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Subject: VENERANCE Announced - CryEngine 3 Mod

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.

venerate: to regard or treat with reverence; revere..

VENERANCE: an in-progress CryEngine 3 Modification for fans of Halo's extended fiction that has long, long been in pre-production, finally being announced to Bungie.net and the world on 1/17 of 2012.

Venerance is for the fans, by the fans, and in tribute to the human beings that brought and bring us the Halo universe we know and love, Bungie Studios and 343 Industries.

It is based on Sigma Octanus IV, and will put the player in the shoes of a member of Blue Team as they make landfall and seek to carry out their objectives.

I'd love to tell you more, but you'll have to wait for more love until Valentine's Day. :)

On that day, we will begin open recruitment for Contributors and Participants in this project, for whoever wants to help make this happen. For now, I leave you with these images created by some of Halo.Bungie.Org's lurkers and regulars. ;)

http://i.imgur.com/nMXRB.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/wKfbb.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/tmx2h.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pBj5D.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gVUNJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6RaXB.jpg

  • 01.17.2012 10:38 AM PDT
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*whistles* That's a big project you've got there. I wish you luck.

  • 01.17.2012 10:46 AM PDT

I fail to see the connection of this to Reach....

  • 01.17.2012 10:47 AM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.

@Ex0 Dante

Very true, though Sigma Octanus IV *WAS* the mission that occurred previous to and simultaneous with the events in Halo Reach. :)

I just didn't see a better place for this to go. There's not really a "Mods" section here on B.net. If this should be moved, then I vote it be moved. I just don't understand where it would be moved to. :P Thanks for reading, tho!

  • 01.17.2012 11:01 AM PDT

I this "mod" inspired by one of the chapters in "Fall of Reach"?
It was some time since I read it so I dont remember much.

  • 01.17.2012 11:08 AM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.

@Sandtrap Thanks!Yeah, it's pretty ridiculously large. But that's what makes it FUN!

  • 01.17.2012 11:30 AM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.

@TobbetheStalker

Indeed! It's straight out of Eric Nylund's The Fall of Reach. That's where we're basing this one mission.

[Edited on 01.17.2012 11:31 AM PST]

  • 01.17.2012 11:30 AM PDT
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This looks interesting...

  • 01.17.2012 1:05 PM PDT
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this makes me very very happy face :D

  • 01.17.2012 1:08 PM PDT

Nice (always been a fan of all the novels), I had hoped that Reach should turn out more after the novel even that I knew that it was fan-made.
Seeing forward to this new game.
Can you sign up for some sort of beta in the future?

  • 01.17.2012 1:13 PM PDT
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good luck man

if you need any help, hit me up

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Posted by: Horse Repairman
RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

Posted by: SouthPoIe
Clone is an internet God.

Posted by: DerpRoids
RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.

I thought this was a post of Beta in game stuff, but it's just concept art. : (

Also isn't the Cry engine super processor intensive?

I bet no one here will be able to run it when it's done.

[Edited on 01.17.2012 1:16 PM PST]

  • 01.17.2012 1:16 PM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.

@TobbetheStalker:
Even better than a beta (IMO). Just keep an eye out on Valentine's Day. :)

[Edited on 01.19.2012 6:41 AM PST]

  • 01.19.2012 6:40 AM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.

@ScottishSniper: Thanks! Yeah, we'll definitely benefit from all the help we can get. Your opinions are important to us, even if they're in total opposition to our own, they have value. You'll get more of an idea of what channels are available to you to contribute and/or participate on Valentine's Day. :)

  • 01.19.2012 6:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: Horse Repairman
RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

Posted by: SouthPoIe
Clone is an internet God.

Posted by: DerpRoids
RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.

You do know you can click the reply Burlington next to a post and and then the quote button to the left of the post button to quote people. Then you won't have to say @namehere

  • 01.19.2012 6:45 AM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.

@RC Clone:

I wish it were a beta of in-game stuff. lol. That'd mean it was that much closer to being done! But no, that day is yet to come. The CryEngine3 is more optimized than the CE2, but that won't matter as much anyway, because yes, we're pushing the engine to it's limits. This will not be a mod for the faint of rig.

One day, even your grandma's computer will be able to run this thing easy, same as every other game. But when it first comes out, don't be surprised if you need 3 GPUs to run it at its absolute maximum settings in 3D, with all the bells and whistles, at 60+fps. That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but hey: we're making this with quality in mind: accessibility be darned! Plenty of great mods out there that are reasonably able to be run. Our ambitions are elsewise. :)

Doesn't mean that you won't be able to play it, though! Just not with all the bells and whistles on the first day of release.

But of course, this project is about much more than just the final playable product: getting there WILL be half the fun. You'll see.

Valentine's Day. Be there.

  • 01.19.2012 6:50 AM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.


Posted by: RC Clone
You do know you can click the reply Burlington next to a post and and then the quote button to the left of the post button to quote people. Then you won't have to say @namehere


Ha! Thanks. You can tell I've been away from the B.net forums for... quite some time. I wonder if anyone here even knows what an "Igni Ferroque" is?

My main online domicile de Halo is at HBO.

Thanks for the heads-up! :D

  • 01.19.2012 6:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: Horse Repairman
RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

Posted by: SouthPoIe
Clone is an internet God.

Posted by: DerpRoids
RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.

I just noticed my phone turned button into Burlington. lol

  • 01.19.2012 6:54 AM PDT

I don't understand.

  • 01.19.2012 8:32 AM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.


Posted by: mcclintonsl
I don't understand.


Not sure if troll... >.>

  • 01.19.2012 11:39 AM PDT

Posted by: AngelicLionheart
I just didn't see a better place for this to go. There's not really a "Mods" section here on B.net. If this should be moved, then I vote it be moved. I just don't understand where it would be moved to. :P Thanks for reading, tho!
Well... discussion of mods is actually against the rules in general.

If anywhere though? I'd wager... 'The Gallery' forum.Posted by: AngelicLionheart
I wonder if anyone here even knows what an "Igni Ferroque" is?
Yep. Though that was before the times of most folks here.

Also... I really like the 4th picture.

[Edited on 01.19.2012 11:51 AM PST]

  • 01.19.2012 11:51 AM PDT
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Interesting..

  • 01.19.2012 11:54 AM PDT
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nice job finding images from Google Images.

  • 01.19.2012 12:01 PM PDT

Boltshot = mini shotgun

I guess this huge project will take a while to complete, huh?
Good luck with it.
Edit: I'm not sure this topic is safe here. I've heard mod discussion is against the rules.

[Edited on 01.19.2012 12:22 PM PST]

  • 01.19.2012 12:21 PM PDT

You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.


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Posted by: AngelicLionheart
I just didn't see a better place for this to go. There's not really a "Mods" section here on B.net. If this should be moved, then I vote it be moved. I just don't understand where it would be moved to. :P Thanks for reading, tho!
Well... discussion of mods is actually against the rules in general.

If anywhere though? I'd wager... 'The Gallery' forum.Posted by: AngelicLionheart
I wonder if anyone here even knows what an "Igni Ferroque" is?
Yep. Though that was before the times of most folks here.

Also... I really like the 4th picture.


Glad you like it!

I don't have the forum rules right in front of me, but, there may be a dual identity thing going on here.

There is "modding" where you alter the game files of say, Halo 3 or Halo Reach, and you give yourself a gun that fires Revenants or you make yourself fly around with auto-aim...

And then there is "modding" where you use freely available game authoring tools to create experiences. You make a level, fill it with characters, design the mission, etc. Counter Strike was initially a mod, Garry's Mod is, obviously, a mod, and what I am talking about clearly falls into this second definition of the word "mod".

So, hopefully this disambiguates between the two and it would surprise me if these game experiences were against the rules of Bungie's forum. That just wouldn't make sense, given Bungie's endorsement of mods as a way to break into the industry. :P

  • 01.19.2012 11:28 PM PDT

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