Halo 3 ODST - What Is Truth Actually Looking At In The Legendary Ending?

In the legendary ending of ODST, we see a bonus scene where Truth comes in and looks at what appears to be part of the portal to The Ark. But what is is actually? Let's find out!

Stay tuned!

[Falloutgamer]

Me: going to sleep
General heed: posts a video
Me: i dont need sleep, i need answers

[derchetto]

In Halo Reach, Bungie said there was an additional level cut after Kat dies when they leave the bunker, is there anything left from this if you detach cam and look around that cutscene?

[fridaynightnicktoons]

Truth looked, sounded, and acted better in halo 2 to be honest.

[trillmixin]

He's looking at a video of you looking up his skirt

[Installation]

This has inspired me to figure out what part of the ark portal this actually is. Probably a foundation. But I'm going to look into it.

[Radian]

Have you done a video exploring the cavern that's home to the forerunner structure in reach yet? If not I'd love to see that too!

[evansutton]

He was looking at his Death Star being built.

[alephnull]

That image is what we call a matte painting and the trick with the layers is called parallax so correct.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The Truth is, I had no clue what he was looking at. Thanks for the info!

[ValWasTakenWasTaken]

The unreleased halo 4-6 games that wouldve blown everyones minds

[roxyhoxy]

I never know that ending existed even though I play Halo 3 ODST on legendary more than once

[HaloReachisamazing]

It would be so awesome to talk to the artist that actually drew that image and ask him what the basic idea behind the piece was.

[CybyrToad]

I'm so glad you post daily. It's become like a comforting routine for me to watch one of your videos every day. The fact that I get to see something NEW from halo every day is amazing. Keep up the good content man, I hope you post until I'm 80 a die from Alzheimer's

[WaveOfDestiny]

This is where chief is in the halo infinite trailer. He's gonna find a portal that brings him back in time, where he saves Jonhson, saves cortana, prevents the discovery of the halo rings after they got destroyed by the flood army like we see in the first part of the trailer, fights all the floods and covenant and precursors in different eras, jummping into infinite timelines hence the halo infinite title.

[funkyreapercat]

Halo 3: ODST: Engineers infected by the Flood!

[dignusdingus]

Halo 4 also used quite a few of these "2D pop out" effects, one notable example is on that multiplayer map set at night on a skyscraper, a lot of the skybox uses this technique on the buildings and such. I find it really neat, adds this artistic "painting" feel to Halo. Older games would even use just 2D textures for a lot of stuff to suggest scale and detail with things far to large to model or render at the time: Mombasa's skyline and the Covenant Carrier in Metropolis for example

[spyrothelegendarypurpledra]

Guys, its obvious, he's looking at a generalkidd video about what Truth is actually looking at In the Legendary Ending.

[kainey]

Not even a hidden toilet... Disappointing

[TheFrostyCrane]

The camera technique is called forced perspective. They used the same thing on the Lord of the Rings for certain shots to make Gandalf appear larger than the hobbits when in reality he is just closer to the camera, matching his eyeline, and the table is split apart between the actors and angled to make the split invisible and the table look smaller.

[zakiducky]

Is it a single 2D image?

_Well yes, but actually no._