Halo 3 Impressions

[PdiddyPop]

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Sweet can't wait for that.

[brezz2001]

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What do I do in the matchmaking lobby to make sure I get a chance to play this? Is it under lone wolf, team slayer, ect . . .?

Brian

[heelsman22]

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What do I do in the matchmaking lobby to make sure I get a chance to play this? Is it under lone wolf, team slayer, ect . . .?

Brian

I think it has it's own playlist, called the Living Dead or something like that.

[Beantown]

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Holy crap this is awesome.

Save One Bullet on Last Resort may be my favorite gametype ever. It's sick.

[Cyros]

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Holy crap this is awesome.

Save One Bullet on Last Resort may be my favorite gametype ever. It's sick.

Haven't gotten last resort yet. Played on High Ground, Snowbound, Guardian, and Narrows.

[Beantown]

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High Ground (club dread) is my new favorite for that gametype. Holding up the tunnel or the back-room is amazingly fun.

[Boltman]

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High Ground (club dread) is my new favorite for that gametype. Holding up the tunnel or the back-room is amazingly fun.

My son does not like them at all. BTW he is on now, I'll be on in a bit.

[dagger55]

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I played it.


It sucked big time

[ExtremeGamer]

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I played it.


It sucked big time

Great impressions.

[Flawless]

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I played one game of Save One Bullet on Guardian and that was fun. Didn't really care for the Creeping Rockets on The Pit. It took awhile to get into a match too, but maybe that's because I was a level 1.

[Flawless]

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Bungie Weekly Update

There have been scads and scads of gametypes and Map Variants that the Community has cobbled together. And believe it or not we’ve been watching, downloading and playtesting a bunch of the variants to mostly hysterical results. This week a bunch of the designers, engineers and members of the DLC team sat down and played some player-created gametypes to test for possible Favorites inclusion.

The map tadpoles in the DLC pond continue to swim along, with some even growing into full-sized and feature-rich bullfrogs in the last couple of weeks. Only a little bit of growing left to do before the frogs find their way to the stream. One of those maps that isn’t ribbit-ing around just yet though, is O.K. Corral, an asymmetrical medium-sized map and O.K. Corral had its lighting tweaked considerably. The changes shifted the sun’s position, giving the entire map a warm death-at-sunset feel. The sun’s rays stream through trees and into the blown out structure that often ends up at the very epicenter of combat (assuming you’ve procured some kind of close-quarters weapon). If you haven’t got anything short range, however, there’s a variety of multi-level open air catwalks, with glorious sight-lines down long semi-protected alleyways where you can rain death from above.

One of the sooner-than-later maps is a treat we’re calling Vandelay. Vandelay is structurally the simplest map we’ve ever made, yet the tools that we’re providing with the help of the Forge give the map tons of potential. That potential could be used for devising clever contraptions, unique playspaces and when paired with Player Traits could become a test bed for new ideas from both Bungie and the playerbase.

Tom Doyle, one of the artists working on some of the fineries in Vandelay described the knicks and knacks on the map as Legos. Up until now, Forge has been primarily thought of as an object editor. It’s been a great tool for devising tweaks and changes to maps, the net result ranging from “Oh, you put more BRs on Snowbound,” to “Wow, you made a Jail that you rescue players from.”

We hope that Vandelay will help folks use the Forge because of the variety and different types of tools players will have at their disposal. Doyle has been working tirelessly with Tyson Green on these objects and tools. Changing weapons and spawns inevitably affects balance and map flow, but the Legos that Doyle is talking about will let players create spaces for gameplay and give them the means of dictating where players will encounter their foes, in addition to what they will be holding when they get there. Again, like we were with the Forge in the first place, we’re pretty stoked to see what folks come up with when Vandelay releases into the wild.

[Flawless]

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Bungie Weekly Update - Playlist update, DLC, new B.net features

Heatmaps are the Doppler Radar System of Death in Halo 3. We’re tracking encounters, weapons used and their results in a given game, collecting that data and sharing it with players visually. The key here is “the darker the red, the more frequent the deaths (or kills, depending on the parameters).

Heatmaps and their implementation are the first of some new Bungie.net features Chris Gossett and his fellow web devs are working on; some of the features they are working on implementing are particularly exciting to competitive jerks like me.

Here’s the list (remember these changes aren’t live right this very moment, but they will be early next week):

Social Doubles has been removed from matchmaking

Rocket Race Hopper has been added to the Social hopper – 8 players, join in parties of up to 8 players.

• Multi-team:
  
• Hammerzeit game variant has been added
• The frequency of VIP gametypes has been reduced
• Swords gametypes will now be to 25 kills, rather than 50
  
  Lone Wolves:
  
• Player count has been increased to 6 players
• Swords gametype has been added
• Oddball games on Snowbound and Epitaph have been reduced considerably
  
  Team Slayer:
  
• Guardian has been added to the playlist
• Valhalla has been added to Team Slayer
  
  Social Skirmish
  
• Flag gametypes will now appear more regularly
  
  Rumble Pit
  
• Added both Construct and Isolation to several gametypes

In addition to the customization the Forge currently offers, DLC maps include the ability to place Mancannons (with varying trajectories), a couple of different sized Shield Doors and some vehicles will see a variety of tweaks. There are a couple of still-secret, still-in testing adjustments and changes that come to classic Halo vehicles. To say that these changes are the intersection between hysterical and tactical would be a pretty drastic understatement. Other less risque changes coming to vehicles include environment-specific decals being applied to vehicles and certain vehicles have had their weapon systems modified so that they behave differently in multiplayer combat.

All of that teasing aside, in the extremely near future we’re going to have much more in the way of cold, hard DLC-related fact and much less in the way of gimmicky names and vague descriptions. Things are in motion and the DLC bullet train is making a bee line straight for your face.

[Dealin Rams]

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Can anyone tell me how you get the skull achievements (other than actually locating them)?

I found the first skull in the opening level and held RB button to pick it up, but still no achievement. What gives?

[bkfount]

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Can anyone tell me how you get the skull achievements (other than actually locating them)?

I found the first skull in the opening level and held RB button to pick it up, but still no achievement. What gives?

The achievements are named after specific skulls. You get in game credit for finding all of them though.

[Altimus]

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I think you need to finish the level for it to unlock.

Do you have to start from the beginning of the level for the skulls to show? I started from the last checkpoint and it wasn't there.