The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Kibbles
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Domino Theory said:
Well, you can hear him here - San Diego Comic-Con Halo Panel footage
End of Part 8, Joe Staten teases us with a superintent sticker on his phone with a fake phone call :lol
spermatic cord
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Got my 49 then immediately went back to 48 due to a jerk who quit as soon as the round started and a guy who wouldn't stop rushing (how do you even die 25 times in high level slayer?)
Kibbles
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Awww
lol, Joe in the background http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/the_bungie_community/Comic Con 2008/Picture012.jpg
lol, Joe in the background http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/the_bungie_community/Comic Con 2008/Picture012.jpg
GenericPseudonym
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I was browsing the Mass Effect forums, where I found this site (which had been apparently uncovered by GT forums or some such shit), anyways it appears Halo-related and has a timer.
http://1019foxfm.net/
Anyone already heard of it? Old?
http://1019foxfm.net/
Anyone already heard of it? Old?
And this is my pet, Frank.Kibbles said:Awww
lol, Joe in the background http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/the_bungie_community/Comic Con 2008/Picture012.jpg
Great stuff, Kibbles.
Buttonbasher
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You mean Kibbles. Don't worry, it confuses me too.GhaleonEB said:
Also photoshop won't open, but I really need to Brimley that picture
Buttonbasher
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The SI avatar is what throws me off.GhaleonEB said:
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Kibbles said:Well, you can hear him here - San Diego Comic-Con Halo Panel footage
End of Part 8, Joe Staten teases us with a superintent sticker on his phone with a fake phone call :lol
Hmm, that's it.
I'll be at next year's Comic-Con (pending there's another Halo panel) just to ask stuff to Frankie.
Captain Blood
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Kibbles said:Well, you can hear him here - San Diego Comic-Con Halo Panel footage
End of Part 8, Joe Staten teases us with a superintent sticker on his phone with a fake phone call :lol
Lol at seeing MC's face everytime you look in a mirror.
Edit: also I will be heading back home from vacation tomorrow so hopefully I should be able to get some games in with you guys
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Man, these Halo 2 map packs take forever to download.
BladedExpert
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So I tried my hand at montage making with mixed results. :lol
The quality is pretty iffy (apart from two of the captures Urk did for me which make everything else look lame) and its my first attempt at video editing.
Any of you guys have any experience with this kind of stuff? Know of any good programmes? I used a trial version of Sony Vegas Pro 8. Pretty good I found, allthough I couldn't figure out how to add text or credts.
Also I liked the music at first but after hearing it over and over watching and re-watching sections its kind of hurting my ears.....any suggestions for music would be awesome.
The quality is pretty iffy (apart from two of the captures Urk did for me which make everything else look lame) and its my first attempt at video editing.
Any of you guys have any experience with this kind of stuff? Know of any good programmes? I used a trial version of Sony Vegas Pro 8. Pretty good I found, allthough I couldn't figure out how to add text or credts.
Also I liked the music at first but after hearing it over and over watching and re-watching sections its kind of hurting my ears.....any suggestions for music would be awesome.
electricpirate
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GenericPseudonym said:
err what, cortana letters exumed?
FOr those that don't know, this letter was the sorta-ARG that was used to annouce Halo. You can read the full chain here,
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
Mr Vociferous
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:lolGhaleonEB said:
BladedExpert said:So I tried my hand at montage making with mixed results. :lol
The quality is pretty iffy (apart from two of the captures Urk did for me which make everything else look lame) and its my first attempt at video editing.
Any of you guys have any experience with this kind of stuff? Know of any good programmes? I used a trial version of Sony Vegas Pro 8. Pretty good I found, allthough I couldn't figure out how to add text or credts.
Also I liked the music at first but after hearing it over and over watching and re-watching sections its kind of hurting my ears.....any suggestions for music would be awesome.
I use Sony Vegas too and I really like it. You can even mix 5.1 sound in it. Music is really hard to get right. I did one with Thrice and people bitched. I've been listening for a song that's good for a while now. Try listening to movie soundtracks for kinda neutral music. I haven't made a montage in a while, (since the beta) I got gigs of captures on my hardrive just waiting for me.
BladedExpert
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fin said:
Funnily enough the music I have now is from the Matrix Reloaded Soundtrack.
I noticed what's wrong currently with Team Objective and Ranked BTB:
Objective's gametype weights:
One Bomb and One Flag that much of a high percentage over Neutral and Multi-Bomb? Am I in the twilight zone or should that be dramatically reversed? Of course, one bomb and one flag should be weighted high for maps High Ground, Last Resort, and Ghost Town, but otherwise, it's a gametype that should NOT heavily outweigh the multi-sided affairs on symmetrical maps.
Oddball and King of the Hill need brought back. Also needs to be a bigger abundance of maps (add Snowbound, Guardian for Oddball and KotH, Epitaph for Oddball, and mixup the others [remove multi-side games from Ghost Town... srsly]). The larger map variety in the playlist, the more enjoyable it is.
Ranked BTB's gametype weights:
Team Slayer I don't find as fun nearly as objective. Therefore I think the weight should be 25-28% Slayer to 75-72% Objectives.
Objective's gametype weights:
One Bomb and One Flag that much of a high percentage over Neutral and Multi-Bomb? Am I in the twilight zone or should that be dramatically reversed? Of course, one bomb and one flag should be weighted high for maps High Ground, Last Resort, and Ghost Town, but otherwise, it's a gametype that should NOT heavily outweigh the multi-sided affairs on symmetrical maps.
Oddball and King of the Hill need brought back. Also needs to be a bigger abundance of maps (add Snowbound, Guardian for Oddball and KotH, Epitaph for Oddball, and mixup the others [remove multi-side games from Ghost Town... srsly]). The larger map variety in the playlist, the more enjoyable it is.
Ranked BTB's gametype weights:
I like the Heavy gimmick is awfully low, but Neutral Bomb, again, should be higher.
Team Slayer I don't find as fun nearly as objective. Therefore I think the weight should be 25-28% Slayer to 75-72% Objectives.
Explains why a Mongoose is included in with Covies, but not the Prowler.
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
We're up by 11 in The Pit Sniper Hill. If we hold this hill we win the game. I'm in the hill crouched, my 3 teammates are watching rockets, invis and sword/training, because of course the other team is going to spawn on the other side just like we had been doing all game, right?
They all spawned in the attic ABOVE the hill and killed us.
You can see a red guy on our team by needles. After we all died we spawned across the map and they won the game.
Wow.
We're up by 11 in The Pit Sniper Hill. If we hold this hill we win the game. I'm in the hill crouched, my 3 teammates are watching rockets, invis and sword/training, because of course the other team is going to spawn on the other side just like we had been doing all game, right?
They all spawned in the attic ABOVE the hill and killed us.
You can see a red guy on our team by needles. After we all died we spawned across the map and they won the game.
Wow.
Urk you won't get your point across in the Killzone thread, it's useless, people can't realize that the AI of a game doesn't get astronomically improved 4 &1/2 months before it is shipped.urk said:
On a lighter more Halo related note, i got brigadier today on Team Swat! I had stalled at 42 in Team Slayer so i thought my 45 would never come. If anyone wants to play sometime my GT : arnie lfc
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
kylej said:
I still don't understand why the spawns are there in the first place.
sigh.
I'll settle for AU2 details, as an interim.Blueblur1 said:
But yeah. PAX, hurry the fuck UP.
Edit: wonga.
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=23956282
Complete Comicon Halo panel.
Diablohead
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If they raise SMG power it's going to kick arse again, it's already fairly good up close since it kills faster then the AR, many of times it's come in so handy.
tahrikmili
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Halo 3 really has an awful matchmaking system. In ranked games, the teams are never actually balanced. Twice in a row I played against another team full of people whose max. level ratings were 10-20 higher than my teammates'. Just matching ratings in a given list with total disregard for other lists is just dumb.
tahrikmili
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LAUGHTREY said:
Having a 40 in Slayer should count on every goddamn list if you ask me.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
EazyB said:
The man's going to bring you down. BRING YOU DOWN.
tahrikmili said:
Yeah, there are a few issues with the matchmaking system. Hopefully most will be addressed by the incoming changes.
Prior to the release of Halo 3, the military ranking was touted as the cross hopper rank designation that would be used to denote high level players, but that hasn't been extended into the matchmaking process in any meaningful way. It would be nice if it could be factored into the match selection process, but it would probably make the matchmaking process a bit slower than it already is.
They should just apply the numeric ranking across all hoppers to a certain extent. Say, 35 as a hypothetical cap. If you're a 45 in Team Slayer, then you're automatically a 35 in Team Objective. The skill set you need for both game types isn't so different that a 45 ranked player in one can be legitimately considered a new player in the other.
Of course, players looking to stomp on fresh and lower ranked players won't stop making new accounts as long a they are free and readily available, so you'll always have to deal with it to some extent. But sure, it would be nice if it wasn't built right into the system intentionally.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I've been playing some Halo
campaign today. Haven't played it since release, and had forgotten just how
it really is. Bouncing back with such an awesome campaign in
, Bungie doesn't get enough recognition, IMO. I think people forget how
campaign really was.
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LunaticPuma
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urk said:
Yeah, there are a few issues with the matchmaking system. Hopefully most will be addressed by the incoming changes.
Prior to the release of Halo 3, the military ranking was touted as the cross hopper rank designation that would be used to denote high level players, but that hasn't been extended into the matchmaking process in any meaningful way. It would be nice if it could be factored into the match selection process, but it would probably make the matchmaking process a bit slower than it already is.
They should just apply the numeric ranking across all hoppers to a certain extent. Say, 35 as a hypothetical cap. If you're a 45 in Team Slayer, then you're automatically a 35 in Team Objective. The skill set you need for both game types isn't so different that a 45 ranked player in one can be legitimately considered a new player in the other.
Of course, players looking to stomp on fresh and lower ranked players won't stop making new accounts as long a they are free and readily available, so you'll always have to deal with it to some extent. But sure, it would be nice if it wasn't built right into the system intentionally.
I'm pretty sure military rank affects social matchmaking. Whenever I play with my friends who are brigadiers (like me), we get paired with mostly other brigadiers and generals. When I play with my wife who doesn't have officier statues, the military ranks are generally majors and colonels. I do think matchmaking will sacrifice pairing people up with close military ranks for the sake of speed. Larger playlists are where matchmaking thrives.
My biggest gripe about matchmaking is something I'm suprised they let carry over from Halo 2 which is splitting up a party. It's really annoying to have a party of 3 in any social playlist that's 4v4. It's pretty common to get two parties of 3 and a party of 2 thus splitting some party apart. Really, really annoying, and it could be easily avoided by just launching 3v3 games and sticking to smaller maps (no Valhalla or Last Resort).
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