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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 06/15/07

The Noble and Heroic DriedMoss, member of Reaching Perfection and the ever-growing kick-ass Halo community.

I expect we are not going to get a look at the main campaign stuff until E3, which is less than three weeks away. And seeing that the game is being released less than two months after what we see from E3, this had better be more than what was offered for the E3 Halo 2 demo.

Why didn't they talk about the face behind the mask glitch? That was one creepy image. Nice how they rotated the camera around from a Spartan on a mongoose to have the camera cut throught a standing player's visor to see the scarred face. Very interesting.

What is all the hype over Mister Chief?

So do you all think Bungie's Halo 3 Demo at the July E3 will have Online coop for the main campaign?

  • 06.16.2007 1:05 AM PDT

The Noble and Heroic DriedMoss, member of Reaching Perfection and the ever-growing kick-ass Halo community.

Spartan713 Duy, Thanks for the input.

Loading screens just break up the game experience like commercials break up "Lost"

Well, when you consider how immersive the Halo games have become, and if you are playing a next generation version of Halo (H3) through a particularly long first level, and are getting into the game's story atmosphere, only to have those images/emotions cut off by a "Now Loading" screen, it would feel like watching "Lost", or whatever other TV show/movie you enjoy, only to have five sets of commercials break up the excitement. You don't want to watch the commercials...do you? Personally I like how Bungie made the loading hidden behind the in-game-engine cutscenes as you played through Halo 2, then you can see the difference when you go back and play Halo: Combat Evolved, you know where you get the humming monks between each level. Not bad monks, but why deevolve your technology?



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  • 06.16.2007 1:18 AM PDT
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i cant wait to hear the music.

  • 06.16.2007 1:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: DriedMoss
Spartan713 Duy, Thanks for the input.

Loading screens just break up the game experience like commercials break up "Lost"

Well, when you consider how immersive the Halo games have become, and if you are playing a next generation version of Halo (H3) through a particularly long first level, and are getting into the game's story atmosphere, only to have those images/emotions cut off by a "Now Loading" screen.


Maybe that is the reason? The maps are longer, and far better, so it wouldn't be possible for a huge loading in the start of the Campaign.

Don't you find it irritating when you watch a movie, then it has a very long break...30 minut when it only is about 5-10 minuts left? Better to have many short breaks like 2-5 minuts and then watch the movie for 20-30 minuts and then another break for 2-5 minuts, enough time for a toilet break.

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  • 06.16.2007 1:37 AM PDT
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hmmm...crap update i reckon. just info on blaming water and bug fixes as well as music. BORING.

we need vehicle, enemy, and weapon updates. intersting stuff i mean cmon how hard is it to feed us some crap thats not classified? and not even a mister chief? slack effort frankie. very slack.

oh and just off topic...Resistance on ps3. i just played it over at a friends house on his new high def plasma tv and ... well to be frank it sucked. the aline/mutants looked rather humorous and not intimidating looking at all. the graphics, which were meant to be uber cool (on this over-hyped super powered console worth more than an arm, leg, other arm and other leg, plus genitals on ebay), were rather average and no where near on par with Gears Of War. and another thing: the thompson gun isnt even a thompson gun! WTF is up with that? boring pommy narator chick voice(no offense to english people) pretty boring level design, boring alien weaponry (reminds me of the repeater gun from Jedi Knight II), very lightweight ps3 control, horrible battery life, 1 metre usb controller cord to console, very stupid use of motion senitivity when grappling with aliens (stolen straight from Call of Duty 3)...good things were a jump button, smashing breakable windows animations, and driving the tank...but boring tasks whilst in the tank. oh and that scene in which the character is revealed to have a resistance to infection and the bugs start crawling in his mouth...i mean...i really didnt care for the character at all. and it wasnt because i hate playstation, but more the fact that the scene was poorly delivered with a rather stupid graphical face animation.

right o back to halo 3
loading times
i know halo 1 got flamed for it (i didnt mind though) and halo 2 was flamed for -blam- in-game rendering effects. i would suggest not to load halo 3 the same way as halo 2. get a load time before every level which fully loads everything that level needs. i dont really wanna see in-game characters being rendered before my eyes while im playing.

oh and please oh please kill off the -blaming- arbiter. switching back and forth from MC to that ugly ass alien freak really killed the motion of the game. i did not feel remotely attached to the MC as i did in halo 1. the only thing good about playing as the arbiter was that elite allies don't die as quickly and can hold bruteshots and swords, unlike crappy marines.

  • 06.16.2007 2:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: DriedMoss
Well, when you consider how immersive the Halo games have become, and if you are playing a next generation version of Halo (H3) through a particularly long first level, and are getting into the game's story atmosphere, only to have those images/emotions cut off by a "Now Loading" screen, it would feel like watching "Lost", or whatever other TV show/movie you enjoy, only to have five sets of commercials break up the excitement. ...Not bad monks, but why deevolve your technology?

You do, of course, realise that Halo 2 still had a loading screen when you loaded up campaign at the start of your session? That may just be what he's talking about.

I really hope we don't have to sit watching loading screens between each level. It was great in Halo 2 going from one level to the next with only a slight pause.

  • 06.16.2007 3:18 AM PDT

When did I realise I was God? Well I was praying, and I suddenly realised I was talking to myself.

4th page woo!!!!

  • 06.16.2007 3:30 AM PDT

They mostly come out at night... mostly...

I'm with you spartan666. The update was rather bland. How many times have we heard about the water and the music already? However, I'm thankful for Bungie taking the time to do an update each week when they aren't required to. Hopefully, next week will bring something a little more flavorful.

  • 06.16.2007 3:47 AM PDT
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OK-Nice update. Need pictures.

peace, B03

  • 06.16.2007 4:40 AM PDT

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Okay, I'm getting truly horned up over the soundtrack. Sorry for that mental picture. ;)

This article exactly describes my impressions of the music of Halo and the way it is used. It makes me happy, it makes me sad, it makes me want to go into battle and squash those mother f......! Most importantly it connects me to the story and the action. If Marty can out do what he did in Halo 1 and 2 then I will be totally Halo 3 addicted for at least a year. I still play the old campaigns when I'm bored.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot!
If Marty is aged 50 or over, as I think I've read, then we might let him play with our Over 50 group. Not until Halo 3 is on the shelves though. We don't want anything delaying that jewel. ;)

  • 06.16.2007 7:13 AM PDT

Don't feed the monkey!!!!

Get rid of that horrible inconsistent melee lunge and guess what, problem solved. That was one of the worst things you put in Halo 2. Why in the hell are you putting it back in the game? I thought you guys learned from your Halo 2 mistakes. It's sad because everything in the beta was amazing, except the lunge.

  • 06.16.2007 7:14 AM PDT
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i kinda feel like maybe the update wasnt completely uploaded right thats why there is no mister chiefzrz

  • 06.16.2007 7:43 AM PDT
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The Music for Halo 3 is gonna be tight!!!

  • 06.16.2007 8:33 AM PDT
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Ever been walking in the woods, and seen the sun come filtering through the trees onto a pond or a river? Notice how it picks up a really bright, yet mellow golden glare, amongst the shadows of the trees? Well now we have that effect in the game


Sounds like a jungle....

  • 06.16.2007 8:36 AM PDT
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I think, just for comedy, you should add in the rocky theme song "gonna fly now" at the end of halo 3.

  • 06.16.2007 9:23 AM PDT
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Nice update! 4:th page wooot!

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  • 06.16.2007 9:29 AM PDT
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YAY! Water and Music!

  • 06.16.2007 10:13 AM PDT

be like the bird, who, halting from flight, on limb too slight, feels it give way beneath him, yet sings, knowing he hath wings --- victor hugo

first the beta starts late, then we dont get a mister chief.
"this, is the way the world ends. dunh dununh duh dunh dunuuuuuuuh"

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  • 06.16.2007 10:36 AM PDT
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=o
Where's our Mister Chief?

  • 06.16.2007 11:23 AM PDT
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Stupid update. All and all, Frankie is very good at writing interesting stuff. However, this time I just never got into it (maybe I need to read it again). I don't want to hear about water again unless Bungie is developing a way for MC to drink a gallon of water and go number 1 on dead corpses.

  • 06.16.2007 11:51 AM PDT
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omg look at all the ppl! do water updates more often! mister chief...........? (:-[]

  • 06.16.2007 12:04 PM PDT
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M I S T E R C H I E F I M I S S Y O U !!!!!!

  • 06.16.2007 12:06 PM PDT

Go Rockets!!!

Yao Ming is back!!!

Come on Bungie we need pictures or videos of Halo 3's campaign or multiplayer your killing us Bungie!!!!!!!

  • 06.16.2007 12:23 PM PDT

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Exalted is considered "the highest" because you can't get any bans or warnings of any kind for quite a long time, which is harder than just being a member for a long time.

That part about the coding was pretty interesting. I like hearing about this game coming together so nicely... Please just let us play it already...

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Posted by: DarkishRav3n
Anyone else notice this?

"That means that if you try a speed run, for example – the music will adapt and conform to what you’re doing, as well what we know is going to happen (a cinematic interlude, or a large, scary encounter, for example) and it’s something game composers have had to deal with forever."


i think he means going through the level as fast as he can not doing something like sprinting.

  • 06.16.2007 1:41 PM PDT