who would they release it to? they can just test it themselves. masters has been testing it when he live feeds on xfire (i.e. it exceptions while he's playing).

Plenty of trusted friends of team members have been allowed to beta certain maps. I'm sure once the content creation is done and its in the debugging phase more people will be beta testing.

VERY trusted friends. They wouldn't want the beta circling the web because they gave it to the wrong person.

yeah, thats the idea behind "trusted."

There's a very good reason for no public beta, and why only trusted friends get one. I'm sure everyone remembers all the tangents, criticism, insulting, etc. that came every time update pictures were put up. Now imagine if the maps were released to everyone for download before they were ready.

BTW I do not have a beta, so nothing should be taken from this post in that matter.

O yeah btw the link I posted on page 40 is an mp3 for h3 odst. (For those who don't read the b-net update)

So is it still good at an 800x600 res? My laptop has a 1024x600 screen, so Halo's quite screwed up. I run it at 800x600, so do you think graphics are still good?

Yeah, I know the pictures at Modacity were lowres, but isn't that to make the images fit?

Birds actually. They are avian in nature. Look how they move. Fairly birdlike, right?

well... that was disturbing...

To be honest in Halo CE they look a lot more reptile-like than bird. In Halo 2 they were changed to birds by giving them a thinner jaw and "feathers" (I think they have feathers?)

They aren't any of these. They are a seperate species that developed on their own. They have no relationship with any animals on our own planet. Any similarities are coincidental. That's how evolution works. They are not birds, or reptiles, or dogs, or anything like that. THEY ARE THEIR OWN SPECIES. They can't even be categorized properly as Animalia.

I AM A TROLE.
Edited by TVTyrant on Jun 21, 2009 at 02:26 PM

You know Halo is just a video game and this magical world of Halo doesn't actually exist? Bungie's artist don't just come up with everything off the top of their head. They use references of actual things on this planet. I'm pretty sure they used some type of bird references when concepting the Jackel.

^wat?

two posts up now.
Edited by Ninjadude on Jun 21, 2009 at 02:10 PM

O yeah. I was just messing around, doin some trolein, doin what I do.

I was wondering if CMT would be kind enough to release a human ship template, with all the component hallways and junctions and stuff. I would rather have that than all of their tags and releases. I would like it more than SPv2, actually.

Speaking of which, are the bsps protected?

My guess is yes, but from what I've heard some are recycled from the multiplayer maps, and others from other parts of the game. There are some original ones though, and those will probably be protected.

Most likely. It would be cool to release the max files of the new bsps down the road. I can't say for sure because I didn't create all of it. I'll definatly release some bsps that never make it into the mod.

That would be pretty awesome.

I don't know what anyone would want them for.

Look at them.. I don't know, use them? , learn from them? Etc.

I love making my own single player modifications to maps. BSPs actually made for single player use would be VERY useful.

Btw, why did you take away the spike grenade? (Referring to a chat on YouTube in one of your broadcasts.) Because, it is the best Halo-grenade ever (perhaps not as fun as the flaming-gellybean-grenade) and if that is true, I'll probably cry until release, and then forget it was even supposed to be there.

It had too many bugs, so it was taken out.

Forgive me for asking, but what bugs? The engine of Halo 1 wasn't too good with the spawning of all the spikes?

I think it was either lag when they exploded, or that you'd be instantly killed when they exploded.

No new enemies? Aside from bravo kilos?

Was there anything on-topic since i left? =S
Edited by Cocaine on Jun 22, 2009 at 07:57 AM

It was just not possible to have more than 2 grenade types. For it to work properly it would have to replace either the frag or plasma grenade.

will you guys add some extra parts to the Maw Run?
( i just played that part in SPv1 and the thought came in.)

If anything make it shorter but more complex. How could that huge corridor fit inside that tiny ship? Also, for some reason you drive straight for a really long distance and then go straight into a hangar bay? Anyways, make the run more complex, but overall shorter. Like you have to get out of the vehicle, or maybe make a banshee/longsword run.

If you get to the Longsword for a Longsword run, why not fly that to get off of Halo, instead of flying to another Longsword?

We're not editing the warthog run, I can't believe some of you even think we would do something that stupid. It's timed, it's unimportant, and it's huge.

I mean you get to it and fly through a huge wrecked, debris-filled thing. Out of the POA.