.fortune
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.fortune is an Easter egg in the Xbox version of Halo: Combat Evolved, the Xbox 360 versions of Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and any version of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. In all cases, the egg causes an amusing message to appear when ".fortune" is written somewhere, but the egg is most extensive in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Halo: Combat Evolved[edit]
In Halo: Combat Evolved, if the player creates a profile, renames an existing one, or creates a map name and names it ".fortune", a random fortune-cookie-like saying will appear on the screen. Here is a list of all quotes found in Halo: Combat Evolved:
- All your hard work will eventually pay off[1]
- Everything lies in silence[1]
- If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway[1] (The first of Murphy's Laws)
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.[1] (A subdivision of Murphy's Law)
- Never wear your best pants when fighting for freedom.[1]
- Rest is good, but idleness is its brother.[1]
- Smile when you're ready.[1]
- You cannot fall off the floor.[1] (Another Murphy's Law)
- Your luck is about to change.[1]
- I like beans.[1] (Rare)
Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo: Reach[edit]
On the Xbox 360 versions of Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, typing in .fortune into a a map variants, gametypes, or screenshot, will output the phrase "My modem is on". In Halo: Reach the message reads "My modem is on fire", completing the phrase.
.fortune message in the Halo 3 Custom game menu
.fortune message in the Halo 3: ODST Screenshots menu
.fortune message in the Halo: Reach Custom game menu
Halo: The Master Chief Collection[edit]
In The Master Chief Collection the Easter egg will appear if the player enters the .fortune almost anywhere in the game, including map variants, gametypes, loadouts, clan tags, or even the Service ID. When activated, the player will unlock the Mystery Achievement. While the majority of quotes are also found in Halo: Combat Evolved, a few are exclusive to this game. Here is a list of all documented quotes found in Halo: The Master Chief Collection:
- All your hard work will eventually pay off.
- Don't wear you best pants in war. (MCC Exclusive)
- Everything lies in silence.
- If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
- Never wear your best pants when fighting for freedom.
- Rest is good, but idleness is its brother.
- Smile when you're ready.
- SoB dawg! (MCC Exclusive)
- Sorry, this fortune is temporarily out of order. (MCC Exclusive)
- You cannot fall off the floor.
- Your luck is about to change.
"Don't wear your best pants in war."
"SoB dawg!"
"Sorry, this fortune is temporarily out of order."
Trivia[edit]
- If the player places a symbol at the beginning (such as a left parenthesis) to make ".(fortune", and subsequently uses the arrows to move to and delete the parenthesis when finished, ".fortune" will remain, allowing the player to use it as a profile name if they so wish.
- This joke was also present on Bungie.net's Myth metaserver.[1]
- The Easter egg is similar to the fortune command found on most Unix-compatible operating systems. Like the fortune command in Unix, the Halo: Combat Evolved egg draws a random quote from a database, albeit much smaller than the lists accompanying most fortune implementations.[1]
- "My modem is on fire" is the Myth / Myth2 username of the developer who inserted the .fortune Easter egg into the Myth game servers, and subsequently Halo.[2]
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