Halo 3 'Heroic Map Pack' Coming Dec. 11

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:58 am

1up wrote:Microsoft announced today that the first batch of new Halo 3 downloadable maps will be arriving on December 11 for 800 Microsoft points (about $10 dollars). Called the Heroic Map Pack, it features three new maps: Standoff, Rat's Nest, and Foundry. Standoff is described in the press release as a "symmetrical valley, with its entrenched bases and fields of boulders [making it] ideal for mid-sized objective and Slayer game types." Rat's Nest is "an indoor vehicle paradise," supposedly inspired by the campaign and suited for big team battles. And Foundry, perhaps most interestingly, is a map designed specifically for Forge manipulation; using the in-game map editing tools, "players can edit every single object in this voluminous industrial warehouse, place stairways, walls, bridges and tunnels to create an entirely new play space and build almost any kind of map they can think of." So get on that, game-developer wannabes. Now if you think $10 bucks is a bit steep for three new maps, rest assured that, as with Halo 2's downloadable content, they will eventually become free...if wait a while. All three maps will be free in spring 2008, "just prior to the next wave of all new 'Halo 3' multiplayer maps." Devious!

I am so Excited!!! YAY!!!

Another link

I can't wait to take more pictures XD

XxPTLegitxX · Post by **XxPTLegitxX** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:11 am

sweet can't wait

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:20 am

More random links just beacuse...

Xbox.com

Rat's nest
Foundry

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:25 am

I came.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:36 am

I figured Bungie would announce it first, considering they said they'd reveal them today.

http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=21066

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:43 am

From what I've seen, Bungie never announces anything first.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:49 am

Because other sources are too eager to publish information.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:16 pm

Cool.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:53 pm

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx ... &cid=12983

http://admin.bungie.net/images/Games/Ha ... tsNest.jpg
http://admin.bungie.net/images/Games/Ha ... oundry.jpg
http://admin.bungie.net/images/Games/Ha ... andoff.jpg

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:56 pm

Standoff looks pretty nice.

CptnNsan0 · Post by **CptnNsan0** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:58 pm

awesome

. I'm liking standoff

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:46 pm

loller big satellites. I am liking the part about being able to place stairs and stuff.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:47 pm

I'm glad they are going to let you Sandbags.
I wanted to do it badly after I played SandTrap.

DJ_Gnomey · Post by **DJ_Gnomey** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:55 pm

Beautiful HD glory. Got a LCD just for this type of shit in Halo 3!

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:16 pm

i thought there were 5 maps

. Anyway i cant wait to explore these new maps in freecam. Wonder if there will be any eggs to find.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:09 pm

Yeah I'm the person who said there was 5 new maps. Sorry for the false claim everyone.

drinki · Post by **drinki** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:12 pm

i took back halo 3 becuase it was so boaring, now that i see these mps look tight as hell ill get it back again

Juniorman030790 · Post by **Juniorman030790** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:22 pm

drinki wrote:i took back halo 3 becuase it was so boaring, now that i see these mps look tight as hell ill get it back again

you don't deserve an xbox

lol

and yes, standoff looks to be my new favorite map. I can't wait to play it.

I love outdoorsy maps like that and valhalla.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:50 pm

All these new maps look like they resemble either the trip to voi, or voi itself. I was hoping for a little more variety, and actually more covenanatnessity but I'm still glad these new maps are coming out soon, and just to my luck they come out the day after I'm un-grounded/suspended

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:55 pm

Foundry was designed from the beginning to be a Forge level. There is an almost limitless amount of potential map designs that can be made by arranging objects in different configurations.

Called it!