[Official] Halo 3: ODST

[Remysaus]

It was incredibly, incredibly easy on Normal. I pretty much just leave all games to their default these days. While I am probably a better player than Normal with FPS's, when it comes to Campaigns, being my time is limited, I just want to play and enjoy them and be done with it, so I leave them as default as I do not necessarily need nor have the time for the challenge anymore. I am not even a big Halo player, I get spanked in MP, and I literally breezed through it never feeling challenged at all except for the very end part where there were a whole lot of guys at once, and even then I only had to die twice to beat it, and once was because I was being really stupid with the hammer guy. I wonder if it would have been the same experience if I just turned the notch up one. I will probably never know.

I thought that too, but restarted the campaign yesterday on Heroic and it is considerably harder, actually had to use my brain once or twice instead of doing the usual mindless running and gunning :p

[neoadorable]

they could have made it clearer that the checkpoints are not save points..i too lost two full stages, had to do uplift reserve all over and the one after.

the campaign is indeed good, the format where the rookie retraces their steps is oddly touching and introspective. and i know for a fact i will miss New Mombasa when all is said and done. it's like you're there even if it's not exactly interactive. the rookie soundtracks is also superb, very moody.

wouldn't play this on easy, heroic is more like it - somewhat of a challenge.

overall ODST is so far a worthy purchase in these lean times, but they could have done so much more with the MP.

[Ayepecks]

So I have to say, this was by far my favorite flow for a Halo Game. I liked the semi Open World aspect. It works real well in this regards. Other games that have tried this approach, most notably Far Cry 2, and have failed miserably, but Bungie did it right, so thats cool.

(Y)

Normally I'm not too big on open world games, but it worked perfectly in this. I hope more FPS games take this concept. Far Cry 2's open world as just crap... ODST's just works. It would've been nice if more buildings were open, though.

[V-99 ODST]

they could have made it clearer that the checkpoints are not save points..i too lost two full stages, had to do uplift reserve all over and the one after.

the campaign is indeed good, the format where the rookie retraces their steps is oddly touching and introspective. and i know for a fact i will miss New Mombasa when all is said and done. it's like you're there even if it's not exactly interactive. the rookie soundtracks is also superb, very moody.

wouldn't play this on easy, heroic is more like it - somewhat of a challenge.

overall ODST is so far a worthy purchase in these lean times, but they could have done so much more with the MP.

As I played the game throughout the campaign I changed my mind completely about this game.

This is a quality release and a must have.

You digged The Rookie's OST too huh? It's a smooth criminal to listen to.

[Slane]

One achievement to go for the full thousand.

If you do go for the 30 Audio logs in co-op, you have to play all the flashback missions in order to get to data hive. If you quit out and select 'Data Hive' you loose the 29 you got first.

Deja Vu tommorow or Sunday.

[Razorwing]

One achievement to go for the full thousand.

If you do go for the 30 Audio logs in co-op, you have to play all the flashback missions in order to get to data hive. If you quit out and select 'Data Hive' you loose the 29 you got first.

Deja Vu tommorow or Sunday.

I am up for Deja Vu.. I still want it. I heard about the triple 9 rockets. :D

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

If you want Sergeant Johnson you can drop him in to your hard drive, you need some way of connecting the hard 360?s drive to your computer such as the Microsoft Transfer Kit of Datel Xsata.

Here is the guide, worked perfectly for my friend.

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Anyone wanna do endure with me around now? GT is same as username.

[Remysaus]

Firefight is awesome, had a mini-LAN party at a friend yesterday. The difficulty is insane though, on easy you can go on forever without losing too much lives but on normal it get's so tough it's quite hard to even reach set 2 or 3.

btw, the stats on bungie.net are amazing, there's so much information, tables and ways to compare your scores to teammates.. really cool.

Edited September 26, 2009 by Remysaus

[Pajter]

Firefight is awesome, had a mini-LAN party at a friend yesterday. The difficulty is insane though, on easy you can go on forever without losing too much lives but on normal it get's so tough it's quite hard to even reach set 2 or 3.

I agree, it was really tough. But we'll make it some day. :p

It was so much fun though. I can't remember having this much fun with Halo 3 on system link.

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

Anyone else think legendry is pretty easy on 4player co-op? I was expecting it to be a lot harder than it was... I think it took us about 4 and a half hours to finish it last night.

Firefight is awesome, had a mini-LAN party at a friend yesterday. The difficulty is insane though, on easy you can go on forever without losing too much lives but on normal it get's so tough it's quite hard to even reach set 2 or 3.

Agreed, easy really is too easy but great for getting the points achievements with ease.

Normal just gets very hard after a while, as for Heroic thats just stupid lol.

For the Vidmaster Challenge: Endure achievement we have made it about halfway though the second set, I don?t see myself getting that anytime soon!

[neoadorable]

V-99, the soundrack is very good for the rookie, i can just listen to that music and stare at the burning orbital elevator or the New Mombasa skyline for hours...they did a good job with the art design and world building.

but it's too freakin short. three days after buying it and already done. come on people! How's the campaign on legendary? Halo 3 was too frustrating for me on that setting, just gave up after a while. Heroic was just right. Is it the same this time?

But overall a surprisingly memorable excursion, i'd say 8/10, which is very good.

[Slane]

but it's too freakin short. three days after buying it and already done. come on people! How's the campaign on legendary? Halo 3 was too frustrating for me on that setting, just gave up after a while. Heroic was just right. Is it the same this time?

No. It's easy.

[Unrealistic]

Has anyone not played campaign yet, and would like to have a go at it with me on co-op? I've been waiting for a good opportunity to play the campaign, and now would be a good time. :)

[V-99 ODST]

V-99, the soundrack is very good for the rookie, i can just listen to that music and stare at the burning orbital elevator or the New Mombasa skyline for hours...they did a good job with the art design and world building.

but it's too freakin short. three days after buying it and already done. come on people! How's the campaign on legendary? Halo 3 was too frustrating for me on that setting, just gave up after a while. Heroic was just right. Is it the same this time?

But overall a surprisingly memorable excursion, i'd say 8/10, which is very good.

I share those same sentiments. These days even an 8 is good and this is without Master Chief.

[+Mystic MVC]

Got to play the campaign for about 30 minutes the other day. Pretty impressed so far but I forgot to change the difficulty so a friend and are I co-oping it on normal. :p

Anybody got 200,000 points on a firefight stage for the achievement?

[neoadorable]

tried firefight with an XBL friend just this morning, Lost Platoon on easy, i think 60K took like 40 minutes so i bailed...Firefight is cool but not that cool, and for the 10G ain't worth the time investment.

Slane - thanks for the encouragement, will give it a shot later today on legendary.

V-99: an 8 has always been good, not just for Halo games. it is 80% after all, that's pretty high.

[Slane]

Anybody got 200,000 points on a firefight stage for the achievement?

All of them.

tried firefight with an XBL friend just this morning, Lost Platoon on easy, i think 60K took like 40 minutes so i bailed...Firefight is cool but not that cool, and for the 10G ain't worth the time investment.

Just do 4 player on Normal or even two player on normal and you can rack points up. For myself doing 4 player we were hitting 200k on Normal in the second set second round. Heroic we had 150ish by the end of the first set, so the first round of the second set we would have hit 200k. Haven't tryed it on legendary yet though.

Hitting all grunts with headshots and doing the same with jackals speeds up the process, so the only long killers you should have will be Hammer Brutes and Hunters.

[Trong]

Is there "campaign lag" when you play on LAN? Every time I've ever played H3 campaign, ODST campaign, or ODST firefight on XBL, there's been about a half second delay on anything I do, no matter how good the connection is (unless I'm host).

On the plus side, I finished campaign on my own on heroic yesterday. It wasn't that hard but I can't say that I just cruised right through it. I think this campaign sucked me in a lot more than the other Halo campaigns did though and I thought the soundtrack was superb.

[Unrealistic]

I'm **** on this game.

I remember being above-average when playing Halo 3MP, but either I'm rusty or just have a stupid way of going about things, because I have already died 3 times in SP.

[Neztea]

Damn, Need to really play firefight on this :(.

Anyone wanna partner up with me? :)

Gamertag: Nezteaman

Neztea

[neoadorable]

pretty sure i'm ready to give up on the legendary campaign...too much work. firefight seems to have more promise, so will try to do more of that. thanks for the tips slane.

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

anybody notice Buck is the same dude that played in FireFly/Serinity (Nathan Fillion - Malcolm Reynolds ) reaslized that once he started talking

[hjf288]

Is there "campaign lag" when you play on LAN? Every time I've ever played H3 campaign, ODST campaign, or ODST firefight on XBL, there's been about a half second delay on anything I do, no matter how good the connection is (unless I'm host).

On the plus side, I finished campaign on my own on heroic yesterday. It wasn't that hard but I can't say that I just cruised right through it. I think this campaign sucked me in a lot more than the other Halo campaigns did though and I thought the soundtrack was superb.

Nope.. Been playing it on live with my friend and no lag...

[Tharp Daddy]

anybody notice Buck is the same dude that played in FireFly/Serinity (Nathan Fillion - Malcolm Reynolds ) reaslized that once he started talking

Yep, i think the characters look is modeled after him also.