Bungie talks Halo 3 downloadable content, in-game baseball

by Ross Miller { Sep 13th 2007 at 12:30PM }

Yesterday, select members of the gaming press were invited to play a little bit of Halo 3 before its impending release. None of them can talk about their experience until September 23, but in the meantime Chris Remo of Shacknews sat down with Bungie content manager Frank O'Connor to discuss the State of the Developer.

Unsurprisingly, the team is already considering what downloadable content to add to the game. "For example," said O'Connor, "we already now see there will be a need for more smaller symmetrical maps ... I think [content packs] will be, if not more frequent, more predictible and smoother."

Also discussed was the map tweaking of Forge, where 23 hours prior to the interview, O'Connor reveals that testers created a baseball gametype with rocket launchers and gravity hammers. "They even got bases in," he said. If only The Sandlot used rocket launchers, then they'd never have been afraid of that ill-tempered dog. How about a game of Krikkit, anyone?

The super-secret Peter Jackson project was also briefly mentioned. All O'Connor would say is that it "continues on pace" and that Bungie producer Curtis Creamer and cinematics director CJ Cowan managed to crash a Warthog into a wall.

Tags: baseball, bungie, frankoconnor, halo, halo3, peterjackson

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sean @ Sep 13th 2007 12:35PM

Cricket? Nobody understands Cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is in order to understand Cricket.

xGeneral DEATHx @ Sep 13th 2007 2:04PM

"I'll teach you"...

ssuk @ Sep 13th 2007 1:09PM

It's like Baseball, only you get tea breaks and the players are more arrogent than footballers. It's all good fun.

Sean @ Sep 13th 2007 1:22PM

Haha, it is a quote from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the movie.

Shmil @ Sep 13th 2007 2:16PM

DDAAMMMMMMMNNNNN!!!

Abuzar @ Sep 13th 2007 3:37PM

Hey man don't screw with cricket. In Pakistan cricket plays you!

Bluheim! @ Dec 11th 2007 12:58AM

They spell Cricket, Krikkit, as a reference to the book "Life, The Universe, and Everything" the third book in the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. To sum it up; Cricket is earths reinactment of the bloodiest war in the Universe started by a race from the planet Krikkit, whose weapons were exploding supernova "cricket balls" that were activated by "cricket bats" that were weilded by robots whose armor looked like cricket uniforms.

Vader582 @ Sep 13th 2007 12:40PM

MS to my wallet: "You gonna get raped..."

3cubed minus 3squared plus1 @ Sep 13th 2007 12:48PM

Wow, I hope they don't release anything soon after the release. Knowing how many people are anticipating this game, any DLC will be bought by any and all halo fans.
I just hope they're cheap, or maybe release a whole other disc like they did with Halo 2.

slackerdan @ Sep 13th 2007 12:51PM

OMG... WII FTW all else is teh suxorz... wait, wait ,wait, WTF is that??? Its coming this way... Its huge... HUGE I SAY!!! OMFG teh PS3 just got pwned for massive dammage!!!! Giant crab parts are everywhere. It's up to the NDF to stop them. STOP IT NOW!!!! (Massive waggling ensues) IT STILL WON'T STOP!!! HELP US MARIO!!! HELP US LINK!!! OMG YOSHI IS ON FIRE!!! JUMP LITTLE GUY JUMP!!! KEEP TRYING!!! ITS GETTING CLOSER, WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!! OUR WRIST STRAPS ARE BROKEN, THERE IS NO HOPE!!! WAGGLING IS FUTILE!!! THE DUCT TAPE IS BREAKING LOOSE, GAME CUBES ARE FALLING FROM THE SKY!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

( Time Stamp Sept. 24, 2007 11:59pm )

riggs @ Sep 13th 2007 1:09PM

oh.my.god.

NATO_Duke @ Sep 13th 2007 1:21PM

That would be a shot over the bow of the NDF! Flame war!!!

Anyway, What would a day be like without Halo mentioned? hmmmmmmm

hvnlysoldr (NDF - Wind Ring) @ Sep 13th 2007 1:40PM

That doesn't even deserve a Falcon Punch joke.

Iulius @ Sep 13th 2007 12:52PM

Can someone explain Forge to me? I've searched on it, but the results are less than conclusive. Is it simply a "build your own map" kind of thing?

rdj75 @ Sep 13th 2007 12:57PM

Basically, the level design itself stays the same, everything else you can change, weapon placement, types of weapons, types of vehicles etc.....

Badboy1979 @ Sep 13th 2007 1:52PM

Forge is a map "element" editor that allows you to edit weapon placement/ammo, object placement (like boxes, teleporters, expolosive fusion cores, etc), create your own custom power-ups (ex. a item that gives +100% movement, invisiblity, and +200% health when picked up), spawn points, etc.

Where it gets interesting is that it can all be done in real-time which makes Forge more of a gametype. So you can be in a Forge game playing with 7 other people and each of you can switch back and forth for combatant to monitor (map-editor figure). One example bungie gave was while playing, one of your teammaters could be a monitor moving around a floating box in front you as you tried to reach the enemy's base... giving you instant moving cover.

... and, of course, any forge gametype you create can be uploaded to your Halo 3 "page" at bungie.net for other gamers to download to their 360.

ScreamingSkull @ Sep 13th 2007 12:54PM

I hope the DLC is cheap/plentiful and in a small enough package that it can be absorbed/created in a timely fashion.

Pesty @ Sep 13th 2007 1:02PM

Woo! +42 for a Douglas Adams reference!

Stupidiot @ Sep 13th 2007 1:06PM

Joystiq wins the towell award!

Shmil @ Sep 13th 2007 2:20PM

give those writers a fish

Ska Oreo @ Sep 13th 2007 1:01PM

Halo baseball?? DO IT!!!

WiNG @ Sep 13th 2007 1:10PM

My guess is Halo baseball is like regular baseball but with 89% more tea bags.

Vigivalgus @ Sep 13th 2007 1:28PM

So like Cricket, then?

Sean @ Sep 13th 2007 1:32PM

lol@Vigivalgus

ukickmydog (NDF - Heart Ring) @ Sep 13th 2007 2:32PM

wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure

HineyWipe @ Sep 13th 2007 1:36PM

One little, two little, Four Hundred M$ points. Six little, seven little, Eight Hundred M$ points.

Gee, they actually planned down-loadable content, ya think?

Pete @ Sep 13th 2007 1:41PM

Why is everything so hush hush on this game? We've seen basically nothing on the single player. It's weird. Reminds me of when reviews for bad movies are withheld from the media before release as to not ruin their opening day. It concerns me.

NATO_Duke @ Sep 13th 2007 2:27PM

I don't think its because its crap. They want it to be a surprise - which sounds like a good tactic to me. Also, they have let some media see parts of the single player before, I believe game informer had an article on it in the latest edition if I remember correctly.

Andrew Fong @ Sep 13th 2007 1:39PM

Wait, you can whack rockets with the gravity hammer?

Wow ... that's just ... awesome.

Cyro @ Sep 13th 2007 1:55PM

We never saw anything for halo 2 campaign either, so whats the big deal. They keep single player campaign real tight, so not to spoil the plot.

blooh @ Sep 14th 2007 2:48AM

let me guess...humans win?

Badboy1979 @ Sep 13th 2007 1:54PM

Hopefully, Bungie will stick to the model they established with Halo 2: Release some free maps, then charge for other map packs which will be available free at some point to those who are patient.

I have all the halo 2 maps and have never spent a dime on them.

IMO, with Forge and the Bungie community creating free altered content there will be even less of a hurry to purchase new maps that may be released.