The Secret Enemy Hidden in EVERY Halo Reach Level

Halo Reach holds a secret that most players don't know about. There is a secret enemy hidden on every single Halo Reach level and this easter egg took players a while to find back in the day.

[itiswrittenlisen]

Ex Bungie employee here. Bob Miske was an early developer of Marathon and created some of the key principles and ideas behind Bungie’s personality. He would later continue into parts of Halo as an outside consultant. Bob liked to host, (often random at times) at his house with newcomers to the team. He deeply enjoyed his Weber Grill and created lots of memories around it. Bob or Born on Board enemies were installed at completely RNG dropped set points, as homage to his guidance to many at Bungie.

[inductivegrunt]

Bobs were always mysterious Elites, but were cool nonetheless. And it was always satisfying to be able to kill one so you can get a better look and enjoy killing these hard to kill enemies. Even the White Bobs are satisfying to kill and interesting to discuss about along with their Gold brethren.

[lowkeynerd]

Hey friends. This was really fun to watch and brought back a lot of memories. Great stuff. Happy BOB hunting!

[christopherlucchesi]

I only encountered a few of them and I have to say that I found them to be one of the strangest but also coolest parts of the game for me. I thought it was interesting to see random elites like that just in different spots throughout the game. Cool Easter egg

[smallfryguy]

we need a bob only fire fight mode tbh

[greenyodais]

I love that i only discovered the bob egg by accidently hitting one with a pistol shot on the first mission.

[AEMT-ksso]

Ive played Reach since it came out but i didnt realize i always took the exact same route through each level until yesterday when i accidentally took a wrong turn on Winter Contingency and found one. How did i miss this for... what? 13 years?

After watching the video maybe im thinking of something else.. i killed an Elite Ranger or something like that and got an achievement, but i did fight an elite that i thought i killed and then when i turned back around was just gone, no body, no elite, no nothing

[SeniorCharry]

My thought is the "Bobs" were put into the game for story purposes. They were enemies that tracked the player, high priority targets, and were meant as a way to keep the player on their toes thinking at any moment they can be attacked by an unseen enemy. That's my thoughts at least.

[Spendingryan]

I wonder if the BOB at 12:37 still spawns, as the most recent update unintentionally removed anti air gatling guns, seraph fighters strafing and firing down and respawning dropships for humans and covenant at the facility portion of LNoS, makes the level basically empty at the doors.

[Falloutwolf]

I wonder if the bobs are basically scouts for the covenant, as soon as they make contact with an enemy they tend to bug out. Some of their spawn locations also make sense for scouts, for example the one on new alexandria is at the edge of the city and has a good location to spot possible UNSC positions. I do know they are actually called ranger commanders but they do act like scouts in certain scenarions.

[isaacwalker]

Hey team Rocket, I'm only mentioning this because it didn't appear in the video, in a recent playthrough of reach on legendary I splattered a BOB in the firefight section of the package, down by the wraith spawn at the back of the map. it said in the video that the last BOB was found in a banshee during that section, thought this might be interesting to know that another one can spawn there at least on MCC. keep up the good work.

[cdub]

You can also have one spawn on LNOS where the drop ship drops off covenant at the beach, so the opposite corner from where you show the one despawing into the ground. He despawns super fast too though after like 3 or 4 steps. You can kill both of them if you do an assignation as soon as they pop out of the drop pod. Or if you have a wraith and you difficultly level is low enough to take them out with a perfectly timed shot.

[amaurybakx]

Has anyone ever noticed the invisible elite in the very beginning in the campaign of reach?
Like you spawn in, you run down and you can just see him run invisible. Just enough time to take it out.

[LungsAhnk]

very cool easter egg. makes you feel like your always being watched and really gives depth to the covenant being a hyper-futuristic military society that absolutely would have spies so deep behind enemy lines

[Cadegerardy]

I remember seeing them around and I didnt think much of them because I was little but I sorta remember seeing them in weird spots but I just ended up always killing them. I never saw one disappear though

[TraxelAxel]

I killed a B.O.B the other day on MCC and got an achievement as and I guess I killed it too quickly because I had no idea why it was special apart from the way it looked

[junque_muppetO...O]

Bobs aside, it's cool how you are still manage to feature Halo-Content that's interesting to watch.
Like with Black-Ops-Zombies, Folks like me ask themselves: "when will all Secrets and easter Eggs be unsolved?".
Hope there are more mystique Topics to Halo like this.
Vids like this here or the ODST-Glyph-Puzzle are my Top-ones made by you.

[Forgotten_Archivist]

Are they actually that rare??? I swear I’ve had two in every single level I played, but maybe that’s just my childhood memories kicking in. Unfortunately I don’t have any footage to back it up, still, I’m happy to know that reach still lives on. Our spartan’s sacrifice was not in vain.

[Xamsims]

I only came across them on ONI Sword Base, Tip of the Spear and Lone Wolf. Never knew how deep the BOB rabbithole went.

[owendiaram]

When I was a kid, I thought Bob was something else.
I knew of a few of the gold elites but never made that link to them being bob.

I thought Bob was a minor elite in a banshee on Tip of the Spear Checkpoint Bravo (The spire) where I emp'd a banshee and hijacked it and the blue elite I said was Bob would never attack me. He just stood around.