New Mythic Map Pack Info

Falconx03 · 12-02-2008

New Mythic Map pack info

I, Falconx03 did NOT play these maps. This was all from an MLG player from MLG.

New Mythic Map Pack Info - MLG Forums

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"I was invited to play the new maps (minus Sandbox) at Bungie HQ along with some of the biggest community people in Halo (Louis Wu, Cocopjojo, Voc, etc). So I thought to give you a small, small heads up, I would help you out with a little bit of information.

Okay, so here we go:

Assembly: small to mid-size map. Bowl shaped covenant scarab factory - you've seen it.

Heretic: Midship remake. The ONLY - and literally ONLY - difference any of us could find (we tested all the jumps) was that jump pad on top, where you can jump up and get the sword, it was bouncy whenever you jumped or threw grenades on it in H2. It wasn't bouncy in Heretic. Everything else was faithful. Programmed into the map is BR/plasma nade starts. The sky box when you look out the windows is AMAZING - it is a view of quite a few Covenant carriers and ships coming into possibly our Solar system, and you are looking out from the belly of another ship. There is one that is really close to you and you can see amazing detail on the ship. There is a planet nearby too.

Orbital: I played 8v8 on this map, and it was WAY too many people. But it was a lot of corridor shooting. I never got a chance to explore this map (this was the only game I played on this map). It was obvious it was some sort of orbiting platform around earth - most likely a MAC cannon. There were quite a few computer screens on top of every entryway. Very neat.

Longshore: Wow. Easily my favorite map of all of them. This is a BTB map, and it is along the docks of OLD Mombasa (confirmed by Lars). There are even little maroon dinghies with small engines at a part of the map (I poked fun and said "I guess they never changed the design of small boat engines in 500 years, the employees got a laugh out of that). When you look out to the water, you see 2 LARGE carrier ships off in the distance, with pelicans and longswords and a couple other planes of some sort. It is AMAZING. There is a 2 story building on one side (base 1) with the roof also being accessible, and another 2 two-story buildings on the other side (Base 2). A center structure (kind of like a warehouse/boat storage facility) separates the two bases, and there is up at the WAY top of this structure an extendable bridge that drops on the roof of base 1. Lots of other buildings/crates/places to hide. One side of the map is all ocean, the other side is blocked by a large building that is part of the boat warehouse middle structure. This fish picture/drawing that was being handed out at PAX was a billboard on this map.

Citadel: I played this map with Lars. This map was LARGELY inspired by the level "The Covenant" when you were inside of the Forerunner structures, right after the battle with the Hunters who were below the elevator platform. When you have to go around and up an angled jump to battle a few brutes and buggers to get to the platform, that part is almost exactly in the map! It was really cool and was a good close quarters map. Two overshields spawn, and there is a central location with a small structure in the middle with Rockets on top. There are a lot of things hidden in here, very cool map.

And Sandbox they didn't let us play (none of us have any idea why?) and said nothing about it either.

This is just to give you an idea of what everything is about.

~Williams"

Matty · 12-02-2008

These details could have possibly reignited my hope for Bungie. After the abomination that was the Legendary map pack, and the total mess-up that is supposedly a "Chill-Out Remake" i thought all was lost. Perhaps i am wrong. I do hope to god that they don't make a mess of Heretic, because my god was Midship an awesome map. Orbital and Citadel don't excite me much but i'm sure they will add some new elements to aysmmetric gaming. Assembly could also be good, and i'm glad to hear they are making something designed for Slayer. However, at PAX it seemed to play horrible. Longshore sounds pretty great though. It's about time they went back and built some decreped urban maps.

redearth · 12-02-2008

Nice find. I'm am so glad you found this. And finally maybe this will shut people up about the midship remake thing.

KnarFF 213 · 12-02-2008

You got me pretty happy until i saw the late 3 maps(heritic,longshore,and citadel).Because you got me all ecited about the mpas and i still have to wait another year(almost).I want to play these maps right now,and it looks like the best ones are coming out later(ecept sandbox)

Whisper · 12-02-2008

This information is not 100% confirmed, so take it with a grain of salt.

matt102992 · 12-02-2008

If it is true, then that sounds really cool. I've been looking forward to the maps ever since we knew there would be another map pack. Longshore sounds pretty epic and I can't wait for sandbox. It;s going to have some amazing forge capabilities and there is going to be a ton of great user created content.

Whisper · 12-02-2008

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Originally Posted by matt102992

It;s going to have some amazing forge capabilities and there is going to be a ton of great user created content.

Again, we don't know this for 100%. Take it with a grain of salt.

Blanked · 12-02-2008

midship remake! Thank god bungie finally may have done something right. I hope this is true! Although Assembly didn't reportedly play well at PAX, I have seen the vids, it has a nice layout, just the people playing on alot of em were straight up garbage. Longshore sounds epic! The other ones dont really excite me. Bungie has said all the maps are finished, so I really dont understand why they are delaying the releases of Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel. It pisses me off so bad cuz midship + halo 3 = epic!!! I hope this is true! I'm now interested somewhat in things in mythic besides sandbox.

Falconx03 · 12-02-2008

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Originally Posted by Blanked

Bungie has said all the maps are finished, so I really dont understand why they are delaying the releases of Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel.

they are delaying cuz Bungie is going down the toilet so to speak now. All these new awesome games and stuff are coming out. Bungie knows they dont have much keeping them so they are giving out Recon armor to everyone who can get all 4 vidmaster achievements. They have 5 brand new maps and 1 remake.

Now they have Halo 3: ODST, formerly known as Halo 3: Recon. They figured with that they can hold back on a few things like the maps. So they are probably keeping the favorites or best maps for later minus Sandbox, if it is something extremely awesome.

FirFox 919 · 12-02-2008

there puting longshore,citadel and heretic with odst so itll help boost the new games sales. plus we dont want to get spoiled now do we?

its always good to have something to look forward to.