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Subject: ODST Trailer ( 01:27 ) -- floating green 'R' icon (sign?)
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Rewatch the ODST Gameplay Trailer found here: http://www.bungie.net/Projects/ODST/default.aspx.

What do you make of the hovering green icon, on the right side of the screen (at 01:27 into the vid), which seems to be floating above the cement barrier?

Interesting, if you roll the vid forward just to the point where the icon is almost off the screen, the 'green icon' looks to have a three dimensional tube structure to it. Which would suggest a hologram and not a sign. Or, at least, any kind of sign that we have seen in the demo thus far.

The Bungie folks at E3 have stressed on many occasions, that ODST is a game of clues... As you make your way through the city you are piecing together the clues of what occurred on the ground prior to your drop... What form will such clues take on? We've seen the detonator and in this frame we also see the Rookie has happened across a drop pod which is still closed tight 'press B to pry open'... Is the green R a indicator of the drop pods location? A simple street sign as some have suggested? A hud indicator? Or a new type of clue?

[Edited on 06.08.2009 11:16 AM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 1:30 PM PDT
Subject: Floating green icon on right side of screen?

Hmmm... Looks like a yummy of some sort. Maybe an R in the middle?? Not sure.

Anybody else have a clue??

  • 06.04.2009 8:53 AM PDT

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Might be the same logo on the building on the background of Bungie.net (you may need to scroll down, as it's hidden under the top-navigation area).

  • 06.04.2009 8:54 AM PDT
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It's nothing more than a mere street sign.

  • 06.04.2009 9:03 AM PDT
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It looked maybe like a hud marker, or maybe a logo.

  • 06.04.2009 9:08 AM PDT
Subject: ODST Trailer ( 01:27 ) -- floating green 'R' icon mystery!
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Posted by: RoyalEngineerSon
It looked maybe like a hud marker, or maybe a logo.

I was thinking something along the lines of a hud marker... It's interesting that the 'green icon' exists near where you find a fellow ODST unit's drop ship. It looks as if their is a capital 'R' contained within the icon. As you find the other ODST drop ships do you also discover the letters 'R, E, C, O, N' in the process? Unlocking, perhaps one of the previously mentioned Vidmaster achievements which are contained within ODST itself?

Posted by: SonicJohn
Might be the same logo on the building on the background of Bungie.net (you may need to scroll down, as it's hidden under the top-navigation area).

Where on Bungie.net? Are you referring to the dark, slightly red, city scape (background) which popped up recently?

[Edited on 06.04.2009 11:03 AM PDT]

  • 06.04.2009 10:16 AM PDT
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Thank you sir, that was an epic rendition of this topic.


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and how!

Just looks like a neon sign to me.

  • 06.04.2009 4:29 PM PDT
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Perhaps y'all are right on this one? Perhaps this is just a sign? Don't you find it interesting how this 'sign' isn't fixed to a wall and/or at the top of some post?

  • 06.05.2009 9:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: bigturns00
Perhaps y'all are right on this one? Perhaps this is just a sign? Don't you find it interesting how this 'sign' isn't fixed to a wall and/or at the top of some post?

It's the -blam!- future, I'm sure by 2552 we'll have more than just floating signs not fixed to a surface.

  • 06.05.2009 9:06 AM PDT
Subject: ODST Trailer ( 01:27 ) -- floating green 'R' icon mystery!
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Posted by: GruntOfAction
Posted by: bigturns00
Perhaps y'all are right on this one? Perhaps this is just a sign? Don't you find it interesting how this 'sign' isn't fixed to a wall and/or at the top of some post?

It's the -blam!- future, I'm sure by 2552 we'll have more than just floating signs not fixed to a surface.

I'm with you. What I was referring to is how the design of this 'sign' isn't consistent with what we have seen, so far, in the demos. In other words, I would expect to have seen other similar floating signs. However, the only such 'sign' i've seen of this kind is the one we're discussing which, based on this brief clip, seems to be floating just over a cement barricade.

  • 06.05.2009 9:10 AM PDT
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yeah i think its just attached to the wall

  • 06.05.2009 9:12 AM PDT

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dude just a sign. As for the look of it, have you looked at either end of a double block on Sandbox? Same odd aspect. I know powers of observation are magic.

  • 06.05.2009 3:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: DARKWIND12
dude just a sign. As for the look of it, have you looked at either end of a double block on Sandbox? Same odd aspect. I know powers of observation are magic.

Ha. Not sure how anyone can be sure about much of anything in this game just yet. That is, is the green icon just a sign or is it something else. I too am leaning towards sign. Just found it's position (which may be an optical illusion) interesting.

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  • 06.08.2009 10:38 AM PDT
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the R icon is obviously on the wall behind it. and you are obviously either a troll or 12 years old.

  • 06.08.2009 10:45 AM PDT