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Subject: what was the point of all this?

halo is all i play oh

And I don't mean financial gain.
I played through the whole campaign, and i didn't really understand why we went in the city, just to scatter and regroup.

An engineer was captured, sure, but engineers are for fixing things. even if they got intel out of it, what impact does it have on the rest of the halo series at all?

Btw, don't tell me they found out about the ark because they found out about that in halo 2.

  • 10.17.2010 9:31 AM PDT

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Yeah, the story was a little sketchy, if im not mistaken, theyre real purpose was to retrieve the top secret information stored in the city's computer aka the superintendent and bring it back, stopping the Covenant from getting valuable and potentially dangerous information, but while down there, they discovered an engineer aka vergil who had communicated with the AI, and explained that engineers were slaves and that he had valuable information that could help humanity win the war, so the new mission became to get him out of the city safely so he could be debriefed, but you are right to be confused with what the information they got actually did to help anyone in the series, it isnt really explained unfortunately, they dont go into it, i assume it was some general information that would prove useful like battle plans or weaknesses.

  • 10.17.2010 3:57 PM PDT

Heroes never die.

there mission was to drop on a covenant carrier but it teleported so now they droped down and are scatterd

  • 10.18.2010 3:30 PM PDT

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Posted by: DALEAGLESCOUT
there mission was to drop on a covenant carrier but it teleported so now they droped down and are scatterd
That was the mission of the rest of the ODSTs, our squad was told it was their mission too, but last minute Dare drafted them to her top secret mission, thats why they change course mid drop unlike the rest of the odsts heading for the carrier

  • 10.19.2010 12:48 AM PDT

If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.

The ODST's were to drop down and capture the covenant super-carrier alongside the Masterchief and groundside UNSC forces. At the last minute Dare commandeered Gunnery Sargent Buck's ODST squad for her ONI black op.

Dare's mission was to secure the data that the New Mombassa Superintendent had uncovered. The Superintendent had found geological / archaeological data that indicated there was a massive structure beneath the city. At the time, the UNSC had no knowledge about the Ark, and thus this was top-tier information essential towards potentially understanding the Covenant's plans for Earth.

The capture/ defection of a Covenant Engineer was an incredible boon. It gave them a creature with the power of a super-computer that was intimately familiar with Covenant technology, and understood what was underneath New Mombassa, and why the Covenant were only attacking New Mombassa.

In the end, Buck's squad played a small but essential role in determining the Covenant's objective on Earth (and uncovering why there weren't just glassing the whole planet). This kind of intel would allow the UNSC to alter its tactical imperatives and better allocate its resources. It also meant they could try to plan for a counter-attack, as seen in Halo 3 when the Chief went along the Tsavo Highway and took out Covenant Anti-Air.

  • 10.19.2010 3:47 AM PDT

they found out about it in halo 2 because of the ODST'S

  • 10.19.2010 7:12 AM PDT

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  • 10.19.2010 8:33 AM PDT

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Posted by: RoboChocobo
The ODST's were to drop down and capture the covenant super-carrier alongside the Masterchief



it SUCKS that this mission got cut from halo2

  • 10.19.2010 12:29 PM PDT

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To question the engineer on the Covenants' plans and give the UNSC an edge in the war.

  • 10.19.2010 2:16 PM PDT