Halo 2 - Mystery Of The Trigates (REVISITED & SOLVED)

[@b0tster]

*Bungie employee doesn't flatten out the last two polygons on the underwater terrain* *starts a massive conspiracy*

[@b0tster]

*Bungie employee fills an empty gate with untextured polygons because no one will be there, and forgot to make sure the two inner polygons had the normals facing the right way* *kindles massive conspiracy*

[@Generalkidd]

Haha pretty much, but Bungie is known for putting so many easter eggs in their games and on numerous occasions even directly suggested some secret things are hidden on certain missions, prompting everyone to create these conspiracy theories.

[@renosonozaki1260]

tru.. tru...

[@b0tster]

You're totally right, but it just seems so obvious to be an oversight / glitch. I guess these things stand out to me more as a game developer myself.

[@darthvader4594]

Reno Sonozaki ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED!

[@dethdad123]

Now you need to revisit "the green door" on sacred icon

[@NaughtyKlaus]

Some of the "trigates" were just undetailed areas of their game levels, while some where markers for possible locations that the developers would make exit / entry points. They could've been locations where cutscenes would be active, but when they find their perfect setting, they scrap all the other locations and forget them.

[@Statichawk12]

I would love to have this guy as a friend

[@Mechobree]

_Generalkidd, destroying hopes and dreams since 2016 with his revisits_

[@antonm5623]

Hey man, your videos are actually pretty sweet, kind of capture one of my favourite things about these games, and when you mentioned that a lot of old KZbinrs' accounts are getting shut down it got me thinking that maybe you should actually make a library on another website or even in the bungie/343/waypoint forums, just to make sure that these discoveries live on :P Maybe im sentimental, but if its possible for me to have one, id like my kid to eventually be able to find this stuff too

[@activatehalo7763]

To save time they just flipped the textures and put them there. Where hardly anyone goes. The door is the elevator, the gate texture itself is from the depressurisation zones.

[@Lashmer]

Every time you say you're about to make a pun, I get the dumbest grin on my face because they're actually pretty good.

[@adamflynn7322]

This guy recording and uploading videos every day for us also he is in college and has other projects and irl stuff to do but he keeps the content coming

[@cally99117]

If something similar to this came up in one of 343I's games, people would rant about it being proof that they don't care about the franchise and need to FIX TEHIR GAEM!1!!1111! rather than igniting conspiracy theories. Also these trigates are clearly ONI's doing. How you guys never noticed is beyond me. ;)

[@BananaMana69]

Nothing similar would ever be found in 343 games because there's kill barriers everywhere...

[@wasio12]

This jokes....I want to die.....but don't stop . It's magic part of your videos.

[@happyzuckerberg1727]

I love the awkward pauses after his puns 😂

[@ash.r9k]

I used to be addicted to the hokey pokey but I turned myself around

[@tyjusto9351]

That's what it's all about

[@georgeglasper2540]

Your content is so chill man, I love it

[@glockg22foryou86]

The button is meant to mean the "blue screen of death", as said in the video. because you know that the blue screen was a nightmare in game development back then

[@spookmeyer970]

I found this since MCCPC has me nostalgia digging for halo easter eggs. I remember these things being the source of such mystery and consternation for me back in the day (Especially since I was (and am) awful at grenade jumping, so finding stuff was always a hassle. I always figured that the 'gates' were a left over bug that never got fixed, partially because no one would see it, and partially because there was no time. It wouldn't surprise me to learn if they were shoddily cleaned up assets, though. After all, Halo 2 has a ton of cut levels, and a lot of cut content ON levels, and it wouldn't surprise me if that was case. Delta Halo and Regret were initially very different, considering there was a cut plot to arc-weld a thermonuclear bomb to chief's armor and send him to him to kill the gravemind. There was also a level called "Forerunner Tank" that would've taken place after regret, and served to introduce the Gravemind, and since all Halo cinematics are in-engine, if the chief fled the covenant destructo-beam in a forerunner tank, it might'e escaped along the lakebed through that hole. Again, the cutscenes are in-engine, so there would have to be those assets if they were in the cutscene. Cairo Station is similar, originally you were going to just jump out of the station, land on the covenant ship and tear it apart from the inside. Then that they added covenant space pickle, and you were supposed to throw it into a warthog and drive it to the airlock. But that ultimately got cut and it's all just in cutscene. The remnant door under the gate might very well a left over asset from that, or an earlier version of the level. Personally, I think the gates were bugs created by the map making tools, and just left in cause there were more important things to work on. Maybe it's a left over from deleting geometry, and that's why it sits on the door like that.

[@Arina_Azuma]

when they were texturing it they probably just coated it with new textures without realizing that they were already used, you may find that cairo station door texture within cairo station or in a UNSC place with maybe a working door or a covered door instead, as im sure they didn't go around the map texture checking as its out the map and not many people would go there anyway

[@davidbailey5699]

Joke 1. I wondered why the base ball was getting bigger. Than it hit me. 2. Why was the calendar scared? its days were numbered.

[@kirito_kun5072]

requiem for a dream plays

[@r3b3lvegan89]

That’s the movie, not the song lol

[@Notpoop906]

The term you're looking for is meshes, I believe. It's basically the structure of 3D objects in a game and then they apply materials and textures and yeah, the triangle is very common in high-polycount meshes so that's for sure where the triangle "gate" comes from. This myth never really interested me as I always just saw it as a terrain glitch. You see it a lot especially in MMOs back then. It's fun to fantasize about this stuff though so I get it

[@steepledganes7060]

I loved the battery pun

[@Fyrecide]

The area you're in at the second one, at around 22:00, looks like a duplicate of the area after you get out into space and fight the jetpack elites and then have to go into the door for the elevator to the bomb. Basically, that door that you're looking through to see the back of the gate? That looks like that doorway for the elevator that just hasn't been loaded yet. Same general shape and everything, just missing some objects and stuff that obviously wouldn't be there yet. And the holes in the walls? Where other geometry would be place intersecting the walls, therefore they wouldn't be textured. I could be wrong but that seems far more plausible than some grand intricate conspiracy.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Oh man, this subject takes me back. There were so many little conspiracy theories and myths associated with Halo 2 - it was the skulls, the skulls were such a little out of the way mystery that took a long time to unravel completely and it set everyone's young imagination into complete overdrive. I remember all of the stories about the civvie warthog and the tri-gates and the "Ghosts of Halo" - all with totally rational explanations but that wasn't the point - it was all campfire stories from people who mostly never been camping. In the woods, at least. It all crossed over nicely with the glitches and remnant assets left outside the maps, the superbounces - it was easy for kids to believe this stuff, to want to believe it just cause. At least I'm assuming it was mostly just kids believing in this stuff, I assume any adults are probably flat earthers by now.

[@BrennenRedCloud]

I subscribed for the puns

[@jakobzeppelin588]

Second Trigate on Cairostation Looks like the ONI Logo 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@webduelist]

on Cairo Station the holes you were seeing are to do missing assets, its a mirror of the side with In Amber Clad, but there are holes where the umbilicals should be, and where the doors leading back inside should be. So whats behind the gate, a big ass elevator.

[@johnroadkilta4reala566]

webduelist so it's a docking port for a ship. and they were trying to add on to it but ran out of time and money like they always do?

[@webduelist]

I don't think they were trying to add on, it was always there but the player wasn't meant to be there, unlike the Pillar of Autumn, Cairo Station is a complete 1:1 model, it was also used in the OG Halo 2 cut scenes, so the whole model had a complete texture map but some assets such as doors and umbilicals were missing since it was shown from a distance and wouldn't be distinguishable anyways. Since Halo 2 AV has pre rendered cut scenes to save time they just copied the texture map from the docking port with In Amber Clad, to the side that didn't. Which resulted in these holes do to the alpha channel in the texture map meant for the side with assets.

[@johnroadkilta4reala566]

webduelist I was more pointing out how bungie ran out of time constantly. and it could have been an expansion of the level that never happened and bungie also didn't have time to remove them from the script. just a theory.

[@89thaharmaiiioptreshenanig3]

I love your content. No click bait bull. Just the straight hard facts

[@Born...]

RIP to all the old halo videos that are now lost to time forever

[@milkandpork]

I do enjoy your puns lol

[@AmazingFoxtrot]

I'll admit I haven't been watching you much the past year (Due to work sadly, not because I didn't like the content because I do XD) But i did a marathon on what I missed and I am enjoying the revisits so so much. Nostalgic! Keep this great work up!

[@craig5128]

your jokes are great!

[@AnyoneAccount]

ok that soap one kinda made me laugh

[@DatMentalGamer]

i remember a friend of mine saying "makarov killed soap so he paid the price" when we were both into cod alot xD (generalkidds pun reminded me of it haha)

[@BananaMana69]

Halo 2 is a very mysterious game. There's so much unused collision on Metropolis i think it used to be a much much bigger level.

[@rageready2099]

@Generalkidd I have not seen it on the Halo MCC For pc. But on The original Halo 2 On "The great journey" there was a Button hovering in air. It was right before the scarab blows the doors down. Fly to the left with a sniper land on the Large island that has a barrier and zoom out with sniper. Forerunner Button is floating or sometimes it will be switched with a few Floating pylons from high charity.

[@Phantom_Aspekt]

20:30 looks like it's just reused geometry from the side of the station you actually play on, just before you fight the drones or just after entering space

[@SuikodenPlayer]

that's what we want a long a video about halo secrets it's gonna be LIT AF

[@flare9757]

Someone: Writes article on Tri Gates Internet 5-10 years later: *Purge Purge!*

[@r3b3lvegan89]

It was one video, at least for me, that used the song Lux Aeterna from the movie RFAD. I never saw any other videos copy cat’ing that video but people get jealous. It’s all a game anyway. But one of the best

[@Aegis_Mind]

Tris are better than 4 sided polygons/quads, and are interpolated easier. Quads can be warped If one vertex is raised/lowered at an extreme level and the shape of the poly gets messed up.

[@muhnoodles]

Those golden warthog conspiracies were really cool. Maybe see some of those?

[@TheUnknownAK]

For the trigate on Cairo Station an explanation could be that the bit of wall with the gate on it was using a different texture maybe to look like a vent or some other decoration but when things in the game were cut and assets were removed the texture for the wall may have been removed and possibly there was a system in place that would replace missing textures with other textures. In the classic Halo 2 version it may have defaulted to a wall texture but in Anniversary (possibly because of a different file structure) it defaulted to the texture of a door. However because it's the first level of Halo 2 Anniversary 343 may have already been aware of the trigate mystery and so decided to make it a door texture on the gate as a reference to the mystery.

[@Splozy]

Kinda weird how I spent my teenage years watching your videos and now we're both back doing the same old...

[@itchy9004]

hi general kidd

[@KaoticReach1999]

Just wholesome videos lmao Subbed!

[@CheeseDoodle]

I love these revisits!

[@tyjett5864]

that soap pun seemed to be dirty to me

[@quackers8681]

Triangles are good for making Complex Geometry

[@aSliceOfChoccyMilk]

I love the idea that people were so obsessed with the colour of a warthog, that they literally started conspiracy theories about it

[@DrunkFrodo]

Please continue the puns! Also are the white squares around 14:30 visible death barriers?

[@killkarma361]

Hayden B I'm pretty sure it's the surface of the water

[@whiskeyandagyro3135]

you can dupe equipment in halo 3 online, you can slow the fps online on sandtrao by driving the elephant onto the alien wreckage a certain way.

[@brrrdee]

I remember back in the day knowing the lore and being obsessed with the secrets Halo 2 had. I remember hearing about the tri gate and finally trying tit out. Lemme tell you… when I saw it was just a backdrop I was fucking pissed ahahahhaha

[@astral_haze]

Im sure 343 looked at the one on cairo station and thought something like "that looks like a door lets put one there" like how they did with so,e of the new visual glitches in the ce port

[@Reynard_Fawkes]

Weird, I've literally never even heard of this before. Then again, I started playing Halo 2&3 online in February 2009, so I guess I was too late for this party.

[@TheCoolV1994]

Hidden pyramids on the walls... Halo 2 Illuminati confirmed.

[@perla1172]

the Trigates are only a mistake of a developer of bungie that he forgot to do the UWS on that polygon

[@rickychaos7119]

those puns tho

[@LASRalphadeltaone]

"there's no such thing as a wholesome Halo youtu-"

[@butterysnail2537]

I just want to know how a poorly textured triangle starts a ridiculously massive conspiracy...

[@leatherfacejr8090]

Yeap we're definitely laughing at the puns XD love em

[@DawnFeeds]

imagine dedicating days of your life to conspiracies and theories that dont even exist

[@Thlormby]

You mean being a flat-earther?

[@potatokilr7789]

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 was a six offender.

[@l9m241]

You should revisit the scarab gun on outskirts.

[@murdocwestrup]

Littleman9Mew2 yeah id like to know if there another method to get a banshee there jumping in it at the same time as a checkpoint always seemed hori to me

[@51crazyguy]

there is a method where you use a green box and a rocket launcher, but with that method you cant get back in the map once you get the scarab gun

[@l9m241]

_OUTSKIRTS_ the first city level, where you mainly follow shadows and end with going onto the bridge, *NOT* Metropolis guys.

[@yungcrow7992]

>Halo trilogy coming out on PC Looks like we have a while new layer of conspiracy now bois

[@kongakonga]

Im here for your jokes

[@How_do_i_change_my_username]

Why did the 7 not like the 0 because it made her feel like nothing. HAHa ha ha.

[@thegoodamericangamer6395]

Perfect puns dude

[@StaviKay]

Ur gonna look back at this video and think: "Geez, I wish I hadn't been so fuckin cringe with all these lame ass 'puns'"

[@harayoursenpai1180]

He'll feel the need to "pun"ch his past self.

[@StaviKay]

.. nice

[@Big_Human]

why does Waldo wear stripes? he doesn't want to be spotted.

[@CMSVILLAGEPROJECT]

Have you ever done the Honey i shrunk the badguys glitch on Spartan Ops? I haven't seen it anywhere online at all... Basically on one of the missions theres a glitch in timing or something that shrinks down all bad guys to microscopic size except thier guns. Micro grunts. Cause if i was the first to do it, that'd be Neat 😎

[@ramunesoda73395]

Cant believe I am watching this on March 30, 2021...

[@thehomiejustin327]

What if you have to get to the gate while in the same load/part of the level as the switch is in on Delta Halo? May have to be on foot but im 90% sure you can access the trigate without retracing your path...

[@aubs104]

The smg sounds amazing sped up

[@BananaMana69]

These old games were made in a time where tour average gamer didnt really understand how games were made and we didn't have people combing through the code of games so we wanted to believe there was much more.

[@nober555]

You should revisit Narnia. If you don't know what that is or know how to do it hit me up and I'd be more than willing to show you.

[@veteranlegionary6642]

The symbol on the door is oni stretched and minus the circle in classic

[@matthewbrennan3127]

Do you play Halo custom edition? btw your puns made me subscribe

[@nuguns3766]

me and my friend used to shoot that coagulation gate for like a half hour

[@Neeek_]

theres a pretty G N A R L Y trigate i saw on the ark in halo 3 before, the video is from 2008 and pixelated as fuck. Id like to see you look into that one.

[@xthat1lionx721]

Hmmmmmm maybe it's with the time travel glitch... jks

[@Graham.556]

2:25 proooF banchees fly

[@jeffreysmith6465]

how did some bad land geometry start a huge conspiracy?

[@BananaMana69]

We had nothing else to do back then and we loved Halo..

[@IDoABitOfTrollin]

the coagulation one is crazy

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

20:26 - Jack O' Lantern face on earth in anniversary graphics?

[@franciscoulloa3943]

THE BEST PUNS EVER! MAKE MORE PUNS!

[@ethanknapp4371]

The word you were looking for was model, not texture.

[@ethanknapp4371]

With reference to polygons

[@SuperFitzyBoi]

my uncle worked at Bungie, he told me if you use strength on a trigate 100 times Mew will appear Wait... I may have confused this with something else

[@kingster14444]

I always just thought it was like an Oni reference

[@lurksnitchtongue3958]

I love you so much

[@Celestial_Wing]

Funny how this conspiracy ended up being what you get in Destiny

[@ryantheminer1]

Only the titanic one made sense

[@ethanknapp4371]

Oh no! We encouraged him!

[@ethanknapp4371]

@puns

[@elwennier26]

Please do the Golden Warthog!!!!

[@rogererfle8192]

elwennier26 it's a myth

[@Exeternal_Beyonder_Of_Doomsday]

Bungie might be messing with people's minds like RareWare by doing stuff like this so this might be on purpose just to kid around so maybe there maybe be a possibility but again I could just mess minds

[@ChannelGav]

halo is the best game ever

[@rocketstoat152]

Those god damn fucking puns you do in every video is just!...I..I can't even comprehend.

[@ZeroGuts]

What are trigates for in the game

[@TheAkib123]

aye what was the grandma's house reference? i feel like i know it

[@itisfreak]

Metab LRRH

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Really? This was a mystery? It's just a messed up texture that they probably didn't bother with because it didn't hurt anything.

[@dooporama9603]

but what does the switch do ?

[@ectomorph_7]

Looks like UNSC ONI logo