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i think i'm in love

  • 07.03.2007 8:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: IcyThalus
The one that they feature in the story (with the large visor) looks a LOT like the SPI armor from the Halo: Ghosts of Onyx book. Or is that just me?


Yeah, it reminds me of that armor, too. It's not exactly the same, but I wonder if it's presence in the game could mean the appearence of a certain character (or more) in the campaign. Most likely a stretch, but I think it would be pretty cool to see him/them on my TV.

That word, "unlock", makes me a bit nervous. I'm really, very, excited about having more armor choices. That was always something I wanted more of in Halo 2, better options for Spartan customization. Even if it was just a better color choice system (I was never jazzed about the secondary color placement option).
But if it turns out that I'll have to put in some real time in matchmaking, that will kill me. I'm a custom game kind of guy. I hate matchmaking. I hate it a lot. Not the idea of it. I really appreciate all of the game options, and that it exists. I really just hate what matchmaking means. Frustrating, obnoxious, matches with complete strangers who, very often, require muting.
So if these permutations can only be unlocked through hours of matchmaking, I'll have to suck it up and do it (until I unlock all available pieces and retreat to custom games), but it will really dampen the experience of Halo 3 for me.

Here's hoping for simply unlocking these in campaign (the real reason I buy any video game), or (as apparently is not the case) having them simply be available from the beginning.

  • 07.03.2007 8:51 PM PDT
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I WANT PIX OF SHRINE!!! :( i cant find them on bungie anywhere so i have to look other places.....show me some please

  • 07.03.2007 9:42 PM PDT

Preserve nature, pickle squirrels!

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_( Halo 3 )_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

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It is nice to see some new screenshots from bungie, although most of them appeared on the net a day or two before.

Unlockable armor seems like an awesome idea, but there's a lot of controversy over how to unlock it; perhaps they should make a halo points system, so you can earn armor in a variety of ways instead of just the campaign or muiltiplayer alone. It would make a lot more sense.

As for the brute chopper, it seems really cool... too cool infact. I'm worried that it is very overpowered; I mean, it's incredibly fast, it can destroy other vehicles with ease, and it has 4 mounted guns... all at the hands of one person. Could this tank make the warthog and ghost obsolete?

The whole point of halo's engine is that the fighting is balanced; all vehicles and guns have strengths and weaknesses that even out. So far the brute chopper has tons of strengths and no weaknesses; is it hard to control or something? Does it not take much damage?

Here's hoping for a happy September. I'm phoning in sick for school and work.

  • 07.03.2007 9:55 PM PDT
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I love the "new" info on the maps, could you go into a little bit more detail...stuff we don't know or haven't seen. Maybe show us Jub-Jub or one of the other unknown maps. And as several people have said so far. Most of the maps we have seen are pretty big, are there smaller maps and/or is there going to be a 6 vs 6.

I am not sure how I feel about the new armours. I was a little bit upset about the eites in halo 2 because even though they are supposedly the same there are little differances in them, such as head shots and mele. These new armours inhance the number of differances. Also, "unlockable" means you have to earn them through either campaign, mulitplayer, or other mysterious means.

The new brute-mobile looks awsome and it gives me hope that there will be other vehicles in halo 3. Maybe a human vehicle that you can drive and shoot at the same time? Or something other than the banshee that can fly? And even if we are lucky they will incorperate these new vehicles into matchmaking, because in Halo 2 there was a lacking use of the specter in matchmaking and the wraith made its way into few matches other than BTB in waterworks. Please bungie, if there are things in campaign put them in multiplayer.
Other than my gripes...Great work bungie.

  • 07.03.2007 9:58 PM PDT
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RIP Halo 2

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Posted by: Sago
I am pretty sure that the new armor will be unlocked as you beat the campaign story.


Hmmm.. I wouldn't be too sure about that. I think you might need to increase your skill level or rank in multiplayer to unlock the new armor.. kinda like the way they had it in Rainbow Six: Vegas.


yeah, that sounds good too, but i read about that in IGN.com. It tells us that it has to do with Campaign, but it you might be right, I'm not sure

  • 07.03.2007 10:10 PM PDT

"We came, we saw, we conquered, then realized we had no way home."

WOW! That screenshot of Epitaph looks amazing! Absolutely beautful! I can't wait to actually see more of that map! It looks a bit like Halo's Damnation layout (from what little is shown) along with a whole lot of familar architecture from The Silent Cartographer. Coincidence? Common Forerunner design principle? Perhaps even similar structure construction periods? OMG! So many questions!

One of the first things that catches my eye (besdies the blue-light volumetric-displays on the left and right second floor) is the Plasma Sword (top) and what looks to be the bottom of the Forerunner ship seen in the end of Halo 2, but it might just be the angle of the shot, or another lighting detail that gives it that appearance. Unfortunately, the bridge infront obscure the rest of the area behind it.

The Armor Permutations will definately get me more interested in Multiplayer now. Thanks Bungie for realizing what most gamers want: options, options and more options. Great job! The shown permutation looks fantastic!

  • 07.03.2007 10:10 PM PDT

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How in the world do you pronounce "Epitaph"?


Eh-pee-t-aff

  • 07.03.2007 10:11 PM PDT
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Im guessing these customizations will carry over in that sweet online four player coop were getting, right?

  • 07.03.2007 10:19 PM PDT
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DAMMIT WHY ISNT MY FRIEND AWAKE AT TWLEVE (pm)TO SEEE THIS!

[Edited on 07.03.2007 10:23 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2007 10:22 PM PDT

Posted by: snowysnowcones
How in the world do you pronounce "Epitaph"?


Epitaph: { Ep (as in the "ep" in "epic") - I (as in the "i" in "it') - Taph (as in "tap" with a "ph" sound instead of "p") } [noun]

> a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site. (aka, what's written on someone's tombstone)

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Even though I'd already heard about these maps, they look freaking sweet! I can't wait to play H3!!!

P.S. This is the slowest site on the entire internet -_-


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OH YEAH, ONE MORE THING:

There is no possible way the armor will have to be unlocked over Xbox Live! It wouldn't be fair or legit or, for that matter, legal to do something like this to people who don't/can't afford XBL! I really don't see how everyone missed that but yea. It has to be campaign or else Bungie is a bunch of -Blammed!- up mother -Blammers!- (and they're not so I'm right :)

[Edited on 07.03.2007 10:37 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2007 10:26 PM PDT
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nice, you'll be able to play as a Spartan III. i like zanzibar evolved

  • 07.03.2007 10:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: LT Elysian
...or else Bungie is a bunch of -Blammed!- up mother -Blammers!

...nice

  • 07.03.2007 10:57 PM PDT
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this new armour look salmost like the spartan-III's armour BUT S-III have camoflauge and no sheilds called SPI armour....forgot what it stood for though

[Edited on 07.03.2007 11:08 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2007 11:06 PM PDT

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

I agree, this is not anything we haven't seen or heard about before, but these are nicer pics to look at. Thanks.

I cannot wait for E3 news. 6 more days for that. Hoping Bungie announces something this year. Not that Bungie needs anymore hype or support for Halo 3, but I am concerned since Bungie did the public beta last month, and with H3 being released in 2 months, they may not even feel the need to show anything at E3.

I am hoping that Bungie will surface with news on the different MP avatars. Playing as a Brute, or Grunt. Looking at the main campaign snips that we got from the second Vidoc, the Brute armor permutations would not be a difficult swing for Bungie to make. I hope they at least mention something about online coop through the main campaign.



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  • 07.03.2007 11:14 PM PDT

With this shield or on it.

xanzibar one of my favorite maps is getting redone which is cool and epitaph looks absolutly beautiful it kind of sucks that you have to unlock the spartan armor but it' kind of cool at the same time in that it gives you something to work for and last of all i wonder how people are going to jack the chopper ince if you hop on the front you get torn to piece

  • 07.03.2007 11:19 PM PDT

$50,000,000,000 REWARD!!!

Santa Claus must be stopped! He is a menace who is not only guilty of billions of counts of breaking in entering, but also runs an illegal sweatshop of midgets forced to work for no pay using stolen materials to make gifts that infringe on every company and manufacturer around the globe, causing world wide economic disasters. He is to be taken dead or alive!

I did not learn anything new from this due to numerous internet links, but it was still a good update. Also they said there would be numerous new armour choices!! :) :) :) The Mark V from Halo 1 BETTER be one of them, or I might cry. Also, the gauntlets from Halo 2 would be nice to throw in as well. That is the only difference I have noticed in armor. You need to stare at your hands all the time anyway, so it would be cool if you could change them too.

Actually, I did learn that the armor had to be unlocked. I have heard rumors of this, but I am glad it has finally been confirmed.

[Edited on 07.03.2007 11:21 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2007 11:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Caboose
Last time I got shot I got a purple heart, Mabey this time I'll get a purple lung, then I can start to build my own purple person and he'll be my friend.

Sup Dudes and Dudettes!

I am SO excited! i just can't wait for halo 3 to come out! T_T

And those armor variations looked SO pimp status!

Grr, SPTEMBER 25 Yall!

Posted by: Abraham

We said Fall 2007, but did you expect Halo 3’s release date to be just two days into the Fall? On September 25, 2007 (just two days after the Autumnal Equinox), players will be able to finish the fight they started in Halo: Combat Evolved and continued in Halo 2. Halo 3 will release in Europe on September 26, 2007. Worldwide dates may vary slightly depending on local rules and conditions.

hehehe i make linky-thingy

  • 07.03.2007 11:27 PM PDT
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in the update bungie said "numerous permutations" does that mean that theyre will be more armor variants available for player in the final product, such as the SPI armor from ghosts of onyx the halo 1 suit and previous suits!!!

  • 07.04.2007 12:13 AM PDT

In regards to all the people not knowing how to pronounce "Epitaph", here you go

Epp-Ih-Taff

  • 07.04.2007 12:16 AM PDT
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bungie.. you guys are made of hardcore win! the beta was awesome, and all of this new information makes me wet my pants kinda.. september seems so far away!

also, that new helmet is hotsauce. I will devote hours to unlocking it if I have to.

  • 07.04.2007 12:25 AM PDT

Never eat yellow snow, unless of course, you spilled your Mt. Dew!

I wonder how we are to "unlock" these permutations. It doesn't sound like it is something you buy. Must be connected to achievements. Make an achievement and unlock some special prize. Can't wait, especially for the E.V.A.!!!

  • 07.04.2007 12:31 AM PDT
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lol, that armor has a fivehead. and that other one kinda looks like boba fett... cant wait to see the other ones.

  • 07.04.2007 1:08 AM PDT
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Very cool shots cant wait to get halo 3 and unlock this stuff!

  • 07.04.2007 1:13 AM PDT