Between the Games: From Halo 5 to Infinite | Halo Infinite Primer

First: Yes, the game is less than a month away, I recorded this audio a while ago and decided I'd rather get this out than wait several days until I can re-record 1 line.
Second: Today we cover the known events after Halo 5 and leading into Halo Infinite! Let this help you catch up with the universe between Halo 5 and Halo Infinite!
0:00 Intro
0:45 Halo 5’s Ending
1:30 Halo: Fracture - Rossbach’s World
2:17 Halo: Legacy of Onyx
2:59 Halo: Bad Blood
8:30 Halo Legendary Crate Intel
10:01 Halo Wars 2
13:43 Halo Wars 2: Operation: SPEARBREAKER
14:12 Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare
15:14 Halo: Sacrifice
16:19 Halo: Shadows of Reach
19:11 Halo: Divine Wind
22:42 Fall of the UNSC
24:00 Wrap-Up
24:25 Patreon
Ending music: "John-117" by Teknoaxe
teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q...
-----------------Subscribe and Follow!-----------------
Patreon:
/ halocanon
Discord:
/ discord
Facebook:
/ halocanon
Twitter:
/ toa_freak

[@stablegun314]

Ah yes, the genius idea of leaving all the plot to the products outside the game.

[@WAstEDxLaMA]

This is the one thing that kills me. Like I get the idea of having an expanded universe or whatever, but it should be complementary not essential. The games need to be able to be understood on their own. That’s not too much to ask IMHO

[@ARuiz-eu3hk]

Pure big god damn brain play right there. Huh?

[@No-ny3co]

To be fair they did kinda just scrap everything after Halo 5 did so terrible, like Infinite was never the original sequel to 5 so it makes sense why it feels so disconnected however In saying that it's still 343's fault that they wrote themselves into a corner with how much everyone hated Halo 5

[@flare1075]

I wish instead of putting it in a story novel they would put it in a show like they did with the halo legends. I have been a huge fan of halo ever since the Xbox original and ever since 343 took over they only ever put the story so fucking confusing. Unacceptable

[@WarEagleGaming]

I hope we get a Halo ODST 2 or something about Buck and Alpha 9 during the events of Bad Blood.

[@Kaiziak]

I must have missed the explanation for Chief returning to his natural habitat of floating in space

[@brandonmiller9155]

You’ll see in infinite

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Atriox yeet

[@nekrositoh]

You'll learn about at the cinematic intro for halo infinite.

[@LightTrack-]

This is the best comment on this video. Period.

[@JohnSmith-ch9sm]

@@brandonmiller9155 Still haven't seen it in infinite.... there was/is a very large gap between what was said and what the start of the game has.

[@tsipher]

I actually like Atriox, he may pick fights with just about everybody, but he dares not mess with the Flood, he knows how much of a losing battle that is and has seen how easily it is to lose against the Flood.

[@Stargate971]

I still think the Flood are the "biggest bad" in the Halo universe by far, maybe even in all of sci-fi. All these other "bad guys" 343 have conjured up don't stack up. I've missed the Flood since Halo 3. I remember the fear of first encountering the Flood in Combat Evolved as a kid back in 2001. Lol

[@saintdoot]

@@Stargate971 You know the Flood are the biggest bad since the whole franchise is named after a weapon which kills everything just so the big bad can starve.

[@tasheemthedream4199]

@@Stargate971 sorry bud, according to 343 in halo infinite. the endless are far worse than the flood, but i highly doubt that

[@tasheemthedream4199]

@Zeke Zeke i hope so. but something tells me it's just gonna be some random alien race they made up

[@clarkhollingsworth9933]

@@tasheemthedream4199 well they’re immune to the halo rings, something the flood can’t even say

[@thatbr1t1shguy]

Such a shame that sacrifices and divine wind were not hw2 DLC. Would have been cool in my opinion.

[@ElEscolta]

Hopefully we can at least see them in an eventual HW3, maybe as prequels or at least finally reuniting with UNSC forces ending the Spirits Of Fire long journey back home.

[@jacobwhelan45]

343 has openly said there are no plans to continue halo wars. They didn’t say it would not happen but they currently have no interest in resuming the series. Most likely due to the fact that it made the least income of any halo title ever by quite a bit. It was a great game to many but it was overall unpopular and didn’t do good. The DLC barely aided it enough to make it worth it. I hope they decide to continue it after all but it’s not looking great right now for halo wars unfortunately

[@SendarSlayer]

@@jacobwhelan45 I mean I would've loved HW2 on PC. They should make it a proper RTS and focus on PC rather than making a console release again.

[@jacobwhelan45]

@@SendarSlayer at least it is on pc but I get you

[@mbii7667]

@@jacobwhelan45 they better start changing their plans

[@crimsonvioletproductions9897]

The Expanded lore genuinely made me interested in the created storyline. I really hope we get more media exploring that time period in the future!

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Im amazed. Now there are 2 of us!

[@ItsButterBean1020]

Make that 3 I want to see how the Created galaxy looked and how the Banished seem to have made so much gains against them

[@alexlyster3459]

Yeah, I've always felt like 343 are actually good story tellers within, but the writers for 4, and especially 5 would be better off making full length Mass Effect style RPGs rather than short FPS campaigns were there just isn't much time for story and character development. They wanted to go too indepth (like they can do to great effect in the books) but simplicity was needed in the games.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@alexlyster3459 Well, Chris Schlerf did great in Halo 4, overall - except for some of the bits with the new Covenant and Didact. Brian Reed, who did much terminal material, and Spartan Ops, Halo 5 and the Escalation comic, was a lot more uneven, though. And Frank O'Conner's been writing some stuff since 2007. More recently the Saint's Testimony short story.

[@iCore7Gaming]

@@alexlyster3459 bro halo 4 was good wdym

[@jackau08]

343’s story telling really pushing the side materials in to main canon. Not every one, even die hard game fans buys those … so thank you for filling the gaps for us.

[@kizentheslayer]

Yep really feels like there should have been a halo 6 to wrap up the forerunner arc but 343 was like yeah no we are skipping that shit the story had gone off the rails. It's like if you played CE, skiped 2 and went straight to 3.

[@Vestat1]

This has basically become Destiny, lmao

[@ARuiz-eu3hk]

Pisses off both main fans and new casual players in storytelling. Like we know us fans know whats up, but we know your making it so god damn contrived and stupid to fit in the game. Like bro either make go organically into the story that both die hard and new people can enjoy or just dont you clowns.

[@thedrbat9572]

Still hard to grasp what the heck he's talking about aswell, so reading that would be horrible 😂

[@patrickkenny4873]

I’d love a campaign DLC for Halo Infinite down the road where you and friends can pick one of the Alpha 9 Spartans to play as and fight the Banished or whatever threat is being faced down the line. It’d be a cool way to do co op without doing Buck clones or whatever

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

If they do that, Mickey's armor should have a new symbol on it, depicting his new allegiance to the URF, but he continues to work with his old friends because they need to work together to survive the Banished and Created.

[@helwrecht1637]

Me want Buck back

[@Hadgerz]

when they're not busy selling armour colours for $20, maybe.

[@TexasToast712]

Campaign DLC is confirmed I think so who knows?

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@TexasToast712 Where did you get this info?

[@siLent6972]

Lemme just say that the halo wars 2 cutscene where Jerome and Isabel board the banished cruiser is phenomenal. Best cutscene in all of halo hands down

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Once again Blur proving that they can create some wonderful cutscenes.

[@somehaloguy9372]

@@dragonbornexpress5650 I still wanna know what happened to the budget when Shipmaster drove up to Arbiter in that green screen wraith

[@jewbacca896]

“This heretic and those who follow him must be silenced.” better halo cutscenes out there

[@QrazyQuarian]

@@jewbacca896 Eh, the Halo 2 Blur cutscenes were great. But Halo Wars 2 really utilized their assets and pushed it to heights I didn't expect--such as thousands of Sentinels ripping through the hull of a CAS flagship.

[@magweedo2225]

C,ć.v​@@dragonbornexpress5650

[@pyrosianheir]

So like... I greatly appreciate all of this run down - it was DEFINITELY needed, this time - but.... I'm also feeling like 343 doing all this off screen makes it a lot harder to get into the story of Infinite's story. There's so much missing thanks to the gap of events that could be necessary to having some degree of understanding. Like... Why was Chief's return to Reach not the next game? It would've been incredibly hype.... Ah well. Nothing to be done about it now. Like I said at the start, appreciate you putting all this together in an understandable, pretty concise, format.

[@watLegends]

Unfortunately not all of the story can be fit into a 10+ hour game. Its like in any production, the source material is always way deeper and highly detailed. My guess is that they weight in the options and its obvious that the main plot focuses more on the events of zeta halo, the return of chief to reach sounds amazing, but it would probably make a different type of game. Hope they take the next 10 years to release more prequel content on halo infinite to cover the gaps! P.S: Happy December 8, only 3 hours away from the campaign as of writing this xD

[@tonykriss1594]

It was also quite some jump from Halo 1 to Halo 2 back then. Though 1 book would cover it all instead of a dozen titles across serval different medias now.

[@pyrosianheir]

@@tonykriss1594 I feel like there's a big difference between "and then he and Johnson got home, somehow," and the big ol run of stuff that happened between 5 and infinite.

[@tonykriss1594]

@@pyrosianheir It's a smaller leap but do make people scratch their head especially cortana said chief is the only one survived.

[@pyrosianheir]

@@tonykriss1594 I just figured that for what it likely was - a retcon from after Halo blew up and Bungie decided to bring Johnson back with a larger role.

[@nicos1097]

“Waiting, hoping, for something to turn the tide…” The way you then cut to the master chief floating in space gave me massive goose bumps. The way you set up that shot after describing the UNSC’s devastated state, then showing the chief as the last figure of hope was amazing. It immediately brought back all the memories of the things chief had done to single-handedly save humanity and the galaxy, and how he is the last thing that humanity can truly look towards for any chance of victory. Amazing, good work.

[@uhkingdom]

I only recently went on a deep wiki rabbit hole of details of the extended halo universe having never read the books, and while the extended universe is insane and wildly interesting (including a LOT of stuff not mentioned here, as it pertains to events between the precursors and the forerunners) I still love the Halo games because it’s Master Chiefs story of being so solely focused on the betterment of humanity through impossible action mixed in with (ty Cortana) a hefty amount of luck that the games become such a satisfying hero story for those who play it. I’ll scream my jeans if we see Spartan II Jerome and Isabelle or the Spirit of Fire sometime during Infinite, but even if we don’t I’m still excited to rip through this ring and find out what happens next regardless. Feels good to be back in some real ass Halo game territory. 343 making a strong comeback with this one

[@michaelsnyder8661]

Crazy cuz same here

[@Logan7281X]

That's how my youngest and I get everytime we see a new live-action Halo commercial. We've been running missions together since he was old enough to play Halo 2, and we're very invested in this story.

[@gaylordrobinson1199]

@@Logan7281X oof, how are you thinking about the show now?

[@Logan7281X]

@@gaylordrobinson1199 Oh you mean, "Halo: What if....?" I watched the first 3 episodes and forgot about it. I was pretty much done after 'Mister Chief' showed his face to the camera. Taking it off was fine, but we should NEVER see "The Chief's" face. We shouldn't even know who the actor is.

[@brown-eyedcheese5440]

Mickey is such an interesting character to me. His dissociation with the UNSC after all that has happened, then betrayal of 2 others and then eventual redemption as a mediator is so fucking cool. Great storytelling despite being a small thread in a large universe.

[@allykayalltheway6631]

Redemption is the wrong word. He’s still an innie at heart, he’s just working with the UNSC rn.

[@sirgainz_439]

@@allykayalltheway6631 honestly i wouldnt even say that. there’s no real “redemption” just perspective

[@allykayalltheway6631]

@@sirgainz_439 she literally left her subroutines to help them beat The Banished and the Harbinger.

[@sirgainz_439]

@@allykayalltheway6631 what are you talking about? Im referring to mickey

[@allykayalltheway6631]

@@sirgainz_439 oh my bad. Thought you were talking about Cortana.

[@Tores444]

Really nice to know Virgil and Sadie are still around

[@avenged-khaos]

i wanna know what happened to naomi

[@MoeruOkamii]

@@avenged-khaos heard she's off fighting some ninjas or somethin

[@grayling2]

i hope mike is all right

[@bigdoggo5827]

I wonder what happened to the police friend of Sadie

[@phongphamnghia3085]

These stories really make me hype up. Also i would love to see if they decided to make a game after Infinite that follows various tales during/after the War... "Tales from Slipspace"-I think should be - Imagine being a Spartan III from Alpha/Beta company or Marine during Harvest 2525 or even Buck in "Bad Blood". So much more !

[@tTaseric]

I personally think that's exactly what Infinite is going to be. It's going to be the only Halo game for 10 years, you think the Master Chief campaign is going to be the only one? I think they'll give us more (hopefully pre-2558) story content

[@rushpatriot2866]

I think it would be awesome if they did a covenant timeline. Starting off with the prophet vs elite war. Then the taming of the hunters then the grunt rebellion. Finish off with the schism and the flood. Each setting taking two or three mission. Another great game would be playing as marine and all of the aliens being lore accurate. Oh or playing as a elite on a CSO supercarrier and it's flood infested and it would be kinda like the first dead space game.

[@ThelVadam7777]

Imagine being a sangheili in the SoS and seing a completely, never before seen, new POV that rarely ever happens in Sci-fi. Imagine that.

[@samfire3067]

@@tTaseric probaly they Will do some DLC storys with some spartans surviving

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Also, the Apollo Team Spartan may be Spartan Novak, from the novel Renegades.

[@kneeofjustice9619]

“Finally reuniting alpha nine.” No. There is someone important missing.

[@danielstevens288]

☹

[@Peyton73]

They could grab a random ODST and just tape his mouth shut?

[@MemeAlchemist]

@@Peyton73 Pretty sure the Rookie was a like billion IQ gumshoe detective lmao dont think most ODST's are seasoned detectives before they became an ODST lol

[@1SilverDollar]

@@MemeAlchemist *Finds fucked up sniper rifle.* The ODSTs who went to ONI Alpha Site blew the building apart to prevent access and then flew all the way to the NMPD HQ in downtown. There they'd meet with the rest of our team but not before Romeo would get seriously injured by the brute would would use the strength of Superman to yeet the rifle several miles to the lower part of the city. - Rookie's mind probably.

[@MemeAlchemist]

@@1SilverDollar It's literally the funniest thing ever actually. I imagine during the flashback moments, Rookie is sitting there actually like going through it in his head like "Huh then Mickey T-bag'd a dead brute and killed a cop for his shotgun.."

[@DavFlamerock]

Your timing of the line "waiting, hoping, for something to turn the tide" with the Pilot's windshield wipe (revealing the Chief) is absolutely brilliant, A+ hype for Halo: Infinite in 2 weeks!

[@jordonworthy1820]

There’s no other feeling than when halo canon release a beefy lore video (especially timelines) now I have the perfect lunch entertainment let’s gooooo

[@cesarvictoriano8072]

I’m listening to the Audio books but I really needed a cram version of the whole thing.

[@jjrhs]

Started at fall of reach and now I’m at broken circle 🙄 love Jonathan Davis, hate Scott bricker

[@dblundz]

Heeeeeeeey let’s go! I never got around to the lore in the past handful of years, so this helps a lot, thanks!

[@williammelton5215]

Halo lore is under rated and I implore you to read and watch more

[@pantherowow77]

@@williammelton5215 its garbage

[@lucaswest5078]

@@pantherowow77 So why are you here? On a video dedicated to halo lore between 2 games?

[@pantherowow77]

@@lucaswest5078 to tell you that its garbage.

[@williammelton5215]

@@pantherowow77 k

[@randomrandomnesss2188]

My issue is how the UNSC Infinity was defeated so easily. Like.... this ship was more advanced and capable than any ship seen fielded even by the covenant. A mix of forerunner and human technology, you can’t convince me some rag tag group of banished were able to take it down. Very weird in their decision to make it that way.

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

Or to show atriox kick MasterChief's a$$, then to kill him all in one cut scene.

[@gavingalloza6962]

@@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329 they didn’t kill him wym?

[@Ironclad17]

None of that matters. They just wanted to abandon everything they did with the previous games and start over. The Infinity never made much sense anyway. Everything from Spartan Ops showed it was giving a child a pack of matches, and the UNSC made no other uses of Forerunner tech.

[@CyberTheFurry]

well I'm guessing infinity was damaged someway in the battle of zeta halo, before the banished had arrived. Maybe Cortana and her forces crippled the infinity just like how the didact did so easily. That my theory at least, dont actually know how infinity was destroyed.

[@MCcrepperify]

tbh the covenant were having problems dealing with the banished since they were just stomping on them and kept growing in power so its not ENTIRELY just a rag tag group of ex covenant members that said I think story wise its just todo a reset since having cortana doing her thing kinda wrote themselves into a narrative hole

[@vasilios_2469]

It’s criminal that none of this is playable this would be an amazing campaign

[@kingk1336]

Yea. I just started infinite and was so confused. Like 5 ended with an awesome group of of Chief, Arbiter, and Locke, and the Galaxy wide threat. Then nothing.

[@dextergrif1052]

While I’m fully caught up on the games, I have yet to finish all of the Halo novels, so this helps a lot. Obviously from what I can tell you don’t have to read anything to understand Infinite, but this is definitely cool lore that I like.

[@HaloCanon]

Yep, it's not necessary, it's just icing on the lore cake.

[@avenged-khaos]

@@HaloCanon the extended universe is where halo really shines

[@m.madrigal94]

@@yeoooo Be

[@AndyMcKeeFanForLife]

@@yeoooo I had to practically stop right after the opening mission because, from the opening cutscene, I didn't understand what the hell was going on since the last exposure I had to Halo was Guardians. The jumps from 5 - Guardians and Guardians - Infinite where needed info has been relegated to the side material is insane and really hurts them from a storytelling perspective in comparison to the first four games.

[@michaeledmunds7266]

@@AndyMcKeeFanForLife Yeah, it's just like... "Here's the Banished oh and btw Cortana's dead but don't worry about that glhf."

[@Sonics1DiscordKitten]

I just love that Virgil is essentially an ODST operative at this point

[@jk844100]

I hope the spirit of fire shows up in infinite. It’d be so cool for Jerome and MC to meet again after so many years (although for Jerome it probably doesn’t feel that long given he was in Cryo for 28 years). Jerome and Isabelle teaming up with Chief and Weapon just seems like the perfect way to go.

[@Guymanbot97]

I will admit that this set of events sound more interesting that the ones between 4 and 5. I just pray that 343 can give it a proper representation, since from what it sounds like so far makes it sound like they are trying to swipe the story set up in 4 and 5 under the rug.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

When/if the Prometheans ever do come back, I would prefer it if they got redesigned to look like a robot-version of their original Forereunner bodies, were they floated above ground and wore those cool ornate helmets. Also, they should glow blue/purple now. Maybe both.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@AdjustingLight Something like that, yeah. They are still Composed so they could look like robots, but much more Humanoid and closer to their cool metal robed form they had as Forerunners, but glowing Purple or Blue to signify their connection to Cortana/Created. Halo 5 also had some badass concept art for Cyborg Covenant, and I totally think they should be made canon, standing alongside the Prometheans as armies of the Created. ...assuming Halo Infinite hasnt abandoned the whole Skynet thing outright.

[@Reyma777]

I don’t like the fact that banished are suddenly a bigger threat than the created. The UNSC Infinity, the most advanced dreadnaught of humanity literally ran away from a Guardian at the end of Halo 5. The Guardians shutdown major planets, including Earth and Sangheilos in seconds. Yet, the Banished, a mercenary group are now the biggest threat to humanity.

[@Guymanbot97]

@@Reyma777 From a design standpoint, they probably did this since some people didn't like Prometheans, and A LOT of people didn't like the Created. And since they basically killed off the Covenant remnant faction in 5, they kind of needed to make a new "covenant with blackjack and hookers" faction to be the "new" main villains. I don't mind them, but yeah I hope they can actually resolve this whole storyline without having them be killed off screen or doing it in a book only a handful of people will read.

[@Reyma777]

@@Guymanbot97 I original thought alien [and possibly human] forces would be working under the created after being gifted with forerunner tech, due to how Halo 5 ended. However, we kind of have a swept under the rug, and possibly nostalgia-bait story for Halo Infinite. Halo 5 story suffered due to it undermining story elements of its predecessor, Halo 4. Hopefully, Infinite doesn’t have the same issue plot issues as 5.

[@GPsarakis]

If 343i keep expanding infinite with campaigns content going forward we can explore more of the ring and also maybe start to bring some more of these characters together in one game.

[@spagheddie1673]

Hoping for a spirit of fire reference (maybe in audio logs where banished talk about a fight on the ark or something)

[@a_dude1933]

Buck and Veronica spend "quality time " together nice way to avoid demonetisation

[@a_dude1933]

Thank you halo canon

[@scarecrow108productions7]

They got married eventually...and soon....they got....BUSY!!

[@mbii7667]

Huh?

[@scarecrow108productions7]

@@mbii7667 They made love.

[@CrossGraves]

The end shot with the chief floating and your line were spot on, solid informative video

[@GSCSTRYDER]

So much cool stuff that could have been covered in a game or two, as a longtime Halo fan, the lore gap between H5 and Infinite is gonna need to be explained very well in infinite

[@lazwardazure716]

It uhhh yeah....about that

[@LunaPPK]

man this aged well

[@kanishksingh5146]

Mast Chief is such a small part of the lore. And this ambush of the Infinity by the Banished seems such a small part of the video. I really wish we see more of the extended lore in the Halo TV series. This has potential to become the next Games of Thrones, one I would definitely love to watch.

[@jugganaut33]

The Halo TV series isnt lore abiding. It’s a seperate universe formed by ParamountTV. It’s not going to reveal anything but greed for money.

[@avenged-khaos]

just read the books

[@kanishksingh5146]

@@jugganaut33 well that's a disappointment.

[@xtamiix]

Ha!

[@bigdoggo5827]

And the show is bad, disrespecting the Halo games and lore

[@michaelirizzz121]

Dude yes! Once again these are the best, I hope you continue to do these. They’re pretty fun to follow along with in between campaigns :)

[@janekduda7548]

Just wanted to say that i've been following you for about 6-7 years. Give or take, since i can't remember if it was the Halo 4 spartan ops episodes that started it all. But your vids and a couple of other guys's have been great. Really feels like being part of a community, knowing there are other nerds out there look through everything in the canon. Respect for keeping it up, bro! p.s all of this info should've been in the games. not on comics or books.

[@gabrieldavis4434]

Agreed. I despise stories that are split across different mediums.

[@janekduda7548]

@@gabrieldavis4434 I can tolerate it. If it's 10% comics and 90% games.

[@udontknowme00]

Not every story translates well from book to game. Also not every story is crucial to the “main” story and is just time at to add additional context to the universe. Also, if every single book and comic was made into a game, we would have a significantly large number of very boring games. We’d also, assuming we got one game pumped out each year like Call of Duty does, we’d probably be somewhere around Halo 3, story-wise, in 2021. It would just be an unnecessarily long winded and mostly boring story. People want stories spoon fed to them in flashy epic video games now instead of just reading it in the form it was meant to be consumed in.

[@janekduda7548]

@@udontknowme00 Brother, you are talking nonsense. Halo 5 was 4 hours. The bare fkn minimum. No one is saying pump games every year, just make 1 good one each 5 years. And all of those stories, i'm sure were supposed to be in game format. The only reason they are in another medium is because 343 didn't have the budget or will to make them. Stop excusing bad behaviour from companies. You are the worker, you are the consumer, you should always expect better from the provider!

[@udontknowme00]

@@janekduda7548 you're delusional lmao

[@getouut]

As always, awesome dude, thanks.

[@dominicscreativefilms]

Thank you for making this video. Not only did I need a recap, but numerous friends/people I know are confused about where we are currently in the story so this should really help them out.

[@iOmegaTron]

This was a huge help! Even after reading the books I'm sometimes not very good at connecting the dots between them. Thanks for doing that for us!

[@RubyGalaxyYT]

This has been really helpful for those and me who missed out on a lot of the stories released between the games, thanks. It's pretty nice to know what the full board is like and who's still on it though it's exciting not knowing what's going to happen.

[@jconboyAC8]

Thank you for your tireless efforts in keeping us completely up to date with all things Halo Lore. You are a deadset legend. The best Halo channel on YT.

[@AQG_Arts]

2 weeks! 2 weeks till our questions can be answered. Thank you for drawing the stories/series together. It really is appreciated.

[@SciKai676]

i love your vids spent way too many hours watching and learning about halo lore from you thanks for all you do. Hope your having a great day !

[@SciKai676]

Also could the domain cure the corruption of the flood seeing as its a precursor creation ?

[@SciKai676]

like maybe it has rejuvenation capabilities since it has all precursor knowledge and precursor origins

[@MoffkyngTV]

Thank you for this! It seemed like I was missing a lot of stuff between 5 and Infinite but didn't know where to start, this was extremely helpful!

[@EVOLMINDED]

Amazing work on this, I needed this re-cap. Thanks so much😎💯👌🏼

[@Subject1498]

Thank you a lot for this video! It has been some time since I was able to keep up with the expanded lore of books and comics(especially with some iffy releases in my country), and was always wondering how it went from Halo 5 into Infinite! Your breakdown helped me connecting the dots, so big thanks for that! :)

[@wistolla]

IG ?

[@thaneros]

Halo Infinite is going to have so many playable characters over the years. The set up is too good not too.

[@Butter_Warrior99]

Arbiter: Holla at your boy.

[@rushpatriot2866]

@Rusticle 2.0 So what you can see the future or something? Yeah no you can't no telling what will happen being a pessimist like yourself must be miserable

[@thaneros]

@Rusticle 2.0 Game Pass Ultimate is your friend

[@ACE-vj8vr]

@Rusticle 2.0 again being a pessimist

[@Cr4zyRuski]

Bro, imagine an ODST game DURING the fight on Zeta Halo leading up to the events of HALO INFINITE's main campaign!

[@john_hansbrough]

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for putting this together.

[@corneliuspraeda6452]

Oh man, you REALLY nailed this video!! Now I feel like I'm ready for Infinite story-wise. Thanks!

[@WhiteTrashPardy]

It’s sad that fans take more time to tell people about the halo lore then the company itself

[@lilricky08]

Right? Almost as if they want people to read the books and understand the lore better...

[@mrp7874]

It would ruin the pacing if they did, too much lore at this point. You would be practically reading/listening to an e-book instead of playing a game.

[@CoercedJab]

Richard Luther you mean obligated to purchase more product? To understand story in the tent pole product? Lol okay Consoomer

[@Gorczy]

Still haven't played 5 since it never made it's way to PC. Just went back and rewatched your six part series going through the narrative and now into this!

[@thatgamingtitan]

Thank you so much for this video. I really appreciate the work you put in to make this so that everyone is properly caught up for Halo Infinite. Something that shocked me is that the Banished allowed Humans among their ranks. It would be interesting to see some Humans with Banished armor in Infinite. Great video as always man!

[@davidchavers1820]

Very well done I know it wasn’t easy getting all this together but you did a great job!!!

[@TheNightWolfeX]

You pretty much summed up Halo: Divine Wind in this video. I see what you did there, and it was nicely fit in.

[@MasterHall117]

This is what I think may have happen between 2559 and 2560: In the leaks, Atriox lead an attack on Infinity, so somewhere around the same time Halsey decided Installation 07 was a gold spot to lure Cortana, Infinity made its way to Zeta Halo, somehow the Banished found out, which then Atriox lead the attack, throwing Chief out an airlock or something for 6 months, while parts of Zeta Halo had a full blown war (leading to parts of it destroyed), before chief was found again by Echo 216

[@babyyeti2540]

23:45 those keys and subtle chorus, plus the narrative setup. That type of thing never fails to give me chills when the chief is involved

[@Cyrribrae]

Ah fantastic work. Thanks as always!

[@TheChrisRolla]

I got really scared that we were a month away from Halo only to look it up and find out we’re exactly 2 weeks away Excellent

[@b14ckyy]

Perfect Timing. I just completed all halo games from CE to 5 in a row to get a refresh and now waiting for the Release of Infinite. I can't wait!!!

[@jjrhs]

Not Reach???

[@b14ckyy]

@@jjrhs Oh Yeah Reach too! Sorry :)

[@gregayiman7446]

Waiting for something to turn the tide.. showing 117.. nicely done sir, nicely done 😊! Hyped af!

[@_saltysage_37]

Great video! I really want to see more about what happened in the battle for zeta Halo and how the UNSC suffered such a massive loss. It will be cool to see during the game!

[@Warfolomei]

Thank you very much for your hard work. The only nitpick is that everyone is become a Spartan-4 and obviously what happened to rookie still hurts.

[@guitarist4life00]

Super stoked for Infinite. I love the lore and story sooo much in the halo franchise. I'm one of those guys that doesn't care too much for the multi-player. I'm here for the story and game play!!!

[@eliwimmer]

Been waiting for this exact video!

[@Dracken09]

I love the video! It may be helpful to have names above/below/near characters when possible so people can keep the story straight. Keep up the great work!

[@DekuScrub_]

Thank you sooo much for this. As someone who's vowed never to touch Halo 5 (i know that's like super pessimistic but you can't just remove local co-op and expect me to still want to give it a shot), this will help to keep me in the loop before Infinite releases :)

[@kgosch1]

If that's the case, then I'm afraid I've got some bad news about co-op in Infinite as well :(

[@DekuScrub_]

@@kgosch1 yeah as bummed as i am that local co-op isn't currently available for campaign (although custom games still don't work so im guessing they don't work in multiplayer either), im still glad that they're at least making an effort to bring it back unlike halo 5.

[@ThatRandomGameDev]

Personally, bad blood is one of my favourite halo books of all time because it feels like it tells a satisfying conclusion to the ending of halo 3 ODST

[@chiefsenpai969]

23:43 "Waiting. Hoping for something to turn the tide" That moment was beautifully edited

[@xxinfamyyyxx]

This is absolutely awesome. Thanks for filling in the gaps.

[@TimothyMark7]

side related note, i just wished infinite had the same body customization like we had in halo reach.

[@TheLegofreack1]

Preach

[@TimothyMark7]

@@TheLegofreack1 YES

[@pierceg1139]

How do Halo5's cutscenes look sooo good!?! That last one looks practically live action

[@Groulkse]

That's cgi

[@pierceg1139]

@@Groulkse The 12 km spaceship going into slipspace is cgi? Huh go figure

[@Groulkse]

@@pierceg1139 You talk about 0:46 ? Yes it is

[@Warlock15th]

What a fantastic video! Thank you so much for filling the gaps between halo 5 and infinity!

[@qfc1313]

I had no idea this much happened between the two games. Thanks!

[@Cr4zyRuski]

Man I can just imagine since we have HALO INFINITE for the next 10 years, one of the DLC Campaigns will be an ODST game DURING the fight on Zeta Halo leading up to the events of HALO INFINITE's main campaign!

[@CoercedJab]

I wish I was a naive kid like this again lol

[@Cr4zyRuski]

@@CoercedJab naive? How so?

[@RTDice11]

With all the love and respect they give the lore in the books it's a wonder how Halo 5's campaign shat itself so hard.

[@why8298]

If I’m not mistaken it was rushed and the campaign was supposed to be entirely different, note the big forerunner thing in the early trailers for the game.

[@kevins830]

Underrated video. Best one made explaining the events leading to Halo Infinite.

[@fpsplayer9095]

I had no idea this channel existed the algorithm worked after 10 years lol. I love the lore i personally don’t read the books I plan on it but this is really what I needed.

[@PhantmLeader2]

I still can't believe Cortana had just straight up killed everyone on the Moon, just brutal

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I dont think that was on purpose.

[@Warrka4]

@@jakespacepiratee3740 It was

[@kaltrex9465]

So basically nothing much came about Cortana and the guardians and then they just disappeared prior to halo 6? I was so confused how what happened to the infinity and Cortana and Atriox. It just felt kind of strange

[@edwardguerra2353]

Bro thank you been looking for a video covering this

[@anjisbiggestfans7085]

I just ordered the parts for the first gaming PC I’ve owned since high school. Really excited for Halo infinite, looks like my childhood 👍🏻

[@Will_Forge]

Maybe you should do a "From Halo 3 to Infinite primer" video as well. My wife would benefit greatly from that because she doesn't love Halo enough to stomach Halo 4 again, or to give Halo 5 a try at all.

[@bloocheez3]

This is exactly the boat I'm in. I don't remember a damn thing from 4 (because I had no context for most of it in the first place) and I had zero interest in 5.

[@entombedentity7059]

I really hope thel returns in his own campaign

[@HaloCanon]

It's long overdue!

[@th3thatguy631]

I'm sure they'll do it

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Who? I'm guessing that's the Arbiter's real name? Never really paid attention to the story of Combat Evolved and HALO 2.

[@th3thatguy631]

@@dragonbornexpress5650 yes Thel'Vadam I believe

[@attilathehun5067]

This and your Halo 5 recap is going to be very helpful for those of us who play on PC and thus cannot play the game.

[@3RAG0NSNIWAK]

This has been so helpful for bridging the gap between Halo 5 and Infinite. I understood some of the storyline while playing the campaign, but I didn’t understand some of the Banished side as I haven’t play Halo Wars 2 and I have yet to reach this part in the books.

[@Noel-ui8dr]

Do you think the dead spartans we find in the Zeta halo are the main cast from the upcoming Halo novel - Rubicon protocol?

[@HaloCanon]

I think they'll at least be mentioned, but I suspect it'll largely be a new story.

[@Zaffr3]

Everytime I hear the words (Rookie died/was killed) makes me want to stand in the rain and play "Difference for Darkness" Thanks for the summary as someone who played everything up to 4 (except Halo Wars 1 & 2, and the twins stick shooters) but hasn't played 5 and read the books

[@quarry1030]

I'm so glad you made this video I was quite confused about halo infinite and how it got to that point

[@rellyb9347]

Solid 🔥🔥 acute accuracy for sure . Been on the Halo wave since 05

[@myboicyndaquil2824]

Tbh I was disappointed with the campaign. I was kinda confused going through it and constantly asking question that never got answered and just didn't hit the mark I had set. Still fun and I loved it just not what I had hoped for

[@coldshoulder14]

I really appreciate the primer, haven’t read a Halo book since Last Light and Hunters in the Dark. Been busy with diversifying my book selections beyond sci fi and Halo lol.

[@zimrineftaly4316]

Thank you for explaining this to us 🙏🏻

[@ryteer]

I am honestly surprised that no one is addressing the issue that like 90% of the main story isn't in the games. like... Halo 5 ended on a cliffhanger, and now, we basically go into the game and hr story is like: "what guardians? cortana.....who? created, who are they?"... like... come one. 343 and they bs habit of simply abandoning the story

[@TheNukaColaMan10]

Me reading bad blood be like “THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!”

[@fumarc4501]

Nice intro. I’m glad I’m not the only one who misses Atriox and the Spirit of Fire. The Banished are the true winners of the Covenant-Human War.

[@HolySisu]

I LEARNED SO MUCH NEW STUFF ABOUT HALO ITS MIND BLOWING

[@SushiJuice]

The weapon is Cortana the entire time. She masquerades as the weapon

[@1977Arrakis]

Playing it for the first time, I remember how gut wrenchingly obvious it was that Infinite wasn’t the intended sequel to Guardians. There is such a massive disconnect between the two, I honestly thought I’d missed a game in between. Turns out I didn’t, it was just a really badly considered narrative jump.

[@admiralmallard7500]

I mean, would you rather continue the story from where Halo 5 left off?

[@Phospherone]

Damn. I hope the Spirit of Fire and that crew will make a presence in Infinite somehow! Great video! I haven’t read any of these newer books. Good stories!

[@kostakatsoulis2922]

Nice video, I learned a bunch of stuff I didn't know and I think I'm really ready for Infinite now! However, it seems you kinda failed to mention that the rehab pioneers never left Reach, and in fact had been using a network of tunnels through the glass to keep them safe while they planned a way to get the aliens off their world. With the help of Blue team they managed to capture the town and armory of New Mohacs, and then with the help of forces from the Infinity they managed to rout the Banished counterattack and survive. The pioneers remained behind when both the Banished and the UNSC(although it should be mentioned that 6 Pelicans and 1 Albatross did not make it back to the Infinity in time and so stayed behind on the planet), and although its not confirmed we can assume that they hid for a little bit while Cortana's Guardian was in-system, and then when it left they, once again in sole-possesion of the planet, continued the process of rehabilitation.

[@lPHOTONl]

on the cusp of an entirely new era of lore feels like we're about to land the moon

[@jaegerbomb269]

Is Blue Team going to be in Halo Infinity?

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

We don't know. Apparently they are mentioned by Master Chief during the game, but as far as them being seen or playable? Your guess is as good as mine.

[@firewolf11567]

I have a feeling this channel is going to be very handy to be subbed to for the next few years.

[@kidant7]

Great job on this video man.

[@banknotez7163]

So this game doesn’t pick up from halo 5 😒