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Halo 5 Guardians: #huntthetruth

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killer rin

Member
Really breath holding episode this week. I think I forgot to breath the entire time.
Fuck Yes! I knew the Chief was innocent.
 
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Grazzt

Member
Wow, this episode is like a u-turn. Now Ben's job is to
find the real video and get Chief out of frame.
So who is FERO? She can't be Halsey or Osman. Maybe someone from
Sapien Sunrise
?
And fuck
Del Rio
#TeamChief
 
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Akai__

Member
Cross quoting from an other thread:

Gnome Scat said:
They've had beef ever since Requiem.

chief_s_doritos_by_skcrisis-d5yvvbr.gif
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Like I said... He is still mad.
 
SenjutsuSage

SenjutsuSage

Banned
Del Rio is bitter as all hell LOL. Chief showed him in Halo 4 that when push came to shove, he had ZERO real authority, and he still hasn't gotten over it. Paragonsky would have absolutely loved seeing the Chief put Del Rio in his place as he did, because she was always in Laskey's corner. He's the one she wanted to captain Infinity from the jump.

edit:: Master Chief!! So badass! There's something so amazing about hearing the Chief
taking out nothing but human insurrectionists with ruthless efficiency without so much as having a single drop of innocent blood on his hands. This may finally be the moment we face off against human insurrectionists in a Halo game.
 
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blue_phazon

Member
Can anyone explain what this is? I tried looking at the tumblr link in the OP and I'm super confused. Do the episodes piece together what the campaign is about or something?
 
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AYF 001

Member
Master Chief vindicated, Del Rio infuriated, and Ben Giruad's apartment raided! All is right in the Halo universe! I wonder what the chances are of him stumbling onto some spooky alien thingy in the next episode are?
 
SenjutsuSage

SenjutsuSage

Banned
blue_phazon said:
Can anyone explain what this is? I tried looking at the tumblr link in the OP and I'm super confused. Do the episodes piece together what the campaign is about or something?
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It's clearly a major build up for the campaign focus of Halo 5. If you're at all interested in the game, which I assume you are, you definitely want to listen to all of these, starting with the primer episode 00.

http://huntthetruth.tumblr.com/

Start from the very bottom where the first piece of media is the Halo 5 bullet ad. Basically, read and look at the pictures and media they give you that leads into each new episode. But even if you don't want to look at anything else, simply listening to each episode will more than suffice.
 
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Poodlestrike

Banned
blue_phazon said:
Can anyone explain what this is? I tried looking at the tumblr link in the OP and I'm super confused. Do the episodes piece together what the campaign is about or something?
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So far it's just a serial radio drama style story. It does seem to be setting stuff up (Chief being hunted by ONI, mostly), but to what extent it's going to inform the story is yet to be seen.
 
SenjutsuSage

SenjutsuSage

Banned
Poodlestrike said:
So far it's just a serial radio drama style story. It does seem to be setting stuff up (Chief being hunted by ONI, mostly), but to what extent it's going to inform the story is yet to be seen.
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-- I mean, there's all the mysterious slipspace disturbances happening all around the galaxy. Who knows what those could be. It could be flood, it could be the return of the forerunner civilization, or it could be something else entirely.

-- There's of course the setting of the stage for why exactly Master Chief would be considered a traitor and being hunted by another Spartan, who we now know to be Locke.

-- There seems to be a major insurrectionist element at play also. They are making a serious power play right now which could lead to them turning into quite the major threat.

-- With the obvious outing of the facts behind the Spartan II program, you have opportunistic and bitter politicians like Del Rio looking to capitalize and setup what ultimately amounts to a planned extermination of the remaining Spartan IIs. The stage is being set for a major internal conflict or war between Spartan IIs and Spartan IVs. The main mission of the Spartan IVs may end up becoming the hunting down and killing of Spartan IIs. How the Spartan II program was carried out, and how they were trained will be put to the test against Spartan IVs.

The game need not delve too deep into all this to be amazing, but there are some incredibly exciting pieces in place here.
 
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Poodlestrike

Banned
SenjutsuSage said:
-- I mean, there's all the mysterious slipspace disturbances happening all around the galaxy. Who knows what those could be. It could be flood, it could be the return of the forerunner civilization, or it could be something else entirely.

-- There's of course the setting of the stage for why exactly Master Chief would be considered a traitor and being hunted by another Spartan, who we now know to be Locke.

-- There seems to be a major insurrectionist element at play also. They are making a serious power play right now which could lead to them turning into quite the major threat.

-- With the obvious outing of the facts behind the Spartan II program, you have opportunistic and bitter politicians like Del Rio looking to capitalize and setup what ultimately amounts to a planned extermination of the remaining Spartan IIs. The stage is being set for a major internal conflict or war between Spartan IIs and Spartan IVs. The main mission of the Spartan IVs may end up becoming the hunting down and killing of Spartan IIs. How the Spartan II program was carried out, and how they were trained will be put to the test against Spartan IVs.

The game need not delve too deep into all this to be amazing, but there are some incredibly exciting pieces in place here.
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Yeah, but we don't know how much of that is actually going to play out in Halo 5. At this point, all that's certain is:

-Chief & Blue team are being hunted by Locke & Co.
-The GFBT (Giant Forerunner Bird Thing) will be present in some capacity.
-Arby think that shit's getting real.

That's it. HtT is setting up a lot of very cool stuff, but exactly how much of it is going to be covered in Halo 5 is still very much up in the air.
 
SenjutsuSage

SenjutsuSage

Banned
abadguy said:
I am hoping the Embassy "massacre" is in the game.
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Same!!!!!!!!

Poodlestrike said:
Yeah, but we don't know how much of that is actually going to play out in Halo 5. At this point, all that's certain is:

-Chief & Blue team are being hunted by Locke & Co.
-The GFBT (Giant Forerunner Bird Thing) will be present in some capacity.
-Arby think that shit's getting real.

That's it. HtT is setting up a lot of very cool stuff, but exactly how much of it is going to be covered in Halo 5 is still very much up in the air.
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There's no way the slipspace disturbances don't end up in the game. This is a mainline Halo title so we almost certainly will have some major galactic threat type event, and those tidbits we've been getting are just the earliest stages of what will emerge as the larger threat. Chief being a traitor and being hunted down by Locke, that, in my opinion, is merely just the calm before the storm. It's the sideshow to the bigger problem. The only uncertain aspect of all of this stuff is just how much, if at all, the human insurrectionist movement will factor in. I feel confident everything else I touched on, even if they don't show us Del Rio being a dick, will more or less play out.

I mean, after all, we've already received a picture clearly showcasing what may be a possible showdown between a team of Spartan IVs and a team of Spartan IIs aka Blue Team.
 
M

Mix

Member
Chief is still good?

Del Rio is still salty and is now a senator?

RAY HAS A DAUGHTER!?

93447-Key-and-Peele-OH-SHIT-gif-sung-Ao5j.gif


This episode was fantastic.
 
LordOfChaos

LordOfChaos

Member
So Del Rio isn't just targeting MC, he's after every Spartan II, wanting to retire them all and replace them with IVs which are more under his control.

Bad idea, man. I have a feeling this is the setup for blue teams regrouping.

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Arjac

Member
Hang on, wasn't the asshole on Halo 4 Anthony Del Rio?
Tumblr says the Senator's name is Andrew, brother perhaps?
friends in high places what got former Captain his commission?
edit: never mind
 
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GringoSuave89

Banned
I'm kinda surprised Del Rio has a political career after Halo 4. Glasslands or Thursday War seemed to imply that he was in a bit of hot water for abandoning Chief. Kinda a big blemish on a military record.
 
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WhiteRabbitEXE

Member
GringoSuave89 said:
I'm kinda surprised Del Rio has a political career after Halo 4. Glasslands or Thursday War seemed to imply that he was in a bit of hot water for abandoning Chief. Kinda a big blemish on a military record.
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Those took place before Halo 4. >.> Near the end of Halo 4 Lasky mentions that FLEETCOM relieved him of his post after Requiem though.

And honestly it's not that surprising. Considering his removal's context, the details almost certainly never made it public, and he was probably allowed to "retire" in the eyes of the public after decades of service. Probably made it into the senate via some war hero campaign PR.
 
FUNKNOWN iXi

FUNKNOWN iXi

Member
Master Chief saves the galaxy again and Del Rio still has his claws on shit. 343 is making us hate Del Rio so much that the we'll eventually come around to Palmer.

Mark
V
my words.
 
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Akai__

Member
Poodlestrike said:
Yeah, but we don't know how much of that is actually going to play out in Halo 5. At this point, all that's certain is:

-Chief & Blue team are being hunted by Locke & Co.
-The GFBT (Giant Forerunner Bird Thing) will be present in some capacity.
-Arby think that shit's getting real.

That's it. HtT is setting up a lot of very cool stuff, but exactly how much of it is going to be covered in Halo 5 is still very much up in the air.
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The outer colony thing is also part of Halo 5. It's in the official game description text.
 
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Sulik2

Member
I just caught up on like six weeks of these. Fantastic story telling. They really made it clear how monstrous what was done to the Spartan IIs was, even though you know it ended up saving humanity it was horrific. I love the peace talks with Sangheli. I want the Arbiter back with the Chief so much.
 
Computer

Computer

Member
The events of the last few episode will have to be told, played, or shown in Halo 5. I am curious of how 343 will go about filling in the average gamer that is not following hunt the truth.
 
Captain Zyrain

Captain Zyrain

Member
Such a great episode.. wonderful payoff.. can't wait to see what happens next.

#HUNTtheSIGNAL Ben!

Loved how Del Rio is just such an asshole.

I still think all of this is either skippable in the main story, or easily re-capped via an intro/prologue or Locke briefing exposition.

Hyped for E3!
 
SenjutsuSage

SenjutsuSage

Banned
Sulik2 said:
I just caught up on like six weeks of these. Fantastic story telling. They really made it clear how monstrous what was done to the Spartan IIs was, even though you know it ended up saving humanity it was horrific. I love the peace talks with Sangheli. I want the Arbiter back with the Chief so much.
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The opening bits of the final book in the Kilo Five trilogy 'Halo: Mortal Dictata' was way more disturbing than I was expecting due to its intimate focus on what the parents were going through as their child on her birthday (which we know was abducted for the Spartan II program, becoming Naomi-010) suddenly turned up missing on her way home from school.

The motions they went through as the parents were becoming more and more nervous about where she was, the anger from the mother when she began blaming the father for allowing their barely 7 year old girl to take the bus home by herself, the guilt from the father and the way he began quietly blaming himself internally while trying his best to project confidence on the outside to his wife that everything was okay, finally mixed in with the constant driving around from place to place with even a bunch of neighbors starting search parties to go out and look for her, and all of them, including the police, turning up nothing. I had to skip ahead at times just to see how far away I was from the end of that section, because I didn't know how many more pages of it I could continue reading. It's easy to marvel at how badass the Spartan IIs are and celebrate all the amazing things they accomplish and do, but the perspective from the parents & family members, which obviously we could always imagine, was never quite literally spelled out with the level of disturbing detail that we're now getting.

I'm currently on chapter 3 of Mortal Dictata, and its focus on family and the impact the Spartan II program had on people's lives is definitely resonating extremely well with the huntthetruth episodes. The father spends so much time in the opening bits detailing how special his little girl is, and all that he loves about her, and how much effort he's putting into her birthday gift, and then to follow that up with her abduction and then the miraculous reappearance of a little girl that while she looks exactly like the daughter he raised, doesn't seem to remember her family at all, and behaves in a fashion that is the complete opposite of the real Naomi.
 
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