Why This Halo 3 Mystery Is Still Unsolved 13 Years Later
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Halo 3 has had it's fair share of Easter Eggs, Mysteries and Secrets that popped up over the years, with some being only found after years and years of a community wide search. But some Halo mysteries are still unsolved today, including the mystery that is the Halo 3 multiplayer map Sandtrap.
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"Oh I have a reason to use my English degree"
* Looks up the description of a single word *
Hey, it turns out I have an English degree and didn't even know it.
Jealousy is a stinky cologne !
looking at it and the resemblence it may be Alpha version or very early version of the large scale halo that can wipe out the flood in the galaxy that one might be a smaller planet wide one that was probably in the beginning of the flood spores infecting people which led them to develop one or maybe multiple instillations to try and control the flood spread but maybe like aliens vs predator it hitched a ride and survived which caused more drastic measures for the well known halo instillations that have a bigger bang. What really has me thinking that is why that may be is of how the halo is designed to destroy all living matter within a certain range when it goes leaving nothing but sand and water because both are non-living elements.
@@VADER06 Halos don't completely destroy everything, they are designed to wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy. This means that they kill of anything that the flood uses for food, and leave anything else such as plants alive, since the flood doesn't eat these.
I loled at the epitaph epiphany.
I miss Halo 3 in its prime, best experience ever
And I prefer the OG or Pre-Retcon Reach novel. When the Fall of Reach happened over hours and it was a brutal one sided massacre. With the only reason the Pillar of Autumn survived is because it almost immediately jumped out the moment the Covenant fleet entered Reach's orbital sphere and the novel version of MAC cannons did nothing. When the Human/Covenant war was like a bloodier (since civilians were not spared) Earth/Minbari war.
Halo 3 was definitely one of the top video game moments of my life. Summer nights just staying up all night playing infection with complete strangers was truly something special
Agree
Amen dude. It makes me so sad that it’s over, but happy remembering those days. I hate getting older 😢😭. Turning 30 this year. WHY GOD WHY?!!!
Just start playing it again! On the Xbox 360 version preferably due to me having the Xbox 360 version too. I only ever see the same people play and seeing BuhBuhGum (Username I see occasionally) leave every game is bothering me because then either my entire team leaves or the other team leaves.
Look hard enough and the symbols reveal a TH-cam link to "Never Gonna Give You Up".
It would be an awesome throwback to what used to happen back then when one clicked on links.
🤣
Id say Rick rolled if anything lol
I would die
Lmao
The text from the wall is just a 1 month Gold trial for 360
DIBS
@@philipkiejs1572no. It's mine.
It's expired by now, guys.
@@LexIconLSdon't crush my dreams
Is the source a trust me bro?
Man, Old Bungie must be enjoying this.
You’re everywhere lmao
How are you everywhere
He's the legendary master chief he can be anywhere
Well, Bungie seems to be having fun effing up D2.
Modern Bungie probably doesn't even care. Most of the team now is new and wants to distance its self from Halo.
I was part of the community that tackled this mystery after the article. Such a wonderful nostalgia trip lol amazing video thank you
Same dude, great times
Is the language forerunner, because it doesnt look like forerunner or mabye its an ancient version of their language
@@m808bscorpionmbt3 maybe Precursor writing ,even tho they killed them . . . some forerunner still had to respect/ love them . . . .
I’m not sure if this has been talked about already or viewed by the community, but do you think the davinci egg on sand trap may be vital in the decrypting
@@finck6653 the "Da Vinci Egg"? Do you mean the untextured script controller objects scattered across the maps? You might have better luck looking at map scripts ripped from the Halo Online prototype (search "Halo Online 1.106708 ms23" and you'll find it).
I assume a guardian is buried there. It seems like the most logical answer. Also, perhaps that original halo five trailer with the guardian coming out of the sand is inspired by this map and its meaning.
Probably
If you check the map file itself the model doesn't exist. So its not actually physically there.
But maybe in lore it is. 🤷♂️
I like this theory.
Yeah
I was thinking maybe mendicant bias is buried there? Because isn't in halo lore that a piece of mendicant is buried under the sand on the ark?
Guys we do have a translation, the halo 3 terminals turn to the forerunner text before you get to the second part of them
I just looked, and no. Halo 3 terminal assigns random square line things to each letter. So a "W" for example will have a different shape every single time you view it.
'A type of writing or like a form of words'
English degree putting the work in, there.
I love how this game that is 13 years old continues to remain relevant in our lives. I was just a kid when I started playing Halo 2 and 3, but even as an adult the lore still grabs my interest. Thanks for bring us this great content!
maybe the stonework in sandtrap is a buried guardian. if you you look at 12:00 the glowing thing in the middle of the epitaph is bungies original design for a guardian. this is confirmed by one of rejected shotguns videos where he reconstructs what a guardian was supposed to look like and gets it confirmed by a bungie employee. now if you take the original guardian, lay it down, and bury most of it in sand it looks an awful lot like the map sandtrap. like this so more people can see!
edit: would make a lot of sense to call the map "sandtrap" if an ancient guardian is buried there
Epitaph definitely was a vanilla map, not DLC
that’s what i was thinking
I vaguely remember it being part of vanilla, but it wasn’t a very common map to come up in matchmaking.
theres 2 versions, hes mistaken in the video, the dlc version allowed you to forge the lift and shields on doors
Yeah I remember playing epitaph long before I knew you could play online or even connect the Xbox to the net. Epilogue was the no shield door version that was in matchmaking
It was originally Epilogue then it was epitaph.
That's the alaskan bull worms tombstone
Sand trap is bikini bottom
@@Eggsecuter Oh my God! what did the Forerunners do to SpongeBob!?!?
Seeing symbols like 2F show up right next to each other immediately make me think of Hexadecimal. I don't even wana think about how much barking up the wrong tree I'd dive down into trying to search for hex patterns to see if they write out anything.
All it’s gonna take is a language expert to crack it but we need to get the word out.
I had the exact same thought lol
@@jared8019 I wouldn't waste a scholar's time on this nonsense when they could be out there deciphering REAL ancient texts. It's highly doubtful that a single game developer would have any advanced linguistic knowledge to create something that only a person with decades of in-depth historical background research could figure out. The dev sat at their computer and played around with a design program. If anything, as mentioned above, it's probably hexadecimal related as that's a language coders know. On top of that, looking at past ARG scavenger hunts, it could potentially also blend in a Caesar Cipher or read backwards. My other instant thoughts also remind me of old arcade game fonts, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and potentially including a bit of brail. But this is all me reading into something that may not actually be there to solve.
For my point of view, it seems to be Mendicant Bias itself. Halo lore says that he was buried on the desert lands of the Ark, so if the subject here hints to be some “buried Guardian” definitely Bias is the most suitable for this mystery. Everything seems to be connected, the glyphs, the terminals communication with Master Chief, the intentional implication of some presence of Forerunner origin lying in Epitaph and of course his message in Halo 2 Mausoleum Suite, the community should relate that message with the Halo 3 glyphs that has been found on every Forerunner map so they can get any kind of connection between those. Something tells me that those glyphs can be some kind of code record for Bias sentence, and i would like to say that i always get a vibe of cemetery from Epitaph because of the middle structure which owns a remarkable aspect of a tombstone.
@Rocket Sloth In the Halo Forerunner books there is a story about humans and a forerunner looking for the crypt (epitaph) of the Didact. The book describes the place as a sandy crater with sentinels (giant towers) surrounding the main building. The Humans and forerunner find a wall with inscriptions on it. When explore it more, they find it actives the revivification if the Didact as when a forerunner is exiled his or her body is preserved with minimal function. Sand trap could be the recreation of this cryptom!!! I hope I just solved this.
Damn that’s pretty good.
I remember reading that Mendicant Bias locked in eternal exile and entombed beneath a vast desert on the Ark after the Offensive Bias beat him in the Forerunner-Flood War, and I remember someone told me they think he's buried under sandtrap.
Especially with the name "Sandtrap"
I thing that the ester eg is mendicant biast........
Mendicant bias. Was sealed away in tomb. Lore has it. Even in h3 terminals when bias sings the mausoleum suite. Its all there.
It is surely Mendicant Bias, it has to be. He was entombed in the deserts of the Ark, plus the strong implications of a memorial to the/a guardian(s) on Epitaph. I just can only wonder what the glyphs could be about. maybe folks should seek a connection between them and the quotes from mausoleum suite? Mendicant was supposed to be in atonement while he was entombed and the messages in the song definitely sound like atonements. Perhaps the glyphs on his tomb and epitaph are his atonements immortalized, like a form of penance??
Imagine if halo infinite had a level where you enter Mendicants tomb and he awakens
Damn man, for years of playing these games, I never knew how deep the lore was. What I mean by years is really just me playing through the main campaign on the og versions. I didn't even know H3 had terminals, and I didn't have the game long enough to even find out either because I never owned a 360. I didn't know anything about Mandicant Bias, hell I didn't know tat Didact and the Librarian where characters that Bungie came up with, I thought that was all 343s doing.
@@shinoburaiu get on h3 MCC should have them still. And TH-cam terminal locations on halo 3
@@shinoburaiu the terminals in halo 3 have a lot of awesome info including reports from Mendicant trying to fight off the flood’s spread through forerunner space, messages between the librarian and didact, and the slow betrayal of mendicant. Lots of fun stuff to find. If you’ve never done it, going back through ODST to collect all the Audio Log’s w/ Vergil is a really fun scavenger hunt as well, I’d let myself forget how fun Sadie’s story in New Mombasa is.
This map was a blast to play with 300% speed/50% gravity energy sword zombies on.
Hilariously scary driving around in a warthog while having a horde of zombies only going slightly slower than you, and can catch you with a single driving mistake.
Halo 3 custom games were so damn fun
The depth of patience the devs have for not leaking easter eggs or dropping hints is amazing.
Probably because this "easter egg" doesn't actually exist. It sounds like it was a single dev (not a team within the company) who created a fancy looking design that looked like a blend of an ancient yet technologically advanced typeface/font that didn't actually have any meaning or linguistic structure behind it. This whole (non) "mystery" is most likely complete gibberish aesthetics that this one guy is dangling a carrot about to get the attention of fans to fawn over his map creation. Smoke and mirrors. If something was actually put into the game, people would have found it by now or ripped it from the game's source code. It's not like Marty O'Donnell who legitimately put in a musical score for each ring you jump through to get the IWHBYD skull, where as obscure as it seemed, there was definitely something there; clues for fans to find and figure out. It seriously just looks like a repeating wallpaper to me designed to look like fictional "text", nothing more.
@@SpiritHawk7 Honestly, it really does seem like that... but you know, people will always be drawn to the ideas of "I want to believe" rather than just accept it's nothing special.
@@ShirotheWiseWolf So many easter eggs that were myths HAVE been found after years and years however
@@KaoticReach1999 I have no idea what my comment is referring to since 'spirithawk7''s comment isn't there anymore, so I'm not quite sure what your reply is about, sorry
me scrolling through youtube feed, seeing this video: Oh yeah, its Halo mystery time
Yep
These type of videos are the best I swear
Same
Its 11:30. I need answers
it's mood
DUDE HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER THIS the “Secret of Sandtrap” thread on Bnet was wild! I lurked there for awhile and I was active in the forums and a couple groups. Good times. Sad to hear they’re shutting it all down soon.
Wait they're actually killing off support for Halo 3?
Just to force people to the skinnerbox ''freemium model'' ???
Ah Bungie, the real Forerunners.
Nah, more like the precursors. 343 are the forerunners who fucked up their work. We are the flood taking revenge on 343 😈
@@lone_007 Jesus fuck man.
@@lone_007 Nah, that's gay 343 lore, no thanks
@@nagger8216 Bungie created the Precursors and the forerunner flood war, have you even read the H3 terminals?
@@lone_007 Have you? Because the Precursors are literally not mentioned at all. In fact, it even says that on the Halopedia page about the Halo 3 terminals: "The prominent exploration of the Precursors in The Forerunner Saga (including the Flood's use of their artifacts as weapons or the Precursors' relationship with the Flood) is not discussed in the terminals, as the details about the Precursors were not conceived until the writing of the novels. "
13 years, dear God. I still have fond memories of this game
Right ! Time is flying by
Make that 14
It seems to me like (part of) Mendicant Bias was supposed to be buried there rather than a Guardian due to the giant towers that seem to be guarding the map, as if they’re trying to prevent something from escaping. Guardians are kind of free to patrol stuff in the Forerunner system (or were as of Halo 5, right?) but MB was supposed to be contained. An epitaph describing his rise and fall in Forerunner times against the Flood would be all too appropriate. That lore also fits with MB trying to communicate through the Terminals in Halo 3, whereas there’s really no lore in H3 regarding Guardians (other than the “Killed by the Guardians” in multiplayer).
Also a side note, I never realized that the hologram in Epitaph is likely of a Guardian. I like that design much better than 343's. Why would the Forerunners design a giant bird?? lol
Finally! After years of searching I have at last decoded the hidden message on Sandtrap!
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
HALO 3 OVALTINE THAT USE TO BE A JOKE BETWEEN MY FRIEND AND I LMAO
Great Christmas Story reference.
I love A Christmas Story. Lmao
@@BluminousLight same omg
A crummy commercial?
Literally he says in that very same interview, that he doesn't even remember fully if he even put anything meaningful in the symbols, that he might have one late night... So literally if he did put something there, it's actually not known to any living person what it is
It’s the lyrics to Never Gonna Give You Up in the Forerunner language
Meanwhile 343: Let's make forerunner buildings look look like flying plates
I heard that lore was added to that. The halos and the ark were built in the war with the flood when the whole galaxy was basically fucked. the forerunners were more focused on machine effectiveness rather than aesthetics because there wasn't much time. Meanwhile, the stuff we see in halo 4 and 5 was built in a time where things weren't so desperate and so the forerunners were able to spend a little extra time for more impressive and boggling aesthetics. Of course, this could just be 343 trying to cover up their mistakes but I still like it and it kinda makes sense
@@paytonallen1027 such bullshit
@@rambo-cambo3581 cmon don’t be like that
@@rambo-cambo3581 the forerunners dont just have a single architect. It would be much more bullshit to have every structure look the same. However, 343 implemented the changes poorly, because some where really good, but by changing existing things retroactively, they made no sense. 343s forerunner design would be amazing if it would coexist with the previous design, and would be deliberately placed where it makes sense.
@@paytonallen1027 also the places we visited in halo 4-5 was made by that guys name that I cannot spell, which could explain the design difference.
"Here lies Squidward's hopes and dreams."
Watch when the code is an actual epitaph for someone close to the development of the game that died
My head cannon was always that sand trap was a forerunner diggsite, with the structures being stone, I always thought this was their version of Egyptian ruins. The large towers and the whole thing being in a dug out pit reminded me of flood lamps looking down onto an archeological dig
“Text appeared in H2A that was made by a different company.” Yeah, but Frank O'Connor is the consistency between OG Bungie’s Halo 2 & 3 and 343i’s Halo 2 anniversary. Bam. Now we just need to interview him for the answers.
Its just like code says " hahah we trolled u all " 🤣
Do the blockier "letters" remind anyone else of the codes on the edge of checks?
Sometime the halo 3 menu music just randomly plays in my head
Sameeee
Sounds like they need the call of duty zombies team
The Halo Community, The Destiny Community, and the Zombies Community... no Easter Egg in the world could survive this holy trinity ahah
Battlefield guest appearance?
@@smokeyplane3285 battlefield ee’s seem easy compared to zombies ee’s by miles imo
Zombies' mysteries are easy compared to Halo's
@@IVANdtk117 ehh. There are, still today, some Easter Egg that remain undiscovered lmao
Are we gonna talk about how “Sandtrap” is an anagram for “Spartan D” 🤷🏼♂️🧐
Yes
No
@@melg9973 I meant to say no I'm just tired as hell 💀
Cool i guess
Nice
I solved this a long time ago, but didn't post results because I didn't know good English...I was 14. Spoiler below.
Anyway, the last two missing pieces to actually solving this is Campaign. Yep, this is a cross-Campaign-Multiplayer mystery.
1. When accessing the Terminals, the symbols are then translated. You need to video capture and then slow-mo everything because they're translated twice. If I remember correctly, the Terminal that comes before the jet crashes is the most significant.
2. The holographic Halo rings (that map where you kill the prophet of Truth) contain those texts as well. They translate too. I think the largest holographic Halo ring (Ironically, it's Zeta Halo where a piece of MB is located too xD).
So no need to decrypt the texts, just cross-reference what is already translated.
SPOILER:
The translation just tells us how a piece of Mendicant Bias is imprisoned below there but that he "broke out". Eg. still in there, but the imprisonment effect is gone (explains why humans, and playable elites could enter Sandtrap, and how MB could communicate with MC).
I don't know why your people are upvoting your post? The terminal text is called "Rectangular Type" text, and is entirely different than the sandtrap/epitaph text shown in this video. Even if the rectangular type did translate to what you're saying, it has no relevance or connection to the language in this video. It would also make it unlikely that it says the exact same message, meaning the sandtrap text is more likely not talking about MB
@@RedNomster You have to slow mo during the transitioning!
I feel like the Halo Books seem to be connected to this very closely. Funny how I was recently reading them and watched this video and thought that Sandtrap remined me of the very scene in Cryptum where the young forerunner was led into this massive sand area encircled by a metal ring and tall towers by a small group of original humans which encapsulated the Didact. The area also had weird properties of it blocking signals and making people who venture into this area lose their way.
Maybe Sandtrap did something similar to that regard? Holding a great threat and using it's technology to ward off people from the area.
Id agree except that took place on Earth or “Erde Tyrene” whereas Sandtrap is on the Ark
This reminds me of the Shadow of the Colossus mystery they spent years trying to discover
Epitaph wasn’t DLC.
He probably meant Citadel tbh
epilogue wasn't dlc. Epitaph was. same map with a few changes, updated.
@@kilroy898 nope. Other way around. Epitaph was the original map. Epilogue was the modified version.
Thought my wifi went out there for a second 😂 then I remember it’s original footage
Checked my stream quality 3 times lol
Try and put together the “letters” that glow with that lava lamp-like thing
Someday we will find out that it's the most elaborate rickroll in history.
I was gonna comment this. 😂
Damn. Your Halo 3 throwback footage looks like a 90’s VHS cassette. This game is old now and it’s sad.
My theory is that the entirety of sandtrap is supposed to be a forerunner historical site transported to the ark from its original resting place. It's also probably a really important and ancient one, considering the large towers guarding it and the stone architecture used when compared to the metallic forerunner styles. My guess is that this is probably an ancient shrine or temple to the precursors, as the forerunners worshipped them.
I miss this game. I miss going from an infection forge noob to a 50 high MLG sweat lol. Still in touch with my doubles partner to this day.
Still talk to my old customs team daily. Never had the infection forge noob stage. But can relate to the sweaty mlg tryhard. Over 20,000 games played.
Halo 3 maps have always gave me a uneasy feeling, like there was something sinister lurking. Especially sand trap and sandbox.
Me too :o
Lmao if this was released into destiny today...after two weeks bungie would just tell everyone
If this was released today, the raidsecrets reddit community would figure it out in three days.
Calling it now,
Epitaph to Medicant Bias who was communicating with you through the terminals in the H3 campaign, I think similar glyphs were there too, when the time ran out and the errors occured.
I guess his mainframe was burried there to reconsider his choices by offensive Bias (he was dismantled and enprisoned on the arc in the forerunner saga) and the glyphs are copys of his flood corrupted forerunner code.
Looking top down at 9:18, the symbols are representing key features on each individual multiplayer map. Line 2, on the right, represents the map High Grounds, featuring the back of the base, the gate, the bunker, the wall, the cave, and the water. The map Snowbound is on the second line on the left, featuring symbols for turrets and a "U" representing that they circumvent the map. To the right of that is the map Last Resort, featuring the left and right pathways, the windmill, the back wall, and the compound.
The bungie halo maps were always cool because they felt like rooms from campaign spots just off in the distance or down the hallway.
I liked the idea that they were just spots really in the universe. Halo 5s maps feel too much like playgrounds. They're fun, just not mysterious and dirty and ancient feeling.
How tf does this channel not even have 200k yet?
The Endless
This is the halo equivalent of the zodiac killer code
at 10:45, did u guys trying overlaying the pictures? the way they are, or flipping one of them upside down, and then overlaying it?
You are brilliant.
@@SueUTube why? did someone try it and figure something out?
Interesting, it does seem like there's space for some characters to fit next to others if you just move the bottom image up to overlay it over the top.
Did someone try it?
@@Clyde489 i wanted to, but i cant even find the pictures on the vid that im talking about, so yeah
quick question why are the skulls where they are whose skulls are they? hmm maybe another mystery to look into
That video would be really cool!
I'm the first to say this here:
I found the text in Halo Infinite, too.
Let the hunt continue.
YUP. And it's in the same room as the Guardian Sentinel, at the last level!!
@@Wil-vd2mc I also found that the forerunner statues are holding the text, too, which has some insane implications. I uploaded a video about it this morning if you're interested!
@@RedNomster I am watching that ASAP there needs to be more eyes on these glyphs
Is it me, or does the glyphs look like overhead view's of sections of the multiplayer maps?
I cracked it guys. If you reverse alternating lines by vertical orientation and then horizontal, and then overlay them, you get a few distinct lines. The symbols making up those lines consist of a letter and a number laid over the top of each other. If you take these two, and draw a line from the letter to the number on an original oija board, the line always perfectly intersects only one other character. It took a bit to figure out the order from there, but only one configuration of the letters makes sense to me. “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
🗿
isnt epitaph presumed to be the burial place of some part of mendicant bias
These glyphs can be found in halo infinite now. In the silent auditorium, the forerunner statues are holing tablets with the exact same glyphs
If you look at the picture at 9:16, you'll see that there are these dots and short lines under the letters, they look like morse code. Do you think that it could have something to do with the mystery? Also, you've mentioned something dormant under the sand. Could it be the guardian? There's that hologram on Epitaph.
Ohhhhhhh
@@womp8752 What?
The code for Halo 3 has been searched pretty thoroughly. Code for a model like a guardian would probably stick out. My guess is it only mentions someone buried. And if I had to guess who I'd say its Mendicant Bias.
@@SimplyNon_sense I've meant lorewise, not actually in the game.
"During the Battle of High Charity in October 2552, the UNSC AI Cortana fought Mendicant Bias to delay the launching of the dreadnought, allowing Spartan John-117 to board it and return to Earth.[9] In the proceeding events Mendicant Bias was carried through the Voi portal to Installation 00, where the missing shard was finally reunited with the part that resided in the Ark's systems." - Excerpt directly from the halo fandom wiki on Mendicant Bias. I've only seen this video about the mystery of sandtrap but i love halo lore in general. After you told us what Epitaph meant it made me think of Mendicant Bias and wanted to see if I remembered correctly that most of Mendicant was buried on the ark. I'm very excited to one day see this mystery solved!
6:20 “While we were sure there were many few players...” Many few?
"English degree"
A fraction of a fraction perhaps?
I been deciphered it, all it says is " dont go for the sniper cuz 90% chance u will get naded"
Really
Lore-wise, it wouldnt make sense for Guardians to be buried under either maps. Why would they have sentinel towers on Sandtrap? Why would they have an epitaph on... Epitaph? The two maps are Forerunner tombs. Sandtrap is a tomb of an important Delta-Halo era Forerunner who probably held high importance within their civilization. I say Delta-Halo era because it is more ancient than the ancient metal structures, hence the stone. Epitaph on the other hand is the tomb of the Forerunner designer of the Guardians. Evidence: long scriptures of their achievements placed all around the tomb and the emblem of their creation being a clear visualization of the accomplishment of the individual(s).
Except, what makes me think Epitaph is a memorial to Mendicant Bias, is the musical tone that plays on that map while you are standing in front of the main symbol. It is in sequence with what the Guardians blared when activating in Halo 5. Sandtrap is definitely placed on the Ark, and is a spot where an ancient tomb is placed.
The only tomb on the Ark is confirmed to be Mendicant's, since almost all the Forerunners fighting in the war died before the Array was fired. Then after that happened the Forerunner survivors on the Ark entombed Mendicant Bias as their last act before leaving the Galaxy altogether.
Only the Didact sealed in his Cryptum on his Shield World of Requiem remained alive in the Galaxy once that happened, and it's sector of space was cut off from access by the Flood before the Halos was fired.
@@shauntempley9757 Perhaps, I guess either time will tell or it will remain a mystery
Epitaph's definition makes me wonder if this unsolved mystery is in honor of a fan or maybe someone being related to a Bungie employee dying and that's them immortalizing them.
im thinking that same thing, but with the sheer amount of characters it would have to be an entire memorial speech rather than a few names.
i'm inclined to think if that were the case they wouldn't have made it so obscure. if this was honoring a real person they'd likely want it to be more known
If you rearrange all of the shapes you get a different code... interesting. -Seems like I won’t be much help on this one
"secrets of Sandtrap" oh my god that brought up old memories of the Halo 3 and universe forums on bnet
Bungie: wow, never thought of that
One thing I always found weird about epitaph map was the weird random music.
10:39 almost looks like large writing in the negative space like don’t look at the symbols look at the overall shape they form. Change the background to black and text to white and see what you get. On the left it looks like the edge of a E followed by D
Looks like a double helix 🧬 if you just kinda stare at it. I know that’s not the secret. But then again maybe that’s something else to it
when I was growing up me and my friend were on this map playing against each other offline. My friend swore he saw another player and I diddnt believe him. A few minutes later I saw gear drop as if a player had died in front of me. It was creepy to say the least, I havnt heard to much of this happening to players on this map.
always thought the golden hologram in Epitaph was of a guardian, like throwing a picture on a grave stone
I did this already a very long time ago you just have to blast the sand at the pillar in the very middle to remove the sand and reveal the device and activate it.
All I'm thinking, "Bro this is like the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone."
One of my favorite midnight release experiences, and funnest games. Great graphics still to this day
its crazy to me that like 10 years later people are still trying to figure out shit like this in the original halos, the 343 halos just dont have the heart to have mysteries at all
Bungie: Let's have mystery strewn all throught our maps and story for replayability and a way for us to interact with our fans!
343: You payed, you played, that's it.
@@quickscopeoneeighty9158 yepp
This is like the 3rd mystery I’ve learned about from Rocket Sloth
Has anyone figured out that we probably know at least 4 letters of the covenant alphabet cause when you play as the arbiter at the top of your HUD there are symbols where the North, West, East, and South are. Using this, we can reconstruct the entire covenant language
have you found anything?
@@thevictorangel someone's already deciphered it probably
I'm fairly certain that Mendicant Bias (the most powerful forerunner AI ever who was corrupted by the flood during the flood/forerunner war, who then was pretty much captured by the forerunners and hidden away so that no-one could find him) is actually buried under sand trap, and the pillars that shoot you down are meant to keep anything that tries to escape with the AI, dies in the process. Acting as Guardians of Mendicant Bias.
“The ultimate warthog big team battle map.” Well you definitely succeeded with that my dude. I can’t tell you guys how many times we rammed the elephants together and did a “ship to ship” battle. Or how many times I even played BTB or CTF on this map. This was such a great map. Man I miss those days.
At 10:37 take a transparent sheet and trace all the markings and then, after that, cut or fold it in half overlapping the bottom with the top. You can see the upper half and bottom half are semi-symmetric so it'd be interesting to see what it looks like when you do that--just a thought
Has anyone looked at just the letters that are lit up from the purple backdrop.
And then matched them upto the layover?
7:15 The glyphs and symbols are also on Epitaph. The textures in game can be extracted though their in game scrolling sequence and relevant recording data is ware this gets interesting. The solved and extracted data ended up being the Tesla numbers up to the 86th quintillion numeral.
Here are my notes, and can you remote view?
Inter-dimensional Tesla Numbers, Sandtrap & Epitaph after 87.7244391 minutes; up to the 86th quintillion numeral. (60 FPS)
Brail Inch
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In-game BR Pill Width
1.733914 the inverted contrast of neon Prime per pixel
Pile Spectrum Between Neon Inversion 1 - 751299825387684299874319117369
Base Neon Pile depth being 1
87.1443192218 minuets of Epithet Scroll Time (30 FPS)
Sandtrap
Inter-dimensional Inverted Tesla Numbers
17.144721_369101518401387524108_144791379898522316756245000096231554
Wind & Sound Key: Tone times Pitch
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Frames Per Line
* Interdimensional Keystone
1.7331285634425198742 - 7.81442320098256398725366610963838373564
Inter-dimensional Refraction Time Frame for light disbursement per qubic interstellar particle flow at a static time interval of manipulation’s 4 different parameters
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particle ejection rate of solar systems star in a averaged out year
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stars transit time since equilateral ignition
Regarding,
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Particle rate |
Photon Wavelength |
Star Metallic Emission Diopter Reading In km² |
| Plus nano meters squared per extra numeral averaged out by number of numerals after 108
Quaternions Grid-Set km² linear pre temps of 1742.966 kilometers per 24 hours
Point 1: Inter-dimensional Tesla Numbers Base
Point 2: Static Numeral Static Foundation of Magnetic Base Adherence
Point 3: 1 of 2 : Left: 17.49999-R Until 896th Numeral
Point 3: 2 of 2 : Right: 39.441712° N
Left Quads-iStellar Manu-Corner
Manifold Corner Foundation - m
Right Quads-iStellar Manu-Corner time Impulse
Manifold Corner Foundation - m
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Right Quads-iStellar Manu-Corner time Impulse
Foundation of Right Stellar Detraction Rate Calculation: .14.14439° x Light Refraction Rate per millisecond
° numeral R per Qubic Light year Squared tomes 3 in particle mass based on linear interception - pm
° of atomic foil displacement by numeral dopier reading per nm / nano seconds during lier and or light transit via Element 115 expansion ratio - m
Interval = . / after 108 per numeral
Light Refraction Rate: 1.77326528863 nano meter/.000008321174nm per millisecond
Damn I love when you guys do mysteries
So this might be nothing, but did anyone else notice that when the camera was orbiting the central underground pillar on Sandtrap, a few certain symbols glow a very faint purple?
The real mystery though, what was the Aegis Fate doing there during the battle of the Ark?
True, however I believe the lore explains that they discovered it and tried to do readings of the ruins. The lore is very vague and up for interpretation though.
No matter how good the technology is or how much knowledge a species obtains, if and when they decode this message from the gods, it reads "you're doomed forever".
im guessing its the da vinci code
Edit: nevermind
2nd Edit: the Da Vinci Code easter egg could be part of this
the davinci code is just a texture holder for the AI that holds de torret of the guardians on sandtrap and the forgemap. Not a mystery anymore
Anyone else remember that halo 5 advertising where chief wakes up a guardian in a desert type area, exactly saying that it's related to this directly but might be kind of hinting at the fact that on epitaph it shows a guardian being projected and by the definition he gave of epitaph there may be a damanged or destroyed guardian under the surface of sand trapped. This might be way out there though and not at all related.
I feel like it have some thing to do with mendicant bias.
The sand and the towers in the perimeter make me think this is a Guardian tomb. The Halo 5 trailers also have Chief finding a Guardian in a desert
It's crazy how games like Halo and assassin's creed have lasted all these years but games like fortnite only last two years
Quality versus cash grab
Because you can make a bad game, but just make it look good
Halo and AC are series, they have multiple games and lore outside of the games. Fortnite is a standalone game. There will be no Fortnite 2, but we can expect more Halo and AC sequels in the future. It is unfair to compare the two.
@@BoredDucc If Fortnite could stand the test of time like Halo and AC there WOULD be a Fortnite 2. It is fair because Halo was designed to last and Fortnite was designed to take money from children
This game. It’s been YEARS. Not a lot of games still get the same sort of TH-cam video content as this. Years old. No call of duty game no battlefield game no gears of war game, just the halo series. Madness. Thanks for the memories Bungie.
Nice i was here on stream
My theory is that underneath sandtrap, there's either a Guardian, which would be kinda like "Oh... ok." after H5, or, an idea completely out of left field, a Precursor.
I don't really know about that, but what else is in the "darkest part of Halo lore"? What did the Forerunners want to get rid of and bury? And what was the only other thing around when the Forerunners created their ancient stone architecture?
I thought you were gonna talk about the little crack in the wall that lets you screen peek
It's awesome knowing that a game was popular years after it came, that's what is cool about halo, a new game every couple years