New Halo 3 Maps

[Wood Ghost]

Maybe Wondermonkey or one of the other experts can fill us in a little on these maps. If they're in another thread just let me know.

Map Tease

Work is progressing on new maps for future downloadable content, with the design and art teams vigorously engaged in the process. More entertainingly however, the ad-hoc test team of Bungie staff is enjoying these new maps greatly. My favorites are what I have already nicknamed Jodrell Bank and Moonbase Alpha.

I “invented” a game type on Jodrell Bank which is actually just Team Slayer with Swords and Snipers. Thanks to some unique geographical features of that map, it works great. Moonbase Alpha, on the other hand is best suited to objective games, like CTF and Assault, but it has some natural deadlocks that make Slayer interesting and Infection terrifying.

Which reminds me of one more downloadable map. The scariest map of all time. Dark, frightening and surprisingly enormous. One of the scariest things that has ever happened to me (and this in a lifetime fraught with terror) was racing away from a marauding gang of zombies in Infection atop a Mongoose, only to have one leap out of the darkness ahead and unseat me with a throaty scream. I call that level John Carpenter’s Prince of Dorkness. It’s not as catchy as Jub Jub, but it’s every bit as accurate.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.a...news&cid=12857

[Wondermonkey]

As of now, that's the most info available, and probably will be for a while. I'd suspect though that we're going to see a bunch of maps as well as armor for DLC.

[MadBryan]

monkeys can't be experts. They throw poop at each other!

[Epyon MX]

I “invented” a game type on Jodrell Bank which is actually just Team Slayer with Shotguns... err.... Swords and Snipers.

We don't really need a stabby/snipers do we?

[Quo]

I'm not real excited about stabby snipers, myself. I don't imagine it could be any better than shotty snipers. I mean, you can actually lunge farther than the effective range of the shotty so it might be slightly longer range, but it will still amount to who's best on the sniper rifle (more often than not, who can no-scope)...

[Chubby]

I royally suck with the sniper rifle, Always have even in the HAlo CE days. Not looking forward to another Shotty/Snipers Variant.

Why not come up with something like HandGun/Shotties or something?
Chubbs

[Causedawg 83]

I remember when handguns had a 2x scope. Everyone I used to play with told me I was great with it because I could scope people out and get headshots like crazy. It's unfortunate that they removed that feature from the handgun in Halo 2 foward... although probably a bit more realistic.

[Quo]

Yeah, realism... that's what they're shooting for in H3.

Just kidding man. If the peeps want a scope on the handgun, I say give it to 'em. Let people customize their weapons.

[Wondermonkey]

Originally Posted by Causedawg 83

It's unfortunate that they removed that feature from the handgun in Halo 2 foward.

Not for me it's not. What a ridiculously unbalanced weapon that was.

[ZoomZoom71]

Man, I'm sooo glad they depowered the H1 pistol. I miss the scope, but the power was over the top.

[Quo]

Wow, shows how much H1 I played. I had no idea...

[Causedawg 83]

Haha. Yeah, unbalanced maybe... but at least it was worth carrying. Now there's no point in having one because you're better off trying to get behind someone for a beat down.

[Epyon MX]

Okay, I can't resist responding to this.

The pistol was over-powered and ridiculous, but it was also totally amazing. And everyone spawned with one. Since everyone had one, it was balanced. It was a skill based weapon as opposed to the spray-n-pray dual-wielders in Halo 2 and afterwards. It was great for long-range and for close-range. 12 shots, 3 shots per kill. 4 deaths/ mag. It was the ultimate power weapon. Only a sniper rifle has the same deaths/ mag capability. In Halo 2 and 3, the BR have about 2-3 deaths/ mag.

Halo 2 & 3 automatically lose for the pistol's loss. The Halo 3 pistol is better, but it still takes about 6 shots to kill someone and with only 8 shots in a mag it's a totally ineffective weapon (i.e. miss once or have your target turn a corner and you can't finish them off without reloading which takes too long. Then you're dead).


I'm glad no one takes the realism too seriously, I mean, there's no fall damage for heck's sake.

[Causedawg 83]

Boy did I ever derail this thread.

[Quo]

Originally Posted by Epyon MX

...4 deaths/ mag. It was the ultimate power weapon. Only a sniper rifle has the same deaths/ mag capability. In Halo 2 and 3, the BR have about 2-3 deaths/ mag.

Wimp. I can die more than 2-3 times without using a full magazine.

Probably one of the reasons I stink so bad, but it's rare for me to get more than one kill out of a BR's magazine. I try the body, body, head, but it never ceases to amaze me how seldom it actually works that way. Heck, I've been running behind someone who's chasing someone else and bursted body, body, head, body, body and they still didn't go down. Shields flickering and all. Had to beat them down to finish them off. Yet the other night I got bursted twice with BR fire ducking in between the rocks by Vox from 100 yards and went down. It's tough to figure out.

[Wondermonkey]

Not only was it ridiculously powerful, the kill reticule was completely inaccurate. When you'd scope someone across Hang Em High, and just aim at their person, you'd wind up hitting their head. Now, I know that they were probably using super head magnetic bullets, but come on. I don't miss the pistol one bit.

As for fall damage, Bungie changed that because it didn't fit in with what Spartans can actually do. Being super human demons and all. It's totally realistic!

[Epyon MX]

I have a disturbing amount of love for the pistol.