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Subject: Forerunners in Halo 4 (spoilers)
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I remember the Didact saying "advanced ancilla" rather derisively, as if to scoff at the notion that Cortana was advanced.

Which makes sense. She goes rampant after 7 years like every other "advanced" human AI, but some of the AIs by the Forerunners, 343 GS, can last hundreds of thousands of years in isolation without ever entering rampancy.

And there were thousands of monitors like 343, but only a select few chosen for the Halos.

I'm going to say that the Didact refers to Cortana being an advanced Ai as sarcasm.

  • 01.03.2013 5:53 PM PDT

Ignore my gamertag. It's actually Dragonzzilla.

If the Forerunners were their hyped power level, they would absolutely fraking annihilate Chief and the rest of humanity and that is not the game you paid to play. Games are all about enjoying yourself and if you had no chance of winning against the computer, why play at all?

And so, everything is based around the game balance and not the lore.

Except for your Didact bit. He's always been four meters tall.

  • 01.03.2013 7:29 PM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

I completely forgot I made this thread. :/

  • 01.03.2013 8:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


Posted by: Xd00999
After playing Halo 4, did the Forerunners come off as weak to anyone else? Cortana is considered an advanced/evolved Ancilla by the Didact, which implies that Forerunner Ancilla aren't that different from Cortana. A single nuke can completely destroy Didact's ship. Forerunner weapons didn't seem all that strong. Didact was much shorter than 15 feet. A single shot from a Mammoth rail gun can destroy massive Forerunner structures.

I am not complaining, the campaign was great, but the Forerunners seemed weak after the Forerunner trilogy hyped them up.



1. Ancilla itself is latin for "slave woman" or close to it. Were the forerunner AI's friends to the forerunners or tools? They were limited whereas cortana isn't held back.

2.It was from the inside which you know would make the blast stronger. We see a blast from inside the keyship blowing a hole in it in Uprising.

3.Gameplay. In cryptum the weapons change according to what is using them as a safe guard. The weapon descriptions themselves state what they forerunners used them as. Such as the Light rifle being a sniper and from the terminals the Boltshot was like the DMR (hence it having a laser sight which snipers wouldn't) and so on.

The terminals show them in a completely different light so look at that.

4. Gameplay in which the heights (while far better) are still limited. FRom now on we are going off the CGI shots in regards to all of that stuff.

5. I honestly didn't see anything wrong with that.

  • 01.03.2013 9:44 PM PDT
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I fall down. And broke my wookie!

You say there is no God. For your sake, I hope your right!!

Halo 4 made me cry, in a good way literally...nuff said.

  • 01.04.2013 12:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: grey101
3.Gameplay. In cryptum the weapons change according to what is using them as a safe guard. The weapon descriptions themselves state what they forerunners used them as. Such as the Light rifle being a sniper and from the terminals the Boltshot was like the DMR (hence it having a laser sight which snipers wouldn't) and so on.
You know, I don't know why the Binary Rifle (campaign) doesn't have that charging mode like Crawler Snipe/Knight Lancers do.

Though redundant, it'd have added some versatility.

  • 01.04.2013 12:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

Which furthers my point on them acting different with forerunner usage.

  • 01.04.2013 8:31 AM PDT

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