Halo 4: Wait that's no ancient evil...

[Korten12]

Up to this point after the Halo 4 E3 showing, people and I have assumed that the ancient evil were these new enemies, the Promethean's (Not the same as the Warrior-Servant Forerunners of past) were part of the ancient evil but now that doesn't appear to the case because of the most recent Halo Bulletin:

Are we going to be seeing any enemies other than the ones shown in the E3 Stage Demo? ?Negative 9

The new enemy class has been unveiled, but we haven?t revealed all of the enemy types yet, or the ancient evil...

http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/06/13/The-Halo-Bulletin-61312.aspx

So while these new enemies we will no doubt we fighting, it means this new ancient evil (which very well may have their own class of enemy types. I feel like they're going to pull a Halo 1 and not reveal it until people played the game and find out for themselves like the Flood.

Thoughts?

And for an extra bonus for people who wanted to play as Elites in MP:

We already know Elites are not in, which means no Invasion as we know it in Halo 4. Have you considered releasing a game type (both at launch and after launch) which relied on some of the aspects which made Invasion great? ?Gabotron ES

Elites are in Campaign. Elites are not playable MP types. We will, however, add some interesting variety to MP which will scratch that itch.

So possibly a mode where you control the AI Promethean's?

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

I feel like the Prometheans will fill a role similar to what other Forerunner defense AI have filled in the past. They are not necessarily evil they just have their own agenda. These are just more fully equipped than the usual sentinels given they were part of the tool set of the dedicated warrior class.

I guess it just depends on who is running the show

I've never thought of Forerunners as an Ancient Evil, I feel that you are right and that we are in for quite a few suprises.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Are Elites the bad guys again? Didn't they secede from the Covenant and ally with us? I don't get it.

 

[Korten12]

Are Elites the bad guys again? Didn't they secede from the Covenant and ally with us? I don't get it.

The alliance was out of neccessity, similar to the USSR and US during WW2, sure they were allies during the war but once it was over there was backstabbing and then the Cold War.

Plus ONI helped fund Elites called: The Servants of Abiding Truth that still believe in the Forerunners as gods and helped them start a civil war and so the Elites are in worse shape.