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Subject: Boy is it gonna be cramped in that Pod with 4 ODSTs.....

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It's going to be pretty cosy, that's for sure.

  • 06.10.2009 8:35 AM PDT

Posted by: Lord Aldemar
Theory: Due to the waypoint system, presumably 4 players will be dropped in different parts of the city; then link up and play through the campaign.


I'd hate to be the farthest guy away from the squad on legendary. I'd get killed instantly, then spawn with my friend lol.

  • 06.10.2009 8:39 AM PDT

Like Halo 1 and 2, the others will spawn next to the 1st player after cutscenes.

  • 06.10.2009 8:41 AM PDT

Posted by: Bluesman
Also, a few of us were talking during matchmaking and Halo: Reach is definitely going to be, not a first person shooter, not a third person shooter, but a second person shooter. Bungie is going to revolutionize the way you watch other people play games.

I think we've all just run out of things to talk about so now we're poking holes in gameplay elements that must be instituted to make the game run smoothly. I wouldn't worry too much about how 4 "rookies" get on the ground. Though, given Bungie's insistence on making the 4-player co-op feature new characters I'd assume they'd come up with some logical explanation for how 4 ODSTs made it to the ground and lived.

  • 06.10.2009 8:44 AM PDT

i know how it goes
first the rookie drops and goes out but then a diffrent pod lands on his and that guy jumps out 2 then the other one comes right on the same location as well and finaly the same with the fourth one XD
lol imagine "reqeust for reinforcements i will let the super intedent send you the cordinates" "recieved there on thier way" "hey superintedent where are they dropping exactly?" "your cordinates" "Wait doesnt that mean tha" /SPLAT/

  • 06.10.2009 8:54 AM PDT

lol
Posted by: ChrisVN
i know how it goes
first the rookie drops and goes out but then a diffrent pod lands on his and that guy jumps out 2 then the other one comes right on the same location as well and finaly the same with the fourth one XD
lol imagine "reqeust for reinforcements i will let the super intedent send you the cordinates" "recieved there on thier way" "hey superintedent where are they dropping exactly?" "your cordinates" "Wait doesnt that mean tha" /SPLAT/

  • 06.10.2009 8:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: LordOfBlah51
Like Halo 1 and 2, the others will spawn next to the 1st player after cutscenes.


But the drop pod is as far i know not a cutscene, you can look around in your pod. Right?

  • 06.10.2009 8:56 AM PDT

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The other 3 will just to hang off the side.


Somehow I knew you'd be one of the first posters in one of my topics..

But I have to say, hanging on the side of a pod going 200+ miles an hour downward sounds like fun..Like skydiving without a parachute...


Only 200 MPH from Re-entering the Earth from space?

Last I checked modern space shuttles re-enter the atmosphere at 16,000 something MPH so imagen going in that fast feet first.

Well last time I checked a box of metal falling at that speed and staying together from hitting the ground isn't exactly realistic...

Not meaning to be a smart ass, but neither is the concept of Slip space. Yet here we are...


the terminal velocity of a drop pod is going to be much slower than the terminal velocity of the shuttle as the shuttle has much more mass. a human body can not fall faster than something like 200 kilometers an hour with out out side forces pushing it down. the drop pod would have a similar situation though probably nearing the 1000 kph mark... you also need to take into account that the drop pods have braking rockets to slow them down just before impact as well

  • 06.10.2009 9:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: defnop552
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Posted by: SonicJohn
It's going to be pretty cosy, that's for sure.


4 Armored people all cramped in a 4x4x10 box...Yeah, really cozy.

Like being pushed into a phone booth with a US Marine in it..

  • 06.10.2009 10:15 AM PDT

Like Halo 1 and 2, the others will spawn next to the 1st player after cutscenes.

  • 06.10.2009 10:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: defnop552
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Posted by: ilovetotinos
I think we've all just run out of things to talk about so now we're poking holes in gameplay elements that must be instituted to make the game run smoothly. I wouldn't worry too much about how 4 "rookies" get on the ground. Though, given Bungie's insistence on making the 4-player co-op feature new characters I'd assume they'd come up with some logical explanation for how 4 ODSTs made it to the ground and lived.


Almost everybody is voting the scattered drop pod idea but I'm going with the skydiving one with the ODST on top of the Pod with the cowboy hat on.

  • 06.10.2009 10:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: GruntOfAction

Wow..Did Bungie shove something else up there when they pushed that recon up your quantum singularity?

I was just wondering if, since all the players will be ODSTs, if they will be in the same pod or be in different ones.



QFT GruntOfAction actually has a point so why behave like that?

  • 06.10.2009 10:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: CurvedBubbles
Like Halo 1 and 2, the others will spawn next to the 1st player after cutscenes.


Yes but the drop pod scene isn't actually a cutscene. It's all ingame I think. Or it's just a first person cutscene...

  • 06.10.2009 10:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: defnop552
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Posted by: Radiant Eclipse
Posted by: CurvedBubbles
Like Halo 1 and 2, the others will spawn next to the 1st player after cutscenes.


Yes but the drop pod scene isn't actually a cutscene. It's all ingame I think. Or it's just a first person cutscene...


The cut scene ends when Romeo walks over to the rookie and hits him with the sniper to wake him up....The rest on there is all game footage from what I saw. Looks very nice too.

  • 06.10.2009 10:45 AM PDT

IM really sick of people saying slip space isn't possible.

When a star becomes a black hole usually it sucks an object in at a speed faster than light. but sometimes when the black hole has enough mass added to it it breaks some limits of space and time. So imagine a flat picture of earth. fold it in half so that new york is on top of France, then get a pencil and punch a hole through the bottom. The pencil just theoritically the pencil just used slip space to get to New York from France. and because the black hole sucks things into it that would explain why in halo 2 you could see pieces of buildings in space near Regrets ship and the massive destruction of New mombasa.

Unfortunately in our actual times we don't know how to exactly close a slip space worm hole. I think plugging it with something like another slip space worm hole would cause them to collapse into each other and cause a massive explosion.

  • 06.10.2009 11:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: defnop552
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UPDATE: Defnop552 has confirmed he has fixed his dick.

Posted by: National Geographic
IM really sick of people saying slip space isn't possible.

When a star becomes a black hole usually it sucks an object in at a speed faster than light. but sometimes when the black hole has enough mass added to it it breaks some limits of space and time. So imagine a flat picture of earth. fold it in half so that new york is on top of France, then get a pencil and punch a hole through the bottom. The pencil just theoritically the pencil just used slip space to get to New York from France. and because the black hole sucks things into it that would explain why in halo 2 you could see pieces of buildings in space near Regrets ship and the massive destruction of New mombasa.

Unfortunately in our actual times we don't know how to exactly close a slip space worm hole. I think plugging it with something like another slip space worm hole would cause them to collapse into each other and cause a massive explosion.

Thank you for that Bill Nye...

On topic: I hope they do the scattered drop pod idea, otherwise someone's gonna be smoshed on the window and I don't think that will go well when the slip space rupture happens and that Pod hits the glass on The Rookie's pod..

  • 06.10.2009 12:24 PM PDT

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Um....4 pods dropped in a cluster?

  • 06.10.2009 12:35 PM PDT

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yeah, I think for co-op they will ad on 3 other very minor characters that blend into the story. Like the elites you can play as in Halo 3 co-op

  • 06.10.2009 12:38 PM PDT
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Probably just how they did it with "The Ark", 2 on one Pelican, and 2 on the other.

Or, all of you would be seeing through the eyes of the rookie on the way down, and when you get on the ground, all four of you will be there.

  • 06.10.2009 12:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: defnop552
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Posted by: Black Xeleon
Probably just how they did it with "The Ark", 2 on one Pelican, and 2 on the other.

Or, all of you would be seeing through the eyes of the rookie on the way down, and when you get on the ground, all four of you will be there.


That would be stupid though, since ODSTs are dropped en mass why not just show 4 different perspectives in Co-Op?

  • 06.10.2009 1:46 PM PDT
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Adz

The real answer is right in front of you, but you haven't realised yet.

The truth is that instead of 4 ODSTs being stuck in one Pod there's just an empty Pod, Why, you ask? Because the ODSTs will be so excited about the release of Halo 3: ODST that they'll forget about the mission completely and be playing it all night instead.

[Edited on 06.10.2009 2:00 PM PDT]

  • 06.10.2009 2:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: adz556
The real answer is right in front of you, but you haven't realised yet.

The truth is that instead of 4 ODSTs being stuck in one Pod there's just an empty Pod, Why, you ask? Because the ODSTs will be so excited about the release of Halo 3: ODST that they'll forget about the mission completely and be playing it all night instead.
Lol.

  • 06.10.2009 7:22 PM PDT

I is in your thread reading your post.

They all sit in one guys lap

  • 06.10.2009 7:23 PM PDT

NO SOUP FOR YOU

If the pod doors don't open they will be forced to eat eachother! o_O

  • 06.10.2009 7:29 PM PDT