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Subject: Firefight - You dont select the skulls, they select you! FIREFIGHT...

In the Bungie podcast (on the main b.net page) they talk about firefight and mention that as the waves of difficulty get harder, they add new types of enemies as well as turning skulls on as you go. You dont choose them.. so basically we learned that those levels with the skull emblems on the left hand side of the screen are in fact firefight levels. Check the podcast.

- Also there are medals in the firefight.. as well as new medals!

1 'nade, 4 grunts, OVERKILL!

- They also said there are powerups and stashed secret power weapons in the firefight maps you can find to help you!

- And you have infinite lives

[Edited on 06.02.2009 1:08 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 12:48 PM PDT

Cool! I wonder how many levels there will be. I hope there is an infinite amount of levels. The number just keeps going up and up until all the players are killed. They also get stronger, tougher, and faster as you go along and more of them.

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I noticed that too when i was listening to the podcast and i hope there is a no-scope medal for firefight.

They mentioned that the narrator basically says almost everything we do, that sounds like it gone be fun because you are gone feel awesome when he goes like: No-scope, multikill, you picked up a rocket launcher.

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Posted by: yerfdog1935
Cool! I wonder how many levels there will be. I hope there is an infinite amount of levels. The number just keeps going up and up until all the players are killed. They also get stronger, tougher, and faster as you go along and more of them.


They said it goes up till 99 waves, but nobody is gone make it till there.

  • 06.02.2009 12:54 PM PDT

Yeah that is going to be awesome.. getting overkills against AI!

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I hope that we can get some different areas play in for Firefight Mode. They shown them fighting during the day, how about a level that takes place during the night, or has some emphasis on close quaters combat, vehicular combat, e.t.c.

  • 06.02.2009 12:55 PM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

I bet the Mythic Conquerors will be able to pull it off...

  • 06.02.2009 12:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: yerfdog1935
Cool! I wonder how many levels there will be. I hope there is an infinite amount of levels. The number just keeps going up and up until all the players are killed. They also get stronger, tougher, and faster as you go along and more of them.


They said it goes up till 99 waves, but nobody is gone make it till there.

I'm sure someone will get there, through glitching. :P

  • 06.02.2009 12:57 PM PDT

And yes they said there is a "crater at night" map.

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Posted by: Tyrant122312
I bet the Mythic Conquerors will be able to pull it off...


I believe in you Tyrant!

  • 06.02.2009 12:58 PM PDT

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There is no greater catharsis than arguing on the Flood.

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Posted by: yerfdog1935
Cool! I wonder how many levels there will be. I hope there is an infinite amount of levels. The number just keeps going up and up until all the players are killed. They also get stronger, tougher, and faster as you go along and more of them.


They said it goes up till 99 waves, but nobody is gone make it till there.

Unless an infamous glitch shows itself. I doubt, considering our enemies can shoot.

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Posted by: Tyrant122312
I bet the Mythic Conquerors will be able to pull it off...


Most likely. If you can beat Halo 3 with all the skulls, on legendary difficulty, then hats off to you.

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nice. i was wondering about all that. good find.

  • 06.02.2009 12:58 PM PDT

Well they specifically said "no one can actually reach the 99th level"

  • 06.02.2009 12:59 PM PDT

This is not Soviet Russia!

But i like the idea.

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Posted by: I Dutch I
They said it goes up till 99 waves, but nobody is gone make it till there.


Really? I read from IGN that there was only 5 waves.

Can someone sense a Vidmaster achievement?

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Posted by: Homeboyd903
Well they specifically said "no one can actually reach the 99th level"


And why would that be? Did they explain that in the podcast?

  • 06.02.2009 1:02 PM PDT

Posted by: DG Mike
Posted by: I Dutch I
They said it goes up till 99 waves, but nobody is gone make it till there.


Really? I read from IGN that there was only 5 waves.

Can someone sense a Vidmaster achievement?


Yeah check the podcast.. 99 waves

  • 06.02.2009 1:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: yerfdog1935
Cool! I wonder how many levels there will be. I hope there is an infinite amount of levels. The number just keeps going up and up until all the players are killed. They also get stronger, tougher, and faster as you go along and more of them.


They said it goes up till 99 waves, but nobody is gone make it till there.


I betcha' that's a vidmaster achievement

  • 06.02.2009 1:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Homeboyd903
Well they specifically said "no one can actually reach the 99th level"


And why would that be? Did they explain that in the podcast?


No.. but the levels get more and more difficult and its not just by harder enemies.. i.e. bombs blowing up around you, ships shooting at you, etc.. they just said you couldnt get to it.

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What is FIREFIGHT
What inspired the development

Firefight is an new cooperative gamemode in the halo 3 universe,
the first firefight prototype was created by Tim Williams shortly after halo 3 shipped.. (half year)

He made an prototype of the player spawning into one area and fighting against a bunch of AI
with the ai like continually coming back.. The first prototype was in an sorta halo-3 jungle, in a dam..

This is speedly-typed over from the b.net podcast, so don't talk about mai spelling!
and ages after halo 3 mythic map pack they thought of firefight again and they had an idea and putted it on the whiteboard
of halo 3 odst.. no-one knew it was going to get in odst but then paul (of bungie) said that they should start on firefight again


The first map they created this one was called C-140 (it's in H3ODST), there's landing pads in there and it could became really hard..
it started easy but after a few versions it was really hard..


It's an cooperative experience wich they can play up to 4 players, in wich you need to defeat enimies wave after wave.. (think of cod:waw's zombies)
there's SKULLS and different type of enimies per difficulty (heroic, legendary ect.) also, this is APART from the campaign..

This is an way of giving the peopel that are scared of halo 3 multiplayer (lol was what bungie did in the beginning as well) and make you (the scared-player) say to your friends
'hey lets go and kick the crap out of the AI for like 45 minutes.'

If people remember the campaign scoring, bungie thought of an more-awesome style of this but they didn't get it yet, now what they did is took all the multiplayer medals and added
new ones, new voiceovers and it's giving you a good feeling... (also you'll hear killtackulair ect. in firefight)

Also, it'll show how many headshots you made ect. after the game in the carnage report.. but also it is going to be MORE DIFFICULT, you really need some good skill since
it is like replacing normal with LEGENDARY, like killing two enimies and noticing that there's around 200 behind you..

Also, there's an NEW weapon (the new AUTOMAG (like halo1 pistol, less powerful) the SMG silenced) and you will NOT be the chief..



Posted by: Homeboyd903
In the Bungie podcast (on the main b.net page) they talk about firefight and mention that as the waves of difficulty get harder, they add new types of enemies as well as turning skulls on as you go. You dont choose them.. so basically we learned that those levels with the skull emblems on the left hand side of the screen are in fact firefight levels. Check the podcast.

- Also there are medals in the firefight.. as well as new medals!

1 'nade, 4 grunts, OVERKILL!

  • 06.02.2009 1:03 PM PDT

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They wouldn't have made 99 waves if we weren't supposed to get there.

  • 06.02.2009 1:05 PM PDT

They also said there are powerups and stashed secret power weapons in the firefight maps you can find to help you!

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Not even the people who finished halo 3 in mythic difficulty will get to wave 99. Because completing Halo 3 on mythic takes strategy but on firefight they start to come from everywhere and there your strategy doesn't work. As bungie mentioned everytime you play the level it's gone be different. So no, nobody is getting to wave 99.

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Posted by: kalle90
They wouldn't have made 99 waves if we weren't supposed to get there.


They made it to 99 waves and nobody is gone get to there, that's what they said in the podcast so for now that's a fact.

  • 06.02.2009 1:08 PM PDT

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