This is the Bungie Weekly Update for August 11, 2001, originally posted at Haloplayers, and written by Matt Soell.
Bungie Update[edit]
Must...send...update.....Staff at Haloplayers...falling asleep......no time for...wit.
- Covenant grenades have this nasty characteristic: they stick to you. The AI knows this now, so when a grenade latches on to them they'll spend their last few moments running around in absolute panic. Heart-rending. On a happier note, the AI is also better at jumping back into a Warthog after you flip the sucker and fling them out.
- The Covenant dropship has a gun now, so you can't just camp in its presence. Unless you have a death wish.
- Marines with sniper rifles are in.
- Mat is working to minimize the apparent load times in multiplayer maps, so you'll be able to start a game with maybe a second of delay, tops. Once he finishes making this work in Multiplayer, he'll apply it to the solo campaign.
- Shiek added some progressive damage effects so you'll be able to tell when your vehicle is on its last legs.
- You can say a lot of things about the Sniper Rifle, but you'd better be quite a ways off when you say them. Rob smoked a guy who was 853.053 meters away. We know this because the zoom UI on the sniper rifle now displays target distance and elevation. There's also a very nice blurring effect on the zoom, thanks to the graphics chipset inside the Xbox.
- We have a 3D map running behind the UI now, which allows us to show a background of Halo spinning in deep space. Not especially useful - just cool.
- Marty finished the last major dialog recording session this week. There will be one more small session to pick up a few missing lines, but almost all the dialog is recorded and ready for insertion.
- We finally have surround sound working, and Marty and Jay are well pleased.
- A new multiplayer map titled Damnation was thrown into the mix this week.
- The flagpole now has a skull at the top. Hmmm.
Early Bungie Weekly Updates
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2000
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10-05, 10-06, 10-13, 10-20, 10-27, 11-03, 11-10, 11-18, 12-01, 12-08, 12-15
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2001
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01-20, 01-26, 02-02, 02-09, 02-16, 02-24, 03-02, 03-09, 03-16, 03-23, 03-30, 04-06, 04-13, 04-20, 04-26, 05-04, 05-11, 05-25, 06-01, 06-09, 06-15, 06-22, 06-29, 07-06, 07-13, 07-20, 07-27, 08-03, 08-11, 08-17, 08-24, 08-31, 09-07, 09-14, 09-21, 09-28
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