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Funny story. I was at the live 1up Yours show and I got up to the mic to ask a question. I probably pissed off Luke by calling him out on his losses in the Recon challenge. But hey, it made for great podcast material and Garnett gave me a shirt for it.

Check mai twittah for PAX craziness.

http://www.twitter.com/Blueblur1

Oh and as for Assembly, I've played about 6 matches on it and watched Luke and Shiska play. I more or less know all the weapon, deployable items and the camouflage location. It looks fantastic. As for what's being assembled there, Cocop and Ghaleon and Mr. Vociferous are more qualified to answer that. But if you want my opinion, it could be something as simple as a Scarab or something far more menacing that's probably something the Halo community will have to figure out.
 
Blueblur1 said:
Funny story. I was at the live 1up Yours show and I got up to the mic to ask a question. I probably pissed off Luke by calling him out on his losses in the Recon challenge. But he, it made for great podcast material and Garnett gave me a shirt for it.

Check mai twittah for PAX craziness.

http://www.twitter.com/Blueblur1
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Oh shit, I missed the 1up podcast :S Forgot all about it.

[edit] Oh, they never had it online, guess I'll be seeing it "sometime tomorrow".
 
Blueblur1 said:
Funny story. I was at the live 1up Yours show and I got up to the mic to ask a question. I probably pissed off Luke by calling him out on his losses in the Recon challenge. But hey, it made for great podcast material and Garnett gave me a shirt for it.

Check mai twittah for PAX craziness.

http://www.twitter.com/Blueblur1

Oh and as for Assembly, I've played about 6 matches on it and watched Luke and Shiska play. I more or less know all the weapon, deployable items and the camouflage location. It looks fantastic. As for what's being assembled there, Cocop and Ghaleon and Mr. Vociferous are more qualified to answer that. But if you want my opinion, it could be something as simple as a Scarab or something far more menacing that's probably something the Halo community will have to figure out.
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Sounds like you're having a good time. Wish I could be there.
 
Someone on Bungie.net said that it's a preview of "Red vs Blue: The Animated Series" which will start after Episode 19 concludes the Reconstruction series.
 
Kibbles said:
Someone on Bungie.net said that it's a preview of "Red vs Blue: The Animated Series" which will start after Episode 19 concludes the Reconstruction series.
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Ending at 19? Thats kind of sad. Although this would give them many more options to tell stories through I guess.
 
Damn I could really see RvB getting big with this. I wonder if it the series ever makes it's way to Adult Swim or G4 or something.
 
Kibbles said:
Damn I could really see RvB getting big with this. I wonder if it the series ever makes it's way to Adult Swim or G4 or something.
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The artstyle reminds me of the Daft Punk Interstella 5555,
interstella5555-1.jpg

interstella5555-2.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555:_The_5tory_of_the_5ecret_5tar_5ystem

Also here's the video with a longer intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6xPAuO0b4
 
Looks very nice.

This will probably come as a retail disc much like the Halo 2 multiplayer disc came out.

There's no other way for non-LIVE enabled 360's to get the map packs, right?
 
Hero said:
Looks very nice.

This will probably come as a retail disc much like the Halo 2 multiplayer disc came out.

There's no other way for non-LIVE enabled 360's to get the map packs, right?
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Well, you don't need a gold account to get the maps.


That RvB thing looked amazing, that was the real deal animation? not just some flash cartoon? I couldn't tell by the quality but that looked like it cost A LOT to make.
 
soldat7 said:
So any theories on where this level might fit in with the fiction?

And it will be very difficult to beat Epitaph's skybox, very difficult indeed.
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It's a Scarab manufacturing faclity.

news_H3_MP_AssemblyEnv03.jpg


The Scarab chassis moves out of that shielded door on the top, glides on the energy beams to the center where a huge beam of energy charges it up, then accross the skybox to the next step of manufacturing.

It destroys the Epitaph skybox. Just freaking epic.
 
So, did anyone notice any changes to the gameplay when you were playing Assembly? I mean, it was the 1.2 build you were playing. Kind of looks like the grenade splash is larger from one of the videos I've seen.
 
Kibbles said:
Someone on Bungie.net said that it's a preview of "Red vs Blue: The Animated Series" which will start after Episode 19 concludes the Reconstruction series.
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I was there at the panel and it was great. If they had it for sale I would have gladly forked over my money.

No, it is not officially part of some series that will be coming out after Reconstruction is finished. According to a RoosterTeeth blog post by Burnie it was part of a test piece.

Personally I think Microsoft would be nine degrees of stupid if they didn't immeadiately pay roosterteeth a lot of money and commission a regular series of this. I'd gladly and watch it whether it came out on Web, TV, or Theaters. Red vs Blue the Animated Motion Picture? Oh god, please yes.

I believe they did say during the panel that they want to do more series after Reconstruction, but the idea now is that the stories will now be more contained within a single 'season' of episodes and then they'll move to a new story.
 
GhaleonEB said:
It's a Scarab manufacturing faclity.

news_H3_MP_AssemblyEnv03.jpg


The Scarab chassis moves out of that shielded door on the top, glides on the energy beams to the center where a huge beam of energy charges it up, then accross the skybox to the next step of manufacturing.

It destroys the Epitaph skybox. Just freaking epic.
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*jaw-drops* Must see. Someone take a video today at PAX of this plz. Kthxbai.


Oh and here's a great new video, good framerate, full Recon Challenge Match :D - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-CW4KVtnwU&fmt=18
 
GhaleonEB said:
It's a Scarab manufacturing faclity.

news_H3_MP_AssemblyEnv03.jpg


The Scarab chassis moves out of that shielded door on the top, glides on the energy beams to the center where a huge beam of energy charges it up, then accross the skybox to the next step of manufacturing.

It destroys the Epitaph skybox. Just freaking epic.
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o.O Whoa. That's... wow. I want the map now!

FFChris said:
So, did anyone notice any changes to the gameplay when you were playing Assembly? I mean, it was the 1.2 build you were playing. Kind of looks like the grenade splash is larger from one of the videos I've seen.
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This is a good question.
 
So I'm not sure if it was just the lan environment at PAX (my first halo 3 lan) or if we were in fact playing on the new update... but something about the gameplay felt just, better. I've had some issues with playing on live lately, where most, if not all of my games have played with a little lag hitch, so this could easily have been my imagination.

I have no more analysis then that, I think my overall excitement of playing the new map at PAX combined with the atmosphere made it a little hard to pick out the changes, if in fact there were any.

I felt like my grenades may have gotten just a bit more punch (frags in particular) - could have easily been wrong though. And call me crazy, but I didn't seem to notice any major spawn issues - nothing really stood out.

I think you guys are going to be really impressed with Assembly (I'm having trouble calling it Assembly and not Purple Reign). I think it has the potential for some really really nice Team Slayer / FFA Slayer (obviously), Rockets (veto), king of the hill (no frag starts), 2 Flag (fast flag returns), and Assault (neutral and regular). Playing on it, I realized how badly H3 needed a proper arena map, outside of the foundry made ones. It's bigger than you guys are probably expecting as well - in a good way.

As Ghaleon said, that skybox is EPIC! It's looking to become my favorite one of the series.
 
Yeah, something about the spawns really just clicked. I do not think I had any issues. Also I am certain we were playing with auto update 2 applied to the map. (the grenades felt so much more powerfull).. however; spawning with frag grenades on Assembly is a bad idea though. :lol
 
Metroid is on Dirtbag's computer, stealing his interwebz.

Assembly is mucho fun, I'd post pics, but cell phones don't do it justice.

Today.....We move for Recon.

Have to keep Domino from drooling all overf Jenn Taylor, too
 
Dirtbag 504 said:
I think you guys are going to be really impressed with Assembly (I'm having trouble calling it Assembly and not Purple Reign). I think it has the potential for some really really nice Team Slayer / FFA Slayer (obviously), Rockets (veto), king of the hill (no frag starts), 2 Flag (fast flag returns), and Assault (neutral and regular). Playing on it, I realized how badly H3 needed a proper arena map, outside of the foundry made ones. It's bigger than you guys are probably expecting as well - in a good way.
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Don't kid yourself.

We'll get Team Slayer, Team Slayer BRs for the Team Slayer playlist, and VIP for the Objectives.

lol
 
Assembly is looking super sweet. Ghaleon, your impressions are great. Can't wait to hear what exact changes AU2 brings. And to get to play Assembly myself. :D
 
Hey guys! Looks like its been really slow here today. So let's chat.

I saw a couple of things today. At the Bungie booth, I got signed reprint art from the Bungie artist. Its cool but I kind of wish I would have brought something of my own (that's another see older Twitter posts).

I got some more matches of Assembly in and met Deepblue today. Tons of Bungie staffers were around like Jaime Griesemer (and I think I spotted Damian Isla walking by the Dead Space booth)and Jerome was there too! (He's as tall as I am surprisingly. I thought he was much taller.) According to Deepblue, there was a mass of bodies waiting for Jen Taylor but then Jerome ordered everyone (like 30 people) into a straight line! When I got to the line, it was organized and quick. And Jerome was pacing by her table. :D

I saw the Giant Bomb panel/show which was hilarious. Lots of 1up folks hanging around. For a moment I considered participating in the short Q & A session the GB guys had but I think being on 1up Yours yesterday was enough.
 
Blueblur1 said:
Hey guys! Looks like its been really slow here today. So let's chat.

I saw a couple of things today. At the Bungie booth, I got signed reprint art from the Bungie artist. Its cool but I kind of wish I would have brought something of my own (that's another see older Twitter posts).

I got some more matches of Assembly in and met Deepblue today. Tons of Bungie staffers were around like Jaime Griesemer (and I think I spotted Damian Isla walking by the Dead Space booth)and Jerome was there too! (He's as tall as I am surprisingly. I thought he was much taller.) According to Deepblue, there was a mass of bodies waiting for Jen Taylor but then Jerome ordered everyone (like 30 people) into a straight line! When I got to the line, it was organized and quick. And Jerome was pacing by her table. :D

I saw the Giant Bomb panel/show which was hilarious. Lots of 1up folks hanging around. For a moment I considered participating in the short Q & A session the GB guys had but I think being on 1up Yours yesterday was enough.
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omfg, I gotta ssee the GiantBomb panel, hope they put it up online. I heard Rich Gallup was there? Awesome.

Lol @ Jerome forcing everyone into a strait line. Were people really that bad with Jen that she needed constant bodyguard watch?
 
Blueblur1 said:
Hey guys! Looks like its been really slow here today. So let's chat.

I saw a couple of things today. At the Bungie booth, I got signed reprint art from the Bungie artist. Its cool but I kind of wish I would have brought something of my own (that's another see older Twitter posts).

I got some more matches of Assembly in and met Deepblue today. Tons of Bungie staffers were around like Jaime Griesemer (and I think I spotted Damian Isla walking by the Dead Space booth)and Jerome was there too! (He's as tall as I am surprisingly. I thought he was much taller.) According to Deepblue, there was a mass of bodies waiting for Jen Taylor but then Jerome ordered everyone (like 30 people) into a straight line! When I got to the line, it was organized and quick. And Jerome was pacing by her table. :D

I saw the Giant Bomb panel/show which was hilarious. Lots of 1up folks hanging around. For a moment I considered participating in the short Q & A session the GB guys had but I think being on 1up Yours yesterday was enough.
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:lol Have you seen Dan yet?
 
Couple pics I took today at PAX:

Ramirez and Marty!
Album01050.jpg


Luke and Shishka doing the Recon challenge (I believe they only lost 2 games in over an hour of playing). Also, they defeated Walshy and a kid 10-3. :lol
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More to come later when I don't have shitty wireless.
 
Kibbles said:
what? Luke and Shishka beat Walshy?! I take it the other kid was the reason? o_O
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Metroid here again.

Walshy actually won on Friday with a random, he must have played again with another random and lost.

Got some amazing prints from the artists, though, will upload tomorrow when I get home, unless someone else does first.
 
Hell yes. H3 came in the mail. Hopefully i wont regret rebuying this after having it stolen from me. Help me get my moneys worth GAF!

My GT is GAMERatHEART17. Please ad me.
 
Trasher said:
Couple pics I took today at PAX:

Ramirez and Marty!
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh252/TJTrasher/Album01050.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh252/TJTrasher/Album01049.jpg[IMG]

More to come later when I don't have shitty wireless.[/QUOTE]
Yes, more pics everyone. I should have went. I fail.
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Trasher said:
Couple pics I took today at PAX:

Ramirez and Marty!
[IG]http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh252/TJTrasher/Album01050.jpg[/IMG]

Luke and Shishka doing the Recon challenge (I believe they only lost 2 games in over an hour of playing). Also, they defeated Walshy and a kid 10-3. :lol
[IG]http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh252/TJTrasher/Album01049.jpg[/IMG]

More to come later when I don't have shitty wireless.
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MARTY!.......:(
 
It's been surreal today, meeting Jaime, Shishka, Marty, Sketch, Dan, Jen Taylor and a whole pack of others. Lots and LOTS of Bungie folk here today. As yesterday, the booth was utterly packed, 100% of the time.
 
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