It's Happening Again...

[Saggy]

www.bungie.net (http://www.bungie.net)

KEEP IT CLEAN!

Also,
There will be a payoff.
It won't be a letter.

[Con]

OBEY POSTED LIMITS :mad:

[FRain]

Bah, what the hell again. Let's just hope they don't pull it again at the last minute.

[Sever]

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[Saggy]

Oh shit, I just noticed the counter only has 11 hours left, which means somethings going to happen tomorrow morning at 7:07 PDT (10:07 am EST).

Also, THIS (http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7938/dsc0016bv2.jpg) image is floating around the Bungie forums. Photoshopped? MOst likely. Guess we'll find out tomorrow.

[flibitijibibo]

Fuck, I'm teaching when this is going down. Damn you time zones!

[Terin]

Alert Status.

AGAIN!

I wonder if it will be for the Mythic Map Pack. Probably something moar awesome, though.

[Zeph]

Alarm clocked. But lol if the publisher changes their mind. I have a feeling that last time it was simply Bungie failed to notify the publisher. It would be epic if MS said no tomorrow morning shortly before it goes live.

[Apoc4lypse]

Oh shit, I just noticed the counter only has 11 hours left, which means somethings going to happen tomorrow morning at 7:07 PDT (10:07 am EST).

Also, THIS (http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7938/dsc0016bv2.jpg) image is floating around the Bungie forums. Photoshopped? MOst likely. Guess we'll find out tomorrow.

fuck.... I wish I owned a 360... is that confirmed or what?

[Heathen]

I doubt its shooped.

[Kornman00]

Alarm clocked. But lol if the publisher changes their mind. I have a feeling that last time it was simply Bungie failed to notify the publisher. It would be epic if MS said no tomorrow morning shortly before it goes live.
I hope they do actually. I want bungie to fucking rebel from MS's clutches. just their "publisher" my ass, they might as well still own them.

[Timo]

Don't think i'll be up at 3 in the morning, unfortunately.

[FRain]

I live in pacific zone and we have less than 20 minutes until launch :P.

[Rob Oplawar]

15 seconds!!!!! :O

....

e: rebooting...

...

hurry!

ee: oh, continue to bnet. silly me.

eee: GAH! what a tease! Had a feeling it had to do with H3 tho.

[beele]

I just saw the teaser, we're in for something big and epic :awesome:

edit: indeed something halo related

[Rob Oplawar]

ok, so, what have we here...

City of new mombasa, post evacuation, pre slipspace explosion, with Regret's ship still near the elevator, SI is monitoring the city, he sees a group of incoming ODST drop pods, with a group veering off to the side, which he marks as unauthorized? Followed by the slipspace explosion- The elevator remains, but is severely damaged, and we assume it will be collapsing shortly. Afterward, SI reviews the destruction, and from what we've heard he appears to be damaged or at least upset about his city. Then he sees a single drop pod coming in- gee, I wonder if that's the player? :P

Am I missing any key details?

e: fixed typo above, wrote Truth instead of Regret

[beele]

I think we might play as an odst, "prepare to drop". Orbital drop shock troopers.

[Kornman00]

I can see stuff from my trip last year coming togetha =o

[Rob Oplawar]

On HBO some observant folks have noticed that the date January 1st 2009 appears three times in different formats throughout the trailer. Could we be looking at a January 9th release date, or is that when it'll be officially announced (as opposed to the teaser we've got now), or something else?

[Kornman00]

I'd go with release date based on what I know and can assume

[Rob Oplawar]

Then knowing Bungie (and game development in general) this means it will be coming out around April 2010. :p

[Botolf]

I'm hoping this is an ODST game set around the time of Halo 2, I wantz Earth City!

[JDMFSeanP]

Its definantly set it the middle of Halo 2 as whoever above me said the space elevator is still there.

I'd love to fight so bad and then have chief come in as a reinforcement and be fucking awesome and own noobs as an AI.

KORN U SUK BTW >:[[[[

[Arteen]

This seems to be a campaign extension, set around the beginning of Halo 2. If that's correct, then hopefully Elites and Brutes will be enemies. Elites are more fun to fight, and I always wanted to fight Elites and Brutes together (like CMT is doing), with none of this civil war nonsense.


On HBO some observant folks have noticed that the date January 1st 2009 appears three times in different formats throughout the trailer. Could we be looking at a January 9th release date, or is that when it'll be officially announced (as opposed to the teaser we've got now), or something else?
01/06/09 could also mean June 1, 2009.

[Rosco]

from the people at the forums on bungie, i'm pretty sure
this isn't the same explosion as the one regret's ship made. I'm pretty sure the explosion would have instantly made the elevator collapse, and if I'm wrong, maybe straight after the video we see the elevator collapses. :downs:
but i'm also hoping this is loosly something to do with the e3 halo 2 mission, maybe not the same characters but maybe similar objectives.

[Rob Oplawar]

If you look closely, you can see the elevator beginning to collapse after the explosion. The thing is big, remember.
Also, what appears to be Regret's ship is there moments before the explosion. Either this happens after the slipspace jump and that ship is actually a different ship (meaning the slipspace explosion didn't damage the elevator) or the explosion is the slipspace explosion, and Bungie just decided to move it ever so slightly to make the video better, and everybody jumped on them for being inconsistent.

:p

[PenGuin1362]

A more tactical halo FPS playing as an ODST I think would be quite fun.

[Terry]

Edit: Oh. My bad.


Well, this is pretty interesting. But if it's a campaign expansion, doesn't that mean that they were lying in that interview? Either way, there's nothing to judge, but the idea sounds interesting, and maybe it'll actually explain to those of us who didn't read the graphic novel, why the hell the masterchief is in the forest at the beginning.

[Advancebo]

met thinks new maps :D

[Dwood]

I'm thinking it's the h2 E3 over again except better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1U22Ul0TpE

The end with the pods falling looks exactly like Pardon Our Dust to me.

[Phopojijo]

Yea it's definitely something Halo...

They claim "Halo 3" near the end -- so its most likely an expansion to Halo 3, not a full game.

It's not exclusively new maps though... it doesn't look like Multiplayer what-so-ever. Also they gave enough new MP maps...

[Hotrod]

There has been pretty interesting "proof" on the Bungie.net forums (I took a look there just to see what people said about it) that it's a DLC Campaign. I guess we'll have to wait and see what it truly is.

[FRain]

ODST pods? ODST-Based squad-shooter seems more likely now.

[sdavis117]

At 13 seconds into the teaser you can see a sign in the top left corner that says "City of New Mombasa". That means that it is the explosion after Regret's ship goes into Slipspace. That said, what good would it do to drop ODST's in a place that the Marines there were already regaining control of? There must be something more then your an ODST that is reenforcements to the forces already there.

[Heathen]

You are there to retrieve something or some epic mission like that.

I am almost CERTAIN its a H3ODSTSPDLC

[ultama121]

Oh my god this is shaping out to be awesome, whatever it is. :haw:

[DEElekgolo]

They said new game. But its just a Campaign extension.

[Rentafence]

Just skimmed over the thread so I don't know if any one else said this yet, but the thing about the teaser trailer in Halo 3 is legit. I had it pop up on me twice today.

E: Talking about this http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7938/dsc0016bv2.jpg

[Hotrod]

They said new game. But its just a Campaign extension.
They said new project, not game, no?

[DEElekgolo]

A few seconds after the screen goes black for a second. It says "Maddie, Where are you?" Googled it. Got this.
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4038796495


They said new project, not game, no?
It says here. New game.
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7938/dsc0016bv2.jpg

[jngrow]

Also, yeah, they said new project, not game. And the information on XBL confirms that it's single-player. I also agree with Heathen on ODST SP Campagin, it's a good chance considering the "prepare to drop" thing.

[FRain]

One thing I did notice though, the original SlipSpace Mombasa event basically vaporized the entire city. This one just shows an explosion and some damage, but most buildings are just smoking and are in tact.

[thehoodedsmack]

Oh, you wanted to play the game in a big flat wasteland? No, that sounds like fun. THINK!!!

[Arteen]

A few seconds after the screen goes black for a second. It says "Maddie, Where are you?" Googled it. Got this.
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4038796495
There's no connection. (http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=897513)

[thehoodedsmack]

*sigh* Bungie knows how stir-crazy their 13 year olds are. It's a shame that site got hit by the Halo-wave.

[Con]

Oh, you wanted to play the game in a big flat wasteland? No, that sounds like fun. THINK!!!
I'd rather play in a ruined city but not a wasteland. The h3 skybox shows a lot more damage than shown in this video. I hope it's more of a combination.

[thehoodedsmack]

That's what I meant, I was just saying we shouldn't have a game based in a crater. :/

[Zeph]

They said new game. But its just a Campaign extension.

Good to know Warhead is just a campaign extension and not a new game.


One thing I did notice though, the original SlipSpace Mombasa event basically vaporized the entire city. This one just shows an explosion and some damage, but most buildings are just smoking and are in tact.

What the halo 2 cutscene showed was a spheroid engulfing the city. That doesn't mean everything inside said spheroid was vaporized.


Edit: Oh. My bad.


Well, this is pretty interesting. But if it's a campaign expansion, doesn't that mean that they were lying in that interview? Either way, there's nothing to judge, but the idea sounds interesting, and maybe it'll actually explain to those of us who didn't read the graphic novel, why the hell the masterchief is in the forest at the beginning.

Did you not pay attention to the opening cutscene? He jumped out of the dread and crashed into the forest.

[Heathen]

In order to know whats next, we have to find Maddie....


No srs, poor girl and co.

My mother has been missing for 3 years so I can understand :/

(no, I am not pulling a jay, I was making sure you guys knew I wasn't clowning the missing little gal.)




But I am so ready for an ODST game. The MC AI thing would rock.
ODST's are the baddest SOB's next to chief.



EDIT:

Zeph, are you proposing that the beginning of halo 3 and the drop pods here are in any way connected? That is a long time difference :/

Assuming this did happen during the proposed time.

E: NVM. Didn't read all the way through.

[jngrow]

Was it just me, or did the teaser look very anime-ish? Like one of those anime movies with really nice backgrounds.

[thehoodedsmack]

It looked rather stylized. Not as realistic as Halo 3, but then again, it's just a trailer.

[Con]

I thought the same smack

Also, game theory:
KEEP IT CLEAN: Become the UNSC's best janitor :awesome:

[Heathen]

:/

I am guessing that if it has anything with keeping it clean, you are some kind of sanitation crew, but in a less conventional way.

Like clean up some kind of infestation of something.

E: Or maybe its a crotch cleaning game.

Remember Marines, keep your area clean.

[Edward Elrich]

One thing I did notice though, the original SlipSpace Mombasa event basically vaporized the entire city. This one just shows an explosion and some damage, but most buildings are just smoking and are in tact.

Not necessarily: we never saw New Mombasa after the original slipspace explosion (or when we did it was already semi-rebuilt, assuming that it was completely destroyed to begin with.)

And New Mombasa couldn't have been completely vaporized because in the opening cutscene to the Delta Halo mission (but who actually watches those?) you can clearly see the tops of a few buildings that had been near the slipspace window on Earth. My guess is that the people may have all been vaporized, while the buildings remained mostly intact.

And now my wild speculative guess as to what might happen: you're playing as a Spartan, but it's not Spartan 117. (as I believe there was more than one Spartan on Earth during the time of Halo 2, unless I'm going completely insane again)

[Rob Oplawar]

I can't really remember, but I thought that at the end of GoO all of the remaining Spartans except MC were in some sort of Dyson sphere, but maybe there are still a couple left (and by that time Earth is the only place left for them to be).

Now that my own hype is dying down, I'm kind of underwhelmed. It's not all that much, just a teaser trailer. Not that there's anything wrong with the kind of speculation and anticipation that it produces, but I guess I'm starting to outgrow that. I'll keep an eye on it, but I'll leave the hardcore speculation and going crazy with anticipation to you real fans. :)

[thehoodedsmack]

I'm not sure if it's canon or not, but in the Halo graphic novel, we're introduced to Maria (can't remember ID, can't be bothered to check this early) who left the program to start a family (doesn't make much sense considering Spartans had their sex drives repressed) but anyways, she was on Earth testing out the MK VI Before it got sent up to John on Cairo. On revision, this sounds like a crap character, and I really doubt we'll be playing as Maria. It's 6 in the morning, leave me alone!

E: Also, I'm with Rob and the whole excitement level. There wasn't a whole lot to catch, and it strays from the typical in-game trailers we're accustomed to. I wanted some badass ODST monologue and footage of them taking on the pimped-out Elites I'd finally get to shoot again (assuming this is happening in the immediate aftermath of the slipspace explosion) because BOY am I tired of wasting Brutes.

[Edward Elrich]

Rob, you might be right, but I thought that it was mainly the Spartan III's that were in there, with a few Spartan II's with them...

[Pooky]

Now that my own hype is dying down, I'm kind of underwhelmed. It's not all that much, just a teaser trailer. Not that there's anything wrong with the kind of speculation and anticipation that it produces, but I guess I'm starting to outgrow that. I'll keep an eye on it, but I'll leave the hardcore speculation and going crazy with anticipation to you real fans. :)
^

All the Halo nerd shit you guys are talking about is going way over my head, guess I stopped caring after Halo 3.

[rossmum]

*Update* There are some hidden words that I found in here. Things like, "Danger Flood Zone", "Maddie, where are you?", "Coxpahrnte Cnokonctbne", "Road Closed", "Yellow means yield", "Obey posted limits", "pardon our dust", and "proceed with caution" Someone told me that this reminds them of the New Mombasa or something like that level.
hi russia what's going down

looks like someone can't recognise cyrillic when they see it

[Terry]

Did you not pay attention to the opening cutscene? He jumped out of the dread and crashed into the forest.


Oh, I assumed since they didn't start it off with a ship level, that it wasn't the dreadnought or something. It wasn't very clear at all.

And I meant more the action before it, and the events on earth leading up to it.

[Hotrod]

(doesn't make much sense considering Spartans had their sex drives repressed)
Wrong, it was only a possible side effect of one of the drugs, not a definite one.

[legionaire45]

While Master Chief was off fighting the Covenant on Delta Halo several Spartan II's were busy running around having fun on Earth (Mount Erebus in Antarctica and one of the orbital elevators in Cuba). After about 2 weeks of fighting (after the orbital elevator) they capture a brute ship and head to Onyx.
I'd put my money on the ODSTs taking back New Mombasa or something. Lol @ 1:00AM gammar.

[Hotrod]

Yeah, and the Spartan-IIs were in Chili or something, not New Mombassa
So I'd also put my money on the ODSTs taking back New Mombassa.

[Choking Victim]

Yeah, and the Spartan-IIs were at Chili's or something, not New Mombassa
http://www.halotrialmods.org/zteam/personal_files/cv/chili%27s.jpg


ftfy.

[JDMFSeanP]

Wrong, it was only a possible side effect of one of the drugs, not a definite one.

Wrong, it was suppressed as to reduce affection towards others intentionally. They are built to fight not be sex loving hulks that rape shit.

[Corndogman]

But they are still capable of having sex, even if they don't want to.

[Con]

But they are still capable of having sex, even if they don't want to.

NOO I CANT STOP MYSELF FROM RAPING YOU ARGHHH

[PlasbianX]

Wrong, it was suppressed as to reduce affection towards others intentionally. They are built to fight not be sex loving hulks that rape shit.

Then why do they teabag after every single kill!?!? D:<

[JDMFSeanP]

NOO I CANT STOP MYSELF FROM RAPING YOU ARGHHH

If you rape someone and don't wanna rape them are they raping you?

[thehoodedsmack]

When did this "Spartans gettin' jiggy wit' it" tangent occur?

[Con]

If you rape someone and don't wanna rape them are they raping you?
good question :confused:

[Heathen]

No, then its most likely awkward pity sex.

Or she's a fat girl with low self esteem and you are doing it to humor her.

[Rob Oplawar]

At the risk of perpetuating this odd tangent...

I imagine that one former Spartan chick who left to have a family must have been with a non-spartan, hers being an exceptional case.

Can you imagine two Spartans going at it?

Fucking TAKE COVER!

*hides*

[Rosco]

What the halo 2 cutscene showed was a spheroid engulfing the city. That doesn't mean everything inside said spheroid was vaporized.


Yeah, and there were still battles happening after the slipspace event, I mean there was nothing saying the entire city was gone after the event, the covenant had to dig anyway.

[Kornman00]

When did this "Spartans gettin' jiggy wit' it" tangent occur?
IDK, but it ends here

[Warsaw]

hi russia what's going down

looks like someone can't recognise cyrillic when they see it

Because Roman letters make good stand-ins for real Cyrillic...I can only guess as to what that is supposed to read as, because Cyrillic "P" and "L" look similar to "n," so on and so forth...etc.

Aside, this looks interesting, but there are other projects out there that have my attention. This will have to be something genuinely good to make me do a double take. As of now, it's just the usual Bungie/Microsoft pre-announcement hype.

[FRain]

At the risk of perpetuating this odd tangent...

I imagine that one former Spartan chick who left to have a family must have been with a non-spartan, hers being an exceptional case.

Can you imagine two Spartans going at it?

Fucking TAKE COVER!

*hides*


Poke a hole in her pussy? Cum drowning? Cum flood? Snapped penis? Moans so loud it wakes up half of the world twice? Volcano cum?

These are just possibilities, of two Spartans having sex.

[Kornman00]

Poke a hole in her pussy? Cum drowning? Cum flood? Snapped penis? Moans so loud it wakes up half of the world twice? Volcano cum?

These are just possibilities, of two Spartans having sex.
Like I said

IDK, but it ends here
Anymore takers?

[Timo]

Talk about taking it to the next level FRain o_o


Also I agree with Pooky/Rob here, I have no idea about what you guys are talking about, i'm just keen to play whatever the game is when it comes out after watching that trailer.

[Rosco]

To be quite honest they would have wanted some sort of speculation, otherwise I'd see no point in making a teaser trailer which does not make you think about what the games about. :downs:

[Heathen]

Ugh. Rain said the P word. Makes me cringe.

[Rob Oplawar]

what, possibilities?

[Rosco]

what, possibilities?

No, predictable :downs: idiot's talk