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Please comment to keep this thread alive for those who are confused!

Okay, I've been reading alot of weird confused posts on this forum lately regarding the game, and I would just like to correct the false information going around.

Anything followed by a " * " is speculation agreed upon by of majority of the Bnet users. Of course, they can be dead wrong.

WHAT IS HALO: REACH?
-Halo: Reach is a SHOOTER, not an MMORPG, not an RTS, not 4X.This is stated on the Halo: Reach page on xbox.com, as noted by a few users. Read where is says GENRE. **Halo: Reach could still be a third person or MMOFPS game, but they most likely stick to pleasing the FPS fans.**

-Halo: Reach is NOT "Halo 4", nor any kind of sequel to Halo 3. It is a prequel to the Halo: Trilogy. I think the name and trailer make this very clear, especially with the lines "From the beggining, you know how it ends". Halo: Reach is based on the biggest and most important battle in the UNSC-Covenant war, where the UNSC tried and failed to protect their most important planet after Earth, Reach. This is the battle where all the spartans but Master Chief presumably died, and it's events lead directly into Halo: Combat Evolved. The game is roughly based on the book Halo: The Fall of Reach. Here is an excellent Summery of the Battle of Reach
On a side note, Reach's Military importance to the UNSC is often compared to Pearl Harbor's Importance to U.S.A during WWII

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT IN IT?
-**Halo: Reach IS the Succesor to Halo 3, just like Halo 3 was to Halo 2, and Halo 2 was to Halo 1. It should feature new graphics, physics, AI, features, MM, ETC**

-**If Halo: Reach stays true to the Halo: The Fall of Reach novel, and doesn't add anything exeptionally new to the story, the only enemies encountered in Halo: Reach will be Grunts, Jackals, Elites, Hunters and possibly Engineers. .**

WHAT HAPPENED TO "NO MORE HALO" GAMES?
-Bungie never said they will not make another Halo game after Halo 3: ODST. They said that "We're not ready to discuss the other projects underway within the studio right now but Halo 3 : ODST does represent the final basket of goodness that we will be delivering for the Halo trilogy. There are no more offshoots or side stories in the works. ".
Halo: Reach is not a part of the trilogy, it is a prequel to the trilogy, and it is not an "Offshoot" like ODST. It is a full-length game, which is why it is taking 3 years to make. which leads me to...

-**Halo: Reach is one of the mysterious 3 projects Bungie was working on, the first 2 being ODST, and the final batch of Halo 3 DLC (Heretic, Longshore, Citadel).**

HALO 4?!?!
-Alot of you have been saying "ZOMG I was right about Halo 4!!". In a sense, you are correct, this is the 4th big Halo title Bungie is releasing. But again, it is a prequel. Maybe the ""ZOMG i bet bungie will make halo Zero!"" people should be celebrating.

HALO: REACH BETA?
-The Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta will NOT be included with Halo 3: ODST upon it's release. Halo 3: ODST will include an INVITATION to the Beta which actually starts some time in 2010. On June 2nd, Brian Jarrard did a post-E3 interveiw with G4, stating that once the Halo: Reach beta is released during 2010 to the public, an update will be released over Xbox Live for ODST, adding a new option to the ODST main menu, called "extras" which lets you play the Halo: Reach Beta, just like they did with the Halo 3 Beta on the Crackdown CD. The Beta may come out in March according to this thread . Brian Jarrard during his G4 interview: "...you will have to have your ODST disc and eventually there's part of the menu that says 'extras' and when the Halo: Reach beta becomes available on Mar....on Xbox Live, the disc will be your gateway..." When the Reach beta becomes available on March? Or maybe he was about to say market place?

WHAT ABOUT MASTER CHIEF?
-**Halo: Reach will not feature Master Chief as the main character of the game, but a new spartan so far only known as Seirra 259.** Master Cheif did not participate in the ground-side battle for Reach, but in a conflict inside a UNSC ship around orbit of Reach, which allowed him to escape the destruction of Reach aboard the Pillar of Autumn, leading into the events of Halo: Combat Evolved.

-**Halo: Reach will not feature a time-displaced Master chief from the end of Halo 3 who stops Reach's destruction**. That would be dumb and you know it. Bungie's plots may be complex, but I HIGHLY doubt they would go THAT far.

-Many of you have stated that the planet in the Halo: Reach trailer is the planet in the Halo 3 legendary ending because the trailer shows a floating frigate fully intact like the one MC was on, floating around the planet. All you have done is dis-prove youselves. Master Chiefs frigate was NOT intact, it was cut in half, the other half reaching earth with the arbiter onboard

MISC
-Halo: Reach will not feature Rick "Roll" Astley, nor Chuck Norris as playable characters if you pre-order the game.



I'll continue to add links to proove some of the things i've stated here, Fell free to correct me or add any additional facts.
Lets keep this alive for the sake of the less informed Bnet users, please!! I cannot handle another " MAster cheif travled baack in time" or "Halo: Reach beta in spetember!! so excited!!!" Thread.



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  • 06.02.2009 10:58 PM PDT
Subject: Clearing up things about Halo: Reach. Please read if you are confused!

Till all are one!

To simplify, it is the equivalent of the Phantom Menace in Star Wars. Not in terms of suckiness, but in that it's a successor to the Halo trilogy that takes place before the original trilogy.

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awesome thread!

  • 06.02.2009 11:08 PM PDT

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can someone please find the interview with brian jerrard on G4? im having trouble re-finding it.

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this is good explanation thank you for making me unconfused.

  • 06.02.2009 11:14 PM PDT

Should be stickied, if mod approved, IMO. Nice post.

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ok i agree with everything you have to say exept one thing dont take this in a bad way but how do you know it is spartan 259. I realize that it wont be master chief, but just becuase in trailer it says "Spartan 259 on the ground" doesnt mean you play as that character its probably just giving an example of one of the many spartans that was on reach

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Posted by: wearespartans117
ok i agree with everything you have to say exept one thing dont take this in a bad way but how do you know it is spartan 259. I realize that it wont be master chief, but just becuase in trailer it says "Spartan 259 on the ground" doesnt mean you play as that character its probably just giving an example of one of the many spartans that was on reach


you absolutly right, but i highly doubt bungie would put emphasis on s-259 at the end of trailer is he isn't important. He may just be a main character of course. Remember. parts marked with ** are speculation

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No CHUCK NORRIS? Oh noes.

But seriously, good post, that should have cleared a few things for some people. I hope this gets stickied.

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My GT is: Mr Snail119

this account isn't linked with my GT for some reason..so just bear with me....

Also....LOK AT MY SCREENSHOTS!!!!...thanks...=)

thank you for that info...that was highly engaging and very informative.

One quick note on Fall of reach, is the graphics of this game.
it MUST change and get as fantastic as possible. Remember this is Custer's last stand on a COSMIC LEVEL. This in just the archetypal halo "alright, lets just blow this thing up! that will solve our problems!".....no..this is an entire planet CRAWLING with Spartans, and the BEST defense that was ever conceived by the humans at this point in time. Not only do we get defeated, but most, if not ALL of the spartans are annhilihated leaving Blue, and red team pretty much.

Anyone remember Halo"combat evolved and the beach frontal assault? I'm imaging that but across that Planet. you may or may not agree with me, but Bungie is going to REALLY have to step up their game with this prequel to everything we know about the start of MC's campaign of covenant destruction.

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Posted by: Mr Snail119
thank you for that info...that was highly engaging and very informative.

One quick note on Fall of reach, is the graphics of this game.
it MUST change and get as fantastic as possible. Remember this is Custer's last stand on a COSMIC LEVEL. This in just the archetypal halo "alright, lets just blow this thing up! that will solve our problems!".....no..this is an entire planet CRAWLING with Spartans, and the BEST defense that was ever conceived by the humans at this point in time. Not only do we get defeated, but most, if not ALL of the spartans are annhilihated leaving Blue, and red team pretty much.

Anyone remember Halo"combat evolved and the beach frontal assault? I'm imaging that but across that Planet. you may or may not agree with me, but Bungie is going to REALLY have to step up their game with this prequel to everything we know about the start of MC's campaign of covenant destruction.


I too imagine the ground battle to be very epic, but from all we know, the ground battle on reach really just involved the UNSC protecting it's Energy generators from the covenant, which were key to the Naval battle going on in orbit. There may have been other key battles going on at the same time, but all the spartans were involved in protecting the genorators.
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Maybe halo: reach will let us play the battles laround the galaxy eading up to the fall of reach (like the battle of sigma octanus) as well? who knows

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  • 06.02.2009 11:44 PM PDT

OEF

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Yeah, I just spent like 15 minutes petting one, trying to get it to know me.

Posted by: altoidsjedi117
-Halo: Reach will not feature Rick "Roll" Astley, nor Chuck Norris as playable characters if you pre-order the game.
WHHHAAAAT!!!!????

Well... I'm no longer looking forward to this game...

'Twas a joke, I am.

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awesome thread, it should be made a sticky and posted at the top of the forum index

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My GT is: Mr Snail119

this account isn't linked with my GT for some reason..so just bear with me....

Also....LOK AT MY SCREENSHOTS!!!!...thanks...=)

also one quick question..who is Noble 1?
(towards teh end of the reach trailer he asks for Noble 1 or something)

or am I saying this right.....

I've read most of the books, so pardon me I must have forgotten.....=\

thanks!

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  • 06.02.2009 11:57 PM PDT

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There has been no refernece to a Noble or Nova 1 in the games or books. Noble 1 is probably a new entity in this game that we havn't met before. In the trailer, a UNSC personnel states on the radio " Noble 1, I NEED you in that fight!".

A ground unit cannot be THAT important that they are NEEDED, unless they are spartans, so Noble 1 may be a single or group of UNSC Starships.

But then Spartan-259 says " This is seirra-259, you have spartans on the ground, we're not going anywhere." This suggests Noble 1 IS a ground unit, as spartans arn't too usefull in space combat. So really we dont know with the inofrmation prvided so far

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My GT is: Mr Snail119

this account isn't linked with my GT for some reason..so just bear with me....

Also....LOK AT MY SCREENSHOTS!!!!...thanks...=)

alright, I just wasn't sure if this person or UNIT was mentioned prior in the books.
But hey, whatever comes out WHEN it comes out is all that I'm looking forward to. =)

  • 06.03.2009 12:15 AM PDT

I CAN"T WAIT FOR ODST TO COME OUT!!! W00T!!!

altoidsjedi117's post gets a 100/10 for acculy being a reasonable post and is 100% true.

  • 06.03.2009 12:20 AM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

Thank's for linking to my thread. I'll update mine to include a link to yours.

  • 06.03.2009 12:31 AM PDT

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alright people, Just added a whole bunch of links to the OP, so check them out.

  • 06.03.2009 12:46 AM PDT
Subject: Clearing up things about Halo: Reach. Please read if you are confused!

Loads of great info, and Interviews I haven seen before!
IMO should be stickied =)

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I still be calling it Halo 4. :P

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you know i think i'll ask Foman to sticky this..

  • 06.03.2009 1:37 AM PDT
Subject: Clearing up things about Halo: Reach. PLEASE READ, especially if co...

I love the entire Halo series, Halo 2 being my favorite of the games. I think that the universe is compelling and the story is deep, sweeping, and powerful. The hidden layers in the Halo trilogy and rich details of the backstory in the novels are something I love to be lost in, and im greatly looking forward to the story that Halo: Reach will weave. Bungie has carefully and lovingly crafted a mythic tale that will stay etched in my mind until the end.

Posted by: wearespartans117
ok i agree with everything you have to say exept one thing dont take this in a bad way but how do you know it is spartan 259. I realize that it wont be master chief, but just becuase in trailer it says "Spartan 259 on the ground" doesnt mean you play as that character its probably just giving an example of one of the many spartans that was on reach


The trailer says "Sierra 259", not "Spartan 259".

  • 06.03.2009 1:38 AM PDT
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OP...I just got a call from China. They told to tell you to give them their wall back.

Moving on...

Good points in your post.


I had some thinking (it's totally obvious what i thought though). If they are releasing the BETA on xbox live MP only, that means there must be NEW MP features.

Otherwise we would be just testing a few new maps online, which I can't see them doing.

What I want to know is, WHAT is new in Halo: Reach. What features, weapons etc?

I hope we get some more info' in this weeks weekly update :D

  • 06.03.2009 1:38 AM PDT

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We can't exactly be sure until the Beta, but i think We just got a date! Go re-read the Beta section on the OP, there is a link

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