I thought they where allies with us in Halo 3…
well humans right now are at war with each other
same concept with elites but an elite ‘named in spartan ops’
continued with the covenant and didnt follow the arbiter
I think the books go into it in detail, but long story short the ones we fight in Halo 4 are likely a faction of the Elites that are not siding with the Arbiter, who is still fighting for a Human-Elite alliance.
Because gameplay convenience.
Apparently the Elites have some rednecks as well so these rednecks are still all angry at humans because they dont like their kind around here so they are going around continuing to do the covenant thing.
You can tell they are rednecks because these Elites wear armor with nothing under it. So its the equivalent of the earth version of just wearing a wife beater.
> Apparently the Elites have some rednecks as well so these rednecks are still all angry at humans because they dont like their kind around here so they are going around continuing to do the covenant thing.
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> You can tell they are rednecks because these Elites wear armor with nothing under it. So its the equivalent of the earth version of just wearing a wife beater.
Halo 5 needs to have Elites with wife beaters on, lol.
Elites in Halo 4 are in a civil war with each other like the UNSC and Insurrection. The Elites we fight in Halo 4 still believe as the Forerunners as their gods - there called the Storm Faction. The Elites we are currently allied with or have a peace treaty with are the Arbiters faction.
Yes, the game does a piss poor job of distinguishing the two, which it really should have done so in the beginning so players wouldn’t be so confused about it. While Halo 4 isn’t about the Covenant, more clarity about events between Halo 3 and Halo 4 would have greatly helped players.
Enjoy the read.
This is the problem with 343i taking advantage of the universe by changing the canon through the books. They did this in order to make the game the way they wanted to make it instead of following up on the foundation of halo 3’s story.
Had they explained this in the beginning of campaign instead of showing an extremely canon-breaking cutscene of the human-covenant war, people who go from halo 3 to halo 4 without reading the books might understand the story better.
I was in the same situation as the OP, and had to physically look it up online to find out why just because I didnt want to waste my time reading a book when I could be enjoying the game.
> Elites in Halo 4 are in a civil war with each other like the UNSC and Insurrection. The Elites we fight in Halo 4 still believe as the Forerunners as their gods - there called the Storm Faction. The Elites we are currently allied with or have a peace treaty with are the Arbiters faction.
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> Yes, the game does a piss poor job of distinguishing the two, which it really should have done so in the beginning so players wouldn’t be so confused about it. While Halo 4 isn’t about the Covenant, more clarity about events between Halo 3 and Halo 4 would have greatly helped players.
They might go into it in more detail in Spartan Ops at some point, though that doesn’t mean the campaign still did a terrible job explaining it. I saw a video on Youtube that is leading people to believe the Arbiter will make an appearance in Spartan Ops, I’m sure when/if that happens we would get some much needed clarity. I felt the campaign as a whole did a poor job of explaining things.
Because they were brainwashed by the Didact to obey him!!
Not every Elite is of like mind, just like humans.
The Covenant we fight in Halo 4 is a radical faction of Sangheili who opposed the Arbiter and believe humanity is a plague on the galaxy and some are still devout Forerunner worshipers (Jul 'Mdama, the faction’s leader, has personal reasons to wipe out humanity covered in “The Thursday War” by Karen Traviss).
> This is the problem with 343i taking advantage of the universe by changing the canon through the books. They did this in order to make the game the way they wanted to make it instead of following up on the foundation of halo 3’s story.
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> Had they explained this in the beginning of campaign instead of showing an extremely canon-breaking cutscene of the human-covenant war, people who go from halo 3 to halo 4 without reading the books might understand the story better.
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> I was in the same situation as the OP, and had to physically look it up online to find out why just because I didnt want to waste my time reading a book when I could be enjoying the game.
the two books in the kilo 5 trilogy that are out… are really good. It DOES show how good at warfare humans have become over a warrior class race. We dont just excel at one thing but at so many things. If the security is breached in a army base, it is reviewed and strategized upon to the point it shouldnt happen in a similar manner at all.
most of the halo books are really good. First strike/flood… bland
> Because they were brainwashed by the Didact to obey him!!
No, they attacked Chief in the beginning of the game before the Didact had even been awoken. While it is true they attacked Chief because they viewed his being near the Didact as an insult, they were not yet being influenced by the Didact himself. There are still two factions of Covenant, one side that sides with the Arbiter that no longer believe in the ways of the former Covenant and the side that still believes in the holy teachings of the original Covenant, and view Forerunners as Gods, like the Didact and Librarian.
Did you play the Halo 4 campaign? It’s explained.
> Did you play the Halo 4 campaign? It’s explained.
When was this?
> Did you play the Halo 4 campaign? It’s explained.
i call shenanigans.
> Elites in Halo 4 are in a civil war with each other like the UNSC and Insurrection. The Elites we fight in Halo 4 still believe as the Forerunners as their gods - there called the Storm Faction. The Elites we are currently allied with or have a peace treaty with are the Arbiters faction.
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> Yes, the game does a piss poor job of distinguishing the two, which it really should have done so in the beginning so players wouldn’t be so confused about it. While Halo 4 isn’t about the Covenant, more clarity about events between Halo 3 and Halo 4 would have greatly helped players.
The first part is right. The second part isn’t.
Cortana tells Chief, “The good news is that these Covenant aren’t outfitted like standard military.” She says that during the first part of the first mission.
This statement indicates that we are currently engaged against a rogue faction of the Covenant.
However, I have to confess that I never heard Cortana or the Chief or the Didact or anybody else refer to this rogue faction as the “Storm.”
> Because gameplay convenience.
In the campaign, I think the first mission, John is like “I thought we had a truce with the covenant.” And Cortana explains that they’re like little rebel groups almost. Like innies almost, that still want the Forerunner tech and find all their “sacred” material.