First off, I’d like to mention that one of the biggest aspects of Halo 4’s hype is the new enemies mentioned as and “ancient evil”. Through a lot of speculation, the new enemy is believed to be the forerunners/precursors.
This is amazing. Flood’s gone, human-covenant war is over, great. Bring on the new enemies, right?
Wrong? During the video, at about 2:10, someone mentions that the “…vehicles and enemies have been updated graphically.”
Does this mean that the covenant and/or the flood will be making a return? Obviously, if they we’re updated graphically.
Even if it’s for a small segment of the game, it still seems off.
I thought Halo 4 was going to be a clean slate, story wise.
Frank O Connor said in a recent interview the covenant will be returning, but only as a small part of the game. I suspect the game will begin in familiar territory before throwing us down the rabbit hole.
> It’s one of the biggest pieces of the whole picture. I will say that the familiar things will be back: there’s still going to be a Covenant presence in the universe and you’re still going to be fighting Covenant somewhere, but they’re not necessarily the greatest threat that you have to deal with in Halo 4.
> Frank O Connor said in a recent interview the covenant will be returning, but only as a small part of the game. I suspect the game will begin in familiar territory before throwing us down the rabbit hole.
Yes I heard this too. Franky said the Covenant will have a very small roll I also remember reading that they will be allies, though of that I’m not sure! But I want new and old enemies back for H4 the mroe the merrier!
The covenant will be in the game as our allies(assuming what I’ve heard is true). I wouldn’t be shocked at all if the flood is still 1 of our enemies, to be honest I’d be rather suprised if they weren’t.
> The Flood and Precursors are really the same thing in a way.
I think this is partly accurate. I personally think that The Flood successfully took over the Precursors at some point.
I believe that The Primordial in Halo: Primordium is a perfected Gravemind that is using the Precursor title as cover to keep people from guessing what it truly is.