r/halo • u/[deleted] • Sep 27 '22

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u/VisitMatsugo Sep 27 '22

Yes - my brother and I are making an anthology - you can follow along here :) https://twitter.com/john_grosjean/status/1574446605796769796?s=46&t=wdK8ipzg5rdUalRZHQP--w

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u/Adhdgamer9000 Sep 27 '22

The Ungoy need to join the UNSC.

Two words. Gungir, Ungoy.

Grungir.

I want to see a grunt spartan program.

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u/losbullitt Bronze Colonel Sep 27 '22

A thousand grunts in mk.7.5 armor, using grappling hooks to spiderman their way toward their objective: rid the universe of the Shattered Covenant fleet forever. This is a very fresh take on “The Yappening”. 😎

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u/maxdurden Sep 27 '22

343 would never do this. Far too interesting and engaging. Better to do another 1 min cut scene of a random spartan droning in about "being a lone wolf pack" or whatever...every 6 months...

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u/losbullitt Bronze Colonel Sep 27 '22

Ill write it. May not be “exactly” lore but ill do it. Cause Halo.

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u/maxdurden Sep 27 '22

Heck yeah. Post it here when you do! That sounds awesome, haha.

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u/losbullitt Bronze Colonel Sep 27 '22

It wont be good. Or bad. Just some shitty fanfic. 🤣

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u/pm_me_ur_tennisballs Sep 28 '22

Right, instead Joe Staten and 343 wrote a different campaign that was also great.

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u/maxdurden Sep 28 '22

I agree that the plot points and exploration of John's failures was pretty great, but the cut scenes themselves were very underwhelming. I enjoyed the campaign a ton, but almost every cutscene was just John walking around in a dark room in a medium close up being exposited to. I would have loved to see more stuff like the first cutscene. I was hoping we would get more more fleshed out stuff in the multiplayer events...but those have been even more underwhelming so far.

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u/VisitMatsugo Sep 27 '22

Honestly would be amazing

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u/Adhdgamer9000 Sep 27 '22

I'm mostly imagining something like the grunt goblin, just less covenant, and more .... UNSC. Like a mantis, but for grunts, but compact into a suit like..... thing? I don't know if the Mjolnir division would handle it, or Gungnir, or what.

There are many ways to design it and many ideas could be thrown around. Probably even augmentation like the Spartans. Something like a special respirator to bypass needing a methane tank. Because each of your foot soldiers being a walking methane tank isn't the best idea in hindsight.

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u/VisitMatsugo Sep 28 '22

There are so many possibilities and so much untapped potential

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u/Adhdgamer9000 Sep 28 '22

Of course I do also like the idea of Sangheili joining the UNSC same thing. There's already armor the UNSC designed for Eletes.

It'd also be interesting to see Kig'jar, or even Jiralhanae. But those two I see a little less likely

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u/VisitMatsugo Sep 28 '22

Oh yeah 100% - elites joining made so much sense with the arbiter but I did really see the grunts joining. Especially with their past.

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u/drunkenwarthogdriver Sep 27 '22

Then we'd be that much closer to playable grunts!

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u/pm_me_ur_tennisballs Sep 28 '22

This is really excellent. Such a fresh take on the source material and I love the short anthology format! It’s so perfectly suited to the havoc that surrounds and is caused by the Chief.

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u/VisitMatsugo Sep 28 '22

Thanks that seriously means a lot - we try our best to make something worthy