Death by intelligence.
You Can Play HALO
August 3, 2001 Originally at Battleground: Halo.
Originally at Battleground: Halo.
Jason Jones invited all of us over to his place tomorrow to watch the Blue Angels, but he also warned if the Blue Angels crash they absolutely cannot miss my backyard and are guaranteed to kill everyone. So just in case we all die tomorrow, it's been fun doing these Halo Updates, and here's the latest:
Weekly HALO Update
This week's update is at HBO:
- Having introduced the AIs to the concept of driving, Chris Butcher is now teaching them how to drive different kinds of vehicles.- The Bear fixed a major physics issue and in the process made all our vehicles drive better and with a more realistic feel. After doing this he was able to pull out the various hacks we'd inserted to make theindividual vehicles handle the way we thought they should. Better Gaming Through Physics.
July 27, 2001 Originally at Halo.bungie.org.
Originally at Halo.bungie.org.
Today's belated Halo Update is brought to you courtesy of Team Bungie's merciless trouncing of several Microsoft Games grand poobahs in a four-on-four game of Halo. Yeah, yeah, I know... big surprise.
Weekly HALO Update
Matt's Halo Update - July 20, 2001
Recovering from illness and on the brink of lucidity once more, I bring you the regular Friday evening dose of Halo stuff.
- The Bear is in the midst of a complete vehicle physics overhaul; high- and low-level stuff that will make the vehicles work better than they have in recent builds.
- Most of Butcher's time is spent making life easier for the designers. In his copious spare time, he's worked on speeding up our framerate, reducing the AI's memory footprint and teaching the Marines to drive the warthog.
July 20, 2001 Originally at Rampancy.
Originally at Rampancy.
Recovering from illness and on the brink of lucidity once more, I bring you the regular Friday evening dose of Halo stuff.
Weekly HALO Update
Thanks to Loren for spotting the latest HALO update at HALO Players:
July 13, 2001 Originally at Haloplayers.
Originally at Haloplayers.
It's a good thing I type these updates out; illness has ravaged my voice this week, and the rest of me isn't doing so well either. Let's go:
Weekly HALO Update
Eek, I'm a bit late, but it's out.
- Speaking even more of vehicles: if they happen to be resting on a glass surface, and you blow the glass surface to smithereens, the vehicle now falls. Yeah, it's what you'd expect, but it wasn't working before and now it does.- Multiplayer UI is progressing steadily, and the team has been tweaking the rocket launcher and sniper rifle in multiplayer games.