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Subject: mistakes in bungie books

The point in battle is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his. - Patton

I happened upon a mistake in the most recent bungie book First Strike on page 56 it states that a longsword bomber is to be used to infiltrate the covenant flagship, but on page 93 the master chief asks Sargeant Johnson to go back to the pelican which had just been destroyed by mines.

i am just wanting to see if you have noticed other mistakes in the other two books or this one thanks

  • 07.15.2004 2:53 PM PDT
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This isn't a mistake per se, but in TFoR, when a covenant cruiser was destroyed after launching plasma torpedos, they (the torpedos) continued on. In FS, after a covenant cruiser was destroyed, its plasma torpedos stop because it is no longer projecting a magnetic field to contain it.

  • 07.15.2004 4:07 PM PDT
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It is a mistake. I read specifically, "And the Pelican burst into flames" and afterward, Polaski asks MC if she should get a med pac from the Pelican in the hangar. Except the pelican is gone..... OOOoooOOOoohhh.

  • 07.15.2004 4:55 PM PDT
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Trust me, after reading all of the books a few times there are many mistakes and loose ends.

[Edited on 7/15/2004 6:40:03 PM]

  • 07.15.2004 6:39 PM PDT
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These are all part of the Tru7h, the Jjaro are manipulating everyting!

  • 07.15.2004 7:15 PM PDT
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One mistake I noticed was durining the missions where the kids are just left there and one would be left back. The number of kids John counts is not accurate with the number that are in the group. Sorry but I forgot the number.

  • 07.16.2004 6:40 AM PDT
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He said there were 67 kids, but there should have been 75

  • 07.16.2004 7:42 AM PDT
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He also gets Linda's and Kelly's names mixed up. Add throughout he is constantly making mistakes about the amount of time the Spartans had been in the Spartan program since the age of six. The Spartans were abducted into the Spartan II program in the year 2517 at the age of six, and when Eric Nylund writes about what happened in the year 2552 he says the Spartans were brought into the program 25 years ago, even though they actually had been brought into the Spartan program 35 years ago.


I also noticed that he names one of the ships in the book "Minotuar," and also that the ships are considered "Marathon-class ships." And he also named the shipyards on Mars after one of the Bungie employees, Robert McLees.

  • 07.16.2004 10:23 AM PDT
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The overall editing for all three books was disgusting. With all of the grammatical errors, misspellings, continuity glitches, and out-right contradictions, I figure it was edited by a three-year-old. Fall of Reach and First Strike were enjoyable, though flawed, stories. The Flood didn't even follow the game it was about, very well. I enjoyed the books, but certainly don't hold them as gospel. I'm hoping Bungie just ignores all of them in Halo 2.

  • 07.16.2004 10:39 AM PDT

The point in battle is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his. - Patton

it is really not suprising to me about the "eggs" in the names but i do think that for bungie being such a stickler(sp?) for story they would take more time in reviewing the content of the books they produce. also i hope they continue with stories from the halo universe after H2 because eliminating the mistakes the books tend to give a more indepth look at the MC and the halo universe

  • 07.18.2004 1:06 AM PDT
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There was this one part in The Flood where I noticed a big mistake. I think it was when the MC and the marines first entered the Truth and Reconciliation, but it talks about this one guy as a guy, but then he gets hit by one of the Hunters' plasma cannons and on the next page it's referring to that very same guy as a girl. There were other things I noticed, but that one stuck out the most.

  • 07.20.2004 2:54 PM PDT
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i noticed a lot of mistakes in FoR. I haven't read the other 2. MC and the spartans are WAY WAY different in the books than in the game. In the book, a single plasma shot from a jackle could kill them if they din't have shields. In the game, even on legendary, it takes more than that. Also, in the game, MC clears a 3m high wall with ease. You can only jump 6 1/2 feet high in Halo:CE! Also, they can't count. Especially MC. How do you get 67 spartans out of 75, when none are missing? simple. You don't. Anyway, all errors taken into consideration, the book is a little sloppy.

  • 07.20.2004 3:06 PM PDT
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Each book is 350 or so pages. Maybe around 1,050 pages in all. I don't have the books with me at this time, so I can't be sure.

I hope Halo 2 does follow the books. I mean, In FS some of the Spartans are coming to eath and Doctor Hasley has Kelly and has shot off to somewhere unknown. I want to SEE other Spartans in the story. Not just read about them.

I've noticed lots of mistakes too, but there not big. And think about this. I mean REALLY think about this. The last two books were written two years after TFoR, AND Halo didn't have much time to be worked on like Halo 2 has. Bungie went in a completely different direction rather late in the process and had to rush to meet the Xbox launch. Lots of stuff may have been left out.

  • 07.20.2004 5:37 PM PDT