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Subject: Excavating The Pit

My Best Bungie moment: finally beating all the Halo games on solo legendary.
My Worst Bungie moment: not seeing giant stuffie grunts in the Bungie store.

Awesome.
I want to do map design for video games some day so this was the best!

Humour was great too.

Also: first person to do this in forge...
"Flip it over and it's construct"

  • 05.27.2010 3:24 PM PDT
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NO GROUP INVITES!!!

Interesting read. And ironically i hate The Pit. Mostly due the aesthetics (and for too many PWs and bad choice of equipment)... i simply don't like the maps looks and that detracts my play experience on it.
But that concept on top of the article... I love that.
:(

[Edited on 05.27.2010 4:04 PM PDT]

  • 05.27.2010 4:02 PM PDT

Good read!

  • 05.27.2010 4:27 PM PDT

If you're going to tell us about a cool idea like spy cameras in a level, that you actually had finished and everything, then they had better be in a certain upcoming game.

  • 05.27.2010 4:31 PM PDT

Posted by: RetroMonster
The drawings really make the pit look some-what terrible. I hope that this is not the final design. Really, if you look at it, it makes Reach look so perfect. This is not something that can be well said. It looks trashy.

lol That's not a picture of the pit from reach, its from early development.

  • 05.27.2010 4:38 PM PDT

Back-to-back seventh column gold! Funny, informative, and well-written. I'm glad to hear there are more of these morsels on the way.

This is one of my favorite maps for Halo 3. I don't think I'll ever tire of playing games on The Pit.

  • 05.27.2010 4:52 PM PDT
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I apologize in advance for all the crappy jokes I make.

Nice article, The Pit is my favorite non-DLC halo 3 map.
And that control room sounds awesome.

  • 05.27.2010 5:07 PM PDT

I love playing x-box live in my spair time my fav. games to play on live are CODMD2, CODMD, H3,


P.S All those hot girls who play H3 im singleeeeeee!!!

IM WITH YA THERE I WISH WE WERE ABLE TO PLAY THAT H3 MAP ON LIVE THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME dont ya think?

  • 05.27.2010 5:08 PM PDT

I love playing x-box live in my spair time my fav. games to play on live are CODMD2, CODMD, H3,


P.S All those hot girls who play H3 im singleeeeeee!!!

my last post is -blam!- im with HipLunchBox13 it looks like -blam!- he's right when he says it makes reach look perfect too.





HaLo ReAcH Is AwEsOmE ;/ yo what it is my -blam!-

  • 05.27.2010 5:10 PM PDT

To be honest, I would have liked that top concept look at the top of the page way more than the The Pit that we have now.

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That's one classy article you've got over here, urk.

  • 05.27.2010 5:47 PM PDT

AH I love these articles! I love behind the scenes stuff! Great post!

  • 05.27.2010 5:52 PM PDT

I kinda like the pit blue. I wonder if they could carry the pit over to reach and do it something like this. It would be really cool

  • 05.27.2010 5:54 PM PDT

With reach being a training camp i am hoping for more maps like the pit. both single and multi-player.


i love the pit. its one of my favorite maps.

Its got a very mirrors edge and a ag_texture map feel.
That's a CS:S reference ;)


I hope for more! but i guess with reach's bad jumping its no longer part of the game play / part of the map. jetpacks < jump

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  • 05.27.2010 5:56 PM PDT

--The Sam Man

I think I would have liked The Pit a lot better if it was outside like in some of the early build pictures.

  • 05.27.2010 6:12 PM PDT

Posted by: urk
Posted by: Kapura
urk, do more of these. These post-mortems on maps are goddammed incredible, better than the BWUs and only less than Bungie Podcats.


They're really fun to do. Plenty more planned (as time allows, of course.)

When is Marty's post-mortem planned for?

[Edited on 05.27.2010 8:19 PM PDT]

  • 05.27.2010 8:17 PM PDT
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Yes, I know I misspelled my name.

ah, the infamous chainlink fence.

  • 05.27.2010 8:32 PM PDT

Lone Wolf assassin

Do valhalla!!

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hi man

  • 05.27.2010 9:30 PM PDT

I personally liked the first picture, with the blue tarps lining the edges. Makes it feel more realistic and almost construction-zone-ey unlike the final Pit which looked more like a playground.

Still, a good read!

  • 05.27.2010 10:02 PM PDT

Posted by: Kapura
urk, do more of these. These post-mortems on maps are goddammed incredible, better than the BWUs and only less than Bungie Podcats.


agreed!!

bring it back fro reach!

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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

Great interview. You can definitely tell they've been around each other for a while and enjoy each other's company. I always love reading the "what ifs."

  • 05.27.2010 11:25 PM PDT

Posted by: CheckedBRUTES
Very nice and cool Article also very nice Screenshots.

Like clockwork.

[Edited on 05.28.2010 12:00 AM PDT]

  • 05.27.2010 11:58 PM PDT

Send A Friend Request to Schloxictonkey if you need a good teammate and you are good

Is that a picture of a guy on a roof on turf? How could he have gotten there?? If my memory serves me correctly the only way up there is to superbounce. And if you go right there and you don't have any nades you're stuck. Remake turf yo, that was a beast level. And re-introduce superbouncing and button glitches, at least in custom games. If you did it by accident you can do it on purpose. We want options! Barrier on/off switch and customizable anything and everything. Except armor because its useless and pointless. Things that actually matter. Y'know?

  • 05.28.2010 12:00 AM PDT

Cool article!! Thanks

  • 05.28.2010 1:34 AM PDT

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