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Subject: Undiscovered Halo 3 Easter Egg
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In the "Bungie Mail Sack 9.0"
Its A Mirage asked the following question:
Are there any Easter eggs from your past games that surprised you at how quickly they were found or any that surprised you at how long they took to find?

Definitely the IWHBYD skull in H3. But you cheated. There is one Easter egg in Halo 3 that I don't think anyone has found - I stumbled across it in code a while back. It only happens on a specific day...so good luck.
Jon Cable


This has really raised my curiosity. Does anyone have any ideas?

Link to the Bungie Mail Sack 9.0. Text is just above the video of the Marty Easter Egg on Kikowani Station.

This may be *old* news, but I've only just found out about it.



Update:
Posted by: antony X1000
Mail Sack 13 seems to expand on this.


This was in Mail Sack 13:
What is your proudest moment in your time at Bungie?

Showing my wife the Easter egg I put in the halo 3 loading screen for her - the one that nobody has found yet.
Adrian Perez





Update, again. In Mail Sack 14, this is what we got.


Xd00999 Can you give us any more hints on Easter eggs we have not found yet?

No. I cannot. And you, beloved community, must all stop asking. I am sorry. This revival of Easter egg hysteria is entirely my fault. In a previous Sack, I allowed the panel to tease you with mentions of Halo eggs that have yet to be found. You will never find them all. We cannot give you hints. If we did, those eggs would lose their magic. You simply must stop sending me private messages, and stop dropping these questions into the Sack. The strain of lugging around the extra weight of them just might break my back.


Looks like no more information for us. We must do the rest of the work, ourselves.


Here is what we know, so far.
-Easter egg is on a specific day
-Easter egg happens in a loading screen.

Based on that information, it could happen any day of the year, in a loading screen.

But, what is a loading screen? Most of the Halo 3 loading is done in lobby..
I figure, it's when you complete a mission, without scoring on. You come to the screen with the Halo ring filling up. That is the only loading screen I can think of.

Activating the Easter egg, seems to be most likely a button combination. How else would you activate one during a loading screen?

What we need to figure out
-The day
-How to activate the egg

[Edited on 04.20.2012 11:35 PM PDT]

  • 04.08.2012 5:50 AM PDT
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If I put pancake mix in my X-Box 360 Disc drive will it make pancakes?

I'm pretty sure they meant the easter egg in which depending on the day your 360 was set on, a message would appear on the wall in Valhalla. I could be wrong of course.

  • 04.08.2012 6:08 AM PDT


Posted by: Ninja Blue Wolf
I'm pretty sure they meant the easter egg in which depending on the day your 360 was set on, a message would appear on the wall in Valhalla. I could be wrong of course.

This was only posted last month. The Valhalla easter egg was discovered in 2007.

  • 04.08.2012 6:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: TW Sorrow

Posted by: Ninja Blue Wolf
I'm pretty sure they meant the easter egg in which depending on the day your 360 was set on, a message would appear on the wall in Valhalla. I could be wrong of course.

This was only posted last month. The Valhalla easter egg was discovered in 2007.


This^
I would post on the 343i forums, too. But for some reason I can't access them at the moment.
Kinda sucks that this forum is pretty dead now, this is interesting.

  • 04.08.2012 6:51 AM PDT

This is so very interesting. I would definitely open up a thread about this in the 343i forums also. Please keep us updated if you discover anything!

  • 04.08.2012 8:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: A Pimpin Lady
This is so very interesting. I would definitely open up a thread about this in the 343i forums also. Please keep us updated if you discover anything!


I will once I can access the forums.

  • 04.08.2012 8:51 AM PDT

this is actually very intresting, as a long time H3 player im stumped. Great find

  • 04.08.2012 9:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: trixrkids3815
this is actually very intresting, as a long time H3 player im stumped. Great find


Likewise.
I finally got access to the 343i forums. I posted a topic over there, too. Probably be more discussion over there.
Here is the link.

  • 04.08.2012 10:40 AM PDT

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I'm posting a theory up in the 343 forums

  • 04.09.2012 2:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: FALSE R3ALITYx
And Cobravert is absolutely correct.

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Anybody else find this one on The Flood?

  • 04.09.2012 4:14 PM PDT


Posted by: Cobravert
Anybody else find this one on The Flood?


That one is well known. I am actually responsible for finding one of those copies on The Storm, as it turns out.

  • 04.09.2012 4:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: FALSE R3ALITYx
And Cobravert is absolutely correct.

Posted by: Der Todesengel
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Posted by: Dark Hunter21

Posted by: Cobravert
Anybody else find this one on The Flood?


That one is well known. I am actually responsible for finding one of those copies on The Storm, as it turns out.

Ya know what? I believe you're right. My son found this, and I do think it was the Storm. I'm remembering the level in reverse.

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I'd like some more information from Bungie regarding this. Simply stating that it's only available on a 'specific day' doesn't really help.

  • 04.10.2012 4:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: jew man man
I'd like some more information from Bungie regarding this. Simply stating that it's only available on a 'specific day' doesn't really help.


Send John Cable a PM then. He normally replies to them if he isn't busy.

  • 04.10.2012 5:03 AM PDT
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"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
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Posted by: Bungie fan no7

Posted by: jew man man
I'd like some more information from Bungie regarding this. Simply stating that it's only available on a 'specific day' doesn't really help.


Send John Cable a PM then. He normally replies to them if he isn't busy.


Interesting, what's his profile so I can send him one?

  • 04.10.2012 5:36 AM PDT


Posted by: jew man man
Interesting, what's his profile so I can send him one?
JonnyOThan

He also talks about it here and here.

From those, I'm guessing it has to do with an employee's anniversary or something similar.

  • 04.10.2012 10:01 AM PDT
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I just watched the end credits again for clues and near the end of the credits there is two dates.

Do you guys think it could be one of those dates as those are both personal. Keep in mind we also have to do "something" to activate or view it.

  • 04.10.2012 12:49 PM PDT

This couldn't be the ole Sandtrap easter egg which I and many believe was a hoax to keep us looking?

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  • 04.10.2012 12:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Bungie fan no7
I just watched the end credits again for clues and near the end of the credits there is two dates.

Do you guys think it could be one of those dates as those are both personal. Keep in mind we also have to do "something" to activate or view it.

Now we just need some plutonium to go back to 2008...

  • 04.10.2012 3:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: mstrchief117


Or you could go offline and change your the date on your Xbox. Yeah that sounds easier doesn't it?

  • 04.10.2012 3:38 PM PDT

huh sounds interesting... maybe it would be found on a sunday?(last and seventh day of the week?) and its probably on a later released map assuming all the less time people had to scour through it.. idk

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Posted by: xbLdan7
This couldn't be the ole Sandtrap easter egg which I and many believe was a hoax to keep us looking?


i don't think the sand trap easter egg is hoax bungie is not one to mislead, i say this easter egg is about the secret of sand trap maybe it only comes out on certain days

  • 04.10.2012 10:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: Bungie fan no7
I just watched the end credits again for clues and near the end of the credits there is two dates.



Could be, if so it won't be on dlc maps, will it? It could even be in campaign :S

  • 04.11.2012 3:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: antony X1000

Posted by: jew man man
Interesting, what's his profile so I can send him one?
JonnyOThan

He also talks about it here and here.

From those, I'm guessing it has to do with an employee's anniversary or something similar.


He's JonnyOThan? Wow, I didn't even know.

  • 04.11.2012 7:32 AM PDT

thread saved, someone needs to pots this in the flood forum to get more attention, we need all the help we can get.

OT: i think bungie fan no7 is on to something with those 2 days

  • 04.11.2012 9:59 AM PDT