Bungie Weekly Update
Today Bungie revealed some more details about Halo 3’s Forge, as well as the Bungie.net file sharing system. Before that, however, Bungie’s Luke Smith wanted to clear up the confusion surrounding the Halo 3 Epsilon:
The Epsilon is a closed, final phase testing for Halo 3. We won’t be making the Epsilon available for public consumption, so while that’s immensely disappointing for folks hoping that Friends and Family invites would be extended for the Epsilon, just know that each day you wait in agony is another day closer to September 25.
So yes, it does exists, and no, you can’t play it. This week’s updates are after the jump.
To start, Forge is actually a lot deeper than Bungie let on. It’s not only a map editor, but a multiplayer game type as well. The idea is that players can be Monitors in and out of editing. When the map is relatively complete, eight players, which points to Xbox Live support, can jump in and start playing. Here’s the cool part. Imagine this scenario, you’re playing a game of slayer on your forge map. All of a sudden not one, but two Warthogs appear over a hill, and they both want to plow you over, effectively recreating Frogger. So you’re thinking to yourself “dude, I sure could go for a Brute Chopper right about now”. At this point the player who is acting as your team’s Monitor can come over and grant your wish providing you with weapons or vehicles, even equipment. The Monitors are limited by a set amount of “budget” as a means of preventing meaningless maps that are wasting disk space. The players can even use Forge to add crates and boxes, teleporters etc. It concludes by saying that there will be addition Forge details on the internet soon. My bet is some form of Campaign functionality, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Next order of business, Bungie Pro. Bungie already revealed that players will be able to upload their Halo 3 screenshots and saved films to Bungie.net where other player can go and see them. If you see a save film that looks like it might be interesting, you can choose to have your 360 download it the next time you play Halo 3. Players can also use Halo 3 itself to browse saved files. Up to eight files can be downloaded at a time. You will be able to upload up to 25MB of files which can be organized into six different slots.
For some people, 25MB just doesn’t cut it. That’s who Bungie Pro is for. For 750 points a year, players can upload 250MB which can then be organized into 24 different slots.
August 18th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Overall : wolf/doom.. I say doom bc they did a better job on doom.. DOOM basically screamed “yes! I can!” on top of id’s lungs! This game was scary, yes dont lie it was scary. Carmack invented frags,shotguns,plasme rifles.. basically the first shotty. How he invented it was awesome.
Then you had Half life. I never played it when it first came out. I wasnt a massive fan of the half life series. I thought half life 1 had the best story. The setting was perfect. The first game to make u feel lik eu were in a movie sorta. I did play it in 03 though, it’s something nobody can copy. On the quake 2 engine, This game stood out.
Now, you have Halo. Yeah 007 golden eye was the sh(( but come on. Halo was the FPS that said Yes! we can do this on the console. After halo so many FPS started to come out on the xbox. this is when the pc started to lose all of it’s EXE’s. Halo is the main reason.
I didnt like Halo 2 much, but 1 was great. I still thought halo 2 had to many ad’s about a long ass fight on earth. It barely felt like a fight on earth, I just felt like playing a POC. Not many people liked halo 2 sp, but millions loved the MP> Personally not my type of game for online.. well halo on pc is better than 2 IMO for pc.
let’s hope bungie does a great job this time. Sorry for the long post.
Now, u have crysis
crysis will be the pc’s halo. why crysis?
DOOM basically wrote the fps genre..yeah wolf did but DOOM just crushed it a year later. DOOM 2 still holds the record of 22 million copies sold on the first day of sale.
Half life, great story, setting and the best game for mods which brough u the biggest online shooter cs.. even TF,NS,DOD and many others
Halo, this made the consoles have hope.
August 18th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
lol, my baby was crying and I completely forget why crysis is another milestone in gaming.
Like I said with doom and hl. Crysis will bring u in the world of gaming. Now the bushes/trees/buildings move.. trees split in half, u can see clouds form, blow up gas tanks, blow out tires,have wild life.. even crabs and turtles. Even Crysis would make Pixar blush!!
August 19th, 2007 at 4:23 am
I personally think Goldeneye was better than Halo. It made level design unique, there’s nothing ever repeated in a GE level. It took body part shots into account with the different damage areas. The AI, for the time was the best, guards heard, they saw things, they died in different ways, they dodged, rolled. Vehicles – the tank. Interaction with NPC’s. MANY varying weapons, remote mines, proximity, shotguns, sniper rifles, SILENCED guns, lasers, tasers, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, SMG’s, knives – ALL of which handled differently. The multiplayer was.. I don’t even need to go into this. Goldeneye opened so many doors in the FPS and broke so many boundaries, and it was created by a company who had never even TRIED to make a FPS before.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:13 am
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