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Some ODSTs are bigger than others.
Since the very first Halo, there have been characters you simply cannot kill - they're immortal because they're critical to the storyline. Usually, you hardly notice - if they're fighting alongside you, you're generally too busy keeping yourself alive to pay attention to how much damage the NPC is taking... but occasionally, you find yourself in a situation where you're forced to see it. The following clip is about 50 seconds long, and can be said to contain spoilers; it takes place near the end of the game, and if you haven't gotten there, you might see something that you don't know about. The location is relatively generic, though, and no (major) story spoilers are obvious. The action takes place on Legendary difficulty, and I must say, I felt like a little girl who'd walked in on her dad being worked over by a pair of mob goons - for all the good I was doing, I could have been slapping them on the back, yelling "get off him, you meanies!" The comedy gold, though, comes at the end - wait for it. You can grab 'Buck the Brave' in either QuickTime format (34.3 mb) or WMP9 format (31.1 mb). Enjoy. (Louis Wu 19:12:00 UTC) (permalink)
Friday Night Firefight
milesprower invites you to join the Friday Night Firefight group, or just watch - there are 1-month XBL Gold cards on the line for the highest-scoring team! (Louis Wu 17:25:54 UTC) (permalink)
Reporting For Duty
BlueNinja created a few really nice ODST-based panoramas - swing by Views from the Edge to see 'em! (Louis Wu 17:20:40 UTC) (permalink)
Aesthetic Artist Interview: The U2 RoKKeR
It's been a few weeks, but the Aesthetic Artist Interview series is back - COL0NEL SANDERS sent along an interview with (and some sweet screenshots from) The U2 RoKKeR, a relatively new screenshot artist who's got quite an eye for composition. Check it out! (Louis Wu 17:08:31 UTC) (permalink)
The Experience
There's a fun montage linked from Bungie.net - Salaya's The Experience has some very enjoyable clips. Go watch it! (Louis Wu 17:01:50 UTC) (permalink)
WorthPlaying talks to Nathan Fillion
Adam Pavlacka let us know about an interview with Nathan Fillion over at WorthPlaying - he talks about how he got into Halo in the first place, how the voice acting went, and more. He's got more problems than you do when he plays ODST:
When I'm playing the campaign with my friends — I was doing this just the other night — they commented on how weird it was. They don't know if it's me talking to them or if it's Buck talking to them.
There's plenty more, both Halo and non-Halo related (Firefly game, anyone?) - a great read. Go! (Louis Wu 16:41:25 UTC) (permalink)
Give your body joy
So yesterday I posted a little clip from 'Deference for Darkness', one of the most gorgeous tunes on the ODST soundtrack, because a riff in it had reminded me of the 90's song 'Macarena'. Most readers were amused, but a couple suggested they couldn't hear the resemblance. If you're one of those... Postman has your back. He actually overlaid the clip on the Spanish song... and now I'm scared. (Louis Wu 14:39:27 UTC) (permalink)
Another code to mess with
thebruce0 (the guy behind The Haunted Apiary) noticed some interesting graphics during his search through the streets of New Mombasa. (I'm not marking this with a spoiler tag, because I'm guessing it's more of an easter egg than a story spoiler.) It looks like Braille... but it's not. If you read through his posts, you'll see that he's looked at (and discarded) a few other potential code options... can you figure out what this is?
(Louis Wu 14:34:20 UTC) (permalink)
Friday Caption Fun, Round 64... and a bonus.
Hawty McBloggy has a couple of things for you this morning - there's her standard Friday Caption Fun (the new image is lolcat-grade)... and there's a birthday greeting to an old (in software years) friend. Go read! (Louis Wu 14:32:15 UTC) (permalink)
New discs plus old drives equals sadfaces
Wesley Burket pointed out a thread on Bungie.net being used by folks finding ODST discs to be unreadable by their 360. If you're in this boat, swing by! (Louis Wu 14:29:12 UTC) (permalink)
Breaking In: Tom Saville
Yesterday was Thursday, so there's a new Breaking In article on Bungie.net - this week, it's Senior Animator Tom Saville - he passed on a promising career in werewolf training to work for Bungie, so go see how he got there! (Louis Wu 14:11:15 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fan Fiction
There are seven new stories for you this week in the Fan Fiction section - give 'em a read! (And don't forget to check out the Feet First Into Hell Contest winners announced a couple of days ago, if you haven't already...) (Louis Wu 14:06:57 UTC) (permalink)
Get the most out of Bungie.net's ODST Features
We neglected to mention an article posted yesterday afternoon on Bungie.net: 'Link Up with the B.net' seemed, at first glance, to be aimed at newcomers who wanted to tie their in-game experience in to Bungie.net's amazing stat tracking system. It didn't really seem like 'news' for the average HBO reader. A closer read, however, shows that this does include information that's of wider interest.
- There's a collection of tips for completing the various Vidmaster Achievements (as of yesterday, just over 4,000 people had completed them and collected their Recon armor)
- There's a mini-primer on Bungie Pro, and the mention of a new, not-quite-implemented feature coming soon: you'll be able to render a segment of a Firefight video simply by indicating the timestamps of your start and stop spots. This is amazingly cool, given that without it, you'd need an AWFUL lot of render points to grab Firefight footage (since Firefight has no 'clip' capabilities).
- The stats integration is, indeed, covered in the article - check it out for basic details and links to more in-depth explanations.
Definitely worth a read! (Louis Wu 13:31:03 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Multiplayer Community Bigger than Shanghai
NeoGAF regular GhaleonEB pointed out that yesterday afternoon, a pretty cool milestone was hit, according to Bungie.net's stats: Players (All Time): 15,000,231. Wow! (Louis Wu 13:20:06 UTC) (permalink)
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