Franchise had a lot of potential. Most of it was wasted unfortunately.

Killer theme song as well.

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The Flood is returning. They're the over-arching antagonist of the series. Everything is building up to them returning for the final test of humanity, and humanity's reclamation of the Mantle of Responsibility should they succeed.
They're still actually present within the universe, albeit in containment facilities. They're present outside of the universe also, in a much larger scale than what we've witnessed in Halo CE - Halo 3.

The San'Shyuum likely won't return because there's less than a thousand of them left alive. However, there was a San'Shyuum Warrior in the latest novel by Joseph Staten titled 'Shadow of Intent'.

There's also 6 Halo Installations left, although one of them had its surface glassed, and another had its control room ejected.


tl;dr yes the flood will be back

I doubt 343i is going to have the flood return.

They penned the lore dictating they would.

"We are the Flood. There is no difference. Until all space and time are rolled up and life is crushed in the folds ... no end to war, grief, or pain. In a *hundred and one thousand centuries ... unity again, and wisdom. Until then -sweetness."

*A typo in the book, the correct phrase was meant to be 'one hundred and one millennia.'

I almost forgot about this quote, this should be interesting for Halo 6.

Halo 6 won't deal with the Flood. It's a part of the Reclaimer saga. Only when humanity takes up the Mantle will the Flood return.

Which makes me wonder two things:

1. Was the Domain meant to be a beacon to the Precursors when the Mantle has been reclaimed (although, Halo 5 states the Organon's been destroyed...)?

2. Will the Created claiming the Mantle alter the Precursor's plans? As I type this, I realize it likely won't as the Primordial stated humans were chosen to be tested next.

I'd say it more comes down to probability than anything regarding the logic plague and Precursor architecture.

Precursor architecture was reawakened and serving the Flood for only the final ~10 years of the war. Same goes for the logic plague, it only reached epidemic proportions at the end of the war. So why weren't Guardians useful for containing the Flood? Well, it largely has to do with the first planet the Flood infected when they re-entered the galaxy after they left ~9,000 years prior. The world they infected was indeed Forerunner, however, it was not a part of the Ecumene nor was it officially documented. This means that Warrior-Servant response was slow and this allowed the Flood to enter slipspace and move on to infect further worlds.

However, the best worlds to infect were Forerunner ones as well as the most numerous. Guardians were never stationed on Forerunner worlds as that was not their purpose. To play devil's advocate though, let's say that these civilizations that required policing from a Guardian were counted as being a part of the Ecumene. If we ignore physical distribution of these planets and just focus on the numbers we know there are 3,000,000 worlds a part of the Ecumene. Based on 031 Exuberant Witness' reference to a Guardian, we know they numbered up to 9,999, however the actual number was likely less. We'll just assume they had 9,999 Guardians for the sake of the argument.

Doing the math, there is a third of a percent's chance (0.33%) of a Flood ship encountering a system being policed by a Guardian ASSUMING that the Forerunners counted these worlds a part of their Ecumene.

So, for every Guardian the Flood encounter, they will have infected 299 other worlds. Of course, if the Flood just only focused on populated Ecumene planets (which they probably did initially), they'd have just ignored the Guardians entirely.

Has anyone ever wondered why they have been absent from the game for some time. I mean it just feels like they up and disappeared. Like gone from the previous trilogy mainly due to the death of the gravemind . But still a proto-gravemind should exist somewhere like the one on the Mona Lisa.

Obviously, we're not seeing any Flood right now due to their defeat at the end of Halo 3. None are likely to have survived on the Ark as the Master Chief overloaded High Charity's secondary reactors, incinerating what was left of the space station. Overall, survival of any Flood on the Ark seems slim. 04b never fired properly and while it's unknown if the neutrino pulse was successful, we do know that 04b's firing scorched the surface of the Ark and caused catastrophic failure. Any slim survival of the Flood after that point would have been dealt with by 0000 Tragic Solitude's sentinels or its complement of armigers.

Or at least one of the earlier installations should be housing them. Remember there were many research facilities made by the forerunners to study the Flood. Some of them must have had a breakout and there are still five more halos to deal with. Well four, what with a new Halo already being discovered by ONI.

Assuming they had a breakout, they're not exactly in an ideal position. they have no way of getting off world, and likely won't have the necessary biomass or sentient life to create a Gravemind. Eventually, they'll exhaust their source of food and starve to death. Assuming they're not at that point, they won't exactly be in a position of dominance as the largest civilizations in the Orion Arm (and presumably the galaxy) take extreme precautions when dealing with possible Flood contamination (IE: 500 light-second exclusion zone is maintained around Threshold by joint Sangheili-UNSC patrols, the Sangheili and Jiralhanae momentarily stopped the Great Schism to quarantine Delta Halo, the Spartan Branch runs Flood simulations in War Games as well as develops tech designed to deal with the Flood, Fleet of Retribution's quarantine and attempted cleansing of High Charity).

So any though of the return of the Flood or are the gone for good?

They'll return. We already know there are Flood forms present on the Spirit of Fire, as well that they originated from outside our galaxy from a mostly unknown origin.

And bonus, any chance of the prophets returning?

Definitely. The fate of Janjur Qom has been incredibly ambiguous, and the elaboration of the Stoics and their biotech military after the War of Beginnings leaves me intrigued. In addition to that, the short novel Shadow of Intent has revealed that the San'Shyuum who escaped from High Charity designated a secret regrouping point that Rtas is now pursuing with the Shadow of Intent with the interesting intentions of making peace.

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on December 30, 2015, 11:17:58 PM

Sad that this cements his departure from Halo, but I'm eager to see the lore behind this game now.

You sure? He wrote a Halo Novel pretty recently.

One that Frank O'Connor had to basically beg him to write.

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on December 16, 2015, 03:44:51 PM

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There isn't even a dedicated delete button

It's left on the D-Pad.

Ah yes. When I think of a delete button on a console game, my first guess is to always try the left d-pad.

Don't complain to me. I'm just trying to be helpful, Fag.

forge maps suck and so do the controls

it's basically a worthless game mode right now for 90% of the playerbase

only those who are willing to put in the time and effort to deal with this shitstain are going to be able to do anything with it, which is a shame because this forge has a lot of potential

If it makes you feel any better, we can use every object and item on every map in the game. Makes it really easy to break out of the Arena maps and Forge outside the boundries.

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Daily reminder that it is nearly two months from launch and we still have yet to get any more custom games options.

GG 343

Certainly not what you're looking for, but they did update Custom Games with the Cartographer's Gift update.

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Hey everyone! We've just added some brand new Machinima controls into Halo 5. To find these settings, go to Custom Games -> Select a game type -> Settings -> Machinima Control [ON]

Here are how the custom controls work (default control setting):

• Lower Weapon: Hold X and D-pad down for two seconds
• Detach camera in gameplay: Hold X and D-pad up for two seconds
• Toggle camera control mode when detached (Normal and Pan): Hold X and press d-pad left
• Toggle between Spartan and camera control when detached: Press View button
• Display Spartan/camera position coordinates: Hold X and press d-pad right

We hope you enjoy, and look forward to your feedback! This update has also been added to the patch notes.

<3

Great, for the small amount of the population that creates machinimas and videos that require this tool. But for most of us, it's pointless.

I don't expect options until February, which is just pretty damn sad from them.

Is there any rationale behind February or are you just being salty?

Because I have little to no faith in 343 to capitalize on potential holiday players and get more options out next month?

Again, it's amazing that we are in 2015 and are shipping with less options for playing the game than we did in 2007, 2010, and 2012.

It's pretty much industry wide, and a damn shame. But as long as we get that good frame rate.

Okay, but how does that feed into you deciding on February? Because I don't really see how that answers my question.

Daily reminder that it is nearly two months from launch and we still have yet to get any more custom games options.

GG 343

Certainly not what you're looking for, but they did update Custom Games with the Cartographer's Gift update.

Hey everyone! We've just added some brand new Machinima controls into Halo 5. To find these settings, go to Custom Games -> Select a game type -> Settings -> Machinima Control [ON]

Here are how the custom controls work (default control setting):

• Lower Weapon: Hold X and D-pad down for two seconds
• Detach camera in gameplay: Hold X and D-pad up for two seconds
• Toggle camera control mode when detached (Normal and Pan): Hold X and press d-pad left
• Toggle between Spartan and camera control when detached: Press View button
• Display Spartan/camera position coordinates: Hold X and press d-pad right

We hope you enjoy, and look forward to your feedback! This update has also been added to the patch notes.

<3

The controls are superior. They modeled them so you don't need to move your fingers as much, and so they resemble professional modeling and level editor controls.

Just got to get used to it, like when Facebook updates their UI.

"All of this is playable terrain"

"Rich cinematic storytelling"

"we are not going to invalidate all your hard work again"

"it doesn't affect gameplay"

Quote from: oss on December 15, 2015, 01:55:52 PM

Dead Space = atmosphere
Dead Space 2 = story
Dead Space 3 = more story

But ye, i felt bad for Isaac throughout DS2

I don't really love the story so far but I'm not super far into it yet. I like the cult thing though.

Gotta listen to those audio logs. Wait until you get to Dead Space 3, everything about Convergance, well, converges and you discover the main reason why the franchise is called "Dead Space".

Too bad the franchise is basically over.

Quote from: CÆSAR GAIVS AVTISMVS on December 11, 2015, 01:50:47 AM

So how bad is this game? It's probably fucking awful.

It's really not that bad. Warzone is a pretty interesting addition, the Req system with the card packs is pretty enticing and the campaign is pretty good from the few missions I've played so far. Arena can be fun but the lack of competitive modes where you don't start with an assault rifle and a very small amount of playlists are a pretty big buzzkill. Just don't listen to the "10/10 genuine core Halo gameplay but more modern" comments and try thinking of it as something different altogether. I'm having more fun that way.

Besides:

Pistol ≥ Battle Rifle

No, it doesn't mention custom gametypes
No, it doesn't mention the release date ("This week")
No, it doesn't mention the file size

Now you don't need to bother opening the link

I don't need your handouts!

Xbox One 16k

So, does it only have 16k of RAM?

Hell yeah it does.