenant slipspaces, its the same part where halo 3 odst starts
Slipspace rupture detect- oh shit wrong game
IT'S THE WHOLE DAMN COVENANT FLEET
Nice shotgun you have there 0:00
Be wary of mickey
@@togastheonlytruewaifuwaifu6391 Right in the feels...
The frigate is about 450 metres long, How big was that building it was flying through!!!!
it is probably 2 kilometers in diameter and several thousand kilometers high.
Last comment got Sniped by UA-cam...
This scene links up with Halo 3 ODST; and is also a good reason not to jump in atmosphere.
A lot of science fiction; cartoons, video games, animes and other things of the sort get it wrong that you can teleport in atmosphere; which Slip Space is a form Rosenbridge Jumping.
The problem is that once particles hit the speed of light and collide with each other; it causes matter to split apart, which is why the City exploded from the jump point; why the ODSTs barely survived the event and why the city was laid to ruin.
A great example of this would be the infamous Holdo Maneuver (I hate Star Wars Trilogy 3 period) where Holdo jumps a ship to light speed and it splits a ship in half. The reality that would be a far bigger and more devastating explosion and if the debris continues at that velocity; any planets or bodies in its path would be subsequently destroyed.
So for example an animal girl can't teleport her sword through someone's chest cavity because it would... well blow her and everyone around her up. (Not that I would complain...)
Halo got it right that jumping in atmosphere is a bad idea. Still fun; great and well done cutscene regardless.
0:51 music?
Can someone help me understand why there was that explosion when the prophet's ship made the jump?
You can probably mark it up to scifi space magic, but i imagine that when the slipspace portal closes it does so with a lot of force, and since they are in atmosphere at the time it makes a huge shockwave (explosion) unlike in space when there isn't to much effect
The displacement of air due the slip space portal in atmo creates an explosion. Similar to the jump in BSG on Caprica.
Name of the music at the end? I don’t know the name so I’m having a hard time finding it
Kilindini Harbour, which is the remastered version of Earth City
What does Sgt. Johnson have against mothers?
He hates mothers day
well what? lol
I just coomed
why does the jump cause so much damage
The slip space rupture puts out a large explosion when it happens destroying a lot of mombasa
Orillia
All the fx sounds sound the same. It’s so bad. 😂
0:55 if only they added small specks of ODST drop pods in the sky as a nod for Halo 3: ODST, I'd rate this scene 117 out of 10!