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Posted by: trusteddarkness1
notice in the screenshot where the sparton is holding the sparton laser he has the glove from the halo 2 armor


yeah there are two hands and guns, one is in the helmet and the athers are the real hands and guns!

[Edited on 11/24/2006]

  • 11.24.2006 9:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: patato chip
Theres also no mention of the wraith either.But that doesn't mean that it's not going to be there.Give um time to release the info.
Posted by: Z0ero
no mention of the scorpion!?! did it get scrapped? wuts the deal guys?



Umm yea they did mention the wraith they said in Valhalla that 2 mongooses, a warhog, a banshee and a wraith are going to be at each base... Actually read the update before posting.

  • 11.24.2006 9:35 PM PDT

You say goodbye, and I say good riddance.

Posted by: Pequeno C

Umm yea they did mention the wraith they said in Valhalla that 2 mongooses, a warhog, a banshee and a wraith are going to be at each base... Actually read the update before posting.


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  • 11.24.2006 9:50 PM PDT
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

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Posted by: ThePuMan
I was very impressed with all of the pics, however there was one thing that is really disturbing me.

If you take a look at the third pic (snowbound), and you look at the white spartan (the one by the frag grenade blast) who's jumping in the air while shooting his assault rifle, you see that the bullets coming off of the assault rifle aren't in line with the actual weapon.

The assault rifle is pointing towards the ground at a gentle angle, while the stream of bullets themselves are at an angle that seem to be going towards the green spartan. At first, I thought that the bullets themselves are coming from the smg that the green spartan is wielding, but smg bullets aren't tracers, and they don't leave that yellowish line that the AR bullets leave. Also the white spartan's AR is firing while the green spartan's smg is not.

Will this be fixed, because I've noticed the same things in both of the other halos, where the stream of bullets appear to move at a different direction than from the weapon itself.


Don't be criticizing these screen so much. I doubt these are complete, glitch-free multiplayer maps. It's only pre-alpha.


  • 11.24.2006 11:28 PM PDT
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)


Hm...

Even in Halo 2 screen shots from long ago, we see the Spartans shields flicker in multiplayer.

But in these Halo 3 shots, I don't see any projectile of any sort hitting Mjolnir armour.



  • 11.24.2006 11:40 PM PDT

Scotland Indapendance 1st.
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Posted by: Pontes
NEW EASTER EGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unlike the million repeated easter eggs have a look at the RED VS BLUE joke in the first piture on the warthogs back tire. It reads PUMA STORM, a joke of RVB calling the hog the PUMA


Also yes I am the first to mention this :P


I believe somebody else mentioned it near the begining of this disscusion.Unless that was you,you've come in second place.No offense.


Yea I know but since I never saw a reply to it I thought that it was unknoticed and since I love looking for easter eggs all the time and was the first person to knotice that egg and what it was doing there , as you know RVB calling the warthog the Puma, Chupathingy, or Lrv. I just wanted to brand my name with it.

Because In halo 3 I think that online multy is all the people want, I have asked around and as far as I am told, nobody cares about halo 3's story mode, they just want to play online, and look for eggs. so I hope there is plenty of eggs and online game action, but I do not care about the story.

  • 11.25.2006 12:08 AM PDT
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well i hate bungie they can't even get the cheaters of here they better have a dam better way of kicking dam moders of here and even off the halo3 if i see one dam moder i will take the game and burn it and never play anthing that bungie make for there games ..
IF you have the time plz kick this guy off and more if them that mod ok ..
Here a name you can start with haha get ( own3d kick )him ok do use that play this game fare ok if not i will start makeing vidz and putting it on my place and show that your team at bungie can't do anything right so FIX IT thanks ..

  • 11.25.2006 12:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Chief333
It will look better than Gears of War I bet! If it doesn't...omg I will probaly set fire to Bungie...just kidding!


the gears of war screenshots rom E3 05 look even better than these screenshot.i am worrying right now.just look at the graas in the screenshot,completely sucks,come on! this is next-gen,can we see real grass.can bungie deliver their promises ? why can't they just give u something that looks like the e3 trailer.

  • 11.25.2006 12:41 AM PDT

You say goodbye, and I say good riddance.

What do ya know,I wasn't black listed.Cool.Ok,back on suject.They probably have the hi-res grass installed by now.As for Bungie not releasing anything that looks as good as the E3 trailer,that could be because it's still so very much in development.I think that they said that even the newly released campaine shot,is still undergoing visual treatment.(not in those words,but they said it.)In other words,maybe it's not together enough,(hi-res vs. low-res in a single frame)that it just,well,looks kinda off.Anyway,hope it all starts coming together soon.I wanna here a bit more about the campaine.Can't wait to see how halo ends.-tear forms in eye-

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Posted by: Chief333
It will look better than Gears of War I bet! If it doesn't...omg I will probaly set fire to Bungie...just kidding!


the gears of war screenshots rom E3 05 look even better than these screenshot.i am worrying right now.just look at the graas in the screenshot,completely sucks,come on! this is next-gen,can we see real grass.can bungie deliver their promises ? why can't they just give u something that looks like the e3 trailer.

  • 11.25.2006 1:02 AM PDT

You say goodbye, and I say good riddance.

Oh yah,I do see the puma on the wort hog.It's pretty cool.Thanks for pointing it out.

  • 11.25.2006 1:03 AM PDT
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bungie has to at least give us something that looks like the e3 trailer to be considered successful in terms of next-gen graphics,anything less than that is unacceptable to be next-gen.and people out there expect more than that because it is HALO 3 !,we expect bungie to make use of the xbox 360 hardware to the fullest to make halo 3 perfect.not to forget the audio and physics,compelling story,enhanced gameplay.................expectation is really really high for halo 3.people expect this game to be the biggest of 2007 and to be better than any other game in every aspect from technical to storyline to gameplay.not only because it is halo 3 but it is the final one.

nintendo successfully created the best zelda game of all-time with twillight princess,why not bungie make the greatest game of all-time?

if the final game looks like those screenshots,i just don't see why ppl should buy a 360 to play this game.

  • 11.25.2006 1:07 AM PDT

You say goodbye, and I say good riddance.

What a game really comes down to is the gameplay,not the graphics.Bungie stated quite clearly before they released these screens that most of what you see is placeholder.I.E the grass,water,even perhaps the partical effects and explosions as well.Why can't you people comprehend this?

Ever seen the unfinished CGI effects for films?Same thing.Hell,it's like judging the taste of a sandwhitch before its been finished.You can't.Not every thing has been but into place.Not all of the dressings have been applied.Perhaps a few surprise pieces of cheese will be added just before completion.SAme goes with halo 3.Minus the cheese.Everything will be amazing.To the best of Bungies ability.Human beings are not perfect.Thus the creations we make can not be so.

If you go into halo 3 expecting everything to meet your standards,you will be disappointed.That's the current problem with the gaming industry.People allow themselves to overhype the games they play.I already know that halo 3 is going to be freaken aswome on all aspects.We've heard a sample of the music.We've seen a tid bit of the multiplayer.We all know the general idea for the story.It's going to be aswome.Wether or not you're one of those picky gamers,that critisizes everything.Always forgeting to complenment the good.

You forgot to mention the hi-res,emensly detailed spartan models.How good the campaige screen shot looked,which looks better than the E3 trailer,to me.And how amazing the water effects sound.I know seeing is believing,but we all know how much of a week spot KP has for video game water.I trust him.After all,he works for bungie and gets to see it everyday.(lucky bastard)

p.s they said what we saw in the E3 trailer is the bar for actual gameplay.Not what it WILL look like in the end.

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  • 11.25.2006 2:01 AM PDT
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I like thinking to myself that I did catch that as a placeholder. That one with the Spartan Laser and Valhalla is my current wallpaper on my lappy, and I <3 it, even if the gauntlet is a bit out of place.

Further, before I check out for the night, I just want to comment that we must all be stark raving lunatics for clamoring to see a rendered commercial for a product we are most likely all going to buy, on launch day to boot!

Have a great Saturday, BNet forum guys and gals.

  • 11.25.2006 2:02 AM PDT

You say goodbye, and I say good riddance.

As of writing this,there has been no weekly update....i'm starting to get worried about that.Did Bungie say something about not having one for awhile,but I missed it?

  • 11.25.2006 2:07 AM PDT
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Just a hypothesis but....

I know that a couple of weapons were not mentioned in this text (assault rifle, which we know to exist) and the brute shot.

However a more glaring ommission was the rocket launcher. Could it be that the rocket launcher is due to be replaced by the spartan laser. The text notes that there is a 3 second lock on feature (similar to the Halo 2 rocket launcher) and that you have to keep tracking your target whilst it is moving (again nothing too far away from what we had to do with the rocket. Furthermore, we know that Valhalla is an update version of Blood Gulch/Coagulation and the text also states that the Spartan Laser now respwans in the centre of the map....a place previously occupied by the rocket launcher.

To me this sounds like a weapon that does everything that the rocket launcher would do, would be interested to see what happens there.

  • 11.25.2006 3:24 AM PDT
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i just wanna say, that i have the same concerns about graphics but i think they are pre alpha i mean its not all finished it was for testing purposes and to giv ena idea of gameplay and gameplay looks, and by the sounds of it from the oxm mag i read the campaign is set to be an all out war which sounds great! and graphics i think we should just not consider these pics as anything yet, just example of gameplay not graphics you look at the e3 trailer and i think that is what we will get.
also people sorta saying wheres this and that ...why question you know its going to be in it everything it had and more i bet, just because it wasnt in this multiplayer play for the magazines it doesnt mean it wont be there, its still early days wait and see how it turns out.
just to bring back graphics again, the campaign pic looks a lot better, sorta reminds me of similar style of half life 2 but gears of war is i Think going to be graphically better no matter but i still think halo 3 when finished will be graphically impressive in the end i wouldnt let these shots bug you with the way the detail is done..i have faith in bungie to deliver something in all areas for now, i wish i had some finished pics of the game but we dont yet. i think qwe should just wait and judge for ourselves when we play a more finished beta version of halo 3 in spring.

  • 11.25.2006 4:38 AM PDT
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XBOX 360 is (obviously) a far superior system than its previous version. The graphics on the games coming out now are really starting to use this machine to its full potential. So, I therefore have to ask you why these screenshots look SO much like halo 2. Am I supposed to be impressed because there is a gun on the Spartan's waist? Or that you "pimped" the ghost? Im still holding out that the graphics will look good on the high-def....but is this really the best you can do with the 360???

  • 11.25.2006 5:47 AM PDT

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit It.

what about the glimpse of the campaign mode? (sorry if its already been answered)...

  • 11.25.2006 6:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: patato chip
What a game really comes down to is the gameplay,not the graphics.Bungie stated quite clearly before they released these screens that most of what you see is placeholder.I.E the grass,water,even perhaps the partical effects and explosions as well.Why can't you people comprehend this?

Ever seen the unfinished CGI effects for films?Same thing.Hell,it's like judging the taste of a sandwhitch before its been finished.You can't.Not every thing has been but into place.Not all of the dressings have been applied.Perhaps a few surprise pieces of cheese will be added just before completion.SAme goes with halo 3.Minus the cheese.Everything will be amazing.To the best of Bungies ability.Human beings are not perfect.Thus the creations we make can not be so.

If you go into halo 3 expecting everything to meet your standards,you will be disappointed.That's the current problem with the gaming industry.People allow themselves to overhype the games they play.I already know that halo 3 is going to be freaken aswome on all aspects.We've heard a sample of the music.We've seen a tid bit of the multiplayer.We all know the general idea for the story.It's going to be aswome.Wether or not you're one of those picky gamers,that critisizes everything.Always forgeting to complenment the good.

You forgot to mention the hi-res,emensly detailed spartan models.How good the campaige screen shot looked,which looks better than the E3 trailer,to me.And how amazing the water effects sound.I know seeing is believing,but we all know how much of a week spot KP has for video game water.I trust him.After all,he works for bungie and gets to see it everyday.(lucky bastard)

p.s they said what we saw in the E3 trailer is the bar for actual gameplay.Not what it WILL look like in the end.


what the hell are you talking about? the e3 trailer did not show any gameplay footage,how can it set a bar for real gameplay if it did not show any gameplay.

even if bungie did not promise anything but the screenshots still look horrible,you can't deny that.

  • 11.25.2006 6:11 AM PDT
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posted by allyflameblade
what about the glimpse of the campaign mode? (sorry if its already been answered)...


actually i read in the oxm magazine that they were shown about 10 seconds of campaign gamplay and from the description sounded fantastic, but unfortuantaly i cant remember exactly what was said but it sounded very explosive and warsome im sure we will be shown this in time i think.

  • 11.25.2006 6:13 AM PDT
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what the hell are you talking about? the e3 trailer did not show any gameplay footage,how can it set a bar for real gameplay if it did not show any gameplay.

even if bungie did not promise anything but the screenshots still look horrible,you can't deny that


man im writing a lot today i should stop O_o
you are right man the screenshots do look bad, there is more detail in everything but only if you look at it up close. there bad and have caused a lot of expectations to be smashed. but i wouldnt get so worked up yet, wait and see and hopefully im sure bungie will come through. but on the E3 trailer they did say this is what the engine can do so im sure it will do what they shown when it gets closer to completion. remember that multiplayer was made playable and was an extremly small taster for us to suck our teeth in. i presume they might of even left a lot of stuff out because it was only a test and mightr of interfeared with the testing. who knows eh? lets just wait and hope.

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  • 11.25.2006 6:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: ThePuMan
I was very impressed with all of the pics, however there was one thing that is really disturbing me.

If you take a look at the third pic (snowbound), and you look at the white spartan (the one by the frag grenade blast) who's jumping in the air while shooting his assault rifle, you see that the bullets coming off of the assault rifle aren't in line with the actual weapon.

The assault rifle is pointing towards the ground at a gentle angle, while the stream of bullets themselves are at an angle that seem to be going towards the green spartan. At first, I thought that the bullets themselves are coming from the smg that the green spartan is wielding, but smg bullets aren't tracers, and they don't leave that yellowish line that the AR bullets leave. Also the white spartan's AR is firing while the green spartan's smg is not.

Will this be fixed, because I've noticed the same things in both of the other halos, where the stream of bullets appear to move at a different direction than from the weapon itself.


There are some possible explenations for this I think.

The white spartan seems to be firing at the green spartan in the air. While firing, the white spartan could be switching target, so the bullets were shot in a straight line towards the green one, and since another bullet hadnt been fired while he was changing target, the bullets that were fired seem to be going out of the gun in a straight line that isnt aligned to where the gun is pointing.

Thats what I think of it anyway. It could just be a glitch, which Im sure theyd fix before relasing the game as they seem to be paying attention to the smallest of details.

  • 11.25.2006 7:45 AM PDT