actually there were more than one different honor guard, thanks to the random armor thing in the end of gravemind. dat hat on a white armored elite

There were Honor Guards and Honor Guard Ultra, plus the Honor Guard Councillors that were the result of a glitch. If you count the standard Councillors as being an Honor Guard rank, then Halo 2 had three different, canonical ranks of Honor Guard.

I liked the randomness, sometimes they even had the hat and no extra shoulder armor. I made a drinking game with someone where we kept guessing

there waz honor gaurds in da playable elite pack! I HAZ LEEKED SPV3!

6666 post, congratulations.

hooray! 1 more 6 than evil, and 1 less 6 from overkill

All good questions/comments.

The honor guards come in minor, major, and ultra ranks, with ever increasing difficulty and shield strength. The big thing though is they use the same shield material as the Covenant Shield Generators, making any ballistic projectile worthless against them forcing the player to use some sort of weapon combo. or clever use of grenades to defeat them. They're only planned to be encountered near holy sites of the ring, so Cartographer, Control Room, and Index Chamber. We're treating them sort of like the Secret Service, so they are dispatched to protect holy sites and secure them for the arrival of the Prophets.

B40 is an interesting mission as in that it really plays more like two, you have the exterior sections followed by lots of interiors, and then another brief exterior. Surprisingly, the interiors are one of the few parts of the game where stealth is a real option. With all the tagset additions, especially the AU's like Active Camo, the interiors drag significantly less, and are really a lot of fun to sneak around in. It's also split so half of them are elite encounter based, and half are brute based. Some of the rooms have been cut near the end of the level, seeing as most people just use to take the banshee and skip them anyway. As far as not making it like B30:E... what we're doing with these areas isn't trying to hit the same notes as the original level, these are a lot more on foot vs vehicle and vehicle vs vehicle action, compared to the mostly vehicle vs infantry combat the original areas had.

Not every squad is something you fight and play, a lot of them are things for migration of marines and covenant. Bungie's work on the level is very strange, a lot of things that don't make sense script wise and some of the encounters are funny too. Then there is the object names, where things are assigned a name despite never being called on.

As far as your concerns that we are going for Quantity over Quality, there was some of that in the SPV2 betas, and some of those levels were never meant to be released, others were victims to what we could do at the time. Every little decision for SPV3 is discussed and iterated multiple times, we put a lot of time into saying no to our ideas before finally saying yes.

This, I actually have a pretty big gripe about this. A large portion of prior half of the game, wherein you're in the B40 Canyons, you're getting a lot of the infantry vs vehicle combat because later on you get vehicle vs infantry and vehicle vs vehicle, especially during Two Betrayals. It may be nice to have a bit more variation, but if you plan to do that, recall that gameplay might get dry near the end of the game if you keep on pulling the same cards repeatedly

I think we're saying the same thing here. What we're doing is offering larger scale vehicle on vehicle combat which you don't have in the regular areas, as well as more extensive player on foot vs vehicle combat, of which there are only 2 designed encounters in the regular game.

time for another BS moment trollolol. so.... is spv3 out yet?

It came out yesterday and everyone has gotten to play it except you.

ohhh noooooo dam that cheech and chong. dave's not here mannnnnn

SPV3? We're on SPV17 now. Catch up.

Does SPV17 include triple wielding and h4 tags?

H4 tags? We're on HR3 tags. Catch up.

yes, and with every download you can get your very own masterz1337 (while stocks last)
he doesnt really do much aside from rip
and your very own johnlex2 to teach you the ways of the ripper.

oh, and each level has 562 hours of gameplay.

I doubt this will happen considering late game throws multi faction battles into the mix. I highly doubt Two Betrayals will feel stale given the fact that most of the new bsps will likely offer more opportunities for some fun chaotic multi faction encounters.

^Yeah, 2 Betrayals is less about being the center of massive fights and more about observing and infiltrating them. Plus having the marines backing you up is half the fun of B40.

reasons why I loved halo 2's quarantine zone

Is there a certain halo game your trying to make spv3 play like?

lumoria episode 3: world war 7, so epic that ww3 and ww4 made ww7


or halo wars... imagine halo wars in first person tho

Halo 1

K.

Halo ce anniversary 2 lol

please make it more like halo 2 anniversary

Halo 2 sux. Put halo 4 tags in it


halo 2s my favorite halo dont kill me.

omg
that is all i have ever wanted in my life
finally
i am now happy

show us a video of CMT SPV3 work!!

cortana boobs

Am i the only one who saw that microsoft released halo spartan assault for pc?

You mean they put it on Steam, which is a pretty big move.

But no, you weren't the first to notice. It's just not relatable much to the thread at hand.

Why is it so quiet did the covenant kill everyone and cmt?
Edited by raphaelBLOOD WAR on Apr 14, 2014 at 01:38 PM

Given the UUI supports SP resuming, how important is the settings menu to be accessible via map to you.

It would probably be pretty inconvenient that I would have to temporarily exit the map to adjust sound/video settings and mouse sensitivity. I think having a constantly-accessible menu is pretty important, honestly. Also what about CMT extras, like creating a checkpoint? Would that go away too?

that would be planned to be integrated just into the main menu as there has always been a button for that which never worked. The majority of CMT extras have been moved into actual ingame settings.

the counter argument to your concern is that you only need to do that once, and then never again.

So you are saying that CMT extras would not be accessible ingame without exiting to the main menu? Because if that is so, then I would disagree with not messing around with it a lot... -ish...
Meh, never mind, I don't care.

There isn't planned to be any CMT Extras for SPV3, we're just talking about the default settings.