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6/14/2007 1:27:46 AM
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Post-mortem: The Halo 3 Public Beta
Designers Tyson Green and Lars Bakken are joined by Producer and famous griefer Joe Tung, to reflect on the Beta that was.
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Yes we do. The beta was amazing Bungie. Now I have to go back to Halo 2 until September (Although it is satisfying to stay up until 5 a.m. and win 11 out of 13 Hardcore games). Nevertheless, not sleeping to play the beta was even more awesome. And in the post...you were right, us Halo players will get somewhere if we want to(my favorite being all the redness outside Valhalla, it was as if Moses himself was a forerunner). Although I hardly believed those words in postgame lobby telling me how to get into a custom game and play with gravity, speed, swords, and pistols. Glitches have always been a part of halo and always seem to add to playability (BxR, Doubleshot). There was only one thing with the Beta that even frationally peed me off....i wanted to pause, rewind, and fast orward saved games, but I perservered and my montage came out great. The maps were great, as were the weapons/vehicles, and respawning was either great of awful depending on who was holding what position. It was all amazing and just makes me more anxious to play the full game. Thanks Bungie. (Why was Team Skirm taken out and replaced with ranked and unranked equivalents of BTB?....just a little question)
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wat i dont understand is if they have that sky to show the detail and depth of their levels...why have it in the first place if u cant even get to the black skies without glitching? wtf?
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Territories is fun? HA! Me and my friends vetoed it every chance we got. I know we aren't the majority, but its about as fun counting rice grains. Back to the Slayer settings in Skirmish: who's genius idea was that? You're damn right it shows up too much. It shouldn't show up at all. Just reiterating my main gripes. I enjoyed most everything else.
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i just don't believe frankie would lie to us, never mind erect palaces. 816 years is a lot. and i thought my five hundred games was excessive ;-)
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I didn't realize territories became fun...huh... Also I would like to say, no more editor's notes... I don't know who is talking to me when those things are added...
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Cool. I can't wait to see how you blocked players from getting out of the maps. I just wished you commented on custom games and the Beta code reading, oh well. One last thing I would love to see, aerial views of each map showing the highest death spots. I would love to see how many people died outside the map on Valhalla.
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I'm suprised there wasn't anything (to my recolection) about the whole custom game thingy.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Jordan117 Hmm... no mention of the Custom Games? That's a little surprising.[/quote] lol i played a few of them it was pretty sweet !
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i like how they were talking about the "Huge secret" of space in valhalla. Once they fix the little butt-crack in valhallas thats done. I wish they had talked more abut custom games though. I played 49 customs, lol. [Edited on 06.13.2007 7:14 PM PDT]
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Territories WAS FUN! Great strategy game to add to the mix on team skirmish>
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Yeah,custom games were pretty sweet,except i made my own game by doing the whole press x twice thing to copy and save someone elses game and make it my own(and thanks for adressing the whole getting out of the planet thing on Valhalla with the banshee Bungie! It was very fun though.)
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thanx bungie:) the carbine was a tiny bit strong. near the end of beta it seemed to go more into a BR carbine fest, dooming all users of other weapons. lol if you wanna stop them getting out, put a layer of auto turrents, about 10 invisible walls, then about 10 walls of death, then a few heretic leaders with dual missile pods, then a wall that bans you when you reach it. should stop them:)
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Thanks for the Beta Bungie.
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for 816 years not so surprising think about it 1 second for 1 person with 10,000 other peeps on=teh massive amount of time, thats about 20 min in 1 second imagine how much time was in H2 so far =O its unfreakin believable(spoof of overkill saying in H2) [Edited on 06.13.2007 7:58 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sparxter [quote]TG: I’m just starting to dig into that data, so I can’t say for 100% sure. I’m curious about capture/detonation rates on CTF and Assault in particular. But I think, in general, no. Not many surprises, just affirmation of some things we were hoping (like Territories being fun) and things we sort of already knew (like VIP being kind of campy on Valhalla). [/quote] NOOOOO! Territories was NOT fun! It was teh Sux0r![/quote] Yeah they definitely need to modify it somehow... I don't like the way it currently is and whenever it showed up the majority vetoed it... most of the time anyway.
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The one gametype that should have been brought up is king of the hill. The matches I played seemed like a bore and went by to fast. Plus that hill graphic is huge and impossible to see through. Everything else was great. Especially VIP.
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Loved the game especially territories. Thank you again Bungie lok foward to the game in September
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Great, I am glad to see you guys are using the data well. Perhaps my plasma grenades will actually kill warthogs now? :D
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I'd be interested to know what they thought of the fact that we found custom games in the beta
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Wow 816 years. Please give some more beta stats (ranks achieved, game types played, total matches, kills, etc.) A few constructive comments: It seemed to me that the movement of the Spartan has been slowed compared to H2. It was a noticable difference when I went back and played H2 after the beta ended. I like the quicker movement in H2. The warthog is way too hard to kill. Without the laser, your team is doomed (the missle launcher didn't cut it). Even a plasma grenade stick will not disable it. The Spartan laser is awesome. The shotgun is too dominating on Snowbound. The tunnels were controlled by whoever held it. Thanks Bungie for the great opportunity to participate in the beta and give feedback like this. Other than some tired days at work, it was worth every minute!!!
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Thank the GODS!!!! Map breaking pisses me off... In Halo 2 somekids like to mess with me and keep jumping in and out of maps while sniping me... I wanna sock those muthuh -blam!- in the -blam!- mouth... Of course I get back at them REALLY good... Thanks bung, I've been waitn for this... Oh yeah and about that Single Player Demo... Well I'd like that BEFORE the game comes out please...
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I think the only real problem with Territories was the duration of the match. Four rounds is too long. Simply two would have sufficed in my opinion. Either way, the offense/defense aspect made it better than Territories in Halo 2.
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Cool!!!... WTF is this thread about?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TSL Sgt Hartsock I'd be interested to know what they thought of the fact that we found custom games in the beta[/quote] Ya im suprised they didn't mention that and about the fact that people are still playing it in custom games right now. {i would still be playing like i was yesterday if my friend didnt blow up my xbox :[ }
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i think they just said the warthog wont be so powerful. thank god!
