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Subject: Legendary Map: Blackout

Never really did care for Lockout, but Blackout looks fantastic!

  • 03.25.2008 3:14 PM PDT

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AWWWWWWWWWWW MAN I WAS HOPING FOR BACKWASH!

i hated lockout... :(

crap now i owe my friend a drink...

  • 03.25.2008 3:15 PM PDT
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WOOT -blam!- YA LOCKOUT

  • 03.25.2008 3:19 PM PDT

blaze 1 for yasenses

Yo if you go to the 3rd pic of blackout in the gallery um i think there may be at least 2 visible ladders

LOCATIONS: Above the shotgun spawn/below helipad, at the snipe building from snipe 1 to snipe 2 there is what to me looks like a ladder.


!!!!!!!!!
ARE THERE...
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LADDERZ???
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I THINK SO
!!!!!!!!!
Also I think there are 2 hatches on the helipad, one will actually be above the ladder I'm talking about, the other's purpose is to allow you to drop down just below helipad.

CHECK IT OUT IN THE GALLERY


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  • 03.25.2008 3:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ding Chavez vGv
Took you long enough… I think you guys are way over-thinking remaking maps, which is killing your map content productivity. You guys should focus your creative talents on the NEW maps and simply copy-n-paste your remakes.

Seriously, for a remake, you just need to update the textures and make a few slight tweaks here and there to better suite Halo 3’s gameplay. You don’t need to totally re-stylize/re-structure your remakes. Completely re-imagining the remake will just waste development time and ultimately just upsets lots of fans of the original. Didn’t you notice how Tombstone was not nearly as loved as Hang em’ High… something tells me that Blackout will not be nearly as loved as Lockout… you guys just don’t know how to remake a map.

If you guys were to simply copy-n-paste your remakes, and then focus your efforts on new maps, we might end up with 5 maps every 3 months… instead of the measly 3 maps every 5 months.


First of all, I would like to say that I seriously doubt that you have any type of education or training that would qualify you to criticize paid professional game developers. If you worked for a gaming or at least software company as a designer then perhaps your opinion would have some merit to it. To simply "copy/paste," as you say, from game to game would completely ignore the new weapons, new powerups, and new gameplay style in general from game to game. Did you notice how it was odd to "jump" from Halo CE to Halo 2 and Halo 2 to 3? This is because the games are a great deal dissimilar. So to simply take a carbon copy of a map from game to game would absolutely fail.

Not to flame or criticize but I'm sick of hearing people whine about how Bungie ruins everything. Bungie doesn't ruin everything. If Bungie ruined everything they would have gone out of Business long before Halo CE was even released. Bungie doesn't ruin remakes, people are just too damn stubborn to let go of their old reality and accept change. This is true in just about every aspect of life, but it certainly seems prevalent in the Bungie forums when remakes are announced. Boo-hoo, either get over it and accept the new Lockout, stop playing Halo, or get a job at Bungie and “fix” all the problems that you see. Want proof that people have trouble accepting change? Remember how everyone claimed they would continue playing H2 because Halo 3 sucked and Bungie had ruined everything about the game? I don’t know many people that still play Halo 2.

Anyways my point is that you should seriously stop complaining about something that you aren’t going to change. Wahhh the new lockout sucks! Get a life and get over yourself, its just a stupid videogame.

  • 03.25.2008 3:22 PM PDT
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I'm gonna buy these maps on day one, but they had better eventually be free. That way they actually show up in matchmaking on a regular basis. No point in paying for something if they're always gonna be limited to one DLC playlist.

Damn, that's 20 bucks for map packs this coming April (this pack and CoD4's new maps).

It's a good thing both of you guys are smart enough to get these packs out before Grand Theft Auto 4.



  • 03.25.2008 3:23 PM PDT
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I am so excited about this map. I almost soiled myself when i saw that it resembled lockout.
Its going to be weird naming the locations on the map however. Im so used to lockout that not having familiar landmarks such as the blue lift, br tower, green room, elbow, and library might be hard to get used to. Anyway I am utterly shockerd that u guys made a lockout replica after guardian

  • 03.25.2008 3:23 PM PDT

My legit Killtrocity

Camping like a 'mouth breather'
If Fed Ex and UPS merged into one company, would it be called Fed Up?

I don't want to start another account for a digital number that has no true value in ten years.

man this just secured myself to buying this map.Its gonna bring back some great memories

  • 03.25.2008 3:25 PM PDT

My Best Bungie moment: finally beating all the Halo games on solo legendary.
My Worst Bungie moment: not seeing giant stuffie grunts in the Bungie store.

HMM...
1. Ghost town looks pretty sweet i guess we will see how it plays.
2. SIdewinder redo. Awesome, I love you Bungie
3. Was I the ONLY ONE who despised Lockout in Halo 2!!! What was so great about it? I hope it plays better in Halo 3, I have faith in you Bungie.
All in all this will be worth buying but i was hoping for a larger outdoor version of Foundry oh well.
Can't wait till April 15th

  • 03.25.2008 3:25 PM PDT

i am really disappointed in this map choice, Guardian is dang near the same thing, why not be happy with that?! I want to see a map that is totally different than anything else, i always feel like its the same thing just different looks. TRY SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUSLY NEW! i also would like to see a remake of that one map in Halo CE, i don't know the name, but there were 2 sides of the ship and you had teleporters, but this time use man-cannons.

  • 03.25.2008 3:26 PM PDT

-richley!☺

thanks for a real lockout *(not gurdian)! whooo!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.25.2008 3:27 PM PDT
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LOCKOUT-BLACKOUT ITS ABOUT TIME THANK THE LORD AND BUNGIE

  • 03.25.2008 3:29 PM PDT
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W00T..
how many maps will therre b on legendary dlc....i think you should make like 5 and have them all new maps...
but woo BLACKOUT!!!

  • 03.25.2008 3:31 PM PDT

The statement below is true

The statement above is false

blackout ftw

  • 03.25.2008 3:31 PM PDT
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If it's not broken we'll fix until it is.

-Bungie

Awesome!

I didn't buy the Heroic map pack but I'll definitely be purchasing this one.

  • 03.25.2008 3:32 PM PDT
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hmm 2 icy maps. This mappack should be called the eskimo mappack!

  • 03.25.2008 3:33 PM PDT

"And when I vest my flashing sword And my hand takes hold in judgment I will take vengeance upon mine enemies And I will repay those who hase me O Lord, raise me to Thy right hand And count me among Thy saints ."

There is no way I can say no to having night time map nor a real lockout remake. Way to go Bungie!!! :)

  • 03.25.2008 3:34 PM PDT
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG THANKYOU BUNGIE THANKYOU BUNGIE! This is the best thing tht bungie has done since printing my question in the weekly update remember frankie? the pot noodle guy? Thankyou very much 800 points? yar this will be? xxx

  • 03.25.2008 3:35 PM PDT
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Where are all the "WOW Guardian is Lockout !!!" people at.

*crickets chirping*

I guess these people can go on and start with some "Midship is never gonna be remake" bs now.

  • 03.25.2008 3:35 PM PDT
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Well, I was hoping more for a final and last version of old Blood Gulch, but I guess this is nice, too. Hope to see the Gulch in the future, though. Guardian was enough for me, but I know a lot of other people wanted it so I am happy for them. Blackout will be nice I am sure. I've been wanting a dark map, I just hope it is dark enough for my liking with all those lights around. I prefer bigger maps, though.

Avalanche looks really fun. Sidewinder was one of my favorites back in the day and I am very glad to see it again. It is my favorite of the new 3. I'm going to spend a lot of time on it. Very pleased. I just hope some form of the outer teleporter path is retained/remade, because that practically made the map and without it, it just wouldnt be the same map at all.

The other one...I forget the name...I don't really care for. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.

  • 03.25.2008 3:35 PM PDT
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Bungie Rocks!!!!!! Im buying it the day it comes out.

Edit: Page 23 YES!!!!!!

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  • 03.25.2008 3:36 PM PDT
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could this setting be a former oil place changed into a weather facility do to lost of resources.

  • 03.25.2008 3:37 PM PDT

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Teach a man religion, and he will starve to death praying for a fish.

Night map! Hooray!!!11one

  • 03.25.2008 3:37 PM PDT

New map,new place to die .

  • 03.25.2008 3:37 PM PDT