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Subject: Weekly What's Update: SPECIAL EDITION!
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does anyone eles see the gauss turret or am i crazy?

  • 03.26.2005 12:06 PM PDT
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oh, and there is a regular turret to the upper left of it.
and does anyone know what the triangle things are? i thought they were jackele shilds or somethin, but there not...

  • 03.26.2005 12:09 PM PDT
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Why is the realease date wrong? You say the maps were to come out late April, and its near the mids of March!

  • 03.26.2005 12:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Gr8Leviathan
Why is the realease date wrong? You say the maps were to come out late April, and its near the mids of March!


what u mean? april is only A month ahead

  • 03.26.2005 12:16 PM PDT
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not that far....

  • 03.26.2005 12:17 PM PDT
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god... nobody postin....

Hey guys, i was looking at the maps, and i noticed a few things on containment...

1. the offenders have a banshee in the far back

2. there is a warp exit and oversheild in the small middle structure in the open feild.

2. it loks like a gause turret on the edge of the defenders base in the bottom right. thats right. a gauss turret! i think its the new thing they were talking about.

sombody answer!!

  • 03.26.2005 12:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: FlashHinwasa
What if i just buy the 19.99 disk from a video game store do I get the nine maps without purchasing them on xbox live?



Yes, you will. They will be downloadable from the disc itself, kind of like the downloadable stuff from OXM's demo discs. Plus, you'll have the cool extras that they've thrown together. In my opinion, the disc is the better buy, but if you don't like extra stuff and behind the scenes stuff and just want your freakin maps already, come the end of April, you can just download from home and have at it.

I think I misuse commas.....oh well.

  • 03.26.2005 12:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Gr8Leviathan
Why is the realease date wrong? You say the maps were to come out late April, and its near the mids of March!


What you say?

  • 03.26.2005 12:23 PM PDT
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it would probably suck cuz u could jump down from the top of the level and not die

  • 03.26.2005 12:24 PM PDT
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hang em high that is

  • 03.26.2005 12:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Llamaman
god... nobody postin....

Hey guys, i was looking at the maps, and i noticed a few things on containment...

1. the offenders have a banshee in the far back

2. there is a warp exit and oversheild in the small middle structure in the open feild.

2. it loks like a gause turret on the edge of the defenders base in the bottom right. thats right. a gauss turret! i think its the new thing they were talking about.

sombody answer!!


I'm trying to look, but its too unclear. There's definitely a warp exit there (they told us and I can see it) and it would be logical to put a overshield there.

A Gauss turret, eh? Now that I could live with. Still can't see it, mainly because I have a small and pretty unclear picture.

  • 03.26.2005 12:28 PM PDT
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On the cd with all the new maps will it be like downloading the maps to the xbox hard drive or do you have to put the disc in to play the maps im confused

  • 03.26.2005 12:29 PM PDT
Subject: Weekly What's Update: SPECIAL EDITION!
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This is Achilles 1263 aka roland 1263 ,
First and foremost I love Halo 2 and play it much more then I probably should. In addition I am a hard working person and don't mind paying for the new content. I also bought the game on the day it came out (actually pre-ordered) with great glee.... I AM A FAN. And millions of FANS like me made your game the best selling game I believe "of all time". Now I realize that, as you explained, it takes money, people, and hard work to make the new maps..etc.. HOWEVER... being that FANS LIKE ME made you guys more money on the first day this came out than most game developers make in a year... IT SCREAMS OF EITHER GREED OR ARROGANCE that we should have to pay for these things. Now I still love the game... and god help me I will even buy halo 3 and xbox 2 to play it..but i think you should have rewarded the fans who rewarded YOU!!

  • 03.26.2005 12:30 PM PDT
Subject: frankie please answer this were i can c it
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Posted by: paddiemeboy
On the cd with all the new maps will it be like downloading the maps to the xbox hard drive or do you have to put the disc in to play the maps im confused


You download them from the disc to the hard drive, and the game accessess them directly from the H-Drive.

  • 03.26.2005 12:35 PM PDT
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oh i hope they make it on pc cause right then i switch to pc you wanna know why?
because my faith in the modders i know they can make better maps than bungie can.+ they can make the magnum like the old pistol in halo 1.. problem solved ...oh oh wait bungie wont let themselves be outdone by modders so the answere is no...
there will not be a halo 2 pc port......dont know about you ladies and gents but i woulda preffered less spectacular graphics and simply better gameplay. i woulda preffered a halo 1.5... halo2 is a good game no doubt but it isnt on par with halo 1 and whoever says otherwise...... is those little kids they catered too who can only use the sword and all the other dumbed down settings so lil kids could play......and novice aimers.... tisk tisk tisk.

  • 03.26.2005 12:37 PM PDT
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Good job guys, unlike some of the people in here I have nothing to complain about, noone thought you would be adding 9 new Maps, that is going to make multiplayer even better and crazy than it is now.. I will be doing what one guy suggested, paying for the DC and then buying the Disk when it comes out.. A few things i would love to see added.. 1. I would love if the Grenades exploded when one went off next to them, it would add some fun crazyness to the multiplayer games.. 2. it would be cool if the Flag displayed the persons Emblem that was carring it.. 3. (and I know this is a LONG shot) It would be sooo awsome if there were a Brute OR Hunter that was in the Multiplayer games Like in the middle of Coagulation Jumping on my Warthog swinging, The coolest part about it is that both teams will have to deal with him instead of just hanging around waiting for another Vehicle to blow away with a Rock!

Thanks Bungie for NINE new maps, keep up the awsome work!

  • 03.26.2005 12:37 PM PDT
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I wonder how big data wise these things will be, cause if they're too big, few hundred megs, i'll just have to buy the disk

  • 03.26.2005 12:39 PM PDT
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Im really excited for all these maps, and I honestly don't mind paying for them. $20.00 isnt that bad, and plus, for live users its a bit cheaper. Everyone should thank bungie instead of rag on them.

  • 03.26.2005 12:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: cobra8288
oh i hope they make it on pc cause right then i switch to pc you wanna know why?
because my faith in the modders i know they can make better maps than bungie can.+ they can make the magnum like the old pistol in halo 1.. problem solved ...oh oh wait bungie wont let themselves be outdone by modders so the answere is no...
there will not be a halo 2 pc port......dont know about you ladies and gents but i woulda preffered less spectacular graphics and simply better gameplay. i woulda preffered a halo 1.5... halo2 is a good game no doubt but it isnt on par with halo 1 and whoever says otherwise...... is those little kids they catered too who can only use the sword and all the other dumbed down settings so lil kids could play......and novice aimers.... tisk tisk tisk.


As I can't say anything about Halo 2 on the PC, I can post my opinion on Halo vs. Halo 2. The old pistol wasn't so cool to me. I mean, I can definitely see how it was awesome and I there are times that I miss the thing. However, I think that Halo 2 made some neccessary changes while bringing the graphics up to par as well. I've played Halo CE on my desktop for I don't know how long, and the maps that modders make don't ever have the same awesome feel. That and they feel either unbalanced or lacking in some area. Bungie knows video games and goes well with their game. As for whoever says otherwise...... is those little kids they catered too who can only use the sword and all the other dumbed down settings so lil kids could play......and novice aimers....tisk tisk tisk., the pistol was used by everyone in our system links and any other weapon was hardly ever used. That just wasn't fun. I, for one, wouldn't like to see the pistol return to its once overpowered state. Although, it'd be cool to see it as a seperate gametype or weapon.


I post too much.

  • 03.26.2005 1:00 PM PDT
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First of all...Nogert needs to seriously start to realize that he is dumb. Ok now that thats out he also needs to understand that if Bungie can spend their time on something thats is going to be awesome we can spend a couple of dollars on it, and besides, LOTS of other games make you pay for premium content. And lastly someone really needs to send him "Hooked on Phonics: the Special Edition".

  • 03.26.2005 1:03 PM PDT
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So how many of my precious hard drive blocks will i have to devote to these new maps?


~DaRk*AgE

  • 03.26.2005 1:08 PM PDT
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these maps will be sweet! i have live, but is there anyway i can download the new goodies from live, or do i have to buy the disc too!?

  • 03.26.2005 1:20 PM PDT
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those new map look ok but I still think that they should make Hang em high or damnation

  • 03.26.2005 1:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Llamaman
god... nobody postin....

Hey guys, i was looking at the maps, and i noticed a few things on containment...

1. the offenders have a banshee in the far back

2. there is a warp exit and oversheild in the small middle structure in the open feild.

2. it loks like a gause turret on the edge of the defenders base in the bottom right. thats right. a gauss turret! i think its the new thing they were talking about.

sombody answer!!


I don't think that that's a gauss turret. It looks like a scorpion to me. If you look, it had the turret in the middle, with two treads on the side. I dunno it looks a lil big for a tank but that's what it looks like at first pass. Oh, and i bet you 10 bucks that that brute shot on the left is the most useless weapon in the entire map, much like the needler near the bottom of the windmill at zanzibar. It's just there, not realy doin anything, but every once in a while, someone makes a fool of themself and picks it up.
It also looks like you will be able to drive up into the walls of the canyon, because of that ramp there. I wonder if you'll be able to fly the banshee up on those towers.

  • 03.26.2005 1:27 PM PDT
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hnag em high please

  • 03.26.2005 1:27 PM PDT