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[Nephilm]

Super-bombs? What are you talking about?

Covenant glass planets using their Plasma Torpedoes, which are magnetically-directed blobs of ionized matter.

And the explosions on the commercials, I am fairly sure those are occurring in space, not in the surface.

[Scumbag]

[TridenT]

Scumbag, I would rather you didn't post that here, though I am grateful you stuck a spoiler box around it.

Could you at least withhold it until, say, midnight on the 8th?

[Scumbag]

[Astald]

I just finished listening to the wavs. I have chills. This was truely an awesome game, but damn that flea, thought he was a good guy.

[TridenT]

I know, I know. I promise I'm not going to accuse you of being rude. I just thought that game spoilers from the leak version, even if you didn't do the leak-finding, was generally discouraged.

Also, I haven't read what's in your magic box of terror, yet. I am, unlike some forum whiners in other places, able to handle my mouse with a modicum of control. So I'm not accusing you of spoiling it for me. I just don't want that kind of thing happening to those with a little less wrist dexterity... You know the kind I mean.

[Scumbag]

[Slothboy]

[Mr. Munchy]

You know, the information that Scumbag posted didn't have to be from the leak at all, if you slow down the 60 second trailer (from bungie.net or halo2.com) you can see exactly what he described... He may even be wrong, watch the trailer to see what I mean.

[sfsdfd]

Amazing ending, but the bit about the Flea is awfully strained.

He's a very small, simple program. His purpose was to seek the artifact, find its location, and reveal the coordinates to the Covenant. And he has to be small and inconspicuous enough to avoid detection by the Operator.

For a small, simple program, it's *incredibly* crafty. It manages to outwit SPDR and persuade Melissa (an incredible feat!) Then it manages to figure out the dire situation on Earth, with an artifact that needed deactivating. And then it manages to fake some voices, with sufficient individual personality and accuracy that Durga couldn't tell the difference.

This does not sound like the capability set of a small program. It sounds like a program that's far more sophisticated even than the reunited Durga.

- David Stein

[jackiline_moss]

[TridenT]

[DuckofDoom]

[Ralen]

I view the Seeker as a kind of an AI shell that was only programmed with three sets of instructions. So while it has the potential to be a fairly intelligent AI, and the "engine" it's based on (for lack of a better word) is fairly complex, the only thing it was told to do was very basic, without any behavioral programming. That's how I think it was able to adapt and communicate as it gained experience.

[Scumbag]