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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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The Librarian
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No, u.Voltron64 said:
Gotta agree with this.Captain Blood said:
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Mr Vociferous
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My take on the Halo 3 marketing campaign:
Starry Night > All.
But on the "Believe" end, I can honestly say that I dug them and I think they deserve the lauding they're receiving. Did they accurately portray the game's tone and story to the tee? No, and I remember that when they were launched Frank and other folks said - repeated actually - that these pieces weren't canonical in nature, so I took them for what they were, emotional tethers to draw people toward the concept of a hero and how it worked within the trilogy's meta-narrative - much like the concept of the Spartans, both historically and in Halo.
Hell, my dad even noticed them and thought they were clever, knowing next to nothing about the games themselves or about the Master Chief.
Starry Night > All.
But on the "Believe" end, I can honestly say that I dug them and I think they deserve the lauding they're receiving. Did they accurately portray the game's tone and story to the tee? No, and I remember that when they were launched Frank and other folks said - repeated actually - that these pieces weren't canonical in nature, so I took them for what they were, emotional tethers to draw people toward the concept of a hero and how it worked within the trilogy's meta-narrative - much like the concept of the Spartans, both historically and in Halo.
Hell, my dad even noticed them and thought they were clever, knowing next to nothing about the games themselves or about the Master Chief.
The Librarian
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Just finished the podcast. Luke, Urk, Shishka, Dan, everyone, good work: I really enjoyed it.
spermatic cord
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orbital: needs more nades. maybe more spikers so i can dual wield.
Captain Blood
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Trasher said:
haha I would imagine it would be hot has hell sitting in a gym all day wearing home made spartan armor instead of a graduation gown
backflip10019
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Grimm Fandango
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Hopefully Halo will knock off World at War.
GhaleonEB said:Halo 3 Players Online: 256,876
Unique Players (Last 24 Hours): 955,641
I'd say the new maps brought some folks out. Over 60k in the Mythic playlist when I was on ealier.
gg Luke, Urk, Sketch. Thanks for going easy on us.
lol
The guy on our squad was king of douches. You should invest in a mic, homey.
Mr Vociferous
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Or a power drainer.urk said:
Captain Blood
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Grimm Fandango said:
It would be cool to get the numbers for how many people got the maps pre and post the marketplace release.
Lavpa Jasai
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Halo 3 matchmaking acting up for anyone? Live seems to be sluggish and nonresponsive
Mr. Enigma
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Sai-kun said:
Yeah, it seems like a Windows Live ID issue.
This will be the third map in a week I've sketched out, budgeted, done some rough designing out in Forge and then killed because I can't get blocks to say put next to each other when I actually start building it. I've done this corner a few times now, and it they blocks won't stay put.
From what I can tell, the "Block, Double" doesn't like being next to the "Block, Huge", and non-default objects don't play well with default objects. I didn't run into these issues on my last map, Entrenched, because I didn't try to line up blocks in multiple rows or mix types next to each other.
I know Bungie said there's no further updates planned for Halo 3, but this really needs a patch. It undermines a lot of the functionality in Sandbox. At the least, I'd love to hear an explanation for the problem and some tips to work around it. I have a lot of ideas for Sandbox maps, but I keep scuttling them because they require constructed flat surfaces and I have yet to make even one of them stay flat.
Ghaleon, do you interlock? Can get kind of crappy at times, since you have to pace your spots and what you plan to do, but it generally helps. Putting objects together but placed incorrectly can look ugly on Sandbox.
One thing I really liked about Foundry's objects is the box looked pretty good forged together. The steps I miss, too.
One thing I really liked about Foundry's objects is the box looked pretty good forged together. The steps I miss, too.
I haven't tried locking them together, though I would run out of resources in my current design if I tried to space them evenly, with one block overlap. As it, it takes a few hours to line up long rows of objects because I use a guide block to make sure everything lines up just right. I'll test interlocking and see if it helps. But I don't think I have the patience to lock 70+ blocks together....Striker said:
...though I did just go back and try one last time to make that corner flat. 30 minutes and about a dozen attempts later, I can't do it. I tried deleting and placing new blocks, tried placing them together extra gently, tried having different blocks spawn in after I had the ones next to them placed...nada. Not one single pair of blocks formed a surface flat enough; I popped into the air every time, and these are just placed flat on the ground of the basin.
This may well be a skill, and I just don't have the skills. But it really feels like something is broken here.
first, make sure the blocks are placed with the same side down
next, check to see if they are placed on sand piles - if so, turn off the higher of the 2 blocks and start a new round - with the higher block temporarily hidden place a gold column (or 3) on top of the lower block so that the higher block spawns slightly inside of the columns when it comes back - when the block reappears tap it once, it should get pushed into the sand and drop down to the other block's level - always save right before you do the tap - before you remove the gold columns do a save-n-quit to be sure the blocks remain in position after you return - it also helps if you frame the block you are moving with gold columns to keep it from squirming out of position
next, check to see if they are placed on sand piles - if so, turn off the higher of the 2 blocks and start a new round - with the higher block temporarily hidden place a gold column (or 3) on top of the lower block so that the higher block spawns slightly inside of the columns when it comes back - when the block reappears tap it once, it should get pushed into the sand and drop down to the other block's level - always save right before you do the tap - before you remove the gold columns do a save-n-quit to be sure the blocks remain in position after you return - it also helps if you frame the block you are moving with gold columns to keep it from squirming out of position
GhaleonEB said:Halo 3 Players Online: 256,876
Unique Players (Last 24 Hours): 955,641
I'd say the new maps brought some folks out. Over 60k in the Mythic playlist when I was on ealier.
gg Luke, Urk, Sketch. Thanks for going easy on us.
Yeah, it was crazy how many people were on last night. I think there was something like 401,000 when I was on, and I remember thinking how crazy that was for a Thursday night.
Urk's too cool to play with the old crew anymore though
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