Did the Gravemind cutscene subtly reveal a huge secret of the Halo rings?

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Thanks to u/Exitaph doing some digging in the Halo 2 Gravemind cutscene and posting his findings on reddit, we may now not only finally know where the Gravemind was located on Delta Halo, but also a secret of the Halo rings that explains how the rings themselves were built to counter the Flood may have been revealed...

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[HiddenXperia]

What do you think - just a reused asset? Or a hint at something greater? Also, I'm trying out a new, slightly later upload time, let me know if you prefer it over the original or not! Enjoy fellas, more Reach + MCC + PC talk in the next video :D

[AQDuck]

The retexture is probably just because textures were applied differently in H2's engine, so they just took a default Forerunner texture and applied it to the 3D model.

[adelaltamimi]

Short Answer: yes
Long Answer:





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[GrumpyMcfart]

considering Halos are apparently designed to jettison entire sections that have sustained too much damage I don't think it's unreasonable to suppose that there might be multiple back-up control rooms. after all, it would suck to jettison a part of the ring only to realize you can't fire it anymore.

[punishedvenomsnake]

Your thumbnails are always just so cinematic, I love it

[thexyayxmaker]

Probably just reused assets but it's a nice thing to have, showing us that there still are some unexplored mysteries to our beloved rings.

[flightlessraptor]

This definitely explains why the control room on installation 04c in Halo wars 2 looks so different from installation 04 and 04b's control room

[robbieb]

how did it take us this long to draw this connection

[maestroairsoft]

I cant be the only one who always thought the Gravemind was in a control room....

[zedabo]

Maybe the control room Tartarus uses is a back up, that can only be used if the original control room - where the Gravemind is - is infected with the Flood.

[uberchris]

Never clicked off of flood hentai so quick in my life

[FrostyWheats]

After starting this video and wondering why my young mind knew that the gravemind was in a control room, I went back to watch the original cutscene. In most of the Aribter centered shots, you can make out the bridge, entrance and wall which clearly show it being a control room. Also, right before the two of them teleport, you can see what appears to be a moving hologram of the ring in the background, similar to the one in Combat Evolved.

I think it was definitely intentional. Or at least it was intentional enough for it to be shown in greater detail in the remastered version of the cutscene.

[TheWhiteTrashPanda]

The "control room" tartarus tries to fire delta halo from is more akin to the center of the library. Look at the library on alpha halo, with it's central platform, then look at the room where you fight tartarus on delta halo.
Many more similarities than to either the alpha halo control room or the delta halo/gravemind control room.
Not exactly the same but much closer in design.
Maybe the library could serve as an emergency control room in a pinch.

[amendus]

They way the flood act, having multiple control rooms sort of sounds like a good back-up plan.

[central_core]

The gravemind room being the control room also kind of adds to why the area the room is located is snowy, halo CEs control room had a snowy area around it.

[jakeman]

Considering we normally go to the cartographer before going to the control room, it is no surprise that we never ended up at a fake control room. Cartographers might reveal false locations or simply not work if flood are detected. Also possible is that control was rerouted to an alternate facility when the original control room was inside the quarantine zone.

[IpodLapras]

We could tie it to what Chief said in Infinite. “Each Ring is different”

[jonnyaitken]

if you notice in halo 2 the control room at the end of the game has a much more ruff and mechanical look compared to the grand clearly important control rooms of ce and 3. this could be because, since the flood had taken control of the control room, the sentinels had constructed a new one else where on the ring.

[TheNobleStar]

Notification squad! Another I C O N I C video <3

[oneeyednut]

It would make sense to house two control rooms on a ring, considering what the Forerunners where dealing with, but at the same time, while on the mission Silent Cartographer in Halo Combat Evolved, after you activate the Cartographer it only shows the location of 1 control room