343. thats why

^This

SOMEONE gets it!

Yeah I got it too XD
well played lol

It looks like they are going to explain the getting off the ship part in the beginning of the game, or in the new live ation short Foreward unto dawn. as for the elite fighting ive no idea

from what I know (and I know very little about Halo) his ship gets attacked by...something...and there are some Covenant that did not get the memo (or ignored the memo).

Well, there's a new developer behind the wheel of Halo, as Reach was Bungie's last foray into that universe.

The hostile Covenant in Halo4 aren't actually Covenant, they're from a splinter-faction called the Storm. Master Chief got off of the ship because it crashed on a shield word called Requiem.

There's not even anymore Halos left. It shouldn't even be called Halo 4. They only named it that as a marketing ploy so people who once loved the series re-buy into it.
They might just be saying screw the plot so they can hype up the gameplay, which I've always loved in Halo, but I'm going to mooch off of my brother and play his copy of the game when he gets it before I end up shelling out sixty bucks out of pure fanboy nostalgia.

The Installtions 01, 02, 03, 05, 06 and 07 still remain. Except 05, none of these actually show up directly (only in a hologram), while 05 gets glassed by The Covenant. Only Installations 00 ("The Ark") and 04 get actually destroyed.

Well egg on my face XD
I'm still a little wary on buying into a series that goes on longer than it should >.>

mwahahaha :P

Well, I personally think they've done a really great job on making a game with just a HUGE lore. Seriously, if you haven't looked into it, you have no idea how much there actually is (I didn't know myself until recently).

Semi-Spoilers

From what I've read, it's four and a half years after Halo 3. The hunk of ship crash lands on a planet. The Covenant he's fighting are a break-away faction.

Play the game on legendary and beat it, you see the planet that he crashed on

I've been keeping up with it rather well actually and I'll fill ya in~

as for chief getting off the ship that was half floating through space, there's a lil trailer thingy that kind of explains it back when they announced H4. Basically cortana wakes me up (Chief said at the end of 3 "wake me when you need me" ) and there's shit goin down, shit explodin, craziness afoot. chief makes his way to the half of the ship that is ker dead and there's a huge structure presented before him (supposedly forerunner) the beginning of the game will cover this more.

As for the Elites and what not, The Covenant that you fight in the firs three games is a section of a whole. The Covenant are not one whole unit that all follow the same ideals, and there are groups that still have their own agenda. this group is a seperate group in the far reaches of space that Cheif now resides in, and craziness happens there too. again, all shall be explained~

Elites? All I can remember in the E3 trailer was Forerunners suddenly appearing. But as I looked up the lore on the Halopedia, I found details that make more sense. First, he's been in cryo sleep for a first-estimated 5 years, in which time the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn simply crashes down somewhere. Considering stuff about the Elites, there's no real information available about them, aside form the fact they're uncommonly equipped for Covenant units. In terms of details about motivation, destination/mission or anything else in that regard there's nothing known.


And by the way, I'm pretty much on playing Halo at the time - finished Halo: ODST on Legendary with my brother, now we're about to beat Halo: CE Anniversary Edition :P

Some of anniversary's achievements are bulllshit lol >>

Who cares about the achievements?

Bored people! >> I love the plasma pistol tho, Overpowered just because they normally cant fight back while your sniping with it lol

Yeah I loved Halo lore as well, only reason I played the first game really...and then they just muddled the thing up so badly that nowadays I cant be bothered to sift through all the bs

1. Regarding Forward Unto Dawn and how he got off it, thats gonna be the opening sequence of Halo 4.

2. There are still Elites that believe in the Great Journey that are opposed to the main Sangheili cohort. Also consider the events in the book Glasslands, where ONI specifically sets out create instability within the Sangheili hierarchy (or whatever government they have). That book at its sequel, along with the Forward Unto Dawn mini-movie, lead up to the Halo 4 events.

OK well im pretty big into halo but its mostly for the story. Getting off the ship isnt so hard, Chief fell from orbit on earth and he was fine lol so as for the whole fighting elite things i have a theory on that, i suspect that its part of the covenant that never found out that the elites switched and they still thinking the wars on. in halo 4 i noticed they where wearing older armor, grunts had older looking tanks / masks on (wasn't even a mask but a tube up its freakin nose >_>) So im kinda guessing these covenant are a expeditionary force or something that the Promethean's (Forerunner's these guys apparently are the warrior class of the forerunners ) found and im also thinking the UNSC ship was just a exploring type thing .........nerd-furs ftw lol XD


hope that helped dude lol


(This is mostly true, the Halo 4 stuff is just speculation so this post is not credible >_>)

I stopped playing Halo out of spite because they kept it going after already saying that 3 was the last one.

Legendary end of Halo 3, you see the remains of the Forward Unto Dawn drifting towards a mysterious planet.

As far as I'm aware, what we saw at E3 was basically a demonstration of what the game's engine can do, rather than story points, kinda like what they did with the "Betcha can't stick it." video for Halo 2. This is just speculation on my part.

read the ringworld books, its like halo, as its got a ring world.. but actually makes sense and has a decent story :p

Everything happens in the fourth part, don't worry, you didn't miss anything. The first mission of the game is getting off the ship.

He's still fighting elites because there's like a splinter-cell covenant running around, controlled by all the super-religious elites who are still bent on firing the halo array.
...Damn sexy elites, always causin' trouble...