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5. Quitting: Only in moderation
There are plenty of totally valid reasons to quit. For example, if you're on fire. Or, if your mother is on fire. Or, even if your dog is setting your mother on fire. However, these things come with statutes of limitations. For quitting, if you do it so often that we recognize it as bad behavior, you're risking the wrath of the Banhammer. - Shishka

I hart bungle!

  • 03.26.2008 2:45 PM PDT

This map is gonna be sweet!!!! It'll be fun just to jump off this map!

  • 03.26.2008 2:47 PM PDT

This map looks sweet!!!!! It'll be fun just to jump off this map!!! Sry didnt mean to repeat my last post its my first time.

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  • 03.26.2008 2:49 PM PDT
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hey the pics look great i cant wait to play on that map and i that map will be awsome for shotys!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.26.2008 2:57 PM PDT

You only die once, better make it count.

man i hope the forge opertunities are good like foundry

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  • 03.26.2008 3:06 PM PDT

Which of the following will I do?
A. Give you up. B. Let you down.
C. Run around. D. Desert you.
E. None of the above.

And on the 8th day, God created Bungie Studios, who eventually created Halo 3, and this map.

God observed this, and saw that it was good. Very good.

BLACKOUT FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.26.2008 3:11 PM PDT
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OMG Blackout is going ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The artic background is cool (no pun intended)!

Thank you bungie.



  • 03.26.2008 3:28 PM PDT

Nice remake but i have to say i do not believe lockout is the most played Halo map ever.

In my opinion the original Blood Gulch is the most played, if you count how much it was played on the Xbox, and still being played on the PC. Which you can't get a accurate read from because of the lack of statistics tracking in those versions. I bet if Microsoft would have made Halo1 Xbox live multi-player compatible, with comparable stats tracking to Halo 2 when it came out. We would see Blood Gulch as the all time most played not lockout.

Lockout is just the most played map from halo 2 and on Xbox live.

I don't know about the rest of you but i wouldn't mind seeing a true port of Blood Gulch in the same spirit as Blackout. No drastic changes to the bases or the original layout of the map. Maybe put some extra cover throughout the map, but keeping the same feel and spirit of Blood gulch. I'm sorry to say this but Coagulation was a sad remake that did not even touch the original Blood Gulch in terms of game play.

  • 03.26.2008 3:38 PM PDT
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Noooo not the human look!!! I like Halo for the style the game has. I think that creating a forerunner station into a human station is going to take away the magic this classic level has. By the way where the hell is the snow or snowflakes! ? !
WTF is it about this guy that has promised to only make UNSC or human maps instead of forerunner structures! I am not playin HALO FOR HUMAN / REALISTIC structures but for the SCI FI / FORERUNNER -blam!-! If I want to go realistic I will play CoD 4 so what the HELL is going on over there?! WAKE UP BUNGIE YOURE HAVING A BLACKOUT!
Please Tell the GUY that designs these maps he only is allowed to make HALO -blam!- or otherwise apply at Infinity Ward ! Thanks you for -blam!- this real classic map up!

  • 03.26.2008 3:42 PM PDT

Posted by: SovietClock
Posted by: StewArt of War
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



I'm afraid that's impossible. Z/41 is in the Arctic, and these coordinates are in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Sorry, but it's imposible.


First:

"What’s the fictional setting for Blackout this time? Its predecessor, Lockout, was set on a Forerunner installation.

PR: The setting is a UNSC Antarctic weather station with the completely arbitrary and stupid number z/41, it means nothing. Until the fans write some fictional significance into it and we eventually have to reverse engineer it into our canon. Thanks a lot, fans."

Second:

It would be cold enough to be considered Antarctic most of the year. I doesn't have to literally be on the continent of Antarctica to be Antarctic.

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  • 03.26.2008 3:48 PM PDT

Wow, I guess everyone was right. Wow, the place looks just like Lockout, but even cooler!

  • 03.26.2008 3:53 PM PDT
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Never heard of it.

  • 03.26.2008 3:59 PM PDT
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yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i love lockout black out will be my fav map yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • 03.26.2008 4:00 PM PDT
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dose any one no when they achally come out and how much they will cost

  • 03.26.2008 4:03 PM PDT
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You guys should really remake Chill Out. I am satisfied with Blackout for now.

  • 03.26.2008 4:03 PM PDT
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April 15th I think

and $10=800 Microsoft Points

  • 03.26.2008 4:03 PM PDT
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....another remake......zzzzzzzzzzzz. how about showcasing some originality?

  • 03.26.2008 4:04 PM PDT
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ARE YOU SERIOUSE MAN?!?! If your a fan of Halo 2 at all, youd be waiting for this since H3's realese.

  • 03.26.2008 4:05 PM PDT
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10 more bucks for a can of remake crap......((((bangs shoe on head)))).......just what the fanboys needed....something else to shoot into a tubesock for

  • 03.26.2008 4:08 PM PDT
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In my opinion this isnt a crap remake, it dosent have much changed at all, maybe the look of the map but who really cares? And dont pay $10 if you dont like the map, go make your own in Foundry or sometjing.

  • 03.26.2008 4:21 PM PDT
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I did like the tubesock thing though, that was funny.

[Edited on 03.26.2008 4:22 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2008 4:22 PM PDT
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OMG this is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this looks like alot of regular gameplay fun plus i already have like a billion ideas for forge!

great job bungie!

(COD4 will have to do something really new and exciting to keep up) ; )

  • 03.26.2008 4:23 PM PDT
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teloport er s every whar that is what i see at black out

  • 03.26.2008 4:26 PM PDT
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holy crap!!! its awsome!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.26.2008 4:28 PM PDT