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Subject: WE FORGOT TO KEEP IT CLEAN SO PLEASE PARDON OUR DUST ~ShadowChief117

Posted by: SpartanL127
Ok this is the current info i was able to gather

*bungies teaser trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apZU3ip0Hw

*the following is info gathered form the video by the community

*stop at 13 seconds it will say new city of mombosa on the left side

-There is a building labelled traxus in the beginning.
-The camera angles are labelled
-Tanaga
-Lumumba
-Mbaraki
-Error (also flashes Sidiriyai and Makadara)
-Sign says "evacuate city of New Mombasa"

*lines read:

"Maddie, where are you?"http://zlmgow.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pYlMYW57fDd6OXgdOCRmHeD jHWTtNNWhw-NMKnQZZh5nPe2QVV_uJmXUKFzXU4xzTc-iRGOPHIlU/IMG_005 4%5B1%5D.jpg

*at about 12 seconds you can see a covenant cruizer in the background, above the amd building.

*Bungies teaser trailer XBL desc. "High action and deep mystery await players in this new halo 3 campaign experience. Prepare to Drop." http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh281/spitfire3088/PIC-001 3.jpg

*at 44 sec in you can see the Cruiser taking up the whole skyline again, and then at 48 it's gone, after a message in frame 2 in sec 48 saying that Evacuation is complete. http://s436.photobucket.com/albums/qq89/KeepItClean_SI/?actio n=view&current=Image9.jpg

*if everyone remembers by the time master cheif arrives on earth the convenant are already in control and the earth armies are barely hanging on so this game would be the brute invasion of earth before master chief arrives,,, also in the orginal halo 3 trailer new mambosa is destroyed, this teaser is showing its destruction.

*There was an EMP(Electromagnetic Pulse) blast.

*what does [SUPCONDITION DATE:] + 1117 mean? november 17? (about 00:57) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/peabnuts123/november17t h.jpg

*Si says that the population is 0 and that evac is complete

*24 seconds in I think I hear Cortana Saying "Chief"

*at 22 seconds u can hear the word "Commander"

* around 00:47 seconds into the video, in the bottom left corner...
>>RUNNING SUBROUTINE: "VERGIL"
DATA LEAK ON LEVEL 9! http://s436.photobucket.com/albums/qq89/KeepItClean_SI/?actio n=view&current=Image23.jpg

*sierrea 117 http://timmoelard.nl/benaan/sierra117.png

*jan 6 2009? http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/09/b ungie-date-reveal-490.jpg



On behalf of everyone in this thread: Thank you very much for putting this together Spartan, this is an enormous contribution!

  • 09.25.2008 9:54 AM PDT
Subject: Hmm

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Posted by: The Old Wolf US
Actually, looking at the vid again, I think the explosion IS Regret entering Slipspace. If you pause it, it looks like a wavefront emanating from the front of his ship. That would explain the EMP pulse.

So the conclusion is that the space elevator was NOT destroyed by Regret entering Slipspace, and must happen later on. Defending it (or maybe destroying it to prevent the Covenant from using it) would make an AWESOME level in the expansion pack.

How cool a set piece would that be, watching it crash to the Earth? It would certainly beat the Gears of War "water cooler moments".

Oooooo!


Yes it would, it would kick "riding a bhrumak" in the ars!

  • 09.25.2008 9:56 AM PDT
Subject: WE FORGOT TO KEEP IT CLEAN SO PLEASE PARDON OUR DUST ~ShadowChief117

One more thing before I head to work.

I think that Maddie is probably the main AI for New Mombasa, and she is taken out by the blast (either physically, or the EMP has disabled her systems temporarily or permanently).

The Superintendent is then left to try to do the best he can to fix the city and alert the authorities, but he can't do that in the normal way, either because he doesn't have higher-level communications routines (i.e. he's a low-level AI that reports to Maddie, and then she compiles reports and sends them to human administrators) or he had those functions and has been damaged (as previously suggested by Jumper I believe).

Now the SI is looking for Maddie because he needs help in reorganising the city, and he's trying to communicate with UNSC Fleet using his low-level communication protocols (such as Keep It Clean and Obey Posted Limits, I think all he can say is whatever he can post on electronic billboards throughout New Mombasa, and this has a very limited vocabulary of road signs, warning signs etc).

  • 09.25.2008 10:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: The Old Wolf US
One more thing before I head to work.

I think that Maddie is probably the main AI for New Mombasa, and she is taken out by the blast (either physically, or the EMP has disabled her systems temporarily or permanently).

The Superintendent is then left to try to do the best he can to fix the city and alert the authorities, but he can't do that in the normal way, either because he doesn't have higher-level communications routines (i.e. he's a low-level AI that reports to Maddie, and then she compiles reports and sends them to human administrators) or he had those functions and has been damaged (as previously suggested by Jumper I believe).

Now the SI is looking for Maddie because he needs help in reorganising the city, and he's trying to communicate with UNSC Fleet using his low-level communication protocols (such as Keep It Clean and Obey Posted Limits, I think all he can say is whatever he can post on electronic billboards throughout New Mombasa, and this has a very limited vocabulary of road signs, warning signs etc).


That was actualy one of the best presumptions iv'e heard, sure hope so. It fits right in with the Halo universe from my point of view.

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All I can say is, great job guys, especially Spartan. I'm at school, so I can't do much right now, considering the download source is blocked by the firewall. When I get home, I'll get right to work though. Keep up the good work!

I love how my name is Next Pro Jumper, and this is about people who jump out air vehicles. XD

  • 09.25.2008 10:07 AM PDT

Posted by: SpartanL127
Ok this is the current info i was able to gather

*bungies teaser trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apZU3ip0Hw

*the following is info gathered form the video by the community

*stop at 13 seconds it will say new city of mombosa on the left side

-There is a building labelled traxus in the beginning.
-The camera angles are labelled
-Tanaga
-Lumumba
-Mbaraki
-Error (also flashes Sidiriyai and Makadara)
-Sign says "evacuate city of New Mombasa"

*lines read:

"Maddie, where are you?"http://zlmgow.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pYlMYW57fDd6O XgdOCRmHeD jHWTtNNWhw-NMKnQZZh5nPe2QVV_uJmXUKFzXU4xzTc-iRGOPHIlU/IMG_005 4%5B1%5D.jpg

*at about 12 seconds you can see a covenant cruizer in the background, above the amd building.

*Bungies teaser trailer XBL desc. "High action and deep mystery await players in this new halo 3 campaign experience. Prepare to Drop." http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh281/spitfire3088/PIC-001 3.jpg

*at 44 sec in you can see the Cruiser taking up the whole skyline again, and then at 48 it's gone, after a message in frame 2 in sec 48 saying that Evacuation is complete. http://s436.photobucket.com/albums/qq89/KeepItClean_SI/?actio n=view&current=Image9.jpg

*if everyone remembers by the time master cheif arrives on earth the convenant are already in control and the earth armies are barely hanging on so this game would be the brute invasion of earth before master chief arrives,,, also in the orginal halo 3 trailer new mambosa is destroyed, this teaser is showing its destruction.

*There was an EMP(Electromagnetic Pulse) blast.

*what does [SUPCONDITION DATE:] + 1117 mean? november 17? (about 00:57) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/peabnuts123/november17t h.jpg

*Si says that the population is 0 and that evac is complete

*24 seconds in I think I hear Cortana Saying "Chief"

*at 22 seconds u can hear the word "Commander"

* around 00:47 seconds into the video, in the bottom left corner...
>>RUNNING SUBROUTINE: "VERGIL"
DATA LEAK ON LEVEL 9! http://s436.photobucket.com/albums/qq89/KeepItClean_SI/?actio n=view&current=Image23.jpg

*sierrea 117 http://timmoelard.nl/benaan/sierra117.png

*jan 6 2009? http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/09/b ungie-date-reveal-490.jpg




On behalf of everyone in this thread: Thank you very much for putting this together Spartan, this is an enormous contribution!

thanks

[Edited on 09.25.2008 10:18 AM PDT]

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haha When it says SUPCONDITION DATE = 1117 or whatever, I find that funny. Because, I play this online game involving stamina, or moves. And, I have 1,117 moves left. haha

  • 09.25.2008 10:38 AM PDT

Posted by: FaJiTa TuEsDaY
only eat one small snack a week to save money on food and just have water toilet and lights to save money thats my plan

Though the Earth is dying we must enrich her body, for the ground we tread is hφly.

I'm a lion in a world where everybody's content with being cats. ☥

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Posted by: SpartanL127
* around 00:47 seconds into the video, in the bottom left corner...
>>RUNNING SUBROUTINE: "VERGIL"
DATA LEAK ON LEVEL 9! http://s436.photobucket.com/albums/qq89/KeepItClean_SI/?actio n=view&current=Image23.jpg

*sierrea 117 http://timmoelard.nl/benaan/sierra117.png

*jan 6 2009? http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/09/b ungie-date-reveal-490.jpg
Sooo... Somebody want to check out level two (Sierrea 117) and nine (Cortana)? It's possible that they may have added a few clues for us with the TU2. I would but my roommate is sleeping on the couch in the living room, and I don't want to wake him.
Straight from Wikipedia "Sierra is the word used in the NATO phonetic alphabet to represent the letter S, which, when used in a military sense, generally stands for "sniper." However, in Halo 3, it is S 117 which corresponds to SPARTAN-117. This has been confirmed in the second Bungie Podcast."I don't think that image is trying to tell you to actually play Sierra 117, but rather show you that it's from Master Chief's perspective. Maybe?

  • 09.25.2008 10:41 AM PDT
Subject: AMAZING TRAILER,,,,,,LOVE BUNGIE

I think that jan, 6 2009 is great .....hopefully we can see somethin before then too

  • 09.25.2008 10:51 AM PDT

SO we pretty much got the time frame set...but who are we playing as......anybody got ideas for a main character?








UNSC marines ---any popular ones

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Reckon its gonna be ODSTs.
Those are ODST pods dropping right before the Covenant ship jumps to slipspace. Theres a lone pod that lands after the destruction, my guess is this is who we will play as. And, it says "get ready to DROP" in the trailer. ODSTs are known for their dropping out of orbiting ships into planetary atmosphere, hence the motto "Feet first into hell"

  • 09.25.2008 11:02 AM PDT

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Posted by: URSCREWED 10
SO we pretty much got the time frame set...but who are we playing as......anybody got ideas for a main character?

UNSC marines ---any popular ones


Maybe as an "easter egg" they'll put in someone from the second halo2 trailer ("Sir! Corporal Paraz, A company, cp is this way") . I think it will be some UNSC/ODST bloke or a ONI employee. Other then that is to early to tell.









[Edited on 09.25.2008 11:11 AM PDT]

  • 09.25.2008 11:09 AM PDT

My money's on Captain DARE as a main character, either fighting on the ground, or being the voice in your ear giving you intel and orders (fulfilling the role of Cortana for the Chief).

The latter is more likely if DARE is an ONI spook, but you never know.

  • 09.25.2008 11:12 AM PDT

Maybe as an "easter egg" they'll put in someone from the second halo2 trailer ("Sir! Corporal Paraz, A company, cp is this way") . I think it will be some UNSC/ODST bloke or a ONI employee. Other then that is to early to tell.

Holy -Blam!-

You've just made a good point. I remember in the Halo 2 trailer that you seemed to have smart AI team mates (one of them says in a very monotone voice "Hostiles right") and those were ODSTs

I was very disappointed that this sequence of events wasn't featured in Halo 2 as it appeared in the trailer, and the team mechanic was basically the same as in Halo. Maybe they split the storyline and kept those features for the squad-based game based on ODSTs in the aftermath of the destruction of New Mombasa?

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Did nobody read my post? None of the evidence points to this.
If we play as Captain DARE because we heard him, then we would play as the Admiral as well.
It's gonna be high up in the food chain. All the evidence points to ODSTs. The drop pods, the Get ready to drop slogan at the end. ODSTs matessss.

  • 09.25.2008 11:15 AM PDT

Yeah, I'm saying that DARE has requisitioned a squad of ODSTs and is in direct command of them on the ground, or he commands them remotely and you play as the NCO he mentioned.

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Ahh, my bad, sorry about that. I get really agitated when people wont read whats already been said then when they spot something, like the "Maddie, Where are you?" part in the video its the most important find since fire.

  • 09.25.2008 11:23 AM PDT

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Yeah, I agree, but it's faint. Captain DARE, dousent sound very plauseble even though it is mentioned. But who knows?

Btw, who is the Admiral, are you talking about Lord Hood?

  • 09.25.2008 11:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: The Old Wolf US

Holy -Blam!-

You've just made a good point. I remember in the Halo 2 trailer that you seemed to have smart AI team mates (one of them says in a very monotone voice "Hostiles right") and those were ODSTs

I was very disappointed that this sequence of events wasn't featured in Halo 2 as it appeared in the trailer, and the team mechanic was basically the same as in Halo. Maybe they split the storyline and kept those features for the squad-based game based on ODSTs in the aftermath of the destruction of New Mombasa?


Here here! I still wonder why they cut that level, they could have just cut the brutes.

  • 09.25.2008 11:25 AM PDT
Subject: WE FORGOT TO KEEP IT CLEAN SO PLEASE PARDON OUR DUST ~ShadowChief117

Posted by: The Old Wolf US
One more thing before I head to work.

I think that Maddie is probably the main AI for New Mombasa, and she is taken out by the blast (either physically, or the EMP has disabled her systems temporarily or permanently).

The Superintendent is then left to try to do the best he can to fix the city and alert the authorities, but he can't do that in the normal way, either because he doesn't have higher-level communications routines (i.e. he's a low-level AI that reports to Maddie, and then she compiles reports and sends them to human administrators) or he had those functions and has been damaged (as previously suggested by Jumper I believe).

Now the SI is looking for Maddie because he needs help in reorganising the city, and he's trying to communicate with UNSC Fleet using his low-level communication protocols (such as Keep It Clean and Obey Posted Limits, I think all he can say is whatever he can post on electronic billboards throughout New Mombasa, and this has a very limited vocabulary of road signs, warning signs etc).


Anybody think that there is a possibility that Maddie is a Spartan we have not yet heard of?

  • 09.25.2008 11:31 AM PDT
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Why are the pods dropping from 2 different directions?

  • 09.25.2008 11:36 AM PDT

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Posted by: The Old Wolf US
One more thing before I head to work.

I think that Maddie is probably the main AI for New Mombasa, and she is taken out by the blast (either physically, or the EMP has disabled her systems temporarily or permanently).

The Superintendent is then left to try to do the best he can to fix the city and alert the authorities, but he can't do that in the normal way, either because he doesn't have higher-level communications routines (i.e. he's a low-level AI that reports to Maddie, and then she compiles reports and sends them to human administrators) or he had those functions and has been damaged (as previously suggested by Jumper I believe).

Now the SI is looking for Maddie because he needs help in reorganising the city, and he's trying to communicate with UNSC Fleet using his low-level communication protocols (such as Keep It Clean and Obey Posted Limits, I think all he can say is whatever he can post on electronic billboards throughout New Mombasa, and this has a very limited vocabulary of road signs, warning signs etc).


Anybody think that there is a possibility that Maddie is a Spartan we have not yet heard of?


That's certainly a possibility. But why would the SI be looking for a SPARTAN? Unless New Mombasa had REALLY dirty toilets, I can't see why the SI would be communicating with a SPARTAN, but you never know with Bungie. I still say AI, but you have an interesting alternative.

  • 09.25.2008 11:39 AM PDT

Posted by: Planeter007
Why are the pods dropping from 2 different directions?


Two different objectives on the ground that they are heading towards.

  • 09.25.2008 11:40 AM PDT

Maybe Maddie is the aim of the campaign extension ODST story

Maybe the ODST have to search the ruined city for someone (Maddie)

[Edited on 09.25.2008 11:44 AM PDT]

  • 09.25.2008 11:43 AM PDT

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Posted by: The Old Wolf US
Posted by: Planeter007
Why are the pods dropping from 2 different directions?


Two different objectives on the ground that they are heading towards.


Or it might be the wind... Na, just joking, two objectives sounds logic.


Btw, why have 6 comma, when you can have 7?!... Srsly Bungie?...

  • 09.25.2008 11:45 AM PDT