OMG New Halo Series!!!!

[a chewy rock]

Here's the link. There's a video on front page.

http://www.gamespot.com/index.html

Here's the article...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6158890.html?tag=latestnews;title;0

Awesomeness.

[Mister Matt]

i went crazy when i saw that!

[a chewy rock]

So did I. It's made using a mod that was meant for Command & Conquer: Zero Hour. It's gonna be an RTS and I guess similar to C&C, which was one of my favorite RTS games. Should be pretty awesome and that video was amazing.

[Darthorious]

lol...

I'm the odd one out then. Never liked halo. Not to mention not interested in an Xbox 360.

The old xbox was bad enough with having to hack it so I could replace the dvd drive because the thing kept breaking with factory equipment about every 7 months. Even tried installing multiple cooling systems in it thinking maybe a heating problem and still did no good untill I hacked it and put an exspensive dvd drive in it. I guess not really a hack just had to re-engineer it.

There's no way I'm gonna pay for a HD drive and have to hack/re-enginner the new one.

But when I was able to play halo it just seemed pretty and that was about it. Other than that never really appealed to me. I guess because at the time I had just as good of games on my computer and it easily outperformed the xbox.

What I really want to know is how much they are paying hollywood to have the "Preditors" appear in their game lol...

[hanstin]

its time for me to get myself a xbox 360 and buy halo 3 and halo wars

[Spartan]

Halo Wars, eww. Maybe if it comes out on PC.

[a chewy rock]

lol...

I'm the odd one out then. Never liked halo. Not to mention not interested in an Xbox 360.

The old xbox was bad enough with having to hack it so I could replace the dvd drive because the thing kept breaking with factory equipment about every 7 months. Even tried installing multiple cooling systems in it thinking maybe a heating problem and still did no good untill I hacked it and put an exspensive dvd drive in it. I guess not really a hack just had to re-engineer it.

There's no way I'm gonna pay for a HD drive and have to hack/re-enginner the new one.

But when I was able to play halo it just seemed pretty and that was about it. Other than that never really appealed to me. I guess because at the time I had just as good of games on my computer and it easily outperformed the xbox.

What I really want to know is how much they are paying hollywood to have the "Preditors" appear in their game lol...

I've never had problems with my Xbox or Xbox 360 and I don't think the active camoflauge idea was really taken from Predator. Active camoflauge is a big thing, not like it's some crazy cool idea that nobody would ever think of.

[Spartan]

I just love how ACTIVE CAMOFLAUGE needs to literally bend light to create the appearence that nothing is their. Water can bend light. So, now how do you explain active camo without saying "Bend Light" in the definition.

Active Camo is a FREAKING ILLUSION. Its way cool technology but its an allusion that humans as of right now, only say Bending Light. lol.

Atleast stargate has the people in a parallel dimension able to see into our 3rd D.

[Darthorious]

I've never had problems with my Xbox or Xbox 360 and I don't think the active camoflauge idea was really taken from Predator. Active camoflauge is a big thing, not like it's some crazy cool idea that nobody would ever think of.

That's what I thought at first but they have the exact same sound as the preditors and I noticed something small opening up on the face although I couldn't get a decent view of it seemed almost exactly like a preditor.

[Darthorious]

I just love how ACTIVE CAMOFLAUGE needs to literally bend light to create the appearence that nothing is their. Water can bend light. So, now how do you explain active camo without saying "Bend Light" in the definition.

Active Camo is a FREAKING ILLUSION. Its way cool technology but its an allusion that humans as of right now, only say Bending Light. lol.

Atleast stargate has the people in a parallel dimension able to see into our 3rd D.

Only bad thing about it is that during the day time you can't get close to the enemy because they will see you. Basicly you look like a blob of moving water so unless their idiots or not paying attention your dead lol... Now from a distance of about 21 yards or further your good to go for the most part.

Now at night time it totally rocks as the only thing to give you away is sound.

Now that being said I retired 6 years ago so maybe we have better technology than I'm privy to now lol. But thats how it use to work and I'll tell you this it's been around a long time.

[Spartan]

Only bad thing about it is that during the day time you can't get close to the enemy because they will see you. Basicly you look like a blob of moving water so unless their idiots or not paying attention your dead lol... Now from a distance of about 21 yards or further your good to go for the most part.

Now at night time it totally rocks as the only thing to give you away is sound.

Now that being said I retired 6 years ago so maybe we have better technology than I'm privy to now lol. But thats how it use to work and I'll tell you this it's been around a long time.


???????

Retired from what excactly. AC right now is a well trained sniper who blends into the nature so well you don't know he is their.

[a chewy rock]

Darthorious used to be an Elite. Didn't he tell you all? I mean I knew.

[Spartan]

Anyone else think asylum.

[Darthorious]

Anyone else think asylum.

ROFL...

Um no I wasn't special forces lol...

But ya was military if you think I'm loony because you assumed I thought I was special forces then I'm not even gonna tell you what my real job was as you would never believe me then anyway...

It's ok though I have the dd form 214 (Honorable discharge/or retierment as civ.'s refer to it) to prove it lol...

But best thing to do is watch discovery channel I think they aired something about it about 7 or 8 years ago can't remember what they called it. (refering to the Optical Camouflage)

[a chewy rock]

I'll believe you!!! What were you in the military?

[Spartan]

The navy recruited me for Nuclear Power, and some other wierd thing. I went with nuke. Then when my departure day came they told me to wait another year. no thanks. I love the military, but right now its not a military, to many rules to abide. War has no Rules, thats why "terrorists" are going to kick our butts in a few years. Vietnam all over again.

What did you do in the military. I understand stealth fighters have a paint coat the reflects and absorbs radar so its harder to see them.

Active Camo for a person is a little harder than that, they would have to minipulate light. Humans are smart, but not that smart, not yet anyways. Yes we made the A-bomb, but we just ain't smart enought to minipulate light to bend around/through a person to make them "invisible" to the naked eye.

[Darthorious]

The navy recruited me for Nuclear Power, and some other wierd thing. I went with nuke. Then when my departure day came they told me to wait another year. no thanks. I love the military, but right now its not a military, to many rules to abide. War has no Rules, thats why "terrorists" are going to kick our butts in a few years. Vietnam all over again.

What did you do in the military. I understand stealth fighters have a paint coat the reflects and absorbs radar so its harder to see them.

Active Camo for a person is a little harder than that, they would have to minipulate light. Humans are smart, but not that smart, not yet anyways. Yes we made the A-bomb, but we just ain't smart enought to minipulate light to bend around/through a person to make them "invisible" to the naked eye.


They use to use fiber optics and tiny cameras it was more about reflecting images around the person onto the fiber optics to give the illusion that the person is invisible when in actuality their just a giant mirror in a sense thus when they move during the day you can see them at close range because it just looks odd or like I said before a giant blob of water and at night if their is no bright light you can't actually see the movement because of the lack of light.

In other words your clothes (made from fiber optics) acts like a 3-d movie screen and the image being projected through the fiber optics is the surroundings picked up by the cameras. Cameras can be adjusted to an extent to compensate for odd items in the area so you don't say turn into a walking tree because the camera is pointed at a tree.

At the same time it has a problem you sneak up on someone and if you stand directly in front of them they see themselves on you lol...Assuming you didn't adjust the camera/s. And even if you did it still has a good chance of catching the person and projecting them on you although you should have killed them by then or just not have been there in the first place.

As for my job all I can say is really is I was in the military and I did get to work for NASA at one point which was pretty cool. (No not an astronaut lol) Wasn't anything elite per say but was told I was smart although I said many times if they thought I was smart they should meet my uncle lol...He was pretty much a genius due to having a photographic memory.

But ya when I left it had nothing really to do with bending light just a basic illusion that was really expensive to create. And kind of a hassel to play with camera's while you're tracking someone. As far as I know it was tested but never put into use that I'm aware of anyway.

As for Japan I have no idea what their doing and I also kind of questioned some of the video they had...

They have 1 video where they hold up a block and you can see through whatever the blocks over but at one point they place it over a human body and you can see the guys bones yet in another video they do the same thing and you see straight through the guy to the wall behind him. So I have no idea what their doing there lol.

[Spartan]

You had to be a Mechanic or Science Geek. Thats who works for NASA, lol. I would love to serve my country but only when the idiot politicians realize they don't belong on the battlefield, them and their cameras. The Public Eye can see what true war is, but politicians say that its to bloody (No shit) so they have "rules" of engagement so we can get our butts handed to us from vietnam to year 3000 when some genius will be like "We need to re-think our political/military standpoint."

Understood the Fiber Optics stuff, but again its not the true meaning of Active Camo, the suit for a single person would contain tens of thousands not actually bending light, its a huge collage. If you lay down, dirt/debri could block a camera or two and throw off the entire image.

[a chewy rock]

If I was Bill Gates, I would make somebody build me an active camo suit that actually turned me invisible. No illusions. That's how rich I'd be.

[Spartan]

lol, Bill Gates, some people are much richer than him. But its not public knowledge.

[a chewy rock]

Still Bill Gates is crazy rich. He could spend over $1 million a day for a whole year and still have tons of money. 20 years spending $1 million a day, it owuld only be 7,300,000,000. He has way more than that. It's crazy.

[Spartan]

You must be young. Most of his "Money" is in stocks. His NETworth is almost 100 Billion. But he couldn't get that much money if he wanted to, he would be lucky to get $50,000 out at a time. He has to sell his stocks, transfer them, and then he would be able to use the money. It takes some time to do that. Rich people don't have money they have a Networth. Their are people with $50 billion dollars in the bank, but they usually have hundreds of accounts.

[a chewy rock]

I was just sayin that there's that much there.

[Ziegler]

stealth planes also have...for lack of a better word...gaps in them...not metal which makes them seem smaller than actual to a radar which then skips over them...

[Darthorious]

stealth planes also have...for lack of a better word...gaps in them...not metal which makes them seem smaller than actual to a radar which then skips over them...

Ya the stealth isn't fool proof so to speak and eventually, if we don't already I'm sure we will be able to detect it in the not too far future.

But ya the radar detects it initially as a tiny object and just doesn't display it.

[Darthorious]

You had to be a Mechanic or Science Geek. Thats who works for NASA, lol. I would love to serve my country but only when the idiot politicians realize they don't belong on the battlefield, them and their cameras. The Public Eye can see what true war is, but politicians say that its to bloody (No shit) so they have "rules" of engagement so we can get our butts handed to us from vietnam to year 3000 when some genius will be like "We need to re-think our political/military standpoint."

Understood the Fiber Optics stuff, but again its not the true meaning of Active Camo, the suit for a single person would contain tens of thousands not actually bending light, its a huge collage. If you lay down, dirt/debri could block a camera or two and throw off the entire image.

Ya it's pry part of the reason it wasn't put into practice (at least that I'm aware of) it was cool and all but really not practical for a battle field really the only use I could see it being for is maybe for a sniper but even then if you're a sniper you shouldn't be known to be there in the first place.

Your comment about the military I know exactly what your saying lol...
It's funny whenever you go through combat survival they teach you the "Rules of engagement" and then I had fun in a Mock-up POW camp. (Don't know which school you guys go through with your branch of service) The first thing you learn as a POW is there is no such thing as ROG. At first I thought maybe the US was the only country following it, but now I'm not so sure we actually do lol...

The whole it's too bloody thing is a laugh too. Please if we didn't want blood then we wouldn't be at war in the first place. I would assume it's mostly politicians/senators trying to keep themselves in the spot light so it looks like their actually doing something in Washington, all the while getting favorable press releases to keep the voters happy and make it look like their actually fighting for a humane cause. All to ensure the votes from that particular demographic voter/s lol...

The thing that suprised me the most was that we actually captured S. Huisaine (spelling?) and didn't just shoot him on sight. I spose though they wanted to interogate him about WMD's all the while he pry gets treated better than people in jail in the US lol...

I guess I better stop rambling

[Ziegler]

The thing that suprised me the most was that we actually captured S. Huisaine (spelling?) and didn't just shoot him on sight. I spose though they wanted to interogate him about WMD's all the while he pry gets treated better than people in jail in the US lol...


We didnt shoot him due to imbedded reporters being there when we found him.

Rules in War are an attempt by civilized people to make something that is never going to be civilized...just that; civilized. What they dont seem to understand, is that rules only matter when both sides abide by them...and if I am ticked off enough to want to kill you...it isnt very likely that I will want to follow some set of arbitrary rules.

So we end up handicapping our military by making them follow a set of rules that the enemy isnt going to for any reason. When russia went in afghanistan, they captured a village and asked where the insurgents were and started killing the villagers with each time they had to repeat the question...needless to say, they didnt have to repeat the question too many times. We would never consider such actions, and that is why we will be mired in this alot longer than necessary.

[Spartan]

ROE, are only for "civilized" military. To bad a "civilized" military will never win a war.

War is not pretty, and not fun. Its just 2 leaders using thousands of pawns to do their dirty work. *cough* bush *cough*

I was going into the navy but I didn't go. they told me I was leaving in August, and then switched me to next 07 Aug or Sept. I can't wait that long. So I am going to get a job and study Film and Business next year instead of Nuclear Power (HARD FREAKING HARD) and start my own company with my brother.

The US will win any invasion that takes place in america, we have guns, everywhere. I prefer a Artic Warfare Rifle, 14 - 16x Zoom, Flash Suppressor, Custom Silencer, Extended Barrel, and a bipod. Bring on the range and pain. I love that gun, even before CS. That gun just looks so slick and pretty. But the AK, that is for short to medium range, because I know it wont jam.

[Darthorious]

We didnt shoot him due to imbedded reporters being there when we found him.

Rules in War are an attempt by civilized people to make something that is never going to be civilized...just that; civilized. What they dont seem to understand, is that rules only matter when both sides abide by them...and if I am ticked off enough to want to kill you...it isnt very likely that I will want to follow some set of arbitrary rules.

So we end up handicapping our military by making them follow a set of rules that the enemy isnt going to for any reason. When russia went in afghanistan, they captured a village and asked where the insurgents were and started killing the villagers with each time they had to repeat the question...needless to say, they didnt have to repeat the question too many times. We would never consider such actions, and that is why we will be mired in this alot longer than necessary.


Oh that's right they had a camera man with them lol... I forgot all about that lol...

As for an attack on the US ya we would win hands down there's way too many people with guns who would get a kick out of shooting some foreighn solider coming down the road because they could lol...Not to mention all the gangs that would be ticked if they wandered into their turf lol...

I can't even count how many people (civ.'s) I know that have automatic weapons. Heck both my brothers have AK-47's with amo, fully auto.

[a chewy rock]

I want an AK-47. Loaded or not.

[Mister Matt]

In light of recent Halo news, it seemed rather fitting to ressurect this thread and it's interesting to look back and see what has changed since the article was posted 2 years ago.

My, my, my how things have changed.

It's now over two years later and look at where we are. The Halo film has sadly been cancelled. Halo Wars was just freshly announced and it still hasn't com out, and won't for a while it would seem and Ensemble Studios is getting canned after it comes out. Halo 3 came out almost exactly a year later after this article. Bungie is now a completely independent developer with a new Halo game coming out in a year. And we still know just as much today as we did more two years ago about Peter Jackson's Halo game.

Wow.

[a chewy rock]

I'm expecting Halo Wars to be mediocre. Peter Jackson's Halo thing should be cool even though I'm not sure what it will be. And Halo 3: Recon looks awesome even if it is just an expansion for Halo 3. I'll definitely be getting that and I can't wait to see more from it. Also, I have to believe that there's something going on with the Halo movie but we just don't know it.