Four player co-op for Halo 3?
Beta code says "yes".
Crafty coders playing the Halo 3 beta have unearthed references to a four-player co-op mode.
We're still waiting to hear from Microsoft about whether it's legitimate, and if it will feature when the full-game launches on 26th September.
"Only 2 players may play splitscreen coop on the same Xbox 360 console. The party size is too large to start the game. Up to 4 players may play coop on Xbox Live or System Link. Loading information from Xbox Live..." read the on-screen text for the party-menus, courtesy of teamxbox.
Their digital probing also gave them an insight to previously unannounced weapons, vehicles, and game types. A full list of these can be found below.
Weapons
- Assault Rifle
- Battle Rifle
- Beam Rifle
- Brute Shot
- Carbine
- Excavator
- Gravity Hammer
- Flamethrower
- Magnum
- Missile Launcher
- Needler
- Plasma Pistol
- Plasma Rifle
- Fuel Rod Cannon
- Rocket Launcher
- Shotgun
- SMG
- Sniper Rifle
- Spartan Laser
- Spiker
- Sword
Vehicles
- Mongoose
- Warthog
- Hornet
- Pelican
- Scorpion
- Ghost
- Brute Chopper
- Spectre
- Shadow
- Banshee
- Phantom
- Wraith
Game Types
- Capture the Flag: Invade your opponent's stronghold, heist their flag, and bring it back to your base to score.
- Slayer: Kill as many of your opponents as you can. The player with the most points wins.
- Oddball: Find the ball and hold on to it to earn time. The player with the most time wins.
- King of the Hill: Gain control of the hill to earn time. Keep your opponents off and earn the most time to win.
- Juggernaut: Work together to take down the Juggernaut. Beware, you kill the Juggernaut, you become the Juggernaut, and only the Juggernaut can win.
- Territories: Find and control the territories on the map. The more territories you control, the faster you earn time.
- Infection: Destroy the Flood or become infected. Score points for killing flood or big points for infecting a human. The player with the most points wins.
- Assault: Da bomb!
- V.I.P.: Protect the V.I.P. from dying at the hands of your opponents. If you are the V.I.P., you must stay alive or your opponents score a point.
Variations
Apparently these will be shareable with other users in a similar way to movies.
- Team Slayer
- Team Swords
- Team Rockets
- Team Shotguns
- Team Fiesta
- Team Phantoms
- Slayer Duel
- Sword Duel
- Rifle Duel
- Rumble Slayer
- Rumble Swords
- Rumble Rockets
- Rumble Shotguns
- Oddball
- Fiesta Ball
- Team Ball King
- Phantom King
- Crazy King
- Team Crazy King
- Multi Flag CTF
- CTF Wraiths
- CTF Classic
- Shotgun CTF
- 1 Flag CTF
- 1 Flag CTF Fast
- Multi Bomb Assault
- Rapid Assault
- Neutral Bomb
- Neut. Bomb Fast
- 3 Plots Land Grab
Games menu options
A glitch also allowed beta players to see the following settings from the game menu options:
- Damage resistance
- Shield multiplier
- Shield recharge rate
- Immune to headshots
- Grenade counts
- Infinite ammo
- Weapon pickup disabled
- Player speed (25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 125%, 150%, 200%, 300%)
- Player gravity (50%, 100%, 200%)
- Vehicle use (passenger only)
- Motion tracker range (10m, 25m, 75m, 100m, 150m)
- Appearance: Vis effects (black glow, team glow, white glow). Active camo (good camo that might fool and elite, poor camo that might fool a grunt, invisible).
- Indestructible vehicles (on, off)
