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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 4/04/08

So, if I'm reading this right, you can put those filters in the middle of your map so a certain part or all of it gets black and white? I'm not really following this description, but it seems like it could be a good idea if I'm hearing it right.

  • 04.04.2008 10:12 PM PDT

I swear to DRUNK, I'm not GOD!

New items for forge: Cool (but could we PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF CORTANA have adjustable man-cannons!?)

Camera Filters: Ummm... what? Honestly, a lot of people who take snap-shots are doing a SUPER close up of them shooting the Spartan Laser or some other explosion, and the picture is all about the colors and sparkles. Little kid stuff essentially.

Bungie... Forge is a GREAT idea... but you've really gone the wrong way with it! NOBODY Forge to play a Slayer match; People use Match Making or Custom games to play a Slayer match. PEOPLE ONLY USE FORGE TO BUILD MAPS! Would it really be impossible to make a Right Angle Adjustment feature using the D-Pad, so it wouldn't be so insanely frustrating to make new maps? You know! Some sort of control so that the object you're holding isn't ALWAYS reacting the way it would in a real game?

  • 04.04.2008 10:14 PM PDT

*I sense a disturbance in the forum*
Jaws on Zanzibar?
Sniper 's Ed 101
my myspace
teh explosion
purchase a leaf blower at any Sears store
After kim saying pc gamers are more mature:
Posted by:ImSpartacus
we r?

this is why I love Bungie

They create new levels, they create new pieces for Forge

COD4 has nothing like this at all.

Long Live Bungie!

  • 04.04.2008 10:18 PM PDT
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looking awesome, guys. I can just see all the shenanigans we'll pull on Avalanche...haha...

The color filter thing looks AWESOME. that's going to be a blast.

  • 04.04.2008 10:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: PhoenixFlyer44
The screenshots with the new coloring and detail are going to be ausome

Is the theater mode going to be changed too or not?


Theater mode will show you what happened in that game so yea, it will sow you the different coloration.

  • 04.04.2008 10:31 PM PDT

Lone Wolf assassin

Nice update but by the way is the glass windows on ghost town breakable? can you be on top the buildings or is there barriers?

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  • 04.04.2008 10:44 PM PDT

Wow, I am not going to be able to sleep tonight.

The filters are the coolest things I have ever seen in my life. That should be fun for Infection. The watchtower things look sweet, that'll be fun for sniping. This is my most favoritest weekly update. Ever.

  • 04.04.2008 10:57 PM PDT
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Been counting down for the weekly update since Monday and tbh I was quiet dissapointed when I read it. Both about it's content but as well about what I expected. I expected some more news about Team S.W.A.T in the daily playlist hopper and I actually hoped for a release date, but not a single thing about SWAT was said.

Then Forge, I know alot of people like forge and I'm one of them but this is not gonna make us alot more excited Bungie, it has been suggested so many times on the forums and thousands of happy forgers have given their opinion about how Forge could be best improved for weeks and not a single time a Bungie employee took notice of the post or at least didn't take the time to tell us whether what we were wanting to get into forge was actually even possible. It's all sweet and cool trust me, new objects are always a nice thing to have, but at this moment most of us forgers are so frustrated by various things in Forge that all we want now is an improvement of the way forge works and not what items we can use in Forge.

The current way is so basic and there's only very SLIGHT adjustments needed to make it so much more FUN that I'm still wondering why Bungie didn't take the opportunity to improve forge with the upcoming Map Pack. For those of you who don't get what I'm talking about, some slight improvements that could be made to forge are:

* Forge "glue"
* 5 Degree rotation possibility on the D-pad
* Ability to lock objects, so that if you are trying to place them somewhere and they hit another object they don't get out of control right away but instead they stay in the same position until you "unlock" it again.
* Many more building materials in ALL levels

Those are just some improvements that are definitely needed to make forge alot more enjoyable and it will for sure create much better maps than what we've seen so far. Besides the basic improvements I can also come up with some more "heave improvements" which I'm not sure of whether they are actually possible to create but it would be cool if something of this could be incorparated into forge.

* A terrain tool
* Color pallete for objects and environment
* Ability to change weather or time of day
* Bots
* An "undo" and "delete all" button
* Unused vehicles (passenger Hog, AA Wraith etc.)
* Standardized builing supplies for all levels (you can use all the same stuff on all the maps)

As you can see there's alot of things that can be improved concerning the current forge, some of them are probably impossible to create but I'm sure that the basic ones on top should be able to make it into forge. There's been polls concerning this, and some posts even asks people how much they would be willing to pay for all these improvements if it were to be some sort of DLC. I personally agree that these improvements should already have been there since Halo 3's release and therefore if they are coming in any kind of DLC they should be free, but IF we would have to pay for them I, and many more others, are willing to pay up to TWO COMPLETE map packs (1600 Microsoft Points), just to indicate our concerns about Forge.

I hope you get my points Bungie, improve/REPAIR forge first before you invest in it by creating new items that are gonna have the same complications when we go into forge again...


  • 04.04.2008 11:13 PM PDT
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Juicy update! ^_^

  • 04.04.2008 11:19 PM PDT

perfect but y is there an elite in the picture sparten plz


lol

  • 04.04.2008 11:25 PM PDT
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will the camera veiws be seen while playing the game or just while a camera, because i think it would be great to see a gloomy or juicy or any other type of filter while play,
just to give different map variants their own "kick" or style

oh and JF Kennedy9 has some really good ideas

[Edited on 04.04.2008 11:36 PM PDT]

  • 04.04.2008 11:33 PM PDT
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Nice update once again.

  • 04.04.2008 11:37 PM PDT
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nice...
im with you on that one, sooo many of those would make forgeing a lot easyer
and more useful for make not only new objects but entire styles :D...
(sigh) ...if only

  • 04.04.2008 11:40 PM PDT

it think there should be a map with an ai scharb for like flag and stuf

p.s they hav already said no bots coz its a whole new AI just play live

  • 04.04.2008 11:44 PM PDT
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yes
OMMFG
the new maps and updates and such look really nice bungie thank you.
April 15, just can't wait.

  • 04.05.2008 1:08 AM PDT
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Nice update!

The filters look sweet, night time infection FTW :D

  • 04.05.2008 1:21 AM PDT

"Please, don't shake the lightbulb." -Sgt.Johnson

realease em noooow!! xD

  • 04.05.2008 1:23 AM PDT
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*Ignores complaint to Bungie above as am sick of replying to crap like that*

Forge has a lot of potential and I beleive this is just the beginning of a massive Forge Update that will eventually be completely released. Forge Glue and stuff is probabyl being worked on by Bungie so just be patient.

Anyways, I wanna use the Filters on the old maps! Please Bungie?

  • 04.05.2008 1:36 AM PDT
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I deleted this post as I posted it in the wrong thread!

[Edited on 04.05.2008 1:57 AM PDT]

  • 04.05.2008 1:55 AM PDT

I would have thought the filters would be a feature added in the theater. It's a shame they don't work for older maps, but it's still a nice feature.

All the new maps look amazing. I'm not sure about the new aesthetics of Blackout, but as long as it brings back the magic of Lockout, I don't really mind. Avalanche looks way cooler than sidewinder.

Good job, Bungie.

  • 04.05.2008 2:10 AM PDT
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I love Bungie ! I could not imagine better !

  • 04.05.2008 2:20 AM PDT

Wow, those filters will be fun! imagine a gloomy zombie game or blurred one so u can't quite see whats around u!

Hey, question, can u merge filters, like put 2 on the map at once, ie gloomy blur? Or make it so only the humans have a blurred screen?

  • 04.05.2008 2:24 AM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Default.aspx?player=dxex

OKAY! So what else does ol' tank z have to save about the update and other things? Here's your chance to read away the lost blogin that would normally end up in Lukes mailbox!

WARNING MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF NUTZ... ERM, SPOILERS!

First off, guy who is -blam!-ing about Forge, get a grip. Yeah, I want more stuff for Forge and I'd like it to be easier and less time constraining, but to give up on your creation simply because of having a hard time putting things together is your own loss. Everyone knows, even if you didn't really feel like it, you could take 1 hour a night and still be able to create a map within a week. Honestly, it takes me a good 4 - 9 hours to complete my maps, and some of them aren't even completed! I need more tweaks, etc. But the fact of the matter is, Forge is not impossible. Further more, seeing the new things that are coming to Forge with the map pack easily gives me a firm optimism that it is going to be WAY easier in the future for you to navigate Forge and add more to maps. Also, auto-updates are now being done in small doses, so it is going to be a while before we see advanced auto-updates and it is hard to integrate new things into a system because of the technology, ahmph, that moneysoftz allows them to harness. Limited market will be destroyed by the hand of independent mover-goers who respond to great work, more so than great wealth and power. Bungie is slowly swaying this way.

Ok, what else? Well Griffball is going great so far. I ran into a GENERAL who is an extreme booster in the International Tournament just an hour ago or so...

Here You Are For The World To See...

3800 games and 5000 exp, you decide because Im -blam!- stumped!

What else, what else... SPOILERS AHEAD!

Ever since I beat H3 and seen the legendary ending, and if you haven't, stop reading now:

I noticed towards the last level of the game, where you're in the flood capitol city high charity, retrieving Cortana, and encountering the massive brain waves of the flood minister Gravemind, THAT Gravemind does indeed reveal that he knows Cortana is using High Charity as a muse, explosive if you will, to blow up the Ark. And I sorta quote, "I know her secret!" - Gravemind

Anyway, my theory is that instead of High Charity successfully blowing up, Gravemind uses the Dawn, Captain Miranda Keyes' ship instead of High Charity to blow up the Ark. NOW, how do you say that is possible? Well I think of the Pillar of Autumn, The OG Capn' Keyes' ship, can destroy one Halo ring, it can certainly destroy an Ark that is smaller.

So, in the Legendary ending, is it this so called "Forerunner Marathon City" you see at the end. Or is it really Gravemind and High Charity, the one who knew his fate and escaped at the last moment to greet the ol Chief and Cortana? You decide...

ALSO HALO THE -blam!- WARZ!

And, please understand that Bungie does not control the price of maps. Moneyzoftz gets a cut of the rug and they mean business! Wait for Bungie to go on its own and develop and far superior console. I am going to attempt to fathom a notion of helping in order to help Bungie achieve this. jk, I am just going to end up working for Bungie. Bungie.

One more thing, GRIFFFBALLLLLLLLLL!

Another thing, haterz, stop hating.

one more thing again: To Bungie:

Colon. Bungie, I am personally very proud of you. Making maps, debugging, getting things -blam!- done. How many companies can say they are productive as you? Not many. Be grateful Bungie actually listens and manages to have real lives and yet still have very successful jobs where they get stuff done. You know how many people struggle with family problems that get so bad they can't even work? These are people who are making millions, yet slaving at some point to make things right. It's not easy to put something in front of your life, you sacrifice your time, your being. In the end you may know it was all worth it, that on your death bed the life you lived was real. But here is Bungie, giving something they don't even have to, constantly, because they are good people.

So in my HFO (humble -blam!- opinion) take your time Bungie, I got all the time in the world! :D

[Edited on 04.05.2008 2:42 AM PDT]

  • 04.05.2008 2:25 AM PDT
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That's quite a bit of info regarding unreleased content...don't remember read that much before...nice update.
To add, I look forward to using Live's feedback system on the new maps. ;)

  • 04.05.2008 2:35 AM PDT