Audio log (Halo Infinite)

This article is about the audio logs in Halo Infinite. For the audio logs in Halo 3: ODST, see Audio log (Halo 3: ODST).

Audio logs in the Halo Infinite campaign are a type of collectible. Each audio log contains an audio recording of characters, telling overarching narratives or adding insights to the characters' backstory.

Locations

UNSC Audio Logs

All UNSC audio logs take the form of a blue Data Pad with an audible beeping noise and a bright flashing green light to help you find their precise locations.

Recovered Files

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Unlike other categories of audio logs, each of the four logs in the Recovered Files set is unlocked automatically at specific points in the story.

• 3. The Mission: This audio log is unlocked during Nexus.

The Prisoner

• 1. Not My Fault: Near the end of Foundation, this audio log is located next to the Power Seed that is needed to power up the elevator.
• 2. The Tower: On the second level of The Tower, this audio log is leaning on a pillar next to a Kinetic ammo crate.
• 3. She Was Smiling: At the Excavation Site, this audio log is located on board the mining laser. After boarding it via the western gravity lift, it is located in the corner of this first room next to a Kinetic ammo crate, a Rocket Launcher and a pair of Battle Rifles.
• 4. Easy To Break: On the eastern side of The Spire, this audio log is located next to the wreck of a destroyed Warthog.
• 5. Barely Anything Left: During the mission Nexus, after getting the objective to find three Power Seeds to activate the structure's gravity lift, this audio log is located in the first room that leads towards the central Power Seed.
• 6. Price Paid: In Repository, this audio log is located next to the Power Seed that is needed to power up the elevator.
• 7. 42410-02214-LB: In the House of Reckoning, within the second battlefield reconstruction this audio log is located to the side of the raised central platform on a stack of crates.

Outpost Intel

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All Outpost Intel logs are located in or near Banished outposts.

Infinity's Approach

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All Infinity's Approach logs are located within or near UNSC FOB's. These audio logs are unlocked in a sequential order, instead of each collectable equating to a specific log.

Banished Audio Logs

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Spartan Audio Logs

Spartan audio logs have an identical appearance to the UNSC ones. All Spartan logs unlock in a sequential order regardless of which audio logs you personally pick up first.

Evacuation

There are seven audio logs under the Evacuation category:

• On Warship Gbraakon, this log is in the room after riding the first elevator.
• Overlooking FOB Golf, this audio log is located slightly to its southeast, leaning against a cliff face.
• Located at a small cliffside campsite east of Boxer Squad's distress call.
• Located within a ravine northwest of FOB Foxtrot.
• Southwest of The Tower, located on the westernmost point of its landmass.
• In the encampment at Starlight Squad's distress call, on a mattress underneath a ramp.
• Near the summit of the mountain above Starlight Squad's distress call, near a dead Elite General.

Ringfall

There are eight audio logs under the Ringfall category:

• Located near FOB Echo, behind a rock above the T-junction north of it.
• Located on the northern side of a ravine situated on the axis between the Bluebell Squad and Indiana Squad distress calls,
• Located in the encampment at the Pyramid Squad distress call, on a small piece of elevated land on the Banished's side of the battle.
• Located on a set of hexagonal structures overlooking a small lake southwest of the Forge of Teash.
• Slightly east of the Balkarus high value target positioned on top of a hexagonal Forerunner structure.
• East of FOB Charlie on the road leading towards it, above a small cliff opposite a Banished propaganda tower.
• Located west of the Thunder Squad distress call, inside a crashed Pelican.
• West of the southernmost Spire on the cliff facing the southern edge of the map.

Reverie

There are six audio logs under the Reverie category:

• On the western approach road to the Excavation Site next to a crashed truck and a pair of fallen tree trunks.
• In the central area of Pelican Down within the open hull of the crashed ship next to a Banished observation tower.
• Found within the encampment at Foxtrot Squad's distress signal.
• On the cliffs north of Outpost Tremonius inside the hull of a crashed UNSC ship.
• East of Outpost Tremonius inside a Bumblebee lifepod.
• Located on top of the mountain north west of FOB Bravo, next to a Sniper Rifle.

Retaliation

There are eight audio logs under the Retaliation category:

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Scattered

There are ten audio logs under the Scattered category:

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Forerunner Archives

There are seven audio logs under the Forerunner Archives category:

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Transcripts

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UNSC Audio Logs

Recovered Files

01: The Plan

Description:

// CATHERINE ELIZABETH HALSEY
// CC-409871
// OCT 6, 2559
If this is going to work, we have to move immediately. We're nearing a threshold. A tipping point. Ultimately, this all comes down to John. It always has.

---

[Sound: Typing]

• Halsey: How many now?
• Lab Assistant: 16 systems shut down so far. Seemingly random locations. I'm attempting to lock her and the others out of the main-
• Halsey: You will not be able to stop her. She knows more about how this all works than... well, anyone.

[Sound: Footsteps]

• John-117: Doctor Halsey.
• Halsey: John.
• John-117: What's the plan?
• Halsey: The plan? Right now, we are in survival mode. Again. Cortana's message has spread across the galaxy. Most sentient AI are siding with her.
• John-117: Against us.
• Halsey: Yes... but, maybe not you. Tell me, John, what was the last thing she said to you?
• John-117: She said... goodbye.

02: The Question

Description:

// CATHERINE ELIZABETH HALSEY
// CC-409871
// OCT 7, 2559
Blue Team must return to Reach. Siblings returning home. I have many regrets, but those four, with all they have accomplished, both together and as individuals, will never be one of them.

---

• Halsey: "Goodbye". That word has stayed with me. It has been nearly four months since Cortana's attack. Since that day we have been constantly moving. Trying to stay one step ahead of her. Any plan we make is to risky to say the least. This one... "Goodbye". She needs to be destroyed. As I say these words out loud... as I formulate the plan... I have one question. Can John do this? Can I... Can we all rely on him to do what is needed? To Kill his friend?

[Sound: Horn, followed by footsteps]

• Marine: We are coming up on Reach, Doctor Halsey.
• Halsey: And Blue Team?
• Marine: Ready. You coming to say goodbye?
• Halsey: No. Tell Master Chief to report to me when he has completed his mission.

03: The Mission

Description:

// CATHERINE ELIZABETH HALSEY
// CC-409871
// OCT 12, 2559
The mission is complete, thanks in part to the efforts of Captain Lasky and Commander Palmer. And now we see if these efforts are worth the cost. Preparations are already underway for the weapon's creation.

---

• Halsey: You took your time.
• John-117: There was... resistance.

[Sound: Footsteps]

• Halsey: I heard. Let me look at you, John. The Spartans are my greatest achievements. Do you understand that?
• John-117: Are you okay, Doctor Halsey?
• Halsey: That would depend entirely on who you were to ask. Was the mission successful?
• John-117: Yes.
• Halsey: Good. This is not going to be easy, John. But it is the only option we have.

04: The Weapon

Description:

// CATHERINE ELIZABETH HALSEY
// CC-409871
// DEC 11, 2559
I realize how difficult this could be for John. But he has strength in him that very few posses. The strength to carry out his mission, no matter the opposition. And even the strength to forgive.

---

• John-117: She looks just like her.
• Halsey: If you say so. I see something else. Something more innocent... from a simpler time.
• John-117: Does she know me?
• Halsey: No. She is a blank slate. No memories, no history. Her core is nearly complete. Once it is ready, it will be up to the two of you. The weapon will lock her down. You will retrieve Cortana and bring her back here.
• John-117: For execution.
• Halsey: For deletion. We are at war, Master Chief. If you do not think you can do this... Now is the time to step down. I am sure Spartan Locke is available.
• John-117: That won't be necessary.
• Halsey: Good. Tomorrow will test us all.

The Prisoner

01: Not My Fault

Description:

//UNSC TRANSMISSION
//SOS
//6F70656E

---

• Lucas Browning: This is Combat Medic Lucas Browning. If you find this, you need to understand. They forced me to help them with it. Whatever it is. They brought it up from... whatever's below. When it opened... God it was... something different. I've never seen anything like it. You need to believe me. It's not my fault.

02: What was Inside

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//UNSC TRANSMISSION
//SOS
//696E73696465

---

• Lucas Browning: They called it a Cylix. Sure. I call it something that should've been left well enough alone. The Elites, the Jackals... even the damn Brutes seemed scared of what was inside. Escharum... their leader, he just stood and watched as they held my hand against it.

03: She was Smiling

Description:

//UNSC TRANSMISSION
//SOS
//6F70656E

---

• Lucas Browning: They said only a human could open it. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. They held my hand against the surface. It was cold. So cold it burned. I screamed for them to stop but then... But then it began to open. Slowly. Pieces moved. Slid open and then I saw her... face. Oh, God. She was smiling. "I am the Harbinger." She said. "All that you know shall be undone." And do you know what he said? Escharum? He said, "Good."

04: Easy to Break

Description:

//UNSC TRANSMISSION
//SOS
//66726167696C65

---

[Sound: Prison cell opening]

• Lucas Browning: What more do you want with me?!
• Chak 'Lok: Humans are so easy to break. Their flesh soft. Their minds... Fragile. You have served Escharum well.
• Browning: What... what was that thing?
• 'Lok: My kind would once have called it divine.
• Browning: And now?
• 'Lok: An opportunity.

[Sound: Chains moving, then footsteps.]

• 'Lok: On your feet, human. We need to know what else is in the little head of yours. Take him to my Tower.

05: Barely Anything Left

Description:

//UNSC TRANSMISSION
//SOS
//6C697374656E

---

[Sound: Lucas Browning thrown to the ground, and he groans]

• Harbinger: This is what you've brought me? There's barely anything left.
• Chak 'Lok: He's yours to do with as you see fit.
• Harbinger: Indeed he is. Were you treated unjustly in his Tower, human? We are not so different in this. I too know intimately of injustice. To be sentenced for crimes not your own.
• Lucas Browning: Please, I just want to-
• Harbinger: Quiet. I shall talk, and you shall listen.

06: Price Paid

Description:

//UNSC TRANSMISSION
//SOS
//636C6F736584

---

[Sound: Lucas Browning breathing rapidly]

• Sangheili: How long has the human been this way, Chak?
• Chak 'Lok: A matter of days. It seems their feeble minds cannot contain the power of her words.
• Lucas Browning: Closed space... off limits... still there... they were still there...the only ones...
• 'Lok: You should feel honored, human. The truth has apparently set you free!
• Browning: Price paid... sentence given... we never knew... so old... so far...
• 'Lok: Bring him to her chambers. She has more to tell him. If his mind can last...

07: 42410-02214-LB

Description:

//UNSC TRANSMISSION
//SOS
//676F6E65

---

• Lucas Browning: Four, two... four... one... zero. Zero... two, two... one... four...
• Harbinger: Do you see why it must be done? These primitives, these... Banished. We both have watched our worlds crumble under the instruments of Forerunner arrogance. Your kind were once their rivals. A long time ago. You were spared. Forgiven. A luxury not afforded to us. To those they could not control. Humanity was the culmination of their final plan. But plans change. We are returning.

Outpost Intel

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Infinity's Approach

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Banished Audio Logs

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Spartan Audio Logs

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Forerunner Archives

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Production notes

The first "Recovered Files" audio log was hidden in the February 2021 issue of Inside Infinite on Halo Waypoint.