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to answer Eclipse's question #14 about the trip mine: In the video, he stuck it to the warthog so the movement triggered it going off. if you just drop it on the ground, it takes a second.

  • 05.23.2007 6:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stan Marsh
Where's the sword?


I'm sorry but I,myself,think that the sword was horrible and should not be in halo 3

  • 05.23.2007 6:09 PM PDT
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also, if you quit out of a match you lose 2 RP's, soo don't go quitting out of any matches, no matter how bad your losing

  • 05.23.2007 6:09 PM PDT
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You should be able to change the time of day so you can fight at night and stuff

  • 05.23.2007 6:11 PM PDT

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Will there be SWAT variants in the Beta playlists before the end?

Will we see Team Hardcore in the playlists?

  • 05.23.2007 6:11 PM PDT

how has the new rankinng system changed with the rp and rank?

  • 05.23.2007 6:17 PM PDT
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Has the mele system, including damage,been significantly changed from Halo 2?

  • 05.23.2007 6:19 PM PDT
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Will our Halo 3 Beta rank show up when we play the actual Halo 3 full version? It would be very annoying to start all over again.

  • 05.23.2007 6:20 PM PDT
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Why can't we watch videos with friends?

  • 05.23.2007 6:21 PM PDT

I like to eat children

I would like to know what the military ranks are and how many rp points it takes to get to these ranks as well as if these ranks or similar ones will appear in the final game. Thank you.

  • 05.23.2007 6:22 PM PDT

July 15, 2008... The day the timer stood still.

I saw some screenshots or gameplay or something that had a Spartan wielding a pistol on Valhalla (and the "Stary Night" commercial). Why is there no pistol in the public beta?

  • 05.23.2007 6:23 PM PDT

This quote, "They'll see variations of old ones, but they'll also play a new one called VIP. It's kind of an escort mission. One of your players starts as the VIP and it's your job to protect him. Meanwhile, it's the enemy's job to assassinate him. This VIP's mission is to get from checkpoint to checkpoint. If he hits all his checkpoints then he's completed his mission as a VIP, and if he gets killed beforehand the other team gets a point, so it's a tug of war game," from Frankie's interview about the Beta over at GameDaily mentions checkpoints the VIP is supposed to be hitting during the match.
I never noticed checkpoints...are they there, or were they left out of the gametype before the Beta went live?

Cut & paste link to the interview, for reference: http://www.gamedaily.com/interviews/_a/halo-3-interview-with-f rank-oconnor/20070515175009990001

Thanks again for the Beta goodness, Bungie!

[Edited on 05.23.2007 6:25 PM PDT]

  • 05.23.2007 6:23 PM PDT
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Do not be ordinary.

Thank you for the Beta!
Thank you for lessening the auto-aim.
Can we keep the save films for the final version of H3?
Why can't I jump onto the back of the 'goose before the driver gets on? Time saved = life saved.
Why does the steepness/slope of a hill not effect the power drainer more?
Will you lessen the opacity inside the hill? Sometimes it is hard to see out of, to protect yourself.

Posted by: AndzJones2
Also, how come the objective item is now 1 Hit Kill? I find that has a change in the skill lvl needed, before Jump melee's were hard to pull off. The flag/ball/bomb carrier should be vulnerable and disadvantaged...


Distance, stickies, and the shotty are your friends. Although I do have to agree that the shield doors are tricky, a pincher works well though(also known as flanking).

Ps. Watching red hot spikes cool to a dull metal grey in the wall beside my head is amazing, thanks.

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Can u uplaod your saved/shared films to your computer

  • 05.23.2007 6:29 PM PDT
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will stats and ranks be transfered over to the final version of the game?

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Will the levels look like this in the final game, or will there be an emblem for each set of levels like there was in Halo 2? Will we start seeing symbols at level 45 again, or will it just be a number that goes up to 99? Will there be a maximum level, if so what is it?

Also, why do you have One Bomb on Valhalla? In fact, why do you have anything other than Slayer on Valhalla? No objective gametypes are enjoyable due to the size of that map and the amount of time it takes to move or manipulate an objective. And why do you have rockets in the ranked playlists? Why does Frankie like FFA rockets games on Valhalla?? Why is Frankie absurd beyond all help? :)

  • 05.23.2007 6:32 PM PDT

Service Record
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Halo 3>COD4
Mario 3>COD4
Sonic>COD4
Pong>COD4

i always had good connection for halo 2 and gears and every other game ive played. but wen i play the beta, i almost always loose connection.

so will i have good connection for the real game or should i kill myself now?

  • 05.23.2007 6:32 PM PDT

Has the range of the motion sensor been decreased from Halo 2? It seems that enemies just appear from nowhere and get the jump on you before you can react. It also seems like enemies spawn close to you more than they did in Halo 2. How has the motion sensor and spawning changed in Halo 3?

Also, what is the little icon that looks like a speaking bubble in a comic book next to people's gamertags?

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will we get to see other maps, weapons, vehicles, ect.? because if this is really a beta, im sure you would like to have everything tested.

  • 05.23.2007 6:33 PM PDT

- why don't the voice settings and connection settings stick from session to session
will this be fixed in the configuration for our character
- will there be other models of characters
it would be great to play as a brute or a jackal
- if you save your films forever do they get overwritten to recover space
- can we have the clay pigeon shoot modified (add 20% shield when coming off man cannon)
- please tone down the strength of the vehicles... it literally takes an army to bring down the warthog and another to take out the gunner

  • 05.23.2007 6:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: KNITEpanda
[quote]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.

I agree with both of you, each for different things

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  • 05.23.2007 6:38 PM PDT
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Are these graphics what we should expect in the final product? Single player graphics will be noticeably better, right?

  • 05.23.2007 6:40 PM PDT
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If I'm mistaken, I apologize, but I remember reading at one point that the geography in Snowbound really does go out into the distance if you could actually get out there. Well, the first chance I got, I grabbed the ghost and zoomed passed the cannons to test this out but was met with the a good 'ol invisible wall. I also noticed then when I tried to use the banshee on Valhalla to get onto high ledges of the surrounding mountains, I was met with what seemed to be a forceful resistance that actually pushed me backward while letting the banshee through. A slanted invisible wall? Or something else?

I was just curious as I've always had fun with exploring glitches and getting into or out of interesting places in the previous Halo games (in my own private time off of matchmaking), was there a new measure taken to help keep people from doing such things?

Also, if one DID find their way through the wall on Snowbound... how far out could they really go?

Similar question with Valhalla/High Ground. Does the ground on the beaches of these levels slope down to nothingness like in Halo 2's Relic?

And without asking too much in one post, is the sound in the beta pretty much what's going into the final version? I love sound design, and I think it's really cool that you can hear the ambience of what the other players are doing around the map even from far away. Can't ask for much more but I was just curious if there are any significant changes to weapon sounds and whatnot.

Thanks for the beta.

  • 05.23.2007 6:42 PM PDT
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ok. i have 128 rp. ima level 42 in rumble pit. but i wont go up to a leutenant grade 2. why?

  • 05.23.2007 6:44 PM PDT