We need your Halo or Bungie questions

by Dustin Burg on Oct 13th 2008 6:30PM

Tomorrow (Tuesday), we will be digitally sitting down with team Bungie to chit-chat about Halo 3: Recon, upcoming Halo 3 DLC and any other topics that come to mind. But we need your help.

We formally request that you send us your burning Halo / Bungie related question that only team Bungie can answer. Post your hard hitting (or soft hitting) questions in the comments below, then we'll sift through them prior to Tuesday's interview and hopefully find a few goodies to ask. Bonus points to persons who generate questions that haven't already been answered (ahem) and don't receive a "not comment" response. Now get to it, comment us your Bungie questions ASAP!

Tags: bungie, bungie-studios, halo-3, halo-3-recon

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It may have been answered before but i can't remember, but i want to know that if "recon" is a stand-alone disc with its own achievements, what the hell are these "mythic" achievements that appeared with the last update.
There are achievements for finding skulls so i am thinking that they are more than just a new set of maps

Yes, Recon will be included on a separate disc rather than DLC. Also, in the link X3F gave us, Bungie says that the Recon Campaign will have 1000 Gamerscore to get, so ya.
The Mythic achievements refer to the six maps that will be releasing "early 2009" according to Bungie. Again, I got that from the link in the post.

ask them why halo 3 sucks more c**k than gianna michaels.

How will the ODST stack up against various Covenant enemies? For example, while grunts are trivial most of the time to Master Chief, will the main character of Recon have more trouble with them? Also, from what it seems in the trailer the main character will be by himself at least in the beginning of the game. Will the same continue for the whole game, or will he can allies?

@Conrad

Man, if the ODST has trouble with grunts...think about brutes. lol

Will the Superintendent be a comic relief AI in the same vein of GladOS.

1.Why did you want to go back and tell a story in halo 2?
2.Why did you want to tell it through an ODST

during the trailer what seemed like a new HUD was featured, with the outlining of the enemy's in red. Will this make a jump to the final game, and if so, in terms of story elements why didn't the Spartans have this, since their armor is supposed to be state of the art.

enemies*

Will the other co-op characters (i have an understanding that there will be 4-player co-op) have an actual part within the story. I ask because in Halo 3, the two elites, played by players 3 and 4 in cooperative campaign play, have no actual play in what happens within the story, other than having cameos in some cut-scenes.

I think that's an important question =)

You(Bungie) had stated this has only been in developement since this last spring. How did this idea come to be and when was this thought of?

the box art appears to show a silencer on the ODST's gun. Are there going to be a slew of new guns for this game, just some modified ones, or what?

The weapon that the ODST is holding is an SMG with a supressor and a red dot sight I believe.

How is the story in Halo3:recon going to be relevant when we know New Mombassa is nearly completely destroyed as in Halo 3?

What is the gun that the odst is holding the trailer?

a Silenced SMG, the model icons were in Halo 2

I can finally haz Recon?

Are you planning to make it cost $60, the price of a normal Xbox 360 game?

Would it not be possible as DLC?

Will there be any new equiqment for players to use?

Forgot to add;

Will Halo 3: Recon feature a completely new soundtrack, or just a remixed version of the Halo 3 Original Soundtrack?

Is the map pack going to be released on the Sixth of January? It is from the date on the video that the fanboys found.

"It will be available at fine retailers around the globe in Fall of 2009."

That's straight from Bungie's 10/10/08 weekly update.

@Matt:

He didn't ask about the release of Recon, he was asking about the new map pack, the Mythic Map pack, which will be available in early 2009/ Winter of Jan and Feb.

Does Bungie expect Halo: Recon to replace Halo 3 as one of the dominant games on Xbox live. Should gamers forget about their copies Halo 3 because Recon will never leave their systems, or will this new release be more of a compliment that is not a totally new experience but something that mixes it up every now and then.

What types of new equipment/weapons will we be seeing in Halo 3: Recon

Will we ever find out what is going to happen to Chief and Cortana?

Where are all the engineers? I want to pop some innocent boo-bags? I've been waiting since Fall of Reach.

Why did you announce the game so early? With all the new and upcoming games so close to release don't you think that a lot people will just brush it off as no big deal?

Bungie hasn't decided on a firm price yet, and they said that since they consider Recon an expansion rather than a full game, that it will cost less. And no, as of this moment, Recon will debut on disc only. No DLC.

This was meant to be in reply to +++volume+++ . half the time the darn "reply" button doesn't do it's job.

While Bungie has stated that Halo 3: Recon is built upon the Halo 3 engine, I was curious if this is an upgraded version of that engine or if this is the same engine version that shipped with Halo 3?

Do you (Bungie) have any plans to make straight to Halo 3 ports of maps from prior Halo games like the Rainbow Six Vegas team did with the Rainbow Six Vegas 2 DLC?

Why did you decide not to make a multiplayer specific for Halo 3: Recon?

When should we see our selves playing the Mythic Map Pack?

I'm pretty sure I read that there is actually going to be multiplayer specifically for Recon, both in the form of 4 player co-op and regular slayer. Bungie stated that the Mythic map pac would be released "early 2009"

Will the multiplayer be independent of Halo 3 or will they share the same matchmaking space? Have you considered making other character models playable in matchmaking, such as playable grunts, brutes, or flood - perhaps even with separate abilities for each character class?

will there be a FPS halo game thats not a prequel [if thats how you spell it] any time soon????????

sorry if i sound like a d bag or a hole but I think it's considered an 'interquel'

I heard that Recon would feature "advanced Forge options", but I also heard that the game won't have multiplayer, just maps for Halo 3. So how does the relation between Recon Forge and Halo 3 work?

Has bungie seen or handled the map editor for Far Cry 2? If so, have they ever considered doing something similar for Halo3:Recon, or a future Halo title? A true map editor, not something like Forge.

Would it be possible to export the multiplayer maps to be used in Halo 3, preventing a split population, a la Rock band manner? Maybe with the purchase of the game new, you can export, if not, then sorry. Seems like a good idea, a profitable one too.

Seems as though the previous interview states that the multiplayer will be identical to halo 3. Kinda odd they would do that. They could have just made it DLC, but they are looking to attract more people I guess. Maybe it would be too big for those with the 20 gig or smaller. This way anybody could play.

Do you have any plans of doing a comic series for Recon like you did for the promotion of Halo 3?

Will Recon look significantly better than Halo 3? eg. more realistic art style/ engine improvements. And most importantly (to people with HDTVs anyway), will there be anti-aliasing this time around?

Will the ODST have recharging health, if so how will this be explained in game (as only Spartans have energy shielding)
Also while he should do the same amount of damage as the Master Chief does while using weapons, his melee attacks should definitely not be as strong, he also shouldn't be able to jump as high (with implications for multiplayer). Can he handle heavy weapons like the turrets, gravity hammer etc.

The trailer hints that the campaign of the 'lone wolf' kind, contrary to earlier rumours of being a squad based game, (Bungie hired a Ghost Recon creative director if you remember, is he working on this game?)

I believe they already answered this in a previous interview. They said that the ODST does not have shields nor is as strong which means you have to think about how you are ging to deal with the enemies. Probably explains the silenced weapon.

i couldn't find such an interview anywhere on the net. And anyway I asked more than one question.

I can't find any such interview on the net, please give us a link. And I asked more than one question, anyway.

Whats the deal with the multiplayer? Theres been some confusion with how you talk about Recons multiplayer. So is there gonna be multiplayer, or just a map pack with a campaign?

According to the mythic achievements, it would appear that these maps would be playable as both multiplayer and single player maps, or are there going to be skulls in multiplayer maps? Also it would seem that looking at the tank dropper achievement, is that an achievement gotten from forge or will mythic combine elements of multiplayer and forge?

Forge has always had multiplayer components to it. That's nothing new.

Halo 3's graphics will be 2 years old by the time recon comes out, will there be any updates to the graphics engine to keep from falling behind?

With Recon it was said you will be a ODST not an invulnerable Spartan. How will you accomplish this difference.
Will his HUD be different.
Will this Character be playable online instead of Spartan and Elite armor permutations.
Does this Game refer to the additional Skulls in the update?

By the way. Love the suspense and cant wait for the game.

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