As of 2024 (June), there are some bugs that doesn’t allow this ship to be built, first being the placement of the cockpit and the second is somewhere in there it still says “piece not attached” or something…
The mining platform that was harvesting the atmosphere was attached to a rig of sorts. One would argue why they would even bother since that rig is likely just floating lol. Also the funny part about rescuing the Marines in this mission; if you are lucky, you'll hear "good to see you, Chief!". Meaning that they basically just assigned you Chief's biped but swapped the model out for Arbiter to allow for friendly interactions when really all they had to do was add the UNSC to team '2' or 'the Covenant' for this mission. It's not the first time the UNSC has had to align with a foe, since 2492 I think, they'd been at war with the outer colonies. You can imagine how quickly that changed when the Covenant arrived in 2526 lol. Johnson likely saw the Elites cutting down Brutes and leaving his men alone and put 2 and 2 together; the Brutes and Elites are no longer friends. Enemy of my enemy, and all that. Halo 2 is incomplete, despite how many missions there are. Because it was rushed in development, they had to basically add in new material to give it a good stopping point. Halo 3 is essentially Halo 2 pt 2, with ODST being a filler in between Halo 2 (after Metropolis) and Halo 3. They actually even changed the outcome from what they were intending.
It was actually explained in Combat Evolved (although very briefly and poorly); the Flood are incredibly adaptive. Once they take over a host, they gain all of its knowledge; force deployments, weapons and craft usage, etc. In the first game, Guilty Spark was worried about the Flood repairing a Covenant ship to escape the ring. It's likely a Flood combat form took a ship back to High Charity with some carriers or just Infection Forms and thanks to all the commotion and excitement, went unnoticed.
That's quite something to go unnoticed haha Wait, if the Gravemind can teleport beings places, why wouldn't it just teleport the flood directly onto High Charity?
Yeah, pretty much all of the Covenant species have a grudge against one another in one shape or form. It's really amazing the Covenant stayed so composed for so many centuries.
In Combat Evolved, one of the terminals actually tells you how many rings there are. Honestly? I wouldn't doubt it if they were singing in their language. It's likely just an oversight since Halo 2 was a rushed product, but from what we're told about the San'Shyuum, they used to be one of the most beautiful species to exist. I found it weird how stiff Arbiter is in that drop in the remastered cutscene. I get why it was like that in the original, but they should have added some movement. Instead it looks like they dropped a statue onto the platform. 3:57 that is the Covenant Mobile City of High Charity. It...kind of looks like half an onion on a stick in my opinion lol. Once 343 updates the mod tools, I don't doubt people are going to be *heavily* reworking the remastered games. It's just that the current mod tool kit does not allow for modifications or even the use of remastered graphics when making a mod.
I'll have to keep an eye out for that terminal then. I may do a video where I watch all of them in one sitting, but I'm not sure if people would enjoy it. It does look like an onion, you're right haha Ah, I didn't even know they were updating mod tools or that they had them. I used to do modding myself, so that definitely would be cool.
Regret is such a pain in the butt on harder difficulties since the enemies literally do not stop spawning and you more often than not get dual wielding Honor Guards. This fight alone can take me up to about 30+ minutes to complete, nevermind the rest of the mission.
The reason he is singing is because he's doing a Sermon. These guys are hyper religious, it's not surprising....however, I think it's a bit of an oversight that when being translated, he is just talking. It's also weird that the Prophet of Regret is both singing in his own language yet also speaking in English if you listen to him long enough. If we're to believe Cortana is just translating, shouldn't we always hear it in our chosen language? The gondolas are not actually attached to anything believe it or not. The Forerunners loved to utilize gravity propulsion devices, so lots of stuff floats.
If you haven't played this game yet, do yourself a favor and try it! I loved it when it first released and over time it has easily become my favorite game of all time. (All clips shown are from three separate playthroughs, so the bugs really aren't as common as they appear) Here's hoping we get official VR support 🤞
@@yulee3266 Because it's based on artificial political culture that has been proven time and again to be full fallacies. In another generation people are gonna either look at this and cringe or they're gonna need a history book just to to understand the dialog.
@@audreyharris7643 Nah, cause even that has been purposely misconstrued for political and capitalistic gains. And the narrative has even been retconned tweaked so its not fully consistent. Like how it used to get called global warming before they changed it to "climate change" etc.
Yeah only bugs I had in the game were the cube. Yknow what’s wild tho, it takes like 5 seconds to close and reopen the game. It’s crazy impressive. Funny glitch too, had it during the strong man carnival game so it was just the hammer flailing around
I got the CUBE and I remember what triggered it. I went into the Suits menu and started buying all the remaining Suits and Styles one after an other and probably overloaded the memory then I got CUBED back to gameplay lol
For a game so good the post game is frustratingly underwhelming. I blew through the remaining missions, you can’t change the time of day(too bad if you like suits that light up, or weather, or idk New York at night) your symbiote abilities are stuck as anti-venom(white color) which makes me not want to use all the sick black suits they give you, the only things left are spider bots (don’t appear on the mini map yet there are a ton and the map is massive). So yea have fun swinging around during the day with clear skies tediously stopping random crimes, rarely getting any team ups for said crimes (and when you do it’s most likely wraith), having white colored abilities when you wear you black suit and looking aimlessly for spiderbots. If you want you can try your hand at getting trophies like attempting to do 30 tricks in the air over and over, get a specific number or specific takedowns on enemies using only the random crimes, or attempting to finding random parts or the map to fuck around on, glide across, or interact with. What’s that? You’d rather do it along with the story? Well if you didn’t already you’ll have to start over the 96% you’ve already done bc there’s no ng+😁
One thing I failed to mention, this game would cause my PS5 to overheat, causing it to crash, so I had to take breaks every 30 minutes to prevent permanent damage.
Yeah, the Arbiter is *basically* your Elite version of Master Chief. I recommend watching the Terminals for Halo 2 after you finish playing, it will give you more insight on the Arbiter as well as the Grunt Rebellion and how that came about...and ended. Just as well, best guide for a new player in telling the difference between friend and foe as the Arbiter versus the Heretic faction: blue/purple = friend, anything light yellow/orange = foe. Friendly Grunts will have pointed or rounded backpacks, while Heretic Grunts will have two rods sticking up on their backs. Heretic Elites do not wear helmets.
Warthogs have a variety of types. There is the Troophog which has no turret as it replaces the turret bed with extra seating. The Chainhog which is your standard gunner vehicle. The Gausshog which shoots high velocity slug rounds through a MAC (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon for those who don't know, normally you'd only see massive versions on ships or the orbital defense platforms orbiting the planet). The Rockethog has two in game variants and that is the standard rocket launcher and the lock on launcher (neither are present in Halo 2). Technically there's also the Needlehog but that comes a lot later. Halo games were all kind of dark toned in colors and themes. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary was a giant flop in many people's minds because everything was too bright where it should have been dark (I'd argue that advanced civilizations obviously had decent light sources, but eh). People seemed to be much more forgiving with Halo 2 however, crediting it as a perfect remaster in many respects. The overall tone for Halo was dark because humanity is very much suffering an extinction event that isn't going well for them after about 30 years of bloody conflict. Marines however, make that a bit difficult to see with their hilarious banter, but finding humor when in a dark place isn't uncommon for us. Especially soldiers who seldom have anything to laugh about. Lol no, it's not canon at all for Marines to turn hostile on Chief xD It's a feature found in many games, usually if you give them a few minutes they cool off. Or you can just kill them all and solve the problem faster I guess lol. They didn't follow them because they wanted to avoid death (that would be a plus though), they literally could not afford to let a High Prophet escape. Over the 30 years of war, the UNSC has attempted hostage situations where they hold a Prophet in an attempt to get the Covenant to cooperate. I don't believe they've ever succeeded, but they have assassinated a few to cut supply chains. There are Higher and Lesser Prophets, only the Higher Prophets matter, the Lesser Prophets matter very little. They're more like advisors if nothing else.
Hunters (Mgalekgolo) are literally...leech colonies working together to make a giant form in armor, they exclusively come in pairs of 2. They are more geophagic in that they normally only eat rock, soil, and minerals. The human race has colonized over 800 planets by the year 2552, with more than a few hundred lost to the war. Reach was one of the greatest losses suffered in the war. Yeah I don't question architectural structure designs in Halo. It's not that the Covenant didn't think anyone would be there...they just didn't anticipate *humans* living there. In the extended universe, it's explained that the UNSC uses the Cole Protocol in an attempt to keep as many human colonized worlds a secret in their attempts to slow the advance of the Covenant. The Cole Protocol dictates that any disengaging ship is to use a burst of sporadic or calculated jumps that would leave any slipspace trails leading away from the inner colonies, namely Earth. If an escape is not in the equation, a ship and its crew are to go down via self destruction to avoid allowing their enemies knowledge on human occupied space. The only reason Regret even discovered Earth is because a Luminary (ancient technology) told him that Erde-Tyrene (Earth) was home to a portal the Covenant were desperately searching for. This is actually New Mombasa, based on the real world location in Africa. The walker (Scarab) is actually a mobile drilling platform meant for heavy mining, repurposed for war. Oh and I forgot in the last video; the cutscenes aren't 1:1 remasters, clearly because there was some choices that were made to try and tell the scenes better, but also in the OG Halo 2, the cutscenes were done in game. In fact the biped for that mission was always present somewhere in the cutscene just out of sight. Blur Studios made these ones prerendered videos I believe, which is why they look 100x's nicer than the actual game (not that the game looks terrible by any margin!)
Thanks for all the lore help, my friend! If it's something that is explained in a later game, please don't tell me because I'd rather not be spoiled. Otherwise, I really appreciate you explaining the stuff that isn't explained in any of the games. I'm really enjoying these games so far (more than I expected)
In case no one answered your questions; the humans were initially 'offered' a place in the Covenant (or would have), but it was the Prophets who cast them out for a very particular reason that is only really explained in extended universe stuff. The Covenant exist under a *very* stressed relationship. Most of the species have specific rivals like the Jackals and Grunts, the Elites and Brutes, and the Buggers and Engineers to name a few. There is no peace, only an illusion of co-existence for a mutual benefit. Jackals tried to kill off the Grunts after sterilizing their quarters (Grunts reproduce like rabbits) which resulted in a Grunt uprising, Brutes hate that Elites held more power in the Covenant than them, and Buggers used to be the maintenance force for ships and vehicles, they were replaced by Engineers since Engineers were faster, more effective, and didn't break things, also they didn't get into fights with one another. All military personnel have those chips to register them as 'friend or foe' on the battlefield since most UNSC personnel use motion trackers that detail who is who to avoid friendly fire. Weapons are not allowed during ceremonies (unless it's a funeral for the 21 gun salute) is my best guess. Otherwise, you'd be hard pressed to find Chief's hands relieved of a weapon. The thing about Cortana is that she's basically one with his mind and in some respects, his body since she can help translate his thought to motion much faster (which is basically how he moves in the MJOLNIR suit so easily). The thing about Spartans is that they're made to accept any and every mission might be their last. They've made peace with the fact they may die the moment they step on the battlefield. But Chief's been through worse, honestly, I think most of the people in the Halo Universe think he's a God or something, that he literally can not die. His enemies are sure as hell starting to think so lol. His whole thing is literally 'he's lucky'.
Is it possible that you could do a normal speed step by step build guide? I'd love go build it, but I have to constantly pause and rewind the video just to make sure I'm building the Normandy correctly and level by level? Please & Thank You
Humanity in the Halo universe has/had at least 100 livable colonie planets. And the human space territory consisted of outer space colonies and inner space colonies close to earth.
The ship builder is very limited, especially when it comes to the size of the ships you can build. If you can find a way to remove the ship size limits without a mod (maybe console commands?) then you wouldn't need anything else.
That is correct, I figured it would make everything more streamlined. Plus, you can see the names of the parts on the left side of the screen, so you don't really lose anything. Thanks for noticing!
