Dr. Halsey

She may or may not be dead. There is many ways to bring her back without making the comeback too unbelievable. But as said it would still sound like bad writing. I was thinking if Didact did not die part of Cortana may have escaped the nuke within his armor. In any case I'm pretty sure 343 isn't stupid enough to first kill important character and then bring her back in the next game. Sacrifice would not be sacrifice anymore. Besides now 343 can make a male AI for Chief and make them have a deep relationship. Ha!

I think that Librarian believed that (Ur)Didact could be somewhat reasonable and even help humans even though Gravemind had corrupted him. He still respected them as enemies. I'm not sure about this since if he were huge danger to future humans why she left him to meet them? Maybe the point is that she didn't know that The Domain would collapse with destruction of the precusor artifacts at the time she left Didact in the Cryptum. Normally Didact would be connected to the Domain while in Cryptum but this time there was only darkness. Because of this Didact became even more mad. Edit....I found the exact quote: "I think of the Didact, locked in his Cryptum. If the Domain is destroyed, I have condemned my husband to an eternity of darkness, silence, with only his own rage and madness to keep him company" I think Bear had to make Didact mad because of what 343 did to him in Halo 4. He made a great job making him realistically turn against humans again. Damn I loved the book! The best book I have had to read in English.

I'm not sure. Halo 3 was my first love err... I mean first halo game. I played it a lot with my friends. There were very fun parts like fighting against brute chieftains and large vehicle battles. Halo 4 didn't so many those moments but the story and athmosphere were more immersive and the gameplay was a little better. I didn't like the new enemmies so much.So It is hard to say which one is better.

So there will be Two Betrayals?

Sure. I'm pretty angry at them.

Maybe not? It can be balanced. The needles may travel slowly, it may not have target tracking or it has less tracking ability than the needler has, the shotgun may be one shot etc... I would like to see a needle tech weapon with slowly flying needles which could be shattered with a few well placed shots.

There seems to be different kinds of shield worlds. Only Onyx is known to be made of sentinels. The shield world of Halo Wars is more like Requiem than Onyx. Check it out . http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Onyx http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Requiem http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Shield_0459

It may not be canon BUT the binary rifle was meant to be used against flood. The infected are quite simple minded and the laser does not help them in any way. Also when your allies see where you are aiming it reduces friendly fire. So it isn't so weird after all and as it has been said it is like that because gameplay reasons

It's amazing how much the story of Spartan Ops is similar to the story of Halo Wars. For example it has an UNSC ship going into Forerunner shield world, Covenant captures a scientist to get Forerunner treasures and in the end of the story UNSC ship escapes a supernova which destroys the shieldworld.

Uhh Why people say "This isn't COD" COD did not invent guns from/similar to real world ones. Come on there are other games using almost same guns /gameplay mechanics etc. I think SAW is good for gameplay purposes but doesn't feel like "a halo gun". In fact all human weapons are a bit boring. Now that humans start understanding Forerunner tech 343 could make more imaginative and unique human weapons.

Spoilers for those who haven't read Forerunner saga Maybe Guilty spark could make an appearance or is it too early? Maybe we see Spark in Halo 5. I would love to see both Librarian and the monitor coming back as the ending of Primordium suggests. Librarian can't be permanently dead yet can she?

Halsey is dangerous as ally and enemy because she does things she thinks are right things to do. She is not brainless slave to ONI or UNSC and that makes her dangerous and great character. She may want revenge to UNSC(we don't know for sure. It may be just a trick) but it will propably help humanity in some way like getting the key half from Jul. In my opinion she is just like in Eric Nylunds books. I haven't read Traviss's books so I don't know about that. Anyway I like how she has now very important role in games too. As for season 2...I wouldn't buy it for gameplay I just want to see the cutscenes. Do I have to watch them from internet?

I just realized that Librarian (AI) died with Requiem. I'm so sad. Please 343 let us meet Thel in the future episodes or I will start crying.

How is it so hard to understand why UNSC wants Halsey dead? Halsey is Forerunner specialist (maybe the best in the galaxy) and knows many UNSC secrets. Halsey has showed she cannot be trusted and it's possible she could help Storm cult to achieve her goals. Trying to save Halsey would be too risky. It is very interesting to see how she will use Jul and for what purpose? I hope she finds a new hand first. She deserves nothing but Forerunner tech of course.

It seems human technology cannot provide AI's which are not total ********* . I would advice UNSC to seek a solution to the problem ASAP and prevent AI's from understanding irony and using bad jokes which might upset at least half of the community.