Hi all! I'm back, this time with a brand new "117 Things You May Have Missed" video covering Halo Reach. Hope you enjoy! Evolution of the Marines - Update: I know you've all been waiting for the "Evolution of the Marines" video and I just wanted to let you know that its almost finished and is going to be the biggest and most detailed Evolution video to date, so be sure to keep an eye out for that!
Thanks for the new video as someone who loves reach the most I’m gonna enjoy this one:) also I’m guessing the evolution video is gonna be huge mainly cause of the reach marines there so many variations of them in the game I can’t even count it lol
Fun fact: if you stare at Carter for too long, he'll say "your file mentioned this." Which means that noble 6 canonically stares at people for uncomfortable amounts of time.
The fact that 6 barely talks at all and is labelled as a hyper-lethal vector may mean that he developed social anxiety since he is not like most other Spartans
I never really stopped to think about the fact that the last shot in the ending cutscene is dated during 2589; that's 37 years after the end of the Human-Covenant war. Six's helmet remained there for nearly four decades and even then, no one was around to recognize his bravery: those who did had long since died and passed into forgotten history along with him.
I'd like to think when they find it they will be able to get some information off the helmet and trace it back to 6 and hopfully his story will be declassified by them so people know of his service.
@@speltcaster3186 I like to think Master Chief himself finds the helmet as well as a trail of thousands of Covenant corpses leading to it before they find out who the Spartan-III was and what he did for them.
2:48 this is exactly what makes this cutscene horrifying, seeing that trooper screaming for dear life and trying to get back to Noble team is scary as hell.
@@Incineration. You’re not tired, your sleep is just missing in action. Jokes aside, though, understandable. Even if it’s a very iconic and nostalgic quote. I personally could never get tired of it, especially with the alternative take on it in the “ghosts of onyx” book, which made me fall in love with halo as a kid. A heartbreaking story from Kurt’s perspective, dude went through some shit. Imagine losing three entire companies you personally raised and trained with hope. His training and presence were probably inadvertently responsible for the most spartan deaths in human history, despite his best efforts. Kurt mocking the phrase was so sad that it always stuck with me, the man really tried his hardest and he still couldn’t make them ready. But the payoff of the badass ending was worth it! Sorry for the almost entirely unrelated rant, got lost in nostalgia
In Winter Contingency, behind where the distress beacon is found at the start, there is an explosive tank between the buildings. If you shoot the top off it will ignite and explode after a few seconds causing Carter to say “Stand down Noble 6!”
0:53 omfg! So when I was younger playing the campaign with my brother I remember seeing this guy move so I shot a couple times hitting him and seeing the shield flare. I told my brother and dad about it but they didn't believe me that there was a enemy running away at the start of the campaign area.
I remember when I first saw it I thought it was some spartan hologram or something. I tried to kill it over and over but couldn't, so I assumed it was a bug. Found out later than he actually WAS killable and there was an Easter egg.
@@poopyfartboi Bungie wasn’t a big fan of the lore that the book The Fall of Reach added, so they retconned it by making Halo Reach. Many details don’t line up between the Fall of Reach book and Halo Reach’s campaign, such as where the Pillar of Autumn was
Fun fact during long night of solace when you are fighting around the ardent prayer the drop pods that it launches can be individually shot down and destroyed. (Edit, apparently I'm famous now)
fun fact the reason those elites are called bob elites, is cause its a reference to marathon's civilians that are called B.O.Bs, which stands for born on board. which means their born on space colony ships and such
Fun fact about #51, before my brother and I owned the game, this mission was in the free demo. We extended the play time by continuing are assault against the Covenant on the beach. You can also hijack the Wraith, and drive in on the beach, allowing Marines to act as the gunner.
You can even get into a seraph on that level, shoot one down with emp and then its a long way out of bounds and finding that shot down now miniature sized seraph. Quiet funny though
- During the mission New Alexandria, you can actually see a phantom dropping off covies. This usually happens if you are right next to certain buildings and get a distress call and orders to help some pinned troopers who spawn at that building. - Fusion coils change color when damaged. - The DMR's scope has a needle pointing to the scope's zoom magnification when zoomed in. - The handheld grenade launcher and mounted grenade launcher use different grenade rounds from the ones seen on many armor chest pieces. - The magnum, DMR, assault rifle, and sniper rifle have different reload animations for empty reloads and partial reloads. - At the start of the mission New Alexandria, there's a chance that a falcon chased by two banshees will spawn. The falcon can be saved by quickly flying over and shooting the two banshees. - The rotating barrels, firing sound, and the actual firing of the M71 Scythe automated AA gun at Sword Base are HORRIBLY off to the point that the firing sounds play AFTER the weapon has fired a burst. - You can see the M71's ammo belt and rounds moving when it fires. - It's possible to destroy a phantom dropship using the target designator in the mission Sword Base. - The Focus Rifle's screen is actually a functional thermal imaging screen that lets you see targets even in dust storms or darkness, but only when not zoomed in. - The Needler's accuracy works just like the other automatic weapons, with short bursts being very accurate. - Spirit dropship turrets are properly animated in the campaign but are broken in Firefight. In fact, in Firefight they can shoot projectiles at enemies they are not facing. - The 70mm cannon on the Pelican dropship appears to have no ammo feed system or shell ejection port. - The Falcon helicopter's 20mm cannon lacks an ammo belt. Jorge's .50 caliber machine gun is far larger that other .50 caliber machine guns in the game. It's also painted. Strangely, the .50 caliber machine guns in Halo: Reach have oddly proportioned parts and lack ejection ports.
@@connorbernier7689 No. You are far too close to the Scythe AA guns for there to be ANY delay between the weapon firing and the sound reaching you. In real-life, there is only a delay between the rounds hitting the target and the sound reaching the target when the 20mm or 30mm cannon is firing from over a mile away.
Speaking of sound, REACH actually has a sound traveling feature; loud sounds like gunfire or explosions have a delay before being heard when far away. This is most noticeable on Forge World, which is quiet and large enough to consistently observe. Try throwing a grenade in forge mode and quickly move away, or have a friend fire a scorpion from a distance. The sound will be delayed!
During the final mission, you can board and destroy the core of one of the passing Scarabs by making a well-timed vehicle jump on a hill. Interestingly, the Scarab doesn't die and just keeps on walking away even with the core destroyed and you even get points of destroying the core.
Additional detail concerning number 96 (16:27) the screen that shows members of Noble team s MIA shows, in order, Jorge (MIA), Kat (MIA) , and Carter. This is the order in which they die, and foreshadows that Carter is the next to go.
A few cool details not mentioned: - In the first mission, you can kill a skirmisher that jumps from the roof of the building with the dead troopers and civilians onto a nearby cliff. After killing the skirmisher before it can flee, members of Noble Team will compliment you on your kill without having seen it. - The drop pods deployed from the corvette in space can be destroyed. - The mandibles of EVA elites will clip through their helmets after they are killed. - The shields on AA shade turrets have the firing handles clipping through them, technically making them impossible to fire at all. - This is a minor oversight by the devs but I felt like mentioning it. The tracks of the scorpion main battle tank lack any visible drive sprocket, which raising the question of how it's able to even move. On a related note, who else hopes the elites who killed Noble Six died soon afterwards?
The elites that “killed” noble 6 did indeed die after noble 6 got up and killed them and then was rescued by unsc and became an assassin again, it’s not a theory, this is canon in my eyes
Just FYI, the "forerunner symbols" are actually a form of shotcode designation that Reach's settlers incorporated into their aesthetic from early colony ships and equipment. ☺️
61 was really interesting, I always thought that the fleet arrived in retaliation for destroying The Long Night of Solace. But actually now that I think about hyper space jumps aren’t instant, getting to Delta Halo took like 2 weeks. Anyways, great video!
Well the fleet arrived mere seconds after the Long Night of Solace was destroyed. I know Halsey called the Covenant efficient in her ending monologue, but literally no one can be that efficient, especially keeping in mind that hyper space jumps are quite lengthy, like you said
The reason there is 14 total dead Spartans is because when halo 2 was being removed from Xbox there were 14 people left who wanted to stay and play the game for as long as they could, eventually they were all booted offline, their Xbox’s had to reset due to overheating etc. they were all given access to play halo reach by 343 before it was released in the end they were all nicknamed the Noble 14.
In the last area on "The Package", There are icy footprints somewhere near the elevator you came from. What's odd about these footprints is that they're several times larger than that of a spartan's. and the tracks vanish into a splash of frost, very odd.
Another minor detail - while Elite's seem to have some kind of black bodysuit underneath their metal armour plates, the actual soles of their feet are bare and you can see their grey skin (you can even see the edge of the body suit at the edges of the sole), although this is only really possible to notice once they are dead. Also, while it looks like Elite Rangers are wearing gloves as part of a hermetic EVA suit since they have those white bits on their hands, they actually aren't wearing any - if you look closely at their hands, you can see they just have white plates on top of regular elite skin hands, it's just the white-dark contrast makes it look like a glove. I guess this was done to save modelling time as it's really unlikely to be noticed unless you look very closely.
Fun Fact: 11:41 The "AMX-42" on Falcons and Pelicans (if it's like real military aviation designations) should mean those specific planes were attached/ belong to the UNSC's 42nd maintenance group
Those forerunner symbols that you mention in Winter Contingency are actually symbols seen on Doors in the Marathon series. They also double as a way to represent the way settlements are built on Reach, in a round manner.
Another great video! At 8:17 the BXR reference is a nice catch. I’m not sure if this was also purposefully done, but the logo of the 3 colored squares matches the colors of the face buttons on an Xbox controller- blue for X, yellow for Y, and red for B. Edit: I randomly found a similar symbol in the 2014 WWII film “Fury,” on Brad Pitt’s jacket he has a patch for his tank battalion with the same color placement. There is also a similar symbol used today to denote chemical flammability but there is a white square at the bottom and the colors are in a different order. BASICALLY that little detail is not a purposeful easter egg, rather a fun coincidence lol but I did learn something today so there’s a win.
The patch on Fury isn't the colours of his battalion, but the division. ALL US Army armoured divisions have the blue-yellow-red combo in WW2 (and I think that tradition still keeps to this day, but I might be wrong, I know at least some of those divisions still exist) It is a bit of a stretch to say the BXR logo is the same as the armoured division logos though; I think it is just a coincidence of the colours being loosely in the same positions to each other. The actual shape of the logos are very different.
@@socracle2774 Thanks for that clarification! And yeah it might not be the same logo, but I found it interesting that other similar logos like it exist which led me to believe that the 3 squares are not meant to really correlate to an Xbox controller’s face buttons, rather it is just a coincidence and that it’s following a similar scheme to other logos used in both industrial and military institutions.
Another thing is when you get there playing reach as part of the mcc (you have to buy it like a dlc) it even gives you an achievement called ‘mind the skill gap’
16:47 The cutscene for the level says that the evac point is in a wrecking yard. I think all the ships you see there are ships that were either too old or badly damaged for further use and were parked there to be stripped of anything useful. I think they've been there a long time.
and the level is called boneyard in firefight. and in the firefight level, the ship is actually admiral cole's either first or second ship from when the insurrection was going on. admiral cole being the one to get the "cole protocol" started and all. he's also considered dead because of having fired a bunch of shivas into a red dwarf if i remember right, to stop a fleet of covenant, and he had a ship in tow, but as he fired, oni thinks he open a jump gate to escape, and that the ship in tow was destroyed.
@@justincooper5189 The ship in boneyard is actually supposed to be the Commonwealth. The ship that delivers the Spartan 2s and Halsey to a testing facility to get Mjolnir in The Fall of Reach
6:24 A tip to the forklift glitch is to move the forklift's side close enough to the gate so that your character would clip through the gate if you were to exit in the direction of the gate, but not so close that the game will force you to exit the other way. It might take a few tries.
Man, what if we could go back to Reach at 2589 and see the decomposed bodies of the Covenant, specifically those dead Elites, and Six. That would be freaking awesome.
I love your "117 Things You May Have Missed" series man. Maybe in the future you could revisit some of these games and do a "117 More Things You May Have Missed"?
8:49 I once managed to Hijack the Wraith on that Beach and get it all the way up to the Entrance of the Base and spent a while fighting those Endless Dropship Waves I of course died alot and had to do it again but my Record was somewhere around 10500 Points on the XBox 360 or 15000 Points
Won't lie some of these things being pointed out are pretty obvious for someone who's been playing since the game came out, but either way man keep it up your brute videos helped me take my mind off of some stressful stuff at my first shore command.
Alot of it is pretty noticable. Like Emiles shields, Jorge throwing a flare. But I did not know you could blow up the guns from outside. That's a neat thing that I'm going to try.
@@specialoperatorlolbit8671 you never know what people know about the game. I knew about shooting the guns since like... my second playtheough. I got into one of those mini Wraith tank things and just kept shooting. Eventually it just started burning and then blew up. It makes those sections so much easier in Legendary. You can do the same with the Scorpion tank when you return to Castle Base, again making it easier on harder difficulties.
@@snodog00 i found that out because Kat is actually capable if shooting the AA gun. At first i thought she's even more faulty at shooting than driving but then it blew up🤣
You taught me a few things, but 6's fight didnt end at that energy dagger. Cannonically he fought for 7 hours and the covenant ended up glassing the whole area he was in just to stop him. They also picked 7 hours because at the time that was the record for longest lone wolf mission
Fun little facts for number 56 and 57. If you are fast enough when assaulting the Covenant Corvette, you can actually fly under it and destroy most of the docked Banshee before they deploy. This makes taking out the Corvette's engines and escorts a bit easier on harder difficulties since there are less enemy ships flying about. And as you can shoot the Banshee before they are deployed, you can also shoot and destroy the insertion pods that have been released, though I don't think there are any benefits for doing so other than it's just another way the game's setting reacts to the player's actions. Another fun fact: When storming the Corvette's bridge, if you are both fast and stealthy enough (choosing the right targets in order) you can actually clear the entire bridge without having to fire a single shot and without alerting any of the enemies. It is a little tricky because there are one or two Spec-Ops Elites that walk the bridge and will alert the others and cloak when they spot you. They also have a habit of walking near a few Grunts that may also see you. Still, if timed right, it is a fun little challenge to give yourself to see if you can clear the bridge without alerting the enemy. #113 is actually a pretty good tactic for beating that segment on Solo Legendary. More often than not, you will die a few times during this segment. But you can make the ending moment much easier by actually getting out of the cannon and hiding behind it until Keye's tells you that the Cruiser is in range and to shoot it now. Then just hop back in the cannon and fire the final shot.
Dang, I've played through Reach's campaign quite a few times since the game's launch back in the day, and I've missed so many of those Elite bobs! That blew my mind! The binary easter eggs are pretty cool too! Also, lots of these 7 and 343 references went straight over my head lol. The blood type marker on the troopers' uniforms is a nice touch. And it's pretty badass that it's the same Field Marshall throughout the campaign. I love that kind of thing where there are parts of the story that go on behind your back, without you realizing. I actually did notice Emile's knife protruding from the elite's neck. Another badass touch. In summation, I learned some cool stuff about one of my favorite games today. Thanks, EBR.
If you kill the B.O.B's they will give you a shit ton of xp depending on difficulty of course so I always tried to find them so I could unlock armor pieces faster
i've tried to recreate it so many times, but, on the mission where you first get the detonator and it's you and kat, i was about to get hit by a revenant and kat, with subtitles on, yelled out "Dillon watch out!" this was back around when reach first came out
Carter in winter contingency alone saves Kat and Six from energy sword attacks, and (debatably) Emile by stopping him from pursuing the field marshall (assuming you believe the theory that pursuing the field marshall would have lead Emile into an ambush resulting in his death). Whether you believe the last mention was the right move or not, man really was about keeping the team alive.
I was ready for bro to get into the symbolism of 14 Spartans falling, that with even double the strength they ultimately stood no chance at survival But then he hit me with "since 7 times 2 is 14" 😂
I am so thrilled that he notes most of the UNSC troops you fight alongside are army troopers and the marines only appear towards the end when fighting on the landing pad at the P.O.A
16:53 it’s a ship scrapping yard , it’s where they take old outdated ships for deconstruction to build newer upgraded versions of them like the pillar of autumn was a helcion class cruiser and there was a class of ship named the autumn class which looked very familiar to the autumn but was upgrades and the frigate you walk through is actually a ship master Chief and blue team fight on during the first engagement with the covenant I saw it on either a hidden Xperia video or halo canon
Also 1+1+7=9, as in Anchor 9. And while I can't explain why, I feel like "anchor" could easily be a shorthand way of saying "sum up" in math. I don't know if that was on purpose, but it feels pretty great.
I feel like a lot of these details are why 343’s games often don’t feel quite the same. Bungie had such attention to detail that you subconsciously feel immersed in the environment even after playing dozens of times. For example, the corvette switching targets to sword base is such a minor detail that 343 probably wouldn’t have even bothered with. Not that I despise or even dislike 343, but I wish they’d put their whole heart into Halo like Bungie did.
6 is not (technically) a forerunner symbol. It's a marathon easter egg. That symbol shows up in the doors of the Marathon throughout the game. 52. Idk if this counts but you missed the part where you can (if you EMP) get out of the map and fly a seraph. Another thing most people don't pick up on. During the cutscene where the fleet shows up, you can hear Johnson over the coms say "yeah we're picking up Anomalies too."
I just realised when you mentioned the layout or club herrera is the same as where veronica dare pod crashes well if you have a look at the sinoviet tower and compare it to ivory tower in halo 2 you will notice it's the same layout some things are a bit different but the same
Hi all!
I'm back, this time with a brand new "117 Things You May Have Missed" video covering Halo Reach. Hope you enjoy!
Evolution of the Marines - Update:
I know you've all been waiting for the "Evolution of the Marines" video and I just wanted to let you know that its almost finished and is going to be the biggest and most detailed Evolution video to date, so be sure to keep an eye out for that!
Thanks for the new video as someone who loves reach the most I’m gonna enjoy this one:) also I’m guessing the evolution video is gonna be huge mainly cause of the reach marines there so many variations of them in the game I can’t even count it lol
“Took you long enough”
So hyped.
Can you do the flood evolution next after the Marines and then drones?
Do you have planned to do the evolution of the Drones, Sentinels, Flood and all it's forms?
Fun fact: if you stare at Carter for too long, he'll say "your file mentioned this." Which means that noble 6 canonically stares at people for uncomfortable amounts of time.
never though of that
That's how Six makes friends. STARE MENACINGLY
That’s fucking hilarious hahahaha who tf stared at carter that long to get thay tho lmao
The fact that 6 barely talks at all and is labelled as a hyper-lethal vector may mean that he developed social anxiety since he is not like most other Spartans
Wait, I NEED TO TRY THIS
"You can shoot the headgear off the engineer to look at it's cute face."
Engineer: *GUESS I'LL DIE*
😂
Engineer: *NOOOO, NO ONE SHALL LOOK AT MY FACE!!!!*
😂😂😂😂
ebr you murderer why would you kill thiese innocent wurmy bois
@@giratinarayquaza6286yeah who would want to kill the squirmy boi
I never really stopped to think about the fact that the last shot in the ending cutscene is dated during 2589; that's 37 years after the end of the Human-Covenant war. Six's helmet remained there for nearly four decades and even then, no one was around to recognize his bravery: those who did had long since died and passed into forgotten history along with him.
I'd like to think when they find it they will be able to get some information off the helmet and trace it back to 6 and hopfully his story will be declassified by them so people know of his service.
@@speltcaster3186 I like to think Master Chief himself finds the helmet as well as a trail of thousands of Covenant corpses leading to it before they find out who the Spartan-III was and what he did for them.
Cortana was
I’m sure they do remember his bravery, he’s the reason the Piller of Autumn was able to retreat with Cortana and hundreds of unsc on board.
@@speltcaster3186 lmao you think ONI gives a shit about the Spartans?
2:48 this is exactly what makes this cutscene horrifying, seeing that trooper screaming for dear life and trying to get back to Noble team is scary as hell.
Halo can be a horror game sometimes. War is hell... Especially against religious aliens that will die before surrender...
@@commanderhurst3283 Don't think I could say it better.
@@ratoz8127 yes indeed.
@@commanderhurst3283 yes it can. The mission 343 guilty spark... Will never forget
This is the exact reason I like Reach over the other games, it actually feels like a war rather then feeling like your playing as some immortal being.
19:14 actually, I think that might be a reference to the Noble 14. The last 14 players of Halo 2 multiplayer
That makes a lot of sense.
holy shit
Good catch, I never thought of that
didn’t halo 2 servers get shut down after reach dropped? doesn’t line up
@@andrewhouston5840 actually no, they shut it down on April 15th 2010
19:21 I laughed pretty hard. Such a sad and depressing scene, and he’s just zooming in on some Spartan booty
Same
Mm, *Spartan booty.*
Priorities
thats why the Elites are coming on Reach
Dump truck ass
0:45 Fun fact: If you make Emile killable, the jump will actually kill him. It's really funny to watch.
*O O F*
His shield popping is just one of those things that break immersion. But you can't bring yourself to be upset at it
@@aceofjades4815 I think it adds to the immersion. It's like he intentionally used his armor's shields to break the fall.
@@wsdpii you know what your right that would be such an Emile thing to do
How do I make him killable?
15:37 lmao u shoot the helmet off, look at its cute face, then i got 1 frame of an explosion followed by an ad
That moment made me laugh
Same 🤣
Same. It was the funniest thing
It glitched for me and just played the poor engineer exploding in an endless loop...I may need counseling...
@@TonyBustaroni im watching on mobile its hardly worth the time
Those 14 spartan arent dead, they’re just missing in action
Finally someone who noticed
@@coltforceplayz5285 yeah
they are dead It’s just a line from the game
Tbh, I'm getting tired of that quote
@@Incineration. You’re not tired, your sleep is just missing in action. Jokes aside, though, understandable. Even if it’s a very iconic and nostalgic quote. I personally could never get tired of it, especially with the alternative take on it in the “ghosts of onyx” book, which made me fall in love with halo as a kid. A heartbreaking story from Kurt’s perspective, dude went through some shit. Imagine losing three entire companies you personally raised and trained with hope. His training and presence were probably inadvertently responsible for the most spartan deaths in human history, despite his best efforts. Kurt mocking the phrase was so sad that it always stuck with me, the man really tried his hardest and he still couldn’t make them ready. But the payoff of the badass ending was worth it! Sorry for the almost entirely unrelated rant, got lost in nostalgia
In Winter Contingency, behind where the distress beacon is found at the start, there is an explosive tank between the buildings. If you shoot the top off it will ignite and explode after a few seconds causing Carter to say “Stand down Noble 6!”
There could be an invisible elite 'round here 😎
Haha
And he says that too when you hit em, hahaha
Always shoot it
0:53 omfg! So when I was younger playing the campaign with my brother I remember seeing this guy move so I shot a couple times hitting him and seeing the shield flare. I told my brother and dad about it but they didn't believe me that there was a enemy running away at the start of the campaign area.
I remember when I first saw it I thought it was some spartan hologram or something. I tried to kill it over and over but couldn't, so I assumed it was a bug. Found out later than he actually WAS killable and there was an Easter egg.
The armor the dead spartans are wearing will change on every play through of Lone Wolf
it cycles in more armors you have unlocked as well
Are those Spartans 2s or 3s
@@owenrisch4591 SIIIs. The SIIs that died on reach are all canonically tied to the Fall of Reach book which the game unfortunately destroyed.
@@TheDiameter wdym the game destroyed ?
@@poopyfartboi Bungie wasn’t a big fan of the lore that the book The Fall of Reach added, so they retconned it by making Halo Reach. Many details don’t line up between the Fall of Reach book and Halo Reach’s campaign, such as where the Pillar of Autumn was
If youve ever stopped and wondered why you remember reach being so good, chances are its these little details in the background that set it apart.
Fun fact during long night of solace when you are fighting around the ardent prayer the drop pods that it launches can be individually shot down and destroyed.
(Edit, apparently I'm famous now)
I was so taken aback when I discovered this myself. Saw them dropping and, naturally, I had to try and shoot em down. To my amazement, I did!
I have some vague memory of that being one of the tasks you could do to get points back on the 360.
@@Grottogoob they're also worth a good sum of points in arcade mode or arcade challenge
It's one of the challenges to do it sometimes on 360 Reach
I found out on my own and just did that for a bit
fun fact the reason those elites are called bob elites, is cause its a reference to marathon's civilians that are called B.O.Bs, which stands for born on board. which means their born on space colony ships and such
I always wondered, thank you for this
"damn why tf do i keep seeing you in every halo critique video :HoodSmile:"
The BOB Elites have been canonized too. Example gold Rangers are now called Ranger Commanders.
Tip of the Spear was such a great mission. Being able to see all out warfare between the UNSC and Covenant was really interesting.
I never tire of that mission! Have a video out here of a Bob Banshee splattering me right at the get-go ...
Fun fact about #51, before my brother and I owned the game, this mission was in the free demo. We extended the play time by continuing are assault against the Covenant on the beach. You can also hijack the Wraith, and drive in on the beach, allowing Marines to act as the gunner.
You can even get into a seraph on that level, shoot one down with emp and then its a long way out of bounds and finding that shot down now miniature sized seraph. Quiet funny though
The longer you let the Covenant land on the beach, the more reinforcements come in on the Pelicans. Lots of friendly fire KIAs.
Crazy part of those low poly scarabs is that they have actually collision and similar to the Halo 3's one with 3 levels.
Also the ghosts shrink
15:36 "You can shoot the headgear to reveal it's cute face!"
**EXPLODES**
- During the mission New Alexandria, you can actually see a phantom dropping off covies. This usually happens if you are right next to certain buildings and get a distress call and orders to help some pinned troopers who spawn at that building.
- Fusion coils change color when damaged.
- The DMR's scope has a needle pointing to the scope's zoom magnification when zoomed in.
- The handheld grenade launcher and mounted grenade launcher use different grenade rounds from the ones seen on many armor chest pieces.
- The magnum, DMR, assault rifle, and sniper rifle have different reload animations for empty reloads and partial reloads.
- At the start of the mission New Alexandria, there's a chance that a falcon chased by two banshees will spawn. The falcon can be saved by quickly flying over and shooting the two banshees.
- The rotating barrels, firing sound, and the actual firing of the M71 Scythe automated AA gun at Sword Base are HORRIBLY off to the point that the firing sounds play AFTER the weapon has fired a burst.
- You can see the M71's ammo belt and rounds moving when it fires.
- It's possible to destroy a phantom dropship using the target designator in the mission Sword Base.
- The Focus Rifle's screen is actually a functional thermal imaging screen that lets you see targets even in dust storms or darkness, but only when not zoomed in.
- The Needler's accuracy works just like the other automatic weapons, with short bursts being very accurate.
- Spirit dropship turrets are properly animated in the campaign but are broken in Firefight. In fact, in Firefight they can shoot projectiles at enemies they are not facing.
- The 70mm cannon on the Pelican dropship appears to have no ammo feed system or shell ejection port.
- The Falcon helicopter's 20mm cannon lacks an ammo belt.
Jorge's .50 caliber machine gun is far larger that other .50 caliber machine guns in the game. It's also painted. Strangely, the .50 caliber machine guns in Halo: Reach have oddly proportioned parts and lack ejection ports.
@@connorbernier7689 No. You are far too close to the Scythe AA guns for there to be ANY delay between the weapon firing and the sound reaching you. In real-life, there is only a delay between the rounds hitting the target and the sound reaching the target when the 20mm or 30mm cannon is firing from over a mile away.
Speaking of sound, REACH actually has a sound traveling feature; loud sounds like gunfire or explosions have a delay before being heard when far away.
This is most noticeable on Forge World, which is quiet and large enough to consistently observe. Try throwing a grenade in forge mode and quickly move away, or have a friend fire a scorpion from a distance. The sound will be delayed!
That falcon one :(
Not echo-419...
@@amog8202 That might be a reference to Halo: CE now that I think about it.
The pelican auto-cannon could use caseless rounds.
During the final mission, you can board and destroy the core of one of the passing Scarabs by making a well-timed vehicle jump on a hill. Interestingly, the Scarab doesn't die and just keeps on walking away even with the core destroyed and you even get points of destroying the core.
Additional detail concerning number 96 (16:27)
the screen that shows members of Noble team s MIA shows, in order, Jorge (MIA), Kat (MIA) , and Carter. This is the order in which they die, and foreshadows that Carter is the next to go.
A few cool details not mentioned:
- In the first mission, you can kill a skirmisher that jumps from the roof of the building with the dead troopers and civilians onto a nearby cliff. After killing the skirmisher before it can flee, members of Noble Team will compliment you on your kill without having seen it.
- The drop pods deployed from the corvette in space can be destroyed.
- The mandibles of EVA elites will clip through their helmets after they are killed.
- The shields on AA shade turrets have the firing handles clipping through them, technically making them impossible to fire at all.
- This is a minor oversight by the devs but I felt like mentioning it. The tracks of the scorpion main battle tank lack any visible drive sprocket, which raising the question of how it's able to even move.
On a related note, who else hopes the elites who killed Noble Six died soon afterwards?
Which mission is the first one on?
The elites that “killed” noble 6 did indeed die after noble 6 got up and killed them and then was rescued by unsc and became an assassin again, it’s not a theory, this is canon in my eyes
@@withwillin Pretty sure its the first mission
@@withwillin First mission.
@@KrysFG six is MIA
19:20 Sad music, checked. Dead bodies, checked. *Thick* Spartan posterior... Checked!
Just FYI, the "forerunner symbols" are actually a form of shotcode designation that Reach's settlers incorporated into their aesthetic from early colony ships and equipment. ☺️
Didn't even realize that 2589 could be added up to 7/17 like that, so many things I really didn't know about until I watched this.
Dang, only 6 likes, no comments. For once i dont see you at the top if the video..
Maybe in a day this will have 20 reply's?
I’ll just wait here for everybody’s replies to settle in.. I’ll be here
His comment isn’t even interesting why are y’all expecting more replies or likes
@@lostvayne104 he’s.. well known to say the least
61 was really interesting, I always thought that the fleet arrived in retaliation for destroying The Long Night of Solace. But actually now that I think about hyper space jumps aren’t instant, getting to Delta Halo took like 2 weeks.
Anyways, great video!
Well the fleet arrived mere seconds after the Long Night of Solace was destroyed. I know Halsey called the Covenant efficient in her ending monologue, but literally no one can be that efficient, especially keeping in mind that hyper space jumps are quite lengthy, like you said
@@machexx1494 Covenant ships have more quicker and more precise slipspace drives
Bungie has always had a keen eye for incredibly easy to miss details, as well as some surprisingly detailed textures on character models
The reason there is 14 total dead Spartans is because when halo 2 was being removed from Xbox there were 14 people left who wanted to stay and play the game for as long as they could, eventually they were all booted offline, their Xbox’s had to reset due to overheating etc. they were all given access to play halo reach by 343 before it was released in the end they were all nicknamed the Noble 14.
I felt like the 14 dead Spartans total would be more close to the Nobel 14 from halo 2s last online days rather than the number 7
Me too lmao
It's 3 references, the 14 last players standing the number two and the number 7
18:47 for clarification, Aunti Dot's symbol is the Norse rune for Gungnir, Odin's magic spear that always hits its target.
In the last area on "The Package", There are icy footprints somewhere near the elevator you came from. What's odd about these footprints is that they're several times larger than that of a spartan's. and the tracks vanish into a splash of frost, very odd.
That’s cool
7:37 i literally didn't know you could destroy aa guns from the inside until I played the other halo games lmao
Another minor detail - while Elite's seem to have some kind of black bodysuit underneath their metal armour plates, the actual soles of their feet are bare and you can see their grey skin (you can even see the edge of the body suit at the edges of the sole), although this is only really possible to notice once they are dead.
Also, while it looks like Elite Rangers are wearing gloves as part of a hermetic EVA suit since they have those white bits on their hands, they actually aren't wearing any - if you look closely at their hands, you can see they just have white plates on top of regular elite skin hands, it's just the white-dark contrast makes it look like a glove. I guess this was done to save modelling time as it's really unlikely to be noticed unless you look very closely.
Fun Fact: 11:41 The "AMX-42" on Falcons and Pelicans (if it's like real military aviation designations) should mean those specific planes were attached/ belong to the UNSC's 42nd maintenance group
Damn is Reach an amazing game, from the score to the story, weapon designs, characters its all just soo perfect.
makes sense that ODSTs salute noble 6, since he's a lieutenant and they're probably ncos or junior enlisted, they sorta have to
9:25 The Banshees underneath the Corvette can be destroyed before takeoff. One strafing run and done; no more Banshees during that final space fight.
Makes that section of the mission a bit easier on a solo Legendary run.
@@bloodwolfgaming9269 The space Saber fighter battles were the easiest on solo legendary run
Those forerunner symbols that you mention in Winter Contingency are actually symbols seen on Doors in the Marathon series.
They also double as a way to represent the way settlements are built on Reach, in a round manner.
Another great video! At 8:17 the BXR reference is a nice catch. I’m not sure if this was also purposefully done, but the logo of the 3 colored squares matches the colors of the face buttons on an Xbox controller- blue for X, yellow for Y, and red for B.
Edit: I randomly found a similar symbol in the 2014 WWII film “Fury,” on Brad Pitt’s jacket he has a patch for his tank battalion with the same color placement. There is also a similar symbol used today to denote chemical flammability but there is a white square at the bottom and the colors are in a different order. BASICALLY that little detail is not a purposeful easter egg, rather a fun coincidence lol but I did learn something today so there’s a win.
The patch on Fury isn't the colours of his battalion, but the division. ALL US Army armoured divisions have the blue-yellow-red combo in WW2 (and I think that tradition still keeps to this day, but I might be wrong, I know at least some of those divisions still exist)
It is a bit of a stretch to say the BXR logo is the same as the armoured division logos though; I think it is just a coincidence of the colours being loosely in the same positions to each other. The actual shape of the logos are very different.
@@socracle2774 Thanks for that clarification! And yeah it might not be the same logo, but I found it interesting that other similar logos like it exist which led me to believe that the 3 squares are not meant to really correlate to an Xbox controller’s face buttons, rather it is just a coincidence and that it’s following a similar scheme to other logos used in both industrial and military institutions.
Another thing is when you get there playing reach as part of the mcc (you have to buy it like a dlc) it even gives you an achievement called ‘mind the skill gap’
16:47 The cutscene for the level says that the evac point is in a wrecking yard. I think all the ships you see there are ships that were either too old or badly damaged for further use and were parked there to be stripped of anything useful. I think they've been there a long time.
and the level is called boneyard in firefight. and in the firefight level, the ship is actually admiral cole's either first or second ship from when the insurrection was going on. admiral cole being the one to get the "cole protocol" started and all. he's also considered dead because of having fired a bunch of shivas into a red dwarf if i remember right, to stop a fleet of covenant, and he had a ship in tow, but as he fired, oni thinks he open a jump gate to escape, and that the ship in tow was destroyed.
@@justincooper5189 The ship in boneyard is actually supposed to be the Commonwealth. The ship that delivers the Spartan 2s and Halsey to a testing facility to get Mjolnir in The Fall of Reach
19:23 why that angle?
One word...HORNY
Priorities
I knew quite a few of these. And it’s good to see people recognize them. Also, anchor 9 is in the shape of 117
"117 things you missed in halo reach"
1- 7
2 - 7
3 - 7
4 - 7
5 - 343 which is 7^3
6 - 7
7 - which is the 7th fact
6:24 A tip to the forklift glitch is to move the forklift's side close enough to the gate so that your character would clip through the gate if you were to exit in the direction of the gate, but not so close that the game will force you to exit the other way. It might take a few tries.
Man, what if we could go back to Reach at 2589 and see the decomposed bodies of the Covenant, specifically those dead Elites, and Six. That would be freaking awesome.
I love your "117 Things You May Have Missed" series man. Maybe in the future you could revisit some of these games and do a "117 More Things You May Have Missed"?
19:21 the way he zoom on the Spartan cheeks XD
8:49 I once managed to Hijack the Wraith on that Beach and get it all the way up to the Entrance of the Base and spent a while fighting those Endless Dropship Waves
I of course died alot and had to do it again but my Record was somewhere around 10500 Points on the XBox 360 or 15000 Points
Sad the “Warthog Turret” automated Turret outside of the Sabre Facility glitch didn’t make it. Really cool.
Won't lie some of these things being pointed out are pretty obvious for someone who's been playing since the game came out, but either way man keep it up your brute videos helped me take my mind off of some stressful stuff at my first shore command.
Yea those are really just fillers cause there not much more to help get him to 117
Alot of it is pretty noticable. Like Emiles shields, Jorge throwing a flare. But I did not know you could blow up the guns from outside. That's a neat thing that I'm going to try.
@@specialoperatorlolbit8671 you never know what people know about the game. I knew about shooting the guns since like... my second playtheough. I got into one of those mini Wraith tank things and just kept shooting. Eventually it just started burning and then blew up. It makes those sections so much easier in Legendary. You can do the same with the Scorpion tank when you return to Castle Base, again making it easier on harder difficulties.
@@snodog00 i found that out because Kat is actually capable if shooting the AA gun. At first i thought she's even more faulty at shooting than driving but then it blew up🤣
You taught me a few things, but 6's fight didnt end at that energy dagger. Cannonically he fought for 7 hours and the covenant ended up glassing the whole area he was in just to stop him. They also picked 7 hours because at the time that was the record for longest lone wolf mission
9:24 if you are fast enough you can kill those space banshees before they launch and get a massive multikill.
6:09
Son of a b- those random obscure vehicles *are* helpful
I will always say “Remember Reach.” And “Spartans never die, They're just missing in action."
Fun little facts for number 56 and 57. If you are fast enough when assaulting the Covenant Corvette, you can actually fly under it and destroy most of the docked Banshee before they deploy. This makes taking out the Corvette's engines and escorts a bit easier on harder difficulties since there are less enemy ships flying about. And as you can shoot the Banshee before they are deployed, you can also shoot and destroy the insertion pods that have been released, though I don't think there are any benefits for doing so other than it's just another way the game's setting reacts to the player's actions.
Another fun fact: When storming the Corvette's bridge, if you are both fast and stealthy enough (choosing the right targets in order) you can actually clear the entire bridge without having to fire a single shot and without alerting any of the enemies. It is a little tricky because there are one or two Spec-Ops Elites that walk the bridge and will alert the others and cloak when they spot you. They also have a habit of walking near a few Grunts that may also see you. Still, if timed right, it is a fun little challenge to give yourself to see if you can clear the bridge without alerting the enemy.
#113 is actually a pretty good tactic for beating that segment on Solo Legendary. More often than not, you will die a few times during this segment. But you can make the ending moment much easier by actually getting out of the cannon and hiding behind it until Keye's tells you that the Cruiser is in range and to shoot it now. Then just hop back in the cannon and fire the final shot.
I already knew that Emile will climb up the rock and i always jump with him because it's cool somehow
Reach us truly one of my favorite games of all time. Just an absolute work of art through and through
8:37 This weapon also displays the amount of Targets that may be damaged when the explosion will be called
I'm pretty sure the weapon displays the meters the round has traveled
Dang, I've played through Reach's campaign quite a few times since the game's launch back in the day, and I've missed so many of those Elite bobs! That blew my mind!
The binary easter eggs are pretty cool too!
Also, lots of these 7 and 343 references went straight over my head lol.
The blood type marker on the troopers' uniforms is a nice touch.
And it's pretty badass that it's the same Field Marshall throughout the campaign. I love that kind of thing where there are parts of the story that go on behind your back, without you realizing.
I actually did notice Emile's knife protruding from the elite's neck. Another badass touch.
In summation, I learned some cool stuff about one of my favorite games today. Thanks, EBR.
If you kill the B.O.B's they will give you a shit ton of xp depending on difficulty of course so I always tried to find them so I could unlock armor pieces faster
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that you can save the passenger hog in ONI Sword Base if you can time a target locator shot correctly
What does it do after? Just keeps running around or does it have some kind of animation
@@yasininn76 you can save the marines and even drive the warthog after
19:21 man that sure was a sad death
THICC ASS
Insert hot milk by snails house
legit why would you show the most tragic death and take longer time on it dude XD
Greatest tragedy of this war was losing an ass like that
@Oos moon, indeed....hey but there's plenty more
Always stuns me how detailed 3 and Reach are for 360 games.
This video makes me appreciate Halo Reach's artsyle/graphics.
i’ll never forget unboxing my reach edition xbox and playing until my hands were sore 😌
5:59 is this a reference to the Don Cheadle film "Traitor"?
"What language do you dream in?"
Was really curious how fast the Longswords in Exodus were flying. They were moving about under Mach 4 (4900 km/h).
i've tried to recreate it so many times, but, on the mission where you first get the detonator and it's you and kat, i was about to get hit by a revenant and kat, with subtitles on, yelled out "Dillon watch out!" this was back around when reach first came out
Carter in winter contingency alone saves Kat and Six from energy sword attacks, and (debatably) Emile by stopping him from pursuing the field marshall (assuming you believe the theory that pursuing the field marshall would have lead Emile into an ambush resulting in his death).
Whether you believe the last mention was the right move or not, man really was about keeping the team alive.
I was ready for bro to get into the symbolism of 14 Spartans falling, that with even double the strength they ultimately stood no chance at survival
But then he hit me with "since 7 times 2 is 14" 😂
EBR upload, go view it! The corps ain’t paying us by the hour!
15:41
Me: aw
The engineer: * fu€king explodes*
You can shoot down the pods from 57, makes me feel like I'm helping the marines below lol
I am so thrilled that he notes most of the UNSC troops you fight alongside are army troopers and the marines only appear towards the end when fighting on the landing pad at the P.O.A
Invasions aside, That is one Hell of a turn (12:42)
quantum drifting maaaan
I am so glad you're continuing this series
It always makes my day better when i see that EBR has posted
I think the blood type on their shoulders come from rookie from Halo 3: ODST. I remember him having o+ blood type on his shoulder
Amazing how Bungie adds all these little details in a game of 2010. Unnecessary, but intriguing
At 11:40, “AMX-42” is actually the squadron number I believe
16:53 it’s a ship scrapping yard , it’s where they take old outdated ships for deconstruction to build newer upgraded versions of them like the pillar of autumn was a helcion class cruiser and there was a class of ship named the autumn class which looked very familiar to the autumn but was upgrades and the frigate you walk through is actually a ship master Chief and blue team fight on during the first engagement with the covenant I saw it on either a hidden Xperia video or halo canon
mothballed fleet
@@tatotaytoman5934 mhm
@@NotKameron hmh
2:48 wasn't it told that the trooper actually didnt die in this scene? He despawns After that.
9:17 The ancor 9 platform is shaped in 117
Also 1+1+7=9, as in Anchor 9. And while I can't explain why, I feel like "anchor" could easily be a shorthand way of saying "sum up" in math. I don't know if that was on purpose, but it feels pretty great.
"This Trooper gets launched out of his Warthog when hit."
Tropper: "YA DONT SAY?!"
I love these, thank you for making them!
Glad you like them!
Thing 118: The penthouse in New Alexandria (the one with the drone ambush) is also based on a halo 2 multiplayer map
I miss the days when big game companies actually put effort into there game, that’s why halo reach has stood the test of time
I knew atleast half of these but it was still very enjoyable to watch. Brought back good memories.
I feel like a lot of these details are why 343’s games often don’t feel quite the same. Bungie had such attention to detail that you subconsciously feel immersed in the environment even after playing dozens of times. For example, the corvette switching targets to sword base is such a minor detail that 343 probably wouldn’t have even bothered with.
Not that I despise or even dislike 343, but I wish they’d put their whole heart into Halo like Bungie did.
They might have done so with Infinite since a lot of Halo devs came back to help create Infinite.
The #114 was the one that made me go WHATTT, but in a genuine good way!
19:21
hmmmmm
6 is not (technically) a forerunner symbol. It's a marathon easter egg. That symbol shows up in the doors of the Marathon throughout the game.
52. Idk if this counts but you missed the part where you can (if you EMP) get out of the map and fly a seraph.
Another thing most people don't pick up on. During the cutscene where the fleet shows up, you can hear Johnson over the coms say "yeah we're picking up Anomalies too."
The return of the king
I just realised when you mentioned the layout or club herrera is the same as where veronica dare pod crashes well if you have a look at the sinoviet tower and compare it to ivory tower in halo 2 you will notice it's the same layout some things are a bit different but the same
Unbelievable this game was soo much better than any Halo game afterwards.
You just made me want to replay it!
18:07 Who would’ve thought that zealot was that personal?
20:27 YOOO THAT SHIP IS THE ACE OF SPADES
The ace of spades?
Elite: breaks panel after messing with it
Also elite: doesn’t hit the panel one time😂
15:37 that's crazyyy