Looks good, definitely a good setup for a firefight map.

Lol, I think the pic was meant to be a joke.




...However, that does look fun.

I was thinking the same thing, but didn't really want to be offensive if that was the actual BSP.

'sup moose

wanted to drop some input for you guys. not trying to make demands, but if you guys are going for a more lore-focused approach to this project, i'd suggest maybe switching up the odst character's appearances. armor inconsistencies, like with the various mjolnir components, such as eod and eva i would say aren't exactly available to odst operators. yeah, dare wore a recon helmet in H3ODST, but that wasn't exactly an odst "suit," per say. more of a specialized BDU for ONI section I recon operators. unless your squad here is some super specialized team, i don't think it'd be right for them to be wearing various mjolnir components outright, despite the odst BDU armor systems being compatible with most mjolnir hardware.

making these changes might seem like a bit of a superfluous task, but for someone like myself who takes the core lore of the halo universe to heart, i'd appreciate to see it come about, or have a reasonable, canon-respective explanation otherwise

I love it when people complain about realism and then throw around a bunch of terms they demonstrate no understanding of.

Honestly, though, my thoughts on the matter can be summarized as


It's meant to be arcady and fun, not gritty pseudo-realistic. People do this kind of thing because they want to make something enjoyable for themselves and for other people, not just to create some simplistic cog strictly adhering to Halo lore for the handful of those petty enough to care.

It really grinds my gears when people style themselves as some kind of authenticity police tasked with pointing out the most meaningless aspects and traits of a project in an effort to...what? What the hell does it accomplish? Does it give them some kind of self-satisfaction that their ability to spend their lives memorizing all-but-irrelevant information could save the masses from the sin of a trigger placed a bit too forward, or a character a rank higher than they should be?

This is a game. People play and mod them as an escape from strict reality of this world, not a constant reminder. Being true to source material isn't a cardinal crime, but to expect and even become irritated when content authors don't explicitly mirror it is beyond silly and serves as an ample window into one's priorities in life.

nice response edgelord, but from the brief amount i've read from your post, you're clearly intent on being overall unwelcoming and antagonistic with your opinions, so i'll leave you to it.

i'll wait for moose and his crew's take on it.
Edited by Bungie LLC on Jan 17, 2015 at 07:16 PM

This is coming from a guy that runs around hurling ad hominems and refers to the forum as "the whole retard circus". Yeah, you're not fooling anyone.



e: So just call me 'meanie' and run off. Whatever works for you, I suppose.
Edited by BKTiel on Jan 17, 2015 at 07:29 PM

Yes it does. Double sided Descent for more challenge.

I think ODST's trying to contain the Flood in such a premeditated scenario, warrants the use of SPARTAN equipment, and anything else they can get their hands on.

right, which would kind of go hand-in-hand with that idea of a "specialized team" that i mentioned; an unconventional team of sorts to deal with a catastrophic threat, like the flood.

Well, I guess this is it then. I just got a PM from Pepzee stating that Descent Quarantine and Firefight Portent II are cancelled.

It was fun while it lasted, guys.

I disapprove this message.

I wouldn't mind finishing this tbh. However I probably won't ever get a chance like that :l

Again?

Aw, man. I was actually hoping you guys would spend a little more time on it. Can we haz pre-alpha?

Could you release everything what you have done so that someone could finish this map or use the assets from this map on their own projects

Sometimes, it is time to move on to new projects.
I'd grow tired of working on very similar projects myself, so I can understand it.

Well there goes our hopes *sigh*.

You wouldn't want it, it never got into the pre-alpha stage. There was one incomplete wave, with incomplete flood bipeds and incomplete weapons on an incomplete BSP. This project never should have been announced in the state it was in. I'm never making another WIP thread again, only a release thread when the time comes.

This project is toast.

Pepzee........ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Do you have any plans on what you are doing next, if anything?

I wasn't being serious. :P

Are you?

There aren't any real plans for anything yet, I'm talking to a few people that might be willing to help me with a project on a much smaller scale however. Don't expect any more project announcements from me though, I'm only going to announce stuff that has been released from here on out.



I am. There's a chance that some of the assets from this map will be merged into another project down the road.

Just do multiplayer. Less work.

Ohh wait only coldsnap, Extinction, Bigass, Delta Ruins, Inmure and Sphinxbio's mods are played....