Halo Infinite Story Breakdown Part 1 - Audio Logs and Pre-Game Events
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Today we finally begin our journey through Halo Infinite's story and lore, starting with the events that proceed Master Chief's campaign across Banished-occupied Zeta Halo.
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That audio log with the banished army marching to the Reverie was awesome it sounded like something out of lord of the rings.
Hell yeah. Battle at Helms Deep.
if only we got to SEE IT
@@mult1versal the best it seems you'll get is the halo novel Rubicon Protocol but it's not from the bainsheds point of viewpoint. The survivors of the crash and main characters of the book rally and hold up there. They got decimated to think around 50 Spartans were lost in the battle. Makes me sad asf 😭 I love Spartans
@@rushpatriot2866 too bad we don’t get to see any of it in the game. they really gimped out on like everything just for the campaign to be mid
Even if Infinity hasn't officially been confirmed to be destroyed seeing even just concept art of it crashing breaks my heart 💔
Well question is: In what context is it destroyed? Yeah, it's combat ineffective, and likely incapable of any other function (like even the basic flight), but has it blown up into 1000s of pieces?
I would guess probably not, and it merely crash-landed onto the ring, now heavily damaged. And at the very least, it would be in serious need of repairs before it could do anything. Damaged and indefinitely disabled if you will.
Maybe there will be a story arc where we retake the fallen Infinity and use it as a operation base
@@IamCanadian3333 honestly it'd be a smart idea for that too happen. Infinity can be like the new main base. Mcs mission being get too the infinity help fend off the banish and endless and meet up with Marines that rallied or survivors of the crash.
If it would have crashed like the Pillar of Autumn, it would most likely to used as main operating base for UNSC Operations on Zeta Halo, or split in half, the Banished would modify some sections into a Fortress or an outpost. Like the POA on Halo 04 after she crashed, the surviving command crew were taken hostage and other marines were scattered but the ship itself was abandoned with minor power still active. Then later gets occupied by the Sentinels, Flood and Covenant Spec Ops teams.
If the Infinity went down the same way with heavy damage the ship itself would be suitable as a static or unflyable colony. As it merges with the Zeta's materials like the Mortal Reverie has become and the frigate behind that has fatally crash on impact, in which we can't tell it was the same wreckage from the same ship. I just hope that she's out there somewhere perhaps in the next segment of Halo Infinite's DLC Campaign. Just imagine walking among the wreckage and inside her hanger bay like from StarWars when Ray scavenges a crash Star Destroyer.
Kinda wish we got to see the spartans in the audio logs onscreen before they die. Not only that but I wish we saw Lasky on the ground commanding the UNSC.
I would love to see it at some point. I did also enjoy the radio drama quality of it though. Playing then when driving from objective to objective haha
Would have been cool to see any living Spartans. And don't get me started on Lasky, they did my boy dirty taking his ship and can't even give him an appearance.
I think the whole opening was a missed opportunity. It could have been a Pillar of Autumn parallel where you fight off the Banished while trying to evacuate Infinity. We could have met Fireteam Taurus as Chief did in the logs, and it would have made finding them dead more impactful
It would've been cool if after getting all the FOBs, Lasky came on the radio and contacts the Chief.
@@commanderneyo Yeah that would have been a good reward
I can’t help but think all these events before infinite should’ve been a halo game in itself
They would certainly make for interesting gameplay!
@@HaloCanon who is 117 dad ?
Probably was intended to be until Halo 5 had poor reception.
@@jamesp.6753 Probably. There were a lot of rumors about H5 being a multi-part story at one point. Dunno who true those rumors were, but it makes sense.
It's never too late with prequels a good example being halo 3 odst. There's a ton of gaming content that could be made right now
"Civilian engineer" is a funny way to say Banished plant.
Awesome video! We love diving into lore, but Halo Infinite has so many mysteries it feels so cool to be able to piece together lore. This is basically the first Halo game I have gotten to play from launch, and I can only imagine what it was like to play previous Halo games when they launched.
Keeping being awesome Halo canon
YOU keep being awesome!
Honestly I still kinda wish Halo Infinite was a 4-way Battle on Zeta Halo between the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios VS the Banished and Endless FULL army VS The Created, with setup for a Flood return down the line.
UNSC,SoS and The Banished are fine; 4 factions is too much
@@nickm5419 Halo Wars had 3 to 4 factions, Halo 3 had a maximum of 3, and I loved both.
Kinda like planetside. A multiplayer with halo like planetside would be amazing. I've thought about it a lot only having a 3 way conflict. the human sangheili alliance then the endless and banished and I'd love to see a covenant remnant based around the Prophets. As of right now the Prophets are looking for a gene forge so they can repopulate their species. This is actually plausible for them to show up. Seeing how shields worlds can have different time spaces such as on onyx this would give them time to bolster their forces. Maybe they could open San Shyuum ceilexs and maybe even human ones and then indoctrinate them. Pretty cool
Here recently a question has been plaguing me and you all must suffer too....
How would an Elite eat a sandwich? And what shape would the bite mark be?
I think the bite mark would an x shape if you looked at it head on, as each mandible would close in.
17:10 "Almost as if by providence" Indeed, one might even go so far as to consider it as part of the Librarian's planning, or Living Time continuing to rebalance itself. But then again, i might be stretching it a bit. Either way, it once again insinuates that John-117 is The One and that all our hopes now lie with him, just as it always has.
I wished we had a campaign where we played an active role with the UNSC. Like in halo 3 with the desert landing
Yo Halo Canon! I've really enjoyed your content over the past few years and I gotta say, when it comes to these story breakdowns I feel like you've only gotten better at presenting them. This one is the best so far. Your auditory presentation has always been top notch, but you visual presentation has been getting better with each video I swear.
Thanks! That's really good to hear, honestly!
I really like the machinima. It feels...right. It feels very appropriate.
I love your content, but I'll skip this series. It will hurt too much to recap everything. What a travesty 343 did to the Infinity and so, so many characters. Even the Banished they managed to blow up with this game, reducing them to a personality cult to Atriox.
Since HW2 that the Banished were developed as a cult to Atriox
That's fair, though I'd argue that the Banished have always been a cult of personality towards Atriox.
You sure know more about Halo than me, still I'd argue that even though The Banished was already a cult of personality for Atriox, it was a way less prominent side of them. Nowhere in HW2 (that I remember) there are characters preaching his name like Escharum does in Infinite. Atriox himself was more focused on the success of the Banished as a whole instead of trying to be this messianic figure.
That's just one of the problems though. What hit me the most was the scrapping of the Reclaimer saga and everything that it setup in favor of this "reboot", filled with nostalgia bait disguised as respect for "legacy". As someone who got into Halo because of 4 and (specially) 5, it felt like a proper middle finger to my face.
Blame Wolfkill.
I'm hoping that we get a stealth-based DLC with Locke that would have him use his ONI assassin skills. I remember seeing fan art of what he could look like after meeting the Spartan killers.
Same
I could see them bringing assassinations back but with a gameplay purpose of taking enemies out silently.
I was recently watching clips of The Suicide Squad, and the jungle camp scene with Bloodsport and Peacemaker sneaking around taking people out with fancy tech. I could see Locke relying on lethal equipment of his own to take out Banished silently like toxic darts, knives (or maybe give him one of those UNSC machetes that are on the difficulty icons), a scanner, a silenced pistol, tomahawks, or even a hacking device along with a grapple shot. It could even be like a Halo version of the Batman Arkham games in terms of stealth rooms and gadgets.
@@chriscorcoran4515 Artemis Scanner is built into Lockes Mjolnir since hes an ONI Agent/Acqisition specialist
It was great revisiting this after listening to Rubicon Protocol! Thanks for all the work you’ve done!
Welcome back Canonites
This is titillating!! I can’t wait for the rest of the series!!!
We must have played different games, because I got none of this in my playthrough lol.
Its largely from the audio logs, though I spent a good amount of time listen to get all the events in proper order.
Awesome work as always mate 👍.
Regarding the QnA at the end of the series, should we be posting questions along each episode? Because if so, my main question about this part would be:
Would you say that we should infer from the events told to us that the Weapon was remotely deployed from the Infinity?
Look forward to the rest! :)
The grunt from the propaganda towers mentions that it is Indeed Lockes helmet, but then again he isnt the most reliable source.
IDK why people are taking his words seriously it's propaganda you should expect exaggerations of the truth or straight up lies
I know the timelines don’t add up but here’s a theory that I just can’t unstick from my head. Is the guardian that pulls Anders and 09 out of slipspace the same guardian over Reach?
Explain the theory
@@rushpatriot2866 not really much to it 09 was enroute to replace 04. Reach was somewhat close to Basin, like I said though I don’t think the times match up.
While everyone looks to Chief for answers, I look to you.
I've been waiting for this!
Great one!
Too bad none of this was shown to us, or that we got to play it.
Is possible that the 7,150 members mentioned were only the Navy crew while the members of the other military branches were not counted.
Halo Warfleet specifically mentioned that in 2558 the Infinity have a crew of 18,262 which included all military branches (Navy, Marines, ODST, Army, Spartans, ONI, Swords of Sanghelios, Huragok) with the Navy crew specifically said to have 8,900 members, which more or less matches with the number in Halo Infinite, with the missing 1,750 easily explained as casualties of war or simple having been transferred to other ships.
Dam this is good.
Excellent and informative video. Thank you and welcome back. Hope all is well!
Good to have you back man you've been quiet the last few weeks.
Needed some time away from things.
@@HaloCanon understood man I can respect that
Crazy some of the shit that captain keys pulled off in space battles with a ship that wasn’t even 1/10th as advanced or powerful as the infinity. The whole idea of the infinity being destroyed is just irritating to me.
One thing I've found curious, and hopefully someone might know is, why does the armor between Halo 5 and Infinite look completely different?
I could be wrong but I think blue team first gets their gen3 at the start of 'Shadows of Reach' aboard Infinity.
chief got new armor his visor was broken in 5 so it would make sense he got it replaced with the brand new gen 3
I think it's just because of a new gen more to deal with the whole created threat same thing with the two canon armor cores from the newest seasons of Halo infinite
Maybe Hyperius met Locke during Breakertrip
Okay so would halo infinite be better if Master Chief had som spare ribs?
Damn this makes me hype for some campaign DLC!
You will have to wait a few years for that. I’m guessing 2 or 3 years.
@@empirednw6624 too long, Infinite will be dead by then; we need Campaign DLC by the end of this year, at least by the end of season 2 and the beginning of Season 3
@@nickm5419 won’t happen, season 2 will probably end up getting delayed to august or September.
What happened after halo wars 2 though? Where's professor Anders?
Sadly, we don't yet know.
Ohh I thought the infinity left half of its crew at reach
343 did nostalgic bait. They said the masters chief was silent and be alone which was just a downgrade imo halo 5 when your with blue team was so fun and gave more lore and made it more alive idk why they got rid of it. Halo 3 had the arbiter with you I see no issue.
Master Chief wins in a record round
red vs blue canon
How much did that intro cost
A little over $100, if I recall? It's been a long time.
Awww nostalgia bait .... Something that wouldn't be used to draw viewers to a loose TV show
I love how so much of the story is told through these instead of through the gameplay itself. Garbage game, ruined franchise.
its so disapointing everything happend of screen great way to save money 343
Anyone else wondering if codename pointer is Mrs Veronica Buck?
I only played through this campaign once. Never went back to it because it felt like an insult to my intelligence
...now I miss the railgun
Railgun was a fantastic addition to Halo
13:46 Specifically narrowed down to pre April 23rd since that's when Stone recons Outpost Tremonius and in the following days she reports to Makovich and Sorel that she found the opened Cylix.
10:23 sounds like an attenuation pulse mixed with some kind of slip-space bomb (like from Halo reach, or regret over New Mombasa (not a slip space bomb, but is somewhat weaponised slip space)).
Wish Master Chief was back with his Blue Team.
I really hope that happens when they add co-op to the campaign.
One day, I hope!
Amen to that, sister-brother. AMEN TO THAT!
@@mitwhitgaming7722 This I am honestly hoping for this tbh.
Hope for a DLC.
I firmly believe Halo Infinite should have started with a lengthy (2 -3 hr), linear prologue that showed the Created Conflict more directly. During the prologue John 117 could fight Prometheans and Create Allies and even come into conflict with Cortana. Also his armor from Halo 4 &5 could be heavily damaged. Thus, the armor could be replaced by the GEN 3 armor.
Gave it a like but sadly I couldn't finish the video. I'm still reading point of light. I really like what they're doing in this media.
Excuse me while I beat a dead horse for a minute....
343 dropped the ball on this one. This game would've been a great Halo 7. Not a Halo 6. You can't just skip that much important shit and fill in the blanks with some dipshit half-cryptic audiologs. So lame.
I know a hard reboot and a completely DUMPED main storyline when I see it, 343. You had something cool going with The Created, and you dumped it. Period.
Frankly, I'd have more respect for them, and would honestly enjoy the game more if 343 would just come out and say what the ACTUAL mission was for Infinite: to wipe the slate clean for PC gamers that are new to the series, and attracting a newer/younger and fresher fan base; while also telling a chunk of the *core older fan base to go make passionate yet forceful love to themselves.
(*a chunk of the core fan base who, in my opinion, were opining with some VERY unfair, nonsensical, and even contradictory criticisms of the previous two sequels. 4 was a fuckin awesome game. As for 5, take out Locke, add playable arbiter even in similar missions, and it's easily in the conversation of great Halo games)
While I do agree that the fanbase can be hypocritical and heavily biased at times I would also say that some of their criticisms do hold some water in some areas. The reason people didn't like 4 was mostly the art direction but also in what was explained aka the Prometheans/Forerunners and the way Cortana died along with how the didact was "fought" and "died". H4 also had the worst multiplayer being almost based like Cod with the whole loadouts stuff. H5 was way worse in story as the story was mostly based in other media besides the games to even understand what's going on, media that not a lot of fans dive into or barely know anything about, along with a repetitive boss fight drawn out 5+ times. Not to mention how dumbed down some characters were to their ACTUAL personalities in the lore. While I'd give more respect to 343i with sticking w their guns and finishing the story they were going to tell I would understand why they would dump it in favor of making things a little more simple and easy to understand for EVERYONE to understand. Its one thing to make and finish a story but its another to finish and tell something that not a majority of people liked.
@@arandominternetuser455 Fair point. I don't even do multiplayer. It's ruining gaming and will be the reason we wind up with games as a service for a monthly fee-even single player campaign modes-rather than a disk you buy once.
Until we are told/see the infinity destroyed I will not believe it was lost
Forget even told I won't believe it until I see it
@@TheAstrobiologistOW we are never told the infinity is gone all we know is that it took heavy damage and was evacuated
Dude it blew up, it’s wreck litters the ring.
@@empirednw6624 if it blew up why dont we see the recks then, what we see are Mulsanne-class frigates, those were sent a head of the infinity, not whit it,
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec yes, but not all of that wreckage is just the frigates, most of it is the infinity, the ship was destroyed it’s gone and yes it sucks.
Sad to say, you have a lot of hope for any DLC for this game...
So is it canon that Master Chief shows up on the ringband proceeds to take out every single High priority target, take back all FOBs, destroy all propaganda towers, rescued all marines, and every outpost?
Basically, yeah. Unless 343 tell us otherwise.
can’t wait for your next video on this Ian, only halo youtuber i could listen to for hours on end!
Rest in peace, Infinity. You lasted much longer than our older ships
Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the recap! It was actually helpful with some extra lore.
Will you redo this video with The rubicon protocol and Outcast?
No, simply because this series is about the game itself and the contents within.
@@HaloCanon ok, got it. Thx 4 answering
Thank you so much for this!!! Booting into Infinite straight after Halo 5 left me ultra confused and with no idea what was going on ... Wish they made the pre story into some sort of missions but thanks a million, now things make sense again. Only kinda painfull that Cortana's end happens "off screen", something we don't get to have a part in, would have been more fitting imo
Didn’t wait till Rubicon to come out to do this? It explains a lot
Do we know what the state of the galaxy is after Cortana is destroyed?
Are all the guardians just deactivated or do the other IA’s still have control over them?
Still unknown
It’s implied that there are still created assets around.
When atriox was holding chief chief should have shot his grapple hook into atrioxs eye
Lore writers should bring back the ancient human forms
I loved the Ad before this video. It was a supplement for growing harder stronger bones. LOL
Been waiting for this one
Mr.Canon, what part of the OST is that playing from about 2.30 too 3.30??
from 14:45 - 15:03, Im not quite sure the timeline, and was hoping for some clarification. So... Zeta Halo was originally placed in orbit around a non-gas giant planet, that is implied to be the xalanyn homeworld? Then the halo ring fires. The next line seems to imply that despondent pyre discovered the xalanyn, but also still needed to move the ring to be in orbit around the xalanyn homeworld. Was the ring not already in orbit? Or was it in-system? If so, do monitors not ever take a look at their nearby planets and system? Did despondent know the xalanyn existed on this planet before the ring fired? Could despondant have known a species to exist on the planet, but only have taken interest after they survived the firing of a halo array? I seem to recall despondant talking about the xalanyn as "previously uncatalogued".
But in terms of events regarding Zeta halo, its position and relation to the xalanyn homeworld, and the xalanyn immunity to the halo array, theres absolutely no way that these things are all coincidences, right?
Like we're supposed to believe that the only halo array to orbit a non-gas giant, orbited a planet, a planet that just so happened to harbor a species that just so happened to have immunity to the halo array by pure chance. There is some serious space-illuminati level planning going on here. There has to be. "accidental discovery" by despondent pyre seems makes me feel like 343i still trying to tell me that Santa is real as I approach 30 years old.
I've had my long running theory that the xalanyn are connected to the precursors like many others, and my current running theory is that their immunity to the halo ring is an intentional one, not an accident. A programmed or planned immunity, either by their biological design, or by a programmed hole in the halo arrays function. It seems to absolutely confirm that there is some sort of shenanigans afoot.
It was moved to the xalanyn home world after their discovery and most likely kept there to study it
The real question is how did Despondent Pyre discover them
“First pieces of campaign DLC” 😀😀HA
I'm glad you saw that guardian on the ground to, no one else seems to have seen it
Nice machinima intro
Great video!
I've been meaning to listen to the audio logs but haven't taken the time. This was a much easier way to do it haha
Good Gameplay Video
As I likely made clear in your Discord, the Spartan Audio Logs are my favourites. I wonder if we'll see adaptations of any of the cut logs - Spartan or otherwise - in Rubicon Protocol. If I remember one regarding Kovan's fate, Jega and the Banished deliberately exploited the protocol to lure out Spartans and more easily hunt them.
I don’t think kovan’s fate is known, she disappears after the battle of the mortal reverie
@@arm1733 I know but there are several cut Audio Logs, some of which cover the fates of Kovan, Vettel and Horvath. I think Generalkidd posted them on his channel.
@@Jedi_Spartan I think vettel is dead
But hopefully horvath and kovan are still alive during the events of infinite
Along with jaide and rosado
Also since those were cut, hopefully they changed their fates and are alive
Horveth isFREAKING BAD-ASS, I like him. He actually had a chance against Escharum while 5 other spartans failed. He was also an ODST! Vettel on the other hand is 100% dead
Thanks for the content.
I'm still unclear about how Cortana actually died. She was trapped by the weapon but who deleted her?
Hell yeah, awesome video, Halo Canon! I wish these events would be explored in the game, but at least we have a version of the story to further flush out the events of the timeline. Thanks for all the work you do, my guy!
Holy,Dark.~~!!!
How could harbinger telling browne the truth break him
We don't know all that he was told, but keep in mind, what might be breaking for a character in-universe is going to be different than what might break you or me. Any information we receive about Halo's lore will always be filtered through a lense of fiction, greatly reducing its potential impact. For those in-universe those facts concern the universe and reality they live in, so the impact on them will be quite significant.
Fucking awesome stuff man. So useful for me in understanding the (apparent) disconnect between 5's story and randomly appearing on a Ring with a new enemy (the Banished) on Infinite
Is it ever explained in Shadows of Reach (havent read it yet) how Atriox even knew where Zeta Halo was and that the UNSC had the Weapon??? Also, seems super weird that he was able to arrive at Zeta before the Infinity of all ships....
Is very likely that Banished Humans infiltrated in the UNSC told him.
Man the audio logs most definitely had taken up a lot of space for the campaign I still pre ordered this think they was gonna hit it outta the park and have a tremendously great campaign and I sit her enraged as I haven't even finished it for of how empty the Campaign feels they gutted too much then focused to many chips towards their multiplayer and it's sad really coulda had taken time and really made this great cause it had potential.
Wait so if the chief had to deploy the weapon to halo, how/why was he back on the ship when the banished attacked? How did the weapon get to halo?
How is that neck so... thin...
Female Spartan.
So what happen to the prophets?
The prophets died in halo 2-3
Wow if you're asking that you're really late lol.
First and more important: Thanks. Yet... this don't answer why Cortana was in Zeta. and to me, also answer why the Vanished are the main enemy in this game.
1.- because she wanted to learn it's secrets, especially about the Xalanyn
2.- the Banished are the main enemy mainly because of the fan reaction with them
How come you didn't use halo infinite for your machinima? It's do-able. If you want.
Because I don't want anything to do with the MP at the moment.
Love it !
5:35 isnt there dialogue from a propaganda tower with a grunt talking about spartan locke. “Man that Spartan Locke sure did know how to get ahead-which is why Hyperius used his helmet as arm decoration!” lol
We can't take something a propaganda officer could say as something factual... ESPECIALLY if it comes from a Grunt that constantly breaks the fourth wall
@@MrAvakstone92 maybe, but still
It's pretty sad you have to make a video to make the story cohesive. Audio logs were a terrible idea. Not that the game was good anyway but everything important or interesting happened off screen
I mean I won't say I "want" Locke dead
But if him being dead somehow let a different previous spartan take his spot in future content?
I'd be super ok with that
Wish those audio logs were actually in game
But they are
@@MrAvakstone92 no no, I meant gameplay
Ahh, you mean like cinematics?
Question... where did the forerunners go?
After the firing of the Halos and the reseeding of the galaxy, they decided to leave and naturally let their species die off. So as far as we know, they're mostly dead. Might be some survivors out there, though.
@@HaloCanon no i mean the ones we fought in h4 and h5.
@@chaseperkins6949 Oh, my bad. The status of the Promethean constructs is unknown at the moment. They simply aren't on Zeta Halo for this game, likely in part because it was moved.
@@HaloCanon yea i kinda figured. Thanks for the info. Keep up the great work! Been a fan since escalation
What about bastion?
I'd like to think that the Infinity's shields were stripped by that fallen Guardian on the Ring, which allowed the Banished the opportunity to ram and destroy it with ease.