Do you think that the Precursors will return at some point in the game?, maybe forcing us teaming up with the Forerunners to stop the Precursors?
In Halo 4? No.
Sometime later in the trilogy? Probably.
I have a strong suspicion that they will appear SOMEWHERE in the Reclaimer Trilogy. People seem to overlook that ship that crashed in the Anniversary terminals. Guilty Spark didn’t recognize it as Forerunner and the distress signal’s language was unable to be translated easily, which means it is probably something else.
Precursor tech is supposed to be greyish in color, which that ship was. Their technology was also supposed to be linked to thought, which could explain why no living being came out of it (e.g. the pilot dies, the ship crashes automatically). I also did notice that it had some green lights on it, which we haven’t seen on any Forerunner technology, which is either red, orange, or blue.
Additionally, there are still five known Halo rings that have yet to be explored, all of them having not contacted Guilty Spark for thousands of years, even before Instillation 5 was overrun by Flood. Perhaps the other rings shared this fate, but with intentional release by visiting Precursors.
I think they’ll be in the game, since they are probably the Ancient Evil.
> Do you think that the Precursors will return at some point in the game?, maybe forcing us teaming up with the Forerunners to stop the Precursors?
I’d say it’s at least a possibility.
Simply put, no.
The Precursors are a long dead race. There is very limited information on them, and they have no significance to the now days Humans. It would be an anti-climatic and almost pointless experience to have them in Halo 4.
Having to Forerunners in Halo makes sense because we encounter forerunner technology and worlds in every Halo game. The only way the return of the Precursors would work is if 343i built their significance in Halo 4 and 5.
Sure, somewhere down the line I bet they’ll be “revived” and brought on board the Halo series, maybe in Halo 6, maybe they’re saved for Halo 7-9 (omg 7/9 from Star Trek in Halo! random though, ignore it).
I doubt we’ll see them soon anyhow, 343i got enough “new stuff” for a trilogy, especially since they re-use the same enemies over and over in modern day gaming.
If they the Precursors return…They’ll be returning after a long hiatus and might as well be a billion times better prepared than us. It’s like , God-like entities coming down to Earth to play soccer with the best team in the world…
> Simply put, no.
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> The Precursors are a long dead race. There is very limited information on them, and they have no significance to the now days Humans. It would be an anti-climatic and almost pointless experience to have them in Halo 4.
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> Having to Forerunners in Halo makes sense because we encounter forerunner technology and worlds in every Halo game. The only way the return of the Precursors would work is if 343i built their significance in Halo 4 and 5.
This, exactly.
I have a feeling if we’re fighting Forerunners the puppet masters would probably be the Precursors since some of them may still revere them as gods.
> Simply put, no.
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> The Precursors are a long dead race. There is very limited information on them, and they have no significance to the now days Humans. It would be an anti-climatic and almost pointless experience to have them in Halo 4.
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> Having to Forerunners in Halo makes sense because we encounter forerunner technology and worlds in every Halo game. The only way the return of the Precursors would work is if 343i built their significance in Halo 4 and 5.
They’re not dead.
“Some escaped, creation continued.”-Halo: Primordium
They’re pretty significant to Humans, by the way…
> > Simply put, no.
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> > The Precursors are a long dead race. There is very limited information on them, and they have no significance to the now days Humans. It would be an anti-climatic and almost pointless experience to have them in Halo 4.
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> > Having to Forerunners in Halo makes sense because we encounter forerunner technology and worlds in every Halo game. The only way the return of the Precursors would work is if 343i built their significance in Halo 4 and 5.
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> They’re not dead.
> “Some escaped, creation continued.”-Halo: Primordium
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> They’re pretty significant to Humans, by the way…
Yeah, and they have already been proven to be important to the story, as they want to test humans to see if they are worthy of the mantle. They will be back some day, might as well be during the Reclaimer Trilogy.
I highly doubt it.
> I have a feeling if we’re fighting Forerunners the puppet masters would probably be the Precursors since some of them may still revere them as gods.
The Campaign Preview - At the End the Didact’s Symbol is Revealed.
The Didact also says this exact line - I have long drempt of this day Reclaimer.
Halo: Primordium Spoiler:
Near the end of the put Primordium these lines are said:
Chakas: Is the Captive down here?
Didact: Yes, prepare yourself young human, even stable and in your present form what we are about to learn could be destructive.
Chakas: I’m not ready…
Didact: Your as ready as I am… as ready as we’ll ever be.
Didact to the Primordial: Have you found what you are looking for?
The Primordial: No. Lefda’mins. It clings, and is selfish.
Didact: Why did you come here at all?
The Primordial: Not by choice.
Didact: Were you brought here… or did you command the Master Builder to bring you?
The Primordial: (No Answer)
The Didact persisted, and they moved closer to the Cage.
Didact: Are you prepared to take vengeance against the Forerunners for defying your race and surviving? Is that why you bring this plague upon on us all?
The Primordial: No Vengeance… No Plague… Only unity…
Didact: Sickness, Slavery, Lingering Death, we will analyze everything here and we will learn. The Flood will be defeated.
The Primordial: Work. Fight. Live. All the sweeter. Mind after Mind will shape and absorb, in the end all will be quiet with wisdom.
The Didact gave a small quiver weather of rage or fear, I (Chakas) could not tell.
Didact: You told me you were the last precursor.
The Primordial rearranged its limbs with a leathery shuffle, power sifted from torso and legs
Didact: How can you be the Last of Anything? I see now that you are nothing more then a mash up old Victims infected by the flood, a Gravemind… were all the precursors Gravemind’s?
Another Sifting Shuffle.
Didact: Or are you after all, only an imitation of a Precursor? A Puppet, a Reanimated Corpse, are all the precursors gone, or is it that the Flood will make new precursors?
The Primordial: Those who created you were defied and hunted, most were extinguished. A few fled beyond your reach, creation continued.
Didact: Defied? You were monsters set to destroy all who assumed the Mantel.
The Primordial: It was long ago decided. Forerunners will never bare the Mantel.
Didact: Decided how?
The Primordial: Through long study. The Decision is Final. Humans will replace you. Humans will be tested next.
Didact: Is that to be our punishment?
The Primordial: It is the way of those who seek out the truth of the Mantel. Humans will rise again in arrogance and defiance. The Flood will return when they are Ripe, and bring them Unity.
Didact: But most humans are immune.
Other Guy (Dont know his name): Can the Flood choose to infect or not to infect.
The Primordial: No immunity. Judgement. Timing.
Didact: The why turn Mendicant Bias against its creators, and encourage the Master Builder to Torture Humans? Why allow this Cruelty? Are you the Font of all misery?
The Primordial: Misery is sweetness. Forerunners will fail, as you have failed before. Humans will rise, weather they will also fail has not been decided.
Didact: How can you control any of this? Your stuck here, the last of your kind.
The Primordial: The Last of this kind. We are the Flood, there is no difference, until all space and time are rolled up, and life is crushed in the fulls, no end to war, grief or pain. In 101 Thousand Centuries, Unity again, and wisdom… until then… sweetness.
The Didact Lifted his hand, a panel appeared, shaping controls.
The Primordial: It is your task to kill this servant. That another may be freed.
The Didact hesitated for just an instant. As if trying to understand, but anger overcame him. He made a swift Gesture, like swinging a sword. The Controls Flared, then Vanished, and the mesh around the captives platform spread between them, are far more Intense Blue Green Glow.
Didact: Let your life race ahead. You were made to survive deep time, but now it will arrive all at once, no sweetness, no more lies, let a billion years pass and endless silence and isolation.
The Didact had initiated a Reverse Timelock.
End of Spoiler.
Seeing that this Precursor was a Gravemind, Frankie already confirmed no Flood, so unlikely, but maybe in a future installment, but then again its been confirmed by BS Angel, that Master Chief will meet his first “True” nemesis in Halo 4, so unless he defeats him in Halo 4/5 I doubt we’ll see Precursors, unless of course we side with our new enemy to finally end this cycle of evil.
> Seeing that this Precursor was a Gravemind, Frankie already confirmed no Flood, so unlikely, but maybe in a future installment, but then again its been confirmed by BS Angel, that Master Chief will meet his first “True” nemesis in Halo 4, so unless he defeats him in Halo 4/5 I doubt we’ll see Precursors, unless of course we side with our new enemy to finally end this cycle of evil.
Of course, I’m beginning to think that the Timeless One was not really present. at all in Primordium. Think about it, when described in Cryptum the TO looked nothing like the Primordial in Primordium. Perhaps the Timeless One sacrificed itself to allow the Gravemind to grow and what the Didact and Chakas encountered WAS the Gravemind we know from Halo 2 and Halo 3.
After all, it isn’t dead, not after the Halos fired, not after High Charity blew up and not when the Ark was destroyed. I doubt a reverse timelock would even do the deed.
More on topic, if a Precursor does appear, I believe it will only be one and that it will unleash something dire by the end of the game.
> > I have a feeling if we’re fighting Forerunners the puppet masters would probably be the Precursors since some of them may still revere them as gods.
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> The Campaign Preview - At the End the Didact’s Symbol is Revealed.
> The Didact also says this exact line - I have long drempt of this day Reclaimer.
How do you know the Didact said this line?
> > > I have a feeling if we’re fighting Forerunners the puppet masters would probably be the Precursors since some of them may still revere them as gods.
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> > The Campaign Preview - At the End the Didact’s Symbol is Revealed.
> > The Didact also says this exact line - I have long drempt of this day Reclaimer.
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> How do you know the Didact said this line?
I don’t, but what is there an instant guy called the Anti-Didact? Who else would be waiting for Chief? It makes sense for it to be the Didact. But if not the I’m bloody stumped.
Anti-Didact is simply a placeholder most of us use. After all there are some very noticeable differences in the symbol in the Halo 4 trailer and the Didact’s symbol, the least of which is it being flipped upside-down.
> Anti-Didact is simply a placeholder most of us use. After all there are some very noticeable differences in the symbol in the Halo 4 trailer and the Didact’s symbol, the least of which is it being flipped upside-down.
Sorry to say, but it is likely the Didact, but if not who do you suspect it is? He doesn’t sound angry, he sounds like hes neutral, and ready to meet Chief.
Well I won’t rule out the Didact, but Faber is certainly the antithesis of the Didact. Course, we don’t know if he is alive or dead, but I do tend to think he is dead. I’m just not ready to make any big conclusions yet.