Master Chief is takin GOTY...and your women
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Nicky... oh, wow. Nice one man.astiop
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topic fails.
Q&A: http://interviews.teamxbox.com/xbox/2050/Halo-3-Bungienet-Enhancements-QA/p2/
Bungie.net Online
* View Bungie Favorites File Share
* View Recent and Active Shared Files in the Halo 3 Community
* Status ticker of total enemy kills counts in Halo 3 Campaign.
* Recent Multiplayer and Campaign Game Widgets.
Service Record Page(s): (for every player of Halo 3 on LIVE)
* Multiplayer Game History
* Multiplayer Game Details (Like Halo 2 Experience)
* Special Bungie.Net only Medals.
* Campaign Game History
* Campaign Game Details with detailed scoring, medal and kill breakdown.
* Halo 3 Achievements Page (Recent 4 and view all) (must be signed in to passport)
* View File Shares (Mine and Yours View)
o Download to your Xbox 360 Find anyone's user created content and flag it for
automatic download the next time you log in to LIVE on your Xbox 360.
o Copy to your share
o Rate a file. Everyone in the community will be rating all user created content and
then it will 'bubble up' to the top to be accessible by others.
o View Game Details (where applicable).
o Delete from your share
o Create / View Forum Threads
* View Screenshots (Gallery View and Recent Uploads View)
o Copy any Hi-res screenshot to your Gallery
o Rate it.
o Delete from your Gallery
o View Game Details (where applicable).
o Create / View Forum Thread
o Select one Glory Shot for display on your Service Record
* View a list of your recently downloaded Files
* View/Browse Files and Screenshots of your Friends.
* Career Match-made Aggregate Stats (ranked and social) by map by weapon by game engine.
* Screenshot Collection Viewer (pop-up with 'pip')
* View all Screenshots and Files related to an online game.
* Mini View of Halo 3 Friend Leader-boards (from Xbox Live).
* View a Player Snapshot complete with player model and last know armor permutation
Forums/Community Page:
* Ability to Browse Screenshots and Files in the Shared Files Forum.
* Private Forums for fan clubs, clans and groups.
Misc:
* Updated Profile Layout.
* Halo 3/BNET linkage setting on settings page (used to display Bungie.net in Matchmaking lobby).
* Use Halo 3 Emblem as Forum Avatar.
* New Home Page Design.
Choice quotes from Q&A
http://interviews.teamxbox.com/xbox/2050/Halo-3-Bungienet-Enhancements-QA/p2/
On team size and difference between Halo 2 and 3
Chris Gossett: The Halo 2 Stat features on Bungie.net were the result of what I would call a skunk works proof of concept. About two or three engineers started working on Bungie.net after Halo 2 released to manufacturing and spent around two weeks developing features for it. Several of the major features were desktop applications that were converted for use on the web.
For Halo 3 the team working on Bungie.net is about double the size and planning started last year. We've been designing/developing the Halo 3 features for about four months with a dedicated team of people. We have far more features than ever before and since the team is dedicated we'll keep working on Bungie.net and be adding even more.
On Campaign tracking
Chris Gossett: Campaign is a competitive multiplayer experience now, thanks to co-op, Skulls and Campaign Scoring, so this is not only a natural extension of our existing functionality, it's a vital component of the game's longevity. Achievements are just the icing on the cake.
On Rating System
Chris Gossett: We recognized early on that with a lot of file types you can't see how good something is simply by looking at it on the web. For example, that Rocket Baseball variant sounds cool in the description, but I can't give it an accurate rating until I've played it. So we've allowed you to either copy the file to your own share or queue the file for download directly to your Xbox 360. When you come back to Bungie.net you'll be able to boost the rating in multiple ways. First, if the file is in your share, you can post it to special forums that only contain files of that type. People can then comment on or discuss the file. Second, we have a simple one to five rating system that also factors into popularity. Anyone can give a rating, so it weighs in a bit less, but still a quick way to see what kind of activity a file has. Third, the act of downloading and using the file also factors in. So if you really like something download it, share it and use it.
On UNSC vs Covenant Tracking
Chris Gossett: We wanted to create a sense of the UNSC against the Covenant and display the sheer scale of what our marketing wonks call the "Halo Nation." The most interesting and addicting way we could think to do that is with raw real-time numbers. I don't know exactly how large some of the counts will be, but I think it is cool that we can show you exactly how many Banshees were destroyed online today, yesterday and in the life of Halo 3.
There are some multiplayer community stats as well, but right now the 'ticker' focuses on the campaign.
On Glory Shot
Chris Gossett: Thanks to Saved Films, you can get to a moment in the game where you stick someone's helmet with a Plasma Nade. Pose the camera just right and frame advance until it's perfect. Save a screenshot from the Saved Films UI and that's a Glory Shot. All the more powerful when you email it to your victim with a derisive caption.
On Flagging Content For Automatic Download
Chris Gossett: From Bungie.net you'll be able to download anything provided you have an Xbox Live enabled Windows live ID (that's the same email and password you used to create your Gamertag on Xbox Live) and have viewed or used your Halo 3 file share on your Xbox 360. Once you sign-in to Bungie.net every file that is available for download will have a link that will add it to your download queue. We limit the queue to 8 items at any one time, but you can sign-in to your Xbox 360 and the items in the queue will begin downloading.
On Aggregate stats
Chris Gossett: One of the things that was lacking on Bungie.net with Halo 2 was the aggregate stats experience. This time around you will have a Service Record and you'll be able savor every medal earned and every kill scored in matchmaking. You will indeed be able to filter the data based on map, game type, and kills vs. deaths.
On Future Upgrades to Bungie.net
Chris Gossett: This is one thing that we are very aware of. We plan on someday having a robust stats API for our community. However, on day one there won't be much support beyond the existing RSS feeds. Eventually, we will expose the right amount of data to the right people and give them useful tools. So, sit tight.
On Other Developers And If They Will Follow
Chris Gossett: I can't speak for other studios, but we think that the Halo experience should be accessible and easy to use from anywhere. The exciting social nature of the game doesn't have to stop when you turn off your console. We admire sites like Blizzard's but they have a distinct advantage over us - folks play the game on the same machine they browse the web with. We wanted to give people that kind of seamless connection with their game experience.
Bungie have raisd the bar for tracking game stats :)
Crysis doesn't look as good as this
Sorry hermits but Wii games look better than Crysis
Crysis
Mario Galaxy
pictures don't lie, Wii could handle Crysis.
I have seen more sharper looking textures on ps2 games (black comes to my mind)... Halo 3 and Killzone 2 destroy this game visually, and it could run on a Wii no problem.
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