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Sigh of relive!
The Battle Rifle and Assualt Rifle war is over!
Now everybody is happy and they are both hopefully in the game!

But, no bots for those of us who are uncapable of getting live, dam, that just put a hurting on me......) :

  • 11.23.2006 8:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: ace429k
did you guys notice it says out of ammo in the last picture by the blue mans shoulder? its very faint. pretty cool
Did you notice you're the 20th person to say that?

Thats exactly the stuff I'm talking about..

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  • 11.23.2006 8:21 AM PDT
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Nice update, it was most tasty. You said "Covenant batteries", correct? Are those just another type of fusion core...or can we finally recharge plasma weaponry? 0_o

  • 11.23.2006 8:22 AM PDT
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That's the spirit.

  • 11.23.2006 8:54 AM PDT

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They dig up our hills for there roads!

What I saw almost first glance was an easter egg stuck in by you sneeks. In the first screenshot, If you look at the wheel far back of the warthot it reads "Puma Storm" or something close but it does say Puma. A reference to Red Vs Blue if anyone wants to know. so its Puma something, and the numbers 1987 wich i do not get. anyway cool.

  • 11.23.2006 8:58 AM PDT

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Posted by: darkzeal
Nice update, it was most tasty. You said "Covenant batteries", correct? Are those just another type of fusion core...or can we finally recharge plasma weaponry? 0_o


I don't think that they would annouce something as gameplay-alterting as making the plasma weapons have swappable batteries in a passing comment.

I think it is the OTHER type of battery. ie, a set of big guns that shoot stuff far away. And these are covenent ones, hence, 'covenant batteries.'

  • 11.23.2006 9:19 AM PDT
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I already saw these in a magazine. They are cool

  • 11.23.2006 9:50 AM PDT
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Ha! Ive found it. I dont know if this has been mentioned or not yet, but the Elites will definitely be in multiplayer. Look on the third picture, Snowbound, just under the plasma grenade explosion.

Is that a splotch of purple blood? It sure does look like it. Spartans don't bleed purple... Oh wait... Elites do...

  • 11.23.2006 10:09 AM PDT
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Nice screen shots!!

  • 11.23.2006 10:16 AM PDT
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one thing that i think is important... will fusion cores respawn?

  • 11.23.2006 10:54 AM PDT
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How about BR and AR coexsisting in the same game, that would be cool, along maybe, a support gun and or a Gernade Launcher.

  • 11.23.2006 11:21 AM PDT
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Did anyone notice that the spartans had weapons slung a cross their backs? I bet that's their secondary weapon so when u switch, it doesn't just disappear.

  • 11.23.2006 11:25 AM PDT
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Nice update! :-)

  • 11.23.2006 12:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: thetealone
Ha! Ive found it. I dont know if this has been mentioned or not yet, but the Elites will definitely be in multiplayer. Look on the third picture, Snowbound, just under the plasma grenade explosion.

Is that a splotch of purple blood? It sure does look like it. Spartans don't bleed purple... Oh wait... Elites do...
If you look at the snow around the blood it has a bluish glow which is obviously from the Plasma grenade. Now this might not be right but I learned that Blue + Red = Purple. Its red, human blood but with the blue glow it looks purple. Game over.

  • 11.23.2006 12:11 PM PDT
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Elites have to return and the Arbiter, must be in Halo 3, maybe not playable (witch would suck) but, in there somewhere.

[Edited on 11/23/2006]

  • 11.23.2006 12:24 PM PDT
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I FOUND AN EASTER EGG!!
if you look at the 1st screenshot, and you use picture viewer to look at it, zoom in to the left of the spiked missle thing, and what looked like smoke is is actually little pictures of things that i cant make out,but there IS a picture of a face!!! not sure what this means but yea i thought i would post it and see what you guys make of it.

  • 11.23.2006 12:40 PM PDT
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[snicker] Mongi. [/snicker]

  • 11.23.2006 12:45 PM PDT

I think for the Snowbound boundaries it would be funny if giant snow men came out and ate you or something like that. Totally unrelated to Halo though. What about getting stuck by a sticky 'nade as soon as you go out of bounds? Or better yet, getting stuck with DOZENS of sticky 'nades. Now that would be cool.

  • 11.23.2006 1:07 PM PDT

You can run... You can hide... But...No matter what...I will kill you...

Posted by: xXxNavySEALxXx
I FOUND AN EASTER EGG!!
if you look at the 1st screenshot, and you use picture viewer to look at it, zoom in to the left of the spiked missle thing, and what looked like smoke is is actually little pictures of things that i cant make out,but there IS a picture of a face!!! not sure what this means but yea i thought i would post it and see what you guys make of it.
hey the missle thing looks like a new grenade that the red/pink color guy through

  • 11.23.2006 1:43 PM PDT

You say goodbye, and I say good riddance.

Posted by: DANO555666
um dude those screenshots do look bad, take it from someone who knows (i am a texture artist [skiner] for the halo custom edition map team, CMT) and those screenshots are terrible. The shadow of the mongoose has pixelation, the grass texture tiles incrdibly bad, where the cliffs line up with the snow at the top is horrid, though these are pre alpha, I know these will get better.

Though, one thing I am VERY concerned about is the Spartan lasers first person model. That thing needs some serious loving, It's way too low poly, the texture is bland and lacks detail. T
he spartans, though the same model as Halo 2, is alot higher poly, more detail is actually modelled into the biped, rather than relying on normal/bump mapping to give detail.
For a 360 title, I'm expecting the textures for everything to be no smaller than 1024², the biped textures im hoping to be larger than 2048². Also about the very hi res screenshot of the halo 3 spartan, shown to us on the Happy Halo day(twas a good day :P) I think the model is way too shiny. It seems to shine like greese in places that would not normally shine i.e. the rubber parts of the armour. He looks a bit oily and greasy looking. Though I can tell by the detail put into him (hopefully no detail maps) that the rest of the content will scream sexy by teh time of the game shipping.

Also, a lovely addition would be REAL grass. It's the last in the series, the only one on 360, I would hate to see it have the same grass as the previous games. I'd love to see some mongii tearing through the fields of Valhalla, watching the grass part way and mud flick up as it goes <3 Would surely be full of win.

All of this said, it's a pre alpha build. I wasn't expecting finished game content, but please PLEASE fix the spartan laser 1st person, it doesn't look too far from Halo 1 graphics to me. spartan lasers and spikers are also currently being made for custom maps in halo Custom Edition, and they actually look BETTER than yours (wich at the moment is quite sad) so please fix it, though, I'm sure you guys are aware of it, and It's just a rough skin thrown together.

I wish the bungie doods all the luck for the future :D


Evry thing you said,is exactly what I said,except you chose to be negative about it.What the hell do you expect the spartan lazer to look like.It would be freaken retarded if they made every weapon have the same "war torn" look.The deep insisive grooves my look cool,but,as in gears of war,the same graphical bump map effect on everything gets old.It looked perfectly fine to me.Would you really just not buy the game because they chose not to add mega details to all the weapons?no.You'd stil buy it.Love it.Play it till you passed out.

Look at oblivion,for instence.It is at such an undyingly large scale,that handcarving everything is impossible.Remeber the scale that halo 3s gonna take place on?Visible geomotry up to 18 game miles away?Remeber?that's freaken huge.Not only do they have to accoplish this,but have to have eeeeeeeeverything hi-res.Everything.The spartans.Elites.The flood.The grunts.Drones.Brutes.Trees.Rockes.And the very ground you walk on.Give um a break if not everything is perfect.Especially in a pre-alpha.

As for the spartan looking greasy.You don't know what materials the chiefs armor is made of.Or at least how those materials would react under certain light sorces.Perhaps it's hyper shiny because he just came out of water.Or was riding in a worthog that ran throgh some puddles?Or maybe he was freaken bord and decided to dump cooking oil all over his body?Ya won't know until 2007.

  • 11.23.2006 1:49 PM PDT

My excitment level just shot out the roof! Thanks for the update!

  • 11.23.2006 2:09 PM PDT
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How about Halo War and Peter Jackson's Halo? Are you guys really keeping eyes on Ensemble and Wingnut? I hope so...

  • 11.23.2006 2:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: thetealone
Ha! Ive found it. I dont know if this has been mentioned or not yet, but the Elites will definitely be in multiplayer. Look on the third picture, Snowbound, just under the plasma grenade explosion.

Is that a splotch of purple blood? It sure does look like it. Spartans don't bleed purple... Oh wait... Elites do...


This isn't even the complete game yet. I'm sure there's still a little bugs here and there in
pre-alpha.





[Edited on 11/23/2006]

  • 11.23.2006 3:12 PM PDT
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One quick note: Coils around the sniper spawn on the snow level are bound to trigger the following XBL conversation *between teammates*:

"Hey, no going after the sniper! I WANT THE SNIPER, [expletive]!" *bang* *BOOOOM*

I can understand putting them in areas where snipers like to hide, especially towers. It makes the high perches treacherous enough to discourage camping. Putting them by a weapon simply to guard a unique weapon, however, only encourages teamkilling to get the kewl weaponz. Unless you see the cave as a viable sniper point, I'd find a new home for the fusion cores.

  • 11.23.2006 3:27 PM PDT