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Subject: Glyphs and treasure hunting; the truth about the Sword in ODST

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Hold your applause I got the location! Check it out here. Check it out if you want a ghost, or maybe think about it being another clue to the mystery! I'm just the provider, not the analyzer!

  • 11.30.2009 2:18 PM PDT
Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST

Those who are ignorant to history are doomed to repeat it.

Bungie gave a firm "NO" answer when asked if they would create healo 3: ODST DLC, but they have been known to do the unexpected...

  • 11.30.2009 2:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: ali buba 555
Bungie gave a firm "NO" answer when asked if they would create healo 3: ODST DLC, but they have been known to do the unexpected...

wait, who are you talking to?

  • 12.01.2009 11:21 AM PDT
Subject: Glyphs and treasure hunting; the truth about the Sword in ODST

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Posted by: LeBlanc172
Hold your applause I got the location! Check it out here. Check it out if you want a ghost, or maybe think about it being another clue to the mystery! I'm just the provider, not the analyzer!

Im on Legendary and im not seeing anything in this area.. Maybe some Covenant forces god dropped in that area and left it behind in your game?

  • 12.01.2009 3:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: radical00edward
Posted by: LeBlanc172
Hold your applause I got the location! Check it out here. Check it out if you want a ghost, or maybe think about it being another clue to the mystery! I'm just the provider, not the analyzer!

Im on Legendary and im not seeing anything in this area.. Maybe some Covenant forces god dropped in that area and left it behind in your game?

even so, there is a tunnel there and if you have the tunnel, it might just be that it is not there.

  • 12.02.2009 11:58 AM PDT
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with my danceing theing, i tryed agein still no luck nut its different, no enginers and no eleits or anything but the place is COVERD in glyphs! it means something!

[Edited on 12.02.2009 2:31 PM PST]

  • 12.02.2009 2:19 PM PDT

Back.. and to the left.
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Back.. and to the left.
Back.. and to the left.
Back.. and to the left.
Back.. and to the left.

Posted by: LeBlanc172
Posted by: radical00edward
Posted by: LeBlanc172
Hold your applause I got the location! Check it out here. Check it out if you want a ghost, or maybe think about it being another clue to the mystery! I'm just the provider, not the analyzer!

Im on Legendary and im not seeing anything in this area.. Maybe some Covenant forces god dropped in that area and left it behind in your game?

even so, there is a tunnel there and if you have the tunnel, it might just be that it is not there.

Found it.

[Edited on 12.02.2009 11:14 PM PST]

  • 12.02.2009 2:52 PM PDT

Noticed this earlier while playing, the loading screen for all of the missions show a map and then in the bottom right hand it says something along the lines of MBrakiniek (trying to go off memory here) XXXX (four numbers) but the important thing is if you have the ODST controller and been trying to find what the controller has to do with the game that might look a little familiar.

Try this:
Kikowani.0624
23:03:28:30

I believe this appears on the loading screen if you complete a certain objective, still working on the certain objective first

  • 12.04.2009 11:03 AM PDT

im an average person to play halo with. im not the best player youll ever see, but im working on it :)

"change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

Posted by: Kris Eike
I just had a major breack-trough, and i sure hope i'm the first one to find this..

Today i was playing on Tayri Plaza, and i went to look at all the dead elites.. and i was shocked when i saw these glyphts on the chest of every elite! Ergo, the elites must have something to do with these glypts because they wear them on their armour!

Am i the first one to find this?


you probably are one of the first to notice this correlation of the glyphs. however i have found something further onto your discovery.

i want everyone to think back to halo combat evolved. remember the floods entrance into the story line? well on a few doorways in the rooms that look similar to those with light bridges in there are these glyphs over some of the doors or just on the walls.

indeed these glyphs are the exact same to those on the elites armour (yes the glyphs are on every elites armour in halo 3 and odst however i am not sure about halo ce and halo 2) and on the walls of halo 3 odst. these are also the glyphs from halo wars on the six doored gate that you have to open in order.

i believe that these glyphs are simply a language. it can only be one. forerunner or covenant. mind you the covenant did a lot of technology scrounging from the forerunners and maybe the picked up on the forerunner language.

these glyphs are also located in the terminals in halo 3. if you notice when the alarm sounds the letters start to change into some glyphs. and all of these terminals are found on installation 00 which i might add is forerunner.

this is my conclusion which makes a lot of sence. these glyphs are simply the language of the forerunners and i believe that we can figure out what these glyphs are in the english alphabet but simply taking notes on the terminals in english then when it changes we can then look at where the letters where placed in english and the glyphs should be in the same place. bingo.

we have to look at the terminal before and just after/during the alarm before the terminal leaves the screen. once you have this list you can simply look at the glyphs in odst and write its location and what letter it stands for.

sorry guys. i forgot to add this before. on each glyph on the wall there is a Y shape. the letters are the other three glyphs on each third of the glyph. therefore there are 3 letters to each Y shape.

[Edited on 12.06.2009 4:14 AM PST]

  • 12.04.2009 1:02 PM PDT
Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST

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Posted by: T4NGLEWOOD
Posted by: Kris Eike
I just had a major breack-trough, and i sure hope i'm the first one to find this..

Today i was playing on Tayri Plaza, and i went to look at all the dead elites.. and i was shocked when i saw these glyphts on the chest of every elite! Ergo, the elites must have something to do with these glypts because they wear them on their armour!

Am i the first one to find this?


you probably are one of the first to notice this correlation of the glyphs. however i have found something further onto your discovery.

i want everyone to think back to halo combat evolved. remember the floods entrance into the story line? well on a few doorways in the rooms that look similar to those with light bridges in there are these glyphs over some of the doors or just on the walls.

indeed these glyphs are the exact same to those on the elites armour (yes the glyphs are on every elites armour in halo 3 and odst however i am not sure about halo ce and halo 2) and on the walls of halo 3 odst. these are also the glyphs from halo wars on the six doored gate that you have to open in order.

i believe that these glyphs are simply a language. it can only be one. forerunner or covenant. mind you the covenant did a lot of technology scrounging from the forerunners and maybe the picked up on the forerunner language.

these glyphs are also located in the terminals in halo 3. if you notice when the alarm sounds the letters start to change into some glyphs. and all of these terminals are found on installation 00 which i might add is forerunner.

this is my conclusion which makes a lot of sence. these glyphs are simply the language of the forerunners and i believe that we can figure out what these glyphs are in the english alphabet but simply taking notes on the terminals in english then when it changes we can then look at where the letters where placed in english and the glyphs should be in the same place. bingo.

we have to look at the terminal before and just after/during the alarm before the terminal leaves the screen. once you have this list you can simply look at the glyphs in odst and write its location and what letter it stands for.

wait, are you saying that these glyphs are related to the containment section of the covenant? Also, It is a good idea so we should look at that...

  • 12.04.2009 2:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: caRESERVOIRpn
Too bad all your theories are wrong. Here I'll give you the correct one:

There's a sword spree medal in ODST because it's an unpolished expansion to Halo 3, built on the same engine with all the same data only repainted.

Man that was hard to think of huh? I doubt Bungie cared enough to go through and remove every little tidbit of data that would be inaccessible in ODST.
Finally. I was expecting that to at least be in the first page, geez.

you guys must think that your smart... well, anyways, your not reading the whole thread. Earlier on in this thread, a Bungie employee admitted that there was something that we haven't found yet.

  • 12.04.2009 4:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: LeBlanc172
Posted by: Steeel Woool
Posted by: caRESERVOIRpn
Too bad all your theories are wrong. Here I'll give you the correct one:

There's a sword spree medal in ODST because it's an unpolished expansion to Halo 3, built on the same engine with all the same data only repainted.

Man that was hard to think of huh? I doubt Bungie cared enough to go through and remove every little tidbit of data that would be inaccessible in ODST.
Finally. I was expecting that to at least be in the first page, geez.

you guys must think that your smart... well, anyways, your not reading the whole thread. Earlier on in this thread, a Bungie employee admitted that there was something that we haven't found yet.


?
A B-guy? Here?
Sorry, but a golden Seventh Column-eblem would be next to the thread name if that would be true.
I know, I would like to belive that too.

  • 12.06.2009 4:20 AM PDT

im an average person to play halo with. im not the best player youll ever see, but im working on it :)

"change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

just a question leblanc. can you fill me in about this containment section of the covenant?

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Posted by: T4NGLEWOOD
just a question leblanc. can you fill me in about this containment section of the covenant?


me too

on-topic: i discovered some strange glyph like things on the elites armour that are on the back,front and leg armour

as shown here

but another threory: what if we`re all wrong and the secret lies within the brutes

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Way back when this thread was first starting out, I didn't find it all that interesting, but it has grown to be pretty good.

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i also noticed that there is 4 dif types of brutes/elites

  • 12.06.2009 7:15 AM PDT

R.I.P Bungie.net

i saw a brute but it was a splitting image on an elite on lost platoon it was a light maroon colour with elite legs....maybe just a gliche...

  • 12.06.2009 7:48 AM PDT

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i also noticed that there is 4 dif types of brutes/elites


Can i get a map with the locations of all dead Elite locations? I have only come across four locations and i have only seen three different ranks of Elites.

  • 12.06.2009 12:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: T4NGLEWOOD
just a question leblanc. can you fill me in about this containment section of the covenant?

well, it is just the section of the covenant that protects the rest of the population from the flood. Elites are well known to make sure that there are no flood outbreaks. Possibly, the elites could have been quickly rearranged around to get to Mombasa. That would mean that the covenant hierarchy was in a scramble and was already in civil war. This would lead to the covenant killing each other. But why the containment and why do they carry used swords, I don't know... Also to the poster who was talking about the b-net employee thing, I just heard it from another guy, I didn't actually see it. I forget what page the guy told me on.

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so as we discover new things, i found what might be a BIG clue. in serch of stuff near uplift reserf i saw a strange glowing thing, like a emrgy sword ontop of a building in the backround, any thouts?

  • 12.06.2009 1:56 PM PDT

I'm the Master chief

Can someone give me a quick review of what we have discivered so far.

BTW I know how to get in yo many of the dark areas.

  • 12.06.2009 2:01 PM PDT
Subject: Glyphs and treasure hunting; the truth about the Sword in ODST

I'm the Master chief

Posted by: LeBlanc172
Posted by: radical00edward
Posted by: LeBlanc172
Hold your applause I got the location! Check it out here. Check it out if you want a ghost, or maybe think about it being another clue to the mystery! I'm just the provider, not the analyzer!

Im on Legendary and im not seeing anything in this area.. Maybe some Covenant forces god dropped in that area and left it behind in your game?

even so, there is a tunnel there and if you have the tunnel, it might just be that it is not there.

Sorry to say it, but i found that thing months ago. BTW the ghost spawns randomly across New Mombasa, so it isn't there.

EDIT: It is similar to the other one, where you get an audiophile.

EDIT 2: How many SI glyphs have you found?

[Edited on 12.06.2009 2:32 PM PST]

  • 12.06.2009 2:19 PM PDT

I think Bungie put in the sword but removed it at the last minute. For example the Wraiths why do they have crossheirs? and why is it usable? Easter egg or accident...
They may have put it in but taken it out later ,hopefully not cause I want a Sword.

Good hunting so far people

Great article dude

  • 12.06.2009 3:37 PM PDT

im an average person to play halo with. im not the best player youll ever see, but im working on it :)

"change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

i know what those glyphs on the elite that you found searchbar. in the halo 2 guide book those are the symbols used for the different covenant vehicles like ghosts, wraiths, banshees and the phantom. maybe even the spectre but i cant remember it bieng on there. those are not the same glyphs as in halo odst though.

oh and btw. the secret lies within the elites. unless you can find any brutes with these glyphs on them that is. the only reason that i think it is with the elites is that 1) they are the only covenant species to have left the covenant and 2) only they have the glyphs on their armour.

[Edited on 12.06.2009 3:40 PM PST]

  • 12.06.2009 3:38 PM PDT