Not sure how much if any of this is going to wind up in final game. But I was quite surprised by some of the stuff:
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There doesn’t seem to be any concept art for the Weapon which was a little odd. Main character and everything.
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On page 36 there’s what’s basically a robot Spartan. Has UNSC symbols. Think like a Chapee bot but with a Spartan helmet. It’s in amongst the Multiplayer art so it’s very likely an armour core. I mean I think the UNSC have gone insane; but it’s pretty cool.
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P91 Skimmers in most of the art are shown with eyes similar to a fly. Some of the colouring also have them more green with small orange tentacles on their chins. Maybe a little more fuel to them being some kind of Precursor with Flood design cues.
-P100 there’s an image of a Guardian waking in a desert fighting what look like Covenant. You can also make out Watchers with teal blue lights like you see in Warzone. No idea what this is doing here although I suspect it’s likely due to something brought up later in the book.
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P106 Banished Banshees are shown fighting a Scarab with Covenant purple colours. The Banshees are with a low flying Banished destroyer which the Scarab shoots down. Again, no idea, perhaps these are Swords of Sanghelios who are going to have pure Covenant colour scheme instead of red to distinguish from Banishes?
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P120 There’s an image of a Forerunner pistol. Think there was a toy version of this as well. Possibly might see this in future season.
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P147 Chief is looking over Zeta Halo and you clearly see the Infinity wreck broken in two floating in low orbit.
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P176 This is the “untold stories” section and is probably where that earlier Guardian image came from. They explain this ambiguously as art from early in development or as stuff that might be in. But it’s almost entirely art of a desert planet with similar architecture to Suniaon on Sanghelios from Halo 5. There are also ruins similar to Sanghelios and Iam 90 percent it’s the Elite homeworld.
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P179 There’s an image of a deployed Guardian over a large Sunaion type city. Seem to be Covenant Banshees in the air so no idea what’s going on there exactly. At a guess, this is likely very early stuff when they were going to have the game follow on directly with the Chief on the Elite homeworld. Maybe there really is DLC for the Arbiter. I don’t know.
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