Bungie talks new H3 maps and plays with toys

by Dustin Burg { Jan 19th 2008 at 2:45PM }

Over on Bungie.net this week, Bungie talks about the three upcoming downloadable content Halo 3 maps officially becoming "content complete", which means they are pretty much done and just need a bunch of testing. The three maps, codenamed "Cottonball", "Purple Reign" and "OK Corral", all vary in size from small to the the ginormous and should give plenty of variety when the DLC hits this Spring. And for the record, Purple Reign's "one way glass" sound wicked cool and OK Corral's twisted wreckage, broken buildings and overall destruction makes our inner fanboy smile uncontrollably. Make the jump to get all the descriptive deets on these three upcoming gems in the rough.

Finally, the Bungie Weekly Update gives us pictorial evidence of what happens when Halo movie props from WETA and team Bungie mix ... childish, random behavior. You owe it to yourself to look over the pictures of team Bungie playing with life size replicas of Carbines, Spike Grenades and Gravity Hammers. They even got a game of Grifball going using their newly found toys. Anyhoo, harmony and a good gut chuckle is but a click away.

Tags: bungie, bungie-studios, bungie-weekly-update, halo-3, halo3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

drew @ Jan 19th 2008 3:15PM

alright. all i need to know. how much? 800 again? i dont mind. i just would like to actually play them outside of the DLC playlist this time.

drew @ Jan 19th 2008 3:18PM

i finally figured out how to change my password. what a shame. after this long.

David W. @ Jan 19th 2008 3:19PM

Maybe they'll find a way to make these free...please? lol

dishwasher @ Jan 19th 2008 4:22PM

They will be free.. once the 3rd map pack is out.

Just like the 1st map pack will become free when these maps come out this spring.

jtedesco33 @ Jan 19th 2008 3:57PM

We need small maps and the melee system to revert back to the Halo 2 system. There is so many people bitching and bungie.net about it. One of the above posters is right throw the damn maps into the ranked hopper already would ya, I bought them because I thought they would have been in the hopper by now.

JAKEJAX @ Jan 19th 2008 4:09PM

I believe that they are already in the hopper. The trick is to have other players in the match that have paid for the map already. This is why they made the DLC playlist, because they realized that not everybody is going to pay for the maps and that most ranked matches won't have the new maps in them.

Paul @ Jan 19th 2008 4:06PM

has anyone listened to the podcast and heard the "world changing bombshell" that guy was going to announce???? if so, please fill us all in as to what it was....thanks

Sean @ Jan 19th 2008 5:41PM

They mentioned that the Halo 1 Pistol is coming to Halo 3.

Paul @ Jan 19th 2008 7:03PM

so, are you actually going to be able to use the pistol?? is this some sort of an early april fools joke? what part of the podcast is this announced?

Sean @ Jan 19th 2008 9:21PM

They said it in the first half of the podcast. The studio manager himself mentioned it. They backtracked off the comment a little bit, but it sounded to me like it was coming as part of the next autoupdate. I doubt they would include it as weapon on an existing map, but it would be a great game variant. I can't wait to take someone out across sandtrap with a pistol!

JAKEJAX @ Jan 19th 2008 4:10PM

Dude....Frankie is gaining some weight. Time to hit the gym Frankie.

The Master potty[Taylor is da man] @ Jan 19th 2008 5:31PM

I knows really he looks like he spent a couple a months playin Halo 3 without any lights on or sometin, he looks like a yeti,lolz. Those weapons from Wetta are bitchin they need to make lazertag of those.

Zeus.:God @ Jan 19th 2008 4:32PM

Seriously, anyone who actually pays for the Halo 3 maps need some help, or maybe just need to be led to a halfway decent game.

David W. @ Jan 19th 2008 4:35PM

Those half decent games being?

My favorite game is COD4, but nothing beats playing halo 3 with a bunch of friends over, plus, rats nest is tons of fun for those of us who love to drive the mongeese :D

DemonGSides @ Jan 20th 2008 2:17PM

Rats Nest is great. I played that map with a bunch of non gamers, and they all had a ton of fun setting up roadblocks in Foundry with the tanks, and then seeing how many kills we could rack up by just trying to charge through them.

The Master potty[Taylor is da man] @ Jan 19th 2008 5:26PM

we n33d teh maps 2 B fr33 guys, who agress they wasted ten dollars on the last mappack?and now wer gonna lose another $10 to them agn no way jose!

SadisticHam @ Jan 19th 2008 6:10PM

I'd like to scream and tell everyone off for paying the stupid amount on these maps and curse them for damning the future of DLC but meh, it's not my choice what people blow their money on.

I wont be paying for these, I'll wait for them to be free. It'll be a cold day in hell before i pay out their prices for three average maps.

Jayslacks @ Jan 19th 2008 6:14PM

Did they talk about how the melee system is completely broken? No? Well, they should!

Project Ekim @ Jan 19th 2008 6:17PM

They will change the melee they said so in the update but give them time if you rush them they will end up breaking the game like they did with H2 patch one.

jtedesco33 @ Jan 19th 2008 7:45PM

All they said on the website was that they were going to change the animation not the system. The animation will be changed so it looks like the other guy beat you to it/ They aren't fixin it in a sense of making it like Halo 2/

They have said many times that the Halo2 system gave host advantage and this is the way they will alleviate that advantage for the duration of them taking care of the Halo seriese.