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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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well, this does kinda suck because we don't get to play BTB Skirmish and then theirs the good side where we get the new maps. I've played well over 500 BTB Skirmishs. then it comes to an abrubt end as BUNGIE takes it off

  • 04.14.2007 10:28 PM PDT
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Hey did any one else notice the screen on the comp moniter behind Lars at 2:40? I'm pretty sure it says Warthog Inc. with the game type escort. Odd... wonder what thats gonna be like. Any way its a bummer they are removing BTB slayer and BTB skirmish and merging them into one again.*Sigh* Also the fact that rumble training is gone just adds to the grief. RT was there for people who just wanted a fun FFA that didn't affect thier rank. A moment of scilence for the loss of BTB Slayer, BTB Skirmish, Rumble Training, and the loss of Rank for said game types........................................................ ..........*Sigh*

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  • 04.14.2007 10:35 PM PDT
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what? whining? I am going too. I work two jobs 7 days a week. the only time I have to talk to my friends is over XBL we live all a cross the U.S. And we LOVE HALO. their is NO REASON to take off BTB SKIRMISH from the playlist. WE as gamers are the ones that made bungie what it is today. Yes they made the game. But it was are money that bought it. And it is US that play it every week. I have two G-TAGS and I have played in over 1500 BTB games. And yes I will say at times it might take a few minutes to find a game, BUT IT IS WORTH IT DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!! All I can think is that bungie is looking to pull out what it can from halo 2. So when halo 3 hits we will be so hungry for the game types that we miss we will play more. BUT watch look at the online numbers for halo on bungies page after a few weeks of the new play list the numbers for halo 2 will fall hard.. unless the stop screwing up the playlist.

bungie I love you guys but you can't mess with halo like that. it just ani't right... R.I.P BTB SKIRMISH

  • 04.14.2007 11:16 PM PDT
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yo if any of you guys wana play halo2 my name is zebracon im on right now 11:19 pacific time send me a friend request im board

  • 04.14.2007 11:20 PM PDT

I am the Prime Guardian of organized Deception.

I am part of Team oD, a clan who made an appearance in the March '05 issue of OXM, a clan formerly known as FBI who beat the original members of STK in Halo:CE over XBC, a clan now known as Final Boss of MLG...a feat that very few have been talented enough to achieve. We are also a clan who proudly reports cheaters.

After viewing the Vidoc you guys released and then reading an aritcle about every detail that could be viewed or that you guys allowed to be viewed, I come across a paragraph saying something that will seem to be your downfall. This is exactly what I read...


“We Need to be as Good as Halo 2”
At one point in the documentary, a Halo 3 designer makes the statement that “We need to be either as good as Halo 2 or even better.” While we love Halo 2, we do find it interesting that Bungie, internally, has made Halo 2 their “benchmark” and not Halo 1. Why the surprise? Didn’t a Bungie employee recently rant about how much Halo 2’s multiplayer sucked (his words, not ours)? Considering that statement, one would think the developer preferred Halo 1, so if that’s the case, why are they aspiring to best Halo 2 and not the original Halo? Do they feel Halo 1 is out of their league?


Seriously...why not Halo 1? If you ask me and everyone else here...they might say that Halo 1 had the better gameplay. No matter how many updates you guys do to Halo 2, it will never be better than the original Halo. Halo 1 was evenly balanced in spawns and many other things...Halo 2 is a complete mess and a complete failure. Yeah its good but it will never beat Halo 1 in my opinion. If anything I would say forget about Halo 2...try to make the gameplay feel more like the original while making those updates but of course make the graphics better. It now seems like game sequels are now starting to feel more like movies in the sense they they suck.

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  • 04.15.2007 12:42 AM PDT

I am the Prime Guardian of organized Deception.

I am part of Team oD, a clan who made an appearance in the March '05 issue of OXM, a clan formerly known as FBI who beat the original members of STK in Halo:CE over XBC, a clan now known as Final Boss of MLG...a feat that very few have been talented enough to achieve. We are also a clan who proudly reports cheaters.

Posted by: thelastspartin9
what? whining? I am going too. I work two jobs 7 days a week. the only time I have to talk to my friends is over XBL we live all a cross the U.S. And we LOVE HALO. their is NO REASON to take off BTB SKIRMISH from the playlist. WE as gamers are the ones that made bungie what it is today. Yes they made the game. But it was are money that bought it. And it is US that play it every week. I have two G-TAGS and I have played in over 1500 BTB games. And yes I will say at times it might take a few minutes to find a game, BUT IT IS WORTH IT DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!! All I can think is that bungie is looking to pull out what it can from halo 2. So when halo 3 hits we will be so hungry for the game types that we miss we will play more. BUT watch look at the online numbers for halo on bungies page after a few weeks of the new play list the numbers for halo 2 will fall hard.. unless the stop screwing up the playlist.

bungie I love you guys but you can't mess with halo like that. it just ani't right... R.I.P BTB SKIRMISH


Didnt you read...unranked BTB.

  • 04.15.2007 12:46 AM PDT
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Of course, the two playlists you cut are two of my favorites.


I'm devastated. >_>

  • 04.15.2007 2:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: thelastspartin9
what? whining? I am going too. I work two jobs 7 days a week. the only time I have to talk to my friends is over XBL we live all a cross the U.S. And we LOVE HALO. their is NO REASON to take off BTB SKIRMISH from the playlist. WE as gamers are the ones that made bungie what it is today. Yes they made the game. But it was are money that bought it. And it is US that play it every week. I have two G-TAGS and I have played in over 1500 BTB games. And yes I will say at times it might take a few minutes to find a game, BUT IT IS WORTH IT DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!! All I can think is that bungie is looking to pull out what it can from halo 2. So when halo 3 hits we will be so hungry for the game types that we miss we will play more. BUT watch look at the online numbers for halo on bungies page after a few weeks of the new play list the numbers for halo 2 will fall hard.. unless the stop screwing up the playlist.

bungie I love you guys but you can't mess with halo like that. it just ani't right... R.I.P BTB SKIRMISH


Didnt you read...unranked BTB.
But now objectives and deathmathes are mixed together.
I hate BTB Slayer.

  • 04.15.2007 2:08 AM PDT
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good job taking off BTB skirmish mongoloids -_-

  • 04.15.2007 3:28 AM PDT

Suicide is a way of telling god, 'You cant fire me, I QUIT'

i'm a bit peeved that you need a credit card to buy the new maps for Halo 2 especially because i don't have access to a credit card or one of those VISA gift cards (as i can't seem to find any banks in Northern Ireland where i can purchase one) and if i dont get the new maps, i won't be able to use matchmaking to its full potential.

i know that you can't download the maps through the marketplace on the 360 for one reason or another but is there any reason why we can't pay for them through it and then download them through Halo 2. we could purchase them using Microsoft points and then they give us a code which we can simply go into Halo 2, type in the code that we have been given and then download the maps.

XBOX users will still have to pay using a credit card or gift card but it makes the whole process easier for the dedicated halo fans who have 360s and are awaiting the Halo 3 BETA.

Does any one else agree?

  • 04.15.2007 6:18 AM PDT
Subject: Bubble Shield and Trip mine
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Why is the bubble shield so ugly and large? (ie, why is it not like in the trailer, where is was small and cool looking.)
And the trip mine should be smaller and more stealthy so that its only purpose won't be just to blow up a warthog as it tries to run you over. It should also be able to stick to walls so if you place it in a corridor, it will do a lot of damage.

  • 04.15.2007 7:40 AM PDT
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Yha the trip mine should be able to stick to things, however that might get too powerfull, but it's a cool idea. I wonder what other things we will be able to deploy with the X button beside the trip-mine and bubble shield? One of those deployable things could be someting comprable to active camoflage. The way I see it Over shield=bubble shield, and so naturally Active camo-blam!-e=? I like the way Bungie has made the "power-ups" more believable and intagrated into gameplay, smart move.

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  • 04.15.2007 7:55 AM PDT
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Even though I'm extremely opposed to them doing it, I can understand why they're removing BTB Skirm. But... I can't even begin to comprehend why they're making Rumble Pit unranked! Everyone plays it and the games start about as fast as Team Snipes does. Not to mention that you almost never get cheated in it. Sry Bungie, but I'm pissed off. There's no logic behind this.

  • 04.15.2007 9:34 AM PDT
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I was pumped for all the changes until i saw you're unranking btb skirmish. All the ranked playlists are so similar why take out the the ones that differ. I can understand rumble pit...it is a really bad playlist, you guys really screwed that one up. BTB Skirmish is the only different playlist, the reason there are less games is becuase it takes longer to match up because there are more people. Now there is ranked team skirmish and ranked team hardcore...which are pretty much the same cept one has radar and a few different gametypes. I say drop snipers, there are too many playlists that are just for killing or make it unranked. There is Team Slayer which is enough to cover snipers. All the ranked playlists cept double team are 4v4, that is rediculous there should be variety. Even double team is just a different version of slayer! BTB Skirmish should be ranked it is a classic playlist along with slayer, skirmish. If you want more games then make changes so it is easier to match up, and make it 5-8 players a team instead of 6-8. PLEASE KEEP BTB SKIRMISH.....I REALLY DONT SEE A NEED TO PLAY ANYMORE IF IT IS GONE, ALONG WITH A LOT OF MY FRIENDS.

  • 04.15.2007 9:44 AM PDT

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  • 04.15.2007 9:51 AM PDT
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*Sigh* I will miss BTB. I am hoping that come monday Bungie will see the community is upset and re-think their playlist update.

  • 04.15.2007 10:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: oD Guardian
Posted by: thelastspartin9
what? whining? I am going too. I work two jobs 7 days a week. the only time I have to talk to my friends is over XBL we live all a cross the U.S. And we LOVE HALO. their is NO REASON to take off BTB SKIRMISH from the playlist. WE as gamers are the ones that made bungie what it is today. Yes they made the game. But it was are money that bought it. And it is US that play it every week. I have two G-TAGS and I have played in over 1500 BTB games. And yes I will say at times it might take a few minutes to find a game, BUT IT IS WORTH IT DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!! All I can think is that bungie is looking to pull out what it can from halo 2. So when halo 3 hits we will be so hungry for the game types that we miss we will play more. BUT watch look at the online numbers for halo on bungies page after a few weeks of the new play list the numbers for halo 2 will fall hard.. unless the stop screwing up the playlist.

bungie I love you guys but you can't mess with halo like that. it just ani't right... R.I.P BTB SKIRMISH


Didnt you read...unranked BTB.
But now objectives and deathmathes are mixed together.
I hate BTB Slayer.


it's unranked. playing it unranked means we will have the same problems that we have in BTB slayer where everyone quits. I dont want to play BTB SKIRMISH with some guy and his three guest so they can quit when they get killed 2 times in a row. when its ranked is where all the glory is when you are with your friends. unranked has no purpose. no one will care if you win or loose or try to get better at it. it makes those late night halo games go away.

  • 04.15.2007 10:51 AM PDT

I am the Prime Guardian of organized Deception.

I am part of Team oD, a clan who made an appearance in the March '05 issue of OXM, a clan formerly known as FBI who beat the original members of STK in Halo:CE over XBC, a clan now known as Final Boss of MLG...a feat that very few have been talented enough to achieve. We are also a clan who proudly reports cheaters.

Posted by: GANNONSMASH
Posted by: oD Guardian
Posted by: thelastspartin9
what? whining? I am going too. I work two jobs 7 days a week. the only time I have to talk to my friends is over XBL we live all a cross the U.S. And we LOVE HALO. their is NO REASON to take off BTB SKIRMISH from the playlist. WE as gamers are the ones that made bungie what it is today. Yes they made the game. But it was are money that bought it. And it is US that play it every week. I have two G-TAGS and I have played in over 1500 BTB games. And yes I will say at times it might take a few minutes to find a game, BUT IT IS WORTH IT DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!! All I can think is that bungie is looking to pull out what it can from halo 2. So when halo 3 hits we will be so hungry for the game types that we miss we will play more. BUT watch look at the online numbers for halo on bungies page after a few weeks of the new play list the numbers for halo 2 will fall hard.. unless the stop screwing up the playlist.

bungie I love you guys but you can't mess with halo like that. it just ani't right... R.I.P BTB SKIRMISH


Didnt you read...unranked BTB.
But now objectives and deathmathes are mixed together.
I hate BTB Slayer.


Ok so you might get slayer matches...just camp and hurl grenades and its over before you know it.

  • 04.15.2007 10:54 AM PDT

haha no more bad kids getting high ranks

  • 04.15.2007 10:57 AM PDT
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  • 04.15.2007 11:34 AM PDT

Posted by: evdy
I was pumped for all the changes until i saw you're unranking btb skirmish. All the ranked playlists are so similar why take out the the ones that differ. I can understand rumble pit...it is a really bad playlist, you guys really screwed that one up. BTB Skirmish is the only different playlist, the reason there are less games is becuase it takes longer to match up because there are more people. Now there is ranked team skirmish and ranked team hardcore...which are pretty much the same cept one has radar and a few different gametypes. I say drop snipers, there are too many playlists that are just for killing or make it unranked. There is Team Slayer which is enough to cover snipers. All the ranked playlists cept double team are 4v4, that is rediculous there should be variety. Even double team is just a different version of slayer! BTB Skirmish should be ranked it is a classic playlist along with slayer, skirmish. If you want more games then make changes so it is easier to match up, and make it 5-8 players a team instead of 6-8. PLEASE KEEP BTB SKIRMISH.....I REALLY DONT SEE A NEED TO PLAY ANYMORE IF IT IS GONE, ALONG WITH A LOT OF MY FRIENDS.


Not that I'm complaining as much as all the other whiners on this forum but it does kind of suck for the people that love BTB, I can deal with the 6v6 because I never have friends on halo and when I do it's 5 friends, too much to play any of my favorite playlists, so we go into BTB, but 6v6 works for me.

And I've seen people whining about the Rumble pit being unranked now, BOO HOO!!!!!!!!!! I saw a kid that said bye my 21, I used to play that type a lot, I got up to a 22 then quit, why you ask? BECAUSE IT'S NOT AT ALL TEAM ORIENTED!!!!! It's a grenade and noob fest, the people that win are the people with the noobest weapons and the most grenades!!!!!!!!!

You want a real gametype? Get 3 of your friends together and go into a TS or Team Snipers game, that's where the real killing skill is, don't like having to kill people? First off your playing the wrong game, but then go into a Team Skirmish game and find your real skill.

Ok so I did whine, but you guys don't understand something, Bungie has to keep THEIR game flowing smoothly, if you don't like the changes, go play GOW for a few hours, the online play sucks so bad that you'll quickly come back to Halo!

I do think that for Halo 3 they should have a custom game type that you can join someone elses game, that's the only change that I'm truly hoping for

  • 04.15.2007 11:53 AM PDT
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ya well it blows that they made it unranked. and plus now we can only have up to 12 people in a BTB game at a time. thats not really a BIG TEAM BATTLE thats wut 1 or 2 more guys on ur team campared with Team Skirmish

  • 04.15.2007 12:09 PM PDT
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i gotta say i am so pissed off about the beta. im probly not gonna get to play it because i dont wanna buy -blam!- crackdown. this is -blam!- stupid. anyone who reserved halo 3 legendary should automatically get to play the beta. selfish idiots.

  • 04.15.2007 12:28 PM PDT
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3d studio max mister chief...
or is it?

  • 04.15.2007 12:45 PM PDT

Hm... I think I might get one month of XBOX Live just to get the new maps. Tombstone looks sooooo cool.
Good update!

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  • 04.15.2007 12:56 PM PDT