Speaking of remixes, if anyone missed this thread on the OT, you've been deprived.Hey You said:
Incompetent Cartographer series has been wonderful, hopefully the Bungie playtest squad pops it back out to Urk sooner rather than later.
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Incompetent Cartographer series has been wonderful, hopefully the Bungie playtest squad pops it back out to Urk sooner rather than later.
The Librarian
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Why do you have Cole Protocol after Fall of Reach? Cole Protocol takes place in 2535.Dani said:
Anyway, just got back from Barnes and Noble with the new Fall of Reach. Imma gonna start reading it sometime today. It includes an advertisement for Greg Bear's Forerunner novel ("Coming this fall!") in the back.
Well, sort of - Evolutions spans most of the novels, so could go anywhere, I guess.Circle T said:
I'm not sure reading them in chronological order makes a lot of sense, though; most were written with the implicit understanding that material in previously-written novels was out there already, so reading them in the order they were WRITTEN might be a better idea.
Slightly Live
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Dax01 said:
The events at the beginning of the Fall of Reach explain the Spartan II project and set up the general characters of the Spartans pretty well.
Even though the later events in the novel led directly in the games and far ahead of the events of Cole Protocol, I think it would be better read in that order so a reader gets to know the background of the Spartans a bit better.
It's just a personal preference - not everyone prefers a strict chronological order for reading.
Louis Wu said:
This is a viable alternative. Not my preference but it makes a lot of sense.
squidhands
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I was in tears the first time I listened to that.GhaleonEB said:
Yeah, IC has been great. Hopefully we'll get to play on it at some point; I'm very curious of urk's map-making skillz.
Zeouterlimits
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Agreed with Wu here. While not "vital", certainly helps.Louis Wu said:
Circle T
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Yea, I kind of figured that about Evolutions. And I guess that would make sense about the others. If there is little info in them that you are supposed to have read in the earlier books, release order seems to be the right way for me.Louis Wu said:
Thanks everyone for the input.
Yup, it's been good stuff and a completely unexpected feature. The only thing that disappoints me is that we didn't get to glimpse into the mind of Urk to see all of what he was thinking as he designed his map. That may be for the best though.squidhands said:
Still waiting on the reveal of the submission process though, hope it's still coming.
I don't mean to poop on you but I think you could've selected better clips. It didn't really differentiate itself from your typical MLG montage in that the majority of it was just BR, snipes, and sticks; the only difference is that none of that stuff was all that impressive, lots of typical single and double kills. Would've preferred to see more clips like the flying warthog, goose drop, or GAF game clips to make it feel more personal.Schmitty said:
I can't remember who made it but there was a video quite a while back by a GAFer of some ordinary BTB match on Valhalla but shot really well to capture what makes it fun.
All that said, I ordered a capture card a couple days ago so once I start making terrible montages you can get back at me. :lol
Schmitty
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No problem, now next time I can take everything into consideration. I don't enough clips from GAF games so I really just took what I had and played around with it last night. I wasn't intending it to be a show of skill anyway. Most of those no scopes are pure luck anyway! :lolEazyB said:
I'm definitely already planning a vehicle carnage montage for Reach, so this time I can plan ahead. I never intended on making this montage until like 3 days ago, so I didn't really have much to work with
The Librarian
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Ah. Got you. I guess I was only thinking about FoR only when Reach actually falls.Dani said:
Oh. So there is going to be news today? I hope I'm not reading into this the wrong way.:lolurk said:
DualX
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Update: Won't be going to PAX, unfortunately. I have training up through that point so I wouldn't be able to go even if I wanted to. Own those noobs on the floor for me, Eazy. I'll just make it up by taking the whole week off when Reach comes out.
Anyway, I really had no interest in getting anything other than the regular version of Reach (which would be the first time in history) so I went ahead and pre-ordered the console bundle instead. Wanted a slim anyhow, glad I waited.
Anyway, I really had no interest in getting anything other than the regular version of Reach (which would be the first time in history) so I went ahead and pre-ordered the console bundle instead. Wanted a slim anyhow, glad I waited.
No need to do anything other than what you want to do, I was just speaking from a totally selfish perspective. These are the four types of montages I enjoy: impressive, unique, goofy, or GAF ownage montages. Even if that exact montage personifies your Halo 3 experience than you should make that montage so you can look back at it and get all nostalgic, that's why I made my chop-tage, for my own benefit.Schmitty said:
That's a shame, man. I'll shout out, "this one's from Dual" every other dong.DualX said:
Yup yup, that's the one, thanks for the link. Very well put together and fun to watch despite there being nothing inherently impressive about the play.urk said:
Edit: Oops, I was actually thinking about this montage. It's still a Phatcorns Joint in the same vein.
I'll try to remember to bring my shitty handicam to capture any GAF shenaniganry. Not sure how many people are goin though, could be a very tame PAX.DualX said:
Schmitty
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Exactly, the nostalgia was a big motivation to do it. It's going to be weird watching that after playing Reach after a whileEazyB said:No need to do anything other than what you want to do, I was just speaking from a totally selfish perspective. These are the four types of montages I enjoy: impressive, unique, goofy, or GAF ownage montages. Even if that exact montage personifies your Halo 3 experience than you should make that montage so you can look back at it and get all nostalgic, that's why I made my chop-tage, for my own benefit.
That's a shame, man. I'll shout out, "this one's from Dual" every other dong.
Great Cartographer 5 entry. BTW there was one thing at the end that gave me an idea..
Wouldn't it be great if there was some option to create barriers (like those blue barriers in Halo 3's Forge) that disappear when the number of people in the game is over 'x' amount?.
That way you could make a somewhat large map, but create limits so it's smaller when there's only like 4 people playing..
It could be a bit messy to set it up, though.. but hey, just an idea.
Wouldn't it be great if there was some option to create barriers (like those blue barriers in Halo 3's Forge) that disappear when the number of people in the game is over 'x' amount?.
That way you could make a somewhat large map, but create limits so it's smaller when there's only like 4 people playing..
It could be a bit messy to set it up, though.. but hey, just an idea.
Dani said:
Anyone remember the box set that had the first four books in it that was out before/around the same time as Contact Harvest? I really hope there's a new one with the re-released versions plus Harvest, Protocol and Evolutions sometime soon (and any of the upcoming ones if they're out by then). Can't seem to find any of the books I have, and I stopped reading Cole Protocol a bit before the end. :/
Tashi0106 said:Nice, I haven't trolled a Bnet thread in months!
edit: Damn, it's been locked
I bet there's plenty of threads there that can be trolled. In fact, I think I'll go check since I'm bored enough. :lol
Fake edit: Yay cartography!
Hypertrooper
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I must stop playing Blazblue: Calamity Trigger. I'm really jealous when i read the tweets from sai_kun.
The Incompetent Cartographer article shows me that noobs like me able to create amazing maps with forge 2.0. Thx urk
The Incompetent Cartographer article shows me that noobs like me able to create amazing maps with forge 2.0. Thx urk
Major Williams
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This may have already been answered before... but you know how each part of a map has a call out? (i.e. generator floor 1)
Can we rename our own callouts in forge as well and set the boundaries? Or is it whatever was on the map itself prior?
Can we rename our own callouts in forge as well and set the boundaries? Or is it whatever was on the map itself prior?
squidhands
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Wow, too big for 2v2 and you have over $6,000 lef?!. Sweet baby Jesus, I cannot wait to get my mitts on this.Hey You said:
I think it was addressed previously (the answer would be no, no custom callouts). I think it has to do with not being able to filter out all of the bad names that would invariably appear in custom maps.Major Williams said:
"Dropped rockets at Sandy Vagina"
...something like that.
K
kittens
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Seriously. So psyched.squidhands said:
Or it could be a mature rated game.Hey You said:
Speaking of names, I hope they have a way of sorting/organizing the map variant list. With up to 1k variants, a Halo 3 style random listing would be balls. This screen has me worried:
The last to maps aren't on the disc and aren't in alphabetical order. :/
I imagine when you have a large number of files on hand, the easiest way to get to them will be through the filters in the file browser, rather than pulling up the entire map list via the lobby.EazyB said:Or it could be a mature rated game.
Speaking of names, I hope they have a way of sorting/organizing the map variant list. With up to 1k variants, a Halo 3 style random listing would be balls. This screen has me worried:
The last to maps aren't on the disc and aren't in alphabetical order. :/
Slightly Live
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Major Williams said:
No. That feature was planned but sadly cut. =\
Major Williams
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That's seriously how I feel when I couldn't put "sucks" or some other word like that in my fileshare.EazyB said:
If the reason they wiped a potentially GREAT feature is because of the inability to filter out words, that kind of irks me, given the rating of the game itself.
FilthyLies
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I'd imagine custom callouts would just be a huge pain to implement, both on our end and on Bungie's end. Doubt it was axed because of language issues- they can easily filter that sort of stuff and obviously nothing obscene would have made it into matchmaking.Major Williams said:
Not a big loss anyways, we'll just have to use the old style callouts and actually remember the names.
angelkimne
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Am I missing something or is that picture implying there are only 8 maps in the game (not including Forgeworld)?EazyB said:
FilthyLies
Member
Yupangelkimne said:
Pretty much confirmed too, since urk was real quick about shutting down some speculation we had about the number of Firefight maps, but has said absolutely nothing about this.
Still, Foreworld will create some unique spaces, but I imagine it will get visually dull pretty quick.
Genesis Knight
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angelkimne said:
You're not missing anything, and there's three camps on this. 1) Wow, we're screwed 2) trust bungie it's going to be okay 3) there'll be more maps revealed later.
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Major Williams
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And judging by the AMAZING amount of DLC maps we got so quickly after launch, we have the DLC to look forward to (/sarcasm)
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Happy Birthday, Vociferous!
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Mad Max said:
I assume so because they were running Fire Fight work behind the scenes, pretty much we were playing Fire Fight VS/Generator Defense.
Now this looks good. Valhalla-esque water. Maybe this is the water a certain someone kept saying was the same as Halo 3 (because Powerhouse/Beta water was clearly inferior to the one in Valhalla).
Also, the Forerunner pieces are looking really cool in these shots. They will stay fresh and pleasant to the eyes for muuuuch longer than the ugly sandbox ones. But I hope it doesn't all go to hell when we see it on our TVs and the jaggies are introduced.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
GhaleonEB said:
Touche.
Well played Ghaleon, well played indeed.
angelkimne
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Well, that's a bit of a sparse offering...Mik2121 said:
As long as they're varied and well-designed, I guess I can live with it.
Major Williams
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I think at one point we had to wait a year and a half between map packs.angelkimne said:
Remember the reasons why.Major Williams said:
And while you could argue it's cheating when counting maps, I think the half dozen or so Forge World variants count as separate maps, given that they had five different spaces and stitched them together into one large map. What they won't have are different sky boxes or visual themes.
The Librarian
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Ooh. Happy birthday man.Domino Theory said: