Idea for ODST-2 (SPOILERS FOR H:INFINITE CAMPAIGN)

Games Halo Infinite
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Alright so I really loved Infinite. I can’t wait for more Master Chief goodness and continuing the story of re-taking Installation 07.

But…I’m also a huge ODST fan. I loved that game - it really was the first open world Halo, and Infinite presents so many opportunities to capitalize on that.

My idea:

We know from field-logs in Infinite that Osiris was tasked with some kind of top-secret mission after Chief opted to deliver Weapon personally. We also know that, somehow, Spartan Killer Hyperius obtained Locke’s helmet and was using it as a shoulder pauldron when MC whacked him.

What if Locke and Osiris are not dead? What if, prior to their top secret mission, they were undergoing a retrofit onboard Infinity, to fit them with the new MKVII armor, and the Banished attack happened while they were without their armor?

Per H:Infinite logs, we know there’s at least one team of Helljumpers active on Installation 07. What if Team Osiris managed to evacuate with them, but without their armor? It would make sense. Buck is a former ODST and surely still has friends in that chain of command.

It just seems too well set up not to take advantage of, doesn’t it? Buck, former ODST. Team Osiris, without armor, acting as the leadership for an escaped team of Helljumpers? Maybe Locke did get defeated and/or captured and Buck assumed command of a Helljumper unit?

I have no idea where the story would go, because there’s so many options. There’s a crashed Guardian visible on Installation 07…maybe the Helljumpers lead by Buck could try to find a way to use it? Or maybe that Guardian was taken down by Buck’s helljumpers in the 6 months while Chief was getting frosty in space, and that’s the ODST-2 story?

It would just be…a whole lot of fun. Playing as a Spartan, but no armor, integrated into an ODST unit. Maybe introduce some new stealth elements. Silenced weapons, assassinations - things missing from the main campaign.

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You do know that Buck is back with Alpha-Nine? As in, left Fireteam Osiris and got the old team back together.

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Yes, in the expanded universe. But there’s a significant time-gap, several months, between that story and the opening cutscene of H:Infinite (which takes place 6 months prior to the actual game). Plenty of time for him to bring them in…and even better! A way to have the original cast of ODST in an expansion! Maybe Buck gets his original military family to help him rescue what’s left of Osiris?

There’s a million ways they could write that to make it work. Modified Longsword with epstein drive, he hears about the Infinity at Installation 07 and brings his remade team to try and find/save Team Osiris…they could even use that to mirror the whole investigative element from the first ODST. It’d work so well.

I mean, I’m fully aware I’m some guy on the internet and there’s almost no chance I’m guessing any of this right but there IS a whole lot of potential there, for some good storytelling. Maybe Buck could source some SPI armor for his team…he’s the only Spartan, but the SPI armor can be worn by regular soldiers. It’d be a great way to introduce stealth gameplay.

I don’t wanna get too far into the weeds on story, cuz…yeah there’s just way too much to play around with there, so many things that would work, and obviously I’m just spitballing and do not write fiction for a living. But it’s so ripe for it!

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There is just so many opportunities and possibilities when it comes to story telling with Infinite. I really hope we do see something with ODSTs or get to play as them again. ODST is one of my favorite Halo games. It’s soundtrack is also amazing as well!

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Oh I’d love this, hell why not make it a dlc for infinite and have the armors of the characters and past odst in the battle pass

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I like the idea of playing as an ODST again. Shame the the Rookie is dead so IDK who the main character would be. I like the rescue/mystery angle you have that is like the one form H3:ODST.

I don’t like the idea of saving Locke or anyone that is still part of Osiris. I’d rather that be saved for if we ever play as the Banished to hunt them down instead.

Maybe finding and saving Lasky and Halsey would be a good tag-in?

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Zeta halo has urban relics. Players are under siege, use classic Silenced Pistol,various bunkers, and finally break out of the siege and return to the UNSC base.In this process, unlock the secret of the halo and find the lost teammates.

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Again, you do know the rest of Buck’s team are Spartans now?

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…did you read what I actually wrote or are you just jumping thread to thread trying to flex your Halo knowledge?

If Buck were to come back in some capacity and get caught without his armor, and have to evacuate with a group of regular ODSTs…they wouldn’t be Spartans. They’d be ODSTs. Because they’re ODSTs. If Buck returned with his Spartan-ified squad from the first ODST game (or Osiris, either idea would work fine), the regular ODSTs that they evacuatd with…would still be regular ODSTs. That’s how that works.

Hence it being plausible that the SPI armor could show up - ALL of them would be able to wear it because SPI is just upgraded ODST armor and does not require augmentations to wear. Spartans and ODSTs can both use it.

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Finding Laskey and Halsey would be a great overall mission. And hunting down Osiris as Hyperious would be awesome too…

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I’d rather ODST 2 be a prequel about Buck when he was a Rookie, or something along those lines. Either way, I really want a pre-Reach Halo game. Maybe make it follow the book-canon too with the way weapons are balanced and whatnot. Make it a pseudo-horror game like Metro 2033 while we’re at it.

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I’d like that too…although if we’re going to have a pre-reach prequel, I’d enjoy it covering the Orion project. Playing as Sarge…

I suppose they could still use the Infinite engine to do that…but if we’re playing as ODST’s or Spartan 1’s, the enemy would almost have to be insurrectionists…which I’d be fine with. I don’t know that it’d feel very Halo-ee tho. Still, I’d play it.

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Ohhh…my bad. I get it now, misunderstanding on my part.

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No prob. What about you…you said you want to see more MC…what would you like to see explored beyond the already semi-confirmed Endless expansion? Or what would you like to see out of that?

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I think 343I have more importan things to do than make DLCs. Like finish the game it’s self?

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They’re going to do that by making them DLC. There’s not going to be any free updates besides minor QOL changes, maybe. Get ready to buy the Season Pass!

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I probably missed a huge thing here…I’ve played thru the campaign 4 times now and have all the collectables.

Given the level of detail and obvious in-sequence nature of the Spartan logs picked up through the campaign…I think it’s EXTREMELY likely that we’re going to get a Reach-2. In the 6 months MC was in stasis in orbit…a lot of ish went down…there’s detailed logs from a team of 4 spartans. You find their corpses in sequence. I cannot imagine that level of storytelling, with intentionally missing pieces, was written, unless 343 intended to tell the story of the 6 months MC was asleep.