Famitsu scans~

[Stormwing]

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_4730_en.html

some new little tidbits, including new views of the Hornet, Elephant, and the new portable covie turret gun thing (which is beastly).

Also a little info about the three early levels, and another view of Guardian, and other bits and pieces, including some Forge demo screens.

the mongoose squad from the trailer looks pretty cool too :)

[CtrlAltDestroy]

:o Awesome.

[Reaper Man]

D: if only it was in English..

[Warsaw]

Indeed.

Pretty interesting. Halo 3 is finally starting to look good, and has finally impressed me graphics-wise (which is a big deal to me). The water in the Last Resort picture is astounding.

Also, a portable Spectre cannon? Sounds like a parallel to the chain-gun to me.

[Archon23]

Elephant looks awesome. Wonder if theres gonna be a small MAC cannon or something mounted on it........

Also, Loving how Guardian looks.

[Dole]

Elephant looks awesome. Wonder if theres gonna be a small MAC cannon or something mounted on it........
You mean a Gauss Cannon?

[rossmum]

Scarab's looking pretty cool, most of the rest is too... Elephant is fucking ugly, though.

[Archon23]

You mean a Gauss Cannon?

More along the lines of a Rail Cannon.......

[Con]

Scarab's looking pretty cool, most of the rest is too... Elephant is fucking ugly, though.
I agree, but VG tells me I sux for saying that :(

[Warsaw]

Directed towards Archon23:

Technically the same thing. Magnetic acceleration weapons come in two forms: linear induced acceleration and coil induced acceleration. Linear is the rail-gun, and coil is the coil-gun (who'd have thought?). We haven't been able to get coils to work, because of heat, but we currently have working rail guns, and will soon have battleships mounting such weapons, as well as electric-powered lasers (no, I am not joking).

[Huero]

I love the elephant.
Oh, also there's nothing wrong with having a parallel to the Warthog's chaingun.

[Warsaw]

Yes there is, because every single gun has a parallel, and that's no fun.

[Kornman00]

ohai, almost forgot the elites will be having armour permutations as well :awesome:

Observers are monitors? Should have guessed :-3

And what exactly is that in the second scan that looks like a capsule-bubble shield?

[Dole]

Rhino would've been a much more appropriate name for an APC than "Elephant."
I just can't take Elephant seriously as an appellation... how could they really be scraping the bottom of the barrel so soon?

Even "Hornet" seems too generic. I thought Mined's Hoplite had a better name AND design.


We haven't been able to get coils to work, because of heat, but we currently have working rail guns, and will soon have battleships mounting such weapons, as well as electric-powered lasers (no, I am not joking).
What about the guy on YouTube with the magnetic pistol, wasn't that coil tech?

And have we yet created railguns that don't need sabots?

[Warsaw]

Actually, a sabot round is a good thing. they let you hurtle a smaller projectile at speeds higher than they could take if accelerated by their lonesome, creating excessively high velocity rounds capable of penetration without detonation. Our tanks use sabot rounds and they aren't even magnetic acceleration weapons.

As far as a magnetic pistol, there is none. What you saw was either a pack of horse waste or was misinterpreted. Link me please, if you will.

[itszutak]

HOLY SHIT ITS A SAND CRAWLER

[Huero]

Yes there is, because every single gun has a parallel, and that's no fun.
It's another gun.
There's nothing wrong with another gun. All that means is that there's variation. Plus if you can rip a turret off a hog...

[Archon23]

It means that we get another gun thats just a clone of a current one with different projectiles and model. Yipee...........

[TeeKup]

HOLY SHIT ITS A SAND CRAWLER

That's EXACTLY what I said when I saw that scan. Looks awesome though.

[ExAm]

I think I see Guilty Spark in one of those Forge pictures.

Personally, i think the Elephant looks alright. It does sort of look like a Jaawa sandcrawler, but it still looks like it could be a mobile base.

[Hotrod]

What is the "Elephant" exactly?

[DaneO'Roo]

the elephant looks :awesome:

[Hotrod]

The Elephant looks huge and well armored. I hope that it's really, really slow to make up for the strength.

[Rentafence]

Anyone else notice the new weapon? Looks alot like the renders of that one everyone though was gay.

[ExAm]

What is the "Elephant" exactly?
A mobile base, currently planned for Sandtrap CTF matches, possibly a selectable option. It contains the flag platform and several vehicle spawns. It can be driven around at a fairly slow speed, creating more dynamic gameplay.

[Cortexian]

You know what would be REALLY cool. If there were two vehicles, roughly the size of the Elephants, that acted as mobile bases, THAT would give CTF a whole new twist.

Wow, I should have realized that page two was not the last page. However, awesome. I shall buy Halo 3 and another (working) Xbox 360 now.

[Limited]

Bottom paragraph on the first page any one?

Damn them talking in lines!

[Hotrod]

The first time I heard about the Elephant, I thought they were talking about an Elephant that had guns on it's back and I was like "wtf, why would they put guns on an elephant?", but now, I understand, and I'm glad that I was wrong.

[Boba]

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4086/maelstormqb1.png
Is that the maelstorm forming in the background?

[Hotrod]

Yes, and I'm glad that it's all in Chinese because I don't want to know any part of the Campaign before I play the game.

[Rentafence]

Yes, and I'm glad that it's all in Chinese

That's not Chinese. =p

[Reaper Man]

Yes, and I'm glad that it's all in Chinese because I don't want to know any part of the Campaign before I play the game.
...That's Japanese.

[Hotrod]

Whatever, I can't tell the difference, yet... Also, It shows some new leg armor on the bottom left (the Spartan that's wielding the covie turret and the Elite beside him).

[Reaper Man]

Whatever, I can't tell the difference
It's so damn obvious that it's not funny. First massive hint - the thread name Famitsu. Does that sound Chinese at all? No; It sounds Japanese.

[Rentafence]

It's so damn obvious that it's not funny. First massive hint - the thread name Famitsu. Does that sound Chinese at all? No; It sounds Japanese.

Japanese characters are also more rounded in shape, well, from what I know after my first year of taking Chinese as a second language.

[Dole]

It's so damn obvious that it's not funny. First massive hint - the thread name Famitsu. Does that sound Chinese at all? No; It sounds Japanese.
All far eastern asian languages sound the same to people who don't live in the Asian Far East. :v
Kinda like how nobody outside of central Europe can tell the difference between someone from Germany and someone from Luxembourg.


Actually, a sabot round is a good thing. they let you hurtle a smaller projectile at speeds higher than they could take if accelerated by their lonesome, creating excessively high velocity rounds capable of penetration without detonation. Our tanks use sabot rounds and they aren't even magnetic acceleration weapons.

As far as a magnetic pistol, there is none. What you saw was either a pack of horse waste or was misinterpreted. Link me please, if you will.
I already know that about sabot rounds, but I'm asking if there are yet any effective railguns that don't depend on a sabot to hold the round in place.

As for the pistol, there are literally hundreds of different videos on YouTube, and I don't remember which video actually demonstrated something that was a step above the average pea shooter. Just search for "magnetic pistol" or "coil gun".

[Warsaw]

Hmm...achieving 50 Joules of kinetic energy is one thing. Achieving over 100,000 Joules brings on a whole new set of problems.

[Bad Waffle]

OMG. im SO re-enacting star wars ep 4, because that big tank looking thing reminds me of a sandwalker.

[Boba]

OMG. im SO re-enacting star wars ep 4, because that big tank looking thing reminds me of a sandwalker.
I think we should re-enact episode 4 with the AT-AT's, only we have a big tank and we're in a desert.

[Rentafence]

I think we should re-enact episode 4 with the AT-AT's, only we have a big tank and we're in a desert.

You mean the Battle of Hoth? That was Episode 5. :hist101:

[Bastinka]

I think we should re-enact episode 4 with the AT-AT's, only we have a big tank and we're in a desert.
And theres no tauntaun's. Why isn't there tauntauns? :(

[Rentafence]

And theres no tauntaun's. Why isn't there tauntauns? :(

The Elites can be tauntauns

[Atty]

No, we'll just do with the Mongeese.

[TIA Gangsta]

I think I can see the back of a new helmet in the Elephant picture.

Also, it looks like you appear as The Monitor as you go around editing the level.

[MNC]

:o That's left me in awe. Sandtrap and Guardian look to be a couple of my favorites :D

[Kornman00]

I think I see Guilty Spark in one of those Forge pictures.
You're a monitor when observing and when making map variants

[ExAm]

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4086/maelstormqb1.png
Is that the maelstorm forming in the background?"Maelstrom" :downs:

[Hotrod]

It's so damn obvious that it's not funny. First massive hint - the thread name Famitsu. Does that sound Chinese at all? No; It sounds Japanese.

I don't know much about the Japanese language, so I wouldn't know.

EDIT : Also, did anybody notice this?

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9149/7980002wa2.jpg

New leg armor?

[thehoodedsmack]

Yay Elephant!

[AceParty]

this is my french mag

http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185566872_halo3_1.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185566872_halo3_1.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567665_halo3_2.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567665_halo3_2.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567333_halo3_3.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567333_halo3_3.jpg)
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http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568362_halo3_6.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568362_halo3_6.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568874_halo3_7.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568874_halo3_7.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568911_halo3_8.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568911_halo3_8.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568989_halo3_9.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568989_halo3_9.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185569146_halo3_10.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185569146_halo3_10.jpg)

-"Inutile de dire que l'on sent bien ce qu'apporte la puissance de la 360 dans l'histoire..."
-"Halo 3 est aussi beau que Gears of War, dans un autre genre cela va sans dire."
-"Bungie a mis tout le monde d'accord : Halo 3 sera l'événement de la rentrée sur 360."

We can see a lot of new thing like the UNSC frigate in the sky of sandtrap and elite HUD .
Coop at 4 is confirmed look lobby screen
2 on each console
Coop online is almost confirmed
enjoy

[Archon23]

Whats that equipment at the bottom of page 3?

Then theres the New Covie Turret on page 4.

Forge Looks fun........Interface doesn't look TOO confusing.

Page 9: Is that a spectre but with the driver and gunner switched?

New flag looks like it was inspired by UTs.......

[AceParty]

i think the new equipement is the regenerative shield and yes it's probably the new spectre but in brute version, this version is call prowler.
Please i can't find the CMT SP2 forum ! can some one help me ?

[Rentafence]

I guess we can use the hammer now.

[ExAm]

i think the new equipement is the regenerative shield and yes it's probably the new spectre but in brute version, this version is call prowler.
Please i can't find the CMT SP2 forum ! can some one help me ?Under the Community tab under the forum logo at the top of the page.

[AceParty]

Thanks

[DaneO'Roo]

wow, the brute prowler looks awesome :D

[Archon23]

I'm just wondering how the hell the driver actually sees where hes going. I mean the Ghost was bad enough having the front taller then MCs head but this seriously brings up questions.

[Skiiran]

What do you think the pink screen was for? Watching your favorite home videos?

[Reaper Man]

What do you think the pink screen was for? Watching your favorite home videos?
D: No wai, it is a defense mechanism that rapidly flashes and changes colours to give stolers epileptic seizures.

[Hotrod]

this is my french mag

http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185566872_halo3_1.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185566872_halo3_1.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567665_halo3_2.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567665_halo3_2.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567333_halo3_3.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567333_halo3_3.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567874_halo3_4.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185567874_halo3_4.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568181_halo3_5.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568181_halo3_5.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568362_halo3_6.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568362_halo3_6.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568874_halo3_7.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568874_halo3_7.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568911_halo3_8.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568911_halo3_8.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568989_halo3_9.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185568989_halo3_9.jpg)
http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185569146_halo3_10.jpg (http://www.imagup.info/images/03/1185569146_halo3_10.jpg)

-"Inutile de dire que l'on sent bien ce qu'apporte la puissance de la 360 dans l'histoire..."
-"Halo 3 est aussi beau que Gears of War, dans un autre genre cela va sans dire."
-"Bungie a mis tout le monde d'accord : Halo 3 sera l'événement de la rentrée sur 360."

We can see a lot of new thing like the UNSC frigate in the sky of sandtrap and elite HUD .
Coop at 4 is confirmed look lobby screen
2 on each console
Coop online is almost confirmed
enjoy

Thank you for posting this, and I can actually read it!

[TeeKup]

I saw a tanker in the scans. The moment I get to that area in the campaign, I'm going to set it ablaze. >:3

The new turret looks awesome as well.

That elite holding the brute maulers is fucking beastly.

[Hotrod]

The turret looks kind of like a heavily armored Shade, so much better then the crappy Halo 2 turret.

[Boba]

I saw a tanker in the scans. The moment I get to that area in the campaign, I'm going to set it ablaze. >:3

The new turret looks awesome as well.

That elite holding the brute maulers is fucking beastly.
You don't have a 360.

[AceParty]

Can some one here will buy the new EGM mag in august ?
because i will can't buy it in my country so if someone can make scan of it when it will be released it will be cool .

[TeeKup]

You don't have a 360.

I don't have a 360 yet. :)

I'll have one by the end of the year.

[Hotrod]

I don't have a 360 yet. :)

I'll have one by the end of the year.

Neither do I, but I'm getting one as soon as I get 10 unwanted Xbox games. At EB games, you can trade in 10 Xbox games and get a 360 Elite for 299.99$ (Canadian) or a 360 Elite for 349.99$ (Canadian) instead of 499.99$ or 349.99$.

[n00b1n8R]

anyone have a translation of this?

I know a girl who is supposedly fluent in crapenese, mb i can convince her to translate it...

[Flyboy]

You know a GIRL! Back off guys, noob1n8r has a life!

[n00b1n8R]

I know a girl on the internet :P

[TIA Gangsta]

Why not just get the Halo 3 Xbox 360 while you're at it?

[Masterz1337]

Neither do I, but I'm getting one as soon as I get 10 unwanted Xbox games. At EB games, you can trade in 10 Xbox games and get a 360 Elite for 299.99$ (Canadian) or a 360 Elite for 349.99$ (Canadian) instead of 499.99$ or 349.99$.
Wouldnt it make sense to buy 10 used xbox games? Seeing as you can get them for 5$ a piece?

[Hotrod]

Wouldnt it make sense to buy 10 used xbox games? Seeing as you can get them for 5$ a piece?

I already have 2 that I don't want, and my friend giving me some ASAP, so if there's missing any, my brother and I decided to do what you just said, go and buy some used games for 5$ and trade them in as well.

[Atty]

http://gamers-creed.com/wp-content/gallery/halo3/131099933120070731132040.jpg
Hello B2 POV, looking at Sniper Tower and entrance to library, I've missed you.
http://gamers-creed.com/wp-content/gallery/halo3/84095519620070731132039.jpg
You can see the new Elite Hud here. :)

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* Since Bungie is choosing to release this info, they’re not considered spoilers: The press got to take in three different campaign environments: Sierra 117 (1), Tsavo Highway (3), and The Storm (4), all which precede the unveiling of the Ark. Sierra 117 takes place in the jungle where the Master Chief and the Arbiter lead a group of Marines to a river, battle the Covenant with two aiding Pelicans in hopes of rescuing Sgt. Johnson. Tsavo Highway leads the player along a roadway and through large gorges where the Mombasa space tether has fallen after the Slipspace Event. The Storm follows the player as they reach the industrial city of Voi, battle through waves of Covenant including a newly designed Scarab which hunts the player with its own AI.


* Campaign will take place from the position of the Master Chief only, but cooperative play, which is confirmed to be at the very least split-screen and System Link, will offer some variation. Two-player cooperative play will allow for the Master Chief (primary) and the Arbiter (secondary) to go through the game’s campaign together.


* Some multiplayer maps above the beta’s three (Valhalla, High Ground, and Snowbound) and two of the ones from GamePro (Epitaph and Last Resort) have been unveiled: Jub Jub/Guardian, a smaller map among treetops that has some spacial similarities to Lockout (i.e. completely bad ass) and Shrine/Sandtrap , which although was revealed in GamePro, was not as fleshed out as it is this time around - it is a large, vehicle-centric desert map with sprawling Forerunner structures that contains a new vehicle (the Elephant, a mobile base that can be controlled by players and crawls slowly across the map).


* Apart from the Elephant, other vehicles talked and shown in the articles here include the new Scorpion Tank (shown briefly in the Forge images), the Prowler (a Brute vehicle which holds one driver, one gunner and two passengers, apparently replacing the Spectre of Halo 2), the Hornet (a small, UNSC low-atmosphere fighter which has infantry platforms on each side, an unrevealed type of cannon on its left wing and appears to operate as a VTOL), and there was more information shown on the Scarab which may or may not be a vehicle available for play. In combat, however, it offers literally dozens of ways to fight it and take it down.


* In the weapons department, there were several new inclusions: the Brute Mauler (a dual-wieldable shotgun which has a marginally less damage induction than the normal M90), the Fuel Rod Cannon (the heavy weapon which fires a plasma-charged projectile - may be included in multiplayer this time around - there’s a first-person screenshot that definitely shows off the weapon’s visual articulation), and the Brute Hammer (also shown in a first-person screenshot, definitely not a support weapon as previously hypothesized - can knock vehicles into the air and slam down into the ground, the blast radius can force back objects and possibly enemies). We also get to see a new variation of the Halo 1 Shade turret, one which has a spherical cabin and two barrels and appears to be fashioned for Grunt use.


* There are several pieces of equipment shown, but it is presently unknown which image goes with which equipment type: Personal Shield, Regenerator, Flare and Invincibility are the ones they have revealed.


* Metagames are a new part of the Halo campaign experience, allowing players to play individually or “cooperatively” through the campaign levels they have already completed. During play, players are rewarded with points for doing certain things, whether that be headshots, boarding, or even completing the level at a record time. The complexity is further enhanced by handicaps offered via the skulls which can be implemented during gameplay as “multipliers” for what would normally be a standard point system. Players will compete against each other and there appears to be a B.net leaderboard en route for it as well.


* Forge (map editing) may well be the feature Frank hinted at in this B.net update, which would make HiH/MLG players happy. The feature functions as a map editor initially, allowing players to customize objects, weapons, vehicles, spawn points and event gametype-centric points on a map and apparently save them. These maps may be available in the XBL Public system revealed last December, allowing players to file share videos, screenshots, gametypes and these edited maps. The map editor is experienced from the perspective of a Halo monitor, flying around the map, allowing players to select objects and alter their components ot the object altogether. Players can toggle between the monitor and a player instantaneously.


* Forge (gameplay), the second part of the Forge feature allows players to make these aforementioned map edits in-game. This creates new avenues for gameplay, an example would be “Halo Jenga” where two monitors (or more) will stack a series of fusion cores together creating a tower. Players would then remove one at a time until they pulled the wrong one and lost in an uberexplosive fashion. Another game mode suggests that the monitors would act as resource generators during an RTS and supply their team, in a Team Slayer battle for example, with weapons, vehicles and equipment when and where they needed it. The inclusion of the monitor may well be limited during this system, as there appears to be a “currency” by which a monitor can perform these tasks before being forced to become a player, possibly allowing another an opportunity at the monitor position.


* Elites have been revealed to be included in multiplayer and have their own permutations thus far. It also appears as though their HUD is slightly different from the Spartans further introducing the fiction into the game’s multiplayer.
:)