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The Halo 3 Beta Thread

Y2Kev said:
Wow, they're already making the helmets?

That means Bungie could send me some so I could perhaps roleplay and film said roleplaying?
They have to if they expect to get their shipments ready
for September
 
Eric WK said:
From Major Nelson:

Red vs Blue Halo 3 Beta PSA (HD)

Name: PSA: Halo 3 Beta Video HD
Price: Free
Availability: Gold members in all Xbox Live regions
Dash Details: A hilarious introduction to the Halo 3 multiplayer Beta. All you can eat shrimp not included.

Mirroring right now (640).
 
Some interesting bits of info. lmao at the meniton of a chopper. I was roasted in another thread for merely suggesting that it'd be a cool idea.

A map editor would make H3 the best game, well, ever (no exageration). Maps could be traded in much the same way as replays. Can you imagine!?
 
Wow. Sooo much info. I feel guilty for reading it.

Equipment:
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Flamethrower
 
Striker said:
Some of the stuff on there doesn't make much sense though, as to why it wasn't included in the beta.

Interesting, nonetheless.

Well we knew there would be more Equipment/Weapons/Vehicles, etc. Bungie was just keeping surprises for the Fall.

Apparantly all of that code was still in the Beta, however.
 
If you guys don't mind, I'd rather the contents of that thread - in particular the "spoilers" of new content - not be posted here. At least, not without spoiler tags.
 
Omigosh, there's so much awesome sounding stuff in there, though i dont know how a VTOL would work...it would have to be really fast to take off.
 
GhaleonEB said:
If you guys don't mind, I'd rather the contents of that thread - in particular the "spoilers" of new content - not be posted here. At least, not without spoiler tags.

If you read the first couple posts, you know it all. Nothing story related, and nothing terribly surprising apart from the map editor. Haxorz also found references to a flamethrower in Halo 1&2 and all sorts of other things that never made it into the game. This is pretty far from confirmation.
 
GhaleonEB said:
If you guys don't mind, I'd rather the contents of that thread - in particular the "spoilers" of new content - not be posted here. At least, not without spoiler tags.


I agree..I don't mind the spoilers so long as they are tagged, but some people don't want to know that until the first time the see it with the controllers in their hands.


But yeah..I'm taking off of work tomorrow..anyone wanna play some games just add me

Tag b BIG
 
GhaleonEB said:
If you guys don't mind, I'd rather the contents of that thread - in particular the "spoilers" of new content - not be posted here. At least, not without spoiler tags.

I agree...no need to spoil the surprise for those that want to be surprised come September(?)
 
What's a
Pelican
and how is it different from a
VTOL/chopper?
.

in any instance I can't see those being valuable unless there are ENORMOUS maps.
 
DD-11 said:
If you read the first couple posts, you know it all. Nothing story related, and nothing terribly surprising apart from the map editor. Haxorz also found references to a flamethrower in Halo 1&2 and all sorts of other things that never made it into the game. This is pretty far from confirmation.
I agree, but I'd rather it not go in here for two reasons:

1) This thread is to discuss the Beta we'll be playing, not the stuff we won't. :p
2) Some people are sensitive about spoilers. I'm personally not worried about anything other than story spoilers, but I try to err on the side of not spoiling anything not announced yet since the definition of "spoiler" varies.
 
Also, Frankie has been adamant that co-op in any form hasn't been confirmed, but it was listed in that thread. Nothing about online co-op, though.
 
GhaleonEB said:
I agree, but I'd rather it not go in here for two reasons:

1) This thread is to discuss the Beta we'll be playing, not the stuff we won't. :p
2) Some people are sensitive about spoilers. I'm personally not worried about anything other than story spoilers, but I try to err on the side of not spoiling anything not announced yet since the definition of "spoiler" varies.

Agreed. I'm glad people have good sense to use spoiler tags, but someone is going to screw up and a lot of people are going to learn things they didn't want to know.

Plus, there's going to be a monumental bitchfest if a bunch of things that were never confirmed in the first place don't make it into the final game.
 
Eric WK said:
Also, Frankie has been adamant that co-op in any form hasn't been confirmed, but it was listed in that thread. Nothing about online co-op, though.
There better be co-op akin to Gears of War. The best part of Halo for me is SP campaign.
 
Here's the mirror of the Red vs Blue: Halo 3 Beta special episode:

LEECH: http://www.xboxyde.com/leech_3834_en.html
STREAM: http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3834_en.html

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professor_t said:
Plus, there's going to be a monumental bitchfest if a bunch of things that were never confirmed in the first place don't make it into the final game.
That was my third bullet, but I edited it out for some reason - I thought, nah, people won't think that. But yeah, probably.
 
****ing awesome... been waiting for this forever and now my internet connection seems to be shitting out on me, I'm connected at 200kbs and my signal keeps dropping. After talking to their tech support they said they fastest they can have someone out to check my line is in a week. I am thinking about ordering DSL now...

**** YOU TIME WARNER **** YOU!
 
wow these hackers are awesome. first the beta invite hack and now hex editing extra shit. i heart this community
 
Some info i've gathered from the beta so far...

1. In Halo 2, only the host would get blown around by grenades and other explosives, but in Halo 3 everybody does. Throw a grenade under a mongoose and you'll send it into orbit.

2. The warthog takes more than one sticky grenade to stop now. It also feels a lot easier to stick people especially with the spike grenades.

3. Halo 3 does not need dedicated servers! I've had one laggy game so far and the rest have been nearly perfect. That's 1 out of 130.

4.
Although it's fun, i hate shotty snipers because i never win at it.

5. If you get hit with with a brute shot you'll get thrown around like a little bitch. I've been shot of ledges, slammed against walls, and straight up boosted into bases from those things.

6.
If somebody is shooting at you with dual brute spiker guns you'll know it. It's the scariest sounding shit in the world. It's sounds like 1,000 children screaming in your face.

7. If someone has a shotgun on the other side of a shield on Snowbound stay away from him. Just go the other way and act like you never saw his ass. Unless you have some spike grenades and a death wish.

8. If someone throws up a shield grenade to stop your from killing them just melee your way through. You can also shoot the actual grenade that created the shield once you're inside of it to destroy the shield.

9. You can only carry 2 of each grenade. That would bring the total up to 6 grenades at a time. 2 frags, 2 plasmas, and 2 spikeys.

10. When a spike grenade blows up in your face and kills you, you can see the red hot needles still stuck in your corpse. After a couple seconds they will cool down and turn grey.
 
giga said:
Killionaire Kill 10 opponents within 4 seconds of each other. Wait, 10 opponents? More than 16 players?
WOW.

Maybe that's where that VTOL will come in handy. Awesomeness.

Holding a lot back ain't ya, Bungie?
 
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