Midnight

[EliteSniper]

343i released all Halo 4 achievements, as everybody should know, and completing the final mission earns you an achievement called "Midnight". Also, if you get "significant air" on the warthog during midnight on mission 2, you get "Midnight launch" achievement. So, does anyone know what exactly is midnight except the time zone? I have a theory that is a sudden weather phenomenon like an EMP, which can be seen here at 0:58 :

If you know what it is, I would be happy if you posted it. Thanks.

Also I'm sorry if it has been posted before.

[Tallgeese]

Thats a good theory, I figured it would not be the actual time of 12, merely due to the fact that that cheevo would thus take a bit for peole to sync up with and get. I also had a feeling it would be a massive EMP or tech outage, but who knows. Good post.

[Ryu♥Hayabusa]

Could just be over-thinking it. Maybe it's referring to night-time? Or possibly alluding to a Midnight release?

[Sierra1117]

I actually agree with the emp part because I think it's the part where chief is on the ground and the phantoms fall, and in the e3 trailer you see the same setting with a phantom crashing, and chief is in a host, so it could be another vehicle end mission, but since the missions will be longer, I think that the first half will be vehicular, and the last part is all out war, the battle with the Didact, and then an ending

[Victory Element]

i simply think this is being overthought. Its just a cool name really, but i dont think it refers to a specific event

[Boss Bowser]

You will receive my answer within 3-5 days after playing Halo 4

[Turkishxroyal]

I actually agree with the emp part because I think it's the part where chief is on the ground and the phantoms fall, and in the e3 trailer you see the same setting with a phantom crashing, and chief is in a host, so it could be another vehicle end mission, but since the missions will be longer, I think that the first half will be vehicular, and the last part is all out war, the battle with the Didact, and then an ending

 

sounds epic enough for me! haha

[EliteSniper]

You will receive my answer within 3-5 days after playing Halo 4

:wallbash: I will already know that

[SykoWolf]

The didact wont die in Halo 4, i mean he shouldnt, he is supposedly the main antagonist, so they should keep him around till then end. More likely we will be destroying one of his lackies, or a leader of the storms.

[VEF214]

Could be a time of day based achievement similar to Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7.

[Sierra1117]

Could be a time of day based achievement similar to Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7.

It not, it's the name of the final mission in the campaign, meaning it's significant in the story

[KiwiiKidd]

343i released all Halo 4 achievements, as everybody should know, and completing the final mission earns you an achievement called "Midnight". Also, if you get "significant air" on the warthog during midnight on mission 2, you get "Midnight launch" achievement. So, does anyone know what exactly is midnight except the time zone? I have a theory that is a sudden weather phenomenon like an EMP, which can be seen here at 0:58

If you know what it is, I would be happy if you posted it. Thanks.

Also I'm sorry if it has been posted before.

I believe it is the fact that in Halo 4 you are on a shield world called requiem. The Dyson Sphere within a Shield World is lit by what can only be described as practically an artificial star. i believe that master chief being the destructive ******* he is will detonate the artificial star, sending the Dyson sphere into perpetual darkness hence the naming of the level 'midnight' and that is probably the EMP you are seeing.

[iTz Vplus2]

An EMP is a weather phenomenon?

 

It could be that Midnight refers to something else than just the time of day. I sure hope that's how it is.

[Sierra1117]

 

I believe it is the fact that in Halo 4 you are on a shield world called requiem. The Dyson Sphere within a Shield World is lit by what can only be described as practically an artificial star. i believe that master chief being the destructive ******* he is will detonate the artificial star, sending the Dyson sphere into perpetual darkness hence the naming of the level 'midnight' and that is probably the EMP you are seeing.

This can't be true because Soartan Ops is set 6 months after the campaign and we clearly see the sun in those missions

[KiwiiKidd]

This can't be true because Soartan Ops is set 6 months after the campaign and we clearly see the sun in those missions

True. like i said i'm just speculating, i dont know maybe not all of the spartan ops missions are on requiem?

just giving my take on the events of the mission

[Sierra1117]

True. like i said i'm just speculating, i dont know maybe not all of the spartan ops missions are on requiem?

just giving my take on the events of the mission

in the one we saw, we ear someone say they found a needle in the requiem haystack, confirming that mission is set on requiem

[KiwiiKidd]

in the one we saw, we ear someone say they found a needle in the requiem haystack, confirming that mission is set on requiem

All good maybe cortana short circuits it or something? seeing as blowing up a star (artificial or not) would created a massive ex/implosion that would destroy requiem outright?

[36-2071 Pragmatic Avarice]

The EMP's from Requiem could be a form of containment protocol for this "worse" evil.

[SykoWolf]

The EMP's from Requiem could be a form of containment protocol for this "worse" evil.

More likely to prevent flood from stealing a ship and heading off to another planet

[Yoshi1176]

Nice find and wondering how that comes into play in the game.

[36-2071 Pragmatic Avarice]

Well I look forward to seeing this 'new evil' in Silentium which feels like could be the fulcrum between the Flood and Precursor dominance.

 

This planet appears to hide something other than the Forerunner factions.

[KiwiiKidd]

More likely to prevent flood from stealing a ship and heading off to another planet

They have stated there are to be no flood in Halo 4.

[mACca431]

Um just thinking if it is an EMP then it must go off multiple times because otherwise im not sure how we are supposed to get air in a warthog when John is lying on the ground and in a cutscene

 

They have stated there are to be no flood in Halo 4.

Yes but when Requiem was built the flood was infecting a lot of the galaxy and their would be thousands of fail safes built in to requiem to stop the flood even if no flood were stored in requiem

[Tallgeese]

mACca432 has it right, when Requiem was first built, it was a shield world built to outlast the Flood and protect its occupants form the Flood. So its old protocols would dictate eliminating the Flood, or anyway of the Flood escaping.

[Des Feux]

I believe it is the fact that in Halo 4 you are on a shield world called requiem. The Dyson Sphere within a Shield World is lit by what can only be described as practically an artificial star. i believe that master chief being the destructive ******* he is will detonate the artificial star, sending the Dyson sphere into perpetual darkness hence the naming of the level 'midnight' and that is probably the EMP you are seeing.

I have to agree with this, we all know he is indeed a destructive *******...