Halo 3 ODST (Mission 9) Data Hive Walkthrough
Video Walkthrough: Halo 3 ODST (Mission 9) Data Hive Walkthrough
Data Hive is the next mission for us and this one is long but very linear, just like the next one. This is the first mission other than Mombasa Streets where you will be in control of the Rookie. You will be spending the majority of this mission roaming through the hallways of the Data Center eliminating any Covenant that get in your way.
When you start exit the room that you're in and work your way through the hallway filled with Grunts. At the end of the hallway you'll find a door you can go through on the southeastern side that leads you to another hallway. Continue through this hallway until you eventually find a door that leads you into a small circular room.
This small circular room will have a small hallway that connects to another circular room and another and another until eventually you reach the same area shown in my screenshot below. Here you will meet someone else who is trying to get through the Data Center, there will be a little bit of dialogue with him in this room.
Interact with the computer terminal next to this guy to proceed.
After the guy finishes talking Vergil will say, "Welcome, access granted" and you'll hear a click. When this happens you will need to interact with the computer next to the stack which will open it up and allow you to jump down. Opening the stack will cause a bunch of Drones to come flying out and attack you, thankfully though we can ignore all of them and jump down to proceed.
You will have some more hallways to navigate - except this time they're dark! I assume you already know this but you should use Night Vision during this part of the mission. Using Night Vision will not only help you see in the dark but it will help you see the invisible Brutes that you will be fighting in this area. Invisible Brutes will have an outline around their body while Night Vision is active.
Eventually the hallway that you're in will lead you to another one of those small circular rooms that we met the guy following us in. One nice thing about this guy following us is that he is invulnerable to damage - you can use this to your advantage and let him take all of the hits!
Just like before you will find a room with a data stack that you need to raise. Wait for Vergil to say "Welcome, access granted" again and then interact with the computer terminal to raise the data stack. This time when you jump down the data stack will close and the guy we met earlier will be trapped above and killed by a bunch of Drones (Vergil is brutal).
Now that we lost our tail continue through the linear hallways dealing with the Covenant as you go. Travel as far as you can go to the southwest and you'll eventually hit a locked door with a 9 and 6 on it. Wait near this door for a few seconds and Vergil will unlock it for you allowing you to continue. You'll be lead down a hallway with a locked door that you can knock on at the end of it. Knocking on the door will trigger a cutscene.
When you regain control of your character you'll be tasked with following Dare and protecting her as you travel through some hallways and then through a hive of Drones. This part of the mission is as linear as you can get because Dare will pretty much lead the entire way. I think she is invulnerable too, she's never died for me during this mission even when I have her tank all the damage.
One tip I can give you for this part of the mission is to equip Dare with a better weapon than the pistol she is using. I like to give her a Covenant Carbine or a Beam Rifle because then she deals a lot more damage. Keep your eyes open when you reach the Drone hive as there will be a lot of purple crates with Covenant weapons; you can find a Beam Rifle and Covenant Carbine in this area.
After the Drone hive you'll come out to a wide open area that will have 3 Brutes in it, one of which will be a Chieftain (pictured above). Eliminate them and the proceed inside of the room they were trying to break into to advance the mission. There will be another cutscene once you go inside after which you'll have to go back through the same room - this time while protecting Vergil.
Unlike Dare, Vergil can die and he dies pretty easily too so you'll want to do a good job protecting him! Vergil proceeds when he feels like it too which will result in him running into a pack of enemies and taking a lot of damage. For allegedly being a super intelligent being he sure is stupid...
The rest of this mission is entirely scripted, you'll be with Buck, Dare and Vergil the entire time and they will be leading the way. All you have to do is protect them and follow them until the end of the mission.
If you don't shoot the sleeping Drones they won't bother you.
One thing I will note is that I have seen Vergil get "stuck" during this part of the mission a few times and not follow the group... If this happens to you my advice is to just ignore it and keep going. Vergil will eventually teleport to the group and even if he doesn't the scripts still play out as if he was actually there.
The mission ends when you enter the teleporter at the end of the hallway.
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