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>Current Content Update:
- Warzone Firefight (available on 6 maps)
- Campaign Score Attack
- 1 new arena map
- 1 new warzone map
- 1 new warzone assault map
- 1 new forge canvas
- New bosses, including the Grunt Goblin
- New reqs, including the UNSC wasp vehicle and the Halo 2 Beam Rifle
- Req items available in forge
- 5 new campaign score attack achievements
- 3 new warzone firefight achievements

>Official Warzone Firefight reveal trailer:
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>Important Halo Links, Notes etc.
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>Latest Halo Community Update
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>Spartan Companies:
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>Looking for custom games/campaign co-op players/matchmaking squad
halolfg.com
halocustoms.com
halolobbies.com
Watch the threads for occasional party squads

>Xbox One clips and screenshots
xboxdvr.com/

>The third /hg/tage is out!
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>Canon Halo Works
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>Previous threads since numbering began:
#196 - Hexagons are Real #195 - Spartans Never Die #194 - Halo 4 is Technically a Halo Game #193 - Never Trust a Man With a Hinge for a Head #192 - In Remembrance of the Beta #191 - Were It So Easy
#190 - Master Chief's Bizzare Adventure
#189 - Arby Had a Hard Life
#188 - RIP Jul
#187 - Smart A.I. was a Mistake
#186 - Our True Cause
#185 - Black Undersuit
#184 - Heretic Hunt
#183 - Master Chef
#182 - Take the Cruiser Back
#181 - What Were They Thinking
#180 - What About That Stupid Cloak
#179 - Parasite's Cove
#178 - We Numbered Now

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Not Halo

Funny, you're not posting a Halo game either.

I suppose not ;)

> muh Reach isn't Halo

ITT: /hg/ is gay.

Show us your butts!

It doesn't say the word Halo anywhere within the game.

It says it on the disc within the gamecase.

The Halo is in the legendary ending.
You...did beat the game on legendary...right user?

>no hexagons

For shame

But not ingame. Not even on the title screen.

There was no legendary ending. That only showed a Halo, but nobody actually referenced it.

Good, memes should be kept out of the OPs. Fine with them in the thread

>But not ingame. Not even on the title screen.
Did you check the credits? Where they say Halo, and even show the Pillar of Autumn arriving at it?

>well they showed it
>but it doesn't count because reasons!

But this is a masterpiece that embodies the soul of /hg/ and the whole Halo series.

Daily reminder that legendary ending/epilogues are not canon.

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You're right. The ending to Halo 3 never happened.
I fucking wish.

Exactly, you can't see Jul's fleet in that ending so yeah, not canon.

I never thought of it that way. So either Halo 4 is non-canon, or it's 343 pulling another retcon.

The opening to Halo 4 rapes the canon of Halo 3 pretty badly. All of a sudden the Forward Unto Dawn is a different class of ship and several times bigger than it should be.

343 already retconned the retcon. Canonically the FuD still looked the same as in Halo 3, it looked bigger and different in 4 for gameplay purposes.

Don't forget that Spartans 2s defending the colonies work Mark VI Gen 2.

I have never seen a company more inconsistent with their lore than 343.

Oh yeah, retcon retconned as well. I think the reason was just reused assets right?

They tried to blame it on Blur, but they only gave Blur the Chief outfit for 4 and no Mark IV, so Blur couldn't do anything else.

>343 already retconned the retcon.
Source?
They never made it clear if Forward Unto Dawn is Strident or Charon class.

Remake was worse

He can probably give you a source, but I can back him up in saying that I've heard them backpedal on it.

Autism

halopedia.org/UNSC_Forward_Unto_Dawn#Production_notes

It had the best Covenant aesthetic across any of the games, though.

>343 already retconned the retcon. Canonically the FuD still looked the same as in Halo 3, it looked bigger and different in 4 for gameplay purposes.
This is literally true about everything in the franchise.
The games are games.
The lore is told more specifically in the books and what not.

I liked it more as a forerunner installation

>le hexagons XD

We've done this before. The wiki's claim doesn't match the source.
In response to
>What is the canonical design of the Charon-class Frigate? The one featured in Halo 3, or Halo 4?
He says
>Halo 3 shows the canonical Charon-class, while Halo 4 introduced us to the Strident-class of UNSC frigates.
That doesn't tell us anything about which class Forward Unto Dawn is.
Is there a post halo 4 source that states the Forward Unto Dawn is a Charon-class frigate?

>memes should be kept out of the OPs
Have you ever opened the fucking catalog

If every other general was jumping off a cliff would you jump too?

Yes. You know this is one of the stupidest question they ask to children. It's not like other children are jumping of the fucking cliff for no reason. Probably a train or truck or something like that is coming. If you're friends with non-retards and they're actually jumping off a cliff suddenly, they probably have some fucking reason

Use your own judgement to determine if jumping is necessary and safe, don't just follow the crowd.

Well, the point of the saying is that they ARE jumping off for no reason.

>Covenant Hydro-Processing Center.
>forerunner

Mr. Autist.

You won't have that luxury in emergency situations

Like just think, you're chilling with your friends on a cliff. Nothing's happening, everybody's calm and shit. And suddenly they're jumping off the cliff. If at that moment you doubt them and look behind to see what's coming you can die because you weren't quick enough to jump, or become paralyzed because you're afraid of what's coming

So unless you're friends with retards following them should be fine

It's just a response to shitty reasoning that something is okay because others do it. Sperg.

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Repurposed

>CE - Johnson and elite hug before dying
Johnson is pretty alive in Halo 2. NOT CANON

>2 - Cortana and Gravemind talking
Gravemind didn't actually "shoot" her as seen in the events of Halo 3. CANON STATUS DEBATABLE

>3 - FuD floating towards Requiem
No Jul's fleet on sight. NOT CANON

>Wars - Serina wakes up Captain Cutter
Serina can't be alive by the events of HW2 due to rampancy. NOT CANON

>ODST - Truth find the portal to The Ark
Nothing to say here. CANON

>Reach - PoA flying towards Alpha Halo
No longswords escorting the PoA as seen in the beginning of CE. CANON STATUS DEBATABLE

>Reach Epilogue - Halsey's eulogy
30 years after the events of the games? That's just retarded. NOT CANON

>4 - MC removing his armor/helmet
MC didn't actually remove his armor, he jumped right unto the next mission with blue team. NOT CANON

>5 - Cortana finds a new Halo
Not enough info about this to either confirm or deny it's canon status. CANON STATUS PENDING

- Cortana and Gravemind talking
>Gravemind didn't actually "shoot" her as seen in the events of Halo 3. CANON STATUS DEBATABLE

I might have only been 8 or 9 at the time but I'm glad that I'm not the only who thought Gravemind was actually going to shoot her.

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I hate lorefags so fucking much

>complaining about autism on a chinese cartoon imageboard
Where do you think you are?

>implying "everyone else is doing it mom!" is an argument

>Serina can't be alive by the events of HW2 due to rampancy. NOT CANON
Maybe she survived rampancy or resisted it?

>everyone forgets that some A.I get past rampancy

I suppose that means that ODST isn't a Halo game, either. Or, Halo Wars. Or Halo 5.

All of those games have Halo on their title screen.

So does Reach :^)

It literally does not.

What do you mean by Gravemind shooting Cortana? And what happened right after 4 him talking his armor off literally could have been anytime between 4 and 5.

Well damn, you're actually right.

I only now just realized that these are Seraphs

So game confirmed non canon?

If that's the qualifier than Reach is as much a Halo game as Halo 5.

Not canon indeed.

General consesus is that legendary endings/epilogues are not canon.

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The general consensus doesn't look anywhere near this far into it and has the common sense to know it's a video game and not the gospel

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>H3's ending isn't canon because it conflicts with a later game
>Reach's ending isn't canon because it conflicts with an earlier game

make up your fucking mind. If 4 can change the canonicity of things that happened in 3, then Reach can change the canonicity of things that happened in CE.

That's why it says "CANON STATUS DEBATABLE
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Then the other one should be debatable as well.

>Reach's ending isn't canon because it conflicts with an earlier game
Wrong, Reach is a direct prequel to CE.

You're retarded.

You mean 3? Definitely not, if anything i think you're right and i would change Reach's legendary ending to CANON.

Hello /hg/. I haven't played Halo 5 since release because apparently 343 didn't have forge world. Did they listen to fan feedback and added forge world into Halo 5? It is the only reason why I stopped playing.

Even better, they added a beautiful tropical canvas recently. With this you have 4 big open spaces that don't limit your creativity in any reasonable way.

Just bought the Reach DLC
AMA

Did you buy it to get the achievements?

Well yes, my point is just that they should be the same so it's consistent.

Yes, and mostly so I don't have to deal with the pop up every time I want to play MP

Well no shit my man.

I refuse to believe that you don't understand what I meant. CE is an earlier game than Reach. Really think about it.

Forge is literally better in 5 than Reach by leaps and bounds. You can actually place down your own terrain, alter gravity, through glitching you can even make semi-custom vehicles with map geometry. But no, there is not a preset terrain forge canvas like Forge World.


...unless by "forge world" you just meant Forge, in which case yes they added it and it's great.

Still no excuse for it not being ready at release

4 overwrites 3.
Reach overwrites CE.
It's not the same case.

This.
Nobody cares.

You will trigger the 343 appologist with this post.

How are those not the same? New game canon > old game canon.

Then i feel really, really sorry for you. It's gonna be a nightmare trying to unlock those bullshit achievements.

4 takes place after 3.
Reach takes place before CE.
It's not the same case.

Why would you use the in game chronology and not the game release times?
Later depictions trump earlier depictions unless otherwise noted.

I just looked it up. No land and just water? Seems lazy for 343 to do that. Forge world still looks better.

Shame there isn't forge world. The tools and pieces that Halo 5 forge has really doesn't matter. Only the map (like forge world) is where it counts.

Go away forge world user.

>I just looked it up. No land and just water? Seems lazy for 343 to do that. Forge world still looks better.
Don't take this the wrong way but having Forge World right now would be literally for lazy people. Just imagine trying to build any map you want from the ground, why would you pick a canvas with stuff in the way instead of a clean canvas?
Pic related, /hg/ Island would be literally impossible to create in Forge World.

>The tools and pieces that Halo 5 forge has really doesn't matter.
It seems you really don't know much about Forge stuff since release, check out some vids in youtube of the amazing stuff people has created in 5's Forge.

>3 ending - NOT CANON
>4 beginning - CANON
>Reach ending - CANON
>CE beginning - NOT CANON
Happy?

That seems both convenient and unsaucable.

yes

It's better if we leave them like that, most of the endings are too controversial and conflicting.