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Subject: Beta: We're Taking Your Questions

You can't always get what you want!

Posted by: skell obissis
why are the "military" ranks Army, the MASTER CHIEF is Navy.....

the whole spartan program is navy for that matter.....


Marines.

  • 05.23.2007 1:57 PM PDT

i got a flaming helmet from Lukems girlfriend one time and i couldn't walk right for a week.

While i enjoy playing Halo3 i can't help but notice the lack of Innovation compared to going from halo-ce to halo2. Where did it go? and who lost it?
oh and 1 more thing communication sucks in halo3 you should have left that alone.

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  • 05.23.2007 1:57 PM PDT
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I was wondering if the laser is working how you expected it would or do you think it is to useful against infantry.

  • 05.23.2007 1:57 PM PDT

Sometimes I go into a loading screen in the middle of a game and come back in the menu, why?

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Hello,
In the event that the game goes to the black uploading screen, formerly blue screen from Halo 2, sometimes it just kicks the party back to the pregame lobby. Will everyone lose RP because of this, even though they didn't intentionally quit out? This morning I was playing rumble pit on my lunch break, I had 15 kills and was up by 8 when my screen just went black and I eventually had to reset my 360. I looked at the game stats a minute ago and I got 5th because I apprently quit out. Is there any solutions for these problems?

Thanks,
TimmyVanS

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  • 05.23.2007 1:57 PM PDT

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OK, yes, it is very true that I'm a dumb ass. I'm not denying that. However, isn't the whole point of a beta to increase the amount of users until you get someone dumb enough to try something you haven't anticipated.
Johnrap - Unofficial Dumbass of Halo 3 Beta

When you are ejected from a game, either by someone booting you after a betrayal or the host quiting and everyone getting ejected, do you loose RP?

  • 05.23.2007 2:00 PM PDT
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How do you please the masses?

  • 05.23.2007 2:00 PM PDT
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How come if you snipe someone in the head the only way they die is by twisting there head and falling, what about in halo 2 where they would do backflips and other cool things when they were shot?

  • 05.23.2007 2:01 PM PDT

will there be any new maps during the duration of this beta?

  • 05.23.2007 2:02 PM PDT
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What is this classified weapon we get sometime in our games breakdown? Is it the game not properly registering the weapon used to kill you opponent? I'm sure many people would like to know.

Also, will we get more options to customize our armor in the final version of the game?

  • 05.23.2007 2:02 PM PDT
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If my rep is nice how come I'm always matched with the bad people?

  • 05.23.2007 2:03 PM PDT
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If I give you $20 will you let me play the Beta till Sept 25th? $30? Otherwise, its back to "Gears of War" and no one wants that....

  • 05.23.2007 2:03 PM PDT
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please dont bring the sword back, please please.

  • 05.23.2007 2:03 PM PDT

-Are melee attacks stronger in Halo 3?

-Why is the background orange different then the orange on my emblem?

  • 05.23.2007 2:07 PM PDT

1. Why did you decide to make the shotgun more powerful from a further distance? I have a saved video where I was at least 15ft away and was killed with one shot - that's ridiculous.

2. What's the deal with needler? The auto-lock + damage has made the needler way too powerful. The needler and spiker should be equal, but they are not.

3. Why are there so many horrible whiny little girls who don't know how to play in the beta? (oh, it's cus they whined to their mommy's long enough so that they would buy crackdown for them) - and why did you allow entry through Crackdown anyways? Being part of the Rule of 3, I felt honored to be chosen for the beta, like I was part of some secret society or something. Now you just have a bunch of morons playing who could care less about the beta/testing phase and more about being little whiners with nothing else better to do.

4. Why are the rockets / missle pods so friggin weak? Also - why does the missle pod suck so much? The only time I have actually blown up a vehicle is when it was 20 ft away headed straight at me. Anything else, and the "missles" turn into exploding peas that do no damage. I've even tried the suggested "aim up / away" technique to avoid obstacles, but all this seems to do is make the missles even dumber and they just fly straight into the first object they see. If the warthog / mongoose are going to be so hard to blow up, at least give us a weapon that will blow them up with 1-2 shots, not 8 + 2 stickies + land mine + 3 guys shooting at the driver + the laser shooting the guy out of the turret. The laser does it in one shot, why can't the human weapons do the same thing to the HUMAN vehicles??

5. Seriously, why can I never hear anyone talking? To this day, I have only heard one other player with a mic, and it was a guy from my friends list. Otherwise, and I am NOT exagerating (sp?) , I have not not seen a single person in the game with a mic. Why is this? I have had problems in Halo 2 such that I have to unplug / plug back in my mic and then I can hear my teammates, I've tried the same thing in the beta, but to no avail. Why is this? I can say on my end it's extremely aggravating feeling like I'm talking to the wall. Also - can my teammates not hear me?? There has been numerous times where I've yelled a persons GT/ call sign to tell them to stop running because they are about to run over my land mine, yet these monkeys just keep running like they can't hear me and run right into the land mine... if i warn them a billion times about it, I should not get the betrayel because they are too f-ing stupid to look where they are walking or to even pause when they hear the obvious beep of a nearby land mine.

6. Speaking of land mines, why do they take so long to become active? I have had numerous times where I was being chased, laid the land mine right in front of me, and my attacker just ran right over it before it was active - this should be fixed.

7. Why are so many of the weapons on an automatic respawn timer (instead of when the weapon is empty/dropped)? Why did you change this? This just seems like you're rewarding campers with this - just finished a game where the other team on high ground had 2 snipers - how is that fair when there is only 1 sniper spawn on the map to begin with?

8. Why did you increase the radar range? Again, seems to me like you want to reward campers - they just sit in a high spot and can see everything going on around for 50 ft. - the radius is just way to large.

9. Why did you set games to start automatically? There have been numerous times when I thought I had backed out only to come back 5 minutes later to find out I'm in the middle of a game. This is poor judgement for two reasons: 1) the reason I just mentioned and 2) for the de-rankers out there who get their gigglies out of it, all they have to do it start the game, set their controller down and come back 4 hours later deranked to the max. BS- don't reward them, make it harder on them, boot them, install a virus on their xbox., send some smelly poopy cheese to their house, turn their cat into a grunt.. i don't care, just don't make it EASIER for them to do it.

EDIT: 10. I forgot this one - what is the deal with headshots and the br/sniper? For example, last game I was in, the other team had a zombie (iE guy that wasn't playing) - standing still not even moving. I took out my br, lined up my shots, waited for the dot, and it still took 4 bursts to kill him. With the sniper, I've noticed that in order to get a clean headshot you have to aim ABOVE the person's head, this makes no sense unless you are taking into account gravity / distance / wind, but you shouldn't have to aim up EVERY single time.
A.Part 2 to this question, why was the covenent br made so much strong and the human br made weaker? You can easily kill someone with covenent br within 3-4 seconds, yet BR is AWLAYS at least 4-5 seconds.

11. Why doesn't the mongoose have any weapons even though it's covenent counterpart (IE the ghost) does? I know you can't carry two people on the ghost, but still. I'm the best mongoose driver west of the mississippi, and I want a way to kill people when I'm driving around by myself since splatters are next to impossible (although I did get one splatter on high ground with it). Also - staying on the mongoose, why is it so top heavy? It's nearly impossible to get a clean launch in the mancannon with it, and i've had numerous times when I started to do a flip/barrel roll, only to be screwed by the gyroscope gods that think it's funny to stop it upside down. This happense WAY too much for it to be a fluke - the warthog should be more top heavy than the mongoose, yet I've managed to do triple backflips / barrel rolls and land wheels down in the hog, but have yet to land even a single flip wheels down in the mongoose.
A. Also - what's the deal with the map geometry on valhalla? There's been numerous times that I've made the jump (both in the hog and mongoose) from the turret by the bubble shield to the center hill, landed perfectly, yet when I hit the ground I bounce backward. I have only had one clean jump there, and it was when I went on the weaker right side jump instead of the larger kicker by the turret. This is frustrating when I'm flying from one side to the other expecting to zoom right by the guys in the middle, only to get stuffed on my landing and taken from 80 kph down to 0. (Let alone the fact that the landing is uphill so the acceleration is muddled as well)

Please don't get me wrong Bungie, I love the game, I just wonder about some of these changes.


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  • 05.23.2007 2:07 PM PDT

Cogito Ergo Sum

Although i fully believe that the graphics will be better than they are now, but for all those non believers, will the graphics be "better" in MP? And how much better will they be in SP compared to the public beta?

  • 05.23.2007 2:07 PM PDT
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1. Where is the sword?
2. Will the lag issues get fixed?
3. Why is it so much easier to die in H3 ?
4. Why when I choose team skirmish I get slayer in that playlist? (I would pick team slayer if thats what I wanted)
5. Why in team slayer when its snipers have the radar on aswell as team rockets?
6. Whats the deal with RP and levels why not just keep levels the way everyone liked it?
7. Why are my RP points when I click on my name say 37 and when I press start and go to my service record it says 36? (happened with different numbers aswell)

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  • 05.23.2007 2:08 PM PDT
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I'm loving the beta except for the controls. In the final game will there be a control scheme that allows melee to be mapped to a bumper button? If not will there be fully mappable controls?

  • 05.23.2007 2:08 PM PDT
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About skipping school at Halo 3 launch day
Posted by: RhythmKiller
Posted by: Krazy_J
I'm going to school because I plan on having a life...
Yeah, only nerds skip school. Oh wait...

The beta is totally awesome, and here's my question:

Why is there no warthog on High Ground and Snowbound?

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Can we see Mister Chief getting lazr pwnt in the face? Or possibly lazr pwnint lazr cat in the face? Or some other combination of cat, Mr C, lazr, and face pwnage?

  • 05.23.2007 2:09 PM PDT
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Why were the Kiltacular and Running Riot medals changed, and what are the odds that they'll be changed back to the classic 4 and 10?

  • 05.23.2007 2:09 PM PDT

Will any weapons/vehicles be implemented by the end of the beta?
Will custom games be available at the end?
Will you be making any more changes to the matchmaking playlists?

  • 05.23.2007 2:09 PM PDT
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1. How is MVP determined?
2. How is RP calculate?
3. Why is that when i look at some of my games, i see a classified weapon listed as one of the ways i killed an opponent, and i can't figure out what i used that was so special?
4. The Banshee handling feels loose and unwieldable. will that be fixed in the final version?

[Edited on 05.23.2007 2:14 PM PDT]

  • 05.23.2007 2:09 PM PDT

Are we gonna be able to test one of the tanks in the Beta. Just like introducing the banshee what about the tanks.

  • 05.23.2007 2:10 PM PDT