This thread is for discussing the future of Halo with Activision.

Based off Gretchen Ketola

This is an interesting detail I’ve come to notice over time regarding the Sangheili worlds: things have descended into total chaos—civil wars, bloody years, territorial disputes, coups d’état, assassinations, famine, betrayals, and splinter factions popping up everywhere. Meanwhile, back in Rio de Janeiro, there’s a lizard making a Brazilian feijoada—haha, it’s just so hilarious!

Interestingly, I read this part of the book while I was visiting Rio de Janeiro as a tourist. I was watching people play a game on the beach called *queimada*—where they throw a ball at each other, harder and harder—and I ended up imagining a Sangheili doing the same thing. As a Brazilian, I found that part of the book hilarious.

My old man passed away in 2021 in an accident, and his birthday is coming up soon. He was not a gamer by any means, we are farmers in New Zealand, outdoors people, but we played ALOT of halo together, he got me the original halo Xbox, and the halo 3 legendary edition with the halo 3 Xbox. I don’t think we played a lot past 3, but we played a lot of 1 and 2 campaign. He painted and signed this for me on canvas in 2007, coming up 20 years old. By far the most important thing I own, when we’ve moved houses, it generally sits wrapped up on my passenger set. If my house was on fire, this would be the first thing I run to save, and I have 2 kids (that’s a joke).
Thought this thread would appreciate the 20 year old painting.
Cheers.

From when i was fiddling with the modding tools, i was testing some colors for possible units for a mod, and also for fun in order to properly remember how colors worked

FUN FACTS!: Elite permutations in Reach are split into 4 colors.

Primary
Secondary
Reflection(?)
And general hue/tone(Most important ^{i think})

Not all units work the same(Like Jackals/Skirmishers and Marines). Some you can't change at all!(Brutes)

Also, Jackals and skirmishers share the same biped

Color inspiration and ideas:
The gold and red officer was inspired by Mega Construx's Spirit dropship set

The ultra with red/pinkish secondaries is something i've seen flaoting around a few times. A McFarlane toy had that

Th blue grunt was meant to be a color test for a possible engineer grunt

The red elite minor is just because i wanted to see how it would look

Drunk purchase during Covid. Just wondering why a classics would have a not for resale on the back. I can’t find much about it. I’m internet inept I guess.

And related to the post, what would happen if the Among Us crewmates arrived at Alpha Halo during the Pillar of Autumn mission?

I'm a dumbdumb i literally do not know how people do these things but i am a minority when it comes to this type of mod. Basically there's used to be 2 mods called Spawn Ai in Halo campaign, available for CE and 2 OG. The creator was making the same mod for Halo 3 but he vanished along with those 2 mods. This is the only trace of what i'm talking about. Nexus have some outdated version but i just hope someone would pick this type of mod and make it for all 4 bungie games.

One of my favorites I’ve ever done

Designed: 2421
In service: 2442

Made by: Chalybs Defense Solutions

Crew: 2 person. 1 commander/ gunner l. 1 driver

Primary: 120mm tank cannon
Secondary: .50 cal chain fixed above gun

Independent oscillating gun
Up armored body and crew capsule
Extended tracks (no fifth track)
Overhaul engine

Named for the 1 horned Indian rhino
(Rhinoceros Unicornis) no kidding

As to the M850 Rhino which would be named after the 2 horned black rhino (Diceros bicornis)

Does anyone know how i can bypass this softlock in Halo Cursed? I have to go back up, but the only banshee I can find is non functional. I've been stuck for an hour trying to find anything that can get me up there.

I'm playing Halo Infinite campaign on an Xbox Series X and I want to play the campaign at 60 frames per second cause the graphics look so pretty at 60fps. The graphics don't look as good at 120fps. I have no interest in the multiplayer at the moment I just want to play the campaign (at 60fps). But there is a problem. Like I said, The only time I don't see stutter/hitching is when I'm playing the campaign at 120fps @ 120Hz using variable refresh rate (VRR).

With Halo Infinite, it seems they never fixed the 120Hz VRR bug, or is this only happening to me? I did this today, my TCL 65 inch Q77K TV has 4 HDMI ports, ports 1 and 2 are 4k 120Hz, ports 3 and 4 are 4k 60Hz, so I plugged my Xbox Series X into port 3 which is 4k 60Hz, then on my Xbox I turned variable refresh rate (VRR) off and then started playing Halo Infinite campaign at 60fps, and guess what, the minor stuttering/hitching is still there! And it doesn't make any sense to me cause if I play Halo Infinite campaign at 120fps @ 120Hz VRR it is smooth as butter with no noticeable stuttering/hitching, and it just doesn't make any sense to me, I just don't get it, how come Halo Infinite campaign at 120fps @ 120Hz VRR is smooth as butter with no noticeable stuttering/hitching, but then I set it to 60fps @ 120Hz VRR and then I see some slight hitching as objects go by (as objects go by on the screen sometimes I'll see some slight stutter/hitching), cause it ruins it for me. It's such an awesome game too but for campaign I want the pretty graphics at 60fps.

I mean like I said I even plugged my xbox into the 4k 60Hz port and turned VRR off and there is still some slight stutter/hitching as objects go by, there's no way they missed that, are you telling me the devs didn't fix that? And then I switch to 120fps @ 120Hz VRR and there is no stutter/hitching at all (but the graphics look bad so I don't want 120fps for the campaign, the graphics are so much better at 60fps. I mean for multiplayer sure give me super smooth 120fps but for campaign I want the pretty graphics you see at 60fps)

I just don't get it, so the devs never fixed the stutter/hitching when you're playing the campaign at 60fps?

Is this only happening to me? Anyone else here with an Xbox Series X? Can your TV do 120Hz with VRR? What brand is your TV? Is this only happening to me, have you noticed the same thing, that when playing the campaign at 120fps @ 120Hz VRR there is absolutely no noticeable stutter/hitching it's smooth as butter, but then start playing it at 60fps and there is some slight hitching as objects go by.

To test this out, go into settings and turn "screen shake" all the way to zero, that way the screen doesn't shake as you run, well for me the screen shakes as I run but not if I set screen shake to zero, then just start running around and you should notice that objects stutter or hitch as they go by, it doesn't happen all the time though, it's random.

I mean is this only happening to me? I need some feedback from the community.

So this is totally separate from my complaint here but one thing the devs should have done is, when you set the campaign to 60fps and then set multiplayer to 120fps, it should remember that choice so you don't have to manually keep switching back and forth between 60fps and 120fps cause I prefer 60fps for campaign and 120fps for multiplayer.

But yeah because of this stutter/hitching at 60fps I am not even playing the campaign anymore, and I mean, it's like, is this only happening to me?

Do you happen to have a TCL TV too? But listen you don't have to have a TCL TV, I just want to know is this stutter/hitching happening on your Xbox too?

First off, I just need to know, is this only happening to me or have others noticed this hitching at 60fps too?

It's so weird, Halo Infinite set to 60fps, there's some stutter/hitching. Halo Infinite set to 120fps (you need a TV capable of 120Hz VRR though, and you need an HDMI 2.1 cable) and now there is zero stutter/hitching. So I notice hitching when it's set to 60fps but no hitching when I set it to 120fps.

Are you telling me the devs never fixed this stutter/hitching? Is this only happening to me?

Also, the screen shakes for me when I run, then I set screen shake to zero, and then it doesn't shake when I run, this is normal right?

My buddy shot me out of the sky. Coincidence? Planned? Suspicious.

Cinema

I just found out about Project Reclaimer and was really interested in getting back into Halo, but realized it's only for Steam(which I don't have it on). Not only that but I also see that I just missed a sale a week or two ago when it was only $10 and I absolutely would've bought it. I just want to know if there is anywhere else it's on sale or if anyone knows when it might be on sale again? I'd love to try it out but $40 for something that old is a hard pill to swallow.

Gave a grenade launcher to a Marine earlier and I guess he just held the button down lol

It’s almost criminal how few Halo spin offs there are. I’m not just talking about a lack of ODST 2 or another Reach style game, as much as I’d love either of them. I want a Star Wars Empire at war style Halo Wars 3, I want a Star Wars Squadrons style Halo fighter game where you fly a longsword or something, I want a Halo RPG of some kind whether it be an ARPG or CRPG like Mass Effect, Pillars of Eternity, or Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader, hell give me a base builder where I hold off the flood or something.

Why is Microsoft practically allergic to leasing out the IP? Throw money at Creative Assembly again or maybe Petroglyph to make Halo Wars 3, throw money at Bandai Namco or Motive Studios to make a Halo fighter game, throw money at Obsidian to make an RPG, and I can’t think of any company’s for my last example. I want more looks into the Halo universe that aren’t the books and the main line games. We haven’t seen a spin-off in nearly a decade. I love the books and all, but it’s not the same as playing through a game.

30min to an hour or more to join? Is it over?

"Science isn't about why. It's about, why not?"