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Re: Yes - demo only
Posted By: SalientOne <Bruckheimer@gmail.com>Date: 6/13/12 6:50 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID* (Archilen)


: Hope that's just in the demo.

Yes, it's just in the demo. We scripted that moment for the demo so that we could show 100% of the time the fact that if you kill a Watcher while he is swirling a grenade it drops and *can* take out a group of Crawlers. In the game this happens systemically and is unpredictable (sandbox!)... the trajectory of the grenade depends entirely on where it is when you kill the Watcher. We found that this didn't read properly to a first time viewer in the demo so we scripted it to always drop directly below the Watcher. In fact, in the demo we delete the original grenade and spawn a new one.

The demo is full of little tricks like this to show off moments that happen in the sandbox. They all happen in the game, but they are unpredictable so it's next to impossible to pull them all off perfectly back-to-back like you saw in the demo. The demo is basically compressing a bunch of sandbox moments into a tight 5 minute demo - the actual game is pure sandbox (punctuated with some big moments like the Knight intro).

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Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID*UnrealCh13f 6/13/12 12:38 a.m.
     Re: Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID*defiantman21 6/13/12 1:33 a.m.
           Re: Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID*Nillapuddin 6/13/12 1:42 a.m.
                 Re: Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID*SonGoharotto 6/13/12 9:18 a.m.
     Re: Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID*bryan newman 6/13/12 1:37 a.m.
     Re: Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID*Train Dodger 6/13/12 3:04 a.m.
           Re: Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon - Halo 4 Demo *VID*Archilen 6/13/12 3:51 a.m.
                 Re: Yes - demo onlySalientOne 6/13/12 6:50 a.m.
                       Thanks for posting this explanation, good to hear! *NM*Lord Friendship 6/13/12 7:06 a.m.
                       Re: Yes - demo onlyDEEP NNN 6/13/12 7:23 a.m.
                       Re: Yes - demo onlystabbim 6/13/12 8:09 p.m.
                       Re: Yes - demo onlyGeneral Vagueness 6/13/12 9:13 p.m.
                             I'm guessing yeskidtsunami 6/13/12 10:49 p.m.
                                   Re: I'm guessing yesZackDark 6/13/12 11:05 p.m.
                       Re: Yes - demo onlyTrain Dodger 6/14/12 10:43 a.m.
     LOLLord Friendship 6/13/12 7:11 a.m.
           Re: LOLdavidfuchs 6/13/12 8:30 a.m.
     "It's uhhheatedplasmayea"Enfinit 6/13/12 2:00 p.m.
     AHHH! I just saw the face of death! What do I do?Lurono 6/14/12 5:57 a.m.
           Re: AHHH! I just saw the face of death! What do I Architechnid 6/14/12 7:52 a.m.
                 Re: AHHH! I just saw the face of death! What do IJDQuackers 6/14/12 8:41 a.m.
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