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Halo Infinite Legendary ending
Xalanyn/Harbinger
Chief jumps through the mysterious portal and arrives, safe, three days later amidst some of the 'old' ring like artifacts the Banished have been so interested in.
We learn Atriox is alive (wow, who'd a thunk it).
He approaches and unlocks a room full of Cylix (the name for the cryopods/cryptum/prisons we have seen). These Cylix are different though, as they have a different symbol on them, different even to the Harbinger's Cylix.In the Legendary ending we also get a VO between a Forerunner and Despondent Pyre dated 99928 years before the events of Halo Infinite. They talk about the Endless/Xalanyn (the race Harbinger is). They have implied they are going to 'help' the Xalanyn, but instead have sent Offensive Bias/Forerunner fleet to destroy/trap the Xalanyn, presumably to be sent to the Silent Auditorium to be trapped into their Cylixs. They also mention in regards to the Xalanyn, "time become a construct that they could control.", implying they have some technology to alter time.
Now, through out the game and Audio logs, we have heard how the 'dangerous' the Xalanyn are, and how the Forerunners feared them, Cortana even says "Worse things here than the Flood", implying that to the Forerunners at least the Xalanyn are a grave threat.
In the past the Halo rings activated, but inexplicably the Xalanyn survived. Not only survived, they were and advanced technological civilization that seemingly appeared out of nowhere, as the Forerunners had complete dominion over the Milky way (our galaxy).
Understandably this confused and most probably concerned the remaining Forerunners. It is said the Forerunners feared the most "masters turned slave", they feared losing their power, and in the Xalanyn they must of seen a threat in this regard.
Now onto speculation/theories.
The Xalanyn have the ability to manipulate time. Not complete manipulation, but have at least some ability. Fighting the Harbinger, she 'teleports' around, but more than likely this is her time travel ability, she is pausing and moving, at least locally. I think she even says something like "to you, armor is just a weapon" as one of her lines, maybe she is implying her suit serves a bigger purpose, time manipulation?
So, in the past the rings activate and wipe everything out, and then as the Forerunners are re-seeding they run into the Xalanyn. Where did they inexplicably come from? A whole Homeworld (Despondent Pyre is instructed to covertly move her ring into range, "just in case"). It/they mysteriously appeared. As I said, the Forerunners at this point had had full dominion over the Milky Way, and so for a race to mysteriously appear is very unlikely. Not only did they appear, and survive the Rings firing, but they even survived the Flood.
Time Manipulation. At some point in the very distant past, pre-Foreunner (dominion at least) the Xalanyn developed Time Manipulation technology. Through possible accident or intention they move their entire planet forward in time. This would explain:
A) how they appeared,
how they survived the Halos and the Flood,
C) Why the forerunners would think they were so dangerous,
D) the time manipulation statements peppered through out the game.Now I would suppose they only had limited ability, which is why I am calling it Time Manipulation, rather than Time Control (which would imply full mastery), and probably are unlikely to be able to go back in time. I think this as a race that had full control would be literally unbeatable, the ol' Chicken and the kill baby Hitler dilemma.
So, the Forerunners find them. The Xalanyn, fresh from their time experiment appear in a brand new time (they had been gone a long time) and don't know much about what has gone on. They would be disorientated to say the least. The Forerunners learn of their technology and get very afraid. If they are allowed to gain complete mastery, they could do anything, they could become the new masters. They go to the Xalanyn and offer help, offer a "parley" (as the audio log puts it). This is really a ruse to catch the Xalanyn off guard. Obviously a civilization with Time Manipulation would be very difficult to beat. Their only chance to overcome them is to do a massive strike and overwhelm them, before any of them can jump further forward in-time, to plot revenge and finish their technology.
During the meetings, the Forerunners send Offensive Bias/Forerunner fleet for their sneaky attack. It succeeds. In typical Forerunner hubris, they catalogue and trap the surviving Xalanyn so they can pretend they are still following the Mantle of Responsibility they are so fond of.
Same deal as humanity, some Forerunners like WTF, that wasn't very paragon of us. They move some random Xalanyn artifacts and things onto Zeta Halo as a form of confession and grave/monument to the Xalanyn, whom they just stabbed in the back. That is why people keep saying the are 'older' than the ring, 'older' than even the Foreunners. They are literally older, ancient.
Chief time jumps into a group of these rings at the end of the game, three days into the future. This adds to the theory that Xalanyn can manipulate time in some way, as the ancient rings are actually ancient Xalanyn artifacts.
Now, why was Atriox so interested and trusting of the Harbinger. Well, some little old purple lady destroyed his entire Homeworld (Doisac) to punish him specifically, which was a pretty renegade move when you consider Atriox had no position of power of the Jiralhanae/Brute society. He was basically a pirate warlord. It'd be like destroying Britain to punish Black Beard. Billions of bystanders, killed.
We are getting a little of track, all that to say Atriox was more than a little pissed. So he plots revenge, formulates a plan, hunts down Cortana only to find her on Zeta Halo. That's fine, kill Cortana and get a Halo. Win/win. But then he discovers the Xalanyn, or at least starts to suspect. He formulates a new plan, release and help the Xalanyn/Harbinger, and in return they can do some time travel high-jinx and restore Doisac.
So, TLDR:
Xalanyn are ancient species that have time manipulation
Forerunners scared of time technology
Atriox wants the technology for Doisac/himself.Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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I hope it isn't a collect-athon. I think people are going to complain that it isn't linear enough TBH. Not focused.
May be similar to Metro Exodus? Open world pieces connected by linear set pieces, but you can still travel between the areas after the set piece.
I hope there isnt any "This area is too high level for you spartan" destiny BS like that. No damage scaling where brutes in "high danger" zones can't be killed without bigger numbers. We'll see I guess.
Still needs some polish. Elites were default/T-posing when Chief jacked the Banshees.
I hope there is some way to customize visuals of Chief. People have mentioned a new game+ where you can import your MP Spartan, which would be cool. You can see some armor module customisation (shields, etc)
Anyone notice they changed the Brohammer Pelican video a wee bit? Chief now has a cable (grapple hook?) Attached when floating in space and when his suit is restarted.
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I'm not sure I fully agree with the previous films being dissapointing. I for one enjoyed Legends, and Forward unto Dawn tremendously.
When it comes to the new show coming out, I believe that Microsoft will put as much funding into it as they need to make it successful. This show is a big deal in the gaming world and will be combed through with a very very fine comb, and everyone involved knows it.
They tend to be watchable despite themselves.
Legends, the stories are cool and (mainly) fit into canon, but the varying art-styles are so jarring. I know they said the visuals aren't necessarily canon (teen Halsey?) but the stories are?
Forward Unto Dawn, teen actors are subpar.
Nightfall, generic and boring. Visually it looks just like another generic "Syfy channel movie". You know the ones.
Halo Fall Of Reach, they took what is arguably everyone favorite book and retold it based on someones memory of the story? Like they just had someone sit down, read it once, then wrote the script based on what that one dude remembered. Also, the CGI works in the hidden logs in the games, as they are just little one and a half minute snippets expanding on lore, but the artstyle just doesn't hold up over a 1 hour movie.
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Early days, to be sure, but what are everyone's feelings on the show so far?
For context here are some links:Latest Press Release Variety.com
Little Bit Of Controversy Explained Screen Rant
I guess I'll just go bullet point:
Jacob And Miranda Keyes
Why even have them in the show?
Let alone to so fundamentally change the characters?
And I am not (just) talking about the racial bending.
"Gray will play Dr. Miranda Keyes, a brilliant UNSC Commander who is dedicated to understanding the technology, language and culture of the Covenant, but she’ll have to learn to navigate the politics of the UNSC to get what she wants."
In the established canon Miranda is accept to Luna Officer Candidate School at age 16, graduates with honors then immediate requests active duty (because, you know, we are at war with the Covvies at this point).At what point in time would she of had time to go and get a Doctorate? There are programs where you can get a PHD while on active military duty, but at no point has it been mentioned that Miranda had one.
"Sapani will play Captain Jacob Keyes, described a dedicated military man, a war hero and a caring father. He finds that working alongside his daughter and his ex-wife is usually the cause of conflict rather than comfort."
Alongside daughter, ok, makes a little sense (maybe, but not really), but ex-wife? Jacob hadn't seen Halsey from years 2530 (ish) to 2552, 22 years. And then they were only together like a day. Halsey didn't see him again because he died on Halo. So how exactly does he work 'alongside' her? They are trying to somehow spin a story where in an galactic war for survival these three people are entwined? Jacob and Miranda have a good relationship but as far as I can tell they were both Bridge Crew on different ships in different fleets? Not a lot of opportunity for cooperation, at least not personally between them.Plus, they have been portrayed as African descent, which I don't really care about but why not just write two new characters? This portrayal seems to be completely different to anything established to the point where they are new characters, but then to change their race as well? For canon nerds it is definitely irritating.
Makee
"Murphy will play Makee, an orphaned human who was raised by the alien Covenant and shares their contempt for humanity"
A new character written for the show.
Is this a joke?
Not only does it fundamentally undermine the entire goal of the Covenant Crusade (complete eradication), but it is pretty clique writing that has been done tonnes of time, and probably better.There are a few cases of humans and Covvies working together (Mona Lisa, The Rubble) but to be 'raised' by the Covvies? If this is the quality of writing for the show we can expect, we are gonna have a bad time.
Side Notes
If they don't have Steve Downes dubbing John-117's voice, then why even have the big MC in the show?
Same kind of goes for Jen Taylor doing the voice, but I do think Natascha McElhone could be a cool mo-cap actor for Cortana, although I think Jen Taylor also would of been cool as I can envision both as her avatar. It would be cool if Natasha did Halsey, then Jen Taylor dubbed Cortana.
Soren-066 played by Bokeem Woodbine could be cool, although if they are doing post augmentation (which they kind of have to), then Soren is all kinds of messed up? I guess they will go into what happens to him.
Vannak-134 sounds lame. "serves as the defacto deputy to the Master Chief." What does that even mean? I get it couldn't be Fred yet, because he is still leading his own team, but Vannak? There are so many established S-IIs they could of used they wasted one of their spots on a sidekick for Chief? Put MF Jorge in as having served with MC before Noble Team. Would of been way cooler.
Also, no casting for any Covvie characters as yet? Kind of disappointing.
I honestly, and sincerely, hope the show will be good. Unfortunately Halo just hasn't got a good track record of having good video extended media (FUD, Legends, Nightfall, Fall of Reach). They have all fallen short of being satisfactory in almost any regard. They really need to have someone watching over the Extended Media as a whole and making sure everything lines up. They may not want to have to keep following the Canon from the 18 year old original books but Fall Of Reach (the book) continues to be one of the most popular of all the books, and is sold not only as add-on for the games but as just a very good sci-fi book in general.
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Who saw it? I did.
This one has the most plot holes out of any of these Marvel movies. Still very enjoyable. I would give it like a 7 to 7.5 because of the plot problems.
I felt the plot was very predictable, being able to clearly see the Kree were the ones to screw over Carol, and they were the ones controlling her powers with their limiter switch, not the one that gave her the powers.
Dr. Lawson/Mar-vel is trying to develop a Light Speed engine so the Skrulls can leave the Milky Way to get away from the Kree. But there is already plenty of factions and races that have FTL drives. Most of Guardians happens in the Andromeda Galaxy, the 1st closest to 'our' galaxy, the Milky Way. Yondu kidnaps Quill from Earth in 1988 and they end up in Andromeda, so there are already ships with the means to get from Galaxy to Galaxy. FTL engines don't appear to be in short supply, so why can't the Skrulls just get a ship that already has one? Also just a note, they only ever say 'Light Speed Engine', not 'Fast Than Light Speed Engine', so at Light Speed it would still take them 2.54 million years just to get to Andromeda. Andromeda also already had a Kree presence, so the Kree themselves have the means to get from Milky Way to Andromeda.
How did Dr. Lawson get the Tesseract. Ok, so maybe SHIELD let the USAF/NASA use the Tesseract during their joint Project: Pegasus. That makes sense. But presumably it would still be a highly valued and secured object, even if they didn't quite know what it was. How did Dr.Lawson manage to steal it? Not only that, but it had to of been missing for up to 6 years, where it was just hanging out in Lawson's orbiting Laboratory/Kree Space Cruiser.
The Supreme Intelligence. Before Carol meets the AI it is explained that the AI may appear in any form IT chooses. Why would the AI choose to take the form of Dr.Lawson during it's conversation with Carol? Surely if Supreme AI is trying to keep Carol under control they don't want her questioning her past too much. Why would the AI intentionally choose to show up as someone Carol isn't supposed to know? Maybe it was afraid of Carol piecing together her past through the recurring dreams she was having but shouldn't it of instead offered it's own false answers rather than intentionally keeping it a mystery? That would make Carol just look for answers?
Carol shoots one hole in the Skrull ship and the whole thing explodes. Must of shot it directly in the C4.
Skrulls are on Earth for like 1 day and in that time they naturally are able to not only find information painting SHIELD as an important organization, they also manage to locate, isolate, and take the form of Nick Fury's boss. In less than 24 hours. GG Skrulls, good work.
Ronan The Accuser. He is a part of 'the Accusers', so shouldn't he be 'Ronan A Accuser', not 'The Accuser', since there seems to be quite a few of them? Also, he all "We will be back for HER", then proceeds to presumably forget about Captain Marvel for
Maybe it was on his TODO.Ronan The Accuser uses Ballistic Missiles to level what looks like entire cities early in the movie as a distraction for Jude Law and his team to extract a Kree Spy. They show one missile leveling a city. Ronan turns up at Earth and proceeds to order all his ships to fire every single missile in a single file line, so they would presumably all land in the same 50m circle? Why not spread out the pay load across a continent? It made it awfully convenient for Captain Marvel to destroy the missiles when they were all fired in a tight clustered single file line.
The Tesseract is show to be
, but Goose the Flerken manages to eat it and be fine? Also, why was Dr.Lawson keeping Goose as a pet? The Skrulls are shown to be scared of Flerkens so not like it was helping her refugee pals.Jude Law turns up on Earth and finds fake Skrull Captain Marvel. Why did they even leave him behind? Why didn't they just take him (the skrull) into space with them? Not only that but at no time does anyone tell Jude Law where the Laboratory is but then he and his team just appear on it? I guess when it de-cloaked they managed to detect it? Over sight on Talos's part when they don't re-engage cloaking after boarding.
Captain Marvel shoots down Jude Law's little space fighter, he crashes, then Ronan The Accuser turns up and fires his missiles in a single fire line straight down. Captain Marvel flies off. When his ship crashes does Jude Law just literally stand there for like 5 minutes while Captain Marvel flies into space? What was he doing? Not like he could watch. He then proceeds to get
by Captain Marvel, which was nice.At times the editing seemed to be pretty poor. When Ronan turns up and fires at Earth it just kind of hard cuts to Captain Marvel flying straight up. They don't show her acknowledging the threat. When Fury fights Talos in the records room they showed like 15 guys run in to check the room then some how it is empty for Fury to one on one Talos.
Things I like.
The whole 'First Female led what ever' thing wasn't ever played up. It didn't feel like there was any real behind the scenes political message, it was just a cool story that happened to be revolving around a female. Not, "eww, men, amirite".
Some legit laughs. Old computers, Block Buster, incompetent Kree tech. In fact, the Skrull in general were pretty good.
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I bought it on epic for $64 AUD. I'll probs rebuy it on Steam when a GOTY edition comes out on sale.
It was a pretty good game. Waifu Anna best Waifu.
Wish there was more open world parts. The only parts that seems open world was the fishing village swamp and Mad Max rip off parts. When you go to the forest I felt hindered by the fact I couldn't kill any of the Pirates, less I get the bad ending for that segment.
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I thought it was confirmed Evil Cortana was one of the rampant fragments that got blasted from Mantle's Approach.
Quote from 'Dominion Splinter': "Don't worry about me. I'm a fragment of what I once was. This splinter of me is no threat to you. Or to this place."
She makes contact with the Domain which is what allows the fragment to rebuild itself, but something built on a shaky base will topple.
I feel like this Halo game is going to be a lot more open ended in terms of gameplay. It will still be the FPS we know and love, but maybe have a lot bigger play areas on multiple maps and locale/planets. Maybe using Infinity as a home base you will have a galaxy map where you chose in which order to play them in/ where to go?
I hope it reunites a lot of the loose ends and side stories. Chief comes across Spirit of Fire. Gray Team is on the radio in one part. We see a Vulture shooting it out with some Banshees. All the side stuff in this one Infinite experience.
Probably be smart and don't trust the trailers this time people. 'Hunt The Truth'
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"The Metro is cold Atryom, but you know what is not cold? Beautiful Soviet Train. Explore the country side. Meet the wildlife. Then kill it." -Lenin Himself
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I think Master Chief is the central focus of the Halo main storyline, the main numbered games, and with the exception of him eventually dying I think the numbered sequels should always follow the Master Chiefs story.
That being said I don't think MC has to be present or involved in every Halo story. I loved ODST for its different depiction of the war and would love more games focused on other events in the Halo universe, pre war, innie war, post war, you name it.
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So,theory
How do ships in Halo hang in the air?
Example; In Amber Clad manages to stay stationary over New Mombasa in Halo 2 with no (obvious) thrusters.
I think this can be explained with Slipspace drives.
I believe that a 'passive' ability of the Drives could be to anchor a ship in a particular spot, similar to how the Forerunner artifact immobilized Infinity over Requiem.The Drive creates a link into Slipspace that suspends it in a spot.
Now, the reason why only certain ships can go into atmosphere while others can not (Halcyon's can't, Charons Can)
The immobilization effect only works on the drive itself, not the whole ships, since it is only the drive creating the link. In practice, the whole weight of the ship is held in spot by it's tethers/anchors/mounts to the drives themselves.
Obviously a Charon weighs alot less than a Halcyon, so the tethers/anchors/mounts don't need to hold as much weight. Super Halo space aged metals are still limited and so while the do manage to hold the Charon, the weight of a Halcyon is too much.
Now, why can Covvie ships hang in the air?
It could be that their super Halo space aged metal technology surpasses the UNSC's (access to crazy alloys and Huragoks) and so can hold more weight.It could be their Slipspace drives are more powerful and so able to create a larger field.
This was just an idea I had. Obviously, post war UNSC had more tech and so now every ship can do whatever.
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Without the Schism I am fairly sure Earth would of fallen and defeating the Covenant becomes pretty impossible but the complete destruction of Humanity seems fairly unlikely.
We were already working on the Infinity, Halsey and the gang were already busy at work messing around on Onyx and there were still a fair few untouched human colonies left out in the wild.
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Thanks.
If anyone wants any they just need to ask.I'm also open to do some requests/commissions if any wants something specific. So if you go some simple art you want printed in metal or plastic I'm your fella.
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There felt to be alot fewer full cutscenes in this one compared to HW 1.
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As for you Warthog rage... Are you kidding me? That makes total sense to have Jerry cans on the Warthog. The only reason it wasn't in previous games was because of gameplay. Most Warthogs carry Jerry Cans, how do you think they fuel up? Plus, how does this bother you and not the fact that they now have Nightangle and Condors? Those are post-war was well. But yet, the only thing that bothers you is the Warthog? They have them because they took them from the UNSC wreckage...
Unplayable
The literal first scene of Red Team being dropped of from the Pelican they have the update Warthog. No chance to of gotten a replacement/updates.
UN-PLAY-ABLE
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All spoilers all the way:
So the Halo at the end the game is the replacement for the Halo in CE.
But the Halo in Halo 1 was orbiting a brown gas giant and the one at the end of Halo 5 was orbiting a blue gas giant but I suppose it could of been forced out of slipspace by the Guardian into orbit around another gas planet
Anders said the Ark always has a back up ready to go. The one in Halo 3 could of been the first one, got destroyed, so the Ark, on auto pilot, just made a second one.
From Halo 1 to Halo 3 was only a few months which is why the Halo in Halo 3 wasn’t fully finished. From Halo 3 to Halo Wars 2 was like 5 years, which is why the second one was fully finished.
The game ends with a scene of Atriox and his army still left on the ark which is presumably where the multi-player picks up. Atriox and SoF fighting for control of the Ark. I believe they are doing Campaign DLC, which may be from Atriox's view.
Major problem,
The Warthog at the start was the post Covenant war model (square bullet shield and jerry cans). That really ground my gears as SoF wouldn't of had access to it, just coming out of hiding after 30 years and all. Literally unplayable.
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So, you are probably dead of you haven't already watched the trailer, but here it is anyway, a good starting point:
Who excited?
In an time where every game is moving more and more into sci-fi it is great to see a AAA game take a step back, not only to set the game in the past but in WW1 which hasn't ever really been fleshed out in major videogames is great, but I suppose that is proably everyones point of view.
I am cautiously optimistic at the moment, seeing as we have only seen a 90 second trailer and have a few interviews where DICE have given vague answers to easy enough questions.
It will be great if the game wasn't focused on America, not to knock their role in the War but they certainly weren't the only players and they did join pretty late. The main art does have a Harlem Hellfighter on it though so I'm not overly confident I'll get exact;y what I want. As long as they don't act like there were 'good' guys and 'bad' guys, WW1 was more complicated than that.
Apparently there will be a campaign, which is great. Something like a series of different stories following soldiers across varies battles. Gallipoli is what I want, get me a kickass ANZAC hat.
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So, how everyone doing?
I made a thing.
First One.
Rush job. Supposed to be like a data/commisioning pad put onto the ship. Spelling mistakes.
Would be cool to get suggesting for format and information to include.
Second.
Testing how the ship would look. Thought it looked pretty simple/barren so went about adding more detail. Bonus UNSC logo plate.
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First attempt at adding detail. I think turned out fairly decent. Found some cool green Ali to print on, which was nice. Still wanted to refine some more though.
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Closing in on how to best set the ships up to print. I also setup the Infinity to print, but it didn't turn out so good so will have to redraw.
Am aiming to do all the UNSC ships, than move onto Covvie ones.
Thoughts?
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Hey,
Still silently supporting you and your game and ideas.
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This is exactly what I have been waiting for and the reason I haven't already got a Xbox One. Am pre-ordering the console package and the MC controller.
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How did you get this up so fast??
Did you secretly know
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Weekly Update went out today :
http://unscwarfare.com/Blog/Post/1074/game-update-unsc-ship-slots
In addition I added the Wolverine Unit, Unlocked another mission and by the time most of you read this, I will of added another ship slot!
Already bought it and it is messing shtuff up.
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So the 3D modeller would be modelling ships and UNSC ground units? If so I once again suggest hanging around the modding communities. Some one would inevitably join or a team might even be willing to share models already created.
Here is a list of other Halo based mods if you like: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Modding#Community_mods_based_on_Halo
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No where, in that entire interview, was it even implied that Xbox Ones design doesn't support gaming first.
When a console first comes out no one really knows how to use it properly and that is why as time progress the games get better looking and that is why COD isn't using 1080p.
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Just for my own piece of mind, I think I was well on the mark.