Why This Halo 3 Mystery Is Still Unsolved 13 Years Later 

And I prefer the OG or Pre-Retcon Reach novel. When the Fall of Reach happened over hours and it was a brutal one sided massacre. With the only reason the Pillar of Autumn survived is because it almost immediately jumped out the moment the Covenant fleet entered Reach's orbital sphere and the novel version of MAC cannons did nothing. When the Human/Covenant war was like a bloodier (since civilians were not spared) Earth/Minbari war.

Halo 3 was definitely one of the top video game moments of my life. Summer nights just staying up all night playing infection with complete strangers was truly something special

Agree

Amen dude. It makes me so sad that it’s over, but happy remembering those days. I hate getting older 😢😭. Turning 30 this year. WHY GOD WHY?!!!

Just start playing it again! On the Xbox 360 version preferably due to me having the Xbox 360 version too. I only ever see the same people play and seeing BuhBuhGum (Username I see occasionally) leave every game is bothering me because then either my entire team leaves or the other team leaves.

It would be an awesome throwback to what used to happen back then when one clicked on links.

🤣

Id say Rick rolled if anything lol

I would die

Lmao

You’re everywhere lmao

How are you everywhere

He's the legendary master chief he can be anywhere

Well, Bungie seems to be having fun effing up D2.

Modern Bungie probably doesn't even care. Most of the team now is new and wants to distance its self from Halo.

DIBS

@@philipkiejs1572no. It's mine.

It's expired by now, guys.

@@LexIconLSdon't crush my dreams

Is the source a trust me bro?

Hey, it turns out I have an English degree and didn't even know it.

Jealousy is a stinky cologne !

looking at it and the resemblence it may be Alpha version or very early version of the large scale halo that can wipe out the flood in the galaxy that one might be a smaller planet wide one that was probably in the beginning of the flood spores infecting people which led them to develop one or maybe multiple instillations to try and control the flood spread but maybe like aliens vs predator it hitched a ride and survived which caused more drastic measures for the well known halo instillations that have a bigger bang. What really has me thinking that is why that may be is of how the halo is designed to destroy all living matter within a certain range when it goes leaving nothing but sand and water because both are non-living elements.

@@VADER06 Halos don't completely destroy everything, they are designed to wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy. This means that they kill of anything that the flood uses for food, and leave anything else such as plants alive, since the flood doesn't eat these.

I loled at the epitaph epiphany.

Same dude, great times

Is the language forerunner, because it doesnt look like forerunner or mabye its an ancient version of their language

@@m808bscorpionmbt3 maybe Precursor writing ,even tho they killed them . . . some forerunner still had to respect/ love them . . . .

I’m not sure if this has been talked about already or viewed by the community, but do you think the davinci egg on sand trap may be vital in the decrypting

@@finck6653 the "Da Vinci Egg"? Do you mean the untextured script controller objects scattered across the maps? You might have better luck looking at map scripts ripped from the Halo Online prototype (search "Halo Online 1.106708 ms23" and you'll find it).

that’s what i was thinking

I vaguely remember it being part of vanilla, but it wasn’t a very common map to come up in matchmaking.

theres 2 versions, hes mistaken in the video, the dlc version allowed you to forge the lift and shields on doors

Yeah I remember playing epitaph long before I knew you could play online or even connect the Xbox to the net. Epilogue was the no shield door version that was in matchmaking

It was originally Epilogue then it was epitaph.

I just looked, and no. Halo 3 terminal assigns random square line things to each letter. So a "W" for example will have a different shape every single time you view it.

Sand trap is bikini bottom

@@Eggsecuter Oh my God! what did the Forerunners do to SpongeBob!?!?

It is surely Mendicant Bias, it has to be. He was entombed in the deserts of the Ark, plus the strong implications of a memorial to the/a guardian(s) on Epitaph. I just can only wonder what the glyphs could be about. maybe folks should seek a connection between them and the quotes from mausoleum suite? Mendicant was supposed to be in atonement while he was entombed and the messages in the song definitely sound like atonements. Perhaps the glyphs on his tomb and epitaph are his atonements immortalized, like a form of penance??

Imagine if halo infinite had a level where you enter Mendicants tomb and he awakens

Damn man, for years of playing these games, I never knew how deep the lore was. What I mean by years is really just me playing through the main campaign on the og versions. I didn't even know H3 had terminals, and I didn't have the game long enough to even find out either because I never owned a 360. I didn't know anything about Mandicant Bias, hell I didn't know tat Didact and the Librarian where characters that Bungie came up with, I thought that was all 343s doing.

@@shinoburaiu get on h3 MCC should have them still. And RU-vid terminal locations on halo 3

@@shinoburaiu the terminals in halo 3 have a lot of awesome info including reports from Mendicant trying to fight off the flood’s spread through forerunner space, messages between the librarian and didact, and the slow betrayal of mendicant. Lots of fun stuff to find. If you’ve never done it, going back through ODST to collect all the Audio Log’s w/ Vergil is a really fun scavenger hunt as well, I’d let myself forget how fun Sadie’s story in New Mombasa is.

Probably

If you check the map file itself the model doesn't exist. So its not actually physically there. But maybe in lore it is. 🤷‍♂️

I like this theory.

Yeah

I was thinking maybe mendicant bias is buried there? Because isn't in halo lore that a piece of mendicant is buried under the sand on the ark?

All it’s gonna take is a language expert to crack it but we need to get the word out.

I had the exact same thought lol

@@jared8019 I wouldn't waste a scholar's time on this nonsense when they could be out there deciphering REAL ancient texts. It's highly doubtful that a single game developer would have any advanced linguistic knowledge to create something that only a person with decades of in-depth historical background research could figure out. The dev sat at their computer and played around with a design program. If anything, as mentioned above, it's probably hexadecimal related as that's a language coders know. On top of that, looking at past ARG scavenger hunts, it could potentially also blend in a Caesar Cipher or read backwards. My other instant thoughts also remind me of old arcade game fonts, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and potentially including a bit of brail. But this is all me reading into something that may not actually be there to solve.

Yep

These type of videos are the best I swear

Same

Its 11:30. I need answers

it's mood

Halo 3 custom games were so damn fun

Damn that’s pretty good.

Especially with the name "Sandtrap"

I thing that the ester eg is mendicant biast........

Probably because this "easter egg" doesn't actually exist. It sounds like it was a single dev (not a team within the company) who created a fancy looking design that looked like a blend of an ancient yet technologically advanced typeface/font that didn't actually have any meaning or linguistic structure behind it. This whole (non) "mystery" is most likely complete gibberish aesthetics that this one guy is dangling a carrot about to get the attention of fans to fawn over his map creation. Smoke and mirrors. If something was actually put into the game, people would have found it by now or ripped it from the game's source code. It's not like Marty O'Donnell who legitimately put in a musical score for each ring you jump through to get the IWHBYD skull, where as obscure as it seemed, there was definitely something there; clues for fans to find and figure out. It seriously just looks like a repeating wallpaper to me designed to look like fictional "text", nothing more.

@@SpiritHawk7 Honestly, it really does seem like that... but you know, people will always be drawn to the ideas of "I want to believe" rather than just accept it's nothing special.

@@ShirotheWiseWolf So many easter eggs that were myths HAVE been found after years and years however

@@KaoticReach1999 I have no idea what my comment is referring to since 'spirithawk7''s comment isn't there anymore, so I'm not quite sure what your reply is about, sorry

I heard that lore was added to that. The halos and the ark were built in the war with the flood when the whole galaxy was basically fucked. the forerunners were more focused on machine effectiveness rather than aesthetics because there wasn't much time. Meanwhile, the stuff we see in halo 4 and 5 was built in a time where things weren't so desperate and so the forerunners were able to spend a little extra time for more impressive and boggling aesthetics. Of course, this could just be 343 trying to cover up their mistakes but I still like it and it kinda makes sense

@@paytonallen1027 such bullshit

@@rambo-cambo3581 cmon don’t be like that

@@rambo-cambo3581 the forerunners dont just have a single architect. It would be much more bullshit to have every structure look the same. However, 343 implemented the changes poorly, because some where really good, but by changing existing things retroactively, they made no sense. 343s forerunner design would be amazing if it would coexist with the previous design, and would be deliberately placed where it makes sense.

@@paytonallen1027 also the places we visited in halo 4-5 was made by that guys name that I cannot spell, which could explain the design difference.

Right ! Time is flying by

Make that 14

It’s the lyrics to Never Gonna Give You Up in the Forerunner language

Nah, more like the precursors. 343 are the forerunners who fucked up their work. We are the flood taking revenge on 343 😈

@@lone_007 Jesus fuck man.

@@lone_007 Nah, that's gay 343 lore, no thanks

@@nagger8216 Bungie created the Precursors and the forerunner flood war, have you even read the H3 terminals?

@@lone_007 Have you? Because the Precursors are literally not mentioned at all. In fact, it even says that on the Halopedia page about the Halo 3 terminals: "The prominent exploration of the Precursors in The Forerunner Saga (including the Flood's use of their artifacts as weapons or the Precursors' relationship with the Flood) is not discussed in the terminals, as the details about the Precursors were not conceived until the writing of the novels. "

Wait they're actually killing off support for Halo 3? Just to force people to the skinnerbox ''freemium model'' ???

HALO 3 OVALTINE THAT USE TO BE A JOKE BETWEEN MY FRIEND AND I LMAO

Great Christmas Story reference.

I love A Christmas Story. Lmao

@@BluminousLight same omg

A crummy commercial?

The Halo Community, The Destiny Community, and the Zombies Community... no Easter Egg in the world could survive this holy trinity ahah

Battlefield guest appearance?

@@smokeyplane3285 battlefield ee’s seem easy compared to zombies ee’s by miles imo

Zombies' mysteries are easy compared to Halo's

@@IVANdtk117 ehh. There are, still today, some Easter Egg that remain undiscovered lmao

Yes

No

@@melg9973 I meant to say no I'm just tired as hell 💀

Cool i guess

Nice

He probably meant Citadel tbh

epilogue wasn't dlc. Epitaph was. same map with a few changes, updated.

@@kilroy898 nope. Other way around. Epitaph was the original map. Epilogue was the modified version.

I was gonna comment this. 😂

YUP. And it's in the same room as the Guardian Sentinel, at the last level!!

@@Wil-vd2mc I also found that the forerunner statues are holding the text, too, which has some insane implications. I uploaded a video about it this morning if you're interested!

@@RedNomster I am watching that ASAP there needs to be more eyes on these glyphs

Id agree except that took place on Earth or “Erde Tyrene” whereas Sandtrap is on the Ark

Checked my stream quality 3 times lol

If this was released today, the raidsecrets reddit community would figure it out in three days.

Really

Still talk to my old customs team daily. Never had the infection forge noob stage. But can relate to the sweaty mlg tryhard. Over 20,000 games played.

That video would be really cool!

Me too :o

🗿

You are brilliant.

@@SueUTube why? did someone try it and figure something out?

Interesting, it does seem like there's space for some characters to fit next to others if you just move the bottom image up to overlay it over the top.

Did someone try it?

@@Clyde489 i wanted to, but i cant even find the pictures on the vid that im talking about, so yeah

Ohhhhhhh

@@womp8752 What?

The code for Halo 3 has been searched pretty thoroughly. Code for a model like a guardian would probably stick out. My guess is it only mentions someone buried. And if I had to guess who I'd say its Mendicant Bias.

@@SimplyNon_sense I've meant lorewise, not actually in the game.

"English degree"

A fraction of a fraction perhaps?

Bungie: Let's have mystery strewn all throught our maps and story for replayability and a way for us to interact with our fans! 343: You payed, you played, that's it.

@@quickscopeoneeighty9158 yepp

Except, what makes me think Epitaph is a memorial to Mendicant Bias, is the musical tone that plays on that map while you are standing in front of the main symbol. It is in sequence with what the Guardians blared when activating in Halo 5. Sandtrap is definitely placed on the Ark, and is a spot where an ancient tomb is placed. The only tomb on the Ark is confirmed to be Mendicant's, since almost all the Forerunners fighting in the war died before the Array was fired. Then after that happened the Forerunner survivors on the Ark entombed Mendicant Bias as their last act before leaving the Galaxy altogether. Only the Didact sealed in his Cryptum on his Shield World of Requiem remained alive in the Galaxy once that happened, and it's sector of space was cut off from access by the Flood before the Halos was fired.

@@shauntempley9757 Perhaps, I guess either time will tell or it will remain a mystery

im thinking that same thing, but with the sheer amount of characters it would have to be an entire memorial speech rather than a few names.

i'm inclined to think if that were the case they wouldn't have made it so obscure. if this was honoring a real person they'd likely want it to be more known

have you found anything?

@@thevictorangel someone's already deciphered it probably

Looks like a double helix 🧬 if you just kinda stare at it. I know that’s not the secret. But then again maybe that’s something else to it

True, however I believe the lore explains that they discovered it and tried to do readings of the ruins. The lore is very vague and up for interpretation though.

the davinci code is just a texture holder for the AI that holds de torret of the guardians on sandtrap and the forgemap. Not a mystery anymore

Using google lens to try and read it, I got the message SG1 EP2, watched the episode and realized Halo is heavily inspired by the show, no matching glyph though...

Quality versus cash grab

Because you can make a bad game, but just make it look good

Halo and AC are series, they have multiple games and lore outside of the games. Fortnite is a standalone game. There will be no Fortnite 2, but we can expect more Halo and AC sequels in the future. It is unfair to compare the two.

@@BoredDucc If Fortnite could stand the test of time like Halo and AC there WOULD be a Fortnite 2. It is fair because Halo was designed to last and Fortnite was designed to take money from children

CRAIG!

isnt Infinite.. suppose to be a soft reboot kinda..

@@giltyascharged not really. 343 likes to throw around words alot but they end up meaning nothing. By all definitions infinite is a straight continuation. Halo 4 would have been a soft reeboot. They also once claimed they remastered halo reach, that slipspace is a new engine and some other marketibg stuff that ultimately ended up not being true. Halo reach was never remastered, slipspace is a modified halo 5 engine (aka the same engine that bungie used since marathon and even earlier), and infinite has no characteristics of a soft reboot.

@@MrMegaMetroid has anyone else noticed that when they show the word "Infinite" in the trailer for the game, that "fin" are the first words that pop out first, then the rest come out to spell "infinite." "Fin" means "The End" in spanish. I thought that was pretty cool to notice.

@@RR_12014 Fin was also used at the end of films way way back in the day instead of "The End" even in America.

Big oof for him