Except Bungie wanted to release much more maps than Microsoft allowed. But since Microsoft owns the Halo IP, Microsoft decided to chop off half the Mythic Map Pack and only include 3 maps instead of the original 6. It was so botched by Microsoft because Bungie had all 6 maps named in their patch in September '08, but Bungie could not legally discuss the maps. Even though the NAMES WERE RIGHT THERE. And they still can't talk about Longshore, Heretic, or Citadel, even though we can see the map names in the achievements, and the maps have been done since fall '08.
The reason it hasn't updated is from what I remember, Xbox 360 games patches can be no larger than 10MB in size. Also, Microsoft's cert process is very long.
So they're waiting until they have a good number of updates out on PC, and then the 360 TF2 is going to get all of them as one big update. Due to MS's lengthy cert process, they couldn't get away with the hotfixes they do after each update.
Now, patches are free on 360, you can't ever charge for them (1, because MS doesn't allow it. 2, because there's no mechanism to charge for them anyway) All the engine updates needed, etc, will be in the patch code. All the new maps and such will be separate DLC data. They may also be wearing MS down, seeing if they can get the maps released for free. If they can't, waiting until all classes have had at least one major update also lets them pack as many maps as they can into a DLC pack to at least justify the cost for 360 owners.
Halo also wasn't anywhere near being done the last time they showed it as a PC game in 2000, that demo was entirely scripted. Once the studio was bought by MS, the game actually got a deadline.
No, because people can still see your network (house). SSID being turned off is like standing outside your painted-over-address house and yelling "I'M NOT HERE".
I can confirm this. When they still had original Xbox titles that could not connect to Live, you could not connect to 360 players or vice versa, even though it was the same exact game.
But to take it a step further, you couldn't even see people as online if they were in the game on a different generation Xbox. For example: Most Wanted. If I signed into Most Wanted OXBox, my friend playing Most Wanted 360 would not show up online, at all.
I mean, let's say a bus is coming towards you. If you're in this thing, you're toast. But if you just WALK, you can always jump out of the way.
I don't see how the situation changes if you're in a normal car, or truck. The bus will always win, unless you're driving in a semi, in which case both the drivers lose but the bus passengers may survive if they're in the back.
A truck rear ended a bus recently at about 40mph. The bus just looked like it had a big dent in it.
It was also written by a completely different author than the good ones. And yes, it suffered from bad writing and acting as a game walkthrough.
Also none of good ones have really been the "intro to books" style. A vast majority of the Halo playerbase online hasn't even beaten campaign, much less care about it. The books cater more to sci-fi fans and the people who actually care about the Halo universe than the general Halo population does. Also, Bungie has a thing about canon and sticking to it a lot. Instead of rebalancing a weapon and calling it the same name, they go as far as to assign it a different model number in the canon. For example, in Halo 1 the pistol is the M6D, in Halo 2 it's the M6C, and in Halo 3 it's the M6G. And from what I've read and seen, Greg Bear also has a thing for canon and everything 'making sense' so it's a perfect match.
Also we know very little about the Forerunners, so Bear is pretty much going to have free reign.
Also, go fast on a racetrack or out in the boonies where there is nobody on the highway. Not on public, utilitarian roads.
And I'll be in whatever lane I want to be, because I don't like lane changing and therefore can start out on the middle lane and can end up in the far right lane further on without ever switching. There's also the fact that there is very heavy semi traffic around here, and they'll always be dominating the far lanes.
Only about 5% of the drivers know the proper speed for the "situation", or else we wouldn't have crashes everywhere when it suddenly rains (people still going full speed down the highway) or the first snow of the winter season.
Also all offramps are not created equal. If you increase the speed too much, you're not going to be able to stop in time on short offramps.
I like how people assume everyone is upgraded. Only 2% of the cars I see are new, the rest are 10 to 20 years old on the highway.
In this case, upgrades are worthless unless everyone has been upgraded.
If people want to get somewhere faster, I'd suggest a radical new approach - leave home 10 minutes sooner. Increasing your speed 10% to get there faster isn't worth getting ticketed (and speeding tickets are not a big source of revenue, as they do not run speed traps around here). Going the speed limit isn't hurting you. I fail to see how it's a big conspiracy or arbitrary. You think the government can ever just set something? No, it went through years of arguing and compromise. If they bumped it up to 90, people would just want to go 100. If they put it up to 100, people would want to go 120. It's "wah wah I can't do it" syndrome.
I don't drive on the highway, because a highway designed when the speed limit was 55 and 75mph speed limits don't mix.
However, I still fail to see how THE EVIL SPEED LIMITS are in any way hurting you, as a driver. People that speed on the normal streets actually catch more reds than I do, because the lights are timed with the speed limit in mind. They'll speed ahead of me, and I'll catch up to them because they got stopped at the red 4 blocks away but I don't have to stop because I wasn't doing 50 down a 30mph road, and it's green by the time I'm a block away.
So what happens if you try to go over the speed limit, and then try to take one of the offramps or turns?
And then overshoot the turn and slam into a concrete wall or slam on your brakes/hit someone at the end of the offramp because you were going faster than the highway was designed for?
Speeding is stupid, and is always dangerous. Yes, on a 75MPH highway everyone might be doing 80, but the idiot doing 95-100, dangerously merging and trying to get in front of traffic is an accident waiting to happen.
You forget, firefox has adblock, chrome does not. Google used to be good, or at the very least, did no evil, until they released an IPO, now they're like microsoft, but with a better pr department.
Yeah, Firefox didn't have adblock out the gate either. Chrome will have one once there's an extension system.
Real geeks filter out ads before they get to the browser using their router, so they don't get ads on any device or browser on their network;)
Maybe they should worry less about pinpointing an anonymous seat and more about actually paying the people who's IP -they- stole (example: Forrest Gump)
When 'Hollywood accounting' ends, I'll actually care about movie piracy. Until then, it's crooks complaining about thieves.
Let's not forget that there are countries that don't like us either.
See, blurring a church or hospital on a map won't do anything. In fact it would help terrorists or enemy nations. Know why?
You see, if you blur out 'important targets' on a map.. there's no need to do recon on the entire area! The government has already done the easy work of blurring (aka marking) where all the good targets are.
You know, let's ignore the fact that for a moment, hospitals and schools are all very prominent buildings anyway. Should we take out all the "H" signs that signify the way to the hospital in cities? (Answer: no, because that actually came in handy when my stepdad had to take me to the hospital in Rapid City, hundreds of miles away from home). If you drive down one of the highways in Omaha, you can see at least half the prominent targets, because they are a) tall b) marked on the exits.
Blurring the WTC wouldn't have prevented 9/11. Blurring Pearl Harbor wouldn't have prevented that either. Blurring OKC wouldn't have prevented the OKC bombing. Blurring Von Maur wouldn't have prevented the Omaha mall shooting.
Seems the cord is exactly the same. I can see a gap between the CC and the back buttons.
Also, for all we know the shell could have a passthrough hookup. CC -> shell -> wiimote.
To be fair, that thing was unviewable on most TVs of the time. (you have to remember that any moment, a majority of TVs are going to be >6 years old). It's kind of like when you see old 70s/80s/early 90s video content and it's all fuzzy and poor sound quality. But now that everyone has upgraded their equipment, even on the same SDTV technology everything became a lot more visible. I mean, look at old football broadcasts where the score was superimposed in a block Arial-ish font with yellow text on a screen between plays, with the rest of the broadcast having no overlay.
Today with the same SDTV tech, they have the score, down, clock, and even information on other sports/games going on. Resolution didn't get bigger, but the broadcasting equipment got better.
I've gone to the Penny Arcade Expo twice now. First time on a Greyhound, second time on a plane (because I didn't want to spend two days riding back to Omaha again).
On the Greyhound trip, the legs that were on subcontracted bus companies were 50x better than the actual Greyhound bus legs. Better seats, better A/C controls, window shades, and in-bus movies (although not a monitor in every seat, they had one about every 4 rows, so you had a good view no matter what). The actual Greyhound legs? No bus movie, smaller seats, gave us like 2 minutes at each bus stop to stretch legs.
I took Frontier Airlines for the plane ride from Omaha->Denver->Seattle and back. While I went in expecting "flying Greyhound bus", they did have screens for each seat, free headphones, and a free big cup of orange juice or soda for each leg. I only wish that I had brought a credit card with me for the 3 hour denverseattle leg, it would have made that go a lot faster, but otherwise the crew and service was great.
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Except Bungie wanted to release much more maps than Microsoft allowed. But since Microsoft owns the Halo IP, Microsoft decided to chop off half the Mythic Map Pack and only include 3 maps instead of the original 6. It was so botched by Microsoft because Bungie had all 6 maps named in their patch in September '08, but Bungie could not legally discuss the maps. Even though the NAMES WERE RIGHT THERE. And they still can't talk about Longshore, Heretic, or Citadel, even though we can see the map names in the achievements, and the maps have been done since fall '08.
The reason it hasn't updated is from what I remember, Xbox 360 games patches can be no larger than 10MB in size. Also, Microsoft's cert process is very long.
So they're waiting until they have a good number of updates out on PC, and then the 360 TF2 is going to get all of them as one big update. Due to MS's lengthy cert process, they couldn't get away with the hotfixes they do after each update.
Now, patches are free on 360, you can't ever charge for them (1, because MS doesn't allow it. 2, because there's no mechanism to charge for them anyway) All the engine updates needed, etc, will be in the patch code. All the new maps and such will be separate DLC data. They may also be wearing MS down, seeing if they can get the maps released for free. If they can't, waiting until all classes have had at least one major update also lets them pack as many maps as they can into a DLC pack to at least justify the cost for 360 owners.
Halo also wasn't anywhere near being done the last time they showed it as a PC game in 2000, that demo was entirely scripted. Once the studio was bought by MS, the game actually got a deadline.
That list is pretty shallow. Windows XP service packs included a lot more.
Not really. Windows XP SP 2 was the exception, not the rule. Other than that, Service Packs were not and haven't been like that one.
No, because people can still see your network (house). SSID being turned off is like standing outside your painted-over-address house and yelling "I'M NOT HERE".
Not broadcasting a SSID is about as useful as painting over your address number on the outside of your house/building.
The 2nd amendment applies to foreigners on US soil as well doesnt it? So whats the problem? I dont see any.
Unfortunately a lot of people these days forget about that small but important detail.
EA? Patch their games? That's a good one.
I can confirm this. When they still had original Xbox titles that could not connect to Live, you could not connect to 360 players or vice versa, even though it was the same exact game.
But to take it a step further, you couldn't even see people as online if they were in the game on a different generation Xbox. For example: Most Wanted. If I signed into Most Wanted OXBox, my friend playing Most Wanted 360 would not show up online, at all.
I mean, let's say a bus is coming towards you. If you're in this thing, you're toast. But if you just WALK, you can always jump out of the way.
I don't see how the situation changes if you're in a normal car, or truck. The bus will always win, unless you're driving in a semi, in which case both the drivers lose but the bus passengers may survive if they're in the back.
A truck rear ended a bus recently at about 40mph. The bus just looked like it had a big dent in it.
It was also written by a completely different author than the good ones. And yes, it suffered from bad writing and acting as a game walkthrough.
Also none of good ones have really been the "intro to books" style. A vast majority of the Halo playerbase online hasn't even beaten campaign, much less care about it. The books cater more to sci-fi fans and the people who actually care about the Halo universe than the general Halo population does. Also, Bungie has a thing about canon and sticking to it a lot. Instead of rebalancing a weapon and calling it the same name, they go as far as to assign it a different model number in the canon. For example, in Halo 1 the pistol is the M6D, in Halo 2 it's the M6C, and in Halo 3 it's the M6G. And from what I've read and seen, Greg Bear also has a thing for canon and everything 'making sense' so it's a perfect match.
Also we know very little about the Forerunners, so Bear is pretty much going to have free reign.
Nope.
Also, go fast on a racetrack or out in the boonies where there is nobody on the highway. Not on public, utilitarian roads.
And I'll be in whatever lane I want to be, because I don't like lane changing and therefore can start out on the middle lane and can end up in the far right lane further on without ever switching. There's also the fact that there is very heavy semi traffic around here, and they'll always be dominating the far lanes.
Only about 5% of the drivers know the proper speed for the "situation", or else we wouldn't have crashes everywhere when it suddenly rains (people still going full speed down the highway) or the first snow of the winter season.
Also all offramps are not created equal. If you increase the speed too much, you're not going to be able to stop in time on short offramps.
I like how people assume everyone is upgraded. Only 2% of the cars I see are new, the rest are 10 to 20 years old on the highway.
In this case, upgrades are worthless unless everyone has been upgraded.
If people want to get somewhere faster, I'd suggest a radical new approach - leave home 10 minutes sooner. Increasing your speed 10% to get there faster isn't worth getting ticketed (and speeding tickets are not a big source of revenue, as they do not run speed traps around here). Going the speed limit isn't hurting you. I fail to see how it's a big conspiracy or arbitrary. You think the government can ever just set something? No, it went through years of arguing and compromise. If they bumped it up to 90, people would just want to go 100. If they put it up to 100, people would want to go 120. It's "wah wah I can't do it" syndrome.
I don't drive on the highway, because a highway designed when the speed limit was 55 and 75mph speed limits don't mix.
However, I still fail to see how THE EVIL SPEED LIMITS are in any way hurting you, as a driver. People that speed on the normal streets actually catch more reds than I do, because the lights are timed with the speed limit in mind. They'll speed ahead of me, and I'll catch up to them because they got stopped at the red 4 blocks away but I don't have to stop because I wasn't doing 50 down a 30mph road, and it's green by the time I'm a block away.
So what happens if you try to go over the speed limit, and then try to take one of the offramps or turns?
And then overshoot the turn and slam into a concrete wall or slam on your brakes/hit someone at the end of the offramp because you were going faster than the highway was designed for?
Speeding is stupid, and is always dangerous. Yes, on a 75MPH highway everyone might be doing 80, but the idiot doing 95-100, dangerously merging and trying to get in front of traffic is an accident waiting to happen.
You only a get a ticket if you're lucky.
You forget, firefox has adblock, chrome does not. Google used to be good, or at the very least, did no evil, until they released an IPO, now they're like microsoft, but with a better pr department.
Yeah, Firefox didn't have adblock out the gate either. Chrome will have one once there's an extension system.
Real geeks filter out ads before they get to the browser using their router, so they don't get ads on any device or browser on their network ;)
""If people are really determined to target these sites they can find these images and there is nothing we can do to stop them." - MOD spokesman
In short, "people can get their hands on these images without Google"
Maybe they should worry less about pinpointing an anonymous seat and more about actually paying the people who's IP -they- stole (example: Forrest Gump)
When 'Hollywood accounting' ends, I'll actually care about movie piracy. Until then, it's crooks complaining about thieves.
Let's not forget that there are countries that don't like us either.
See, blurring a church or hospital on a map won't do anything. In fact it would help terrorists or enemy nations. Know why?
You see, if you blur out 'important targets' on a map.. there's no need to do recon on the entire area! The government has already done the easy work of blurring (aka marking) where all the good targets are.
You know, let's ignore the fact that for a moment, hospitals and schools are all very prominent buildings anyway. Should we take out all the "H" signs that signify the way to the hospital in cities? (Answer: no, because that actually came in handy when my stepdad had to take me to the hospital in Rapid City, hundreds of miles away from home). If you drive down one of the highways in Omaha, you can see at least half the prominent targets, because they are a) tall b) marked on the exits.
Blurring the WTC wouldn't have prevented 9/11. Blurring Pearl Harbor wouldn't have prevented that either. Blurring OKC wouldn't have prevented the OKC bombing. Blurring Von Maur wouldn't have prevented the Omaha mall shooting.
It's notable because Halo 2 never hit it, and it's been up for 4 years now. It's currently sitting at 798 million.
Also, 1 billion games recorded is quite an accomplishment for any game.
Seems the cord is exactly the same. I can see a gap between the CC and the back buttons. Also, for all we know the shell could have a passthrough hookup. CC -> shell -> wiimote.
IGN are idiots. It looks exactly like a Classic Controller in a shell, not a new one.
The shell will probably sell for 5$ seperately, and new Classic Controllers will come with the shell by default for 25$.
To be fair, that thing was unviewable on most TVs of the time. (you have to remember that any moment, a majority of TVs are going to be >6 years old). It's kind of like when you see old 70s/80s/early 90s video content and it's all fuzzy and poor sound quality. But now that everyone has upgraded their equipment, even on the same SDTV technology everything became a lot more visible. I mean, look at old football broadcasts where the score was superimposed in a block Arial-ish font with yellow text on a screen between plays, with the rest of the broadcast having no overlay. Today with the same SDTV tech, they have the score, down, clock, and even information on other sports/games going on. Resolution didn't get bigger, but the broadcasting equipment got better.
I've gone to the Penny Arcade Expo twice now. First time on a Greyhound, second time on a plane (because I didn't want to spend two days riding back to Omaha again).
On the Greyhound trip, the legs that were on subcontracted bus companies were 50x better than the actual Greyhound bus legs. Better seats, better A/C controls, window shades, and in-bus movies (although not a monitor in every seat, they had one about every 4 rows, so you had a good view no matter what). The actual Greyhound legs? No bus movie, smaller seats, gave us like 2 minutes at each bus stop to stretch legs.
I took Frontier Airlines for the plane ride from Omaha->Denver->Seattle and back. While I went in expecting "flying Greyhound bus", they did have screens for each seat, free headphones, and a free big cup of orange juice or soda for each leg. I only wish that I had brought a credit card with me for the 3 hour denverseattle leg, it would have made that go a lot faster, but otherwise the crew and service was great.