Halo 3: ODST - Prepare To Drop (Out Tuesday)

Willeth

Halo 3


Established November 9th, 2004


OUT NOW

Halo 3 is a first-person shooter, the third in the trilogy after Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. You are the Master Chief, an artifically-augmented seven-foot supersoldier known as a Spartan to the United Nations Space Command Marine Corps and the Demon to the Covenant, a collected alien force made up of several different races. The Covenant believe that their purpose is to usher in Judgement Day, based on the teachings of the Prophets, of which only one remains. To do this, they must light the Halos, structures in space. Their real purpose, however, is to extinguish all sentient life in the universe, as they are a last resort weapon created by an ancient race, to eliminate any food source for the all-consuming hyperintelligent parasite known as the Flood.

OUT NOW

Halo Wars is a real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble, the company behind Age of Empires. It takes place before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, and tells the story of the previous Arbiter of the Covenant and the battle for control of the planet Harvest. The Covenant have uncovered a Forerunner artifact that leads to a site now occupied by humans. After travelling from planet to planet, a plot is uncovered that could threaten the survival of humanity.

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Halo 3: ODST is also a first-person shooter. You are the Rookie, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper deployed to New Mombasa in Africa at the same time the Master Chief is fighting there in Halo 2. The Prophet of Regret's ship enters slipspace as your pod falls to earth, and the ensuing blast throws the city into disarray and separates you from the other four members of your squad. You wake up at night in the city, and are tasked with finding clues in the open world to the whereabouts of the rest of the squad, and relive their experiences through playable flashbacks.

Halo 3: ODST comes with two discs. One contains the ODST campaign, and a Horde-esque co-operative multiplayer mode for four people called Firefight. As time progresses, gameplay modifiers are added such as the enemies throwing more grenades or your HUD vanishing. If the team wipes, it's game over.
The second disc (known as Halo 3:Mythic) contains the standard Halo 3 multiplayer that we know and love, as well as all previous free and paid DLC maps. Also included are three new maps, Citadel, Longshore and Heretic. This disc is fully compatible with anyone playing vanilla Halo 3 multiplayer and has all the features you'd expect except for the Halo 3 campaign.

Still confused? Charts usually solve that problem - at least, for me.

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Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter. Little is known at this time, other than it takes place immediately before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, and will tell the story of the attack on the human-occupied and defensive cornerstone planet Reach by the Covenant. A multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach will be included with Halo: ODST.

Willeth

Well, we're not numbering them any more, either. I think the fact that it's been a clan thread has also been why we've been wandering off topic and getting smacked for it - I'm sure people want to talk Halo, but have come into the thread and seen people talking about Turtles or whatever, and it's a barrier.

Also, I just realised Badman isn't in the OP. Damn.

EDIT: Fyre, I was under the impression that Extras had stuff like ViDocs and the credits in it as well as the beta.

UEAKCrash

I should like... Play Halo with you guys. I've had a few of you on my list forever, but maybe only played once a long time ago?

FyreWulff

Actually when I experimented before, more newcomers come post in the thread without TBK in the title.

Also I should make a download pic for the Halo Wars maps. What do you mean gametypes? I never heard of no DLC gametypes.

Willeth

Have you even played the Wars maps yet, Fyre? Are you the only one who still plays the game, even?

FyreWulff

No, but that's because I've been kinda crushed by a crap ton of Halo 3 activity. I'm going to switch over to mostly playing Halo Wars here soon until ODST comes out.

But more people than I play it regularly:

Thrill
Lookfree
JP
Pancake
Rat (if he ever gets his disc back)

LookFreeGrenade

I haven't played much of halo wars recently, but its still fun.

Also we keep an open door policy. Send us a friend request and if you see us in a party join up, If there's 8 of us already we'll probably just whine a bit and play customs

also I should probably tone down on the late nights. Fucking killing my sleep schedule

DogEight

El Extremo wrote: »

You're welcome into my bosom any day.

a/s/l? :winky:

Ahem. Anyways....in the interest of on-topic: My truskill rank of 13 has been especially taunting me lately and I plan to slap it around the head and neck this week. So if anyone sees me subjecting myself to random shit-flinging retards in a ranked list, you're more than welcome to join in/save me.

FyreWulff

Speaking of Halo Wars, they just posted a writeup on Blood Gulch.

RepoMan1023

LookFreeGrenade wrote: »

I haven't played much of halo wars recently, but its still fun.

Also we keep an open door policy. Send us a friend request and if you see us in a party join up, If there's 8 of us already we'll probably just whine a bit and play customs

also I should probably tone down on the late nights. Fucking killing my sleep schedule

You guys need to play more late at night. I am on the night shift (watch 3) and I stay up till at least 3 AM PST every night. By then there are like 2 people online and they're the ones who left their 360's on when they go to bed.

Willeth

DogEight wrote: »

El Extremo wrote: »

You're welcome into my bosom any day.

a/s/l? :winky:

Ahem. Anyways....in the interest of on-topic: My truskill rank of 13 has been especially taunting me lately and I plan to slap it around the head and neck this week. So if anyone sees me subjecting myself to random shit-flinging retards in a ranked list, you're more than welcome to join in/save me.

In which playlist? I have a 35 in Lone Wolves but I've been meaning to ask a group to see what we can hit in a team list. I'll jump in with you for sure.

EDIT: Shit, no I won't, I don't have Mythic. Squad Battle is the only ranked team playlist I have access to. See you at the end of September, I guess.

LookFreeGrenade

RepoMan1023 wrote: »

LookFreeGrenade wrote: »

I haven't played much of halo wars recently, but its still fun.

Also we keep an open door policy. Send us a friend request and if you see us in a party join up, If there's 8 of us already we'll probably just whine a bit and play customs

also I should probably tone down on the late nights. Fucking killing my sleep schedule

You guys need to play more late at night. I am on the night shift (watch 3) and I stay up till at least 3 AM PST every night. By then there are like 2 people online and they're the ones who left their 360's on when they go to bed.

perhaps that is because it is 6 am when you are up at 3 am

RepoMan1023

LookFreeGrenade wrote: »

RepoMan1023 wrote: »

LookFreeGrenade wrote: »

I haven't played much of halo wars recently, but its still fun.

Also we keep an open door policy. Send us a friend request and if you see us in a party join up, If there's 8 of us already we'll probably just whine a bit and play customs

also I should probably tone down on the late nights. Fucking killing my sleep schedule

You guys need to play more late at night. I am on the night shift (watch 3) and I stay up till at least 3 AM PST every night. By then there are like 2 people online and they're the ones who left their 360's on when they go to bed.

perhaps that is because it is 6 am when you are up at 3 am

:winky:

FyreWulff

All imaged and pre linked:

UEAKCrash

Jesus, my first reaction to that was "WTF!? They already are releasing info on an ODST map pack!?"

Then I clicked it was like like "oooohh."

LordNibbler

Internet gets hooked up tomorrow for my glorious return tomorrow night. Also, during my move I realized I buy too much shit. Must buy less games. Might do a gamefly thing. Or just
make ODST the Game of Forever for me. Great OP and nice to see my new tag.

FyreWulff

UEAKCrash wrote: »

Jesus, my first reaction to that was "WTF!? They already are releasing info on an ODST map pack!?"

Then I clicked it was like like "oooohh."

Heh. Well, the actual info on ODST DLC is that there is no ODST Firefight DLC planned. For now.

Sivraj

DogEight wrote: »

El Extremo wrote: »

You're welcome into my bosom any day.

a/s/l? :winky:

Ahem. Anyways....in the interest of on-topic: My truskill rank of 13 has been especially taunting me lately and I plan to slap it around the head and neck this week. So if anyone sees me subjecting myself to random shit-flinging retards in a ranked list, you're more than welcome to join in/save me.

I wouldn't mind helping. My lowest play lists are:

Team SWAT - 39
MLG - 23
Team Snipers - 20
SquadBattle - 16

Team Snipers or SWAT would probably be the easiest.

OmnomnomPancake

let's team slayer

rorr

I'm at least a 45 in everything except Squad Battle, but I'll play whatever if anyone wants

Angel177

hey so how do we get our pic in the OP? and do we just get a cool showt or is there criteria?

Emerlmaster999

Man, that area of Pennsylvania I was in this weekend was like going back in time or something. Felt completely isolated because it was a private housing development up in the mountains, but it's just five minutes from a major highway that you cannot even see nor hear at all. Awesome, but having an internet connection is better.

I shall be on shortly, but cannot be on as long as normally since school starts up again tomorrow. First day of the second to last semester.

Willeth

Angel177 wrote: »

hey so how do we get our pic in the OP? and do we just get a cool showt or is there criteria?

Not everybody is in the OP, only the most active people.

Inquisitor

So, I've been thinking about getting in on these Halo shenanigans, and to be honest I really only care about the multiplayer side of things.

So, to get the full multiplayer experience my choice is either wait for ODST and get it for $60, or get Halo 3 for $35 and then drop $25 on DLC (already have 300 points on my account). But, even with that I'll still be missing some maps and I won't get access to firefight?

So, the prudent move would be to wait for ODST?

Kor

Basically, yes.

043

I might as well post it here, too.

So here's a question for you guys:

I used to play games with a buddy of mine, from home, while he was at college. And it worked fine; we had two different ISPs, he had DSL and I had cable. When I moved to Auburn, where he was in school, we couldn't play Halo over XBL anymore, seemingly because we were both on the same cable ISP.

I move back, get cable here? We can play just fine. But as soon as he moves back into his old house, where they have DSL, and I switch ISPs, it fucks up again. We can't join each other's party, chat or join each other's games.

So:

Me (Pell City, Cable) - Him (Auburn, DSL) = Works fine.
Me (Auburn, Cable) - Him (Auburn, Cable) = Fails.
Me (Back in Pell City, Cable) - Him (Back in Pell City, DSL) = Works fine.
Me (Pell City, now switched over to DSL) - Him (Pell City, still on DSL) = Fails.

What the everloving fuck is going on? We both have open NAT settings, our routers are configured properly, but nothing works on XBL. Is this simply an ISP problem?

Any ideas?

Spoiler:

I know it's worded funny, but oh my fucking God this has me so mad. I just need someone's help, as Google turns up nothing detailed.This shit plauged us the entire year I lived in Auburn, and now it's back. WE JUST WANT TO PLAY MATCHMAKING.

Ratsult2

Technically you could just buy Halo 3 and still have access to 5v5 slayer/objective, 6v6 slayer/objective ranked, and 8man FFA ranked.

But yea, it would probably be better to wait for ODST for the full Halo 3 multiplayer experience + ODST campaign + Firefight, and the only thing you would be missing is the Halo 3 campaign.

hoodie13

Oh man I need to be in the list of members, but to do that I need to play more! But to do that I need to stop playing Batman!

Leitner

Killtacular extermination, and three bomb plants. My team still lost.

Le sigh.

Willeth

043 wrote: »

I might as well post it here, too.

So here's a question for you guys:

I used to play games with a buddy of mine, from home, while he was at college. And it worked fine; we had two different ISPs, he had DSL and I had cable. When I moved to Auburn, where he was in school, we couldn't play Halo over XBL anymore, seemingly because we were both on the same cable ISP.

I move back, get cable here? We can play just fine. But as soon as he moves back into his old house, where they have DSL, and I switch ISPs, it fucks up again. We can't join each other's party, chat or join each other's games.

So:

Me (Pell City, Cable) - Him (Auburn, DSL) = Works fine.
Me (Auburn, Cable) - Him (Auburn, Cable) = Fails.
Me (Back in Pell City, Cable) - Him (Back in Pell City, DSL) = Works fine.
Me (Pell City, now switched over to DSL) - Him (Pell City, still on DSL) = Fails.

What the everloving fuck is going on? We both have open NAT settings, our routers are configured properly, but nothing works on XBL. Is this simply an ISP problem?

Any ideas?

Spoiler:

I know it's worded funny, but oh my fucking God this has me so mad. I just need someone's help, as Google turns up nothing detailed.This shit plauged us the entire year I lived in Auburn, and now it's back. WE JUST WANT TO PLAY MATCHMAKING.

The Leitners used to have similar problems with parties and XBL, but I don't think I've ever seen it as clear-cut as what you've just described. You'd probably be better served making a thread in the tech subforum.

Sivraj

My brother and I used to have the same problem, but resetting our routers seemed to fix it.

Kazhiim

never did get the security helmet

I'd probably play more if I had it

Angel177

see now thats a good answer but here's the thing, what is considered most active? play everyday? play at least once a week?
Its been mentioned that the in jokes and off topic discussions (which personally I love) confuse or alienate possible new members, but what do you consider grounds for active membership and as an aside where is the big list in the OP of member gamertags?:? other than the photo'ed guys of course.

AMadTeaParty

I think almost everyone in the OP plays everyday or several times in a big group.

Willeth

We're not that formal. Anyone with an image in the OP is someone who plays fairly often and posts in here often. The images have replaced the big-ass list that was in some of the old threads, it's not like we have any sort of application process.

What's your gamertag? Have you played with us before? Keep doing that, we'd love to have you.

OmnomnomPancake

Angel177 wrote: »

see now thats a good answer but here's the thing, what is considered most active? play everyday? play at least once a week?
Its been mentioned that the in jokes and off topic discussions (which personally I love) confuse or alienate possible new members, but what do you consider grounds for active membership and as an aside where is the big list in the OP of member gamertags?:? other than the photo'ed guys of course.

There is no membership. There's just playing Halo.

Angel177

There is no membership. There's just playing Halo.[/QUOTE]

ok good love that line!!!:lol:

DogEight

Did you ever get your eagle in Team Slayer, Pancake? Squad battle is also good.

Honestly, if you guys ever see me on at night playing Bioshock or Ghostbusters (which is awesome by the way) feel free to wake me up out of my single player stupor to get down with some halo. Wednesday or Thursday is looking like some good game nights for me.

OmnomnomPancake

No eagle for me. One day.

Spartan 0092

OmnomnomPancake wrote: »

No eagle for me. One day.

Just get your sig. back, it's kinda the same.

LookFreeGrenade

well hey on the bright side you 3 will be out of jail by the time odst comes out!