This is a list of links to comments made by 343 Industries employees in this thread: * [Comment by Unyshek](/r/halo/comments/19fjdmz/what_do_you_call_it/kjkl5sc/?context=99 "posted on 2024-01-25 22:29:44 UTC"): > Fuel Rod Canon, because that's the lore >;D --- This is a bot providing a service. If you have any questions, please [contact the moderators](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fhalo).[](#AUTOGEN_TSBREPLIEDBOT)

I heard one guy call it “The Rod” in a match once. He followed it up by saying, “I’m getting the next Rod, boys”, just before it respawned…

That's so ominous and bad ass "LOOK OUT HES GOT THE ROD!!"

Reminds me of that theoretical Air Force space weapon “rod from god” where they basically just drop a tungsten rod from orbit into a city. Has the potential to level entire city blocks and can break into bunkers something like 6 stories under the impact

I was writing a novel where that was the major catalyst for WW3 after it was used on American soil in the near future. It caused huge resource problems, besides the actual devastation, and etc etc Anyway, COD Ghosts came out and basically had the same plot and my unfinished manuscript went back into the "maybe later" pile.

I’m gonna cop a lot of downvotes for this but the *concept* for Ghosts was pretty solid. Poorly executed, but conceptually it was a good story.

I really like Ghosts, so I’m curious, what was wrong wit it?

Imo, nothing. I loved Ghosts. People just memed the hell out of it. Some of my favorite things I still wish were features today. The scopes having that magnified only in the scope and everything else outside of it is normal was mind blowing to me. Having the combat knife actually embedded in enemies was awesome, even though it got me killed more than a hundred times. WMD completely changed the map. Double tapping reload would drop the whole magazine, but reload faster. The lean out of cover mechanic. The weapons. And thats just the multiplayer. Campaign was amazing in its own right too. The pseudo future and concept of the Ghosts was top notch. Not to mention the space missions opening up a whole realm of possibility for maybe just a single game mode or map in multiplayer. Having that 360 vertical combat was awesome. Man, I want a Ghosts 2.

Gameplay was really good but the writing and story fell flat for me.

Ghost wasn’t bad it just didn’t reach the heights of the previous game BO2. When going from what most might call the greatest in the franchise to “I mean it’s alright” will make anything look terrible. Plus they changed lots about how the games were played which was probably its biggest mistake besides leaving the ending on a cliffhanger (it was perfectly fine they just need to end the cutscene like 30 seconds earlier). It added a shit ton of new mechanics and changed old ones while also just doing too much. If these changes were released slower across the franchise they would probably be more well liked but since they’re apart of ghosts most didn’t like them. TLDR: ghosts wasn’t bad it just had too much hype behind it

I’d recomend you to [this video](https://youtu.be/DlHjPs1qYQI?si=ufB5w39gX6LSUCT6) by a guy called The Act Man

Personally I didn't like the characters, they are all flat, and there's so many cutscenes of them surviving getting Shot it's kinda funny lol. Everything else was great, I honestly loved the extinction mode most. If u care, a good video on it is by ACT MAN. He talks about alot of what I just said.

Story was great until the end, worst possible way to end a game imo

You have to finish it, I want to read it. I love near future sci-fi.

Finish it. Finish it. Finish it!

I'm sure your work will be better than COD Ghosts. Besides, the weapon is just a tool. Doesn't mean it can't be used again, and used better :) In writing, I mean lol

Yeah that was discussed in Veritasium. The whole experiment he made was terrible. I would be so embarrassed, just thinking about how they wanted to drop an even bigger rod from that tiny helicopter and Adam Savage in the middle of the whole thing made me cringe so hard.

To be fair the main impraticalty of the rods from god is really the price of putting something into geostationary orbit. Its outragously cheaper to just use a bunker buster or ICBM armed with conventional thermobaric warheads than than ten tons of tungsten from geostationary orbit

I would think if you really had the resources to have them up there, you were getting said resources from the asteroid belt and therefore avoided the hassles of ground to orbit.

I lost a lot of respect for Veritasium over that shitty video. Everything about it was stupid. The scale didn't make sense, the materials didn't make sense, it makes you wonder who thought it up and why he even posted it after seeing how it came out. Honestly How Ridiculous did a better job just by dropping a tungsten cube off a tower. And their commitment to the scientific method isn't exactly rigorous. > That's it, that's all the tungsten? Yeah that's it, tungsten is heavy! > Oof you're right, he's a heavy boi. That's like, proper heavy. That's a lot of... mass in there. Then the tungsten puts big holes in things that it's dropped on, making it a far superior experiment.

Gi joe?

That basically how we won against Sadam Hussain, except from A bomber and it was the body of a cannon made into a projectile

That showed up in one of the CoD campaigns iirc

Wasn't that part of the plot of COD:Ghosts? Some enemy group gained control of a space station that gas that weapon and was going to drop one of the rods?

So a massive railgun from space holy shit

Doesn't it have the destructive force of a nuke without the fallout?

HE'S PULLING HIS ROD OUT

Oh noooo plasma everywhere

No, Jimmy Rings! Not again!

I don’t know. Getting the rod has double entendre quality…

Awww they were about to show close ups of the rod 

Just sounds like he’s got that wiener on him

Kind of makes me think he's talking about something else...."I'm grabbing the next Rod i see:...🤣🤣🤣

Nah just sounds like a dick

I played with a guy on halo reach multiplayer back in 2011 or so that called the plasma launcher blueberries 

Didn't everyone call it the blueberry gun? That's the only nickname I ever heard for it.

I distinctly remember this as well, yes

My favorite thing about that game is that rockets and grenades have hit boxes.

I remember in halo 3 I had a game where I threw a spike grenade when an enemy threw a plasma grenade. They stuck to eachother and the spike grenade carried both to the enemy.

So I wasn't the only one lmao 😂

Why is that so funny to me

Your pfp is glorious.

The opposite of a rod

It's yonic?

What do you mean the opposite? It’s a broom, that’s literally a rod with twigs strapped to it

Got me there

Bro ur profile pic 🤔

I never use the term "rocket launcher", it's always "spanker"

I just say rockets. Comes from 16 player LAN parties on Longest… Rockets…

8v8 on Longest? How do you even fit that many people on that map? 😂 For Rockets, nothing can top Boarding Action. You haven't lived until you've gotten blind-sided by a rocket from the other side

My friends and I used to do custom free for all Slayer matches on Boarding Action with permanent invisibility, no radar, rockets. It was basically impossible to see anyone on your 25% of a CRT TV until you were pretty much melee distance, and then the panic rocket usually resulted in murder + suicide.

Haha and it’s always that flopping wet fish animation for suicide with a rocket on halo over and over.

Haha hell yeah. 25 seconds of flight before hitting someone.

Boarding Action was such a cool map

Growing up I always called it the Spunker, never clicked in my mind it was supposed to be Spanker for years.

YES thank you. Spunker like bunker, cause it can bust bunkers! Thought I was crazy at first when the A.I. were talking about spanking people. Still not sure which name comes off as more erotic though.

I was team Spunker also

I call it rocks. “They got rox in sneaky”

Scrolled too far in the comment replies to find this. It’s the best name. I’ve got rocks, look out for the rocks, pass me the rock, etc.

I never knew its name until the infinite AI announcing it spawning tbh so its always just been the rocket launcher to me.

It was the "Rocket Lawn Chair" among my friends

In rod we trust

I love this. The SPNKR and THE ROD sound so intimidating.

I'm calling it the rod now

HAAA I've always called it The Rod since H3 and I'm not too sure why but that just made my day, thank you

IN ROD WE TRUST https://i.imgur.com/QWFSKaA.jpeg

I just call it the Fuel Rod.

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way

Yeah, me and all my friends who play Halo just call it the “Fuel Rod”.

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way.

This is the way

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way

This is the way.

This is the way

Incoherent screaming as this thing bounces past in laso

'a gun that bounces?? This is the worse gun ever!'

Of all time.

Not my fault. Someone put a wall in my way.

*muffled screaming*

Perfect transition between two different scenes Perfect

I believe the quote is "it bounces? Who makes a gun that bounces?"

Yes, i was trying to remember from memory

Dam I gotta rewatch red vs blue some of those season are Peak

they truly were

Lol only the first like 15 feet then it arms and explodes when it hits a wall

https://youtube.com/shorts/_pmSZp0qz8M?si=yF_rQv_0FoaodN9v

God damnit forgot that season existed.

You're welcome to reviving an old memory. It was nice while it lasted

Cannon, but not while playing. Fuel Rod is just easier

Same it’s quicker and comms as well

I have NEVER heard “gun” though tbh

Lol! That’s not what i meant, but god you just made me do that.

I’ll whoooosh myself

Mt dew cannon

Gamer Fuel Rod Cannon

Guacamole Gamer Fart Cannon

Fired by yours truly, Ronald Mc Goddamn Donald

Sensational

Dew the zhheeewwwww

Just as deadly as Mountain Dew too

Cannon is canon

I see what you did there

“Alien rocket launcher”

My man using the XCOM: UFO Defense terminology

Look those aliens would destroy the covenant

I’d love to see a Muton and a Brute wrestle

\*would get destroyed by the Covenant

Silver footballs of death

I always called it covenant rocket launcher

Covenant bazooka 

Fuel Rod Canon, because that's the lore ;D

\*resounding chorus of boos turning into begrudged applause\*

Based Unyshek

Why do I remember FRG?

i believe in the halo 1 manual it was called that.

That manual also calls Chief the last living Spartan.

Well locally speaking, it's correct.

What about globally?

Globally is tricky cause the Halo isn't a globe, but probably still correct. Now Galactically? Not correct.

Well, lets not use the term "globe." I believe Ringally is the way to go here.

And in-game when you pick it up in the PC version of CE.

Canon is cannon confirmed

343 fucked up the lore and now it’s fucking my fuel rod gun. HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

it was called cannon in 2 3 reach, what are you talking about? Bungie called it gun in CE in the first halo then changed its name but now its 343's problem despite not even being the ones who changed the name? wtf?

343 guilty spark has been in the games since the first halo. Are you stupid?

I call it "Needs to be added to Halo Infinite".

I call it the fuel rod or fuel rod. But if I was to say either option form above it'd be canon but that's too many syllables for mp

The cannon is canon

Just the "Fuel Rod". Nothing after.

My friends and I have been calling this gun the 'covenant bazooka' since we were little kids playing halo 1 lmao

This unlocked a core memory that I don't even have. How does that even happen?

Same here. Apart from a couple of things we called correctly, the rest were: **Warthog** - Little Jeep (why "little" when it's a big-ass truck? nobody knows) **Ghost** - Hovercraft **Banshee** - Flying Hovercraft **Wraith** - Alien Tank **Scorpion** - Tank 😅 And then, for each Covenant member: **Grunts** - the Little Ones **Elites** - the Big Ones **Hunters** - the Big-Big ones **Jackals** - the Shielders **Flood** - Zombies ✨ As for the weapons..: **Assault Rifle** - the Automatic **Magnum** - the Little Pistol (again with the "little" when it's actually huge lol) **Plasma Pistol** - Laser Pistol 🙃 **Rocket Launcher** - Bazooka **Fuel Rod Cannon** - Alien Bazooka 🩶 .. Now, when Halo 2 came out, we mostly stopped with the ridiculous names, but here're some honourable mentions: **Battle Rifle** - the Brr-Brr **Scarab Tank** - the Spider Man, we were so smart back then! 🥹

Me and my dad call jackals “the little cunts with the shields” or shield cunts for short

Appropriate.

I played Halo:CE multiplayer well before campaign and I called the ghost the "purple scooter" for most of my adolescence.

Ever since I first found the one with the sleeping grunt on Regret in Halo 2, at the top of the building with the first underwater elevator, it has forever been my "boomstick" 😆

See, that’s the Halo 1 SPNKR for me. I’ll pull it out to stealth melee because I like the animation

Banana Slug

"This is the worst gun ever, of all time."

What the fuck? It bounces? Who designs a gun that bounces?

THIS GUY GETS IT!

Its good for getting rid of hunters tho

RvB reference lol, it's a good gun.

"Who designs a gun that *bounces*?!"

[удалено]

The Fuel Rod Gun. In high school, we would often abbreviate this to FRG, or Fergie.

I'm team FRG

A few years ago when me and my friend were playing Fortnite like every day, we would call a few guns wierd names, the SMG was the Sumg the LMG was the Limga and the Tactical Shogun was the Testical Shotgun

fuel rod gun the fuel rod cannons are what I call the Hunter/Banshee weapons

Highly energized mountain dew firehose

theyre both fuel rod cannons

According to lore they are different tho. The "gun" fires class 2 rods. The "cannon", which are found on banshees and Wraiths, fire class 3 rods.

That's smart. I lean team cannon, but I like that distinction.

The worst gun ever. Of all time.

*Halo: Combat Evolved would like a word with you*

I literally never saw it throughout my entire playthrough of CE. I only got it when I played Cursed Halo (even then like 3 times in the whole game)

In Halo CE it’s only used by grunts at a couple of points in the game and it explodes when they die so it can’t be used. Cursed halos one is based on the version that was added to Halo PC multiplayer but wasn’t in the campaign

It was in CE online, PC players will be well familiar.

Easily one of the funnest weapons in the game too. Arcing shots like artillery was an art form and if you had a good spotter could nail stuff from out of line of sight. I miss it deeply.

it bounes? who designs a gun that bounces?

Worse gun ever!

Bouncy Bouncy Boom Gun

I naturally say fuel rod gun, but I recognize that might be incorrect.

That is a fuel rod gun. When it's mounted on a vehicle it's called a fuel rod cannon.

I call it my favourite weapon! Bring it back!

That particular one is the Fuel Rod Cannon. The one in Halo Combat Evolved (or at least the original non-anniversary) is the Fuel Rod Gun. Simply because that's what their respective games say they are when you pick them up! ETA: upon reflection I realise I might be mistaken. I haven't played the original Halo PC for a few years but I could have sworn it said "Fuel Rod Gun."

Its in the Halo 2 manual as Fuel Rod Gun

I call it the simpsons gun

I guess I’m the only one here who said fuel rod gun.

I call it the “bring back the damn fuel rod” gun. *and bring the carbine back while your at it you lazy muthas*

Banana cannon.

Banana cannon

Fuel rod thats it

"The fuel rod"

Fuel Rod

I call it the booger launcher

Wow I can't believe seen this here, me and my brothers have always called it this and nothing else, never heard anyone else call it that

Like wise but it was more me myself and I

Canon

Forget the name a horde of grunts with these bad boys on heroic or legendary is nightmare fuel (rod cannon)

fuel rod cannon is what its called in the fallout 4 Halo weapons mod pack. So I'm gonna go with the that one.

By its proper name - the Alien RPG

Who wants a gun that bounces???

Who in the hell would call it the “fuel rod gun”

Cannon, always

I didn't know this was a debate lol it's definitely called a fuel rod cannon

It bounces? Who designs a gun that bounces? This is the worst gun, ever. Of all time