Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Episode 111: Halo 3 leaked footage!
for the week of April 30th, 2007

(hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, George Walker from Aeropause)

introductions

Just like to say I love the new layout of Zanzibar, The thing that caught
the most of my attention was the size of the “engine room” It seemed to go
on forever, Do you think this will take away from the rest of the maps
upgrades?

Quick shout out to all my other Aussy buddies on the forums.

The person who put this out on the net is insane. Can you say BUSTED!!!!
The look of the map and the pre-game lobby looks very similar to the halo
2 lobby. this video makes me want that Halo 3 beta and Game even more.

Shout out to my good amigo the decode

hey guys, its rad biscuit. i helped supply the full vid of the beta test….
please say something about it on the show.

anyways… here are some things about the vid. the new zanzibar looks
awesome, a much much bigger layout than the original. the map is actually
renamed, but i forget what its called. i think the mongooses’ driving
screen is way low, but they should make it adlustable like the motorcycle
in call of duty 3.

the assault rifle looks amazing, and it looks like the range has been
lengthned. now u can pick up weapons with RB, and the weapon picture has
gotten much bigger. the brute spiker looks amazing, but the “spikes” on it
look a little shorter of wat i expected.

all in all, it looked freakin amazing!!! cant wait till the beta is
actually out. (the spartan lazer looks like a peace of crap in the vid…
is there a scope on it?)

First, it’s a shame this got leaked. I think people like this are dumb. But
since it’s already out and I saw it…

OH EM GEE! If this is the game that came out tomorrow, I would be happy
because Zanzibar is my favorite all time map and it looks amazing. I love
the new generator in the base, that looks so sweet!

I like how you can jump in and out of the bubble shield. That way, if
someone uses it with the bomb or something, you can go in and throw a nade
so they have to come out or die. Kinda helps the balance.
The veto map and game thing is awesome because so many times at a LAN
party I have got stuck playing so many gay versions of games because
people didn’t know what the real setup was. This should help emmensely!

I love how it tells you experience earned and levels gained as well as
highest level completed in campaign and how many custom matches you
played. I think this will definately even out the playing field in
matchmaking. Good players will get good players, and noobs will get
noobs!

Let me be the 1000th person to say the New Zanzibar is KICK ASS! I love
how they added the ledge to the back of the level. The inside is just
amazing to behold! I can’t wait to see the whole level!

I think that the “energy drainer” will be a sort of EMP device. It would
drain shields, stall vehicles, and disable radar, etc.

I think a social match will be like a custom match but with random people
instead of friends. Think about the “public match” on Gears.
I believe the veto system will work the same way as the X button cancel
does in Halo 2. the only difference is that you would probably have to
have a majority vote to cancel. This would be an improvement since it
only takes on loser in Halo 2 to cancel a custom match and all he has to
do is spam the x button. This way the other 15 people who want to play
MLG instead of Zombies can actually play the game without that annoying
pest getting in the way.

May 16 hurry up!

I just watched the Joystiq video and it points out so much more.

One thing that had me chuckling is that when the game starts, there is a
“Welcome!” message at the top of the visor.

I think that the blue orb in the fan is just active camo.

Also one thing I would like to point out is that since it appears that the
bubble shields anchors itself to the ground, it probably won’t roll like it
did in the last vidoc.

1:It looks huge, and really looks like one of my new favorites to play objective games on.
2:The way they did the sky looks very different from what we are used too and I like how the HUD initializes with the squares and stuff,the video show the best graphics I have seen of Halo 3 yet.
3:It looks more like the bubble shield from the CG commercial and it doesn’t seem roll in the video.
4:Before the game starts the countdown starts and you can veto the map or gametype, if enough players “veto” a new game will start with a other gametype or map.
5:Maybe it’s when you play co-op over XBL.
6:I think it will drain the power from your shield or overshield and maybe
even your energysword.
7:Spartan laser?
8:That you can blow the bubble shield away from inside the bubble shield

I podtacular i am a new listener and a member and i have just change my
name to magnus113.

Hmmm i think it is how zanzibar look before it were destroyed in halo2
much vere destroyed i geuss. You know were the oddball spawn it was a door likely thing under it. and
it was a bride thing if you walk higer upp so you can walk too the base it
was verey cool and that generator inside the base.
thats that was all for me have a nice day guys.

Ok People what seemed like an average day just got a little more
interesting I have to commend these traitorous employees Microsoft seems
to employ giving us all a sneaky peak of what we should already have
anyways back to the review
First impressions for me were drawn to the new map layout I really
didn’t realize it was simply zalibar with a face lift and some
reconstructive surgery, I really like the fact that the map now seems to
have more presence to it, incorporating lots of moving parts and vastly
improved 3d structures, its amazing what a couple of palm trees can do,
and that map was big for being originally small.
Moving on to the HUD, What can I say it took them 3 games to realize
helmets are curved, well done Bungie enough said.
Loving the new vehcais l platforms it makes more sense them seeming to
have been dropped in plus the vechals them self’s are looking more beefy
and dangerous it almost seems everything’s gotten a little bigger since
halo 2?

Bubble Trouble
I’m Glad there re-did the shield generator but im hoping the player
could lay the generator with his or her hands rather than it seamlessly
falling from his or her belt come on next gen game here.
Pre-game Lobby

It Seems the player will be matched with somebody not only by a simple
number but their general game play ability via military ranks maybe
involving single player progress i.e. not being matched up with somebody
who has completed the game on legendary, either way showing off your
medals is a great way of showing off before a game starts.

Social Match

This Could Be a host type game type that involves simple broadcasting to
everyone playing halo 3 you’re hosting a game and they can feel free to
join, simple.

Lastly the “Power Drainer”

I think im going to have fun with this, I don’t think im pushing the
boat out to much my saying it might drain power but from what? This is the
fun part, its either a weapon that you fire at an opponent thus draining
there shield or and this is what id like, a deployable drainer that
surprise drains the energy from all objects with in the field i.e. being
chassed by a crazy ghost driver so what do you do, well deploy the drainer
of-course resulting in the ghost being powered down and the driver shield
stricin.

After viewing the leaked video which ruined what would’ve been a nice
surprise, I still realized that the class ‘Newbie’ is still very much a
popular choice of play-style.

I love the new layout and the LOOK. Instead of being war-torn and broken
apart, it looked very nice and the Janitorial staff needs to be commended
on their hard work. I love the new particle effects from the grenades,
looks very nice. I also love the walkway that goes from the Sniper Hill to
the Base.

People will be complaining about the way the game looks and the
Bubble-shield, but the Bubble-shiled (as well as the looks of the map and
graphics) will be tweaked by release. If it isn’t, the entire populous of
the world will be buying it anyway.

Thanks for the Podcast Gentlemen. Quick shout-out to Chuckie, Lilkuke,
Sqwerl, JoeDaddy1138 and all the Homie-G’s that are ‘Godtacular’. The
Bubble Bath will always be VERY relaxing.

Frag ya lataz!

first off i think the guy playing sux plus the energy drainer probably
takes a good amount off your shields and i think thats just radiation from
the shield thanx ,LC trojan23

Hey nubcakes, tubaguhbluba again and here’s what i thought about the video. number 1:
THANK GOD THE SHIELD GRENADE IS AN ACTUAL GRENADE!!! i like the idea that
you can walk in and out of the shield and how you can move the grenade by
throwing a grenade inside the shield, having the explosion move the
grenade. next, the veto system. my guess is that its like delaying the
game, but instead of some guy that keeps pressing x when there is 1 second
untill the game starts, the whole party must veto it. also, zanzibar looks
amazing. the base is 10 times larger and i love the new look of everything
in it. and, my favortie, when you get meleed, instead of it saying “you got
beat down”, it says “you were smashed”
thanks podtacular, and since jvb asked, tubaguhbluba is just a name i made
up using “tuba” because i play the tuba, and “guhbluba” to make it sound
stupid. this is a great smack talk filter, because when someone does smack
talk me, they end up saying my name totaly wrong and i just laugh at them
calling them a noob.

Personally, when I found out that they were going to make a Beta for
Halo 3, and I found out that some were going to get it before others, I
told myself that I wasn’t going to watch any video of it because I knew
that somebody what going to record themselves playing it. Well, I broke my
promise, but for only one video, but I promised myself that I am not going
to watch anymore because I want to find out for myself. What I saw most that made me think was that they had brought back
what looked like the old sniper from Halo CE. Then it made me wonder,
since it had the green scope and the night vision, mabey there will be
maps in the dark, or mabey even better, you can control wether you can
have day or night on the map. That, in my opinion, would be awsome, but I
doubt it. Otherwise, the graphics were okay, the new map was awsome, and I
loved how big it was. Overall, I can’t wait for this beta, and start
playing it. Thanks, Xnauth (EX-Nauth)

Alright, I just want to start out by saying WTF.
I downloaded the monstrous 300 Megabyte version of the leak. It took one
and a half hours because that stupid Mega Uploads site controls the
download rate. Anywho, I watch it, I love it. I come back later, and now
it is gone. Its in my recent downloads in Firefox, but it says it has been
moved, deleted, or renamed. If I renamed it, it would still be on my
Desktop. Which it is not. If I deleted it, it would be in my recycle bin.
Which it is not. So I do a search for all things above 300 Megs. Nothing.
I think Karl Rove may have gotten on my computer and deleted the video
like he did those e-mails.

I like the new Veto this map and gametype feature. Only there should be a
max on switching gametypes, like you can only switch it 3 times. That way,
jerks won’t come in and continuously veto over and over again.
Obviously the guy is blacking out the personal stuff so he won’t get
caught (But they could just ask all the other people, or just go check the
games that had all the people in it and find the guy that wasn’t mentioned
in the “Blank killed blank.”), and he blacked out a spot above the “Team
Slayer” and Scores in the bottom right corner. What could be there?
Perhaps your own individual score, deaths and such? And what about when he
dies? What does he black out on the left-hand side?

I did not like the camera positioning on the ATV. Seemed weird and
awkward. Too close up, Too close to the ground. I hope they will fix that.

Bungie has mentioned before that they have cut the max grenades you can
hold from 8 (4 frags and 4 plasmas) to 4. But I did not realize that you
cannot hold 4 of one grenade. For example, You can hold 4 grenades total.
If you have 2 frags, you cannot pick up any more frags, only two of the
other grenade type. This is good and bad. Bad, becuase you cannot stock up
on powerful grenades, or your favorite grenades. Good, becuase you don’t
have to worry about picking up all one grenade type. It is always better
to have variety.
The Bubble shield lasted a whopping 20 seconds. Whoa.
Do you guys think that whistling will be in the retail copy of Halo 3?
Catchy, yet terribly annoying.
Ug. Looks like the n00b combo is here to stay. From what it seems,
anyway.

The shotgun clip is less! Thank the lord! I mean, in Halo 2 you pick up
the shotgun and it has 36 shells total in it. From the looks of this it
only has 18. And the clip is shrunk down from 12 to 6. Yay!

What happened to my auto-aim? :(

At one point in the video, instead of saying “Chevelle65 killed you.” It
said, “Chevelle65 smashed you.” The new beatdown?

The default game time has been shortened. In H2, it was 12 minutes. Now it
is 10.

Also, I was listening to a 1up yours show recently. They also leaked
something. On top of having the post game carnage report, you will have
MVP’s and such as well, like in Worms.

I think the social matches are the ones where anyone can join, like in GoW.
Bungie talked about that.

Keep on Grasping Kashmir!
Rist peblo

I’m so excited about the footage. There was a lot of new stuff. The
graphics were amazing as well. They completely changed the generator/gate
room. The generator looks way cooler. If you didn’t notice the big round
domey thing near the ring has been moved closer. Also, the pick up
weapons/get in vehichle button changed from X to LB. We also got to see
the Mongoose in action. Did you notice that when he was driving through
the water it made the water splash and come up. The Sniper Rifle is also
differant. It’s Scope is higher than it used to be, but so is the BR’s.
There is way to much stuff to put in this email and i’ve got to go.
Shoutout to Quigalicious13, nibbs19, the chicmagnet, Patsfan47, and The
BigBlackCox clan. Keep on Fraggin’ Weinis Masters!!!

I think this video really shows a lot that bungie hasn’t told us or
probably didn’t plan on telling us. First off Zanzibar looks pretty sweet,
but if they re-designed zanzibar for halo 3, then that brings me to the
question of whether or not they have or will re-design any other halo 2
maps for halo 3 cough please lockout cough. Anyway, onto the HUD, weapons
and vehicles. The HUD looks cool because of how they made it looked curved
like the spartans’ visor. Everything looks nice and out of the way.
Weapons, well everything looks and shoots nice except for that ugly
looking BR. The ATV looks cool, and works pretty well for running people
over. The orb looking thing where the sword used to be looks like an
overshield to me. For the power drainer, I have no idea except maybe a
deployable that disables another deployable. For example: your shooting at
a guy that has no shields so then he throws a bubble shield. So then you
throw the power drainer and it disables his bubble shield, giving you the
ability to kill him. Or if your entering a base, and you want to check for
trip mines then deploy the power drainer and it disables all trip mines
with in a distance. And my last thing is that when the guy dies and it
shows the score and above it it says Respawn in ….1 or however many
seconds. Well below the scoreboard there is something that says hold (it
looks like the back button) to activate. I wonder what that does. Well
keep it up guys and everyone check out the arts & signatures section. Keep
on fraggin’ possessed unicorns.

Hey, did you guys see the blue warp hole looking thing under the fan, where
the sword was. I guess it’s a round temporal. But what do you think it
is?
Keep callin the Vidoc a VyDoc Foo Mo.

It seems Zanzibar is bigger, badder, and cooler then last time. The new layout boasts some cool carney holes, and looks like fun.
The graphics are (obviously) a lot better. I don’t like the shield bar is a little too big for my tastes, and draws too much attention. Nothing like loosing a game of slayer because you suffered a seizure due to your strobe-shield bar. Ugh, the veto ystem sounds good in theory, but it’s no dobut going to be abused like the delay game button from Halo 2.
We know there are custom and ranked matches but what is a social match? Social match sounds like a mix between ranked and custome games. I’m going to guess it’s a match-made game that isn’t ranked and is for fun. Perhaps for games like tower of power etc.

Holy…. “Zanzibar” is pretty big now it looks like (bigger than in halo
2). It looks really sweet, I really like it alot. It looks better, and
probaly has the same zanzibar feel. Mongoose looks awesome, the bubble
shield looks alot better I think.

What is the object right below the fan where the sword used to be? (Just
restating one of your questions).

Pause it at 6:18 and you will notice it looks very much like active camo.
Also, look at where he drives the mongoose. Maybe a grav pad? Not exactly
sure, could be a shield from campaign or anything. Power drainer? I have
no idea really, maybe it helps deplete overshields or deployables. The
rankings look awesome, and it looks like there is a way to view your
“exp”. If you did not notice, whenever he respawned he had the little line
thingymajigar travel down his screen which looked pretty cool. I think this
map is going to be awesome to play on.

Ok, just watched the video. Words can’t describe how freakin’ hyped I am. One thing that made me excited the most was the showing of the bubble
shield. Or rather, something that happened. When the player was inside
it he threw a grenade and then got out but the explosion was encased
inside the shield. This made me think, how fulfilling and entertaining
would it be to be shooting someone and as they throw down their bubble
shield to then throw a grenade inside and watch as they die trying to
escape from what they once thought would save them but really turned out
to doom them. Is that sick? Who cares, it’s a shooter game.
Also, that little one man vehicle, I guess an ATV or something, looks
pretty cool.
Graphics, from what I could tell on the very small screen looked
amazing!!!! But I was disappointed when the environments proved to still
be un-destructible. That’s probably not a word, but what the hay.
Also, I must say, the music the was playing during the video SUCKED. Killed the mood. But it was still kick butt.
TANK

Hey Podtacular! After watching the new leaked video, I noticed some things
that some may NOT have noticed.

1. When he picks up the Bubble Shield, then picks up the Battle Rifle, the
Bubble Shield is dropped. This shows that equipment replaces a secondary
weapon.

Bungie mentioned that equipment would be a little harder to locate (Halo 3
Multiplayer ViDoc). So if for most of the game you won’t have an equipment
device to deploy, what will the X button be for? Nothing? Something else?
Personally, I think this would be a good control for secondary functions
(if available). The X button is a primary button on the Xbox controller.
If useless most of the time, why make deploy equipment the X button?

2. “NutzSquirrel smashed you”...did you notice that? In one scene, the
player attempts to take out two opponents near the Halo 2 rocket launcher
spawn. When he is killed, it says “NutzSquirrel smashed you”. I found this
kinda funny, but its worth a discussion.

Of course there was more but I just wanted to share these ones. Keep up
the good work Podtac!

The leaked video left me kind of confused. How could Bungie allow that to
happen? Oh well, it didn’t really hurt anything, but there were some major
faults (which will be most definately corrected come Fall). During the
video there was some lag and sketchy frame rates, as well as a large
amount of objects that weren’t properly textured. Also, during the loading
screen, we see that it says that information is being sent to the
‘datamine’
to make networking better (I wonder if that will stay in the final
version?).

—Anyways, I like the new layout of Zanzibar, the new design makes it look
more plausible (it also looks more tropical). The map is larger than before
due to Camp Froman being opened up, as well as an underground level in the
main base. (That was one massive generator!)
—The Bubble shield looked a little more transparent to me, and less (for
lack of a better word) rollie.
—The pregame lobby was completely different. The new veto system will
work by, instead of people delaying the countdown and pissing everyone in
the party off, giving people a chance to veto the game if they have
majority vote (this is the only logical way it could work).
—The next scene/menu was titled ‘PLayer Details,’ and showed many new
additions: 1) It showed the highest campaign level they completed 2) Highest Skill and total XP 3) Hw the new ranks would me done (If you look in upper right hand
corner, they had the Private Insignia)
—The new hud is pretty cool since we can see that the on screen compass
is back as well as the shield bar now being located at the top. I was
hoping that they wpuld display how much ‘Health’ you had after your
shields run out, but whatever. You can see that the icons displayed are
still curved, giving the illusion that you are looking into a helmet
screen. I liked the added touch of the glowing grid when respawning as
well.

There is much more that I have to say, but I’ll let others point it out.
Thanks for finally reading one of my submissions lol.

Shoutout to Rec E!

I think that the mysterious oblect located where the sword used to be was
an invisbility power-up. I am a little unsure, though, as it look more
like a cobe than the usual pyramid.

Anyways, the graphics look sweet. I liked the new power station design
and the graphically improved Warthog in particular. This video makes me
more eager to get Halo 3 when it comes out.

Shout-outs this week go to iOpTiMuS and Sqwerl.

Where to start, I have alot to say so here it is. The new virstion of
Zanzibar is similar to the old Zanzibar in Halo 2 on the outside with some
new trees and things moved around. Inside, the place is different. The room
with the gate has become bigger now and the generator that powers the gate
has been moved out of the way by you can still see it and go to it since
there are ramps to it. A new area is the other entrence to the building to
the side of the gate. The hole in the wall is still there from Halo two and
now at the beach ther are 3 vehicles insted of just the Warthog and Ghost,
now there are two monguses there. Now under the area where the camp sign
was there is a small room and were there was a dirt hill is a stair case
that leads up to a catwalk that takes you into the building. The dirt hill
that took you up into the building is gone now. The bubble shield can let
people get in and out of it so you don’t have to wait to it shuts down and
it is not a ball like in the last video doc. The sniper scope has changed
again; you can still see throw it when not zoomed in, but there is a green
color on it now. The computer pad that opend the gate is still there, but
now it is blue and it doesn’t lean back like in Halo 2. The headlights on
the human vehicles are now on when you drive it. When you drive thru the
water the vehical slows down to give realism to the game. The thing were
the sword was look like a purple shield or something like that. I like the
new pregame lobby since you can see where people are in the campain mode
and at what difficult, also what there rank is to. The rank system is like
the one from Battlefield two MC with the different classes. The Big metal
lump that was near the wall was moved next to the wheel now. Now the big
gate that opens is different, it is something like a cement road block
that would lower when the gate swich was activated. The Assalt rife now
only fires 32 shots instead on its original 60 shots perclip. The last
thing I want to say wabout the map is that the got rid of the cement ramps
and put in stairs. I really like this map remake better then the original
and can’t wait to play it on Halo 3.

Along with the power drainer and the blue orb i wonder what other
deployables their with be. Maybe the blue orb is not a deployable but some
sort of teleporter. I think it is great exept with a few exceptions. The
base is already very hard to defend on zanzibar in halo 2. Making it
bigger and adding more entrences only makes it harder to defend. Also it
looks like the bubble shield can only be destroyed from the inside. That
makes it very hard to get someone who is sword or shotgun hiding in a
bubble sheild. Also i was wondering how they improved the hole in the wall
of zanizar. Im talking about the hole on the wall in line with the sniper
under the sign that says froman. I wonder how they made that diferent or
is it still just some stupid hole in the wall. Halo three looks better and
greater then halo 2 but the spartan lazer looks a little to powerful. Also
i think bungie purposly released this video. Their no way someone could
get a video with this quality on the net of a map that is not in the beta

Sry it was long keep on fragagin trucks with midgets from fansty island
that shout babam while pwning nubs

how the skined the weapons. my discuss on this

first the ROCKET, i think it was a mix of a fuel rod cannon and a plasma
pistol cus you hold it down when you shot and it makes a glowing Boom.

the Battle rifle, they didn’t do enything with it whats up with that, just
like the assalt rifle.

sniper, its just mixed from halo 1&2 they made it green from halo1 and you
can see though it form halo2

shotgun, its much shorter maby faster shooting and betting down dont
know.

there is my list of good weapons. here are some the weapons that are old
style and new.

SMG, old

spiker, new

worthog, old

ATV, new

ghost, old

grenade, same except the sheld grenade

plasma pistol, old

assalt rifle, old

Okay, ill make this short and sweet. I’m really excited for the remake of
Zanzibar. Looks really bright and Highly Defined (HD). Cant wait to
explore the insides of Camp Forman

The first thing I noticed in the video was the graphics! The graphics was
as good if not better as Halo 2 even in the early beta stages! I also
noticed that the bubble shield lasted a lot longer then I thought it would
so I hope Bungie either shortens the time limit or find a new way to
balance it out. Thats all I have to say about the video, keep up the great work
Podtacular.

P.S. Still not able to get the new maps, I keep ending up with the cursed
error message!

Shout out to Team DEATH NOTE!

Well after seeing the leak video and the one with the walkthrough I have to
say I about Shiested my pants. The graphic changes they did to the map are
freakin amazing. I love the new inside, how you acually have space to
work. The outside layout of the map is amazingly similar to Zanzibar (
One of the greatest obj maps other than Headlong). The graphic in general
are crazy just for a beta, incredible for that matter. I love how the
Mongoose (lol don’t know if that’s how it’s spelled) looks and reacts on
the terrain, it is slick as hell. Nice look at bubble sheild how it can
acually be a planted sort of thing other than rolling. If this is what we
have to look forward to for Halo 3, I think this will easily be the game of
the year, atleast that, probably stand up there with Zelda and Mario Bros. Legendary!

What should I do to wait for this epic event now =( ?

First off, did you notice that you will have rank now. The player in the
video had the rank of private. Also did you notice that the player threw a
gernade inside the shield dome and it contained the blast. Could that be
the weakness of the bubble shield? And finally i noticed what looked like
a blue teammate being taken out with the noob combo as he exited the main
building in Zanibar? The only difference i think i saw was that he was hit
with 2 plasma bolts, which might indicate you would have to be dual
wielding 2 plasma pistols. One last thing, on my last email, i wrote about
the halo wish list. I meant to say, its like asking a little kid what kind
of topping on their pizza and the little kid responding excitedly “ice
cream!” Keep on fraggin’ delievery trucks carrying reburbished xbox 360’s.

Well well well…

Wazzup my PodPeeps. It’s Lilkuke with my two-cents about the leaked Halo 3
video.
Ok. First off, Zanzibar. I seriously couldn’t recognize it. It was really
wierd. But, I did like that map and all that they added to it. I’m going
to need to check it out if it’s in the Beta.

Next, the Bubble Shield. Goddangit, that thing lasted FOREVER!!! The guy
grenaded it twice, meleed it off the second floor, and it STILL was there!
I’m not sure if I like that or not. I’ll get back to you on that…

Ok, the party lobby. New, confusing, cool. Those are my words to describe
it. I didn’t get the part where you vetoed the map, though. I like it the
way it is. This is because there’s always gonna be a big herd of n00bs who
get on and vote “no” for every map. This would be VERY annoying, and I’m
not looking forward to it, but I guess we will find out if it works or not
soon enough.

The layout for the pregame lobby was different, and so was the menu when
you pressed back on the controller, but I’ll get used to it.
Next, WTF IS THE POWER DRAINER??!
As for the weapons, nothing new. We’ve seen it all in previous videos.
Vehicles and others didn’t do much for me. But we shall see in the beta
how it all turns out.

Real quick shoutout to Foo Mo for playing and pwning me in Lord of the
Rings, and shoutout to ChuckieJ, my brotha from anotha motha. And SGO
LoneWarrior for being my other brotha from anotha motha.

Keep on J’ing those VB’s

I think the reason behind the overhauled generator of the bubble shield is
simply to make the “deployable weapon” caste system a luxury. I believe
that all of the deployable weapons will have an invaluable mechanism
pertaining to each individual one. It makes people fight tooth and nail
just to pick one up. So basically they are making all the deployable
weapsons something that you will hold very dear to you and will go to any
lengths to hold and use one.

I would first like to say 2 things about the guy who leaked the video first
he’s got some balls and second he sucks at halo 3. I think the veto button
if not implemented perfectly could cause some issues. I wonder based on
the video if the bubble shield still rolls (most likely not) and it’s
length of time. I am honestly kind of stunned at the similarity between
Zanzibar and last resort the inside is just bigger and the outside is almost the same.One last thing THAT MUSIC WAS HORRIBLE unless you like
upbeat happy techno like music(i don’t judge).

Hey guys, it’s Xl 0WN4G3 lX or for those who know me, it’s Xx 4V3NG3R xX!
Anyway, here are my ideas:
1. I think the new “Zanzibar” is well designed and bigger hence the
generator room behind the original room in which I didn’t get to see or
maybe others did but my server always stops when it reaches 2:57.
2.The Power Drainer maybe a counter to the Bubble Shield and disables
vehicles.

Holy Canolie! I don’t know if anyone else really noticed, but Zanzibar is
now Last Resort. The new bubble shield is lovely, nice and compact. Last
Resort seems really open now, with a lot of passages. They say the
graphics arent done, yet it’s still the best looking game i’ve seen. I
want to hug the person who leaked this so bad!

Wow! Let me just say that for a Beta build this is fantastic! This video
answers many questions brought up by the multiplayer vidoc that bungie
released, specificly, the bubble shield. Love the new look and shape of
it. Also the video shows that you can not fire or throw grenades while
inside the shield. Zanzibar has had a huge increase in size and looks like
it can hold a lot of people with a lot of elbow space. One thing I did not
like was the size of the scopes on the Battle Rifle and the Sniper Rifle,
they looked big and out of place on the rifles giving them a bulky and
unappealing look. But besides that an awsome video! I look forward to
playing the Beta!

While analyzing the leaked video, I found something interesting…in the
pre-game lobby, it appears to be a matchmade game, but yet we see ”_’s
the Party Leader”. What does this mean for us? Well, it could be one of
two things.

1. It could be that matchmaking now has hosts, which might lead to
problems such as being booted from an MM game for not playing up to the
Party Leader’s standards.

or,

2. Perhaps this is that new feature Bungie was talking about; where you
can put your custom game into a matchmaking-type service so you can get
random people to join your party.

I’m hoping it’s the latter, as matchmaking is the only place to go where
you are entirely protected from being booted for no reason.

What are your opinions?

Hey Podtacular! Was good this is KerPlow, yes my gamertag is KerPlow and i
will shout KerPlow if i stick you in the Face! anyways the video was
amazing!!! Even though the map looked small it was actually very big and
the graphics looked so freaking sweet!!! Overall i think the game looks
perfect right now and it was more then i expected kind of.

Awsome video you guys found. Ummmm, i think grenades wont go thought the
bubble shield, so thats good, only way to beat them is to go in it. Also,
i hope we will be able to play this map when the public beta comes out.
How comes he gets to play it? Well, mongoossseee and laser ftw. Too bad it
has to charge, if you noticed. Also, i saw the assult rifle had only 32
round this time. So thats what i htink about it and if anyone wants to
play halo 3 beta with me send a fr.

Wow, I am surprised that this was leaked (if it was) and I am interested to
see how Bungie will react. Anyway, I noticed several things in the video:

1. Players can penetrate the bubble shield but not weapons.
2. The Spartan Laser seems to fire several lasers in one large one.
3. I noticed a compass-like device below the shield bar, simmilar to ones
from games like America’s Army. Possibly it will be used for objective
finding.
4. Even though it is likely not at it’s maximum graphical display, the
lighting on the map was incredible.
5. The new map layout seems interesting. The interior is sure to be a
magnet for intense fights
6. You automatically see a player’s 3-letter “call sing,” but their full
name appears when in close range.

Let me know what your opinion is on these and keep on throwing wet ripped
cheese.

I’m pretty sure that “veto system” is just a fancy term for “press X to
cancel”. Also, do you think that new brute weapon is the replacement for
the SMG because I don’t remember seeing one. And finaly, that polygon
feature that was displayed a while ago on bungie.net, where everything was
black and had a green outline. I didn’t see that in the video nor heard
anything else about it recently, so do you think they are still going to
even have it in?

First I would like to say that whoever leaked this vid is in BIG trouble by
bungie and for puting it to that gawd-awful music!!! But on to what is in
the video, the overhaul of Zanzabar is awesome they opened up some kind of
room or tunnel under camp froman it makes the level seem a lot bigger. The
rest of the map seems the same as far as layout but with amped up graphics,
and the two mongi(or is is mongooses??) that will provide for some awesome
ctf/assault matches.
After seeing the new Spartan Laser in action I think I have found a new
toy, the thing is devistating but i wonder how they will balance it so
there is not a race for it every match. I also like the “veto” option
especially since the last time I was on XBL I had to play 3 of the exact
same maps, rules, and equipment in a row. I will cut down on playing the
same map over and over.

Overall I am even more excited for the beta. I hope so see you guys
there! Keep on truckin’ frags!

ok first I love the new curved look of the Hud. next I see everytime that
you spawn you see a grid which I am guessing is like whats in the books
where they talk about there visor having a grid like apperance , then
there is the red duel laser i have seen a few times some, the first time i
see it is at 2:58 in the video i also see it at 5:20-5:22 when the person
taping the video spawns a teamate gets hit with it and yes!! it is the
spartan lazer!! woot. i also see that they have put in the 3 digit
“nickname” for easy call outs to teams that is always above there heads
and if you can see when you aim at a teammate you can see there full scree
name come up. the whole veto thing is great, just think if there are alot
of ppl that hate a map and it comes up you can veto it and then you will
get a new map great idea bungie!!!! also the size of the map.
there are alot more indoor areas. and the power drainer i really want to
see it. well that about wraps up all i have seen. o wait there is that
blue glob but who knows what that is.

shout out to all of podtacular and keep on fragging trucks

Well, we definitely saw some maps revealed that we had not seen before. I
really liked the bridge map. It reminds you of the Assault on the Control
Room from Halo 1, but I have always wanted something like it to be a
multiplayer map. One bad move and you fall into the abyss; classic. I
see some good CTF on there.

Hey guys love the show. I just wanted to say that i think that the new halo
3 zany leak is awesome. I notice on how you can pick up weapons by hitting
the bumper buttons. I was wondering that because i was so confused since
the X button was going to be use for the deployables.

This is the real reason I sent a message. I have been trying since day one
to get these halo 2 blastacular maps. So far me and a large amount of of
people haven’t been able to get them. A lot of the people have 360s and i
have my bro’s old xbox with my account on it. I was just wondering if you
could shed some light on the subject because this has sent me into a mad
rampage. As i speak i’m trying to download and if this keeps happening i
will just call Microsoft and tell them that they just lost a valued
customer till halo 3 comes out.

While the idea of Vetoing maps is a good thing, I’m not sure how well it
would pan out. PC Games have had democratic decisions like that for years,
and a lot of times it just starts a fight.
If half the game decides to change the map and the other half doesn’t,
then the first half might just quit the game, or start yelling at the
other players. It can’t be counted how many times I’ve been in a PC game
with people screaming “OMG WHO’S TEH N00B WHO WANTS DIS GHEY MAP!!11”

Let’s just say online gaming is better off as a dictatorship than a
democracy.

Hey Podtacular. I noticed in that video that the new Zanzibar is called
Last Resort. And while in the match lobby you can select a username and
look at his stats while the game counts down. It shows how many custom,
social, and ranked matches they have played and it also shows their
highest skill level and their total XP. Social Matches?

I also noticed that along with the gate there is also a kind of barrier
next to the gate that you can probably lower. And the bubble shield is on
the defensive side rather than the offensive side.

p.s. I should have muted my speakers.

first of i want to say Frankie was right the water does look pretty
amazing. I can see me and my brother having demolition derbys in there
with mongooses.
And secondly did anyone notice that on the gameload screen there looks to
be a new ranking system. It looks like they could be using a military
ranking instead of numbers. What are is your opinion about this. To me
this says alot more than the numbers did, so im excited about it.
Overall the game looks great and im hoping to get a few games in with a
bunch of podtacular listeners.

I watched that Zanzibar clip from Halo 3 Beta. That was the first actually
gameplay of Halo 3 i’ve seen and i have to say I was slightly dissapointed.
I mean, inside the base looks now like a metroid game or unreal tournament
or something. The map looks nothing like zanzibar. As for the HUD, I don’t like how the motion tracker isn’t a circle but a
slight oval and the ammo counter and everything is bent towards the
middle. It really doesn’t look good.
The bubble shield i think makes the game a bit worse than before. Bullets
can’t pass through but you can walk through it and let someone else use
it…doesn’t seem realistic. I thought it would be there to protect you
for a few seconds as you got ready to face your attacking opponant. In the vid i saw, the guy picked up a bubble shield and grenade. The
picture of the item flew from the bottem of the screen to the top where
the picture is.
What has the game turned into???

Well first off notice the new location of the energy bar. It’s bigger and
it’s at the top of the screen now. I’m glad they fixed the some of the
textures, like the bubble shield. The energy drainer just might be the
thing that can take out a bubble shield, or maybe even the opponents
shield. Perhaps it can stop a warthog! (wortwortwor;))
Zanzibar never looked better! The new base is HUGE! The map is bigger and
had allot more places for players to hide, like under the foramen’s
island.(for you that don’t know, that’s where the sniper spawns, well,
the one not on the seawall)I like the new beach layout. Now it has a ghost,
warthog, and 2 mongooses that replace the old ghost.
The new map features are cool too. The catwalk looks like a good place to
defind the gate side of the base. The map also sports a feash coat of
pritty graphics.

Thanks FooMo for the spoiler! I’m glad I watched the leaked footage but now
I’m thinking of waiting for the full release instead of trying the beta.
I’m sure the beta guys and gals will have a slight advantage at the
beginning with some experience in gameplay, but I’m more interested in the
fully polished joy of Halo with most the bugs taken care of. Plus, my
Podtacular friends will keep me up on the news I’m sure.

I’m very excited to see upgraded maps we are mostly familiar with. This
will help halo2 players fire up competitive matches right away.

To comment on what I’ve seen so far, it’s incredible! It seems to me that
Bungie combined Halo1 style and gameplay with upgraded graphics and
weapons. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Bungie hold a few items out of the
beta to give everyone something to find in the release. Remember that the
beta gives Microsoft the ability to test the limitations of XBL with Halo3
and work out the details over that 3 weeks. There will be a group of
engineers working on glitches with gameplay I’m sure, but I believe this
beta brings something new to XBL that requires some real data collected
over matchmaking nationwide to make this a landmark game release. We all
know Bungie can run testers around the clock in a controlled environment
for bug fixes. This beta opens excitement to true fans that want to assist
in making Halo something new while challenging XBL to the limits. From the
video, I’m more interested in the lobby options and what this means to the
Halo community.

Shout out to Godtacular this week for our FIRST full lobby! WooT! Come and
check out what your missing on Monday nights, as a wise ninja once said “I
look forward to praying for you soon”.

The leak was amazing, and showed alot of things that spoil the game, or
atleast the beta, but in the HUD at the top there is the new energy sheild
bar, and below that shows a compass, that I think will be used in the story
mode for finding objectives, and in multiplayer friends. The bubble sheild
in the video looks as if someone were to shoot the generator, the entire
sheild would stop. I believe that the power drainer will drain ur energy
sheild like a plasma pistol. In the pregame lobby the second screen shows
that there is a total xp, or total level, so people will be based on all
of their levels, not just ther highest, aslo on the toptheir is a new
ranking system which says private for the guy playing. And lastly the
thing where the sword use to be is just an automatic suicide machiene,
mostly because no one went down to get it like if it was something super
like the sword. Great job with the podcasts. Keep on smudging cadilacs,
and riping cheese.

I like that they’re is a Veto system in matchmaking. This makes the
matchmaking a lot more customizable to ones’ preference. But I want
more!!! Why not have the ability to specify which map you want to play. In Halo 2 Optimatch, the maps cannot be specified and you have to play
whatever Optimatch gives you. I want to be able to say that I want games
in a certain map only. Also, the ability to continue a game when it’s
done. When a game in Optimatch is over everyone quits and finds a new
game. There is no option to continue that game. I find this somewhat
ridiculous because if that game was fun I want to play again. I want a
rematch if it was close. But Halo 2 doesn’t even have the option of doing
that. Like in any other game where you find a server and stay in that
server. They need to combine that ability with the Optimatch. If you
actually want to play someone again you have to add all of them to your
friends list and then create a custom game. That takes forever and
some/most people get impatient and find another match. I’m really
surprised Halo 2 doesn’t have this ability.

Other than that the new Zanzibar is sexy, the graphics are sexy, the AR is
sexy, the Bubble SHield is sexy, EVERYTHING IS SEXY!!! SEXY TIME!

I can’t believe they stole that whistle from Kill Bill. I’m just kidding.
Just giving you guys crap for episode 110. Anyways, the video brings a
tear to my eye. It’s like watching a 7 minute video of me winning the
lottery. It’s everything I could hope for in Halo 3 and it’s just a video
of Beta! Thank you whoever sent this video out for giving me a glimpse of
what I will be doing for the next 3 years.

-Apparently, you can walk through the bubble shield. But is this through
your own, your teammate’s, or anyone’s?

-It’s more than obvious that Halo 2 is extremely useful as a social space.
I think the Social match type is one with extra features specifically for
machinimas such as RVB and This Spartan Life, and maybe for various other
forms of community uses.

-The layout of Last Resort (New Zanzibar) looks really cool and more
industrial than its predecessor.
-I think the power drainer is something that drains power. (DUH). Maybe
it will slowly deplete the shields of someone within its radius. Maybe
it’s a counter to the bubble shield. Maybe it’s like an EMP, because
several weapons use energy (for example, beam rifle, spartan laser, etc.),
and it renders them unusable in its effective radius, or depletes their
batteries, or something like that. Probably also disable stickies,
because in lore they’re electronic devices.

Thanks guys.

Keep on cockadoodle-pwning nubcakes.
P.S. Any fans of The Governator, especially you JVB, I heard AHNOLD is
going to be on Pimp My Ride this Sunday. Check it out!

Hey, what’s up? This is SZX. I’ve been listening on iTunes for a while
now and this is my first email.
First off, I am totally psyched about the new leak of Zanzibar. It looks
awesome! It kinda makes me sad to play the H2 version now. I’m not too
happy about the new HUD though it’s too reminiscent of H1. Bungie seems
to be in the habit to using both Halo and Halo 2 variables on screen so I
hope that they have an option to choose how your own HUD looks under
player profiles mode or something. For people that are fans of the
Armored Core series, there are similar options there. Personally I prefer
the H2 style.
Back to the video. Once I saw the ATV (or Mini-Hog) I was very impressed
(after I was done laughing of course). It makes Master Chief look like a
giant cradling a Warthog. I think that there are definite possibilities
with that. Especially if you can strap a flag to your back instead of a
weapon and drive that away in CTF.
One last thing though. About the Power Drain thing. I am thinking that
since people on live seem to love Swat and similar game-types, that the
drainer is something that would go off and eliminate everyones shields in
an area for some quick brutal mayhem. Would definitely be good for King
of the Hill variants with a lot of people.

That was amazing. I love the new Zanzibar. I always thought if Zanzibar was
bigger than that would be the ultimate map. Bungie or other sources said
that to shoot the spartan laser you would have to be standing still. BUT,
the guys was walking when he fired. Also, the bubble shield doesn’t move!
What is up with that? I like how the shield is now a bar on the top of
the screen.

Under the fan, the object is most likely an active camo. it looks just like
one.

I think this is a great remake of Zanzibar. Everything has been expanded
upon wonderfully (ie camp froman and the base especially). I think the
graphics are coming along very nicely contrary to all of the “halo 2.5”
cries. I was watching Joystiq’s analysis of the video and I agree with
them that the Power Drainer will probably something of an EMP that will
have a pretty large blast radius that will bring down everyone’s shield.
The HUD looks very nice to me with the concavity coming into play and how
items seem to “float” up to their spots when you pick them up. I’m
totally stoked about the veto system. Many times I’ve been in match
making and get paired up and when I see the game type I just think to
myself that I can’t wait for the next game that I can get into and hope
it’s not something similar. I’m really glad that the water actually slows
you down now when you drive through it, although the hog and the ghost
looked pretty much the same as in H2 to me.

Something I wasn’t clear about is that when he was messing with the bubble
shield, did he knock it off the catwalk and it fell down, or did he destroy
that one and there was another one on the ground below? Also, do you think
that the beta that we’ll get will have that “Beta Build” watermark at the
bottom of the head or do you guys think that Bungie will polish that out
since it will be so widespread?

Thanks for the podcast guys, I listen to every episode and love it! Keep
up the good work.

Wowowowowowowow…..wow

The leaked video footage looks awsome but now that i’ve seen it i am
biting my fingers with great anticipation of the halo 3 beta. I really
like the look of the new and shiny zanzibar and Literally it is shiny. I
like the new extra areas around the map and some of the old bits which
have been changed. Me and probably everybody else who watched it has
probably noticed that the bubble sheild isnt actully round, Maybe my
vision was just off but i’m pretty sure it wasnt round. I think that there
is no rocket launchers in the game any more and i am not dissipointed
becasue the fact that the spartan laser has to charge up will give people
with less powerfull weapos a chance in close quarters combat. I cant wait
for the halo 3 beta comes out.

Keep pn fraging….stuff….

I have noticed that the bubble sheild, made it harder for you see. I feel
like it will be harder for me to think of a plan, if i cant see anything.
i have also been looking at the new AR, it looks awesome, and I see that
they balanced the gun with 32 rounds instead of 60. I like the new HUD, and i cant wait to play the beta
Great Job Podtacular Keep on Fraggin squirrels

I love the new layout especially in the main generator building and it
definatly looks better than the halo 2 version. about the hud i do like it
back at the kinda halo 1 look but the pregame lobby looked like a 5 year
old messed around in paint. im guessing the social match is a type of
custom match like a normal 1 but has all game chating like letting all
players no matter where they are to talk sense it is “social” so you can
trash talk even wen not in battle=). im guessing the power drainer is
somewhat like a plasma pistol shot but like something you step on. i was
very disappointed not to see the sword in its usual spot and im guessing
its either a deployable or a new weapon that hasn’t been discovered yet
but we all will have to wait till the beta to find out now wont we
anyways love the podcast and keep it up
and keep fraging nothing cuz i think its a bad line that makes no sense =P

Well, I think the video looks cool. Especially the part with the mongoose.

But you know what? the water is not detailed as much as Frankie says,
maybe just because no-one splashed around or anything. But it’ll still
look kool, cause it’s water, man. I had a Dasani in Gym today, turning it
around, and saw awesome ripples, dude. Try it sometime, JVB. anyway, guys, i love the show and the jokes. Stay funny and good luck with
the squireel belt thing, Foo-Mo.

I watched the latest leaked Halo 3 footage and I’d first like to say that
before everyone gets their hopes up, Last Resort is most likely NOT going
to be in the public Beta. Bungie has said we are only getting 3 maps
(Valhalla, High Ground and Snowbound) and I think some people might be
confused and might be getting their hopes up to see this Zanzibar map in
the Beta. Remember the public beta is actually a Delta build and is
called Beta just for us folks who aren’t familiar with the build terms
when making games.
That said I think Last Resort looks great with the greatest difference
being the inside of the base. However, I wish that Bungie would quit
redoing old maps and come out with all original maps. Remade maps such as
Warlock, Tombstone etc might be fun to play with but I think the time and
energy that goes into remaking those maps could be better spent making an
all new map to play on. I really like the Veto option. How many times have you been in
Matchmaking on Halo 2 and played the exact same map and gametype 2 or even
3 times in a row? The veto option would be helpful in avoiding duplicate
gametypes.

I liked the player infomation screen that was brought up. It shows how
many ranked games you played and has something about XP which we have no
clue about now but should become clear once Beta comes out. I wonder if
the rank of Private was something the player chose for himself or if
perhaps that’s a new clan rank or perhaps shows your overall experience in
the game.
Keep up the great work Podtacular and keeping on trucking frags.

I think that the shield bars new place in the center of the HUD might get
annoying with it falshing and beeping espiecially if someone is above you
or jumping. The new zanzibar looks really cool and i look forward to
playing there and keep up the good work podtacular

Well, the power-drainer is hinted at to be EMP, something that will drain
everyone’s shields in a large group. That could be it, but some people say
that it’s a new kind of grenade that will have a different cumbustion
design. Meaning that it will explode differently, maybe have a bigger
destruction radius. But, in the video, the symbol of the power-drainer was
below the frag symbol. Which could hint at that it is a weapon.

What I think that big blue thing where the sword is usually is a new
power-up. I dont know what it could possibly do, but I do think that will
be some other kind of power-up like an overshield or invisiblity.

ok well did anyone notice the lack of power with the shotgun? normally that
close of combat the shotgun would win wouldnt it?

also

if you watch closely when the guy was walking up to the fan there was no
active camo and that got me thinking where is it… so then i saw the blue
under the fan and paused it, it looks like they used the overshield box
look and put the blue camo into it instead of the triangle.. well thats my
idea anyway i didn’t see the sword tho wonder where it is..

good work with podtacular and keep on fraggin trucks

That thing where the sword goes under the windmill/power generator thing
really looks like a cross between the active camo and the overshield in
halo 2. The active camo is a blue triangle and the overshield is a yellow
ball in a transparent box. Mabey it will be the power that will be
eventually drained? Or will it be a double-duty (overshield and camo)
item?

The social match might be an unranked game with people that are your skill
level i.e. a ranked game where rank means nothing.

well id have to say zanibar looks pretty freakin rad. the layout looks
better and looks like there our pletty of places to take cover. on the
other hand it seemed a but overwelming. there were alot of places to
explore but i think wat make halo 2 maps so great is that there simple. if
u put a map thats in a game like graw2 in halo it is just not gonna work.
awesome job with the podcast
keep fragging trucks

That was so cool! I love how Bungie made the map BIGGER! The room with the
turbine is just immense, and I love it. I also was surprised to see they
added a whole new indoor area to the original sniper spawn area. This map
is going to pwn all other maps in Halo 3, but that may not matter because
they’ll all be on par with one another. I wanted to mention that the
sniper on the seawall is actually sitting on the wall!

Anyways, I can’t wait for Halo 3. See ya, and keep on fraggin’ techno
music.

I just wanted to say that this map looks totally bitchin!!!! Everything
looks good….I’m still wondering if a guy from the other team can walk
into the sheilded bubble with your guy. I saw the person just fall right
in…So maybe you guys can answer or maybe I’ll have to find out
myself…...ttyl guys

JVB RULES!!!!!
Hey JVB message Meantide…..I wanna ply you in Halo2 or the Halo 3 beta
you and me boy…..pick a day and time…I’m ready

Colin aka Meantide

Hey podtacular! That was a pretty sweet video in my opinion, the new layout
of Zanzibar is awesome. All the plants on the map and the bubble effect to
the HUD added a wonderful realistic effect. The bubble sheild’s new
generator seems much more realistic. The object were the sword was could
be the sword just really really shiny like the ones in the original Halo.
I did notice there is now no gate to the map but there are thought barries
that have the yellow and black strips they look like they could go down. I
think that is what the control pannel now controls. I hope you can go
farther into the water at the beach now, it certianly looks like you can
in the video. Oh, and a shout out the the Podtacular Marines!!!!!

Well i was stunned when i saw this video. A couple of thing, amoung other,
caught my attention. There were obvious changes to the maps layout that
impressed me, as well as weapon changes: the longer barrel on the battle
rifle interested me, but about the Spartan Laser; I thought you had to
stand still to shoot it, like to balance off its power? Now its like a
more powerful Sniper Rifle that you can only no-scope with.

I thought it was interesting that the vehicles like the mongoose and the
warthog went slower in deeper water. And i know bungie addresses this in
the vidoc, but i didnt see a single player dualwielding, i thought they
were just going to balance the weapons better not take that option out all
together.

there are a ton of things to talk about but i will leave you guys with
that.

First off the new layout isn’t too different from the one of halo 2 but the
inside of the base is significantly larger. The assult rifle had only 32
shots in it but the BR still has 36 the spartan laser looks pretty mean
and the sheild garnade looks like it could vary much change some of the
gameplay elements thanks REDTEAM

Hey I watched the video and i was very suprised by the look and feel of the
game. The level “Last Resort” looks a lot different from Zanzibar. Its all
lighted up. It looks a lot more futureistic kinda like Perfect Dark. The
one thing I noticed is that there is a service record similar to Rainbow
Six: Vegas. There is a rank system symilar to military. So maybe there
won’t be a level system. The Veto system looks like that if enough people
vote for negitivly then you get booted. But what if you are doing really
good and the other team just wants you away or maybe you are the only one
with kills and your teamates what a kill so they boot you. The Bubble
sheild does look like the one in the Vidoc and it doesn’t roll around. And
it also looks like you can move my throwing a grenade inside and it bounces
around. I guess you pick up non-duelwieldable with the Right Bumber and you
pick up a Duel-Wieldable with the left bumber. The Spartan Laser looks like
you can charge it for a while and you use 10 out of 100 battery. But when
the guy did his shot he used 20 maybe similar to the plasma pistol? The
Offensive base looks like it can transport 8 guys in vehicles at once so
maybe they will have more than 16 players in a game? The last thing is
that the weapons look a lot more realistic than they do in Halo 2. The BR
actually looks like a FAMAS and the sniper looks more like a tactical
sniper.

Sorry it was so long cause i have a lot on my mind since i saw the video.
And thanks for aways keeping me entertained by JVB’s Arnold voices and Foo
Mo’s weird comments on almost everything.
Peace!!!!!

Oh My Gosh…this is the most amazing video i have ever seen…zanzibar, it
looks so good!! even for a beta stage! i actually wouldn’t mind living
there…lol. anyways,
i really, really liked what bungie did to zanzibar (if it isn’t a hoax,
which i don’t think it is.) the art direction is great, the different
ramps will make the gameplay more fun, and from just viewing it, it looks
like it could be my new favorite map. the bubble shield was interesting.
it lasted for a really long time, but it could only be moved (it seemed
like) by a grenade. i heard that bungie was not going to have the shield
roll around in the beta, so is this what they will do to make up for
that?? it looks like you could easily fit a warthog in it. i also like that they replaced the gate with vehicle stopper cement
things. it is going to change the gameplay a lot. i like the ramps around
the edge of the map a lot. it looked really cool. i also liked under camp
froman how there was a room there. it looked like bungie payed attention
to the practical uses of the map (if it were real).

Master chiefs hud looks pretty cool to, it has the wrap around feature
that makes it look like a real helmet. what struck me was the graph like
illusion that happend when you respawned…i thought it was really cool to
add a little feature like that…

also, on the wall that seperates the beach from the station, it looked
like the walkway was partially covered, i thought it looks great as far as
the art, but it will also be interesting as far as grenades and such.

overall, zanzibar is going to be crazy awesome!!
thanks podtacular!! keep on frogging frags!!

Is it ok to turn my speakers up yet? lol anyway, that video was crazy.

Something that i noticed was that the bubble shield no longer looked like
it would roll down a hill like in the ViDoc.

And just some speculation on the “big blue thing” where the sword is
supposed to be, my first thought was that Hammer that Tartarus had in
Halo2. Maybe? Possibly?
thanks guys, hope to see ya in the Beta!

First of all, I think that the Veto thing was way cool. I think that it
loads each person separately, and the people that fail to load do not join
the game.

Secondly, from what I saw in the video, the bubble shield seems to be an
item that is much like an average weapon. That is, it spawns regularly and
you can just go over to it and pick it up. I can draw this inference from
how the bubble shield was placed inside the base. It looked a lot like any
other weapon spawn. I also like the new design, it looks a lot sleeker and
it looks as if it will no longer roll down hills. I think that this is
neither a good thing nor a bad thing, it will just change the way it is
used. Did you see how it fell through the floor? That was interesting. I
think that because it no longer rolls, it is moved according to the amount
of force it is hit with.

Thirdly, the new Zanzibar looks AWESOME! I love how the generator now
stretches all the way back. It looks so freakin’ sweet. The big ramp
around the side of the building looks like it’s gonna add a [i]huge[/i]
amount of strategy. Did you see those ramps that he briefly glanced at,
inside the base? I think that they’ll be used to some sort of quick
vehicular exit. The Spiker looks so freakin’ awesome. It actually looks a
lot like the Spiker on the CMT maps for Halo CE.
Fourthly, the mongoose looks like a lot of fun. I think the camera should
be a little further out, though. I can see it being difficult to see where
you are going if there is a lot going on around you.

Fifthly, the Spartan Laser looks deadly. Did you see how it just zapped
him right off of his feet? That was so cool. It seems as if it fires three
laser rounds in very quick succession, much like the BR. This will help
players out a little, in case they’re trying to make a difficult shot.

Sixthly, I like how the camera automatically goes to your team mates when
you die. Instead of you having to press A, this will allow you to view
what’s going on without wasting time. Especially if you only have a few
seconds until you respawn, like in some of the areas in the video.

And finally, I hope that Bungie will release Halo 3 with the theme music
being the music heard in this leaked footage. Just imagine the last scene,
The Chief says something really cool. Like, “It is finished”, and then that
music comes in. Doo doo, doo de doo, doo de doo doo, doo de doo. It would
be… amazing.

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for now. Keep on babaming your chestnuts.

Wrap up

Until next time I’m Foo Mo Jive (and this is)