Posted by: Duo Oratar
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Ok I'd just like to clarify a few things.
1: We have no proof this has anything to do with the switches except for the description of the Vidmaster in Marathon, and I would like to remind everyone this has never been called a vidmaster challenge. Similarly the Halo 3 Vidmasters for recon were called vidmasters yet entailed no Bob killing or switch pushing, so it's not a definite that just because we have Bobs that need killing it is a vidmaster.
2: The switches are their own self contained easter eggs which (to my knowledge) we know the purpose of all of them (Pelican Egg, Reach Racer, Tribute Room and The Package Banshees).
3: If we agree with the general consensus that there is no secret helmet on the disk, then we must assume the helmet is going to come from Bungie/343, which would require them to patch EVERYONE's games, so this would have to come in a proper patch, not in a map pack or secretly just to people who have unlocked the helmet.
4: The data pads are again their own seperate egg. We have abosolutely nothing to link them to the Bobs or the helmets. They are never mentioned in marathon at all or in the vidmaster which makes them much less likely to be part of this.
5: The data pads also have their own rewards. They provide a piece of backstory to the plot, were as the Bobs just provide a medal, and there's a lot of them for one medal.
6: Also, LASO =/= The marathon vidmaster. The marathon vidmaster was on Total Carnage, which would basically equal Legendary difficulty in Halo terms. Possibly with the Iron skull on because:
6A: It was a requirement for many of the Halo 3/ODST Vidmasters
6B: The Marathon Vidmaster required you not to die.
7: Kira Onime is not a troll, he just can see the folly of many of the things we do. The number of times we (this forum) have invented easter eggs on a grand and ridiculous scale is
probably too many to count I'm talking about
7A:The "What's Under Sandtrap?" Easter Egg from Halo 3 (Which didn't exist).
7B:The Halo 2 "Golden Warthog/Triangle Gates/Delta Halo Switch" Easter Egg, which was also a collection of community generated myths.
8:Does anyone know how exactly this "data-mining" activity is done, because I can't find any infomation on how it's done, or what people can see.
9:There is also NO verified connection to the Halo 3 skulls, yes there was one on each level, but so was there in Halo 2 and I'm sure it is true of many other things through out the series, it's just a common way to distribute things, one to each level, nice clean and simple.
10:Lastly I'm not saying we should stop looking for this, because the evidence in the first post is pretty definite, but I'm saying we should probably narrow our search to the bobs rather than looking at all of the other eggs, which are their own contained things.
The man has a point. I think all of us (including me) got a little carried away...