Happy Birthday Lauren



In the Halo 3 Campaign loading screen there is a message on the Halo Ring that can only be seen only on a specifice date, December 25th. The message reads "Happy Birthday, Lauren!"

Walkthrough
For the player to see the hidden message, they need to start up a campaign mission on December 25th and let the game take you to the loading screen. It can be done by simply changing the date on the Xbox while offline.

Once the loading screen commences the player must hold down both thumbsticks on the Xbox controller so the view of the ring pans out and the messge will be visable.

Trivia

 * The name "Lauren" that appears in the message is the name of the wife of a Bungie programmer, Adrian Perez, who personally added the Easter Egg into the game.
 * The Easter Egg was first hinted at by Bungie employee, Jon Cable, in a mail sack in 2012 in repsonse to a community question in the Q&A. Shortly after that in another mail sack there was another hint this time from Adrian Perez who said the Easter Egg appears on the campaign loading screen on a specific date.
 * The first sighting of this Easter Egg that was publically shown was on July 9th 2014 by youtuber "Lord Zedd", nearly seven years after Halo 3 launched.
 * It is benifcial to launch the game from the disc so it takes longer to load, it will leave more time to see the message before it goes away.
 * There are other Easter Egg's in Halo 3 that are programmed to appear only on certain dates, such as the Valhalla Wall Easter Eggs