Haha, Halo 3 only runs at 640p. It upscales for higher resolutions.

http://www.gamerawr.com/2007/09/28/halo-3-only-runs-at-640p/

I don't care and hate people who do.

Well actually, it does say on the box that it runs at higher resolutions, so the false advertisement does slightly bother me.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12821

For the full story.

Achievement Unlocked.
Flying Elephant.

Dunno if anyone else here has tried it, but I became unsatisfied with simply ROLLING the Elephant over. I wanted to see it fly.

So I laid a **** load of active Trip Mines under it. It flew. Oh yes... it FLEW.

Please take note that the explosion pictured didn't look NEARLY that wimpy. It looked alot like a Nuke going off. Unfortunately, that meant you couldn't SEE anything, because the whole screen was washed out with light.

Next task? I wanna make it bounce around Sandtrap. Non-stop explosive goodness for the WIN.

For anyone that wants to see more, I stuck a clip in my File Share. Gamertag is ReaverPhoenix.

Well, I know what I'm doing for the rest of the night.

Unsurprisingly, we all know too. Just make time for Halo 3.

Har.

Actually, it wasn't as hard to do as I expected.

Not as hard as you expected? Well there's pills you ca...ah forget it..

Yeah, it's really not, but it's still awesome. I had the mines misfire on me last night, sent me flying all the way across Sandtrap. What was funny about that, was in the replay, I was dead and flying before the detonation even really got started.

Still haven't figured out how to get it airborne and keep it that way.

A system of platforms covered with active mines could work, but you'd need some kind of platform that the elephant can travel through. Is there any kind of destructible crate object?

Well, I may not have an Xbox for Halo 3, but I did [finally] pick up Halo 2 (Vista) the other day. I like. Overall I found the Flood to be far less frustrating for some reason. Maybe it was the instagib energy sword I usually had. It seems they retconned a lot. Dropships are now an actual threat rather than a passing annoyance. There were some reports of the Vista version having control issues and having horrible performance. I don't think it quite runs as well as it should but I can get a decent framerate on medium settings and I haven't experienced any crap control issues that I can notice anyway.

Live requiring me to update everything before doing anything was annoying but wasn't that long. I finally have a use for my ancient, dust covered, and spam buried hotmail account it seems.

What are the chances that I won't be 21 by the time Halo 3 makes it's way onto the PC? (If ever)

In the Beta there was a stack of crates you could "destroy". Basically they just broke into 8 smaller crates. So... no, not really any destructible crate objects.

Getting the Elephant onto said Platform (even though I'm having trouble visualizing what you're suggesting) would be next to impossible. You're not supposed to be able to flip it at all under normal circumstances. Clearly putting 30+ Trip Mines under it isn't normal. It also moves at roughly 3 miles an hour. I haven't tried, but I'm pretty sure you can RUN faster than it can travel. And it seems to hate small hills, won't climb them.

Even if it DID all of that, Trip Mines have a lifespan of about 2 minutes. If nothing has triggered it after that long, it self detonates. So there's a problem there as well. I can't just leave my explosive armed ordinance laying about indefinitely.

I'm virtually POSITIVE it can be done, because I remember the Bungie guys talking about it awhile back in a Weekly Update or their Podcast. Though, now that I think about it, it could've been a glitch or a Physics issue that affected gameplay outside of Forge, so it was fixed.

I need timed explosives. The closest thing I have are Fusion Cores, but I'm not sure they'd pack enough punch to keep it airborne, and I'd have to do ALOT of tinkering with their respawn timers to get explosions staggered.

Now, if I wasn't working on a Budget and only able to stick down about 20 Fusion Cores, this would be even easier to plan. Really hoping they patch it and remove the item limit and leave us with just the Budget.

Why would that matter?

It doesn't, I'm just using 21 as a general point of reference.

is it just me or do the halo guys (playable characters) all look like those articulate G.I.Joes from the 80s?

Oooh. I thought I read somewhere though that they confirmed it to be out in 2009? Maybe not.

Started to scope out Ebay... gonna get the 360, and hopefully bundled with Halo 3 if I can't find it used locally. I'd be so happy if I could find a 360 and game bundle of Fight Night Round 3, Halo 3, and Madden 0x.

So should get one in a couple weeks, woot already excited.

**** Red. GO BLUE!

My Red Spartanz, let me show you them

Wow, those are some cute little toys. We on the Blue team prefer to use real weapons.

Real men don't need big weapons to compensate for lack of skill

Real men love to blow **** up.

Edit: because some people want to get their panties in a wad

Wow. It does look better.

Though he was most likely in their base at one point, he is clearly in the middle of the map now, so that statement isn't exactly accurate.

Also, holy crap resize.

I still stoled ur flag lolz

Technically, you didn't. That is clearly from Bungie's website and not you.

uhm, no? If you're talking about the one on the Mongoose with the driver that's wearing Mark V armor, yeah.... unless Bungie JUST put a batch of new screen shots up there, that's not theirs. They kept a whole crap load of the armor variants secret, including the Mark V. So that can't be theirs.

Also, why is it the only people I've actually SEEN with alternate armor are the people on my Friends list? It's not THAT hard to unlock it...

How do I get into CTF games in ranked matches? I've tried team tactical and team objective, but I keep getting other play-types.

Also, lasers.

I was replying to Fister, not myself. He had a picture that was ****ing huge (thus the resize comments), and had a Bungie.net logo on it. I guess he took it down (another Blue team victory). All of the pictures of the blue guy with the Mark V helmet, orange bands, and sword and shield logo are of me.

I've seen people with what looks like Samurai armor. The helmet is a little too crazy for my tastes, but the shoulders are awesome. How do you get them?

Whoa, the graphics do look a whole lot better in those screenshots. Perhaps it's the TV that I'm playing it on makes it look crummier than it really is?

You have to collect the skulls from legendary to unlock the samurai armor. I heard some of them are effin hard to get. But it seems some people have been able to do it.

Oh, good. I have most of the skulls already I think.

You don't HAVE to do it on Legendary. Normal and up works just fine. I finally got all mine last night.

I can only assume it's unlocked in thirds. 1 third gets you the shoulders, another the chest, total completion nets the helmet.

What? so the human gets all this fancy gear and the alien just gets shafted?

DISCRIMINATION

No. It's that the Spartan armor sets are easier to unlock than the Elite armor sets because most are achievement or campaign progress related. Which is really quite irritating, because I hate playing ranked matches, but I'll have to if I want the Elite armor sets. And I do.

More screenshots! Those are really fun.

How do you guys take screenshots and port them to PC? Is that some hidden 360 function that I'm not aware of?

Does it automatically. Load up a Save Film and hit X. There's an option for taking screenshots. Take one and it's saved to the 360 and automatically uploaded to Bungie.net in high res, but sadly loaded with compression artifacts.

And it seems like it can take upwards of 24 to 48 hours or more before it'll show up online. I'm HOPING that's because everyone is hitting the servers so hard and that annoyance will vanish in time.