Hrrmm that’s a good question, I don’t know for sure but I looked on one of the halo.xbox forums and some people were discussing how you may not get it, but I guess until 343i announces it we won’t know. It may potentially be on the game guide (if it has one?) … but just speculation at this point in time.

If it’s anything like the other editions of Halo that have been previously released, I know the special edition of Halo 2 that I got was a steel case and did not include the cover art but had a black and white pic of chief on the back…

The key art is definitely amazing, so I sincerely hope 343i will recognise this and include it in both editions.

Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been afk for a few days!

Well I suppose you beat me then haha! I became a Halo fan maybe around 2004/2005, was definitely too young and inept to play it when it was released so I was a late bloomer into the Haloverse. But ever since that day forth I have played the games, read quite a few books, bought a bit of merch here and there, and have been shunned for my ability to bring up Halo in conversations one too many a time ^_^ 

That’s alright, sorry for the half-assed answer. I’ll try and keep a lookout for some juicy gossip or news on the Halo 4 front but until then, best bet is definitely 343 as you said. 

Hi, good thanks!

Hrrmmm I haven’t really read into them that much due to a lot of stuff happening outside the Tumblr realm but what I have read, some seems plausible while others I’m not so sure about… 

Weapons spawning randomly sounded odd as Frankie pointed out. Read somewhere that there are no Elites in Multiplayer? Not sure if true but weird if that’s the case, are they going to be replaced or is it just Spartans?

I like how they’re taking the concept of Red v. Blue in multiplayer actually has a somewhat back story to it… that’s if what I read is true. I’ve definitely been out of the loop latley.

Thing is people will ALWAYS interpret things differently, try and make more money selling copies of a mag for an exclusive on one of the most popular Xbox games to add more controversy etc.

If anything, only read what 343 Industries lets out and the more so plausible leaks from credible sources. Or you could always read the more recent novels like Glasslands and Primordium and see if those will maybe have a bit of information on what’s to come in the games… 

Thank you good sir! I’m glad that I am able to fulfil your life needs with the amazingness of the Haloverse.

Only covenant weapons. They are purple and pretty.

Death by t-bag, as is the Halo way.

Yep definitely! And yet again, Reach did get a lot wrong from the novel. 

Ok well with the events that occurred on Onyx there are quite a few dates. Referring to Tom and Lucy’s “suicide” mission (where all the other Spartan-III’s died) the date that occurred was July 3, 2545 (Nylund, p. 1, 2006).

But then after the first chapter the book changes the timeline to go back to December 27, 2532, where Kurt-051 and Chief Mendez are on Onyx where they are waiting for the arrival of the new Spartan-III’s to be trained (Nylund, p. 67, 2006).

The answer that I gave to undeadcp was in reference to when, at what time frame, the Spartan-III’s began their training/first mission. Their first mission was in 2537, before the date July 30, as it states “we were reviewing the record of your Spartan-IIIs since they went operational nine months ago” (Nylund, p. 81, 2006).

You’re right about the fact that the major event, which happened around November 2552, where Halsey, Kurt,Kelly, Linda, Fred, Will, and a few Spartan-IIIs find out Onyx is a shield world and it’s destroyed by Sentinels (page reference for that date is p. 315). This happened, in accordance with the video game, Halo: Reach, 2 months after Reach fell.

As for Glasslands, I have yet to read it as I’ve been preoccupied with other things.

The problem (although, good I suppose to see their innovative and creative ideas) is that there are so many different authors that they tend to mix up the dates or some overlap other significant events.

I mean Halo: Reach, the game, truly stuffed up a lot (or Halo: The Fall of Reach was wrong). According to my copy of Halo: The Fall of Reach, Reach fell in 2542, 10 years before it happened in the game (Nylund, p. 325, 2005).

The dates of what happens in the Haloverse are severely flawed, and the storyline with the Spartan IIIs also has a lot of discrepancies in it.

Sorry if I rambled… I suppose if you asked someone else they would give you an entirely different answer, as books have been re-printed, the Web says other things, other canons tend to disregard dates and events (much like Halo: Legends). So EVERYTHING is basically up for debate.

Yay! 

Reference:

Nylund, E. (2005). Halo: The Fall of Reach. Great Britain: Orbit.

Nylund, E. (2006). Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. New York: Tom Doherty Associates. 

Yeah they probably did, but then again you have to consider Halo: Reach, which likes to disprove everything written in the books, otherwise you wouldn’t have the Armour variants that you see when playing the game today.

I was just hypothesising as to whether or not Jun would have actually existed, because the Halo canon tends to clash with its dates and storyline quite frequently. Especially the game Halo: Reach, script written by Jospeh Staten, when really Eric Nylund should have been behind it considering he wrote the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach.

The first Spartan-III mission was in 2537, so Onyx happened before Reach.

John was taken away in the year 2517  (when he was 6) to be trained with the Spartan-II program and Reach fell in 2552, so it was quite a while after he was trained that Reach fell. Check out Wikipedia, and look at Halo: The Fall of Reach because a lot of questions can be answered by reading the information there.