Halo Infinite's Endings Explained

Halo Infinite is finally in the hands of fans after 6 years of development. Now that we've had a chance to experience the latest chapter in Master Chief's saga, we're sure many of you have been left with a number of questions, such as just who the Endless are, what exactly happened to Atriox, and above all, just what in the 7 Rings is happening in that Legendary Ending, Luckily, IGN is here to breakdown Halo Infinite's endings and what they mean for Halo's future. Naturally, there are spoilers ahead.
#IGN #Gaming #HaloInfinite

[@bob072771]

Hey IGN, Kudos for bringing Halo Canon on to provide this breakdown, no offense to you guys specifically, but its always nice to hear from the "experts" on this kind of thing!

[@yancylake2019]

YES, EXACTLY

[@Rapitor]

Zeta Halo also has some flood connections too. hopefully we will see story expansions on both the flood (the banished being dumb and unlocking containment... a throwback to H1) and the Endless will definitely need their own story

[@dom4591]

The flood are contained on zeta halo and the forerunners experimented with the flood on this ring as well. So we'll most likely see a flood expansion.

[@TheVentrexian]

There's literally a flood cylix in the beginning of the game

[@supremercommonder]

Ancient humans where on zeta aswell I’d love to know a more about ancient humans

[@Ghostsonplanets]

Banished already encountered Flood and contained them in Halo Wars 2

[@Verdevil]

Imagine if the UNSC ends up liberating the Flood to try to use them against the Endless

[@oooo1110]

Completed it last night the last boss fight is tough man.

[@igniii3348]

Yeah, only on legendary difficulty otherwise its a boringly easy fight

[@S.G.W.C.]

@@igniii3348 ya its not hard to be a challenge but its hard just for the sake of being named legendary. kinda annoying

[@GustavoHR115]

@@igniii3348 the banished hunters are easily the Hardest bosses in the game tbh, those fckers have no mercy

[@chewbacc17]

Spent awhile trying this on laso. Still trying!

[@andrewjazdzyk1215]

@@GustavoHR115 I found a way to cheese them. That gawd damned brute chieftain though. He'll.

[@DevonReclaimed]

Great to see Halo Canon doing what he does best for a wider audience.

[@BeTeLGeuZeX]

truth

[@nekrositoh]

And it seems that Offensive Bias was helping The Weapon. She says "someone is helping me" when you are fighting the harbinger...and in the after credits Despondent pyre says that she cant take care of the endless alone..and the forerunner says: "Offensive bias has been deployed".

[@luisfernandoca3794]

Also, Weapon didn’t know what was helping her, if it was Cortana, she would’ve known in an instant

[@GustavoHR115]

@@luisfernandoca3794 CORRECT!

[@oooo1110]

Offensive Bias is the one helping.

[@yancylake2019]

Mentioned at 8:38

[@wlee9888]

@Maverick Interesting point!

[@theoutlawking9123]

Clearly Atriox's interest in "The Endless" is their ability to survive a Halo firing, smart money he wants to know how he can do this himself. So after he cleanses the universe using Halo, he won't be affected.

[@niks660097]

probably not even that, full control of offensive systems of a single ring is enough to dominate humans easily...

[@dnegel9546]

Based on the conversation it means to me that the endless were close to figuring out how to control time. So atriox probably wants to know how. Controlling time to me would be more power then having control over the rings.

[@theoutlawking9123]

@@dnegel9546 So time-control or Immortality, seems like Immortality is better. Since controlling time doesn't mean you can't die and with Immortality, time becomes irrelevant.

[@horrorfan117]

If he wanted to survive the Halos wouldn’t it make more sense to find a shield world, and trick a reclaimer into firing the array?

[@theoutlawking9123]

@@horrorfan117 Pretty sure he would've done that if it was as easy as you say.

[@panagiotisnikiforou1323]

Lets hope we get an endless story dlc for halo🙏🙏

[@luisfernandomendez2909]

Thats going to be the first DLC

[@andresrueda5508]

Dude they confirmed days ago the new dlc is called Halo: The Endless

[@PeenTip]

No. The flood

[@SB3_01]

Microsoft patented a DLC 2 weeks ago named Halo: The Endless.

[@S0L12D3]

Lol everyone here was wrong. No dlc coming……

[@joolsarts7062]

This explainer is really well done, kudos guys 👏

[@theminimalistgamer1340]

My favorite game of 2021. It was like an evolved version of Halo 1. Cannot wait for Halo The Endless

[@807D14M0ND5]

Infinite

[@woktheodore]

Halo Neverending

[@celxstial8206]

Halo infinite is meant to last 10 years there will only be dlcs now for 10 years

[@bababoey_]

Comparing halo 1 to halo infinite wtf

[@807D14M0ND5]

@@bababoey_ They clearly took most inspiration from halo 1.

[@nuparkerzfc6700]

Already so hyped for the next campaign to follow the story and see chiefs rematch with atriox

[@5Ci0N]

We never even saw chief's first match with Atriox 😒

[@sean7332]

@@VISHVplus the opening cutscene was so rushed, go back to halo 2 opening the cinematics are so much longer the recap was so bad

[@5Ci0N]

@@VISHVplus can you describe the match please? I'll wait..

[@ChrisSmooth24]

@@5Ci0N bro what he literally just told you. And we literally saw them fight. Chief got beat BAD. chief himself even tells the weapon that atriox beat him. Why are you trolling?

[@5Ci0N]

@@ChrisSmooth24 just seems wierd y'all are saying it was a match when we only got to see the end of it. It's the equivalent of just seeing Iron Man snapping his fingers in Endgame, and nothing that led up to it.

[@danielschuster2154]

Fabulous performance from Halo Canon, as always

[@Crispi5oh]

Always answers my questions. ✌️ been watching since day 1

[@N7Hanz]

Awesome to hear Toa @ IGN 🤘🏻

[@nicknasios4]

0:19 WAIT WHAT IF WE GET TO PLAY AS ATRIOX IN A FUTURE DLC??

[@lordveteran6557]

Hi! Is there any information on whether will be this NG + mode and / or the option to repeat the main missions? Thank you in advance for your answer.

[@ryan222777]

Oh, when did Halo Canon start working for ign? Nice

[@trentimus5700]

They probably contracted him for a few videos.

[@HaloCanon]

@@trentimus5700 Basically

[@TheVentrexian]

@@HaloCanon glad they reached out to the community

[@DronieUp]

It would be nice to see a sequel in this generation! Fingers crossed!

[@Loganmccoy1996]

Legendary ending was cryptic as hell

[@archaichobo6969]

I'm looking forward to the DLC story continuation that will eventually drop.

[@kneverknow1708]

Can’t wait for what’s next!

[@blaketindle4703]

Excited to see Offensive Bias helping Master Chief and New Cortana to defeat Atriox and the Endless!

[@rantradio]

343 are bringing the lore in full circle now. I'm pretty sure the Endless are Precursors who didn't become Flood. There is No time travel. Atriox did not time travel. And the Endless don't time travel either. Their surviving the Halo array could be down to similar what Librarian did to Chief in making him immune to being composed by the Composer.

[@alltheclevernamesweretaken5294]

But we time traveled 3 days at the end of the campaign as Master Chief so there is time travel.

[@ladslounge2698]

@@alltheclevernamesweretaken5294 that's not tome traveling. If you read the novels Halsey had a forerunner artifact that can bend space and time, so that Chief came back from Halo -Alpha 04 to Reach to save them but its not time travelling.

[@ladslounge2698]

Also, The Endless are not precursor, they maybe creations of Precursor like all sentient beings but it makes no sense for them to be given all precursor creations have been Neural-Physics based. That's why the Halo's were able to stop the flood, and the Starroads.

[@alltheclevernamesweretaken5294]

@@ladslounge2698 isn't time travel bending space and time? Seems like the definition of it. Ya lost me.

[@wlee9888]

@@alltheclevernamesweretaken5294 To me, time travel would involve backwards and forwards direction thru time. What the Chief experiences is "time"/"distance" adjustments, but only in the forward direction thru time. Hopefully this explanation makes some sense.

[@Zeemya]

We can all agree that the maxed grapshot is the most powerful ability/weapon.

[@brandonhohn245]

Back to the idea of time travel, Chief and the weapon mention that they were gone for 3 days

[@Nick-4K]

You don't think Chief and Atriox are gonna end up teaming to take down this new big bad?

[@nickplesca7074]

No shot

[@ChrisSmooth24]

Lol no

[@j.k.1239]

nah.

[@austinsavage8384]

Probably not.

[@hectorzayas5488]

The next arbiter that would be cool

[@djanthaz]

@HaloCanon? What’s happening?! Congrats on this-great breakdown!

[@jimbog4873]

THANK YOU for correcting the record (so to speak) that Unlocked muddled on IGN!!! Atriox did NOT time travel (period)!!! The ancient time stamp is the KEY (IF time travel occurred then that ancient time stamp, not the audio, HAS TO be conveyed to ALL player difficulties and not just locked behind the Legendary ending...OTHERWISE you'll have some players going into future story DLC thinking Atriox was in the current day while Legendary players think he was in the ancient past)! The ancient time stamp is just part of the audio file playing, just some context for when the audio took place and nothing more (its playing, only on Legendary, as we see Atriox working in the CURRENT timeline seemingly undoing the Endless imprisonment that the Forerunners did sooo very long ago...the same imprisonment that the ancient audio log is referencing)! Think about it, IF Atriox frees the Endless in the past THEN that would alter ALL of Halo history...like the ENTIRE Halo canon would be altered, what we just played through would be invalidated, paradoxes galore (so many paradoxes that the entire story canon would unravel into a BIG mess)!

[@xbris117]

You say all of this while blatantly ignoring that Chief and Weapon disappeared for three days with no trace after entering the Silent Auditorium. Just because one ending gets more details doesn’t mean that there’s gonna be four different stories running, one for each difficulty. It’s never been that way. Legendary ending of Halo CE had Johnson hugging an elite in the blast radius of the Pillar of Autumn. He died there but he ends up surviving through to Halo 3? Funny how that works huh.

[@teargass1849]

@@xbris117 Time travel forward is a very different concept than time travel backwards, we have forward time travel today, in real life, time moves at different paces depending on speed through spacetime and the strength of the gravity well your nearest too.

[@TheVentrexian]

Ign reaching out to the community?! Dope

[@ElderStatesman]

Is it just me, but has anyone else noticed the numbers for each of the monitors of the Halo rings are a multiple of 7? 343 Guilty Spark is 7^3 or seven to the power of three (for math nerds). 2401 Penitent Tangent is 7^4. *117*649 Despondent Pyre is 7^6. Seems the folks at Bungie/343i have a fascination with exponents!

[@aaronse2922]

Halo Canon is the man for this job.

[@TheShawVMedia]

(puts unlit cigarette into mouth while wearing a wave cap).... Mendecant Bias, The Devil is a lias, the Flood can try us..... 117 in 3.

[@Azeraph]

You sure that Atriox is the Atriox of the present? What if that Atriox is a past Atriox. Weapon said something about a signal was very old. You cannot emit an old signal but you can receive an old signal.

[@Elibbb-sx3kg]

Halo is infinite it's never end

[@dom4591]

Perfect time for this video. Just completed it last night on legendary.

[@samwilson4503]

How long did that take you?

[@dom4591]

@@samwilson4503 about a week. Playing a couple of hours a day.

[@dnegel9546]

@@dom4591 same here. This was by far the easiest legendary halo ever.... By a very long shot. Tho the boss battles did remind me of other halo legendary difficulty.

[@michaeldelacruz6370]

Is it me or does the new atriox LITERALLY look younger? He also has no face paint

[@bellsama6588]

But if it can't kill the flood and it can't kill the endless but the flood are remnants of the precursors so it can be said that the Endless are Precursors but just like the Flood they are no longer what they use to be but something else

[@iskandarpewdiedan3018]

Nice. Now another 6 year of waiting for the next release.

[@CHRAXY]

😂😂😂

[@SmithITX]

Got the same ending finishing whole game on Heroic 😐

[@ElderStatesman]

What we're missing is the added context of the conversation between Despondent Pyre & the Grand Edict over the after-credits ending we saw on Normal & Heroic.

[@OhOh996]

That person in the video seem to have the same voice as Halo Canon, coincidence?

[@supremercommonder]

It is halo cannon ign contacted him to do this video

[@johnblaze5553]

Offensive bias was uploaded to Atriox before he fought Master Chief... It's the way Chief describes their battle, as if Atriox had an A.I. He describes Atriox battle proficiency in the same way the Cortana A.I. was meant to upgrade his own combat effectiveness.

[@OscarMelon1]

Just finished it myself

[@Reve_Hyrulier]

Plot twist the new Cortana is coded with offensive bias and master chief has been ogmented by it like the librarian did

[@animeweng]

Obviously Halo 7 is Master Chief vs Banished and Endless.

[@blaketindle4703]

So they’ve basically made Atriox immortal. How else could he possibly have survived the ring explosion? He was right there with Cortana!

[@MrAvakstone92]

Actually, the ring didn't exploded, Cortana only damaged by dissamsembling part of the ring, but (somehow) Zeta Halo was transported into another location

[@ladslounge2698]

He was scatred from it though. So we will have to wait and see

[@immortalwarrior2695]

He was saved by harbinger.

[@richieclark528]

James bond floated in and saved him from the banished

[@hogzex-xr3dk]

@@richieclark528 really😁🤣

[@ScoundrullonYouTube]

What do you mean it wasn't about time travel? Master Chief and the weapon literally disappeared for 3 days at the end of the game there was literally three days of lost time so they must have time traveled in some way right

[@adriancle93]

This story isn't doing it for me, sad to say.

[@xbl1ht_exe]

So who said that Offensive Bias was deployed, are they on the UNSC?

[@mitkoshredder]

So there will be next game?

[@austinsavage8384]

Looks like it

[@stevenw8823]

The last act dragged on so bad

[@petulantwolf6393]

Atriox and Cortana are in the past... she's about to change the future!

[@niks660097]

Offensive bias, the un-sung hero of the entire saga...

[@zachhowe98]

Could the storage things carry forerunner AI that were infected by the logic plague?

[@GrandNoble]

More halo content!

[@mahmoudmoussa6999]

Halo canon

[@isse24]

Halo Canon!!!!!

[@gedarosienta103]

and they say KH is confusing imagine hearing this for the 1st time 😅

[@DrJellyFanguzzz]

But at least it's not on some "power of hearts and friendship" stuff at the forefront.

[@guitaromania1345]

Who else is lost

[@TheGwopboyzprodigy]

Halo Cannon!

[@bastardsupreme6624]

Vague cliffhanger

[@dashtoroya2838]

Pretty sure Master Chief will time travel back to fight the endless and atriox And UNSC/ONI not knowing about this , might think master Chief is dead .

[@jimbog4873]

Atriox did NOT time travel (period)...therefore NO battle in the past will be necessary or happen!!! The ancient time stamp is the KEY (IF time travel occurred then that ancient time stamp, not the audio, HAS TO be conveyed to ALL player difficulties and not just locked behind the Legendary ending...OTHERWISE you'll have some players going into future story DLC thinking Atriox was in the current day while Legendary players think he was in the ancient past)! The ancient time stamp is just part of the audio file playing, just some context for when the audio took place and nothing more (its playing, only on Legendary, as we see Atriox working in the CURRENT timeline seemingly undoing the Endless imprisonment that the Forerunners did sooo very long ago...the same imprisonment that the ancient audio log is referencing)! Think about it, IF Atriox frees the Endless in the past THEN that would alter ALL of Halo history...like the ENTIRE Halo canon would be altered, what we just played through would be invalidated, paradoxes galore (so many paradoxes that the entire story canon would unravel into a BIG mess)!

[@ladslounge2698]

There is no Time Travel 🤦‍♂️

[@ayushdogra543]

So mendicate bias is cortana and offensive bias is weapon?

[@HaloCanon]

They have some definite parallels to each other.

[@luisfernandoca3794]

They are very similar, Mendicant went full on rage mode and was only stopped by Offensive… Cortana and Weapon are exactly the same

[@tomasbos6309]

Given that this video obviously seems unsafe for people who don't want to be spoiled: OFFENSIVE BIAS BABYyyyy

[@andrewalmodovar1227]

$10 says the reason they were dead after the firing is because they are pet AI or something

[@sirkthegod6627]

Halo has some of the best and interesting lore in gaming history

[@itzMoTioNZ95]

Yo Halo Canon

[@annaadam4201]

Next halo = want floods

[@Urlastnerve]

I’m just saying, if Atriox is alive, then MAYBE Cortana is alive too…. Maybe….🤷‍♂️

[@sponji4732]

Pov you didn't beat halo yet

[@trestantonvlogs8754]

They should of made were we had to find out what happened to atriox

[@nutexxx767]

this is the best game this year

[@dnegel9546]

Nahh.

[@chiefoftimes387]

Another Halo game...Halo Unleashed?..

[@sirfranciscanadianbacon1468]

Halo very infinite

[@pizzadude400]

third

[@ehoesofinsanity193]

...what?

[@Bluecommando10]

Why Halo Canon doing videos for IGN????

[@chewbacc17]

Why wouldn’t ign credit halo canon? Unless you know him, you wouldn’t know any better.

[@yogibearyagoo]

First view

[@simulify8726]

Ok

[@socialsvash5045]

What was the point of giving me the red sword? When on legendary you can't Dodge the guy with a big hammer 🤣 All you needed was a Needler haha

[@ThatguyBrady]

Is the endless just another flood

[@smaronboruah]

supposed to be a lot worse than flood

[@simulify8726]

. SPOILERS!!!

[@trentimus5700]

“Ending explained” lmao

[@mr.2cents.846]

Seems to me Halo Infitite's campaign is half as long as Halo 2.

[@d2_des434]

Y'all stay blowing Halo man, damn.

[@dom4591]

Because it's the best new game out right now.

[@TheVentrexian]

Don't watch the videos then lol Halo is fantastic

[@Bobby7496]

It’s better than this years battlefield and cod

[@dom4591]

@@TheVentrexian I never said it wasn't lol. Halo is my favorite game series

[@TheVentrexian]

@@dom4591 wasn't talking to you bro lol

[@biouuolf7409]

Lol wtf is this gameplay?

[@sirfranciscanadianbacon1468]

A blind person playing

[@KoreanSpy1997]

Don't know it's because this is my first halo game but that ending was terrible.

[@ALaz502]

What a dumb take. Seriously. It's like missing 4 seasons of a serialized show and thinking the ending of season 5 is terrible.

[@nickabbott319]

@@ALaz502 lol fr

[@Gravely5059]

Snooze....

[@michaeldesanta4517]

Halo infinite, rise of skywalker... So disappointed with the "story"

[@Void_tear3123]

How

[@hectorzayas5488]

Stop bitching

[@MadMaddie769]

why not take hell divers, but make it a multiplayer flood war during the forerunner flood war.

[@erroneousbotch4404]

It took 6 years to make that? Yikes!

[@Casey_Truman]

Right! So mediocre man.

[@jhonndonovaici8602]

Endless are flood

[@user-wy1cz1em4h]

No

[@ladslounge2698]

Nope.

[@jhonndonovaici8602]

Read the books..kidos

[@ayjntghost]

What a dumb and cheesy love story tho

[@corylohanlon]

I'll stick to bungie Halo

[@Void_tear3123]

Ok

[@jonathonshirley4169]

Hidden Xperia has a much better and more comprehensive video on the ending of the game, this one skips over a lot.

[@supremercommonder]

Halo cannon> hidden

[@greylithwolf]

The narrative of this franchise is such a fuckin' mess at this point.

[@Void_tear3123]

Not really

[@CHRAXY]

No it's not if you follow everything, remember halo is not just a game It has books, so game + books and everything will click

[@conkysamsquanch]

Getting the achievement for finishing campaign had me thinking. 5% that is percentage of people who finished it. Its a damn shame. What a great journey up till last few hours seem stretched out. Why pad something for such a small percentage of players. They really could have cut a lot out of the game and it still would be worth gamepass price, also getting players back to multiplayer faster. Seems like a misstep.

[@mathieu100]

Boooooooring

[@Kalaninuimehameha]

Almost makes Infinite seem like an enjoyable game.

[@robmanning6006]

Really? You had to rush to make a video spoiling the story already, the game has barely been out a week. Why don't you start doing this with movies also? Clowns

[@thebhoy8561]

Lol just don’t watch the video?

[@nickabbott319]

@@thebhoy8561 lol right

[@ricogonz1979]

Why dose every thing need explaining ?????

[@HaloCanon]

Because people like explanations.

[@MrJokersmile88]

Overcomplicated story intended to confuse fans, just like Kojima games, not interested!

[@HaloCanon]

What exactly was over-complicated with Halo Infinite?

[@MrJokersmile88]

@@HaloCanon well, not everyone is a ‘Halo Cannon’ 😂

[@rahulgunwal3097]

@@HaloCanon I’m a Halo fan but yeah story is bit complicated sometimes.

[@mushimash7513]

Halo has such fantastic lore and expanded universe. Us OG and long term halo fans are loving every second of it

[@HaloCanon]

@@rahulgunwal3097 When did it get complicated in Infinite?

[@Covid-by7lo]

The worst campaign story

[@MEDUSAvsSHOE]

The most disappointing disaster of 2021.

[@Void_tear3123]

Nah