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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Ssparks said:
The answer is B.U.N.G.L.E.
Which reminds me. Played some custom games last night on the BUNGLE Blowout map. Much fun was had. Spawns needed some work though as not enough spawns were placed in front of each other for immediate spawn beatdown traps. :lol :lol :lol
Quote of the night was "I just got a splatter on Blackout?!?!?!" :lol
Grimm Fandango said:
I'm still here but I've got some shitty things happening right now. I'm currently moving so I haven't been online in what seems like forever. I'm probably going to hook up the 360 again soon, my move got delayed so I might get around to it tonight.
Take care everyone!
The Librarian
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Slightly Live
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I'm still unable to afford to fix my xbox. =( I haven't played Halo 3 in months. =(
Mr Vociferous
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Definitely agree. The dialogue here has been spot on and I've enjoyed reading it all. Wish I could respond but I just found out that "BR" actually stands for "business requirements" (not battle rifle) and it's embodied in an 86 page document which I need to fully understand by next week. :-(EazyB said:
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Mr Vociferous said:
Oh?
Captain Blood
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McBain said:
Stormtrooper30
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xxjuicesxx said:
I agree with most of your points, but I don't think that bashing a person will solve anything. Halo 3 MM is getting extremely stale for me. Non BR starts are a complete turn off for me. I've found myself only playing Team Snipers and MLG when I actually have time to play Halo. After saying that, I actually don't really play MM anymore. The only time I ever play Halo anymore is during the GAF customs night.
As some of you probally noticed as my Halo skills are drastically falling
A friend of mine just pointed me towards the FileShae of ske7ch and I was amazed to see Mage v2 among others (sanctum v2 and rise v2). Pretty awesome of Brian if you ask me
I beleive that Sanctum definately can (and should) make it into MM. Rise is a well designed map, but I just suck at it. I could definately see it working in MM as well.
As for Mage, the whole spawning in a killball should probally be fixed.
On that note, we still game for GAF customs on Saturday?
It piles on clue after clue, just because they're visual doesn't make them any less significant. And they are there, take it from somebody who beat Episode One without the slightest source of outside assistance.Aaron said:
But as for removing a panel with the grav gun (I assume you're talking about the panels on the energy-ball tubez)? Well, there's the fact that the first panel you run into is already detached and lying on the ground, an object I readily picked up and determined that it was in fact manipulable. Then when the door appeared on the energy-ball's side, I correctly guessed that it might be able to pulled free, tried it and bingo. The fact that there was a constant stream of energy-ball objects in a "random" tunnel at a dead-end would be the next big clue. Complaints such as this don't align you with the average player, it just establishes for this puzzle, you missed all the cues and got frustrated. That sucks, but it's not as if Valve went into this puzzle and said, "screw the testers, we're not going to give them any idea as to what's required of them, haha!"
Of course he's an empty shell, that's what he's been described as by even Valve themselves. He has a name, an appearance, and qualifications to form a spot for the player in the universe, not as a part of a multi-dimensional character design such as one used for a character like Alyx Vance. His silence isn't some weird part of an envisioned personality, it's a design decision.
I keep insisting on it because apparent and Valve's comments fall entirely in line with what I'm saying. They've talked a lot about Freeman's design, this isn't "original research" on my part.
Sorry, my mistake.Havok said:
Stormtrooper30 said:I beleive that Sanctum definately can (and should) make it into MM. Rise is a well designed map, but I just suck at it. I could definately see it working in MM as well.
As for Mage, the whole spawning in a killball should probally be fixed.
If only someone at Bungie provided a group in which confident authors could submit their map variants. If only it mandated a submission guide that forces players to vet their own maps.
If only someone from Bungie came to GAF to tell you guys about such a group and then put the onus on yourselves to sack up by saying something like "If you think your map is matchmaking-worthy but you haven't posted it to this group, you only have yourself to blame."
As a very adroit salamander once said: "Were it so easy."
BladedExpert
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Shishka said:
If I thought I could fix Mage up to the point where it could be played in Matchmaking, I'd get onto it and submit it. Unfortunately I've reached the limit of the budget (and my imagination) and can stretch it no further. And there are issues which would keep it from being approved, trust me
Fuck, maybe I'll give it one last try tomorrow and see if there's a way to make it work...
Guilt trip me you bastard
Grimm Fandango
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I'm in the same boat; it's not that hard to break Turf II
Stormtrooper30
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Shishka said:
I've been on Vhfive's case for a few weeks now to get it submitted to Atlas. He certainly has enough game clips to meet the requirements. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that he is too lazy to submit it.
As for Mage, I really hope Bladed can somehow fix it up. It's a really fun map.
Now, instead of everyone bitching about the lack of user created maps in MM, how about we begin submitting some of our own?
Stormtrooper30
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Sai-kun said:
Hah, fixed the typo.
Join us on Customs night Saturday and we'll play a few games on your maps.
Captain Blood
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BladedExpert said:If I thought I could fix Mage up to the point where it could be played in Matchmaking, I'd get onto it and submit it. Unfortunately I've reached the limit of the budget (and my imagination) and can stretch it no further. And there are issues which would keep it from being approved, trust me
Fuck, maybe I'll give it one last try tomorrow and see if there's a way to make it work...
Guilt trip me you bastard
I have no idea how active you are in atlas but I would bet the people there would have ways you haven't thought of to fix some problems your map might have. I imagine you have put a ton of work into Mage and it would be a shame if you didn't at least give it a go.
Self Induced
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Submit it anyway. There is no reason not to.BladedExpert said:If I thought I could fix Mage up to the point where it could be played in Matchmaking, I'd get onto it and submit it. Unfortunately I've reached the limit of the budget (and my imagination) and can stretch it no further. And there are issues which would keep it from being approved, trust me
Fuck, maybe I'll give it one last try tomorrow and see if there's a way to make it work...
Guilt trip me you bastard
backflip10019
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Very solid game. I played last month with Tashi and Bladed. It's no Halo, but it is fun.xxjuicesxx said:
A Sniper Rifle on Standoff would be brutal. It's bad enough that a laser controls the map, but a Sniper (a good one, at least) would smoke guys instantly as they hop out of the base. It's best suited for a BR/Carbine and dual weapons map. I wish more maps had SMG's on them, and fewer maps with single or dual Spikers. SMG ftw!kylej said:
Sniper isn't needed on Assembly (he brought that map up), and I HOPE we see some Sandbox variants added into Ranked MM so a Sniper would be added to that (my current build has one Sniper on it).
Also, a quick question about Atlas. Was Atlas ever brought up to form in advertising or whatnot in the Bungie Weekly Update? I know it's been mentioned a few weeks ago, and that's my first time knowing about it. Was it mentioned when Foundry got released (to let ForgeHubbers aware, and others)? Just wondering.
PedroLumpy
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backflip10019 said:
Man I loved that game, probably my most played demo on Live. Shame about all the nonsense that overshadowed the game itself.
Teleporting AND seeing through walls, it hardly seemed fair, and yet it was.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
xxjuicesxx said:
I see your lack of relevance (unless that was meant to be an answer to Blood's pic challenge) and raise you this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEO9Mfmn4M
And to echo others, submit that, Bladed, to Forgehub if not Atlas. Someone else might be able to see something from a different perspective.
xxjuicesxx
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Metroidvania said:
Ha relevance...I thought this was the Cereal thread? Did I click somewhere else by accident?
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
xxjuicesxx said:
This thread it its own beast, of course it needs cereal to keep itself fed.
To be honest, I just wanted an excuse to post the awesome megaman rap.
Good to know someone got a kick out of it like I did.
Out of curiosity, where is the sniper located? Does it replace overshield? If it's anywhere else, someone could likely make it back to the top of their base, and absolutely destroy people with the lesser amount of cover in the middle.
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Can we peons have the new maps yet?
Metroidvania
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Thaedolus said:Can we peons have the new maps yet?
Only one more week, April 9, unless I'm remembering wrong.
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Shishka said:
If only someone at Bungie would update the playlists to aid Atlas-submitted maps on their quest to Matchmaking.
If only...
I have an updated version of Ber Ber Creek. See if you guys can break out of it, I think the only possible way could be jumping from the top of blue base towards rocket wall. May also be able to jump from blue to a gap towards sniper. I couldn't get close to either jump but want to make sure.
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I googled "Bungie Weekly Update Atlas" and it brought me to this. Didn't bother to search any further so it may've been brought up some other time.Striker said:
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Trasher said:
They should make a Twitter account.
Sai said:
Yup yup. Like Thermite said, it's SO. GOOD.
I think a new DBLEXP should be Team Heavies, while they remove all Heavy variants from other playlists. I think it'd be better.
the truth is i have to fix one or two things in sanctum and i got distracted with my other mapStormtrooper30 said:
read been to lazy
i've also been working on my flying dutchman map. i'm redoing it so that it meets the requirements of atlas. hopefully that will also be done in time for customs on sat.
no work tomorrow means a day of forge filled fun
maybe not though if the weather is as nice as it was today
I'm curious, what needed to be fixed on it? Last time I was in it playing with some friends I really didn't see anything wrong.vhfive said:
Anyway, got my map into Atlas last night. The only problem is more people seem to be interested in telling other people to "read the pinned threads" than actually trying out maps and critiquing them.
top of blue base some things dont spawn in right awayButane123 said:
straightening out of a couple columns in both red and blue base
change a couple of spawn points
and placement of koth and territories
not much really, it shouldn't take more than a half hour to do. i just haven't done it yet
Gave Team Flag a go.
Epic sad face.
Next game made up for it though.
At this point I'm willing to park Avalanche next to Valhalla as the two best BTB maps in the trilogy. Never gotten tired of it yet.
Epic sad face.
Next game made up for it though.
At this point I'm willing to park Avalanche next to Valhalla as the two best BTB maps in the trilogy. Never gotten tired of it yet.
Since my outdoor variant isn't a remake, but more of an inspired build, I'm still not sure what to do with overshield. A Sniper is placed on a small perch-like structure. I currently have it located on one side of the middle, similar to how many MLG maps have higher spots (except this spot isn't "higher" than the base itself).Metroidvania said:
Do you expect Territories on a small map like Mage? KotH I could see (the battle in the middle on Warlock in Halo 2 was quite a blast).Maybe he didn't put placements on Territories because so.
I figured...
Trasher is right, though. They should advertise it helluva lot more.
Shake Appeal
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In case anyone owns a recent Valve game and somehow missed this feature, the developer's commentary they have put in (since Lost Coast?) is fascinating, and really details how much time and effort they put into the simplest things. There's also a lot in there about how they tell stories, and why.Botolf said:
I mean maybe it's just a personal preference, but some games and game developers just make me giddy with how they try to solve 'storytelling in games', and aside from the terminals, Halo isn't one of them, as much as I love most other aspects of it.
Slightly Live
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Shake Appeal said:
I was going to bumble my way into this discussion but here is what I was going to say, but someone beat me and said it better.
As much as I love Halo, I don't play for the story. I'll see if I can type out a silly comparison that I have in my head.
Halo is like the Starship Troopers movie, big, flashy, action packed. By no means do most viewers majorly watch it for the story, maybe a minority does.
Other games, such as Bioshock, Half Life 2, come across to me as good comparisons to the Starship Troopers novel. Although, in my opinion, they don't quite get to that level of immersion. But they try and they get better.
Hmm, maybe it sounded better in my head.
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