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I have to apologize for my last post a few pages back. I let my emotions get the best of me (2 Long Islands didn't help either). Some personal shit hit the fan earlier and I was on tilt. Needless to say, Bungie made my day/evening/now morning. The maps are great. Can't wait to play with you guys. I ran around Sandbox and Orbital earlier with Bluebur. I had some friends show up (at my house) and they were running around in them too. Orbital is def going to take some getting used to. Assembly ... straight butter, Sandbox .... some awesome stuff is sure to be birthed from it.

Going to bed now.
 
Metroidvania said:
Oh yeah.

Can anyone tell me if this is a good schematic for boarding action, or where I could find a better one if it isn't?

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Yes! Please!

I can't help you there, but if someone had Halo for PC, perhaps getting a big combined screeny would be pretty simple.

I would also be open to varients. If someone made a BA-esque map, and there was a platform in the middle (so you can jump of the topmost floor on one side, land on the platform, and then jump to the bottom most on the other) I think that would be cool.
 
For the sake of furthering our understanding of the Sky Bubble's size, let's get into specifics.

Avalanche is a big map.

I put a Territory point in one base.



I stood on the opposite side of the map, backed against the cliff-side.



Let's check our distance.



You'll need to click the hi-res to be able to read it for yourself, but the distance reads: 314.9m


Alright, let's do Sandbox's Sky Bubble.

The Territory point, at the edge of the Sky Bubble.



Myself, at the other end of the Bubble.



And our distance is...?



353.3m


And so we have from one end of Avalanche to the other, a distance of 314.9 meters.
And then from one end of the Sky Bubble to the other, a distance of 353.3 meters.
 
A big thanks to Blueblur, Voc and Cocop for expanding our view of these maps. *

Fell free to keep the screenshots coming guys.

*I was considering spamming "Holy Shiticles" a few hundred times, not wise.
 
Guys, why wont my legendary maps transfer from my other account? I bought some points from america on holiday a while ago to buy the maps and it worked successfully for a while (by buying the maps on an american account and they appeared on my normal one). Has this trick been stopped for the NXE? I want to get back into Halo, but if I cant even play the maps I have bought then I may just sell it
 
tombur said:
Guys, why wont my legendary maps transfer from my other account? I bought some points from america on holiday a while ago to buy the maps and it worked successfully for a while (by buying the maps on an american account and they appeared on my normal one). Has this trick been stopped for the NXE? I want to get back into Halo, but if I cant even play the maps I have bought then I may just sell it
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Should still work. Do you still have the American Account on your 360 and connected to the Net?

I've bought a few XBLA games with an American Gamertag that I then play on my normal one.
 
As far as I can tell you can no longer merge scenery together... In forge mode I couldn't get objects to not spawn at the start (the method used to merge objects). If I set the object to not respawn at start it would anyways but I wouldn't be able to interact with it as the monitor yet they're still physically there (can't put objects through them and can stand on them). If merging is no longer possible then that's fucking beyond lame and cripples what would otherwise be Sandbox's ridiculous potential.

I hope I'm wrong.

Edit: Turns out I was, kinda wrong. You can't set the objects placed on any of the Mythic maps to spawn after the start of the round, thus you can't do any merging with those objects. New objects placed on the map can have delayed spawns and used to merge though.
 
Call me stupid (I would) but how exactly do you "merge" objects in forge and can the merging be witnessed during the actual creation of the map? Obviously if they have taken it away from Sandbox it won't be of great concern to me as I intend on doing the bulk of map design there but it's still useful to know in case Foundry ever rears its head again.

Also, damn the sky level is huge. Crazy Banshee and Hornet Dogfights!
 
Spirit3 said:
Call me stupid (I would) but how exactly do you "merge" objects in forge and can the merging be witnessed during the actual creation of the map? Obviously if they have taken it away from Sandbox it won't be of great concern to me as I intend on doing the bulk of map design there but it's still useful to know in case Foundry ever rears its head again.

Also, damn the sky level is huge. Crazy Banshee and Hornet Dogfights!
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forgehub.com has a bunch of great tutorials.

Edit: crisis semi-averted. Read previous post.
 
I take it Dax didn't get the gift of the maps?

I would have thought with the stupid amount of free codes given to certain people here poor Dax would have be given a bone. =(
 
GM Bullfrog got the code? Congrats.

Voc, those are some amazing out-of-map screenshots. Especially Orbital.
Dani said:
I take it Dax didn't get the gift of the maps?

I would have thought with the stupid amount of free codes given to certain people here poor Dax would have be given a bone. =(
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Did you get them too? I still haven't gotten anything, and with Sai-Kun getting them (given that he was going to buy the Halo Wars LE just like me) I thought I would be getting them as well. The update said come codes will be given out next week, but the longer it takes, the more I feel my chances dwindle.

Insaniac said:
Code Get! thanks urk!
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Congratulations and have fun.
 
Striker said:
You had to complain about MS's evil ploy of the Halo Wars CE/Halo 3 maps combination and you'll get the codes two weeks early, and at that, free.

Odd that Insaniac wouldn't get a code. He made some great maps on Foundry's layout and has been building Forge maps for a long time now. Hmm, my advice... follow steps above, my friend!
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:lol
 
I'm surprised how many people are getting codes for the maps. I guess I didn't complain enough about MS. Maybe I'll just wait for ODST to drop.
 
Does anyone know how to get screenshots that are on your HDD to upload to bungie.net? I took the pictures offline when XBL was having issues, and the images never uploaded after connecting later. It'd be annoying to retake them since they're from a long campaign session.
 
LunaticPuma said:
Does anyone know how to get screenshots that are on your HDD to upload to bungie.net? I took the pictures offline when XBL was having issues, and the images never uploaded after connecting later. It'd be annoying to retake them since they're from a long campaign session.
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Can't you put them in your file share?
 
Sky bubble is so awesomely huge. Bigger than avalanche, and 100% open. I'm really glad we're only waiting "weeks" instead of months. I don't know if I could wait longer. :lol
 
Azar said:
Sky bubble is so awesomely huge. Bigger than avalanche, and 100% open. I'm really glad we're only waiting "weeks" instead of months. I don't know if I could wait longer. :lol
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As I said before, if you had all the parts of Sandtrap together, it's easily the biggest Halo map.
 
Question is: are there enough objects available to take advantage of the huge spanse of Sandbox? I would love to see giant BTB maps constructed, but I doubt that there are enough objects in-game to take advantage of the space.

In 5 weeks I'm expecting to play on Hang 'em High, Ascension, and Headlong. So get to work. :D
 
Littleberu said:
Wow so Bungie is sabotaging MS plans to get people to buy the Halo Wars CE.

Good job.

(And I mean that in a very sarcastic way)
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I don't believe that's what's at work here. Bungie has always done things like this for their fans, regardless of the context. In my opinion, no other developer can even touch them when it comes to community support and involvement -- which is one of the reasons you see so many dedicated Halo fans here, one of the reasons this thread is so huge and one of the reasons you see so many people pulling for Bungie when marketing decisions spin the community sideways.

So much thanks to Brian, Luke and Eric for their work here. I seriously doubt I'd be as invested in Halo as I am right now, if they weren't as invested in Halo fans as they have been for the last seven years.

Also, I played like shit last night. I got sleep afterward so... never again. Orbital is growing on me at a decent pace. I think I'm going to pull together something for people who are still a bit confused by it. I've had a blast on all of the maps so far and I think, just considering the untapped potential Sandbox has (which is considerable), this may well be the best map pack ever -- for all Halo games.
 
Took my ODST screenshots last night, tagged 'em, and that would be around the time I realized that I am really horrible at taking screenshots. :lol

Side note: I'm a little disturbed at the bits of senses of entitlement I've been seeing over the last few pages...complaining is not exactly an attractive way to go about it.
 
Mr Vociferous said:
I don't believe that's what's at work here. Bungie has always done things like this for their fans, regardless of the context. In my opinion, no other developer can even touch them when it comes to community support and involvement -- which is one of the reasons you see so many dedicated Halo fans here, one of the reasons this thread is so huge and one of the reasons you see so many people pulling for Bungie when marketing decisions spin the community sideways.
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Agree with you 5000$. It's the main reason why Bungie is my favorite developer even.

Also, I played like shit last night. I got sleep afterward so... never again. Orbital is growing on me at a decent pace. I think I'm going to pull together something for people who are still a bit confused by it. I've had a blast on all of the maps so far and I think, just considering the untapped potential Sandbox has (which is considerable), this may well be the best map pack ever -- for all Halo games.
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Stop hyping it up so much!:lol

How did you get out of Orbital? I want to see Earth!
 
Havok said:
Took my ODST screenshots last night, tagged 'em, and that would be around the time I realized that I am really horrible at taking screenshots. :lol

Side note: I'm a little disturbed at the bits of senses of entitlement I've been seeing over the last few pages...complaining is not exactly an attractive way to go about it.
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All I wish is that more mapmakers received codes... that way there could actually be really awesome maps when the rest of us get them.

List of amazing mapmakers' gamertags:

Iv0rY Snak3
DeathstarsOG
I nicka33 I
squidhands
xSethiroth87x
II Ender ll
FeiGn II
Saltyfluids
II ROB Il
l Zanno l
Runner AI
XZoNKeD
TheEpicCiabatta
 
Hey, post on MLG if you haven't gotten a code yet. They are handing out a total of 5 codes to the mass of thousands that have posted there... but it doesn't hurt to try :p

How is that picture shit supposed to work? kinda like a viral? I've seen people send me pictures for recon and i always thought they were rumors started by an 8 year old.

*edit* ha, i checked the thread and there were 5,607 posts asking to get it. So far you have about a ~ 00.09% chance of being picked. BTW I expect that number of posters to grow quite a bit by moonday.
 
KevinRo said:
Hey, post on MLG if you haven't gotten a code yet. They are handing out a total of 5 codes to the mass of thousands that have posted there... but it doesn't hurt to try :p

How is that picture shit supposed to work? kinda like a viral? I've seen people send me pictures for recon and i always thought they were rumors started by an 8 year old.
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I'm assuming they'll probably search for people with them on their fileshare, and than out of them they pick some randomly.

And as of now you have a 1 in 1124 chance
 
Thinking about it, I going to try to remake Turf (Halo 2) first. Ascension is probably too complicated for someone like me.

Anyone have a good amount of screenshots of Turf? Maybe some overhead shots? The one in the wiki is too small.
 
Grimm Fandango said:
Thinking about it, I going to try to remake Turf (Halo 2) first. Ascension is probably too complicated for someone like me.

Anyone have a good amount of screenshots of Turf? Maybe some overhead shots? The one in the wiki is too small.
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Mr Vociferous said:
*Voc's pics*
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Good grief. Say what you will about how Halo 3 maps might play compared to previous entries, but one thing you can't deny is that the Halo 3 maps are labors of love. The amount of detail and scale that goes into these maps is incredible. I really need to learn how to get out of the maps like Voc here...simply amazing.
 
These are old shots from last year, but the Mythic screen shot contest reminded me that I never uploaded them.

Hunter Elite Love (as the Arbiter looks on)
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Master Chief Can Fly (Glitch that threw me into the air while meleeing a Scarab to death.)
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ODSTs Know What the Ladies Like (Answer: lasers)
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Grimm Fandango said:
Thinking about it, I going to try to remake Turf (Halo 2) first. Ascension is probably too complicated for someone like me.

Anyone have a good amount of screenshots of Turf? Maybe some overhead shots? The one in the wiki is too small.
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Too bad the Brute Plasma Rifle won't be a part of this remake (say what you want, I always thought it was sweet.)
 
ughh... you are all looking at it wrong. Why in the world would you remake Turf???

Why don't you focus on remaking some real classics like LIBRARY and COMPLEX.
 
Hey guys. I re-sized and re-uploaded all the same pics that I've posted using Photoshop since the previous images had a lot of artifacts. I deleted the originals so the new ones should pop up in their place due to them having the same file names. I still see the original ones in my previous posts though (especially those terrible looking Sandbox pics).

I've cleared my browser's cache. Any reason why I'm not seeing the newer higher quality versions in my previous posts?
 
KevinRo said:
ughh... you are all looking at it wrong. Why in the world would you remake Turf???

Why don't you focus on remaking some real classics like LIBRARY and COMPLEX.
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Haha never thought of that. If someone can provide decent pics, I'll try.

Probably my two favorite GoldenEye maps.
 
Havok said:
Took my ODST screenshots last night, tagged 'em, and that would be around the time I realized that I am really horrible at taking screenshots. :lol
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I've done the same. I think I'm going to spend some more time trying tomorrow though. Reviewing campaign films for screenshots is something I didn't really do all that much before, but it's quite enjoyable. Anyway my first effort is here, if anyone cares to have a look.

I'm a little annoyed that I didn't realise that you can't rename screenshots on B.net. I've had to just comment the intended names in, which is a bit dumb.

Also I never realised that the Brutes yawn and stretch. I guess I was too busy killing them to notice...
 
i will still host the halo gaf customs night tonight even if it will tear me away from my awesome map idea
actually i have three
.
start time in 4 hours and some change
 
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