To the folks afflicted with the black bars in split screen:
I found this over at the Bungie.net forums:
I found this over at the Bungie.net forums:
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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Just made it to the level where you
Best Halo game by far. The previous mission was exactly what I love about this series.
Personally I think the soundtrack in Halo 3 is amazing, best they've had. The first two games had great music too though. Marty was on top of things again.
start off with the sparten laser. Trident I think it's called.
The huge vehicle battles in the desert.
Lakitu said:
Personally I think the soundtrack in Halo 3 is amazing, best they've had. The first two games had great music too though. Marty was on top of things again.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
Am I the only one feeling that this game, even though being entertaining, feels outdated? I mean, the action is so simple compared to Rainbow Six: Vegas, Gears of War or even the Call of Duty 4 beta.
A 10/10 for this game is ridiculous. Right now I'm hovering around a 8/10, depending on how fun co-op will be.
A 10/10 for this game is ridiculous. Right now I'm hovering around a 8/10, depending on how fun co-op will be.
cartoon_soldier
Member
ItsInMyVeins said:
You mean, no cover?
SlasherJPC
Banned
ItsInMyVeins said:
Well it feels simply yet in depth, with lots to do.The game is very pick up and play and simply in those regards, but for anyone that wants to master the game, theres TONS to do. I don't think the game deserves a 10, honestly most games don't. An 8 1/2 to 9 is fair imo.
siamesedreamer
Banned
How long does it take uploaded screenshots to appear on Bungie.net?
I took two about 5 minutes ag o and they are not there.
I took two about 5 minutes ag o and they are not there.
The Elite
BOSS
siamesedreamer said:
You have to put them on fileshare in the game first and then they'll appear on the website. You can then move them over to your image gallery if you want to keep them without sharing them.
At least I think this is how it works.
Took a few seconds to upload mine.
Flesh Into Gear
Member
thanks everyone who answered
Vyse The Legend
Member
So I found a second skull on the
. I thought it might be the IWHBYD skull (the only one I'm missing), but it unlocked nothing. There must be something special about it.
Cortana level
rollingstart
Banned
how do you unlock new armor? do you need to play on ranked games?
ItsInMyVeins said:
First of all, I'm going to pretend you didn't just say gears of war
Second, the gameplay in halo isn't simple, you have TONS of options at any point as to how you want to approach a situation. The freedom you have in encounters is much higher than it is in vegas or cod4 beta.
siamesedreamer
Banned
DoctorWho said:
OK...got it. Preesh.
Oh! My Car!
Member
So, (vague but I am considering it) is this good enough to buy a second 360 system while the other is undergoing service?
Don't be shy with the superlatives, I can handle them.
Don't be shy with the superlatives, I can handle them.
Flesh Into Gear said:
The covenent on earth were only there to get to the ark.. once they opened the gate, they all left earch and went there... makes sense they werent going to earth as a tactical advantage, they wanted to find their salvation..
The flood on Earth were killed by the elites by glassing half of Africa.
The ring was in the ark. The ark was a forerunner construct that was outside the galaxy outside of the reach of the halo rings.. essentially if the halo rings were set off, the ark would be a safe haven.
The halo ring that was set off was created by the ark (thats where all those sentinals were going when guilty spark said they had another mission to attend to). Master Chief destroyed the halo ring in the first game, and ever since that time, the ark has been creating a replacement. Just good timing that it was finished (or nearly finished) when the flood got there.
activating the ring would kill everything within a certain distance of the ark. Luckily the humans elites all got out of the ark prior too it being set off.. the rest of the covenent army inside the ark would have been killed (if the flood/high charity didnt allready get them).
Without the profets, and with a good chunk of the brutes dead (and since the elites were the bigger military power in the covenent) its very plausible that the elites would punish the rest of the races in the elites to the point of extinction for turning on them.
It was actually a very clean ending to the series IMO..
although, explaining why all the other races in the covenent sided with the brutes since they were with the elites in Halo 2 would have been nice. I can use my imagination.. but it would have been nice anyway
The flood on Earth were killed by the elites by glassing half of Africa.
The ring was in the ark. The ark was a forerunner construct that was outside the galaxy outside of the reach of the halo rings.. essentially if the halo rings were set off, the ark would be a safe haven.
The halo ring that was set off was created by the ark (thats where all those sentinals were going when guilty spark said they had another mission to attend to). Master Chief destroyed the halo ring in the first game, and ever since that time, the ark has been creating a replacement. Just good timing that it was finished (or nearly finished) when the flood got there.
activating the ring would kill everything within a certain distance of the ark. Luckily the humans elites all got out of the ark prior too it being set off.. the rest of the covenent army inside the ark would have been killed (if the flood/high charity didnt allready get them).
Without the profets, and with a good chunk of the brutes dead (and since the elites were the bigger military power in the covenent) its very plausible that the elites would punish the rest of the races in the elites to the point of extinction for turning on them.
It was actually a very clean ending to the series IMO..
although, explaining why all the other races in the covenent sided with the brutes since they were with the elites in Halo 2 would have been nice. I can use my imagination.. but it would have been nice anyway
cartoon_soldier said:
I don't know, at heroic and higher if you don't take cover and plan out a decent attack. You'll just die in about 2 seconds. IMO its better then gears in terms of firefights.
I suppose on easy and normal you can just about walk up to a brute and piss all over his face and be fine. *shrug*
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Does anyone know when Bungie will be selling the Filter for the video calibration?
I went through it a little earlier, and it's a bit pointless without the filters because the only options it alters are brightness, contrast and sharpness.
I went through it a little earlier, and it's a bit pointless without the filters because the only options it alters are brightness, contrast and sharpness.
rollingstart
Banned
ItsInMyVeins said:
honestly, the only part that feels 'outdated' is the lack of a sprint button.
after playing so many FPS lately where you can press a button and get to where you need to be faster, I wish Halo had it also.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Jackl said:
During the first mission,
at the end when your going after sarge
Quoting this again, because I checked and it's wrong :/joelseph said:
I played many games only 5vs5 and I got only once a normal team commication system instead of the stupid push-to-talk system.
So, let's make a summary of my complains -all on social matchmaking- (I added three):
- stupid push-to-talk system
- impossible to choice precisely the type of game on social match
- the game load the map before asking for veto... if there is veto, the game has obviously to load a second time (oh god...)
- you can make a group, and be separated !!! I mean you make a 5 guys team, even if there is 10 players the game can choice to separate the players of the same group. WTF ?!?
- if you want to play a 16 players game (because you have already 8 players in your group) it sometimes only search for 12 players (and I am in the right playlist)
The multiplayer is totally fucked, half of my friends want to do the coop and sell the game... and now I don't even know what to say because I starting the think the same. Damn, I was fucking waiting for this game, my friend took the game because I said it would be excellent and complete, I don't give a fuck about aliasing, texture etc, I pass through it, but I never though that the multiplayer could be dumb. I would give away forge, the cinema mode and Bungie.net just for having a decent multiplayer that would correct all the points stated.
One of my friend said a simple thing "Well, Halo is indeed full of options... but you can chose nothing". That's exactly the problem.
Well, hoping for a patch... (yeah, I am dreaming, it was like that on Halo 2 blablabla...)
RiskyChris
Banned
painey said:
I'd say of the FPS games I've played, Halo 3's SP is one of the worst of the bunch. On the other hand, I can't stop playing multiplayer.
I purchased the game because the Halo 3 beta showed me the MP was fun, not because I wanted to play the story mode.
I have a few newb questions, if anyone has the time to answer them:
- What's that sniper-ish rifle you get fairly early on in the first level? Human weapon. Scoped. Black. Fully automatic, I think. Certainly rapid fire. Kinda weak feeling, but with a decent zoom. Seemed to kill better at a distance than the Carbine.
- Regarding the "real" sniper rifle with the green night-vision scope, how is the zoom supposed to be used, exactly? It's got two levels of zoom, I think, and I tended to only see the reticle turn red while at max zoom. And I seemed to only get insta-kill head shots when I was fully zoomed in. Does the rifle actually do more damage when it's fully zoomed, or was I just missing when I shot at "half zoom"??
- The portable shield equipment doohickey, you're supposed to be able to shoot (outwards) through it, correct? Does that only work with non-energy weapons? I think I managed to kill myself last night by ricocheting a bunch of needles off my own damn shield.
- What's that sniper-ish rifle you get fairly early on in the first level? Human weapon. Scoped. Black. Fully automatic, I think. Certainly rapid fire. Kinda weak feeling, but with a decent zoom. Seemed to kill better at a distance than the Carbine.
- Regarding the "real" sniper rifle with the green night-vision scope, how is the zoom supposed to be used, exactly? It's got two levels of zoom, I think, and I tended to only see the reticle turn red while at max zoom. And I seemed to only get insta-kill head shots when I was fully zoomed in. Does the rifle actually do more damage when it's fully zoomed, or was I just missing when I shot at "half zoom"??
- The portable shield equipment doohickey, you're supposed to be able to shoot (outwards) through it, correct? Does that only work with non-energy weapons? I think I managed to kill myself last night by ricocheting a bunch of needles off my own damn shield.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Zezboob said:
Holy fucktard thats alot of bitching! If these problems are legit, I'm sure Bungie will fix it. The fact that half your friends want to do co-op and then sell it is just straight up retarded.
StriKeVillain
Banned
Do the Coop and sell the game? Wtf are you going to play? Gears? This game has the most elaborate online system ever seen on a console. Even buggy as it is, it's still far superior to any online console game.Zezboob said:
Quite possibly the dumbest post I've ever read. Shame, you put so much work into it.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Tieno said:
It's up for me.
MirageDwarf
Member
This game is incredible fun. Full of win. Awesome. I will say again, 3D flying cam is best feature. I always wanted to see fight from different angles and explore area with camera. Tonight I will start finishing the fight again where I left yesterday night.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
WOW. I fucking love the File Share aspect of this game. Yesterday I took a screenshot from a game of Ninjaball I had on Epitaph. When I ran across the person who had the ball, I kindly asked for him to give it to me, yet he refused. So I showed him whose boss by choking him. Pic here So far I have 7 comments with everyone loving it and 2 perfect ratings.
Then there's a small clip of me getting a Killtacular with the Hammer which can be found here Already has 13 downloads.
Then there's a small clip of me getting a Killtacular with the Hammer which can be found here Already has 13 downloads.
While I'm sure Bungie will come through with some sort of utterly cool blue filter offer, you really don't have to wait. You can buy a really nice "gel" filter at any good camera store, and I'm sure there are plenty of places online that sell to AV geeks. I must have 3-4 blue filters by now, since I have a couple different calibration discs, plus the one I bought years ago. Of all of them, I prefer this solution. (THX filter glasses) That page doesn't render correctly for me, so you may need to dick around a bit to place your order. I think the glasses are free, but they charge a buck or two for shipping.cjelly said:
StrikerObi
Member
Zezboob said:
I don't know about the rest of your complaints, but Bungie has said for the first few weeks at least, Big Team Battle is limited to 5v5 so they can sort out "who the good network hosts are". They decided that the chance of a poor host connection is too high right now and would ruin 6v6 games.
I had no idea they were keeping records of your latency quality. That's pretty awesome. Way to ensure quality hosting guys!
Lé Blade Runner
Member
The multiplayer is fucked? W-w-what? It is the best multiplayer-experience on any console so far, bar none. I am having a *ton* of fun online!
Revengeance
Member
Fusion coil infinite dominoes: the key isn't the respawn time, but the 'minimum number allowed on map' setting: set it to the same amount of coils in your loop (and make sure there aren't any hidden elsewhere on the map.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo3/FileShare.aspx?gamertag=HouseofOrange
It's the only file I have to share, so no confusion.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo3/FileShare.aspx?gamertag=HouseofOrange
It's the only file I have to share, so no confusion.
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