Technically, only a small part takes place "after" Halo 3. About 4/5 in, the memorial shown in Halo 3's epilogue takes place. So about 2553.

So apparently Halo 4 will have 10 new weapons, 2 new vehicles, and 50 Spartan Ops missions for season one, which will span over 10 weeks. Source here.

Wish they had more vehicles to give us. Then again, Reach only had 2 new vehicles as well, Revenant and Falcon.

Also, Spartan Ops has been confirmed to be about 12 hours long. So divided up I'd estimate each mission to be, ah... 15 minutes long. That's pretty decent. Not as long as a campaign mission, generally, but still, sweet.

edited 27th Jun '12 7:21:46 PM by OrKuunArQenByundis

I'm trying to decide a date for my fanfic. I'm not sure how far away I want to set it.

I'm worried 50 years would be too far ahead into the future, but if I go too early then the story will conflict with canon.

Maybe make up some alien species and detail one's experiences throughout the Forerunner-Flood War? Ending with him going into stasis on a Shield World or Halo Installation or something so you can make a sequel in present-times.

Wish Halo had more aliens. There's supposed to be tens of thousands, but we've only seen about 8. We should meet some in Halo 4 or 5 that could potentially ally with us and become a playable race alongside Elites and maybe Forerunners.

edited 27th Jun '12 7:25:29 PM by OrKuunArQenByundis

I'm 11 chapters in. Won't work.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8128248/1/The_Great_Journey

Hmm, given all the weapons and vehicles we've had in past games, I'm less curious about what all they're introducing than about what all they're bringing back. For instance, which Covie Warthog equiv are they going to have here, if any? The Spectre? The Revenant? The Prowler? All three*

Yeah, fat chance, I know. But still, it'd be hilarious if they did, wouldn't it?

? So many possibilities.

edited 27th Jun '12 8:26:43 PM by HibernoBrony

I hope we get the chopper back. It was simply wonderful.

I liked the Revenant best. The Spectre was a bit badly designed, if memory serves. Bumping into slightly raised ground could flip you. Did like its rapid-fire plasma cannon, though.

I'd say they should bring back the Chopper and Revenant, besides all the stuff that we know they'll put in anyway. Wonder if any of the new vehicles are Forerunner, or if that giant Elephant-like thing (unofficialy designated the "Mammoth" by a good many) counts as one. Or if the ability to drive a vehicle we've already seen (dropships, for instance...) counts as "new".

By the way, three new Forerunner guns were seen, but not identified. One was long and sleek (most likely a sniper), one of bulky and squarish (speculated to be a rocket/grenade launcher-type thing), and the last was a broad-barreled rifle (thought to be an automatic weapon of some sort). All pictured here. Counting all the new weapons seen so far, including these three, there are still 2 left we have no idea about.

edited 27th Jun '12 10:45:36 PM by OrKuunArQenByundis

I agree with Byundis on Alien species. Currently ME 3 is the only console game where I can run around shootin' things as an Alien. Halo should change that.

Forward Unto Dawn trailer released. Cannot post it for various reasons, but sure someone'll get on it

There you go.

What are they singing? Can't quite make it out.

It's the UNSC Marine Cadence. It was introduced in Contact Harvest; pleasant surprise, this Call Back.

Lines here.

edited 3rd Jul '12 10:53:15 AM by OrKuunArQenByundis

It's not the trailer though. It's just a small taste of the trailer.

Very lovingly based on a typical cadence used by every branch of the US military in basic training.

By the way, I was playing Halo 2 the other day, and I noticed that the panel used to deactivate the quarantine shield had a 6-fingered hand-print on it, with a thumb on each side and 4 central fingers. That confirms Primordium's description of warrior-servants having 6 fingers, but the Knights only have 5 on those spindly little arms. Wonder if that's been retconned.

Alternatively, Forerunners could all have 4 arms, 2 of which have 5 fingers.

Well, if we suppose that Promethean Knights really are just biomechanical constructs, then the five-fingered hands could symbolize that they're not really true warrior-servants or something like that. Or it could just be an arbitrary design choice. Remember, they only have three "toes" on their feet, after all.

Remember who we're talking about here. The Forerunners fought wars on a scale we haven't seen yet. The Promethean Knights are probably some kind of drone the real Prometheans fight with.

Is anyone expecting some Forerunner Final Boss?

So I'm watching MLG tournament footage for Halo 4 and it seems that all the weapons sound a lot more beastly! I mean goddamn, the DMR is like the fist of god pounding on your face all over and over again.

Needler seems kind of improved but not enough people have used it to really give me a good enough idea of what it's capable of.

I'm afraid that forerunner light-shotgun just feels... too much like the shotgun I guess? Is the human shotty even returning? And what about the grenade launcher or any of the brute weapons?

Also, this video:

edited 7th Jul '12 6:26:06 PM by StillbirthMachine

The narrator doesn't know that Guilty Spark is still alive.

edited 7th Jul '12 7:00:06 PM by TheProffesor

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

You haven't read the books, have you?

How can he possibly still be alive?

Somehow ONI managed to salvage him after the Battle of Installation 00. He used to be a human named Chakas. He got turned into a Monitor to save his life.

edited 7th Jul '12 8:05:21 PM by TheProffesor