Halo 3-tråden

Bede-x>
Det kan du bande på ;)

Der er kommet et billede af spillets æske(normal versionen):

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/795/795042p1.html

Hyakotake>
Tja, man kan vel sige, at viral marketing ikke er specielt nyt, da det handler om mund-til-mund (eller person-til-person uagtet kommunikationsformen), som jo har foregået hundreder af år før computere og mails osv. blev opfundet. Maren i Kæret der anbefaler de friske æg hos landmand Svend er jo en lille virus i sig selv.

Alternate Reality-marketing? Det koncept har jeg ikke hørt om før, men jeg går ud fra, at det er den form for viral marketing, der er opbygget specielt kryptisk, så selve produktets "historie"/kampagne bliver en del af virkeligheden. (Senest set ved Nine Inch Nails-udgivelsen Year Zero - og som du også nævner "Bees"). Am I right? (Link til yderligere læsning om AR-marketing ønskes, wiki har ingen info)

Bede-x>
Man kan jo godt få sine tvivl, om de lige har poleret billedet lidt...

Hvis de ikke har, har 1up jo ret: Gears of huh?

Wehner>
Det kunne være sjovt på Arcade, jeg ville gerne se, hvad de kunne inden Halo.

Coop:
-2 player, one player is MC, the other is Arbiter
-System Link supported. Online, probably not. Bungie is still working on it but it likely won't make it at launch. Bungie said they'll consider a patch to implement it if they can't do it for launch. With system Link the story is not so bad as we can use XBC to play online, but surely a supported online would be much better

Forge:
-Map editor
-Does not support geometry creation, or texture modification
-Allows you to remove and place any items or vehicles or spawn points or objectives, etc... anywhere on the existing maps
-For things like weapons you can tweak their respawn timer and ammo count and other minor things
-Possibly more things, but I don't have that info right now
Forge info updated, this is cool!
-You can have multiple people work in the Forge editor over Xbox Live!
-You can also dynamically switch from creation mode to playing mode and run around as your spartan
-If you are "playing" in Forge and have other players in it, they can still change things! For instance, if you have a friend making a pyramid of fusion cores, you can turn into your player and lob a grenade in to destroy all his work!
-Make your own kind of games in forge. Bungie gives the example of grab the mongoose. One player rides a mongoose while everyone else tries to grab it out from under him by removing it in Forge! Another is like a magic carpet ride where one player will stand on a object and a forge monitor will drag it along making the player ride it through the air.
Finally Bungie talked about how you can kind of make it into a realtime strategy game where you set up "teams" where each team has a monitor creating items for his team to use.

Elephant:
-Only works on Sandtrap map right now
-Giant floating base which players will spawn on, have vehicles spawn on, and hold objectives such as flags.
-The Elephant is drivable by players making for moving base games

Hornet:
-UNSC flying vehicle
-Only seen in Campaign so far, but should be in MP as well
-Can carry two people and the pilot
-Can combat Banshees, but weapons specifics are not know right now

Mauler:
-Brute Shotgun
-Dual Wieldable
-Not as powerful as Human shotgun (its dual wieldable, duh)

Prowler (not predator):
-Brute version of Warthog
-Turret gun
-Passengers on side
-4 players on it total (1 driver 3 passengers)

Flare Equipment:
-Blinds everyone who sees it... its a flare

Invincibility Equipment:
-Makes you temporarily invincible
-Brutes use in SP a lot
-Will be in MP, but will be rare

Regenerator?:
-Not sure about this so don't take it as full confirmation
-Equipment which regenerates players health near by (anti-energy drainer?)

Personal Shield (retrieved from lucidgrey):
Unlike the 360 degree bubble shield, this is a stationary version of the Jackal's handheld deflector and it only protects against attacks from one direction. Stand behind the shield and fire through to hit opponents on the other side.

Gravity Hammer:
-Kind of like plasma sword
-Knocks openness and vehicles and grenades (yes grenades in mid air) back

Single Player:
-Bungie admits the "risks of Halo 2's narratives did not work right (Arbiter stories). They claim Halo 3 won't have those problems and that while it didn't work for Halo 2, Halo 2 made for a richer story which Halo 3 will benefit from
-You play as MC the entire game. You will only play as arbiter if you are playing coop
-The Meta game scores your skill in each level. You can play the meta game in solo or in coop. You get scored for kills, who you kill, how you perform the kills and doing special things like picking up the magic skulls which will create different effects (like Halo 2). They say the skull effects stack so while you could try to play through picking up all skulls for mad points, it would probably make the game impossible. You also lose points for team killing

-Warthog Troop Tansport finally appears! We first heard of the idea for Halo 2, but it never made it into the game. Now in Halo 3 (SP at least) there will be a troop transport hog which carries more marines instead of a turret.

-Elite model in MP confirmed. At least 3 armor types.

-Number of MP maps are estimated to be around 10. Not a confirmed number, Bungie merely said it should be comparble to prior games.

-Guardian is the spirtual successor to Lockout. Looks kind of like ewok village (its in the tree trops) (Jub Jub?)

The panic in this thread about a feature that may or may not be in the game is amusing.

We are not dumb, "O" Connor assures us. "We know that people want it, and we are trying to make it happen. I think the biggest problem for us for online co-op is that we have a situation where you can be in a warthog with 5 troops, almost a mile away from the other player. That's a significant challenge. And there's lots of design things you could do to prevent that from happening, but they would make it not feel like Halo anymore. If we can make it happen in a way that works well we will - and if it works badly we won't.
Still, even if online co-op dosen't appear as an out-of-the-box feature at launch, Bungie hasen't ruled out the possibiliby of adding it later as downloadable content.