I tweeted Josh regarding Chief still in possession of Cortana’s chip despite it being disintegrated on the final mission of Halo 4 and received this response:
It was a vague answer but the first thought that entered my mind is that Chief somehow recreated the chip or stole blank AI chip from the UNSC.
UPDATE: Josh also answered a more personal question from me about the Spartan SII’S wearing the latest Gen 2 armor in Halo 4’s.
Josh explained that they did not have enough time to build a model for the old armor.
POST UPDATE
Question to Josh regarding Halo Guardians music.
Huh! Very possible. I just always assumed he put the chip back in his helmet and we just never saw it. -shrug-
I’m with the “stole it” theory.
Well after all the continuity skips on whether or not Chief had the chip to plug/unplug Cortana from in Halo 4, I would have to agree with Ka Five. While it is a continuity fail, it happens and we should just give 343i the benefit of doubt. It isn’t like any of us are movie critics anyways.
In the level Reclaimer, we see John put Cortana into a terminal (here). When she disappears, John doesn’t take the chip back but retrieves her from a different terminal (here). Either John didn’t leave a chip in which means Cortana doesn’t really need one, or he has multiple chips which are more or less disposable.
Now, if 343i wants to bring Cortana back, they’ll make up something to do so. In her death scene, she even says, “most of me is down there,” so she could technically still exist in the Mantle’s Approach’s hardware. Bringing her back could be as simple as finding a piece of the ship with her data intact.
Interesting to see why the intro cutscene didn’t feature the Spartan II’s in correct armor. I’m glad he acknowledged it wasn’t canonically correct and was due to lack of time. I’m alright with that.
> Interesting to see why the intro cutscene didn’t feature the Spartan II’s in correct armor. I’m glad he acknowledged it wasn’t canonically correct and was due to lack of time. I’m alright with that.
Maybe finally people can stop trying to make excuses like “Its a retcon, they always wore that!” or “Its actually a secret prototype blah blah”
> Interesting to see why the intro cutscene didn’t feature the Spartan II’s in correct armor. I’m glad he acknowledged it wasn’t canonically correct and was due to lack of time. I’m alright with that.
I don’t know why he said that given Chief’s armor in Halo 4 was said to have been based on a variant of Mark.IV armor, as was stated in the Halo 4 Essential Visual Guide. The only issue is why Cortana altered Chief’s armor to look like it, which I’m not that bothered by.
Well now that that has been explained. I will ease up a bit on the designs far as campaign goes.
It was actually pretty obvious that the cut-scene wasn’t canonical due to time and resource constraints. It was more or less just a summary for newbs to the Franchise anyways, and if they got interested enough, they would find all this news out in the future as it canonically is.
Good on Holmes for telling it how it is though~
> It was actually pretty obvious that the cut-scene was wasn’t canonical due to time and resource constraints. It was more or less just a summary for newbs to the Franchise anyways, and if they got interested enough, they would find all this news out in the future as it canonically is.
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> Good on Holmes for telling it how it is though~
I think it was just the armor that was non-canon. Which is fine by me. Halo 4s story probably what through several iterations until they got it right. That probably left very little time for mo-cap.
I did like how the made the armor actually be able to clank together when Chief moved. That was cool.
I knew they didn’t have enough models for a proper-looking Prologue. Wonder if they would’ve used the old Elites, too.
> It was actually pretty obvious that the cut-scene was wasn’t canonical due to time and resource constraints. It was more or less just a summary for newbs to the Franchise anyways, and if they got interested enough, they would find all this news out in the future as it canonically is.
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> Good on Holmes for telling it how it is though~
I feared that i came down a bit hard on Josh in my interegation like questioning, it’s just been hard to find an answer. Good on Josh for coming clean about the situation.
Well it’s nice to see that they acknowledged the Halo 4 intro.
‘Anything is possible with a willing heart’…
Hmmm. We are definitely going to see a different, softer side of Chief.
Cortana may be comin’ back!
> ‘Anything is possible with a willing heart’…
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> Hmmm. We are definitely going to see a different, softer side of Chief.
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> Cortana may be comin’ back!
Or alternatively, a slightly darker side.
> > It was actually pretty obvious that the cut-scene was wasn’t canonical due to time and resource constraints. It was more or less just a summary for newbs to the Franchise anyways, and if they got interested enough, they would find all this news out in the future as it canonically is.
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> > Good on Holmes for telling it how it is though~
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> I feared that i came down a bit hard on Josh in my interegation like questioning, it’s just been hard to find an answer. Good on Josh for coming clean about the situation.
He is used to questions, he has to be in his line of work, and yours weren’t that harsh, just inquisitive. I am sure it is something that stings to talk about for him and everyone at 343, but there is only so much one can do with the 360 when it’s pushed to it’s limits.
Dem… dem feels.
Dang it Josh, now I’m even more hyped for H5:G Dx
Updated my post with a new response from Josh.