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Subject: Not so linear?
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If this is old, give me a link to where it was previously posted and I'll be more than happy to go there. I did check the past 30 pages though....

Ok, you know in the E3 2003 demo, when Master Chief boards the ghost, and it soon after cuts to the chase scene ending with "Bet ya can't stick it... You're on."
I was thinking, what if he never boards the ghost? What if he blows it up instead or takes a warthog? My point is, do different actions trigger different scenes? Do we not have to board the ghost? Could we do something else and get different results?

  • 08.03.2004 7:35 PM PDT
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i would imagine bungie thought that out lol. Its definitely gonna be at least parabolic not linear. I hate quadratic equations btw

  • 08.03.2004 7:36 PM PDT
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Check some of bungies updates, somewhere between the 2nd june update and the 3rd july update. I know I read up something about that in one of those.

offtopic: quadratic equations are easy, try doing geometrical integration :o)

  • 08.03.2004 7:40 PM PDT
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Thanks I'm looking into it as we speak....

But if anyone else has info that's cool too....

  • 08.03.2004 7:56 PM PDT

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Yeah, i bet there are special triggers in the game like that, or maybe it was just in the demo at E3, not in the game, who knows!

  • 08.03.2004 7:57 PM PDT
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Well what I heard (from many people, including mods) was that that trailer was not going into the final game as we have seen it. It was simply made to demonstrate some of the new abilities and the graphical power of the game. There will be a New Mombasa level but supposedly not exactly as we have seen it, that might clear things up.

  • 08.03.2004 7:59 PM PDT
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or maybe that level isnt completed...it was pretty short after all

  • 08.03.2004 8:00 PM PDT
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Sounds likely, thanks.

  • 08.03.2004 8:00 PM PDT
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God I hope that mid game sequence is not included. I fully intend not to take a Ghost and to stick it out with the Phantoms. Maybe they can change a part. Instead of sequence we all know, what'll happen is that the video does not exsist.

Remember how the Escape Pods came down in the second level of Halo? Like that. Where you control the camera by where you are looking. Or the highway doors can be shut forcing the player to go on foot (doors shut, no vehicles can fit) making the video consistent with all players.

  • 08.03.2004 8:06 PM PDT
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Yeah that's not the final level. It was an entirely scripted game session made to demonstrate some new abilities and graphics. There may be some cutscenes like that in game, which would be cool, but nothing linear.

Think along the lines of when the airstrike takes out the cannon, it's scripted, but you dont HAVE to see it, pretty cool.

  • 08.03.2004 8:08 PM PDT
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Definately.

  • 08.03.2004 8:10 PM PDT