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Fallout-NL said:
Huh, what about the tripod thing? 'Nades, shooting, bitchslapping.

you dont spawn with a dual wieldable weapon, thats how.

I bet the addition of the mauler makes dual wielding pretty powerful. I'm glad its a viable weapon.
 
Cocopjojo said:
Wow. Well, if it didn't work... and it's a tiny thing in the midst of lots of cool stuff, but jeez... Me and my friends are campaign people and that was one of things we were most excited about. Videos of hidden skulls, terminals, cool fights against hunters, etc.

Ouch. BIG ouch.

I had the same feeling, but at least we still have the option to watch campaign shit. And if you really wanted to, you can still edit your own videos together, it's just less easy.
 
franke8568 said:
Has anyone heard how long the campaign is going to be this time around?

Should we just put this in the main post. I dont know how many more times I care to read the same discussion about the length.

How bout this answer, it varies.
 
Domino Theory said:
Anyone getting an error when downloading from iTunes ? It says "There was a problem downloading the podcast (-50)"

I am too.

I predict this thread will hit 20,000 Sunday night at 6:30pm EST.
 
Frak itunes. I'll download it directly even though it's a pain. I've got to have my bungie podcast!

I'll just listen to it again when itunes finally downloads
 
voltron said:
This is shit. I dont understand - did you rush? Did you want to finish?

Um,
1. I'm awesome. Add +5hours to your respective playtime. :lol
2. I explored a lot but not all the time, because the environments are MASSIVE.
3. It's only 9 levels long.
 
Im going to fucking kill someone, my samsumng lcd broke 3 weeks ago. I called to get my tv fixed as per my warranty immediately, 2 weeks ago a service guy came to my house, and informed me a needed a new panel. They told me the part would be ordered the next day. I've called repeatedly over the course of two weeks, and just now I get a call back saying the ETA on the part was unknown, and an order for a new tv was put in.....2-3 week wait. Now I have experience halo 3 for the first time on a shit ass old regular sd tv. I wouldn't normally be pissed....but this game was one of the main reasons for my purchasing an hdtv, and it will be about a month now just to get this piece of shit fixed. Goddammit.
 
Vyse The Legend said:
Um,
1. I'm awesome. Add +5hours to your respective playtime. :lol
2. I explored a lot but not all the time, because the environments are MASSIVE.
3. It's only 9 levels long.

Yeah I guess I try to prolong game like this. Deliberately exploring to delay the inevitable... just wandering if you did the same or if you essentially powered through it. All good.
 
Man, that ViDoc was too fun for my own good - so awesome, so awesome...

And "Carmine" perm was in there as well too, piloting the Prowler at 2:30, actually in fact, except for the last Elite perm in that compilation pic, they were all in there at some point in time...

Hopefully if all goes well, I can have this baby as soon as tomorrow, as I heard through the grapevine that my local store got it in earlier today!
 
CougRon said:
Frak itunes. I'll download it directly even though it's a pain. I've got to have my bungie podcast!

I'll just listen to it again when itunes finally downloads

Hmm, I'm not sure why the Itunes link isn't working, the RSS feed on Bungie.net has the download working.
 
Wait, WHAT? You can't use the replay feature for the Campaign (a'la what they demonstrated it with a couple weeks ago)? Or you just can't make a movie file out of it? I'm confused.
 
Tieno said:
How awesome are you Vyse?

I have a Landstalker avatar. Clearly, I am on an ethereal plane of epic awesomeness.

Yeah I guess I try to prolong game like this. Deliberately exploring to delay the inevitable... just wandering if you did the same or if you essentially powered through it. All good.

Oh, no. I explored. Trust me. Whenever I saw a possible hidden area, I spent tons of time trying to figure out how to reach it. That said, due to the fear of spoilers, I did focus more on experiencing the story (which is fucking awesome, btw). I intend to replay Halo 3 dozens of time in coop.
 
Xdrive05 said:
Wait, WHAT? You can't use the replay feature for the Campaign (a'la what they demonstrated it with a couple weeks ago)? Or you just can't make a movie file out of it? I'm confused.

From what I understand, you cannot rewind or cut the saved campaign film into individual clips, due to complexity that my brain does not contain.
 
Xdrive05 said:
Wait, WHAT? You can't use the replay feature for the Campaign (a'la what they demonstrated it with a couple weeks ago)? Or you just can't make a movie file out of it? I'm confused.

You can't make a clip/rewind for a number of hyper complicated reasons.
 
Xdrive05 said:
Wait, WHAT? You can't use the replay feature for the Campaign (a'la what they demonstrated it with a couple weeks ago)? Or you just can't make a movie file out of it? I'm confused.
You just can't make clips, or play it backwards. Clips are small segments of films. In other words, you can only save the full level playthrough, not a small part of it. If I understand correctly.
 
So like, is there a spoiler free place where I can check out the list of multiplayer maps in this one? Unless the ones announced are the only maps in the game right now.
 
LukeSmith said:
You can't make a clip/rewind for a number of hyper complicated reasons.

The inability to rewind is the only thing that really bothers me. I spent like 20 minutes trying to figure out how to do it, until I realized that it just wasn't possible. =/
 
Campaign levels are streamed and not fully in memory. Since the replays are actually running in realtime, a clip of campaign footage with cuts would not work.


I don't undersand why the guy in the vi-doc said rewinding MP footage was incredibly hard to pull off.
 
i have played a lof of the campaing and im not a ubber halo fan..but ppl,this is one if not the finest game on 360,it put gears to shame in some many aspects
 
pooteeweet said:
Could those complicated reasons be resolved with DLC in the future, hypothetically?
That's highly unlikely. It will be to do with the way they store saved films data and the features of their engine that allow them to play back this data stream. It is not going to be easy to patch this type of stuff. It is Bungie, so it's vaguely possible, but the limitations likely run deep.
 
Thanks for clarifying, everyone. The rewind thing is the only thing that bothers me about that. I was hoping to be able to find a cool part and watch it over and over again without having to search from the beginning each time.

In the end it's not big of a problem as long as I can at least watch the whole thing over again from any angle. That's good enough I suppose.
 
Tieno said:
I don't undersand why the guy in the vi-doc said rewinding MP footage was incredibly hard to pull off.
It's because they're probably storing the saved films data as an event stream. It's intuitive for their engine to play back this data forwards because it will be similar in nature to the external messages their gamestate engine will be receiving from network, input and physics systems. Going backwards, however, will likely involve running through the list of actions backwards and "undoing" them; reversing their effect. They would probably have to reprogram/add significant amounts of code to the event handling to support going backwards.
 
If it hasn't been said before (probably has), I'd also stay away from YTMND, I'm sure we all remember what happened with Harry Potter.
 
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