Halo 3 Impressions

[Candyman5]

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How does that work?

You get at least 2 people in the last lvl. If you have beat the game already then read spoiler.

Spoiler

Well right before you go to the control room, someone has to throw a grenade on Sgt Johnson so he is laying on the ground like he is dead. Then activate the Cut scen where spark kills him. Well after the cut scene, you return out side and there is Sgt Johnson standing there and now he can be turned into the flood.

[CaptainZombie]

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You get at least 2 people in the last lvl. If you have beat the game already then read spoiler.

Spoiler

Well right before you go to the control room, someone has to throw a grenade on Sgt Johnson so he is laying on the ground like he is dead. Then activate the Cut scen where spark kills him. Well after the cut scene, you return out side and there is Sgt Johnson standing there and now he can be turned into the flood.

LOL! That sounds cool.

[chippered]

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I just got Standoff in ranked Team Slayer...

got Foundry on Team Doubles yesterday..

Ahh, good to hear.

Some guys from work and I are gonna be on tonight for an all nighter, so hopefully we come across some of the new maps.

[sportsdude]

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I just got the new maps and I like them a lot. Foundry can be quite the sh*tfest sometimes but chaos is fun. Neutral bomb on standoff is a lot of fun.

[Flawless]

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8.1 million sold in a little over 3 months

It took Halo 2 a year and a half to reach the 8 million mark.

[CaptainZombie]

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8.1 million sold in a little over 3 months

It took Halo 2 a year and a half to reach the 8 million mark.

WOW! Talk about insane.

[videobastard]

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Halo 3 would be much better with a call of duty 4 type system. The random matches poppin up is gay.

[rspencer86]

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Halo 3 would be much better with a call of duty 4 type system. The random matches poppin up is gay.

Yeah, that's one thing I really don't like about Halo online. Give the player the control over what type of gametype we want to play.

[chippered]

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Yeah, that's one thing I really don't like about Halo online. Give the player the control over what type of gametype we want to play.

A couple of buddies and I were just talking about this the other day. COD 4 set the bar for online options, IMO.

[sportsdude]

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A couple of buddies and I were just talking about this the other day. COD 4 set the bar for online options, IMO.

yeah, as much as I love halo, I get so frustrated some times that I can't just play CTF or neutral bomb. They have to mix in territories and VIP and big team slayer (though that's fun on sandtrap).

[chippered]

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yeah, as much as I love halo, I get so frustrated some times that I can't just play CTF or neutral bomb. They have to mix in territories and VIP and big team slayer (though that's fun on sandtrap).

Yeah, I'd like to be able to do more big team slayer, but we always get stuck with the other stuff.

[Flawless]

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Yeah, it would be nice to able to choose exactly what you want to play. This seems to be a big complaint and I'm sure Bungie is listening, so hopefully they give us some more options in the near future.


Bungie Weekly Update

While I was running around O.K. Corral, Frankie and Robt McLees’ conversation ground to a halt when they looked at my monitor. They remarked that what I was playing looked like an area from Campaign. O.K. Corral reminds me a little bit of Seattle, actually. Not necessarily aesthetically – it’s not full of Emerald and Traffic – but thematically. O.K. Corral is a bit of an intersection between technology and nature. A dilapidated building that resembles an observatory (primarily because of the just-added God Rays streaming through a broken skylight) is at map’s center. This small, multi-level structure has a variety of ways in and out and connects to both bases on this small-to-medium sized asymmetrical map. O.K. Corral takes place in a small canyon so one side of the map features flora and the other side has the architectural failures of humanity.

There’s a pretty broad variety of lighting on O.K. Corral, from the aforementioned God Rays to dark tunnels, nooks and crevices where much of the illumination comes from the lights on Spartan armor.

With a bunch of elevated firing platforms, choke points and multiple ways in and out of the respective bases, O.K. Corral will be ideal for Team Slayer, Oddball and Capture the Flag variations.

Purple Reign, another map, coming in the foreseeable future, isn’t asymmetrical at all. It’s a brand new, small, arena style map that we hope some of our more competitive-focused players will enjoy.

It is chock full of weapons suited for mid-to-long range combat and there are long sight lines across the map from both of the somewhat enclosed bases. The bases themselves have one way windows on the second level – much like the windows in a police interrogation room. From inside a base you can see out, but from outside of the base your view is obstructed.

There are elevated walkways connecting the bases to a two-level structure at the center of the map. These connecting walkways are too tall to jump to from the floor but there are a bunch of small columns dotting the floor plan that you can jump on and then easily hop up to the walkway for a better vantage point or to grab a rifle from the walkways.

Work continues on AU1, which is a fancy way of saying Auto Update 1 or “patch.” There’s a bunch of stuff we’ve been looking at ranging in various levels of complexity and we’ve been taking boxes home and testing changes pretty regularly. These fixes range from complicated to simple (for example: The known issue with the Elite Commando Shoulders). We’ll obviously have more on AU1 as we continue testing and we’ll detail the changes when we can.

[Candyman5]

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Wasn't there supposed to be a "Scary Map" that had weird sounds and other stuff?

[McLite]

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I know this is old but it's still funny if anyone hasn't seen it. I just got back into this game big time when I found about 10 guys from work that play online. Now I'm playing every Sunday and almost every night again. It's definitely a ton more fun player ranked and social when your whole team has headsets and are friends.

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[chippered]

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I know this is old but it's still funny if anyone hasn't seen it. I just got back into this game big time when I found about 10 guys from work that play online. Now I'm playing every Sunday and almost every night again. It's definitely a ton more fun player ranked and social when your whole team has headsets and are friends.

I'm the same way man. I've got three or four guys from work that I run with on this game, and its fun as hell. Its so much easier to get a strategy together for us. Hell, when we bump into eachother at work, we usually end up talking Halo strategy and such.