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Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

UPDATE!!! -7/31/2010-

The *Official* ODST Mythic Guide is now live!

For more information CLICK HERE!


Mythic Update 9/11/2010

You can now keep yourself up to date with the Mythic madness by following the Team Mythic Twitter page! Stay tuned for the latest Mythic updates :-)


NEW!!!

With video rendering now alive and well on Bungie.net, I will be uploading Mythic videos for missions as they are perfected, which translates to "walkthrough videos". These will be the videos used in the future ODST Mythic Walkthrough, so if you'd like a sneak peak, this is the place to find it!

Enjoy :-)


Mythic Difficulty

(Legendary + all skulls activated + scoring)

*Link to Halo 3 variant*



Videos

1) Tayari Plaza

2) Uplift Reserve

3) Kizingo Boulevard

4) ONI Alpha Site

5) NMPD HQ

6) Kikowani Station

7) Data Hive

8) Coastal Highway



Mythic ODST Q&A

Q. How would you rate Mythic in ODST compared to Halo 3?
A. Over all, it's much easier. At least half of the missions can be raced from start to finish in most cases. And apparently ODSTs may not be able to jump as high or run as fast as Spartans, but they sure as hell can take a lot more damage!

Q. Do I have to beat Mombasa Streets in order to complete Mythic campaign?
A. It's entirely up to you. If you select it from the menu, it technically has no end. Therefore, it makes it impossible to complete it as an individual mission. As such, it is not a requirement.

Q. What is the easiest mission?
A. Uplift Reserve. It's even easier than Floodgate. I inadvertently snagged the Vidmaster Classic achievement on my first Mythic run...

Q. What is the hardest mission?
A. Coastal Highway. Some even consider it more difficult than The Ark. Not only do you have to keep yourself alive through swarms of Brute-controlled Ghosts, Banshees, and Wraiths, but you also have to watch out for your buddy Dare and her new pet...

Q. Do you get a medal, emblem or achievement for doing this?
A. Nope. If you're going to do it, do it for the challenge and the feeling of accomplishment.

Q. How do I make it on the "Conquerors List"?
A. Hyperlink all of your completed missions in this thread, and make sure you have all films in your file share.



Mythic ODST: First Impressions

As you can probably tell from my campaign history, I wasted no time last night cranking up the Mythic Madness with the exception of the Blind Skull at first simply to get adjusted to the new user interface.

Initial thoughts? The game is truly a wonder and allows Myhic to shine in a very unique light. The pistol puts the BR to shame in every respect, and if that piece of weaponry never ran out of ammo, I doubt death would occur very often at all.

Thus far, I've run across a few useful tactics for Halo 3 Mythic that carry over into its ODST counterpart. Trick shots such as Range-Shooting, Clip-Shooting, and the Pop-Shot all still work perfectly.

But there's a catch...

The AI seem to have been given a few new behaviors (such as advancing and retreating) that sometimes keep you from pulling these tricks off successfuly.

Things that have changed? Just from what I've witnessed so far,"stupified" Jackals have been removed from the equation entirely. They can now hold that plasma pistol charge indefinitely, so it looks like we're back to the old ways of dancing with berserking Brutes and assassinating fleeing Jackals in order to recharge our shields... er... I mean Stamina.

Additional info:

- Enemies seem to be weaker. The infamous ranged-jump performed by berserking Brutes is no longer and instant kill, even on Mythic.

- Grenades (stickies) are weaker. A stick with a spike grenade usually won't destroy a Brutes armor. By the same token, though, they will still berserk with their armor. And yes, Brutes can STILL berserk with their weapons drawn. It seems more common in ODST than in Halo 3.

- Jackal Snipers have lost their magical one-hit-kill-anywhere feature. They can still one-shot you if it's through the dome, but typically it will take at least two shots to bring you down. Note that one shot to the armor will bring your stamina all the way down.

- When you plasma-charge an enemy under the effects of an engineer, the shields regenerate almost instantaneously, so be sure to follow up quickly with a headshot using a mid-ranfed weapon (eith Carbine or Pistol). Note that it still takes a couple of seconds for the shields to recharge completely, so even if you see it reappear, it may only take a couple of headshots to bring down the enemy if it JUST reappeared.

More to come...



Halo 3: ODST Mythic Conquerors

1) VincentKurayama
2) Aurasoldier313
3) Legendary Smile
4) The MoleN
5) MATCLAN
6) Pahat Pojat
7) CBTrigger
8) Lt Play Doh
9) Gazas
10) DarkDEVASTAT10N
11) Michael_Archer
12) Thug Naztyyy
13) Uysie
14) Ultimate RC
15) El Santo 805
16) onlinealias
17) xNicHx
18) I The Tyrant I
19) N8ked Eli



[Edited on 09.11.2010 4:45 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 8:18 AM PDT
Subject: Mythic ODST: Culling the Covenant

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

<<Reserved>>

  • 08.28.2009 8:18 AM PDT

On ODST? It's gonna be uber hard.

[Edited on 08.28.2009 8:20 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 8:19 AM PDT

I didn't even know skulls where included in the new ODST campaign...

  • 08.28.2009 8:20 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

They are carrying over from Halo 3.

  • 08.28.2009 8:20 AM PDT

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Mythic Firefight won't work. Difficulty multiplier skulls are selected in sequences over the course of a set, and the only real difficulty one you control is Blind.

As for Campaign, fair enough, but Firefight is a no-no.

  • 08.28.2009 8:21 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: Dropship dude
Mythic Firefight won't work. Difficulty multiplier skulls are selected in sequences over the course of a set, and the only real difficulty one you control is Blind.

As for Campaign, fair enough, but Firefight is a no-no.


Two words...

Bonus round :)

  • 08.28.2009 8:24 AM PDT

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is
composed of two characters--one represents danger,
and the other represents opportunity."
[JFK]

what do you mean city scape sandbox?

  • 08.28.2009 8:29 AM PDT

Gaming Rig Specs:
Coolermaster HAF X // XFX Pro 850W XXX PSU // Corsair 16GB Vengeance RAM (1600MHz) //
Corsair 120GB Force GT SSD // Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB HDD // Intel i7 3770k CPU //
MSI Z77A-GD65 Mainboard // MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr III OC Edition Graphics Card -- Runs BF3 on ultra at anywhere from 60FPS to 130+FPS.

|| Average Joe ||

Posted by: Tyrant122312
Posted by: Dropship dude
Mythic Firefight won't work. Difficulty multiplier skulls are selected in sequences over the course of a set, and the only real difficulty one you control is Blind.

As for Campaign, fair enough, but Firefight is a no-no.


Two words...

Bonus round :)
One word: Grunts.

=P

  • 08.28.2009 8:31 AM PDT
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-Blam!-in' A! Will this eventually be the official Mythic thread like in Halo 3?

[Edited on 08.28.2009 8:40 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 8:37 AM PDT

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Spammed group invites or recruitments are NOT WELCOME!Unless i know you, DO NOT SPAM ME without a bloody good reason.

"Violence isnt the answer, but it sure is the solution"

Posted by: Dropship dude
One word: Grunts.

=P
Four words: FIRE IN THE HOLE

  • 08.28.2009 8:39 AM PDT
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Dropship dude, you're wrong on Firefight as all Skulls eventually will be turned on.

That, and, if Iron only gets turned on in Bonus Rounds, you can always say that Mythic Firefight would be how much you can survive without dying once.

So Firefight will either eventually become Mythic or be Mythic from the beginning.

  • 08.28.2009 8:40 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: Slayer Lord
Posted by: Dropship dude
One word: Grunts.

=P
Four words: FIRE IN THE HOLE


Four more words:

Thats what she said.

  • 08.28.2009 8:53 AM PDT
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Hi

Posted by: Tyrant122312
They are carrying over from Halo 3.
They are? It would have been cool to search for them in the open world.

As for the Mythic Firefight, I think we can put the silver skulls on in the Firefight lobby (hooray for blind!). As for the campaign, I'm pretty sure the only two skulls not in ODST are Fog (no radar anyway) and Thunderstorm, as there are 9 gold skulls, of which 7 have been clearly identified in the Firefight ViDoc.

EDIT: I'm actually not sure about Thunderstorm. Fog is obviously out, but Thunderstorm could make it to the campaign.

[Edited on 08.28.2009 9:05 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 8:53 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

I'm eager to see which skulls would be included. Blind and Fog cancel themselves out in regular Halo 3 anyway :-P

  • 08.28.2009 8:55 AM PDT

-A fatal error occured. Your opinion is not valid. Please restart your computer and try again with a different answer-
Spammed group invites or recruitments are NOT WELCOME!Unless i know you, DO NOT SPAM ME without a bloody good reason.

"Violence isnt the answer, but it sure is the solution"

Posted by: Tyrant122312
Posted by: Slayer Lord
Posted by: Dropship dude
One word: Grunts.
=P
Four words: FIRE IN THE HOLE
Four more words:
Thats what she said.
Another four: Yes, yes she did.
;D

I think thats just about worn that thread of a joke out. =P
But anyways, ive never tried Mythic difficulty on H3, so ill have to give it a go on ODST. Im guessing its fun.

[Edited on 08.28.2009 8:57 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 8:55 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: Slayer Lord
Posted by: Tyrant122312
Posted by: Slayer Lord
Posted by: Dropship dude
One word: Grunts.
=P
Four words: FIRE IN THE HOLE
Four more words:
Thats what she said.
Another four: Yes, yes she did.
;D

I think thats just about worn that thread of a joke out. =P
But anyways, ive never tried Mythic difficulty on H3, so ill have to give it a go on ODST. Im guessing its fun.


People who've done it, myself included, continue to do it to this very day, so I'd have to say yes. Yes, it is fun :-)

  • 08.28.2009 9:01 AM PDT

Woo! Will definitely be trying to complete ODST on mythic. Can't wait. =]

  • 08.28.2009 9:02 AM PDT

Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

I'm really looking forward to ODST. Hopefully I'll get around to doing Mythic on it. I still need to finish Halo 3... *Shakes fist at Cortana*

  • 08.28.2009 9:07 AM PDT
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can turn on skulls at the start of firefight.

  • 08.28.2009 9:09 AM PDT

FLOOD

Can't wait.
But how will the skulls for campaign work? Doesn't ODST have a more open ended campaign?
So if you can play the missions in any order won't you have to do the whole campaign without dying?

  • 08.28.2009 9:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: RoyalEngineerSon
I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can turn on skulls at the start of firefight.
Silver skulls yeah.

  • 08.28.2009 9:16 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: D3athSfriend
Can't wait.
But how will the skulls for campaign work? Doesn't ODST have a more open ended campaign?
So if you can play the missions in any order won't you have to do the whole campaign without dying?


*Shrugs*

Guess we'll have to see when it comes out :-)

  • 08.28.2009 9:49 AM PDT
Subject: Mythic ODST: Culling the Covenant (Now with NEW TIPS!)

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[Edited on 10.04.2009 12:04 PM PDT]

  • 08.28.2009 9:51 AM PDT
Subject: Mythic ODST: Culling the Covenant
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Posted by: Tyrant122312
Posted by: D3athSfriend
Can't wait.
But how will the skulls for campaign work? Doesn't ODST have a more open ended campaign?
So if you can play the missions in any order won't you have to do the whole campaign without dying?


*Shrugs*

Guess we'll have to see when it comes out :-)
I'm sure there will still be mission segments.

  • 08.28.2009 10:09 AM PDT