A Completely Accurate Summary of Halo 3

[@theaveragefelwinterenjoyer1182]

I refuse to believe that Simmons wasn’t at the meeting

[@lopertyl6534]

Grif made up the entire conversation so he didn’t have to get up and open the door.

[@caelanathey124]

The one meeting that Simmons didn't arrange. It was probably password knowing Sarge

[@ryzekiv7147]

Grif made up the meeting so he wouldnt have to share his calzone…. Or admit that he lost the ammo crates

[@caelanathey124]

@@ryzekiv7147 Grif with a calzone? I highly doubt it

[@HeroesUnite.]

@@caelanathey124 Exactly! Grif is civilized. He eats pizza like a normal person!

[@MIISSSIIX]

The best part of the “to war” line from Miranda is as soon as the cutscene ends she talks more with that npc and walks back down the stairs she just walked up??

[@tucastigadorinsaciable692]

That was funny and embarrasing XD

[@ethanwagner6418]

"To war...(ah shit, I should explain that...)"

[@CloudyMason]

It makes me happy someone acknowledged this

[@DemoniteBL]

I laughed my ass off when I saw that. lol

[@TobiHeisenberg855]

Let our girl be dramatic

[@yellowdoghnut45]

“I Source Engine my way up a ladder.” Absolutely fucking gold. I love it.

[@hatkid3371]

What the gravemind was doing was saying "you cannot reach them in time without our intervention" he knows Halo will kill them all, and that chief an the arbiter can't get there fast enough without their help, and if the flood did it alone, they wouldn't be able to turn the Halo off.

[@Weesee_I]

Also, what were they going to do? Attack the flood while the rings are literally minutes away from firing? They couldn't refuse the Gravemind's help without jeopardizing the galaxy

[@NecrosAcolyte]

@@Weesee_I I always attack the flood

[@dr._breens_beard]

Yeah this wasnt some casual issue to solve, it was basically the difference between flash-killing a 100-trillion lifeforms including the flood or stopping it. Theres also the forerunner books that clarify what the flood are and their goals. The last time the rings were fired it was about revenge from the dessicated and reborn precursors but they knew life would be rebirthed due to the conservation efforts of the librarian and therefor their plan could continue long after their forerunner's collapse. This time, the galaxy would be left essentially in a permenently dead state.

[@azairecummings7049]

@@dr._breens_beardnot really permanently dead just the it would take a while for new life the rings don’t kill EVERYTHING just everything with a nervous system

[@dr._breens_beard]

@@azairecummings7049 i see what you mean but it would take possibly billions if years for evolutionary processes to generate tangible sentient life but even then the total collapse of millions of ecosystem from multiple dependant niche's being wiped out instantaneously and simultaniously

[@Delta-es1lg]

I believe that what he means by "that secret dies with the rest" is the human's relationship with the forerunners and forerunner technology, since the line immediately before that it "I admit, I need your help," which is his response to Johnson's "Can't start your own party" quip. I'll admit that line is *super quiet* and easily missed.

[@Schneeregen_]

I believe the line is about the Prophets' lies about the Great Journey, since Mercy, Truth, and Regret, all knew the truth about Halo since before the events of CE, which is why they adopted these names. This means they also knew that humans are the forerunners as shown by Truth's "Gods must be Strong" speech, though this was retconned sometime after Halo 3. To me it makes since that the "secret" he refers to is the coverup that the prophets orchestrated in an attempt to maintain control of the Covenant.

[@Delta-es1lg]

@@Schneeregen_ No. In Contact: Harvest, the book that describes the start of the Human Covenant war, the Prophets are told that Humans *are* Reclaimers by the Forerunner AI in the Keyship. This means that the Humans *are* the Forerunner descendants, and that it would be possible to be left behind by the Great Journey. This would *destroy* the Covenant's religion, and by extension the power structure that Truth, Regret, and Mercy, then minor officials, are planning to take control of. The Prophets plan to exterminate humanity in order to keep their relationship to the Forerunners secret. At no point do the Prophets indicate that they actually know that the Rings are just weapons of mass destruction. So, yes, the secret that "dies with the rest" is that the Humans are Forerunners (as confirmed by Guilty Spark in his boss battle) not that the Rings actually kill people.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I would like this, but the count currently rests at 117 and that is just too perfect!

[@Schneeregen_]

@OctolingGrimm This is actually a retcon of the original trilogy, sometime after the release of Halo 3 Bungie or 343 decided to retcon the Forerunners into being a completely seperate species from humanity. In Halos 1-3 Humans *are* Forerunners, this is hinted at in CE with Spark's speech at the start of Two Betrayals, alluded to in 2 when Regret says "this time, none of you will be left behind" which is in reference to the firing of Halo, and it's confirmed in 3 with Spark, Regret, *and* the Gravemind all referring to Humanity as Forerunners. Many people will claim that the Halo 3 terminal of the Librarian expressing gratitude, about being able to preserve a planet before the Flood overtake it, as proof that Humans and Forerunners are seperate species because the Librarian says the inhabitants are special, but that doesn't prove anything other than the fact that a biologist is a fan of biology. Given that this is a discussion of different interpretations of Regret in Halo 3, it makes sense to discuss it based on the canon of Halo 3, as it is in game, as opposed to how the writers decided to change it later on. P.S. The religious symbolism of Halos 1-3 works much better when observed through the lense of Humanity and Forerunners being one and the same. For instance, there's great irony in the fact that the Covenant are slaughtering their own Gods.

[@Schneeregen_]

@@scottthewaterwarrior it's 118 now, go ahead.

[@epicwolf6486]

The reason Miranda figures out that Truth is going to attack them is because he mentioned it in his insult tantrum. "Not even your demon will live to creep, blackened from it's HOLE, to mar the reflection of our passage. The culmination of our journey." He mentioned chief in a hole. And that's what a bunker is. A fortified hole in the ground. This means he knew where they were, thus Miranda figured he was going to attack.

[@firstconsul7286]

He also says that they're hiding in the dirt

[@epicwolf6486]

@@firstconsul7286 and I quote "cowering in the dirt, thinking what, I wonder? That you might escape the coming fire?" So, you are spot on with that. It makes it even more obvious he was going to attack.

[@dannonyogurt98]

I thought the line, "Does he usually mention me?" Was the give away. If he normally doesn't talk about him then suddenly made a reference to the chief within an hour of his recovery, that would indicate that he knows where he is.

[@epicwolf6486]

@@dannonyogurt98 that's what tipped Miranda off. He probably doesn't.

[@leftwardglobe1643]

Ok, cool... how does he know where they are? Did he sneak a tracker into Arbiter's lunch box when he sent him after the icon in Halo 2? How did he hack into their comm net? Is this a regular occurrence? How does he know that Chief is even still on the continent after getting picked up by a Pelican, let alone which hidden rebel, sorry, UNSC base he's in? It's worth noting here that Pelicans are orbit capable so for all he knows he could be half way to Neptune by now. Also, if he knows where they are, which he shouldn't, why not glass their position from orbit? He has ships only a few kilometers away and excavation beams would be more than capable of reducing this base to nothing no matter how deep it goes. They've excavated further over a larger area in the span of 48 hours and that's with a city in the way. It's not like the UNSC has the ships to contest them right now either after being thrashed in orbit twice over. Unless they're hiding some big fuck-off anti-capital ship CE magnum in the jungle somewhere there is nothing stopping Truth from turning them into costume jewelry. Though at this point, I'd almost take the Magnum theory.

[@Zman6258]

So! Insofar as Gravemind stopping to infect Delta Halo, that's all been elaborated on in some extended universe stuff. Gravemind DID attempt to spread across the rest of Delta Halo, but the bulk of the Sangheili separatist fleet stayed behind to enforce a quarantine, glassing huge sections of the ring to contain the Flood. This is alluded to in a line of dialogue that you can only hear in singleplayer during Floodgate, where the Arbiter talks to one of the spec-ops elites who drops in; paraphrased, the Arbiter asks about what happened to their "fleet of hundreds", to which the other elite replies that the single ship that hit Earth was all that managed to break through the blockade, which also conveniently explains why the Shipmaster's fleet was less than a dozen ships strong going through the portal at Voi; that small force was all that he was willing to pull away from the quarantine.

[@leftwardglobe1643]

So we're still going to ignore the situation at earth which no longer has its Sangheili saviors (Earth having the only known and/or active portal to the Ark), the fact that that single ship was indeed not all that managed to escape as High Charity is very much here, which itself implies there could be any number of infected planets strewn throughout the galaxy by now, AND the part from Halo 2 where Cortana was supposed to blow up In Amber Clad's reactor to kill the Gravemind? ... Cool. I like swiss cheese.

[@thecricketeer301]

@@leftwardglobe1643educate yourself about the flood, they are a test of the mantle of responsibility. They will rise again when humanity is fat and ripe

[@leftwardglobe1643]

@@thecricketeer301 A: Their role in the setting is the furthest thing from relevant to this conversation. The point here is that there definitely *should* be other Flood outbreaks by the end of Halo 3 because of the travel path of High Charity and the likelihood of other infected ships escaping the blockade. Most notably on Earth as that's the most likely route for the Flood to take to get to the Ark if not the only possible path. B: That's not what the Flood are. The Precursors didn't make them as a test, they became the Flood on accident while trying to escape the Forerunners' genocidal campaign against them. You could argue there might be some cosmic sense of revenge against the Forerunners and their successors, but that's stretching the truth just a bit.

[@ghostlyswat12]

10:32 the reason chief and arby accept the help from the flood is because If they fail or take too long there all dead 💀 so at this point it’s better to work together so that they can get rid of the imminent threat call it a temporary truce

[@omegatuna2056]

The reason Cortanas Index works is because the literal ring you see in halo 3 is sparks replacement ring, one that would obviously match the design and property of it's predecessor, so that Spark doesn't have to learn new things in order to administrate and operate it. This is also explained when Spark is learning about the Ark, when he himself even says that is creators wisely limited his knowledge to only his installation. Good video.

[@leftwardglobe1643]

I see, so when logging into my account after retrieving it from a hacker I shouldn't change the password. Spark needs to know where the Index is stored, not what it contains. We either have the plot as shown or we have Forerunners who know basic cyber security. Not both.

[@omegatuna2056]

​@@leftwardglobe1643 I don't think it's too hard to understand the situation here. Spark was not retrieving his ring from a hacker. He was receiving an exact replacement of his ring. Exact to the degree that none of his protocols that he often refers to would be obsolete. Otherwise a replacement spark would be issued as well. The index's code would otherwise be indifferent to the index this replacement ring would produce.

[@leftwardglobe1643]

@@omegatuna2056 In the event that a ring is destroyed or worse; captured, say, by Mendicant Bias as seen in the Forerunner novels with Zeta Halo and used by the Flood (Mendicant Bias also existed and switched sides in the Halo 3 terminals, so there's no arguing that this isn't a danger when not considering 343 canon either), why would you not generate a new index to be used that differs in terms of software? It is, afterall, a glorified USB stick with a digital password and startup program. Nothing has to change with Spark, his protocols, or the Ring for that matter. But this is a basic security measure that wasn't taken for... some reason? Again, basic cyber security. If you have one breach you should always take measures to prevent the opposition from using information gleaned from it to assault your system again. When the enemy has the password to a galactic scale superweapon, this is paramount.

[@omegatuna2056]

@LeftwardGlobe16 That makes more sense. Your original response was a bit confusing since I hadnt understood how extensive the corruption would be. That definitely makes sense, and I certainly agree. But why change the index if the location of it wont be changed? Its basic cybersecurity yes, but unneeded. If the contents are irrelevant to Spark, and only the location is important. Then the need for a newly generared index would be weird since its still just as you put it, a glorified USB, and its location doesnt change, and changing location would result in spark needing new protocols, maps, and etc. As for capturing a ring, well, the ring was being made by the Arc in halo 3 as you probably know. A previous location only known through name, not where it was so the Flood was not present yet. Not even the rings contained the location (I believe), only referenced. It seems odd the flood would activate the rings, and Mendicent was on their side at the time, so he wouldnt either. Its weird for any sentient race to do so, since it is in fact the destruction of theirs and many other civilization, and activating them is still a win to the Forerunners since they likely dont care at all if they're activated, its not their civilization afterall. As for a software update, I absolutely agree, that should've been like, obvious to the Forerunners and instated, but with how easy Cortana got the Index, I doubt the Arc could have generated anything else complex since it's just doing as it was told by the Forerunners many years ago, like the Rings. I doubt the Forerunners saw a point since they assumed it eradicated most if not all of the Flood, along with all of life, soon to be reseeded.

[@CombineWatermelon]

@@leftwardglobe1643 The forerunner novels are trash. The Forerunners should have stayed mysterious except for the general outline.

[@keilafleischbein59]

"that secret dies with all the rest" is an abridged statement. The full words prove truth knows the humans are Reclaimers, reclaimers are modern forerunners, and that only forerunners can activate halo.

[@Dennis19901]

Humans were still supposed to be forerunners during this part of Halo's "lifetime", so I wonder how that ties in.

[@keilafleischbein59]

@@Dennis19901 forerunners are still humans. 343 games and Greg Bear are just not canon.

[@WollaWalla]

@@keilafleischbein59 Too bad it was BUNGIE that changed that little tidbit of lore, not 343

[@keilafleischbein59]

@@WollaWalla doesn't matter who changed it. Forerunners are human.

[@keilafleischbein59]

@@WollaWalla halos 1-3 are the only halos that matter. "You are forerunner, inheritor of all my makers left behind." -343 Guilty Spark to John Also, you know it was Frank O'Connor at Bungie who wanted the Forerunners to be alien, right? Guess who's a senior employee at 343.

[@evagibbons8749]

The “totally accurate titanfall 2 campaign “

[@bwahbid]

Yeah about that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j56rh6ONftaXgqs

[@Suguru_Geto69]

Bro i just came from a titanfall 2 video the odds😂

[@keshaduzumaki9005]

Facts

[@turtlewithacontroller892]

"Trust me"

[@vincents6511]

@@bwahbid he made that later

[@cheemsdoge]

This is 100% the actual events of the campaign canon, right down to the constant murdering of each other.

[@scambutterboi3988]

Halo 4: Milftana Halo 3: Blue E-girl

[@TheLivelovelaugh165]

5:15 Arbiter was grabbing at small hopes it wasn't the flood for once

[@WigWoo1]

Only the host of the game can do the glitch to get in the Anti Air Wraith

[@SockyNoob]

@@Void_Wars stfu

[@domshroom7]

@@SockyNoob ew a furry defender

[@TheCakesCup26]

@@domshroom7 Agreed

[@grandautismostreams5033]

@@SockyNoob no no he's right.

[@lopertyl6534]

@@codymoreland4496 Oh yeah, it’s all coming together.

[@lukaslambrinides7791]

I think the lore answer for the Flood not fitting through the portal is that they made a Slipspace jump from Mars. I might be wrong though

[@sweetschmeat7417]

Was legit typing this out when I seen your comment. Yeah the gravemind used a second portal above Mars to get HC to the Ark.

[@ShmuckLord385]

I always assumed HC or the Gravemind could just make portals, lol.

[@scottgrasser9475]

@@sweetschmeat7417 that....is so stupid and really shows how badly planed that was so the story writers had to quickly think of something to cover there asses

[@middleCased]

Gravemind did teleport Master Chief and the Arbiter so it’s not hard to believe he could teleport a ship which he has fully infested.

[@scottgrasser9475]

@@middleCased but...he was using Halos teleportation grid...the one the monitors use you cant use that to teleport anything to places not on that halo

[@JoeFilms5420]

I never realized that about Chief saying "Does he usually mention me?" That's really funny.

[@WheelySeely]

We're dropped in a desert with a squad with no name and it feels good to shoot alien brains. We steal back a hog, do jumps like a frog. Now we are losing the game.

[@JunkyardDigs]

13:55 denial and error you way through*

[@aidanscales7175]

calling brutes sewer monkeys is the best thing I've ever heard

[@alexcleveland6071]

You know... I never thought that by watching this video, I'd finally realize that the exterior of the control room in Halo 3 is the same from Halo CE... I grew up with Halo, and only realized that now

[@thesenate3728]

Delta Halo was glassed, thats where the elite arrive from during floodgate. The glood ship was the one that slipped through the blockade. The gravemind didnt use the portal, it jumped near mars

[@chadyoung9934]

Fun fact, Miranda's "To war" line is even more hilarious as when the cutscene ends, she seems to realize that her one liner was entirely unhelpful and she walks back down the stairs and starts issuing actual orders lol.

[@IntrinsicNRJ]

Hearing Geoff and Gus at the end feels like how it must've sounded for my dead relatives to hear Tin Pan Alley after Eisenhower left office. I'm saying I'm fuggin old and that was a golden age for the internet and video games.

[@zappablegiraffe2117]

I'm a little upset that my fruity Johnson joke was left out, but it's all made up by me shooting Simmons in the leg at the end And I wonder how many people got the Horse With No Name reference?

[@Williaso]

There's a reference to another song in there too

[@FIGGYPWNS]

HI ZAP!

[@firefrab8896]

@@Williaso About the gravemind, arby and chief working together, they wouldn't have had enough time if they had to kill the flood and the militia between them and the console. And, the whole high charity being to big thing is correct. The explanation is that because the flood are like made from corrupted precurosor dust ( pretty much like really advanced space spider thingys that the forerunners nearly wiped out), the gravemind made a portal on Mars

[@Williaso]

@@firefrab8896 Uhhh, what? Cortana specifically says Gravemind, in High Charity, is headed to Earth.

[@firefrab8896]

@@Williaso I watched a video on it a bit ago and that was what they said ( I think it was HiddenXperia or RocketSloth

[@Antillestc]

"To war." Worst line in the franchise.

[@sundowner6081]

Tanaka's speech in Halo 5 is even worse.

[@scottgrasser9475]

@@sundowner6081 which speech??

[@bobjeff3863]

@@scottgrasser9475 I think it’s the one when they land on that desert place sangelios I think.

[@blizzary9369]

Context for truth calling himself a god despite knowing what the rings do: his plan and reason for letting the covenant collapse was so he could fire the rings, wipe out all life, "reseed" all life as the forerunners did and rule as a god with far more advanced technology.

[@kainepeterson6638]

I think Truth genuinely believe only those worthy were sent to the Divine Beyond to be gods. He genuinely believes the Forerunners cleansed the galaxy of the Flood and the “weak” and left them behind. High Charity didn’t go thru the Portal at Voi. The Gravemind learned the location of the Ark with the ship it crashed on Earth and the covenant forces it assimilated, and used the ridiculously powerful slipspace drives of High Charity to jump to the Ark. That’s why it arrives nearly a day late, because even with the power of High Charity it was nothing compared to the power of the the Forerunners and the portal at Voi. But even with the portal, it took the Allied Fleet nearly two weeks of real time to arrive at the Ark. The Gravemind used High Charity to escape the quarantine around Delta Halo, jumped to Sol, and then after learning of the location of the Ark immediately jumped to it. Why the Gravemind just didn’t immediately kill John and Thel, it didn’t know their plan. It let them leave like Darth Vader does the Millennium Falcon in Episode 4. In Cortana it spends the entire level taunting John and railing against him to try and learn the plan. It doesn’t know Cortana still has an Index. As soon as you confirm she still has the Index, the Gravemind says “at last! Her secret is revealed!” And that’s when it really steps up its attempts to kill John and secure the Index. Only it was too late. The reactors of High Charity detonated and the Gravemind was scattered into various disparate intelligences and struggled to reconstitute itself while John and Thel stormed the Control Room of Installation 08. That’s why it throws everything it has at John and Thel in the final mission. Its last dialogue is “Like Water I ebb and flow. Defeat is the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved but you imposed.” That’s when it is whole again on The Ark and realizes it’s about to be cleansed again. It resigns itself to temporary defeat but knows that it will somehow make a return.

[@scottgrasser9475]

in the books you find out truth knows his religion is bullshit his true goal was to kill everybody and be safe at the arc then rule a empire of only his most faithful who were with him a stupid plan full of holes but that was his plan

[@Linki8uu]

Actually I believe if I’m remembering correctly he found out of a hidden portal on Mars and used that to get to the ring

[@CLNCJD94]

So Truth does know the reality of the Halo rings. Only the prophets of Truth, Mercy, and Regret knew the secret of the rings, that’s why Truth let’s Mercy die at the end of 2. He wants to be the only one who knows the truth in the Covenant, because once the secret gets out the Covenant’s entire religious belief and by extension entire political structure would collapse.

[@BradF036]

I was half way through the video when right after a cut scene started I thought someone skipped it but actually an ad popped up and thought “oh ok it wasn’t skipped for a 5th time” only to wait the whole 15 seconds to find out it was indeed actually skipped

[@lunahercine9137]

Lord Hood: "Eh yo, we finna fight da flood, dawg." Shit Master: "No" *Written & Directed by GEORGE LUCAS*

[@scottgrasser9475]

NOOOOOOOOOO*throws lord hood down a shaft that exist on the ship for no reason*

[@A.RandomGuy]

Mitch mcconnell and the Arnt'biter having a conversation, Colourized

[@fantasyyeti3712]

I can't believe I never caught the "Password" Easter Egg was the guys from Rooster Teeth. So good.

[@VegetaLF7]

Play it on different difficulties, the voices change depending on which one you're on. Easy/Normal has Tucker and Doc, Heroic has this one with Grif and Simmons, while Legendary has Church and Caboose.

[@mushroomfish300]

To explain high charity getting to the ark without the portal, the Gravemind moved itself off delta halo onto high charity and used its large intelligence to get to the ark without the dedicated portal, because the Gravemind is very smart and knows a lot about technology.

[@Williaso]

Cortana mentions specifically that Gravemind doesn't know where the Ark is. He came through the portal at Earth.

[@tomsmith48]

​@@Williasoyeah, bits about the halo 3 story don't make sense in game. The campaign is good, and gameplay is enjoyable, but I always thought there were some gaping holes in the plot. Sadly the cut halo 2 ending probably would have been better from a story perspective.

[@amog8202]

Truth's speech is about humans being forerunners (unless you're a 343 toddler) and how they were "left behind" by the "great journey" (Shielded from utter annihilation to preserve the Forerunners' ancestry) The index from CE works with the new ring because it's a replacement for installation 04, and the reason Spark's so possessive of it. 15:30 also, was part of the cutscene not showing the Forward Unto Dawn making a messy slipspace jump and losing its back half with Chief in it?

[@genuinesaucy]

"ANL" got me laughing more than it should have

[@2A_ROCKS_]

I love how he calls it a puma instead of a warthog. Brings back RvB vibes

[@random_stuff8906]

2:30 I assume that chief was talking about the entire human covenant war with any transmission that they have intercepted from truth, idk that is just my way of justifying it

[@MobiusTrigger7]

Damn this mans needs to watch a halo explained vid cuz either he’s acting like he doesn’t know hardly anything or he actually doesn’t

[@AttiMatter]

Yeah lol

[@FarmYardGaming]

I had to take breaks watching this because I was laughing so hard, one of the funniest series I've seen in months. Thank you for this!

[@chadyoung9934]

A note on the "that secret dies with all the rest" rant, Truth says that in response to Johnson taunting him by saying that he "Can't start his own party." So he really is just a loony prophet man.

[@IndianaBones0080]

The gravemind went through the portal on mars

[@conmanassassin]

Master chief was on the keys ship for like a week in lore

[@Ruisu101]

That bit about Cortana knowing about needing the Index makes me think that maybe she was subject to a logic plague on the first ring. That would make her more...recent...attitude to everything a bit more believable to me. Maybe she's been twisted since the moment we left her alone for hours.

[@PopLadd]

6:52 This was such a jarring part to hear because I thought for sure you were reciting a limerick, but then the second-last line just continued on as a normal sentence and it completely broke my brain

[@Williaso]

It's a song lyric :P

[@PopLadd]

@@Williaso That's probably why it sounded so perfect lol

[@someafro-latino1329]

@@Williaso Also noticed those CAKE lyrics.

[@scambutterboi3988]

Cortana: He never gets me anything Williaso 7:19 : We never get anything

[@jcmsaucey6555]

I'm pretty sure in one of the short stories in Halo Evolutions it's said that Cortana didn't send the message willingly, and that the Gravemind forced her to so he could make sure Truth never fired the Ark. Gotta love Halo lore, where you need to read approximately 200 novels and comics to understand everything

[@MrAKAGHOSTRIDER]

But most of the books are pretty solid. Kinda of the reason I love halo because I was to young to understand the story when I was kid playing through the first time. But playing through now after reading all the books is such a blast

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Protracted and convoluted, but usually worth it. Hunters in the Dark had it's weak points, but I mostly liked it. Legacy of Onyx, not so much. Cole Protocol has grown on me.

[@jcmsaucey6555]

@@MrAKAGHOSTRIDER yeah reading through all the books is what really got me into Halo, all of Eric Nylund's books especially are just fantastic.

[@jameshunter9308]

I love you called it a puma. 8:35

[@hundio88]

8:28 You have get on top of anti air wraith just above the brute. Crouch and aim the BR at his head and hold rb (or whatever you use to board vehicles) but the board wraith prompt must not show!

[@FarmYardGaming]

14:43 Supposedly either Mendicant or Offensive Bias is behind this, but that's just a (game) theory.

[@Universexy1]

**When chief extended his hand to arbiter after he grabbed the pelican to escape**

[@JAMES_IS_COOL1227]

Skipping cutscene should result in prison time.

[@lanetorty7529]

15:40 leave it to Ellis (l4d2) to pull a stunt like that

[@thehaloscrolls391]

The ring is literally the replacement ring for guilty spark, it’s the same ring, the warthog run literally takes place on the silent cartographer mission

[@lemonke1709]

It does?

[@rly.blurred]

There was an ad right as a cuisine started and I instantly yelled "WHO SKIPPED THE CUTSCENE"

[@raptorjesus3894]

There is actually sprinting in Halo 3, it's just that Master Chief is always sprinting.

[@rexcaliborb0i226]

i seriously have no idea how more people haven't discovered your good stuff yet

[@Saboguin]

Seriously, ikr.

[@themindmaster3073]

the whole high charity teleport thing is because (if i remembered correctly), is that when a flood hivemind is large enough it can do controlled slipspace jumps

[@Dennis19901]

High Charity itself can make slipspace jumps. You see this happening after killing Regret in Halo 2's mission "Regret".

[@themindmaster3073]

@@Dennis19901 good point

[@brycevo]

Whoever skipped all the cutscenes needs to be forced to play Halo 2 Legendary Solo

[@furiouskaiser9914]

That's....actually easier then playing Halo 2 Legendary Co-op.

[@caelanathey124]

The new Halo ring is installation 4b. It's a copy of installation 04 from the first game. Also high charity arrived via slipspace and not from the portal on earth

[@elliotfischer7391]

Probably through torturing Cortana

[@caelanathey124]

@@elliotfischer7391 I don't see how Cortana comes into it

[@elliotfischer7391]

@@caelanathey124 just a guess

[@caelanathey124]

@@elliotfischer7391 no but how does Cortana play into that?

[@abloodraven3856]

Technically, Halo Wars 2 confirmed it was actually called Installation 08, which made the new one built in Wars 2 Installation 09. They're both replications of 04, but it seems like the Ark just counts it as a new Installation.

[@neogamer3383]

Sprinting was the best movement they added to halo

[@PistolUSMC]

John was on the keyship for 2 weeks between Halo 2 and 3. He tried to assassinate Truth but failed due to a Jackal Sniper intervening.

[@d3adly_ven0m38]

I think the message you get from Cortana at the end of floodgate actually *was* a flood trap because there was no way she knew about the new ring because even spark didn't know. And she also mentioned her that her plan didnt include firing the rings, but you *do* end up firing a ring. Since we never find out what her actual "plan" was, and she didnt tell us when we saved her, lord hood was correct in thinking the message was a flood trap.

[@Williaso]

We never get confirmation either way, but that's an interesting theory.

[@d3adly_ven0m38]

@HLH Studios okay good point. So let's say that she knew about the ring and planned on using the index from installation 04. She still said in the message that she found a way *without* firing the rings, which means she either lied to make her offer sound more reasonable, or it was a message constructed by the gravemind

[@d3adly_ven0m38]

@HLH Studios alright sure. I guess it could go either way. But what about her statement that an army of flood was on it's way to earth? Than never happened. The flood ended up going to the ark instead.

[@bombsquadunited3196]

0:34 you can tell the armbiter was checking out Mister Qweefs behindous by where the grenade got stuck to

[@jacobwhelan45]

Fun fact: the legendary ending is supposed to be a reference to Bungies other successful game before halo called Marathon. It did tease Halo 4 but was overall a reference

[@douglasparkinson4123]

the keyship, when cheif said the finish the fight line was at the edge of the solar system and had to drift in because forerunner tech is dodgy. chief spent this three weeks slaughtering loads of covenant while the prophet sent the rest of his fleet onwards to establish on earth and start using captured human slave labour and scarabs (which are actually covenant excavation equipment, being tier 2 of the seven different tiers they have. ) to dig. however, the brutes eventually routed chief off the ship so he ripped off some metal wall and using it to re enter.

[@jakealmashy8519]

Holy shit, so happy to see you post again b

[@Miss_Eldritch]

Because I'm a nerd, I'm going to explain exactly how High Charity arrives at the Ark. Basically the flood has reached the interstellar stage by commandeering the lightspeed capable High Charity by infecting its network of controls (yes, it can infect networks). Using this they can now pilot it through the star roads (Basically giant precursor teleporters) and thus made its way to the Ark

[@HANGING_SILVER]

Werent the star roads all destroyed when the halo rings initially fired?

[@Miss_Eldritch]

@@HANGING_SILVER Yes and no, because of their source being neural-physics they were susceptible to the blast of the halo array, however it was only suspected that they were all destroyed. Considering the fact that the earth portal is far too small for high charity to fit inside of, we can only assume that it was a star road that they used

[@vypertyper4789]

11:30 since the ring is the same as the old one guilty spark hasn’t made a new index yet to replace the old one.

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

in single player i punched the arbiter to death just to steal his energy sword

[@FarmYardGaming]

13:31 For anyone confused here - I believe he's found by humans, poked around with, then his original physical form destroyed. He becomes Chakas through some 343 exposition and whatever, and I think he's in the recent Halo novel set on Zeta Halo that came out at some point.

[@FUZZYs114]

I FUCKING LOVE THESE VIDEOS. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS INTO MY LIFE!

[@AzaiKang]

"We ruined several picnics and catch back up to Johnson who's being jailed for Tax evasion" LMAO

[@Chaotic_H3LL]

2:30 basically, its been 14 days since Halo 2, John tries to assassinate truth, but, fails, he jumps and crash lands whereever he does, mid fall one of the Halo 3 trailers takes place where they shoot John with a tracking beacon takes place, afterwards they recover him when he hits the ground. John was likely out for at least a week with the covenant attacking Earth, Knowing how much Truth likes talking smack, well, i don't doubt he kept prank calling the UNSC .. Sorry, the ASS

[@roku-chan]

9:24 could’ve been “Somehow, High Charity returned.” lol

[@tylersalfai354]

I just realized he says "Dust and Echoes" not "Dustin Echoes" like it is the name of player 2.

[@Williaso]

I am saying "Dustin Echoes"

[@MrGamer624]

Holy shit, those medals @ 9:00

[@adrianneosa1490]

I like sprint in Halo.

[@NorthernLaw_]

So much inconsistency it's bothering me now that I am looking at it

[@CringeGamingOG]

Imagine if chief went awol because the Odst DID tell on him for stealing the sniper years later.

[@DerronOfCairon]

2:10 She worries because they get another frequency and only then it dawns on her that Truth plans to attack because the Master Chief is also there. Two birds, one stone.

[@someafro-latino1329]

I honestly love you for making that CAKE reference.

[@Lockmahn]

The reason the Forward unto Dawn gets split in half is because the portal closed on it when it was only halfway through, trapping Chief in space until the events of HALO 4.

[@WordsofHeresy]

God this brings up some nostalgia. I miss the Xbox live friends I would play this with when I was in middle school

[@theeldritchgamer1471]

2:48 It's possible that the Chief is referring to when the prophet of Truth held Miranda and Johnson prisoner

[@vypertyper4789]

2:24 chief was out for 2 weeks

[@MJC1891]

Dude great commentary. You guys are bad ass.

[@notyoutubeno6349]

I know this a bit late but in lore truth was a actual smoker so he probably did smoke a few to many 1:45

[@smoothdooth8784]

Well the rings were placed in space so that setting any 1 of them off would cause a cascade effect that sets off all the other rings. They're meant to be nukes that just wipe out everything, so what would be the point of having different keys between them? Just incase all the people who didn't survive can't use one index to re-fire a different ring that already went off?

[@salsaroja9740]

The Forward Unto Dawn is split in half by the slipspace portal, because only the front half made it through, returning the Arbiter to Earth and leaving Chief behind. Thought that seemed pretty obvious, but I could be wrong.

[@TDW_0333]

5:55 the arbiter disagrees and the game ends

[@TrueSpider-Man]

Love the fact that at the password part, you guys don't say anything and just stand there and listen.

[@FarmYardGaming]

11:39 As for this - the flood originates from the Precursors, hence their immense power and the Gravemind's insane intelligence. Precursors used Star Roads to travel across the galaxy using neural physics to basically manipulate the universe, sorta like Slipspace but way more advanced and way faster. The Gravemind opened one of those up and sent said 200-mile wide ship onto the Ark. Researching Halo lore EVENTUALLY begins to make sense once you ponder what every new word means like 6 times (totally not speaking from experience)

[@psychosparten049.esquire9]

THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEOE. UNDERSTANDS THAT SPRINT IS NOTHING BUT GOOD!

[@darkrain491]

Not for multiplayer

[@SockyNoob]

@@darkrain491 this video is about campaigns tho

[@darkrain491]

@@SockyNoob I'm just making the point that sprint isn't "nothing but good"

[@depressedcheems9961]

It's not, just jack up default move speed.

[@iunnor]

“What is it? More Brutes?” Has to be Arbiter’s dumbest line in the franchise.

[@AlienShooter25]

I lost it at "Commander Shepard's favorite shopping district"

[@PumpkinPain]

I love the Rooster Teeth cameo in the second mission nostalgia

[@Aristocles22]

The secret that Truth knows is that humans are needed to activate the rings, even from the Ark. He's still under the delusion that the rings will open a portal to paradise and that he'll be a god in whatever world the Halos supposedly lead to.

[@Salty_C.J.]

Sprinting doesn’t belong in an arena shooter, if you want to move faster use your grenades like a real man

[@MasterHall117]

“Flood is no longer a problem” Halo Wars 2 and possibly Infinite: Hello There

[@gephy8071]

10:00 yes, that's sorta a big plot point that the current Hierarchs know about what Humanity is, and they used that knowledge to grab power from the previous triumvirate. Contact Harvest is a pretty good book, should give it a read.

[@Williaso]

The confusing part is that Truth continues to spout religious gobbledygook after remarking that he understands how the rings work

[@archluke6099]

@@Williaso he doesn’t know the rings kill everything he’s talking about the secrets dying as in being forgotten, no one knowing them.

[@Williaso]

@@archluke6099 He definitely knows the rings kill everyone

[@archluke6099]

@@Williaso guess I’ll just take your word on it then because you were wrong about nothing else in this video. I get it wouldn’t be much of a video if you just did the fair criticisms which you did make at times but cmon man it’s a metaphor.

[@amidnightsnack9256]

@@Williaso I believe the idea is yes they'll die, but only the faithful will be carried to God hood, the heretics left for dead. A misinterpretation of Halo's purpose. I also remember in the book broken circle, Truth believes he'll become the only God and rule alone, hence why he let's his fellow prophets die. Everyone stays their feet except him. How he'd do that is unclear.

[@wastelandlegocheem]

To be fair with the flood truce, only chief can stop it and if he's busy fighting him, he'll likely die