I’m not sure how this would be done, but I think it would be cool if Halo Infinite included some sort of references to the classic Ghosts of Halo phenomenon from Halo 2. Maybe if there could be an armor set similar to the Haunted armor from Halo Reach (the name and or description could reference Blackout or something similar). The Ghosts of Halo, regardless of whether they were fake or not, definitely had a place in the history of halo, and it would be great to see Infinite pay homage to it.
The Halo Ghosts are definitely not fake (as I have encountered one on Halo 5: Guardians myself). However, they aren’t what the tales make them out to be. All they are are technical errors most commonly from connection issues. It is great though how the fandom has taken something so simple and explainable and put their own twist on it such as haunted sightings of these “ghosts”.
As for a reference to them in Halo: Infinite that is very unlikely as they haven’t been referenced in any other Halo game before.
I think the “ghosts” he is referring to are far different from connection issue artifacts. It was a common occurrence during halo2 (from what i can remember) custom games for a new player to appear in the game , but no warning was ever made (generally when a new player joined a custom there was a message in the kill feed ; x has joined the game).
In Halo 3 it was common for random people to show up while you were forging , again with no warning.
Often times , when these “people” were spotted , they were just watching , not interacting with players or the game type , but clearly active as they move about the map.
Most of us grew to believe these were Bungie employees , but there has been no confirmation other than the fact that these instances have stopped occurring after Bungie departed Halo development.
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> I think the “ghosts” he is referring to are far different from connection issue artifacts. It was a common occurrence during halo2 (from what i can remember) custom games for a new player to appear in the game , but no warning was ever made (generally when a new player joined a custom there was a message in the kill feed ; x has joined the game).
> In Halo 3 it was common for random people to show up while you were forging , again with no warning.
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> Often times , when these “people” were spotted , they were just watching , not interacting with players or the game type , but clearly active as they move about the map.
> Most of us grew to believe these were Bungie employees , but there has been no confirmation other than the fact that these instances have stopped occurring after Bungie departed Halo development.
I had that happen a number of times while I was Forging in Halo Reach. I’m not sure how that ever happened. It would be funny to have some sort of reference since it was adobted by the lore community but I think it would go over most peoples heads.
Halo Infinite will now feature extreme lag.
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> Halo Infinite will now feature extreme lag.
Oh god no, not the 999 Ping Mode…
Nah, if they’re gonna put “ghosts” in, put in the S-IIIs. The actual “Ghosts of Onyx”, you know?
Or were those Sentinels…
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> Oh god no, not the 999 Ping Mode…
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> Nah, if they’re gonna put “ghosts” in, put in the S-IIIs. The actual “Ghosts of Onyx”, you know?
> Or were those Sentinels…
I agree with this notion!!
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> > Nah, if they’re gonna put “ghosts” in, put in the S-IIIs. The actual “Ghosts of Onyx”, you know?
> > Or were those Sentinels…
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> I agree with this notion!!
And for the love of the Forerunners finally give us freaking SPI.
They had their chance in Reach and they failed.
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> > > Nah, if they’re gonna put “ghosts” in, put in the S-IIIs. The actual “Ghosts of Onyx”, you know?
> > > Or were those Sentinels…
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> > I agree with this notion!!
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> And for the love of the Forerunners finally give us freaking SPI.
> They had their chance in Reach and they failed.
Oh yeah that’s Kurt-051’s huh? That’s one of the badassest of them I feel just ‘cause of him haha
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> > > > Nah, if they’re gonna put “ghosts” in, put in the S-IIIs. The actual “Ghosts of Onyx”, you know?
> > > > Or were those Sentinels…
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> > > I agree with this notion!!
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> > And for the love of the Forerunners finally give us freaking SPI.
> > They had their chance in Reach and they failed.
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> Oh yeah that’s Kurt-051’s huh? That’s one of the badassest of them I feel just ‘cause of him haha
And all the S-IIIs for most of their deployments, yes.
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> > > Nah, if they’re gonna put “ghosts” in, put in the S-IIIs. The actual “Ghosts of Onyx”, you know?
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> > I agree with this notion!!
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> And for the love of the Forerunners finally give us freaking SPI.
> They had their chance in Reach and they failed.
Why would you want inferior armor? It’s not like they’d actually let the camouflage work.
That said, an updated SPI-style kit would be pretty neat, so long as it was noted for being “There to assist Spartan IIIs to the MJOLNIR BIOS” or something.
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> > > > Nah, if they’re gonna put “ghosts” in, put in the S-IIIs. The actual “Ghosts of Onyx”, you know?
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> > > I agree with this notion!!
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> > And for the love of the Forerunners finally give us freaking SPI.
> > They had their chance in Reach and they failed.
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> Why would you want inferior armor? It’s not like they’d actually let the camouflage work.
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> That said, an updated SPI-style kit would be pretty neat, so long as it was noted for being “There to assist Spartan IIIs to the MJOLNIR BIOS” or something.
SPI-equal MJLONIR was what I was thinking. Looks like SPI, but has the MJLONIR Tech suit and shields. Standard issue to Ferret Teams