@@Chuked In the book during the beginning of 343 Guilty Spark Chief picks up a shotgun before doing anything else. Those shotguns only spawn in on easy.
@@klennalbertb.delapena322the armory which I mainly use for the engine room instead of grenades as it's quicker and safer when it gets chaotic in the engine room
6:53 This scene in Halo the Flood, was such a badass moment for Keyes. The dude calmly asks a Marine's for his sidearm, examines it for a minute, then without a word suddenly fires it at seemingly nothing, only for a dead elite to suddenly materialize inside the pod.
honestly it took me this video to realize that they made Cortana stay in the control room during 343GS and The Library so that you could really be alone against the Flood and during the buildup of their introduction
The Covenant discovered and were at Installation 04 waiting for the Autumn to arrive...they already knew it was there. Cortana and Keyes even discuss this in the opening of Halo CE.
Respect for Sergeant Marvin Mobuto. He made it so far when Spark recruited him to retrieve the Index, he was in sight of it, but then he was finally killed by the Flood. He wasn't a Spartan, or even an ODST, just a normal Marine who managed to make it to the top floor of the Library killing countless Flood before being killed himself. All that remained was a pile of flesh and his Dog Tags. To quote what Chief said upon finding this: "I didn't know you Sarge, but I sure as hell wished I had. You must have been one hardass son of bi***."
It would have to be a prequel, like showing them fighting on Reach or several other fronts in the galaxy. That or a sequel taking place during current events, with Cortana or The Banished, and a brand new team that acquired the designation Fireteam Raven.
Might be cool. Unfortunately I highly doubt there will be any more spin-off Halo FPS games for a long while. Infinite is supposed to be THE Halo FPS game/platform for the next 8-10 years. No more numbered titles and no Halo Infinite sequel in 2 to 3 years like there used to be. They'll just keep adding onto & updating Halo Infinite via story DLC. It could potentially, and eventually happen via Infinite story DLC, which would be alright I guess. What has me worried right now is that this also means whatever Halo Infinite's multiplayer is, Halo multiplayer will be THAT for the next 10 years as well... or at least at it's core, anyway, with updates to game types, sandbox, and maps from time to time. That would be great and more than welcome if Halo Infinite's gameplay mechanics didn't look like very similar to Halo 5 (just neutered a bit in terms of toning down the ridiculous movement mechanics that made H5 so terrible). But who knows, perhaps multiplayer will actually be slightly different to the campaign that they showed off recently in terms of mechanics. They already said the grapple hook & drop wall items will be on-map pickup equipment like Halo 3 had, which is good news IMO. If the sprint, clamber, and "slide" mechanics are limited or even absent from certain playlists/playlist hoppers, Infinite's multiplayer may actually be really solid.
Halo the Flood may not be my favorite book but I love how it made the battle of installation04 have more scale, there was a lot going on and I love it.
They honestly should have just left out the chief portions. We know what happened already and it was very poorly written. Everything else was really great
yep. It helps explain where the rest of the surviving crew is (which, considering the Autumn supposedly had 2200+ navy, marine, and ODST personnel, is gonna be sizeable).
@@slotholopolis2314 I have an uncle that read these books despite being pretty old and not having any interest in video games whatsoever. Lol was good they put that stuff in there for him.
@@Rodrigo.tf21 yea but nothing compared the the other battle, the silent cartographer you have around ten marines helping you, one of the largest skirmishes in the game. In the book, “the flood” then there are around 300 ODST trying to take back the pillar of autumn. Plus the numerous platoons of marines stationed on the ship.
Kinda makes sense? The spartans were trained to be the best in all regards so they were probably really great strategists so the best situation for them is to leave them do their own thing instead of restricting them in a path of kill that dude and that guy next.
Coincidentally, I'm currently in the process of finishing reading "The Flood" and Silva and the odsts or marines at Alpha Base actually adress that fact. They're like "we've been hauling this guy on the Autumn thinking he's our most valuable asset and now he's just off in some swamp doing who knows what, fuck him".
"I wanted them to include the shower scene because it was a humanizing moment for the master chief" ya sure about that? Or did you secretly wish to take a shower with masterchief?
@DAGGER Body odor is caused by bacteria breaking down sweat and is largely linked to the apocrine glands. If that is correct, then Chief shouldn't smell that much since he has the gel layer which regulates temperature which means sweat shouldn't form since there is no need to. But smell from external sources like say Flood, or blood guts and tears that got onto his body in some way...
Cosmic Wanderer So you telling me the Halo universe would’ve been drastically different because someone didn’t do their job checking the Autumn’s inbox.
"Hrrrrnngh, Supreme Commander, I'm trying to Hunt the Demon, but I'm dummy thicc and the squeaking of my undersuit keeps alerting the Humans." - Zuka 'Zamamee (September 21st, 2552)
@@Stratonetic Stealth themed game that's a prequel featuring Special Operations Officer Zuka 'Zamamee as the main character, and we get to see him blunder his way to CE
I read Halo: The Flood, and at the time, I was almost confused whether the game was based on the book or the book was based on the game. The similarities in scenery and staging of the events made for a compelling read and it was one of the first times I've thoroughly enjoyed reading a novel.
It's an example of a good novelization of a video game. It didn't just take the events and put them to the page, it focused on the events occurring DURING the game's events. I liked that it answered questions otherwise left unanswered by the game: where were the UNSC survivors based out of during the conflict on Installation 04? What were they doing while Chief was off on his missions? How did the Covenant view the humans and their efforts on the ring? What happened to the Autumn after it crashed and before the Maw? What happened during the Flood outbreak? What happened to the Truth and Reconciliation after we left it in Keyes? Halo: The Flood went above and beyond in answering those questions.
Master Chief How? It brought so much more depth to the story than the game could. You got to see how the actual battle of installation 04 unfolded in the timeline rather than big man in green suit shoots up the place. Seeing how the crew of the POA survived and operated was a neat part to the story
I LOVE HOW HALO CE IS BASICALLY ONE BIG RACE ITS SO FULL OF ACTION GOING FROM LOCATION TO LOCATION UNTIL IN THE END YOUR MEMORIES AND COMRADES ON THE RING, DESTROYED AND GONE FOREVER ALL LEFT IN DUST AND ECHOES
25:52 yeah the LT definitely made the right call, the ship had a PROTO-GRAVEMIND on it's bridge. Signifying the Flood couldn't get anymore comfortable than it was with the ship, there's an absolute zero percentage that the Flood were wiped out
I always wished you could’ve saved more marines. I always tried to keep all the ones I fought with alive and to just learn that none (expect for Johnson and friends) made it was just heartbreaking for me. I always loved halo’s marines!
I remember reading in the books that only a piece of welded sheet metal separated the humans and flood at alpha base. This was documented while Jenkins was still a combat form running through the network of tunnels underground.
I read the Halo book "The Flood" Recently and it has to be the funniest ive read... The whole sub plot of this spec ops Elite planning increasingly absurd and pointless traps to kill master chief with his reluctant Grunt sidekick is some of the goofiest stuff in Halo canon. Its like scifi Tom and Jerry lol
@@Chuked Nah, Chipps and Stacker just jumped off the ring and their absolute badassery created a slipspace rupture that sent them straight to Cairo Station
These timeline videos are wonderful because you manage to very clearly and cleanly show the timeline of events in a way that's consistent and engaging while also showing that literally so much was happening concurrently all over the course of like 3 days. Like holy shit, it never fully got through to me that the crew of the Autumn were doing THREE FULL ASSAULTS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Me too. For a few years, the books were my only way to engage with Halo, so you can imagine how sad I was when I found out there was no novelization of Halo 2.
I'd buy a Halo 4 novelization *exclusively* to read the scene where Hood finds out about Del Rio abandoning John on Requiem. Bonuses would be a) an actual explanation for how a single nuke destroyed a Forerunner flagship, b) Character development for Palmer, and c) maybe some short perspectives of Spartan-IVs who aren't idiots.
@@autumngottlieb3071 Honestly, a brief third person account from the POV of one of the Spartan IVs that retrieve the Chief in the forests of requiem, could have be really cool. Accounts of fighting prometheans and covenant alongside him.
Damn I loved this, all the stories taking place at the same time, all the soldiers and named characters, and the fact it happens in about 4 days damn haha
Man, this battle had so much more depth than I thought! My only POV was from MC, but now knowing of all these other crews and fireteams, wow! It's like watching a whole different battle. It's kinda sad though, knowing almost everyone died. :(
28:54 Personally, that's my first guideline in dealing with canon conflicts. Primary sources always beat secondary sources. On these grounds, I had several issues with some of the numbers in Warfleet.
The fact zuca zamame was killed literally instantly in gameplay made it so much better, you said it as if it was a fair fight but he got one shot instantly
Only a few minutes in and I can already tell a significant amount of effort went into this. Thanks for making this great content, creators like you and HiddenXperia are doing more to keep the franchise alive then anything else at the moment. At least, that's my observation.
In Halo: The Flood, Marvin Mobuto was said to have died when he saw the Index but what if it was when the Index was on the bottom floor but unreachable at the start?
@@HaloCanon uhhh I thought it was due to his plasma irradiated system basically making his nervous system be out of wack. And that having come from being to close to plasma explosions. I think it was Halsey that told him he could either give his body to science or continue on because it was likely they wouldn’t be able to actually find a solution. Could be wrong it’s been a long time but I could’ve swore it was that.
@@adarkwind4712 that was a cover-up. The augmentations that Johnson was given during the ORION Project (SPARTAN-I) made him extremely difficult to infect.
@@adarkwind4712 the ORION Project was EXTREMELY classified, not even Dr Halsey knew of the program. The ORION Soldiers were given the fake Borons Syndrome disease to cover up their augmentations. Halsey thought it was the Flood infection form that fucked up Johnson's nervous system but it wasn't. His nervous system was already fucked up because of his augmentations.
Damn man why do all the cool and badass teams and characters have to die in Halo. Raven team was awesome and I can't tell you how upset I was when they died
Funny thing, one of the stipulations Bungie made in exchange for signing off on "Halo: The Flood" was all characters dying (other than Chief & Cortana, of course).
IT brings me great sorrow to see jenkin's end. He signed on because of harvest and johnson and fought for 28 years from young adult to seasoned veteran to meet his end not even seeing the war end.
Thanks for the information covering Halo CE and Halo: Fireteam Raven, haven't really wrapped my head around Halo even after reading a video on the lore. Once again, keep up with the great content :)
I hope you do one of these for the Battle of Installation 05. The timeline of events for that campaign are really weird and there's some stuff that I recall seeing but I was unsure if it was still canon (like a few other frigates following the In Amber Clad)
I wonder if the removal of the shower scene is because later sources (and earlier sources, see also the scene in Halo: The Fall of Reach where Sam says Kelly can't give him her armor because it takes a team of technicians to get one in and out of MJOLNIR) made it clear that one can't just get in and out of MJOLNIR by themselves.
26:39 I love how there’s this buildup of Zuka 'Zamamee being sent to kill Master Chief and when he finally crossed paths with him, he just instantly gets blown to shit by a rocket hahahahahaha this sequence had me dead
Okay... I just wanna point out the entire thing is basically Thel: “no! You cant just destroy a sacred ring!!!” Chief: “hahahaha Pillar of Autumn make Halo go boooom!”
When you first saw Halos rings were you blinded, paralyzed, its rings? “No” Dumbstruck? Than how did the humans manage to land on the ring and desecrate it with their FILTHY FOOTSTEPS???!!
Thanks for doing the battle of Reach & now Installation 04! Amazing. Great book/game. Had no idea 11:51 was the Truth & Rec's shipmaster, badass :) you should do the battle of Installation 05
26:21 Mckay did not sever the line, instead, she let the flood infected Jenkins free with a frag grenade. Jenkins activates the grenade, blowing up the line and everyone there, causing the Truth and Reconciliation to crash back down.
Nop. McKay was in doubt about to where was her loyalty: The UNSC or the humanity. Jenkins then begs her to do the right thing, convincing her to sacrifice her own Company & herself.
Man I never got to play through Fireteam Raven.... Makes me sad that they fought only to die...like most of the crew Expected it....but I still feel bad
Great great vid! I've honestly always had an issue with the story of fireteam Raven and how it fits in canon. If I had written it, I would have made the control room levels plot be that they are dispatched to help rescue fireteam Zulu hours after they split from the chief and then discover the flood in the control rooms region and have them support him from above so it doesn't break canon. The next change I would make is at the last level. I would have fireteam Raven escorting echo 419 and then fight from the air and after they survive the crash, hold off waves of flood until the ring explodes. Would have been a good opportunity for us to see foehammer.
This is kinda small but you mentioning that Chief got to sleep for 10 hours, eat some food and take a shower made me really happy. Cuz playing the game in a few hours just makes it seem like He was just going non stop form cryo sleep to blowing up the ring. I'm glad he at least got to sleep and eat cuz damn did he deserve it.
A part of me always likes to imagine a tineline where the Covenant fleet didn't reach Installation 04 somehow, and Spark, for the first time in several thousand years, is able to talk to someone as a friend. He gives the Pillar of Autumn a tour of the Installation he's so proud of, the humans get to breathe for a moment at a safe place, and Spark, Cortana, and Captain Keyes get to catch up on thousands of years of lost history
It almost makes you wonder, if the humans ended up knowing about the flood, do you think they would have intentionally used it to exterminate the Covenant? The way I see it going down, they discover the flood and the rings abilities, and they decide to unleash the flood and order the ring to perform a slipspace jump into covenant territory (after studying it to acquire any and all knowledge it holds), they leave the defenses up and the Covenant take significant losses trying to board, then lose even more trying to capture it from the flood, then the humans, knowing about the arc and its ability to remotely detonate the rings, detonate 04 and wipe out the Covenant and the flood aboard it, in 1 fell swoop.
I feel as if this video should be a book of its own as well as a video, combining all of the events from the current canon literature. Would be an awesome upgrade to the already existing books.
Canon, you sir, are the nerd of nerds. And that's a damn compliment. Your contributions to the franchise will keep it alive and relevant long after the final chapter. Thank you for preserving the greatest legacy in gaming. Also, 343 should christen a UNSC vessel in your name. In fact, it should be a tradition to do so on behalf of all Halo historians. To name many characters & ships after legends of lore such as yourself in future releases...
The Field Master didn't die during the fight with McKays forces he died during the battle for Alpha Base when the covenant try and assault it to kill 117 and retake the base.
So the failed Spartan-1 Program actually turned out to work in Sgt. Johnson’s favor since he could never stay Dead in Halo 1, couldn’t die in Halo 2, and the Flood couldn’t infect him in all 3 Halo games 😂 haha
I dont know why Halo doesnt have more spinoff games. Its a massive universe with alot of stories that could be turned into other games, and I would think its a cash cow
She was also critically wounded and basically on the verge of death. It wasn't until Dr. Halsey was later able to flash clone replacement organs and surgically transplant them that Linda was able to be revived and returned to fighting condition.
Excellent video! There's a lot of stuff I didn't know about in here, makes me want a halo game dedicated to all the other characters fighting in the background like Fireteam Raven. Could you make one of these covering the battle of Earth? I'd love to see the events of Halo 2 and Halo 3: ODST laid out in this format.
7:00 you didn't describe *how* Keys killed him, which is a huge disservice to the man. While sitting in a lifeboat, he notices the shimmer, calmly turns to a marine and asks to see their sidearm, then just casually domes the fucker and hands the gun back. True chad
15:20 Keyes does NOT release the Flood. I expected Halo Canon of all people to know this. The Flood is already released as indicated on multiple occasions in the game AS WELL as told explicitly in the book. Keyes and his squad get mislead by a captured/tortured elite that knows of the Flood outbreak and sends Keyes there on purpose under the guise that it is a weapons cache.
Actually Keys did release the Flood. The Covent release the Flood and then managed to contain them again. Then Keys and his team accidentally release the Flood again which the Covenant Garrison was too weak now.
@@Seriona1 Actually, no, you're wrong. They did not manage to contain them again. Keyes' team gets radioed in once they are inside the facility that an enemy is "tearing through them" and that they are "not covenant". Ie. The Flood was outside of the locked room before Keyes' team opened the locked room.
@@Dennis19901 The Covenant had them contained inside the facility and that was good enough as far as they were concerned. UNSC breaking their way in allowed The Flood to gain more combat forms which then defeated the remaining Covenant. If Keyes never arrived. Guilty Spark would of ended up seeing the facility in lock down from the Covenant not allowing the Flood to leave which I'm sure GS would of attacked the Covenant from being too noisy from what context clues were said later. The book confirms this, CE heavily suggested this. Both sources say Keyes release the Flood obviously not by intention.
@@Seriona1 "The Covenant had them contained inside the facility" This is still factually incorrect. You are just making up things. "The book confirms this, CE heavily suggested this. Both sources say Keyes release the Flood obviously not by intention." And you're just lying at this point. The game specifically mentions that the covenant are responsible for releasing the flood, and the game gives multiple indications that the flood outbreak is not contained during the level in question. And the book mentions very specifically that an elite named Qualomee told them about a supposed weapons cache. You don't know the lore you are talking about. Please stop making up things that are never told in either books or games to continue a false claim.
