Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Episode 112: Halo 3 leaked footage!
for the week of May 7th, 2007

(hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB,)


introductions


To cover:


Hey guys did you see the new item in one of the videos where he droped it
and his motion tracker had like 20 red dots on it going every where. I
think that would be sweet to toss it to a base and grab the flag. and the
turrent you can pick up, that looked so cool and it gose in to 3rd persion
view when you hold it like your in the turrent on the hog.

hoyl crap the pistol dosn’t have the zoom and only 6 shots. the plasma
rifle and SMG have been severly enhanced by making them more powerful and
faster. the spartan laser has a 2x scope like the rockets or fulerod gun
wich will make for some cool far laser kills. also the brute shot is back
but not used. And in one of the death screens you see a guy with a chain
gun turret i looks like you might have to put it down before you can start
shooting it but you never no. Over all its looking better and better.

OMG!! those are awsome. i love how the turret makes your view third
person. i also like the new pistol. a $|-|17 (1337 language :) ) load of
excitement flooded into me. the pistol seems to suck but it looks so cool.
i love all of the customization that is avalibal.

Shout out to SPAWN!!!! SPAWN IS TEH AWSOME 1337!

Just watched the videos. Putting the horrible camera skills aside, THEY
WERE AWESOME!!!! One disappointing thing is the apparent weakness of the
pistol. It looks like it did when Halo 2 was first released. Past that
the weapons look fine. The sniper rifle bullet looked to move really fast
though, I mean faster than what we’re used to. Customization looks great. It’ll be interesting to see how many people
pick the most annoying colors for their unit online. Think about it, a
bright pink and lime green Master Chief running around. Reminds me of
that gay marine thing ya’ll have in the store…
Well that’s all for now and remember in Halo 3 you won’t be a
Super-Soldier. You’ll be a traveling sales-man delivering death in bulk.

Keep on fraggin’ cute furry animals and Cookie Crisp.

Wow. What can I say? Those vids were AMAZING. Halo 3 right now looks to be
one of the best experiences ever in video games. The new map that was
shown Epitaph (I personally will be calling it, ‘String Cheese’ because I
can’t pronounce that properly) looks like it is Prisoner (Halo 1 map)
mixed with Damnation (Halo 1 Map). It looks very nice. I was kind-of
disappointed in the new pistol, because I figured with how slow it fires
and how low the ammo is on it, it’d be more powerful.

Overall I really love it. Theres just so much on there to think about. I
think the power-drainer was dropped on Valhalla. It looks like a blue
version of the bubble-shield when deployed (at least I THINK it was the
power drainer).

I think the guy giving the commentary was hilarious, and I guess bungie
did fix the Needler. I think at some point the guy says ‘That guy has a
needler… I’m dead’. Something to that effect. Anyway, I’m sure you guys
will say a lot more than I ever will be able to.

This year, Christmas comes in 12 days. Then again in… 5 months. Then in
a month after that. Thats a lot of Christmases. Hooray!

Thanks to the mysterious “Bipchizzle”, we have now seen things that have
previous been securely guarded by Bungie. Because of Bip’s heroic deed,
Halo fans are now even MORE excited about the Halo 3 Beta. Podtacular’s
Expert Research Team has compiled the following list of new Halo 3
findings from the leaked videos:

1. The Turret now has a new feature in which it sprouts legs and starts
running around wildly. A new team-based gametype will be centered around
this where a team has to catch the Turret, softly caress it’s Ammo Drum
until it calms down, and run it back to their base.

2. The Pistol now fires at the same rate as the Spartan Laser. At least
the Spartan Laser has a cool “Charging Up” animation.

3. The Power Drainer will cause anyone within it’s blast range to do the
Electric Slide until they fall down in exhaustion.

4. Portable Grav Lifts will make washing windows on tall building ALOT
easier. Too bad that the windows will just get dirty again when some guy
snipes you in the stomacg and the “chocolate pudding” locked inside of
your bowels sprays everywhere.

5. If Bip is any indication, tons of idiots playing Halo 3 online
CONFIRMED!

As I watched these videos end, I could almost hear the sound of Taps being
played as the thought of Bip being blasted off of the Halo 3 beta rolled
through my mind…...Let us have a moment of silence for Bip, Master of
the Xbox Live Vision Camera…....

shoutout for finding the links? maybe?

Hey guys wazzup?

I figured I would humor you with my speculations.

OK so Epitiah: To me it looks like a small map with multiple layers. There are smg’s, plasma rifles (which are beautiful btw), a sword,
pistols, and I saw people with BR’s and AR’s and the guy started with a
sniper. This seems to have medium sized rooms which can be reached by
taking narrow ramps on the outside of the structure. Seems like a good
FFA map.

The energy drainer. I believe it is a EMP device of sorts. It will drain
shields, scramble radar, stall vehicles, and maybe even be the counter to
the bubble shield.

I LOVE the new pistol. It combines both of what I loved about the 2
pistols: The badass futuristic look of the first, while still keeping it
what a pistol is supposed to be, a low powered sidearm.

what else um…..oh yes the confimation of the grav lift. That is a
AMAZING peice of machinery. Think about it. Just when you think you have
a chockhold covered, this dude jumps over the wall from behind and TWACK
respawning in 5…4…3….

Well I guess thats it. The Portable Turret is not worth mentioning. I
mean its not like it will totally change the way we play assault, CTF, or
KOTH or even Halo in general. How could it? I mean common, being able to
moved a super powered turret where ever you want? Who would want to do
that? OMG TURRET!!!!!!!lol

In closing this was a great day for halo fans. To bad the cameraman was
stupid enough to show his GT. He is gonna get fined so so much. Enjoy
your life while it lasts night shadow z5. and next time you try to go out
in a blase of glory, at least make it so we can see what it is your trying
to show us.

Peace ooooooouuuuuut motha’s!

the customazation feature looks really cool. I thought that it showed that
the color of your helmet can be different then your body armor. that right
there is really sweet.

I think that Bungie is directing Halo 3 down a path of it redefining
First-Person shooters. Just as the first Halo defined the regenerating
health as mainstream in games, I think you will see interactive elements
such as the portable grav-lift, turret, and bubble shield. No longer will
games just have a run and gun gameplay, but there will be strategy and
interactive secondary features. Live long and play Halo forever

To start the sword is pointing up instead of out and up which is messed up
and it has a power limit like in Halo 2 Campain. Duel Wielding is still
there. the turent is cool now that you can carry it around with you and
the Plasma rifel looks a bit different then the original. They brought the
Halo one pistol back and the energy Drain exploded with elexticity as it
went off. Lastly that you can kill people while moving sideways with the
sniper Rifle in the video with the Energy Drain from what I saw. Good Luck
on the podcast and i have preordered my own version of the Legendary
Edition of Halo 3. CYA.

Wow. The epitaph map looks really weird. While the quality of the video
is rather poor it’s a nice look at a new map. I think this map is based
on the Arc or possibly a Library type level from a Halo ring. Note the
green glowing walls. They are very reminscent of the green room on
Lockout.
I think the Power Drainer is a way to take out vehicles without destroying
them. We saw in the last Bungie approved vidoc a trip mine blow up a Hog
and it’s occupants. So I think the power drainer will work in the same
manner but rather than blowing a vehicle up it’ll stop a hog or ghost in
it’s tracks so you can take it for yourself (once the drain field
dissipates).

The pistol looks cool but I don’t think it’ll have a scope or zoom
function. You could see a massive recoil whenever the pistol was fired so
I don’t think it’d be possible to stay zoomed if it did have a scope.

I wonder what is up with the sword. I certainly hope it looks different
in the final version. I just wonder why it looked like that. If they had
a placeholder graphic, you’d think they’d use a Halo 2 placeholder.
I like the ability to save and share videos of games. I hope we have the
ability to edit them down so we don’t have to keep entire games on our
harddrive. For example, say I get a sweet killtacular on Valhalla: Would
I have to save the entire game footage in order to view it or would I be
able to edit it down to just that Killtacular?

Also on the last resort footage when the guy is at camp froman I coulda
swore I saw his teammates gamertag as Major N something. Perhaps Major
Nelson is playing with this guy? Not really important just thought I’d
toss that out there. I keep looking to see if I can see Foo Mo Jive or
JVB’s gamertag but nothing so far. LOL

The smg and plasma rifle seem amazingly powerful in the epitaph map and i
hope they tune them down. As these new videos come out i suspect that
bungie in deliberately releasing at least some of them. I also wonder if
any of these new maps we are seeing will make it into the public beta
because if not if seems like bungie is king of cheating us.Not that the
videos aren’t cool but as more get released (and they will) it might spoil
some of the enjoyment when the game actually comes out. Keep on draining
power.

I think halo 3 is going to be better then any game to date. I saw all the
videos and i have come to the conclusion. That …. Ba bam Bungie is realeasing these videos as teasers. They are going from rumor to rumor and
dismissing them. like the pistol scope. Well its not their. But i think
that it will be in halo 3. Also the i thought you couldn’t move with the
spartan laser. I found it intersting that the guy said o im going to die
that guy has a needler. Enless the needle is a rapetacular babaming weapon
in halo 3 who thinks that. I hope it is a babaming weapon becuz i think
they thought it would be in halo 2 and it failed. Also if your going to
release a video then you can at least have the screen centered. I bungie
made this video. Also i like the music in the last resort new zanizbar
video.

Shout out to Foo Moo, KaptinKrunk, Dialpex, but not JVB
Keep on fraggin fart bubbles with midgets from fanasty island riding
wenuses while shouting BaBam

Well here are some of my point of views if it even matters. But the funny
thing is that we finally see a video with a person who knows how to play
halo and the video quality blowzzzz.

1. The map seemed wicked sweet looked like a alienship like midship gone
blue or somthing.

2. I believe in on of the videos he did zoom with it. the real question is
if ur dual wielding 2 of them can u still zoom?

3. The energy drainer looks like a anti vehicle trap along with mines. or
its like a last resort gernade that u throw to help out the nexy guy when
u die.

4. Maybe a beserker mode like the overshield hightens ur defence, the red
power up hightens ur melee damage.

5. Ok that plasma rifle looks like a rave could be going on in there
freakin sweet. The BR looks better and the scope does look longer. The
sword hold kinda sux cuz now u have a blind spot sence it looked like it
took up half the screen in the game.

6. I watched it over and the guys voice got annoying so i muted and i
wanted to c more on the computer. it be sweet if u could use live anywhere
and upload images to ur 360 and use them.

7. I didnt notice anything in the death screen but i do like the round
start up feature of getting to know on of ur teamates/opponents. I do like
the new ranking system too.

8. That turrent owes and i thought about the mongoose and that would be
sweet but… then i thought about the passenger side of the warthog and
that would be amazing.

9. Well i think the flamethrower from halo1 needs to come back lol
awesome job with the show and site its sweet.

When I first saw the videos I was very much impressed by the new maps. But
I started wondering, theres only supposed to be 3 maps and the new ones
we’ve seen such as the Zanzibar remake and Epitaph weren’t mentioned so I
don’t know if we’d be able to play them. Hope so. The pistol probably will
go through with some upgrades before the end of the game so I don’t know
what that kid was freaking out about. He couldn’t even hold a camera still
for 5 seconds so I don’t trust him very much. On a new note, I hate to say
it but the BR is looking quite ugly. I don’t like the new scope but thats
just me. However, the turret does look sick, but I hope in custom games
you can turn that off along with bubble shields and trip mines. Love the
show and keep on fragging trucks.

Hey guys it’s Babam here and all this info is awsome!!
I think the power Drainer makes a small little bubble that just smacks all
vehicles, and weapons into off mode, making players sitting ducks
Etipha is awsome looking and should make for some fun game play
I don’t think they’ll bring back the scope for halo with the scope the
pistol was way to powerfull
I think the red power up is one of the “custom” powerups they talked about
in EGM
I think the new weapon maodel are really cool, and that the energy sword
looks great, I don’t really care about the BR reload
I think the porta turret will be awsome for Assault when you need to set
upa quick defense
The new carachter custom mazation is gonan be sweet and the Video playback
is so gonan be pwn, if only someone would mod that for PC
and I think the porta turret can be attached to the mongoose so it has a
more powerfull defense
and also I didn’t get this in last time but I think the blue thingy was
the energy sword suspended in an energy shield it makes sence considering
we now have weapons on our backs so then the sword now has a handle state,
so if they just have the handle on the map players won’t notice it but they
would notcie it if it’s floating in a energy field

well thats all keep on cahneging models
Babam the Cricket Grunt Master of Pidgeons out!
oh yeah shout out to Kickamanjaro for being my friend ,to Dust storm for
the servers, and congrats to existen for making overlord


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