Yes. I failed to get the Web-O’s joke. Also I am now aware Halo does have cloning. Though I don’t think they were trained for fighting.

Master Chief in a cloak will always be “sir, going blankie mode” in my mind

As an Italian, I can confirm that we always have lived on Delta Halo.

Also, the “Web-os” can have a double meaning cus “webos” in spanish also can be interpreted as “testicles”, that would explain the “Even your mom loves them” joke.

The Spartan cloning facility is probably the facility where they flash cloned the kids who became the Spartans. Flash cloning is a thing but it pretty much gives the clone genetic degradation so they die very soon after being made.

Gotta get popcorn for this. 2 HOURS DUDE!!!

Around 45 minutes in, Sandtrap is always scary for me, mainly because in my ENTIRE LIFE (before early this year) I had never played on it with anyone else, no multiplayer, just forge. so I was always alone and felt trapped but learned to love the isolation got so weird that when I finally played an online mcc match, it just felt wrong, almost like a bunch of people invaded my house and started killing eachother. weird feelings just wanted to drop that, huge thanks for the amount of effort you put into these

9:07 The Vidmasters weren’t how you originally unlocked Recon, it’s how you unlocked it after Bungie made it free to the public. Originally, it was exclusive to Bungie staff, and for individuals granted the armor by Bungie. One guy got it for Sniping a guy on the Pit after his bullet ricochet’d in a crack about a dozen times before bouncing out. Another guy got it for launching a traffic cone at someone’s head and killing them. Or you could get it for making cool Halo content, like the creator of the Arby n the Chief series Jon CJG.

Fun fact, on top of the tower in Halo Infinite, there is a small stage and an album cover with Craig’s face, you can interact with it and see a small poem written by Craig on the back. So the devs definitely loved the meme too.

Ah my favorite franchise finally gets pigpend

The fact that a coloring book is canon is the most shocking thing I’ve learned in this video.

4:46 Not really, Craig wasn't meant to be mocking how the game looked unpolished. The meme was born in Plasma Posting, after Ali Kay, one of the mods just decided that we would call him that. Most people assumed it was to make fun of the game, but the original post never really meant that.

I remember completely the VidMaster Challenges with my best friend Samantha and two online friends. Getting the Recon armour was awesome, but now thinking back to it I just love that we had fun together. Sam died about 2 years ago (drunk driver) she'd have loved Halo Infinite and everytime I play it or any other title in the franchise I just remember past. Rest in Peace, Samantha. You're still my favourite Spartan.

Can’t blame you, since you said you don’t mess with the EU, but cloning is a big deal in the backstory of the Spartan II’s and Cortana. Still, great video. Side note: JD being rookie’s initials either means John Doe or Junior Detective.

The rat having detailed insides is based off of a early design concept from Halo Combat Evolved development where being damaged after getting killed or getting super combined would have resulted in body parts being dismembered but the code was buried to not be used because of being considered extremely gory. But the concept was brought back in the novels and comics

54:38 I know you said you're not really into the lore, but this is why she was unavailable. During the fight for Reach, Linda took 3 charged plasma pistol shots and her vital signs were negative. Even though she was presumed dead, Chief still wanted to do his best to try and save her, so he put her in a cryopod in hopes that when they got to a ship with the proper medical facilities, they'd be able to recover her. Later on they ejected her cryopod with a tracker on it before the Pillar of Autumn crashed into the ring. After the end of Halo CE, Chief recovered her cryopod.

There's a good chance The Rookie's real name is "John Doe"

I’ve seen nightfall years ago. Tbh I thought it was good because of how it showed a close team of soldiers slowly fall apart, go mad and turn on each other while trying to survive and complete an objective. Also it expanded upon how a LetkGolo colony works outside of their armor. Like I’m talking it was straight up horror shit. I don’t understand how younger me didn’t have nightmares of a pack of worms combining into a person micking human sounds and eating people alive. Like shit getting fuel rodded is 10x better then that hell.

I'm not too into Halo but damn this is a good iceberg Also that Cursed Halo mod sounds amazing.

29:49 Its because Halo CE original plot was gonna have Cortana go obsessed with power after being left in the control room and then decides to take over the galaxy with the halo's. 1:30:35 HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT THERES NO CLONING IN HALO!? 1:35:48 the inspiration for johnson's suit is the one from halo legends prototype.

"bungies halo 4 wouldve involved a forerunner mystery, and have a new set of enemies for chief to fight" *sounds familiar*

1:06:14 this is like my favourite trivia! In most cases, what most people call gargoyles are technically grotesques. They are almost exactly the same except gargoyles have water spouts, often in the mouth and connected to a roof’s drainage system.

I have a strong suspicion that the “JD” initials for the Rookie simply stands for “John Doe”. I’m fact I’m willing to put money down saying that’s what was intended.

THE GOD RETURNS! Quick Edit while watching: When Spartan BLACK was killed of by the Didact I was genuinely saddened. The fact we had those Gen 2 Spartans available for interesting story and conflict with the new Spartan Gen 4s and they just wasted all of it for a "oooh didact scary" moment. We barley got more than a comic mini-series worth of character development out of them, but just imagine the more interesting narrative that could have been crafted using a Spartan team that didn't act squeaky clean and were prone to violent outbursts. I know Blue Team basically deserts, but it doesn't make me feel any better.

Halo Reach's demo probably might still be playable after the others get shut down, the last I played it was back in 2020 with GeneralKidd on a livestream with viewers

You did mention you don't touch the Halo EU much but the great tragedy of Guilty Spark's existence is that he always lives while the world falls apart around him. From his original existence as Chakas to becoming the Monitor at the Iso-Didact's request to the destruction of Installation 04 and later 04B, Spark is cursed to live interesting times. It is for this reason I think it's for the better that he's alive, because in the end, the story of Halo is also his story: the story of a man out of his depth and completely, utterly alone - until one day, he isn't, and then he has to deal with that and the consequences of his own isolation.

Man, this is making me feel nostalgic. I really need to play Halo again...

A local58 reference? me likey

I am so fucking angry that they rejected that pitch for Halo Wars 3, they just need to look at the plethora of Halo Mods for games about Space Combat. I am going to pop a vein

Hope this really tests my knowledge of the franchise I’ve loved since middle school

I remember getting recon on my account with 3 friends, with that ghost run as our finale. It truly felt like the end of an Era and gaming has never been the same too me since. This Halo Infinite beta is starting too take me back though!

21:40 in Reach's sword base mission after getting a warthog for the second time the new marine says "one day I'll be the cyborg in a suit" to you and kat

I actually though the "Johnson but not Johnson" entry was about a secret enemy in Halo 4 on the mission "shutdown." In the hangar, if you kill all or at least most of the friendly NPCs in the room, a new enemy wielding a shotgun and looking suspiciously like Johnson would spawn in from a docked pelican. This of course could not be Johnson as it was well after his death in Halo 3, but I think it was just meant as a callback.

1:30:27 clones do exist in halo, The Spartan 2 program where MC was "recruited" they used flash clones of all the children they kidnapped in order to mask the program

The fact that you included the mobile game NOVA into this iceberg is just amazing that anyone can remember that game

5:41 Didnt expect "His Throne" to be featured in a halo video

The most obscure piece of Halo lore is the "secret room" in Two Betrayals, which is basically a 4th unimplemented pulse generator. I'll be surprised if it's mentioned here.

Hey uh... Destiny is Bungie's fifth* sci fi franchise.

Oh man, the golden Warthog! I remember trying to get it on Sandtrap, it had something to do with the guardians, I didn't know I'd been duped And the driveable anti-air wraith, oh man the memories of Halo 3!

58:13 i think this also refers to a "easter egg" in halo 4 on the mission shut down if you kill the Marines at the beginning of the mission at some point there's going to be a marine with a shotgun that looks like Johnson but really isn't him but still looks identical everything even the hat he wears

Hey Pigpen I recently found your channel and I've watched almost all of your icebergs. You're a very high quality content creator you deserve a ton more subscribers. If you happen to be a fan of the Resident Evil or Dead Rising series I'd love to see an iceberg of those. However I'd watch anything you're interested in. I'm not really a big fan of transformers and have never watched cowboy bepop but I still really enjoyed your videos on them. The way you put them together kept me invested.

I remember when I needed only the “endure” achievement to unlock the recon armor after endless hours of trying to get every achievement required. And then a week later they gave everyone recon armor for free lol

"There are those who said this day would never come. What have they to say now?"

Linda was on the PoA, she was just dead in her cryo-pod at the time and was ejected into space when the PoA was crashing onto Installation 4

47:27 Hi, Destiny player here. On behalf of the community I’m going to put out there that the sphere on the poster in ODST is the Traveler, not the moon. They did change it to the moon when they replaced it with the “For Her” poster though. Great video btw

"Master chief, mind telling me what you were doing on July 11?" "Sir, i drinkee my slurpee"

For the Cyborg Master Chief on the last piece of Tier 1, for some reason I remember somewhere in Halo 2 and or 3 in the handbooks or something where it confirms he's a cyborg. I guess you could technically say he's a cyborg since he has ceramic lacing his bones but then you could say anyone with a prosthetic is a cyborg, though he does also have the AI slot implanted in his head, which counts as a cybernetic enhancement I think.

That picture of a Spartan holding a machete is filled with threatening energy

"Remember reach" is the Halo equivalent of "Cadia Stands!" of Warhammer 40K

In halo 3 when you're shooting through that gap in the deployable cover, your not shooting through the gap. You're just shooting through the cover. The halo 3 deployable shields are one way

45:35 Yeah, I also get that feeling when it comes to exploring empty Source maps. It’s the thought that you’re the only one there on maps that are more commonly populated. So to be there along makes you feel… on edge.

11:47 It would have been between Floodgate and the Ark (I think) and involved Chief navigating through the Flood ship presumably to find Cortana's message and blow up the ship. However, after the original Cortana level was accidentally deleted with no backups, they had to hastily remake the level using those assets (which is why there are so few of High Charity's landmarks in Cortana). They cut this flood ship level as they obviously felt it would now be too similar to Cortana and just put it at the end of Floodgate. The original Cortana (I'm not sure on the validity of most of this, but the places I saw this from are reputable) level would have involved a fight against the infected Arbiters from the Mausoleum and a Scarab vs Gravemind bossfight I may be wrong about all of this, but I am 99% sure this is true.

Wasnt Recon given to everyone at one point. Cause i remember vividly having it in Halo 3 but i never did any Vidmaster challenges. Also there is atleast Flash cloning in Halo

pigpen: *releases Halo iceberg* pigpen: "Oh I know what the ladies like"

I'm acquainted with Levi, through HBO and some LAN parties. They actually did work with him to print Fist Full of Arrows, but it was as a charity auction piece. They made one to sell and one for him to keep.

Chief is a cyborg though. Cybernetically-enhanced Organism. Cyb + Org. It doesn't matter in the end, but in-canon, most humans are cyborgs by this definition.

HELL FUCKING YES NEW UNEXPECTED ICEBERG FROM 1 OF MY FAVORITE FRANCHISES ‼️

Totally agree with you on Red vs. Blue. I love it, and I loved it for longer than most people did. But yeah, it needs to end

About that Forza/Halo colab, I actually got to play that. It was a good bit before this video, but I dont think there were any banshees attacking as you drove, and I drove on a beach instead of a ring. I think it was a time trial race, so that could be why

Respect for making this absolute masterpiece. Really took me back

Chours Trilogy supremacy 🗣

The sandworm is a reference to the Sandworm, a sandworm from dune. Both the sandworm and the sandworm are similar because the sandworm eats a mining rig because sandwormsandwormsandwormsandworm

Idk if this is in the iceberg or not but. I just watched a 14 year old Developer commentary on H2 last night with Joseph Staton, Marty O Donnell and Jason Jones, and apparently throughout the Bungie trilogy they sneak Marty’s Dad in for a voice actor cameo . A hint to get you started hes a prophet in H2 ;)

My duuuuude, love that super quick Local58 reference you peppered in at the 5:40 mark, very nice 🤣

24:49 ATV offroad fury was the shit. Holy fuck I never expected to hear someone reference that game. I only played the first one and a tiny bit of the 2nd one but that's a nostalgia trip I didn't expect to receive from this video. Thanks :)

I’m surprised I didn’t see the whale’s eye Easter Egg from Longshore in this Ice Berg. That one seemed so subtle in appearance and unsettlingly mysterious

4:38 I am Soo glad to see he actually did and can be found on top of one of the structures that a mission takes place in it's awesome

thank you for staring the iceberg with master chief dabbing

Hey I've been watching this and loving it, but I thought I'd let you know some stuff I noticed. 11:33 - Cortana on Halo 3 was the missing mission after floodgate. If you look up at the beginning, you can even see the hole on the top is the exact same as the one from floodgate. The original plan was to have Cortana drive a scarab to kill gravemind and you fight through the Mausoleum of the Arbiter, but had to cut it due to time constraints. They even kept it visible in the skybox by the crashed pelican on Cortana as an homage to what was lost, and the voice lines from the cut levels are still in the files. There's a playlist on youtube with a ton of cut voice lines found that you can listen to. Some are even from that lost city fight we only saw at PAX 2010 46:51 - you can do this on any difficulty. What matters is the order you do it in. As long as Kat calls you to ONI tower, you can do it 1:44:36 - I think they actually deciphered that this year. It was just symbols for the engineers to help guide themselves and the prophet to the superintendent I feel like the ending bit was a tad weird, but that's more a nitpick than a critique. Great video my guy! Keep it up

The ghosts are actually a real thing as it's happened to me and my little brother when we were playing on Sandtrap in Halo 3 completely offline, we didn't have Xbox Live nor system link, we definitely weren't connected to the internet and there wasn't a third player. I don't remember the colour of it but it was definitely a spartan sliding around the map and shooting whenever we got close to it before it just blipped out of the game entirely, it only lasted a bit less than a minute. My theory for the ghosts is they're a bi-product of multiplayer bots made for Halo 2 that were eventually scrapped and left unfinished - albeit their code has remained buried in the engine all the way up to Reach. Thus under some very specific circumstances, the player can accidentally trick the game via arbitrary code execution to enable these unfinished bots to spawn and thus the ghosts appear. If only people knew how to consistently trigger them or if the source code was ever released for these games, then we'll know the answer for sure.

It's so satisfying to hear about the Vidmaster achievements. I still remember the night me and the boys finished them. The firefight one was the hardest.

The joke about the Babylonians waiting for halo 4 made me sub

I remember hearing that rejected shotgun got in contact with some devs that knew about the halo 3 level 090. All he said was that this level would have been like nothing ever seen in halo before. Another thought is that it was a the cut forerunner city on the ark, and the level was said to be so large it could have been it's own game. You can see pictures of it on halopedia and it was also featured in halo legends orgin episode. Many of the structures would be later used on the ark and the covenant missions.

Wow! this is a really cool video. Thank you so much for sharing this! When I was younger, I was a big fan of Halo. Even though I mostly played multiplayer, I've always found Halo very interesting. I really enjoy watching Halo videos, and it's really cool learning about facts i've never known before. Keep up the great videos!

This video made me feel like a kid again. Love this iceberg. This game will always have a place in my heart

Love the video! Gotta say I was skeptical of Spark being alive too, but the books with him post halo 3 are actually amazing. I was pleasantly surprised at how much heart Kelly Gay gave that narrative.

You actually CAN see that friendly game of soccer between Locke and Buck. You have to actually move the ball yourself, and there's an Easter egg for getting it into a goal. And the decoy ability teabags the corpse to make it look more realistic. The developers actually went out of their way to make the decoy act as convincing as possible so that it would actually work. But not 100% convincingly, because that way, the player could act like a decoy as a feint. Walking at a wall or zig zagging in weird ways could be used to trick other players if you did it right.

I’m so glad he did an iceberg for the guy from fortnite!

Space combat in halo would be immediately interesting. So many different interpretations in mods, yet never realized.

As an Italian I can confirm that we are from Delta Halo

Your a blessing man, In depth and pretty high quality for a small channel. Seriously you need more views.

at 33:30 or so you mention that the public believes Chief is missing or dead, but that they should know he's alive at this point. If im not mistaken, this is playing on the lore reason of "Spartans never die, they're just MIA" so as to show how immovable spartans are. the public is meant to believe that spartans are unkillable, thus, if they die in action, the public is told they are instead, Missing In Action.

Italian here. I do confirm I'm from Delta Halo. Sentinels are always a problem around Rimini for the summer

@6:45 - Web-Os is a Reference to the Bungie WebMaster who came into work wearing a Gorilla suit and a yellow Cowboy hat

On a big halo craze right now perfect timing

Great video! But every time you start a new topic the audio is real quiet and slowly gets louder

Don’t forget boys: the forerunner glyph for “reclaimer” is just the marathon logo.

Whenever he says “Combat Evolved”, it sounds like “Comedy Vault”

57:25 There's more to this entry than you explained in the video. Back in the 360 days of Halo 4 a modder did actually managed to get Theater mode to work in the campaign. As a result the modder was actually banned from multiplayer.

22:59 This would have been such a cool opportunity to give us a good picture of what space combat in the Halo Universe looks like, it's a shame they canceled it.

“Chief, you mind telling me what you’re doing with that Sphynx Cat?” Sir, petting bingus

51:03 Spartan team black was the best, rip, I’ll forever remember you.

25:30 ... actually, the earliest "forge" or map editor on Halo is Halo Custom Edition which you can download if you have a copy of Halo Combat Evolved, which is similar to Halo 2 Vista's map editor (essentially the same), but a bit more restricted since it uses Halo CE's engine lol, I used to make maps there for years so I know it

If you think about it, Halo 2 actually doesnt exist. What we ultimately got is not what Bungie originally intended to make. They wanted Halo 2 and 3 to be the same game as far as the story goes, but due to both a troubled development and strict deadlines, they had to make a lot of compromises with the campaign and rush through what time they had left during development. Its why the campaign is an unbalanced mess at higher difficulties, and its why there's a fair amount of cut content like a missing Warthog Run segment. I still love Halo 2 for what it is, but my god its really depressing sometimes how much untapped potential this game has. What i'd love to see at some point is some fan reimagining of Halo 2 that fits the initial concept of the game. Bonus points if it can run on the original Xbox hardware.

Now this is good iceberg and I’m only on layer Two! Congrats!

PigPen, you GOTTA do a Mass Effect Iceberg!!

That slight nexpo/local 58 refference ❤

One thing worth adding was a website that existed around the time of halo reach It had match summaries from every single match played, including killfeeds, and even a map where you could see who killed who from where And if I remember correctly you could see other's theatre mode creations uploading on there too, however viewing them required silverlight

4:28 the excitement my friend and I had when we found out there was a Craig stage set on top of The Tower as if it were a live show, we laughed so damn hard about it

I started getting into Rocket Sloth's content a year or 2 ago, starting with his Halo content and recently his Animal Crossing content