Now the halo rings have always been forerunner alien constructs so why then does the flora of the halo rings so closely resemble earth. The first iteration of the halo games had serious limitations and even though we all knew we were stepping onto a new planet. The designers probably didn’t want to go to far into alien aspects due to it being to foreign to players and also the fact they were under serious constraints with the first title.
That being said why is it the designers never decided to make the halo rings feel more alien in terms of plantlife. Now I believe if I’m not mistaken the trees in HI are called stalker trees and they have been a staple for a long time in halo. But I think we can all agree we wouldn’t mind seeing something more foreign and alien right who actually thinks tall thin looking pine trees looks good am I right.
Now I believe halo infinite claims to be a platform for halo for years to come. This to me screams Dlc/Expansion for future halo campaign related stuff now I’m 100% uncertain as to what new plantlife HI will have if any. But that being said I think we as a community should voice our thoughts and opinions about them being more open to changing the typical formula of the halo’s plant ecology. Wouldn’t it be cool if parts of halo had purple grass, avatar style plants, and even hostile trees lol.
In halo wars there was a scraped idea about a venus fly trap style monster thing I’d love something like that. I think new and creative ideas regarding halo’s ecology would help this game series move forward. I realize their is already an established canon about halo’s ecosystem that being said I think we all need something new and exciting. 343i are the gods of the story for better or worse they control the narrative and they can make any yoink up on the fly. So I ask you community what are your ideas in regards to halo getting a serious environmental alien upgrade.
I personally will start off by saying I think its great they are going back to the equipment era of halo and I think if regeneration doesn’t make a return at launch I think it’d be cool if the tied it into the series again via some plant related way. Like for example the lore regarding h3 regeneration is pretty vague if instead of it being. “covenant tech” I think it’d be cool if it were some kinda healing seed thats being manipulated by tech to activate its healing properties they could make healing trees in the expansion and work it into the lore.