Halo 5 cut Forerunner Enemies, Weapons and Vehicles Concept Art
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A load of Forerunner weapons, enemies and vehicles that were cut from Halo 5 were released the other day by Paul Richards, an artist at 343, in concept art form. Many things were included in this concept art drop, most importantly, a War Sphinx which was cut from Halo 5. In this video I'll be sumarizing everything in this concept art drop, and analyzing what their purpose may have been in Halo 5, and how some may impact future Halo stories, specifically Halo 6.
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It would have been pretty cool if all these made it as bosses instead of just the Warden multiple times.
too bad 343 are shit devs
Harbinger of the apocalypse If that were fully the case, these concepts wouldn't exist.
The Forerunner Cavalier eventually evolved into the Warden. Some of the Cavalier concept pieces appear in The Art of Halo 5 when they show the development of the Warden.
Still, I would have loved to have it as a separate unit, a sub-boss to break up the monotony of the Warden. The socket system, too, would have helped with that.
The sky serpent would have been awesome for a final boss!
+Halo Canon The sky serpent NEEDS to me a mega-boss in the next game. Imagine being on a Swords of Sanghelios Scarab, when you run into a Covenant remnant Kraken and you start battling it. Then you hear Warden say he's summoning something and the Serpent appears through a slip space portal and acts as a third enemy in the battle. It'd butcher your framerate, but it'd be awesome nonetheless!
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Driving a Scarab?! FOR SANGHEILIOS!!!
What do you think the Sky Serpent would be used for? I think it's purpose would be some sort of Hunter-Killer unit against the flood; zipping through Slipspace to find Flood infested worlds where it would transmit the location and start causing massive havoc for the Parasite on the surface, tracking down give colonies and unleashing devastating amounts of cleansing fire upon them.
+HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! That thing reminds me of the Leviathan from Atlantis: The Lost Empire for some reason.
+HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! I think the cavalier is a forerunner lord commanding a large group of knights and soldiers
All the shit they cut out look a lot better than what's on the game
If something is TOO original Microsoft will have a heart attack.
+BushBumper lmao
maybe they were saving it for halo 6 so that they can have the most epic ending to the trilogy, and halo 5 served as a build up for halo 6. Also they could have had a plot idea and all this concept, but it didnt work out how they wanted it for the plot so they changed it or scrapped it for later.
We can only hope...
+BushBumper XD!!!
It's a shame all this was cut because it actually looks really good!
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Maybe, they should of made this stuff instead of making that godless cluster fuck Warden Eternal
If only halo 5 had different wardens. Like different bosses. So there would be the warden eternal, the warden whatever whatever, and the warden whatever, the warden eternal being the strongest. You meet warden whatever with Osiris, and the warden whatever whatever with blue team, and then meet eternal in a different order. Like the warden eternal is the same, and the other two have different stuff, like one is really fast and strong, and he has telekinesis to lift you up into the air like the didact, and throw you around and shit. The other one is like a marksman dude, with like a huge binary rifle that is like the original binary rifle, and if you get too close he teleports like a Promethean knight away from you, and you have to do different strategys to beat them. That would add variety to the game, and would make the game fun
For some reason, these concepts made me start thinking that they should make a halo game based around the time of the human forerunner and forerunner flood wars. I think that would be pretty cool. 😕
I have been hoping this happens forever
I've been proposing this for a couple of years now. An RPG game where you are a Warrior Servant fighting for the Mantle and the Ecumene would be incredible! You would start out with a basic level combat skin for Warrior Servants and as you fight in the campaign and in multiplayer matches, you could level up your load out and your combat skin/armor. The two would be intertwined, your chsrscter and load out in multiplayer and in the campaign are the same, yet in multiplayer the combat skin and the armor would not have advantages and would only serve for a cosmetic purpose (at least in terms of health and damage outputs, other advantages that are trivial and not game breaking could be allowed). This would almost be like Destiny, but done right with an engaging story and balanced multiplayer.
+noah bryan The Reclaimer Saga was the only chance of that.
Isaac Hoover that does seem interesting
Isaac Hoover Yes with the forerunners and ancient humans both being playable
The Forerunner Caveliers should have been in the game.
I know he eventually turned into the Warden but 343 should have made them seperate.
Those Caveliers would have been really cool to fight.
Could it be that the Cavaliers were a first version of the warden eternal? Just look at 08:02 this reminds me a lot of him..
+TheOne12990 i know... Thats why i said 343 should have kept them seperate for the final game.
Lester Dave Evangelista Imagine how diverse the game would be if only halfe of the stuff would've made it into it :/
In Halo: Hunters in the Dark, it's written that some of the Forerunner Armigers used energy staves when they fought with the Sangheili and Spartans, and from what I gather they're very similar in shape to the one wielded here by the Cavalier. However, the Armigers only used them as melee weapons to match the Sangheili's Energy Swords; maybe there are different types of staves?
Adding these enemies and bosses to the game would have given a chance to make the forerunners more than just an annoyance. It could have fleshed them out as enemies but sadly we just had one interesting enemy type(Knights) and a boss who refuses to die.
when halo 4 was announced these types of designs were what I had imagined for the forerunner enemies and vehicles. I wish with the new saga we could have gotten more of these enemy types.
I feel like microsoft probably rushed 343 like hell to release the game to "save" the xbox one when it was seriously taking a beating before all the positive things Phil Spencer did for the xbox one to make it a more popular console. Thats my thought on why some of this stuff was cut. Seriously though some of the enemy designs were really really cool
AR GamingRiver Sounds pretty similar to what happened with halo 2
Bighat Star Nomad But the difference is that Bungie had better writes at time...
if the xbox one needed halo 5 to save it
R.I.P xbone
The cavalier looks like a Sci fi version of a dark souls enemy
yea and it still can kick your ass e.e
War sphincter
It shoots anal waste.
RealHumanKeane that’s all I heard too 😂
I just want my cute little sentinels back :(
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I saw Late night Gaming's video on this but This is thankfully more in-depth and I enjoyed that Great video!
+MetalHeadSpartan I wasn't ware he did a video on it, I'll go check it out now. Happy you enjoyed bro!
MetalHeadSpartan surprised to see you here...
I think the Cavalier was just the earliest concept fro the Warden Eternal. The music that plays when you fight him is called Cavalier.
The Socket System sounds like it'd be right at home in Halo Wars 2.
The War Sphinx reminds me a lot of the Precursors.
Imagine if 343 had just one more year to implement half the stuff you've shown, the story could've been so much better! What a game we would have gotten.... Damn you Gaming Industry -.-
I feel like we'll definitely see these things in Halo 6 & 7. Yes, there will be a Halo 7, 343 signed a contract with Microsoft to have installments of Halo up until Halo 9 as part of the new Reclaimer trilogy. With that in mind, they can't put all of their ideas into one game.
We need a lot more Prometheans improvements in 6. I've already lost interest in them so to speak as they were so easy to beat in 5 and just felt like metal covenant. I hope that since they basically are the covenant playstyle wise, they give them more vehicles and enemy variety. Arbiters aligned with humanity so the covenant stuff can be incorporated with the human arsenal so give the Prometheans ways to fight against the scorpion. Knight are cool and fun but nowhere near a threat when faced with a scorpion. Also lets not use warden 19 times. 3 times at least but we need more vehicles and some more interesting weaponry for them. We need a tank, ghost, melee weapon as well as a troop transport. We also need counterparts to the drones, brutes and possibly have the flood return to rival their playstyle so it doesn't get so repetitive fighting the same exact enemy types again and again and again...
+Colby Senior nice video btw
Have you played on legendary? The bullets holm in and destroy that scorpion halo 4 promethians are the weak ones because they are so innacurate but halo 5 promethiams? Oh hell no
Hope the snake one returns to be a Gravemind like character.
Well, all of these look way cooler than what we got from Halo 5. Thanks 3 fights with like 6 Wardens.
if I remember right, the guarding Sphinx units around The Didact's Cryptom stored the essences of his sons.
Additionally, the last bit of art you showed almost looked like the Guardian from the Halo 5 desert trailer.
0:30 "War Sphincters"
They get it all wrong. Sentinels. Floating. Blocky
The forerunner tank looks like the banished tank thing
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2016 me: I want more forerunner stuffs. 2017 me: I want less forerunner stuffs
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we need a campaing of the arbiter.
I hope your channel gets like a million subs. The content you make is awesome.
Sky Serpent looks awesome! The Socket stuff I feel should be apart of Bornstellars Troops or whatnot. And I think they shouldn't have killed off the Didact cause allot of these concepts would have worked for the promethan side. Half the missions could have been Chief working with Bornstellar and fighting the Covenant. The other Half could have been Locke working with the Didact to Hunt Chief down and Fight the Bornstellar faction. (Didact and his Promethans VS Bornstellar and the Lifeworkers) Blue Life workers vs Red Promethans. And make it Play were you could play as your customized Spartans like Halo Reach and with large battle scapes.
Not gonna lie that forerunner tank kind of looks like if the forerunners saw a scarab and thought "i want one"
All I want is a booster frame in halo who agrees
Titan_filmz69 hell yea, a space mission with blue team or Osiris on those thing 😫💦💦💦
Kind of dumb that they only have one forunner vehicle
About the war sphinx, by the time of the firing of the halo array they were stated to be quite obsolete, with most of the surviving copies being placed in museums.
The cannon pods attach to the larger frames and becom part of them
With the Boomerang you have one pod in the middle acting as the pilot while the two pods to the sides act as turrets.
With the socket tank its a smaller version of the Boomerang, with the pilot cannon pod facing forward and thd "gunner" cannon pod facing backward..
I get the sketchy nature makes the concepts kinda hard to see but if you study it for a few seconds it makes sense.
This sort of seems like you just glanced at them and thats it..
The forerunner cavalier is a really cool idea and concept. I would definitely enjoy seeing it in a future halo game.
I'd imagine the boomerang thing to be some thing that may have been a gamemode, where you defend it from attackers and get it to the objective, while boarding other pods.
I think the serpent would have been a sort of final boss, being used by Cortana to try and subdue the Spartans. You would've had to climb onto it's back to destroy some sort of shielding before being kicked off and having to get back on again. Each time this happened it would destroy a platform, making it harder to climb onto it. After you destroy the shielding (or whatever you had to destroy) you would climb inside it and fight your way to the 'control room' to shut it down. After that, you'd face Cortana in a cut scene where chief sends the serpent (Cortana and all) onto the surface where it explodes. In the legendary cut scene, you would see the guardians are now free, and leave the worlds they were meant to police. After a sort of 'party' or congratulations section, you would see the next villain, maybe the warden, raising their head with the words "You have won the battle, but you have not won the war."
what do you think?
I want the promethium knight sword to drop when you get one and it can beat a grav hammer.
Could you do lore on the elite armor?
Those orange orbs are also seen as his shoulder sockets, and there is a couple in each shoulder
That werewolf crawler though, omg if 343 or Microsoft reads this I just want to say that you should really add that in halo 6.
i think the sky serpent was a sort of bomber you could say and how it would work is it would be deployed to a battlefield and would hover above firing downeards towards enemies i feel this would be used as a city or high priority area defense bot
When I saw the Caviler, I was like. "Is that what LifeWorker's looked like if they were forced to do battle?"
@ 9:30 your talking about the forerunner socket system. There's actually something similar in Halo 2 when your on the mission to retrieve the index. There's a flying AI vehicle similar to the same design.
Love the weapons, and the idea of vehicles customised for certain tasks. would love to see Chief react to the return of the Iso-Didact after his experience with "Shadow of Sundered Star" I'd love to see a firefight/arena mechanic with customisable weapons and vehicles on a battlefield, like Halo 5 but you get customisation options based on your personal SR, not reqs and time in-game (I dislike the randomness brought about by reqs with reqards to core weapons, armour, and vehicles). the convo between bornstellar and John would be wicked too :D
5:50 then they proceeded to make the ark look perfect in halo wars 2.
You can see the core in Halo 4 in that one mission at the space station, it's inside a viewing tank.
This may be crazy but imagine the promethean mimics taking control of nearby creatures like an elite or even an animal and forcing it to fight for it by surrounding itself around their body
I think the boomerang may have been faster than the cannon pods, so you can carry a larger amount of aerial fire power in a shorter time. Especially good when you have a coordinated Fireteam.
The boomerang reminds me of the Elephant, the one from the Halo 3 map Sandtrap. Maybe if it were in Multiplayer, it would act as a kind of mobile base/spawn cluster?
+Archangel Otaku Possibly, and it could only work by fitting 3 Phaetons into it to balance it out. I think it was originally used to allow smaller vehicles to travel through slip space, however.
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Kind of like some sort of insertion dropship? Like the Covenant Spirit?
In some of the concept arts, the "Forerunner Cavalier" looks kind of like a Pfhor fighter from Marathon, Bungies' game series before Halo.
>The Early flying guardian looks like a Necron unit called the Canoptek Wraith.
With the direction that Forerunner tech has been going, (Disintegration weapons, Watchers able to resurrect dead knights in 4, the Knights originally being living beings) I honestly wouldn't be surprised if 343 is getting some Inspiration from Warhammer. Hell, compare the Facial features from Halo 4's Terminal Forerunners to the Tau.
>In the Grimdark Future of the 26'th Century, there is only War.
The cavalier would most likely be the defense version of the warden, with warden always charging and having a lot of attack (face cannon, hard light sword, shockwave, and he does that dashing slice ) but no real defense also warden talks to us not just as fighting dialogue but in cutscenes the cavalier would have more defensive abilities such as his shield and shockwave to keep rushers away and his armor would be stronger, he could also heal forerunner near himself. His attacks would be limited to the standard staff/spear attack and maybe shoot a cannon out of it. It's like warden is lighting and cavalier is thunder and going against them both in halo 6 campaign would be very dufficult
Ooh ooh!! I have and idea on how to fight the serpent so you would use platforms around the area to get on it's back then shoot it's core/weak point similer to the warden to kill it but it would shake to get you off of it while shooting projectiles similar to the paeton
I was waiting the whole video to see a "War Sphincter"... Disappointed to see a Sphinx...
maybe the cavalier was supposed to be used like grevious's magnaguards in star wars as they have a similar design and from what it looks like, attack strategy
The War Sphinx needs to make appearance!
Why do I get the feeling that the Socket System would have been more useful in a Halo Wars game instead of a Shooter? Would have loved to see and use it either way.
The war sphinx could be a ester egg throw back to the hologram of a possible guardian sentinel in the halo 3 multiplayer map Epitaph
the Guardian in the e3 trailer theory sounds almost solid because the Guardian has a different model than the other guardians
I have an idea for the core weapons, what if you could choose the core and shoot it towards that one vehicle and it upgrades it, like you could choose that shielding core, shoot it at that one vehicle, and bam now it has shields.
The Cavalier looks sick, I could see it taking the Warden's place.
Bornstellar left this Galaxy with Chant-To-Green. As awesome as stumbling upon his cryptum would have been.
OMG! 1:07 THATS THE TANK THING THE BRUTES HAVE IN THE HALO WARS 2 gameplay videos and images!
maybe the forerunner tank ( the one at the start) was going to be the tank that you used on genesis as fireteam osiris. however they replaced it with the scorpion after they cut the forerunner tank.
not sure, just a guess
The pistal in halo 2 is so strong it can kill a big enemy with a couple of shoots but you have to ame at your enemy
Could the strange serpent be what is seen in the Halo Infinite trailer in the water? Maybe a multi terain enemy type that would be something not yet seen to the universe.
Well the forerunner mimic looks like the warden am I right? (I mean cavalier)
When the Forerunner Tank comes, I want that "*BOOM* GOTCHA BITCH!!!" feeling
The socket and boomerang tanks remind me of a forerunner version of the mammoth. I instead of a warthog though, you could station phaetons.
I'm curious about the third chapter of the reclaimer saga if they'd use that stuff. (Yes it's a saga not a trilogy, Microsoft said there would be 20 to 30 more years of halo so it won't go away anytime soon)
that last serpent thing looks like something out of shadow of the colossus.
I think it would have been much cooler to have had this stuff with a evil forerunner boss that cortona this looks like it would have made the prometheans so much cooler
I would love to see all of this in the future
Never read the Forerunner books besides the first one. So Bornstellar is still alive? Even until this current timeline in Halo 5? If so, the Forerunners aren't truly dead, right? Also, great video! Love seeing concept arts!
According to Primordium, Guilty Spark is still alive and is looking for the remaining Forerunners. Wonder if he'll appear in a future game.
forunner main battle tank idea : have the main cannon fire a burst of oversized sentinel beams and have a back turret that fires the sentinel beam and if no one is in the back turret it will automaticaly shoot enemies
Like your theory about born stellar. Would love to see him come around in halo 6. Possibly the chief has to wake him up to find a way to defeat the precursors. That would be awesome.
+Austin Craft There's a rumor going around at the moment that 'Bastion', the thing that's mentioned in the intel quite a lot is actually Bornstellar's father searching for him. It was on r/Halo the other day. If that were true, it'd be amazing as it could lead to the eventual introduction of him into the games.
+HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! Wow that's awesome thanks for the info
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So I was watching hidden xerpia's video on where the didact went and he said he was in a state where he couldn't do anything fir now but would almost 100% be there in the future
So,
What happens when the didact returns and cortana is in control of the forunners? Obviously Cortona won't be giving him a surprise part with a welcome back cake(Unless the cake is full of Grenades) so who wuld the forunner follow? would they stay faithful to the didact or would they trust cortona and it would rip the empire apart and into a civil war... and what part would the warden take place? would he battle against the didact also what would happen to the guardians?!
You should do a video about Titan (a cancelled Halo MMO)
Zephyrinfinity yeah it's called destiny now
i really hope none of this is added, every game 343i makes halo less halo, and it’s annoying because they overcomplicate the lore by just adding all these random ideas which have no relevance. they’re using a pre-existing universe to spew their creative visions onto, and it makes the halo games seem more like a different franchise entirely
the first ones actually look like something that prometheans would actually build. it's looks hyper futuristic and cooler then any other fore runner build by 343. btw the way sphinx actually looks hella cool
Briskeh nice profile pic.
The Cavalier's first concept looks like a tank. But I must say, a forerunner mage-type would be perfect. :3
I don't think the Iso Didact would have had War Sphinxes Guarding him because by the end of the Forerunner Flood war he and most all forerunners(excluding the Ur Didact) switch to using Seekers.
That last one is in some of the halo 5 achievement art!
there's a song in the halo 5 soundtrack called the Cavalier:/
What if in halo 6 warden plans to betray Cortana and he needs cavalier to do it so they can combine into a huge destructive forerunner being and the only way Cavalier can be obtained is with the guardians opening some sort of forerunner tomb so he locks Cortana out of the domain and takes the guardians and makes Cortana be the kind of side show or lacks she made him be
The forerunner cavalier kind of reminds me of an orbital frame from zone of the enders
That forerunner tank concept art is fucking awesome
+TheActiveAssault Yep, I expect in the future we'll get more Forerunner vehicles and hopefully that's one of them
I could swear that he was saying, "War Sphincter."
I believe the Cavalier and the final serpent thing were just early versions of the warden eternal.
This further proves how much of a shell of a campaign we got with Halo 5. MS butchered it royally. 343 nailed gameplay for the most part (still hate sprint :/ ) and their post launch support has been some of the best in the industry for a shooter. Hopefully they can use this traction to focus a majority of their efforts for Halo 6 on the campaign, art style and level design in both single player and multiplayer. If there's anything they're still terrible at, it's map design :/ Removing sprint could improve that.
If the Prometheans were designed to be more reminiscent of the original Forunner designs like the Sentinals they would be pretty cool. A forunner mage would definitely make a new type of gameplay rather than just teleporting enemies with reskinned weapons.
10:41 number 7 design looks like that weapon the fourunners used in halo legends am I right
I think that the chevalier armor would adapt to it user so chief would be able to use it as well as other prometheans
Forerunner pack master looks amazing as well as the cavalier
I want to see warden and a few war Sphinx battle it out with an onslaught of Flood (all forms)...
If they add a new forerunner enemy, I hope it looks more natural and less robotic, like natural tissue with a metal part in its back that controlled him.
There was a planned mega bloks war sphinx set
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I do believe the cannon pod would've been a player mounted turret. the would explain why they are on the forerunner take concept.