Also, you mention a Cortana chip being found in ODST. Can you describe where this is so others can find it?
Sorry for that I did mean to describe NER 1204, but missed the mark.
My discovery of NER started in the
Halo Bulletin: 2.6.13 in which cryptic Easter egg hints were provided to the Waypoint community by H4 level designers. Hence starting a great H4 EE hunt. What I ask you to notice the images drawn on the bulletin white board. These are also EE hints offered in different style. During my very fruitful H4 EE experience I actually learned how all these images were relevant to the hunt. The use of a whiteboard and colored expo markers is also critical to understanding Bungie's connection to the NER search tool. While experimenting I learned these hints were consistent with a marketing techniques Jason Jones's post reach advertising project. The image of the cooking Spartan I call Master chef is relevant to my learned understanding of NER 1204.
As in many Halo games there are numbers/codes found in numerous locations in H4. Some numbers are familiar to experienced Halo fans while others are less understood. I learned that sometimes less understood numbers, and codes are not just window dressing which is the case with NER 1204. NER 1204 appears frequently in Halo 4 with a few variations. As an avid hunter it gives me great joy to know that Bungie, and 343 game developers have taken the time to place intelligent enigmas to challenge the mind of a would be challenger.
I was convinced that there was something unfinished in the Halo 4 campaign forerunner specimen room on the level Composer. In the specimen room
NER 1204 appears near the center glass of floor in front the specimen lattice. This glass catwalk in that area is represented in the bulletin whiteboard by the Master Chef's spoon. The central theater is represented by the Master Chefs pot. The red noodles represent the paint on the subflooring doors. The Red, Blue, Green seasonings season represent light changes that take place to objects placed at certain locations in the(pot) circular floor before the Specimen Lattice. When I understood the imagery I knew where to find a major egg. I learned that by moving available white boxes to the central floor they would change color most significantly to Blue or Green. These colors are also both represented on the bulletin white board.
A friend helper FitsHisFace posted a different variation of
NER 1204 from the Composer hanger bay. I had already been experiment with NER web searches, but seeing the NER variation made everything click. I then changed my search to ] ER 1204[/url] and found the Flicker photo stream containing more hints for the Composer EE. Since I have found repeated instances of hints stored on Flicker. The photos in the stream are directions for object placement to complete the egg. Bride and groom are Spartans. Table location is a diagram for object placement during the egg. This pattern is also shown on the
NER 1204 image variation. These boxes are white and 1 green crate/lid are placed in the central floor and positioned to change to their proper color represented by the tables flower bouquet color.
This image represents 1 hunter, and it's position outside the central floor. This image represents the Lattice system and additional information concerning object placement, and a target on the Lattice. The box of cakes represents crate/ crate lid placement in front of the left Lattice. The green whine bottle shows targeting placement for a hunters plasma round. Box placement prevents the hunter from entering the central floor and keeps it in the correct location to be able to strike the upper left tube on the right Lattice. In order to get the hunter to shoot the correct target team work is required. One Spartan offers themselves as a target to draw the Hunters fire to the proper target. This was where I had problems for Egg completion. Drawing the plasma to it's target requires timing, and good jump skills. I am simply not as good a jumper as I was when ODST came out. LOL This takes repeated attempts to get right. Sometimes plasma rounds strike boxes wrecking box placement. Helpers must then distract the hunter while the box placement is corrected. This has been the failing point for egg completion. Eager Spartans lose focus for distracting the hunter, then returning his attention to the Spartan drawing the plasma round to the Lattice target. Directing these changes in attention of the Hunter from targeting the lattice to following a helper so boxes can be returned to proper location can be done smoothly if done properly. In order to change the Hunters focus correctly the target Spartan must get his attention. This his most easily done by firing a single round at the Hunter at the same time the distracting Spartan must hide himself so not to accidentally draw his Focus from Lattice targeting. The process of repeated focus change for the hunter is bullet damage from repeated distracting causing the Hunters death which fails the attempt. 1 Hunter is required to complete the egg and the second hunter is killed early to protect box placement setups. This hunter set up is affirmed after the first hunter is killed because writing on the Lattice floor flickers after one hunter is killed, then stops when the second is killed.
I have not yet been able to complete the egg simply because people lose focus when dealing with the hunter which eventually leads to it's death. However I failed to recognize the visual affirmation that the Lattice target was hit properly at least once. One of the specimen tube terminals that give information on the Forerunner specimen is empty, and dark. This darkened tube lights up when the target his hit by the Hunter. This is affirmed by a picture in the photo stream where a flower vase that was dark becomes
lights up. I missed this change in an attempts when I noticed this change, however I also think it failed because of a death with the iron skull on. I do not know what happens after properly activating the tube. I do not know what the final egg is from ER 1204 hints. So we will have to wait a while longer.
If someone completes it before I am done with my ODST activity I would be just fine with it. I have at least 1 switch activated first find EE to my credit. I would be happy to know that another Spartan might feel the same great satisfaction that I did when I found a legit switch egg in H4. I consider that as my hunter career high point. So there is still room for doubt as the egg is not done, but please feel free to try NER experiments by using
several prefix combinations before a curious halo number that has your attention in a web search.
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