'If people love it,' Halo's Firefight mode could be added to Reach

Not following ya. You can make checkpoints in Forge and race into those... same thing. Though your only official option is Rocket Race. Which i personally enjoy highly.

umm no it isn't their just saying if you like it it they will put it in Halo: Reach and either way they would have to reprogram Firefight to work with Halo: Reach so it would Work with Reach's Engine (If It Does Have its Own(Which im 98% sure it will))

You don't need the same graphics or physics engine to implement a gameplay style or mode.

Still, I doubt they would create a brand new engine for the game. Most likely it will be modified, just as ODST is modified from the Halo 3 engine. No, I don't think we'll see something that shiny and new until XBOX 3 is out.

"great so this is basically a confirmation that halo reach is going to use the same old engine... ugh"

Incorrect.

Reach uses a new graphics engine.

Other components of the "engine" (such as it is) fit in with the available rendering technology. Firefight is a system of game-play/networking related code, not rendering code.

So you can -- with the requisite ton of work -- have a Firefight mode with a different "engine".

But that's all too early to say. We know absolutely nothing about Reach except it has a new graphics engine and that its an "FPS".

yup, hit the nail on the head

"So in other words, Reach is gonna have Firefight. Thanks for confirming that Bungie."

They didn't do any such thing.

There are two standard responses to product-related questions: we can't comment at this time, or, "we're looking at that, anything is possible".

You are (incorrectly) making assumptions from an "anything is possible" response.

You're also forgetting that it's not Bungie that has the final say on Reach features. It's Microsoft. Bungie are contractually obligated to deliver Reach to MS, but it's MS as publisher that exercise total control over what gets published, and in what form (e.g. DLC vs disc). This is one of the reasons for the historic tension and split between Bungie and MS.

Well it didn't really fit the style of UT did it, plus the enemies sucked, whereas for Gears / Halo the player vs AI gameplay is already excellent, all they really do is chuck you in different scenarios with tougher odds = instant fun.

What's the hmmmm for? Obviously people do find it super fun, or it wouldnt be in everything from WaW to Gears, it's not like there's some big malicious conspiracy to get us to all love Horde modes in order to prepare us to be ourselves hoarded together for slaughter by alien overlords. Actually now that i think about it....

they also did it with LOTR Return of the King, and it was fucking amazing. so i agree that it is bullshit that Epic somehow takes credit for this idea

you're thinking of apple.
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