I think the player should still hold the grip, but turn the gun around and like they're holding it like brass knuckles and punch the enemy with it.

You're up there for getting mad about a "stupid" stripe.

The AR needs something to draw its attention and make it less boring. Just my two cents though.

When someone says, "A penny for your thoughts?" and you put your two cents in, where does the other penny go?

it goez to teh mann mayan! :0

Dano is a professional texture artist. If he chooses to listen to crit from a community is up to him. He is not getting paid to create professional standard textures for the community, so tbqh he can do as he wishes.
If he was getting paid then he would change his style to suit the needs of his client of course, but he is not. It seems his style is grimy and Gears of War style. Which tbqh is more realistic than a nice and shiny new weapon.

The "stripe" on the weapons is probably down to Bungie wanting to add some more color to their weapons and maybe wanting the audiences attention being drawn to a certain part of the weapon as that part may contain more detail than the rest of the weapon, which in theory may give the illusion that the weapon is rather detailed, interesting and unique due to the position of the colored stripe.

Although, to a point I would agree in saying that the white strip near the ammo counter of the AR does not really look that appealing, and could do with be repositioned and the color changing, but the other two weapons on the render look perfectly fine to me.

Well, I am going to get this form back on topic. Masterz, I have a question. Are you going to attempt to keep the orginal weapons closer to the orginal game? I do not what to see a 32 clip instead of my trusty 60 clip. Also, overpower the pistol again. I want to kill a Elite just by shooting it's weapon again.

We really like our AR, that's not going to change gameplay wise. We have some really cool stuff for the pistol that's OS dependent, hopefully it will bring together the best attributes of H1, ODST, and Reach.




Dano: post these.
and also, may as well mention that the yellow stripe was both a test and an inside joke.
i dont want anyone to get the wrong idea that theyre opinion had anything to do with mine.



Edited by Masters1337 on Oct 9, 2011 at 01:29 AM

will the AR have halo 3 Origins? I hope so.

bwahahahahaha!

what?

Aww, I liked the yellow stripe :\ The rest of these really do look sexy though, great work!

Holy Mackerels look at those magazines!!

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Sorry, I was just cleaning some...err...never mind...

But yeah, that's what I think of the AR right now <3

No it's not, it's just an untrue statement.

That assault rifle looks identical to the h3 one if I didn't know any better. Might as well have ripped the h3 textures. Real shame to see that stripe go.

Also ODX: you are on a video game forum in which people discuss and crit video game assets. If you find that pathetic then you do not have a place here clearly.

who can guess which one is the new one? pretty hard i know




yeah, i see what you mean though, man. they might as well have ripped the halo 3 one, might as well be the same thing.
Edited by Gurdy on Oct 9, 2011 at 05:51 AM

This is not a find-waldo thread. Placing weapons side by side will obviously reveal differences. But look at them individually and they look very similar. The "new" assault rifle imo has very little that differentiates it from the old. To my untrained eye it just looks a little bit brighter and has an added eagle to it. What I am saying is when they posted that picture of their new AR to me it just looked like an h3 AR.

Either way, it is a bland looking weapon now compared to the version that had a yellow stripe.

But a great attempt of pulling my post out of it's context, Gurdy! And underlining the "identical" and completely ignoring the "if I didn't know any better" which very clearly illustrates what I actually meant (and because you don't seem to be to bright, I elaborated what I meant in the above section of this very post).
Edited by TM_updates on Oct 9, 2011 at 06:09 AM

Hey wow, my old account works.


Also, I think the yellow stripe added character. The Assault Rifle now lacks a certain level of bougewoir and synergy.

I think CMT are a terrible team and everything they make is sub quality. Lumoria make much better stuff, and continue to innovate the Halo CE engine with their push for the development of moar Ai, and moar Ai.


<_>

Gurdy, i do hope you are joking... if not your an idiot.

If you really are Dano then I have just lost all respect for you. Lumoria is about level design and great encounters, you guys are about pusing the engine itself. Two very different goals and it's a shame to see you fall to such a level of insulting us like this. Very low.

No one has a working sarcasmo meter, I assume.


Protip: Gurdy was being sarcastic.

I don't think anyone overlooked his sarcasm, nor did anyone overlook yours.

I'm sorry you took that as insult, I don't know who you are. I literally just picked some bad mod name off the top of my head. I have no idea about anything, I kind of don't care really.

I've just noticed a severe lack of reason in your posts, regarding Dano's work. Bungies Halo 3 AR is technically greyscale, and lacks any real "character" so you say. The Assault rifle will never look drastically different in design because......it's the Assault Rifle. The silhouette and shape is kind of it's thing. If he was to mess with that, he would then be accused of "breaking" it.

The yellow stripe it seems was a play on the notion that literally everything, no matter the quality is bogged down with unreasonable "criticism" about the tiniest of things. It's obvious that Dano added an obnoxious yellow stripe that lacked any design traits to make it easy for everyone to figure out what they hate so much about it.

But it seems in a weird turn of events, people have no taste, and actually liked that.


Btw, I'm not Dano, I'm D4NO.
Edited by D4NO on Oct 9, 2011 at 06:19 AM

You don't seem to get what I am saying.

This AR doesn't have anything special, especially compared to the fantastic overhauls of the covenant weapons. The subtle yellow stripe added alot of character and really fit in well with CMT's style, making it look really unique.

As it is now, it is just another assault rifle restyle lacking anything special to it.

This is my opinion, and you don't have to agree with it. However you do not need to get personal, you troll. If you are Dano then I feel sorry for you that you cannot handle crit, but I'm guessing you're just another old alt account of one of our haters. I won't make a list nor will I respond to your insulting posts anymore.

Congratulations, you have all my



It's obvious you don't know at all what your talking about, and explaining further will mean I'll have to be on this crappy forum for longer than I hoped, which may open me up to all kinds of ill doings.

Btw, Not Dano.

Lol this guy is fun !!!!

I'm just gonna drop in that I do know what I am talking about. You didn't bother to individually adress my points and just used that "argument" to make yourself look intelligent.

And why would some dude from 07 call himself Dano if he is not him AND be so passionatly flamy about all this? It is you Dano. And since you've been getting personal:

Your covenant weapons are fantastic
Your human weapons are alright, nothing special, they lack character
Your old forerunner textures for SPv2 were super dark, heavy and had a sense of claustrophobia. It was not pleasent to run around in the environments textured by you.

You clearly cannot handle criticism, not my problem. I'm giving feedback so you can improve.
I'm trying to be mature about this, I hope you can do the same.

The TM mapping team is a very good team, i think better than cmt. Plz dano dont crit the TM because the TM and the CMT havent got the same objectif! The tm make a very good bsp and scenario with the original halo tagset, and the CMT remake the campaign with a good tags etc... SORRY BUT FOR ME THE TM IS BETTER THAN CMT.

Ps: I realy like the ar on the third screen :D

So Don't crit TM, but TM are better than CMT, but they are different so you can't crit them....
What.

That was just dumb. You're dumb.

I'm also partially annoyed that my animation was buried by a pointless argument about a line.

But oh well, I guess that means everyone liked my animation and has no right to complain about anything when I finalize it. Less worries for me then.

Lol that's funny a noob speak with me. Shut up idiot ! You do not even know what you mean.

Go on, do elaborate exactly how we are on such "different levels". Level relates to skill, you said nothing about different goals. So please, do go on.

A bit late to the party, now that I look at it, but in an attempt to return the conversation to something a bit less flamey....



Bam. Lookit that thing. Yellow stripes everywhere. Now they could have taken the realistic approach and made it visually identical to the standard Warthog; you don't see paintjobs like that on realworld military vehicles just because they're packing a heavier turret. But it's a gameplay thing. It gives you that little mental distinction between otherwise identical objects. And while a similar stripe on the assault rifle may not be entirely necessary, given the fact that there's only one assault rifle in their campaign (or is there? o.O), they could still use the excuse that Bungie did it first.
Edited by Echo77 on Oct 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM