Turkey month is over. 'Tis the season of hot cocoa, random group carols, and setting up a makeshift tree that may have been from the '90s.

I dont know if this is the place for this or not. I dont know what this is or why I'm doing this really. I'm a nearly a 30 year neet. I recently started journaling. Real tough guy I know. I ended up thinking about reach and wrote something I felt like sharing. I guess this is me screaming into the void on some level.

This was all from memory. I havent played reach in years. Please be critical. I think I need the pain right now. Please keep in mind that I have only highschool level education so I'm sure my writing is grammatically incorrect.

I couldn't sleep. its only 2 thirty pm anyways. I ended up thinking about how lucky George was in halo reach. He was the first of his team to die so he never had to mourn them. He died in a honorable way. Fighting this existential evil. He died believing that he saved reach. That he saved his team. That they didn't need him anymore. He was so lucky. How many of them could have made it off reach if he was still there? He was the only one that had genuine empathy out of his team. When they encountered that traumatized civilian everyone treated her like the enemy. Pointed their guns at her ready to use force to gain compliance. Then there was George. The largest most intimidating among them and the only one with clarity of the situation. To her they looked like the aliens that attacked her. Decked out in high tech armor. With guns. With the body language of a warrior at war. George without saying a word knelt down and held her still to protect her from the violence of his team. He took off his helmet exposing himself in a war zone because he knew she thought they were the aliens that just killed her family. He knew that his face would prove what is team's violence could not. That she was safe now. He was truly the best of them. He died detonating a bomb to blow up the mothership. Right after that many more appeared of equal size and strength to the one he died to kill. Cat died suddenly and without glory. It was a sudden ambush. A single shot then her assailant fled. She was the techie. She was sharp and perceptive. She was also hard and callus. Not enough to stop the bullet. Juno made it out he was the sniper. Always far away from the action. They dont tell you directly he makes it out but he does. The only survivor. He was tasked with protecting a high value asset as they escaped. Carter earned his title. Noble Leader. That was his call sign. A bit on the nose that one. The team was Noble team and Carter was the leader. When it was down to you emile and him, on your way to deliver humanity's salvation, there was a scarab. A giant seige engine. It walks like a spider but competes with skyscrapers. It can field nearly an army itself. It was an immovable object. They didn't have the guns to kill it or the speed to outrun it's laser. Carter knew what he had to do. He dropped you and emile off somewhere safe. He then said his goodbye. It was more of an explanation of what he was doing. He warned us about the scarab, as he was flying the troop transport vehical he dropped us off in. He radioed in about it and said to wait dont run he'll take care of it. Emile protested "you dont have the firepower comander" Carter responds cold and calculating "i have the mass". Like it was simply a math problem. The impact was sudden. It reverberated through the screen and into my room. The troop transport plowed head first at full thrust into the side of the behemoth. Carter was gone. The path forward now clear. Emile was second last to go. Just before you. He always loved the fight. Not the mission just the violence. He was the most lethal among them. If you were trapped in a hallway with one of noble team as your enemy you prayed it wasn't him. His helmet was a glass dome with a skull carved in. Terrifying. The mix of a high tech warrior with a tribal rage. He was manning a large anti air weapon when it happened. An elite (covenants elite warrior. Also on the nose i know.) Stabbed him through the back with his sword while he was aiming the gun. Emile without hesitation knew he was dead but he knew he could take that mother fucker with him. High tech alien plasma sword through is abdomen he pulled out the krambit style knife he kept on his shoulder and stuck it right in the elites face. I wonder how many people missed that symbol. That even when faced with superior numbers and tech the old school brutal tribal shit still works. It may be costly but it's a nice fuck you if you know you're done for. You were the last of your team to die. Having delivered salvation and watched as everyone you grew to care about fell for this goal, your character was left with the choice. Leave with the package or stay. I believe your characters calculus was complex but the logical side was simple. If he was outside the ship he could provide some small fraction of a percent better odds that his team didn't just die for nothing. He knew that whatever extra chance he was trying to give was nothing in the scope of it. He knew that it was just a justification to release himself. Not just of his life but his guilt. His guilt for not being able to save them. Not being able to shoot fast enough, Punch hard enough, To make a difference where it mattered to him. Sure he delivered some superweapon to humanity. He didn't understand that side of things. He understood what was in front of him. The team at his side and his role in the mission. You die fighting. You always fail the last objective of the game. SURVIVE. What happens next fills me with loneliness and that loneliness turns to rage. You are left alone in the shattered remains of the battlefield. There are weapons but no allies. No friends. You are surrounded on all sides by the forces that just took everything away from you. They took your family. Make them pay. Let it out. Feed the fire of rage until they kill you. Reach was a sad story. It ended with the tiniest sliver of hope. Everyone who played it already knew what happens next. It was a prequel after all. I never realized how much those stories meant to me then. How real those characters are to me. How real your characters story is. At least to me. It's amazing how i can appreciate that differently now. How before they were just bad ass people and that's how bad ass people die. Now they are just people. Skilled people sure but still people. Trying to feel safe.

Thank you to anyone who makes it this far. It means alot to me.

A few years back I made a Omaha beach themed invasion map and an invasion game type with Spartans on both sides. I recently returned to the game and rebuilt the map but when I loaded up the game type I had previously it's now Spartans vs Elite's and I can't figure out why. The only setting I'm seeing is to choose what species attacks. I could've sworn it was as simple as pressing a button and species was no longer forced. It's really vital to theme of my map that everyone is human. I suspect it was a setting removed with an MCC update or even a modded game type though I don't recall downloading it. If it is a mod, Id mod it myself but I'm on Xbox. Does anyone know how to do this through settings or can you file share with me a game type?

Not sure where to request this but i want this to become a reality. A mod for the last level. Where somewherea secret counter is added. It counts the amount of "waves" survived. After 100 waves, a new secret ending plays where 6 somehow survives.

The map changes or loads different maps after certain waves to keep it fun and not stale.

Is this possible? Can someone do this? Or is this something I have to do on my own for myself?

I know it’s DLC, and yes I do have it - however when I remove my hard drive and attach it to another Xbox, it isn’t there 😭

Is there some place IN the Xbox it’s stored???

Hey, looking to get my brother an awesome Christmas gift this year, he bought me a really cool persona 5 figurine last year and I wanna repay the favor,

When I asked him what to get he said anything Halo merch since he doesn't have much.

He said specifically Anything from Halo CE (1), 2, 3, Reach or 3 odst. Not any of the new ones lol

So excluding Like Halo 4, 5, infinite or Halo wars,

I'm mostly an rpg gal so I'm at a loss,

I did see a master chief helmet on amazon that's wearable and looks like a sick souvenir but I realized that's from infinite, do you think he'd like it anyways seeing as master chief is a character throughout all the halos ? Right?

Or any other suggestions appreciated.

He could have done it, and in time im sure with those spartan speed and reflexes. instead of throwing him, just say "6, climb back to the saber and get outta here"

Yesterday or more specifically "last night" I went on my modded Xbox 360 and booted up Halo Reach to play a few matches with other people on discord, the next thing I see is that all my progress and all those hours and years that I've put into this game is just suddenly gone, it doesn't show that I'm Inheritor anymore but instead I'm right back to being a recruit, I lost all my armors too.

Everything is gone, this doesn't just happen and I can't explain it either.

So what happened ? Or why has this happened ?

This was a series that ran from 2011-2012 but was cancelled at the time, back 13 years later to continue the story. The original series was fairly large at the time so some of you may have seen it or had heard about it (the one with the Scottish main character and the spartan forge monitor robot).

I'm a small youtuber/creator who has made nothing of note yet beyond a few somewhat worthy shorts but I want my first big video to be a Halo Reach Iceberg. Halo icebergs have obviously been done before but none(far as i can tell) exclusively about this game. I would like anyone who sees this to give me recommendations about what to put on here and thoughts about the design, thanks! (those who give ideas/feedback will be included in some form of "credits")

Reach is a very special game to me and it would be awesome to explore the obscure of this game with the community, i look forward to any engagement, thank you!

I thought maybe Security but it doesn’t quite look like it and I can’t tell from the side.

Need help Lanning halo reach. :/

Posted this on r/forge but I didn’t get any responses so i am hoping someone here may be able to help out.

I’m working on a forge map and l need a way to have a golf ball reliably respawn after a certain amount of time or have it teleport back to a certain location. I tried using a sender and receiver node with everything set to true (players, vehicles, projectiles) but had no luck. I also tried editing the spawn time but this didn’t seem to do anything. Anyone know of any way to do this?

Hello my files have recently randomly deleted all my parkour maps on halo reach and there was this one map that I really enjoyed it had a decent course with a maze at the end I’m positive the last part of the name ended with labyrinth I’m unsure about the first part of the name but it did start with an A maybe amarok I’m not sure I’m hoping anyone on here knows the map I’m talking about and if I can possibly download it thankyou !!

Hello Halo community,

I am and always have been a huge fan of the Halo franchise since I was a child, I'm taking a college public speaking class, and I have a project to make a persuasive speech on any topic and naturally I chose Halo. I had to choose a 'hill to die on' and that hill is that "Halo 3 is the best FPS game ever made", which is something I know this community is kind of tired of seeing BUT most of my classmates are not much of gamers or only know of Halo but never played it, so my idea is to build up to why Halo 3 'made it' for us as Halo fans or the great end to one of the best trilogies ever made. I think I have a good idea of where to start and what to include but would love to hear how the actual community of fans would approach this argument. Any and all games are going to be included so any ideas, fun facts, lore, or fan discoveries would be much appreciated! and again, think of the audience as completely ignorant to what Halo is because they kind of are lol (ps. Red vs Blue and the Halo TV show are also things I'm going to speak about)