TheCobaltOcean

A space station then? OT: It looks to be a shield world of some sort, similar to the Halo Wars one as it is pulling in the Forward Unto Dawn in. Yet the door looks similar to the one you have to deactivate at the end of Halo Wars too

That is an extract from Halo: Legends the package - Blue team John, Kelly and Fred - Kelly and Fred stuck now in Onyx And John had nothing to do with Omega team

Spartans were created naturally among colonies which were burnt by the covenant - the forerunners had nothing to do with them

Dude, HE COULD MEET UP WITH ANY OF THE 315+ SPARTANS STILL ALIVE! Unless it's the ones TRAPPED in the MICRO-DYSON sphere inside of a ball of TRILLIONS OF HOSTILE ONYX SENTINELS (John would be DEAD) He could meet with the rest of the 300+ Spartan III's of Gamma company, Gray team (which I would like), Red team (lost aboard the Spirit Of Fire for 21 years), Black Team, a Headhunter team etc. - These are all unlikely but they are not DEAD ARE THEY!? READ. THE. BOOKS!!! OT: The Arbiter has returned to Sanghelios with R'tas and is likely killing Brutes and rounding up surviving separatists and is probably rebuilding Sangheili infrastructure form the ground up to keep them from killing each other. It is unlikely he will return unfortunately. Spartans are entirely possible (though equally unlikely) and should be included. I'd like to see Gray Team (Adriana, Jai & Mike) or Red Team (Jerome, Alice & Douglas) as it would then give a team for John to command (the A.I's would have to be improved) . This would also provide Co-op characters to play as rather than poor copies of John. P.S the arbiter from Halo Wars (Ripa Moramee) died 21 years prior, The Arbiter now is Thel Vadum and is alive. The Arbiter before Thel likely died during the Fall of Reach

Also, my suggestion to another thread: An SPI armour permutation please -Helmet, Forearms, chest, shoulders- EVERYTHING!!, Elites - Got to have Halo 2 design Elites, Halo 2 design Flood, The MA5B, M7(s) SMG (Halo2+ODST), MA5C, MA5K, BR55 (all Original pre-Reach looks) and the DMR (New look/unless sticking to canon in which case scrap- please), No armour abilities or equipments - Sprint should be near infinite (NO JET/0G PACKS! as seen in Trailer) Customisable weapons - scopes, silencers - bullet types? - Canon shredder or Armour Piercing?, Shields like in Halo CE- stronger but longer recharge, Customisable armour- Paint and Damage (From grazes to gashes, burns and pock marks) Where YOU want it on your armour - have a brush sort application to apply paint and damage - RGB colour system, Armoury system from Reach Massively EXPANDED - by base and attachments and such and add damage and colour etc. - don't over price everything - The Halo 3 system sucked, It barred lesser skilled players from customisation, Armoury Effects- E.g If you have a camera it can give you aim support (Similar to the Reach Needler if you're an elite- the tracking circle on an enemy), If you have a hud attachment- you can place NAV points to team mates for better Co-ordination e.g marking enemies or marking locations to take and hold (think of objective games- hot potato, capture the flag, stock pile) etc, For Online or Co-op - as stated in the books- a bio-monitor for your team, a light signal too for 'all clear' signs and such. Halo CE style shields harder to take down longer to re-charge, Possible team? Grey team (Jai, Adriana and Mike)? - Much Smarter A.I's - this would also give Co-op players some one to play as rather than have poor John Copies, No new aliens or forerunners or precursors - please stick to the established And abandon the Pointless vidmaster, Noble 1, recon achievment things- they are so bad, and to the players who can't access them, a huge waste of armour they would otherwise love. I'll edit if I've forgotten something or seen something I like Thanks 343 TheCobaltOcean

I couldnt agree more, ever since they announced Halo 2 to begin with ive been hoping for some campaign related to the books and halo reach looked like it was finally heading in that direction but when i read the coverage on game informer I swear to god I almost ended up not buying the damn game, that storyline is a ******* abortion that never happened. When the **** are they going to realize that Halo: First Strike and 'Ghosts of Onyx' have the most amazing mindblowing ideas for halo campaigns EVER? I am willing to bet my ballsack shortly followed by my life that if they made a game with a campaign covering the events of first strike it would instantly be hands down the best god damn ******* FPS EVER!! And not only that but theres enough material in there to make a really long decent campaign and thats always been the achiles heel of FPS games; short campaigns. What pisses me off even more is that people give you the whole 'well if you want that so bad then why dont you do it yourself' and im just thinking 'well maybe if you ****tards actually gave me the ******* job I would!' you don't like your ball sac then? OT: It can't be Onyx, read the end again

Halo 2 had the best everything, SMG (Except for ODST's) , BR (4 Needs CE's MA5B and Ghosts of Onyx's MA5K), sword, best Elite Design and Flood Design etc. Just the Original was better. Armour Abilities and Equipment were terrible.

BR + DMR + MA5B + MA5K- Amen

Alive in Onyx, not in Halo 4

I agree with most of the Comments so far. Having an RGB colour system would be an amazing feature. Also a sort of brush system so you could move around your armour and sort of 'brush on' damage from like grazes on the paint to bullet pockmarks and bloody (or not bloody) gashes in the armour . You could put patterns such as tribal stripes or colour warping around, or on, your visor along with anywhere else on your armour - this could help game-play and Identification for clan members etc. There should be more effects to game-play rather than just aesthetic effects of adding things to your helmet (or visor). When myself and friends got on Reach and saw the camera to go on the helmet, we thought 'Oh wow, something that might affect your zoom, or helps track cloaked targets' but no - disappointment. There should also be a bio monitor thing for your friends (like in the books) to see if they really need a health pack or something- something other than way-points so you can tell where your team mates are relative to you. The Elites should also make a return with the HALO 2 Design and have jus as much customisable stuff as the SPARTANS. There should also be an SPI armour permutation. (Helmet, shoulders, chest EVERYTHING, including FORE ARMS because they are Especially amazing ) . I don't however, agree with helmet or amour removal. As per canon, any exposed flesh would not be covered by shielding. And as some one has already said, it would remove attention from game-play. Anything I've missed?

NNoooo, If it's coming out as a modern game, it NEEDS a more modern and better engine than Reach'es

Meh, The assault rifle sucked. Bring back the MA5B with the ORIGINAL DESIGN (Halo CE- 60 Rounds) or bring in the MA5K, keep the DMR and bring back the BR (Halo 2's was best). Bring back the M7 (Halo 2's was best) and the M7S (The silenced SMG). Bring in Elites (Halo 2 design was the best design) and flood (Halo 2 design was the best design). Bring back the spectre, bring in Gray Team for Co-op or make them very smart A.I's for single player. Get rid of the Spartan Laser (It sucks) and bring in the Stanchion Gauss rifle (Contact Harvest) and give us unlimited (Or near unlimited) sprint. Get rid of AA's and equipment as they sucked (bad) and (maybe) give us Kinect to use the (Canon) Spartan strength to punch, kick, slap and beat the flood into the ground. Give us Halo 2 energy swords, Maybe Elite Honour Guard energy staves to slice things with. Give us the Scorpion that almost crushes John and get rid of the Uncanon Anti-Grav thrusters in his armour - or don't let them be used in game-play (I'm fine with that), Multiplayer and Single Player - Anything that causes your target to fly is stupid. I'll edit if I've missed something.

The MA5K

They are trapped in a Micro-Dyson sphere- which they don't get out of until around 2584 (I think)

The forerunners created "hollow" planets to protect them from the halo array....exept they were too busy fighting the flood to get to them :/ At the end of Ghosts of Onyx a couple of spartans and Dr. Halsey are teleported to one of these worlds and for all we know the one in the trailer may be the same one On the outside of the micro-dyson sphere, is a trillion+ sentinels which are hostile to the master chief and would atomise him when in range- IT IS NOT ONYX!!!

On Waypoint, it says the Chief is facing a threat to the universe - The Flood came from Outside the Orion Arm, ForeRunners decide to build large scale weapon which supersedes the Halo rings. If they Find the Orion arm is the last Galaxy or something which is uninfected, they fire the weapon on a large scale (Semi Universal scale) to starve flood and kill them. Mean while, the same installations acts as a shield world to protect from the blast. But if my theory is true, then the forerunners could of hid in there for the Halo firing, or the flood my have got in there and boast a super gravemind or something... Along those lines maybe?

You couldn't be more wrong unless you were trolling. Spartan III's are NOT individually weaker. They had the same augmentations that Spartan II's had, just a far safer drug applied augmentation method (100% Success) and their training was just the same, if not better than Spartan II's. It also cannot be Onyx as Onyx is now a ball of Trillions of hostile Onyx Sentinels which would atomize John on sight. Noble Team would have gained their shielded MJOLNIR armour at roughly the Same time John did (Just before the Fall began) and so John would have gained the enhancements too. Although I do agree with the SPI mention, there must be an SPI armour permutations, Which I have argued for, for a long, long time. Besides, I really did not like the AA's and equipment because they were just stupid and ridiculous- and uncanon. Sprint for Spartans should be unlimited (Or very, very long), Spartans can lock their armour- It's just they need some one on the outside to unlock it. John does not have thrusters in his MJOLNIR - see Halo 2 beginning, see Ghosts of Onyx, see Maria testing it in United Korea. Also equipment never appeared in the books, If a Spartan wanted extra shields, they had to steal a Jackal one etc

Which is impossible as Onyx is now a ball of trillions of anti human/alien/intruder sentinels and so chief would have been atomised as soon as he was in range. Although I do think it's a shield world, I do not agree that it is Onyx

NO armour abilities -nothing is going to stop John, or any other playable Spartan, from sprinting (John could sprint until he finished the trilogy before he gets tired), The MJOLNIR armour has a 90minutes supply of air and he can swim (pointless training if he couldn't) and unless the planetoid has a submarine on it (which I doubt the Forward Unto Dawn has) there will be no sea vehicles ... unless 343 proves me wrong. Besides, John always wanted his feet on the ground, I doubt that included the sea to be honest...

If there is covenant, there must be spectre's - The revenant sucked bad

Agreed - also SPI ARMOUR PERM - YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE!!

Inb4 SPI armour perm, Elites and Gray Team (come on 343)

Awesome

I know Johnson is a Spartan 1 but even for Spartan standards that's insane

Awesome OT: I doubt the next targets will be aiming for his crotch to be honest. But, that would be an elementary mistake not to put one in - Oh the flames, when people will theatre a shot through the loins