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

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Ok. This post, if what I believe is true, may result in my banning (I don't care).

I explored Kikowani Station. Browsing, I found nothing interesting until I noticed this: "Connection Lost" signs have twelve dots with one of a separate color. I thought, "Gee, that sure does look familiar. Perhaps skulls?"

Somewhere between 11:00 PM and 12:00 PM Eastern time (offline [Controller's time code maybe?]), I turned on the corresponding skull to the twelve dots on the sign because they were in the same orientation as the skull activation screen. The first "Connection Lost" sign on the right of the first area of the level said "Access Denied" with a number sequence and had two dots similar to the previous twelve and a number sequence. This change happened ONLY when I watched the cutscene. Although I have never explored this before, I find it interesting and, possibly, relevant to an easter egg finding.

  • 01.24.2010 4:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: xXGuydoXx
LOL.
I can look into it. But if it's something you heard one of your friends, it's pretty surely a lie (unless your friend works for bungie). I think would've not missed information like that.
By the way: I (and others before me) have gone past the map boundaries.

Right, man. Here's the thing: my 'friend' is a close personal one that is believable. The reason you haven't found this is because he got out of the map without glitches; he walked right outside. He has been to places in the game that none, if any, of us have gone. I don't necessarily believe him because I can't believe Bungie would put something like that in the game.

What does it change if you just walk out? Nothing, I say. I would say it's false now.

But your latter find - The twelve little dots - seems more interesting. If there really was a change with the corresponding skull, and the change is not something that always happens randomly, then you Might be onto something.
Some pics would be good though.

  • 01.24.2010 9:32 PM PDT

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Yeah, I'm working on those pics. ;)

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http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3f ileid=105087557

Notice that these are the same signs @ right of first area. The red sign activated with Mythic on Legendary ~ 12:00 PM.

[Edited on 01.25.2010 3:47 PM PST]

  • 01.25.2010 3:30 PM PDT
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Hello, and gooodbye!

hi people, i havnt been online for a while cause i cut my hand open. anyhoo, what skulls was it you tried, is there anything you want me to try? im running out of ideas fast but there are still secrets left to find im sure of it!

  • 01.26.2010 1:31 PM PDT

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Posted by: LUK4S
hi people, i havnt been online for a while cause i cut my hand open.

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Oooookay...:D
anyhoo, what skulls was it you tried, is there anything you want me to try? im running out of ideas fast but there are still secrets left to find im sure of it!
Well, if you could confirm Guydox's find right above your post, it would be nice.

[Edited on 01.27.2010 5:31 AM PST]

  • 01.27.2010 5:31 AM PDT

Been playing since pong, and you?

The sign next to the Marty egg changes from red to blue when on Legendary difficulty. This might be a hint to other eggs. Those who want to look into this might find sign changes on other levels. Again this only happened to me on legendary. I also noticed two types of music at Marty with my back to the wall. It's the same music as the Halo 3 musical wall. I don't know if this new. I suspect not. But I did not notice it before. Can someone confirm this is old. Did everyone notice the date on the Noble Team Performance Report yesterday? 30 May 2552 Hmmmm.

  • 01.27.2010 11:12 AM PDT

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Posted by: Atarigen
The sign next to the Marty egg changes from red to blue when on Legendary difficulty. This might be a hint to other eggs. Those who want to look into this might find sign changes on other levels. Again this only happened to me on legendary.

Excellent.
But I think you should clarify me a little:"changes from red to blue when on Legendary difficulty." I think it just me being too complicated, but are you meaning that the sign changes during the game from blue to red or do you mean that on Legendary, it's red/blue?
I also noticed two types of music at Marty with my back to the wall. It's the same music as the Halo 3 musical wall. I don't know if this new. I suspect not. But I did not notice it before. Can someone confirm this is old.
Yes, it's old. Srry.
Did everyone notice the date on the Noble Team Performance Report yesterday? 30 May 2552 Hmmmm.
Wha?

  • 01.27.2010 12:03 PM PDT

Been playing since pong, and you?

On any difficulty other than legendary the Marty egg sign is red. When you go to the same area it is blue with legendary on.

  • 01.27.2010 12:50 PM PDT

Been playing since pong, and you?

The red and blue signs are represented in Guydo's last posted links. I believe the same signs are present in other levels of campaign. Might be worth looking onto.

  • 01.27.2010 12:53 PM PDT

Been playing since pong, and you?

The reach information page was updated yesterday with a Noble Team Performance Report. This appeared to be a fictional evaluation on Noble Team by a supirior officer. The report was was dated 30 May 2552. Don't confuse it with the Reach update posted today. I'm just saying that it might petain to what we are all waiting for right now. We all know what that is.

  • 01.27.2010 1:07 PM PDT

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I checked the screen in all difficulties, then all difficulties with Mythic skull on. On every time, the screen was blue.
Wonder if it was the right one... Didn't even bother to check If Marty was there.
It's the screen that is in the very beginning of the level, on the right, right?

Posted by: Atarigen
I'm just saying that it might petain to what we are all waiting for right now. We all know what that is.

Beta date release?

  • 01.28.2010 6:23 AM PDT

Been playing since pong, and you?

Yeah Beta release. no Immpa its not in the first area. It's in the area with the large locked door where you have to beat a Chieftan to open it. The sign is on side of this area before the locked door.

  • 01.28.2010 6:30 AM PDT

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What I find rather interesting is there are only 2 dead elites by the believe sign. I would have thought we would find many many more bodies in the city etc. Makes me wonder what's behind those doors........

[Edited on 01.29.2010 6:48 AM PST]

  • 01.29.2010 6:47 AM PDT

I'd like to say something about this article of the thread:
S.5 An ODST Stonehenge

I think the 'QTA XII / VI' puzzle has something to do with this.
Reason:

As you can see this controller holds some hints/secrets about ODST:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/02/halo-3-odst-controller-pics -hold-clues-into-new-mombasa-mysteri/2

More importantly, one of the comments.
A guy called "disastor" commented:
"looking in the QTA 2 thing myself. looks like (as you said) QTA is an abbreviation for Quetta, Pakistan. However the meaning of the word Quetta is translated to "fort" in english. According to wiki, "The city is a natural fort, surrounded by imposing hills on all sides." This may make sense because right next to the QTA 2 words are the little mountain graphics.
(...)"

I know some of those facts already might be known on the internet. But if QTA actually means fort. This might be the clue to the "Stonehenge". So i've read small parts of the so called 'Glyphs'. I think the 'QTA XII / VI' could mean an order in which you will have to 'activate' the glyphs.
This is just some speculating, since I just stepped into these ODST mysteries i'm not familiar with all kinds of things. So i'm going to play ODST this weekend with my brother to see things myself.

I've also scribbled and done a little math on the QTA things at school. Oh and, my knowledge of roman nummerals isn't that good...
My scribblings:

Q = 17(th letter of the alphabet) = XVII
T = 20 = XX
A = 1 = I

A -> Q = 117 = Spartan (MC)
This is known already. And here's something that might be a little farfetched, tbh. But I still want to share my thoughts about it. Maybe it's useful in some way.
117 can be divided as following -> 11 // 7
Taking 1+1 together = 2 = II
Making 7 into roman nummerals = VII
Together: IIVII = "2v2" or "M"

You might wanna stop reading from here. Rest isn't really shocking. skimming it would be nice though.

Again, my knowledge of the mysteries isn't really that much yet, so yeah, this may sound idiotic, stupid, etc... But i'm just hoping someone looks at my scribblings and thinks like: "HEY! I've seen that before!"

Rest of the things put together, so don't have to do the math(rest of scribbling):

Q -> A = 171 = ...
T -> Q = 2017 = ...
Q -> T = 1720 = ...
T -> A = 201 = ...
A -> T = 120 = ...
XII -> VI = 126 = ...
VI -> XII = 612 = ...
Q+T+A = 56 + 89 = 145 = ...

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Also
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Since Bungie also showed a picture somewhere (I think it was Bungie PAX 2009 part 5 on youtube).

The picture said/showed:

Left side of winking superintendent face: "QTA"
Right side of winking superintendent face: "XII / VI"
Below of winking superintendent face: "Keep it clean"

I tried breaking 'Keep it clean' into pieces as following:
I counted the cliché, Xth number of the alphabet for each letter. I just put the roman numerals here 'in case'.

k = 11 = XI
e = 5 (3x) = V
p = 16 = XVI
i = 9 = VIIII (lol)
t = 20 = XX
c = 3 = III
l = 12 = XII
a = 1 = I
n = 14 = XIV

The sum of these = 79
Plus the other 2 'e'-s = 79+10 = 89

Again, no results (in my viewpoint).

BUT:

Put this in order would give the following:

115 . 169 . 203 . 114

As you may have noticed, I made a code out of this just like with the 'Halo 3 Comic'.
But AFAIK IP's only exist from these orders xxx.xxx.xx.xx or xx.xx.xx.xx etc...
This code is leading to nothing.

That's all folks. Concluding: maths with the 'QTA XII / VI' probably leads to nothing. But it still might have to do something with the 'Stonehenge'.

Thanks for reading,
Shinta

[Edited on 01.29.2010 9:19 AM PST]

  • 01.29.2010 7:31 AM PDT

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Good working Shinta! Though it seems to be nothing (sorry), you have been working hard.
QTA XII/VI Is definitely something. The picture you mentioned is this; and it reads:
ODST TEAM RECON
QTA XII VI
KEEP IT CLEAN

Staten, at the time he showed the picture, said:
This is a patch we made early up for the team, little secret numbers there, I thought it up for you guys.
Also, in the interview about the limited edition controller, he said that "it should help solving the mysteries of ODST", or something of that sort. (Shouldn't say something I'm not certain...)
Has it helped us yet? No. Will it help us in the future?
Well, that remains to be seen..After all, this all could be just a big sea of Red Herrings.


[Edited on 01.29.2010 12:16 PM PST]

  • 01.29.2010 12:15 PM PDT

Been playing since pong, and you?

I have about the meaning of QTA 12 6. There are sveral images and references in ODST with a question mark on them "?". Its is visible on many screens in New Mombasa streets. I believe simply that QTA means. QUESTION TO ANSWER. Well then what is the question? The largest Easter egg in ODST is MARTY dancing with music. During the animation his right arm moves from 12 to 6 o'clock. Here is a clock reference.

12

9 + 3

6
QTA= Question to answer. which is What is 12 6 ?
12 6 is Marty's dancing Easter egg

  • 01.29.2010 5:16 PM PDT

Not sure if this has already been said but,

I found a glyph that has the SI in all three spaces.

Dunno what it means though.

  • 01.29.2010 5:44 PM PDT

The glyph with the Y and 3 SI's is also shown in this article.
It wasn't easy to find it, wasn't it?

[Edited on 01.30.2010 4:14 AM PST]

  • 01.30.2010 4:06 AM PDT

Yeah, I'm working on those pics. ;)

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http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3f ileid=105087557

Notice that these are the same signs @ right of first area. The red sign activated with Mythic on Legendary ~ 12:00 PM.

Those signs also showed op when I was playing with my brother yesterday.

- It was between 7:00 pm ~ 8.00 pm GMT+1.
- 2 player co-op
- Heroic
- Probably Kikowani Station (sector 5 afaik), maybe even multiple places.

Is it possible that in (sector 5 afaik) the 'Squidhenge' doesn't show glyphs anywhere?

[Edited on 01.30.2010 4:16 AM PST]

  • 01.30.2010 4:11 AM PDT

Reach: 2010

Why does a man climb a mountain? Because it is there..

Posted by: JETST0RM
"Wow! It's like the money-shot is on MY face!"

too much reading.

  • 01.30.2010 5:29 AM PDT

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Posted by: Atarigen
I have about the meaning of QTA 12 6. There are sveral images and references in ODST with a question mark on them "?". Its is visible on many screens in New Mombasa streets. I believe simply that QTA means. QUESTION TO ANSWER. Well then what is the question? The largest Easter egg in ODST is MARTY dancing with music. During the animation his right arm moves from 12 to 6 o'clock. Here is a clock reference.

12

9 + 3

6
QTA= Question to answer. which is What is 12 6 ?
12 6 is Marty's dancing Easter egg

That...pretty good. Wow.
Though it seems kinda stupid...To tie so much "clues" in an Egg that will be surely found without them.
Is that something Bungie would do?
...Perhaps. Still, I keep believing that someday, something new pops up. Call me stubborn, but I stand opinion.
But as said, good theory.

Oh, and what comes to the Signs: If I remember right, on legendary without Mythic skull, the screen is blue. On mythic, it turned to red.
If this is right, it would mean that with different skulls, the map changes in some ways, and we will be able to reveal something new (perhaps).
Next step: Check does it matter what skull you have on; does the screen change only when Mythic is on?

[Edited on 01.30.2010 6:50 AM PST]

  • 01.30.2010 6:45 AM PDT

Posted by: imppa Next step: Check does it matter what skull you have on; does the screen change only when Mythic is on?
What is meant by turning 'Mythic' on? Is it a skull?

  • 01.30.2010 1:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mascaraudus
Posted by: imppa Next step: Check does it matter what skull you have on; does the screen change only when Mythic is on?
What is meant by turning 'Mythic' on? Is it a skull?

Yes, exactly that. This because the blue screen has 12 dots, with one of them colored different than the rest. When you compare the dots and the skulls, you see that where the differently coloured dot is, there is Mythic skull. And when you have Mythic on, the screen should be red.

  • 01.30.2010 2:58 PM PDT

Posted by: imppa
Yes, exactly that. This because the blue screen has 12 dots, with one of them colored different than the rest. When you compare the dots and the skulls, you see that where the differently coloured dot is, there is Mythic skull. And when you have Mythic on, the screen should be red.


Ah, okay. Guessed so. I also noticed the one dot being yellow, while the others being blue. This was on heroic as I stated before.

Also. In my huge mofo post. I had this code. And I said something like: "IP's only go as following (afaik) xxx.xxx.xx.xx or xx.xx.xxx.xxx, which isn't true. I asked my brother who actually programs websites at a certain company.
He told me that IP's actually can be like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
So it's definitely possible that it's another IP like in 2007, which I stated before in that nice organized post of mine ;)
I'm going to bed soon, though. And i'm kinda lazy to be testing different orders of the code...

Good luck,
Shinta (that's been my default nickname for years)

[Edited on 01.30.2010 3:07 PM PST]

  • 01.30.2010 3:06 PM PDT

Been playing since pong, and you?

The mythic skull has no effect on the Kikowani signs, or the Marty egg. I am presntly mapping the red and blue signs in campaign. I would like some helps to do the mapped areas on legendary,mythic. If you are interested send me a friend request. Sorry about misspelling your name Imppa.

  • 02.01.2010 4:52 PM PDT