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Thanks Bungie, plz make em as good you can!

Next up: Classic map pack!

Just take the favourite maps (ie. Blood Gulch, Sidewinder, Hang Em High...) and convert to H3!!!

  • 11.26.2007 8:46 AM PDT
Subject: Heroic Map Pack Announced for Halo 3

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3 medium sized maps, and they're all human based, unsuprising. Why is it that everyone uses the human stuff? What's wrong with the Covenant weapons, and architecture? Why no small maps? Why is almost every map on earth?


That's another good question. Why are most of the maps human based? I know some of Halo 3 takes place on Earth, but do the MP maps have to? I was hoping for a map that takes place in a Covenant battle Crusier(Like the two levels from Halo 1. I'm praying that is what Purple Reign is.). And why are all of the levels in daytime? I haven't seen one map in night time. Most of the levels are too one-sided for Forge, either having more Human stuff, or Covenant stuff, and seeing how all 3 maps are human from what I saw, I'm guessing this will be a similar scenario with similar choices for Forge stuff in general.

Not very cool, Bungie.

If u didnt notice guys it takes place on earth!!!! DUH


Yes, Halo 3 campaign does take place on Earth, but that doesn't mean the maps have to. Read the whole post before quoting.


I did read the whole quote and im saying, it taked place on earth


Yes, but you're not understanding what I'm saying. I don't care if it took place on Earth. I wouldn't care if it took place on the Covenent home world(Which would be cool). I just want maps in different places other than Earth, or the Rings, for a change on Halo 3. As I said before, the maps for Forge are usually one-sided, such as there being way too many Human weapons/stuff on most of the maps, and a couple of Covenent. If you have read the books, there are a number of other planets that Multiplayer maps could take place. What about Onyx? How about a Flood infested map where the Flood Infecters (Guardians like the Fusion Coils) reserect dead bodies and become an enviromental hazard to everyone? Really, it's not about the current maps, or the Heroic Map Pack, but for future maps I'd like to see something different. Though the Heroic Maps are supposed to be different, they look like more of the same, which isn't bad, but if this continues, then I'm guessing Bungie is running out of ideas. I'm hoping Purple Reign will be something different, as well as other maps to come.

For those of you who are wondering, I'm not mad at the current maps(much), or the Heroic Maps, but at future maps to come. I know that Human-based maps should have more Human stuff, so that's why I'm hoping the new maps after the Heroic Map Pack are not Human based, whether they're on Earth, or not. We have enough Human maps, so I think the Covenent deserve some spotlight, and certainly deserve more than Snowbound. Of course, if the new maps are Human based, but are impressive enough to oversee that detail, then I don't see why I , or we for those who agree with me, can look the other way.

  • 11.26.2007 10:59 AM PDT

Some people are just total noobs at life!

personally i think they need to remake the maps that were in the halo 1 pc game b/c those are the best maps in all of the halo games by far there are none better they are the best. PERIOD!

  • 11.26.2007 11:44 AM PDT

Think about it, $10 isn't a lot to pay for what Bungie did to make those maps. You wouldn't expect how much work it takes. I'm telling you, $10 isn't a heavy price to pay. That's my opinion. By the way the maps look interesting. Personally, I don't think they use all the maps that they already have. I haven't played sandtrap yet!

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  • 11.26.2007 1:27 PM PDT
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They look pretty sick but didnt they say they were going to give us some more screenshots around thanksgiving.

  • 11.26.2007 1:46 PM PDT
Subject: new heroic halo3 maps... my reaction:
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my reaction to reading the thread about the new halo3 heroic map packs:

stares, starts to drool, laughs manically launches self out of chair and tries to run in four directions at once. then i think i laughed for about 15 minutes solid about that thing with barry and the team slayer (u know the bit where he apparently yells "i can't find the flag" on team slayer lol i think i did that once...). anyways as a forge obsesive this pack seems promicing to me. i can't wait to scam my dad out of another ten pounds. stand off in particular sounds very interesting

p.s. cgseif323 how the F*** have u not played sandtrap yet! its ace! ive made at least 10 forge things on sandtrap alone!

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  • 11.26.2007 2:00 PM PDT
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"(there will be more coming sometime after the Thanksgiving holiday)." - bungie

what happened? its like 5:30 and nothing came...

  • 11.26.2007 3:36 PM PDT
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I wonder if you can get through the barriers and play around on the satellite dishes. that would be fun. lol. sweet for forge too. CTF on Satellite Dish, hahah

  • 11.26.2007 4:14 PM PDT
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you guys also have to remember, this is ten buck for not just 3 levels, but placable man cannons, holo-doors, and the secret item!

  • 11.26.2007 4:25 PM PDT
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Can't wait.

  • 11.26.2007 5:02 PM PDT

i really wanted some of the old maps back from halo 1 and 2 those were fun, the indoor maps were better made for competitive mulltiplayer matches. the outdoor maps are too slow and annoying with people just staying underground. if they do make some indoor maps i hope there made like Hang Em High, Midship ,and Lockout

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  • 11.26.2007 5:17 PM PDT
Subject: new heroic halo3 maps... my reaction:

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"(there will be more coming sometime after the Thanksgiving holiday)." - bungie

what happened? its like 5:30 and nothing came...

Ermm, it's Monday, how about giving them a break. I wouldn't expect anything until the next Weekly Update. Let the people do their jobs.

  • 11.26.2007 5:27 PM PDT
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ok

  • 11.26.2007 5:35 PM PDT

Stop charging money for something we already bought! I'm poor leave me alone!

  • 11.26.2007 5:53 PM PDT
Subject: Heroic Map Pack Announced for Halo 3

Thank you. ;_;

  • 11.26.2007 5:53 PM PDT
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Dude so if you make a new account and you buy the maps on your old one, You cant play em on your new account?

  • 11.26.2007 6:17 PM PDT

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Dude so if you make a new account and you buy the maps on your old one, You cant play em on your new account?


Try it with the Gear's maps first if you want to be absolutely sure; download them on one account (they're free), and see if you can load a game using one of them under another account.

  • 11.26.2007 7:21 PM PDT
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I can't wait for the maps. More forge options and more opertunities for movies.

  • 11.26.2007 7:24 PM PDT
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I don't see why people complain about maps being retarded. To me, every map has its purpose and if you do not play them with strategy, you will lose, no map is bad unless you suck at them. I hate High Ground, why? Because I can't get a kill on it for a worth of crap. And as for the point about $10 fo the maps. You must have one really crappy job to not buy 3 maps for $10. Hell that's cheap! When I heard of the maps the first price I thought of was $20 but I didn't know how many maps it was going to be. 3 maps for $10, eh not bad. But they way technology is these days, I can see why they are that price. Games went up $10, controls went up $10. Everything went up. But like Bungie said, if you don't have the maps you won't be matched in a game with someone that has the maps. So it works out for everyone actually. They are not making it mandatory to HAVE the maps like they did in Halo 2 when Tombstone and Desolation came out.

Thanks again Bungie for the maps, I will love them!

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  • 11.27.2007 1:11 AM PDT

I can iz haz signature plx

First bungie...THANKS 4 DA NEW MAPZ!!!!! im so lookin forward to all of em!!! $10 is a bit much but im sure taking over the world takes alot of money lol. Keep up the good work and put sum more pics or maybe even a movie!!!

  • 11.27.2007 1:43 AM PDT

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

Hi,

Do you know what this is my last message in here, as people are just getting to me,, "Thank you bungie for the new map" "sorry about all the people complaining" "shut up people" My god,, pay for the maps, Get ripped off. See if Bungie start to up the amount they want for maps. And when they do, and they will,,, see what happens when you start to complain about it.. See if any one will listen to you...

Also think about it,, the maps they make are not that hard to do, people keep saying its SOOO hard,, the modeling has already been done for the game. Also I asked a friend of mine who works for a gaming company. He said " after the game is done, its not hard at all to make maps for it, because all the modeling is done, all you have to do is come up with the idea then, 2 maybe 3 guys can get it out within a week maybe 2".

I just hope bungie look at all of this, and see what they are doing, Fan boys i feel sorry for you, because bungie could make 1 map and ask you to pay $10 for it and you would.

I hope you all have a good game. See you around.

  • 11.27.2007 1:54 AM PDT
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its cool you guys are making more maps but cant you just literally bring all the maps from halo 2 onto halo 3? i mean i dont really care if the graphics are better or not (theyr good enough on halo 2 anyway)... and 10 bucks wtf? it should be like 5 or something... im gonna wait til spring so i guess it isnt all that bad... and make some armor DLC the possibilities are endless for u guys... what about being able to b a brute? theyr about the same size..

  • 11.27.2007 10:35 AM PDT

REPOST:

I have way too many things to say and opinions to post and not enough time. I would however like to start by congratulating the DLC and MP design team over at Bungie for making some pretty awesome looking maps (Standoff in particular) I look forward to playing them, but when that time comes is an internal debate that I must resolve by myself.

I would like to resolve a couple of issues that I have noticed that people aren't reading the article and understanding what these maps are about and what Bungie plans to do..... the first being that there Will be 3 new maps released that are fully playable in customs, MM, and Forge. Additionally these maps will be enabled with specialized customization options that the other maps did not have i.e. placeable mancannons and Foundry in particular will have an almost fully rearrangable set-up! This does not mean that this map will download blank!!!! They already have a deafult set-up that no-doubt will be in MM.

Ok, moving on to matchmaking, people are complaining that matchmaking will be messed up because not everybody will have the maps and that BTB will be impossible to play. READ THE ARTICLE! MM will identify what players have what maps and will seperate them from each other. Yes, in the beginning we will be waiting a long time to get a game loaded because not everyone is going to have the maps, guess what DLC maps on every other game have the exact same problems. Nothing can be done to fix that, even if the maps were free people that already had the maps would just be complaining that it's taking too long to find a game in MM because the server decided that it wants to load a DLC map. Sadly, someone just keeps asking if anyone knows whether the (DLC exclusive playlist) will be found under Ranked or Social? Did you read the article? Cause I did and you know what it didn't specify, so what makes you think that anyone here has powers of telepathy and knows the answer to that question????? You can only assume that it would be social for obvious reasons, but we know what happens to you when you ASS-U-ME.

So for everyone complaining about only getting 1-2 maps for matchmaking and one "Forge" only map, please stop posting and take the time to read the article again.



Yes, I'll admit I do think that Xbox live and DLC are taking advantage of consumers in a booming trend referred to as "price gouging". More than half the games released for the Xbox 360 do not deserve their $59.99 tag price nor do they deserve an additional $5 - $25 increase for "exclusive", "downloadable", "special edition", etc. etc...... content; however sometimes and to some people it is worth it.

I think everyone should respect everyone else's opinion on whether or not they choose to purchase the maps now or later, no more of this pointless bickering and biting at Bungie for just doing what it is they enjoy.

Remember that you should be able to make yourself happy with what you create, just as much as they should. If they wanna make a couple of maps that are in their own respect "good maps" then they can. Why? Because they are the ones that took those jobs.

Yes, fan and consumer based opinion is very essential to running a profitable organization! Yes, we could have used a smaller FFA, 1v1, arena style map and some more people would have been happy.... But who's to say that they are not going to??

There are still 3 maps that have been unseen that have been mentioned as DLC in the future (Moonbase Alpha, Purple Reign, and O.K. Corral) and whose to say that Frankie doesn't do another news article the 2nd week of December when the 3 new maps are available and start telling us about even more maps and content that they have created.

Patience is a virtue that I will employ, I do think that 4 maps for $10 would have been reasonable to me. And that's my opinion, I'm entitled to it without having to slander somebody else's. So I will wait until spring and be content with what I have purchased until then.

IMO Bungie takes pretty good care of their community, very few LARGE companies pay as much attention to their fans as much as they do. Yeah they're not perfect, and nobody is.

Bottom line..... Don't buy the game if you can't afford it or don't think that it's worth the purchase, and if you can afford or you will find someway to make it happen because you feel it's worth it, then by all means enjoy =)

Don't slander somebody's social status/opinion/values because they find more value in necessity over desire.

BTW, I really think that a patch would be very helpful and much appreciated and obviously more maps (fan desired) wouldn't hurt either.

But let's not forget about things like, new custom armor permutations, weapons/vehicles, and possibly even some sort of side quests for the Arbiter or something that could still easily be added to this game.

Let's not forget that "Best Multiplayer Game of the Year" is not "Game of the Year" and that Halo 3 will be judged on more than that category...

Amazing job so far guys!!!!!! Keep up the good work over there BUNGIE

(Criticism is still attention and attention is love. No matter what some members of the community may say or even those that claim to have moved on to COD4, they wouldn't take the time to read the topic and check the site if they didn't still love Halo!)

  • 11.27.2007 11:30 AM PDT
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lol sub a bit long... so many peeps r complaining about the price. i must say the prices r a bit steep but this is halo3 we are talkin about imagine what the forge will be like... you have no idea what its like for a forge manic obbsessive like me having to edit the same maps over and over again... god this is gonna be funny =D stand off will be ace for infection...

ok from now on ur only allowed to talk about how ace the maps r gonna b, ur not allowed to post negative stuff because we're bored off it. the same negative feed back is being posted 3 or 4 times every page. and if u do post negative stuff then ill... um... make u play one of my maps muhahahahahaaaaaaaaa.

ooh! lol i just found my copy of crackdown ive been meaning to trade that in... why is it down here... god damn my sister... oops soz guys... halo 3 yeah.

  • 11.27.2007 12:45 PM PDT