25 minutes of obscure Halo Details You Probably Missed
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Here are 25 minutes of obscure Halo details and facts you probably missed, even if you are a long time Halo fan.
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Kemah? You mean Key-Ma
My favorite part of this video was the propaganda towers saying “ass” in a teenager’s game of Halo, even though T games don’t cuss, but 343 had the opportunity to add it!
my head cannon for the transport on reach is that the engine popped cause of the heat of the plasma being so close and that its not armored to any degree.
You can't convince me otherwise that that kit featured in the video isn't a murderer's toolkit
Don't stop with the Halo vids RocketSloth. Don't. Ever. Let. Her. Go.
I don't even care if there really dumb like the fusion coil video
cant say I knew any of these (except for the boat)
@@parkerstange851 I’m in
"as you can see in this comment, the second sentence is a reference to Sargent Johnson's Last words on Halo 3"
-Elijah, Probably
“You know me, when I make a promise”
I think the Cole Protocol is pretty specific on where Keyes' ODST tattoo is. If I recall, it says that the ODSTs who gave him the tattoo tore his sleeve off, meaning that it is on his arm.
Nah it says they ripped his pants off.
Yeah, they 100% ripped his pants off and tattooed right below his junk so he drop his balls into hell first.
The scene is largely a reference to the film Starship Troopers, which largely inspired the personality and aesthetics of UNSC marines, especially ODSTs.
The starship troopers scene seems to be a reference as well to marines “branding” newbies as a hazing technique during the Vietnam war
Ass cheek?
Another fun fact about Zuka Zumamee is that he is also known as the "ellite that hunted Chief but was always one step behind". In the book, when Chief and Zuka finally met face-to-face, it states that Zuka has brought a shade turret onto the lift, but Cortana has deactivated the lift causing Zuka to fall to the bottom of the shaft without a fight. He did survive, albeit heavily injured, and all he could do was wait until the PoA exploded. In summary, Zuka is honestly the definition of bad luck.
Also, a few of these I recently learned by going through random pages of Halopedia, like the Reach anniversary map's reference pictures and the Last Exit remake of Marathon's survival games.
Chief: Nothing but luck
Zuka: Nothing but bad luck
So Zuka would be a Neville Longbottom's elite version?
Bro is the best lore dictionary
He was actually finished off by Chief. She dropped the lift so they couldn't shoot at Chief, Chief rolled a couple grenades down in there with them, and then after they blew up Chief rode the lift up like in the game.
What was the grunts name that the book followed, wasn't he on that lift as well?
in theater mode in Lone Wolf, if you rewind to before the cutscene, you can explore an entirely different, mostly empty map and eventually come across a transparent Spartan.
This was covered (ironically) by this channel years ago.
@@MultiGamingNetwork03what video?
That one game dev that put hidden details thinking nobody would notice them:
With the Focus Rifle in firefight on installation 04, the reason you have to option to switch is because when using the monitor you actually briefly have access to the focus rifle when changing forms in forge. I'm assuming the same model of guilty spark is used from forge to firefight thus giving the option to trade, but not obtain the weapon
New Alexandria had way more detail than it had any right to. You could fly to any rooftop and it would be fully textured with all of it's own unique architecture and details. Compare that to the pelican flying mission in Halo 4 where if you went out and explored, the only thing you would find is super low detail textures and many objects with no collision. Bungie went the extra mile.
The reason everything was fully textured was because there’s a big pool of possible objectives being randomly assigned to you. The level literally plays out differently every time it’s loaded. New Alexandria is absolutely iconic.
3:13 dont remember if this counts, but atleast in the general command structure 5 stars is never used. The only commander to be alive when awarded it (General of the Armies) was general Pershing, although only ever wore 4 stars on his uniform.
If you are wondering who the other person to be awarded it was, it was GW.
Thats only america though. And hes an admiral not a general.
Fascinating History is to be had with ranks higher than a 4 Star General (In the US, at least).
The rank of General of the Armies is higher rank wise than a 5 Star Officer (General of the Army/Fleet Admiral). Although no official insignia was made for General of the Armies, it was debated if 6 stars could have been worn if the appointed Officer wanted to.
Recently, 137 years after his death, Ulysses S. Grant was also posthumously granted the rank of General of the Armies in December 2022 to celebrate his 200th Birthday, but it has yet to be officially appointed by President Biden.
There was a General of the Army Rank in the post Civil War years, first worn by Grant (a 4 Star insignia). William T. Sherman and Phillip Sheridan wore a new insignia for their appointments to General of the Army; 2 stars with a centered Coat of Arms insignia. General of the Army was phased out with Sheridan's death in 1888.
In 1903, Admiral George Dewey was promoted to Admiral of the Navy, the first and only of its kind, as it ceased to exist with Dewey's death. (It would have been equivalent to a 5 Star, but the insignia was 4 Stars with 2 Fowled Anchors placed on the outer stars)
General of the Army/Fleet Admiral was reinstated/revised in 1944 with the 5 star insignia.
From 1944-1950, there have been a handful of 5 Star Generals and Fleet Admirals:
GA George C. Marshall
GA Douglas MacArthur
GA Dwight D. Eisenhower
GA Henry H. "Hap" Arnold (General of the Army Air Forces, then later US Air Force. Hap was the only person to hold the 5 Star rank in 2 separate branches - Army and Air Force.)
FADM William D. Leahy
FADM Admiral Ernest J. King
FADM Admiral Chester Nimitz
FADM William F. Halsey.
Since General Bradley's death in 1981, there has yet to be another 5 Star Officer appointee. There was congressional and public favor to promote 2 Generals to a 5 star for efforts in the Persian Gulf War, Generals Collin Powell (the then Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (then Commander of US CENTCOM). Both were not carried out, either for political reasons (Powell) or other reasons (Schwarzkopf). General Petraeus was also advocated for the 5 Star rank for his leadership in the Iraq Campaign of the Global War on Terror, but he retired as a 4 Star.
Dang thats crazy, American's really be calling George Washington GW like anybody else in the world gives a fuck
I believe the Navy used 5 star rank at least twice
@@Spoondogg Incredibly, you still recognized it. Almost as though it's a commonly used abbreviation.
16:20 I like to think that the Ferrex easter egg was more of like Fe = Iron = Found in Blood, which is why Rex was written in Blood.
Growing up, I would have my Clone Trooper figures fight along side my Spartan figures, with the main two being Capitan Rex and Noble 6. So finding out about that Rex easter egg is neat. Almost like making my little crossover real lol (I still have them posed on my book shelf fighting a Xenomorph)
In the original Halo: Combat Evolved, the pistol had the Japanese Kanji for "strength" on the bottom of its magazine. IIRC, you could see it briefly during either the reload or melee animations.
3:55 not chief telling the Arbiter "Relax I'd rather not Piss this thing off" 😭
Hearing you talk up how difficult the vidmaster challenges were to unlock Recon armor made me feel good lol. Haven't touched a halo game since Halo 4, but still have fond memories of earning Recon with my friends. hope yall are doing well bubudubu, Josiah, and Fleger.
It's always funny to me when you talk about the Scarab Elevator thing in H3. For the longest time I thought that was the *only* way to do it. I never put together that you can just... blow it up, I thought you *had* to go up the elevator, board it, and do it that way.
Lmao same, literally every single time ive played that level since launch i always go up there and grab the power weapons
I'd take a mongoose up there and launch myself onto the scarab as sometimes it was too far out to jump.
I remember finding the elevator with my little brother one day. We always just drove around on the mongooses with the rocket marine on the back until the scarab lowered, until one day we found that elevator. There is a second one all the way to the right too, just no sniper on that one
Wait what
and I have only ever chased the damn thing around, crippled it's legs, and stood back a ways and power blasted the core. I learned the hard way what the "Minimum safe distance" was [shout out to Alien 1979, RIP Nostromo]
Halo does indeed have the same number of letters in its name as Doom. Top quality content, right here.
as do the states Ohio and Utah! OMG!!!! We've uncovered an Illuminati Conspiracy!! 😱😱😱
I'm surprised you referenced the hippo thing and not the Elite dialog. If you get a chance to listen to the Elites long enough on Halo CE, I think it was the level everyone is sleeping, one will say "hip, hip hop, hip hop anonymous". I think it's a reference to Big Daddy where they are doing the flash cards learning to read and Rob Schneider's character is trying to pronounce hippopotamus.
About seeing the ceiling in Forge in Halo 4. That is actually Requiem itself. You can see it in Every single level of the Campaign that on the planet. it's even visible in all Spartan Ops missions for the same reason.
8:50 From what I recall, naming the MAC stations after cities was a PR thing, to make the people support "their" station.
Don’t know if it could count as the first “bad word” but before Johnson says “damn right I am” he can also say “Well, I don't care if it's God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine, or a giant hula hoop, we're not gonna let 'em have it!”
On another difficulty he says "we're gonna show those split chin, squid head sons of bitches they could not have picked a worse enemy than the Human race
About the 2401 and 343 thing… 7^2 is 49 and the Silenced SMG from ODST is actually called the SSM49, the more you know!
also 2+4+0+1 is 7
“Halo and doom are similar because they’re both 4 letters” …….. “obscure” halo facts btw
Lmfao I was seriously like why is this in the video 😂
Loser needed filler lmao
If damn is a bad word then we need to reset into safe mode
You should see what gets censored in Star Trek Fleet Command. Balls is censored.
@@TheOmegaRiddler thats fucked up
I mean it is a swear word.
@@codynpattersonno it isn't
@@Khronogiit literally is though. Most people don’t consider it really bad on the scale, but still a bad word none the less.
Yeah, acrophobia breaks the way fall damage works in halo 2, it’s random but sometimes you just don’t die, you don’t even have to use the acrophobia, it just needs to be equipped.😊
Hey guys. I think I have a theory abt the reach glyphs, the winter contingency ones. If you play ce, more specifically assault in the control room. When you walk through the S shaped (best way to describe it) halls. You can see a glyph higher on the walls. The glyphs are very similar, if not the same. I hope y’all can figure something out.
I think that maybe the locals found something they couldn’t describe. Aka something forerunner with the same symbol, then they decided to just use the symbol for the outpost. We also know that Reach contained forerunner artifacts. Please respond and lemme know what you think
for the cairo station one, i’m pretty sure you can see libya behind the malta station and athens station, you can specifically see benghazi, libya, i could be wrong but it looks very similar.
12:00 That battle in the distance is supposed to be the last stand of the spartan II teams remaining on the planet. Whose corpses you can find in the epilogue section
The hidden/ extra attention to details are what made these games so good. Graphics are the main focus nowadays so there’s less time for small details that make or break a game sadly.
I'm happy to see the smiley newspaper face acknowledged
25:30 I think one of my favorite thing about halo is finding ways outside of the map boundaries and exploring. ESPECIALLY on Delta Halo.
hey rocketsloth! Video idea, Which halo game has the most allies? im curious and wanted to do my own research as well. Maybe even identify the different types like: marine, odst, elite, grunt. May even make my own personal carnage report on if they lived, even give them goofy names. Hope you guys see this and are as curious as I am. (Ps. I wont be counting dead bodies, just the living ones within the levels themselves. I will also be doing my best to keep them alive, to try and see how many I can save, just for fun.)
The focus rifle combined the beam rifle and sentinel beam so it’s just fitting
Fun little Easter egg/detail involving spark. If you go into forge on Halo, reach the Forge world and switch between Spartan and Spark and hold the shoot button as you do. For a split second, you'll shoot a focus rifle shot from your face.
You can see the ceiling of Requiem in most Halo 4 missions, you can see it more clearly in Shutdown
5:52 One might argue that the mountain in Halo 3 looks more like Mt. Pilchuck in WA state, which is also referenced in Halo Infinite with the Pilchuck Bumper attachment for the Warthog.
That or mt rainier
@@dmfdog that's rad, I work in direct sight if Mt Rainier
19:35 the reason it shows the focus rifle is because the monitor in reach forge was supposed to have the rifle as a gun. when you switch to the monitor for the first time it briefly shows up
I was like 14 years old beating the Halo 3 vidmasters to get recon. I was so excited I made a bunch of theater posts saying “I HAZ RECON”.
The only other way to get it before the vidmasters (as they actually didn’t come out till 2009 when odst dropped) was to get a featured map, game mode, or photo in the bungie weekly update. One of my friends got recon that way and I was so jealous that I grinded the vidmasters until I got it.
Anyway, this was a refreshing video so thank you for the nostalgia
The elevator on The Storm is one of my favorite things in all of Halo. I've used that to fight the Scarab since way back in the early years of Halo 3. If you time it right then you can jump from the upper platform to the top of the Scarab. And recently I discovered that you can actually drive a Ghost to the elevator platform and bring it up with you. I actually managed to board the Scarab by boosting off the upper platform with the Ghost and it was honestly one of the coolest things I've ever done in a Halo game!
Hey Rocket Sloth in Halo CE on truth and reconciliation if you look at the ammo counter on your ar you will see a little arrow under the ammo count! What does it point to? It points to Captain Keyes! I just now found it!
19:45 Probably already said by someone else but I'm not reading 300+ comments, but in Halo: Reach's Forge mode, when you switch over to the monitor mode and hold down the fire button, the monitor will (very briefly) shoot a focus rifle beam. It seems like a bit of leftover code or something, but it's basically the same beam that Spark had at the end of Halo 3. If you switch back and forth from Spartan and Monitor in Forge mode and hold down fire, you can actually engage the beam multiple times and you can even hear a Focus Rifle shooting for less than a second.
I'm surprised so many people seem to not notice that in the Anniversary cutscene before the start of "Sacred Icon", the phantom is flying backwards as it passes the camera.
I think that the reason in Reach that a prompt to take ally’s focus rifle when Guilty spark appears is because in one level he uses a beam similar to the focus rifle to help chief
Another interesting detail that nobody else seems to remember but me but in the 360 version of Reach if you fired a fully automatic weapon for awhile and swapped to monitor mode in Forge you very briefly fire a beam rifle suggesting the “shoot” trigger would’ve fired a laser but was cut.
Never heard mention of this but I tested it several times on 360 and it worked.
The ceiling above Forge Island in Halo 4 is indeed the shield around Requiem. The game takes place on this planet.
I know not an offical easter egg or anything like that, @5:18 yes H3 was the first game to introduce the transport warthogs. howsoever the very first time many players had encountered them was Halo CE PC days. I will never forget seeing and using the Recon Warthog's on Coldsnap, Extinction, and Big Ass. im sure it was on other maps that are lost to time tho. like there was a metro Mombasa map that had a motorcycle and a remake of Death island in CE PC that also had them just cannot remember the modded map names.
anyways not offical yes. modded yes. Just wanted to add that the first time many players had seen the Transport (Recon) warthogs was Halo CE PC. I truly do love that bungie took fans input into their games.
edit: bonus, The recon-hog in Halo CE PC, spartans can get in all of the seats. so technically it is superior to the h3 variant XD
edit 2: if anyone can help me remember the name of the metro map i am thinking of i would love you. all i remember is there was a motorcycle that had the gun-goose miniguns in it.... there was also gungooses on that map AND there was a secret hidden in the map where you could get out of bounds and pick up a giant "gun" that was just a black rectangle that fired thousands of swords. they were like Broadswords not energy swords. God i loved that gun XD i also believe there were Ferraris on the map too.
One thing you can do in Halo 2 (original, not sure if it was fixed in Anniversary) is climb around Cairo Station in the area you first go outside because the low gravity allows you to get over or around invisible walls.
the grenade launcher is the prime example of "if it aint broke dont fix it" lol
18:47 something that amused me about the memorial scene is that they have 117 scratched in, next a rank insignia found on the navy's dress blue uniform. people may guess that that's the emblem for a master chief, and they would be partially correct, but more accurately, it's the rank insignia of THE master chief. not John, but the MCPON: Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy. there is only one of them in the entire navy, and they are the highest ranking enlisted member of the navy. this is not a title John would actually hold, as the position itself is that of an advisor, reporting directly to the CNO, the Chief of Naval Operations (who, at the time, was Lord Hood.)
14:55
They do also add the Marathon logo to Pentitent Tangent’s eye
21:50 To be honest, the most hardest achievement I could never, but almost complete in the Halo Trilogy was Pacifist!!!
The grunt in a barrel is a reference to the guy who rode a barrel down Niagara Falls and survived
Theres only a couple of these i didnt know. Like the grass change on isolation. I totally loaded it up to see it lol. Knowing cold storage is on installation 05 was cool to. Ive been a halo fan since it came out in 01 so its always fun seeing new/old things i never noticed
The reason why on reach it asks to swap the focus rifle is because the 343 model (character itself) has a focus rifle built in.
in forge even tho you can't shoot as 343 if you shoot auto as spartan and quickly switch to 343 you'll actually shoot the laser out of his eye.
why wasn't this in the list!
Acrophobia does actually disable the falling death timer, so all you really revealed is that there are no kill barriers where you fell.
6:00 Woah woah woah, Master Cheif's helmet? That's the helmet Leia wears to rescue Han in Star Wars, better recognize :P
In my head canon, Halo and Assassin’s Creed take place in the same universe. Minerva is the Librarian, ONI is mostly run by Abstergo, and the Pieces Of Eden are similar technology to the Activation Indexes and Janus Keys.
Bungie's Halo was the best era of Halo...Legendary times...
As I understand it, and if you look at halopedia, the multiplayers from 4 onwards are all just scanned locations used as training sims for spartans. Some times they're tweaked so as to act as better competitive arenas, but for the most part they're all "real" locations like how we see ivory tower on Reach. Forge Island is one such scanned location that was located on Requiem by the Infinity and added to the war games sims.
Here's what halopedia has to say:
"Forge Island is set in a peninsula to the southwest of Requiem's smallest continent, referred to by UNSC Infinity science teams as the 'Great Anvils'. The geological data gathered from this area is used by Infinity Science's Forge group to help set up custom War Games scenarios, gaining the designation War Games Map_Set/: 230-1."
Lord Hood's rank is easily explained. The rank of Fleet Admiral is a wartime rank in the United States Navy. It has only ever been held by four sailors - William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey - during WWII . It is a unique rank with unique criteria surrounding its use. Therefore, it is very likely that the UNSC does not have a five-star Fleet Admiral rank, but rather uses Fleet Admiral as a title for the Chief of Naval Operations during combined fleet operations such as the Battle of Earth.
Bro I did not know about the flood infecting the grass on Isolation😂 don’t know how much I missed that one
Actually knew that crit spot on the ghost way back in the day when the game launched.
Second comment of the day. @ 24:00 you mention the bomb in crows nest is just a reused asset of a fuel tank. you are 100% correct. i would just like to point out it is VERY similar to the Bomb device used in the Tv Series Stargate SG-1. in the Cheyenne mountain military complex they have a self-destruct mechanisms for emergencies. the bomb in halo 3 is almost identical to the bomb device shown in SG1.
14:00, that is the ceiling of Requiem, you can even see it over in the campaign, if you look up on some missions you see that same texture moving through the sky.
Monitors in Halo Reach have secret focus rifle weapons that you can sometimes accidentally activate for a split second if you pause while holding down the trigger in forge mode. I was under the impression that Bungie what's going to add an attack feature for the monitor in Forge mode but eventually decided against it.
I knew almost none of these, me and my friends always explore alot and get killed alot, the levels take way longer because we're all messing around looking for anything out of the ordinary
5:45 those symbols next to the skull kinda looks like the TES: Oblivion logo; the Daedric letter for O.
Oh Glibnub, we love ya and you were a bright spot for the players in Infinite’s campaign xD
So the thing about guilty spark and the focus rifle. I found this out as a kid and to this day I have no idea if the wider community knows about it. But in forge in Halo Reach, (at least on the original 360) if you held the fire button and kept spamming in and out of monitor mode, you could fire short beams of a focus rifle as if the monitor had a weapon equipped. I have no idea why this was the case, but it may explain why on the firefight level there is an option to "switch weapons" with guilty spark, even though you can't. I guess the monitor's beams in the old games do kinda resemble focus beams.
Yo, how did you miss the elevator on the scarab level on Halo 3? I'm pretty sure the dialogue encourages it. Did you just shoot his legs until you could jump in everytime?
Yeah the guys of Bungie are kinda real nerds. 343, prime numbers, theories and technologies... They knows a shitton of stuff.
One small thing I noticed about the appearance of the number "2401" is that there is the famous Star shaped statue in Super Mario 64's courtyard with text that is too blurry to read. Many people have tried to interpret the text on the statue and one of the most common interpretations is "L is real 2401" and given that Mario 64 came out 5 years before Halo as a franchise was officially created, it might just be a reference to one of gaming's most iconic urban Legends. Now, it most likely is a coincidence, I just thought that could be one reason that is there :]
Hell yeah, me and the boys got our Recon within the week of ODST coming out.
Endure was definitely the hardest
my brother taught me about the ghost 1shot when i was little, he said it was like shooting the gas tank, i thought he was so cool for knowing this
I don't know how far it extends, but you can drive for a long time underwater on TSC in Halo CE.
5:42 the skull is just an oblique partially top down view of the skull. It lines up. Just imagine looking from in front and slightly above the skull.
Acrophobia in H2 disables fall timer, u didn't know that? :)
2401 is 343 x 7, "but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?"
I believe the 2401 is actually a reference to Super Mario 64 in which on the tombstone it says 2401 and L is Real which created the urban legend about being able to find Luigi in Super Mario 64
in the MP map "cold storage" in h3 there is an "eye ball" that watches whoever is in the main lobby of the map. not sure if you did that one or not
People really didn't know about that ghost one at 5:02? I always figured it was like the "plasma cell" or whatever fueling the ghost, similar to shooting a gas tank.
9:53 this one hurts the most
Before they had publicly released the Recon armor to the whole player base, I was One Achievement away from getting the armor.
IIRC it was beating the final mission on Legendary without dying? Me and my group of friends tried the challenge for a long while but never managed to beat it.
We had planned to try again but shit happened and never did attempt it after that. Sad to say the least, especially since it was the last achievement to 100% Halo 3 ODST
I have a new one for you. The Halo Reach DLC had a BTB map where boulders were actually w33d nugs
The map Gemini, is a Remake from Duality from Marathon! :D
4:05
The Grunt also says "dork", which is technically a whale penuse.
I vividly remember the Halo 3 keychain of the shotgun shell with the hippo on it.
-10:26-- is probably not a reference to Penitent Tangent at all, but just Bungie's continued obsession with the number 7. 343 is the number 7 cubed; 2401 is 7 to the fourth power-
Update: I commented too soon
It’s funny, I recently played through halo with 3 other friends and I literally said “was that Kilimanjaro” when I saw it, without know if it was.
Feeling pretty vindicated
I'm still proud of myself and my highschool buddies for getting Recon from those VidMasters within 2 weeks of them dropping.
The weekender box looks cool.
Interesting that Arbiter has Emporer Calus on his armor 5:49
you mentioned the mountain in sierra 117 being mount Killimanjaro, could this be a reference to the Killimanjaro medal being the medal you get at 7 rapid kills, and 7 being bungies favorite number?
3:54 if you start on legendary difficulty, Johnson will call the halo "gods own anti-son-of-a-b***h machine" before he says damn right
11:15 if you add the numbers 2401 you get the number seven as the sum
The birds in the background in Halo 3 you can shoot.
Nah man. At 5:53, that mountain looks more like Mt Rainier than Mt Kilimanjaro. Which Mt Rainier would make more sense, since it's in Washington where Microsoft and Bungie are headquartered.
Zooka- zah-mah-mi. For the pronunciation of that Zenghilli
The flood grass is actually very disturbing...
14:26
"Hmm..."
"Both?"
"Both."
"Both is good."
When you add the numbers from 2401 it does 2+4+0+1=7, so reference to number 7 maybe.