Mombasa Streets: Difference between revisions

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|pagegamelabel=ODST

|image=[[File:H3ODST MombasaStreets Loadscreen.png|300px]]

|next=*''[[Data Hive]]'' {{C|Chronologically}}

*''[[Tayari Plaza]]'' {{C|Following the story}}

|game=''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''

|name='''''Mombasa Streets'''''

|player=[[The Rookie]]

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'''Mombasa Streets''' is the second campaign level of ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', and serves as "the hub", an open-world environment used to access flashback missions. It is set in the city of [[New Mombasa]].

==Summary==

The city map provided by the [[Superintendent (Construct)|Superintendent]] highlights points of interest, such as the "beacon" objects. The Superintendent also guides the player into the right direction using the city's plentiful digital signs and billboards.

==Plot==

==Transcript==

'''THE ROOKIE'''

*'''Buck (COM)''' ''(flashback)'': "All right. Meet you up top!"

[http://youtu.be/YgiB_H06XSY '''{''NMPD HQ Outro''}''']

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|[[New Mombasa Sector 9|Sector 9]], in front of [[New Mombasa Uplift]] building

|[[Taylor H. Miles|Dutch]]

|[[Uplift Reserve]]

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|[[New Mombasa Sector 3|Sector 3]], hanging from a power line

|[[Kojo Agu|Romeo]]

|3 hours after drop (19:14)

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*On this level, there are several graffiti tags reading "BELIEVE", perhaps a reference to the extensive marketing campaign for ''[[Halo 3]]'' [[Believe|of the same name]]. There is other graffiti in the city, some of which read "YOU LOOT, I SHOOT", "HELL ON EARTH", "TWILIGHT OF MAN", "KINSLER IZ A THUG", "UNSC=LIARS", "FASCISTS", "REMEMBER REACH", "MILITIA AIN'T WORTH SPIT!", and "GLASS THIS!".

*After entering the building next to the first locked weapons cache, search the floor surrounding the door leading to the first courtyard. When searching the floor, players may find a box of cereal labeled, ''Web-O's''. The mascot on the front of the box is a picture of a gorilla with a cowboy hat. This character is recognized by Bungie employees and Bungie.net members as "The Webmaster" (one of Bungie's many inside jokes). In the right corner below him the phrase, "Your mom LOVES 'em!" can be seen.

*In several of the buildings, there are [[AMG Transport Dynamics|Asklon]] [[:File:Asklon Tablet.jpg|business line charts]] going from December to "Infinity". This is a reference to Bungie's ''[[Marathon|Marathon Infinity]]''.

*At the ATM which gives the player an audio log, money can be seen being dispensed randomly. The coins, Kenyan shillings, dispensed from this ATM each have the face of [[Jason Jones]], the co-founder of Bungie, on one side.<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=102995824 ''Screenshot of one side of the coin'']</ref>

===Glitch===

*There is a glitch in four player co-op that causes one of the players to be killed while still in his pod by a [[Kig-yar Sniper]]. This is because the sniper spawns on a building right next to the player's pod.

**It even has the most loadout points, exclusively in ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''.

**This level also does not feature any par time and par scores.

*The entire BSP (the level geometry itself) is not rendered at once because of engine limitations - this is why Bungie put in blast doors and walls in between sectors. Furthermore, some of the BSPs are identical - Sectors 4 and 5, 3 and 8, and 0 and 9.{{Ref/Game|H3ODST|[[:File:NM sectors.png|VISR database - New Mombasa map]]}} The only noticeable difference is that players cannot enter the building in Sector 4 as they did the one in Sector 5, and another being the [[Uplift Nature Reserve]] in Sector 9. Also, when the player opens a blast door, the BSP loads, but, for example, if the player enters Sector 8, it will load the Sector 3 BSP since they are one and the same. Note that scenery items are not included in the BSP, since no part of the BSP is movable.

*When the player is in Sector 10, Sector 10's map in the VISR database also shows the bridge, which was destroyed already. The player can also explore the map of ONI Alpha Site.

==Gallery==

===Concept art===

<gallery widths="150">

File:H3ODST_MombasaStreets_Early_WIP.jpg|Work-in-progress screenshots of the level.

File:H3ODST_MombasaStreets_Mood_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the level's environment. The sign on the right for "Makura Body" does not appear in the final game.

==Sources==

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