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Re: Yes - demo only
Posted By: Train Dodger <tmesisrevenge@gmail.com>	Date: 6/14/12 10:43 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Yes - demo only (SalientOne) : 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). That's exactly what I expected. Somewhere along the line, someone said "Hey, what if the Watcher takes off and dumps the grenade somewhere else? It won't blow up the Crawlers during the demo, and we can't just go back to checkpoint in the middle of the presentation, so... let's script an explosion in."

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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 only	SalientOne	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 only	DEEP NNN	6/13/12 7:23 a.m.
Re: Yes - demo only	stabbim	6/13/12 8:09 p.m.
Re: Yes - demo only	General Vagueness	6/13/12 9:13 p.m.
I'm guessing yes	kidtsunami	6/13/12 10:49 p.m.
Re: I'm guessing yes	ZackDark	6/13/12 11:05 p.m.
Re: Yes - demo only	Train Dodger	6/14/12 10:43 a.m.
LOL	Lord Friendship	6/13/12 7:11 a.m.
Re: LOL	davidfuchs	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 I	JDQuackers	6/14/12 8:41 a.m.
Re: AHHH! I just saw the face of death! What do I	ZackDark	6/14/12 10:42 p.m.