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Subject: Legendary Map: Blackout

Iris=win.
Look for the signs, the keepers of the flame.
They will Lead you to war, and perhaps, to victory.

Arguing on the internet is like participating in the special olympics. You might win, but you're still retarded.

HEY BUNGIE, I WOULD LIKE AN BETA TEST PLOX KTHNX

I think the course is clear. The next map pack (which I'm gonna call Mythic, for no reason at all...)
Should hvae either midship, beaver creek, or cougulation. Even just one will do.

Thanks a lot Bungie!

  • 03.26.2008 10:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: BIG coolin1216
is it just me or does this map look alot like guardian i mean not literally in every aspect but the layout of everything

Guardian was modeled after this map... Or it's predecessor, should I say. Where the f**k have you been for the past three years? Never heard of Lockout... Sheesh!

  • 03.26.2008 10:23 AM PDT
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isnt guardian also based off of lockout? if you notice the weapon layout is pretty much the same, the setting is different but the weapon layout and the general idea of the map is the same

  • 03.26.2008 11:17 AM PDT
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zomg woot this is teh l337'5 thing evur!!! im so pumpedped :D GRACIAS BUUNJAy

  • 03.26.2008 11:23 AM PDT
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This map looks very appealing, I am looking forward to downloading this map pack. It seems alot more different to the Heroic in th way that more of the previous halo maps are being remade into halo 3 standard. Waiting for the arrival of these maps. See you guys there!

  • 03.26.2008 11:37 AM PDT

originally i wasn't going to buy the legendary map pack....i wasn't crazy about the levels.
This just threw out all doubts and crushed any opposition in getting the pack now. I cannot wait for this. Thank you bungie!! Keeping me away from my schoolwork one surprise at a time.

[Edited on 03.26.2008 11:53 AM PDT]

  • 03.26.2008 11:53 AM PDT
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Im not gonna rant about this any longer. I think I will beg. Beg because thats exactly how this map was chosen to be remade. I will beg that Bungie never makes a 75%-100% remake of any map EVER again.

Maybe then, my money can be spent on something New and Entertaining. Then maybe Bungie won't make remakes to easily make a profit with the all ready "Uncontrolable" price of the SMALL map packs, to stack up against current big Video Game competition.

[Edited on 03.26.2008 11:57 AM PDT]

  • 03.26.2008 11:55 AM PDT
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are there any turrets standard

  • 03.26.2008 12:05 PM PDT

I don't know if you all over at Bungie have finalized your map descriptions yet but I got a perfect one for Blackout

Blackout
What the -blam!- are we doing here anyways?

  • 03.26.2008 12:06 PM PDT
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hahah, hell yeah boys....this map is my house!

Lockout owned on halo2...and so did i especially on this map! i know im ready for Blackout.

  • 03.26.2008 12:07 PM PDT
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They say you can never go home... liars.

  • 03.26.2008 12:12 PM PDT

Posted by: StewArt of War
Sweet, love the night time aesthetics...

By the way, z/41 explained:

"z" indicates the type (or class) of facility - (in this case a weather station) z was chosen because it resembles a lightning bolt.

"41" indicates the location of the facility which just so happens to be -41 Long. 41 Lat.

z/41 was the first to detect the abnormalities in the clouds above the resting place of the ark in Africa in Halo 3 but secluded as it is, the facility was unable to get word to the mainland.



Here it is on the map: http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address& ;formtype=address&latlongtype=decimal&latitude=-41&am p;longitude=41

[Edited on 03.26.2008 12:17 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2008 12:14 PM PDT

Try out my map variation out of Rat's Nest: Hangar 92!

I'm really glad of how much this resembles Lockout. Expect, I noticed that you cannot jump to the BR tower anymore from the front of the tower (seen in the 4th picture).

You had to do a crouch jump to get there but it was quite easy anyway. I used it a lot. But it sadly looks like that the angle of the corner isn't the correct one so you will automatically slide from it.

What do you guys think?
Although it's not that big deal as long as we will have this fantastic map but it would still be a shame if you couldn't crouch jump there.

[Edited on 03.26.2008 12:18 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2008 12:18 PM PDT
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Everyone kiss all other maps goodbye in customs. Welcome to the wasteland that was Halo 2 custom games: "blackout" everything. Sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad. Why does everyone keep wanting to make this game into some advanced version of Halo 2? I don't get it.

Why can't people just be happy with fond memories of Halo 2? Why do so many keep wanting to bring it to Halo 3? Lockout was cool, but it was on another game as Lockout. Why not keep it that way? That is so many people's favorite map, so let them go back to Halo 2 for a little throw-back game on Lockout. Why call it Halo 3 if you are going to make it into the same lame, slayer-based, BR starting, spawn killing, laggy mess that Halo 2 was? Why not call it Halo 2.1 or something? As far as I can tell, the vehicles have all been downgraded from Halo 2, the anti-vehicle weapons are entirely too easy to use (missile pod has almost 10 missiles? how about 5!), the assault rifle is already being phased out as "lame," and objective games are fast becoming a thing of the past in favor of games of slayer where the sillier of players will always continue to charge the other team ALONE thinking they can do something. I find this to be a sad sad sad day for Halo 3. Sidewinder - amazing. Avalanche - probly even better.

What's the point of Lockout anyway? The strategy is hold the sniper tower. Period. It's the same every game (unless you get the dorks that just want to run at the other team ALONE thinking they can do something). And now, with BR spawns becoming more and more prevalent, "Blackout" will become nothing more than a spawnkill competition to see who can shoot who the soonest from across the map. I don't see why people are so in love with not doing anything to get kills in this game.
"Oh look, I shot that guy as soon as he spawned with my BR. This is great becaue he had no idea where he was being shot from, spawned in a wide open area, and my gun is accurate 3/4 of the way across [insert any map name]. Haha, he had no chance! I'm so awesome." That's how most halo kills go down.

Call me a noob, call me a dork, a bk, whatever, I don't care. I saw this happen with Halo 2, and now it's happening again with Halo 3, only it took about 6 months for this to start instead of a year and a half like it did with Halo 2. We only need to have patience, because soon objective games will be confined to two, maybe three playlists, and everything else will be variations on slayer. This will include Team Snipers playlist, while still including Team Snipers in Team Slayer and Social Slayer. It will include the removal of multi-team (which should happen, because this farce they call multi-team is merely two games of team doubles played on one map). It will include the AR being left behind as some 2nd rate weapon, while the BR takes its place as the starting weapon for every game, because people are afraid to actually have to confront someone to kill them (choosing instead to shoot them from halfway across the map, which really is a heavy disadvantage to the player being shot). It will include more Team Duals (lamest game ever).

Just be aware people. This is a slippery slope you all are dancing on over the remake of this map. This can either be a great day for Halo, or the day where we started regressing back to the Dark Ages of Halo 2.

AND I invite all criticisms for my opinions here to be sent to me in PERSONAL MESSAGE form. If you do send me a personal message, please, dont' be a moron. Bring an intelligent argument and I'll have an intelligent response. Responses such as "ehy you suk at life" will be responded to with an equal (or probably better) retort. Thank you.

this is only my opinion, which i am entitled to. if you don't like it, move to china.

  • 03.26.2008 12:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Machanism
Im not gonna rant about this any longer. I think I will beg. Beg because thats exactly how this map was chosen to be remade. I will beg that Bungie never makes a 75%-100% remake of any map EVER again.

Maybe then, my money can be spent on something New and Entertaining. Then maybe Bungie won't make remakes to easily make a profit with the all ready "Uncontrolable" price of the SMALL map packs, to stack up against current big Video Game competition.


He's right. How about something NEW instead of whining about trash (and i mean that about Lockout) from the past?

  • 03.26.2008 12:20 PM PDT
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omg that map looks stinkin AWSOME!!!!!
I LOVE BUNGIE! you guys totally rock.
the maps just look plain sick. =<)

  • 03.26.2008 12:28 PM PDT

"Fear is the Mind Killer"--Dune

Boooongiiiiiiiie. Have I told you how much I love you lately? If not then let me reiterate.

I

LOOOOOOOOOVE

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

XD

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Excuse me I think I may have just pee'd a little....

[Edited on 03.26.2008 12:42 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2008 12:40 PM PDT
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Man, I WANT to be upset about just being fed a recycled map instead of something new, but... man it's friggin Lockout, I can't get mad about that. Besides, Halo 3 desperately needs close quarter maps, and this was always one of the best, if not THE best, Halo 2 map. I don't know if I'm excited about it, per se, but I'm definitely looking forward to it. Should be a lot of fun. I only hope these eventually become free so they can be incorporated into the normal playlist rotation (I'm buying mine, but my friends might not).

  • 03.26.2008 12:41 PM PDT

Hello, my name is Tom, and I am a firefighter, also I am very proficient in Microsoft office. I love all Halo games, and like call of duty.

Thank you Bungie! i love you!! Lockout was my favorite map and now blackout is now my favorite! woot time for some more lava man! lol oh one question,

Paul Russel: I was the primary environment artist for blackout from concept to completion. I also invented the grommet.

what is a "grommet"?

  • 03.26.2008 12:42 PM PDT
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what a nerd-writing all that...
dude settle down. its a map that costs 3 dollars and is the best map in all of halo. imagine forging lockout-cAN'T wait for the 15th

  • 03.26.2008 12:43 PM PDT
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i only got 1 questn...
how much microsoft pnts u need?

  • 03.26.2008 1:01 PM PDT
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blackout i need you

  • 03.26.2008 1:02 PM PDT
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I have been playing cod 4 and rainbow 6 vegas 2, while i wanted to get back to halo, i never got the chance b/c i really enjoyed those other games, this map will get me back into halo, lockout is a classic, rip lockout, reborn as blackout, hope it will play just as good and ever better than the original.

  • 03.26.2008 1:10 PM PDT

for an old antarctic weather station, it looks like it was built yesterday.
and for a map taking place at night, theres alot of lights- i mean why bother setting it at night?

  • 03.26.2008 1:11 PM PDT

Xbox360Achievements.org

*Emo Tear*

Magnificent!

  • 03.26.2008 1:11 PM PDT