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Subject: Noble Map Pack - 11/30/2010
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So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

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Posted by: vanert
Wow... already?
I'm surprised as you are. I didn't think there would be any map packs for Reach until 2011.

  • 10.14.2010 3:20 PM PDT

What a hipster.

Damn, I think Tempest could turn into one of my favorite maps. :)

  • 10.14.2010 3:23 PM PDT

MFP

VERY great and WOW that was fast usually i dont see map packs for a few months after game releases. great job and im happy they added another Forgeworthy map cause whats a halo map pack without a map to build great maps? although i disliked the third map because it was a campaign remake but hey bungie, you work your asses off so good job. next map pack you need to have a map like foundry cause I loved it, same looking textures as the foundry walls from halo 3 too because i feel trapped in the forgeworld walls in bases and stuff that are closed in so im not much of a fan of forerunner items in the pallette

  • 10.14.2010 3:25 PM PDT

Why not stop by my File Share while you're here?

~Long Live Halo 2
Only regret is I didn't play more of it.

If you haven't noticed by now, I'm sort of a jerk.

Looks hawt, good thing I've been saving my MSP since I renewed my Bungie Pro subscription in September.

  • 10.14.2010 3:27 PM PDT

R.I.P. Halo 2 11/9/04-4/15/10
If you havn't played Halo 2 online than you are missing so much. Plus if you have played a good amount of Halo 2 online, I might have a better chance of listening to anything you say.

It's funny how many people forgot about the heroic map pack's exsistence. Halo 3 was released September 25th 2007, Heroic Map Pack is released on December 11th 2007 for 800 ms points. That is about the same wait between Reach and Noble Pack. Yet nobody complained about Heroic pack until after they bought it because they found out the maps suck.

  • 10.14.2010 3:27 PM PDT

What Reach fans have all been waiting for.

  • 10.14.2010 3:29 PM PDT

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Wow new maps already (awesome), I can't wait for these maps to come out. I just need to get some Microsoft Points and I'll be fine.

  • 10.14.2010 3:29 PM PDT

Wheres my Terminal Remake?

  • 10.14.2010 3:31 PM PDT

Bungie, please stop making maps tied to the fiction. The best maps were pretty much outside the story and were tight competitive spaces, not the large expansive areas as seen in the Noble map pack.

The Pit, Guardian, and Narrows are three of my favorite maps ever and they're not taken from campaign.

You're trying too hard to ground the maps into the world to create a more "immersive" experience.

Looking at MLG has done with the Halo:Reach maps, fixing spawns and putting in power weapons to fight for -- as Halo has always been about power weapons -- they've done a better job than Bungie has with their own maps.

  • 10.14.2010 3:34 PM PDT
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Considering that developers such as Valve already give out multiplayer maps for free, I do think that paying $3.33 for a single map is quite expensive! But my bigger point was that Bungie will eventually integrate the DLC into multiplayer, which blocks anyone who hasn't purchased the maps from playing! Currently, I can play every single playlist on Halo Reach, but after Bungie moves the maps into multiplayer, I will have to pay extra to continue to do what I can already do right now! And I know that Bungie will defend this by saying that multiplayer is some sort of bonus feature that is included with the campaign, which is the only thing you are entitled to with your retail copy, but that would be overlooking Halo's impact on online console multiplayer, which is the defining feature of the Halo games since Halo 2! It would discredit the feature that most players bought the game for in the first place! But so long as Bungie pumps out more maps, regardless of quality and price, I suppose you will continue to buy them because the price isn't "extravagant"! As if anything is extravagant to someone who can readily afford to pay it!
I would remind you of three things:
1. Bungie has no say about pricing. That's Microsoft's fault.
2. Valve's principal playerbase is PC gamers. They use plain old internet connections to play online, and there is no massive corporation breathing down their necks to force them to raise prices.
3. Sure, Valve's games get ported to Xbox. But at that point Microsoft has no monopoly on the game. If they charge for the maps, and they're free on PC, then Microsoft would lose customers who migrate over to PC, where the maps were free. A poor business decision, to be sure.
This pretty much invalidates your entire argument. This is a non-issue. Complain to Microsoft if you want to complain at all.
And yes, I will pay it, because the game itself is worth it. And we don't even know yet if there will be playlist blocking for lack of maps. That is an argument for another day; Bungie may have updated their strategy.
I GOT YO BACKS BUNGIE! <3

  • 10.14.2010 3:35 PM PDT
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The Flood Revolution is coming...

Anchor 9 looks like it could be enjoyable. Good to see an area that I may not find in campaign.

  • 10.14.2010 3:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: DK daze
Dude I don't care and my grammer is perfect.I used "Big", as you recall it to mak is specific."to not do...",is incorrect beause "do" is present tense/perfect(or future) when it was a past tense.

So tempest was that map that everyone insisted was forge world in the first pictures of bnet!

  • 10.14.2010 3:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: DigThat
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Are you stupid? Bungie made them Forge World variants so that you could customize them COMPLETELY.


that's where i stopped reading. can YOU take hemmorhage out of matchmaking, customize it a bit to your liking, then send your better version back into matchmaking? i sure can't

No. That defeats the purpose of matchmaking. That's why you have FRIENDS who you can join a PARTY with.

  • 10.14.2010 3:39 PM PDT

HALO 2 FOREVER - M.I.A.

Yes i have a Twitter and yes i voice my opinion.

$10 for 3 maps?

Im sorry bungie but you have lost your touch. What happend to having many types of hell for matchmaking and the fact that when you come out with a new map set that you had 5 maps that opened new fighting styles?

The maps you show here are lack of anything that would be of interest. Im not even close to being sure if i should buy them or just stick around for more firefight gruntpocalypse games.

If you added the firefight maps or a firefight forge setup im sure that it would be worth every cent.

  • 10.14.2010 3:39 PM PDT
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R.I.P. Halo 2
11/9/04 - 4/15/10

- B( )B

Tempest looks awesome!

  • 10.14.2010 3:45 PM PDT


Posted by: arkadin13
I find it ridiculous that you charge $10 for 3 maps. The maps that shipped with game were mostly remakes and campaign levels and now you want to make us pay out the ass for more?


there has always been only 3 maps at a time, in any DLC map pack, and they have always cost 800 Microsoft points.

Always.

  • 10.14.2010 3:46 PM PDT

Firefight is made to AFK in. That's Reach's "Investment" system


Posted by: Mister Meatflap
Good job supporting the wealthy elite at the top of the spire (no pun intended) Bungie
Woah woah woah, am I reading this right? When did $10 become the kind of money only "the wealthy elite" posess?
It's a refrence to the Bilderberg group, Implying that they are making us pay extra for items that shouldve been there in the first place, giving the "wealthy elite" more money they wouldnt have gotten otherwise. Like how Monarchs would raise taxes and then keep all that money for themselves.
Before games would release with full content, now they half ass the games and make us pay extra later for things that shouldve been in the game at the start.

  • 10.14.2010 3:46 PM PDT

Well that was quick. The maps do look really nice, I can't wait to try them out next month.

  • 10.14.2010 3:54 PM PDT

I can't even begin put into words my disappointment with you bungie, you give us maybe 7 original maps, only 2 of which are symmetrical, and then you release a map pack that has 3 more large asymmetrical maps. When are you going to stop holding the casual players hand, and throw the competitive community a bone? Just one?

  • 10.14.2010 3:55 PM PDT
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It's Hazard Time

Great, another expensive mappack while the game still lacks content...
Invasion has 2 invasion-maps which is cheap and 1 more map is not really cutting it. Big team battle needs maps, you got Hemmorhage and Paradiso (good maps that get played), Spire (decent map) and Boneyard (plays bad and spawn is impressively bad) Even Firefight lacks small maps (indoor maps) and maps where you really get to use vehicles (easy to board/empty vehicles).
We still can't play "Firefight Versus" (promoted before release), no Firefight classic in matchmaking (still can't "enjoy the firefight experience online/search for a team), no campaign matchmaking (yet), no community made maps/remakes in matchmaking, no "custom games finder" etc. :'(

Greed ain't god and "obvious greed is obvious"...
To justify the price, and as a "friendly gesture" to the community (for accepting the lack of content/promised game modes), we should get some old maps too (no extra charge). No need for new graphics, just add the maps and remove OP weapons/vehicles.
Example:
"Noble mappack" bring the new maps and Valhalla/Sand Trap/Avalanche for Big teams (or other suitable 2-3 maps) and Alpha Site/Chasm Ten/Lost platoon for Firefight (or other suitable 2-3 maps).
Bungie does apposition to the gamers that they still haven't showed the promised features and announces that Firefight versus and Firefight Classic Matchmaking will be availably in matchmaking before 2011 (plenty of time). Community made maps in MM and custom games matchmaking is planed to be released in 2011. ;)

The maps look good though and I can't wait to get to play them. Would love to be able to justify buying them on release (see above) but eventually I'll get them at 400MS points or for free, so there is no hurry really.
What else was released in November, something with a lot of maps and bigg mappacks? (hint)

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  • 10.14.2010 3:56 PM PDT

If they would have delayed the release of Halo Reach for a simple 3 maps, then Halo Reach wouldn't be out until November.
Bungie is a major game developer, they have to meet their deadlines set by the larger corporations. I'd much rather have 3 completed and spiffed up maps, rather than a bunch of low grade maps.
Its better than paying 30 dollars for 6 maps.

  • 10.14.2010 3:58 PM PDT

Halo Reach is 1 month old today! =]

  • 10.14.2010 3:58 PM PDT

Suuure does seem like Bungie made these maps pre-release and then undercut the number of maps that shipped so they can charge for DLC.

I really thought you guys were above this kind of behavior.

  • 10.14.2010 3:59 PM PDT

SCIENCE: STUDY SHOWS ========= INCREASES BRAIN CELL GROWTH

This is a good price for some very good-looking maps, thanks.

  • 10.14.2010 4:00 PM PDT

when is this released? and will their be the ability to change the weather in forge as this is somethiing i have heard?
i would llike to know when released date is so i have the microsoft points for it straight away lol ^^

  • 10.14.2010 4:07 PM PDT