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Subject: Unlock the secrets of ODST (Glyph, canon and Egg hunting!) Renewed...

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Posted by: Munchiesmunchie
So I was playing through Mombasa Streets and found this area, *NOT STONEHENGE* with just a lit circle, grassy area around it, and two engineers floating around. Couldn't kill them. No elites, but there were a bunch of glyphs


Where was it? Sorry, I haven't played in quite some time. My memory of the city is a bit rusty.

  • 12.31.2009 4:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: blagsc
i was looking at a stoneheage from above and it seemed to look like the seventh column simbol


Agreed. I said that several pages earlier. Most in-game symbols represent 6 instead of 7. Why the emphasis has changed I don't know.

  • 12.31.2009 4:45 PM PDT

There is a certain point of tolerance that should never be reached.

From seven races to six.

Grunts(1) Jackals (2) Hunters (3) Elites (4) Prophets (5) Brutes (6) Drones (7)

Seven Races.

The Elites are cast out.

Now there are only six races.

Thus my theory of why six is appearing instead of seven.

  • 01.01.2010 1:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: xXGuydoXx
Posted by: Munchiesmunchie
So I was playing through Mombasa Streets and found this area, *NOT STONEHENGE* with just a lit circle, grassy area around it, and two engineers floating around. Couldn't kill them. No elites, but there were a bunch of glyphs


Where was it? Sorry, I haven't played in quite some time. My memory of the city is a bit rusty.


There are actually three areas like that one being the so called stonehenge area another with just a grassy clearing. The second one has a structure sort of like a miniture stongehenge but not really a stonehenge it has some phones and a water fountian in the middle of it. There are really strange symbols on the walls (engineer stuff) with one very large circle at one end. You can kill the engineers by overchaged plasma shots.

The third area has a crashed ODST drop pod in the centre. I haven't noticed any engineers or symbols in that area. Though there were a few grunts at one point.

[Edited on 01.01.2010 7:55 PM PST]

  • 01.01.2010 5:54 PM PDT
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Anyone else curious to notice the Forerunner ship is actually an upside down Y shape? Well a sort of three demensional Y anyway.

The Alskon symbol is also an upside down Y.

Hmmm I am thinking the Forerunners created Engineers and as such that is why the Engineers use the Y symbol so much as it may very well be part of a Forerunner code or language.

As for Alskon I have little doubt that they are working with Engineers to create new technologies. Hence the similar symbol.

Also if Engineers were created by the Forerunners then they would know the truth of how humans fit into the scheme of things. Hence why they are helping the humans so much. The Brutes want to enslave the Engineers but with humans the Engineers can get back to their original job of researching and fixing things.

I am not entirely sure how this fits into the greater story but it all just seems to fit together if you think about it. If nothing else Bungie has created an interesting spin on the whole Foreunner human relationship.

[Edited on 01.01.2010 7:56 PM PST]

  • 01.01.2010 6:10 PM PDT

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Good theory, it may just turn out to be true. I've been doing some rummaging on the online forums and I've come up with another thing that may (or may not) be a clue to solving the whole -blam- mystery. Do the words 'Keep it clean' ring a bell? Somehow those words seem to keep coming up. In fact I believe that one of the Bungie employees who created a Bungie.net profile in the name of 'Superintendent', used to keep using those words to respond to posts! Maybe we should be keeping it clean a.k.a. looking in dumpsters/garbage trucks for a clue?

  • 01.01.2010 7:52 PM PDT
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  • 01.01.2010 9:27 PM PDT

i was playing the cmapgian one time, and i heard one of the brutes say "there he is, quickly set the charges!". ther two brutes and when i look around, i saw the brutes doing something to the squid ( or the enginneer as you may refer to it) and while battling, i notice that it makes the coveneat shields last longer. when i killedf the squid it exploded.
so probay the squid it makes the shileds last longer and it has charges on it so if it dosemnt do its job it will be deanated by the brutes or the soldiers on the ground.

  • 01.01.2010 9:46 PM PDT
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sorry mantief but we knew that already.
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3f ileid=103685444
Also I've found this on data hive.
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3f ileid=103079489

[Edited on 01.02.2010 10:56 AM PST]

  • 01.02.2010 10:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: mantief
i was playing the cmapgian one time, and i heard one of the brutes say "there he is, quickly set the charges!". ther two brutes and when i look around, i saw the brutes doing something to the squid ( or the enginneer as you may refer to it) and while battling, i notice that it makes the coveneat shields last longer. when i killedf the squid it exploded.
so probay the squid it makes the shileds last longer and it has charges on it so if it dosemnt do its job it will be deanated by the brutes or the soldiers on the ground.


I'm pretty sure the engineers have explosions on them, if to boost the explosion they already make, or to help promote it. Or maybe that is how they explode, but I don't think so. I think this because it says on one of the audio log that they were helping another take an explosive off, and ended up exploding themselves. I think they can explode by themselves, but I think that some also have charges on them so it can be detonated from a safe distance.
They do have some power to boost shields of allies near though.

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thats a damn good point my man, i like your thinking!

  • 01.02.2010 7:18 PM PDT

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sorry I find very interesting your wire
Do you think a big engineers'explosion It may cause the overhead of a kind of "Stone's guardian"?

  • 01.03.2010 4:36 AM PDT
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I have blown the Engineers up in the two areas. I have blown just one up or none or both on different occasions. I haven't noticed anything odd either way. I did notice they seem to react when you first take a mongoose into the area. I tried using the mongoose to ram the walls so it sort of goes up the wall a bit. I was figuring I could climb the wall or something. Alas I couldn't do it.

Unless they recognise the mongoose in some way as per my engineer theory. Hmmm I still think you have to get up onto the second level somehow.

  • 01.03.2010 5:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: V101
I have blown the Engineers up in the two areas. I have blown just one up or none or both on different occasions. I haven't noticed anything odd either way. I did notice they seem to react when you first take a mongoose into the area. I tried using the mongoose to ram the walls so it sort of goes up the wall a bit. I was figuring I could climb the wall or something. Alas I couldn't do it.

Unless they recognise the mongoose in some way as per my engineer theory. Hmmm I still think you have to get up onto the second level somehow.


i would suggest getting two people(or just using 2 controllers if you dont have any friends with ODST) and grenade jump off the persons head tog et to the second level. That pr try elevator jumping up if there is a tight corner.

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I just completed kikowani station with all skulls turned on and nothing new happened, except for me dying every 2 seconds! I looked everywhere. The thing is i just loaded that level instead of doing the whole campaign. I am gonna try it again but when i get home so ill have proof, IF i find anything. That being said if i can manage it on my own, as it is ridiculously hard with all skulls on. Do you think i have to have it on legendary, as it is a right pain? anyone willing to give me a hand is more than welcome to PM me, Ill be home tomorrow!

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  • 01.03.2010 8:42 AM PDT

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or straining stones in a certain order?

  • 01.03.2010 9:31 AM PDT

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or straining stones in a certain order?

Man, I've tried so many things with those "stones." I don't think I've noticed anything happen with them. :(

  • 01.03.2010 4:45 PM PDT

lolnope.

In the tease video, Bungie says theirs five different types of supply caches. I've discovered four. Mongooses, Snipers, 2 Rocket Launcher caches, and an average cache with just SMG and pistol ammo. That leaves one undiscovered type of Supply cache in the city for me. Also, I've discovered other supply cache locations but they won't open and aren't marked on the map. I have all Audio logs so obviously Bungie is hiding something from us.

  • 01.03.2010 6:47 PM PDT
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I also have found at least one cache that I can not open. It is locked every time I go there. Seems odd to me that Bungie would include a supply cache that you can not access.

I wonder what is in there and how to get it open. I have tried going back to it wayyyy later in the game but it is always locked.

  • 01.04.2010 3:32 AM PDT

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Guydo, have you try a multi to explode several engineers in different areas at the same time?

Thank you

If you have it done already I would not try

  • 01.04.2010 6:17 AM PDT

guys I just posted something in the old thread im here because i helped with the glyph investigation in the early stages of the thread...well apart from that im going to write my post here because i think its important...
The last time I played ODST i was playing with my friend Nilgogo via Xbox live, we were all around the city with mongooses when suddenly we saw some engineers exiting a building (thing that is not normal since in the engineer map of neew mombasa there isnt a location inside a building...)so i told my friend to follow them, we followed them to the top part of the city ,were almost all of the doors are closed...and suddenly the engineers got out of the district...we left our mongooses and started watching them. They were already outside the city and they started spinning around and making noises then they started floating towards some buildings and they got inside one so we lost them...we quickly took some snipers and what we saw was so great!!!a big flash of light and then silence....no song....no shooting...just silence...so we thought nah just the game crashing and i remembered the thread!!!so I went to the buildings where the glyphs were and what we saw was really weird...we saw some elite corpses and we started spilling blood everywhere(because i heard something about blood activating glyphs..)but nothing happened..but suddenly we heard the voice of a brute...so we hid behind some lockers or desk...i dunno....and we saw three brutes with an engineer...the brutes started talking weird...and suddenly the engineer shot a beam of light(like the one used at the glyphs)towards the elites after like six seconds the brute leader said"wait!!its done weve got it lets get back to the...."i could hear it all because my friend killed them...well thats all hope it helps..

  • 01.04.2010 2:15 PM PDT

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

Where was the building with all the dead elites?

That sounds really weird.

  • 01.04.2010 3:03 PM PDT

it was near the mirror plaza of plaza tayari but im not sure about the exact position, now im searching for things with my friend we are going to search for the building

  • 01.04.2010 5:14 PM PDT

After reading some of this thread i went to the stone hedge with the 2 engineers, the glyphs werent visible to me until i killed one of the engineers, just thought that might help, and ive noticed that 3s are very important, lots of scenery comes in 3s and in this game (unlike halo 3) you are able to carry 3 grenades of each type. *EDIT* I thought about it and i think a possible explanation for the glyphs and sad superintendent face appearing after i killed an engineer is that virgil(the superintendent and also an ENGINEER) was upset about the killing of his kind.Therefore the sad superintendent face appeared.

[Edited on 01.04.2010 5:48 PM PST]

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