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When oes the legendary Map Pack go free? I was sad to miss the double XP weekend, because im cheap and i dont know how long my reinterest on halo will last.
 
Domino Theory said:
Right now.

PMz
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Dirtbag 504 said:
There are times when historical accuracies are important, and times when they can be entirely overlooked in favor of a more personal flair. This would be one of those times.
Way to deflate that one Wu! :lol
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You had your Sacred Ring all ready for blast off, but in came Louis Wu rocking the Halcyon-class knowledge to shut you down. Now all that's left of your dreams is dust and echoes.

Or whatevs.
 
urk said:
You had your Sacred Ring all ready for blast off, but in came Louis Wu rocking the Halcyon-class knowledge to shut you down. Now all that's left of your dreams is dust and echoes.

Or whatevs.
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He's still got his hair.

And the memory of that waitress
 
Cocopjojo said:
:lol

Something is going on at HBO.

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=893768

Not sure what's happening, but it looks like something's been leaked, possibly via the stations at Bungie's PAX booth.
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Yeah I saw that, it appears to be some map names based off skulls/achievments?
If i understand it correctly. Nothing terribly juicy.

Nothing explaining this new foundry-esque level from the video.

citadel = colossus ? Don't know why I get that vibe from the name
 
Summation:
-New Achievements for other medals (Splatter spree, sword spree,
extermination, killtacular, etc), but attainable in social and ranked.
-New Skulls, named after the new maps (which apparently are Assembly, Heretic
and Citadel)
-Vidmaster Achievements, some of which yield no gamerscore.
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New achievements sound awesome! :D

New skulls named after new maps? Heretic? Citadel? WTF?
 
Cocopjojo said:
:lol

Something is going on at HBO.

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=893768

Not sure what's happening, but it looks like something's been leaked, possibly via the stations at Bungie's PAX booth.
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I heard someone in the booth talking about new achievements - this was the 1.2 build with AU2 after all - but I never saw it and just assumed it was rumors/speculation.

I'd love to see new ones, but I'm not getting my hopes up until they are official. Only two weeks until AU2 comes out, anyways.
 
Oh god, more achievements? No fucking thanks, those things have done enough damage to the online experience as it is.
 
TDG said:
Oh god, more achievements? No fucking thanks, those things have done enough damage to the online experience as it is.
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Maybe they want to make Recon unlockable with these new achievements so that all the little kids stop bothering them. :P
 
Trasher said:
So where are all these pictures that people are getting this information from? Have they already been deleted or something?
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They were deleted by mods on Bungie.net

Someone must have downloaded them and can re-host em?
 
Looks like even Wu is pulling the pics from HBO, so I really don't think that Bungie wants them out there.
 
Cocopjojo said:
I can't even begin to imagine what this could mean. What they could do.
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And it is for this reason that I'm setting my expectations at ZERO.

If the past few weeks have proved anything with the rampant speculation about the two award videos, it's that information without the proper context leads to speculation leads to crushing disappointment.
 
GhaleonEB said:
One note about the default set up: I didn't notice any sniper rifle on the map. The upper levels provide for some very long sight lines - at least as long as on say, Guardian. But like Standoff a single sniper rifle could dominate in the right hands because of the visibility in the spans between bases. I was really glad not to run into it.

As for the grav hammer - I never saw anyone get more than one or two kills with it. That center structure is a grenade magnet, and whoever had it kept getting obliterated by frags.
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Metroidvania said:
The Grav Hammer.

It should not be there.

With the amount of corners that someone can hide behind and just camp, I see it as a bit...gimmicky.
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EazyB said:
Although the map is graced with AR starts, I often found myself getting low on ammunition. I wouldn't mind if they sprinkled some more ARs here and there.

The layout of the map makes it very unique in that certain gametypes that one would usually detest on other maps look to work great on Purple Reign. The two bases make the map perfect for VIP and judging from the segmented nature of the map, territories and land grab are a must. Lastly, the covenant aesthetics scream for a Covies variant with ghosts galore.
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Okay, thanks for the replies! :D Sounds like really good map.

And I would be all for more skulls. Going around in the Halo 3 campaign and finding skulls with a friend or two was PURE fun. New or different (silly) achievements would be fantastic.
 
Foman has given his OK on the pictures to be posted:

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=25697433&postRepeater1-p=5
In an abundance of caution, I removed the links to certain pictures that many of you have already been discussing, pending approval for those pictures to be posted on Bungie.net's public forums.

I have let Zag know and I am now letting you know that the web team has given the okay to post whatever pictures he took at PAX and chooses to show you guys. I am sure that whenever he gets back online he'll put the link back up.

Apologies for any confusion; back on topic! ;-)

EDIT:
Please remember that the Bungie Community Forum is for topics about the Bungie Community and the Bungie.net website, not Halo 3. Thanks, everybody.
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But they're downloading really slowly from the guy's site - so I've written up the info from them:

Heretic Skull 25pt
Citadel Skull 25pt
Assembly Skull 25pt
Sandbox Skull 25pt
Orbital Skull 25pt
Longshore Skull 25pt
Tank Dropper 25pt
Zombie Repeller 25pt
Delicious Brains 25pt
Save This Film 25pt
Have Fun Respawning 25pt
Killtacular 25pt
Awww, Too Bad 25pt
... Get the Horns 25pt
Post Mortem 25pt
Ghost Patrol 25pt
Blades of Fury 25pt
Pull 25pt
Hammer Time 25pt
Look Both Ways 50pt
Road Rage 25pt
Flag Dropped 25pt
Defend This 50pt
Came... From... Behind... 50pt
Alas, Poor Yorick 25pt
Double Double 25pt
Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan 25pt
Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 0pt
Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch 0pt
Vidmaster Challenge: Annual 0pt
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Will update this post as they download.
 
"Sandbox Skull"

Holy shit, I'm guessing this is the blue grid map, "Sandbox" a super customizable forge map (a la Foundry, only even better) They all seem like MP achievements too, I'm guessing there are skulls (with no effects?) hidden on the MP maps too somewhere? *shrug* It's all coming together, "Halo: Blue" releasing next month according to Wal-Mart... looks like all the recent rumors may be true.
 
Trasher said:
What the hell are these?
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Annual is:

After 9/25/08, completed Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone on Ghosts.
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:lol

Dax01 said:
Hm. 700pts total. Has any other Xbox 360 game been allowed to add another 300 points to its original 1000? Let alone 700.
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Mythic disc.
 
A strong word of caution:

Microsoft's official guidelines for DLC achievements are:

1) Games may add up to 10 additional Achievements through DLC
2) The additional Achievements may add up to a maximum of 250 Gamerscore

There are way more than 10, and the points add up to way more than 250 Gamerscore.

I wouldn't get too excited if I were you. It's probably a development build with all kinds of stuff in there.
 
Cocopjojo said:
Mythic disc.
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That could be it, but what about the people who already have the game? Will it come as DLC?

Kibbles said:
"Sandbox Skull"
Holy shit, I'm guessing this is the blue grid map, "Sandbox" a super customizable forge map (a la Foundry, only even better) They all seem like MP achievements too, I'm guessing there are skulls (with no effects?) hidden on the MP maps too somewhere? *shrug*
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That would be a neat idea to hide skulls on MP maps. But due to the sizes of the maps, that would make it a bit too easy. But then again, finding skulls in campaign isn't that hard.

GhaleonEB said:
I wouldn't get too excited if I were you. It's probably a development build with all kinds of stuff in there.
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Maybe a list of all possible achievements? Sifting through all those possible and only picking ones that are worthwhile.
 
GhaleonEB said:
A strong word of caution:

Microsoft's official guidelines for DLC achievements are:

1) Games may add up to 10 additional Achievements through DLC
2) The additional Achievements may add up to a maximum of 250 Gamerscore

There are way more than 10, and the points add up to way more than 250 Gamerscore.

I wouldn't get too excited if I were you. It's probably a development build with all kinds of stuff in there.
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If there's any game that MS would be willing to bend the rules for, it's Halo 3. Plus, Mythic is not neccesarily DLC, right?
 
Dax01 said:
Yeah. I clicked on the first picture, and after taking about 30 seconds to load the first fourth of it, I just stopped.
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I decided to try to download the last one. 9 minutes down, 11 to go! :P
 
GhaleonEB said:
A strong word of caution:

Microsoft's official guidelines for DLC achievements are:

1) Games may add up to 10 additional Achievements through DLC
2) The additional Achievements may add up to a maximum of 250 Gamerscore

There are way more than 10, and the points add up to way more than 250 Gamerscore.

I wouldn't get too excited if I were you. It's probably a development build with all kinds of stuff in there.
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Or its two map packs equaling 500 points?
 
Huh...if it is for DLC, maybe Bungie got the ok for more achievements b/c they promote the Legendary map pack (since it seems to be required for a bunch)?
 
GhaleonEB said:
They Mythic disc didn't have Campaign on it.
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Which basically confirms a new disc. Campaign and MP share files to save space. Getting rid of that, making a new frontend UI and going through the trouble of making MP its own entity seems like a lot of trouble to go through just to demo one map for one weekend when they could have just put it on a Devkit harddrive and popped in any old Halo 3 disc.



That and the Achievements adding up to 700+ makes me a strong believer.
 
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