Nothing much to say, what do you guys think of the speculation surrounding the H3 pic displayed in the AMD VEGA teaser? You think H3A will happen? If not, what reasons can you think of for the H3 picture's inclusion (because google, intern, implications not thought out, etc.)?
H3A is the game we all deserve. But not the game Halo needs right now. Personally I need it. Very bad.
I can't exactly believe that that image confirms H3A in the slightest. I mean, it's not a remastered image and I think they are just using it to represent Halo as a whole. Although I could be wrong. Halo atm does not have a very big presence on PC, so it's kind of wierd to even put a picture of Halo there in the 1st place.
It's made even weirder by the fact that they chose to use an image of halo 3 specifically, a ten year old 360 game, rather than anything more recent. The whole thing seems fishy to me, and if memory serves, H2A was basically accidentally confirmed early in a similar way. I'd love for it to be a thing, though, but I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
Multiple people from Microsoft and 343 have stated flat out that H3A isn't being made. If it was just one person I'd question it, but I'd be pretty surprised if they're ALL lying. It's certainly possible there's a Halo 3 PC being made though.
It would still run Forge on the Halo 5 engine, that's too much to implement the new forge system and not worth releasing an all new forge for Halo 3 Anniversary that only has a one year shelf life until Halo 6 if it even came out this fall.
More denials, this time from ske7ch. https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/65wfx6/halo_wars_definitive_edition_coming_to_steam/dgf8la9/
If they do H3A, one thing I would like to see changed is the BR shoot animation and its sound. Those two were horrible compared with Halo 2. There's not enough umph in it.
could they simply give us a true classic H3 settings default (in H5) to play with and some faithfully reproduced multiplayer maps and call it a day? I think that would satisfy a lot of people...
That's actually a brilliant idea JKaddict! If they were smart they would tell us to have a forge contest starting May 1st, give us 60 days to forge the remakes, one month to judge them and they would have three months to quality check the maps and play test them to hone them in for H3 type settings. If they advertised a matchmaking playlist of H3A settings coming to Halo 5 ahead of time, it may generate a few more people to pick up H5 to just play that playlist for the next year. They would only need to make a few addtions such as the H3 BR, bubble shield, etc. Anyone else down for forging, quality checking, testing H3 maps to get them into a playlist? I would make a specific point to take lead on this and test every night if necessary as I am extremely anal retentive about remakes feeling accurate, down to the point of measuring them with hill markers in H3 and H5. @WARHOLIC - can you talk to Unyshek or whoever to see if this can happen?
i was thinking more of dev remakes in this case, since it is a replacement for a complete revamp of H3... but at the very least, they could get forgers to contribute. I don't have XB1, so I don't care about playlists, per se.
As cool as this sounds they would never do such a thing. Half the sandbox would have to be edited, equipment is pretty much an entire mechanic on its own and would have to be balanced into WZ and Arena (Trust me they wouldn't put it in for one playlist), entirely new assests would need to be made for classic weapons, armor, new settings etc. An out-of-the-blue contest would have to be created and run by the FH staff it's just asking for way too much.
The settings can be tweaked enough in Halo 5 to give it a similiar feeling enough. The equipment is the major thing they would have to implement, but those really aren't that difficult. They can have the H6 team build them and use them in the campaign or multiplayer to make it worth while. Armor isn't that serious as they can use the mark VI armor already in Halo 5 and we had customization options back then also, so just allow any armor people are using now. They could actually make cash off the deal by selling a purchasable REQ pack that gave you multiple different Halo 3 armor sets not included in Halo 5 already. Once the Extermination contest is done, FH doesn't have any major contests going on anyways and this is an actual reasonable timeline for a change if we started now. Max Extra, Warholic, Ascend Hyperion, Duke and many others would I'm sure gladly pitch in for judging. Like I said it's something that interests me and although I'm not FH staff, but I've been here long enough to prove myself to help with a forge contest. It would utilize the Trello Board, be streamed and we would not disqualify maps, but actually work with the map creators or just make the necessary changes to the maps (minor adjustments, kill zones, lighting, spawns) to match or play as the originals had. The contest wouldn't be a prize value, but that it would get their map into the H3 play list. 343 would have very minimal involvement required to implement the play list and it would actually make them money by req packs and other people buying Halo 5 to play the multiplayer.
Although, I think the most realistic approach to something resembling this idea is plan a Halo 3 4v4 remake contest in time for Halo 3's birthday. Have a prize and what not but get forgers to balance and scale their remakes around Old School Settings. Assemble a fitting judge line up, create a circuit of the best, oh idk, 10 maps let's say, and bundle it with some updated Old School Settings. Contact 343, show them, and see if they are willing to make a playlist or something. Thoughts? @SgtSlaphead @MartianMallCop @Kell Of Scots @WARHOLIC
I have gone ahead and compiled all of the ForgeHub Halo 3 remakes on the site. The only ones that were excluded were any that do not match the aesthetic's of the original maps. Reskinned/new themes on the old maps shouldn't be acceptable for a H3 Classic playlist. I would consider these a starting point and I will go through the maps on Halowaypoint's remake map list thread as well and add that later. If we can get a playlist for this, I feel that the maps out on the internet already should be considered, any that match the originals could be added by not the creator's of the maps and new submission's by the what would be deadline for us to narrow them down to the top choices of each map. We don't need permission from the actual owner's of the maps to use them as all content in Halo is owned by 343 and they can use it if they like. They or we can notify the creator's if their map is chosen after first round eliminations? There would also be set specific criteria for the maps based on a points voting system. The trello board could include all the judges points per category and their would be a jury submission of total points based on per map from the play testers during each round to provide fair scoring. Halo 3 disc maps Assembly (level) Avalanche Blackout Citadel (level) Cold Storage Construct (level) Epitaph Foundry Ghost Town Guardian (level) Heretic (level) High Ground Isolation Last Resort Longshore Narrows Orbital Rat's Nest Sandbox Sandtrap Snowbound Standoff The Pit Valhalla FORGEHUB POSTS Assembly - No posts on FH for this map yet Blackout https://www.forgehub.com/maps/blackout.1558/ Blackout https://www.forgehub.com/maps/blackout.1178/ Citadel https://www.forgehub.com/maps/high-citadel.1285/ Cold Storage https://www.forgehub.com/maps/cold-storage-v2-0.1156/ Construct https://www.forgehub.com/maps/contract.1002/ Epitaph https://www.forgehub.com/maps/epitaph.1365/ Epitaph https://www.forgehub.com/maps/epitaph.4470/ Foundry https://www.forgehub.com/maps/foundry.3126/ Foundry Canvas https://www.forgehub.com/maps/foundry-canvas.3026/ Guardian https://www.forgehub.com/maps/guardian.4202/ Guardian https://www.forgehub.com/maps/guardian.3996/ Guardian https://www.forgehub.com/maps/memory-guardian-rmk.3717/ High Ground https://www.forgehub.com/maps/high-ground.1458/ High Ground https://www.forgehub.com/maps/higher-ground.1771/ High Ground https://www.forgehub.com/maps/high-ground-v7.2410/ Last Resort/Zanzibar https://www.forgehub.com/maps/turbine.1214/ Last Resort/Zanzibar https://www.forgehub.com/maps/power-plant-zanzibar-rmk.3082/ Last Resort/Zanzibar https://www.forgehub.com/maps/last-resort.3819/ Narrows https://www.forgehub.com/maps/narrows.1284/ Narrows https://www.forgehub.com/maps/narrows.1559/ Narrows https://www.forgehub.com/maps/crosswalk.4033/ Orbital https://www.forgehub.com/maps/skyhook.2453/ Sandbox https://www.forgehub.com/maps/sandshrine.1576/ Snowbound https://www.forgehub.com/maps/snow-bound.2154/ Snowbound https://www.forgehub.com/maps/snowmound.1474/ Snowbound https://www.forgehub.com/maps/snowbound.1688/ The Pit https://www.forgehub.com/maps/the-pit.4116/ The Pit https://www.forgehub.com/maps/the-pit-halo-3-remake.1590/ The Pit https://www.forgehub.com/maps/the-pit.1168/ Valhalla https://www.forgehub.com/maps/viking.1415/ HugoCornelier's spreadsheet for remakes https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k1D6W1yM9XtcJFV5y1Zif86SmjqVaHiCY0sERWSP5kQ/edit#gid=0