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Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST

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Sounds like the "Where in the World is Master Cheif?" thread.

  • 10.01.2009 3:09 PM PDT

I miss the days of Halo 2.

HOORAY! Weapon packs.....

  • 10.01.2009 3:12 PM PDT
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You guys may be on to something Im currently running through the streets of new mombasa and noticed a few things. A) The signs between where you first land and Dare's crash site never stop directing you to her. B) Directly behind Dare's crash site in the lower alcove there is a door that has the green light showing that it is unlocked and when viewed in visor mode the lock has a blue outline, but it is un-usable. Also the door says access denied and a similar sign in Dare's crash site says the same thing.

  • 10.01.2009 3:16 PM PDT

Get over yourself - drink vodka!

There's at least one room in the city modeled after several others that are mapped out in detail that you can't get to.
I want to get in those somehow.

  • 10.01.2009 3:25 PM PDT
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possibly because halo 3 odst uses the same game engine as halo 3, the medal is there just unatainable

  • 10.01.2009 3:53 PM PDT
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I hope theres a sword. I didnt like the fact that bungie didnt put alot of little secrets in ODST.

  • 10.01.2009 3:55 PM PDT

Were it so easy.

On Halo 3 mythbusters I saw that you could get a sword spree by beating people down with an empty energy sword.

  • 10.01.2009 3:56 PM PDT

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I'd be surprised if Bungie created all of the 1st person sword animations and then only included the weapon as a secret. Seems a bit overkill for an easter egg.

I'd love it to be true though, swords are much more satisfying than hammers.

  • 10.01.2009 3:59 PM PDT

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Well, I know you can get a sword spree by meleeing things to death with an empty sword hilt in halo 3, try that if you can pick up the one empty hilt in campaign?

Also, canonically, the reason there would be so few empty or deactivated hilts is that if an elite wielding one was killed and dropped the sword without turning it off properly, it would self destruct.

  • 10.01.2009 4:00 PM PDT
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Well I dont know if this pertains, but since it is very weird it mostly likely is some type of clue.

So i have beaten the game on legendary, and im now going through on easy getting all the rest of the audio logs.
I passed one spot with dead elites and with my visor on you can see the symbols clearly because they glow. Well cool so i went and collected a few audio logs and just happen to backtrack that
same area after about 10 minutes or so, and maybe 3 audio logs grabbed.

Well the Same area is now different.

The Symbols are gone???????????

The first time I remember turning my visor on and off and I could still see the symbols. With visor on they symbols glowed. With Visor off they didnt glow but if you got close
enough you could still see them.

But THEY ARE GONE. Visor on, off nothing no marks are anything. Im still looking for audio LOGS, but once I get
done. I will run through theater mode and take some pics and upload them.

  • 10.01.2009 4:00 PM PDT

I hunt for the Prophet of Contentment, the San 'Shyumm that murdered my son, and stole his birthright, his Energy Sword. They call our species Heretics. They claim to all that our tongues sting, our words a vile poison that feeds on the unworthy. I have seen the true face of Heresy. The head of a gallant warrior lay on the ground. His neck scorched and blistered, scarred by his own blade. I shall retrieve the weapon, and drive it through that bastard's heart! Punishment for his sins is nigh.

ACTUALLY On Buck's mission there are 2 energy swords lying next to a dead SpecOps Elite, but you can't pick them up. It's the Elite lying under where the wall says "Believe".

  • 10.01.2009 4:02 PM PDT

I just checked and the sword picture is also in the images for the weapons in odst just click view image on one of the weapons and replace the name with sword. http://www.bungie.net/images/halo3stats/odst/weapons/gif_med/ sword.gif I think you're right. okay i also checked and it is a new image heres the halo 3 image url here notice how the image is different too.

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  • 10.01.2009 4:29 PM PDT

Go Rams and Missouri!

Or they just didn't have the technical resources to remove medals from the game.

  • 10.01.2009 4:31 PM PDT

Get over yourself - drink vodka!

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Or they just didn't have the technical resources to remove medals from the game.
Yeah like perfection and extermin.... wait wut. Those are gone...
Invalid reasoning, people.


Great find on the weapon image also. Kickass!

  • 10.01.2009 4:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: flamedude
I'd be surprised if Bungie created all of the 1st person sword animations and then only included the weapon as a secret. Seems a bit overkill for an easter egg.

I'd love it to be true though, swords are much more satisfying than hammers.


They already have the animations from Halo 3. They don't have to remake animations because of a change of character.

  • 10.01.2009 6:20 PM PDT

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered
automatic weapons."
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Posted by: Unseen Blade
Or they just didn't have the technical resources to remove medals from the game.
We aren't talking about the game, we're talking about actual evidence on a website. A game will have tons of unused material in it, sure, but this website should be 100% clean of such clutter. The fact that we have access to the images proves that they made no effort to hide them here. Which means they are currently intended for public display.

As for the hilt, I just played through the mission Tayari Plaza on Easy, and found 2 empty swords lying next to each hand of a single dead elite in the area in front of the sniper tower, under the raised walkway, just past the plasma turret. However I didn't get the correct audio prompt for going through this area. Buck usually asks Dare "What's with all the dead elites?", but he didn't say anything.

Although I did find the one area with the encounter with the Superintendent inside the first building you can go inside of, on the second floor. I don't know if Buck's later silence comes as a result of playing on easy and not normal, or because I talked to the super first. I was going to try on Legendary, but I ran out of time. I'll try again tomorrow, and try and get a rendered video up here for you guys.

Also someone should try and see if they have a picture of an elite on that game readout page, if they do then there is probably actual living elites somewhere in the game. It might not help us, but it would narrow our search quite a bit.

  • 10.01.2009 8:41 PM PDT

You can't haz.

You can't haz our swords.

  • 10.01.2009 8:42 PM PDT
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The thing is people, the Master Chief's armor is more sophisticated than the ODST's. Example:Master Chief can duel wield, ODST cannot.

  • 10.01.2009 9:04 PM PDT

Multiplayer Gameplay
Halo:CE------------------Reach--------Halo2-----------------H alo3
Campaign Experience
Reach----Halo:CE-----------------ODST-----Halo2---------Halo3

Glad that Halo 3 garbage is dead, thanks to Reach.
Unfreakenbelievable!!

It's cool to make up some type of mystery on this subject, but it is obvious that Bungie just used the same database as Halo 3 for the Medal chest with a few additions. It would've made more sense to take out the unnecessary images, but wasn't really necessary.

It was simply a way for Bungie's programmers to save time and get the product out quicker. Either that or it just slipped their mind which happens from time to time with this games' series.

This is similar to finding something that appears to be an easter egg but really isn't. Sometimes you try to make something out to be something that isn't there, like images made from cloud shapes in the sky. And, I believe that this is the case with this topic.

Interesting post though.

  • 10.01.2009 9:21 PM PDT

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  • 10.01.2009 9:31 PM PDT

Weird thread tho I don't think thr is a sword in the game it is still possible
th only thing is it's only a sword I don't have any idea y bungie wud hide it this thuroughly( I no I just botched that word that won't save me from da haters will it... *sigh*)

  • 10.01.2009 9:48 PM PDT