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The Official Halo 3 Thread

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Thermite said:
Oh no, good sir. The whole commentary is awesome. Every second is filled with win, especially actually hearing Jason confess his feelings about Halo: CE, a few years after it was made, during the credits. /creepy Halo fanatic #22546
The thing I found most interesting was the number of levels cut from the final games.
 
I really like Joe Staten. He just seems like a cool guy. I loved hearing him talk about all of the little stories and problems associated with the cutscenes.
 
tak said:
The thing I found most interesting was the number of levels cut from the final games.

There were quite a few cut from Halo 2. The only ones I knew about beforehand were a few from the end, but there were a lot more. First one was 'Covenant ship', which was to take place after Cairo Station. This level would have been pure genius. Riding a Warthog back through Cairo with the huge bomb to take it back to the Covenant ship and when you got there, you are to destroy the ship from the inside and plant the bomb. AWESOME! I really wish they didn't cut this level, it would have been legendary. Next one was 'Forerunner Tank', which you were supposed to be riding underground on your way to the Gravemind, while seeing his tentacles come flying out through the rocks. And....wait, what was the other one they mentioned? I cannot think of it for the life of me..
 
Thermite said:
DO IT! I need to see your gigantic cat! :lol


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Cocopjojo said:
I really like Joe Staten. He just seems like a cool guy. I loved hearing him talk about all of the little stories and problems associated with the cutscenes.
Joe carried the commentary; however, in a few parts he dived into the details a little to deeply and repeated things he already stated. For example, he had a fetish with pointing out the objects don't move and motion is simulated with a camera movement.

Don't get my wrong, the commentary was awesome, I'm just nitpicking.

Stinkles said:
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That's not a cat, that's Catzilla!
 
armubaba said:
Just noticed that Ram's "Perfection" game is on Bungie Favorites. Probably older than Jesus riding a dinosaur, but hey, new to me. Good job man! :lol

i got one too :( wheres my favorites...
 
GodfatherX said:
were you playing co op or solo, and how easy is normal..i started with heroic

It wasn't your average "normal". I was limited on ammo, and Grunts threw plasma grenades at every chance they got.

And to Thermit, no prob! I'm here to serve :D
 
Bungie favorites are a bit disappointing.

Screenshots are pretty generic (I've seen far better ones in the GAF thread alone), clips are pretty "meh" aside from that one awesome sticky and there isn't anything new or exciting in the game variant or map variant sections.
 
Does anyone play MLG settings here? I'm looking for some MLG FFA settings for halo 3. Also How can you take radar off in H3, I Cant find the advanced custom game settings.
 
Haha ok, every other game in Lone Wolves is guys looking for achievements. :lol

I got all mine and helped other people, and I'll always help them out if they ask (even though I already have all mine). I don't want to be a dick, but also, it's not especially fun to just mow guys down that are trying to organize something.

So what do I do if I want to play an actual game of Lone Wolves, Bungie???? :lol
 
Team Slayer is kinda fucked up.

Could we please get rid of Shotty Sniper. Really. Nobody wants it.

I've played over 200 matches and some maps (Valhalla and Last Resort) I have ONLY played Shotty Sniper. Is it supposed to be like this? If it is, then that's stupid.
 
Cerrius said:
Bungie favorites are a bit disappointing.

Screenshots are pretty generic (I've seen far better ones in the GAF thread alone), clips are pretty "meh" aside from that one awesome sticky and there isn't anything new or exciting in the game variant or map variant sections.


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tak said:
The cinematic commentary is awesome in parts.

I loved the commentary. I was laughing when they were making fun of Halo 2's ending.

Marty: "It's obviously the last level of the game. Whoo hoo! I can hardly wait to play this last level. Let's do it. Here we go! Oh man this is so exciting... YES... wait, what? (*screen goes black*) Well this is obviously the music that is leading us into the last level, right?"

Jason Jones (on the after-credits cutscene): "THIS is gonna be the last level I've been waiting for. Everyone picks their controller up."
 
Cocopjojo said:
Forerunner Tank. It definately would have rocked.

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:lol

Ghaleon, you're in for a treat with the second disc. Horribly visual quality of the Halo 1 cinemas inside, I thought the commentary was totally awesome/funny/interesting.

Also: Asia, Fuck Yeah!

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SailorDaravon said:
:lol

Ghaleon, you're in for a treat with the second disc. Horribly visual quality of the Halo 1 cinemas inside, I thought the commentary was totally awesome/funny/interesting.

Also: Asia, Fuck Yeah!

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God, that looks so sexy. I just need to do the meta game ones but I'm tired of the campaign!
 
I notice pics of people able to do the final escape run with a Mongoose. All I've ever seen is the Warthog. Does anybody know where it is or how to get it?

As for the cinematics disc my favorite part was when they explain the Keyes / Needler glitch in Truth and Reconciliation. So glad they fixed that, but would have been hilarious to see just once.
 
Pudding Tame said:
I notice pics of people able to do the final escape run with a Mongoose. All I've ever seen is the Warthog. Does anybody know where it is or how to get it?
When you first get the Warthog and exit the canyon - you usually take a hard right to head towards the panels. Take a left instead, and the Mongoose is by the rock wall, at the end of the path.
 
SailorDaravon said:


Ahh! Want scout shouders/Ninja Helmet.

I pretty much want Lars' setup in the first humpday vid.

I'm starting to think the "Ninja" helmet or whatever is Bungie-only, much like the flaming helmets...

Is this true? Will I NEVER have my Ninja? :(
 
Ajemsuhgao said:
Ahh! Want scout shouders/Ninja Helmet.

I pretty much want Lars' setup in the first humpday vid.

I'm starting to think the "Ninja" helmet or whatever is Bungie-only, much like the flaming helmets...

Is this true? Will I NEVER have my Ninja? :(

Uh, you can get the Ninja (Hayabusa) helmet by getting all 13 skulls. The only thing you won't get with it is the flaming part.
 
I'm like 4 achievements away from that beautiful security armor. Looks like this weekend is going to be spent in multiplayer and finishing up the game on legendary.
 
What are those shoulder pads the teal guy is showcasing? To get those, you must get the Mongoose Mowdown, correct? I want those and my Spartan is complete. :)
 
K i'm freakin lost. What are you guys talking about with the asian matchmaking? How does this work?

Ah that is the armour you get when you hit 1000 gamerscore. Dang that's not gonna be easy.



Now I really really need to know about this asian market that sells kitties for gamerscore. I'm in :)
 
Truelize said:
K i'm freakin lost. What are you guys talking about with the asian matchmaking? How does this work?

Ah that is the armour you get when you hit 1000 gamerscore. Dang that's not gonna be easy.



Now I really really need to know about this asian market that sells kitties for gamerscore. I'm in :)
I can hop on now and help you with it...
 
Striker said:
What are those shoulder pads the teal guy is showcasing? To get those, you must get the Mongoose Mowdown, correct? I want those and my Spartan is complete. :)

I'm not sure at what point specifically I unlocked them or if that's what did it or not, I really wasn't compulsively checking that stuff. Oh and for those doing the asian workaround, the achievements do show in chinese in your dash only, but if you recover your tag when you're done and after you switch back to english, it DOES make fix them to english afterwards :D
 
Was tooling around in Forge and made a variant of Sandtrap, Airtrap (yeah, real original name, I know). Focuses more on aerial combat with one hornet and two banshees to each side. Took out the spartan lasers on both sides and put in some more rockets and plasma pistols, and put a spartan laser where the banshee normally spawns.

Recommended gametypes are Team Slayer and CTF (flying away with the flag on the side seat of a hornet is an awesome rush).

Comments and tips are welcome, this is a first draft and may need more tweaking.

Can be found in Slot 3 of my file share: http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo3/FileShare.aspx?gamertag=z4m
 
Finally got the overkill achievement.

How do I go about recovering my gamertag now? I'm kinda of afraid, I really don't want to mess anything up like having to redownload updates or lose the DRM on my XBLA games or whatever. Is it harmless and easy to do?
 
Sean said:
Finally got the overkill achievement.

How do I go about recovering my gamertag now? I'm kinda of afraid, I really don't want to mess anything up like having to redownload updates or lose the DRM on my XBLA games or whatever. Is it harmless and easy to do?
Sign out and you should see "Recover Gamertag" about two slots below.

You enter your gamertag, then it prompts you to enter your .net passport e-mail address then its password. Submit and it eventually comes to Accept, which of course you do. Then it reads your profile and afterwards it downloads your profile to Xbox Live. I had a few issues with mine when I did it, but it went through fine. I think XBL was acting up that night, because it would say "Xbox Live is not available" a few times until it went complete.

The Achievements do go back being in English and normal again.
 
Striker said:
Sign out and you should see "Recover Gamertag" about two slots below.

You enter your gamertag, then it prompts you to enter your .net passport e-mail address then its password. Submit and it eventually comes to Accept, which of course you do. Then it reads your profile and afterwards it downloads your profile to Xbox Live. I had a few issues with mine when I did it, but it went through fine. I think XBL was acting up that night, because it would say "Xbox Live is not available" a few times until it went complete.

The Achievements do go back being in English and normal again.


So many cheating gamertags busting themselves publicly, so little time...
 
Is it cheating to go into a lobby in america and spam achievement desires and work the system? I don't see how it's important. And just for the record i'd like to say bungie created the more horrible set of achievements possible, I mean really, 3 sword kills in a row with only 4 opponents in RANKED in which case the only maps with swords come up so rarely? Hell their not even based on skill but luck.

Love the game, but the FFA ranked achievements are so much worse then what gears had, at least those were like.. grinding and skill.
 
goldenpp72 said:
Is it cheating to go into a lobby in america and spam achievement desires and work the system? I don't see how it's important. And just for the record i'd like to say bungie created the more horrible set of achievements possible, I mean really, 3 sword kills in a row with only 4 opponents in RANKED in which case the only maps with swords come up so rarely? Hell their not even based on skill but luck.

Love the game, but the FFA ranked achievements are so much worse then what gears had, at least those were like.. grinding and skill.


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Stinkles said:
So many cheating gamertags busting themselves publicly, so little time...

Maybe my asian friend visited and he's awesome at Halo 3 multiplayer? Did you ever think of that?

goldenpp72 said:
how can you ban people when you're not working for microsoft anymore :D

oh snap
 
I played Legendary co-op last night with two mates. I expected it to work well but it was superb! We played for two hours and it was absolutely flawless. Seriously, congratulations Bungie for making this work as well as it does!
 
I just beat the level cortana on legendary by myself, it was an act of being able to run away like a coward half the time, thank god for the cloaks.

I think that's the hardest level anyways, but I have a ways to go to win in legendary all the way. Curious though, I have one level (first) beaten in co op legendary while the rest i've done in single, do I have to rebeat that level?

Also.. is there a way to tell between people who win it by themselves or in co op?
 
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