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Subject: have you noticed this about Zanzibar?
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well..have you? OOPS. heres the post.

have you noticed how it looks PERFECTLY made for single-flag CTF, and not other CTF games? i mean, if your playing CTF in Zanzibar with two flags, you obviously wanna be the elites. they have contol over the huge base/warehouse thingy, and its very hard to get in their with vehicles. making it harder to capture their flag.

being a spartan would mean sacraficing all of this. on that beach, you dont see any bases or anything. its just a big, open space. about 15 times easier to get the flag in and out.

Now, who would wanna do it the hard way, trying so hard to capture the flag yet trying so hard to defend the flag, if you could just have an easy game?

[Edited on 6/22/2004 10:48:04 PM]

  • 06.22.2004 10:45 PM PDT
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... no

  • 06.22.2004 10:46 PM PDT
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actually i did..it was quite awesome... i squeeled like a little girl and ran home to mommy to tell her lassy was really a cat dog...

  • 06.22.2004 10:46 PM PDT
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Noticed what?

  • 06.22.2004 10:47 PM PDT
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sorry guys.
i forgot the post.
have you noticed how it looks PERFECTLY made for single-flag CTF, and not other CTF games? i mean, if your playing CTF in Zanzibar with two flags, you obviously wanna be the elites. they have contol over the huge base/warehouse thingy, and its very hard to get in their with vehicles. making it harder to capture their flag.

being a spartan would mean sacraficing all of this. on that beach, you dont see any bases or anything. its just a big, open space. about 15 times easier to get the flag in and out.

Now, who would wanna do it the hard way, trying so hard to capture the flag yet trying so hard to defend the flag, if you could just have an easy game?

im just wondering, are they going to make this any more balanced?? all i hear from you guys is "Dont worry, itll all balance out" with guns and such. but what abotu this, how can they possibly balance this out?

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  • 06.22.2004 10:48 PM PDT
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No i didnt notice that now im thinking if they will take out the usual CTF or if there are levels that are created only meant for this CTF and other levels meant for the original way to CTF.

  • 06.22.2004 10:51 PM PDT
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wow really good point... i noticed that a while back but never really thought about it... maybe the map changes with different game types?

  • 06.22.2004 10:52 PM PDT
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Perhaps but i hope they dont take out the original CTF.

  • 06.22.2004 10:56 PM PDT
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wait i thought that the teams swicth bases ...like that spartans are on D. while the elites are on O.

  • 06.22.2004 11:18 PM PDT
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Yeah they do but thats an altered CTF.

  • 06.23.2004 12:16 AM PDT
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yeah, the teams switch off...its a multiplayer map made to follow a bit of the storyline.
normal CTF gone? yeah right. and i bet normal slayer is gone too. and i hear the tank is not returning. oh yeah, and you have to play as a marine halfway thru campaign because the MC dies...

its a map made for alt. offense/defense roles. notice how its also not made for slayer? its because its probably not, but the game type isnt gone.

  • 06.23.2004 12:17 AM PDT
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Who said that the normal CTF was gone i just said i hope they dont take it out.

  • 06.23.2004 12:19 AM PDT
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it wouldn't even be an option, so stop worrying. and zanzibar is abolsutely perfect for TS...i dont know what you are talking about.

  • 06.23.2004 1:42 AM PDT

Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."

You can probably play normal CTF on Zanzibar, they just might not be showing you how. Think about it, the map is a VERY defensible and hard to get in right? Well it works both ways, the Spartans would have COMPLETE control of the beach so ANYTHING that came out of cover or protection would be cut down. I think this is how they are balancing out.... but who know's. Maybe this map is only made for Assault CTF...if that's the case then I think that sucks but... I trust Bungie.

Achilles

  • 06.23.2004 1:47 AM PDT
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I did notice that about Zanzibar and was thinking of posting something about it. This is probably why Bungie reserves the right to change anything or everything about the maps demonstrated at any time before the game launches. I think they will change the map a little bit before the game hits the shelves.

  • 06.23.2004 2:14 AM PDT
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Yes. Who knows. Maybe they'll add a "landing craft" as the Spartan Base on the beach. It wouldn't be impossible.

  • 06.23.2004 3:48 AM PDT
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i've seen a lot of caves and tunnels on the pictures of Zanzibar. maybe one flag is in the buliding while another is within the mountains.
what do you think?
at any rate i'm sure theres somewhere fair a second flag could be on each and every map.

  • 06.23.2004 3:52 AM PDT
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Yes, and even if they don't, Halo2 is supposed to have twice as many MP maps this time around. Then they're going to add a new one every couple of months.

Given that, I can live without two way CTF on just one map.

  • 06.23.2004 3:57 AM PDT