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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 1/04/08
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Posted by: SpiritDrummer
Welcome back to work bungie :) Glad to see a new update. Can't wait for the maps and I really can't wait for the update. But I need to give you guys and gals props. I know some people have been ripping your game. But as a Halo fan from the beginning, I say H3 is the best yet. It rocks and I know you will only make it better.


I wouldn't say its the best FPS presently. Thats a subjective topic and Halo 3 will have some competition for a while with CoD4. But after they've made adjustments to the game I think that Halo will be the best game available for quite a while.

Great update to read. The new maps sound very intriguing, particularly the one with the one-way windows. I'll be curious as to how those work exactly.

  • 01.05.2008 9:39 AM PDT

I don't see what the big deal is about CoD4, i'm just gonna wait next year and get Call of Duty 5 cause with those types of games like CoD and Ghost Recon they seem to put out 1 a year

  • 01.05.2008 10:00 AM PDT
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No mention of ranked BTB makes me sad :(. New maps sound exciting though.

  • 01.05.2008 10:07 AM PDT

In this great future you cant forget your past

"however if one console has the Update and another one doesn’t, system link play will still be possible between the two boxes"

thats what sets you guys apart from other games - cue Borat : Very Nice!

I CANT QUIT YOU HALO!

  • 01.05.2008 10:20 AM PDT

In this great future you cant forget your past

I don't see what the big deal is about CoD4, i'm just gonna wait next year and get Call of Duty 5 cause with those types of games like CoD and Ghost Recon they seem to put out 1 a year

That strategy works for sports games, the only thing holding back other genres would be a quality concern. People don't seem to care about anything but stats and ok-gameplay with those, and graphics, storyline etc take a backseat. ex: You can take people online with you in a Halo 3 or a Gears of War, but with Call of Duty best u get is 4 player local - which reminds me too much of 007 on the old 64, sorry

  • 01.05.2008 10:31 AM PDT
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Dude, midship sucked. It wasn't nearly in my thoughts about a top 5 map rating, one being lockout. And i don't really think mlg is good enough to even put a dent in bungie's thought process.

  • 01.05.2008 10:47 AM PDT
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LAST!!!!

and I hope that they are bringing back Blood Gultch/Coagulation. H3 still lacks large scale maps, such as Coag, Waterworks, Headlong, Containment, Tombstone, Relic, Colossus, and Terminal.

The larger maps are what made H2 Multiplayer playable for over a year. I'm already tired of H3's maps, because they are tiny. If we had large maps in Forge, i'd never stop playing.

PS: Not to hate H3, nut i just bought COD4 and it's more fun than H3 atm. It'll wear off after I get to Level 55, but until then, H3 is too stale in my games cabinet to play nonstop like I did Halo 2.

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  • 01.05.2008 11:02 AM PDT

Posted by: Sexbox
Wow, no Midship remake? It's official, I'm done with this game. The competitive hardcore community have been practically begging for a Midship remake and we still don't get it, just more large maps and a Bungie attempt at a new arena map. I have faith that the new arena map is going to be good since Bungie has NEVER made a bad one but Midship has been asked for by the MLG community since Halo 3's release. *sigh*

Now I'm going to get like 9 fanboys attack me. lol


Did you even READ the article? They only HINTED at what they would remake for this map pack. There's no guarantees on anything, but Midship seems to be a very likely choice. So chill. And also, we have NO NEED FOR A LOCKOUT REMAKE. In case you haven't noticed, Guardian is basically a green version of Lockout. I'd personally like to see a remake of one of Halo 2's several city-based levels, such as Turf. God I love Turf! Terminal, too! It's a big, vehicle-based, all-around cool map. We need more big maps! Right now, we only have four BTB-sized maps!

Oh, and according to IGN's release date calendar, this new map pack will be available some time around April.

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  • 01.05.2008 11:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: Frankie
Shut up nerds!

great update mr.moob (luke :P)!!

  • 01.05.2008 11:16 AM PDT

For system linking a box with the update and one without, will the game play based on who is host? I know for a fact this is an issue I'm going to run into as i often LAN with offline boxes, while mine is online as much as possible. I worry that if the update changes things like weapon balences and the beatdowns then it'll make for a few rough games.

  • 01.05.2008 11:23 AM PDT

Are you a grade 4 in Halo 3's Matchmaking? If so, please check us out: The Upper Echelon
We welcome all grade 4's form Master Sergeants to 5 Star Generals.
We've been featured on Bungie favorites, and are always looking for new members to join.

~BBZak - T.U.E. Recruitment Officer

“But I can also guarantee that my all-time favorite ever Halo map will be included too, if yesterday’s playtest was anything to go by. A large map with some vaguely familiar features just rocked my world. It was AMAZING fun. Any time I am in an hour long standoff against an equally matched team and it never becomes frustrating, is evidence enough for me that we are onto something special.”

Sidewinder.
Oh Please GOD let it be Sidewinder. XD

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  • 01.05.2008 11:43 AM PDT
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Here's my reasoning behind thinking it's Ivory Tower:

1) A dilapidated building that resembles an observatory
- Ivory Tower wasn't a dilapidated building, but it could be set after a war or something?

2) (primarily because of the just-added God Rays streaming through a broken skylight) is at map’s center.
- Ivory Tower had a big window thing at the center

3) This small
- Ivory Tower was small

4) multi-level structure
- Yup

5) has a variety of ways in and out and connects to both bases on this small-to-medium sized asymmetrical map.
- Ivory Tower was an asymmetrical map with many many ways between the bases.

6) O.K. Corral takes place in a small canyon so one side of the map features flora and the other side has the architectural failures of humanity.
- Again, this could be Ivory Tower remade and set at a different time that would include dust

7) There’s a pretty broad variety of lighting on O.K. Corral, from the aforementioned God Rays to dark tunnels, nooks and crevices where much of the illumination comes from the lights on Spartan armor.
- Down below there were some dark places in Ivory Tower?

8) With a bunch of elevated firing platforms, choke points and multiple ways in and out of the respective bases, O.K. Corral will be ideal for Team Slayer, Oddball and Capture the Flag variations.
- This is what they said about Ivory Tower...

I don't know...just my thoughts...when I read it, it just sounded like Ivory Tower.

  • 01.05.2008 11:53 AM PDT
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Has anyone at Bungie put any thought into why the first DLC maps don't work offline? Hopefully the new maps that come out (sounds like there going to be even better, Go Bungie) will function whether someone plays online or offline... Still looking forward to the new maps though...

[Edited on 01.05.2008 11:59 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2008 11:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: I 7alon I
Umm team swat is boring. And I don't like how unfair it is when playing against people from other countries. It just makes me think Bungie is being selfish and favoring Americans, when xbox live is about everybody in the world.


how the hell is this favoring Americans? if your connection sucks than thats a different story

  • 01.05.2008 1:10 PM PDT
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OK Corral seems like a reimagining of Ivory Tower. XShadOwFalcOnX's post brings up many good points of how it sounds like Ivo. I think that OK Corral will turn out a lot like a post apoctolypic Ivo or a miniature Headlong with touches of Prisoner and Sanctuary thrown in to make it feel more like a reimagining and less of a remake.

Purple Reign almost feels like a combination of the bottom of hang em high, with elongations (or longests) two hallways and upper level. The bases seem to cut across right from where the small fire in the corner was on elongation. A large snowbound type window (roof of the two bases on Snowbound) would be the wall to the base, and a cingular door (like on beaver creek) at the front of the base on the lower level to get out. Like on elongation there will be ramps taking u from inside the base to the upper level walkways. I know i explained this fairly poorly, but i hope it gets a general image in your head of what i think Purple Reign will be.

I have no clue what the third map will be, I hope it isnt another colossus, because in my opinion, that map totally sucked.

I have some recomendations for bungie though. Reimaginings of the Halo 1 map Chiron TL-34, the PC Halo 1 maps Ice Fields and Timberland, and the Halo 2 map Terminal (come on who wouldnt want to put the starting respawn points for a team on the tracks). Also bring back the Halo 2 Vista maps, District and Uplift, those are two of the best maps in the Halo series and are somewhat unknown in the halo community.

  • 01.05.2008 1:49 PM PDT
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OK. Great new maps sound appealing. I couldn't care less about the shoulder pieces and CAlyber (FD) is smoking hott. ; ).
My concern is that Bungie made not a shred of mention to how much of a royal -blam!-F*%K matchmaking has been for the past two weeks. I'd at least like a "oh ya, sorry bout your wasted Sundays" or something......... god..........

  • 01.05.2008 2:03 PM PDT
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No regrets

Favoring Americans? If your going to cry about how your connection sucks don't play swat play btb or team slayer or something.

[Edited on 01.05.2008 2:06 PM PST]

  • 01.05.2008 2:05 PM PDT

Halo: CE > > Halo 3 > Halo: Reach = Halo 2

Posted by: flyhippy
I don't see what the big deal is about CoD4, i'm just gonna wait next year and get Call of Duty 5 cause with those types of games like CoD and Ghost Recon they seem to put out 1 a year

Well there's sound reasoning. lol!

  • 01.05.2008 2:14 PM PDT
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mmm...new maps....yay

  • 01.05.2008 2:41 PM PDT

Valhalla is NOT the new Blood Gulch, at all. It makes me sick to even read people say that.

  • 01.05.2008 2:44 PM PDT