Halo3 Pre-Release Pictures Thread *56k*

[trepdimeflou]

It works on boxer also, afaik.

[Veegie[Temp]]

If you held L on boxer, you would simply melee once.

[trepdimeflou]

If you continue to hold L, his arms will stay down.

[Veegie[Temp]]

Really?

[trepdimeflou]

Yeah, if you have another controller try it out.

[Xiion]

If you held L on boxer, you would simply melee once.

i thought "L" didnt do what the "B" button did...

[Explosive American]

They're referring to the Boxer control configuration, where L is melee.

[Xiion]

oh i thought he meant when you had no weapon and you were "boxing"

[Pyroman]

Finally some more pics.

Images are leaked and not allowed. Posting leaked images again will result in punishment.

[Hawaiian Modder]

Can't wait for this beta.
What's the options in the beta that's gonna be released?(LIVE!, Campaign, etc.)

[MasterChief2829]

Sweet the new Halo 2 maps Lol jk. Looks great though. I'll be looking forward to the beta version of these maps.

Frankie just laid the smackdown after seeing a thread related to these screens.

"There will be plenty of notice and PR fanfare when the date is announced, likely followed by screenshots with things like decorators, lightmaps, atmospheric effects, and about 100 other graphic features not included in this freaking ancient Alpha networking test build." -Frankie

"Decorators" are things like ferns, plants, flowers, rocks, pebbles, dust - 3D stuff that turns say, ground textures into believeably 3D ground. Valhalla, the big tree filled level, for example, is absolutely festoooned in ground cover now.

In the case of the shots here, it's all missing, because the Alpha build is very, very old.And not designed to be screenshotted. But rather to simply test networking and be enjoyable enough to keep folks testing networking." -Frankie

Oh and you forgot one image.

<Pic Removed because it was "leaked">

[CptnNsan0]

ooooooo kickass is that gunna be the beta release?

[Pyroman]

MasterChief...Look at my post. The images are leaked. So they shouldn't be posted.


My bad.

[MasterChief2829]

Oh no, that's an early Alpha version. If you read my quote from Frankie in my last post he explains the Beta will look MUCH better since they only applied very basic graphical assets to the alpha maps. They still need to bring in the lively stuff and polish everything up more.

There will be plenty of notice and PR fanfare when the date is announced [for the beta] , likely followed by screenshots with things like decorators, lightmaps, atmospheric effects, and about 100 other graphic features not included in this freaking ancient Alpha networking test build." -Frankie

Decorators" are things like ferns, plants, flowers, rocks, pebbles, dust - 3D stuff that turns say, ground textures into believeably 3D ground. Valhalla, the big tree filled level, for example, is absolutely festoooned in ground cover now.

[antszy101]

I would still put money on the fact that that will be the final mainmenu

[MasterChief2829]

According to Veegie, these aren't leaked, so I'm not sure why they were deleted.

How is it a leak?
Any Microsoft employee can download that, all they have to do is sign an NDA and give their gamertag.

[Tural]

Veegie doesn't decide what's against the rules and what isn't.

Also, if you had read Veegie's comment, you would see the letters "NDA," meaning Non-Disclosure Agreement. This means the people who download it are not allowed to post images and videos of the game.

So yeah...

[MasterChief2829]

Ah, I see... but Veegie is known for not making a single mistake right?

For those who have seen the images, take into consideration what Frankie said about them. The Alpha was just for network testing and they still need to apply 100+ of graphical assets to make it look better. 3D Decorators, light maps, atmospheric effects, etc.

Basically, there shouldn't be any *** about how the Alpha looks. At all.

[Tural]

Ah, I see... but Veegie is known for not making a single mistake right?

I'll assume you were typing that when I added the part about the NDA. He said the game is not leaked. Images and video of it are, based on the fact that they are not allowed to show them. He is correct.

[MasterChief2829]

Ah, I see... but Veegie is known for not making a single mistake right?

I'll assume you were typing that when I added the part about the NDA. He said the game is not leaked. Images and video of it are, based on the fact that they are not allowed to show them. He is correct.

Of course he is. He still made a useless comment though seeing as we were talking about the pictures and not the game.

I would still put money on the fact that that will be the final mainmenu

It could be, but Halo 2 went through a few menus. I remember there was one that just had all that designs in the background with a "Saved Videos" option listed at the bottum of the list. I was excited to see that, but they removed it... most likely because the Xbox couldn't handle it I guess.