Modders uncover flamethrower in Halo 3, more

by Richard Mitchell { May 18th 2007 at 3:45PM }

It seems that a group of crafty modders have uncovered what could be new content from Halo 3. Apparently, some modders have dug into the Halo 3 beta code and found mention of several new weapons, vehicles, and new names for medals (Double Kill, etc). While some of this information is likely to be placeholder or possibly even trash that has yet to be deleted from the final code, it does add some interesting ideas to what we already know. See a list of what was found after the break.

Vehicles:

Pelican
Shadow
Phantom
Chopper

Weapons:

Flamethrower (Frankie hinted at this in his interview with Joystiq)
Plasma turret
Claymore grenade (possible codename for Spike Grenades?)
Covenant Gun Tower (possibly a new kind of turret?)

Equipment items/Power-ups:

Jammer (possibly the radar scrambler shown in a leaked video)
Invincibility
InstaCover
Smoke (smoke grenade? smoke screen?)

New Medals:

Killocalypse
Killionaire

There is also talk of a new mode called Infection, in which players kill Flood or risk infection. Points are awarded for killing Flood, while those on the Flood team earn points by infecting humans. There is even mention of a map editor. Now, keep in mind that none of this is in any way official. Also, the info has since been removed from the forum on which it was originally posted. There is a very good chance some (or even all) of this content will not make it into the retail release. Take it all with a cubic foot of salt.

[Via Games Radar. Thanks, MuJÃHiDeeN 420. Flamethrower image taken from Halo PC]

Tags: bungie, bungie studios, BungieStudios, halo, halo 3, Halo3, mgs, microsoft game studios, MicrosoftGameStudios

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jeff @ May 18th 2007 3:54PM

smoke? wouldn't feel like halo.
instacover? sounds like the bubble shield
claymore? sounds like the trip mine
flamethrower? why bother?
pelican/phantom? (see above)
invincibility? please don't.

chopper.. that sounds enticing.

John @ May 18th 2007 3:56PM

Flood would be awesome. I play that same thing but as "zombies" in Halo 2

Leo @ May 18th 2007 3:59PM

I found that you can actually use puppies as weapons in the beta. Not so fun

Jeramy @ May 18th 2007 4:02PM

hmm. well i remember that a flamethrower and minigun were planned for the original halo (pre-xbox), and with the removable turrets, we pretty much have a minigun. and since this may very well be the last halo, bungie will probably want to include everything they initially planned on. so, why not? just hope they can put the fuel rod cannon in multiplayer, where it belongs. also, wonder how they think they can pull off the pelican on 8v8.

hassan @ May 20th 2007 7:19AM

chopper would be nice though, to kill some banshees with

razer @ May 18th 2007 4:13PM

Wait! Wasn't the banning of the modders supposed to stop this type of stuff and everyone was cheering it?? Now, hey it's cool to rip apart code that is copyrighted!

Oh, thats right it doesn't stop cheaters or modders at all... PS Kiss off you hypocrites!

yuppy @ May 20th 2007 12:08PM

map editor? awesome, but they need to have a way to make the maps good... kuz the maps on farcry sucked balls.... i guess it would give us a chance to make small fast maps (that i like)

yuppy @ May 18th 2007 4:15PM

infection isnt new, we played that in custom gametypes where once you got killed by the zombie then you had to become him

jimhuf @ May 18th 2007 4:16PM

its gunna take alot more than a couple of extra weapons to revive this game. Im not enjoying the beta at all.

Virtua Fanboy @ May 18th 2007 4:25PM

YEAH, THE BETA TOTALLY SUCKS.

Not really I don't know. I don't even have the beta, just like jimhuf up there. lol

Jeramy @ May 18th 2007 4:26PM

sure, zombie's been around, but it wasn't a real game type. people just had to manually change teams on a slayer game. and sure, it's not that big of a deal, but making it an official game variant will open up possibilities, put it in matchmaking rotation, and make it just plain convenient.

ProjectEkim360 @ May 18th 2007 4:31PM

I cant wait

Jon @ May 18th 2007 5:14PM

@Virtua Fan Boy.
Great comment.

Gaurav @ May 18th 2007 5:41PM

Beta is great, valhalla needs major texture and graphic updates but besides that everything is nice, and matchmaking needs to get you into games faster it takes 10 minutes to load up a game and 5 minutes to play that game, matchmaking goes through too many things, and whats up with "loading information from xbox live" that takes like hours!!!!

Sky Thrasher @ May 18th 2007 5:49PM

Claymore grenade 90% sure thats brute spike nade

Covenant Gun Tower already in the beta as it shoots you in SnowBound upon exiting of the map

Jammer def the shield destroyer

so nothing new was really found in the code..

nothing thats any shockin or news worthy to me..

gundamxzero @ May 18th 2007 11:12PM

I LOVE how people think they can associate one name with something they are guessing what it is and suddenly ZOMG I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT TEH HALO 3!!!

MarkHawk @ May 18th 2007 6:17PM

At 14:

I thought the new game mode was worthy, and Agree about the Coventant turret being the one clearly seen in SnowBound.

Also I cracked the beta myself, Im a l33t hacker myself... Found a lancer. Apparently it's an assulkt rifle but with a Plasma Chainsaw on it. Sounds wicked original.

Jokes...

incrediblebulk92 @ May 18th 2007 6:30PM

Am I the only one who thinks this is fake? First huge hint, "Hold "E" to swap for" wheres the E button on the 360 pad. Also theres a pistol in the screen shot there...there ain't no pistol in the beta. Oh yea and the textures look shite lol

IncredibleBulk92 @ May 18th 2007 6:43PM

Hold on...Are those Halo1 screens? that would explain the HUD and the pistol...damn. forget I said anything

You Win @ May 18th 2007 6:36PM

All those vehicles are def real, except Ive never heard of a Shadow. I heard the Chopper is like a gravity motorcycle. The flamethrower is one of those third person weapons I bet!

You Win @ May 18th 2007 6:36PM

Dude! IncredibleBulk, That's taken from an old as balls HALO screenshot.

Heliophage @ May 18th 2007 6:35PM

@16

It says the image was taken from Halo PC.

Deburner @ May 18th 2007 6:57PM

Chopper and Phantom were already hinted at in a previous update where certain names were italicized.

On the beta page about file hosting it says will host movies (for now...) so mapmaking makes sense as it comes with the pc versions

we already expected the pelican for the huge map

the flamethrower may be good only if its like the 1 on the pc

Shaggy240 @ May 18th 2007 6:58PM

anyone else having issues entering the halomods forum??

fini @ May 18th 2007 7:54PM

yea that is halo 1 not halo 3, i dont mind blogspam, but dont use a new topic like halo 3 to increase your hits.

Tiberius Jones @ May 18th 2007 8:03PM

I have mixed feelings about the Beta so far. On one hand, I really like the all for one modes as long as they are not sniper/shottie only. And some of the team modes are cool, although I'm firmly lukewarm on 'BALL' game (can't remember the real name of that mode).

But one thing is for sure, these CAN'T be the final graphics, if they are, Microsoft will have a major fit! I was underwhelmed will the graphibs while playing, but it was much worse when I went directly from playing the Beta to playing GRAW2. GRAW2's graphics were in a whole different league. The difference really was quite shocking, especially considering Bungie was supposedly mandated by Bill Gates himself to make Halo 3 THE most technologically advanced game on the planet when it releases.

Right now, it plays well, no frame rate issues and such, but it has all the shine of a third world taxi.

Necrotide @ May 19th 2007 1:11AM

The only new things are the metals and the "infection" gametype.

Killocalypse= 9 kills?
Killionaire= 10 kills?

The first three vehicles would have no business being in 8v8 multiplayer. Either they're simply deleted assets with the tags remaining in the code from single player(highly likely), or there will be ridiculously huge (40 person) multiplayer battles.

lordkramdar @ May 19th 2007 1:52AM

yeah, bungie mentioned in a weekly update a long time ago, something about a "chopper" and "mauler". a shadow isn't new, it's the covenant troop transport (3 or em) that you have to destroy on Metropolis in H2. they're the vehicles that carry the ghost inbetween the front and back ends. and infection would be pretty sweet, because i hate playing zombies the way it is now. but if it was a legit gametype w/auto team switching and correct score keeping, that would be awesome.

jimhuf @ May 19th 2007 4:48AM

@Tiberius Jones, shhh dont state the truth they cant take it and will say nasty things about you. It would appear that when you buy ur 360 u sign a contract that says you have to like hao or you will be shund by the community

Dave @ May 19th 2007 6:23AM

So long as they didn't find a Hot coffee mod, I think we're good :)

terry @ May 19th 2007 11:56AM

The flamethrower came with Halo 1 action figures, about time they put it in.

Grant @ May 19th 2007 12:02PM

after playing a good amount of the beta i can say thats it's much more tactical that 1 or 2. i had actually meantioned that a smoke grenade would work great in it, and i would love to see it.

i mean it really seems like a given, you can think up a "power drainer" but not a smoke grenade?
now a flashbang, that just wouldn't fit in at all.

COV3RT SN1P3R @ May 19th 2007 12:26PM

Those new medals are already in the beta. They are in this video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bt5J277BalI

soot @ May 19th 2007 2:24PM

This is so seriously sweet if its true. I suggested a multiplayer gametype called "Infection" on the Bungie forums nearly a year ago, and detailed how it would involve one player as a Flood infection form running about and mutating other players for points.

Even if it was a common sense conclusion for Bungie to arrive at for their third title, its still really cool to think they read my idea.