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


Ooh, I love those people, the ones who decide to throw everything and the kitchen sink at you, as if an M16 does anything to a T-90. Oh, MLG player with noobtube instead? Congrats! You blew off one of my ablative plates!

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Posted by: w5v
everyone this topic is discussed more here. pretty interesting.

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[Edited on 01.06.2010 12:27 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2010 12:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: w5v
everyone this topic is discussed more here. pretty interesting.

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[Edited on 01.06.2010 12:20 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2010 12:19 PM PDT

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.


It's true that the fail-safe would activate, but the entire sword would be destroyed, including the hilt. Maybe you could pick it up, but probably not. As soon as, say, a plasma pistol runs out of charge and I drop it, I can never pick that one up again. Although it's worth a shot...

[Edited on 01.06.2010 4:31 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2010 4:21 PM PDT

I too have a magical fading code of awesome on that thingy.

OK, i saw a post from someone on here asking if anyone had done a map overlay of halo 2 and ODST so i went looking and have found one, only problem is the h2 area is a long way away.... anyway I'm not going to steal the guy's credit that did this, i only found it so here's the link:

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=953644

[Edited on 01.06.2010 7:16 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2010 6:42 PM PDT

Nice job bro. Way to stop that n00b.

  • 01.06.2010 8:13 PM PDT

I too have a magical fading code of awesome on that thingy.

hey guys, was just looking around in ODST and found something curious, there are three areas on the map that have the "Stone henge" and appear accessible, wrong. Two are one isn't, one has the "Stonehenge" with the two dead Elites which is located in the center of the map roughly, the other is to the far right and contains a a open ODST Drop pod with broken and bent palm trees around it and the other is locate right next to the building that has Dares Recon helmet in it.

I had basically figured out that blue areas are building,walls etc and are in-accessible whereas the orange areas are accessible, but with this last "Stonehenge room" near Dares crash site, is not.

More strangely, it has a door on the map clearly showing that you are able to get in and once in, that there is another path leading out and into the nearby closed area which is the area that your pod crashes in, but (for me) it appears in-accessible and the door is in-operative with the RB (maybe this is just cause i started a new game)

Also, just a crazy theory but i think that the sword has something to with the Oni alpha site in game, there are even phantoms that are still searching and flying over it (max=2, i think) when it is clearly destroyed, along with those weird symbols that are on the road witch i have never actually seen in previous game plays, but even if this is true how do we get to the ONI building?

Well as most of us probably know, the truth always has something to do with ONI.

[Edited on 01.07.2010 5:02 AM PST]

  • 01.07.2010 1:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: Mushroomy
hey guys, was just looking around in ODST and found something curious, there are three areas on the map that have the "Stone henge" and appear accessible, wrong.

You can't acces that area trough the tall grey security doors, you must go trough the building to get there. You pass this area in the very first level, don't you remember? ;)


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Also, just a crazy theory but i think that the sword has something to with the Oni alpha site in game, there are even phantoms that are still searching and flying over it (max=2, i think) when it is clearly destroyed, along with those weird symbols that are on the road witch i have never actually seen in previous game plays, but even if this is true how do we get to the ONI building?

You glitch! Tepec Fett and his companions at HaloCreation were able to do that some time ago. Check their video in Youtube. It has good musics.

[Edited on 01.07.2010 8:49 AM PST]

  • 01.07.2010 8:49 AM PDT

who cares the game sucked

  • 01.07.2010 12:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: MAYHEMMIKE934
who cares the game sucked

Yeah, and because it's your opinion it's the fact, right?

  • 01.07.2010 12:20 PM PDT

I too have a magical fading code of awesome on that thingy.

Has anyone been to the Plaza area opposite Dares and seen the symbols there? i found a pretty interesting one, it's the usual giant Y letter but with three SI pictures instead of the normal one SI picture, it can be found under the stairs that you use to get down into the "pit".

there are also two engineers there along with a single brute and two covenant comm towers,A LOT of explosives, 2 Incendiary grenades,two brute spiker grenades and a beam rifle with full "ammunition" sounds fishy to me cause each time that one brute dies, no matter how, both engineers die as well.... maybe this means:


Brute's life signal ends--> Comm towers--> Engineers--> Explosive's "Receiver" = Destruction of important Covenant info?

UPDATE: Finished Taking the picture and have added them to my gallery, not sure if you will be able to view them but here is a link:

http://www.bungie.net/stats/halo3/screenshots.aspx?player=Mus hroomy&mode=pinned





[Edited on 01.08.2010 12:36 AM PST]

  • 01.07.2010 11:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mushroomy
Has anyone been to the Plaza area opposite Dares and seen the symbols there? i found a pretty interesting one, it's the usual giant Y letter but with three SI pictures instead of the normal one SI picture, it can be found under the stairs that you use to get down into the "pit".

there are also two engineers there along with a single brute and two covenant comm towers,A LOT of explosives, 2 Incendiary grenades,two brute spiker grenades and a beam rifle with full "ammunition" sounds fishy to me cause each time that one brute dies, no matter how, both engineers die as well.... maybe this means:


Brute's life signal ends--> Comm towers--> Engineers--> Explosive's "Receiver" = Destruction of important Covenant info?

UPDATE: Finished Taking the picture and have added them to my gallery, not sure if you will be able to view them but here is a link:

http://www.bungie.net/stats/halo3/screenshots.aspx?player=Mus hroomy&mode=pinned




Yeah, been seen. That is the Super Tri-Gylph, one of its kind. One of the big things that put he SGP rollin'. You have any theories for it?
The "pit" or "Sunken Plaza" or "mirror plaza" has been theorized to be Covenants biggest armory in NM. It has many grenades an a sniper, but more importantly several empty amoo crates. The Self-destruction theory is a good one...
But this still doesn't explain the Tri-Glyph!

[Edited on 01.08.2010 1:19 AM PST]

  • 01.08.2010 1:18 AM PDT

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wow! I haven't posted here in almost 3 months and ppl are still writing the same theories. nice to know noone's found anything new. After all this time, if bungie hasn't thrown us a bone by now, don't you think we're barking up the wrong tree?

Here's an update for those of you who have just joined:

Sword: inaccesable
glyphs: random game glitch depending on where u are in story
hidden rooms?: also glitch depending on how they're triggered

I was really hoping to find something new here

  • 01.08.2010 4:43 AM PDT

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Posted by: ZaggRukk
wow! I haven't posted here in almost 3 months and ppl are still writing the same theories. nice to know noone's found anything new. After all this time, if bungie hasn't thrown us a bone by now, don't you think we're barking up the wrong tree?

Here's an update for those of you who have just joined:

Sword: inaccesable
glyphs: random game glitch depending on where u are in story
hidden rooms?: also glitch depending on how they're triggered

I was really hoping to find something new here

Not sure is this nothing...after all, they DID reply to the Mystery of Sandbox, and said that there's nothing (in a way. ;P).
But glyphs should not be considered as glitches! The only thing that makes them "glitch" is that they tend to dissappear sometimes without reason (Or so I've heard...). A Glitch would be something Bungie didn't create for purpose, and Glyphs definitely were made with it.
But hey, you said you hoped we found something new, right?
Well, it's nothing but, but did you notice the mention of the Zombielites?

  • 01.08.2010 5:04 AM PDT
Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST
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This is why we need eagle vision in ODST

  • 01.08.2010 5:19 AM PDT

There comes a time in every mans life... and that time is not now.

I went into theatre on kikowani station and went under the water. Man its creepy down there. A bunch of columns, lights and fog.

  • 01.09.2010 1:41 AM PDT

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I went into theatre on kikowani station and went under the water. Man its creepy down there. A bunch of columns, lights and fog.


Sounds interesting. I've been under the water on Oni Alpha Site with the bridge but there's nothing except you can get out of the map on theater mode.

  • 01.09.2010 10:27 PM PDT

There comes a time in every mans life... and that time is not now.

Here's a pic of it:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3f ileid=104071007

  • 01.12.2010 5:42 PM PDT

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that's sick! But, how may this help... hmmm... I was wishing to find more like the other guy who left for a long time. We already thought about zombie elites and it has nothing to do with this. What I'm wondering is if the so called 'glitches' are really glitches and maybe just put in there...

  • 01.13.2010 11:28 AM PDT

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what are the light sources? have you tried to reach it?
two, i believe the sword is like the Halo 2 Scarab Gun. you just have to look for it.

and is their anything you can move underwater, have you driven anything into it?

so many questions...

  • 01.13.2010 2:42 PM PDT


Ooh, I love those people, the ones who decide to throw everything and the kitchen sink at you, as if an M16 does anything to a T-90. Oh, MLG player with noobtube instead? Congrats! You blew off one of my ablative plates!

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Posted by: AtomicRavioli1
what are the light sources? have you tried to reach it?
two, i believe the sword is like the Halo 2 Scarab Gun. you just have to look for it.

and is their anything you can move underwater, have you driven anything into it?

so many questions...


you die in the water

  • 01.14.2010 9:09 AM PDT

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Posted by: AtomicRavioli1
what are the light sources? have you tried to reach it?
two, i believe the sword is like the Halo 2 Scarab Gun. you just have to look for it.

and is their anything you can move underwater, have you driven anything into it?

so many questions...


you die in the water

Not right away, you can fly just under the water with banshee. But I haven't seen anything specific there...Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough.

  • 01.14.2010 10:01 AM PDT
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"BAM" said the lady...

Got pissed when seeing this thread now, right after I collected all my audio logs.
Anyway I read up to about page 10 before skipping here.
And I find that there are a lot of things supporting this and a few things to deny the possibility of it ever existing. But I learned a lot form you guys about this city. And the next time I run through the campaign I will try look for something but our best bet it the streets.

  • 01.15.2010 7:10 AM PDT
Subject: Glyphs and treasure hunting; the truth about the Sword in ODST

<< Winter Is Coming >>

With friends, I do attempt to exploser the engineers on different areas of stones;
Nothing see of special, except a little Lag at the time of the explosion.
I continue exploration of the map!?!

[Edited on 01.16.2010 11:36 AM PST]

  • 01.16.2010 11:35 AM PDT
Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST

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Go play halo 3 campaign, find a sword and a marine, then kill them marine and put the sword next to him, you will notice that the sword is almost 3/4 his body lengths, Ellites are big, like 2 feet taller than spartans, the weapon may have been in the game (like you said) in the early stages, but when they saw the size comparisons, they just didn't fit, and they cut it. And where the ellites were, maybe was where you would pick up a sword, we will never know

And i know this because you can NEVER give a sword to a marine in any campaign for halo, they are too big for marines to use

  • 01.17.2010 3:47 AM PDT