[b]Bungie Weekly Update[/b]
Smallest, lamest update in weeks, thanks to missing staff, deadlines and the crazy 3D shot we put up today. Sorry.
The community team has been swamped this week – the net guys put up some new forums, and expanded the number of avatars available and basically got dragged into anything that wasn't related to actually programming or designing the game!
One cool thing that I got to do was look at Joe Staten's awesome dialog for single player "events" like what characters say when they get in and out of vehicles, or when they retreat from Covenant, or even, sniff, die. Gripping stuff, but going over Joe's scripts also serves to illustrate how complex the AI reaction to events is. There are like six different possible lines for a character getting into the passenger seat of a vehicle! Crazy!
Joe's dialog is very cool too, and just skimming over the scripts gives you a sense of how epic some of these encounters are going to be. Joe's researched this stuff pretty intensively, and let me borrow one of his research tomes – a fat book devoted entirely to war slang. My favorite line? DILLIGAF which is an acronym for, "Do I Look Like I Give A…" and I got cut off before I read the last word…although I'm pretty sure it was probably "fudge."
[b]Parsons' Crazy Theory[/b]
OK everyone. Deep breath. Studio manager Parsons has a theory, that the unkind might refer to as crackpot, but he's thought it out, so we'll go along with it for a bit. So his theory boils down to this fundamental premise: "If you want a flying car, you must buy a Roomba." Now it gets more complex than that. Parsons thinks that the Roomba's tech is cool, but relatively inconsequential, but its social impact is of paramount importance.
Now a Roomba, for the uninitiated, is that robotic vacuum cleaner. He thinks that if you're cool with leaving a Robot, or SuckBot as I call it for short, to rampage around your house while you're out, then you'll be cool with all sorts of AI in your house and life. Like a fly-by-wire robot-driven car.
I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that, but that's the gist of it. I would counter that obviously Robots are good at one thing: Rampaging. And there are further problems. For starters, they never have hands, always claws, gaping sucking maws, or lasers. None of these implements is useful for hugging, massaging or any other things you think you might want in your house.
[b]Nathan and John's Tower of Tweening [/b]
Not much from animation this week…but Nathan reports from the side of animation with the best hair situation, saying that John Butkus has started the first cinematic! Which also means that the animation team will move to cinematics very soon, collectively! Which means that most of the regular character animation is done! Kinda. They'll be going back and forth for sure, but obviously this indicates that the bulk of that work is over. Cinematics of course require lots of NEW animation – often more complex too, since the cinematic scenarios are different from the gameplay ones. That said – the cinematics don't have the same capacity for cluster***** that game animations do.
John's first cinematic features everyone's favorite angry officer, Sgt. Johnson – who delivers a very powerful line in this scene, and it has nothing to do with "God's own anti-sonofa-blam!- machine"
Nathan also mentioned that Mike is beavering away on animation for one of the secret characters, and will be bringing a fun, and previously unmentioned weapon to life next week. Bill is finishing up on the Grunt…his food nipple is laden with steroids, whey powder and Creatine now…
Nathan himself, has been working on Brute animations and listening to the horrible sounds from the local country music station to get in the proper rage mindset and transferring those feelings on over to the Brute. Nathan angry! Nathan smash!
Bigger news should happen next week…
[b]John's Perspective on the same thing….[/b]
"This week I was working on the Earth City intro cinematic with Chief, Johnson, and a couple of marines. It’s going pretty well, and it’s a big effing help to have CJ lay out the characters in the scene and lock down the camera moves before we even touch it. I was on another project where I had to do all that stuff and it was really time-consuming, so the cinematics guys are my heroes right about now. Other than that, I’m working on bug fixes and miscellaneous elite moves that I haven’t had time to do because making unique animations for vehicle seats for five different weapon classes on the same character sure is exciting stuff compared to cinematics work….but it needs to get done, so here I am."
[b]Carney![/b]
Carney, while not hiding Carneyholes in multiplayer maps, has been doing some very cool stuff to everyone's favorite sequel. Well, my favorite sequel at least. He's currently working on an Earth City-based multiplayer level with cool geometry, lots of hiding places and plenty of tall, futuristic architecture. It's part of a group of four maps that Chris is concentrating on right now. In addition to that, Steve Cotton, the new multiplayer artist, has been working on what Carney calls a "small Team CTF-type map" that has much more of a Covenant feel.
Here's Mister Chief. Fearing progress:
[img]http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo2/weeklyupdate/doomba.jpg[/img]
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holy -blam!- this game is gonna kick some major god damn ass, i cant wait. to the person who suggested dual shotguns, it cant happen becuz u need one hand to pull the trigger and the other to -blam!- but it was a sweet idea
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you idiot the demo came out a while ago
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wooooohooo! to add some more i think my life out side the xbox is going to be gone!! on noveber 9!!!!
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So far i think they could use some more info LIKE WHEN IS THE DEMO comeing out!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?! I so need it and proply lot of others and at lest theirs another canadian here to KEEP TALKING nickolai15 we need all the canadians we can get!!!!!!
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that avatars a picture from the pre xbox halo game version thats why their not going to look like that
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You can have a hunter as an avatar. I think that is what they will look like in Halo 2.
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Has anyone seen any hunters on Halo 2 (a.k.a God) because I aint seen any yet and it would be real crap if there not on it. [Edited on 6/2/2004 6:11:18 AM]
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Me thinks that clans/chapters are really gonna make a difference 'specially with the Live!3.0 stuff using it. Owh.. the sheer posibillities!
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i dont think that chief needs a grenade launcher, he can throw them pretty far himself, as for the double shotgun....*drool* that would be so f***ing sweet, brute comes, roars at you, raises is claws and.BAMM!! ....................becomes one head shorter
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all i have to say is that the ar is gunna have a gernade launcher, pistle has no scope, dual shoguns!
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cool,thanks for the sweat update. can't wait for next week.
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anybody else have somethine 2 say?
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They have 2 finish it in 4 months, that is right 4 months, it will take them atleast a month to make all the games, and distribute them,
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ya im pretty sure they wont delay it any longer. They had people working the whole time all through the E3 thing just so they could make it on time.
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YES!! Oh, i can't wait... just please don't have it pushed back again, although i'm highly doubting it.
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No bungie weekly update sucks. even if you say 10 words, as long as they tell me enough info for a week, its okay/ I got a question. please update the Halo Music, Halo Voice Outtakes and more. I loved them! OFFTOPIC---------------- 11/9, or 9/11? whoops. before you know it your president is stirring again with the launch date, whether its bush or any other president, as long it aint a Hardcore Halo and Halo 2 gamer, the president is bad. announcement :D hey about a year ago I had a good story, called mcconto chronicles, and I just wanna say im working towards vast ideas. I decided to hold the best and dont change the very first storyline exponentially. and... Its done when its done (tm) youll find out! (with my story I try to achieve a same level of the official Books.) and I will never say stop. greetz
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Fire warrior how can u have it since october it was just barley anouced you idiot [/quote] Only the date was just announced you retard. They announced the game last year!
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Gods own antisonofa-blam!- machine? Wonder what that could be?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Fire warrior HALO2 I SGOING TO BE THE BEST GAME EVER ESPACIALLY THE DUAL WIELDING I ALREADY GOT THE SECIAL EDITION HALO 2 RESERVED HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA............................................HA[/q uote] YOUR RIGHT IT IS GOING TO BE AWESOME I HAVE THE SPECIAL EDITION RESERVED TO!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA................................................. *cough cough* ......................................................*HACK* [Edited on 6/1/2004 8:51:26 AM]
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Is it only me, or does anyone else think the target tracking thing could hurt the game. I mean, part of the reason Halo was so balanced was that having a rocket luauncher didn't garuntee you would kill someone. The rocket luancher was fun because it took skill, and making long-range shots was tone of the best feelings in the game. Also, I hope halo 2 will have as many customizable multiplayer options as possible (i.e. if the overshield is included in halo 2 [i hope it isn't in multiplayer] it would be nice to have the option of turning it off. Hopefully i'm not alone. But don't get me wrong, Halo 2 is going to dominate any game ever made, i only own one game for xbox, and on november 9th it will be 2.
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can't wait for the new weapon! oh, yeah the update was great! 3D pic was sweet. [
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how can u have it since october it was just barley anouced you idiot
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Fire warrior HALO2 I SGOING TO BE THE BEST GAME EVER ESPACIALLY THE DUAL WIELDING I ALREADY GOT THE SECIAL EDITION HALO 2 RESERVED HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA............................................HA[/quote] well sorry to burst your oversized bubble, but I have had it reserved since october
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Masterchief is one of the best video game hero but i still like the predator more i think well there about the same i know this is off topic..................................................................................HALO 2 IS GOING TO BE AWSOME
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i ve seen the dual reload. it's fast and amazing. MC knows how to handle his gear.
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Yo Frankiemake it longer next time and please leave it uncensored. I wonder what the new guns are?