"Ancient Enemy", Images, Video, Sketches, Full Concept Art Analysis

I composited 13 stills from the Halo 4 Concept Art teaser and combined them into a single image as best I could. There was a lot of motion blurring going on, so there isn’t a whole lot of detail - but enough to get the big picture more than the trailer will allow us to.

I see something that is clearly robotic. I believe much of the lower image is a leg. The middle section where the image is clearest I believe to be the waist. It might be an arm hanging down to the left, but I can’t be sure. The head isn’t very clear, but looks to have one, red eye. Kind of a hunched over Geth from Mass Effect, is what I’m getting.

What about you guys? 3…2…1…speculate!

Thread "Table of Contents"

Page 1 – OP / Forerunner Combat Skin discussion
Page 4 – War Sphinx / Sentinel theories
Page 8 – Mysterious Figure discussion
Page 13 – Sentinel / Precursor Appearance discussion
Page 17 – Mysterious Figure Identified as an Elite
Page 18 – Prisoner / Solitary discussion
Page 19 – Prisoner / Beastarium discussion
Page 21 – Hints from Halo: Evolutions
Page 22 – Flood discussion
Page 24 - Concept Art analysis
Page 29 - Mendicant Bias discussion

everyday_math · August 28, 2011, 7:51pm

O_O damn wow nice one man.

MKmiksaFIN · August 28, 2011, 7:52pm

> Full image of “Ancient Enemy”.
>
> Kind of a hunched over Geth from Mass Effect, is what I’m getting.
>
> What about you guys? 3…2…1…speculate!

I agree. It really reminds me of Geth. Looks like it’s being built.

wolfhunter9154 · August 28, 2011, 7:53pm

This is… Interesting.

My7hix · August 28, 2011, 7:53pm

I took some snapshots too, which I posted on another forum, and my first thought was PRECURSOR.

EDDS · August 28, 2011, 7:53pm

It’s the Geth!!!

Music from mass effect and now enemies from mass effect.

It’s a good job i like mass effect then!

IridescentCloud · August 28, 2011, 7:54pm

I hope this new “Trilogy” doesn’t take Halo to far fetched…

firedune22 · August 28, 2011, 7:54pm

WOW. I salute you sir… Take THAT 343i
NEVER underestimate the community…never

Oh, and i have to do this… just once…FIRST (edit 1: drat, 7th)!

Anyway the part that i thought i saw a leg ( I persumed the chief’s leg) i was right.

Edit 2: Suprisingly, I’m getting Human from this. Forerunners don’t use legs in their machines, nor do the covenant…much. The legs look bulky, like motors would fit in there. Just my impression though.

Xaybiance · August 28, 2011, 7:54pm

Looks like some kind of Geth from ME wearing Elite Armor.

wolfhunter9154 · August 28, 2011, 7:55pm

> I took some snapshots too, which I posted on another forum, and my first thought was Precursor.

I’m thinking it’s a forerunner sentinel of some sort.

MKmiksaFIN · August 28, 2011, 7:56pm

> I hope this new “Trilogy” doesn’t take Halo to far fetched…

Yeah, I’m kind of scared that they will go too far from the source material.

PhilMag38 · August 28, 2011, 7:56pm

> > Full image of “Ancient Enemy”.
> >
> > Kind of a hunched over Geth from Mass Effect, is what I’m getting.
> >
> > What about you guys? 3…2…1…speculate!
>
> I agree. It really reminds me of Geth. Looks like it’s being built.

http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/4/41/Ih_promethean_bullet.jpg
Well look at this, this is a forerunner in combat skin, look familiar?

Could it be that some Forerunner did escape the halos destruction, and they somehow find out that the Fllod is gone, and with the flood gone they can now come back and attempt to control the galaxy again?

Jameson_Locke · August 28, 2011, 7:58pm

Kind of looks like a Gravemind.

TitanC005 · August 28, 2011, 8:01pm

> > > Full image of “Ancient Enemy”.
> > >
> > > Kind of a hunched over Geth from Mass Effect, is what I’m getting.
> > >
> > > What about you guys? 3…2…1…speculate!
> >
> > I agree. It really reminds me of Geth. Looks like it’s being built.
>
> http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/4/41/Ih_promethean_bullet.jpg
> Well look at this, this is a forerunner in combat skin, look familiar?
>
> Could it be that some Forerunner did escape the halos destruction, and they somehow find out that the Fllod is gone, and with the flood gone they can now come back and attempt to control the galaxy again?

The idea of it being a Forerunner combat skin is possible, but I don’t think it’s plausible. I think there have been plenty of hints that the Forerunners are indeed alive, or at least the ruins we’ll be visiting will be active. However, I don’t think the thing shown at the end is a Forerunner combat skin.

My main reason being, look at the waist section of the “Ancient Enemy” image. It is very, very thin. No organic being would be able to fit inside that, much less a fully-formed Forerunner warrior. I do not think the image shows something that is organic.

GTincluded · August 28, 2011, 8:07pm

> > I hope this new “Trilogy” doesn’t take Halo to far fetched…
>
> Yeah, I’m kind of scared that they will go too far from the source material.

The forerunner could and likely have many types of technologies not known to us in which 343 probably has to create. You can’t stray from source material that hasn’t been set much at all.

Fatal_Factor · August 28, 2011, 8:08pm

Metal gear?!

> Full image of “Ancient Enemy”.
>
> I composited 13 stills from the Halo 4 Concept Art teaser and combined them into a single image as best I could. There was a lot of motion blurring going on, so there isn’t a whole lot of detail - but enough to get the big picture more than the trailer will allow us to.
>
> I see something that is clearly robotic. I believe much of the lower image is a leg. The middle section where the image is clearest I believe to be the waist. It might be an arm hanging down to the left, but I can’t be sure. The head isn’t very clear, but looks to have one, red eye. Kind of a hunched over Geth from Mass Effect, is what I’m getting.
>
> What about you guys? 3…2…1…speculate!

Jameson_Locke · August 28, 2011, 8:10pm

After viewing this trailer i heard the shriek or scream it made and i was playing H3 at the time noticed that the shriek sounds flood like.

TruePlatypus · August 28, 2011, 8:13pm

> Full image of “Ancient Enemy”.
>
> I composited 13 stills from the Halo 4 Concept Art teaser and combined them into a single image as best I could.

NICE!

RPGStylee · August 28, 2011, 8:21pm

looks like some sort of sentinel, it could be a precursor.

I have a theory that the ancient enemy could be the race that created the flood. this would be logical as the flood’s origins are unknown, and that it arrived in remotely piloted ships as a crystalline powder. the race that created it would use the flood as the ultimate biological weapon; rather than risk their own kind in a war against an entire galaxy.

I’ll just let you guys think about it…

Christopholoff · August 28, 2011, 8:23pm

pizza cat

&quot;Ancient Enemy&quot;, Images, Video, Sketches, Full Concept Art Analysis

"Ancient Enemy", Images, Video, Sketches, Full Concept Art Analysis