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Well, tonight I've gotten two achievements, and would've gotten a third(Overkill or Killing Frenzy) if it weren't for people lagging off my screen in Swords.

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Post Mortem
On Orbital, got 2 Death From the Grave medals during a ranked or social match.
Date Earned: Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Steppin' Razor
Scored a Triple Kill with the sword in a ranked free for all playlist.
Date Earned: Sunday, August 16, 2009

Yay....
 
What happened to customs tonight? I got on around 10 and people were only playing MM. The Team Flag/BTB matches were fun. What was with the lag at the very end?

The last few times I've played Halo 3, the only thing I've done is drive people around in the Hog... It's killing my K/D spread... But it's so damn fun. I don't know what's with me. I'm addicted to Warthog.
 
Stormtrooper30 said:
What happened to customs tonight? I got on around 10 and people were only playing MM. The Team Flag/BTB matches were fun. What was with the lag at the very end?

The last few times I've played Halo 3, the only thing I've done is drive people around in the Hog... It's killing my K/D spread... But it's so damn fun. I don't know what's with me. I'm addicted to Warthog.
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Customs usually start around 8 and may slowly dwindle around 10. As for hog driving, you do whats fun. Thats what games are about, fun.
 
Well customs kinda failed tonight... just sort of slowly fell apart... and by slowly I mean all in one big hit, seriously... you all left at once :(

No masses of pictures tonight, too tired to bother. All I've got is a nice one of how a real pro gets the bomb carrier into a base undetected and shielded.

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Edit: That's myself in the hog and Stormtrooper underneath... uhm... Storm, was it lagging and glitching so much that your armour perms don't exist?
 
DiabolicalBagel said:
Well customs kinda failed tonight... just sort of slowly fell apart... and by slowly I mean all in one big hit, seriously... you all left at once :(

No masses of pictures tonight, too tired to bother. All I've got is a nice one of how a real pro gets the bomb carrier into a base undetected and shielded.

dope picture/IMG]
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Yeah... Not sure what happened with customs.

I wasn't feeling well the whole night though, so I wasn't really in the mood for customs.

Anyways, dope pictures of Dax and I.
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Oh yeah, sure. A grenade that doesn't take even half of my shields off, then a jumping shotgun blasts kills me in a Ghost? Yeah, uh huh.
 
Fun fact: anyone who does not see District 9 in theaters is a lame-o. Holy fuck!

ZayneH said:
I'd suggest light orbs over the Overshield area, and maybe easier ways to tell what side is which with those Blue/Red pillars. Unless you wanted those to be neutral, then just ignore this. :lol
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I tried! There's a light orb up high above each base between the two obelisks, and on the other side outside the vehicle bay there's a pair of colored columns. And then in the center tunnel, the colored pillars indicate which base in in which direction.

Question for those who played it: should I break the wall in the center and put a way through up high, above the tunnel in the center? Or leave it solid? I think on balance it would improve the flow a bit, but it could also be self-defeating.

Oh, and I'll put Warthogs on it for the next game. :p

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Ridiculously badass.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Question for those who played it: should I break the wall in the center and put a way through up high, above the tunnel in the center? Or leave it solid? I think on balance it would improve the flow a bit, but it could also be self-defeating.
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I say take out a part of the wall in the middle, it'd make the map better(and flow easier too).

Oh, and I got Killing Frenzy in a 4 person Crazy King game, didn't get more than 1 second of hill time, and lost a rank(which I'm happy for because I don't want it to get too hard to get the remaining ones). Oh well, it was worth it!

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Killing Frenzy
Killed 10 enemies without dying in any ranked free for all playlist.
Date Earned: Sunday, August 16, 2009

Now, I just need Two for One, and Overkill. Then, I'm done with Lone Wolves in Halo 3 forever! Hopefully a Swords game pops up next, or a High Ground match of just 4 people, with everyone but me spawning at the beach, me by the Laser, and me getting a Double Kill on a contested Ghost. :lol
 
Guess this was posted on the Bnet front page Friday but you guys should check out Bryon Simons new song "The Song For BK's". It's about 2 minutes too long but worth the watch I guess. The real reason I posted it here is for many reasons other than the song's quality:

When GAF got the Mythic maps early and were rampaging through the playlist we were pitted up against Byron and his squad of 50s numerous times. On evening it was Blood, Ram, myself and someone else and we went against them on Assembly. They pulled out a narrow victory, the next game we again got matched up with them on Assembly but this time we won by a healthy margin. And then the very next game we went against them on Sandbox but after only briefly tasting the rusty wheels of my chopper those BKs quit.

The reason why his video deserved to be posted here was because it led me to this video. It had me laughing at an audible level.

Then seeing Shishka's reply to that last video, which Bryon links to and I will here, just sold this post's worth to me. Apparently Bryon got banned.

"It's beyond me why any of you would continue to give him attention when it's clear he deserves none."

His reply is funny enough but what really gets me is that Urk posted this BK video on Bnet in spite of Shishka's claim that he deserves no attention.
 
EazyB said:
The reason why his video deserved to be posted here was because it led me to this video. It had me laughing at an audible level.
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Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

This is the best YouTube video in the world only because I am in it.
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edit: ... I realize the arrows is pointing at a guy in the background... I am in the blue shirt holding my arm.

Also - Dax, hope you're feeling better tomorrow.

Edit: Rofl just finished listening to the Song For BK's... Pretty good actually. Burger King indeed.
 
ZayneH said:
I say take out a part of the wall in the middle, it'd make the map better(and flow easier too).
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Okay. I've got a couple ideas in mind to open it up a bit. I'll build an alternate version tomorrow (oh shit, that's today).
 
EazyB said:
Guess this was posted on the Bnet front page Friday but you guys should check out Bryon Simons new song "The Song For BK's". It's about 2 minutes too long but worth the watch I guess. The real reason I posted it here is for many reasons other than the song's quality:

When GAF got the Mythic maps early and were rampaging through the playlist we were pitted up against Byron and his squad of 50s numerous times. On evening it was Blood, Ram, myself and someone else and we went against them on Assembly. They pulled out a narrow victory, the next game we again got matched up with them on Assembly but this time we won by a healthy margin. And then the very next game we went against them on Sandbox but after only briefly tasting the rusty wheels of my chopper those BKs quit.

The reason why his video deserved to be posted here was because it led me to this video. It had me laughing at an audible level.

Then seeing Shishka's reply to that last video, which Bryon links to and I will here, just sold this post's worth to me. Apparently Bryon got banned.

"It's beyond me why any of you would continue to give him attention when it's clear he deserves none."

His reply is funny enough but what really gets me is that Urk posted this BK video on Bnet in spite of Shishka's claim that he deserves no attention.
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The dude is a tool; knew this since day one. I don't understand why he got all the attention he did in the first place and I'm glad he got banned/r3c0nz taken away from him. I'm also glad Shishka thinks the same (though probably not as harsh as I think of BrySi).

And I think Metroid is on the right in that first video. :lol
 
GhaleonEB said:
Okay. I've got a couple ideas in mind to open it up a bit. I'll build an alternate version tomorrow (oh shit, that's today).
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Hah, I really need to stop staying up so late on weekends. When the weekdays come around, I'm a wreck and I oversleep. :lol

Also, I'm currently making a Sandbox map in the middle. Don't know if it will work out as planned, due to the bases being a little too close to the "middle" of the map, and the outposts that will house a Overshield or a Active Camo might be too far to the "sides" of the map. Plus, it's meant to only have two Mongooses, two Choppers, and two Ghosts, and I might have to put Warthogs on it. :lol
 
Yeah, shame about failed customs tonight (last night), after almost everyone left and people started playing 3vs3 MLG I bailed out too cause my skills at halo are piss poor nowadays, and it really shows in small games like that.

O-T: Just found out our own EazyB is on the top of one of the Trials leaderboards... wearing the same colors as he does on halo, made me chuckle. :lol
I hate that stupid game... I should've been in bed like 4 hours ago, but it's so addicting.
 
Letters said:
O-T: Just found out our own EazyB is on the top of one of the Trials leaderboards... wearing the same colors as he does on halo, made me chuckle. :lol
I hate that stupid game... I should've been in bed like 4 hours ago, but it's so addicting.
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I've had a lot of time on my hands since the girlfriend is out of town. :P

Such a fuck-awesome game. Everyone should buy it, between this and Splosion Man XBLA has finally seen some great platformers. Still peeved that the Superintendent didn't turn out to be a platformer Bungie.
 
Holy floodsacks! I knew you could wring some extra shine out of Halo PC, but I wasn't aware you could force anisotropic filtering for it. News of other people playing around with it is floating around, so I figured I'd get in on it as well. I set it in nHancer, so it'll (in theory) be forced on through my graphic card's drivers.

The game by default uses Trilinear texture filtering (Halo 3 does as well afaik). I set it to use 16x Anisotropic Filtering, the highest setting in the program. The results really impress.

Full size 1400x900 PNGs for your scrutiny:

Blood Gulch with Trilinear Filtering
Blood Gulch with Anisotropic 16x Filtering
 
Domino Theory said:
The dude is a tool; knew this since day one. I don't understand why he got all the attention he did in the first place and I'm glad he got banned/r3c0nz taken away from him. I'm also glad Shishka thinks the same (though probably not as harsh as I think of BrySi).

And I think Metroid is on the right in that first video. :lol
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Tool or no tool, reading Shishka's message kinda irked me. O.O I heard the rumors about him being mean in Atlas but this...

anyways, i hope we haven't scarred him away from GAF I hope he comes by to listen to our constructive criticism. Maybe he'll use some of the advice... >.>

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Botolf said:
Holy floodsacks! I knew you could wring some extra shine out of Halo PC, but I wasn't aware you could force anisotropic filtering for it. News of other people playing around with it is floating around, so I figured I'd get in on it as well. I set it in nHancer, so it'll (in theory) be forced on through my graphic card's drivers.

The game by default uses Trilinear texture filtering (Halo 3 does as well afaik). I set it to use 16x Anisotropic Filtering, the highest setting in the program. The results really impress.

Full size 1400x900 PNGs for your scrutiny:

Blood Gulch with Trilinear Filtering
Blood Gulch with Anisotropic 16x Filtering
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oh my, the pistol has never looked so sexy $.$
 
GhaleonEB said:
Fun fact: anyone who does not see District 9 in theaters is a lame-o. Holy fuck!


I tried! There's a light orb up high above each base between the two obelisks, and on the other side outside the vehicle bay there's a pair of colored columns. And then in the center tunnel, the colored pillars indicate which base in in which direction.

Question for those who played it: should I break the wall in the center and put a way through up high, above the tunnel in the center? Or leave it solid? I think on balance it would improve the flow a bit, but it could also be self-defeating.

Oh, and I'll put Warthogs on it for the next game. :p

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/DevinOlsen/90594484-Medium.jpg[/IMG

Ridiculously badass.[/QUOTE]
I only played on the map once, but I think you should keep the wall as is.

[QUOTE=Botolf]
The game by default uses Trilinear texture filtering (Halo 3 does as well afaik). I set it to use 16x Anisotropic Filtering, the highest setting in the program. The results really impress.

Full size 1400x900 PNGs for your scrutiny:

[url=http://i28.tinypic.com/slqrt2.png]Blood Gulch with Trilinear Filtering[/url]
[url=http://i27.tinypic.com/2lxwenm.png]Blood Gulch with Anisotropic 16x Filtering[/url][/QUOTE]
That's pretty cool.

Edit:
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Edit: morning Dax, hope you're feeling better.[/QUOTE]
I am, thankfully.
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Blueblur1 said:
Great Team Flag games, guys! I wish it were a permanent playlist.
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Good stuff, good stuff. It should be a permanent playlist. Problem is it takes people away from objective games. Of course they could just have a flag and bomb playlists...

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Ogs said:
Just seen these shots over on Digital Foundry -


Just shows how much better the ingame screenshot tools makes things look :lol
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Did you travel through time from the past to bring us this news? Screenshots add AA and improve fidelity all round.
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
Did you travel through time from the past to bring us this news? Screenshots add AA and improve fidelity all round.
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Actually he came from the future showing us Halo 3 PC shots.
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
Did you travel through time from the past to bring us this news? Screenshots add AA and improve fidelity all round.
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I know, but seing those shots i posted made me realise just how much of a difference there is. Hopefully (although unlikely) theyl release a PC version so it could be played like that all the time :).
 
Ogs said:
Just seen these shots over on Digital Foundry -

Just shows how much better the ingame screenshot tools makes things look :lol
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Holy shit are those pics of the fabled Heroic Map Pack? Day one.

I hope it goes free eventually, though. 800 points is too steep a price for 3 maps.
 
So, changes made.

Two suggestions made were two break the center wall and add some cover along it; I've done that. Other changes I thought it needed, after the playtest:

  • A dozen new spawn points out in the center; spawns were too clustered around the bases
  • Added a stone platform in the open corners (with a plasma pistol)
  • Moved the regens onto the bridges in the center (from the wall) so they're not so close together now that the wall is open
  • Swapped one overshield for an active camo. I had done two overshields because with the bases in the corners, each has a slight advantage rushing for one side. But it looked like the power-ups were positioned enough out in the open that it neutralized that issue.
  • Swapped Prowlers for Warthogs.
  • Also geomerged a column down that was sitting crooked on the sand.
And now for some in-game screenshots.

There's two openings in the wall now, and columns outside either end for cover.

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Down the center:

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New overview:

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I think it's incrementally better. Once I figure out a name for it, I'll park it in file share. Under consideration: Crooked, Whiplash and Sensitive Places.
 
GhaleonEB said:
I think it's incrementally better. Once I figure out a name for it, I'll park it in file share. Under consideration: Crooked, Whiplash and Sensitive Places.
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Seems I was wrong about the wall. Not surprising. :p Looks like it will play better.

As for the name - I think it would be epic if you just kept it as "aabbccdd 008."

Think about it...

Person 1: Hey, you want to go play on aabbccdd 008?!
Person 2: Sure! I love aabbccdd 008! It's an awesome map.
 
Blueblur1 said:
Hey, guess what guys? Cheating isn't reserved for only high level ranked matches! I just got cheated in a Social Slayer match. We went to the black scoreboard screen at least 4 times losing two teammates and one opponent in the process. Unfortunately, we lost by only a few points. I've uploaded the video up to my File Share in case someone wants to see the match.
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:lol Wow, that's just pathetic. I guess those 50s really wanted the 1xp gained from Social Slayer :eyeroll:
 
I'm trying to get my Annual right now, Willeth is here already so we just need two more people.

Send a message or friend request to PA Yorker.

EDIT: Never mind, we have four people now.
 
Ogs said:
Just seen these shots over on Digital Foundry -

http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/7/0/7/5/9/7/Halo1.jpg.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/7/0/7/5/9/7/Halo2.jpg.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/7/0/7/5/9/7/Halo3.jpg.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/7/0/7/5/9/7/Halo4.jpg.jpg[IMG]

Just shows how much better the ingame screenshot tools makes things look :lol[/QUOTE]

Sorry I don't mean to be a tool but that's pretty much what it looks like on most HDTV's right?

I mean sure those images are 1280*720 but there is still no AA present that I can see, at least not any more than is present in the game itself? (Which obviously only runs at 640p or whatever...)

But yeah, this isn't a HUGE difference, if one at all?

Something like this however
[IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/25hkdix.png

looks a bit more special! :D
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