Halo 5 Story specific discussion thread (Admirals get in here!!)

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For the reason why Locke was hunting the chief to me this would be a far better reason than what we got. It strats off the same but when we catch up with the Chief this is what we see. The Chief ends up getting tricked into activating the guardians which Locke doesn't know, but he still see's him doing it. Before they can have their encounter they both end up getting separated and when Locke gets back up to the surface. He see's the guarding leaving and the whole colony is destroyed before anybody was able to make it out. Due to this along with the mass destruction on other human colonies he ends up having the hatred for the Chief we see in the trailer.

It would've been even better if they'd have added Biko to the story so that all that business could have been pinned on him, too
It's sad that people can come up with something withing minutes which is a better story than what 343 did.
More interesting? Maybe.
Better story? That's just silly. He wrote a summary, not a script.


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Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.


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Try r/halostory


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Try r/halostory
Pretty much this, there's some solid discussion there


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Try r/halostory
Pretty much this, there's some solid discussion there

It's like archive before it turned into post-WWII Russia. With the added bonus of not being whined at because you don't like the forerunner books.


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Try r/halostory
Pretty much this, there's some solid discussion there

It's like archive before it turned into post-WWII Russia. With the added bonus of not being whined at because you don't like the forerunner books.
Probably the best comparion. I sure love how my first exposure to it was being told my Mendicant to advertise the Archive on it.

And as I said, it has solid discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloStory/comments/44b7b6/warning_this_site_could_contain_some_nude_photos/


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Welcome to Sep7agon, here's your free shitpost and guaranteed criticism.

There's a reason I don't post Halo threads here anymore.

Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.
How DARE you joke about Palmer getting killed by a crawler.


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I hated it here why:

Campaign is to short and story line is meh
You only play as MC for 3 missions
Two of the story line mission are going to talk to Halsey
Locks and MC fight was uneventful
False advertisement of lock hunting chief
No forge on release

Multiplayer issues
Rec system is pay to win
The satisfaction of unlocking armor parts is gone.  Back in the days of H3 and Halo Reach you had to put effort into completing challenges and achievement
Multiplayer maps looks like I made them out of buplo blocks. All the slayer maps look like an paintball field
Maps are too small. I don't want to find someone in 15s. I am the type a guy that like flanking.
Bugs everywhere.     


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Multiplayer issues
Rec system is pay to win
The satisfaction of unlocking armor parts is gone.  Back in the days of H3 and Halo Reach you had to put effort into completing challenges and achievement
Multiplayer maps looks like I made them out of buplo blocks. All the slayer maps look like an paintball field
Maps are too small. I don't want to find someone in 15s. I am the type a guy that like flanking.
Bugs everywhere.   
Read the title.


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Multiplayer issues
Rec system is pay to win
The satisfaction of unlocking armor parts is gone.  Back in the days of H3 and Halo Reach you had to put effort into completing challenges and achievement
Multiplayer maps looks like I made them out of buplo blocks. All the slayer maps look like an paintball field
Maps are too small. I don't want to find someone in 15s. I am the type a guy that like flanking.
Bugs everywhere.   
Read the title.
Shit


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Multiplayer issues
Rec system is pay to win
The satisfaction of unlocking armor parts is gone.  Back in the days of H3 and Halo Reach you had to put effort into completing challenges and achievement
Multiplayer maps looks like I made them out of buplo blocks. All the slayer maps look like an paintball field
Maps are too small. I don't want to find someone in 15s. I am the type a guy that like flanking.
Bugs everywhere.   
Read the title.
Shit

We've already established that.


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Fuck pizza skins
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Welcome to Sep7agon, here's your free shitpost and guaranteed criticism.

There's a reason I don't post Halo threads here anymore.

Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.
How DARE you joke about Palmer getting killed by a crawler.
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Welcome to Sep7agon, here's your free shitpost and guaranteed criticism.

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Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.
How DARE you joke about Palmer getting killed by a crawler.
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Shall we start another meme war.


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Welcome to Sep7agon, here's your free shitpost and guaranteed criticism.

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Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.
How DARE you joke about Palmer getting killed by a crawler.
didact x thatcher
Shall we start another meme war.
Lets ask RayaMLana


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Welcome to Sep7agon, here's your free shitpost and guaranteed criticism.

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Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.
How DARE you joke about Palmer getting killed by a crawler.
didact x thatcher
Shall we start another meme war.
Lets ask RayaMLana
RayaMLana isn't into the meme shit. She found the meme war funny when I told her about it but she's not into doing such a thing herself.


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Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.
How DARE you joke about Palmer getting killed by a crawler.
didact x thatcher
Shall we start another meme war.
Lets ask RayaMLana
RayaMLana isn't into the meme shit. She found the meme war funny when I told her about it but she's not into doing such a thing herself.
I wouldn't imagine she has the time if she's training to be a neurosurgeon


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Fuck pizza skins
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Are we really doing this shit? Why the fuck do I even try?
Welcome to Sep7agon, here's your free shitpost and guaranteed criticism.

There's a reason I don't post Halo threads here anymore.

Trust me i'd post this elsewhere if I know where you and other Halo fans were that didn't suck in some way. Waypoint has the SS for mods and i'm already perma'd there, and besides it's shitposting isn't any better than on here, all it is is just Halo related.
People on archive are too touchy for my tastes. I'll post something silly in banter once in a while but that's it. don't want people sperging out because I don't like their favorite character.
How DARE you joke about Palmer getting killed by a crawler.
didact x thatcher
Shall we start another meme war.
Lets ask RayaMLana
RayaMLana isn't into the meme shit. She found the meme war funny when I told her about it but she's not into doing such a thing herself.
I wouldn't imagine she has the time if she's training to be a neurosurgeon
Yeah, she doesn't post much there as it is.


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I just replayed the entire game Co-Op on Legendary and it's just sunk in how important what Locke and Osiris are actually doing within the context of the universe, and yet it still manages to feel like nothing but an excuse to have someone save chief from the cryptum at the end.

One minor thing I wonder is about the Covenant on Genesis. What worlds could they have been taken from, especially the one specific group during the mission Genesis when we see them come in with the next  arriving Guardian after your own and they immediately begin landing Wraiths and troops on the ground. It makes me wonder where they were that wasn't the battle of Sunaion and that they were doing immediately beforehand.
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I just replayed the entire game Co-Op on Legendary and it's just sunk in how important what Locke and Osiris are actually doing within the context of the universe, and yet it still manages to feel like nothing but an excuse to have someone save chief from the cryptum at the end.

One minor thing I wonder is about the Covenant on Genesis. What words could they have been taken from, especially the one specific group during the mission Genesis when we see them come in with the next  ariving Guardian after your own and they imideately begin landing Wratihs and troops on the ground. It makes me wonder where they were that wasn't the battle of Sunaion and that they were doing immediately beforehand.
Probably some off world Storm Outpost in a shithole of a planet.


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So can we get a list together of previously existing and new plot threads that Halo 5 hasn't touched on; I.E: What happened with Medicate Bias supposedly being the one who sent John to Requim


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So can we get a list together of previously existing and new plot threads that Halo 5 hasn't touched on; I.E: What happened with Medicate Bias supposedly being the one who sent John to Requim
The fucking Didact.


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I.E: What happened with Medicate Bias supposedly being the one who sent John to Requim
He went to run a Halo forum and opposed memes

But if Mendicant Bias is on the Ark and didn't leave, I don't really see the need for Halo 5 to pick up on it since that was an event that took place 5 years prior with its effects being felt 8 months prior.


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I just replayed the entire game Co-Op on Legendary and it's just sunk in how important what Locke and Osiris are actually doing within the context of the universe, and yet it still manages to feel like nothing but an excuse to have someone save chief from the cryptum at the end.

One minor thing I wonder is about the Covenant on Genesis. What worlds could they have been taken from, especially the one specific group during the mission Genesis when we see them come in with the next  arriving Guardian after your own and they immediately begin landing Wraiths and troops on the ground. It makes me wonder where they were that wasn't the battle of Sunaion and that they were doing immediately beforehand.
I'm almost positive that one of the colonies is Whispering Trees, as that's where Ghost Ultras are manufactured, and you only encounter them and Wraith Ultras on the Covenant being pulled to Genesis with the Guardians.

Going back to your initial statement though, I don't think it felt like a routine exercise at all. I actually thought that Osiris saving Blue Team was the best part of the Osiris narrative. My argument for why it wasn't just another exercise is because they all risk their lives running straight into the slipspace pulses in order to save Blue Team. Whoever reaches the conduit nearly dies.


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It was all good up until they used space magic to revive a character that died. The whole point of  H4 was to separate MC and Cortana and now what?! It didnt mean shit.
I still hope that this projection of Cortana is some hostile forerunner AI (maybe Didact's composed conscience?) just using the image of her.


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It was all good up until they used space magic to revive a character that died. The whole point of  H4 was to separate MC and Cortana and now what?! It didnt mean shit.
I still hope that this projection of Cortana is some hostile forerunner AI (maybe Didact's composed conscience?) just using the image of her.
Actually, the whole point was to challenge the Chief in ways he hasn't before, and make him change as a character.

Reviving her through "space magic" (Mind you, space magic that Bungie wrote about in Dr. Halsey's Journal) does not make it mean nothing. Cortana has changed as a character. It's not like 343i brought her back to go back to the status quo where Chief and her are buddy-buddy. No, they now have interests that clash with each other. It's going to be interesting because Chief has it in him to kill Cortana (I think), but Cortana definitely does not have it in her to kill the Chief.


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tbh fam the entirety of the Created storyline has killed my interest in the story
the didact vs chief conflict was actually interesting. they had a really good thing going where halo 4 left off
bringing back cortana was fucking stupid
fuck brian reed and whoever else was involved in that shit

and considering the REQ system and spartan abilities are here to stay my multiplayer interest is also beginning to plummet

this is not what i wanted Halo to become


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tbh fam the entirety of the Created storyline has killed my interest in the story
the didact vs chief conflict was actually interesting. they had a really good thing going where halo 4 left off
bringing back cortana was fucking stupid
fuck brian reed and whoever else was involved in that shit

and considering the REQ system and spartan abilities are here to stay my multiplayer interest is also beginning to plummet

this is not what i wanted Halo to become
I think it would have been ideal for the story to have continued on with the Chief against the Didact, but truthfully, I think that could have only been done justice with Chris Schlerf.

Question: Would you have preferred Cortana to reclaim the Mantle, or Halsey?


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tbh fam the entirety of the Created storyline has killed my interest in the story
the didact vs chief conflict was actually interesting. they had a really good thing going where halo 4 left off
bringing back cortana was fucking stupid
fuck brian reed and whoever else was involved in that shit

and considering the REQ system and spartan abilities are here to stay my multiplayer interest is also beginning to plummet

this is not what i wanted Halo to become
I think it would have been ideal for the story to have continued on with the Chief against the Didact, but truthfully, I think that could have only been done justice with Chris Schlerf.

Question: Would you have preferred Cortana to reclaim the Mantle, or Halsey?
I honestly don't know. I suppose if it was done well, Halsey, and have Cortana remain dead. But with Brian Reed as lead writer, I don't think Didact or Halsey would be done well so we're kinda fucked.