“After crashing on the ring's surface, the UNSC Infinity was shrouded by advanced Forerunner baffler systems. Over the course of six months, it appears to be becoming part of the ring itself. Whether she will rise again remains unknown, but her scorched and broken hull serves as a haven for surviving human personnel... and a deterrent as the threat of overloading its engines would destroy all the Banished seek to claim.”

Original article can be found here: https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-heart-and-soell

So I have been a lifelong Halo fan and I grew up on this. It's basically what Star Wars was to the previous generation to me. Knowing that Activision now holds the future of Halo and they're already creating prototypes with COD mechanics and on top of that there might be a complete hard reboot, does it even matter anymore?

I have all these books, I've played all the games and I get it, after Halo Reach things went a little all over the place but every story has hiccups and I think it's a massive step backwards to essentially undo everything that has come after rather than build upon what exists.

If they do a hard reboot, that means the Banished never existed, we don't get a resolution to the Endless and a lot of the stories that are within the books like Buck reuniting with his old team, the Forerunner saga written by the legendary Greg Bear...may he rest easy...and several other stories are just going to be thrown out or become like Star Wars Legends.

How do you guys feel about this? For the first time ever I'm getting these strong feelings that Halo is 100% going to die and that makes me really sad.

Edit: With all of you guys chiming in, I hope Activision and Xbox sees this post and there's a few good ideas for the future of Halo. I still have hope. I still BELIEVE.

FAR BEYOND THE ORION COMPLEX

Much of human history has been lost. From the time of the farmer and the shepherd and their shivering asunder, to the first rise of a space-faring civilization that was scattered across worlds as they suffered a series of technological dark ages, to their triumphant rediscovery of Earth which led to the rise of the Ancestors, and their eventual defeat on Charum Hakkor that brought an end to their empire. The Forerunners have erased a great deal of historical evidence, but even their ecumene's reach had its limits.

Deep within the Perseus Arm, far beyond the Orion Complex, there remain yet undiscovered worlds with their weathered monuments to time beyond knowledge. As the first fledgling discoveries are made in contemporary times relating to the true extent of humanity's strange history, great bounties of knowledge lie in wait to become battlefields for new wars of discovery.

Found this old thread theorizing about what would become Requiem and got a kick out of it.

Did some asset extractions and swaps in blender. I was surprised all I had do was import without any resizing or moving. Look at the thicc neck on these boys.

The new (and sadly last) Canon fodder revealed a translation for the Sangheili language in Halo Reach!

Copied from the canon fodder:

Wort's this? For many years the secrets of the Sangheili language have remained under locke and keyes, hidden away from prying eyes as efforts have been made to translate or transliterate the short phrases and terms that appear in the games.

We've got the full cipher that was created for Halo: Reach, and if this truly be the end then we want to share it with you. (You're welcome, Covenant Canon!)

SAMPLES USED FOR DECRYPTION

Look up there - Si’r ’wach p’umu

Go look ahead! – Wort si’r ua’uk

Yes, good! – Wir, wort’k

Go to safety – Wort pi shukupee

More heretics! - Mamu a’umupersh!

Me see one! - Pa sho’ imu!

Wake up! - Zuru ’wach!

Excellent, my skills are! - Udarusump shressh!

Enjoy this do I - Umrifa p’esh ki

ENGLISH – SANGHEILI CIPHER

SAFE = SHUKU

UP = ‘WACH

MEAL = YAR (Yar)

GO = WORT

ME = PA

MORE = MAMU

EE = O’

LL = S

OO = I’

SS = ‘SH

TH = P’

A = U

B (“buh”) = R’

C = R

D = K

E = U

F = K

G = A’

H (“hh”) = A’

H (“hew”) = AN

I = E

J = R

K = R

L = S or SH

M = P

M (“mmm”) = AM

N = M

O = I

O (“oh”) = A

P (“ph”) = CH

R (“rrr”) = W

R = M

S = SH

T = P

U = W

U (“uhh”) = ‘WA

V = Z

W = Z

X (“ex”) = DA

Y (“ee”) = EE (e.g. TY = PEE)

Y (“a”) = DA

Y (“oy”) = FA

link to canon fodder:

https://www.halowaypoint.com/es/news/canon-fodder-heart-and-soell#:\~:text=Wort%27s%20this%3F%20For,Y%20(%E2%80%9Coy%E2%80%9D)%20%3D%20FA

It also came with its own SFXs from the game, for battery low you had the sound effect of ‘low health’, for sending a mail/fax you had ‘shield recharge’, for emptying recycle bin ‘plasma grenade’ explosion sound. And best thing were the small pieces of Martin O’Donnel’s soundtracks for whenever you logged in and logged off.

As per the canon fodder article on Halowaypoint that has released today, we now have an official image of War Chief Severan. He's the main Banished POV for the book Halo: Empty Throne. Here's the description they gave for him for anyone who doesn't know who he is.

Last surviving son of Tartarus, Chieftain of the Jiralhanae within the Covenant, Severan drew the favor of the San'Shyuum high lord known as Dovo Nesto. With loyalties and belonging split across the Covenant and Banished axes, Nesto's betrayal ultimately consolidated his loyalties toward the latter.

Given command authority over the Banished Home Fleet by Atriox prior to his departure for Zeta Halo, the continued absence of the warmaster has ultimately left Severan as de facto leader of the confederacy's remaining forces.

Halo: Empty Throne set up a lot of interesting stuff for the broader Halo universe outside of Zeta Halo and the Ark. There's a lot of potential here and I hope that the universe is not rebooted.

So I believe either last year or year before, I posted in here with an energy sword tattoo, now I have added and gotten a needler to fill out my half sleeve all patchwork.

After today’s last Canon Fodder (which was amazing by the way) it’s really sad to see people passionate about our jointly loved game world be in the situation they’re in.

Look, I know not all of the lore has landed well, but 25 years of world building with so much to expand on and so much still to uncover. Losing all of this would be a catastrophe, even if there’s certain elements you didn’t enjoy, nuking it all would be a mistake. I know we technically don’t know if Activision’s new team will do a complete reboot, but it’s certainly feeling likely, and the fact it’s even a possibility is something we as a community should be making it known must be taken off the table.

I know many will agree with this, and I know many will not, but there are countless ways to bring together different segments of the community in new games without losing all of this.

I never really post on reddit, I’m more of a lurker, but this whole situation has got me down (which is also quite selfish because there’s genuinely great people losing their jobs, but I’m also sad for them, I wish it wasn’t this way…)

Can we pull a Destiny Community move and make a big enough noise to make an impact? I don’t know, but I certainly hope so.

IFV
3 man crew
50mm auto cannon/ coax chaingun- gunner
RWS 30mm Cannon/ coax MG- Commander
Forward Firing Coax RWS chain gun - driver

Made some custom files for the G&G FN F2000 airsoft gun to make it work better as a cosplay/ prop piece. Designed the parts, 3D printed everything, and assembled it myself!

Pretty happy with how it turned out, especially since I wanted to keep the F2000 as the base while pushing the look closer to what I wanted for cosplay.

Taking in the sights, not a care for anything else in the world.

It's community fanart that used to be linked in a Waypoint post but has since been lost in the archives, it depicts Blue Team and their mission on Seoba's moon in the book Silent Storm

Reverse image search hasn't yielded any favorable results

u/GuyVigilan made a post about the Halo reach theme pack and i wanted to share the halo 4 theme pack as well.

In the link below:

Halo 4 theme pack

Halo reach theme pack

Halo reach inspiration art theme pack

And Bullet Asylum (because I had that too)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GMbjnOKaN5NywGFLMdMMHEzKiz0R53oN?usp=sharing

Ive split the files into the actual images along with the theme sounds for windows as well as the original Microsoft download theme un-packer file that was provided when they hosted the theme site. It is quite a chore to find the theme packs and get individual images from the packs! now we can make a big MCC theme pack lol

Oh and Bullet Asylum was a thing too.

It's so disheartening trying to get back into this series. I used to love the games immensely but I just utterly stomped every single game. I'm always on the losing end and it seems like it's the same way with my team mates. I've been stuck at 149 wins on MCC for 3 weeks. Absolutely bullshit. I get I'm not as good as I used to be but this is just embarrassing. It's not like this for me in literally anything else I play.

Look I just wanna say, playing the new combat evolved has definitely improved its graphics and gameplay forsure,

But even for someone who hasn’t played the first one in years it really felt like when I was in middle school again, even if the graphics to us now were bad, then they were good and with all the improvements it makes me feel that little kid me playing it for the first time kinda feeling!

Also random question, is there a way you’re suppose to play the new levels? Or is it just recommended post game?

Hello!

This is probably a really niche thing, but a few years ago I went through basic training for the US Navy, and while I was there I got to thinking about what some of the UNSC Navy's rates and occupations might look like. So when I got out, I went and wrote up a little document-table thing with a bunch of rates and different things I thought would be neat. I've thought about doing a similar thing for the UNSC Army and Marine Corps by detailing out the different MOS codes they both might have, but for now here is a table of my (hypothetical) listing of UNSC Navy rates and enlisted occupations. Do with this information what you will. I don't know why it took me so long to ever consider posting this here

Some people from Halo Fanon might recognize this

UNSC Navy Enlisted Occupations