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Posted by: doginthemafia
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I have an idea of how to get the sword but it requires experimental modding. In halo pc whenever the energy sword hit the ground it exploded. I stopped this by unticking a box in a modding program. Perhaps you could use this process on the energy sword on mombasa streets.

or some one can check the hex code to see if there are any sword tags
also we should see if they brought the scarab gun back

someone already did check some codes. I think there's a link somewhere in this thread. I don't have time to check it for you, but I remember that they found something odd.

  • 12.14.2009 11:22 AM PDT
Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST

this is all very interesting.. i shall research...

  • 12.14.2009 4:07 PM PDT

While transitioning from one buliding to another, we hear Buck say something like "What the hell happened here?" And the SI responds "Slow down. Final notice: Bill past due." Could this be a clue? Does anyone know why the Si would say that?

He might possibly say that as a warning letting us know that if we continue on through the game anymore (missions) we will not be able to access the so called hidden sword if it even existed in the first place. "Bill past due." might also mean that we have gone too far mission wise to be able to retrieve the so called hidden sword. But if that is true then it contradicts what I was saying at first which is we get a warning but with Bill past due, we cannot get it again unless we start over..

Although all this is just thought and assumption. I read the main post and nothing else so im not sure if im even correct or whether or not it has been discussed already. This sounds interesting though so I may end up scimming and reading some posts to learn more and hopefully I can contribute more to this post and give my opinion.

  • 12.14.2009 5:14 PM PDT

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Bill past due... Bill Past due... um, maybe a recession! nah just kidding. It may just be telling us that we should slow down. There are about seven brutes in the next section.

  • 12.16.2009 11:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: LeBlanc172
Bill past due... Bill Past due... um, maybe a recession! nah just kidding. It may just be telling us that we should slow down. There are about seven brutes in the next section.

well when a bill is past due that means you beter hury up or there going to stop suplying you with what ever. so maby when the Si sais bill past due it means you beter hury up and look for the sword or sumptin (spelling)

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  • 12.16.2009 12:09 PM PDT

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Interesting.There really might be something secret.Thread saved.

  • 12.16.2009 1:56 PM PDT

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on topic: How did Kikowani get flooded? that might provide some clue/s

Read that the Spartan 1.1s had stuff everywhere in case of a covy attack on earth, 3 pelicans, supply caches etc. What if there is one on a roof top in NM like in OM?

  • 12.16.2009 9:03 PM PDT
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honestly, i think we're just overworking the thought.

  • 12.16.2009 10:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: MichaelYEAHH
honestly, i think we're just overworking the thought.

never, never say that. Anyways, we should all invest a lot of time to this

  • 12.17.2009 3:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: EpicFishFingers
Maybe it was there just in case they decided to include elites in the game?

If it were hidden, I'd search areas like the scarab and the final mission.


i think they were thinking they were gonna put elites in at first but didnt decide to because they thought it would be better to save for the DLC

  • 12.18.2009 7:47 AM PDT
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my precious controller as well lmfao ur ryte though

  • 12.18.2009 7:57 AM PDT
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Did you guys know about the glyphs in Kikowani Stn.

  • 12.18.2009 12:02 PM PDT
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What if there are rings on the side of buildings that 2 (or 4) people have to jump through in order by leaping to their deaths?

That would be funny, and possible

  • 12.18.2009 12:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: CIA391
Did you guys know about the glyphs in Kikowani Stn.

yes, no offense, but we know everything with these 78 or so pages... anyways, we are on the stage of analyzing

  • 12.18.2009 12:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: EpicFishFingers
Maybe it was there just in case they decided to include elites in the game?

If it were hidden, I'd search areas like the scarab and the final mission.


i think they were thinking they were gonna put elites in at first but didnt decide to because they thought it would be better to save for the DLC

There will be no ODST DLC.

  • 12.18.2009 2:54 PM PDT

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Totally off-topic, but has anyone every had a functioning Ghost on the "streets"?

  • 12.19.2009 4:05 AM PDT
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Armageist yes I had a Ghost mombassa streets

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Posted by: Armageist

Totally off-topic, but has anyone every had a functioning Ghost on the "streets"?


yes every one of my playthrough and long matches i will see that ghost

  • 12.19.2009 4:54 AM PDT

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Totally off-topic, but has anyone every had a functioning Ghost on the "streets"?


I already posted this somewhere, but here's a map to find a working ghost in Mombasa Streets.

  • 12.19.2009 11:44 AM PDT
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To play or not to play....

Yes there is a ghost in New Mombassa. If you are really sneaky you might be able to sneak up to it and take it. Though when I play on legendary I usually get seen and a Brute drives it around.

LOL the easiest hijacking ever. Seriously do Brutes even have a brain? LOL... I actually think it is supposed to be easy to hijack. Considering that you get a mongoose early on one might think it a bit odd that you get a ghost as well.

My guess is that the ghost has the ability to boost so it could be a bit faster than the mongoose. Hence Bungie puts it in there for those who want to get it.

  • 12.19.2009 2:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: LeBlanc172
Bill past due... Bill Past due... um, maybe a recession! nah just kidding. It may just be telling us that we should slow down. There are about seven brutes in the next section.


That is just the way SI talks. It talks in sort of statements like that for example in that spot where SI says "Bill past due" it is saying more than that.

You need to take it in CONTEXT.

As you walk through the hallways of the building and are about to go out in plane sight of thre or four Brutes SI tells you to slow down. If you stop dead still and stand their until hell freezes over SI says noting else.

If you keep walking then SI tells you "Bill past due" meaning it is time for payment. In other words time to pay the Brutes their payment. Alternatively you could see this as simply meaning you are now in plane sight of enemies. The payment is your life (in game of course) if you don't pay attention.



  • 12.19.2009 2:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: LeBlanc172
Bill past due... Bill Past due... um, maybe a recession! nah just kidding. It may just be telling us that we should slow down. There are about seven brutes in the next section.


That is just the way SI talks. It talks in sort of statements like that for example in that spot where SI says "Bill past due" it is saying more than that.

You need to take it in CONTEXT.

As you walk through the hallways of the building and are about to go out in plane sight of thre or four Brutes SI tells you to slow down. If you stop dead still and stand their until hell freezes over SI says noting else.

If you keep walking then SI tells you "Bill past due" meaning it is time for payment. In other words time to pay the Brutes their payment. Alternatively you could see this as simply meaning you are now in plane sight of enemies. The payment is your life (in game of course) if you don't pay attention.




if you're going to correct me, spell right. Anyways, there are more than four brutes in the next section. To say bill past due is to say that the covies and the humans are already allied. what that means is that we have already had a chance to give them what we got, but didn't. For this statement to be true, it is suggested that we are already allies with the covies. The SI would know that the covies failed from alternate cameras. The only question I have is how he would know we are allies. This is after the blast and the com= was shut off. The ONI must have already been allies at the beginning of Halo 2. Why the bloodshed?

  • 12.20.2009 6:21 AM PDT