Bungie's own Lukems and Shishka unveiled the new map yesterday and let MLG San Diego attendees watch a few MLG Pros duke it out in the chilly new map. Of course, details are super duper scarce seeing that Bungie hasn't formally announced Cold Storage outside of the MLG event, but we do know one major piece of info about the map. We know that Halo 3's Cold Storage is a pretty strict remake of one of Halo: CE's most popular close quarters maps Chill Out. Crazy huh? And to keep your new Halo 3 map salivaters salivating, you can jump over to MLG.com to view a few off-screen pictures of Cold Storage in all its awesomeness. Now we wait for more Bungie approved details ...
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6-15-2008 @ 1:15AM
Viva La Champ said...
Gah I should get a discount for buying each map pack on day one ><
Well I better get my ms points ready:P
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6-15-2008 @ 1:18AM
T-BoNe254 said...
lol i almost decided to buy the legendary map pack yesterday...but with this im sure it wont be too much longer till they are free...
6-15-2008 @ 9:11AM
Josh said...
Nope. They said in one of the Friday Updates that the Legendary Map Pack would -Never- go free.
6-15-2008 @ 10:02AM
offday said...
^^^
Sweet. Way to piss off all your loyal fans who bought the first map pack. Bungie sucks.
6-15-2008 @ 11:20AM
TheSnax said...
I remember the comments about the legendary map pack not becoming free were very sarcastic in nature. The exact quote from that bungie update is, "There are no plans that we are aware of to make the Legendary Maps free, ever." The "ever" at the end should be the tip-off.
6-15-2008 @ 1:05PM
Doug said...
The map Cold Storage was very cool. It's a smaller map, which is good. It's a lot more basic than Epitapth, more meat-and-potatoes than the Legendary maps, not as pretty, but a lot more functional. It's a sleek, Halo 1-graphics-like arena.There's a big main area and ramps above to an upper area, as well as teleporters... lots of power weapons--sniper, rockets--and power-drainer, bubble... pretty much the kitchen sink.
Cold Storage looks 100% done. They played all over the map for ten minutes on a 50-kill slayer game... doesn't look like there's anything left to do on it.
6-15-2008 @ 1:20AM
UNSCleric said...
Why? Why this map? If they're going to remake maps, remake the ones that everyone is screaming for:
Coagulation/Blood Gulch
Headlong
Boarding Action
and a few others I can't remember.
I have NEVER seen anyone say they wanted a remake of "Chill Out" and I am on the Halo 3 boards at GFAQs, and Bungie.net quite a bit.
There's no reason Blood Gulch/Coagulation shouldn't have been in Halo 3 to begin with.
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6-15-2008 @ 2:49AM
Dragod said...
Chill Out is one of Halo:CE's most popular maps... I really hope you were being sarcastic because Boarding Action was a joke of a level. Headlong is nothing but an obnoxious BTB map, and Blood Gulch has already been remade once -- It won't happen again.
We need Midship, Sanctuary, and Prisoner... And maybe Ivory Tower.
6-15-2008 @ 6:47AM
II Heretic II said...
This UNS guy has to be joking, yes?
6-15-2008 @ 9:10AM
offday said...
I agree. Chill out was ok. But who honestly wanted a re-make?
I want a re-re-make of Hang Em' High. It was almost a waste when it was released for Halo 2 so close to Halo 3's release.
6-15-2008 @ 9:18AM
Josh said...
Boarding Action was fun for all of 10 minutes trying to figure out where each teleporter took you but that is it. It would need a drastic overhaul to become a Halo 3 map. Such an overhaul would have to be so great that people would bitch about it not being BA anymore.
Coag/Blood Gulch was already done. Valhalla is the spiritual successor. No, it's not as intricate and has A LOT more cover spots but it is still as close to Coag/Blood Gulch that we will ever get.
Headlong was good for two things: Superjumping and Team Snipes. We can't Superjump anymore (I kinda wish they would have implemented it at least in custom games. I miss messing around with them) and they won't give us back Team Snipes. So what is the point?
And pleeeeease do not let them remake Hang 'Em High again. Tombstone was horrible. The absolute worst map in Halo 2. They completely ruined my favorite CE map with it.
6-16-2008 @ 8:05AM
iHomer said...
ASCENSION PLX!
6-15-2008 @ 2:16AM
James said...
boarding action?
headlong?
both awful maps, they need smaller maps anyways.
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6-15-2008 @ 2:26AM
Arnon said...
Idc how big Coagulation/Blood Gulch is.. It's like the defining map of Halo XD
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6-15-2008 @ 2:27AM
dur said...
Valhalla is the Bg/Coag successor tard.
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6-15-2008 @ 4:40AM
Arnon said...
Seriously... Valhalla is nothing like Coagulation..
6-15-2008 @ 9:39AM
Procris said...
Agreed. Valhalla is nothing like Coagulation. I'm honestly surprised Bloodgluch/Coagulation hasn't made it into Halo 3 yet.
Still i think we've had enough ports/remakes. Time for some fresh new defining maps, something that will actually keep people playing Halo 3.
6-15-2008 @ 3:05AM
UNSCleric said...
Valhalla is nothing like Coagulation, and sooner of later, a true remake of Coagulation will come, just like Lockout.
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6-15-2008 @ 4:02AM
Dr. Jones said...
MLG's site down? Time to find some dull razors
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6-15-2008 @ 6:09AM
Donald said...
Tired of remakes.
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