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Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST

Really cool thread, keep it up! Theres NO WAY there isn't a sword. With the stuff Bungie has pulled, I wouldn't be suprised if there were 20 of them around.

  • 10.03.2009 11:37 PM PDT

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Well at least we are getting somewhere. If anyone thinks they have a RELEVANT video that needs rendered but has no minutes then I shall do it for you just post it.

  • 10.04.2009 12:11 AM PDT

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Posted by: SeasonedVeterans
Thanks to everyone for their input, whether it be encouraging or not. I PROMISE to update the OP soon with all of the relevant information from the last 15 pages.
Thanks for starting this out man!
I haven't been this into finding an easter egg for a long time and I can't wait to see what comes out of this

  • 10.04.2009 12:17 AM PDT

I just want all to know i had the idea of spilling blood around the elites, then another guy did that. only they bashed the elite. This caused a door to open which a guy claimed he did that. I know this sounds kiddy but this is a BIG deal.

Okay, back to seriousness: Hmm. the music? the numbers? The hidden doors?
Wait! maybe the beeping is Morse code! maybe the numbers were supposed to keep us off track. Somebody who knows morse code please translate.

This brings me to another point. my idea made someone BASH the elite. I want somebody to get a co-op game, and kill their team mate WITH the carbine.

I don't know, it seems far fetched but even if the Y isn't their mark of shame it has something to do with sacrafice and such!

Maybe somebody should shoot those spikes with the spiker?

[Edited on 10.04.2009 12:27 AM PDT]

  • 10.04.2009 12:25 AM PDT

Posted by: Sykes707
It's just a game, don't waste your life getting 100 splatters.
It isn't wasting your life if you are having fun. I love getting splatters.

  • 10.04.2009 12:53 AM PDT

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After reading this, which is very insightful by the way; my friend suggested this, "well there are 6 glyphs. maybe there is a sequence in which you have to shoot, hit or jump over the pods. can you get close to do that to all of them?
or a sequence that your supose to view the flash backs"

I don't know it sounded good so gimme your thoughts.

  • 10.04.2009 1:04 AM PDT

a.k.a. Daishi_NRE back in the day when b.net stood for Battle.net.

I would like to thank andymac0909 for his idea of spilling elite blood. I used that to unlock a door to an empty room. However, I did find out that it wasn't bashing the elites. You have to get their blood on you from teh looks of it. We are missing other things however. Advertisements that change, and graffiti that disappears and reappears minutes later. I think the music thing is random at best. I agree with the morse code thing though.

[Edited on 10.04.2009 1:18 AM PDT]

  • 10.04.2009 1:16 AM PDT

Knowing bungie something would be in district 7.
I repeat the 7.

Also not just elite blood. UNSC blood.

[Edited on 10.04.2009 1:31 AM PDT]

  • 10.04.2009 1:18 AM PDT

Space, zoom, fade!

I first found that the sound produced by the s.i sounded like a code.
i checked the idea of Morse code some time this morning... nope. :(
If anyone has any other suggestions?

  • 10.04.2009 1:37 AM PDT

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Nothing can be found in district 7,
look here
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/3/35/NM_sectors .png

[Edited on 10.04.2009 1:47 AM PDT]

  • 10.04.2009 1:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: andymac0909
Knowing bungie something would be in district 7.
I repeat the 7.

Also not just elite blood. UNSC blood.


This is sounding more and more like a voodoo ritual...

  • 10.04.2009 2:04 AM PDT

a.k.a. Daishi_NRE back in the day when b.net stood for Battle.net.

This thread looks to be heading in a good direction now. Any more ideas? Need sleep now, but will do more wandering tomorrow. I'll try and see what happens when spilling an allies blood. Anything else that I should try? I'll tag along with anyone who wants to try any of these ideas. One last thing. It's already been proven that you can grenade/jump over the energy walls. But, I need to find another way. Probably involving shutting them off. Sorry if this seems a little off topic, but I'm hoping that it will lead back to the original. Sword or no sword, this is turning into an easter egg hunt.

  • 10.04.2009 2:11 AM PDT

Hey everyone. Thanks for the kind words on the article I wrote last month. If you weren't already aware, that article resulted in "The Secret Glyph Project" (SGP) which has its own forum and image gallery.

I set the forum up so that you can post links to images as well as file attachments. This should alleviate some of the issues people have been having with space in their Bungie File Shares to show off discoveries.

I can also move images into the image gallery for all to see if you run into any issues using the forum.

You can register to post on the forum here (it's all free and you won't be spammed or solicited or any nonsense like that): http://sgp.subculturelifestyle.com/. You can access the Image Gallery here: http://sgpgallery.subculturelifestyle.com/ (it's only banner images currently but my next task is to get the glyphs put in.)

Thanks to jag4191 over at the SGP for alerting me that this thread's focus moved into common territory. (Last I checked it was still all sword theories and unused GIFs!)

The hidden room find is very exciting!

  • 10.04.2009 2:15 AM PDT

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I'd love to see what you guys come up with later on, keep it up guys :)

  • 10.04.2009 2:16 AM PDT

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  • 10.04.2009 2:20 AM PDT

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  • 10.04.2009 2:22 AM PDT

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  • 10.04.2009 2:23 AM PDT

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Bungie has stated that they had to remove certain weapons and things like that as a result of lack in space on the game disc. It is very possible that the sword as well as other weapons like the BR were removed.

  • 10.04.2009 2:26 AM PDT

Space, zoom, fade!

It would be good if these two sites kept in contact or at least dropped in too see how each other is getting on.


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Posted by: ZaggRukk
I would like to thank andymac0909 for his idea of spilling elite blood. I used that to unlock a door to an empty room. However, I did find out that it wasn't bashing the elites. You have to get their blood on you from teh looks of it. We are missing other things however. Advertisements that change, and graffiti that disappears and reappears minutes later. I think the music thing is random at best. I agree with the morse code thing though.


do i just shoot some dead elites on TP to unlock this secret area and where is it?

  • 10.04.2009 2:53 AM PDT

Posted by: Blue Jess
I think the "Y" shaped symbols have been drawn by the engineers as a way of mourning the Elites. I think they liked the elites as they were probably treated much better and the brutes do bad things to them =(



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  • 10.04.2009 3:07 AM PDT

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andymac0909 said :

Knowing bungie something would be in district 7.
I repeat the 7.


It sounds plausible, but this district is unexplorable yet.
Why ? I explored 3 black areas at present, in sector 9, sector 0 and sector 5 ; those black areas didn't need any loading sequence, and they're not totally blocked by these huge doors saying "Lane Closed" (there is some other way to get in).
This is different with the Sectors 2, 1 (except during the mission "Coastal Highway", because you are in a part of sector 1 during this mission) and Sector 7 : they are totally blocked by these doors, and that means they need a loading sequence to be "actives" .
I tried to get in sector 7 and 2 by the black area in district 5, but the doors are still there, so it's, with the little knowledge i have, impossible at present.
The "Mongoose way" someone told here, and i used to go in many "secrets rooms" like i said before, doesn't work, because of the width of these doors, and because, again, of the loading sequence these districts require to be activated.
Moreover, the invisible ceiling doesn't allow us to go above these doors.
One of the only possibilities i see now to get in these 3 black areas in Mombasa Streets is to find a secret room that allow us to go from sector 8 to sector 7 (it could be possible, but i'm very sceptic about that).
The other possibility could be to find a way to go above this invisible ceiling ; but i tried with other glitchers, but, we just succeeded to go on some high zone, but not above the ceiling.

A sword could be in another mission, that's a theory we have to explore.
The Elites mystery looks a part of a mystery (this one or another).

Tepec, still working on it.

  • 10.04.2009 3:40 AM PDT

Where there is smoke, there is fire. Or a smoke machine.

The stonehenge has collums, somebody mentioned the number 7. So the seventh collum? I don't know I just thought i'd throw that in. Either way im giving up, too much effort for too little reward. I'd love to see who finds out what we're all ater.

  • 10.04.2009 4:01 AM PDT

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This sounds very interesting, and it may not turn up an energy sword or something for a medal, but I have not seen too much about Easter eggs in ODST, so I'm all in for looking. Oh and there actually is a BR in Halo 3 ODST. Only one as far as I know, and you can't get it, but it's there. :)
BR evidence
Look closely at the guy getting hammered at 8/9/10 seconds in. What's he holding?? A BR!!!!!!
Now anyway, that's irrelevant, but back on topic. As I said, it seems that these glyphs and pillars are important in some way. I also think the Elites are important as well. Why would they appear in the game if they were inconsequential? Especially around the part where Buck asks about the dead Elites in Tayari Plaza. Why bring it up if it's "classified"? Somehow, the elites and these glyphs must form some part of this easter egg, possibly unlocking more of the map. Since I've never taken notice of the Districts, is District 7 completely inaccessible for the entire game? I'd be glad to participate, as there were a -blam!-load of Easter eggs in Halo 3, yet no one has reported anything of interest from ODST.

  • 10.04.2009 4:18 AM PDT