Posted by: Overlord Jebus
Ok, after watching the Bungie 'Ten years' video, one thing stuck out at me, well two things but one has no significance.
We see two clips of ODST cutscenes that we've never seen before. At 6:58 of that video, we see the rookie stand up. This is the thing that doesn't matter. What does matter is the clip afterwards.
It shows clearly, Dutch, Mickey, Romeo and The Rookie standing infront of a closing door that appears to slope downwards (I mean the passage, not the door, the door is cleary sloping :P)
What's important about this scene is that it is at NIGHT.
From this I realised that this scene must be from the very close to the end of the game. The Squad aren't going to meet up half way through the game, since we know most of the game is working out what happened to them. At some point they all meet up, this has to be near the end of the game. Thing is, where are Buck and Dare? They aren't there, this makes me think one of two things, either Buck is dead and so is Dare, or Dare betrayed them and Buck is dead.
Either way, I am 99% certain Buck will die in ODST.
Most likely them BEFORE they get dropped. Looks like a Frigate to me.