HALO 3 custom gametypes settings revealed
Submitted by rapture on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 3:22pm.
It looks like HALO 3 will ship with some never-before-seen gametype settings that are sure to drastically change the way we can play HALO. Want to run faster? Want to be immune to headshots? Want to tweak the radar sensitivity or have infinite ammo? It's all in there (and a lot more) coming to a custom game near you in September.
The custom screen is built into the HALO 3 beta but getting into takes a bit of luck and (from what I can tell) a network error. It appears that the custom games menu option becomes available when someone tries joining up to a party host with someone how has incompatible NAT settings. Several THX'ers have experienced this.
By the way, you CAN NOT play custom games in the HALO 3 beta via this menu. It's still neat to poke around, though. Some settings in those menus:
- Damage resistance
- Shield multiplier
- Shield recharge rate
- Immune to headshots
- Grenade counts
- Infinite ammo
- Weapon pickup disabled
- Player speed (25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 125%, 150%, 200%, 300%)
- Player gravity (50%, 100%, 200%)
- Vehicle use (passenger only)
- Motion tracker range (10m, 25m, 75m, 100m, 150m)
- Appearance
- Vis effects (black glow, team glow, white glow)
- Active camo (good camo that might fool and elite, poor camo that might fool a grunt, invisible)
- Indestructible vehicles (on, off)
Those are some of the more standout settings. Each gametype has several variants and several settings underneath it. Object carriers, VIP's, can have custom settings while the rest of the team can have different settings. It looks like there are a few new gametypes heading our way including Tank Ball and Tank Flag (I always wanted to play a HALO version of Crimson Skies where Banshees could play CTF).
I can say that I'd like to play HALO at a little faster pace. Perhaps the 110 speed WILL work. (Trivia: Gearbox Software wanted to change the running speed of Master Chief in HALO PC to 110% which is why the map Infinity is so large).
Uber special bonus coverage just in from the rumor department: XBOX360faboy is reporting that somebody said that he said that Games Radar is reporting that modders have found new equipment and vehicles that are hidden in the HALO 3 beta. They probably got their information from this thread on HaloMods.com. (Disclosure: Modding your XBOX 360 will get you banned from XBOX Live). Stuff that MAY or MAY NOT be in HALO 3 in September.
New equipment:
Instacover
Smoke (suggested this might be a smoke grenade?)
Jammer
New vehicles:
Chopper
Pelican
Shadow
New weapons:
Flamethrower
Claymore Grenade
New mode:
Infection (described as "Destroy the Flood or become infected. Score points for killing flood or big points for infecting a human. The player with the most points wins.")
New rankings:
The highest rankings are now Killpocalypse and Killionaire, instead of Double Kill and Triple Kill.
What? No Kestrel? I guess it was too slow anyway.
What is a Kestrel?
How is a chopper going to work in Multiplayer? That'll be interesting to see.
I'm assuming those settings are in addition to what we've seen in Halo 2. What's the use of having a 150m radar? At that point you might as well have a grid of the map in the corner of your screen!
hoolllyyy crap.
nice find rap.
The Kestrel is a human aerial vehicle. It is long and has two wings with fans in them. It is slow and drops bomps (at least when I flew it).
Chopper? I have no idea what vehicle that is. Surely it's not a rotorcraft, right?
I wonder why Bungie left all this stuff in here when the public was not supposed to see it?
Are you sure we're not supposed to see it? Hmmm...? Think about that one for a bit. It's deep.
Thanks for the excellent post with all the pics.
The Kestrel is now called the Sparrowhawk. Or atleast I think so. The shot is from Halo Wars.
Wow. They've added some turrets on the front.
Thanks for the pic, jay. I wasn't sure we'd see the aircraft in a game.
According to the "flames of feenix" blog when they say chopper they mean motorcycle here's a link to the post.
http://flamesoffeenix.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/introducing-the-brute-chopper/
That makes a lot more sense now. Thanks for the clarification!
Steps:
1 Have one of your seven friends make a party.
2 Then you make a party.
3 Invite five people into your party.
4 Join your friends party (the one by himself)
5 One of the people in your party will get booted and have custom gametype selected. All he has to do is invite you guys and you will all have custom/ or you can go to your recent players list and join the game from there.
According to GruntsRUs
I don't believe this works. The issue, from what I've heard, is with NAT. Steps 4 assumes the host by himself has an improperly setup NAT connection.
Also I don't believe this will create "playable" custom games. I still think that was some sort of mod. According to Devin, he caught a glimpse of a few players gamertags from the first youtube video of custom games. In doing some looking around bungie.net. They only started playing "custom games" on XBL a few hours before I started to play. Which is a day after the first youtube video was posted. So they may have been doing something else to play customs; then the preceding day realized what they did worked in XBL also.
maby if you tryied it you wouldnt be so sceptical and yes it creates fully playable custom games online and you can manipulate everything so please before you fill everyones head with stories about how you think its a mod try folowing the steps to the letter.
Now, if all of that was an actual mod, wouldn't you think it would've been caught and deleted? I mean, the Pistol is definitely not modded and neither is the sword. We didnt know jack about the sword b4 the leaks and the Pistol would've had its scope and the TSK, Bungie intended this find to actually be a discovery or surprise for lucky peps. Besides, modders can only mod the movement and bipeds, NOT the weapons. The Pistol is UNDENIABLE PROOF, a 5-shot kill rather than a TSK, NO SCOPE, this is BUNGIE MATERIAL, besides, it acts like a balnced weapon rather than the Pistol from Halo 1
be sceptical whatever I talked to my brothers, cousins, friends, sister who workes at bungie cord company they said custem games wear a mod and are hackes and there recording gamertags of anyone who plays them and banning them from halo 3 in septembar when halo comes out have fun now n00bs.
That is the biggest lie I've seen on a forum board in my life. Your brothers, sisters, friends, and cousins work for Bungie...and you can't even spell September right...I actually joined a custom game that one of my xbl friends had created, and i got the create custom games option on my box until I shut it off. So, it's obviously not a mod, because mods don't transfer over live...you fail.
You fail...to recognize sarcasm.
+1
Wow... ur a dumbass!!! You think that weapons can't be modified!?!?!? I'VE DONE IT B4!!! Maybe u haven't heard of the weapons tag on DotHalo... Look it up!
Please use English! Please! For the sake of my poor, pounding head! You hurt the head! Hurt it! Head no likie hurt! Ouch...
Turd, this is a CONSOLE game, tags don't work for shit on the console games. Besides, if you DO manage to mod, you get banned from XBL or the game. Trust me, Bungie isn't retarded to accidentaly leave this kind of stuff here. For once, think u turd
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