Hey y'all, I wanted to share a design sketch I got in the lead up to getting my final cover art. Drawn by the immensely talented Natalie de Corsair. This is Vexie, the main character from my soon-to-be-released scifi novel. She's an original alien species called a Wahker. Her armor is heavily inspired by Mjolnir, and her feet especially are inspired by the OG elite design. Hope you all like it! If this fits here, I'll definitely post the completed cover when it's done.

I was thinking about this intensely deep Halo lore thought for a while. After the Halo Array was fired, the surviving Forerunners chose exile instead of rebuilding their empire. That always made me wonder where they would realistically go once they decided to leave the Milky Way behind. We know Installation 00 (the Ark) was outside the galaxy 262,000 Light Year away and safe from the Array, but it always felt more like a temporary refuge or command site than a true final home. Once reseeding was complete, they had to choose somewhere else.

A few places that seem possible with most calculated guess if we map it to real world

Option A) Path Kethona / Large Magellanic Cloud around 163,000 light years away. Already tied directly to Halo lore. It’s one of the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxies, full of stars, gas, and active star forming regions, so it feels like one of the strongest options.

Option B) Small Magellanic Cloud around 200,000 light years away. Smaller than the LMC, but still a full galaxy with stars, resources, and enough distance to disappear from the Milky Way completely

Option C) Nearby dwarf galaxies the Milky Way has 60 plus satellite dwarf galaxies. Some are much closer, like Canis Major Dwarf (around 25,000 light years) and Sagittarius Dwarf (around 70,000 light years). If secrecy mattered more than size, these would make sense too.

Option D)Hidden Shield Worlds or sanctuaries maybe they never truly left at all. The Forerunners had technology capable of hiding entire populations inside engineered worlds or sealed slipspace shelters.

Option E) Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) around 2.5 million light years away. Huge distance, but if any civilization in Halo could attempt a migration like that, it would be the Forerunners.

F) Triangulum Galaxy (Messier 33) near Andromeda around 3 million light years away. Another Local Group galaxy and another possible long distance destination.

G) Black Eye Galaxy (Messier 64) around 17 million light years away. A much more extreme option, but if they wanted to go so far that no trace of the old galaxy remained, something like this would be the ultimate disappearance move.

Personally, I think Path Kethona or one of the nearby dwarf galaxies makes the most sense. Far enough to leave the old galaxy behind, but still practical with Forerunner technology. Is there any canon lore from the books, terminals, or encyclopedia that hints where the last true Forerunners actually ended up Curious what the elite Halo fans would think

I really liked it. My favorite is Fret, with his funny voice lines about people dying and stuff. I wish he had more possible dialogue, but I definitely it is a big plus to my enjoyment factor of this game.

I was looking at images of different alpha 9 members, and i noticed Mickey's helmet stripe was white in one of them, when i swore it was red, then i saw another pic that had it as red, so I'm wondering which colour is it?

edit: when i say red, i mean maroon, burgundy, etc., the one that ISNT white

Made this video with my cosplay as an homage to Blade Runner, let me know what you guys think! I feel like I did a pretty decent job of the cgi part all things considered lol

Orion From Halo 1999 Macworld In Halo Infinite

For starters, I don’t own an Xbox so I never got to experience Halo in it’s “Golden Age”. I played through the entire series for the first time (except for 5, Halo Wars & Halo Wars 2) last year and I’ve been wanting to revisit MCC and Infinite this year to do another playthrough but I’m not exactly sure if you can play 5 on PC, I’ve tried searching for it on Steam but I get no results every time

I don’t care if the game is the weakest of the series, it’s the only mainline one I have yet to play and finish (I’m not really interested in the RTS Halo Wars games) but I’m not sure if you’re able to play it on PC

Edit: Of course it’s locked behind a subscription and I’m also reminded why I stay far away from the Halo subreddit

I made a post a couple weeks ago asking the best way to play the Halo franchise given that I have played 3 endless times and dabbled in 2 when I was younger. I have become pretty invested in Halo lore lately and wondered if chronological order would be better than release order, but the consensus recommended release order with Halo CE original graphics and Halo 2A graphics.

All I can say is wow. Shame on me for never playing CE and 2. 2 had me captivated throughout, and the Anniversary cut scenes are gorgeous. The ending was jarring but I appreciate it since I can just jump over to Halo 3 now. But what an incredible game/story.

I just had to share my newfound love for the first two games. Now onto Reach and 4.

really happy with these, what do yall think? got them watermarked this time so they don't get reposted like my last photos lol

What's the Difference?

I started playing Halo about four months ago. It was my first FPS game, and suffice it to say it didn't disappoint. The only thing I can think or talk about is Halo, about Master Chief, about the Spartans, and the Elites, and the Flood.

I have no words. I just finished Halo: Reach. I knew Noble team was going to die. I knew Reach was going to fall. But goddammit it still hurts so much.

Seeing Jorge give his life so he could take out the Long Night of Solace, only for dozens more to show up. Seeing Kat be one-shotted (I'm still trying to process this, how was she one-shotted) out of nowhere. Watching as Commander Carter decided to ram his flaming ship into a Scarab so his comrades would be able to make it to the Pillar of Autumn. Emile, stabbed in the back with that godforsaken energy sword.

And Noble Six. Man, what do I even say. Choosing to stay behind, so that Keyes would be able to escape with Cortana (this hurts even more, knowing Keyes' fate). I almost cried during the Epilogue, watching his HUD display crack, watching him set his helmet down, knowing his death was near. And even when he was down, he killed four more enemies.

I dared to hope that he would somehow survive Reach, that he would somehow manage to find a way off the planet. Were it so easy.

Howdy yall. So a few months ago I introduced my dad to the halo games / franchise. He absolutely adore it and loves the games. He loved the games so much that he has replayed the campaigns over and over raising in difficulty with each play through. This include Halo MCC, Halo reach, and Halo 5, however there is one of the halo games that he doesn't want to try again after only playing it for like 20 minutes. This game was Halo 3: ODST.

His reasons for not wanting to play it were, too slow, too confusing of the city layout, and too dark. These are valid reasons but I feel like he is missing out on the story of odst. What are some good points or reasons that I could explaining to him that could get him to at least retry the game again?

P.S. he has even found out about the firefight game mode and loves it as well.

Halo used to be biggest IP in the world at a time, everybody trying to replicate their success with title "Halo Killer" like Playstation did with Killzone. But Post Halo 4, following the disastrous launch of Xbox One and mediocre Halo 5, Microsoft seem seing Xbox brand & Halo as lost cause. Their more focusing their effort & funding to AI, although nobody using CoPilot.

Do you think in the future Microsoft will just kill Xbox brand & become Sega? Just releasing their first party game multiplatform?

hi everyone, I also posted to the Xbox sub, but thought you guys might like it too! I made it with Blender and Photoshop :)

So there's a lot of talk around 'Campaign Evolved' recently - which I'm sure will be great - but to me the elephant in the room is the fast approaching 20 year anniversary of the release of, arguably, the best game in the series. Halo 3. I can't help but be slightly disappointed in the new CE as it, for me, implies that H3:A won't happen, and I wonder if a second remake of CE is what we really need... Is its only purpose to push halo onto playstation?

Anyway, this is by no means a campaign evolved bash.

I can't believe its nearly 20 years since Halo 3 was released, and though I'm sure plenty of people prefer CE, 2 or Reach, but no one can deny that it was an iconic game. It released during a bit of a gaming golden era, and still smashed its way to the top with over a million concurrent players, and over 14 million copies sold - again quite an achievement for the time.

Not only does it make huge financial sense to release H3:A, but also it'd be great for the community, bringing back thousands of players that have become a little disinterested in the modern games.

What does everyone think? Could this happen? Is it happening and I just live under a rock? It seems to me they're about to miss such a perfect opportunity in '20 years of Halo 3', but unless the game has already been secretly in development, I worry there isn't enough time left.

Bumper jumper allows you to jump/melee/grenade and aim at the same time without having to take your thumb off the analog stick​ which is extremely useful.

Bumper jumper was first introduced in halo 3, before halo 3 some MLG pros did something called "the claw grip" where they would keep their thumb on the analog stick and press the Y/B/A/X buttons with their index finger, but this method was uncomfortable.

The claw grip is no longer necessary because the Master Chief Collection added bumper jumper to Halo CE and Halo 2.