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Subject: All your questions answered about ODST.

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Any more questions that I missed?

  • 07.15.2009 5:21 PM PDT

Posted by: mr t0kit0s
Ok I am doing this because I see alot of threads that ask stupid obvious questions. This will save your time making them. It might seem stupid stuff but trust me, alot of people don't know this stuff.
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Pre-Order Answers.
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You get Johnson with Regular or Collector Edition Pre-Order.

Collector Edition comes with a special ODST controller. It's 100$ but worth your money. A single special one would be 50$ or more. Your only paying 40$ for one.

You don't need to pre-order to get Reach multiplayer beta. Any edition gets you beta.
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Contents in box
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Regular Edition: ODST disc. Halo 3 Multiplayer disc without campaign and every single map including 3 new maps, Longshore, Heretic, Citadel.

Collectors Edition: Same as above with a controller.
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Whats in ODST.
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Menu:Start Solo Game
Campaign
Firefight
Theater
Extras.
Start solo game goes back to previously saved game or new campaign.
Campaign is where you pick a mission to play.
Firefight is a survival mode.
Theater is where you watch all you have done from Campaign and Firefight
Extras is where you find Halo:Reach beta when they release it.
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All known weapons in ODST that you CAN wield so far.
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Assault Rifle
Shotgun
New Silenced SMG
New Silenced shoot as you shoot Pistol.
Sniper Rifle
Spartan Laser
Rocket Launcher
Turrets
Melee
Gravity Hammer
Brute Plasma Rifle
Plasma Pistol
Carbine
Brute Shot
Mauler
Beam Rifle
Needler
Spiker
Fuel Rod
Frag Grenade
Plasma Grenade
Spike Grenade
Fire Bomb Grenade
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What you can and can't do as an ODST
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You can't dual wield.
You can drive.
(Heres an obvious one) You can shoot.
You can't walk as fast or jump as high.
The bar shows the health, stamina is basically the "meat" shield. When you get shot the screen goes red, That's the stamina. If you keep getting shot at, you will start to take damage, loose health.-The stamina was improved by - Iamnumber001- Thank you for your help.
You can hold up to 3 grenades for each.
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Campaign Story.
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You are an ODST.
Original Mission was to go into the ship but Dare took you off course.
The ship made a slip space jump destroying the city of New Mombasa.
You get hit by another ODST drop pod, knocking you out when you land.
Your name is The Rookie. You wake up 6 hours after drop. Your mission is to regroup with your squad, kill patrolling covenant squads, and find flashbacks of your squadmates.
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Characters and Covanent in Game
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Brutes replace the elites. No elites in the game at all.
Drones. Flying creatuers that look like giant flys.
Grunts. Little alien creatures that freak out when their commander (brute) is killed.
Jackals. They either have shields with plasma pistols or needlers. Or they have beam rifles as snipers.
Hunters. Big creatures that have fuel rod beams and shields. They go in pairs. Once on is killed the other goes a little berserk or mad.
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The Rookie. You play as him and He has white stripe on his helmet in the middle.
Dutch. He has an orange stripe on his helmet and orange plate on chest and on shoulder pad. He has demon like teeth on his helmet where his jaw would be.
Romeo. He has a blue stripe on his helmet and shoulder pad and chest plate. He is the wise ass of the squad.
Mickey. He has a red stripe on his helmet, chest plade and shoulder pad. He hits your drop pod with his when the slip space rupture happens.
Buck. His armor is all black.
Veronica Dare. She picked you all to be in her squad and is the leader. She works for ONI and she is mysterious.
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Firefight.
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Survive against waves and waves of covenant. To make it interesting Bungie has made so every amount of rounds they add another skull. It makes it more difficult. Each game you start off with the Tough Luck skull already on. As you already should know every round gets harder.
You can pick ODSTs (Romeo,Buck,Dare,Mickey,Dutch) for FireFight. You can customize their armor. Every ODST has an amount of selections but just about all the ODST's (probably not Rookie) will have the option to take off the helmet for battle. Even Dare. How and why for Dare? You see everyone but the Rookie's helmet off in the first cutscene in the beginning.
You unlock all characters through Campaign.
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Co-op and mulitplayer.
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There is no matchmaking of any way in ODST.
You can play up to 4 people on an xbox or online in Campaign or Firefight.
Split Screen in both.
You can also play up to 2 people on an xbox with 2 others online.
It's all the same from Halo 3.
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FireFight Maps and how to unlock.
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In the campaign you can unlock FireFight maps, so far the only known way to unlock maps, no likely DLC.
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Halo:Reach beta
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You can locate this in the extras option in the main menu screen. You can only play it when Bungie puts it out/invites you. It doesn't include the campaign.
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Recon Armor
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You do not get a token or code for Recon. To get Recon armor you need to get all the vidmaster achievements in Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST

What about The List. If someone is on the List do they still receive Recon if they are on it.

What is The List? Weekly Update 4/18/08

The List is not a Happy place. If you're on it, you'll never have Recon. If we were to flip a switch 1 morning & unlock Recon on every 360 in the world, you would still not have it. People who are caught lying end up on The List. People who are caught cheating end up on The List. Peopel who are banned from Matchmaking for any period of time are on The List. You don't want to be on The List.-Posted by JayHawk lll


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Halo 3 MULTYPLAYER disc.
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There is no Campaign in this, so if you like Halo 3 campaign don't throw out or sell your current Halo 3. This comes with Forge and Custom games and Theatre and MatchMaking.
It also comes with all the originial Halo 3 maps,The Heroic map pack, The Legendary Map Pack, The entire 6 maps of Mythic map (Sandbox Orbital Assembly Longshore Citadel Heretic).
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Halo 3: ODST Prima Official Game Guide.
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This is the guide to help you get through the campaign easier and I looked alot and it said it will help you on the Legendary difficulty alot. It will most likely tell you all about the enemies and your allies and the vehicles in the game. It will say practically all the info about ODST and will replace this thread unless you don't get it. It will tell you the achievements, practically all about the game. That's why it's the guide. It is 24.95$ and ships 9.22.09 at alot of known stores. 9.15.09 for BestBuy. Amazon sells for 16.49$ on 9.22.09.

Please tell me if I missed anything or if you want me to put more answers down it will be under edits. Please only ask for reasonable questions.---- Don't post flames towards me if you don't like it or think its unnecessary then don't post.---THERE IS TO BE NO FLAMING AT ALL.

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Edits:
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Other countries are most likely to get the American pre-order bonuses, just take a little time for Bungie to reach them. All countries get the game on the same day no one gets it earlier or later.

It is called Halo 3: ODST because it is an expansion to Halo 3 and you play as an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper-aka-ODST-aka-Helljumper.

You can download ODST to your harddrive, not Halo 3 or the second Halo 3 in ODST box. All it does is make faster loading.


FN(s), this needs to be stickied (the information if possible).

  • 07.15.2009 5:24 PM PDT