I Think We Finally Solved The Halo 3 ODST Glyphs

Did we finally solve the Halo 3 ODST Glyphs? There is some new clues and hints dropped on this Halo mystery by none other than Marty O'Donnell. Well we think we did actually find the solution to the Halo 3 ODST Glyph Easter Egg.

[TheMartyODonnell]

Broken stone

In death’s other kingdom

Not with a bang

Gathered on this beach

Of empty men

[TheKotaCan]

That moment when the glyphs were actually the friends we made along the way.

[CobbyCorncob]

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
TS Eliot

I think this is exactly how the search for the meanings of the glyphs ends. Not with an explosive revelation but a slight change of thought and appreciation.

[clubpenguin]

Imagine if Marty O’Donnell didn’t actually know what the glyphs meant but just decided to lead Halo fans on a wild goose chase for his own enjoyment

[Shadowfdath]

The 98-08 Bungie team were just GENIUSES and the best in the industry for stories and doing so much with so little money/time/knowledge of how to do it.

[JPmaxever]

You know franchises are going to be good to get into when they're still theories that needed to be solved

[ninjabot]

I don't know if this helps, but the little signs that look like targets in front of that secret door disappeared when I shot it. The one where the first fight with hunters is.

[DarkneszFalls]

Here's my hypothesis that's only half a joke: Based on everything we've seen and heard, especially from Marty recently, I think the Glyphs might just be a red herring easter egg. An inside joke from Bungie who at the time damn well knew how massive Halo was (and still is), and that people would be going on for years to try to pull meaning from something that simply doesn't exist. Its entertainment for the developers to sit back and watch the fans go crazy. I know if I was a game dev, I'd have no problem doing something like that because it would hilarious!

[darthbob]

Watched the video, good stuff. If I understand it right, the glyphs do not 'mean' anything specifically, but are used as a tool to spark players' imaginations. If that's the case, I'm satisfied.

[Kiu_]

7:58

That's me 😂!

I've been looking into this mystery for a while (I've been a part of your Discord server for a year, maybe even more) and I really hope that we finally know the truth soon, whether this is the greatest troll in gaming history, a super well thought mystery or something that we made a reality via our own imagination, I had a blast looking into this and I hope that each and every one of us who spent time ideating stuff and investigating everything we could possibly think of did too.

Edit: BINGO.

[apachesarge]

So what you’re saying is it’s the most elaborate “you ever wonder why we’re here.” Halo ever dropped on us

[AscendingBliss]

The glyphs literally mean that we, the fans and the players, create the Halo Universe.

Total freaking goosebumps, from head to toe.

[thomasanance]

Just started binge watching you all a few months ago, and already excited to see the resolution to this!

[quailfeather]

The connection to "constellations" seems like it would be pretty relevant to me. Combine that with Occam's Razor, looking for the obvious, surface level thing, could the glyphs represent some kind of constellation? A decent amount of the Y symbols line up with each other. Occam's Razor applies because whatever hidden meaning would be displayed once the constellation is complete, the glyphs would spell it out. How they all connect and their orientation would be the challenge. Maybe overlaying screenshots of all the glyphs would lead to something if it hasn't already been done. Marty's "Still having fun whY 🙁?" comment might be linking the sad Superintendent Y glyph to being a central/starting point.

[dannyb]

I always thought the glyphs were a way the engineers communicated with each other

[Destroyerz]

the real meaning behind the glyphs was the friends we made along the way

[vlazurah]

Seeing Paul McCartney next to an ODST in the thumbnail was a trip lmao

[thecatthatgotaway]

Can we take a minute to appreciate that hes still involved with the halo fanbase a decade after Bungie left the franchise?

[bigcat]

Now onto the most important question. Was that cave a natural formation?

[JoseTorres-tfev]

Just like the I Love Bees thing! A way to get the community interacting.