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Subject: Scarabs in ODST?

I was listening to Bungie Day podcast when I heard Nathan Fillon, voice of Buck, introduced in the second segment. Then they started discussing playing ODST Firefight and his playing ability when I heard them mention him fighting a Scarab and telling everyone what to do. Now this is probably nothing, but imagine fighting a Scarab as ODSTs in Firefight as the last wave (on the larger maps). If someone could actually get a quote from the podcast I would appreciate it.

And what would you think about fighting a Scarab as an ODST?

  • 07.09.2009 1:38 AM PDT

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now that we're ODSTs. i think it would be a worthy opponent, and a bit of a challenge too

i like the idea of needing a whole team to do something specific induvidally to take it down

  • 07.09.2009 1:47 AM PDT
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Oh my god that sounds so awesome. I have to listen to the podcast now!!

  • 07.09.2009 1:48 AM PDT

Posted by: Wanksta
Oh my god that sounds so awesome. I have to listen to the podcast now!!

They didn't actually say there are Sacarabs in ODST, but they did say something about Nathan fighting scarabs, and while he was there he tested Firefight and something from Reach.

  • 07.09.2009 1:54 AM PDT
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ummmm theres no end and theres not a last wave it probably comes at about 20 and well...yeah sounds cool but gonna be i think rapage lol

  • 07.09.2009 2:42 AM PDT

If there is no definite end to firefight you can pretty much guarantee there will be a Scarabs at some point.

It is also noted that the enemy characters appearing in each wave are generated at random, thus the player will be unable to anticipate the strength of the next wave prior to its arrival.

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  • 07.09.2009 2:46 AM PDT

Posted by: Carmine Kelly456
ummmm theres no end and theres not a last wave it probably comes at about 20 and well...yeah sounds cool but gonna be i think rapage lol

Sorry, I meant at the end of the round or maybe every 5 rounds or something.

  • 07.09.2009 2:50 AM PDT

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A Scarab would be awesome to fight. I also thought that in one of the later waves, instead of Phantoms dropping in a Covenant Capital Ship would jump just above your location and a gravity lift would unleash dozens of Covenant forces.

  • 07.09.2009 3:02 AM PDT

The scarab would be awesome to fight because it would force you to change your tactics, from staying at high ground to moving in and out of cover towards the Scarab, which is what Firefight is about.

  • 07.09.2009 3:30 AM PDT

FireFight would be horrible. I'm sorry, but it would be physically impossible on the Heroic and Legendary. It's beam now fires at the same speed that you walk, your significantly weaker, you can't survive the fall, etc.
In Campaign however, it would be amazing. You could have it inside the city and you have to destroy its legs using the environment or something. That would work.
That's my two cents.

  • 07.09.2009 4:49 AM PDT

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I think its pretty hard to kill a scarab as an ordinary ODST maybe if you can laser the joints in the legs and climb aboard as the chief did but otherwise you're screwed

  • 07.09.2009 5:18 AM PDT

Not gunna happen, there was only one scarab in the city during the entire battle, cheif destroyed it before the carrier left and the odsts dropped. And no, there could not have been another scarab that was deployed after cheif left becasue there were no more carriers left to deploy them

  • 07.09.2009 5:20 AM PDT

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i wouldnt mind a scarab but id love to see the locust added in

  • 07.09.2009 5:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: Jax rulz
Not gonna happen, there was only one scarab in the city during the entire battle, chief destroyed it before the carrier left and the odsts dropped. And no, there could not have been another scarab that was deployed after chief left because there were no more carriers left to deploy them


Not true, after Chief left the battle for Earth continued. The Covenant didn't just up and leave when regret left, they stayed and fought. There easily could have been another Carrier or two.

  • 07.09.2009 5:42 AM PDT
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i think it would be awesome! but will it be drivable in reach?

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  • 07.09.2009 6:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: Jax rulz
Not gunna happen, there was only one scarab in the city during the entire battle, cheif destroyed it before the carrier left and the odsts dropped. And no, there could not have been another scarab that was deployed after cheif left becasue there were no more carriers left to deploy them

Firefight isn't canon, in the same way as matchmaking isn't.

  • 07.09.2009 7:01 AM PDT
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I didn't hear anything about a scarab, what's the exact quote? I listened to it about 7 or 8 times at least.

  • 07.09.2009 7:02 AM PDT

Posted by: Jax rulz
Not gunna happen, there was only one scarab in the city during the entire battle, cheif destroyed it before the carrier left and the odsts dropped. And no, there could not have been another scarab that was deployed after cheif left becasue there were no more carriers left to deploy them

With all I know about other modes in the Halo games, they usually don't have much to do with campaign, which explains why you have a lot of spartans killing and spawning repeatedly. That isn't in campaign. They just put in whatever could make the game more fun and challenging.


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  • 07.09.2009 7:27 AM PDT
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im pretty sure one of the firefight maps has a tank on it. that could kill a scarab. i personally think the scarab should have shields but they dont recharge, then you can attack its legs. that would make it more fun to have your whole team just keep shooting it until its shields fail.

  • 07.09.2009 8:20 AM PDT

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FireFight would be horrible. I'm sorry, but it would be physically impossible on the Heroic and Legendary. It's beam now fires at the same speed that you walk, your significantly weaker, you can't survive the fall, etc.
In Campaign however, it would be amazing. You could have it inside the city and you have to destroy its legs using the environment or something. That would work.
That's my two cents.


That's a good point, though a scarab would be awesome in firefight, on legendary and Heroic it would be significantly harder than in Halo 3 and in firefight you don't get the firepower to take it down. But you could do it in a campaign flashback where you're set up to be able to take one down.

  • 07.09.2009 8:29 AM PDT
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scarab+odst= one hell of an epic battle!!

  • 07.09.2009 8:36 AM PDT