Matt Soell's weekly HALO update went to Halo.Bungie.Org this week. Here are some of its highlights:
- Chucky has made great strides toward getting breakable surfaces in the game.- Aiming works better; you can no longer target enemies hiding behind objects, but you can target enemies in moving vehicles.
halo.bungie.org has posted the second round of Q&A's with Matt about the Halo Gamestock footage. It's just as interesting reading as round 1: lots about Halo's weapons and vehicles, and about working with NPC allies.
Char has found some insanely beautiful images in TIF format of HALO. The GameStock images are now available at XBox.com and boy are they big. The image sizes are 1920x1440 at 300 resolutions and weigh in at around 8 MB. It'll take a while to download, but they're absolutely stunning.
Originally at Halo.bungie.org.
They say that Halo Update is a bad mother-
Shut your mouth!
I'm just talking 'bout the Halo Update.
I can dig it.
If you're still looking for a decent mirror of the HALO GameStock footage, check out Games4Mac.
Yeroen, AKA Max Hoberman of Bungie, made an appearance in our forum earlier yesterday to reassure the natives that Bungie was working the problem of accessibility to the movie.
Sorry for the connection problems, we anticipated the bandwidth hit but other problems cropped up. We have a solution in place that should be up within the hour.
Well, Bungie's servers have been completely overwhelmed... and reports are that you can see the white-hot glow from as far away as Salt Lake City, Utah. However, a couple of mirrors have already appeared for the low resolution 35M version:
