Halo 3: ODST

**Flawless** · 08-13-2009, 12:40 AM

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Unedited look at a 16-player match on Longshore. One of the new Halo 3 multiplayer maps included with ODST.

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**Bornindamecca** · 08-13-2009, 02:37 AM

Re: Halo 3: ODST

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you need a Halo 3 disc to be able to play this game?

**Miles_Yuhas** · 08-13-2009, 03:49 AM

Re: Halo 3: ODST

Originally posted by Bornindamecca

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you need a Halo 3 disc to be able to play this game?

You don't need Halo 3 to play it.

**Candyman5** · 08-13-2009, 01:56 PM

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The vids are not showing up for me...

**Altimus** · 08-13-2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally posted by Bornindamecca

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you need a Halo 3 disc to be able to play this game?

The game comes with two discs.

First disc for campaign and the second disc will be the online portion.

Unless they changed that which I haven't heard.

**sportsdude** · 08-13-2009, 02:11 PM

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Originally posted by Altimus

The game comes with two discs.

First disc for campaign and the second disc will be the online portion.

Unless they changed that which I haven't heard.

if that is the case, does anybody know if the Firefight portion will be on the regular disc or the online disc?

**Flawless** · 08-13-2009, 02:15 PM

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Firefight is included on the disc with the campaign.

**Miles_Yuhas** · 08-13-2009, 03:38 PM

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The disc situation is like so.

Disc 1 contains everything that is "ODST". Includes campaign, firefight, and eventually will be the disc used to play the Halo Reach Beta.

Disc 2 is Halo 3 multiplayer. It includes all 24 Halo 3 maps (11 original, 3 heroic, 3 legendary, cold storage, 3 mythic, and the 3 new maps).

You don't need Halo 3 to play either of them.

**Candyman5** · 08-13-2009, 04:11 PM

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Has anyone heard if the Halo 3 Disc 2 will be beter installed? I know regular Halo 3 plays bad while installed and was wonderin if they were going to fix it on the ODST Version of Halo 3 Multiplayer.

**Flawless** · 08-13-2009, 06:07 PM

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No, nothing has changed, they still recommend not installing it.

**ExtremeGamer** · 08-13-2009, 06:13 PM

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Wait, so disc 2 is just Halo 3 multiplayer? Only reason I want the game is the campaign and firefight anyway. So for disc 1, are they saying anything about that install?

**Flawless** · 08-13-2009, 06:18 PM

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You can install disc 1. Really you can install Halo 3 multiplayer, it's just your matchmaking times may be slower.

**Miles_Yuhas** · 08-13-2009, 07:33 PM

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The thing about the Halo 3 multiplayer disc even without installing to the hard drive all the maps will be together on the disc. For those that play Halo 3's multiplayer know that sometimes the maps that you have on the hard disc take a while to load, and that sometimes maps are even switched in the lobby because one or more of the players fails to load the map.

With all the maps on the disc, these problems should go away, so even though they don't recommend installing the disc, there should be some improvements.

**Miles_Yuhas** · 08-14-2009, 06:53 PM

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Bungie had a little clear up of confusion in their weekly update.

About the second disc:

Secondary disc. Boy, that was a pretty crappy way for us to describe the Halo 3 multiplayer disc that comes with Halo 3: ODST, wasn’t it? From here on out, let’s just call it Halo 3: Mythic. That’s what it says on the main menu after all.

And yeah, we know we already called Assembly, Orbital, and Sandbox the Mythic Map Pack, but we’re gonna ask you to toss Citadel, Heretic, and Longshore into that same hat. In fact, Halo 3: Mythic comes with every Halo 3 multiplayer map and you can play them all right from the disc. No need to do any downloadin’. That’s pretty Mythic if you ask me.

About installing the game to your hard drive:

To Install or Not to Install

Good question. We’ve already answered it but here goes again, this time in short form:

Halo 3: ODST Campaign/Firefight Disc – Install It

Halo 3: Mythic – Don’t Install It

Got it? Good.

**Flawless** · 08-14-2009, 07:50 PM

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More from the Weekly Update:

And we’re not done yet. Only a scant forty days out from Halo 3: ODST’s launch, a significant wing of the studio is now fully mobilized, planning and preparing for more press events, recording and editing tons of sweet footage for upcoming video releases, and making quite a few marks on a collective set of calendars to make sure all of it comes together right on time. We'll even have some more information on Heretic, Citadel, and Longshore coming along soon along with a deeper dive into the soon-to-be-refreshed Bungie.net waters that you'll eventually get to swim in after Halo 3: ODST ships and our site once again gets a good old fashioned dose of the new hotness. We'll tackle both of those topics right here. Stay tuned. But for the here and now, we're gonna have to make due with a dose of words.

Brian once again played the role of liaison earlier in the week, making sure a fresh new batch of press visitors found their way around the studio, located the restrooms, and eventually settled into some shiny new copies of ODST to get their preview on. Look for their write-ups really soon. Next week, as Brian embarks on a new German Odyssey, his sails and swag set for GamesCon, a few of us will stay behind and play host for even more land loving visitors. For the first time, we’ll be giving some press peeps full and unfettered access to the complete Halo 3: ODST experience, campaign and all.

If you thought we’d already tipped all of the cards in our hand, you must be new around these parts.

Firefight’s Bonus Round is a spectacularly crazy concoction of Grunts, Skulls, points, and extra lives all piled up into an mountain and carnage, craziness, and plasma grenades. Lars tells me that it was designed to give players a bit of a breather between sets, add more lives to the pool, and take out pent up frustration in the same fashion Ken and Ryu took out their rage on abandoned cars and stacks of flaming barrels. But even though it might double as a bit of a respite, this Bonus Round just might be the best sixty seconds of your Firefightin’ life. Every mean-spirited, maniacal skull is switched on, bringing with them gameplay modifiers and point multipliers that you’ll have to see to believe.

And if you find yourself in the midst of a Bonus Round, you’ve definitely earned it by completing a full Set. In Firefight, riding out fifteen Waves is a pretty impressive feat. Not only does it entail a massive quantity of all manner of Grunts, Jackals, Drones, Brutes, and Hunters for you to wade through, it also means that against all odds you’ve made it through three Waves of aggro Brute Chieftains hell-bent on Hammering and Rodding your face into so much unsavory space meat.

Take full advantage of your brief but brainpan-modified time and you'll see plenty of points piling' up. And if you manage to hit the Bonus Round benchmark set for you and your team, you’ll start earning 1ups like a mustachioed plumber with his feet full or turtle guts. (Don’t eat the mushrooms, kids.)

Since Iron is now on, one death from each member of the squad is all it takes to end your little collective fantasy voyage upon this golden but tumultuous sea of points (vomit goes over the rail, please), but should you each fall to the overwhelming forces you’re facing down during this monumental minute, you won’t have to worry about foregoing any lives from your team’s stockpile. Any deaths during Firefight’s Bonus Round won’t be subtracted from your overall pool. So, no pressure.

There will be Grunts.

Great heaping piles of Grunts. A veritable sea of salty Grunts descending upon you like a wave of cantankerous crustaceans. And each unsavory little jerk has one singular mission swimming around in his mad and methane-addled mind: to converge on your position, lobbing an unbelievable volley of armed plasma grenades towards your head, neck, and face region. And with every skull switched on, these angry little Unggoy do a pretty good job of making you dead. Lars calls them killing machines. His advice: headshots. Stay away, keep your automag zoomed, and deliver deadly, one-shot blows as quickly and efficiently as you can. Weather this brief storm and make it rain dead rapscallions and you’ll tons of points and some much needed lives.

Halo 3: ODST

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