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Is there going to be classic maps in the final build a la Lock out!! and Hang em high>? ( i like the og name) Cause the map balance in those 2 is nearly Perfect

  • 05.23.2007 4:14 PM PDT
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Is it supposed to happen, that sometimes when I'm stuck with a spike grenade that it counts it as a suicide, or is this just an annoying glitch?

  • 05.23.2007 4:15 PM PDT
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the reason i believe you cant use your service tag ending in 17 is because of spartan 117 itself, my friend tried putting i 17 and L 17 but it didnt work and said somethin about authorized personnel. But a while ago i did see a match with that tag so i think only people who work for bungie can use them.








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  • 05.23.2007 4:16 PM PDT
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Why is it that some of us are unable to play due to the Halo 3 Beta freezing / locking up on our systems?

and the follow up question:

Did the crash reports that we uploaded between 10am - 1pm PDT today help identify this problem?

  • 05.23.2007 4:17 PM PDT
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For tag's ..... it must be CAPITALIZED

  • 05.23.2007 4:18 PM PDT
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My question to bungie is, why are the movments in the game so stiff? master chief walks a touch slower and the movment of any weapon is slow. is this because the bate is just that a beta? or has it just not got that far in the development on the game? oh any why can I not boot a player on my team when he kills me over and over and over in a game?

  • 05.23.2007 4:19 PM PDT
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What is the highest rank in the beta (25 30 40 50?)

  • 05.23.2007 4:20 PM PDT
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Make the mine travel down stream in the water !!!

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will we see custom games before beta is over?

how will searching for custom games work? like match making where you select a game type and it searches for the best available type.. or bring up a list like other games?


how come social matches dont have team slayer?


will you be able to use saved profiles as guests on xbox live? right now it uses a temp profile for guests every time. having to change settings each time for everyone sucks! would be great if the guest used the settings from a profile you select.


will SMGs see any changes? buffed maybe?


is the team speak being looked at.. instead of being the D-pad?


why is it hard to splatter people with the ATV and warthog?


why doesnt the Match Filter save between games? you have to redo it every match


has the buzzing sound from mics been fixed? or is it known/being looked at?


will radar ever be removed as default?

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  • 05.23.2007 4:20 PM PDT
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When I first go the beta i was like awsome but now after awile it got hella boring.

My question is is the gonna be any freakin updates like new maps or weapons i mean big team training and a banshee its whip tee doo dah who gives a crap what i wanna see is new maps and better weapons on the beta either that or no one will be playin the beta any more !

  • 05.23.2007 4:21 PM PDT
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I have a qustion. Why do the ranks seem to coordinate with the Army insignias instead of the Navy? I was under the impression that SPARTANS are Navy, but I imagine when Elites are added, you would need some kind of consistent rating system. Am I right? I was just curious.

  • 05.23.2007 4:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

How did you choose which gameplay features to include and exclude in the Beta?

lukems, does your beard poke out from the bottom of your MJOLNIR helmet?

  • 05.23.2007 4:21 PM PDT
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Will you guys change the team chat from the D pad to an easy access button?

  • 05.23.2007 4:22 PM PDT

How exactly does the ranking work?

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I need to know how 2 get Beta. I mean i know how to download content and demos, but i can't seem 2 find Beta can anyone give me a small walkthrough.
Im not a "NOOB", i've been playing Halo 2 for 3 years and im just desperate to blay Halo 3 so plz just giv me sum idea of how to download it or where to go.

  • 05.23.2007 4:23 PM PDT

"Concentration is the secret of strength."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted by: Poopy Chocolate
Why Dont you do any of this stuff
1. make the banshee able to look all the way down instead of half-way
2. Be able to steal warthhog and drive off instantly, instead of getting back off after you hijjack it
3. vehicles shouldn't be able to go through bubble shield
4. make grenade throwing physics exactly like halo 1's ( please...please do that if you have a soul )
5. make the battle rifle a little more powerful
6. make the mongoose faster
7. sniper have night-vision like in halo 1
8. Invisibility more effective
9. Make zombies a game-type
10. make it be able to choose what level and what host and game-type you would like to do in an online ranked game and unranked (don't make random matches)
11. make shotgun exactly like it was in halo 1
12. put a scope on the pistol, and more powerful
13. make power-drainer last longer
14. fusion core explosions more powerful
15. more than one of the same type of equipment on a map
16. banshee easier to turn during speed boost
17. make a free-moving camera mode in the "saved films" area
18. have health notches like in halo 1
19. make it so that when you jump out of a vehicle, it keeps coasting, like in halo 1, so you can knock your guys off cliffs and stuff
20. make ridiculus game-types and customizable settings just for messin around
21. make split-screen hav just as good graphics as 1-player
22. change the aspect ratio back to what it was in halo 1
23. make 16 player online or system link coop, or 8 player
24. 12 on 12 online matchmaking
25. more customizable appearance settings
26. Able to be brute, master cheif, elite, or maybe forerunner or other covenant or spartans
27. choose color of visor
28. more post-game stats
29. more customizable radar settings, like red dots appear only when someone shoots
30. fun weapons to mess around with, like a gravity gun or somthin
31. when you shoot someone with the shotgun they should fly back because of the force
32. there should be a kamikazi medal
33. make it fun to kill people some how :)
34. make everything deeply customizable
35. make doors able to be closed again after you open them
36. make explodable doors, like regular house doors or somthin
37. Make every level in halo 1 and 2 playable (refurbished) along with lots of new levels ( especially sidewinder.. that'd be soo awsome)
38. explodable environments and limbs
39. Make this game rated actual "M"
40. Campaigne mode better be better than halo 1's or as good as
41. Open environments
42. 4 player local coop
43. make covenant vehicle bullets more visible
44. make splatters easier to get with warthhog and especially mongoose ( if you hit them they should die)
45. Have an actual ending, but if theres gonna be a sequel dont hav it end like halo 2
46. Don't have "bosses" like that brute in halo 2, have ending situations like in halo 1
47. Add a little more strategy to the game
48. A lot more vehicles
49. powerful, sighted semi-auto gun
50. be able to aim with gun sight
51. Make tank be able to have people sit on it like in halo 1
52. make tanks faster
53. wraith should have machine gun
54. all vehicles available in multiplayer
55. make the banshee able to move better and more agile like it was in halo 1 and 2


First of all Judging by your name and all of your rediculous suggestions...You're probably no older then 15.

1. The Banshee is the way it is cause in H2 the banshee was over powered...being able to fly and look straight down pummeling a target...Not Balanced. The new banshee is balanced.
2. Its kinda hard to even hijack a moving vehicle and still drive off with it in reality....Yea this isnt reality, but face it, that would be just stupid....again Balance.
3. Vehicles and the bubble shield thing. I dont think that bothers anyone really. They can still easily dodge it. But whether they make vehicles bounce off bubble or not wouldnt bother me.
4. In H1, you were able to throw the grenades as if it were shot out of a cannon. Personally, the physics on the grenades are fine in H3, you just have to know what your doing. Dont change it.
5. Oh God...Another person asking them to make the BR more powerful. Its fine as it is. You just have to know how to use it. It was a 4 shot kill in H2 if you never missed. Now its 5 shots. Just learn to lead your target as you would in RL.
6. Make the Mongoose Faster? Its fast as -blam!- lol, its called physics son. If your driving up a hill you dont drive the same speed...it takes a sec to reach full speed.
7. Night Vision Sniper Scope? Almost your stupidest idea. There probably arent going to be any night maps in H3 (Would be kewl though like the one level from H1). But not likely. If you look in the sniper scope (while unscoped) you can see a wireframe picture in....OMG Nightvision!! Walk up to your teammate and you will see its night vision/thermal effect.
8. The Camo is fine. H1: Completely Invisible. H2: A little less. H3: Perfect.
9. Ahh, a "zombies fan" its H3, its to test out how well the matchmaking and servers work. This isnt time to be playing zombies....hence the word "Beta Testers"
10. Again...being able to choose our own stuff...and own host....Wow....no! Its matchmaking...were we able to choose our gametypes in H2 matchmaking? ummm no....otherwise it wouldnt be matchmaking...duh
11. Shotty is fine.
12. Scope on pistol...prolly not gunna happen Since when does someone hold a pistol to their eye to look through a scope. I seen the pistol, and its fire rate....it looks fine and shoots just fine
13. Power Drainer works fine, you just have to know how to use it. give you enough time to deplete shields of nearby foes or disable that oncoming vehicle.
14. Fusion Cores are hella powerful, dunno what makes you think they arent. Go on High Ground and stand next to those groups and shoot it....you tell me if you live to tell a tale.
15. There are 4 on valhalla....2 tripmines, a bubble shield, and a drainer....thats plenty fine....especially since the tripmines respawn if sumone has taken it. Do you seriously not understand the quality of balance??
16. Banshee is fine, its kinda hard to speed and turn at same time....BALANCE
17. Free moving camera available in real game....you need to read bungie more...
18. Eww, health was a bad idea.how about not....Definately not coming back
19. Vehicles coasting...dunno why you would really want that...but w/e floats your boat, they coast a lil bit.
20. This is Beta....a time to TEST out a really important and revolutionary game. Not time to -blam!- around all day. Its to test how things work.
21. Playing split screen doesnt effect the graphics, I play with my friends all the time, no change in graphics. Just a smaller ratio as to what your looking at.
22. Aspect ratio is fine...get a better TV
23. System link wouldnt help the idea in TESTING their servers...and im sure they will come up with idea for bigger playlist to see how it handles shortly.
24. Hahahahhah, sorry I had to laugh at the whole 12v12 matchmaking....this isnt -blam!- Battlefield 2 or anything like that. We dont need 24 players running around on the screen. Thanks but no thanks...
25. Sure one of your best ideas...appearance changes are fun
26. Able to be forerunner? Master Chief....We are Spartans, the closest thing to master chief. and Im sure we will be able to be the new Elites. Which is why under your gamertag it says "Spartan - P21" or w/e ur USNC callsign is
27: Visor color would be kewl. But prolly wont happen cause of the real time reflections on the visor
28. There are plenty of stats during post game. all is there but the old Shots fire/hit and hit %
29. Only appear on radar when someone shoots??? Stupid i think....i doubt im the only one that thinks that
30. Gravity Gun to have fun with? Umm no....this is BETA again...you fail to understand that, but its ok....
31. Spartans weigh ALOT!! A shotgun isnt going to have that much force to be able to do that. (Push them back)
32. I think there are enough new medals as it is.
33. Make it fun to kill people? You can kill people as creatlively as you can already, What in the world do you mean by this one??
34. You can only put so much information on a disc...."DEEPLY" is out of the question. There is plenty to do.
35. Doors...being able to open close them....what doors?
36. Again with the doors....But blowing them up now...
37. As much as I would like to see Sidewinder Revamped as well as a few others It would be kewl. But you never know what the future of H3's 360 Marketplace will entail. Im sure we will get to see some interesting maps. But probably not all of them. (Remember only so much info can go onto a Disc)
38. The environment is already desctructable. But exploding limbs? C'mon now man....get real.
39. A game that deals with violence, blood and language. is already Rated "M". Its the faulty parents out there that are responsible for the little kids ruining that whole rating system
40. They say the campain mode is going to be amazing, and I believe them
41. Open Environments? You mean being able to get out of the map to explore....yea like we need another H2 on our hands....the environments are huge
42. 4 player local coop.....its in the beta...if you look hard enough, but if you try it. It will just say "This feature is not available in the Beta"
43. I can see the bullets just fine. Its the same as the plasma rifles.
44. I dunno if I would say easier, but they do seem a little faulty when cruising full speed and hitting sumone they just lose their shield...until i pin them into a wall....mwuahahah
45. An Actual Ending? Its the last of the TRILOGY. Of course there will be an ending. And H2 was fine..its called a CLIFFHANGER
46. Tartaraus as a boss was fine.
47. More Strategy?? There is plenty, just get a good team together.
Short on characters left. But lots of vehicles already, tanks are fine as is, and leave the banshee

  • 05.23.2007 4:24 PM PDT

WHEN I GOT HALO 2 IN EB GAMES AT 12:00 I LITERALY BEGAN TO CRY, THEN I WENT HOME BEAT CAMPEIGN THEN HAD A MINATURE LAN PARTY UNTIL 8:00 A.M. -SNAKIERCORD

on the three maps available are the weapon placments permenent, or since some may be missing, it will be changed?

  • 05.23.2007 4:24 PM PDT

WHEN I GOT HALO 2 IN EB GAMES AT 12:00 I LITERALY BEGAN TO CRY, THEN I WENT HOME BEAT CAMPEIGN THEN HAD A MINATURE LAN PARTY UNTIL 8:00 A.M. -SNAKIERCORD

ARE WE BRINGING BACK CLANS!?

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Seems a little flawed to me. The player with the best K/D ratio (with a certain minimum of kills) should
get the MVP (with some weighting also given to assists). I've seen instances where the player with the
most kills but a lesser K/D ratio got the award (and they both had over 10 kills). It's not how many you kill
that's important. This always pissed my off about Halo 2. I'd be in a game methodically and strategically
taking out my opponents and some jackass teammate would get his panties in a bind because I didn't have
as many kills as he did and thus I apparently wasn't contributing. In the end my K/D ratio was usually better
and it was only because he couldn't do math that he didn't realize he wasn't the best. I was hoping H3 would
address this, and MVP is a start, but I hope Bungie tweaks it in a bit.

  • 05.23.2007 4:25 PM PDT
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is there something we can get that proves we participated in the beta? I know that the whole achievement thing was disproven, so I was wondering if maybe you could make something in mass that we could buy. I don't know exactly how you could send it out to only the beta users though.
I know i wouldn't mind a button, a shirt, a poster or even a sandwich with the symbol carved into it.
Thanks

  • 05.23.2007 4:26 PM PDT
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Alright, Here is my question? On the multiplayer guide for faq's on the halo 3 beta It speaks at length on RP or rating points. In this new level system there is a decleration of greater consequences for griefers, cheaters, and foul mouthed spewers. In keeping with the context of the entire faq there is an implied possibility that players may now be matched with other players according to their conduct (a level system based on behavior) and not just there skill. Where players that quit, betray, suicide, cheat, and curse like a drunken sailer will be over time matched with others displaying similiar giftings. Although I believe this would be awsome, I do not know if I am reading to much into the faq. please bring me clarification. I release you to be brutal in your responce and to make a stunning example out of my great stupidity at assuming to much from to little. your humble servent cherubimsfire.... :)

  • 05.23.2007 4:27 PM PDT
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Will we be seeing more vehicles, weapons and power-ups? It seems to me that adding that stuff would mean more processed information so that matchmaking can properly be tested for the amount of stress the real game will undergo.

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- A glitch I've noticed is that the door on top of the bunker on High Ground sometimes fails to open despite the most persistant bashing. It'll stay shut an entire game because no one can open it, which is a shame cause it's one of the best ways into the base,

- I can sort of understand why the mongoose would fail to simply crush a spartan, seeing as how a spartan is pretty damn heavy and has a cool shield thing, but I'd think that at least something would happen, instead of just bouncing off. Actually, it'd probably injure the 'goose and the spartan, but what do I know? Just curious about the physics there, and whether that's subject to any serious level of change.

- In the same vein, the bubble shield has oddly specific tastes when it comes to what it lets in. As far as physics go, it might make sense that a vehicle could break through, but the fact that it passes through without even a ripple in the shield seems a bit odd.

- I didn't notice it until reading the comment from some other guy, but he's right that the ranking system is the army's and not the navy's. Of course, ranking is subject to change between now and 2552, but unless there's a reason for implementing the specific system in the Beta right now, it seems like something that could be more accurate to the Halo universe.

- Lastly, I'd like to say that the grunt should be a playable multi-player character in the ship version of Halo 3. And since he's small and has stubby little arms, the grunt couldn't use equipment. Instead, X would let us trash talk our enemies with all those great grunt sayings. Imagine hearing the respctable Mr. Staten's voice just by tapping a button. Halo 3 would be that much more fun.

  • 05.23.2007 4:28 PM PDT
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are you going to have your own internal buddy list? this buddy list isn't very useful and it often takes a long time to load. Plus, i really want clan matches.

  • 05.23.2007 4:28 PM PDT