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Subject: *Time Of The Day Changes And So Does The Weather* :Thoughts Comment...
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Poll: Time Of The Day Changes As You Play  [closed]
Good Idea:  88%
(35 Votes)
Bad Idea:  12%
(5 Votes)
Total Votes: 40

Lets say your playing Campaign, wouldn't it be sweet if the weather changes from cloudy to rainy. I mean why not, Campaing missions are sometimes long.

And what if your playing Slayer or something. Dontcha think it would be a neat aspect in Halo 3 if you can play a map either at morning, noon, dusk, or midnight, along with different weather conditions


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  • 07.21.2006 3:50 PM PDT
Subject: *Time Of The Day Changes As You Play* :Thoughts Comments Ideas
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Do you guys think that the time in which you play is random, so that it could be morning, noon, dusk, or midnight is a good idea?

  • 07.21.2006 3:55 PM PDT
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i like this but wat i really want is weather that changes i think taht would be awesome

  • 07.21.2006 3:57 PM PDT
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Instead of Time of day changes Have Some Multiplayer maps have "Twilight"/"Sunny" .

Night would be Dark Twilight is just right and sunny was always in the Halo Mp maps.

Also have some Weather on MultiPlayer Maps Like Rain and Snow!

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  • 07.21.2006 3:58 PM PDT
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Comments and Ideas how to make it better please

  • 07.21.2006 3:58 PM PDT
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it's cool, i mean very cool to have different times of days, but not changing as you play so it's random Ex you play zanzibar, team slayer, dusk, rainy so thats your map settings, it's raining , dusky, and it's a slayer. but having tie go faster like you can have 3 days during one game isn't realistic nor really enjoyable..

  • 07.21.2006 3:59 PM PDT

Different weather patterns and times of day would be a nice addition, however, I don't think the day should change as you play, as most matches only last about 5 min.

  • 07.21.2006 3:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: x L MoNeY x
Instead of Time of day changes Have Some Multiplayer maps have "Twilight"/"Sunny" .

Night would be Dark Twilight is just right and sunny was always in the Halo Mp maps.

Also have some Weather on MultiPlayer Maps Like Rain and Snow!


Should It be random, or a cycle. And should the Weather change in game, or should it start with one type of weather and stay the same for the whole game??

  • 07.21.2006 4:01 PM PDT
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i dont think day change would be to hard to do
but there could be soem problems with weather changes

then again i dont know i dont know how to make a game least of all have the money

  • 07.21.2006 4:02 PM PDT
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It shouldn't be Random, It wont work Alot of MultiPlayer games have a time limit of 12-15 minutes, The Earth must be one crazy Drunk B**** if it Changed weather and Time within 15 minutes.

  • 07.21.2006 4:03 PM PDT
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That could be kind of cool, however, day and night changes gameplay drastically.. It wouldn't be very fun to play levels during night, that were meant for day, or at least a lighter condition.

  • 07.21.2006 4:04 PM PDT
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Twlight/Sunny settings for Day time on MP maps

and Rain/Snow Settings for Weather on MP Maps that makes much more sense!

  • 07.21.2006 4:05 PM PDT
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What about cloudy and sunny, if would be really neat if one minute the sun is shinning and there is a glare, then a cloud passes over the sun and the glare is gone and the map is a little darker, then the cloud passes the sun and the sun is shinning again.

  • 07.21.2006 4:11 PM PDT
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Well sunny is on almost every Halo 1 and 2 Map. Cloudy Will not Work, Your gonna get soo much Complaints " I cant see this Sux"


Twlight/Sunnny
Rain/Snow


Its Reasonable and Doable!

  • 07.21.2006 4:16 PM PDT
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The sun would be like the in Halo 2. But if a cloud passes over, it should be darker for the time the cloud is blocking the sun

  • 07.21.2006 4:21 PM PDT
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Any Thing like this would be amazing and just what the campaign could use in many scenarios since fights will be on halos in outspace which = lots of different lighting and condiditons.

  • 07.21.2006 5:49 PM PDT

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Great idea.

  • 07.21.2006 7:22 PM PDT
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Hate to burst your bubble but this has said before a billion times (I think I was the one that started this whole idea, so don't blame me).

The main jist of it is that the weather and time of day would actually effect the gameplay. Say a rain storm erupts... Warthogs skid on the street. Puddles grow everywhere. Spartans and Elites splash through them. Visibility is reduced. Clouds cover the sun or moon. And so on.

As for time, one could have the option of setting the time on a gametype to the 360 host clock, interface it with the Bungie offices at Redmond, or speed up the passage of time (Oblivion did it to where 1 minute in the real world was about 15 minutes in game). The last option would be great for having a map that you have to deal with going into sunset or sunrise and would add a revolutionary new dimension to the game (and could open the possibility for a real-time machinima).

Types of Weather (has to be region-specific, snow can't occur in a desert):

Rain
Snow
Sleet
Hail (hits by large chunks bring your shields down a sliver)
Wind (Effects bullet physics if at high intensity)

  • 07.21.2006 8:23 PM PDT
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what i've alwasys thought about is playing blood gulch in the middle of the night and you can't see two feet in front of you and theres no shooting cause no one can see each other when all of a sudden "bam" a tank shot rips through the night and all h3ll breaks loose as return firing BR shots light up the night and before i can do anything about i realized i just
-BLAM- my pants. thats my frickin' vision

  • 07.21.2006 8:51 PM PDT
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They should put a system in the game that it reads the time and date from the Xbox360 and put and have the maps change from night to day depending what time it is. but this would only work for split screen or system link because in live if ur in the us and your playing someone from china that wouldnt work. they should also have an option to pick your desired setting.

  • 07.21.2006 8:54 PM PDT
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It should only be part of the MP though because the weather is a part of the story most of the time.

  • 07.21.2006 9:35 PM PDT
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Ok dude seriously, you just completely stole my idea that i have posted quite a few times, i even posted it for an idea for Halo 2 all that time ago... but no joy.

... So yes i think it would be great, but next time, dont stelal my ideas... it makes me lonely :'(

  • 07.21.2006 10:02 PM PDT
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I think that would be a great addition to the game. I would love to be able to choose a weather variant in multiplayer matches. Also if it effected gameplay, for Ex. in snow you could follow someones footprints in a game were there are no radars. Or rain would make vehicle controls more touchy so you may spin out of control and flip a warthog, could stop those that just like to run everyone over in a multiplayer match(although I have to admit, I have done that sometimes, it is extremely fun if not fair). Plus I would love to use the night vision mode of the sniper rifle like in the first halo's sniper level(I don't know the name of the level off the top of my head).

  • 07.21.2006 10:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: GoRgiNaSo
They should put a system in the game that it reads the time and date from the Xbox360 and put and have the maps change from night to day depending what time it is. but this would only work for split screen or system link because in live if ur in the us and your playing someone from china that wouldnt work. they should also have an option to pick your desired setting.


They could just improve upon the Oblivion model for time... or use their own. It wouldn't be that hard and would eliminate the need for pesky coding to the 360's clock... although that could and should also be an option.

  • 07.21.2006 10:51 PM PDT
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maybe a multiplayer map
the shadows on the halo move and the sun and it gives the level the feel as though the ring were spinning. Clouds move in the sky. rains so often, lightning strikes take out your shield, and wind physics can push over warthogs and ghosts and spectres.

  • 07.21.2006 10:53 PM PDT

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