The Stories of Halo’s Multiplayer Maps

[@LateNightHalo]

No Q&A today guys because of the upload. I hope you enjoy! What should I do next? :)

[@DiamondDuk]

Evolution of Halo’s traffic cones?

[@crnchymkrni2880]

Late Night Gaming could you please do evolution of the sniper rifle It would be a really good video like all of your videos

[@JustAndre92]

A Q&A, you fuck. jk ilu dtf

[@Ikoojr]

Evolution of the Puma

[@multitudeshoesinc8902]

Evolution (or Devolution) of the campaign and multiplayer sandboxes of the halo games. I still think it could be a interesting video.

[@MistaWok]

I’ll never forget the first time my friend taught me how to flip an elephant in forge mode... we haven’t spoken in years... miss you brother 😔

[@ltfreeborn]

"press x to flip... wait how did you do that?"

[@thatjustaintright3633]

i dont know how but you could just get me interested in anything, i wish i had your amount of talent

[@LateNightHalo]

Thank you

[@Will057]

@@LateNightHalo And that is why we love you man. Always top notch content.

[@trekker105]

@@LateNightHalo The script in this video literally had me welling up at points. If you ever gave a eulogy no tissues would be safe

[@ryanmartin1377]

@@LateNightHalo honestly man we can tell. I can especially tell the effort you put into the way you speak, I think you've got a very soothing voice

[@JustAndre92]

The presence of the AA battery on High Ground suggests to me that the damaged Pelican on the monitor was actually part of the invading force that the defenders managed to hold off before finally being overwhelmed. This in turn suggests that the attack on the base wasn't Covenant at all, but _Innie._ We know from stories like _The Cole Protocol_ that long before the post-_Halo 3_ stalemate between the races of the galaxy, there was a black market for Covenant weapons that thrived in circles where the UNSC were unable to impose due jurisdiction, explaining the presence of things like Needlers on the map; the Mauler could have been brought by them for the purposes of clearing out the UNSC holdouts once they had broken through and the fight turned close-quarters, or it could have been at the base already for UNSC study and taken up by some desperate Marine in the final throes of its defense. The more interesting thing is that there was Insurrectionist conflict at all during the events of _Halo 3_ (which, again, is a notion backed up by the books): the rebels believing so fervently in the Outer Colonies being granted the justice they deserve that they're still striking at the center of human ethnocentrism after the Outer Colonies have been all but lost - refusing to yield their ideals on the infinitesimal chance that humanity indeed lives to see tomorrow. ...But your reading is still better. 😉

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

High Ground was hands down the best map for the game mode "Infection". The custom map I remember playing on had these barriers covering the doors, as well as the hole on the side of the bunker. Then the zombies would race up the hill and try to breakdown the barriers with their energy swords. The humans would fend them off at the top of the hill, but then slowly retreat further back into the base as the zombies started breaking through the walls. It was the most intense thing trying to survive the time limit. Miss those days!

[@commandercody2980]

It's over Anakin! I have the high ground!

[@andrewpayne3982]

LNG, you played waaaay to much Halo 3. Coming up with stories for the maps? Come on man..... I did that too.....it was a ton of fun.

[@Rookie-2552]

Ayeeee brother we have the same last name!

[@tylerharris895]

So, is no one gonna y’all about the fact that LNG disliked his own video?

[@dennismakarov93]

That’s what I was thinking lol

[@roniszR]

What does it mean to y’all something?

[@tylerharris895]

roniszR It means I’m a southerner who types y’all so much that my phone autocorrects the word talk to y’all

[@roniszR]

Tyler Harris oooo that sucks :(

[@dennismakarov93]

Tyler Harris bro I have the same exact problem I hate it. Like talk is a word. Also it autocorrected talk to y’all too lol

[@brodyman30]

The way I bonded with my sisters growing up was playing Halo CE multiplayer, and our favorite map was Battle Creek, even to this day if I play halo with one of my sisters they always want to play on it.

[@Leadhead]

Great as always LNG, these vids always make me feel so... Safe

[@idkwhattoputhere4695]

Ah you’re here too?

[@brown-eyedcheese5440]

Ayyyy Leadhead was here

[@unequivocalsuffering2734]

My 2 favorite creators

[@TheeJasonReyes]

Ive never ever played MP in the 13 years of being a Halo fan. Like,not once. I only play Halo for the campaign and whatever PvE mode they got like Firefight.

[@Yoophy]

I wasn't able to play because I didn't have Xbox Live. That's changed now because I am able to pay for my own subscription and enjoy online multiplayer. I'm waiting for halo Infinite to release so I can abandon my social life.

[@manuelkfc7916]

My Steam Friends are the same, you're and MISSED a lot of MP moments of all kinds. Like just eating half a pizza and leaving it to rot. Fat kid Racing House Assasination Tower BTB Ragdolls and killing physics to other players. Customs as a hole, experiences with people, no matter where they come from. But i guess each their own.

[@kaiko6450]

I love the genuine emotion that you give when describing the maps. 10/10

[@ayyq6795]

Even the multiplayer maps in Halo enrich and expand its universe in interesting ways. Standoff, Valhalla, Snowbound, Rat's nest, Narrows, Assembly, Avalanche, Longshore, and Ghost Town are some of my favorite examples.

[@marcusaurelius277]

Man I miss the days of Lan parties and Doritos and Mountain Dew. We were fat then, but we were happy.

[@juicejooos]

Marcus Aurelius really do be making me tear up

[@VainerCactus0]

The surviving soldiers defending high ground got evacuated, but their Pelican got shot down. That Pelican you see on the monitor is the evac ship that got shot down on the way out. At least that is my theory. If you remember Halo Glasslands, one of the Spartans stuck in that Dyson sphere in slipspace under Onyx found she could make tables form out of the floor. Maybe citadel is just an office space, but all the desks are stored in the floors and walls? Maybe Citadel is a powerstation and this floor is where they are supposed to manage everything?

[@digthisbitch]

Bruh, I had some major flashbacks from that 360 Wifi adapter image. Oh the simpler times.

[@cosibarnes7512]

I’ve been having a bit of an unhappy stress recently, and i got eager to see ‘Memories of Halo’ again. I very much enjoy these. I can feel the amount of work and passion for them as i have watched your first Memories of Halo over and over and over, it truly captivates me. I get my eyes stuck to the screen as i listen to every little thing with my headphones on, getting an almost blissful feeling with the music and if i’m to be honest, your rather calming and gentle voice. All of that puts me at ease while i listen and watch, kind of like a ‘it’s ok, just close your eyes and rest.’ I know this was a bit of a mouthful of a comment, but this is how i feel, and i thank you for the experiences you bring us with your channel.

[@MirandaAndUh]

I love these map walkthroughs. The fact that you make it very personal with your sensory and narrative interpretations make them very uniquely soothing, like a wave of nostalgia.

[@BiggitySwigger]

Blackout always had a spooky and mysterious vibe to me, that's why it's my favorite map aesthetically.

[@sekiko7183]

My favorite map is (I know it has plenty of names for it) when you are in a part of a construction site of New Mombasa and you can jump platforms, or even drive on it! Man, had a lot of creative fun with that.

[@mattbehindthewheel6901]

something about joining into those maps now, alone, feels so eerie. All those memories with people you will never meet again. Coutless hours, but somehow, nothing but your memory to prove it.

[@airas1494]

God a hiddenxperia AND a latenightgaming video in one day?

[@gayeetermysterious197]

Braig the Crute.12 years ago? Dang you were ahead of your time.

[@airas1494]

@@gayeetermysterious197 woah, yeah I totally forgot this comment

[@gayeetermysterious197]

Braig the Crute - 12 years ago Omg the Craig’s cooler older brother responded t my comment.

[@airas1494]

@@gayeetermysterious197 rrRROOooaARR

[@memelord-zv8vr]

It’s amazing just how mysterious and awe inspiring Halos old maps where and how they could just incapacitated they are

[@PANCAKEMINEZZ]

Your high ground story was spot on, especially the comment about the connection between Last Resort and the map.

[@ChipClipGotGrip]

For me, Halo Reach’s Countdown is my favorite map in all of Halo. I have so many great memories of playing infection and swat. I have one memory in particular that stands out. I was playing team snipers and I was at the top of the lifts by the rocket, I got an assassination but got yoinked by my teammate. I turn around to scold him, and he was about to be assassinated, and I stood and watched him get stabbed in the back. The enemy and I just looked at each other and we walked away from the fight

[@crunchybombed2614]

Love the mystery training grounds of the pit. Love the background of landfall showing a whole battle going on. I hate how lockout plays but love how it looks and the mystery to it

[@hurlyburlygaming6210]

Highland from Reach is arguably my favorite map in all of Halo. Just seeing the CCS-Class carrier cleansing the surface of Reach and knowing this is the final moments of the planet is hauntingly peaceful. I use that map for screenshots quite often because of this beauty

[@aydinmakesthings]

As someone who is new to Halo and your channel, I love your content. I really love how you describe stuff with so much detail! Keep up the amazing work LTG.

[@RavagedGoods77]

Whenever I play on High Ground I think of when buddies would come over to do ffa in the summer in high school years. So many power weapons and vehicles

[@bb-anon6746]

These are by far my favorite videos of yours. As a kid, I used to do the same thing, I guess these videos just take me back if only for a short time.

[@valettashepard909]

That high ground story is exactly what I was thinking too, even wrote it into a machinima I never got to make.

[@Vademeer]

Wow I love how you started this video off with High Ground. It was the map that really got me invested into Halo. I remember being late to the Halo 3 party, having gotten an Xbox in 2009. My friends begging me to get Halo 3. Playing a bit, but not really having fun because it was so different to other shooters. But I remember my friend showing me forge on high ground. Something about the map just got my creative juices flowing. Just like you came up with a story for the map I too envisioned a battle of attrition taking place on that hillside bunker. I remember spending all night with my friend forging an "epic" ctf map. In reality the map was insanely unbalanced. We placed every power weapon and power up on the cliff by the beach for the attackers while adding only basic weapons and more objects as cover for the defenders to use. It was a truly a rudimentary map, but as a teenager it felt so awesome to have a map I could call my own. It was due to this experience that I invested more time into Halo forging, then as I forged I learned more about map/weapon balance. Which made me better at understanding the multiplayer. Getting better at multiplayer made me more invested in the universe. From there I invested time into the Halo 3 campaign. Didn't understand everything, but I enjoyed it. This lead me to buying the other 2 games and ODST so I could understand the full scope of the narrative. Then once Halo : Reach came out, well the rest is history. Still loving this franchise to this day.

[@gayeetermysterious197]

Vademeer I think Battle Creek, blood gulch and high ground are the blood of halo maps.

[@Gizmomaster]

Headlong on Halo 2 multiplayer. For me that was gold. I was apart of a lot of super bouncing clans back then and we’d always superbounce all over the place on that map. I played halo 2 multiplayer so much that I knew darn near every bounce on every map. Good times really.

[@SpakeGaming]

Dude, your videos on Halo have always been so passionate and well produced, but the cinematic quality you've achieved on this one in particular is great. Well bloody done mate, keep up the awesome work!

[@matthewcoyle4131]

The first Halo multiplayer map I ever played was Guardian. What a place to start. Still one of my favorites to this day.

[@caboozzle]

One of my favourite things about maps is the ambient sound, valhalla is a good example I love the sound of the big forerunner cannon things and the dusty echoes of sandtrap are cool too

[@ebr8308]

I love your editing style, it just gives your videos a certain character and uniqueness that I can't get enough of. Keep up the good work 👍

[@LouseGrouse]

I utterly love these multiplayer map stories. Please keep doing them.

[@Comkill117]

I’ll always love Sandtrap from Halo 3, as it’s the first thing I ever played at a friend’s birthday party in 2008. It’s a very interesting and well designed map and I love the idea that it was some excavation site of possibly Forerunner ruins that humanity defended, though a lone Phantom almost got through.

[@CompleteAnimation]

Excellent video! This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels, even though I only discovered it a couple months ago.

[@chips9773]

your story telling of boardwalk made me tear up, man are you a good story teller

[@TravellingHalo]

I’m always drawn to the kind of content that features the unique things creators can bring to the table. This is a format you’re uniquely qualified for and I’m totally here for it. Keep it UP Taras!!

[@tb303wpf1]

Amazing video!! I used to try and piece together the visual storytelling in Halo maps. You've really taken visual story comprehension to another level. The devs would be super stoked to see this video. Very well done sir.

[@LetsCommentator]

I thank you for putting so much love in halo late night gaming. *THANK YOU*

[@willzje2068]

I love the thought and work you put into these types of videos. I haven't been a huge halo fan since halo reach but, you're videos rekindle my love for the art and beauty in this franchise.

[@noah8916]

One my best multiplayer map experiences was on the map Breakneck. You see, I had just gotten xbox live, and the first game I played with it was Halo MCC. On the third or fourth match I played, the chosen map was Breakneck and the game mode was Team Slayer Heavies. I started the match (I was on blue team) , and it was utter chaos. Wraiths, Tanks and Warthogs battled across the streets, skirmishes occurred in every room and combined with the map's aesthetic, turned this simple match, into a full-fledged war. Me and a few teammates managed to make it to the top floor of the tallest building in the map, and began sniping down onto the streets below. The red team saw this, and took control the building in the middle of the map, and we began trading fire. Rubber burned through the streets, while the air crackled with shots form our sniper rifles. Then the Banshee arrived. It was a very surreal moment when the Red Team's Banshee raced from above and began firing down onto the streets while it speared through storm of sniper shots. Then Blue Team's Banshee joined the fight, and a dogfight sprung between the two alien vehicles, only 3 meters in front of our faces, with each pilot attempting to outmanoeuvre and outgun the other. Plasma reigned down on us as we attempted to hold our position. Despite the fact that we lost, I loved the feeling of adrenaline and dread this match gave me. It was exciting, scary and epic. It felt like a campaign mission, and that both teams were fighting to control this particular harbour. It felt like Halo.

[@EmileA239_from_Halo_Reach]

I was watching your “Best multiplayer maps” video when I got the notification for this

[@MultiPantero]

I bet you hear this all the time, but the quality of your content is phenomenal, the clips, the audio and even the intro, great work!

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

I was so pulled into this video, mouth open the whole time, you have no idea haha. I really hope to see more videos like this from you, you have a gift in narrating

[@natdebery3769]

I'd honestly watch an hour+ long video where you go through every map in the series, especially older ones from CE, 2 and 3.

[@natdebery3769]

Also, Maine represent. Always loved playing Reach and looking outside and feeling like the world was right out the window, truly an ethereal feeling.

[@117swordsmen]

Please do more like this! I remember being a kid and wondering if the maps had a story and making up stories in my head about what the structure was and what it was used for.

[@Schneeregen_]

When I was young, my brother and I didn't have Xbox Live, so we'd often mess around in Forge, and I recall Sandtrap being one of the ones we'd always go back to. I remember thinking that the Frigate hovering above the map was the missing half of the Forward Unto Dawn, and the crashed Human and Covenant ships were from other people who tried to escape the Halo's pulse.

[@ml6358]

My favourite is Achour Nine. I loved that map and used to play it with my friends when they would come over. I did not have xbox live either so me and my dad would explore and roleplay it all the time. The others left to fight the covenant and we were all that were left. I also love Halo 2s headlong, the city and driving in warthogs, I made for the perfect gettaway city. My last but not least favourite is Halo 3s Citadel, storming the citadel and blowing up the cores and trying to escape... Those are my halo memories of the maps.

[@xxdeathozzyx]

You make me feel like I was an ungrateful child now. I wish I was as immersed into the finer details of the Halo games like you were growing up so that I could appreciate them even more now, but you did that for me in your videos and for that I thank you.

[@johnsmithworth9296]

When I was about 10 or 11 and had gotten my 360 not too long after I got halo 3 with all the dlc maps but like you I didn't have Xbox live. I would log onto these maps and make stories about them like you would. I'd test my aim with sniper rifles on the winged creatures in guardian, I'd stare through the fence on the pit, looking for any sign of life, but all I found was loneliness.

[@robbob5471]

When Halo 3 came out, I didn’t have Xbox Live, or allowed to access the internet in general. I remember hearing at school, I think I was in fifth grade, that you could flip the elephants on Sandtrap, and if you did you would get some funny text. That afternoon my younger brother, myself and our neighbor spent hours trying to figure out how to flip the darn thing. When we finally did it, we all laughed. Not sure why, but after all these years that little detail is one of my favorite memories.

[@ChairmanKam]

Sniping my buddies from the bridge as they made the run on Damnation. So good

[@peacefulbeatsforrealhumans8379]

Great vid! This is what I always found fascinating about halo maps ever since HCE launched, it made your imagination run wild with theories and questions!

[@locante1642]

Seriously can’t get enough of your videos man nice work!

[@peshkybee7721]

This is one of your best edited videos. Damn good work brother!

[@badzombie0135]

Damn I need a part 3. These (as well as the rest of your content) are superbly well made.

[@nathandurham5071]

I can't seem to find your previous video about Halo maps; I'm going on a tour of the different Halo maps myself, could you possibly provide a link to the other video if it hadn't been deleted?

[@Primaltreeman]

I swear I just watch now because of your distinctive voice. Very satisfying for some reason

[@crnchymkrni2880]

The monitor on high ground should show a glimpse of cortana It’s creepy tbh

[@nicholasbarr3862]

Yes! Woohoo, Christmas has come early! I've been waiting and hoping for another memories of multiplayer video. I loved the first one. Keep up the great work.

[@Sosboy-bp7tx]

Yo, what is this photography? When your showing it on most angles, it looks real! I can’t even with this!!!!

[@dsdy1205]

3:30 Sometimes when I need to let out some feels, I come back to this exact timestamp

[@BlazeHound]

Two of my favourite Halo maps were covered in this video. H3'S Guardian, and H2A's Shrine.

[@idkwhattoputhere4695]

The New Alexandria one was.... Beautiful. PLEASE WRITE A BOOK!

[@Zapzap3132jarek]

I remember exploring citadel about 2 dayz ago and that background ambiance was..spooky. Makez you think. I love how there is lore in these maps used for you to just shoot people.

[@palba02]

When you have too many likes so you dislike ur own video for a chance to get famous for starting a meme

[@bonitoflakes]

how can you tell he disliked it?

[@JustAndre92]

@@bonitoflakes 0:23

[@bonitoflakes]

Just Andre thank you, didn’t even notice lol

[@lntroach4027]

Never put the mic down and keep up the good work, you're the man

[@SmoothieOperative]

High ground will always be my favorite map from halo 3. Pretending to defend its walls from an onslaught of flood was so much fun even though it was just imagination haha.

[@Sentay0]

The idea of "the guardians" as an omniscient murder force for whenever you get killed by the map was always fascinating to me and my friends who'd try and explore beyond the maps to try and find them.

[@thea-ronator57]

Dude I absolutely love this video. What a great imagination you have

[@deepism]

You're awesome, dude. Your videos make my whole day sometimes.

[@Ajelandrox3]

Sandtrap and Guardian are IMO the BEST maps in Halo 3, love this video man, awesome like the rest

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

Back in the days of Halo 2, Turf was occupied very much by me and my two sisters. We would waste our time pushing all the boxes around the map, usually into the military tent, where one of us would run "an ice cream shop", or something like that, while the other two drove around in a vehicle, occasionally stopping, and of course, throwing grenades from across the map at random. We would do the same thing on Terminal as well, which provided much cleaner lines of sight for fun harassment, and also the traincars. The person running the shops would walk around inside it, push boxes around, and when we discovered that this was initially boring was when we started tossing grenades to knock stuff around. After Reach released to PC, and I (for four and a half straight hours) used a barrier-removing mod to explore the whole ForgeWorld map with a Falcon, I came up with the headcanon that Bungie had intended to turn the whole map into one giant playfield, as many of the mountains are fully textured, and many areas just seem to have randomly more detail than they should. I now believe that map was a pet project that was being worked on until the day they had to pack up the game and ship it. Imagine what it could have been if Reach delayed until Christmas that year. Imagine being able to cross that ocean to the mountains on the other side and build over there. Mods can make that happen now, but what if Bungie had "completed" forgeworld to where there were no soft push or kill barriers except the water?

[@11natey]

Entertaining, relaxing, novel is what I said on my KZbin survey to describe this channel

[@neomcdoom]

What a beautiful video. You are really blurring the line between commentary, analysis, and transformative art piece.

[@slingshotkurt8474]

Your childhood memories are literally the exact same as mine when it comes to Halo. I didn't have Xbox Live. Forge was all I had.

[@the_fc4life]

Did you film and edit all this personally? The way the maps are shown off looks extraordinarily professional! Your scripts are also unbelievably creative, descriptive, and relatable. Love the vids and imagination 🙌🙌

[@jagermantis]

you...you inspire me Greatly. you inspire me to think of what was, and how it became Thank you.

[@KevinKoolx]

I love the cinematic shots!

[@cooperk.3560]

This video is a work of art

[@Ikoojr]

Last time I was this early, Latenight was unsatisfied with me :,(

[@sidewinder1176]

How so?

[@PoonFlipper]

Explanation maybe??

[@platypuss1410]

Without a doubt Blood Gulch is my most memorable map. Played so many CE team battle games on this map.

[@MmmJonathan]

Hey Taras,nice vid,as always!I just had an idea,maybe you could make those stories that you created on your mind (like the one about High Ground) a reality,you could do some cinematic videos on customs with subs or something among those lines,that would be really cool:) keep it up!

[@cooperSpartan117]

I love this kind of video, so interesting hearing others stories from halo. For me valhalla was a map that interested me. Wondering what was beyond the cliffs. Especially after watching RvB and how they melded two maps together

[@USS_Command]

This video reminded me how I used to think wild alien animals killed off the UNSC forces that took control of Warlock and Desolation. Both maps has the sounds of strange unknown animals and Desolation is covered in dried human blood.

[@fengshuy42069]

man, halo 3 gives off vibes that other games can’t give off. a sort of mystery always fills the air no matter the situation whenever you’re doing anything in the game

[@thedomain2916]

You brought out something in me that I forgot about. Thank you for that

[@AntonHolm-kf6ic]

LateNightGaming just went full Vaatividya, and I like it!

[@LateNightHalo]

What a crazy coincidence, I JUST discovered his channel while editing! I’m currently getting into Bloodborne!

[@AntonHolm-kf6ic]

@@LateNightHalo Haha that's awesome, Bloodborne is great! Keep up the good work!

[@ltbuttersnapa2924]

I believe that on epitaph that is the last prison of the fragment of mendicant bias on the lesser ark.

[@SauceStrider]

I always thought citadel was the penthouse of the tower epitaph takes place in too.

[@ThreeProphets]

I'm not sure about Boardwalk in particular, but the elevated areas near the spaceport can be seen still occupied in the Remember Reach ads

[@CriUnitedMedia]

This is my favorite halo KZbinr and possibly my favorite KZbinr ever

[@JustAndre92]

...on the Citadel.

[@RSAleft9]

Low key. I want to hear more stories about the maps!

[@SpanishDio]

Love these type of Videos Taras, Always thought too that those maps had awesome/magical/ancient/creepy stories in them, thats why Halo maps are so special they don't feel like "empty and bland multiplayer maps" In my opinion Halo maps have some sort of 'soul' of their own. Much love from Spain!

[@feelthelove3725]

These are so good. Please do more

[@HairyHillman]

High Ground was one of the maps in the Halo 3 Beta. I remember running hime from school to play it as much as I could for the week the beta was open. Good times. Sad to see that maps like High Ground don’t work in halo 5 because of the changes to player mobility :(

[@DatMysticalPyro]

I love your videos! They are very attention grabbing and keep me hooked. Keep doing what you do man!