Halo 2: Killtacular: Difference between revisions

'''Halo 2: Killtacular''' was a documentary contained on the disc for the ''[[Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack]]''. It is an 18-minute video produced by [[Bungie]], with the developers going over the maps available in the [[Bonus Map Pack|Bonus]], [[Killtacular Pack|Killtacular]] and [[Maptacular Pack|Maptacular]] map packs, and their designs. The documentary also covers the making of the [[Another Day at the Beach]] cutscene, contained on the disc.

*'''Aaron Lieberman''': "People spend most time on multiplayer maps, not in the single player ones."

*'''[[Michael Wu]]''': "It's easy to get the concept; 'I am here to defend the space.'"  

*'''Michael Wu''': "Bang bang bang."

*'''[[Chris Carney]]''': "Definitely see stuff that you're like, 'how the hell did they do that?'"

*'''Michael Wu''': "...because they're basically the [[Sidewinder]] bases."

*'''Steve Cotton''': "A [[Banshee]], and an outside of your wall is a [[M808B Scorpion|tank]]."

*'''Curtis Creamer''': "This sort of flesh out their ideas with Max riding shotgun overall, making sure that they're not getting too crazy."

*'''Michael Wu''': "We were going to have what we call "boo bags". They would just be these clusters of these boogers all over the level that would explode and harm you. Max decided that they bounced too much, so he made them pretty static."

*'''Steve Cotton''': "...you wonder why this map took three months to make."

*'''[[Justin Hayward]]''': "Backwash is a humid environment. In all our other multiplayer maps, you can see another player from a quarter mile away. Here you can't."

*'''Justin Hayward''': "Old and crusty Forerunner."

*'''Eamon McKenzie''': "We're saying this is on the Delta Halo, and it's actually an area very similar to the place on the Alpha Halo, where [[John-117|the Chief]] met [[343 Guilty Spark|Guilty Spark]]. In fact, we actually have the [[2401 Penitent Tangent|monitor of the Delta Halo]]. He's flying around the environment."  

*'''Rob Stokes''': "...and Nathan's favorite tactics to get up here on this little metal protrusion that he's just lobbing grenades down at people.

*'''[[Nathan Walpole]]''': "I'm kind of the resident griefer. I kill everybody on my team, laughing the top of my lung."

*'''Eamon McKenzie''': "Nathan's griefing is is a well balanced by his lack of skill."

*'''Eamon McKenzie''': "You know this map will be a success if people love this place. Slayer is ''Halo'' at its simplest form. It should be one of the places where it's just fun to find the high spots and gain elevation through jumping and when you do that, you pull it off, um... I don't know, I feel like a ''Halo'' god."

*'''Chris Carney''': "Terminal. It is a train terminal. Exists in [[New Mombasa]]."

*'''Chris Carney''': "It's completely asymmetrical. There are two bases, but it's not a mirrored environment, or an environment that is rotated so it's identical on both sides. The nature of it is it's imbalanced, so the attackers have a starting location and the defenders have a base, but they're not equal like which one is easier to defend or easier to attack."

*'''Mike Zak''': "The only real dynamic element is the train."

*'''Max Hoberman''': "Everything that we're thinking about is balance. We put a lot of thought into making sure that a guy on the foot can destroy that vehicle."

*'''Chris Carney''': "Okay, people who are good with the Wraith: we've added the rocket launcher back in the Terminal, which we didn't want to do in the first place. We tried to specifically designed this map, so we didn't have to use the rocket launcher, but now, because people have gotten so good with the Wraith, the rocket launcher's back in there."

*'''Tyson Green''': "This is a remake of [[Longest]], one of the maps in ''Halo 1''. It's supposed to be this dirty cargo freighter. Two parallel hallways with bases at either corner."

*'''Dave Dunn''': "You can see [[Earth]]. You can see the [[moon]]. I thought about it; I really hated about Longest that I wanted to fix. The ladders really destroy the realism."

*'''Adrian Perez''': "It's a really nice thing about this map is that there's total mobility.  

*'''Dave Dunn''': "It would have been shot down."

*'''Rob Stokes''': "Relic. Big Island."

*'''[[Chris Barrett]]''': "The original idea came from the very first ''Halo'' multiplayer map back on the PC. four-on-four; that's kind of the sweet spot for that map. The more people, it's gets a little more chaotic."

*'''Rob Stokes''': "We were looking for a asymmetric one-flag CTF map that played differently than any of the others."

*'''Rob Stokes''': "It's set up to have a side that is protecting the flag.  

*'''Rob Stokes''': "It totally changes the way the two side behave; one of the smart routes to go is down here by the beach, because that's where the rocket launcher is."

*'''Tyson Green''': "In ''Marathon Infinity'' there is a map called Duality; that's the fundamental structure that we took."

*'''Tom Doyle''': "We wanted it to feel holy, otherworldly. This isn't something for the rest of the Covenant; this is the [[Hierarchs|Prophets]]' antechamber. The two rooms, two ramps in the lower lobby..."

*'''Tyson Green''': "The teleporters that let you rapidly move to another part of the map. The door seem really mundane, but a door actually lets you play with the person."

*'''Tyson Green''': "The reason you pick up two [[plasma rifle]]s is not so you can squeeze both triggers at the same time. It's so that you can pulse them, like you can fire one until it burns and then fire the other while the other one cooling off... 'cause if you need to reload when you're dual wielding that you're basically screwed."

*'''Max Hoberman''': "I really wanted to have a lot of small maps. Warlock had a characteristic thing for being four-way symmetrical.  

*'''[[Jay Weinland]]''': "Warlock is based on the original ''Halo 1'' map [[Wizard]] and for those that played ''Halo 1'' multiplayer, this is gonna be like an old friend. They're gonna immediately walk into this map and be like, 'Oh, I know what's happening.'"

*'''Jay Weinland''': "The game is really giving you something that you can look at, so you know you're here."

*'''C Paul Johnson''': "So I think there have been there somewhere."

*'''Ed Smith''': "it should look like a single player map, but play like a multiplayer map."

*'''Steve Cotton''': "Its old Forerunner architecture supported by some newer Forerunner metal structures."

*'''Steve Cotton''': "it actually is a symmetrical map. Symmetrical is mirrored in some fashion and it's an attempt to try to make things balanced."

*'''Michael Wu''': "A map can feel balanced, but there's a subtle like sniper advantage to one side than the other."

*'''Steve Cotton''': "What it was designed for is CTF. There's medium range weapons like the [[battle rifle]] and the [[Covenant carbine|carbine]] The [[SMG]], you got a [[needler]]; those are all symmetrically placed to give each team even playing field. Every time they take on one of those weapons, they are taking on a role. That's kind of the mentality I take, you know, designing spaces. Are there good places for a player to assume those roles and be effective, and are there places for players to fight against that role as well?"

*'''Tyson Green''': "Turf. Turf is a medium-to-small map, set in [[Old Mombasa]], sort of early in the invasion before this stuff really starts hitting the fan."

*'''Aaron Lieberman''': "Mombasa was one of my favorite part in the single-player in ''Halo 2''. Seeing certain landmarks from a single player game in the distance, like the [[Mombasa bridge|bridge]], just gives it such a great feel."

*'''Curtis Creamer''': "We really wanted to work on a map that really featured a new game type that we had in ''Halo 2'' called [[Territories]]."

*'''Tyson Green''': "We have a street territory, which is being themed as a [[UNSC Marine Corps|marine]] headquarters. The opposite corner, we have a warehouse territory and then at the third quarter we have a [[Scarab]]."

*'''Adrian Perez''': "This is probably my favorite ''Halo'' map thus far. It's awesome. I love his mouth."

*'''[[CJ Cowan]]''': "The rest of the staff is working on all these maps. What is the animation team gonna be doing?"

*'''CJ Cowan''': "It is going to be pre-rendered, so it's a little bit different than the cinematics that occur in game. We're still using the game engine to render it, but since it's not rendering in real time, we're able to do a lot, you know, more effects and more lighting stuff."

*'''Curtis Creamer''': "Oh, everybody is really getting to do the things that they love to do, to work on the things that they love working on, because it was something that we are doing for fun, it was a learning exercise. It was all just a lot of really good experience for everybody on the team."

*'''Curtis Creamer''': "I would definitely say this is wet the whistle for for what comes next."