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some people say theres a secret "Trigate" on Delta halo. ive seen it and its underwater. theres a switch that floats near the temples. when u activate it, nothing seems 2 happen. some say its a myth and some say its true. what do u think?

  • 08.23.2009 3:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: VinierKdog
It's real , just no one knows what the switch does.
The trigate is not real, it's just a map texture. There's a switch alright and most think it's a placeholder for the Gondola switch. There's another switch on HC. There's probably switches like that for every elevator and Gondola but Bungie did not hide it very well. Just like the Scarab guns.

  • 08.23.2009 4:56 PM PDT
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I personally think "Tri Gates" are homages/hints to scrapped levels. Like the Tri Gate on Cairo Station is a tribute to the scrapped Covenant Cruiser level that was blown up in a cutscene.

As for the Delta Halo Trigate, it was probably a tribute to the Forerunner Tank level, a level where in the beginning, you navigate underwater on a forerunner tank.

IMO, I think several of the multiplayer maps are in fact bits and pieces of scrapped levels remade into maps.

Play Midship alone, and listening to the background sounds that can be heard at random, one of them is a typical beeping sound heard in the high charity levels, while the few odd, somewhat scary sounds are something that would fit well in a level like T@R from halo 1.

  • 08.23.2009 10:18 PM PDT
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I didn't know about a tri-gate on CS. Where?

  • 08.23.2009 10:47 PM PDT
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A video of it can be found on youtube, but if don't feel like surfing the web for it, you can read the following instructions to go there.

It can be found outside, on the first space map, it is a little hard to descibe how to get to it, basically you carefully manuever to in amberclad ship, then head toward the MAC gun, then, after you jump off the ship, head to the right side of the station, walk past the large glass dome where the cinematic took place.

Now, after walking past the large box shaped glass, you should come across a second platform below you, jump down to it, now, head toward the edge, and along the wall, you should see a gray panel along the wall, on the gray panel, should be a triangle on it.

BTW, their is another odd easter egg at the second space map. (you might need the sputnik skull, along with a few nades)

When you come out on the second map, (the space should be taking place above) look at the Covenant Cruiser in background as it ignores the station, notice the area it flyed by, and head toward it, when you finally manuever around the map, and to where the cruiser passed by, you should see some lights on the wall where it passed by it.

  • 08.24.2009 12:48 AM PDT
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Thanks and I'll look tomorrow for the lights.

  • 08.24.2009 12:54 AM PDT