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Heroic Map Pack now free. Lockout remade for Halo 3.
Submitted by rapture on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 8:25pm.
Lockout is being remade for Halo 3. It will be called Blackout and released as part of the Legendary Map Pack for Halo 3. The map geometry is very similar to that of Lockout. In an interview with Bungie they spoke about the new map. Summary:
- this map is set during the night time
- in the frozen Antarctic on a UNSC weather station
- map geometry rebuilt from scratch by looks to be very similar to original
- most of the jumps from Halo 2 are there must some have been removed to prevent map control on a certain part of the map
Go to the Bungie article to look at more screenshots.
The Heroic Map Pack has been made available as downloadable content (DLC) by Bungie and are free as of today. The Heroic Map Pack consists of three maps and weighs 487.18MB.
The symmetrical valley of Standoff, with its entrenched bases and fields of boulders is ideal for mid-sized objective and Slayer game types.
The vast, labyrinthine passages of the Rat's Nest bring something completely new to the multiplayer experience: an indoor vehicle paradise. Strongly influenced by the Campaign mode, this map is ideal for big team battles.
Foundry is the ultimate Forge map. Players can edit every single object in this voluminous industrial warehouse, placing stairways, walls, bridges, and tunnels to create an entirely new play space and build almost any kind of map imaginable.
Blackout looks pretty cool.
Blackout looks pretty cool. When will it be free? :)
Looks like it took 3 months
Looks like it took 3 months for the Heroic DLC to become free. I guess it will be July or August before the Legendary maps are free. I don't know if I'll wait that long. I mean, I'm supposed to be a HALO fanboy.
Yeah, I think Blackout looks really cool. Lockout was a good map and I think Blackout will be the same. It still isn't the Prisoner, Chillout, or Rat Race that I was hoping for. I don't know if we'll ever see those maps on a console.
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Oooh... Rat Race.
Oooh... Rat Race.
Ah, I remember the last Halo
Ah, I remember the last Halo map that took place in the night time. Gephyrophobia, lol.
Really? I didn't know that
Really? I didn't know that map was set at night. Interesting.
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I'm a bit puzzled by this,
I'm a bit puzzled by this, mostly because of Guardian being there...but I ain't complaining. I loved Lockout. Now all we need is Midship, Prisoner, and Chill Out!
"Gephyrophobia". Wow. I
"Gephyrophobia". Wow. I totally forgot about that being set at night. You are right. Of course, that was a gameplay disaster. Proof that Gearbox was not Halo players before they got the port. Gearbox = the luckiest dev house in the world. "Gephyrophobia" was neat geometry. But, it wasn't a good multiplayer map. It was better suited for the campaign.
Midship might be my favorite Halo 2 map. Small, symmetrical, open. CTF and TS gametypes were equally a lot of fun. I wish it would come to Halo 3.
Yeah. What the heck is Guardian? Wasn't it loosely based on Lockout?
Yes, Guardian was loosely
Yes, Guardian was loosely based on Lockout. The devs made some obvious tweaks that aren't solely artistic, and now I guess they decided Lockout is still cooler.
I hate Guardian! I don't
I hate Guardian! I don't really know what it is about that map, but I dislike it intensely. I like Lockout pretty well, so this map might be pretty good. It reminds me of Wet Works on COD4. :)
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I hope Blackout is as close
I hope Blackout is as close to the original as possible. Lockout was my favorite map on H2. Guardian is one of my favs in H3 (Construct is #1 on my list).
Bottom line, though, is that H3 should have shipped with all these maps in the first place, i.e., the 11 original plus the 3 recently released and 3 soon-to-be released. 17 would have been about the right number, imo.
Bungie put out a new vidoc
Bungie put out a new vidoc with the three maps from the Legendary pack if you wanna watch it.
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