How do you "Activate" terminals in Halo 3?

[Coq_Pwner]

So I've found a few terminals so far and activated them, then some text appears and I can't do anything other than exit. Yet I've received none of the achievements for "Activating " terminals. Are the achieves bugged, or am I missing something here?

[Cosmonaut Cartilag]

Thats all there is to halo 3 terminals, what difficulty you on?

[Boiler]

You need to wait. After about 15 seconds or so on the Terminal screen, the terminal will glitch out and shift to a different screen. Only when you reach the second screen will the achievement pop

[Duranu Lithdel]

Walk up activate terminal

Terminal scrolls to text

Read the text and wait

Terminal gets hacked and the screen scrolls to another part of grid

Read all that text and leave

[Pyrocitor]

Page up and down to change pages of text, I think - I know it's a known issue listing as such, I didn't check if it's actually prompted in game.

[Limygeorge]

Originally posted by Ham:

You need to wait. After about 15 seconds or so on the Terminal screen, the terminal will glitch out and shift to a different screen. Only when you reach the second screen will the achievement pop

Yeah that's right. I have only found 1 terminal and completed level 7. I always look around in secondary corridors. I suppose there are just fewer in Halo 3. Or they are ridiculously hard to find.

Any how, what Pyrocitor said is right, same happened to me. It was a relieve when the achievement finally popped up. I thought ah, not a terminal like Halo 2, or bugged. But no, it's fine, just have to wait a while, then the screen changes to alien text, few secs after that it's activated. I guess the devs really want us what the story/lore, which in fact is quite interesting imo.

[Limygeorge]

Originally posted by Duranu Lithdel:

Walk up activate terminal

Terminal scrolls to text

Read the text and wait

Terminal gets hacked and the screen scrolls to another part of grid

Read all that text and leave

Sorry, the quoted post is actually exactly what happened to me.

They are both right.

[auto]

I only got the Terminal 1 achievement after starting up the game the next day.

[Duranu Lithdel]

Originally posted by Limygeorge:

Originally posted by Ham:

You need to wait. After about 15 seconds or so on the Terminal screen, the terminal will glitch out and shift to a different screen. Only when you reach the second screen will the achievement pop

Yeah that's right. I have only found 1 terminal and completed level 7. I always look around in secondary corridors. I suppose there are just fewer in Halo 3. Or they are ridiculously hard to find.

Any how, what Pyrocitor said is right, same happened to me. It was a relieve when the achievement finally popped up. I thought ah, not a terminal like Halo 2, or bugged. But no, it's fine, just have to wait a while, then the screen changes to alien text, few secs after that it's activated. I guess the devs really want us what the story/lore, which in fact is quite interesting imo.

TL;DR If you are into lore, give the books a read starting at the fall of reach, a great book and goes into John's beginnings as a child.

Without starting a huge debate, The book is the true Canon story of Reach (which is vastly different than the game and confirmed by Microsoft and 343 in a post I would have to dig back up) the book would have made for the much better game. The short of the drama is Fall of Reach was written well before Halo Reach the game was ever a thought, Bungie and Microsoft approved all the books and decided they were canon. Fast forward, Halo 3 was a massive success but with the trilogy completed bungie wanted to move on. Microsoft wanted one more game first, so bungie went against everything that was decided as Canon in the Fall of Reach and made Halo Reach instead afterwards selling the remaining rights to halo bungie had to microsoft. Several employees at this time left Bungie and went to/started 343 industries with Microsoft including Frank o'Connor to be able to keep working on Halo instead of staying with Bungie to make the first Destiny

[Limygeorge]

Thanks for the book info. I didn't know much about them before except that they existed.
Your post has piqued my interest. Cheers.

[Duranu Lithdel]

Originally posted by Limygeorge:

Thanks for the book info. I didn't know much about them before except that they existed.
Your post has piqued my interest. Cheers.

You're welcome, they are some of my favorite books and I think are well written.
The Fall of Reach is the real prequel
The Flood takes place in Halo Ce from a few different perspectives
First strike takes place right at the end of CE and before Halo 2
Ghosts of Onyx takes place sometime around Halo 3 but does not involve John if I remember right but is the first book to talk about Spartan 3s (the first time they are the topic besides a very short reference in first strike which it's story would be long after the Halo Reach Game in the Halo timeline, Onyx was written 4 years before Reach game was released)(so by the time reach came out there was many more already canon things that contradicted it)

[Coq_Pwner]

Yup, page up down to read, NEVER would have guessed that + only have to wait for a long while before it pops, I kept exiting when the first text appeared because I didn't expect anything else, thanks.

[Limygeorge]

Originally posted by CoqPwner:

Yup, page up down to read, NEVER would have guessed that + only have to wait for a long while before it pops, I kept exiting when the first text appeared because I didn't expect anything else, thanks.

Glad you got it, and the Chiefo I assume.

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About the books, thanks again, Duranu. Think I'll check out my local (on line of course) Amazon store. I really didn't know they were actual books, as opposed to pdf articles.
Good to know about the 4 year gap too. Now I won't have to fathom that myself.

[♥]

here is fun fact, the terminals change based on difficulty, the first 4 change on legendary, from terminal 5, the message can change for each of the difficulty levels.

[Niknokinater]

Originally posted by ᠌ ᠌᠌᠌᠌᠌:

here is fun fact, the terminals change based on difficulty, the first 4 change on legendary, from terminal 5, the message can change for each of the difficulty levels.

Now that is absolutely interesting !

[Limygeorge]

Yeah, I had no idea they changed with difficulty. That's a really good idea --- well if they activate the achievement that is. H2 was fine. Halo CE mostly - one poped up 48 hours later, but H3 - wait, and wait some more.

Anyhow I wanted to thank @ NIKNOKINATER for the different level, different message. Would have never guessed that.

EDIT: Oh, it was a poster above his. Apologies. A no name poster? The guy with 12 years service. Maybe it's just me who can't see it. Whatever, all is good. And thanks again.

At least we all know (so far) how to activate them thanks to this thread.