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Subject: Heroic Map Pack Announced for Halo 3
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so how long intill there free? im just happy it can be free

  • 11.21.2007 4:08 PM PDT

761 armless & legless corpses float inconspicuously around the inside of hangar 96. I say they are inconspicuous because it is their arms & legs which demand my attention. I did this, or I could have stopped it. Which is it? It doesn't matter now. I did this and could have stopped it, but nothing in nature ever follows a Gaussian curve. Sure, they'll tell you it does. They say every 5 minutes someone dies in a car accident, but how often are there 761 armless and legless corpses in one hangar?

I <3 these maps! whooooooo!

and you complaining ppl are idiots. I bet yall r gona start playin halo 1 for xbox now now cuz ur pissed that these maps arent exactly what you wanted.
I mean, cmon people seriously, stop complainin. you dont have 2 buy these, you dont have to buy the bookbags, you dont have 2 buy anything. omg 10 dollars... so much..

just think, THERE ARE MOAR MAPS COMING! omfg lol iv heard at least 2 r 3 different maps ppl went "well where is it" on. derr, if its not here, that just means its not here YET.


and yay, first on the 21's page... thats a multiple of 7 bungie fans

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  • 11.21.2007 4:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Marine029
Posted by: Mr Shawn to YOU
*REVISED MESSAGE BECAUSE WHEN I WROTE THE ORIGINAL I LEFT A FEW THINGS OUT*

AM I THE ONLY PERSON THAT FEELS THAT THESE MAPS SHOULD BE FREE!?!?!? FIRST OFF A YEAR AGO I PAYED FOR MY LEGENDARY EDITION OF HALO 3 WHEN IT WAS STILL SELLING FOR $100. THEN IM FORCED TO PAY AN EXTRA $30 WHEN IT RELEASED. THEN I GET THE GAME PLAY IT AND THE CAMPAIGN WAS GREAT BUT THE MATCHMAKING IS KINDA LAME. NOT FOR THE GAMEPLAY PHYSICS SO MUCH BUT BECAUSE YOU PLAY THE SAME THREE OR FOUR MAPS ON EACH "HOPPER" AND THE STAGES ARE TOO CLOSE TOGETHER OVER AND OVER ACCOMPANIED BY THE SAME VARIANTS. I WAS QUITE DISAPPOINTED BY THE LACK OF DIFFERNT CHOICES AS FAR AS THE "HOPPERS" GO. BRING BIG TEAM BACK TO A RANKED PLAYLIST AND ADD SOME MORE OPTIONS LIKE AN ALL INFECTION HOPPER OR A HOPPER CONSISTING OF ALL PLAYER EDITTED MAPS AND VARIANTS AND CHANGE THE PLAYLIST FOR THE PLAYER EDITTED HOPPER MONTHLY SO THAT PEOPLE CAN HAVE A FRESH VARIETY OF MAPS AND VARIANTS TO PLAY AND SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE THEIR MAPS PLAYED BY THE MASSES AND GET SOME FEEDBACK. ALL IN ALL I'M JUST SAYING THAT "SOME" OF THE NEW MAPS NEED TO BE FREE WITH THE VERY LIMITED SELECTION OF MAPS THAT WERE GIVEN WITH LAUNCH FOR A HIGH PRICE. I KNOW THAT WHEN HALO 2 WAS STILL HOT I WAS ON TOP OF EVERY MAP PACK THAT CAME OUT AND BOUGHT THEM WITH LITTLE HESITATION FOR LESS THAN WHAT THESE MAPS ARE BEING SOLD FOR. DOES ANYONE AGREE WITH ANY OF THE STATEMENTS I HAVE MADE? PLEASE COMMENT!!!

ON A SCARIER NOTE...IF WE KEEP LETTING THESE GAME MAKERS UP THE PRICES AND LOWER THE PRODUCT QUANTITY WHO KNOW WHAT WE WILL BE PAYING THE NEXT GO ROUND. OR THE ONE AFTER THAT. JUST THINK THE MORE YOU ACTUALLY PAY FOR THIS STUFF THE MORE THEY WILL DO IT AND THE LESS THEY WILL GIVE YOU. I REMEMBER HALO 2 COMING OUT WITH A SMORGASBOARD OF MAPS ON ITS LAUNCH AND THE MAPS THAT THEY RELEASED AFTERWARD COST SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN WHAT BUNGIE IS CHARGING FOR THESE MAPS. YEAH THE MAPS ARE BETTER QUALITY AS FAR AS GRAPHICALLY BUT COME ON WHO OUT OF US DIDNT PAY MORE THAN $60 BUCKS FOR THE GAME ALONE. IN MINE AS WELL AS OTHERS CASES OVER $130 FOR THE MEMORABILIA?


I think it should be free to Halo 3 Legendary Edition owners.

Dude what the hell is ur problem, some people didnt want to waste $130 on a halo 3 its not our problem. why cant u just stop complaining. Who cares if u have a limit in forge. And if u spent $130 freaking dollars its not our problem yet again and u dont have to complain over a forum where we sould be talking about the good sides to the map not all this other bull -blam-!!!
[aimed toward Marine029]

[Edited on 11.21.2007 5:03 PM PST]

  • 11.21.2007 4:58 PM PDT

Posted by: Thorn215
Posted by: Marine029
I think it should be free to Halo 3 Legendary Edition owners.

Dude what the hell is ur problem, some people didnt want to waste $130 on a halo 3 its not our problem. why cant u just stop complaining. Who cares if u have a limit in forge. And if u spent $130 freaking dollars its not our problem yet again and u dont have to complain over a forum where we sould be talking about the good sides to the map not all this other bull -blam-!!!
[aimed toward Marine029]

Thorn is right. Just because "we" (I also bought the Legendary edition) paid more does not entitle us to DLC perks. You paid for some advertised product and received the product exactly as advertised; end of "contract," there is no reason you should be entitled to additional products for free.

[Also, for those complaining (I've seen a few) they paid $100 and then the extra $30 when the expected price when up, next time shop at a retailer like Best Buy where they won't charge you extra if the price goes up after your original full payment.]

  • 11.21.2007 5:39 PM PDT
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of course they r going to ignore their customers, they r greedy -blam!-s and dont care about us. who are u to -blam!- talk u rich loser halo 3 fanboy. go blow the bungie staff and their microsoft buddies.

  • 11.21.2007 6:12 PM PDT

Some people are just total noobs at life!

Ok so I think that yes, the maps are overpriced and no-one give me that "you have no idea how much work they put into it" thing b/c the fact is that i do and the fact is that if they charged 5 dollars millions of people would buy it and that would be at least, bare minimum, $5 mill. for a couple months of work on top of the money thats rolling in from all there other products and that would probably still be the bare minimum that they make even after MS takes a big chunk out of it and people are right to be upset about it but i don't think people have to be cursing and flipping out about it. Like FoxSnipe said protest with your dollar instead of badmouthing everyone, however, I will buy it b/c im a huge forge player, i think the 1st map will be the best map in Halo 3 and, yes, ive always wanted to drive a scorpion indoors, HELLS YA! but to all of you out there who think that these maps should be free well youve got alot to learn, sure maybe the 1st map was supposed to be in the game and maybe that should be free, maybe, but the fact is they didnt get it in the game so there gonna try to get profit off of it just like any other business would and as for people saying the second map looks like crap well that might have something to do w/ the fact that the majority of the map is indoors and this is just a bad outdoor picture. i definitly think that if they expect a majority of the people to buy this map pack besides huge halo fans (i.e. myself) they definitly need some better pics on the last 2 maps. and also wat ever happened to that misterious 4th map? in all the updates 4 maps were mentioned separtly. they didnt mention them under different names they were 4 separate maps, well my theory is that the fact that they removed this mysterious 4th map is a huge hint that they are going to make another map pack w/ 3 maps that cost $10 and that mysterious 4th map will probably be one of them, so you can probably expect bungie to make a thing of this.

but now onto those future new map packs. i think that they definitly need a real close quarters map like lockout, if they were to remake one halo 2 map it should be lockout, sure guardians good and all but there are plenty of wide spread open areas that ruin the "in ur face", as other people have refered to it as, aspect of the map. my thought about why they dont make a map like lockout for halo 3 is the assult rifle, and more powerful melee. i mean imagin playin a halo2 match on lockout where everyone had the same weapon and only half shields and thats wat it would be like in halo 3 but either way i still think halo 3 is in dire need of a map like lockout.

  • 11.21.2007 6:28 PM PDT
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wow halo 3 fan boy -blam!-

  • 11.21.2007 6:36 PM PDT
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wait a minute if they were forged and stuff made by others out there wont they post the level on fileshar to bungie.net and then we wont have to worry about getting it except the new forge editing thing for that thrid map i think

  • 11.21.2007 6:36 PM PDT
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uhh no lol? you cant forge a new map

  • 11.21.2007 6:39 PM PDT
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rotfl

  • 11.21.2007 6:42 PM PDT
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will there be any armor perms added in this pack???

  • 11.21.2007 6:46 PM PDT
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why are swear words censored? i thought this game was rated mature? aren't people 18 and above allowed to curse? surely there aren't children playing this game.

  • 11.21.2007 7:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: Reclaimer919
Bungie, Any news on that Moonbase alpha map you were talking about a few weeks back? I was hoping/thought that would be included in the DLC.



Next set of maps. These are the first batch.


That said, I propose a boycott unless the price drops to 500 points or less.


EDIT: I have made a group protesting the price. Please join.


Hey, im making a group to kill the whiners, who is with me?

  • 11.21.2007 7:30 PM PDT
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Jesus bungie cant even do one thing not being complained about, jeesh they are under microscopes, and you guys are the scientists, calm down, the maps are fine you can still play online, just wait till the maps are free

  • 11.21.2007 7:34 PM PDT

Please Bungie, redeem yourself w/ Reach.
Halo 2 and 3 both stink out loud.
In the immortal words of Mr Horse: Halo 2? No sir, didn't like it.

Posted by: TheSixth
This Update fails, Bungie fails, 10$ for 3 maps fails

Anybody who bashes COD4 fails, here's why:

letting us know about an update in the works EARLY> not doing that... even after months of complaint

16 maps and many SPECIFIC playlists out of the box > Anything Halo 3's optimatch can offer.

The only thing that halo has going for it is theater, and even then the SP theatre is gimped as hell.


Yeah. I'm not big on CoD4 but I sure am jealous of how Infinity Ward is treating their customers. They posted that they will have a patch soon and spelled out everything in it (bugfixes, enhancements based on community feedback, new features) and what do we get?

- "We'll MAYBE look at melee" after first dismissing it as lag. Seems unless there are TONS of very vocal complaints, Bungie won't even listen.
- Overpriced DLC most of what probably should have been in the shipped game.

I'm just sick of feeling like Bungie's kick toy. Heck, even the Orange box has had a patch come out for it and like CoD4 came out *after* H3. Is the H3 codebase THAT much more complex that it demands all this extra time. Of course not.

~telengard

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  • 11.21.2007 8:27 PM PDT
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  • 11.21.2007 9:03 PM PDT

hey is it just me or could purple reign be a remake for lockout?? or maybe even midship?? i dunno cause if you take reign as rain and its purple could indicate snow and with a new and improved lockout it could have a purplish tint to it

  • 11.21.2007 9:08 PM PDT

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These maps should be free.


First of all, they will be free, as stated in the article. Second of all, all of you people who think 3d animation is easy, guess what. It isn't. That is why modelers, texture-ers, and various other people in the field are payed a good sum of money to do these things. Because they are difficult, and take much time and energy. I spend at least 7 straight hours a day modeling, of course taking a 10 minute break for food and such. But really, it is nowhere close to easy. You want to prove otherwise? I'd like to see you try. Course, this challenge only applies to non-3d modelers. Anyway, here is a link to the Personal Learning addition of Maya. In case you do not know what Maya is, it is a high-end modeling program, the commercial version costs about $8k. Plus, to get a nice high-poly model, you need an expensive computer, ram helps alot, typically 2 gigs and up.

And this brings me back to my point. It is expensive to model, so it shouldn't be free when it is released.

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  • 11.22.2007 1:15 AM PDT

Live to kill. Kill the bad, and save the good. Or just shut up and shoot something.

Your right, it is expensive to modle a map... how much do you think it would cost to make one?

Say 3 guys, 2 weeks? ok, 3 guys on what? $5 maybe $8 an hour? Im not sure as Im not in America... even so,, do you think they will make enough money from say 9000 fans? who are paying $10 each? Even if i take 10 people 4 weeks...

Now do you see why people are not happy. First you pay for a game,. now it was up to you to buy the normal version or the Legendery one. and now they say if you want to play new maps,, you have to pay again, Ow and by the way, we will be doing more, and you will have to pay for them as well. I not only play on my 360 I also play on my PC, where I have never had to pay for a map in my life, Im sure in some games you do have to,, but I have never.

Bungie always say they are thankful to all the fans, but never show it. They will always be able to do what they want because of the die hard halo fans,, that will pay anything bungie asks for. And its them I feel sorry for,.because in the end, they will look out of the bugne hole and see what they are doing.

Im not getting the new maps, its not about money, I dont have a problem in that area, its just the fact that Im playing COD4 and have not picked up Halo since I got it, because halo offers nothing new. And the fact that they still want people to pay to play. And yes people are not being forced to buy the maps. Thats not the point, the point is, how much money do you think Bungie will make off of this? and Im sure someone will say its not Bungies idea to make people pay for the maps,, its MS. Im sure if bugnie turned and said we want to give the fans a little somthing, say 2 out of the 3 maps for free, then sell 4 maps for $10,, I dont thin bill would have a porblem with that.

PS. a forum and this site is for both people who like the ideas of bungie and dont, not only halo fans play halo.

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  • 11.22.2007 1:56 AM PDT
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I cant wait for Foundry. I love doing Forge and cant get enough of it. I can basically do anything I want in this map to make a great custom game. These maps may not be Lockout or Midship or whatever maps everyone wanted but all I can say is Bungie tries to make us happy. We complain about the maps and they make new ones. I really dont have a problem with any map. Its about how you play them. But anyways, when these maps come out im doing Forge all day lol. Thanks Bungie for giving me 3 more Forge maps ^^

  • 11.22.2007 3:40 AM PDT
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WTF

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  • 11.22.2007 4:38 AM PDT
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I would pay the $10.00 if the pelican was flyable

  • 11.22.2007 6:15 AM PDT
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for all of who are complaining about no small maps uhuhuh yeah right but maybe you all should wait till you see more than 1 angle of the maps to start complaining about them i meen when i first saw a picture of narrows i thought it was gonna be alot different

  • 11.22.2007 8:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: Tarvis24
I would pay the $10.00 if the pelican was flyable

Reckon we all would

[Edited on 11.22.2007 8:23 AM PST]

  • 11.22.2007 8:22 AM PDT
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Why couldn't you make the pelican flyable bungie? WHYYYYYYYYY

  • 11.22.2007 8:29 AM PDT