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by the way we are still wanting you to send your map ideas end, keep em coming!

  • 05.20.2004 9:39 PM PDT
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Okay guys. It's 2:00 in the morning (Central Time), and i've done some awesome island making in bryce. Im gonna use them in Aquinox. So far, I've decided to design Centrifuge, Desolation, Aquinox. Others will be done as well. Many others, including some of my new ideas, as well as some of the awesome post you all have contributed. Be sure to collaborate with me when I am working on your design if you want it to reflect your imagination. Give me hand drawings, computer art, ANYTHING. But as I said before--2 in the morning, and i got work in just a few hours. When I get off work, I'll return to this post to see whats new, and to let you in on any new ideas of my own.

  • 05.20.2004 11:57 PM PDT
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I've thought of another map,picture this.


There are two massive ships next to each other in the middle of the pacific, there are two gun turrets at the front and back of both ships and a sniper rifle on top of both ships i won't describe the inside of both ships because it would take to long but someone else can if they want.There are about 4 submarines next to each ship so you can go under water And have water fights and there are 4 jet boats with machine guns next to each ship.This map is massive ideal for 16 player. You can travel to islands and find scuba gear inside each ship so you can go diving there would be about 5 islands with special weapons on them and one island would be really big it would have the warthog,ATV,Scorpian etc.The big island would also have a big lookout tower with weapons inside and there would be a teleporter inside the lookout tower to teleport to and from the ships.This level might be a bit big for 4 player so you would be able to customize it from the menu.You would be able to bring the islands closer make the ships smaller and make the water shallower.

  • 05.21.2004 1:24 AM PDT
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Ok guys, I've had a full shift at work to come up with refining ideas for my "space dogfight" map I posted earlier. Here they are:

Name: Asteroid Field
Vehicles: Longsword and Banshee; Pelican and Covenant Dropship for troop transport

1. Two large asteroids will serve as the bases for each team

2. A large number of smaller asteroids will between the base asteroids. Each of these smaller asteroids will connect to each other via teleporters. Some asteroids will have teleoprters to several other asteroids while others may only have one or two.

3. You guessed it, that means a LOT of teleporters. Each teleporter will have a picture showing the layout of the entire map above or to the side of it indicating which asteroid you are on as well as which asteroid that particular teleporter will take you to. I got this idea from HaloPC where some teleporters have images next to them showing you where they go. Teleporters allow you to go from one base to the other on foot.

4. I mentioned before that this map will have normal gravity (while on foot) due to magnetic boots. Each asteroid will be a spheroid and you know what that means...if you run in a straight line, you'll eventually end up at your starting point. Talk about vertigo!!

5. This map is 3-dimensional...meaning that the asteroids can be either above, below or level with your relative position. Some of the larger asteroids can have craters and caves to hide in or at least provide some kind of cover.

6. This level is meant to emphasize space dogfights using Human Longswords and Covenant Banshees. Someone on foot can blow you out of flight if you are careless. Destroyed or "lost" vehicles will respawn at their respective base.

7. In space flight, there is no real "right-side-up" nor is there gravity. This means you will not fall if you let up on the thrust. There is, however, inertia (an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force) that you will have to account for when in flight. This also means you can be flying upside-down in relation to the target you are aiming at that is on foot.

8. Stationary guns will be at each base and spread liberally throughout the map on the other asteroids. This is to help balance against the firepower of those in flight.

9. The asteroids will not revolve but will remain stationary in relation to each other. I think it would be too hard to try to shoot at an airborne target while having to take into account the rotations of the asteroid you are standing on.

10. Smaller asteroids (IE meteors) will randomly fly through the map. These will take out those in flight and will kill those on foot if one impacts an asteroid and there are players in close proximity. Be vigilant!

That is all I can think of for now. Thoughts?

  • 05.21.2004 1:52 AM PDT
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nah...cant do...too many teleporters=laggy ..........pleus how can people fly longsword fighter?? they are huge fighters of doom.........Very good creative thinking but it wont work in the game.......too sophisticated...

  • 05.21.2004 2:07 AM PDT
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Well the general idea is great, though maybe not for Halo PC, but for xbox I would enjoy it. Eldar is right though how you could not have Longswords, there big space figters meant to take on phantoms (Those big Covie ships in the E3 trailer, brutes droppes out of them.)
But I'm guessing there will be a human version of the banshee, if not, give both teams banshees! Thanks for taking the time to think of a good idea and share it!

  • 05.21.2004 6:40 AM PDT
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For those wondering the winner of the contest is Nighthawk21, you all did great though.
Expect a real contest in the future.

  • 05.21.2004 6:45 AM PDT
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Glad to have more ideas pouring in this morning. I'm about to go to work for a little while, but don't think I won't have halo on the brain. I'm still thinking up maps! Also making some of you guys maps as well. You expect some of them by the end of the weekend!

  • 05.21.2004 10:24 AM PDT
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I know the Longsword is not a single fighter like the Banshee...but it was the best I could come up with on the spot in the way of a Human version of a flying fighter hehe. Just think of it this way...there will be Banshees and Human equivalents of Banshees :).

  • 05.21.2004 10:33 AM PDT
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Yes we understoood, at least I did. We need to make up a name for human banshees.

  • 05.21.2004 10:39 AM PDT
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I'd say maybe "Raptor". It would follow the same pattern of Human vehicles that have names. The Warthog, well, I'd have to go with RvB on this one and say it has "tusks" hehe. The Scorpion has a stinger (turret) and the Pelican is a transport. So following in this pattern, I think "Raptor" is acceptable since it is a "bird of prey".

  • 05.21.2004 11:03 AM PDT
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That is a good idea, plus I like the name

  • 05.21.2004 11:07 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Why change the longsword. You could change the covie air fighter to a seraph. That was the covenant small aircraft held on the carriers in the books.

  • 05.21.2004 12:12 PM PDT
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Just to let yall know, I really liked the contest results. I'm gonna work in close correlation with Littlefossie for the next contest. It probably won't be thread based, instead we'll make an entire website dedicated to the contest! We'll have a preset grading system on your ideas: continuity, good weapon placement, good power-up placement, good overall aesthetic quality, balance between advantages of each teams's base...etc. And don't feel like you wasted your ideas on this first contest, cause you can recycle them if you were the original creator. Modify them, make them better, or just come up with something new and unbelievably killtacular! Just know that the website we'll have all sorts of contests, and we will post up the brilliant winners, and honorable mentions on the website. You'll be able to explore it in an interactive 3D environment. Don't forget that sending in pictures to help show off your awesome idea will help us better judge your work! For now, just the pictures to MatrixAgent1984@yahoo.com

Keep 'em coming boys!

  • 05.21.2004 4:04 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Thats sweet. A website? Thats awsome. I wish i could come up with those awsome ideas cept im havin like a block lately. Im usually a little TOO creative. now im not creative enough. Still thats awsome that theres gonna be a website.

  • 05.21.2004 7:57 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

By the way NorthFace, I sent you a map of a new Prison level I designed. Its basically a large human prison with Walls surrounding it. Half has been taken over by the covenant and half is still humans.

  • 05.21.2004 9:16 PM PDT
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Dude...that picture rocks. That's exactly the type of thing I need when creating a level. Send more, as many more as possible because that was truly awesome!
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By the way NorthFace, I sent you a map of a new Prison level I designed. Its basically a large human prison with Walls surrounding it. Half has been taken over by the covenant and half is still humans.

  • 05.22.2004 12:47 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

I gotta find the scanner that goes to my computer. So far I just have my brothers but I dont want to keep bothering him. Im working on an overhead of the Prison.

  • 05.22.2004 5:52 AM PDT
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Awesome man...the sooner the better!
Posted by: Pink Menace
I gotta find the scanner that goes to my computer. So far I just have my brothers but I dont want to keep bothering him. Im working on an overhead of the Prison.

  • 05.22.2004 1:32 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

so hows the website coming along?

  • 05.23.2004 9:23 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Damn. I was hoping this thread would GET somewhere. o well

  • 05.24.2004 11:49 AM PDT
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Who's to say it won't! The website is coming at a snail's pace. You can expect it to be released before Halo 2. Anyways...just wondering if anyone has come up with more multiplayer madness?

  • 05.24.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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Oh...and by the way...crossfire is becoming a cool stage quickly. Already made the islands in bryce. TheLittleFossie sent me in the sketch, and it was just what I needed. I'm using the exact lines he made for the outline of the islands and there elevation. Next is a cool bridge. Oh...I also made a cool waterfall at the back of the island. If you scurry into the underground of the islands, you'll find a room on the inside of this waterfall. This is where you'll find your waterhogs. You just drive them straight out the waterfall! How cool is that...a very cool!

[Edited on 5/24/2004 1:35:15 PM]

  • 05.24.2004 1:31 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Thats awsome. I said this wont get anywhere only because nobody was posting. I wasnt sure if you had just said you were making the website then decided on a new project. I only auusmed this from some past expiriances. I am working on a sketch of an offshore oil rig thingy. Not sure what exactly its purpose is. Its gonna be cool tho because there are ledges he;d up by two thick steel cables. These cables however can be shot out, leaving only hinges holding up the balconies. The Spartans/Elites ½ ton armor would easily crush those causing the person standing on it to fall to the groung leaving him veunerable to shotgun or sniper fire. Also on the support beams for the platform there could be the energy sword. Mabye a helipad or something with a banshee/ human equivilant of one. Its looking awsome in the sketch.

  • 05.24.2004 5:19 PM PDT
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Do create those, they could be of use in the CrossFire stage!

  • 05.24.2004 7:56 PM PDT