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Posted by: Maimum FEAR
Posted by: ODST ROOKIE 1911
[/quote] I will say this, technically Heroic difficulty is the closest to the Halo Universe Canon
The general consensus has mostly been that Heroic is the "canon" difficulty setting. I've seen Bungie employees say stuff to that effect at least.
Like I said though, that kind of stuff doesn't matter all that much, story/plot generally don't change or alter with difficulty changes.
I think people are curious because when it comes to hidden data pads or journals or console's or whatyamacallit's from the Legendary difficulty, people want to know if those count as cannon or not.
The data pads from the Halo: Reach tell the story of pre-cortana-like AI's conspiring behind humanities back for their own self interest's - including what I believe is an effort, prior to running into the covenant, to shying us away from discovering forerunner tech. If you think about that, that probably did more harm than good, considering the covie war...
but anyway, I think people want to know how stuff like that, or odst sadie's story, fit into the grand fiction.
I'm not entirely sure about stuff like the terminals and data pads, though as they are part of the game and story they can probably be considered canon.
When I say Heroic is the canon difficulty I'm talking about damage, movement and weapon effect etc. rather than plot devices like the data pads. The data pads are probably all considered canon regardless of the difficulty, they will just be placed in different difficulties to make it more of a challenge to obtain them. I doubt any of them rank above others.