Halo: Reach Discussion

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Originally Posted by Pooky

What I don't get with Halo 3 is why certain weapons like the carbine weren't even present in the maps for forging. Surely they weren't that pressed for tag space.

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Originally, the forge wasn't meant to be anything bigger than "moving a few weapons and spawns around." When Bungie realized the opportunities for forge, they jumped on a new sandbox design known as Foundry to give players the freedom to create whole new maps from virtually nothing.

Later, of course, came Sandbox which blew up into the ultimate forging environment.

In fact, if I recall, Forge was an idea that was thrown in at the last minute and almost didn't make it into the final game.

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Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon

Originally, the forge wasn't meant to be anything bigger than "moving a few weapons and spawns around." When Bungie realized the opportunities for forge, they jumped on a new sandbox design known as Foundry to give players the freedom to create whole new maps from virtually nothing.

Later, of course, came Sandbox which blew up into the ultimate forging environment.

In fact, if I recall, Forge was an idea that was thrown in at the last minute and almost didn't make it into the final game.

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Yeah, but it affects things like custom gametypes too. You can't ever set the Carbine or the Plasma Rifle as starting weapons because they aren't present in all maps. Again, I can't see any real reason for them to do that.

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Originally Posted by Pooky

Yeah, but it affects things like custom gametypes too. You can't ever set the Carbine or the Plasma Rifle as starting weapons because they aren't present in all maps. Again, I can't see any real reason for them to do that.

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I feel that was the most frustrating part. I mean, if everyone starts with a weapon there will at least be plenty of that weapon to find on the map because of that source. I'm not sure why Bungie didn't allow starting weapons to include all weapons.

As most of you probably know your service record on Bungie.net no longer updates, and this includes your player model. If you still want it to update to get a high res image, and a 3D rotating .avi of it, follow sawnose's instructions here: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=71225779&viewreplies=true&postRe peater1-p=1

Here's mine in gif form:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9294/playermodel.gif

I recently read this:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...easableFanbase

This plausibly sums up all of my feelings regarding the gamers and community involved with this game.

Bump.

Online filesharing is back, bitches. It looks like 343i finally got their shit together and brought us on-site file sharing.

Check it out.

We can now go back to posting horrid maps properly (if we ever did that in the first place).

inb4 Korn says it sucks.

Should be cool if it works well though.

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Originally Posted by DarkHalo003

inb4 Korn says it sucks.

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I'm more irate from someone posting a link to something using a fucking FB redirect. Thankfully, HBO hosts local copies so no one has to get redirected from FB to 343 land.