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Where To Find Halo Infinite Easter Eggs Like The Giant Sandwich

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Legends say that deep in the caves of Zeta Halo you can find something large and delicious. A sandwich created by the Forerunners, designed to satisfy even the largest, most wild hunger. They called it… Giant Sandwich. And now, only a few days after Halo Infinite’s release, players have found this weird Easter egg. And some other secrets too.

Halo Infinite is basically an open-world spin on the classic Halo formula, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that hidden in the map are some secrets and Easter eggs. I mean, even before Halo was an open-world adventure, the older games would always contain numerous Easter eggs and jokes for dedicated hunters to find. And it turns out Infinite is no different.

As spotted by 343 Industries community manager, John Junyszek, someone found a tiny tunnel in the ceiling of a cave. Using the grappleshot ability to climb up the tunnel, xGarbett on YouTube found a giant sandwich surrounded by grunts. They are apparently worshipping the large snack.

Who built this sandwich? Why did they build it? And more importantly, as I’m hungry, how old is it and do you think it’s safe to eat still?

Another odd Easter egg found by the same player who discovered the giant snack is an original Xbox console. Today, that’s a pretty old piece of hardware. In the year 2561, when Halo Infinite is set, that’s damn near ancient. Wonder if it works? Perhaps the Master Cheif can relax and play some Blood Wake.

Like the sandwich, the Xbox was hidden in a small gap inside a cave. So if you want to find some secrets, that’s where I’d start looking.

Some other Easter eggs players are finding on Zeta Halo include stuffed plushies inspired by Halo characters like The Arbiter and even a Halo arcade machine, which while cool, does create a whole lot of questions. Maybe not as many as the mega-sandwich, but still, Halo lore nerds enjoy piecing all this together.

Halo Infinite’s campaign only launched three days ago, on December 8. Yet, players have already found some wild stuff. I can’t wait to see what folks have found by next year. Maybe somewhere, way down in some deep, hidden cave, players can find the DMR and the original shotgun. That’d be swell.



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LA Lakers & Microsoft Release Surprisingly Weak Halo Bundle

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For one day only this weekend, at one place only, the Los Angeles Lakers and Microsoft were selling a bizarre Halo Infinite bundle that was, this being 2021, snapped up by fans/resellers almost immediately.

The pack, available only at the Lakers’ home game against the Clippers on Saturday—a game they lost 119-115, in an arena that’s about to be renamed after a crypto business—included a jersey, a controller and a Master Chief figure.

Here’s what it looked like:

That’s a regular Lakers jersey, no special colourways or logos. That’s a Lakers controller with no mention whatsoever of Halo (though admittedly it would be nice if Xbox could release more team-themed controllers). And that’s a regular ol’ Master Chief figure you could buy anywhere.

Pretty lazy! Indulge me for a minute here, since this is a well-worn corner of my wheelhouse, but Microsoft and the Lakers have had years to get ready for this moment, and then some bonus months on top of that when the game was delayed, and they couldn’t push a little harder? Look what happened last time a Halo game came out and they wanted to do a sports collab!

While that one would have been easier to arrange—Microsoft had been the Sounders’ primary sponsor since their inception, and the team’s green colours were already a match for Xbox/Halo—it still at least had a Halo 5 logo on the front.

The only thing differentiating this Lakers jersey from any other you’d buy (or get customised yourself) is the fact it has three numbers on it, since NBA rules stipulate players can only choose between 0-99 (with the exception being 69, which no player has ever worn lmao), meaning that if you wanted to customise your own jersey you’d be able to fit MASTER CHIEF on it but not the 117.

I get that you couldn’t make a green Lakers jersey for Boston Celtics reasons, but surely they could have done something to spice this up. Put the Master Chief figure in a Lakers jersey. Replace the Lakers’ sponsor patch with a Halo one, just for this bundle. Something!

Indeed about the only thing really going for this bundle was its price. Swingman-style jerseys like the one included in this pack retail for $120 on their own, so considering this also included an Xbox controller for $140 it was a pretty nice deal.

Not that thrift was the main reason these sold out almost instantly and started appearing on third-party websites, of course. We live in a resale hellscape where nobody actually buys anything they want anymore, they only buy things hoping someone else wants them more and will pay accordingly, so nobody should have been surprised to see these selling for $500-600 on eBay over the weekend, even after everything I’ve just said.

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Halo Infinite’s Jega ‘Rdomnai Is Master Chief’s Creepy New Foe

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Screenshot: 343 Industries / Xbox / Halopedia

With Halo Infinite rapidly approaching its December 8 release date, we’re starting to learn more about the story that’ll happen between all the shooting. One of the most dangerous foes in the upcoming game, for instance, is a dude named Jega ‘Rdomnai, who basically sounds like a Jokerfied version of Master Chief’s enemy-turned-ally the Arbiter.

“[Jega’s] almost like the inverse of what you’d expect from the Arbiter,” Halo narrative writer Jeff Easterling recently told IGN, referring to Master Chief’s ally from previous games. “We asked ourselves, ‘What is the psycho element of the Arbiter?’”

“One of the things we tried to do with Jega was make him into the creepiest, most disturbing character that’s been in Halo,” added associate creative director Paul Crocker. “Just every time you see him…he looks at things as prey. The whole experience of how he toys with Chief is just…how he is.”

Like most enemies in Halo Infinite, Jega belongs to a group known as the Banished. And while that name may conjure images of terrible screamo bands from the mid aughts, they’re actually a faction of the Covenant, an antagonistic alien empire in the Halo franchise, who broke away and took over Zeta Halo, the ringed installation upon which Infinite takes place.

As one of the Banished’s elite “Spartan Killer” soldiers, Jega’s main goal is taking down Master Chief. He’s even willing to break from Covenant tradition and install robotic prosthetics to do so.

“His lust for battle and vengeance completely outweighs even his own pride in his own culture,” said Easterling.

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While most of Master Chief’s enemies over the years have been solemn and militaristic, Jega fills an important “fucked-up little guy” niche the series rarely touches. And let’s be honest: Halo only stands to benefit from the antics of a creepy dude playing off its comically gruff and self-serious protagonists.

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