Halo News and Discussion (Page 1 of 2)

Great topic vod. I am a big Halo fan, too. I have read all the other Halo books and I'm looking forward to the 6th. Also, I am trying to beat Halo 3 on Legendary, but after 5 levels it wouldn't give me any gamerscore. And then my 360 got the red ring of death. So I called my friend, I was like "You should bring your 360 over," and he said "It got the red ring yesterday". Anyway, I'm not happy with Microsoft right now.

Old topic. Anyways, figured I'd bring it back for a few updates.

Halo: The Cole Protocol is out. I'd wait to buy it in paperback, it was interesting, but not the best Halo novel yet.

Halo Wars has a confirmed release date of March 3, 2009. Several trailers have been release recently, including one called Field Trip To Harvest. Another Trailer, 5 Long Years

The Mythic Map Pack will be released along side the Halo Wars LE. Bungie released some new screenshots of  two maps, Orbital (awesome looking map, in my opinion) and Assembly. Check them out Here. Orbital is a human style, very modern, very military, very Bad*** looking map, and Assembly just happens to be a Scarab manufacturing plant. Check it out.

Halo 3: Recon has had a name change to Halo 3: ODST. Bungie explained the change was to better reflect the game experience. Trailer, still with "Recon" tag line, is available here. Watch in high quality.

Also, the game will be released Q3 2009, is disk-based, and has 1000GS.

About it for now.

I like Halo. I have not played Halo 3 yet though.

I want Halo 3 ODST.

yeah, im a fan of halo as well

anybody have a favorite armor type?

i got halo 3 for christmas and i beat the story on legendary in one day.thank very much
but anyways hasn't news about halo wars been out for some time...........like  a LONG time

would have taken you at least 12 hours.

Probably. Apparently, Bungie has them done, and they've all been done, for a while, but Microsoft or someone VERY high up at Bungie, most likely Microsoft, is controlling their release.

I believe there will be a further addition of achievements around ODST's release, due to the fact that Recon is related to Vidmaster Achievements, and those are tied, in part, to the Mythic Maps. So, theoretically, you could get it sooner, unless more Achievements are added. I believe there will be more maps that will correspond with ODST's release.

And yeah, even with a person to play with, my Legendary run took a while, especially on  few parts--part of Crows Nest, Part of Tsavo Highway, a lot of Cortana, parts of Halo, Sierra 117, etc. It wasn't easy, even with my little brother.

Ugh.  I hated Cortana.  The worst level in the entire game.   

Anyone else here play grifball?  My hardcore Halo 3 player friend hates it but I think it's a blast.  Come on Catch the disease!  It's contagious!

A new weekly update is here, with a few new hints on ODST.

* The Recording light was turned on outside of the Ivory Tower today as the final dialog recording for ODST gets underway.
* The once-discussed Tchou-shader is being beaten into submission by Bertone, Justin and the same-named                    creator.
* Jay and the audio team cut up and mixed a mountain of audio over the break.
* Spaces with fake names finding resting places.
* Lars is scheming, designing, and implementing things to achieve.

The latter clearly refers to achievements being added. Apparently, a LOT of dialog has been added since their December mass play-through, where they said a lot of dialog was improved by staff members, mainly Joe Staten (Bungie writer, author of Contact Harvest, chief voice actor for grunts).

There is also a new podcast available on itunes, I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but when I do I'll share anything important.

And Halo 3 and Halo 2 took most played titles played this year, for their respective consoles.

Here

I saw the trailer too. It looks good.

Btw, I've got the full Hayabusa armor, all 13 skulls found.

I'll try to complete all the levels on legendary.

Is Recon armor only for the Bungie Employees?

Update: Weekly Update 01/16/09

Questions about Mythic Maps answered, confirming that while the Mythic Maps (Assemble, Orbital, and the yet to be truly shown Sandbox) will come with the LE version of Halo Wars, they won't be released on the Marketplace immediately.

The Bungie net Render-to-video feature is currently in in-house beta testing.

Lars Bakken, ODST Designer, shares on Bungie's in-house playthrough of ODST, and is joined by Shiska with his own views.

A short about the M7s SMG, and changes that ODST will make to it.

Lastly, a short story about a Brute Pimp Chieftain

On that note, update complete.