The Official CMT SPv2 Promotion Items Thread (new pics as of 8-25-07)

serious? must be one of the ones i missed. love that show

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Originally Posted by ironclad

true. that also may have to do with the fact that dragons dont frickin exist

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Hehe.
Dragon Skin Armor
There's more detailed info there.

well i do now. thats some tough shit

Can it withstand a knife or an arrow, like kevlar treated with shear-thickening fluid?

Yes, actually, that was one of the aims. The Army claims it is inferior to their Interceptor system though, but that is because they want to keep the cheaper Interceptor and not have to switch to the more effective, and more expensive, Pinnacle Dragon Skin armor. If the general public knew this, they'd be outraged that the Army (and other branches) refuses to equip its soldiers with the best.

Now the Halo-related question: how well does it do against plasma and the needler projectiles?

Needler detonations may be easily contained, but plasma will just eat right on through. While it can withstand high heat (say, 120*F), certainly not plasma temperatures.

Shame. Oh well, it's 2552 in the Halo universe. And this is science fiction. If CMT wants to put dragonskin armor capable of withstanding repeated strikes from plasma weapons, there will be dragonskin armor capable of withstanding repeated strikes from plasma weapons ingame.

Actually, one [highly advanced] method of repelling heat would be to use crystalline nanoboxes to trap heat within them, that would disallow it to conduct through the armor to the wearer. Same could be applied to visible light, meaning, a balance of the two in one armor system could potentially grant the user a huge resistance to laser fire, making the new "splazer" near useless.

well i would think the ultimate overall climate control would be do have a vacuum in between like double pane windows that have a vacuum between them. works for heat and cold.

Vacuum chambers as such don't respond so well to puncturing.

And heat is a form of electromagnetic energy, which can pass unhindered in vacuum.

well this is the year 2500+. scientists have invented magic by now. can we get back on topic?

anyone know the rounds per second of the jackal plasma rifle? just want to know what im dealing with here

higher than the Brute Plasma Rifle. As for exact, I don't know, it depends on if you count cooldown from overheating or not.

As if Jackals couldn't already fire that plasma pistol faster than a plasma rifle in the first place...

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

As if Jackals couldn't already fire that plasma pistol faster than a plasma rifle in the first place...

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^ Jackals on Legendary piss me off so bad... they're way more accurate with it than Elites with PRs too cause the Elites just spray and pray

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Originally Posted by FriedMetroid

^ Jackals on Legendary piss me off so bad... they're way more accurate with it than Elites with PRs too cause the Elites just spray and pray

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Agreed... not to mention that elites fired in way smaller bursts.

Maybe this rifle will water-down their damage potential a bit and justify their obscene ROF.

Is it's ammo consumption slower than the other two?

Elites didn't need long bursts...the Plasma Rifle took your shields down in four hits. Your armor was more resilient than your shields on Legendary, which is sad (however, 1 needle stuck in you was one bar of health down).

In Halo 1, 4 single shots of the Plasma pistol equals -1% charge. 2 single shots on the Plasma Rifle equals -1% charge. In Halo 2, it's the other way around, but the number of shots per percent varies by one in either direction, to make it seem random.

what? Plasma Rifle in Halo 2 was moderately strong, at least stronger than a popping plasma pistol. Unless u dual wield that with an SMG...then, i'll reconsider. The PR in Halo was OK. It looked crappy anyways and the sound was shit.

The plasma rifle in halo 2 was less... satisfying to shoot because the noise and overall feel of it was weak. I hope CMT goes Nucking Futz with the plasma rifles and all of their particle effects.
In my opinion, thats one of the things that make or break a gun. The effects, and the overall 1337ness of it. For example, the Halo 3 Plasma Rifle has all of these electrical effects when it fires. It just feels right.
And don't get me started on the Galileian....

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Originally Posted by bleach

what? Plasma Rifle in Halo 2 was moderately strong, at least stronger than a popping plasma pistol. Unless u dual wield that with an SMG...then, i'll reconsider. The PR in Halo was OK. It looked crappy anyways and the sound was shit.

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That's why I was talking about Halo 1... :downs:


And I heartily agree with Haloking365...:D

i agree too. the smg is a popgun, i sure hope the V2's smg has some bitchin flarin sounds. assualt rifle had better be brutal

2 New pics in the first post. Those are the levels stock lightmaps, so don't bitch about it being dark.

Nice. Like you said, its using the origional bitmaps, so its dark, but i like the blood on the elites. Kinda looks like he got shot with a paintball gun though. Maybe have some areas where its dripping, not just some radom splatters. I'd comment on the brutes, but im having some trouble seeing them. Overall, its looking good, and i cant wait for the release.

some flashlight only sections would really spice up the library. the small underground tunnels that connect certain sections would be ideal for that.

^Nice idea. It would add another aspect to the library.

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Originally Posted by nooBBooze

some flashlight only sections would really spice up the library. the small underground tunnels that connect certain sections would be ideal for that.

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Yea, but swarms and swarms of enemies arent scary in a situation like that. What you need is a few areas of calm, flood-less areas to build up the suspense. Then all you hear is a shreik and then BOOM! There is a flood of flood!:D

I actually would like to see some of the dark areas lightened up a good bit if it can be done. Or at least some lights added so it's not so dark. I don't mind dark parts but the halo SP had way too many of them. Especially in the library i wish it was not dark at all. It would give it the feel kind of like "who left the lights on" which i love.

I wish flood were not in the game lol.

Glowy bits ftw.

hell yeah dark library. the first time you play that level it strikes eerieness into your soul, but the second third fourth and twentieth times... not as chilling. give it a heavy darkness, itll rule

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Originally Posted by Haloking365

Yea, but swarms and swarms of enemies arent scary in a situation like that. What you need is a few areas of calm, flood-less areas to build up the suspense. Then all you hear is a shreik and then BOOM! There is a flood of flood!:D

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I don't know... Dynamic light would rule in that case. Have flashing lights on and off and as the flood swarm, you can only see them for split seconds so they draw closer and closer while you empty clips into the space you think they are.

Also, I'm sure someone has said this before, but will we see pickup able swords in single player? And another thing, will anyone make a new 3p model of the Energy Sword. Halo's is utter fail :fail:

no, masterz says no energy swords. not cus they cant be made, but because it is his, and the teams opinion that they dont belong in halo 1

We will never do swords that will be wieldable. And there is no real sense to fix up the H1 sword model, half the time it's around you're busy running from it, and theres never time to go look at it.

true, i mean it does explode when dropped.

MAKE IT EXPLODE!

With force.

that would be cool. one last hazard of the golden elite commander, clearing the scene of the crime before the BOOM

make up some fluff about how the technology used in the swords is still unstable and falling on the ground can cause them to EXPLODE.

seriously, that'd give you another reason not to fuck with them.

any chance of a beam riffle since you guys now have all this time?

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Originally Posted by nooBBooze

some flashlight only sections would really spice up the library. the small underground tunnels that connect certain sections would be ideal for that.

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Originally Posted by Haloking365

Yea, but swarms and swarms of enemies arent scary in a situation like that. What you need is a few areas of calm, flood-less areas to build up the suspense. Then all you hear is a shreik and then BOOM! There is a flood of flood!:D

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I dont see any contradiction in that. sure, all u have to do in the narrow and hypothetically dark tunnels is throw some nades ahead and see if u have had some succes. but if one would leave a big section between these undergoung tunnels in more or less in complete darkness and really sporadically spawns flood (mb even some invisible combat forms) then, well... hello mister spoilurpants
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camo flood ftw!

(all we seem to be doing here is making things harder and harder.. I haven't even tried beating the game on heroric O.o)

well there is cloaked combat form in the maw..

as for the Zteam sword, try using it with more than 200 ping then tell me why it's broken (though in SP it may work. have you guys actually tried it in SP or just discounted it altogether?)

But Z-team sword is still buggy as hell. We tesed the sword for our SP, and it's an epic fail. We don't have carbines or beam rifles in the mod, because we have the ma5k, which is pretty much the same, and the human sniper, which is pretty much the same as the Beam rifle.

beam riffle is better than the human sniper on several levels (looks cooler and shoots faster) plus getting sniped by enemies would make a nice change (stick some jackal snipers up on that beam thing on the beach raid on TSC to really make you use the cover)

Enemy snipers would be nice. Carbines I'm less worried about, but snipers would be great on the more open levels.

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/8...lebumpsgr5.jpg
^ Render in Maya (p.s. grabbed an old random render, didn't feel liek taking a new one without the uv errors :P)




^ Lower res in Halo PC


^ Same low res, recent picture posted by masterz, in CE, after I gave him the fixed bump map.

:/

Now fix it Masterzz :(((

Hey, Dano do you have any info on how much more stuff you need to fix with spv2 and so people know how much more longer they have to wait.

Lemme see:

Brutes skin finalised/tweeked
Spiker skin
Brute shot nades need skinning
a series of forerunner environmentals themed around and dedicated to my sister

secret new enemy skin
possibly the juggernaught, if L33Ts up for it :D
SPI skin from Con, not me.
new base maps for some levels and various environmental textures
and if time, I really want me/Halo King/Madworkz 's Brute Splitter/Flakker (not sure on name) shotgun, ingame just to satisfy the CUSTOM MAP TEAM OLOL Boycotters.

But thats my side of the equation. Teh Lag and Masterz and everyone have all got their own little pieces to add yet. Also, since we cant have custom vehicle tags in halo 2 vista at moment, Madworkz might donate his ATV for d40/The Maw's warthog run, just to at least show it off somewhere, since it's pretty mch sitting unused on his hard drive at the moment. Don't hold me to that one though, I breifly talked to him about that a while back.

*sits and waits patiently* This really is looking good, but needs moar covie snipers.

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Originally Posted by n00b1n8R

beam riffle is better than the human sniper on several levels (looks cooler and shoots faster) plus getting sniped by enemies would make a nice change (stick some jackal snipers up on that beam thing on the beach raid on TSC to really make you use the cover)

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altough i hated jackal snipers in h2 (esp. on legendary/heroic) they rly could add something to certain sections in sp2. but for the beach raid on tsc...well i h8 when my teammates r being pwned too hard so unless they r coded to know when to take cover and let the mc take care of biusness and when to charge (h2 phailt 2), i would say jackal snipers = yay BUT only in allieless sections.

I hope some of Wilson's stuff makes it in.

I just wanted to say something about the cmt battle rifle, if you guys are gona make a halo 3 br you have to take out granade launcher i'm not telling you to do it i'm jus saying, cause for me it's a bad type i like the regular battle rilfle.

We're not making a Halo 3 Battle Rifle.

Well, everyone says that cmt makes halo 3 maps with halo 3 weapons, if that's then it would a good idea to take out the granade launcher from the br but i dont' decide they do.

We're not the Halo 3 mapping team. We haven't made any Halo 3 maps. We just have some things that are in Halo 3.

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but i dont' decide they do.

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What?

Ok, nvm all i'm saying is that it's a bad type for a battle rifle to have a grande launcher but that's what cmt wants on there battle rifle then let it stay.

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Can't wait for it to come out. Love the MP maps and the SP should rock everyone's socks off!

UPDATE!!!!

A while ago, Masterz hired me to do a promotional video for the new Single Player. I am now getting the feeling that he might want something to show for it. I made this today, and while I wouldn't say it's the best of my ability, it does what Masterz asked. Enjoy, and I'll probably have more promo videos in the future.

Great vid, really shows off some nice stuff.

My gawd how many times must I tell him to change back the captain skin >:(

im glad there are no covenant snipers... they just dont belong in the game. halo 2 there ok though


EDIT: part two of post after having watched the vid

touching. truly touching. and the brutes are looking better. MUCH better, cant wait to kill them... wish i had seen more action with that specops hunter though!

what is that beutiful music called?

too much brutes imo but exellent video

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Originally Posted by Pred1ator

what is that beutiful music called?

too much brutes imo but exellent video

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The song is called "Fly Away From Here", by Aerosmith. I first heard it at the Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Studios, Orlando, and I wrote it down so I'd remember to use it someday.:D And the brutes are just...there. There's a lot throughout the Pillar of Autumn.

thats good, halo 2 brutes were scarce and weak. ME WANT STRONG ENEMY!

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Originally Posted by ironclad

touching. truly touching. and the brutes are looking better. MUCH better, cant wait to kill them... wish i had seen more action with that specops hunter though!

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Thank ya! And if things go as planned, you'll see more Hunter action in my next promo video.

sweeeet... hunterry. i hope there arent a lot more promo vids. not because yours didnt rock, but cus i want to PLAY IT ALREADY! lol

Nice Video.

nice video. Good shot thehoodedsmack. I love everything that was inside of the video.:D +Rep.

the smg actually looks strong in it... gunned down that brute pretty good!

i didn't catch that....was that the original SMG or unsilenced SMG?
Also, just to confirm this, will the Bruteshot be in game (A new redone CMT bruteshot)?

From what Dano's shown, yes their will be one (unless it was recently cut)

where did dano show it?

http://www.h2vista.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2320
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Movie looks good! :) Nice Brutes and everything, can't wait to play.

The only problem that I saw was that all the crewmen were armored marines... Will that be fixed in the final version? The video was very well done and showed a lot of cool stuff. +rep

It's already been fixed :)

And Video is <3

I think it needed less cutscene and more gameplay, but it's still looking good :D

(those green brutes did apear to be glowing though..)

The MA5C and M7 are pure goodness. I love them. I wish there was a shot of the pistol though. Great video none the less! I know it got me hyped. :)

I can't wait for the new campaign, the vid was sweet, and I can't wait to see all the new stuff, and I'm gonna have some much Smashing a brute in the face with his own Spiker

I am going to have a lot of Sticky Nade carnage...

For those who loved the Promo Video, it can now be downloaded here, in it's original, un YouTube'd quality.

lol I cant wait to use dev and just melee everything with the plasma pistol it took me 4 hours to beat a level doing that

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I am going to have a lot of Sticky carnage...

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That sounds like the name of a really bad porno flick.

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Originally Posted by Dole

That sounds like the name of a really bad porno flick.

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I fixed it...:o

poor zilla will have to stop fapping now you meany :-3

That looks just pwnage. It reminds me of how lucky we all are that we're going to be able to play something like this for free... it's just awesome!

By the way, if it's still being discussed, having some flashlight-only places in the Library (or anywhere in the campaign) gets my vote! The only problems I foresee are those from people who have graphics cards that don't render the flashlight correctly. However, both my old Intel 82845G and my sister's laptop's GeForce 4 (they both had problems rendering the flashlight) render the entire game a lot brighter, so this shouldn't be a problem...

i do hope the smg isnt TOO powerful... last time around it was for sure. i mean, the covenant need SOME chance eh? lol

Appearently the brutes dodging and running animations have improved a lot. Their overall posture seems to be a bit more...relaxed (unlike the early stickuptheir butts animations).
Btw:Glad the H1 biped made i ingame.

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Originally Posted by nooBBooze

Btw:Glad the H1 biped made i ingame.

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they plan to change it to custom you know...

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Originally Posted by Pred1ator

they plan to change it to custom you know...

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Originally Posted by sangheili

my opinion, cmt has way too many human weapons.

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Its 11 wieldable human weapons vs 6 wieldable covie weapons (without the 3 pr variations)
um.. maybe ur right.

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Originally Posted by sangheili

my opinion, cmt has way too many human weapons. I hate the ma5k, i love the carbine. Hell, give me a video on why zteams sword is buggy without network to fuck it up. I know you guys might flame me, but really its just an opinion...

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Go play with zteam sword on LAN, its not reliable. We have alot of new covie weapons since spv1, 5 of them in fact.

Stand 20-25 feet in front of someone with a shotgun in real life, and tell me you wont be on the ground screaming when they fire.

A decent shotgun nowadays can have an effective range up to 50 or so meters (50m X 3.3 ft/m = 165 ft). There are these magic little devices in some shotguns called "chokes." I feel by 2552 the shotgun would be rather optimized for all kinds of combat.

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Originally Posted by Masterz1337

Go play with zteam sword on LAN, its not reliable. We have alot of new covie weapons since spv1, 5 of them in fact.

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All I can think of is the Spiker, the Brute Shot, The Brute and Jackal PRs. That's only 4. Is there a weapon that your not telling us about?

Yep.

lol brute energy sword that we ALSO wont be able to wield? (just a guess) if so that doesnt count. brute grenades perhaps? i figure its something brutey because of the new brute ais

Let me guess, it's the Hunter Plasma Rifle?:p

so what if there are only a few covenant weapons, they are cool and custom. You should be glad that CMT added those new covie weapons. Or you can stick with needler, plasma rifle, and plasma pistol. :) The Human weapons are much better in SPv2 than in SPv1. The M7 SMG in SPv1 was damn powerful, i used it pretty much in Silent Cartographer and AotCR in close quarter combat (in fact, I killed hunters with it!:D). I cannot wait for the release of SPv2.

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Let me guess, it's the Hunter Plasma Rifle?:p

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Grunt Plasma Rifle: It's yellow, and has a slow rate of fire, and overheats after about 4%.

Or it could be the Engineer Plasma Rifle: It's purple and it's not going to be seen in the game because there's no engineers, but it will take up tag space. It shoots out a big plasma bolt that fixes stuff and never overheats.