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{{Title|''Halo: Reach'' Legendary Developer Commentary}}

The '''''Halo: Reach'' Legendary Developer Commentary''' is a 2 hour video commentary of ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' by the [[Bungie]] employees [[Steve Scott]], [[Lee Wilson]], [[Marcus Lehto]] and [[Martin O'Donnell]]. It is only available and viewable on [[Halo Waypoint]] to those who bought the [[Halo: Reach Legendary Edition|Legendary Edition]] of ''Reach''.

==Transcript==
===Opening===
*'''Martin O'Donnell:''' Here it goes. 2010 Microsoft Corporation. Here we go. Watching ''Reach'', and the four of us are all here, and we all worked on this game, and ee've been here for so many years... And who's the first one to introduce himself?

*'''Steve Scott:''' Uh, I am Steve Scott. I'm the, uh, FX lead here at Bungie.

*'''O'Donnell:''' All the cool explosions, Steve.

*'''Scott:''' ''My'' department.

*'''Scott:''' There are, uh, four of us, uh, making effects for this game.

*'''Marcus Lehto:''' It used to just be Steve.

*'''O'Donnell:''' I know.

*'''Lehto:''' Now, Steve has... (''imitating wind blowing'')

*'''Lehto:''' ...a glorified department. And Lee?

*'''Lee Wilson:''' I am Lee Wilson, and I was, er, story and cinematic lead on ''Reach''.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Nice job, Lee.

===Noble Actual===
*'''O'Donnell:''' Just a small team.

*'''Lehto:''' I'm Marcus Lehto, the creative director for ''Reach'', and errr... Yeah. We are here together with all four of us. Marty, you get to introduce yourself.

*'''O'Donnell:''' I'm Marty O'Donnell, I'm the audio director and composer for Bungie and ''Reach''.

*'''Lehto:''' Reach. Half of the [[Covenant]] has dumped on it.

*'''Wilson:''' There were, uh, a little goats, we imagine.

*'''Lehto:''' From the beginning, you know the end.

*'''O'Donnell:''' You know...

*'''Lehto:''' ...that it is glassed.

*'''O'Donnell:''' It's glassed, and they're horrible.

*'''Lehto:''' The sad, sad, helmet.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Steve, I love that effect.

*'''Lehto:''' The hue effect. It's one of the best effect in the game.

*'''O'Donnell:''' The heat effect.

*'''Scott:''' I thought it was the [[Unggoy|Grunt]] [[Armor effects#Birthday Party|Birthday Party]].

*'''Wilson:''' So clean, so simple.

*'''Lehto:''' A little boring.

*'''Scott:''' I think it's pretty cool that we actually made that helmet dynamically change...

*'''Lehto:''' Yes.

*'''Scott:''' ...depending on what your selection is.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Really?

*'''Wilson:''' It was surprisingly simple as well. Didn't cause many problems.

*'''Lehto:''' Come on, Marty, I thought you played this.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Well, I thought, I thought they burned out all of them, it was always like (''gestures nothing'').

*'''Lehto''' & '''Scott:''' ''What?''

*'''Lehto:''' Did you know how much labor in it?

*'''Scott:''' There's a destroyed version of every helmet.

*'''Lehto:''' Scott Shepherd came up with that.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Wow, that's wonderful.

*'''Wilson:''' What I like about [[M831 Troop Transport|this 'Hog]] is that we actually captured [[CJ Cowan|CJ]] driving it across the map. So he's skipping it right now.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Oh really?

*'''Wilson:''' Yeah, it wasn't so, like, custom animated or anything like that.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Now, you notice, guys, that [[Winter Contingency (music)|this music]] is different from what we did in the [[Halo: Reach Video Games Awards Trailer|original trailer]]. Because the original trailer is for audience, this is...

*'''Lehto''' &'''O'Donnell:''' ...the game.

*'''Lehto:''' The player experience.

*'''Wilson:''' And [[Jun-A266|Jun]] has his helmet off.

*'''Lehto:''' Do you like his tattoo?

*'''Wilson:''' Oh, I love his tattoo.

*'''Lehto:''' Alright.

*'''Wilson:''' What is that tattoo?

*'''Scott:''' It's a fist, holding...

*'''Lehto:''' It's, er, spears.

*'''Wilson:''' Okay, 'Tip of the Spears'.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Think that was Scott Shepherd. Wasn't it?

*'''Wilson:''' I think so, yeah. I let him sole sculpture that-

*'''Lehto:''' No, wait no, it was, uh, Chris Alderson.

*'''Wilson:''' Okay.

*'''Lehto:''' I know Scott Shepherd said he was going to tattoo that on his head after this game is done.

*'''Wilson:''' And he probably will.

*'''Lehto:''' He is an open canvas.

*'''O'Donnell:''' We should introduce our actors here.

*'''Lehto:''' You go right ahead.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Uh, [[Pat Duke]], is, uh, [[Urban Holland|Holland]]. [[Freddy Bosche]] is [[Carter-A259|Carter]]. Um...

*'''O'Donnell:''' Now, we're listening to male Six.

*'''Lehto:''' Mhmm.

*'''Scott:''' Now, what is his name?

*'''Wilson:''' Uhh, [[Philip Anthony-Rodriguez]].

*'''O'Donnell:''' Yes. Philip Anthony-Rodriguez. That's his name.

*'''O'Donnell:''' That's a great shot. Jun's is, err, [[Sunil Malhotra|Sunil]].

*'''Lehto:''' Sunil.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Ummm... [[Catherine-B320|Kat]] is, er, [[Alona Tal]].

*'''Wilson:''' Yes.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Great name.

*'''Lehto:''' She'd kick your butt.

*'''O'Donnell:''' She would, too. She was Israeli military. She's great. And who do we miss?

*'''Scott''' & '''Lehto:''' [[Jorge-052|Jorge]]!

*'''Scott:''' Jorge's is [[Hakeem Kae-Kazim|Hakeem]].

*'''O'Donnell:''' Hakeem.

*'''Wilson:''' We [[Endesha|worked]] with him [[Halo 3: ODST|before]].

*'''O'Donnell:''' And [[Jamie Hector]] was [[Emile-A239|Emile]]. He was also known as Marlo from ''The Wire''.

*'''Wilson:''' And we are complete fanboys around him.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Totally. It was... He was so much fun to work with.

===Winter Contingency===
*'''O'Donnell:''' Oh.

*'''Scott:''' This was, uh, this was a ... ''Halo'' game had a couple first. One, you could play as a male or female [[SPARTAN Program|Spartan]]. And, for the first time, you see the Spartans' face.

*'''Lehto:''' Finally.

*'''Scott:''' Finally.

*'''Lehto:''' Get underneath [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|that armor]]. It was one of the big mandates when we started this project. Understand a little about these characters were, make them a little bit more iconic than [[John-117|Master Chief]] ever could be.

*'''Scott:''' Mhmm.

*'''Lehto:''' It's cool. I think we pulled that off pretty good.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Totally.

*'''O'Donnell:''' So here's a little of the, uh, trailer music just in case you're wondering.

*'''Lehto:''' Yeah.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Just a little sneak in, but in a different space.

*'''O'Donnell:''' So how much, what is the drawed distance?

*'''Lehto:''' Way, way further.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Yeah? How did you worked that up? I mean, this is solely amazing in this.

*'''Lehto:''' Yeah, we set out to increase the drawed distances, open up the battlefield, and pack them full of, like, four times more things we had ever been able to do in the past.

*'''O'Donnell:''' So when we are flying in here, we are actually looking at the map we are playing around.

*'''Lehto:''' Everything we wanted to do is what our engine could do. Coming out of ''[[Halo 3]]''.

*'''Lehto:''' So they had to rebuild nearly everything. As far as the engine is concerned.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Is that why so many materials has changed a little bit?

*'''Lehto:''' Everything changed.

*'''O'Donnell:''' I know.

*'''Lehto:''' Yes.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Okay. I accepted it.

*'''O'Donnell:''' I want to hear myself crunching on the cabbages. They're when I...

*'''Lehto:''' Oh God, Marty.

*'''Wilson:''' No one wants to test what they do. I went up and, uh, I [[melee]]d a cabbage.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Did you hear a cabbage sound?

*'''Wilson:''' Um, I think one of the early test was a whip sound.

*'''O'Donnell:''' A whip sound. Probably. There was wood just at every place for a while. Yeah.

*'''Wilson:''' But there's a cabbage sound now?

*'''O'Donnell:''' No. That has to do with the material effects to be a little more...

*'''Wilson:''' Oh, okay.

*'''O'Donnell:''' ...global.

*'''Wilson:''' Okay. So, when I go to supermarket to get a cabbage, if I melee it...

*'''O'Donnell:''' Oh hey, look at that.

*'''Wilson''' & '''O'Donnell:''' Here we are.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Here's the first vignette.

*'''Scott:''' Huh, look at that. 

*'''O'Donnell:''' What is this called? The Thespians system?

*'''Lehto:''' Yes.

*'''O'Donnell:''' What does that do, except for giving us headaches? 

*'''Lehto:''' Oh gosh, Marty, jeez. It allows us to bring, y'know, some of that thousand page script into the game.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Melee that thing!

*'''O'Donnell:''' It makes a fun noise when you melee it.

*'''Scott:''' Isn't there an achievement for knocking down a bunch of those?

*'''O'Donnell:''' Walk through that yellow bush.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Aww, he didn't hear it. Yellow bushes make noise.

*'''Lehto:''' Yes.

*'''Wilson''' & '''Lehto:''' You're welcome.

*'''Wilson:''' What are those ostriches called?

*'''Lehto''' & '''O'Donnell:''' Moas.

*'''Wilson:''' And can we ride them?

*'''Lehto:''' We used to be able to.

*'''Wilson''' & '''O'Donnell:''' Awww...

*'''Lehto:''' Sad days, I know.

*'''O'Donnell:''' We should tell the fans that there was a joust game that was gonna happen.

*'''Lehto:''' There was.

*'''O'Donnell:''' You could ride the Moas and play joust.

*'''Lehto:''' And it was actually working! For quite a while.

*'''Scott:''' Sure was.

*'''Scott:''' Another first for ''Halo'' game: [[civilian]]s.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Civilians. Don't shoot the civilians.

*'''Lehto:''' Reach is lousy with civilians. Awesome...

*'''Wilson:''' ... that Jorge is speaking Hungarian here.

*'''O'Donnell:''' And he understands Hungarian.

*'''Lehto:''' Yes.

*'''Scott:''' Wait. Are we revealing he's Hungarian?

*'''O'Donnell:''' Apparently.

*'''Lehto:''' You just did. Did you know what he said?

*'''Wilson:''' Umm... 

*'''O'Donnell:''' This is really translated Hungarian. And we had phonetically spoken dialogue to teach the actors.

*'''O'Donnell:''' 'Befelé!', which means 'get back'. That's where he wants to belong.

*'''Lehto:''' Press left button to Sprint! Go, go!

*'''Wilson:''' Wow, look at the rain!

*'''Lehto:''' I love the new rain system.

*'''Scott:''' Look, you go inside and you don't see the rain anymore.

*'''O'Donnell:''' You see the pity-patter pattern from the roof?

*'''Lehto:''' Mhmm. Sage did a good job with that.

*'''Scott:''' A few buzzing flies...

*'''Wilson:''' I like the lighting too. It's creepy.

*'''O'Donnell:''' It's messy. It's spooky.

*'''O'Donnell:''' The [[Kig-yar|Jackals]] are not there.

*'''Lehto:''' Come on.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Sorry. I meant Skirmisher.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Here we go. First battle.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Kat!

*'''O'Donnell:''' Ohh... Killed that one. 

*'''Scott:''' Hopefully we will get to see my, uh, my first appearance in a ''Halo'' game... as Falcon Pilot Number Two.

*'''Lehto:''' Yes!

*'''Scott:''' Oh wait, that was it! We missed it, awwww...

*'''Lehto:''' This is one of my favorite areas. The exit out of this is, er, pioneer barn, out into the pastor. It's a great [[Firefight]] [[Overlook|map]] too. This is so cool, we integrated all the [[multiplayer]] and Firefight spaces into the campaign.

*'''Lehto:''' There was a big pain in the butt, I don't know if we do it again, if we do this game over, uh, but I think overall, it served its, uh, purpose well here.

*'''Scott:''' Field's great to me. 'cause you, you see all these spaces and several different kinds of effects. It's just really cool.

*'''Lehto:''' Hey, you get to play through the daytime here when it's raining. And then in Firefight, we can turn the rain off, we can brighten up. We did that a lot for the multiplayer maps. Thank goodness I had help in this project, because we had so many water features in the game. 

*'''O'Donnell:''' You did the first waterfall on ''[[CE:Halo|Halo]]'', in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved|Halo 1]]''.

*'''Lehto:''' That's right.

*'''O'Donnell:''' I remember that. Snoqualmie Falls. As soon as you moved out to Seattle, you started using the Seattle floors.

*'''Lehto:''' Hey, hey, hey. (''Marty laughs'') You gotta get inspired!

*'''Wilson:''' Oh, pick up those plasmas!

*'''Scott:''' We probably had more waterfalls in this game than all the other ''Halo'' games...

*'''Lehto''' & '''Scott:''' Combined.

*'''Lehto:''' Yes, we did.

*'''Scott:''' We had, uh, FX artist Jeff Palmer do a lot of the particle side...

*'''Lehto:''' Yeah, the effects are amazing. I loved the stuffs that he did. With the water particles coming down, they look amazing.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Yeah, they look so cool. And if you stand up in the...

*'''Lehto:''' My favorite part about this is that the engineers made some changes to physics, so when they, uh, when all the Spartans run in the [[water]], they all got swept away. Down the river.

*'''Scott:''' There was this point you can't even go against the current.

*'''Lehto:''' Yeah. Just getting...

*'''Scott''' & '''Lehto:''' ...sweep away.

*'''Lehto:''' Killed the mission every time.

*'''O'Donnell:''' There's patching fog.

*'''Lehto:''' Man, what a great atmosphere.

*'''Lehto:''' The [[Sangheili|Elites]]!

*'''O'Donnell:''' This is the first game we had a, you guys probably don't even notice this, but a balance between combat dialogue and mission dialogue and cinematic dialogue. And the way they all flows together. Volume balance is as good as we ever done. Better than we ever done.

*'''Scott:''' He's really angry about it.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Finally learning.

*'''Lehto:''' It's the damn Covenant.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Marcus... I'm scared... 

*'''Lehto:''' More Moas...

*'''O'Donnell:''' Ride them! Why don't we hit the Moas? Y'know, most people will melee the Moas as soon as they see them. It's impossible to not to. {''Brief Pause''} Y'know, for a while, every time you kill a Moa, Kat would laugh, 'cause she had a, uh, little response when killing an alien. So sometimes you hear this bug, that we were...

*'''Lehto:''' Why did you take that out?

*'''Wilson:''' ...that she was kinda cruel.

*'''O'Donnell:''' So we actually had to take that out.

*'''Lehto:''' Aww… Bummer.

*'''O'Donnell:''' As soon as I heard it they did a saved film of her laughing when you kill a Moa, it was so good, I wanted to keep it.

*'''Lehto:''' I like the bug where you can kill Kat and she'd come back as a zombie. She would come back with that (''imitates zombie moan, others laugh'') voice and just go follow you around with that (''imitates zombie moan'').

*'''Scott:''' I missed that one. 

*'''Lehto:''' The best thing ever.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Oh! That's [[Wikipedia:Ron Livingston|Ron Livingston]]! From [[Wikipedia:Office Space|Office Space]]!

*'''Lehto:''' What?

*'''Wilson''' & '''O'Donnell:''' Yeah.

*'''O'Donnell:''' The guy we just heard.

*'''Lehto:''' Thanks.

*'''O'Donnell:''' But better than Office Space was Band of Brothers.

*'''Lehto:''' For fans, that previous encounter right there is so fun to do with vehicle only, just plow through them. Back and forth. Plow through them, mow them down like a giant harvester. 

*'''Scott:''' I never tried it that way.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Yes, he is the famous, irrelevant place. The thing is, Corporal Travis.

*'''Scott''' & '''Lehto:''' Yeah.

*'''O'Donnell:''' And we never see Corporal Travis ever again. It's really depressing to me.

*'''Scott:''' I love how we brought back the tuning fork. It was always one of my favorite vehicles.

*'''Wilson:''' Oh yeah, it's so iconic.

*'''Lehto:''' The <nowiki>'</nowiki>''Spirit''<nowiki>'</nowiki>.

*'''Scott:''' Oh, I'm sorry. The 'Spirit'.

*'''Lehto:''' I never call that though. I can't. It's really far away from a [[Wikipedia:Tuning fork|tuning fork]].

*'''Wilson:''' Oh my God. I love the sound of that grenade.

*'''Lehto:''' Although, you know, the thing cost more than, like, half our vehicle combined.

*'''O'Donnell:''' What? The tuning fork?

*'''Lehto:''' 'Cause it had, like, individual seats with little handles, and cushions, and everything. There's, what, 8 seats on the sides…

*'''O'Donnell:''' Yeah, see? That's why we had to cut the music.

*'''Lehto:''' No, we cut it way back. It became affordable.

*'''Scott:''' I like the different designs of the, uh, windmills.

*'''Lehto:''' Yeah, the big, various turbine-like kinda things. I don't know what you call those…

*'''Scott:''' The little circular ones?

*'''O'Donnell:''' Turbines?

*'''Lehto:''' Hmm. They're cool.

*'''O'Donnell:'''

*'''O'Donnell:''' See, there's some example of nice combat dialogue response behavior.

*'''Lehto:''' Falcon. Finally. You get a troop carrier in here.

*'''Scott:''' So this part you're leaving the kiva area, the little residential, farming community. And you're-

*'''Lehto:''' We didn't even bother how much effort we put in to build real, human-scale environment in the kivas. I guess-

*'''O'Donnell:''' We should tell everybody that some of the kivas are built for pottery manufacturing, and some of them are for…

*'''Scott:''' [[Wikipedia:Aquaculture|Aquaculture]].

*'''O'Donnell:''' Agriculture.

*'''Scott:''' Aquaculture is, uh, farming fish. Fishery. We thought about all that stuff, we went in to a lot of detail thinking about who are the people who lived there, what they did, how they survived in this rough, scrap of land on top of the mountain. 

*'''Lehto:''' We, uh, debated on that for about six to eight months. Drove some of the artists absolutely insane. But, uh, that came together pretty well.

*'''Wilson:''' I seem to remember going through one of those things and, like, breaking every pot in there, and then realizing there are, like, a couple civilians standing there, actually feeling embarrassed that I just went through and break their house. 

*'''Lehto:''' They were pretty upset.

*'''Lehto:''' We should have some civilians alive standing around. Complain when you broke their stuff.

*'''Scott:''' You're a jerk!

*'''Lehto:''' Yeah.

*'''Scott:''' That would have been possible.

''The player, having exited the Falcon several seconds ago, engages the Jackals and [[Unggoy|Grunts]] outside the [[Visegrád Relay]].''

*'''Lehto:''' Ah! The outpost! It is a great encounter!  

*'''O'Donnell:''' The communication outpost.

*'''Lehto:''' [[Niles Sankey|Niles]] did a great job on this.

*'''O'Donnell:''' I would see how the music ends in this one. 'Cause, this has to expand, but still feel like an actual ending.

''The screen fades from the player entering the outpost to the outpost's door closing, skipping the defending section of the level.''

*'''O'Donnell:''' Oh, they caught it, one of the places where it's gonna go long. Ah, and it fades in to one of the spooky areas.

*'''Wilson:''' Hm. Alright.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Now here's a question I have about this mission dialogue.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Now, so, Carter says ''he'' can't see a thing, and he tells ''you'' to turn on your night vision. Does that help ''him'' see better?

*'''Lehto:''' He broadcast that to all of Noble Team.

*'''Wilson:''' It would be a good idea to turn on your night vision.

*'''Lehto:''' It was a helpful suggestion. Why didn't you change it?

*'''O'Donnell:''' I should have.

*'''Lehto:''' Man, you're lame.

*'''O'Donnell:''' I know.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Think that's Ron Livingston again.

*'''Lehto:''' Plop!

*'''Wilson:''' I love the way she snatches it.

*'''Wilson:''' Gimme that.

*'''Lehto:''' Oh, Marty…

*'''O'Donnell:''' Oh, [[Sára Sorvad|Sára]]…

*'''Lehto:''' I hate to ask you to break that, mixed that back. I don't know how many times.

*'''O'Donnell:''' What?

*'''Lehto:''' The (''imitates Sára's Hungarian'').

*'''O'Donnell:''' Come on, that's perfect!

*'''Wilson:''' There's some amazing motion capture animation coming up.

*'''Lehto:''' This is…

*'''O'Donnell:''' Itt vannak.

*'''Lehto:''' Crazy! 

*'''O'Donnell:''' …and that means 'they are still here'. That's what she's saying.

*'''Wilson:''' Yeah.

*'''Lehto:''' Okay. There it is, and Marty goes off the rail with music.

*'''Lehto:''' What possessed you here?

*'''O'Donnell:''' It's a confusing time!

*'''Lehto:''' I love this!

*'''Wilson:''' And the Elite hits its head on the door there, thump! There we go.

*'''O'Donnell:''' This is, this actually is me playing, which is funny, because you think I wouldn't go on playing that.

*'''Lehto:''' Watch that grab on the door (''struggling grunts'')

*'''O'Donnell:''' Two, handler her!

*'''O'Donnell:''' I love this door.

*'''Wilson:''' The Jorge door slam is really cool.

*'''O'Donnell:''' Hit the strings.

*'''Wilson:''' Chumm!

*'''O'Donnell:''' Nice… I'm digging in.

*'''Speaker:''' I love the way the Elites kind of draw you in. Enjoy indeed. A little boom. So many men’s duty... kill.

*'''Speaker:''' Oh, this guy’s scary.

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, we have the option of bringing back the flashlight. It’s nice, like ''Halo 1''.

*'''Speaker:''' This is a nice play. We tried that first, but then it was a little too retro. Like, "Okay, got your two D-cell batteries in your helmet."

*'''Speaker:''' It’s the same click noise though, from ''Halo 1''. We decided never to change that click no matter what.

*'''Speaker:''' Just a little too great. Doesn't mean the first *Halo* had a sort of battery system where you had a certain amount.

*'''Speaker:''' System failing too. In ''Halo 3'', you just turned it on and it was on all the time, right? And then ''ODST'' had the night vision device.

*'''Speaker:''' This is actual night vision. We didn't have that in ''Halo 3''. We had visor mode in ''ODST''.

*'''Speaker:''' Well, similar, but yeah, so this was a moment where like Jorge is actually taking his helmet off and showing his face to a civilian, which is kind of like... kind of established as "Spartans don't do that." So he’s kind of trying to establish a connection with the people of Reach.

*'''Speaker:''' Even your date?

*'''Speaker:''' What? He is sometimes.

*'''Speaker:''' Oh, and we have a little tension between Emile and Jorge.

*'''Speaker:''' I like the way that turned out. Initially, it was a little over the top, too many scenes.

*'''Speaker:''' Well, we actually nailed that. Yes.

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, we’re happy. Worked on it.

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, we did. The whole thing with Emile is that he doesn't have respect for civilians so much. Like, he’s a little more hardcore, doesn't like weakness.

*'''Speaker:''' See, I’m not for them either, because I mean these Spartan-IIIs were made to quell the rebel uprisings, exactly. So the disconnect would be...

*'''Speaker:''' "Arraigned like cattle." We sort of get Noble, Carter’s touch... .

*'''Speaker:''' Oh my god, the Winter Contingency is like a planet-wide contingency plan for basically the Covenant discovering Reach. It’s a call to evacuate the planet, destroy all the data cores, anything you can—all tech has to be neutralized in order to prevent the Covenant from accessing it and possibly finding other human planets.

*'''Speaker:''' Sword Base. Coming for Sword Base. Sword Base is far up north. Just about every camera move in this entire game feels handheld or like in a location that’s...

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, I mean, that was the whole plan for the way we shot this. Because it was more or less of a human story, we would see spots and places that we wanted to justify the camera—not have so much sort of flying, romantic camera.

*'''Speaker:''' And then we have a lot of really nice sort of overlay work. I believe Scott had a little to do with that, you know, worked a little bit on those like security cameras.

*'''Speaker:''' Exactly. Yeah, now one of the funny things for people to notice—but they won’t—every time you play this cinematic, the music will be slightly different.

*'''Speaker:''' I didn't know that.

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, well, things are slightly different times depending on all sorts of conditions.

*'''Speaker:''' Is that a bug or a feature?

*'''Speaker:''' That’s a feature. No, it’s a feature. The forklift!

*'''Speaker:''' Forky! Porky! You know, I gotta say, I don’t know why we changed it, but I really loved the forklift when you could actually raise and lower the load.

*'''Speaker:''' We had to take that out because you could stuff it under a Mule and launch the Mule into outer space.

*'''Speaker:''' There’s a bug against that? There’s a Mule? Okay.

*'''Speaker:''' But the target... I’m sorry, the target locator. You know what I call this thing over here?

*'''Speaker:''' The pickup garage door opener? Target locator. And you pick that up. Great. Make fun of game design, go ahead. And I will make fun of music.

*'''Speaker:''' Okay, I call it the "Oh my god, are we really gonna make this thing?"

*'''Speaker:''' Chris Carney, I could look at the terror on your face at this time.

*'''Speaker:''' What was this, two months prior to the end here?

*'''Speaker:''' This is kind of a later inclusion into the sandbox. The designers came to me and said, "Hey, we want a device that launches artillery from space and just continually pounds an area." And you know, generally one explosion is pretty expensive, but when there are six explosions all happening within a short amount of time, it can be really taxing. So we spent a little bit of time tuning that just to make it right. But you know, it’s so powerful to be able to just launch this barrage of death from the skies. It ended up being a really good choice for the game.

*'''Speaker:''' See, you're actually able to—look at the screen shake!

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, a little bit. That’s really effective. The exterior architecture of Sword Base. Oh, wasted it on that. Right? Get that little piggy.

*'''Speaker:''' And you should be hearing all of this—the whole base is being bombarded by the giant Covenant Corvette. The Corvette is flying right overhead.

*'''Speaker:''' And they’re awesome looking. Guys are much harder to kill, I swear. Something used to be...

*'''Speaker:''' Oh, you’re just getting slower.

*'''Speaker:''' That’s Joe. Then with a special red spot—it's harder to get those, because you have to time both of them.

*'''Speaker:''' Oh, nice! Actually, that’s pretty good. So those spikes on the back—like making them fly?

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah.

*'''Speaker:''' What’s the point? You blow that off a little bit, right in the worms. It hurts.

*'''Speaker:''' That guy just took off his crusty shell and exposed himself underneath. He's always exposed. New Hunters gotta go commando.

*'''Speaker:''' Caramel center! Delicious.

*'''Speaker:''' No, you guys see the new grenade effects? When they land close to you...

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, that’s amazing. How did you do that?

*'''Speaker:''' Now we have a global digital signal processing ability, so we can put a filter over all sounds—except music! So keep music out of it. Put it all over everything else, and then add a little looping, and it all happens at the same time.

*'''Speaker:''' Yeah, I can’t believe we pulled this off, Steve. Alright, that was some thick smoke.

*'''Speaker:''' Battle exactly. Going around. Yeah, well, that’s a real Corvette, right? That’s not a bet in this?

*'''Speaker:''' I have a real-scale model sitting up there. We had a couple of new bits of tech that let us fill areas with thicker smoke than before.

*'''Speaker:''' Wow. A drone from some bay area effect? I’m working on that.

*'''Speaker:''' Look, I think this is beautiful. Remember, this used to look like a turkey? The Covenant ship?

*'''Speaker:''' No! Oh, Marcus went through four iterations of that ship before we got her. I was looking in the shutters.

*'''Speaker:''' Jorge! I remember we had the attitude of the female Spartan just a little bit different for that line. Especially as Jorge has a big hand on her shoulder. I never really just have a little attitude.

*'''Speaker:''' Ah, here she comes. Halsey!

*'''Speaker:''' Halsey. So the smoke wasn't always that thick in that spot. The environment artists kept asking for thicker and thicker smoke because the area...

*'''Speaker:''' Hello! It wasn't finished. There we go. And she knows Jorge now, and she�