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Subject: Beta: We're Taking Your Questions

The beta seems to overscan on my HD. The side get cut off, I have no way to fix this with my TV settings. :(
Will there be a way to fix/adjust this on the full game?
Thanks,

  • 05.23.2007 12:44 PM PDT

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Dear Bungie, why did you choose to weaken the grenades instead of bringing back the Halo CE ones?

What's with the Banshee's new view(Cannot hover and aim directly down)? Is this an adjustment made in order to equal the Hornet?

I hope you don't release any campaign information at ALL. It should be a surprise!

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  • 05.23.2007 12:45 PM PDT
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Sometimes in the middle of a game one of my friends (its always the same guy) will go to the uploading screen while the rest of us are still playing. He can still hear us and we can still hear him, but he will remain stuck on the uploading screen for a minute or two and sometimes he'll get completely dropped from the game.

Also, how is it possible to have negative RP?

  • 05.23.2007 12:45 PM PDT
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How is the MVP determined? At first, I thought the Most Valuable Player would be the highest scorer, most medal achiever, least deaths player, but I guess thats not the case. In almost all of the games I've played, the MVP is the highest scoring person on the losing team, even if somebody on the winning team just dominates and goes +15. And MVP is also never, or at least I haven't seen it yet, given to somebody other than the top guy either team. So whats the deal?

  • 05.23.2007 12:46 PM PDT
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During long play sessions I have to switch out controllers from time to time. I keep a wireless controller plugged in at all times and switch them out as needed. Well if I have one plugged in it automatically sets itself to player 2. If I need it for whatever reason I have not found a good way to make that controller the player 1 controller without a restart. Am I missing something? I've tried shutting each controller off and then just turning on the recently charged one but it still comes up as player 2.
This is wishful thinking I know but I really wish you guys would set aside the last day the last week or the last few hours of the beta and show us something a little outrageous. I'm extremely tired of people talking trash about the graphics, the maps , and basically being whiny titty babies. Here's a good one, on the last day of the beta the weather on Valhalla goes all crazy and it starts raining ,snowing , and a plague of frogs emerges from the river .....wielding swords....and its nighttime. (Weather effects just like tear gas grenades are not official information and should be ignored completely....roll the orientation video)

  • 05.23.2007 12:47 PM PDT
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>>>could you make the Brute Shot melee stronger
>>Your always talking how it has a "Razor sharp blade"
>On the passengers view in the wathog,aiming is very limited.
your aim stops at a given point. thats kinda lame.

If I Had One Request For Halo3 It Would Be MORE BLOOD.

>>>>>its amazing how a little MORE blood can make a game. like how it reacts to objects,and if it got in the river in valhalla it would flow down the river into the lake. that would be awesome!

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  • 05.23.2007 12:48 PM PDT

I remember seeing on one of the "making of" videos an artist talking about the way you guys make the skies in Halo 3 and how it is different than in the past. So, bearing that in mind, will there be environmental customizations for multiplayer maps? I just saw some photoshop jobs of the current levels at night and I think that would be pretty cool, or blizzards on Snowbound would be very cool, so to speak.

  • 05.23.2007 12:49 PM PDT

Is all the Live Feedback you receive from H3 beta testers who are leaving you negative feedback for cheating going to be deleted from your Live account / gamertag? So many people are taking the ranks and/or games too serious and leaving negative feedback not realizing part of the beta process is to try and cheat and/or break stuff in game. Oh no, I got out of the map and now I got 7 people threating to report me. If I get enough of them will I get banned? The point is not to try and get you rank and level up as high as possible only to have it deleted in 3 weeks! I mean come on kiddies, everyone will start fresh in Sept!!!!

  • 05.23.2007 12:50 PM PDT
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Man the Snipers Are Sweet, they are suppose to be powerful not week you should be able to snipe someone across the map and hit them, or even kill them. That is the one thing that needs to be left alone, realism is what we are looking for, minimal damage and sniper just doesn't make sense.

  • 05.23.2007 12:50 PM PDT
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Greetings. First post here, but I had to ask this:
Custom music through the dashboard is disabled in the beta. I would like to know if this will be enabled in the full game? It's my absolute favorite thing about the 360.

I understand that it would make it easier for certain unscrupulous foes to blast Ashlee Simpson music at me, however, that's a risk I'm willing to take! (especially as you've been so kind as to make it simple to mute someone). And especially for single player, custom music makes the fourteenth trip through so much more enjoyable. No disrespect to the Marty, but even the best music gets repetitive sometimes!

  • 05.23.2007 12:50 PM PDT

Semper Victor

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Whats the quickest way to mute a player?


Press select once in the game and scroll down to said jackass and press X and they shut up for good!

  • 05.23.2007 12:51 PM PDT

sigh...

UPDATE HALO FOR A NEW HALO!!!! The beta is exactly the same as halo 2 just with some new weps, maps, vehicles and graphics! I mean you sound
exactly the same when you die as in Halo 2 and when you melee with the battle rifle or assualt rifle they are exactly the same as each other and the same as halo 2! the shotgun hits the same as well. Halo 3 has to be different to halo 2....

Oh yeah and get rid of the flailing of the arms when you fly in the air dead. it was only good on halo:ce when it had no ragdoll....(actually, it wasnt good then)

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  • 05.23.2007 12:51 PM PDT
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I second the idea of eliminating the push to talk function and replacing with team chat. Any thoughts on that?

  • 05.23.2007 12:51 PM PDT

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Call it intervention

I would like to know why the blast of the spike gernades go through the shield doors on snowbound. Is that suppose to happen or should the doors actually be blocking the blast like they do with ammunition?

  • 05.23.2007 12:52 PM PDT
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How old / how "done" is the beta build of the game? Will we notice a difference in graphics as far as textures, lighting, etc in September?

  • 05.23.2007 12:52 PM PDT

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First of all thanks for the Beta, for the most part it is awesome. Secondly, why does the new banshee suck so hard, you can't aim at the ground at enemies directly below you like in halo 2? also why do you take so much damage now for bumping a wall in a vehicle, i think if the master chief can survive while getting shot in the face a little bump in the wall will not phase him? Why have you lowered the firing rate for the sniper rifle? P.S. Thanks for finally making a needler that i actually will want to pick up sometimes and for also fixing the shotgun which sucked if you weren't host in halo 2.

Also like others i feel eliminating the push to chat would be nice or changing the button. When i am fighting someone and need to ask for help the only way to do that is to take my finger off of the joystick and push the button but then i can't move and get pooped on even faster so there is no point in talking. LB button was great for talking because you never had to stop moving and could talk while fighting with no problem.

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  • 05.23.2007 12:53 PM PDT
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HUZZAH!

Why are ranks even visible? It seems to me that a lot of cheating would disappear if people didn't have numbered ranks to show off. (picture ranks don't need to be hidden since they don't require cheating to get up)

  • 05.23.2007 12:53 PM PDT
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First of all i love the game, so far i can't complain about much. The beta almost has a Halo CE mixed with the good stuff from H2 and a whole -blam!- load of new stuff. I was just wondering whether or not you could switch views in the saved films feature, or in the beta is it just limited to your view only. Also I forget who but someone who posted a forum about the saved films said that it was not an exact replica of the game. For instance if there was lag in the game, it didnt show it in the film, it showed what actually happened. But when i replay a saved film it is exactly what i saw, and its still laggy and -blam!-. Whats up with the whole saved film feature on the beta?

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ok so if your in the worthog and a person is on the back your little arrow is always on the person so there full gamertag is always out and in the way.. if there is a way to disable this while in the worthog that would be nice.....!

  • 05.23.2007 12:54 PM PDT

IXI DIVINE IXI
Call it intervention

Will it be at all possible to superjump in the actual game or will this finally be eliminated completely, so as not to piss people off?

  • 05.23.2007 12:56 PM PDT

Check you my Helm's Deep Beta map and gametype variants: http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo3/FileShare.aspx?gamertag=TWD %20Bum

Don't forget to leave feedback for the map and gametype. I hope to change it in the future based on people's reactions to make a truly enjoyable experience.

What are the specifics with RP and MVP? Are the related? Do you get more RP for MVP? How is MVP calculated?

How are the weapons spawned? From the looks of it, it seems to be somewhere between Halo 1 & 2. Are some weapons on a random timer?

What's the deal with being able to see peoples names through the ramps on the bases on Snowbound while outside? Is that a bug or was it designed that way? I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that you can see through them from the underside of the bases.

Is it possible that the AR might shoot a smidgen further in the final release? I have the aim to hit an unshielded foe at distance with the AR, but everytime I try and burst the gun, he gets away and recovers shields, but a little closer in he dies.

Why is it that sometimes the bubble shield is not visible? This seems particularly noticable when in the caverns of Snowbound. You get a kind of soft glow, but none of the actual shield.

What kind of damage does the brute shot deal now? Is it like an explosive/plasma combination? It seems much more effective on shields now.

Is there any way you guys could do away with the press D-Pad to talk and replace it with a constantly open channel? I mean, since muting is just a button press away, it wouldn't be any inconvenience to simply implement the voice activated chat from the pre-game lobby into the game, would it?

Have you guys worked to diminish the host advantage, or did you just make it so it's impossible to tell who host is so it isn't exploited?

Why is it so easy to level up? Did you do this to reduce cheating? I mean, if it's this easy, anyone can do it. Cheating isn't really required for less skilled players to get to 50.

In the final version, will there be a way to get the saved games off of your 360 and onto your PC and play them through a program designed to play Halo 3 videos? As of right now, using a capture card to get everything onto my computer makes it much more aggrivating and time consuming than it could be. I know it's not saved as an actual video, but maybe with some kind of converter in the final version this could be possible. Any thoughts?

I love where you are taking this game. And to think more weapons, maps, and vehicles are on the way is amazing. If you released it now with the current weapons and a few more maps I'd still play it for years, so the new additions should prove to strengthen the game even more. Keep up the good work, I can't wait for Sept. 25.

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  • 05.23.2007 12:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: MayorMck
I second the idea of eliminating the push to talk function and replacing with team chat. Any thoughts on that?


I'll third that idea...

  • 05.23.2007 1:00 PM PDT
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Any hidden weapons?

Any hidden secrets no one found yet?

Whats your take on the "leaked code with the weapons, etc."

Whats your reaction to the testing so far?

  • 05.23.2007 1:01 PM PDT
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Does submitting an Xbox Live player review currently affect the likelihood or unlikelihood of the Beta matchmaking system's pairing of a player with another(positive review) or separating the players (avoidance review) when the players reenter the matchmaking pools?

  • 05.23.2007 1:01 PM PDT

Why are there no new guns, what you think that you gave us a few that we would be happy? Halo 2 had pretty much all new guns and Halo 3 are all remakes with a few new ones!? We're gonna need guns....lots of guns. I know there are more coming but we need twice that.

  • 05.23.2007 1:03 PM PDT