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The Official Halo 3: ODST Thread

AFreak said:
Already beat the game. I guess it can be done on easy, so that shouldn't be too time consuming. ill work on the other level specific ones first tho.
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Might as well do it in conjunction with the Legendary run if your in it for achievements, but that may be difficult.
 
need two for firefight achievements on Last Exit and Lost Platoon. any one wanna join.

Miguelangelos

hit me up

Also need two for Deja Vu achievement.
 
PSA:

Use the GAF Firefight metatags to invite people and have bullet riddled fun.

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Alright, finally got the pics. So the Brute Chieftain tried punching me a few times, but no backhand. I'll try and get a video up sometime tomorrow, it's really long into the film and I don't feel like setting up the stuff and going through it again right now.

Brute Pimp
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He's about to punch me...
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Ugh a whole 6 achievements left for full 1000 in ODST.

I may want some people to join me in Firefight soon to get 200k on Alpha Site. Just look for me on GAF Firefight 1.

GT: RebornYeti
 
Kibbles said:
Alright, finally got the pics. So the Brute Chieftain tried punching me a few times, but no backhand. I'll try and get a video up sometime tomorrow, it's really long into the film and I don't feel like setting up the stuff and going through it again right now.

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:lol :lol :lol
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so awesome
 
Anyone down for some firefight?

I haven't played it yet at all, and my shitty evening requires some covenant killing.
 
Sai-kun said:
lolno
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Oh gosh.

Havn't posted in here in a while, the thread has been moving way too damn fast for me to follow. Finished campaign solo on Heroic and it was awesome. Definetely a great addition to the Halo franchise. Halo CE's campaign is still first in my heart, but ODST was pretty damn close.

The BR is definetely missed. I see no reason at all why it could not have been included in the game. In certain situations it would have been nice to have a BR. Killing a far off sniper jackal is particularaly difficult without an adequet long range weapon. The abundance of snipers in ODST almost makes up for this, however.

The beeping is anoying as hell on some missions. Even more annoying is the Black Eye skull. Not fun at all. In no situations. Never.

Only played one game of Firefight and it was on the large vehicular map. It was a lot of fun. Coop suffers from terrible lag in both Firefight and campaign.
 
Was the lag something Bungie could help reduce in a future patch, or is it something that will never be smoothed out and is entirely dependant on connections?
 
Teknoman said:
Was the lag something Bungie could help reduce in a future patch, or is it something that will never be smoothed out and is entirely dependant on connections?
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It's the same netcode as from the Halo 3 campaign, and the game was finished in early May. So I'm assuming they knew of the issues, and made a decision to leave it as is for any number of reasons. I very much doubt there will be a patch for anything.
 
GhaleonEB said:
It's the same netcode as from the Halo 3 campaign, and the game was finished in early May. So I'm assuming they knew of the issues, and made a decision to leave it as is for any number of reasons. I very much doubt there will be a patch for anything.
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That's a shame. :(
 
Just got Vidmaster: Deja Vu with a friend and 2 strangers. One of them was THE MOST ANNOYING FUCKING KID EVER. My friend gave him an epic verbal beatdown after the game....sogood.gif :lol

Now I just need Vidmaster: Lightswitch and Vidmaster: 7 on 7 and Recon is mine. Not that I play multi anyway...but it'd be cool to have.
 
CrazedArabMan said:
So is the site still gonna be up or is it gonna be taken down.
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Ascendant Justice will definitely stay up.
 
Scarecrow said:
can someone direct me to the what's and how's of what the GAF Firefight tag is?
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Yup. Add GT Gaf Firefight 2 or Gaf Firefight 3 (I assume that's the next one) and check that GT's friends and send invites.
 
My solo save file 2 missions away from the end and with 29/30 audio logs got erased somehow. Its a short game, i know, but i am pissed. I have played this game so much including co op campaign without seeing the end that i am sick of it. *sigh*
 
Olivero said:
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Yup. Add GT Gaf Firefight 2 or Gaf Firefight 3 (I assume that's the next one) and check that GT's friends and send invites.
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How is it that 300 people are on GAF AND play FireFight? Too many lurkers sending FRs to those GTs, in my opinion.

vhfive said:
both awesome and sad
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I guess we're seeing things differently because I don't think it's sad at all. It's going to be hard to find anyone who could "replace" Vociferous and Cocopjojo at their exceptional storytelling and way of analyzing/writing, but this is great, to me.

They both worked hard for the community and franchise they love and Microsoft recognized this and gave them both opportunities of a lifetime. That's the essence of the American Dream, son.
 
Domino Theory said:
How is it that 300 people are on GAF AND play FireFight? Too many lurkers sending FRs to those GTs, in my opinion.



I guess we're seeing things differently because I don't think it's sad at all. It's going to be hard to find anyone who could "replace" Vociferous and Cocopjojo at their exceptional storytelling and way of analyzing/writing, but this is great, to me.

They both worked hard for the community and franchise they love and Microsoft recognized this and gave them both opportunities of a lifetime. That's the essence of the American Dream, son.
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I was originally under the impression that you needed to send a message containing your GT and Gaf account or something of that sort to avoid such a problem?
 
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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED, BITCHES.

Third time's a charm I guess
 
Domino Theory said:
I guess we're seeing things differently because I don't think it's sad at all. It's going to be hard to find anyone who could "replace" Vociferous and Cocopjojo at their exceptional storytelling and way of analyzing/writing, but this is great, to me.

They both worked hard for the community and franchise they love and Microsoft recognized this and gave them both opportunities of a lifetime. That's the essence of the American Dream, son.
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this is why i said it was sad. they will be missed at aj.
but hearing that they will be working on waypoint is awesome and actually makes me curious and excited to see what waypoint is going to be.
 
GhaleonEB said:
It's the same netcode as from the Halo 3 campaign, and the game was finished in early May. So I'm assuming they knew of the issues, and made a decision to leave it as is for any number of reasons. I very much doubt there will be a patch for anything.
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Hmm...well at least its not THAT bad.
 
Teknoman said:
Hmm...well at least its not THAT bad.
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I think it's perfectly functional, and the ability to play four player-online co-op is still such a rarity in shooters that it's still an accomplishment. But I understand that there are issues, and others have had a worse go of it than I have when it comes to connection speeds.

I'm hoping the leap in netcode from Halo 2 to Halo 3 is repeated when we move to Reach, especially for campaign/Firefight.
 
Kittonwy said:
Finished campaign on legendary this evening, it was alright, liked the ending although it felt a bit abrupt. A ton of corridor fights except the corridors felt samey, overall I liked HALO 3 better due to more variety, still SP campaign-wise HALO is by far the best shooter franchise on the xbox360.
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Did you play Halo 1 and Halo 2? For me, Halo 3 was the worst of the three, in regards to the campaign. Halo 2 DID have a shitty ending, and not enough Earth levels, but I the campaign was long, moderately difficult and had a decent plot. Halo 3 was short, threw away most of the plot from Halo 2 (Arbiter? Hello.....) and had a pretty weak ending as well.

ODST is probably my favorite out all them. It could have used three or four more levels

1) One before NMPD HQ, where Buck and Romeo ascend the skyscrapers. Remember how Romeo mentions in the begining of the level how they "side stepped" the Covenant? Why didn't we get to play that part. To more clear, it would be their journey between Tayari Plaza (Dare's crash site/ Buck's level) and NMPD HQ (skyline sniper level).

2) There could have been another level between NMPD HQ (skyline) and Kikowani Station (flooded city with Banshee/ Phantom). How did they get off the building. How did they manage to get by the Covenant, especially with Romeo wounded?

3) Also, what about after Kikowani Station? Dare mentions during Coastal Highway (last level), "how Buck managed to get through the highway, back into the city". You'll notice how he is covered in Drone blood and guts. Did he go on the highway? Through though tunnels (which apparently were infested with Drones)? How did the ODSTs get back into the city?

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Buck mentions to Dare that he hid the Phantom on a dock somewhere. So why didn't we play as Buck, going from the Dock, all the way to city (not neccessary to play as him ALL the way into Data Hive, since it silly to play it twice in a row).

4) There could have been another level after Coastal Highway. It should have ended as soon as you got the Uplift Reserve, and then had a standoff somewhere else. It could have been more epic. I wanted to get the sense of a last, depserate stand against the Covenant. Maybe in the city, with burning buildings, are have a time limit and try to escape the excavator beam.

Again, I LOVED ODST. I know it was originally designed as DLC and that Bungie needed to get it done to get more hands on Reach. But, this is what I would have done.
 
ouch man, went for the vidmaster challenge where you have to beat highway with no scorpian or hog on legendary with 4 people.

It didn't unlock :(

we quit our game in the middle and restarted from a checkpoint one time, does that screw it for us? Most likely cause it didn't fucking unlock.

oh well, I had a very nice 5 hours sleep after that. Now it's time for a full day of work!
 
catfish said:
ouch man, went for the vidmaster challenge where you have to beat highway with no scorpian or hog on legendary with 4 people.

It didn't unlock :(

we quit our game in the middle and restarted from a checkpoint one time, does that screw it for us? Most likely cause it didn't fucking unlock.

oh well, I had a very nice 5 hours sleep after that. Now it's time for a full day of work!
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yep
 
Stormtrooper30 said:
The BR is definetely missed. I see no reason at all why it could not have been included in the game. In certain situations it would have been nice to have a BR. Killing a far off sniper jackal is particularaly difficult without an adequet long range weapon. The abundance of snipers in ODST almost makes up for this, however.
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i have yet to find a sniper who can not be taken out by 1-3 shots from the pistol - from any distance

at first i thought this was only because the giant plasma screen i played on for the first weekend gave me a visual advantage, but once the 360 was moved out of the living room and back to the ancient SD tube TV, i found it was harder to spot the snipers, but once i noticed them they died just as easy

Stormtrooper30 said:
The beeping is anoying as hell on some missions.
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in my opinion, if there could be one, and only one patch for the game it would be to change the low shield warning to "beep beep beep, 10 second pause, beep beep beep" - it should be a warning, not a smoke alarm
 
The number 29 is now my favorite number. :D

The location of the logs really are obvious when you know what to look for. I got halfway through my last game before I began to pick up on them all. What made this last one satisfying were the two Hunters I knew were guarding it. I had to sneak halfway across the city in a Ghost to find a cache of rockets, then fight all the way back to blow them up with'em. Taking out Hunters after running away from them the entire game felt gooood. Landing number 29 right after was the cherry on top.

Now to wrap up the last two missions on mah Mythic run.
 
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