Zeta Halo is an enormous place. It is a sprawling Pacific Northwest forest, however with extra hexagons and extra offended aliens making an attempt to shoot you lifeless than you may discover within the precise state of Washington the place Halo builders Bungie and 343 Industries are each situated. Within the unique few Halo video games, Bungie all the time took the time to squirrel away a couple of nice easter eggs, just like the thirsty Grunt and the I Would Have Been Your Daddy skull. It is becoming that Halo Infinite continues and (embiggens) that custom by spreading skulls and all kinds of secrets and techniques and references all throughout the open world.
Beneath I’ve collected the easter eggs that gave me a chuckle within the marketing campaign. We even have a information to Halo Infinite’s skull locations, a few of that are hidden much more deviously.
The OG Xbox gaming lair
Halfway by Infinite’s marketing campaign you will go on a mission that sends you to beacons scattered throughout the ring. Close to a type of beacons is that this extremely well-hidden easter egg. You must journey by this hexagonal tunnel and spot a tiny gap within the roof to grapple as much as a hidden cave, which seems to be prefer it was some UNSC Marine’s secret gaming room. There is a pile of navy rations, a TV, and an unique Xbox. Perhaps they had been enjoying Halo: CE?
Craig the Brute’s rock live performance
In all probability probably the most elaborate in-joke in Halo Infinite, this concert venue sits on high of The Tower, the positioning of one among Halo Infinite’s first marketing campaign missions. The entire thing is a tribute to Craig, the blank-faced Brute who grew to become a meme throughout final yr’s unlucky marketing campaign reveal. Craig’s actually moved up on this planet, placing out an album and apparently happening tour. Generally marines and Grunts reference him of their dialogue too, just like the propaganda tower asking, “Hey, we got a Craig out there?”
Grasp Chief, the Arbiter, and extra, in plushie kind
As quickly as you end the primary mission that takes you out onto the floor of Zeta Halo, you will hitch a Pelican journey to a brand new location and get dropped off close to a former UNSC base. From there you possibly can grapple up the facet of a close-by cliff and discover a cute toy model of Grasp Chief resting on a blanket. He isn’t alone in toy kind: there are additionally Arbiter, Pilot and Grunt figures on the market.
A MAC cannon you possibly can really fireplace
I am undecided if that is an easter egg or a glitch, however both approach it is neat. Throughout early mission Outpost Tremonius, you possibly can climb up the facet of a crashed UNSC cruiser, then hop on high of a mounted gun to… equip it? The gun will not present up in your palms, however if you pull the set off it seems to be and sounds such as you’re firing the cannon of a Scorpion tank. Large increase.
The Halo theme performs from the very best peaks
Climb to one of many highest viewpoints on the map and you will be rewarded with the chanting of Gregorian monks as you’re taking within the view.
Blood Gulch is again, at the least in hologram kind
Who is aware of if Blood Gulch will make its approach again as a playable multiplayer map in Infinite, however the iconic Halo: Fight Advanced map definitely hasn’t been forgotten. Right here it’s in Banished hologram.
Peanut the… gopher?
In an early marketing campaign mission you will stroll by a Forerunner storage facility, stuffed with slabs that appear to be historical aliens frozen in Carbonite. All of them match apart from one, which seems to be prefer it’s a gopher. According to Halo group supervisor John Junyszek, that is Peanut.
After all there is a Rick & Morty reference
In early mission The Tower, a Mr Meeseeks field is hidden behind a grate alongside the skin fringe of the room you circle on the way in which to the highest. Fortunately it doesn’t shout at you.
Behold, a Large Sandwich
Just like the Xbox, this sandwich is effectively hidden inside a cave on the ring. You will must grapple your approach upward by a small hole within the rock to seek out this sandwich, being worshipped by a hoop of grunts. The music might sound familiar, too.
Halo the arcade sport
Not-so-hidden in a Forerunner room close to a Spartan core is Halo Infinite: the arcade sport. The chiptune music is the true deal with right here. Properly, that, and the Brute who appears to have died from an excessive amount of gaming.
Sheila the tank
When the pilot drops off a Scorpion, typically he’ll inform you “her identify’s Sheila,” a reference to Pink Vs. Blue, the place Sheila is the Blue Staff’s tank. It is one of some nods to Pink Vs. Blue in Halo Infinite, others together with an achievement for getting the Scorpion in On the Street all the way in which to the Home of Reckoning known as Deliver Sheila Dwelling Safely, marines shouting “Puma power!” and the pink choice in your AI pores and skin in multiplayer being labeled “lightish pink.” The loading display screen quote “You ever surprise why we’re right here?” is one other reference—the primary phrases spoken within the collection’ first episode.
In Steel Gear Stable, the telepathic Psycho Mantis might learn your thoughts and predict your actions. To defeat him, at the least within the unique PlayStation model, you needed to plug your controller into port two. Look, simply go together with it. Halo Infinite’s propaganda Grunts are apparently Kojima stans, since they assume that is the key to defeating Grasp Chief.
