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Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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ahhh

  • 05.10.2007 7:32 PM PDT

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

I already tried to D/L the other maps and that didnt work this morning..

**BTW D/L means Download

  • 05.10.2007 7:33 PM PDT
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ooo i am having trouble wit the blastacular map pack

  • 05.10.2007 7:35 PM PDT
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so did u get my freind request anmd did u get my messages

  • 05.10.2007 7:39 PM PDT
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Why are the maps still not downloading! They came in fine the first time and just continue to error out this go around. What a Joke! They make up a reason to force everyone to download again just to cover up there own error of not charging everyone for the maps the first time AND THEY SCREW IT UP AGAIN!
Microsoft must be pulling its employees from the "Help Hire the Handicap" program down at their local YMCA! Maybe they will get this fixed before Halo 3 comes out, NOT!

  • 05.10.2007 7:55 PM PDT
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I can freiking download the maps but, it says there is an error at the end of it and wont let me download them!

AHHHHHHHHHH

  • 05.10.2007 7:58 PM PDT
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GO to your XBOX 360 dashboard, account management, and check ur credit card. then save it, then just back out and then go directly to the download section and it should download.

  • 05.10.2007 8:01 PM PDT
Subject: BTB Battle; Stat Reset
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okay, i have spent my time and read through all 12 pages of this. and out of all of this, Seabiz said something that makes the most sense: "You dont fix something that is not broken". i dont know about you, but i thought that the list was perfect as it was, you had all the games that you wanted to play, and choices about ranked and unranked. i personally was a long time fan of BTB. and of course my favorite game was BTB Skimish. i almost never played the other games because BTB Skimish offered me what i wanted to play: a serious (for the most part) fight of 8 vs 8 in an objective-based game. now its gone, and only to be replaced with waht? unranked "Big Team Battle". which if you havent gotten a chance to play ....... well..... its not exactly BTB. its more of 6 year olds running around and i never endded a single game with the same number of people who joined. so i though MAYBE Team Skimish would make up for it.......it was even worse in my opinion. KOTH and Oddball are not really what i would call fun. before, i couldnt wait till i got home to play a few games of a fun game. now i honestly question me buying halo 3, the beta will decide for me. i hope they fix what is really broken now. please fix the playlist back to something closely related to that previous playlist.

"You dont fix something that is not broken."

  • 05.10.2007 8:24 PM PDT
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Thanks Snakeeyez, but the credit card thing did not solve the download problem for me. I guess that I will go buy a happy meal instead!

  • 05.10.2007 9:12 PM PDT
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I'm personally fine with everything... but I think that for the many people who love rumble games the update is a little unfair. Only one out of the nine playlists is Rumble, and it's unranked.

I understand that by making it unranked it is open to everyone, not just those who like to play by themselves (without guests or other party members), but I think having a ranked and unranked playlist is a lot more sensible and would appeal more to the majority of Halo 2 online players.

Rank means nothing to me, but to others it is a sign of accomplishment and ability, as well as being an effective way to be matched against other players of equal skill, which I think is essential for any good rumble game. The fun is gone when you have one person quite obviously demolishing everyone else because of his greater skill level.

So, while I don't expect anything to be done any time soon, if there is to be a future Halo 2 update, I think it is only fair that the rumble playlist be divided to suit a wider range of players.


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EDIT: I also had trouble downloading the new maps the first time I tried. About a third of the way through it came up with an error. However, when I tried again it started from that same point and completed without interruption. Good luck to those still having problems.

[Edited on 05.10.2007 9:16 PM PDT]

  • 05.10.2007 9:13 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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I have the new maps - I am able to play tem in Custom games.

BUT I am not able to play them in matchmaking games such as: Team Slayer.

What is going on Bungie?

Not slipping are we?

Get on it.

  • 05.10.2007 9:29 PM PDT
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New list is tight, but no 8 vs 8, not even unranked? I don't want to sound critical until we get an explanation (if we get one) but it alters - in a poor fashion, large maps for Team games.

In certain games you have to leave two in your base for security and now you wind up with out even enough people to completely fill a Warhog. Just think, Multibomb with 4 v 4 means with two people back, you get two in the Hog, one with the bomb and one driving. That means no mounted weapon for support going in. No one in your vehicle can even shoot = sitting duck. Bungie has always done the right thing but I can't make sense of this.

Screw up in Assault and all 4 people have to cross a large map again to get back to shot at planting a bomb, or grabbing a flag in CTF. Race after the bomb that is now in the opposing base where all died and half way there it gets returned, but since you are travelling in force you now have to send people back just to get the bomb. With an 8 person team you would have probably had someone spawning to grab it. You are better off just sitting and waiting on the bomb to be returned. This tactic = slow boring games.

Yes there is 6 v 6 ...and it is unranked.

8 people allowed some sacrifice as a tactic. Coagulation and Containment mean that there will be a lot of ties 0 - 0 as Teams spend most of the game just getting to the other end, whether it is CTF or Assault.

[Edited on 05.10.2007 9:56 PM PDT]

  • 05.10.2007 9:54 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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A lot of the people who have posted already haven't played the new maps or playlist. I have played several games in BTB and no big gripe there. I tried SWAT and it was slayer but it was as if it was in Team Training. Shields, Sword, and Snipe on Lockout . There was NOTHING to do with SWAT except the the word on the playlist I entered. 1 out of 3 games seems to be a Team Training Game. Is that correct? Why did Bungie put it in SWAT? Would it be possible to fix that playlist as well as dimming the effectiveness of host. It seems that if host is decent, then that person will get 20-25 kills. On the other hand trying to kill him is NEARLY impossible. Before the reset, If a person playing SWAT was going against the host 2 out of 3 bullets had to hit him in the host in the head in order to kill him. After the reset 6 bullets have to hit him in the head. Factor in reaction time of the host and 1 or 2 rounds from him or her and there is no way to kill him cleanly unless 2 players fire at them simultaneously. Like I said NEARLY impossible. Thank you for reading.

[Edited on 05.10.2007 11:00 PM PDT]

  • 05.10.2007 10:57 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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I'm also having trouble with the blastacular map pack also. I mean really come on finally downloaded it a while back ago now it says to redownload it for an update and they said you wont be charged for it the 2nd time but right when i tried to download it it was charging me 4 dollars again so I said to my self whatever as long as I get to play matchmaking but it wouldnt let me download it. I tried and tried but no use and now i cant play matchmaking and that really makes me angry.

  • 05.10.2007 11:20 PM PDT
Subject: BTB Battle; Stat Reset
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Ugh, this is so completely ridiculous. The game isnt called "4v4 if you want a rank" for a reason... save for double team, thats what halo is becoming. I remember way back when it first came out, big team battle or big clan battles on waterworks, intense flag runs, and then gaining your precious 15 (15 was hgh way back when...) in those playlists was the most amazing feeling in the world. I stopped playing for over a year, come back, find out that matchmaking is way too easy to level up in (i see 50s everywhere... legit or not, its stupid), too many wierd playlists (at least the ones like SWAT are unranked... and other stuff i could complain about. But all was good in my world. I just leveled up in Rumble Pit, late in the wee hours of the morning, owning noobs and climbing the ranks since none of my friends were online and going into and 4v4 or double team playlist alone is a bad idea.

Did you hear that Bungie? Everyone who plays Rumble Pit, albeit not many, play when their friends are sleeping or doing whatever else, and they just want to play some halo. Or perhaps they want to not depend on other players skill level. Thanks for ruining that. Seriously, the first day H2 came out, the playlists were great. You just now ruined BTB and RP. Truly though, why? Was not depending on other's skill levels, and just going by your OWN skill level not an accurate way to judge your OWN rank or not? Or BTB, when everyone actually needs to do their little share of work to plant that damn bomb in headlong.

Im done rambling, but Bungie please hear my out. Rumble Pit is the only reason I bought a 360 elite and Xbox Live Gold, and now your taking that away? Halo has just lost its touch I guess, and you guys try to fix it by freshening up the playlists. We need variety. We all dont like nor want JUST team games. We need our huge "wow i dont even know half my team, but someone just captured the flag and i feel good about myself" BTB games ranked, and our amazing little RP killtacular sword-whoring Lockout matches. I really hope someone from Bungie can read, and try to respond to this.

  • 05.11.2007 12:07 AM PDT
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This is LAME, aside from the fact that they didn't put out a disk for the new maps most people i know can't get the maps. As I don't have a credit card. I pretty much only played halo 2 online for team slayer and sometimes BTB as a break for it. looks like i'll have to join the trend in progress and just play team training matches and just quit out of the not slayer ones. So sad... and i finally started playing again after my rage at that cheaters video documentry.

  • 05.11.2007 12:24 AM PDT
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no ranked btb or rp. wankers -blam!- wankers
this is uterly nonsensicle
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This is LAME, aside from the fact that they didn't put out a disk for the new maps most people i know can't get the maps. As I don't have a credit card. I pretty much only played halo 2 online for team slayer and sometimes BTB as a break for it. looks like i'll have to join the trend in progress and just play team training matches and just quit out of the not slayer ones. So sad... and i finally started playing again after my rage at that cheaters video documentry.


[Edited on 05.11.2007 4:23 AM PDT]

  • 05.11.2007 4:16 AM PDT
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So those of us who bought the maps a few weeks ago have to pay twice just to play online? Pretty screwy.

  • 05.11.2007 5:16 AM PDT
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Hm, well I couldn't download them from day one and still can't. it keeps saying failed before it even starts the download, so I'm not sure what's goig on there. All I really want to play is snipers, but I can't now and everyone just quits out of custom snipers. All I pretty much play is custom games, the basic 8 FFA Mid or lockout, battle rifle start, blah blah. And then the odd 4v4 games. But as for the play list on matchmaking, I tihnk it just went down hill, not being able to play over half the play list because you don't have the maps is insane. Not to meantion the fact that half the gametypes in the selction are dumb and no one likes SWAT. You want to play SWAT, play it in a custom or something. Don't waste the MM list. Mt thought of a good MM list is this.

Rumble Pit. Ranked: (BR START ALL GAMES AND GOOD MAPS, smg sucks...)
Rumble Training: Unranked. (for people who are just beginning and or just want to chill and play the game. I use to play it a lot. )
Team Slayer: Ranked( I honeslty don't see the point of this, because it's mostyl SMG start, but whatever it was still fun.)
Team Training: Unranked.( For people and teams to just mess around and not worry about their rank, if you're into that sort of thing.)
Team Snipers: Ranked (Definitly one of the better game types.)
Snipers: Ranked. ( Haha, I just threw that one in there because I like FFA snipers. =P)
BTB SKRIM: Ranked ( As long as it's not -blam!- and have crappy game type, it's all good to me.)
Team Skrim. Ranked ( Same thing as I said before. )
Team Hardcore: Ranked. (Fine all good as long as they take KoH out of it.)
Rumble Hardcore: Ranked (An old game type, but it was fun. Yea, I know you can just play a custom, but for people who want to see what level they can get to in FFA or just want to play with new people and the same people all the time, it's good or if people are not on to play a custom. It's a good BR warm up,)
1v1. Ranked. ( A LOT of people love 1v1 and might like to play against different people and see how good they are instead of play a custom game all the time, Just as long as they get the settings right. Bungie must be familure with MLG I hope. )

Some off to the BTB Slayer for nubs who just want to mess around. =P
so yea, that's my idea of a good play list. You all may trash it if you like. :) This is all comin from a female gamer. :P

Bungie should make it some how if you still can't dl the maps, that you should still be able to play the games, but avoid the new maps, like it wont load or something, Some sort of crazy think (BTW, the new maps suck anyway. :)

[Edited on 05.11.2007 6:01 AM PDT]

  • 05.11.2007 5:56 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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agreed

  • 05.11.2007 6:23 AM PDT
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Halo 2 Now Sucks!!!
Way to turn the best product on the 360 to CRAP! Where should I start, Oh Yeah let's limit the playlist for matches, most now not ranked. It seems when I was playing last night the cheaters got better (as if they needed too) well maybe just more previlent (I though Bungie was working on a better filter for that). Reseting the levels before the beta of 3 comes out! You know right when your winfall is about to come in Bungie you turn your product to crap. Now I'm not sure I'll get 3! Bungie WAKE UP!!!!Oh, YEAH I ALMOST FORGOT THE MAP LOAD ERROR!!! WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP WE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE. FOR THE MOST PART IT WAS FINE, MAYBE A COUPLE OF CHEATERS THAT'S IT, YOU TURNED A GREAT PRODUCT INTO AN AVERAGE ONE!! WAY TO GO BUNGIE!!!

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  • 05.11.2007 6:32 AM PDT
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"Purchase Failed. You will not be charged for this transaction. Please try again later." ... FOR THE LOVE OF ... GRRRRR >_< What the hell is going on?! When the Blastacular Pack originally came out on April 17th, I had no issue down loading them. But now I keep getting the above error! I tried last night (May 10th) about 20 times and thought well maybe traffic to download is high since they have just been re-released again, but then the day they came out last month I didnt have an issue, so seriously? What is going on? Bungie or MS please address this NOW! We are approaching 1 MONTH that these maps have been out, we have PAID for these maps, WE should be able to play on them by now! I tried again just a moment ago this morning (April 11th) and still the same message from above pops up, it doesnt even seem to try to download either, I press A to purchase (and I really better not get charged again!!!) it instantly goes to the error message to try again later. I will try again when I get home from work I guess. I have never been one to -blam!- and complain about this kind of stuff, but c'mon!!!!!

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  • 05.11.2007 6:34 AM PDT
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the new matchmaking playlist sucks. rumble pit was the only time that your rank relied on you throwing constant grenades to kill ppl. i was never a fan of btb but it was nice to bring that up every once in a while with a ton of your friends. the maps should NEVER be free because u just screwed over all of us who paid b4. why charge us and make them free 3 months later but not be able to even use them to 1 month later? way to go bungie. im still going to play snipers because its the only thing left that actually requires skill for a rank but you ppl -blam!- up. and am i the only one that things tombstone is garbage for sniping?

  • 05.11.2007 6:47 AM PDT
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While im happy that the stats have been reset and the new maps added to the playlist im one of the people that downloaded the new maps befor the 7th. i tried for 3 hours last night to redownload them and it will not let me any ideas why



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  • 05.11.2007 7:20 AM PDT
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GO to your XBOX 360 dashboard, account management, and check ur credit card. then save it, then just back out and then go directly to the download section and it should download.

This should work, u go to your dashboard, then account manager, edit credit card, just verify it's all there, and back out of it, immediately load the halo2 game, and dl the new maps, i was having the same issues, then this worked perfectly for me.

  • 05.11.2007 8:52 AM PDT