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Clearly the ODSTS in this game are going to do pretty heroic tasks. I estimate the Rookie himself is going to kill 300 + Enemies. Not to mention the ODSTs are going to accomplish a lot of objectives and so on, and the squad members will probably kill quite a few.

The thing though is in Halo 3 Campaign I remember the ODSTs being kind of useless. They were just canon fodder, they got stomped on by the Convenant and only existed to die. Not to mention they drove vehichles off cliffs (while the Covenant GRUNTS were smart enough to kill you with them.....).

Somehow canon fodder in halo got upgraded to "bad ass". I don't remember the marines/ODSTs doing very much in the Halo campaigns. They always just kind of died, even on normal (I think).

[Edited on 06.04.2009 5:02 PM PDT]

  • 06.04.2009 5:01 PM PDT

Well, doesn't it say somewhere that this is a "Special group" of ODSTs

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  • 06.04.2009 5:02 PM PDT
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hay halo 3 ODSTs on Legendary destroyed everybody
maybe you didnt know that 83

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  • 06.04.2009 5:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: EVIL BUT CRAZY
this ia a special forces unit it said on e3 A SPECIAL UNIT SQUAD


I thought all ODSTs were special forces....specially sucktacular in Halo 3 campaign, driving people off cliffs and dying real fast.

  • 06.04.2009 7:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sp4rt4n119
Thank you sir, that was an epic rendition of this topic.


Posted by: Xx KNOX xX
and how!

If you give the ODSTs and Marines viable weapons instead of taking away theirs for you to have more ammo they are a great deal of help. The driving AI isn't bad when they also have AI gunners, but they drive differently than another player would, hence gunning in an AI controlled vehicle is annoying.

  • 06.04.2009 7:22 PM PDT

Death to rank junkies.

Well since you aren't playing as the Arbiter or Master Chief, they kind of needed an upgrade.

  • 06.04.2009 7:25 PM PDT
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Spartans are from Venus and Elites are from Uranus

Hand an ODST a rocket launcher, spartan laser or fuel rod canon and then tell me their useless.

Ofcourse their not going to seem as awesome as a spartan in the Halo 3 campaign, their being handeled by ai, not actual player that can think much faster and come up with more complex tactics.
But if they were would you be having much fun if the ai took all the kills and did all the work for you?

Don't think that the ai can accurately represent character in the canon. I doubt in the future Marines don't know how to drive for **** or that grenade jumping is a practical method of reaching higher areas. It's a game, remember that.

  • 06.04.2009 7:26 PM PDT

yea maybe this is a special group of ODSTs or the ones in halo 3 sucked super bad. plus in halo 3 all ODSTs had standard armor. notice in this game some ODSTs have cool armor like new shoulder pads?

  • 06.04.2009 7:26 PM PDT

Like Vashkey said, the ODST's in Halo 3 were limited by game mechanics, therefore they were kind of suckish.

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Actually, if you read the books there was a few times in there when it stated that the UNSC wins most of the ground battles but hardly any of the space battles.

  • 06.04.2009 7:31 PM PDT

Headshot... Sticky sticky... Headshot...Stab...Evade Stab Sticky Stab Stab evade Sticky Stab Headshot Sticky Sticky!

lol i once gave an ODST a sparten laser and had him get on the mongoose with me... needless to say there were alot of dead covenant

  • 06.04.2009 7:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: Vashkey
Hand an ODST a rocket launcher, spartan laser or fuel rod canon and then tell me their useless.

Ofcourse their not going to seem as awesome as a spartan in the Halo 3 campaign, their being handeled by ai, not actual player that can think much faster and come up with more complex tactics.
But if they were would you be having much fun if the ai took all the kills and did all the work for you?

Don't think that the ai can accurately represent character in the canon. I doubt in the future Marines don't know how to drive for **** or that grenade jumping is a practical method of reaching higher areas. It's a game, remember that.


They still die incredibly quickly on Legendary/Heroic. I don't know about normal, I never played Halo 3 in normal (I think), but they died pretty fast in Halo 2 on normal. That was with my TRYING to help them out.

If I recall correctly the Covenant AI was very good in Halo 3. It was almost like the ODST had crappy AI on purpose.

Its not that they didn't seem like a Spartan, but in Halo 3:ODST the squad is about as good as a Spartan from what I can figure, but in Halo 3 Campaign, I could probably kill 25 ODSTs on Legendary, in my sleep.

They weren't that bad ass. I remember one level on Halo 2, where I tried to save all the ODSTs. They all died anyways, on normal. I never died once. A brute would come in and beat them down they would scream and die.

The Rocket ODSTs weren't that good either. They still died really fast.

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  • 06.04.2009 7:32 PM PDT
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It's the AI not the ODST's. Read the books and you will know how good and effective an ODST is in the actual story. They are infact special forces, the best besides the spartans. In ODST you will play as good as a normal ODST should or atleast close to it especially given the fact that the main squad is a special ODST unit.

  • 06.04.2009 7:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: Nitemare 43
It's the AI not the ODST's. Read the books and you will know how good and effective an ODST is in the actual story. They are infact special forces, the best besides the spartans. In ODST you will play as good as a normal ODST should or atleast close to it especially given the fact that the main squad is a special ODST unit.


I don't recall Single ODSTs taking out packs of grunts/brutes. I think a Single ODST would get shafted even in the book. Not to mention ODST's taking out Hunter packs? Spartans had trouble with that in the books.

  • 06.04.2009 7:58 PM PDT