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Catching Up with Bungie's Frank O'Connor-Shack News

Submitted by Sideburnt on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 12:37pm.

There is an interview with Bungie's Frank O'Connor over at Shack News. I thought it was worth reading, but one part really disturbed me.

"DLC is never based on scraps we swept away from past games, it's always new maps we decided would be good for specific reasons. For example, we already now see there will be a need for more smaller symmetrical maps."

I hope there is at least a few small symmetrical maps, I am sure a few can tide me over until DLC comes out. Fingers crossed for Midship redesign shipping with the game.

Catching Up with Bungie's Frank O'Connor

‹ XBOX 2 on November 9th, 2005
rapture's picture

This is good news for me. I

Submitted by rapture on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 12:48pm.

This is good news for me. I prefer smaller symmetrical maps. They make for good TS and Objective-based gametypes.

I'm guess that Bungie is going to include plenty of large maps to:

1) showcase their new vehicles
2) allow players to stay alive longer

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I’m glad they see this

Submitted by Mintz on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 1:49pm.

I'm glad they see this hole and are planning to fill it. I know I'll still have fun with the current maps until that map pack is available.

Currently Playing: CoD4 Beta, Bioshock

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They probably made a lot of

Submitted by EnragedGnome on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 2:34pm.

They probably made a lot of large maps in order to reduce the need for players to use the melee attack. I hear gamers have a lot of trouble locating the "B" button...

In a land of chipmunks, an angry gnome is king.

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LOL, very nice. Currently

Submitted by Mintz on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 5:32pm.

LOL, very nice.

Currently Playing: CoD4 Beta, Bioshock

Midnight's picture

containment ftw

Submitted by Midnight on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 5:53pm.

EnragedGnome wrote:
They probably made a lot of large maps in order to reduce the need for players to use the melee attack. I hear gamers have a lot of trouble locating the "B" button...

In a land of chipmunks, an angry gnome is king.

Classic. They've never made this mistake before, though. After all, Halo 2 shipped with...nevermind.

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Hey Wait...

Submitted by Sideburnt on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 6:48pm.

The controller has a B button, no way, where?!?!?!

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