Also remember guys, the rings only kill sentient life. That probably lowers the amount of species that the forerunners would need to preserve pretty significantly.
To get back on-topic, given that the Chief is being drawn into this planet/Dyson Sphere/giant Death Star-esque object of DOOM in a UNSC ship, it's highly likely that there will be UNSC vehicles strewn across the landscape in various, strategically fortunate locations, as the ship has catastrophic damage to it and I'm sure some of the vehicle holding bays have been ripped open. Those vehicles are known to be pretty hardy, so it's not unreasonable to assume that they could survive a rather long drop once the ship enters an atmosphere. As for Forerunner vehicles? Not sure, someone stated that the Sentinels are capable of sustained flight and would really have no need for vehicles, so I don't think there'll be any. I'm just taking a wild stab in the dark here, but given that this is an alien environment that we haven't seen before, it could be possible to have the Chief riding some kind of mount. Wild speculation? Perhaps, but it's been considered for previous games before.
SO MUCH SPECUALTION! so little info! :O Just reading through the last few pages and you guys have some very convincing theories. I dun have anything of my own except that maybe we might just see a new fleet of enemies seeing as they are 'beginning a new trilogy'.
I have some amazing footage for you. Its a partly finished CGI cut scene. Halo4Follower's Channel - YouTube
lol I think the original purpose of the thread was to speculate on halo 4 vehicles without much(if any) info. But if the topic is staying on vehicles now I wanna drive one of these. Could be forerunners tank counterpart lol. Flys has strong damage output and fair bit of health but its hard to aim(basically a giant spiker adding skill gap) and its a huge target to keep it balanced.
If you can use a broken part of Sentinel as a gun, I think it's plausible that you could drive an enforcer which is pretty much the same technology.
The sentinels are robots that have guns attached to them. They aren't robots inside flying machines. Its not like there would be a steering wheel or anything.
It was just a random thought that I'm pretty sure wont even happen. But I did just read on a wiki If the Enforcer is examined in the map files from Halo 2 (using a modding tool), it will be described as a vehicle and not as a playable character (like the Arbiter or Elites). It also sometimes drops two Plasma Grenades when it is destroyed. It is unknown what character is able to control the Enforcer. However, it could actually be a vehicle assigned AI, as speculated by some modders. By modding, it is possible to control an Enforcer in Halo 2 multiplayer.
That's just poor design. Nothing canonical. It would be cool to pilot but it just wouldn't make sense.
Looking at the speculative CGI animation. I have no knowledge of any race that could manipulate walls. It's obvious the animation is for a Halo game due to the armour stuff. Again though, if you watch the actual release trailer shown here it differs a lot from the planet shown in the legendary halo 3 ending. I also could of sworn at one point there were Forerunner markings on the planet which is also one of the symbols AdjutantReflex (rumoured to be Mendicant Bias' brother as he once also wore Mendicant's symbol as an avatar) which would indicate the planet is Forerunner related. The planet was informally dubbed Sigma 7. When people looked at the planet in game on high resolution, it was evident that Forerunner symbols were found (I thought so, looking at all the Halo 3 ending videos though shows no sign of symbols...). The most common that has been located around each Halo that was visited as well as the Ark, is the Undefined Symbol. This symbol is either translated as a direct meaning for "Shield and the Sword" which rougly translates to the Shield, meaning Shield World, a protection against the Sword, meaning the Halo array. As AdjutentReflex has been a constant sign of things to come regarding back story, it's highly possible that the world we do encounter is Forerunner. The enemy on that Shield World, could be entirely different. With not a lot known about the Forerunner or the Precursor, there isn't much to discuss unless the hints to the story have already been dropped and people simply need to link the connections. I would also imagine a lot of the story line may, or may not be available in the new books...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that everything that Halo4Follower guy says is bullshit. I only watched one video, but I'm willing to bet that none of what he says is in the game.
Ditto that, I just watched his other videos. They're legitimately a load of **** -.- Either way, the markings on the planet are forerunner... it was worth watching his videos as one of them is high enough quality to show Sigma 7's symbols. So, basically, the planet is forerunner, so you could expect to find a whole arsenal of forerunner weapons instead of any covenant ones.
Most is junk made up BS, other stuff is old news turned into BS, then topped off with a preview of a whiff of BS.
So where going back to canon now? lol There will be forerunners i don't know how much in Halo 4 but during Halo 4 to Halo 8 there will be a lot of forerunners. Ignoring all other aspects there will be forerunners for the simple reason of an interesting story line. Simply fighting covenant isn't epic enough for Halo anymore not to say there wont be fighting covenant but finding forerunners adds more factions: Covenant,UNSC,Flood,Forerunners,etc. I don't know how there going to implement there relationships but that's what makes it interesting. And not to mention Forerunners have the persona of been "Gods" so fighting with gods or teaming up with gods to kill flood/covenant or whatever happens is awesome.
Intersting theory... Well, at least up untill IT GETS BLOWN UP! And yes, that particular installation was an early varient of a shield world. Looking at some of the cutscnes and backrounds, that shield world was actually very hollow, and Massive. Probably bigger than Halo ring. This is quite a feat considering that a Halo ring has a larger Diameter than even Earth. I'm having trouble imagining the sheer size of Onyx's interior and that it was even built up...
The CGI animation video has nothing to do with Halo 4 by the way. It's just to show off what the guy who made it can do and has nothing to do with the Halo 4 story whatsoever. They do this all the time. Either that or Halo 4 will feature The Force.
The only covenant in this game would be due to flashback missions, or master chief getting off that planet and getting back into the middle of the milkyway. There are no reasons as to why Covenant would be inhabiting a Forerunner planet that is outside of the milkyway. Covenant are Tier 2. They cannot create their own worlds and they've 'only' just started to learn how to travel through slipspace. In one of the books, they search for a crystal that manipulates gravity around anything it touches. When using that inside slipspace, it speeds up travel by over 10 times (I could be wrong here, it's been ages since I read "First Strike") which could ultimately be what the Forerunner used on each of their ships to travel across the galaxy. The Precursors on the other hand, must've had some completely other kind of technology. Either way, I'd be disappointed if the covenant were in this without any reasonable explaination. Sometimes you have to overanalyse stuff like that. The white thing on the ship is interesting, but it's probably just dynamic lighting as a background piece as it doesn't move like the rest of the ship. So, it's probably there to save framerate and still give the effect. (Like that mission on Halo 3 when Master Chief flies a banshee through the canyon leading up to Cortana I believe. The scenery there is just an illustration and the only rendered object is the banshee and smoke from the drawn fires preventing framerate from dropping.) The Shield World I was talking about back then has no relevance. That shield world isn't used as a protection from the Halo Array, it's used to store Forerunner battleships. The surface was consumed by the flood, and with the openings monitored by the sentinals, it'd only be a matter of time before the flood consumed the planet, which evidently happened either way. The Shield World I was talking about is the Sigma 7 planet, shown at the end of Halo 3, and during the Halo 4 trailer. The force unleashed? wut?! Now here's a question for you all... If a partially destroyed ship is plummeting towards a planet or shield world and is burning up in the artificial atmosphere, why is it guided towards the opening of the planet allowing the ship access to the interior? Whatever is on that Shield World, obviously can't be an immediate threat if Master Chief and Cortana have been welcomed with open arms...