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WTF your getting rid of BTB SKIRMISH? its harder to get a match in hard core then btb. so all we have now is a unranked btb. wtf, don't you think with the new maps more people will be playing it? I do... I know for a fact that there will be more. thats all anyone on my friends list is talking about. but you go do what you think is the smart move and everone will just keep playing rainbow six, or gears of war. stop killing are playlist oh yeah put swat back as ranked.

[Edited on 04.14.2007 10:52 PM PDT]

  • 04.13.2007 11:23 PM PDT
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I would have liked the HTH helmet for elites, maybe next time.

I can NOT belive that HALO 2 will go WITHOUT BTB skirmish(ranked) its the only real reason to play online with frends. Id think it was the very reason I got XBOX LIVE. Well all I have to say is that HALO BTB is a stapel to the game and every one I play with will FEEL the LOSE of the game type. I hope you can put it back after the HALO 3 BETA is DONE.

  • 04.13.2007 11:56 PM PDT
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  • 04.14.2007 12:10 AM PDT

Boo!

  • 04.14.2007 12:11 AM PDT
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I'm sorry Ass Cutter, any chance of being forgiven?

  • 04.14.2007 12:13 AM PDT
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I'm going to school because I plan on having a life...
Yeah, only nerds skip school. Oh wait...

Phew, I'm glad BTB didn't get the new maps - a pity it's getting unranked though.

Frankie said that two of the equipment items are trip mine and bubble shield, but the third has to be that grav lift right?

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  • 04.14.2007 12:34 AM PDT
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I hate to be a complainer because I love Bungie and Halo 2 and all, but I'm really kind of stunned that there will be no more ranked big team of any kind. I've been dissapointed in play list changes before but I always understood that they were necessary, but if they do this it will truly make me lose interest in this game. Big Team is my favorite thing about Halo, it's kind of what sets it apart from other games (well, one of the things), but there is no sense of competition or teamwork whatsoever in unranked games. And it will be even harder to get a decent game now that they're re-combining BTB Slayer and BTB skirmish, because half the people in every unranked game are just going to quit out immediately when they don't get the game type they want.

Please, Please reconsider this one Bungie!!! Instead of killing Big Team why not reinvigorate it with some different game types? I still usually get fast matches made in both BTB game types ---- I just don't understand this one at all.

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  • 04.14.2007 1:11 AM PDT
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Why aren't the new maps going to be implemented in Team Hardcore?

  • 04.14.2007 1:15 AM PDT

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nice update

  • 04.14.2007 1:35 AM PDT

R.I.P. Rumble Training.

  • 04.14.2007 1:43 AM PDT

One among millions; just the nearest visible right now.

Another one for the complaint box, Bungie:
I have no problem with your natural selection of gametypes, or your application of new maps to playlists. What I do have a problem with is the fact that playlists keep shrinking farther and farther to supplement a drop in numbers that I'm not seeing. Okay, so we can see the drop in online players, but I don't agree with the idea that it makes matching up too long to wait for.

Giving us fewer and fewer playlists is not accomplishing much. It is a wise decision to merge BTB Skirm and Slayer- however I believe it's a bit beyond retarted to drop the number of players to six per team. I'm playing on a low-end, low- output DSL connection and 1: only one in three games are below acceptably laggy (usually that's 'cause the host doesn't use their network appropriately.) and 2: reducing the number of players for BTB gives larger parties even less options, causing those big parties of old friends to go from "let's play BTB," to "I'm tired of customs, and there's no room for me in BTB- Later guys."

The balance of players online in my friends list had been met back when there were two or three parties doin' their BTB thing, and two or three parties chilling out just having fun in Team Carnage. The SMART thing to do would have been to merge Carnage and Actionsack into a recreational 5 player 'list. Instead, you just keeping forcing yourselves into this lack of online players you're referring to. At that point in time, there were a few weeks where the number of players hit rock-bottom, and we were still getting matches within two minutes.

On the last few notes here, there's certainly a decrease in bridging since the update- but it still is possible, and is still being done. To me, that means that people will still be doing it with their infinte supply of "Three month sprees," and the boosters will still be doing their thing. I just hope I'm wrong on this one, but I know I'm not wrong that we've been bridged in matchmaking even after the update. I'm holding my finger not to blurt <insert clan here.> but there's no lie being told here.

On this note, my last complaint is the same old complaint. The effort to fight cheaters has raged on with slow progress for two years now. Ranks have been reset, updates have been made, and people both from Microsoft and the Halo Nation have stepped up to stomp down these idiots. The number of people sick of it has always been at "critical mass." Now, we've been through updates several times with hope for a magic solution- we know that's not possible.

On the other hand, the fact that any one person can be a level fifty by essentially stealing online points from another player proves that there's no reason for the level to exist anymore. Particularly when I'm paying $50 a year to acquire those points, and dipstick McGee is paying nothing to make sure I stop earning them after level thirty. For the last time, a level reset is a mistake- and with Halo3 coming around, it's not like too many people will give up playing Halo3 to go back and level up their Team Snipers rank. Seriously.

I really think this one was a swing and a miss- although I always give you the benefit of the doubt. May the success of the maps outweigh the smaller issues. Hopefully things will go very well regardless of my petty jibber-jabber. Here's hoping for that, and more.

  • 04.14.2007 2:00 AM PDT

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the clichéd lines.

R.I.P. 8vs8. I knew thee well. Sleep well, fair prince. :'(

  • 04.14.2007 2:19 AM PDT
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what i mised was that before the tripmine show off you see the warthog from the drivers view wich was in 1st person, i hope the driving in halo 3 isn't in 1st person because 1st person driving sucks. and a guy said you could see the "chaingun" after a explosion in the hands of a blue spartan, but after wich explosion is it?? ( there like tons of explosions in the vidoc)

  • 04.14.2007 2:43 AM PDT

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OH MY GOD, What do you guys think you are doing!!!! What did you do!??? Why do you make BTB unranked!! and you are reducing it to 6 players!!! WTF, I dont mind the waiting time, and i think once the new maps are out, halo 2 will become more popular, you dont need to start messing with the playlist!! You should have just made a Big Team Battle Slayer/Skirmish on big maps Ranked, and a BTB training A lot of BTB Fans are gonna be pissed!!!! the only place for big maps and most strategy. now the only ranked list are 4v4 and double team
and whats with the removal of ranked rumble pit!!!! GOSHHHHHH the only place to show your true individual skills.
PLEASE JUST CHANGE YOUR MIND AND KEEP BTB RANKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ranked is always better than unranked remember that

  • 04.14.2007 3:07 AM PDT

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and for your information, you didnt remove rumble training, becuz u have made rumble pit into unranked training so its the same thing of what your trying to remove, it doesnt make sense

  • 04.14.2007 3:11 AM PDT

good stuff. I'm happy with the balancing of equipment, that was one of the things that worried me early on. It all looked good.

  • 04.14.2007 3:20 AM PDT
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PLEASE JUST CHANGE YOUR MIND AND KEEP BTB RANKED


  • 04.14.2007 3:39 AM PDT
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pity about BTB, sounds like there's gonna be alot on this topic in the forums.... i liked the BTB objective games personally, It's only good when you invite friends and use teamwork, its so funny wining game after game because the other team just does their own thing... anyway

Am I the only person excited about the new anti-cheat measures?!? I might even jump in later...

Personally I'd scrap Rumble training to increase the density but PLEASE keep 8v8.... I don't see why changing it to 6v6 will make a difference, that's what most of the games turn out to be anyway... 6v6 then as usual 3v3 after 5mins as half them drop out.... fun... I don't care about rank personally, most cheat, and will even after this update...

Can't believe it, the only thing that kept halo2 fun for me, was 16 player carnage... Will have to be reduced to LAN's like the days before I found Live...


FRANKIE? Any chance of expanding on whether these lists are set in stone? Surely you have an opinion on the 8v8s? (if you read these posts)

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  • 04.14.2007 3:41 AM PDT
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One among millions; just the nearest visible right now.

I have a challenge for Bungie, and anybody else that cares what happens to matchmaking- read through these posts. All of them- page one to five. Then, read the total amount of generally ignorant posts. Then look at the quickly slapped together "NOOO, not the ranks!" posts. Last, but not least, start clicking fricking gamertags. Click on them. I dare you. After this excercise, compare the total amount of ignorance, stupidity, pre-pubescense, and contradictions to the loss of ranked variants to the total players ranging over level 37, the number of non-linked gamers, and the total amount of 'brand new' tags.

Now, if your rank exceeds of the extent of your skill, or your new tag is up and running after your three month died- and this means you, cheaters- divide the total amount your highest gamertag level by two, and then calculate the square root. That number, rounded to the nearest whole number is the total percentage of human brainpower you are capable of using. Divide that by two, and you have the percentage rating of how much anyone gives a rat damn what you think. GTFO, and go back to your homework.

On the other hand, I should start noting every time a cheater jumps on to Bnet to say "if joo remoov ranket macthmaken, i want play Halo aymore." I could use them all as references for why the ranks should be removed. Plus, it generally proves the level of intelligence going on out there.

Update: The answer is two definite cheaters, three possible cheaters, a ton of non-linked gamertags, and a sleugh of tags fresh to Halo within the past month. Social experiment made simplified for you. Oh, and one of those definite cheaters was mentioning being in the beta.

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  • 04.14.2007 4:02 AM PDT

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What i found that no one noticed was something important.
1) [18 sec in] There is three spike grenades, A red one one the far left. two grey one's in the middle.
2) [20 sec in] 2nd row from the right in the scene when there are medals on the guy's LCD monitor. Looks like new medals. Maybe for the laser gun.
3) [23 sec in] The 3rd deployable item is a personal gravity lift. (look closely when the spartan jumps up to the guy on the turret)
4) [24 sec in] The chain gun may have been pulled off the stationary turret for a temporary amount of time.
5) [40 sec in] On the right LCD screen, maybe a new covinet vehicle to match the ATV.
6) [1:06 min in] All visors are green in dark area.
7) [1:32 min in] Far left LCD Screen, Looks to be a sort of tunnel or highway.
8) [2:41 min in] When it says game type, it says escort and the map is warthog Inc.
9) [5:10 min in] Looks to be a red/orange needle it the head of the guy on the far left.
10) [5:20 min in] Far right and left object in back near wall, maybe a boundary turret b/c it is rotating.
11) [6:27 min in] Top left screen, Halo 1 pistil in snowbound.
12) [6:30 min in] Blood spray from head shot.

Going frame by frame, this is what I found.

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  • 04.14.2007 4:40 AM PDT
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WTF do u have to go make Rumble Pit unranked! That's bull-blam!-!

Somehow you've got to wonder why the population's getting smaller when you're removing all the best playlists and constantly do the wrong things to them. Bit of a no-brainer there huh?

So, guess there'll only be 5 ranked playlists. Screw that that's crap!

[Edited on 04.14.2007 5:17 AM PDT]

  • 04.14.2007 5:10 AM PDT
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Definitely one of the better weekly updates in a while, great job Frankie!

  • 04.14.2007 6:14 AM PDT
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well what are the people without xbox live supposed to do about the new maps???
i love to get them but by the looks of it i cant.

  • 04.14.2007 6:17 AM PDT
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Rumble Pit – Unranked – FFA – New Maps Required!

As we’ve always said, as the online population shrinks, we’re going to have to consolidate some playlists and take measures to ensure we’re maintaining a critical mass and allowing people to easily match into games. .... Also, due to underwhelming usage, we’re cutting Rumble Training.


How come if you're cutting rumble training, how can people can still play Rumble Pit (Unranked) and the new maps are required?

  • 04.14.2007 6:31 AM PDT
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i think we should make team swat ranked again

  • 04.14.2007 6:36 AM PDT