Rampancy

Zinfandel and rolf have been kind enough to submit reports to the Myth III User Reports area (especially rolf). In addition, Bullseye, who started the Buglist thread over at MythVillage, was kind enough to allow us to adopt and continue to maintain the list as part of this section now that he has stopped adding to it.

Chris Butcher, master of Halo AI, posted a message in HBO's forum about Halo's difficulty levels. Here's a snip:

for an epic battle (or if we're playing co-op) I pick Legendary. it took me about 60 hours of continuous play to finish the game on this difficulty, and that's after months of developing and playtesting the game. it's a very different kind of challenge to, say, myth's legendary difficulty. many of your enemies will be outflanking you and firing from multiple directions, and they'll retreat and build up their shields if you damage any individual too heavily. also, if you don't know what you're doing, or you get taken unaware, it's very possible for a single covenant elite warrior to nail you (and don't talk to me about the commanders).

There is also a follow-up post worth reading that further comments on the time-to-complete issue.

tanmeatloaf, or Sebastian, over at Xbox365 just got back from the Xbox Unleashed event in Los Angeles and has posted an article about his experiences there. Halo doesn't get mentioned much in the article itself except to say that despite earlier indications, Halo was available in the free play areas but not used in the competetion phases of the event. Later, in a response to a reader question about Halo, he wrote:

Halo rules. i played very little of it because i had the competition going on. then again, I did play a bucket load of it at e3. Don't worry though, all the problems with the framerates have been fixed, and it looks better than ever. I can't wait to get it in my house.

Considerably more digital ink is spent on his meeting Seamus Blackley and getting an opportunity to dis a prominent GameCube supporter, but you can check all that out yourself if you like.

UPDATE: This story from two days ago at xbox.ign.com that explained the structure of the Xbox Unleashed event also mentioned that Halo was not included in the competition because of the 'M' rating. There's no information on exactly why it was allowed in the free play area, then, or how access to it was policed, if at all.

MacDesktops has a nice new Oni desktop image available in eleven different resolutions.