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Subject: Halo 2 Trigates
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While searching for the trigates in Halo 2, i noticed something strange.
What i noticed was with every trigate there is a skull in that level. For some strange reason the tip of the trigate points directly to the skull(s).
If anyone has any answers or other theorys please post a comment

  • 03.24.2008 7:38 PM PDT
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ARBITER, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!!! WORT WORT WORT.

No, the gates aren't gates. They're happy little polygons that are lacking texture. How many triangles did you manage to find though?

  • 03.25.2008 1:59 PM PDT
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  • 03.25.2008 9:15 PM PDT
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ARBITER, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!!! WORT WORT WORT.

What levels...

And keep in mind, every level has one skull, sans outskirts which has two.

  • 03.26.2008 1:20 AM PDT
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I've been wondering what these were. I stumbled onto a video while surfing through Youtube about a trigate on the first level of Halo 2. This guy got outside the map and walked for a long time until he found a square box. hidden somekind of structure that seemed darkbluish.

Since you said that there is a trigate where there are skulls, I remembered that there is a skull when you are in the monorail with Johnson.

Could you please explain to me in depth what a Trigate actually is?

  • 04.07.2008 9:56 AM PDT

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A Trigate.

Is something I came across, named and created one of the biggest threads known to Bungie (it's since been deleted by a hacker) during my old Halo 2 adventures.

Whilst there were various ideas about why the Skulls were there, and why there was some random gate located at the end of Delta Halo (where the gondola is on Regret)...I decided to piece them together, trying to make sense of it all.

Anyways, cut a long thread short. It didn't turn up with anything.

People spammed me to hell for it though :| it seriously got out of hand.

Regardless, this video sums up the reasoning for the Trigate/switch theory being bogus.

The Thread turned into something more...but that's a story for another day.

  • 04.07.2008 2:37 PM PDT
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...this video sums up the reasoning for the Trigate/switch theory being bogus.


Do you believe the trigates are gates? If not, what do you think they are? Maybe there is another gate (i.e. non-trigate) that opens, what do you think?

Nice video ()


[Edited on 04.07.2008 7:57 PM PDT]

  • 04.07.2008 7:50 PM PDT

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I don't know what the trigates are or anything, and this is prety much my frist time hearing about them. But Bungie had mentioned there was a huge easter egg left he haven't found, I'm pretty sure. This could be related.

  • 04.07.2008 8:02 PM PDT
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ARBITER, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!!! WORT WORT WORT.

Snoozy, "It's not on the level of a skull" as they said, Frankie I believe it was.

The original plan was changed, they said. It could very well mean that the JNAM acronym and the JNAM acronym spelled out in the hex, the games programming, may have been a part of that missing egg, but never used. The only way to prove or disprove that, that I can think of, is to find out when the box covers were made, and when that was said in the interview; if the boxcovers were made first, then I'd say there's a 65% chance that's the original plan that was dropped.

Modders found all sorts of things in the hex, but there's things that didn't show up in the hex until they were used, like the presence of the permanent active camo with Master Chief. When it's engaged, the hex said "active_camo_cheat_on", but was never reported as being seen in the hex as "active_camo_cheat_off". So if that egg is still out there, it's definitely not sitting on top of the hex.

As to what to do? We don't really know. Playing through campaign on legendary with all skulls is the first bet, nonstop playing, all the way through, in single player. However, since a skull, Iron if I remember right, affects co-op, it may have to be done in co-op, or in both.

Also, the first update made some changes that may make it impossible to find. The first update changed the effect of the Black Eye skull on the snow. Originally, when you picked up Black Eye, it turned off the snow. If you dropped the skull and picked it back up, the snow came back on, drop it and pick it up again, the snow goes off, etc etc, like a lightswitch. The first update changed this, changed it to being random, or at least not like a lightswitch. For this one difference, I devoted one of my xboxes to no updates, and the other to being updated, just for the sake of being able to test my findings, so that I don't sound like a heretic when reporting things to the community.

I don't personally believe in the gate... if I was to believe in any gate, it would be in the door on top of the cliffs at the end of Great Journey. But there's no sense trying to get there until I've worked my way through campaign with all the skulls on, and on Legendary.

Anyway, there's more evidence favoring the existence of the missing egg than there is denying it.

  • 04.08.2008 3:04 PM PDT
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Anyway, there's more evidence favoring the existence of the missing egg than there is denying it.

What is the speculation on the missing egg? Are there any clues?

  • 04.10.2008 9:47 PM PDT
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I'd say there is, otherwise there wouldn't have been such a huge thread on it that lasted for a couple years.

I don't think it's related to rushing the game on legendary without dying, otherwise it'd have probably been found, since a guy did that and got in the Guinness Book of World Records, and he didn't report anything happening or seeing any egg.

My next guess is going to be that you have to go nonstop through the game on Legendary with all the skulls on and beat it.

Hex diggers say that it's possibly in Regret or Quarantine Zone, and it's another IOHBOY in there somewhere, other than the one on Miranda's SMG in the cinematic. You have to zoom in on that thing just to see/read it. The guy I'm referring to is a HIH guy, and that was his last guess as to the egg.

Keep in mind, the Megg egg "wasn't the best hidden egg", and you can get that one at the end of Cairo if you don't get shot at all and make it to the bomb room. Active camo made that one easy to find, especially on Easy. You have to start and go through, no save and quit technique.

Edit: The QZ egg theory... if you notice, there's a couple of sniper's earlier in the map.. now, the only enemy is the Flood, and we know how the sniper doesn't do anything damage wise to them. That being said, grab the sniper, explore around, and when riding that gondola, jump off and start scoping around, let it get a checkpoint or two ahead of ya. There is no sense in having a sniper on that map..

[Edited on 04.11.2008 8:52 AM PDT]

  • 04.11.2008 8:43 AM PDT

As far as HIH is concerned, the IOHBOY on the SMG was faked. However, I do believe QZ has one. I managed to take down the barrier to the Index Chamber so I'm looking in there, just because. The people who've been in that chamber did not look for it, at least the people of HIH.

I agree with the sniper rationale and I think it's somewhere in the tunnels.

  • 04.11.2008 7:08 PM PDT
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ARBITER, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!!! WORT WORT WORT.

Yeah, the tunnels make sense, because after a few minutes everything is loaded and you fall to your death.. and if it's as hard to find as the IWHBYD skull, with a 1 in 7 chance, that'd be a real nightmare to keep fighting your way through QZ for only a few minutes of looking.

  • 04.12.2008 12:50 AM PDT

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I'm actually interested in starting to look for TUE once again.

Granted it's not going to be "TUE"...but it'll at least be a final egg.Only problme with this is that I no longer have Halo 2. ='(

Keep us posted on what you find...if anything.

  • 04.12.2008 5:04 PM PDT