its awesome.
I just finished it after I learned the trock to kill the 3 wardens on mission 14.
The campaign is just epic, good story, you can feel the pressure on hunting the chief or help in later on.
Just sheere epicness. 343i, you brought Halo back, you realy did it. (My opinion)
Thank you.
I too thoroughly enjoyed the campaign, my only complaint would be not enough missions as chief but even without playing as chief they still managed to tell an amazing story IMO.
I am just annoyed that Blue Team wasn’t in it as much as they should of been.
I love the level design. So many different pathways.
The lack of blue team missions is not a big deal for me. Suprisingly though. And the different ways and pathways is great yes!
Definitely need another play through, taking my time as well as turning up dialogue to hear certain things… Killed the Warden way too quick in Sunian(???) he started his monologue after he died… was a bit gutted at that.
Level design and new abilities combined to change the way I play Halo… was always with a hint of strategy but now its full blown tactical thinking all the time - and I like it!!
I Understand why we play as Locke most of the time - Chief didn’t do much this time round, we wouldn’t have had as much information as to whats going on if we didn’t play as Osiris.
Very excited to see where they take the story from now till Halo 6.
So was Halsey an “agent” all along?? maybe I need to find the newest Escalation Comic?
@pink punisher
I totally agree with you.
Halsey a agent? I don’t know about that.
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> @pink punisher
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> I totally agree with you.
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> Halsey a agent? I don’t know about that.
I Stumbled across a data pad thing where she is communicating with the Arbiter but was VERY busy killing stuff/staying alive to proper listen to it but kinda sounded like it was before first mission…
On another note… the whole thing about the Created-over-throwing-the-Creators seems to be a recurring theme of the Haloverse, I wonder how this will fit into the Primorium/Precursor/Flood threat…
I’m still kind of waiting on the explanation of the Domain still being around. I thought it had been destroyed back in the Forerunner book trilogy by Greg Bear. Because even as of Halo 4 the Domain wasn’t accessible but “caught in a loop” or something. It’s why the Didact didn’t get his peace inside his Cryptum because the Domain was gone. So he just stirred in his anger for millennia and the Librarian realized this while she was stuck on Erde-Tyrene. From what I gathered…the Organon and Domain were one and the same, so being that the Domain was Precursor in origin, it died when the halos fired the first time as it was biotechnology like most Precursor tech. Unless I’m missing something.
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> its awesome.
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> I just finished it after I learned the trock to kill the 3 wardens on mission 14.
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> The campaign is just epic, good story, you can feel the pressure on hunting the chief or help in later on.
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> Just sheere epicness. 343i, you brought Halo back, you realy did it. (My opinion)
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> Thank you.
I can fight one without any issue, minus a few goof ups on my part, but whats the trick at mission 14 when you figjt 3? Im anyways handling one but either one or both of the other 2 shoot me grin across the room? Been trying to figure out how to trick them to isolate them.
I actually stick pretty close to him when fighting and just thrust aside when needed
Btw what difficulty did you do?
I always thought the Domain was still in existence on the planet where the biting Forerunners were in Silentium. But maybe that’s just how i read it.
Only on the tank part on third mission, but super like it so far. Reminds me of the first time playing Halo 3 (shut up i loved Halo 3).
I like the different paths all over the show, still a linear shooter but now much more choice of how to go about your killing.
Datapads are pretty interesting too.
In terms of gameplay it’s great, though there are some story details that I felt were lacking (like Blue Team’s sudden appearance in the franchise with nothing but a single comment by Locke to explain them), but overall it leaves a great impression.
I just hope that we’ll see some campaign DLC for this game; Spartan Ops in Halo 4 was a nice touch, but riddled with issues (blatant level re-use, spammy waves of enemies, and just not very fun solo) but it was entertaining to play with friends, and great to have some extra campaign-type content. I was disappointed that there were no further seasons of Spartan Ops, as I’d hoped to have some kind of lead-in to Halo 5, or just more time with the UNSC Infinity, since it (and Lasky) were pretty under-utilised in Halo 4 IMO.
It would be nice to see new missions for Halo 5 added periodically, rather than the usual focus on multiplayer map-packs (though those would be nice too). In particular I’d like to see some prequel missions; one showing Blue Team’s reunion with the Chief (after all, anyone playing the games alone will think Chief was the only Spartan II) with more banter from the team, plus maybe something similar for Osiris, and I felt the two female members weren’t well developed, and it’d be nice to see how Buck ended up joining up (maybe a crossover with his ODST team?). It’d also be nice to see a mission or two in the run up to Halo 6, when that eventually comes around.
I just started mission 7 and so far it’s awesome. I don’t get why people are saying the story is bad, but maybe they had higher expectations. I went into it not really wanting anything other than to play some Halo and I am enjoying it.
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> I just started mission 7 and so far it’s awesome. I don’t get why people are saying the story is bad, but maybe they had higher expectations. I went into it not really wanting anything other than to play some Halo and I am enjoying it.
Same here.
I think there may have been a fair amount of preconceived notions of what the story for H5 would be. And that may be why some aren’t happy with it.
The whole domain thing is kind of one of the gaps in the canon. In some instances Canon says the domain was destroyed by the firing of a Halo array. Some instances say that the actual domain was not destroyed just the ability to access it. In the novels the Didact talks about how they were cut off from the Domain and how awful it made them feel.
It also turns out that the Domain is the Organon and has some weird conscience of its own. SO maybe the domain is like an AI?
Here is my theory with the whole Cortana thing. We all know that the flood is actually the powder most of the Precursors turned themselves into so they could regenerate themselves over time when the Forerunners rebelled. We know that it was so long that the powder became tainted and just poisoned the beings it came into contact with creating Flood spoors. The Flood spoor spread until it creates a Gravemind and as the biomass gets bigger the Gravemind has tremendous knowledge and wisdom and can access anything. It can even access and manipulate Precursor technology.
So I believe that the Gravemind from the ring and then on High Charity from Halo 2 and 3 gained enough biomass to do so. It talked to and tortured Cortana for so long I believe that it planted a seed in her head to find and open the domain. We know she was severely damaged after halo 3 and through halo 4 and never really recovered. Then when she accessed the composers systems she found the location of whatever planet/installation they are on to access the domain and continue to do the Precursors bidding transferred to her through the Gravemind.
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> its awesome.
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> I just finished it after I learned the trock to kill the 3 wardens on mission 14.
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> The campaign is just epic, good story, you can feel the pressure on hunting the chief or help in later on.
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> Just sheere epicness. 343i, you brought Halo back, you realy did it. (My opinion)
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> Thank you.
I disagree with this in my own opinion. In Halo 4 they brought Halo back. Made it orgasmic even, but this just kind of let me down. I truly hope a slow Legendary play through will pull me in.