I know there was a terminal in 3 that showed a conversation with the Didact, but there is nothing anywhere in Halo 4 that gave us any idea of who he was until later in the game. The cutscene shows chief trying to transmit to the Infinity and an echo with distortion is heard, the large ball rises. Cortana tells him to remove his hands and then the Didact floats out of the ball/ship. The Elites and Prometheans both kneel but still, there’s no name or indication on who he is, yet Cortana knows him by name?
Also, a few more things.
The sangheili are at a neutral alliance with humanity and the covenant is broken. There is no reason why the elites should still be in control of a fleet of warships and still allied with a broken covenant. They know their religion was flawed and tried to stop the prophets from firing the doomsday devices known as the halos.
And another.
What the HELL happened to the elites faces?! They look extremely derpy.
So, here’s your chance to call me out on my errors or point me in the right direction. I am in no way calling this game a fluke or “bad”. I love halo 4, I love the fact that it exists. And the campaign was beyond epic. Just some plot holes need to be covered before I can finally understand the entire picture.
> I know there was a terminal in 3 that showed a conversation with the Didact, but there is nothing anywhere in Halo 4 that gave us any idea of who he was until later in the game. The cutscene shows chief trying to transmit to the Infinity and an echo with distortion is heard, the large ball rises. Cortana tells him to remove his hands and then the Didact floats out of the ball/ship. The Slites and Prometheans both kneel but still, there’s no name or indication on who he is, yet Cortana knows him by name?
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> I believe Cortana was able to see who it was based on her past experiences with Forerunner tech. Don’t know this one exactly, but it could be explained somewhere else, like in the books.
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> Also, a few more things.
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> The sangheili are at a neutral alliance with humanity and the covenant is broken. There is no reason why the elites should still be in control of a fleet of warships and still allied with a broken covenant. They know their religion was flawed and tried to stop the prophets from firing the doomsday devices known as the halos.
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> I believe the elites were split into two groups, one group is still in an alliance with the Humans and the other rebelled against it and continued onto the great journey. I believe this was explained in “Grass Lands” if I remember the title correctly?
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> What the HELL happened to the elites faces?! They look extremely derpy.
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> See second explanation, possible some form of race or change that is in the rebellion group.
Left my responses in red. Hopefully someone has a bit more detail for you, I haven’t read much into what you’re asking, but I get the gist of it.
The terminals in halo 4 are supposed to answer questions the game plotline in 4 doesn’t show.
The covies broke. The faction in 4 is the storm faction. Just because the society is broken doesn’t mean ships don’t work. This faction is highly religious in what prophets preached so they still hate humans.
most of the new looks are just visual upgrades. But some are other species of the same race.
Thanks, I cba to read the books or find the terminals, but you would imagine someone else in 343i would have thought of this as well. Just a cutscene of information is all I need :3
well i know that these things arent explicitly stated, they are covered in other forms of halo media and somewhat breifly in game.
they arent really plot-holes though.
Cortana knowing him by name is bit odd…but it’s also possible she picked a few pieces up while she was digging around Requiem, and due to her fraying personalities only managed to piece them together after Chief released the Didact.
That’s speculation though.
The Covenant we fight in Halo 4 is the Storm faction. As mentioned in the first campaign mission, they have much poorer funds and resources then the covenant forces we fought before; because we are technically allied with the covenant forces we fought before.
In a manner of speaking, you could consider these Storm Covenant to be the religious extremists, who take things both way too literally and completely out of context.
The Elites new look is a result of a new engine and 343’s new ‘interpretation’ of how they look. The armor is likely also a stripped down version of what we’re used to looking at.
Really, the plot hole I’m most concerned with is in the ending…
How the hell do Hard Light Shields protect the Chief from detonating a Havok Nuke in his hands? If HL can defend against nukes, then how did it even dent the Didacts ship, let alone blow it to smithereens?Edit: and in the time it took me to write this, 10 other people have posted and answered
The commander of this rogue covenant squad is an elite who hates humans. He went and gathered elites who don’t know about the truth, very religious elites and are doing things, like going searching for their gods and religious artifacts (forerunner artifacts).
Maybe there was some information in the forerunner system about the Didact, maybe that’s how Cortana knew who he was. I dunno.
My main gripe is on the second mission, there are machine parts underground, where they shouldn’t be if they had a proper fall pattern.
Yea all of this info is in books and terminals and I love how much they tied in from what I learned about the lore, however I am foggy on who the hell Halsey was talking too in the beginning T.T
I do agree on your point that the Didact is underdeveloped (just 2 epic moments involving him outside of the Terminals…between that: nothing).
But everything else can be found in the books and without them through simple deduction.
> Agreed, I knew what was happening, but the game needed to be a bit clearer to those that dont follow the expanded universe stuff.
expanded universe stuff is explained in the Terminals to my knowledge, Standard video game cryptic stuff. Most video games make 0 sense till you begin to pay extra attention. usually its the completely linear gameplay games like Final fantasy will attempt to tell you 100% of a story as it goes, because that is what they are designed to do.
> Really, the plot hole I’m most concerned with is in the ending…
> How the hell do Hard Light Shields protect the Chief from detonating a Havok Nuke in his hands? If HL can defend against nukes, then how did it even dent the Didacts ship, let alone blow it to smithereens?
It really is just something you have to accept as being one of those “It was a very powerful shield”.
Probably has something to do with Cortana’s strength and devotion to Chief.
> Yea all of this info is in books and terminals and I love how much they tied in from what I learned about the lore, however I am foggy on who the hell Halsey was talking too in the beginning T.T
Probably the person in charge of the Spartan 4 program. Think about it, the Spartan 2’s were children indoctrinated into basically killing machines, following orders, doing what they’re told, to the letter.
Master Chief was different however, he has personality, he’s different than the other Spartan 2’s. Because he’s more human.
The person asking Halsey if that’s why John is so good, is because he’s flawed like a human. So they do the Spartan 4 program, using already flawed humans. No real indoctrination process, not turning them into machines, just turning them into powerful soldiers, who will make mistakes, who have emotion, who have those character flaws like Chief.
> > Really, the plot hole I’m most concerned with is in the ending…
> > How the hell do Hard Light Shields protect the Chief from detonating a Havok Nuke in his hands? If HL can defend against nukes, then how did it even dent the Didacts ship, let alone blow it to smithereens?
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> It really is just something you have to accept as being one of those “It was a very powerful shield”.
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> Probably has something to do with Cortana’s strength and devotion to Chief.
I think It wasn’t just hardlight, if she had copies of herself in the system, doesn’t need to be that either, just needs her in the system, she could have made a portal in that instance and that is why we saw them in the blue space together when he detonated
I’m pretty sure the speed of light is a little faster than a click but I could be wrong lol
> > Yea all of this info is in books and terminals and I love how much they tied in from what I learned about the lore, however I am foggy on who the hell Halsey was talking too in the beginning T.T
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> Probably the person in charge of the Spartan 4 program. Think about it, the Spartan 2’s were children indoctrinated into basically killing machines, following orders, doing what they’re told, to the letter.
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> Master Chief was different however, he has personality, he’s different than the other Spartan 2’s. Because he’s more human.
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> The person asking Halsey if that’s why John is so good, is because he’s flawed like a human. So they do the Spartan 4 program, using already flawed humans. No real indoctrination process, not turning them into machines, just turning them into powerful soldiers, who will make mistakes, who have emotion, who have those character flaws like Chief.
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> That’s what I gathered anyway.
My friend and I thought of that possibility too, that at least when he mentioned “that at his core he was broken” was a morality/emotional question vs. the physical idea, because the whole idea of the theme(in my opinion at least) for Halo 4 from chief’s view was for Cortana to show he is human and she is the machine, not the other way around and that he needs to start living that way, to be a person, not a weapon and I think of this reason is particularly why the Didact is just the stepping stone for their story and for what is to come.
But yea that makes sense for it to be the head of the SP-IV program, also why Halsey is being interrogated instead of working on the Infinity, prolly be the intro to halo 5
> How the hell do Hard Light Shields protect the Chief from detonating a Havok Nuke in his hands? If HL can defend against nukes, then how did it even dent the Didacts ship, let alone blow it to smithereens?
Cortana has been showed to been able to match up against the most powerful minds in the Galaxy, The Gravemind, a being that corrupted the contender class AIs, and stood up against the monitor.
In my opinion, Cortanas rampancy is going to lead her to become a hive mind type of AI, like the Contender AIs and the Gravemind, she just needs to get her ‘others’ under control.
With that being said, she is one of the most intelligent things in the galaxy, its possible she figured out a way to ‘fix’ the composer, as the forrunners never understood how to recompose someone, and she composed the Chief and that was why she could touch his chest and say ‘ive always wanted to do that’ Perhaps something the librarian did made it possible.
She composed him to digital space, outside the blast of the nuke, then recomposed him in the wreckage.
I dunno.