The Ghost Of Oynx book? Well if you were interested you should have picked it up at Kino during the release date. Nothing much related to MC's path right now though. There's only one mention of "The sword and the shield of the forerunners" and even that is muddy.

Good read though, Eric Nylund is definetly a better writer than the guy who wrote "The Flood"

Let's see now.. things I'd like to see in Halo 3.

Realtime coop joining in campaign mode
Spoiled by GOW, now this is the ONLY way to play Co-Op. Open up the guide, create new message, "Hey I need some help here", kick ass and take names together with friend. BEAUTIFUL!!!

Active Reloading
This changes the whole strategy of the reload game, previously in any FPS game you know depending on the weapon how long it'll take to reload once the guy pressed the reload button. with active reload now you have to guess wheter he's gonna fail, reload quicker, or PERFECT reload! Luckily the audio cues help. "You gotta be kidding me!" *Boomshot*

Enviromental effects
If you've played COD3 and Lost Planet already you'd know what I'm talking about, in COD3 bullet fire kicks up dust and smoke giving that realistic enviromental feel. Worse in Lost Planet, play on Hard mode and your screen will be filled with smoke and debris of everything blowing up all over you! Worse thing that can happen to you is that you shoot someone with dual rockets, they hit and create a giant smoke cloud on the target, you grin, your grin fades as the still standing target's laser cannons charge up and you can see their glow through the smoke.

Yes, we always had enviromental effects, but not at such a big scale and detail before.

If it's an Instant replay, and you can't really save the replays... then that's useless. Cause if you're on multiplayer, you wouldn't want every single n00b to press the button when they kill someone.

The shield generated by the shield grenade, yes.. it looks big.. and pretty much renders the spartans inside indestructible. But... this brings up another few points in the name of game balancing for a multiplayer game. Namely...
- If there's something that can give one side invulnerability whereever and whenever they want to, then there must either be some form of disadvantage to it (big ass shield generator) or... the other side has some sort of super weapon that NECESSITATES the use of such a sheild generator.

2nd. look in the video, notice when he dropped the shield grenade... no.. shield beach ball, it still rolls and the generated field moves with it (either that or I was too tired when I watched it) That would mean a squad could effectively fit in the sheild and then kick the beach ball around to use as some sort of temporary APC, given the team a good attack/defense strategy..

Again.. there must be some way to balance out the invulnerability of the shield, either it lasts only for a while, or there's some SUPER weapon that can damage/remove it quickly (can't have the n00bs constantly shielding a flag) Or.. it's the kenetic shield the Gungan's used in Star Wars : Episode 1, which basically means that it stops all energy (plasma bolts, lasers) and high velocity objects (bullets, rockets, etc. etc.) but it wouldn't stop one pissed off MC charging into the shield with a energy sword ready to skewer fish in a barrel.

One more thing... did the video show the guy in the shield FIRING OUT?

OOo... and mines... always welcomed in Capture the flag!

Has anyone seen the PSA? Damn that's funny like hell and oh so true!!

Hmm the way the teabagging was working.. it could only mean one thing... WE CAN KICK BODIES AROUND!!!! Hopefully the bodies will stay there long enough to make it fun! ;P

ITS OFFICIAL SEPT 25TH LAUNCH!!!

hey.. Mobi.. when did u get Crackdown?
How the heck u gonna download the beta?

Called my house, walked my wife through the steps.. and now it's downloading.

Oh farking hell, I tell my wife to go check the download percentage and she tells me.. DEVICE FULL!!!! ARRRGGGGG.. walk her through deleting and now only started downloading... and it's going to storm near my house.. farking hell!!

FARK.. risking thunder and lightning here to get my H3

Here's How To Background Download the beta.

- after starting the download and it hits 1% or more, cancel the download.
- bring up the guide, click on your gamer card and goto account management
- select download history
- select Halo 3 beta
- play something else while it downloads

don't worry once more ppl get the download the matchmaking should be faster, as for where the weapons are. the bungie website has maps right?

Ok.. guys.. time to be mindful of all the cheap 2nd hand 360s that are going to pop out all over the wood work now!

Anyway my thoughts after managing to get two rounds of Halo 3 in last night.
- I need to remember not to press X to reload
- I need to remember not to press the right thumbstick to jump
- I need to remember to press the DPad before screaming "Look out, behind you!!!" (I hate that!! time to file a bug report!)

Played too much crackdown before hand mar, use to pressing down the right thumbstick to make giant leaps of faith!

Matchmaking? Let me check ur rank.. ok.. still n00b so we should be able to find games hopefully.

Hate us for what? IT's all your lagged ass's fault lar!

Giggling like a school girl? Don't forget there's me who likes to roar right before I rip you a new one!

WOrk Work Work.. SOOON!!!

Yup Halo FTW this weekend!