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Ridonkulously good update!

  • 01.12.2007 4:58 PM PDT
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Cool stuff!!!! Exciting to hear about layers of geometry and plants growing on things.

Don't forget the primordial soup from which life originated: algae and fungus. If the designers can pull off algae and fungus ON TOP OF moss and lichen, then...whoa, that would be just plain neato. As long as plant life makes a squishy sound when I step on it, I am all for giving 2 out of the 3 cores to Audio.

  • 01.12.2007 5:00 PM PDT
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Very enjoyable update, Thumbs up for the grunt outtakes ;)

  • 01.12.2007 5:05 PM PDT

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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

You misunderstand. In every Halo 3 screenshot, there have been no "decorators". These are the trees, rocks, shubs, moss, etc. that make a place look real. Don't confuse them with the texture of the ground (the "painted on" look of the ground you've seened in the alpha screenshots).

Basically - the update explained one of the reasons why some of the screenshots you've seen so far look a little "barren"... the thing that makes them not barren hasn't been enabled before now. That, and the lighting wasn't final, the atmospherics weren't there, the sky wasn't really there, etc.
Posted by: liquid72895
i hear in the update the grass looks photorealistic but thats the prob it should look like actual grass not a photo of grass layed out on the floor

  • 01.12.2007 5:09 PM PDT

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The Grunt clip was very revealing because we are used to hearing it in-game, saying the usual grunt banter.

Giving us that little snip was a treat... letting us "feel" behind the glass if you will... almost like we are sitting in Marty's chair at the sound board.

Nice!

The text of the update, while informative and interesting... was lacking just a bit. However it is good to know that giving the fact that you guys have a lot more development time, you are implementing some destructive environments into the game.

Keep up the good work.

On a different note, I was laying in bed last night reading "Shooter" and I got to thinking about how popular Halo is.
I know that many will flame, but seriously, in my opinion, Halo 2 multiplayer is very close to being a perfect game.
Any improvement on that in Halo 3 is just going to be mind blowing.

But my main point being that... could you imagine a world without the success of Halo?
I sure can't.

  • 01.12.2007 5:10 PM PDT

Joe being Joe, I guess. : /

  • 01.12.2007 5:25 PM PDT

-KOS-

Great update, Bungie.

  • 01.12.2007 5:31 PM PDT

Zerogreenchief is eh pretty cool guy, eh trolls people and doesn't afraid of anything.

TREES AND SHRUBS FTW!
awww man that will make hide and seek games sooo much better. As long as i can hide in them.

Now ill be able to hide in plants like I do in Warlock and not have to run and find the biggest plant that actually covers my body yay!

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  • 01.12.2007 5:31 PM PDT

show us those demonstartions...

  • 01.12.2007 5:32 PM PDT
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Sweet, can't wait to make crop circles with some rockets.

  • 01.12.2007 5:36 PM PDT

Just remember... I keep it real...

It animates, for one thing. Wind blows it, and it’s affected by other things. Like explosions. In Halo 2, if you shoot (our admittedly very sparse) decorators with a rocket, they just sit there, glibly ignoring the explosion. Our new decorators are actually destructible. And they cast shadows, and can be lit correctly, like everything else in the game.

YES!...
And to the post above me. Hey Bungie, I want a level with grass so high they you have to get in a warthog and run over the grass... like real crop circles. Then with the smashed grass people can follow... nice... But I know you wont do it, but oh well....

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  • 01.12.2007 5:41 PM PDT
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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

Sounds like Joe has been reading the first thread in my signature and got jealous at all the attention the Marines are getting!

  • 01.12.2007 5:43 PM PDT

I don't mind Grunt antics, but I really hope they don't sound like that...speaking English like it's second nature. I'd rather the Covenant speak in their own tongue or so like they did in Halo:CE...with very few English words spoken or whatever.

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  • 01.12.2007 5:54 PM PDT

I got death star....death star.....

Great update.

  • 01.12.2007 6:04 PM PDT

Hey now that this is gonna have amazing graphics that blow our minds won't that also blow the minds of our 360's. Cause i still play halo on my 360 and that causes it to lag sometimes...especially when i play for players

  • 01.12.2007 6:06 PM PDT

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Hey now that this is gonna have amazing graphics that blow our minds won't that also blow the minds of our 360's. Cause i still play halo on my 360 and that causes it to lag sometimes...especially when i play for players

Because of the new hardware and different coding in the hardware, Halo:CE won't always play perfectly. I wish they'd make Conker playable on the 360 FFS!

  • 01.12.2007 6:12 PM PDT
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Yeah, the 360 is mostly designed for 360 games and runs an emulator to run orginal xbox games, hence the lagging.

  • 01.12.2007 6:13 PM PDT
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That outtake made me laugh my ass off. Great update!

  • 01.12.2007 6:14 PM PDT

that is true but i have had many glitch problems in many 360 games like GRAW GoW and CoD2....i just hope halo 3 wont have as much glitches as those games and as halo 2

  • 01.12.2007 6:20 PM PDT
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we need behaviors


bahhh, get out of here...



even though it was like 20 sec, it was pretty cool

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  • 01.12.2007 6:57 PM PDT
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I wonder how campaign is going. How many levels in it and is it long, not short like gears, but nice and long. By the way, grunt voices are o.k. funny, needs a little more work.

respect, peace out
Zaeet

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  • 01.12.2007 7:08 PM PDT

Sounds like the game will have us killing ourselfs if we don't have HD. I just can think now, riding in my little mongoose friend, speeding through the water and grass so crisp and clean...

Anyway cool update, and sounds like you guys had fun taping the grunt voices

  • 01.12.2007 7:09 PM PDT
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a new cool multiplayer map, with tall movable grass; "fields".


that would be cool with warthogs and mongooses!

  • 01.12.2007 7:12 PM PDT
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pfhh seahawks suck
GO BEARS!!!!

  • 01.12.2007 7:13 PM PDT
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Sounds pretty damn cool... can't wait until release :(

  • 01.12.2007 7:44 PM PDT