Halo Enemies That Didn't Make The Cut (Deleted Halo Enemies)

[@TheChiefOrg13]

Fun fact about the "Flood stealth form" - we do get stealth Flood in Halo 1! They're only in the Maw, ambushing you if you go to the armory to get supplies/ammunition. They're basically Elite Combat Forms with Active Camo

[@MrChristoph0r]

Are they always there? Just played through CE on Legendary and didn’t see any when I grabbed the rockets for the reactor.

[@tryndtheundyingwilkes5523]

@@MrChristoph0r some times they do spawn some times they dont i think they are just chance becasue they do kill you cause u randomly start getting hit from nothing

[@MrChristoph0r]

@@tryndtheundyingwilkes5523 makes sense CE’s decision to spawn enemies or not is very confusing compared to the rest of the trilogy. Like the odds of enemies being respawners or not.

[@tryndtheundyingwilkes5523]

@@MrChristoph0r yea i know what umean trying to speedrun under halo 1 under 3 hours by making keyes mission a 2 minute run hoping at the start its a respwaning to do the flood bump or looking up youtube on 4 year old guides

[@anaveragesynapticmain5668]

They always spawn for me, you gotta stay in the room for a few seconds

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I really wish we got to fight some of the Flood Forms that were only unique to Halo Wars, those Flood forms look so intimidating

[@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD]

Sup

[@anelitecalledpete4820]

Why the hell are you everywhere

[@Sour_almond]

Yes

[@JamesOsyris]

The vehicles in Halo Wars 2 are amazing. A Kodiak or a Blisterback in Halo Infinite needs to happen!

[@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529]

I know some of those flood forms were unique to the shield world cuz they were made up of the local fauna

[@Zenlore6499]

I’m surprised the extra stuff cut from Wars 1 wasn’t covered. Like that Needler-looking walker thing.

[@russellbrown6888]

Yes, the Gorgon. I will say, I'm kind of glad that didn't make the cut. It just looks silly, like, it's literally a giant Needler on legs. It left the Covenant without a decent AA vehicle, though, which is why I'm glad they took the concept and gave us the Reaver.

[@buklau837]

Porcupine on steroids

[@GummyKermit]

@@russellbrown6888 which looks just as stupid.

[@russellbrown6888]

@@GummyKermit Nowhere near as stupid as a gun on legs. At least the Reaver looks viable, the Gorgon doesn't even have a visible space for a pilot.

[@xxxhalo4everxxx]

@@russellbrown6888 vampires were good against air

[@Gelgoog]

Keelbug: originally planned to be a ambient life that would fly in and "cut up" bodies hauling them away. a way to remove clutter without having to rely on load zones or setting bodies to despawn after X ticks. Engine limitations led to it's scrapping Engineer: Originally designed as a neutral covenant creature thats entire purpose was to "repair" vehicles. Supposedly the covenant vehicle health in combat evolved is a hold over from this system. Juggernaut: Designed as a mini boss of the flood. The player was meant to first fight this as the arbiter in the chapter "Juggernaut". Once defeated, flood in the area were meant to go "inert" as the juggernaut more or less acted as a central computer for the various forms in the region. Cut due to engine limitations. Spawns for this entity exist in The oracle at the start of the level, under the glass you walk over before encountering the holodrone. THREE in quarantine zone before the first crashed sentinel factory segment. The data for the enemy only exists however in the map files for High Charity

[@caseyhall2320]

That planned Juggernaut encounter as the Arbiter sounds awesome! Man, sometimes I really wish they had a lot easier of a time developing Halo 2. That way we could've gotten all of the cool extra stuff, and the 1/3 of the campaign that was cut.

[@theneoreformationist]

Keelbugs: cut enemies that cut enemies.

[@yusufdunphy5402]

The Flood Juggernaut however made its first physical appearance in Halo: Fireteam Raven.

[@greenbean2222]

I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic, have fallen with a dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi. Trust in The Force. Do not return to the Temple…that time has past.

[@greenbean2222]

Nah, today Halo 2 and 3 Mod tools drop and I have every intention of porting those Juggernaut Tags.

[@sliseluib1136]

I'm still impressed how many secrets and new things are still being discovered in Halo after a decade of its release

[@sliseluib1136]

Two decades in some

[@flaskanbottle9250]

@@sliseluib1136 exactly 😎

[@argo9721]

Dude this stuff is old

[@Agustin_Leal]

@Luis Martinez More like It's not Half-Life.

[@StarForgers]

@Luis Martinez What does it have to do with dark souls?

[@flameflamedramonva]

You forget to mention the Sharquoi are canon, being mentioned in the Conversations of the universe then later in a short story, I believe from Fractures. Also the Stalker enemy from Halo 2 concept art was forgotten about, personally I have an idea about that enemy.

[@nicuzn1197]

Close, It was Envoy. They feature towards the end of the novel.h

[@richardpatterson1694]

@@nicuzn1197 there actually the major plot point of the book.

[@ItsButterBean1020]

Stalker seems interesting It looks Flood but I recall it was called a Covenant enemy at one point

[@MattA-fi5qe]

Would be cool to see some of these cut creatures like the blind wolf in Infinite, considering it seems like it's going to have a lot more wildlife in it than other halos.

[@shreksnow1918]

I hope that happens as well. I was actually really disappointed when I saw the wildlife in the first Infinite trailer because they just looked like modified versions of Earth life.

[@tacticaltwinkies3847]

doug.

[@shanez1215]

I think the Blind Wolves are canon. They were in Hunters in The Dark

[@soulreaver6546]

@@shreksnow1918 moa were new Zealand birds that were hunted to extinction and yet they are in reach but modified, so they've been doing this already

[@merlith4650]

Ironic, as it turns out Infinite practically has no wildlife. Except the occasional docile critter that is easy to miss

[@DEADSARGENT]

Can't wait to dig through some Halo 3 files when the Mod tools come out, see some cut content that wasn't finished or didn't fit in the game.

[@swampbear39]

What do you mean? How can find this

[@DEADSARGENT]

@@swampbear39 Assuming that H3 mod tools will be mostly identical to CE mod tools, we are able to view the tags and data folders, which will contain almost every tag within the game(atleast within the MCC build). Some tags, such as vehicles, weapons, bipeds, ect go unused. These unused tags, depending on their level of completion or quality, can be edited and modified or just observed and spawn them in-game. It could show us maybe a secret scenery piece or extra encounter in certain levels that goes unused.

[@omgfussi6572]

@@DEADSARGENT how's it going?

[@Sigma-gb9yd]

The Flood Infector's model design was actually made canon in Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare

[@manzdontknow2581]

Something I noticed u missed in halo wars 2: awakening the nightmare there actually is a flood transport form that spits out certain flood depending on the units u have on the battlefield it’s called the flood tank

[@audioraveofficial4046]

Plus the Flood Juggernaut form from Halo 2 was made canon in Halo Wars 2 with a bigger size and only one combative arm. Although the ATN cutscene made them look smaller and faster

[@Spartan-kj8bq]

@@audioraveofficial4046 well, yes and no. HW2 indeed made the Juggernaut canon, but it specifies that the Abominations and Juggernauts are seperate entities, with Abominations being what Juggernauts ultimately elvolve into over time. There's actually speculation that the smaller Abominations in the Blur cutscene are actually true Juggernauts, having not yet evolved until later, when the Flood deemed it necessary.

[@Spartan-kj8bq]

And also Flood tanks are the Halo 3 hunter shaped Flood pure forms. The transport forms in HW2 are called Flood Spawner forms; also a pure form.

[@manzdontknow2581]

@@Spartan-kj8bq Ye u right I swear tho in game when u click on the unit it says flood tank

[@manzdontknow2581]

@@Spartan-kj8bq I figured it had a different name when it didn’t show up when I typed “halo wars 2 flood tank”

[@camisshort9058]

In the Halo Wars 2 DLC YapYap the Destroyer is a playable hero, he’s also got Grunt Goblin mechs

[@QrazyQuarian]

You can actually play with the Moralath playing SPV3; for those who don't know, this is a fan-made overhaul of Combat Evolved that is actually *extremely* badass. From adding new weapons and throwing in classic enemies such as Brutes and Skirmishers, to the kickass soundtrack, to completely new areas and lore-accurate additions to the story, to a bunch of terminals that give context and help fix some lore inaccuracies from the first game--this title has it all. You can play through it and it's like you're experiencing CE for the first time! Give it a shot.

[@Dankboi68]

I don't remember the blind wolf in SPV3, are they a recent addition?

[@QrazyQuarian]

@@Dankboi68 Don't know if they're RECENT. I only found out about it less than a year ago.

[@doigt6590]

@@Dankboi68 same when I played there weren't any blind wolves, must be very recent

[@ItsButterBean1020]

They’ve been there for a while as a neutral character in Halo and in some later missions as Flood infected Wanna say they were added for SPV3.1

[@nickryan6787]

@@doigt6590 blind wolves was in SPV3 since the 2017 version

[@TK--ch9jl]

Funny story I was playing halo two on mcc and i got to this one point in quarantine zone where there was a lot of sentinels. The flood in that room had standard weapons, but no needlers. Thats important for later. Im fighting thru this part, and i find needler shards in the ground, but it wasnt from the flood. I look to where they came from, but to my surprise i find a sentinel belching out blamite like theres noooo tomorrow. I think 'thats odd. Must be an mcc glitch'. Cut to me playing halo 2 original, i get to the same place, and to my unimaginable glee, i find needler sentinel gracing me with his pink exploding kidney stones. I couldnt bring myself to kill him, so i spared the blamite sentinel. I think its hilarious that needle sentinel carried from h2 og to h2a

[@BladedGauntlet]

I remember there being a reference to the Thornbeast in Halo Wars 2. One of the leaders, Pavium, when ordered to attack an enemy has a chance to say "No more trouble than a Thornbeast!" Thought it was pretty neat

[@m0002856]

On the topic of the Engineer confusion: My understanding after diving into the lore of Halo was that the drones were originally engineers for the Covenant before some event occurred that caused them to be relegated to being the aerial combatants that we know today. My understanding is that this lore was put in place to explain their absence from Halo 1 and why they suddenly show up in Halo 2.

[@welift8679]

They have a grunt goblin boss in halo 5, A goblin is a grunt battle suit.

[@MrAnarchyMarine]

This, they ditched the hero name, and re-used the idea. So technically we got to see a version of it already.

[@AQG_Arts]

I just realised that ODST is the first time we saw a Engineer... God I feel old now...

[@grimalkin6676]

Didn’t halo wars 1 have them and it came out months (not a full year) before ODST?

[@AQG_Arts]

@@grimalkin6676 Halo Wars came out in 2009. I think ODST came out in 2008? You'd have to check...

[@EstaS117]

Halo Wars came out on February 26, 2009. Halo 3 Odst came out on September 22, 2009.

[@AQG_Arts]

@@EstaS117 ah, thank you. I knew Halo Wars came out sometime in 2009, just had honestly forgotten lol. I think I can remember that the developers had a confrontation with Bungi at some stage, so they did cover what Ensemble could and couldn't put in the game. Engineers must've came up. But in a way, the original comment stands. ODST was the first time we saw Engineers up close. I know Halo CE technically had them (sort of), but they never made it through to the final results. Stay safe, and once again, thank you for the clarification.

[@Incred_Canemian]

6:02 Worth noting: These things were eventually made canon by their appearance in the book Halo: Envoy

[@richardpatterson1694]

Yep and there OP as hell.

[@pinstripecool34]

The thornbeast is also mentioned in Halo Wars 2 Awakening the nightmare DLC as brutes will sometimes say the line: No more trouble than a thornbeast!

[@DGCpicturesEntertainment]

10:08 Fun Fact: The pulse beam sentinel DID make it into Halo 2 in 1 way. On Quarantine Zone, in 1 of the indoor areas, there's a sentinel that shoots needles and when you kill it, it drops a Needler. Also just wanted 2 mention that when I play this mission, I normally make sure to go ahead and grab that Needler. Ok, fun fact of the day over. 😉

[@tupacshakur5868]

what, i've played that level legit at least 1000 times, never seen him

[@DGCpicturesEntertainment]

@@tupacshakur5868 it doesn't look any different. It's just equipped with a Needler.

[@andyfriederichsen]

I don't think a pulse beam would have been like that. It would probably have been more like, well, an energy beam.

[@xrathyes]

F in the chat for the halo 1 engineer.

[@aquilux-vids]

5:39 Luke: "...had three legs" Fourth leg hiding behind lamp post but still clearly visible:

[@electrowizard3209]

The shielded carrier forms probably would have had an animation for carrying the shield, but the enemy type was probably cut before they made a special model/animation.

[@DizRupTnz]

Yeah it always felt odd that despite the fact that canonically the carrier forms are made from both grunts and jackals, they always have grunt legs on their 3d model. The shielded carrier forms probably would have gotten a unique model with jackal legs as well as custom animations had it not been cut.

[@patlast6506]

FYI the Sharquoi are cannon too. They're in the Halo Envoy book.

[@bloodmoon5744]

5:51 did anyone else notice the Lek Golo worms in the joints of the Tankbeast? If they ARE Lek Golo that explains A LOT. Also I really wish more would be done with the worms, because they’re known to take more forms than hunters and scarabs but we never get to see that in games.

[@nerosoul2506]

Maybe this could be the in between form of the hunter and the scarab

[@kineticturtle]

YESS So great to see recognition for the Marathon callbacks. So much of the design language and so many concepts were borrowed from Marathon to go into Halo and it's fun to see stuff that didn't quite make it.

[@ryaquaza3offical]

I really hope they bring back some of these creatures in the future in all honestly. Riding a blind wolf while shooting at covenant or facing down a big boss flood form is too cool not to appear in the games eventually

[@killerbtwd]

The Halo CE engineer model was actually first used in halo wars 1. Put them side by side and the are (almost) exact replicas. FUN FACT

[@breadboi8747]

I feel like 343 aren’t going in with the possibilities allowed with the promethian enemies. They should treat them like transformers, let them turn into flying variants and shit if they need to, would give them a completely different feel from flood or covies

[@LungoScrungo]

Yeah that would be a lot more bearable than just teleporting away like a bitch.

[@buklau837]

Finally doing the prometheans justice

[@ejames0695]

Flood juggernaut was the goat, sad it was cut

[@andrewgarcia8662]

These cuts bring me so much pain. They’re so cool.

[@PBart7]

The Sharqaui/Drinks are actually canon it turns out

[@HalfNakedWalrus]

I cant remember the book name, but there were brutes involved with a telepathic link that controlled a mega horde of sharquai

[@richardpatterson1694]

@@HalfNakedWalrus halo Envoy

[@HalfNakedWalrus]

@@richardpatterson1694 thats the one, i read it like a month ago

[@richardpatterson1694]

@@HalfNakedWalrus it's a pretty good read. Unfortunately there aren't anymore books with them.

[@terricon4]

As a developer, seeing some of these enemies and their actions and ideas for what they'd do, or their size/stature/height, etc... I'm just thinking ya... I think I know why that got dropped. Small ones like the porky and reach squirrel aside, many of them would be serious pains to make worth with existing levels and path finding, and many also would have huge issues for their AI that was very much different from the normal behavior tree most enemies have. Sure, most would be possible... but only with a lot of extra work, and often requiring changes to levels and environments to support them that might interfere with other things or mess up the desired play spaces. And then ones like the giant transport. You have a massive flood, that's still a softish target so not armored and just a bullet sponge. A huge bullet sponge, that or too easy of a kill. It only works in very limited large open areas to get around, and it requires corpses, or other AI to die in that open area too. That conflicts with marine and elite AI for example, often sticking by rocks or cover opposite the open area with hostiles. And then there's the question of how fast it is, does it sprint really fast to get around to each corpse and start the conversion? And if it doesn't how long would it take to move around giving you how much time to kill it? And also very important for game play is where do you space this? It's big and tough, so you need lots of ammo, or rockets or other power weapons to put it down, yet it's unlikely to drop any ammo itself upon death. And it brings up more enemies that also probably are melee only without ammo or weapon drops. So it's a potential hole in their plans for player resource management. And lastly, the flood are by their very name, the flood. They are supposed to be numerous, giant bulky boss units makes them feel more in line with other factions who also have vehicles. And this unit is arguably redundant anyway. I mean it's a coolish sounding idea but pointless when you think about it. It turns corpses in Flood combat forms? Well guess what unit already does that, is much smaller and wont cause any issues in level design, path finding, or ammo resource management to deal with and is already in the game? That's right, the simple humble infection form. Something that better "feels" like a flood unit, does the same job, and arguably better, all for so much less development time and far less restrictions on it's use in game. You'd barely get to use a giant thing like the transport given normal level designs, making it a super questionable investment of developer time if they did try to take all of these hurdles for it. Juggernauts, I kind of like them, but they also have some issues, not as many as some others, but still some issues. I'd say they could be like hunters though, in some limited environments that can fit them, but the problem is they are a giant tanky charger. No matter what they will just charge the player down, and the player either has environmental safe areas against them, or is ALWAYS running from them if faster, or if slower is forced to always kill them first or just die. It's not that fun of a combat loop compared to most others, and has issues with environmental design again. Compare these to the bigger flood combat forms of halo 3 that were more varied in nature, and could even turn into ranged turrets or stuff from a distance. Same role as the juggernaut in melee mode, but expanded to allow them to be more flexible and give the player more options when dealing with them. Also still smaller so you can melee the head/body area, rather than just spindly legs that doesn't feel good when you get low on ammo and desperate. EDIT: Oh ya, and the keelbug... I love that one... in order to have fewer units and objects on the field in memory... you are adding additional units with complex pathfinding and their own separate AI system into the mix. They probably take a bit of time to fly in, grab or cut up a body, and leave... and leave to where? Won't even work in all environments like much of the forerunner facilities with doors probably... But this idea of spawning more enemies to let you not have as many enemies... unless they are really fast at their jobs it's just not worth it. And even if they are, that means fewer enemies allowed at any one moment, as these guys take a piece of the pie for units in play at a time. So big battles can't be as big. On the other hand... once a unit dies you can at least separate its AI and controller and destroy that, basically just leaving the mesh an textures behind, things probably already loaded in memory anyway from the others present still being fought. And by the time it launched, computers oculd handle more geometry with more memory and stuff so a few extra skeletal meshes just sitting around wasn't as concerning anymore, AI and physics and pathfinding still were, but they could be removed mostly when they died at least. And to top it off, they couldn't be used in the entire game, only a few areas, after all they couldn't be used inside many facilities, but also in areas with the flood as they'd likely keep the infection forms from doing their own thing, and seeing an organic flying unit would lore wise make people question why the flood don't infect them? Or why these things possibly would want to bring back flood bodies? Or maybe they do swap to an infected version part way through the game... still removes the bodies for the infectors either way. And all this just so they can manage aerial pathfinding, and a fairly different type from the banshee one. Trust me, they have their own special code for flying that is... special... it wouldn't work on fine movement and stuff like these bugs would need to enter and area close to obstacles, find a body, and then move right up to it before escaping (without clipping through everything at least).

[@ccasuall]

My guy wrote a whole book

[@comorbiddisorder]

Could you imagine if the Covenant kept the armor of every Spartan they kill, using it to create armor for Grunts and Elites?

[@lost8257]

Cool idea, but I believe the covenant wouldn't want to use the armor as it's seen as inferior, and that they'd see the human armor as dirty, because of religious beliefs. I could see the banished doing it tho

[@torina2639]

imagine a flood scarab creature, beauty and horror

[@sly2409]

The last one actually exist in an halo wars 2 dlc , the new character was actually a grunt leader and they were armored grunt and some heavy melee fighters

[@xDinomanx]

You missed out some important bits of information: The Sharquoi (Drinol) is actually briefly mentioned in the little book that came with Halo 2 called "Conversations in the Universe" where two Elites are talking to each other about the humans. The creature is briefly mentioned by them in it. So really they are technically canon, just not truly featured yet. Also Halo Wars is the first game to introduce the Engineers as they use the original model that was to be in Halo 2 for them (Halo Wars 2's engineers are altered to be like the Halo 3: ODST version).. The Flood Juggernaut form does appear in a story from Halo: Evolutions called "The Mona Lisa" though it's a brief cameo. It is however the first official canon appearance of them. In Halo Wars 2 the Abominiation unit of the flood are evolved forms of Juggernauts according to their bio. As Fireteam Raven is a game that also features them it would imply that they are indeed part of the canon now.

[@PackHunter117]

Fun fact the Sharquoi are canon too. They’re in the novel Smoke and Shadow and are mentioned as Forerunner augmented life forms that the Covenant considered using during Halo 2.

[@richardpatterson1694]

Close but no the novel is called halo Envoy smoke and shadow is a completely different story.

[@Drunk_Sniper_18]

Super cool to see cut content from any game. Thanks for digging this stuff up!

[@nerosoul2506]

I mean usually, as long as it isnt "Mister friendly" from half life

[@obijuankenobi8932]

Maybe the tank beasts are the same species as the hunters because they are just a big mass of worms just in a different form

[@MrAnarchyMarine]

Halo 5 did end up using the grunt hero, but only in the multiplayer section. It's an armored mech, with a grunt pilot, similar idea to a mantis. It's actually pretty tanky. It sadly never made it's way into the story, which I kinda hope it does with Infinity.

[@zedmercury2605]

Literally my favorite video game subject, cut enemies. Thank you ❤

[@ThommyofThenn]

Cool avatar pic

[@Ho_Lee_Fook]

Seeing all these amazing creatures makes me hope we get them in infinite, or at least any kind of very alien looking creatures

[@xenosmoke8915]

We would have moaned at the Stealth Flood as being unimaginative. Well done for cutting them out.

[@CodextStudios]

The armored grunts are in halo wars 2 just putting that our there

[@karlvallerand1004]

Me and my brother both have a very vague memory of watching someone playing Halo CE back in the days, we remember an ennemy who looked like the hunters but with a tail holding plasma grenades. Its really weird because i played the game countless of times since then and i never found what mission we were looking at back in that time. Are there any unofficial versions of the game out there with ennemies and missions that never made the final cut? I would think this memory is only a psychological effect but the fact that we are 2 remembering this makes me wonder if we were looking at a very rare copy of the game? 12:32 . Kind of looking like this but blue.

[@adams.2407]

Every copy of Halo CE is personalized.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

That is so damn weird… I think it might’ve been a modded copy or a beta disc

[@hiddendesire3076]

8:05 They are also confirmed to be the “Flood Abominations” of Halo Wars 2.

[@douglasparkinson4123]

my favourite scifi trope is huge floaty space blimp whales near scifi floating gas mining facilities on a gas giant. its an old classic, and im so sad it got cut.

[@eclipseslayer98]

8:22 Damn, I see where DE got the idea for some of their Sentient designs.

[@jacobweatherford4696]

The flood stealth form actually looks interesting in my opinion

[@Street_jesus279]

Might be a Mandela effect but I definitely remember the flood juggernaut being in the game

[@ambrose3560]

How did you read “Vulpard” and not immediately realize it was a Vulture and Leopard?

[@edgarallenpo8330]

The cut warthog run in halo 2 actually had a Flood Juggernaut in it, it was supposed to be like a brief moment you just pass it while hearing a brute scream "Unholy beast!"

[@_Vergil_]

Actually 2 or 3 which you are meant to ignore and evade.

[@spectrewolf506]

The grunt hero would have been awesome And if it were to have its own type of weapon maybe it would be like a plasma pistol but with a rifle form that would be able to shoot plasma charges in higher rate of fire with a less cool down time. Maybe the would be the plasma speeder? I don’t know, but thats how I would make it.

[@flyingflamingo5864]

Does the grunt mech not count in halo 5 or halo wars 2?

[@donovandelaney3171]

I would like to see a mod that puts that lost level back into CE.

[@Tailsfan06thezombieslayer]

How about cut weapons next

[@travisreed1730]

In "Halo Wars" a Thornbeast is mentioned to have been in one of the Logs. It was a Incident Report for an incident in which two Grunts were killed and torn apart. Thornbeast was a meal for a Brute Captain of a ship.

[@VonSketcher]

I could see the flood transport becoming a thing from turning the biomass from a scrab that it can't control as it could for humans and elites, and using the armour/body as a body structure, the full-body or a destroyed half body which it would drag itself to locations.

[@david42371]

I wonder why this was not in the halo games it would be very interesting to see if it happened yes

[@BiggerBubba]

I want literally all of them, my childhood complaint with halo, something sacred to us, was no endemic life. Which is why we gave borderlands 1 a shot

[@TerryMeme]

Here's hoping we see more than just grunts, jackals, elites, and brutes in halo infinite... A total call back I could see a marine say "What's worse than buggers? Buggers with sniper rifles!". I'd love to see the whole covenant armada be brought back halo 2 style (which is it just me or has infinite definitely gone a halo 2 route with a lot of things?). Enemy variety is important :)

[@shreksnow1918]

I think that they’d be fine if it wasn’t a one hit kill, and if their aim was as bad as the Halo 4 Sniper Jackals.

[@pronoblewolf]

Another fun fact most of these cut concept swear used in the Halo Wars series like the flood Juggernaut is the flood abomination in Halo Wars 2 the original engineer for Halo one was used in Halo Wars

[@katana2k]

thebeginningofthesentence starts like this. but. it. always. goes. on. and. on. like. this.

[@christianguzman8228]

Vulture + Leopard ~ Vulpard Rocket Sloth: It's PIKACHU

[@sneakysneakyboi295]

Did anyone else notice that with the scarab gun skull activated on Halo 2 Anniversary, that when in the warthog, trying to use the horn sends out a projectile that can destroy

[@jonathansoares5454]

5:25 they look like stationary snipers which is what jackels where turned into most troop classes look like they were removed and replaced as weapons

[@OhNoJoshEdits]

Seeing cut content from CE is like seeing cut content from Dark Souls 1. You *really* can’t help but wonder.

[@m33tballa]

Popcorn flood refer to infection forma not carrier forms, even tho theyre both similar to popcorn

[@LungoScrungo]

Therapist: Covenant-controlled guta isn't real, it can't hurt you. Covenant-controlled guta: 12:20

[@Noble-nw3gf]

I see y’all teasing truth and reconciliation with that first background clip, hope the last run is going good

[@lunatic1172]

im watching this when it was only 7 minutes old, and its a great vid!

[@zealotfree501]

Love cut content media. It's what makes games even more special

[@notalive5479]

The mention of the Alien trooper and mixing Hunter and Elite design elements makes me think of something... how about a Lekgolo suits? How they would work is anyone's guess, but they could be Lekgolo worms wrapped around a "host" and communicating with the "host" somehow to move fluidly, while granting heightened strength, speed, and a small amount of armor. Throw on some heavy armor, and boom, you have super Elites. Honestly, anything more to do with Lekgolo would be incredibly interesting, instead of just throwing them in the background each game and ignoring them. The potential they have is almost on par with the flood, which makes it such a shame they just show up as Hunters and Scarabs (and that one thing in Halo 5, whatever it was called). Goliath's and such in Halo Wars 2 is a good start, but there's so much potential for interesting designs. The skies the limit, since there's nothing restricting their design. They don't need to be designed with legs or arms, they can just be chucked into a suit and whatever that suit is is what the Lekgolo form looks like. Mini Scarabs that move around on legs with wheels with a forward facing Focus beam and guns built into the sides? Why not! A floating disc with guns in every direction that just shoot stuff? Go ahead! Think of basically any design imaginable, and with the Lekgolo it's possible. Hell, even Forerunner machines would only need a little tweaking to be pilotable by Lekgolo. Since Lekgolo swarms can just get dumped into a machine and the Lekgolo can operate it, they can use basically any machine like it's their own body, like a Scarab but in a different form. They could use lightweight designs to fly around like a Banshee without normal piloting restrictions, they can be put into anything. Honestly, any flying machines could have a Lekgolo swarm added into it and the result would be glorious. So many moving parts are possible that aren't with a normal pilot. The possibilities are so endless it's almost hard to think of specific examples because there's nothing to define what they COULD be, except needing space for the worms to occupy.

[@Jormyyy]

Oh how I wish the hurragok were in CE.

[@James-cr5mc]

A lot of the vehicles and flood forms from halo wars 1 amd 2 need to make it into the main series.

[@dustyfedora]

The Guta kinda feels like a reinterpretation of the Sharquoi with them both being beefy and hulking goliaths in comparison to the player.

[@tannerm.2084]

You mentioned how one of the creatures (forget the name) may have been inspired by a creature from Marathon. I immediately was reminded of Hive Ogres from Destiny just based on how both looked. Might be interesting to expand on this topic to see if anything cut from Bungies tenure with Halo actually did make it to Destiny in some odd way.

[@donaldbaird7849]

Juggernauts are also in Halo Wars 2, the Awakening the Nightmare dlc

[@Dave_Chrome]

In the Halo 2 Developer Commentary they mention that originally they were planning to have every Heretic be a Hunter! So that Alien Trooper concept being like a Hunter-Elite combination would make sense for that

[@chosenone1948]

4:18 terrifying

[@jameswhite2521]

I was hoping to see the Elite, from the original trailer, with the shield on the arm like the Jackels.

[@andyfriederichsen]

2:18 That wouldn't be a parasite if it's HELPING the host. That would be a mutual symbiotic relationship. 10:42 I played a mod for Halo: Combat Evolved and on the last level there was a ridiculously confusing area where me and a friend spent at least 10 to 15 minutes trying to kill that fucker.

[@rm25088]

why are all the cool enemies always cut

[@alexdivision4320]

I thought Halo wars 2 did have armored grunts. Or was that just the mechs in the YapYap faction?

[@pronoblewolf]

The Chaska in Halo Wars is actually a flood infected form in the one Maps involving the flood and it can also be seen in multiplayer maps know as the flood thrashers

[@shreksnow1918]

You guys should do a video on the cut levels, and another one on cut weapons. Both of those would be really cool.

[@Julianrocker200]

The sharquoi actually were referenced in halo wars 2. I forgot were but hidden Xperia made a vid on it

[@shangothunder1055]

In a Novel originally there canom now.

[@Julianrocker200]

@@shangothunder1055 yee

[@shreksnow1918]

Imagine how cool it would be if we got to fight those things in Infinite.

[@Julianrocker200]

@@shreksnow1918 I'm still hoping 🥺

[@shangothunder1055]

@@shreksnow1918 Doubt it 343 seems to be going overly bare bones classic in that where not fighting anything beyond Brutes, Elites, Hunters, Jackals, Grunts, and Sentinels. I hope I'm wrong though.

[@angelleonard5088]

it was very odd but not really cause its an arcade game that fireteam raven had flood and that thing appeared. i know its a form that haunters become when infected but the fact that spart iv's where fighting it and the flood just blows my mind. and now it make sense! with the story and how the story progressed. honestly wouldnt be surprised when the flood gets to show up back in the main games.

[@themisfitbrigade]

HALO CE Engineers are actually in Halo Wars, same models (lower resolution) with the same animations.

[@tjlastname5192]

I remember some commentary on the 3 legged creatures. I could be wrong, but I think they said that they were supposed to be snipers. They would be able to lean to one side on two of the legs, and kinda shift to the other side to a dodge counter sniping. My brain could be totally making that up. It was probably 10 years ago when I was watching that. Edit: Never mind, he covered that specific enemy later on the video.

[@NucularDonkey12]

You can just see the early Half-Life inspiration OOZING from Blindwolf and Threeleg. That said, they look fantastic

[@davidwhatsthatabout7404]

I think a grunt “captain “ in a mech suit having 2 shoulder mounted fuel rod cannon would be cool, and just leave the hunters with the fuel rod “stream” Instead

[@HRHooChicken]

Flood Juggernaut is the only one I’d really have loved to see. I think it would’ve fit into halo 2 really well. Imagine being in one of those foggy corridors in High Charity and that thing appears

[@ToaDrakua]

5:30 Tankbeast has four legs, not three. You can see the fourth poking out the back.

[@satanssonbob]

tank beast apears to have a fourth leg hidden behind the other

[@shreksnow1918]

I noticed that as well. If they added those things they’d probably be another Lekgolo formation.

[@MasterOfKnowledge.]

Until this video, I never noticed how much possible inspiration for the first two games enemy-wise was taken from Half-Life

[@doom7ish]

12:20 the Junta is literally a Brumak.

[@richardpatterson1694]

More like a rancor

[@ShadowMage]

Maybe we'll see some of these awesome alien creatures in Halo Infinite.

[@noah8999]

Bro.. the armored Guta sounds like an amazing idea. Maybe one day someone with modding skills could make it a reality.

[@xcesive8614]

The alien trooper is VERY similar to an enemy in Warframe, and I know that bunghe had beef with them at the time