Audio Log Locations Guide
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Halo 3: ODST has a great story, told through the missions surrounding a group of soldiers who drop into the African city of New Mombasa during the slip space rupture event players may remember from Halo 2. Whilst this story is good, there is a second story that has also unfolded and just waiting to be discovered.
The audio logs in Halo 3: ODST tell the story of Sadie and her father in the wake of the events leading to our hero being where he is. Its a good story, and worth listening to. To unlock the story, you must find and use thirty audio log locations throughout the game. They can appear in a range of forms from a telephone, ticket machine, medical booth and many more. To locate them, explore the city with your visor on. They will appear, like the mission items with a yellow outline, run up to them and hit the activate button to collect each one.The first 29 of these logs can be found within the confines of New Mombasa, whilst the final log can only be obtained when all the others have been collected and is in the mission Data Hive.
As you collect the audio logs you will also unlock superintendent weapon supply points, containing ammo, grenades and mongooses to help you fight your way through the city. This guide will provide you with a map and some pictures to help you locate and pick up those elusive audio logs, pick up the 125 achievement points on offer and let you enjoy a well done secondary story.
A map showing the location of the audio logs
To use this guide, use the above map and make your way to the general area of each of the logs indicated, once there use the pictures below to help locate them.
Audio Log 1
On the left hand side of the pit.
Look for a yellow phone for the log.
After your first log you will earn the achievement - Listener.
Audio Log 2
Head into the open area here and climb up onto the raised platform.
Use the atm here to pick up the audio log.
Audio Log 3
Head under the awning to the left of the picture.
Look along the left hand wall for an atm containing the 3rd audio log.
After your third audio log you will earn the achievement - Tuned In.
Audio Log 4
Make your way to the building in the picture.
climb the stairs and look on the right side to find the log in a telephone.
Follow this road around the bend.
You should see the log on the side of the road in an information booth.
Find the entrance to the underground road.
Follow it around until you are opposite the entrance, you will see the log on the wall.
Find the covenant shield blocking the road. Look out for the yellow sign on the left, beneath it is an openable door.
Enter the building and cruise around to the back to find the log in a phone.
Head along the balcony pictured.
Look out for a grey openable door along the left wall. Head inside and use the medical station for the log.
Find this area next to a dead end. Once again use the openable door beneath the yellow sign on the left.
Head through the door and pick up the audio log in the gazebo in the centre of the area.
Eliminate the covenant forces around the roundabout in the centre of the area.
Head inside the structure on the roundabout to find the log.
You will find this log beneath some debris on the side of the road.
Outside the door here is a group of crates and storage containers. You will need to jump on these, and then up onto the balcony nearby.
You will find the log in the telephone here.
Find the glass automatic door at the back of the area. Enter.
Walk to the end of the corridor to find the log in an atm on the left.
Walk along the balcony on the right side of the area.
You will find the next log on an an info console on the right hand wall.
Continue along this road here.
You will find the log in an info console to the left of the street.
After your fifteenth audio log you will earn the achievement - All Ears.
Head under the awning to the left of the picture before the turret.
At the end, you will find the log.
Climb up the stairs here and turn left at the top.
Follow the path to the end to find the log.
On a small raised platform to the left of the darkened section of the road.
Hit the atm here to get the log.
Look for the blue sign in the area to the right of the blue sign. beneath the red sign is an openable door.
Head inside and pick up the log from the info console.
Enter the door beneath the red "Look Out!!" door to the left of the road.
You will find the audio log at the back of the room on an atm.
You will find the log in an information booth in the middle of the square here.
Just to the left of the door pictured.
You will find the log in a medical booth here.
Enter the door to the right of the above photo.
Inside you will find the log in a phone on the counter nearby.
Make your way to the dead end at the end of the road.
You will find the log on the wall opposite the locked door.
In the middle of the square here.
You will find the log on an atm in front of the right hand planter.
Follow the road along and you will see this one sitting on a wall to the left.
To the right of the area here you will find a small traffic island between two streets.
Inside you will find an atm containing the log.
In the middle of the open area here. You can't miss it.
Audio Log 29
enter the door under the red light and head up the stairs.
Follow the hallway out onto the balcony to find the log.
Audio Log 30 can only be obtained once all 29 previous logs have been picked up and listened to. Once all 29 are yours, load up the Data Hive level.
Audio Log 30
Play through the Data Hive level as per normal until you reach the lone marine looking to head down. Jump down the shaft here and continue along through the level until you reach the next drop down area. Usually, the marine will be separated from you here and be killed, if and only if you have all 29 logs from New Mombasa, the marine will survive and accompany you further into the level.
When you reach the icy area, the marine will tell you there is something he needs to check out. He will tell you to wait outside whilst he opens the door to the left. Ignore him and follow him inside. You will see the audio log at the back of the room on the left. Picking it up will unlock the achievement and make the marine hostile, so be prepared to put a few bullets in his skull.
Make youw ay through the Data hive mission as normal until you meet up with the lone marine.
Follow the marine through the door to the left in the icy area.
You will find the log at the back of the room on the wall.
After picking up the audio log you will earn the achievement - Audiophile.
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