Halo: Reach - The Death of Kat-B320 HD 

“I know we’re losing, I want to know if we’ve lost.” Basically the entire game in one sentence

Kat was playing halo 2 on legendary

Fun fact: When Noble Team are running into the elevators, Kat misses the button the first time because she's nervous, the attention to detail in this game was insane.

Kat's death is the most tragic to me. Every other member of Noble who died did so in a way that reflected the team name. Carter flew his Pelican into a Scarab, Emile stabbed an Elite that impaled him on its sword, Jorge gave his life to blow up a supercarrier, and Six fought off waves of enemies long after Reach was lost. But Kat got shot in the head by a Jackal after EMP took out her shields, while everybody was running towards an elevator. Her death is that sudden death you don't expect, because heroes aren't supposed to be taken by surprise and gunned down before they can do anything. It's what made Reach that much better. Spartans are tough, but even they can be brought down with a single shot to the head, and the world doesn't care how important you think you are. Not everybody gets to have a heroic death.

Imagine being a civilian inside that bunker, scared for your life as your city is being destroyed. Then you hear the elevator behind you open and a group of spartans runs out heading towards you. You think "Thank god the spartans can keep us safe!" Only knowing what the UNSC propaganda says about them never dying and being super soldiers. You feel safe and relieved...only to see one of them get killed by a simple headshot, right in front of you.

Ive always felt Halo: Reach would be the best story to bring into film.

I never realized but apparently the Elite that kills Kat (thought it was a skirmisher) is the same Field Marshall that appears throughout the game, 1st in the ambush on Winter Contingency, 2nd to kill Kat and lastly to fight Emile at the end.

This is the cutscene where you realize the planet is doomed. You start off on a sunny battle field, accomplish a few things here and there but before you know it everything is Burning down and your sqaud is dying. Its just like kat said. "Youre losing"

Its something about seeing spartans dead just hurts my head...

I don't know, the way Kat asks if it's your first glassing and then the vulnerable way she says "me too" makes me realize that while she is one of the oldest members of Noble Team, she is still a human. She was still shaken and scared but recovered quickly to talk to Carter about the nearby shelter. But that vulnerable moment she shares with you, and only you, makes her death even sadder for me.

Shattered my heart into a million pieces. Reach is one great game, that's for sure.

I had a best friend named Kat between 2006 and 2010. We used to play Halo: Combat Evolved damn near constantly. Just the two of us, dicking around in blood gulch and custom maps on the PC. She also considered herself a hacker and had the best computer I had ever heard of at the time. I even had a crush on her and I remember my heart pounding when she wrote our names in bullet holes with the classic Halo pistol with a big heart around it. I got distracted with life and stopped playing Halo so much and lost touch with my somewhat long-distance friend, only to return to see that she hadn't been online in months, which was very unusual of her. I kept waiting around but I sent messages to all of our mutual friends to see if anyone knew where she went, and eventually, someone who shared a town with her came up and told me that Kat had been killed in a car accident. A few months later, the 'Deliver Hope' trailer comes out for Halo: Reach featuring this new character named Kat who even looked vaguely like my friend but with a spartan haircut. Then halfway through the game, they kill her off like she was disposable. To this day I can't tell if it's a curse or a gift. Keep in touch with your old friends when you can, you never know when they might just vanish completely.

This is one of those video game moments that makes your heart stop. We all knew it was coming, but we were all caught off guard by it

I think out of all the Halo games.. Reach was probably the most depressing. For anyone that knows from the books, Reach was a major colony that was glassed and from playing this game right from the start, you knew you would lose. I think with all the death in this game, it gives it its own texture and feel of the game. Halo 4 also touched on that basis. (with Cortana's Rampancy)

Yeah okay but I just noticed something, at the part where Kat says "that close!" Kat jumps and her head goes in her armor like she's a turtle (2:10)

I forgot how quick her death was. Everyone else had a "Noble" death. While she got offed in the worse way possible. MasterChief and his near immortality and lone wolf approach to taking things on makes you think Spartans are on a different level than humans but deep down they are still very human. John is just extremely special

Listening to the Civilians beg to live sent shivers down my spine..

When I first played this 10 years ago I thought Kat's death was so cheap... I didn't understand it at all. The EMP from the glassing just before they run pops their shields. They've also been hunted from the very beginning of the game by special elites. Finally, the Colonel overrode the security protocol resulting in a fatal consequences, giving away their position and causing the team to try to move without consideration of their surroundings. Considering the fact that Kat said herself that she could trace the signal, and the player's expectation that they could be ambushed by the elites that are hunting them, this scene plays out perfectly if you pay attention. It's painful and sudden just like real death is and the writing is stellar. This is a excellent example of Chekhov's gun.

Welcome to legendary difficulty, Kat. Now respawn and repeat 35 more times until the next checkpoint.

I jumped at the part with the needle rifle shot the first time I played the campaign. After that I went into a state of sadness and shock... It was just so sudden... That's what makes this death so tragic. I always find it hard to watch it again.

This was by far my saddest death in this game. It reminded me of the death of a buddy of mine while we were fighting in Fallujah. Its tough because no one saw it coming, clean hit, he didn't suffer.

Reach had a subtle way of addressing war and tragedy the other games didn't. The player knowing that Reach will fall and their player will probably die is already grim, but in specific it sort of emulates the feeling of dread that many real soldiers go through, to a minor degree; feeling almost certain you won't survive. Then there's how the first two Noble Team deaths don't really feel heroic. Jorge's Sacrifice doesn't save the planet, it doesn't even buy the UNSC any time. Kat just gets sniped and dies instantly, like any other soldier could have been; even at the end of the game Six's death still feels unfair. He (along with the rest of the Spartans) was kidnapped as a child, went through a hellish transition into being a spartan, and gave everything he had to protect the planet which ruined his life; and after all that his only reward is dying alone. While the main series was mainly focused on just being a fun Sci-fi trilogy, Reach really went a step further, emphasizing the sheer waste of life that comes with armed conflicts, reach is in a sense symbolic for the counter intuitive nature of war as a whole, with soldiers wasting their youths just so they can prepare to defend it, and then when the time comes, none of them live to escape it, they will never see any of the positive impacts on the world their sacrifices brought.

i like emile who gets up slowly like he doesent give a damn xD

"Keep em, I'll honor him in my own way" I agree on him on so many levels.

Reach was taken by surprise from one of the largest assault forces ever used by the covenant, even if they managed to put up a good defense on the ground the planet still burns... plus the unsc tech level advanced from reverse engineering forerunner tech throughout the games.... and Jun lives to recruit the spartan fours

Jorge- died in thinking hre saved the planet. Kat- died the saddest way Carter-died helping noble Emile-died in badass diolouge Noble 6-Died in honor and fought with all his/her might. Those are how noble team died in my opinion.

Reach is one of halos saddest games

Reach is a game that people took for granted.

The worst part for me is the music and sound. When they’re running to the elevator the music is intense, like an action scene. When she gets shot, the music stops abruptly, letting you hear the echo of the shot, and her body hitting the floor. Then the music kicks in, letting you feel the emotion.

Who else was screaming NOOOOO when they were playing the game for the first time.

2:58 THAT'S why you _never_ communicate across an unsecured frequency in war, because of shit like that! Carter's conversation with Col. Holland gave away Noble Team's position to the Covenant and ultimately led to Kat's untimely death.

Looking at Carter's body language at the end as he holds Kat actually almost made me shed tears. There's just so much emotion expressed in these characters even with suites covering their entire body. Such a masterpiece of a game, with such great attention to detail.

I just love how Emile gets up from sitting really Casually, and everyone else is scramming. When I was younger I considered Jorge my favorite, purely because of his minigun, but now I think it's Emile. But all of noble are in my favorite characters.

Kat's death was such a big blow to the team because she was the brains of the group. I feel like things would have been a lot different if she was still alive towards the end.

Jun: 'Look at this place, used to be the Crown Jewel... Hmph, not anymore.' I love how he said it in the most calm and care free way possible. Just goes to show that proper Spartans are the ones who hardly morn at all.

To all of those who are curious as to why Kat died by one shot: The radiation flare disabled Noble Team's shielding systems. They were down and because of that, the needle rifle managed to pierce through one side of Kat's helmet and come out from the other. It was a lack of situational awareness on Noble Team's part as a whole for not scanning the area; however, it was mainly on Kat's part seeing as she didn't reactivate her energy shield quickly enough.

Where does he get off calling a demolition op Priority One-

Kuriosity killed the Kat

If you watch this over again. You can see the foreshadowing. Noble takes the transmission after it was confirmed it was on a open channel and asking if it can be traced. Then they notice that the covenant was vacating the area. The covenant picked up the transmission and pinpointed their location within seconds and instead of sending a team after them. They took no chances and nuked the area from air. Then sent a scout ship to confirm their deaths. Only for it to kill Kat and retreat afterwards. The transmission call literally killed them. Starting with Kat.

I love Emile because when they started glassing the towers everyone’s running and ducking and six is helping up Kat and everything and Emile just gets up like it’s time for a vacation 💀💀

That shot and soundtrack at 4:00 is incredible, almost like a painting. The ruins of reach bathed in red except for the lone blue flare cutting across the centre. Same colour as kats armor - the way it drifts acroas six holding her body almost reflects her spirit leaving her body, drifting away with the ashes of reach. Of maybe I'm just reading way too much :p

The dialogue from the civilians made it very scary

August 26th, 2552, my 555th birthday...

It’s sad they could of taken out six his skill would be enough to take out the platoons of covenant but they chose Kat because it wasn’t all guns and war it was knowledge she was to smart for her own good

One of the best games I ever played. Too many memories

damn, that song after that tragic moment (headshot), that crush your heart for sure.

Fun fact: this sniper is a Zealot from Visegrad and we later fight their Chief before the Mac to save the Autumn

The way Carter moves at 3:13 - 3:15 really speaks volumes about how shocked and horrified he is about what just happened

8 years later and I still get shivers down my spine. This game is truly a masterpiece.

One of the things I love about this scene is the way Carter wrestles with the decision of whether or not to take the call from Holland after Kat tells him she can't guarantee a secure communication. Carter's little chat over an unsecured line almost immediately results in the city being glassed, proving this was a split second decision that carried massive consequences. And this all happens within the span of maybe thirty seconds. Brilliant game.

owned

That scene came out of nowhere as it gives you that reminder that Spartans aren't invincible, and they can lose their lives at any time. RIP Kat.

Kat was the definition of a badass female character. No other game can do that like reach did. In every other game it just feels like they try and force you to like the female protagonist but in this game its earned. She was a spartan, and a damn good one

Everyone: Why does the subtitle's end in the middle of the se......NO!!!

Worst part about it was the theory behind the Sangheili Zealot that was hunting them, and that he was actually responsible for sniping Kat. If you look at the Phantom as it hovers off, you might be able to see the outline of a Sangheili Zealot's Harness.

The saddest part of the game

I really appreciate how this moment characterizes the covenant. Its easy to gloss over their strategic competency for most of the games because of just how much they out number and out gun the UNSC. Kat's death is an opportunistic strike that takes advantage in the breach of the human military's communication security. Even as they were glassing the city and had effectively won, the covenant saw a chance to eliminate a priority target and took it. Chilling stuff. Really puts the fear of god in you by showing you that you are not safe just because you're a spartan and that sometimes... the enemy is more patient, or worse, smarter than you.

It's very cute that Carter is holding dead body 😢😢😢😢😢

this game has the same problems that Star Wars Episode 3 has, at one point, they all HAVE TO die...

Halo: Reach was one of the saddest Halo games. A team of super soldiers fighting a war they knew they were already losing.

This next to Noble 6 was the saddest death in this game...

Very good quality... i remember playing this game 6 years ago.... really fun game and a great game.... i miss the game.

Okay. THE FUCK are Jun and Emile doing with assault rifles?

What a Katastraphy

Kat's death was only emotional because of the god damn music. Halo could have been just a fun game, had the music not been so great, instilling a gamut of emotion and forever sealed its status.

I think that’s how the phantom got to their position to take out kat because at the beginning holland was on an open channel meaning covenant could track the Noble teams radio but the phantom was already waiting so I could be wrong

All I could see was that it was an Elite General that shot Kat. for some reason, I keep getting this feeling that the Arbiter might have a connection with Kat's death or he WAS the one who shot her. After all, Arbiter did say to John, "Would you still call me your friend if you've seen what I've done?" but its just a theory I had.

Love this game and the line "I know we're losing I want to know if we lost" I never read the fall of reach and barely knew what it was until this game but hearing that finally made me understand this game we aren't winning we are just trying not to lose yet even in the final mission you are just prolonging your lose as long as you can

In my opinion, this is the most powerful scene in the game, not the death itself, but the scene afterwards. The way they crawl out of the wreckage to see the city turned into rubble, and the combination of the music being played. A lot of emotion in that scene, Bungie did a good job with that.

"I know were losing, I want to know if we've lost"-What a quote

2:57 even Jun wasn't able to see it coming (he behind the main screen)

Major props to the audiovisual teams at the bungie. They really made this game feel like a movie.

I just remember being like “wooo let’s go” and within less than a second my mood changed real fast

That Sangheili deserves a Promotion!

RIP Kat

Emiles such a badass he just gets up like nothings happening when the glassing is happening

LOL I love how he has hes mixtape here for download, people these days...

Explosion happens Everyone falls and runs toward the exit *Emile just gets up like nothing happened*

"How close?" "THAT CLOSE!" I loved that part

Ugh after playing this mission again I feel depressed about what happened to bungie. This scene is haunting, shocking and very poignant. The atmosphere and emotion in reach was amazing. Destiny is crap. I cant help but wonder if its activisions fault or if bungie started getting a little greedy.

2:26 she tries to nit the elevator button but misses lol. Finally that pistol ran out thouh lol

when you finally realize the nuke disabled kats shields after all this time

reach is and will always be one of my favorite halo games and I'm excited for halo 6 cause I heard it takes place on reach

Omg I love the halo reach music it always gives me chills

My favourite character I was really sad for about 15 minutes when I first played it.

3:47 Kig-Yar sniper says "whoops" in the chat.

We need a Halo Reach: ODST game.That is if 343 can sort their shit out.

This is such a good scene. Such a good game. It really was ahead of its time by mountains. The way that they keep tension through the bickering of the spartans and the intense music the whole way, only to be suddenly stopped with the sound of a gunshot, followed by Kat's lifeless body dropping only to be caught by Your Character, and immediately followed by silence. Silence that is broken by a single piano note, and Noble Six's first reaction being to get a gun and shoot back. The way the rest of the team immediately and without a sound pull out their rifles, fall into formation and shoot back as well, even though they know its hopeless, its just all they've ever known. The civilians begging for their lives after they saw one of the so called unkillable super soldiers get gunned down right in front of them. Carter's body language in the end while holding his team mate's lifeless body, the destroyed city in the distance, the piano, all of it. Beautiful. There are games that depicted the horrors of war far better than reach ever could, but reach did in it's own more subtle way. Set back after setback, loss after loss, the feeling of being powerless in a war that you can't win on your own elicits a feeling of dread, because while still being a spartan, your no longer the one-man-army Master Chief.

Still makes me cry after all these years

Headshot! You've gained the lead!

The deaths of the civilians in the backround are sadder than kats actual death

i already seen it i already played but after almost 8 years still shocks me how unexpected cold and sad that death is...not even a chance to fight back...them feels

Rest in peace Kat Noble 2

I still get the chills and feels from this

3:00 that needler hole man.....

Reach hurt my heart on Akame ga kill levels. I didn't get into Halo till after I got through my anime phase which I'm still partly in lol.

So much for katlike reflexes

This is the most haunting death in reach imo. Jorge, Carter and noble 6 essentially chose to die. Emile went down fighting, but Kat was so sudden. In front of civilians too, people who were told Spartans cannot be killed, they simply go MIA.

the only reason kat died was because that jackal that killed her was mad because she didn't let him smash

At 2:39 you can see that Kat's helmet isn't fully on yet. I don't even think it's the radiation shorting out her shield, she might've just been in a panic that it was her first glassing and hadn't secured whatever is necessary for the shield to recharge around it?