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Louis Wu said:
Huhwha?

The invasion of Contact Harvest happens AFTER this scene - by a week or two. This video is dated February 4. It's not until a week later that Fortitude's plan to take the planet's goodies for himself is implemented.

The fight going on here is first contact.
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I didn't notice that. Thanks for correcting me then.
 
Frenck said:
I didn't notice that. Thanks for correcting me then.
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Yeah, well... the dates are right, but the story doesn't line up well with known Halo canon, so you're forgiven. :)

Harvest isn't glassed until AFTER the Brutes arrive (the process is started several weeks after this first contact) - so Halo Wars' description of 'nuclear winter' brought on by glassing is hard to stomach.

And I'm maybe a little fuzzy on the early parts of Contact Harvest - but I thought the initial battle was all space-based; the ground troops didn't arrive until after Fortitude realized there were Forerunner artifacts here.

I think it's all jumbled. :(
 
Merguson said:
For some reason, I need to download a plugin, but it says there are no plugins to download. Eh what?
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thats weird codec info says its only using WMA2 and WMV3 those should come with windows. try VLC media player? or mplayer2?
 
xxjuicesxx said:
thats weird codec info says its only using WMA2 and WMV3 those should come with windows. try VLC media player? or mplayer2?
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Vlc is the way to go.

Right now, I'm trying to stream it to my 360 using tversity and vlc so I can watch it on the big screen with popcorn..!!! WOO!

GG This morn and last night Slightly Dark and Numbers...

EDIT: Its working !!! YAHOO!
 
I am mostly bummed because I can't play for a few days (weeks?) as I got a nasty rope burn on my right index finger :(

I tried using my middle finger to utter failure
 
So my odd story is I go into Team Snipes a couple days ago. I win the game and the other team quits out. As the last two quit theres a network split and the game THINKS the team who quit out was the team who stayed so they got the win and the one kid who "stayed" (Read: quitted) got the EXP. Hows that for fucked up!?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8iaZvuZqRTY/SOW5GmhCEAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/CsYcoRXO4Vs/s1600-h/54591465-Full.jpg

Anyways this DonGuillon03 guy I get matched up with him again a day later in Team SWAT! It was pretty odd. We both remembered each other too and he was like did you see that bullshit game they said we lost!? and I was like FUCK YEA MAN I noticed that too!

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=769358400&player=MadeFromAwesome

So weird getting matched up with random people you know or recognize.
 
Louis Wu said:
Yeah, well... the dates are right, but the story doesn't line up well with known Halo canon, so you're forgiven. :)

Harvest isn't glassed until AFTER the Brutes arrive (the process is started several weeks after this first contact) - so Halo Wars' description of 'nuclear winter' brought on by glassing is hard to stomach.

And I'm maybe a little fuzzy on the early parts of Contact Harvest - but I thought the initial battle was all space-based; the ground troops didn't arrive until after Fortitude realized there were Forerunner artifacts here.

I think it's all jumbled. :(
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Here's my interpretation:

>Events of Contact Harvest led to evacuation of the planet.
>Covenant starts to glass Harvest.
>Humans send fleet to retake system - mid-glassing.
>Fleet wins, sends in ground troops.
>Events of Halo Wars.
 
scola said:
I tried using my middle finger to utter failure
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Only way a controller should be held:

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Mr Vociferous said:
I think the events of Contact Harvest all happen by the end of 2525. This cinematic is after the five year war for the planet, once the UNSC take it back, circa 2531.
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Yeah, the timeline makes sense. The events of Contact Harvest end on February 24 (or 25), 2525. And this Halo Wars trailer takes place on February 20, 2531. So that's six years after the last event in Contact Harvest.
 
DancingJesus said:
Don't you just love it when you unintentionally get a double kill splatter?

I'll leave it to your imagination for what happens next.
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did they quit and get exp banned
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just kiddin brah
 
DancingJesus said:
Don't you just love it when you unintentionally get a double kill splatter?


I'll leave it to your imagination for what happens next.
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The warthog misses the two red team guys and hits your own guys, behind the camera, for a double kill splatter?
 
DancingJesus said:
Don't you just love it when you unintentionally get a double kill splatter?



I'll leave it to your imagination for what happens next.
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This wasn't a betrayal double splatter kill was it? ;)

EDIT:NM it appears you are teh rocketeer in this one.
 
Specifics:

The events of Contact Harvest end on February 24 (or 25), 2525.

On April 20, 2525, the Scout ship Argo is sent to figure out what has happened at Harvest. No communications were recieved back from it.

In a meeting recalling events that took place on October 7, 2525, Admiral Stanforth informs us of this:

From The Fall of Reach:
“In response [to the loss of Argo], Fleet Command assembled a battle group to investigate. The group consisted of the destroyer Heracles , commanded by Captain Veredi, as well as the frigates Arabia and Vostok. They entered the Harvest System on October seventh and discovered the following.”

The holograph of the planet Harvest changed. The lush fields and rolling hills transformed, morphing into a cratered, barren desert. Thin gray sunlight reflected off a glassy crust. Heat wavered from the surface. Isolated regions glowed red.

“This is what was left of the colony.” The Admiral paused for a moment to stare at the image, and then continued. “We assume that all inhabitants are lost.”
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So the planet was glassed sometime between February and October of 2525, which is a year-to-six-months before the beginning of the "five long years" described by Captain Cutter on February 4, 2531.

From The Fall of Reach:
“As of November 1, the UNSC has been ordered to full alert,” Stanforth said. “Vice Admiral Preston Cole is mobilizing the largest fleet action in human history to retake the Harvest System and confront this new threat. Their transmission made one thing perfectly clear: they’re looking for a fight.”
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So the fleet is mobilized on November 1.

From The Fall of Reach:
Admiral Cole had defeated the Covenant at Harvest in 2531. His victory was publicized on every vid and holo throughout the Inner and Outer Colonies and all the way to Earth.

...

There was one small detail, however, the UNSC propaganda machine had left out of their broadcasts:

Cole had won only because he outnumbered the Covenant three to one... and even then, he had lost two-thirds of his fleet.
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So Admiral Cole led the fleet that won back Harvest and Captain Cutter of Halo Wars is the commander of the UNSC Spirit of Fire, a vessel in that fleet.

I don't think that it's a coincidence that Cole, the man in charge of the campaign to take back Harvest (which seems to be the central plot of Halo Wars) has a novel named after him coming out a few months before Halo Wars releases. I'm sure that this novel will likely read as somewhat of a prequel to the events of Halo Wars, even if it only tells us more about the character that is running the show during the events of Halo Wars.
 
scola said:
This wasn't a betrayal double splatter kill was it? ;)

EDIT:NM it appears you are teh rocketeer in this one.
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Haha, yea I failed to clarify I'm the guy shooting the rocket. No I did not get a double kill betrayal, I think that would of been even more awesome though.
 
Cocopjojo said:
I don't think that it's a coincidence that Cole, the man in charge of the campaign to take back Harvest (which seems to be the central plot of Halo Wars) has a novel named after him coming out a few months before Halo Wars releases. I'm sure that this novel will likely read as somewhat of a prequel to the events of Halo Wars, even if it only tells us more about the character that is running the show during the events of Halo Wars.
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Maybe, but the literal connection might be a bit tenuous.

The novel isn't named after him per se, but after the government-mandated protocol which he establishes during or just after the events of Harvest. The Gray Team, a special group of Spartans who were only vaguely mentioned throughout the novels, are likely to have initiated the Cole Protocol during one of their missions, sending themselves to an undisclosed portion of the galaxy and that might be why they were unable to hail for the events of Reach, Mombasa and Voi.

So, yeah, there could be a connection, but I'm not sure we have enough info other than the name itself, to draw from. At least not yet.

I think Staten wrote Contact Harvest as a prequel to the game and I think that Halo Wars, although its release date/time frame was unannounced until just recently, was probably supposed to show up early last year. I think Microsoft's intention was to have a novel prequel and then Halo Wars, but I'm putting my money on the possibility that Contact Harvest was that prequel.
 
Mr Vociferous said:
I think Staten wrote Contact Harvest as a prequel to the game and I think that Halo Wars, although its release date/time frame was unannounced until just recently, was probably supposed to show up early last year. I think Microsoft's intention was to have a novel prequel and then Halo Wars, but I'm putting my money on the possibility that Contact Harvest was that prequel.
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You're probably right about this. I would think that a novel named "The Cole Protocol" would feature him at least at some point, as opposed to only dealing with his developed protocols, but I could be wrong. And this last paragraph of yours that I quoted is probably spot on, as far as release schedules and what was intended to preface what.
 
Holy shit Breaking Point vs Floridea Jackalopes just had an epic Guardian slayer game. There was like three standoffs it ended 49-50 team that won was down 20-4 at one point.
 
fin said:
no more team slayer on the pit. Should be Team BRs only imo.
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So how much did you lose by? :D

Seriously stay outta slayer, playing weapon control is for bad kids.

also LoL at the headshot that went straight through and no kill on LAN.
 
Captain Blood said:
This it is a pretty interesting right up what do you guys think?

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/915/915982p1.html

I really hadn't thought about how other companies would want to mimic Bungie's teasing approach lol
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Teases have worked for Halo because even if nothing substantial is revealed by those teases, we know whatever Bungie finally reveals is going to be amazing and worth waiting for.

I don't care how much teasing Epic does until they ship something worth getting excited about.

Kestastrophe said:
Here is a pretty crazy splatter that I had on Avalanche last weekend, for some reason gamevee took a full week to upload it:

http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Halo_3/GeeVee/insane_splatter/984986
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:lol
 
"Steak dinner, baby."

"Yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy..."

The MLG live feed is a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be. The level of constant communication these guys have going is astounding.
 
urk said:
wat
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:lol
It's not that I hate Gears, it's just it's ridiculously overrated for what amounts to a mediocre shooter dipped in outrageously good graphics. Miserable story although I found co-op an enjoyable experience a few times through and anticipate playing through Gears 2's as well as its horde mode.

I have no idea what people liked about the multiplayer. I know they're working on this for the sequel but the first game had almost no variety in their game modes which didn't help the fact that the combat feels homogeneous as people skate around from cover over and over again. It was fun for a hundred or so matches but then it's just "more of the same".

In Halo the movement, weapon variety, and vehicles makes for almost every match to feel like a unique experience. Even after four thousand games I still see shit I've never seen play out and do things I've never done. And I suppose it's unfair for me to hold Epic up to those standards as I never really do the same for another developers; it's just that these two franchises have much more in common from a mainstream/critical/marketplace perspective that I cringe over how many people try to pass off Gears as a Halo-level game.
 
urk said:
Oh. They did some Unreal games too.
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Yeah yeah, I played and enjoyed UT99 and UT 2K4 on the PC very much. I even had a blast when the first Unreal Championship came to the Xbox (not sure Epic developed that one); Halo 2 and RS3 probably being the only online games I played more. I played a shit-ton of UT and prefer its MP to Gears'. It has a lot of those crazy unique moments I mentioned. The problem with those games is that while it's super fast-paced speed has it's perks, it made it harder to appreciate the epic moments.

Gears is slow paced like Halo but with much narrower possibilities for variety.
 
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