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Halo 3 ODST: Pardon our dust

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  • Nik HuzeNik Huze Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    so anyone wanna do some firefight

    I do. I'll send you a request.

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  • sPider817sPider817 Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Viscount: when a skull activates, it says what it does on the left of the screen....dummy

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Nik Huze wrote: »
    so anyone wanna do some firefight

    I do. I'll send you a request.

    looks like it's gonna be a few minutes, downloading an update, which is taking forever. it says "64 minutes remaining" which better not be fucking true.

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  • GihgehlsGihgehls Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Lothars wrote: »
    Drakeon wrote: »
    So, where is the Halo Reach beta code thing? I was looking for it, mostly out of curiosity, and can't seem to find anything resembling what might be a code for it on my instructions. I saw a little flier that came with it, but that doesn't have anything on it other than telling me to go to halo.xbox.com, which also didn't tell me much >_>

    I believe it's on the Halo ODST Campaign Disc, I am not sure exactly where but I will look and post for you as well.

    There is no code or anything you can do to unlock the Reach beta right now. Your ODST disc is the key for the beta. This is so your disc stays out of the used game marketplace during the game's first few months at retail.

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    sPider817 wrote: »
    Viscount: when a skull activates, it says what it does on the left of the screen....dummy

    No I understood that.

    Tough luck is where you need to melee for health. so I'm like WTF? I have heath packs?? so stamina?

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    no that's black eye dude, and you also have some stamina that regenerates, just not alot.
    also now it jumped down to 4 minutes, wtf
    also also, wow i hate having to wait 180 seconds between posts

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Also looking to fight fires. I'd be willing to play whenever I'm on.

    I just had a good run with Viscount, apparently, the trick on 'Lost Platoon' is to whore the choppers like you wouldn't believe.

    Also, there's a Spartan laser in the garage armory. I wish I had known that two rounds earlier, but in any case, we almost cleared all three rounds.

    Health packs are up top. Not sure what tough luck really does but I guess I'll find out. Seriously fuck those wraiths. They can burn in hell.

    Also in the back of the garage with the Warthog.

    Also, health packs automatically give you back your stamina, I found....which is nice if there's no convenient shield-guy or grunt nearby. Especially since melees do NOT return your health.

    Gotta cook lunch. Do want to play some more afterwards though.

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  • ShrikeTheAvatarShrikeTheAvatar Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    All right, so I started up my Xbox today, get told there's an update, select update now, and now my Xbox is frozen with the progress bar just barely started. The time has not even changed (it's been at the same time for 10 minutes).

    Anyone have any suggestions? I don't want to turn it off (they're serious when they say don't turn off your console.. happened to me once with my PS2). Has this happened to anyone else? Do I just need to wait?

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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    So, did anyone else have to set up their Bungie.Net accounts again? I had one setup in 07 for Halo 3, but when I went to sign in it wouldn't let me advance any further and kept telling me to relink my logins and all that.

    Hope I didn't lose all my stats.

    :(

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  • JohnnyToxxicJohnnyToxxic Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Not that this question is a spoiler, but the answer is,
    Where exactly are the skulls for ODST found? Are they in the multi-player maps or are they in the campaign? I've checked te tubes and everything I've found is not easy at all for a knucklehead like me to understand.

    Some friends from college and I had a blast with this last night. The campaign is pretty fun, but with three of us, on Heroic, it was pretty easy. There were definitely some rough spots.

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  • JesuitsJesuits Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Not that this question is a spoiler, but the answer is,
    Where exactly are the skulls for ODST found? Are they in the multi-player maps or are they in the campaign? I've checked te tubes and everything I've found is not easy at all for a knucklehead like me to understand.

    Some friends from college and I had a blast with this last night. The campaign is pretty fun, but with three of us, on Heroic, it was pretty easy. There were definitely some rough spots.

    No skulls to be found on the ODST disk, you have 'em all already. There's some in Mythic maps, though.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Jesuits wrote: »
    Not that this question is a spoiler, but the answer is,
    Where exactly are the skulls for ODST found? Are they in the multi-player maps or are they in the campaign? I've checked te tubes and everything I've found is not easy at all for a knucklehead like me to understand.

    Some friends from college and I had a blast with this last night. The campaign is pretty fun, but with three of us, on Heroic, it was pretty easy. There were definitely some rough spots.

    No skulls to be found on the ODST disk, you have 'em all already. There's some in Mythic maps, though.

    One on each map, if memory serves.
    Sandtrap's is fun/painful to get. I ended up building a tunnel with the tunnel pieces.

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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    Also, can you still make videos in ODST?

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yeah, there's still a theater mode.

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  • polaris314polaris314 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Had a great time in the couple of Firefight games I was able to get in last night - thanks, guys. I'll be up for more any time. I'm also willing to do co-op runs whenever, although I've yet to finish the campaign solo.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Yeah, there's still a theater mode.

    But ODST uses the single player code.. which means you can't rewind. So I hope you get it right the first time!

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  • GeneralMonoxideGeneralMonoxide Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

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  • Dr.ObliviousDr.Oblivious Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Fuck Bungie for making some of those Audio logs so hard to find.

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  • leafleaf Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    UEAKCrash wrote: »
    you live in kelowna. go to a walmart.

    What the hell is a kelowna.

    And my wife has the car.
    She works at Wal-Mart. Heh.

    the guy from kelowna who lives in kelowna. who wasn't you.

    Because I want the odst controller which isn't fucked up like all my roommates controllers of drifting left or looking up, and every single odst bundle was already sold out.

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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    Fuck Bungie for making some of those Audio logs so hard to find.

    Could you give me a rundown where the first few are?

    I'm about halfway through the second mission.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Sheep wrote: »
    Fuck Bungie for making some of those Audio logs so hard to find.

    Could you give me a rundown where the first few are?

    I'm about halfway through the second mission.

    Yeah I finished Buck's mission before I found the first one. Didn't even know they existed till I went, "huh, one of those terminals is lit up. What's it do... ohhhhh."

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    yeah, since my save is lame i have to refind many of the audiologs.

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  • AllforceAllforce Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Question on some random enemy early on in the game:
    Big jellyfish looking thing, floats around, doesn't attack while you're in battle with other guys. Then when everyone was cleared out it exploded and I got a "NAUGHTY BOY: 1 of 10" message on the side.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Sheep wrote: »
    Fuck Bungie for making some of those Audio logs so hard to find.

    Could you give me a rundown where the first few are?

    I'm about halfway through the second mission.

    Yeah I finished Buck's mission before I found the first one. Didn't even know they existed till I went, "huh, one of those terminals is lit up. What's it do... ohhhhh."

    It doesn't help that the terminal audio is completely boring to listen to. It's one of those sandbox style egg-hunts I always kick myself for getting involved with.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Allforce wrote: »
    Question on some random enemy early on in the game:
    Big jellyfish looking thing, floats around, doesn't attack while you're in battle with other guys. Then when everyone was cleared out it exploded and I got a "NAUGHTY BOY: 1 of 10" message on the side.
    It's a covenant engineer. They're described fairly well in the Halo books, they're basically the scientist caste of Covenant society. They love to disassemble things and put them back together. Are supposedly completely innocent and non-concerned with the war.. all they care about is figuring out how things work.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

    3:30 EST? I'll do it.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Allforce wrote: »
    Question on some random enemy early on in the game:
    Big jellyfish looking thing, floats around, doesn't attack while you're in battle with other guys. Then when everyone was cleared out it exploded and I got a "NAUGHTY BOY: 1 of 10" message on the side.
    it's an engineer, they give shields to enemies around them. there's an achievement for killing 15 of them, and then one for not killing them? i'm not sure

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  • GeneralMonoxideGeneralMonoxide Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

    3:30 EST? I'll do it.

    That's fine. That makes two people...

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  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

    3:30 EST? I'll do it.

    That's fine. That makes two people...

    i'll play if you're a man and work a heroic run.

    surviving 4 sets last night made me a man.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    fairly happy with my tool o' destruction
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  • GeneralMonoxideGeneralMonoxide Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

    3:30 EST? I'll do it.

    That's fine. That makes two people...

    i'll play if you're a man and work a heroic run.

    surviving 4 sets last night made me a man.

    I'm scared...but I'll man up and okay. ONE MORRRREEEE PERSON!

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  • LookFreeGrenadeLookFreeGrenade Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Im gonna try for at least classic/Deja vu today, maybe endure. I wanna see big team :smug:

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

    3:30 EST? I'll do it.

    That's fine. That makes two people...

    i'll play if you're a man and work a heroic run.

    surviving 4 sets last night made me a man.

    I'm fine with any difficulty mode, so long as its got at least one warthog on the level. Someone else should host too, I've still got two levels locked.

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  • GeneralMonoxideGeneralMonoxide Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Same I've got a few locked as well.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I'm up for trying a Deja Vu run tonight.

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  • Nik HuzeNik Huze Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

    3:30 EST? I'll do it.

    That's fine. That makes two people...

    i'll play if you're a man and work a heroic run.

    surviving 4 sets last night made me a man.

    I'm scared...but I'll man up and okay. ONE MORRRREEEE PERSON!

    I can be that person.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Nik Huze wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Firefight in an hour anyone?

    3:30 EST? I'll do it.

    That's fine. That makes two people...

    i'll play if you're a man and work a heroic run.

    surviving 4 sets last night made me a man.

    I'm scared...but I'll man up and okay. ONE MORRRREEEE PERSON!

    I can be that person.

    Cool. It's a man-event. Bring the camaraderie on.

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  • oc2001oc2001 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2009
    how long is the solo campaign, I have no wish to go online with this game.

    is it worth buying?

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    oc2001 wrote: »
    how long is the solo campaign, I have no wish to go online with this game.

    is it worth buying?

    It has a lot of replay value, with achievements and various difficult mods, as well as co-op play.

    So I would say yes--especially if you enjoyed Halo 3 anyway.

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  • GeneralMonoxideGeneralMonoxide Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    GT: Gnral Monoxide. The other three who said they would play with me, add this tag and I'll invite you.

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