HALO INFINITE STORY EXPLAINED! 

Atriox reminded me of ghaul

You made a mistake the spartan in the tower still dies regardless then chief has this 2 minute scene of him grieving for his friend who was the spartan they were very close

I thought it was lame. It made no sense contextually.

@@omni6982 well, Chief ended up blowing away Atriox's planet because he thought he was doing the right thing by trying to save her no matter the cost. He knows he is guilty but he was just a soldier doing what he thought was right

@@AriasMalarias But Escharum was literally the guy pulling the strings, ordering his soldiers to torture/kill humans. I can understand the Chief's dialogue if it was for the Spartan Killer Elite, but for Escharum... it sounds lame af. Just my two cents.

@@AriasMalarias uh what? Cortana destroyed the Brute’s homeworld as retaliation for the Banished not surrendering to her new Created order using the Guardians, sometime between Halo 5 and Infinite. That immediately made them at least a little bit more sympathetic.

@@AriasMalarias you’re a little wrong about chief blowing his planet up, but escharum didn’t actually know if atriox’s plan of letting the endless girl out was foolish or not, so in my mind the line kinda makes sense.

That's how I feel. After being in the military for many years. I kept doing it because that's all I knew and now I'm lost at life cause I'm not doing what I know. Sad world!!!

@@shaqwilliams3343 stay strong buddy you’ll find something

“Maybe it’s my programming” hit harder than a skewer to the head

It's reminiscent to Captain America and the other veterans portrayed in Falcon & The Winter Soldier and in the Punisher (TV Series). After getting back to the society they swore to protect, they find themselves lost. At worst, neglected, unappreciated, and feared.

I had an energy sword for one cutscene, it showed the hilt.

Works with hammer

Works with cindershot and the special weapons.

They're in-engine cutscenes more like CE. Had Brohammer walking through a brute chopper I parked outside his pelican in a cutscene.

It worked with the sentinel beam lol

Or when it plays the iconic Halo music when you’re advancing on the entrance to the Auditorium in the Scorpion the whole way.

I blasted by that whole part in a warthog lol

last words for the 4th'ish time in the same franchise? Gets a little old after a while tbh.

@@themortalitas2u are you a negative little girl about everything?

Caleb Feiler I mean, he’s not wrong, cortana said goodbye for the third time at least (halo 4, 5, & infinite now) so it is pretty repetitive, but it also is a minor criticism so I see your reasoning for calling him out

@@themortalitas2u almost as old as you commenting negativity to everyone who has anything good to say.

@@KTBrown2 I wasn't necessarily talking about this one comment. This guy had replied the most annoying thing on multiple comment threads and this one finally got a response out of me 😂

I think that was the goal with it and they did the whole soft reboot thing well, we have probably a whole other trilogy set up now starting with Infinite with these Endless dudes, and it also nicely and quite emotionally tied up what was left of the original trilogy with Cortana.

@@asneakychicken322 not a trilogy. Infinite will act as a plafor for future expansion like Destiny 2. The first expansion is called Halo: The Endless.

I’m interested to see where they take the endless cause, idk about anyone else, but I thought it was kinda weird that the main enemy of the forerunners was the flood for as long as we’ve played and now their dropping a completely new species that is somehow worse? Their gonna have to fill in a lot of holes for it to work

@@KTBrown2 The audio files help shed some light. The Endless were only encountered by the forerunner post Halo firing until then their existance had gone unnoticed. Do you understand why they are such a big theeat though?

Lad's Lounge I understand that they (the endless) can’t be killed by the halo array, which means they don’t have a central nervous system, but I have the feeling that it’s an unnecessary escalation that devalues the importance of previous games. The banished kinda did that with their explanation in Halo Wars 2 and how the Covenant could never beat them and it’s implied that since they (the covies) we’re fighting on two fronts, that’s the real reason humans were able to beat them, which just kinda diminishes everything we did in the bungie games

I NEED to see Spartan Jerome see John again! And all of red team! A reunion of Spartan-IIs

My main problem with the story telling is they left too many things in the dark they should at least hint to a few of these questions the whole thing is just confusing.

@@aminamirkhani6377 They might give us answeres in expansions. I don't think we have to wait another 6 years for more story.

@@madproduction109 Yeah they said this game is gonna be a platform to release campaign expansions but I hope they do it yearly like Destiny 2

I like what they did. They ended the old arc of halo and cheif’s past to start a new one. Ending what bungie did and starting a new chapter. It really felt like halo combat evolve again. A new start for cheif and the “weapon”.

It’s not Cortana

@@Bobodododo His usage of the name Cortana is correct in this sense because that’s the name she chose for herself at the end of the game.

We probably are gonna fight them later on as a campaign dlc or continuation

It seems like something different. Here’s all the information I’ve gathered through dialogue. Weapon: There's evidence of an entire civilization that once inhabited this Ring. But… not Forerunner. Older. Different. Weapon: It's tragic. A civilization that had it all under control. Until they didn't. Despondent Pyr: These runes predate me. Older than even the Forerunners, Despondent Pyr: My makers… the Forerunner's greatest fear was understood to be the Great Parasite. The Flood. A scourge that almost wiped out everything. I now believe this hypothesis to be incorrect. Their greatest fear is… was… losing their power. The fear of a master who would become a slave. Despondent Pyr: Time moves forward, and back again. I now see Rings inside of Rings. Great circles everlasting. Without beginning or end. “Endless.” As I say their name I feel… foolish. Uninformed. Misled. Am I afraid. Despondent Pyr: One thing is certain. This installation was built differently than the others. A myriad of Reformation Spires can be deployed… indeed have been deployed when requested. To complete the circle. To ensure its inhabitants are preserved. Or perhaps I should say, "detained." Harbinger: To cover their sins. We stood. Silent. Unable to speak as they passed judgment. We could not defend ourselves. We could not reason with them. Hear this, Forerunners! Your Auditorium has fallen. The Endless found. Your sins undone. Today we return! Grand Edict: The Endless must be contained. I will inform the Criterion to proceed. Grand Edict: It matters not. Today we do what it takes to maintain order. To preserve our truth. Time will forget they ever existed. Grand Edict: If Halo cannot end them. It must imprison them. Grand Edict: When it is done, the engineers will be busy. We will learn their secrets.

@@AlbertusSalvatierra ancient humans lived on zeta halo under the librarian after the human race had been nearly destroyed by the fire runners. It’s said that they had villages and rudimentary cities.

@@rilesroo1 True, but it directly refers to the Endless. If it were human, then it would’ve been said.

I interpret it as they are precursors but that their ambiguous biological nature allows for vastly different forms of evolution of the years

What is Sam 034?

@@AlphaLegionXX a spartan that was part of the original blue team with John, Linda, Fred and Kelly. He sacrificed himself much like Jorge did, thinking he would make difference by blowing up a Covenant corvette very early in the war before they truly understood how vast the Covenant were.

John's first best friend, before Cortana.

Halo 2 and 3 have much better campaigns than CE not because its old and poor quality just because they both tell a better story

@@nezarecdiscipleofthewitnes3823 Hence why I said CE _through_ Reach.

I agree 100%. It’s really tough to rank them but I do think if I was forced to, it would be 2 3 Infinite Reach CE I go back and forth with 2 or 3 in the top spot though.

@@Pumba424 I think two is the best because we get to experience things from the arbiters point of view too and dual wielding lol

That was so badass I was hoping she would stay the antagonist longer and we would have 3 opposing sides. I binged the game and I’m still watching this video as of typing but I don’t know why she had to destroy the ring. She seemed untouchable in halo 5, I’m sure she could’ve killed atroxic to keep him away from the ring if that’s why she sacrificed herself

@@annazyla yeah they just trump card insta killed cortana. i was very disappointed. shes way to powerful for such a casual reason for dieing.

Also entire Spartan IV training facility that housed hundreds of Spartans and civilian. Yup I also doesn't have any impression of that goodbye scene

But what about Sydney? Was a little upset about that as an Australian. I always thought it was cool how it was the seat of the UEG but I guess this is the payoff for that setup lol. At the end of the day I’m more glad than anything that it actually got a name drop from the Chief.

@@shibbling exactly!!!

What if the endless were the aliens that landed on installation 04?

The endless are not affected by livingtime, no the Halos. If the flood were to take over the endless then its game over for the universe. So, yes they are bigger threat. Also, forerunners are not extinct. They are alive in amother galaxy. As are precursors, in a primitive, grass like form. 343GS is the custodian of Bastion

So the Endless are most likely what the Flood was before they became the flood. Lots of evidence for this in game such as the spores ambient effect being used in the after credits scene. Another easy to point out connection is how the Harbinger keeps quoting the Gravemind from Halo 2-3. I.e she says something like "Now I shall talk, and you shall listen." which is a direct quote from the that awesome Gravemind scene from Halo 2. Also seeing as how Zeta Halo is supposed to house one of these beings reffred to as like the Primordial or something. Basically the Forrunners based their society on the idea that they were the rightful race to instill order over the galaxy. They called this "the mantle" and basically became a psudo religious ideology. Well the Flood pregenitor race was the actual species that was supposed to judge their worthyness and found that they were not meant to carry the Mantle, and alludes to maybe humanity being the next race. The Forerunners attack, destroy and imprision all of said primordials leading to them shapeshifting into the flood spores in an effort to survive/fuck over the forerunners. This is why the flood is sentient and does things like goad humanity and the forerunners into a war with each other and choosing to not infect all of humanity all at once so that the forerunners would be weakened enough not to be able to resist the flood invasion etc. The blue light up squares being the images of humans, brutes, grunts, elites, jackels etc. Are most likely the beings Cortanas Guardians killed. Instead of them being killed, they are trapped in stasis like effect connected to the forerunners cybermancy. Hence those orange light up squares in the flood infected room are most likely the imprisioned "endless"/flood progenitors. Betting their boss will be the next halo games reveal.

Man men??

The Precursors?

@Maverick Yes. However I was asking the OP if he meant the Precursors instead of the Primordials

@@guitarist4life00 aren’t they the same thing?

Now here’s the thing. If they were indeed precursors they would be still be susceptible to the halo arrays, my theory is that the endless are perhaps another creation by the precursors or another entirely different thing from them. Perhaps a race of sentient ai’s

I disagree, the game claims the endless are more dangerous than the flood, and the precursors ARE the flood. The ones who the forerunners killed to steal the mantle from Humans. When the forerunners killed them they mistakenly created the flood, and therefore had to make Halo.

@thedragonaf1 ^that is EXACTLY what I was thinking! I’m sitting here playing like “wtf is going on? When did that or this happened?” I have played all the halos since CE and the story got better and better, and don’t get me wrong this is good too, but I too felt like an entire game was missing

@@edali4689 I think as they add more to the campaign it’s going to fill in what happened instead of going forward from the end of the campaign

Well simply put, Halo 5 failed miserably story wise and the only way they could make this game work is basically end the plot of Halo 5 as quickly as possible. It's explained in the game that the Weapon did lock down Cortana and it shows that the "two apes" had their homeworld destroyed by Cortana so basically it shows that everyone was basically gunning for Cortana. If that helps.

@@noble3515 why would that help? You just said things that were explained in game and on screen. The point that I was making was the plot of this game felt like it was missing an entire game. But if your saying it's because of low sales numbers then sure, end it by skipping it.

@@TheDragonaf1 what I mean is that the story line sucked ( don't act like it didn't) and there are game moments where they explain some of those questions you asked. They also covered a lot of the time between 5 and Infinite in the books. I could get where it seems like there is a full game missing but I'm glad that they got away from the story arc , it might not have been handled the best but I'm glad it's over.

I kinda like that you put this in here, I thought it was crazy how lasky was pretty much one of the first ones in the ships to the ground, but I didn’t hear all of them yet so that is pretty cool.

We might learn later he was one of the first of the ship be added his bridge crew insisted on it since they knew he could lead the UNSC forces off the ground. Because he is a great leader and. Soldier and tactician

@@Grand_Master_Skywalker That's hilarious. He wasn't abandoning his crew on the ship he was _leading_ the lifeboats to the surface. Lasky couldn't lead anything from his escape ship *and didn't.* Halo CE showed us how a real Captain coordinates an evacuation to the surface.

Had to do that shit so many times for 2 of the missions I hated it

Nah, people now have a companion coil as a way to skip the entire map

Not to mention put the arbiter and red team with master chief

Is offensive bais medicate bais?

@@shaggy5052 offensive bias was created by the forunnners to combat mendicant bias

In true WarHammer Fashion with melee weapons now that he has spiderman powers too.

No you're not. The new story is shit.

Seeing chief floating through space was a moment of clarify for Cortana. “If you knew you were going to die, how would you live your life differently” was a big theme throughout the game, and she realised what she’d do differently, as she realised she was going to die.

I think you can tell cortana from the whisphers that she is slowly regretting everything because she thought that doing that is good and to find peace

Redemption arc. Trying to do good despite all the trouble she caused. Similar to how Mendicant Bias is trying to repay for the sins its done

@@omni6982 disagree. 4 was a masterpiece. Halo 5 was shit. This was just as good as 4 but that makes it a shit sandwich with 5 in the middle. It’s hard to come back from such a bad game which fucked up the lore

i think it’s bornstellar

I think it was BornStellar.

If you have subtitles on his character is called Grand Edict

Assuming that is the point made here. It is even weird for the clone to realize the fact that monster was kind of a "ex-gf" for the chief lol.

But she didn't know that cortana was such powerful monster that is why she keep asking chief when she found out cortana killed a whole planet if she know from the start she would ask about it from the start of the game

Quite similar to Clovis Bray and Banshee in Destiny 2 am I right?

Disturb you? Lol 😂 🤦🏾‍♂️

@@ayushagrawal6996 Yes

@@anjaneyasreetrout2444 From the audio logs we learn that Lasky didn't order the crew to the escape pods until after he's away. I cannot imagine how infuriating it would be to hear the order to abandon ship from your Captain that was already in a life pod, can no one see the bad optics of such a thing?

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Yeah, I wasn't a fan of that. Since he's apparently alive, I hope 343 is setting up a rematch.

They didn’t defeat her she sacrificed herself so they wouldn’t fire the rings and whatever. The guardians are probably all deactivated now since she’s dead

I didnt understand that plot decision, why Would Cortana having all that power with the Guardians suddenly turn her head around and surrender so easily, just dont get what was the point there

She didn't do it reluctantly. The weapon (halseys idea) worked. Being an exact copy of Cortana made her (the weapon or Cortana 2.0) have all the abilities of Cortana 1.0. therefore, she was able to lock Cortana out of all the systems, rendering her useless. Basically the weapon pretended to be Cortana and kicked her out of control of all guardians and everything. Master Chief was then supposed to take old Cortana back for deletion but atriox destroyed the infinity and yeeted master chief out the window and went to Cortana to face her and make her pay for destroying his home world (which is why in one of the cutscenes, Cortana is surprised that atriox was the one behind her and not master chief)

@@erwinnarvaez7959 yeah it really makes no sense. Plot holes thst I think they just said f it

@@eeastbound9165 yes but my question was before she sacrificed herself, how did they even get close when she had the guardians on her side

For a brick he flies pretty good too

I think the dialogue that was happening in the background was in the past. I think Atriox is in the present and got that key from the habringer. In the last fight, she seem to be talking to someone saying "you have all what you need" or something like that. I think she gave that key to atriox who then freed the endless.

Where are Cortana's Guardians? Where's Lasky and the other 5-6 thousand crew of the Infinity? Why does Zeta Halo have a single barren biome with no weather effects? Why is the performance so shit considering the world is mostly empty? Ugh, honestly, this campaign was pure ass and the recording devices tell a better story than 343 made us play through.

You realize they mentioned that Infinite will be a 10 year game platform? Also, you may want to pay more attention to the game a bit more. Cortana blew her self up and a chunk of the ring.

yea also the flood was associated with this ring as well, kinda sad they didn’t make an appearance

The flood will come back later I think... I think the games will need to progress a bit further.

Right that is exactly what im thinking. Most importantly what happened to the arbiter and his covenant. Didnt they also mention the flood being a part of the campaign like a year or 2 ago? Matter of fact it really annoys me how we as the player didnt get to experience the time b4 this game where we were fighting against cortana. Its like they moved from the didact, to cortana, threw her away and moved on to the banished. There is no way the banished can beat cortana, who has the whole domain under her control, the forerunner army, the covenant, and tons of guardians. She destroyed their world, why cant she destroy their ships. She is an AI who can teleport anytime, why did she have to blow herself up when she could have stayed alive and help chief again

Spirit of Fire gonna swoop down with guns blazing and all upgraded, courtesy of the Ark

the Infinity has a sister ship. It was still under construction when Cortona had her god complex. It might still be out there if the UNSC kept its construction a secret just as well as the Infinity's. I'm just upset we never got to see the Infinity next to the Spirit Of Fire

@@Michael-eg3rs oh we better, they know there are people that like them, they were the first present humans to ever face the flood, not only that, they saved humanity when they stopped the Covenant from getting the Forerunner fleet, they deserve to be in the Main story and be critical

me too

Who is he?

@@redle1994 Ooookay there’s no way I can make the entire story fit in a comment, so I’ll dumb it down. The Forerunners created Mendicant Bias to analyze and defeat the Gravemind as a way to defeat The Flood. Mendicant Bias became corrupted by the logic plague (a form of Flood infection that affects AI specifically), and he turned on the Forerunners and helped the Gravemind breach high-value Forerunner installations. As a countermeasure, the Forerunners created another AI, Offensive Bias, in an attempt to destroy Mendicant. It partially succeeded, with fragments of Mendicant Bias being scattered or destroyed. Here’s why it’s significant: a fragment of Mendicant Bias found itself on the Forerunner Keyship thousands of years after the Halos fired. He was found by the Prophets, who used him to find Forerunner artifacts throughout the galaxy. Mendicant Bias showed them to the planet Harvest, where the Covenant made first contact with the human race. Mendicant Bias revealed that the humans weren’t artifacts, but were actually the race chosen by the Forerunners to reclaim their technology and uphold the Mantle of Responsibility. The Prophets saw this as a threat to their power, as revealing the true purpose of the humans would prove their entire religion was essentially a sham. So the Prophets (Truth, Mercy, and Regret specifically) decided to keep their revelation a secret, and declared all humans heretics. To make an incredibly long story short, Mendicant Bias is responsible for the entire human-covenant war, and if Offensive Bias is on Zeta Halo, there is a pretty damn good chance that a part of, if not the rest of Mendicant Bias is there too. This is all lore that’s been pretty much book-exclusive for about a decade, hence why this is a colossal revelation.

@@thestutteringspartan5155 thanks now that you told me, ibelive i heard this story long time ago I had just forgotten about it.

Glad I'm not the only one

Pretty sure the flood is gone afterall the gravemind is dead

What you mean by “one last time” does next game after “Infinite” gonna be the last one?

@@shademan2135 they are talking about the flood, without a grave mind it’s possible (though I doubt it) they will go extinct

@@cheeseus419 no

The UNSC Infinity actually had escorts, this is clarified in audio logs. However, Captain Lasky sent them out ahead to ensure the UNSC fleet could be defeated in detail.

Imagine this as the first mission in a 10 year campaign.

You hear about them in audio logs. Infinite seems to be disregarding the garbage that we’re halo 4&5. Infinite is a spiritual reboot, and there will be campaign DLCs throughout its lifespan.

​@@Creed5.56 its a big dud. The love triangle story between chief and his many AI wifus doesn't live up to the legacy of 1-3. Chief is a weapon/asset of the UNSC, not some space robot floating around the universe stumbling on random halo installations. His personal story shouldn't be the focus but an interesting side theme. Also, watching cut scenes of his baby AI having an existential crisis is dogpoop.

@@deankruse2891 yep, don’t know why people think this plot is good. How you choke such an interesting and developed universe is beyond me. The had so many directions to go and chose this shit. I will never not think about what could have been. The AI is so cringe. Small doses is fine but main plot line is dumb

What about how the hell did the banished beat Cortana and all her guardians? Plus all the ai that flocked to her.

Lol facts

Its the same actress. I checked, assuming it was Ikora lol

The weapon trapped her inside the Zeta Halo since it is kind of prison halo? then Atriox found the Zeta halo and tried to take control but Cortana would not help her and destroyed half the ring and Sacrificing herself so Atriox wouldn't take his hand on the things that was stored there which Scared Cortana and realizing she was stupid to think she bring peace to the Galaxy by taking a few Guardians and Policing Solar system as there were a lots of far more dangerous being in the universe that even Guardians and Halos are useless against them.

Agreed

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I'm sure we'll get another Warthog run in a future addition game. How rare the runs happen make them special. So they need to be done sparingly or else they'll get stale

I kept calling her C2 the entire time. I could tell she was supposed to be some variant of Cortana but I knew I shouldn't be directly calling her Cortana cause she wasn't. Even after beating the game, I'll still be calling her C2 I think.

@@noahdimas3790 Cortana Jr

I mean calling her cortana just seems cheap you know. Like they didn’t put any effort into giving the weapon an actual name.