A History of the ODSTs: From Founding to Post-War

[@HaloCanon]

Quick correction: ODSTs first appear in "Halo: The Fall of Reach", making them as connected to the franchise as Spartans from day 1.

[@LAJay101]

Thanks, I was literally thinking that

[@wighensakgr]

5:49 also Unconcentional Warfare.

[@SneedRemembrancer]

And the way they iconically deploy is established in halo the flood

[@4eeyore266]

5:40 what’s the show name? Is it official or fan made?

[@HaloCanon]

@@4eeyore266 That's from 'Halo: Legends", an anime anthology produced by 343. That slips was specifically from "The Babysitter", one of the episodes in the anthology.

[@KevinKoolx]

Having an ODST squad would be so cool in Infinite. Like a resource to call in at forward bases on Zeta Halo

[@jerryjurado1631]

Yeah and it be really cool to customize them too

[@spellxthief]

hell yeah, i'd love to continue the tradition of attempting to keep my brODST's alive

[@siomai6739]

Defo cool as heck. Considering were having an openworldish campaign.. Kinda like farcry imo.

[@ThelVadam7777]

Arby would be so cool to have. BEING the ODST would be cooler than being another spartan

[@theviewer4314]

ODST's definitely deserve a campaign DLC in Halo Infinite.

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

The whole concept of bad ass people jumping into combat FROM SPACE is just so AWESOME. I love sci fi with cool military groups and the ODST are high up there in my favourites...

[@MajinObama]

Mandalorians in OG Star Wars on Basilisk Droids 😎 So rad

[@lucamckenn5932]

Warhammer has something similar with imperial guardsmen. Instead of pods they modify gravity in a distinct point. They deploy like how covenant come out of their ships onto those gravity pads. Guardsmen do it in the hundreds if not thousands with their own shock troop equivalent: the Kasrikin.

[@SolidAvenger1290]

Hence, they took inspiration from Starship Troopers, in which Hollywood utterly failed to take advantage of the drop pod method from the book into the movie back in the 90s. Luckily, Bungie took that concept for creating the ODSTs into Halo genre, alongside some hints of the Marines from the Aliens series.

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

@@SolidAvenger1290 That's neat. I haven't read the book but I like the movie since I'm a Verhooven fan. Really too bad the movie isn't that faithful to the book

[@jeebus2313]

I do honestly hope we see ODST's make a return in Infinite. Having them absent from 4 and 5 (no, Buck doesn't count) always felt weird.

[@ramennight]

In one of the trailers for Infinite, the one where we see a bunch of IFF's in space going to "deceased", some of them are ODST. So, probably.

[@princessc.j.6192]

Buck a spartan now friend, no longer odst, than again he was to be spartan and turned it down, but I do know wht u mean

[@fireflowers5105]

RIP This Comment

[@michaeledmunds7266]

I always love fighting alongside my boys. I try to keep them alive whenever I see them.

[@shoebillgaming2147]

I'm sorry to bring you the news

[@madjoe9679]

The We Are ODST trailer was some of the best Halo marketing till this day!

[@HaloCanon]

A-fucking-men!

[@madjoe9679]

@@HaloCanon I really hope and wish they are not disregarded in the live action show.

[@bandit3019]

@@madjoe9679 the fucking WHAT

[@jakeh8780]

The song from it is called the politics and the life.

[@jaberim]

Welp, gotta go watch it again, now...

[@Tom-oz7wk]

I love how halo 3 odst is basically just an episode of Firefly since Buck, Dutch, and Mickey are all voiced by Firefly cast members

[@HaloCanon]

Right?!

[@aceskeletonne7446]

I remember people criticizing it for that, idk why since Firefly is great

[@Tarumarugan]

Don’t remind me I miss both 😭

[@harrisonnightingale6600]

You forgot veronica she's voiced by one of the female cast members of firefly

[@Tom-oz7wk]

@@harrisonnightingale6600 Tricia Helfer (the voice of Veronica Dare) wasn't a member of the Firefly cast. She was also not in the show's movie sequel Serenity. (This is taken from IMDb which is a very reliable site)

[@allenmitchell8993]

I actually love that you showed Cod: Infinte Warfare gameplay because I was recently replaying the campaign as a stand-in for the insurrection conflict since we don't have a Halo game for that conflict yet. The games storyline is basically a small scale version of what occurred in Halo

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

Could say its the first insurrection, with the spademcommies and as fascist

[@elijahwatson3474]

He did a live stream about a couple of years ago and jokily called it Halo interplanetary wars.

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

@@elijahwatson3474 ... if you think about it... it fits. Innies had succeeded mars and were a threat, it took our boys that are green and very, very mean marines

[@HaloCanon]

The footage is directly from that livestream, actually. I spent 30 minutes downloading the 7-ish hour stream, then scrolling through it to find the "right" footage.

[@jakeriese4862]

@@HaloCanon thanks for this. I remember reading Fall Of Reach and some ODST's were being quite confrontional and attacked John (while he was still a kid.) He killed 2 i think and injured the others with Broken bones. I remember one of the ODST's said "He's one of them"

[@KayleighBourquin]

I love the ODSTs, in every Halo game with armor customisation I will always choose a helmet that is as close to ODST-like as possible, they just have the best looking helmet/visor of all the UNSC forces.

[@theinkslicer]

They just hit that sweet spot in terms of looks

[@lSippycup]

As an ODST enthusiast/Nerd, this literally made my day. Thanks for covering/touching the deep aspects of ODST's dude!

[@thegreatunknown8075]

You and me both

[@assvacuum]

same odsts are cool asf

[@autumngottlieb3071]

My favorite part about ODSTs is that just because their bodies are weaker than Spartans' bodies, their bullets are also weaker than Spartans' bullets.

[@roflzwafflez117]

Spartans just pull the trigger harder.

[@hirokasonova7059]

The lack of spartan specific heavy guns is an actual problem. If you have what is basically a walking tank why are you arming it with small arms. Especially if what you are fighting takes a lot of small arms fire to kill? Real world they would have large high caliber weapons specifically designed for spartan use. Think about the mounted turret in halo those in a real world scenario would probably be upscaled and modified into a standard spartan rifle. The sniper rifle spartans use would be a highly modified and accurate anti-tank rifle. Their pistols would shoot literal shotgun slugs.

[@autumngottlieb3071]

@@hirokasonova7059 Huh. I never thought of that. I can see them justifying not doing that during the war because there's only a couple dozen of them, but the IVs are another matter entirely.

[@hirokasonova7059]

@@autumngottlieb3071 the only time that the lack of higher yield weapons is justified was when humanity didn't know the covenant existed. The longer your men have to shoot at a target to kill it the chance that it will fire back and kill your men is basically exponential. Even if it didn't fire back in time they would still have higher risks due to how long it took. Sure standard issue weapons can't be upscaled to the point of being unwieldy for the average soldier but an upscaling would be made. With the amount of funding the Spartan program has it would have specially designed spartan issue weaponry. Then again there's alot of issues with the military equipment in halo that irks me like the single manned scorpion tank. I know its partially because of those things being a problem of when it was made but war has an ability to paramount innovation and I wished halo portrayed that aspect better.

[@autumngottlieb3071]

I mean, wasn't the Spartan Laser designed in the same program as the Gungnir variant? Or was it Hayabusa?

[@slicer940]

Faison was one of my favorite ODSTs from the books. He was such a cool character. He and his unit gave Captain Keyes an honorary ODST tattoo after their first op together. It’s sad to realize the Arbiter was the one who killed him.

[@BWM135]

That was such a cool swerve. An iconic moment in the EU novels that I absolutely didn't see coming. RIP Captain Keyes and his beloved tobacco pipe, The Flood took you too soon. Faison was a bad ass, the only person who was a total asshole to Chief, but you could tell it was just him standing up for his men, and being bitter that John wasn't punished after he "Neutralized" 2 of his troops in the gym encounter. And damn if he didn't go out like a soldier himself, talking shit to the Covenant to bait as many ships as possible near their stolen frigate before the Shiva Nuke detonated. Great character...

[@jessehenderson2967]

"Death by drop pod malfunction" A fate worse than death.

[@benreilly9513]

Last night, I dreamed I was going through my DVD collection and I found that I owned five copies of Halo Legends on DVD and one copy on blu-ray. And now Halo Canon comes along, generously using footage from my favorite episode of Halo Legends in a video about one of my favorite subjects in Halo. I think both my subconscious and fate are telling me to watch Halo Legends again.

[@John_shepard]

It was the best of the series. I didn’t like the animation styles of the other stories besides maybe cortana. It felt natural to me.

[@Baz09]

Lol nice

[@commissarcactus1513]

Speaking of things that are "absent from view" in the Halo universe, I would really love to see more lore about the UNSC Army and Air Force, and the special units in UNICOM SPECWARCOM. It's not all Marines, Spartans, and ODSTs.

[@VegetaLF7]

At least in Halo: Reach the ground forces we see and fight alongside are UNSC Army (except for the Bullfrog ODSTs).

[@commissarcactus1513]

@@VegetaLF7 Yeah, and it's a shame how little it showed us of the Army and Air Force. Tons of more casual fans play through the whole game multiple times without realizing that those guys aren't Marines. The game is too focused on Noble Team to give any airtime to the Army or SPECWARCOM. About the only thing it added was that the Army prefers DMRs to Battle Rifles. I would have loved for the Army to get a moment like Sergeant Johnson's speech in the beginning of Halo CE, establishing to the player just who it is you're fighting alongside. Instead we got Colonel Holland who never even appears on screen. Also, I think the friendlies in Pillar of Autumn in Reach are technically Marines, even though they look the same as Army. And the guys in Long Night of Solace are probably Air Force. The game just never bothers to tell you.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

*Especially* the Air Force, since I'm a fighter craft nut. Seriously, we need an Ace Combat/TIE Fighter style game about an elite squadron of UNSC pilots flying Longswords, Shortswords, and others.

[@00yiggdrasill00]

@@commissarcactus1513 yeah very much agree. The navy and marines may have thought the army didn't do enough to be on the monument of 3 but they would have been the primary force defending EVERY planet the covanent found from start to finish. Just because they aren't involved in offensive war doesn't mean they were sitting around doing nothing.

[@brianstabile165]

The army paratroopers would be a cool unit to see,maybe they wear sci for ww2 101 82nd uniforms/battle gear

[@Arkangelx98x]

I still remember the first time I played ODST all those years ago with it being my first Halo game; Hell I even have the ODST symbol as my first tattoo and I always get happy anytime that they're brought in during a mission and I'm hoping that they're brought back in Infinite

[@burnttoast.2017]

I remember watching Halo Legends when I was younger. I don't remember much about the episode with the single spartan and the ODSTs, but I do remember the Spartan saying "take the shot" and the ODST realizing that his childhood friend that went missing was kidnapped and turned into a Spartan. And now she was dying. Makes me real sad thinking about it.

[@wholesome_masochist4113]

Hang the fuck on, Cal was a childhood friend of one of the ODDTs?! My guess is O'Brien, but since when?!

[@burnttoast.2017]

@@wholesome_masochist4113 I thought so, I mean there was this whole flashback scene when he say her face after the Brute got her. Unless Mandela effect strikes again, that's what I remember watching.

[@frost_6836]

Great video! Even though I'm well-versed in Halo lore, it's always a treat to watch your videos - they're far more entertaining than endlessly scrolling through walls of text on Halopedia!

[@HaloCanon]

Glad to hear it!

[@austinseal457]

For the people who want an ODST battle royale, you guys shouldn't try to simply conform to the battle royale standard, but think up something more unique. For example, a 100+ player mode that is basically big team battle/ invasion where playable units would drop in the battlefield in either covenant or ODST drop pods and fight one another, and at the same time, a flood outbreak occurs somewhere on the map and it turns into a giant game of infection. Like a 2 way war that slowly turns into just trying to survive the flood onslaught as they consume all of the fallen soldiers.

[@theeagle4463]

Holy crap, that sounds awesome. I’m sad even thinking about this not being a thing.

[@jsiabot3467]

This might sound weird but I really love your thumbnails and titles bro. Their so clean, organised and creative

[@HaloCanon]

Thank you! I absolutely aim to please :)

[@jingle9691]

Spartans never die, they were born for combat. ODSTs know they aren't coming home and they go anyway.

[@cas9564]

I think that other than the scalpel simile, there's also the fact that Spartans have a reputation of being out-and-out heroes akin to Captain America. Naturally, ONI wouldn't want to jeopardize this reputation by risking sending a spartan on a classified mission that would earn public ire and rebellion if they were to be made public, *doubly* so if the mission involves assassinating figures that ONI deems as "unsavory".

[@thatbr1t1shguy]

It's not hell it's "heck" we need to keep this family friendly guys. Heck jumpers.

[@christophervoiers8517]

LOL

[@jasonx1174]

I love Spartans and all but after Halo 3 ODST came out and became my favorite Halo game and story. I've always liked seeing ODSTs and seeing the stories they participated in. Heck even the Babysitter from Halo Legends is my favorite story in there because for me it was the first time I saw outside of the games how ODSTs potential felt about them. I say potentially mainly for the context when I saw Legends. Hope they reemerge in Infinite!

[@noahdaglio9362]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Guess we’re the desperate measures.

[@fatboydashredder9877]

ODSTs are hardasses for being able to go toe to toe alongside Spartans while using slightly upgraded marine gear and having no genetic modifications

[@wet_weather_imp]

I much prefer ODST’s to Spartans and you used the same line that always use to explain why: “They are the best Humanity has to offer without augmentations”

[@andyfriederichsen]

Please do a video on the UNSC Army. The Army troopers are VERY underrated.

[@HaloCanon]

I do have plans for something like that

[@jacobrobinson787]

Bruh, how could you not mention the man, the myth, the legend himself - Michael Baird? Dude singlehandedly took on a covenant strike force that commandeered his destroyer, and stopped them from discovering Earth. He's not just an ODST, he's the most badass non-augmented human in Halo. CCMM

[@thedeekabides]

Captain Cro-Magnon!

[@MrWackywilson]

I need some of them rumble drugs he takes! 😂 Took on a whole army!

[@marco117sw]

ODSTs are honest to god Marines. Change my mind. P.S. You left out the Midsummer Night mission with Keyes btw. Not sure if it was intentional in being brief with the overall history.

[@HaloCanon]

I was intentionally being brief about the individual operations. I mentioned a few key events to make certain points, but that was all. I did think about the stuff from "The Cole Protocol", but I couldn't really make it fit.

[@marco117sw]

@@HaloCanon Roger.

[@johntaylor4513]

Well they are. They are literally the special operations of the UNSC Marines. It's like how Navy SEALs are still sailors.

[@rc59191]

Hope I'm alive to see ODST's become a reality. We got most of the technology needed we just need a way to make it more cost effective.

[@ADR69]

I just started playing this again. It's in my top 3 halo games. I'll never forget that it was what destroyed my Xbox back in the day. I got the RROD 45 minutes into my first play through lol. Salty McNalty!

[@KATTALNUVA3]

I know from “Shadows of Reach” that there were still ODSTs stationed on Infinity at the time. They’re likely still around because it’s cheaper and easier to train and equip them than it is to train and equip a Spartan.

[@AdaFrame]

Great video. I love ODST and always have. Theyre such a cool and iconic part of Halo. Honestly what I've always wanted to see is an ODST themed turn-based tactical like XCOM

[@sharanvelauthan]

Loved learning more about the ODSTs!!

[@Ghastly_Grinner]

I love the ODST their game was really fun wish they got their own sub franchise

[@austingriff5905]

A feature film or series following an elite ODST unit in the covenant war or even counter insurrection operations would be freaking sick.

[@TheZamaron]

Thing I love about the ODSTs is that IRL if we can develop the tech to make it possible and we ever get space warships, they’re a logical strategy, you got a ship in the sky, just fly above the enemy and drop down units. Paratroopers taken to an insane degree.

[@jingle9691]

Dude, missing you and your content already. Best wishes

[@jasonmonroe7454]

Jus found your channel an subscribed today my man! Great videos, very well edited an put together. Thanks for the content!

[@HaloCanon]

Thank you! Glad you like what you see!

[@jobiesotelo3385]

my favorite helmet to wear in any of the halos that have them is the ODST helmet, its just cool to have that spartan/ODST hybrid and I think it would be cool to see a another story with spartan and ODSTs

[@joelmanning249]

I believe in Halo First Strike that John once stated that take away augmentations and armour there wasn’t a great deal of difference between an ODST and a Spartan. And I think this is true. I think there’s some truth to the ODST view of Spartans as the ones who took all the glory while they contributed highly to the war effort which when compared to the Spartans is largely unrecognised. Which is why it frustrates me that when we were told that the best went to become SIVs this was completely brushed over and the SIVs at least in the beginning came off as highly underwhelming especially considering they’re supposed be ex ODSTs.

[@granmastersword]

I wonder if the resentment between the 2 will ever disappear. Most of the hatred the ODSTs have toward Spartans was due to ONI, sending ODSTs to indirectly get them to fight John to test out his augmented body and overflooding the media with propaganda involving Spartans, greatly overshadowing the achievements and sacrifices of the ODSTs

[@joelmanning249]

@@granmastersword Well its lessened cause of SPARTAN IV but hasn't gone away

[@granmastersword]

@@joelmanning249 well yeah. It's hard to get it away when Spartans still take most of the spotlight from the ODST, undermining their contribution. But indeed it got lessened due to the Spartan IVs being usually experienced ODSTs who were likely worthy of being selected

[@radicalgear391]

@@granmastersword yeah, the oni lapdog ODSTS got bodied and whined about it. Sucks that that was a lot of ODSTs first impression of Spartans. A few of their own bad apples spoiled the relationship the two could’ve had. We see it happen anyway with Chief when he meets some rad ODSTs

[@Tsukiko.97]

that ODST ost hit different . The KZbin page with the hours long upload of it has some of the most wholesome comments on that page

[@voz117]

I love ODST Hell jumpers

[@kristianyoung990]

I've always been a huge fan of the ODST's and I've always loved the ODST's more than the Spartans. My very first Halo game was ODST as well!. Anytime we get more ODST action or content, I'm always excited to see it.

[@xorypx7967]

I love this channel so much. Thank you halo cannon

[@DEEZ_N4T]

With the mass production of Spartans via the Spartan-IV program it seems that ODSTs became more of a support role for Spartan units or like becoming the Tier 2 SF units. Spartans became the Tier 1 unit like Delta, DEVGRU, SAS or Spetsnaz with doing dangerous jobs, while ODSTs became Tier 2 units like Force Recon, Airbone Pathfinders, Army Rangers and etc.

[@tacticaldestroyer7665]

Personally I've always seen ODSTs as mini Spartans, and love their representation within the Spartan community. And I feel that that the Spartan IV program was a way to reintroduce the ODSTs in a new light, having dedicated Spartan IV ODST teams or even regiments. I've been running ODST armor since Halo 3. Easily my favorite chunk of Lore.

[@gusemiester]

Man this video somehow made odsts even cooler than before

[@jeebus2313]

4:56 Well that's a bit of a terrifying thought. Cooked inside your own pod before you even hit the ground.

[@HaloCanon]

I wish I'd included this in there, but this actually does happen in "The Babysitter", on the short episode from "Halo: Legends".

[@jeebus2313]

@@HaloCanon Ahhh. That's right. I'd almost forgotten about that. Then again it's been a while since I've watched Legends.

[@jar8808]

ODSTs when they drop are like bombs too and in mass numbers can probably do a lotta damage before physically engaging in battle

[@Mobysimo]

Personaly I never felt that the Spartan 4s replaced the ODSTs. ODSTs are special ops troopers, dropped into hot zones to work sabotage, while Spartan 4s were shock troopers, flew in on Pelicans and made sure to draw in the fire. Honestly I thought they complement each other. Spartan 4s can draw the fire and attention of the enemy while ODSTs drop in from behind to do massive damage to the enemy from behind

[@dtgs4502]

5:03 Not to say it would be soft, but H2A failed to include the retro rockets that make the impact survivable.

[@Deka4891]

Excellent history!! 👏 Now I wish 343 would give us some new ODST games!

[@TAGSTER_HD]

Absolutely loved this video ! Glad to see it came out ok in the end !

[@HaloCanon]

Save for that ONE LINE, lol

[@Cyrribrae]

Is there room for ODSTs in Infinite? Certainly on the ring, but there aren't exactly anymore orbiting platforms from which to drop from anymore, right? lol.. Great breakdown as always! This isn't really the place, but I still don't understand why everyone wants an ODST battle royale mode. Yes, they drop out of the sky, but why would they be killing each other? And how would that be any different from any other BR mode? A COD Warzone with slightly future weapons? An Apex without all the abilities and movement? I will continue to push my fringe proposal of a grunt battle royale lol.. The first FPS where you waddle..

[@benreilly9513]

Grunt Battle Royale is the only acceptable Battle Royale for Halo.

[@henrypollock7987]

Could make it like it's a training simulation that they do for bragging rights

[@AdniteSean]

They might be not the polearms of combat we all wanted like the spartans, but the trusty sword we all needed.

[@captainrex6137]

8:52 I just remembered an ODST named Seal who I gave a concussion rifle later in that level (he survived until the end)

[@brodyman30]

Damn even though I have notifications on I didn't see this video until today.

[@Cody-5501]

I think that the UNSC Infinity being the flagship replaced the ODSTs with Spartans but that would be too impractical for the rest of the fleet

[@dwainecoggins2374]

Excellent work great video on the detail and explain

[@maccheese2015]

As someone who has only recently got back into Halo after Halo 5 left me... Uninterested in the series for lack of a better term despite absolutely adoring every Halo prior to it(Yes even 4, hell part of me likes 4 more than Reach even if Reach has better multiplayer), finding this channel and playing thru the MCC with a good friend reignited my love for this series. Thank you for this

[@Cynane27]

I remember seeing ODST's in Forward Unto Dawn. I wish you would talk about that.

[@ConfettiMT]

Swore into the Marine Corps this week. ODST's were a big part of making me want to enlist. I feel like it's just their mindset that I fuck heavy with

[@royalcanadianbearforce9841]

The hype is REAL. cant wait!

[@Blackpearl-go7yq]

I always loved odst the game was a amazing switch up from the normal halo games

[@ang3lofguns1296]

If you look at the shoulder patch of certain marines in CE you will see the ODST badge. They just don't have the armor.

[@danielmcphee2546]

any military worth their salt would make sure have few if not several special forces in their military. Spartans & Odsts being the main faces of the unsc both having place in the military. Spartans are far more expensive so it would be easier to improve the equipment the odsts have in my opinion. Especailly post-war where they could incoperate more of spartan armor technology iunto teh odsts armor. Perhaps even getting their own shields at some point too and slightly more durable armor which help increase the survival rate.

[@sillo441]

Finally a lore video about hotdrop bois

[@obiwankenobi5769]

Odst: best humanity can offer Spartan: best science can offer

[@Senkuda]

I think that a ODST and Marines Battle Royale built from the ground up with the full Halo sandbox would be great. That, and a Flood horror story that stars that guy that first tried to retrieve the index while it also follows Sgt Johnson's ordeal with the Flood when Keys gets taken. It would be a great excuse to play as Johnson. I miss him...

[@Delta_rocket]

why do I recognize the photo at 1:44?

[@dylanstough6456]

whenever i played Halo:Reach i only ever used the ODST armor, i dont think i ever even tried to get high enough for the other armors, the ODST outfit always looked the best imo

[@SnakeEyes327]

Was hoping for a Kilo-5 shoutout since they played a pretty significant part in the Covenant civil war.

[@isabellajustice2910]

The fact is ya dont replace the entire army with the navy seals

[@noahlarsen16]

I played Halo for the first time on MCC when it was released on pc and both Reach and ODST are my favorite games. I love ODST bc you are just a nameless human which is different than being the Master Chief or Noble 6 even

[@Seriona1]

I think another thing to consider about ODST's is that they are equal to Paratrooper divisions. The US roughly has about 200 divisions with 8 of them being paratroopers. It would make sense in equal context that in the UNSC, they would be very rare.

[@thegamingleopard4592]

What game is shown at 1:34?

[@thegreatunknown8075]

Awsome a halo cannon vid.... Oooo a odst vid

[@thegreatunknown8075]

It happoned!!!!!!

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

No matter how many super soldiers are needed or made, it always ends up coming down to just us, it will always come down to us, from start to finish, the grunts on the ground, the men and women with only the will to fight, we will always be the ones you will want when taking the fight headlong at the enemy, when either a world is taken or defended it's always on us!

[@joeespinoza7610]

ODST are my favorite characters in the halo universe that’s why I always pick the ODST armor in every halo game

[@11_ignatio_claudio64]

Kept closing my eyes on the Halo Legends part

[@richardhowells5804]

Well now I need to go back and replay H3 ODST and complete HW2 so I can play the dlc

[@James-kw5yj]

we need more lore about the rainforest wars an event mentioned more than a few times in the books

[@w4drone720]

Everybody keeps talking about the we are odst short, but landfall is also badass

[@fishfashfosh]

Very much based on the paratroopers of ww2. Those were the real force to be reckon with and very much the peak of military might. Knowing fully well that they are to be dropped into combat behind enemy lines surrounded and have to hold out before reinforcements they pretty much have to do all the roles of a grounded unit. Need to be specialised in engineering, infantry combat, sabotage, demolition etc except for piloting and other air force roles. The guts it takes to volunteer into such positions are nothing but respectable

[@chloeholmes4641]

My headcanon is that they are the direct descendants of the original paratroopers from ww2 which then gave birth to the Halo Jumpers in today's modern world where the jumpers "come down from the heavens to make sure the battle goes in the factions favour!" And then the Hell jumpers are the next group jumping "beyond the heavens and falling straight into Hell to take out whatever demons threaten the human civilization!" Has a bit of mythology to it if you ask me and I believe that is welcome when referring to all 3 eras of jumping from the "skies and beyond!"

[@chaosfire321]

This is the first time I'm hearing that Helljumpers were only 1 particular division of ODSTs...

[@revanamell1791]

I imagine for Americans at least it's easy to think of it like this. Say Super Soldiers became a real thing. You would still have the Rangers, SEALs, Green Berets, Delta Force etc. These organisations are massive and have useful everyday functions. You can also consider the $$$ factor. One Spartan probably costs more than a full squad or platoon of ODST's. Not every situation calls for the nuclear option.

[@HaloCanon]

"Halo: New Blood" basically makes this exact argument.

[@The_Yote985]

the footage in the beginning of cod: infinite warfare was so funny to me, that game tried so hard to replicate odsts.

[@chazchavez3017]

Thank you!

[@RageMagikarp]

Glad to see that you, too, consider Infinite Warfare a canon Halo game

[@apocryphaemiya9331]

god If I ever met Lt Mckay in real life I would give her 100 salute. Aside from Buck and Rookie she is one ODST that I respected the most. Without her earth definitely will not survive

[@smilemore1997]

11:21 “And that is how you break the ice with your crush.

[@jaberim]

Awesome video! Slight pet peeve: it's orbital drop shock-trooper, not orbital drop-shock trooper. ;)

[@feralprocessor9853]

Iconic elite soldiers of the UNSC without sparten augmentation.

[@TwinkyZero]

Funny how the infinity is supposed to have at least 750 ODST personal on board during the 1st battle of Requiem but we never saw them

[@WasabiSniffer]

ODSTs are like the Krillins of HALO. “Just” human, but can still keep up with the heavy hitters

[@sp4cepigz174]

Loved the use of infinite warfare I just accepted it as an unofficial halo prequel

[@fatboydashredder9877]

A Halo ODST Vr game would be so wicked

[@josephc3549]

ODST is honestly an awesome halo idk why so many people hate on it when they haven’t even given it a chance

[@Master_122]

Because people like robots with cool armor. I like Spartans but I feel that another halo game not centered on them like odst would be good. Halo has tons of plot and resources to do many types of games, but we always get MasterCheif.

[@roguestudios2189]

Would love to see another odst only game but more again the Insurgents and not the covenant