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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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Awesome update!!!!

  • 02.23.2007 5:32 PM PDT
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Is it just me, or are those things up in the sky visor reflections??? Does not look like it belongs.

or am i just crazy...or is it old news?

  • 02.23.2007 5:34 PM PDT
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Could we get that screen in a larger size? Also, will it be going into the screenshot gallery, or is that all we are going to see of it?

  • 02.23.2007 5:34 PM PDT

Nice

  • 02.23.2007 5:36 PM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
If you are referring to the distant weapons fire audio effect, then that hasn't been around in Halo - it will be new in Halo 3.

Posted by: Ad Hominum
Another way you know you are dealing with Bungie fans: when Frankie announces something in the game that has been around for ages, people act like it's a new, stunning innovation.


He's just being a little gray raincloud.

  • 02.23.2007 5:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Ad Hominum
Could we get that screen in a larger size? Also, will it be going into the screenshot gallery, or is that all we are going to see of it?


Nah, it's not up to our normal standards, but we might do that later on, when everything is working more smoothly. We'll see.

  • 02.23.2007 5:39 PM PDT

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop smokin'!"

Ah, more halo -blam!-...

lovely update Frankie :)

*wonders if the water has physics now*

  • 02.23.2007 5:45 PM PDT

i'm not that drunk yet

Posted by: Guish
Occlusion rocks. I can see why you like it. Very Tron. Anyway, I say don't worry about the manual so much. Include an interactive manual section on the disk! 3D weapon close-ups, etc. Format it like a tac manual for ODSTs. Manuals come and go. The disk lives on!


New "team tron" playlist!! DO IT!.

and an INTERACTIVE MANUAL is probably the BEST "not too crazy" idea i've heard so far..

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  • 02.23.2007 5:45 PM PDT
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And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

Best update in ages.
Loved it <3

  • 02.23.2007 5:45 PM PDT

I hate signatures :)

Zeppelin Rules!

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

This is why we love you Frankie....most of the time :P

  • 02.23.2007 5:45 PM PDT

i'm not that drunk yet

Posted by: DAMOLITION25
it just sunk in. highground is back!


are you thinking an updated "Hang'em High"?
... i think my little doctor just twitched

  • 02.23.2007 5:49 PM PDT
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my brain is about to shutdown from all that frickin awesome info! Thanks for one of the best updates ever Frankie! I will admit I'm a graphics whore too, and hearing about the graphics and the sound effects is making me wet myself a lot! GO HALO 3

  • 02.23.2007 5:51 PM PDT

"Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing, or even, dreadful thought, educational." - Leto II

Man, that new AR looks so awesome.

  • 02.23.2007 5:53 PM PDT

Reach!

So much information... sounds like the alpha is coming along well. This update was a great tease, and gives me a lot to imagine! I am very excited to hear the water flows around objects! Now damn it I was a little disappointed to hear the beta would be coming to us late this spring... :( ...

  • 02.23.2007 5:59 PM PDT

New Mark-VI Battle Armor: $3000
New Battle Rifle: $400
Extra Magazines: $50
Hearing The Covenant Scream In Pain: Priceless

hopefully that graphic mode can be unlocked as a playable feature after beating the game

  • 02.23.2007 5:59 PM PDT
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I am SO getting Crackdown for the Beta, JUST because I want to go on there alone and stare at all the effects.

  • 02.23.2007 6:01 PM PDT

PC gamer Computer Gamers Join both if you play PC games!

Marine: Damn right, I'm running away! There's two of us, alone, on foot, no weapons, and four hundred Covies on the other side of that hill. What are you going to do, tough guy--field-rig a railgun out of a rubber band and my dental fillings?

Spartan (speculatively): You have fillings...?

fd said so .

  • 02.23.2007 6:06 PM PDT
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great read, all of the attention to detail should make this game live up to its hype.

I'm probably gonna spend a good day or two just checking out the scenery, and the little things, like shadows....foilage movement, and the way the water flows around objects...I can't wait.

  • 02.23.2007 6:08 PM PDT
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  • 02.23.2007 6:09 PM PDT
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Thats kick ass. I mean, someone correct me if I'm wrong but being able to tell what weapon is being used where and be able to tell how many enemies are around the place is awesome. I mean, don't you just hate it when someone sneaks up on you and smacks you one and thats it? You weren't even able to put up a descent fight. Thats what they should have implemented since the begining, just like in Gears of War. Your able to tell where your enemy is by the sound of his breathing or grunting or his footsteps while running. Every old school game I can remember has that: Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, etc. Anxiety is growing for us the loyal followers. Finish it already!

  • 02.23.2007 6:10 PM PDT

-KOS-

Good update.

  • 02.23.2007 6:10 PM PDT

It would be so cool to see the graphical tool used in the final game. It should be in the background when you access your friends list (or in the case of the 360, the guide), like the blocky view in Halo 2 that comes up when you access your friends list.

  • 02.23.2007 6:11 PM PDT

Amazingly superdescriptivitatious.

  • 02.23.2007 6:14 PM PDT
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hey cn ne one fill me in hea but when they say they working on the manuel does that mean it closwe to comin out or is it for beta??????? well ne ways good update will the flood have changed in ne shape or form....and has they shotgun become far more powerfull because in halo 2 close range u shoot a brute at pont blank range and it takes to shots to take it down and in the brute doc it took like 1 .... i am ur dominar yay !!!

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  • 02.23.2007 6:14 PM PDT

I'm Killpill28, or Eric if you wish.

I am a member of the OWaW Team. OWaW is a Halo fan-game that can be found at triblox.org.

I love it, if only you would have shown all the polygons! Heh, all the same, I would never make fun of you for loving graphics and sounds, I love them too. I play campaign over and over trying to get to the next high point on the level for hours, just too look at the view. I like to glitch more than I like to play the game. Please tell me there are still glitches! If there are not, could you make settings to turn them on and off so they would not effect matchmaking? I know you can adjust gravity but I would still love to have jumper jumps. You could make it so you need the right gravity to do them! I am already thinking of ways to get passed the turrets on that map. I am already thinking about stalking AI to see what they do. What I see may just make me feel bad about killing it, if I ever do. I have a hard time killing teammates in campaign, when to glitch, I need them gone.

Anyways, I wonder if you would ever read this, but if you do. I sympathize with your obsession with detail in a game.

-Killpill28

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  • 02.23.2007 6:15 PM PDT