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Posted by: haloman88
This is the best add i've seen in a while. If you turn it upsidedown it kind of looks like the add for that old movie Indipendence day, anyone rememner that movie?

yeah it was a good movie.

  • 02.18.2007 1:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: wasasaw
B button=context sensitive. it probably is the crouch toggle(while crouching hold B and you will stay crouched until you click the LS again) the crouch toggle has to be either B or X

im pretty sure it will be an option, i wish they could just fix it now in an update

  • 02.18.2007 1:20 PM PDT
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It's about time that you have gotten a little more specific.Fall 2007,and i hope that is the release date of the game,thanks Bungie

  • 02.18.2007 1:45 PM PDT
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NEW X BUTTON THOUGHT. What if the X Button was to used for a FIERCE ATTACK! Like the brutes in the Et Tu Brute video that pulled off the soldiers arms and the Elite slashed the both legs off the brute. Master Chief must have counter attack force, A STRONG ATTACK X BUTTON! That would add a new dimension to the game and the fighting of course you couldn't use it all the time because it would take away from your strength....
What do you guys think?

  • 02.18.2007 2:34 PM PDT
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Delicious Update,
In regards to the part about the D-pad still controlling team chat (a la removing left thumb from the all-too precious movement left stick); it is refreshing to know that thought is put into what is involved with team and proximity chat, because the nature and subtley of team chat is what gives tense skirmish (or slayer for that matter) matches tide-changing moments when team chat is overheard by an enemy.
I do not like having to take my thumb off my left stick to hit Up on D-pad because it is usually during intese ecounters with the enemy when I most find the need to communicate with far off teammates. Any hesitation is running or jumping could result in death, therefore I like using LB to team chat on Halo 2. (And by the way I really like using RB to switch gernades, especially when holding a charged Plasma Pistol, i.e. acquiring Frag grenades on Midship).

  • 02.18.2007 2:55 PM PDT
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"Late Spring"? How late? I leave for bootcamp in April. If i miss the launch, how long is this beta live? If it's less than three motnhs i may as well just loan out my Crackdown copy.

  • 02.18.2007 4:20 PM PDT

So, anyone notice there are thirteen clamps coming up out of the desert? And in the latest Halo book there were thirteen clamps surrounding the slipspace rift Dr Halsey and Chief Mendez took the last Spartan-III's into?

So: Halo rings activate, Rift opens. Reclaimers go to Onyx and take refuge behind the sharpened edge of the shield, what happens next? Perhaps the Reclaimers go to the Ark that was built to escape the Flood? Where have we heard that before? We all know that Earth was implied to be the Ark in the second game, and we also know that human history began in Africa, which also happens to be the site of New Mombasa...

On a different note, I was very disappointed with the latest book's finishing. It was replete with spelling and grammatical errors. After all the care that we know goes into Halo products, couldn't you guys have dished out just a little dough for a decent proof-reader or two? It was PATHETIC! An area the size of this post would be likely to contain at least two spelling errors. My God! I hope the game has more effort put into it.

  • 02.18.2007 4:47 PM PDT
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milla da killa-
Anyone think to look at the cloud going around the 3? I do believe that that direction only happens in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.


i believe the Forerunner structure on Earth is located somewhere in Africa......at least from the trailer it seems so....making it the southern hemisphere :)

[Edited on 2/18/2007]

  • 02.18.2007 5:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Flatmeat
So, anyone notice there are thirteen clamps coming up out of the desert? And in the latest Halo book there were thirteen clamps surrounding the slipspace rift Dr Halsey and Chief Mendez took the last Spartan-III's into?



dude i was just about to say the same thing. I think this might be the "ONE very important piece of information. Cough."

  • 02.18.2007 5:49 PM PDT
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nice!

  • 02.18.2007 5:55 PM PDT

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D-PAD: Used for sweet circular fighting game moves. No wait, my bad - it is currently used to activate team chat, but that’s very provisional. This is being given a lot of care and attention and is tied to other matters, such as your default settings and how team chat and proximity voice work. You’d be amazed how much testing and thought goes into this stuff.


Halo 3 needs customizable game type options for everything, including the voice proximity and team chat aspects of the game.

The ability to turn off/on voice proximity, or an option for 'button activated team chat' or 'always team chat' are crucial for suiting Halo 3 to everyone's needs. (When MLG teams scrimmage eachother in Halo 2, they have to spend time muting/unmuting/muting/unmuting teams they practice against so that voice proximity doesn't mess with the practice. Also, most have to take their thumb off the stick to team chat with teammates, which makes simulating the tournament setting more difficult.)

I know voice/teamchat have their place the halo setting. It adds an interesting/cool aspects of the game online. I personal LOVE hearing an enemy through voice proximity. (Then contributing your kill to the enemy's LOUD breathing.. lol.)

All these options will allow the players to fine-tune game balance to fit their own needs!

Thanks,

Chuck

P.S. In addition to the voice/teamchat pieces of Halo 3, I would encourage the game to have customizable options for every single part of the game. From individual weapon respawn times, power-up respawn times, more options with objectives (weight of an objective item, which would alter the affect explosions have on objectives/how far an objective can be jump-thrown-meleed), etc.

Suiting the game for more genres (casual, competitve, etc) is what would make Halo 3 the perfect next gen Console FPS!

[Edited on 2/18/2007]

  • 02.18.2007 6:05 PM PDT

Reach!

Speculation can be fun... Or so it seems. Damn you guys are full of crazy but mostly stupid ideas!! Don't get pissed now.. 'cause I've got some of my own dumb Ideas: First who has thought maybe when dual wielding, and deciding to use the sniper to shoot some fool; that maybe you don't drop your secondary dual when using the Y button. Oh yeah, secondly the X button IS a self destruct suicide button!! OK I have no clue, and neither do you guys... Keep up the brain teasers!! Oh look first page.. oh wait.. duh.

And for all of you who take things a little too personal....Chill Out!!

  • 02.18.2007 6:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheOzySuit
This is my first post so I hope I am doing this right.
This may have been said before, but does anyone else think Earth is a "shield world". That teaser picture looks a lot like the "hill" that the Spartans were standing on in Ghosts of Onyx (at the end of the book) and it might explain why the Covanent want it so bad.

Dude Onyx was a sheild world to "shield" against the activation of a Halo. Earth's built in beam thing seems like the forerunners first atempt to make a planetish Halo.

  • 02.18.2007 8:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: perfenager
Wow thats great fall 2007 is what it said on the bottom of the pic so that gives me an idea of when it comes out so hopefully I can get my 360 fixed by then yeah its broke if any one reads this please let me know how to fix it I am thinking about tradeing it for a new one but all my saved games are on it and i dont know if i can recover them so let me know how to do it


Dude if you don't want to lose your games then take off your hardrive before turning in the 360 ( or take out the mem card if ur using one). Just so you know, the hardrive is that flat metalic, silver half inch bump on the top of your 360

  • 02.18.2007 8:40 PM PDT
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bungie has proven that a bunch of monkeys sitting in front of keyboards can randomly type out a masterpiece. the thing is, when you go to play the masterpiece, you cant help but notice all the monkey s**t smeared all over it.

it gets real old having to wait months for someone like mlg to clean off all the monkey poo.

Posted by: JDrake
You BETTER be able to customize buttons!
I want trigger meleeing!!!!! (AND trigger grenades, not just Boxer)
I don't care if I have to reload with a button and not a trigger, I'd rather beat down!!!


this guy knows what hes talking about.
bumper/trigger melee!

  • 02.18.2007 9:13 PM PDT
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Get owned

what happen to the x button

  • 02.18.2007 9:38 PM PDT
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Awesome!

  • 02.18.2007 9:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: JDrake
You BETTER be able to customize buttons!
I want trigger meleeing!!!!! (AND trigger grenades, not just Boxer)
I don't care if I have to reload with a button and not a trigger, I'd rather beat down!!!


this guy knows what hes talking about.
bumper/trigger melee!


Boxer keys FTW!!!

  • 02.18.2007 11:48 PM PDT
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Did you know that Spartan 117's name is actually John?


[Edited on 2/19/2007]

  • 02.18.2007 11:52 PM PDT

"I need a weapon."-Master Chief

Posted by: Cameron Jacobson
The X button switches guns to alternate fire, such as a grenade launcher on the assault rifle, heat seaking vs. high explosive rockets etc.


Ummmm, no i'm 99% sure that Frankie and/or KP said in one of the updates that the mysterious x-button feature will not be alternate fire, such as in Perfect Dark, because they said that it would not fit the halo universe, and I totally agree, we havnt seen alternate fire in Halo: Combat Evolved or Halo 2 so why all the sudden would they start making weapons with alternate fire.

  • 02.19.2007 3:12 AM PDT
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I think that when you are changing your button controls around (such as in Halo 2 where you can do like Default, Boxer, Southpaw ect.) there should be a Halo 2 Button Scheme choice and they could just figure out which buttons would best hold the extra actions along with the normal Halo 2 Default Button Scheme.

  • 02.19.2007 4:58 AM PDT
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lol how u do that i copy it

  • 02.19.2007 5:20 AM PDT