A bit obvious here, but Locke changed Osiris’ objectives to assisting Blue Team when they realized the galaxy-wide threat of Cortana’s Created.
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> A bit obvious here, but Locke changed Osiris’ objectives to assisting Blue Team when they realized the galaxy-wide threat of Cortana’s Created.
There wasn’t really any indication though. Perhaps some dialogue I may have missed during the campaign? But it felt to me like he went from hunting the Chief to suddenly helping the Chief with no real indication as to when and why he changed his mind.
He was an ONI Spook, they normally follow orders to a T to silence any threat without taking into consideration how the opposing side feels or thinks. That’s why it doesn’t make much sense.
I mean, ONI is the same group that started a silent civil war on Sanghelios to keep our new allies at bay.
> There wasn’t really any indication though. Perhaps some dialogue I may have missed during the campaign? But it felt to me like he went from hunting the Chief to suddenly helping the Chief with no real indication as to when and why he changed his mind.
Exuberant explained the details when Osiris arrived on Genesis about Cortana’s plan for A.I.s to assume the Mantle of Responsibility and enforce it through the Guardians.
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> > There wasn’t really any indication though. Perhaps some dialogue I may have missed during the campaign? But it felt to me like he went from hunting the Chief to suddenly helping the Chief with no real indication as to when and why he changed his mind.
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> Exuberant explained the details when Osiris arrived on Genesis about Cortana’s plan for A.I.s to assume the Mantle of Responsibility and enforce it through the Guardians.
Apologies if I seem to be missing any point you’re making, but up until the second to last confrontation with Blue Team, Osiris thought Blue had gone rogue and was attempting to join Cortana and her Created. They didn’t know until Chief admitted he knew Cortana was dangerous that Blue was still on the UNSC’s side. So they should have had the idea of trying to capture Blue Team up until that point. They instead came at Blue Team with the attempt to help them while still believing that Blue was seeking Cortana to help her.
“The question still stands: when and why did Locke change his directive from ‘capture/detain’ to ‘assist’ Blue Team?”
I believe it changed once Locke became aware of Cortana’s plan to imprison Blue team in the cryptum. Prior to that, nobody knew for sure why the Chief and Blue team were doing what they were doing, aside from Cortana being involved. Once they figured out that the Chief was not involved on Cortana’s destruction, and had no intention of linking up with and helping her, Locke shifted his focus to the greater threat. Cortana planning to imprison the Chief and Blue team meant, from Locke’s perspective, that the Chief obviously wasnt supporting Cortana, and showed that Cortana considered the Chief at least somewhat of a threat, meaning an ally for Locke against the greater threat that was Cortana.
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> “The question still stands: when and why did Locke change his directive from ‘capture/detain’ to ‘assist’ Blue Team?”
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> I believe it changed once Locke became aware of Cortana’s plan to imprison Blue team in the cryptum. Prior to that, nobody knew for sure why the Chief and Blue team were doing what they were doing, aside from Cortana being involved. Once they figured out that the Chief was not involved on Cortana’s destruction, and had no intention of linking up with and helping her, Locke shifted his focus to the greater threat. Cortana planning to imprison the Chief and Blue team meant, from Locke’s perspective, that the Chief obviously wasnt supporting Cortana, and showed that Cortana considered the Chief at least somewhat of a threat, meaning an ally for Locke against the greater threat that was Cortana.
They made it quite confusing as a transition because by the time Osiris meets up with Blue Team for the second to last time, Locke seems prepared to help Chief but they shouldn’t have been aware that Blue Team wasn’t helping Cortana yet. That was revealed during the confrontation. All this time I considered it was possible Locke was lying to try and get Chief to trust him, but that would be lazy writing if Chief DID suddenly trust him after all he’d done to get in Blue Team’s way (even attempting to armor lock him) and of course, Chief did end up being a little too trusting but for the sake of moving the plot along to get Osiris in good graces with Blue Team, Chief admitted to knowing Cortana was a threat.
I suppose that was just one of the areas of the game I was rather irked by because the transition seemed non-existent and only exists to progress the plot towards an obvious cliff hanger. They should have done that way better.
Don’t know about you guys but I found the whole AI going rogue and betrayal theme to be dumb. It had the wrong tone for a Halo game. Who the heck wrote the story for Halo 5. And why were they trying to humanize and make Master Chief out to be weaker. There were no wow moments with John like there were in previous Halo games and the whole premise of Halo 5 was very anti climatic. What a wasted opportunity.
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> Don’t know about you guys but I found the whole AI going rogue and betrayal theme to be dumb. It had the wrong tone for a Halo game. Who the heck wrote the story for Halo 5. And why were they trying to humanize and make Master Chief out to be weaker. There were no wow moments with John like there were in previous Halo games and the whole premise of Halo 5 was very anti climatic. What a wasted opportunity.
I think Chris Schlerf (the writer behind Halo 4’s campaign) was replaced by Brian Reed? Personally, I think they should have left Schlerf in charge of Halo 5’s story. Halo 4; while not without its flaws, was arguably much better than Halo 5 in the way of its story. Chief and Cortana, though trying to come to grips with her impending fate, still felt genuine. There was witty banter in between the tears and sorrow making you still feel like it’s just Chief and Cortana off on another adventure; no timer ticking down for our favorite AI.
Cortana going rogue and Chief ‘betraying’ the UNSC for her could have worked marvelously…if it was done better and without so many corny cliches.
For instance: it would have built WAY more suspense if instead of showing both Chief and US that Cortana was contacting him in his hallucination, they should have left it anonymous. He should have been shown Meridian and that Guardian and that’s it. Then, as he got closer to the Guardian, it should have dropped some subtle hints that it was Cortana, things only people who were lore fanatics would catch onto immediately. This would have lead Chief to be determined to go there because of this without it being overly obvious to newer or less lore inclined players what was going on. THAT’S when Chief should have gone ‘AWOL’, because the UNSC shouldn’t have even known until that point that it WAS Cortana. Halsey knowing how emotionally unstable Chief can be when it comes to those he cares about, would recommend they extract Blue Team immediately to keep him from going to her. That’s when Fire Team Osiris should have been introduced.
The whole story would have been better if some events were moved around and more Blue Team missions were implemented.
Course, this is all just my opinion.
The Master Chief didnt want to go home and face the music. So he kept going, hoping to come across Cortana so he can see an end because he wasnt sure about her anymore. Then they assigned Osiris to go after M.C. but Locke knew what he was up against in the M.C.and going after him. He knew he couldnt just bring in the M.C. Although that was the objective, the greater threat became Cortana and Locke was now aware of the M.C. true intentions.