Hello! I am doing another Halo Infinite Tournament next week! It is completely free to join, no paid entry at all. There are two brackets, a main and a loser's bracket. The Main will get a Halo 2 Character Pack and a custom stand made by RS! The Loser's Bracket will get a 343 Guilty Spark set! FREE SHIPPING for U.S. only, I will pay for half of the shipping international. It is set for October 15th-17th, all from 6-9 PM MST, so feel free to join while you can! I answer questions on my streams and Discord which are both below along with a sign-up sheet!

Here is the sign-up link for it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b6mzjh6aWSGHAPU6WOBQY68JfGEXYq3Nu-SXrfS_XWI/edit?gid=0#gid=0

My Twitch where it will be streamed: https://www.twitch.tv/lazybazy120

My Discord where there is more info: https://discord.gg/U7xg7rm5bT

i’m trying to remember this map i’ve played on with my friends once (could totally be a different game but i’m 90% sure it’s halo). the map is sorta small, inside, and square-ish that has many platforms that go up. on the edges there are lifts and ramps and i wanna say it was halo because i remember using a jetpack and a grenade launcher. the color of the map was sorta grey/silver (with maybe a tinge of green?) and there were no exterior parts. i wanna say it was in either reach, 3, or infinite… but not entirely sure! if anyone could help, i’d really appreciate it :)

While watching the new video that 343 (Halo Studios) released, I noticed they mentioned Halo’s locales looking like the Pacific Northwest, which I know they’ve used as the template for Halo environments especially with Infinite, but my question is why? They always say that it’s supposed to harken back to how OG Halo looked, but I can think of like one level from CE (Halo) that actually looks similar to what they’re describing, and even then it’s highly exaggerated.

I really wish they would stop focusing on making the worlds look like “the Pacific Northwest”, I thought it made Infinite’s open world look really boring and even the Unreal 5 footage just looked like Earth. I don’t want a Halo ring to look like Earth, I want it to be fun. Idk I was just thinking about this.

ayudenme esque llevo semanas intentando jugar los mods de campaña de el halo ce pero hasta ahora me entero que no es con el juego original si no con la master chief collection/Help me, I've been trying to play the halo ce campaign mods for weeks but until now I found out that it's not with the original game but with the master chief collection

New line of pins are now available at Xbox Gear Shop. I acquired the Gold HCS Trophy by trading my Halo Infinite sphere pin to Ske7ch. It seems this is how the trade program works, employees may have exclusive trade only pins and you give up an official xbox pin for it.

If I was the one in charge of the people in charge, I shouldn't have to micromanage every little thing. The plan is defend and evacuate the base, and there's a chain of command comprised if the UNSC's best people including the Spartan that Truth has nightmares about. Figure it out, omg.

Hey guys, so what are we thinking the good/fun/both loadouts for STU are so far? Personally, I’m shocked at the base heatwave w/purging shock rifle combo, it looks like it fires 15 bullets instead of just 5, but only for the cost of 5 ammo. Also, I’m in love with the base bandit with explosive skewer upgrade. It’s got tons of ammo and reliably kills chieftains, and when kiting you can lay “mines”!

Also, anyone have any tips? I feel like camping a corner with the explosive skewer and a team covering back windows has been really effective.

I just reinstalled halo infinite after a few months of break, now, after the loading screen goes away the menus don't have the spartan in the middle, the armory and stuff just don't load, the shop doesn't load anything apart from the boxes that should contain the cosmetics and, if I get into a game, it just shows a gray spartan with mark vii hemlet and no shoulders. I want some help to fix this issue please

Hoping to get some help with the achievement unlock, the achievement is tracking at 92% however I have completed every mission on Legendary, next to each level displays the legendary shield, not sure what I’m doing wrong. Any help appreciated

Halo has a philosophical question at it's core: "who is the machine".

The Chief and Cortana have a tether that binds their existence together in such a way that it's not just a male and female in love working to achieve a common goal. They each begin to answer the deep philosophical divide within each other; the body of Chief and the Mind of Cortana together take steps along the evolutionary path to a true post-human evolution. Together they transcend human and other biological life's limitations. This is a core theme to the anime Ghost in the Shell; transcendence up the evolutionary ladder. I include other biological life because their juxtaposition to an Alien alliance which is motivated by religious traditionalism is an interesting theme to lean into as it supports the theme of transcendence by subverting the religious connotation such a word is codified with.

I'm not saying that Halo should be like Ghost in the Shell where there are periods of long extrapolations on philosophical themes, these moments would be hard to achieve due to Chiefs own reluctance to tap into any human dialogue. Rather that Halo should lean into the visual language and juxtaposition of archetypes to propose questions within it's story's own subtext. Such as the Chief and Cortana being the intersection of physical and digital. For example the Major in Ghost in the Shell is a cybernetic being in a physical shell who questions the essence of humanity; Chief and Cortana could have more tension in their relationship as one relies on technology and the other has a desire for more natural freedom. This asks us what happens when evolution outpaces morality, or how much of "humanity" can remain intact in this post-human future during a war where the very existence of Humanity is threatened. Halo could amplify this theme by juxtaposing the emotional and existential questions raised by their relationship. A further exploration can be done with exploring the conflict between the Flood and the Forerunner as a limitation to the biological vs technological transcendence.

One of the things I love about the original Ghost in the Shell movie is that it excels in its use of visual symbolism and the juxtaposition of human and machine archetypes. Halo should draw more inspiration from this by using its visual storytelling to more deeply represent the struggle between body(Chief) and mind(Cortana), tradition and evolution. The sleek, almost sterile nature of UNSC technology versus the organic, ritualistic design of the Covenant’s world-building does already mirror the thematic tension between progress and tradition. I am hoping for more irony here showcased between the two as there is more emphasized on the Covenant's reliance on ancient Forerunner technology as they continue to be opposed to embracing change. Humanity, on the other hand, builds on this knowledge of technology, transcending our biological limitations not through divine intervention, but through the UNSC’s own technological ingenuity.

Halo again doesn’t need long-winded philosophical monologues. In the interest of this franchise longevity, Halo could convey these themes through its environments, its battles, and its character design.

Halo 3 was a pretty fantastic way to bring the series "full circle" -- no pun intended -- and Bungie did it again with Halo Reach. I think we're all in agreement here.

Afterwards, Halo really struggled to establish a coherent narrative that spanned the games in the same way Halo 1 through 3 did. Looking backwards, Halo 4, 5, and Infinite seem very disjointed.

Something newer fans don't realize is that Halo is a spiritual successor to Marathon (and, for awhile, was possibly part of the same universe.) Halo's story is rooted in Marathon's.

What's under-appreciated is that Halo 4 built almost entirely on plotlines introduced during Bungie's tenure. It was a solid Halo game, and it was a very solid extension of Marathon's legacy. But I'd like to focus on how Halo 4 really does build on the Halo universe:

• Shield worlds were introduced in (very good) Halo: Ghosts of Onyx book, and we see one in Halo Wars. These were always pretty magical, cool, and under-explored, and going inside a shield world was one of the big "hype" things for Halo 4.

• Requiem specifically was introduced in Halo 3's legendary ending, and given its name later on in an art book released before Halo 4's announcement.

• Rampancy -- the condition Cortana is inflicted with -- was established in canon since Halo: The Fall of Reach, is a carryover from Marathon. I was pretty surprised when this took fans by surprise-- it's explicitly acknowledged in Halo 3's mission titles, and Cortana has shown signs of rampancy ever since Halo CE.

• The Librarian and the Didact were introduced in Halo 3's terminals, and were the subject of much discussion on the messageboards of the day. This was a huge amount of Forerunner exposition, and this was the first time we got dialogue from them. Greg Bear would blow open the Forerunner lore in his (excellent) book trilogy, but at this time, the Librarian and the Didact were huge bits of exposition.

• Halo 4 also started to answer a dozen dangling questions: Would there be Spartan IVs after the Spartan IIIs? What will fill the power vacuum of the Covenant? What about all the remaining Halo rings? What does a reclamation mean? What is the mantle of responsibility? Did any Forerunner survive? Did any Flood survive? What about precursors?

But more importantly, Halo 4 made some serious contributions to the aesthetic of Halo that we're now beginning to appreciate. I think the problem with Halo 4 is that people wanted the tone and aesthetic of the original trilogy, whereas 343i was looking at Reach and ODST and intentionally diverging.

Halo 4's soundtrack is fantastic on its own, but disappointing to someone who wanted more of the original trilogy. But it introduced instrumentation and riffs that are now an appreciated part of Halo Infinite's soundtrack. Master Chief's new design makes him look and sound and feel like a tank, but it alienated fans at the time. But that bulky and heavy presence is now an appreciated part of his Infinite armor, etc.

More improtantly, I think Halo 4 was the last Halo game that carried the underlying current of tragedy and sacrifice. Halo CE and Halo Reach have each mission being one step forward, two steps back, until a pyrrhic victory that falls far flat from the definition of success defined in the start.

With CE, you want to save the Autumn and gain control of the ring to defeat the Covenant. By the end, the Autumn and every single other ally is dead, you barely avoid galactic genocide, and you're no closer to defeating the Covenant.

With Reach, the goal is to drive the Covenant off Reach. Every victory in a mission is dwarfed by a Covenant success, until you die on a lost planet.

With Halo 4, the goal is to heal Cortana and defeat the Covenant faction. Along the way, you awaken the Didact, who finds Earth within days (something that took the Covenant years). You fail to stop the Didact, you fail to keep the Composer on Ivanoff station, you fail to prevent the Didact from firing on Earth, and you even fail to save Cortana.

(Just like Reach, if you read the books, then from the beginning, you know the end-- there is no cure for rampancy.) (Halo 4's story also closely parallels CE's, but that's another post.)

My main point is this: There is so much good in Halo 4. It suffered from the limitations of the Xbox 360, and it suffered from 343i's course-correction with Halo 5. If Halo Studios plans to remake the classic Halo games and reboot the plot afterwards, I really hope they include Halo 4.

TLDR: "Classic Halo" is Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3, ODST, Reach, and Halo 4. I hope Halo 4 gets the remake treatment and is included in the 'remake' timeline.

Saw the other post with a halo themed truck and had to post this one I spotted a couple months back

Edit: Sorry I didn’t realise if I worded the question poorly or anything, but I meant as if the story picked up from the end of Halo 3 again, not the end of Halo 4.

Personally, I would keep the Didact as a big bad, potentially for the full trilogy and keep the twist that AI are the true ‘Reclaimers’. I’d also keep the Guardians as super weapons, but probably use them in a different way (maybe they’re actually the thing to use to stop the Didact).

I’d change or drop pretty much all the other plot points. No Harbinger or Endless, I’d keep the Banished as a spin off enemy and probably wouldn’t have Cortana die (I wouldn’t want the quite impactful story of Halo 4 to be lessened and in reality, before Halo 4, Cortana was only in like 50% of the mainline games, I want to see more of her and chief).

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So I got this message. It reads

One or more of your team plays on a computer and has invalid/illegal Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC)-permission.

I just installed Halo Infinite today. I was playing while running FFXIV in the background (I don't close that when running other games). I don't use cheats, I am quite a shit player but I would never ever resort to using cheats to increase my skill.

How do I solve this?

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I am playing without friends or anyone. I queue solo.

For me, I've been playing a lot of Halo Infinite and revisiting Halo 2 and 3. I genuinely launch Halo Infinite on my Xbox/PC. The reason is that it's the latest Halo game that feels like a modern classic Halo game and that's is actually pretty good in my opinion, unlike Halo 5 which was disappointing for me.

Also I like to wonder around with pretty graphics 🤫🤫🤫

I downloaded game few days ago, was able to find warzone + quickplay matches. I am from Europe.

But today, it’s a ghost town, i can’t find a single game… Is it more active on weekend?

Played a few rounds of ODST slayer and I honestly think that the Silenced SMG is a better starting weapon than the Assault Rifle for MP. Maybe I'm just thinking that because it's just different than what I'm used to, but the zoom, rate of fire, and recoil honestly makes for more fun gameplay.

Now with that said, it'd be so dope to have the Silenced SMG in Halo Infinite because I think it'd pair pretty well with the Sidekick. Or come out with another ODST game with competitive multiplayer haha. The Infinite AR isn't terrible but I want something where I'm not immediately switching to my pistol at spawn lol. Again, I might just be thinking this because "oh, it's different than what I'm used to!" haha.

I've playing the halo games for more of 8 years. But with the expansion lore on novels or comics, i'm so confuse to how finds all of them and what's the cronological order that I should know to read it.

As the title says I'm looking to start to read the halo books and I don't know where I should start. So in witch order should I read them?

I know we all prefer the Flood to the prometheans but it just seems really lazy. 343 never managed to finish their new saga and kept having to retcon themselves. I really don’t think having a bunch of disjointed sequels and then randomly bringing back a storyline that is very much finished just for some memberberries. Screams the Disney Star Wars movies.