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I want to know is there gonna be a portable plasma turret that would be sweet as american pie [the first one]. Oh and the only reason I own anything xbox is because of Halo 2 but I stopped playing that 7 months ago because of stupid people cheating. Bungie please make sure that people are not able to cheat because we all hate those idiots and it ruins the fun and competitiveness in online gaming.

  • 05.23.2007 10:37 PM PDT
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Someone tell me, where is the ring? did they leave it out? Am i not supposed to see it? am i the only one?

  • 05.23.2007 10:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stan Marsh
Where's the sword?


There is no sword in the BETA

  • 05.23.2007 10:47 PM PDT
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My question I pose to you is thus:
Do you plan to adjust the spike grenade to make it more powerful or are you satisfied with its current level of power?

  • 05.23.2007 10:52 PM PDT
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Are there going more things in the beta which are going to be unlocked, this already happened with the banshee.

  • 05.23.2007 10:59 PM PDT
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1.)how many ranks are there?

2.)if one whole team chooses to veto a match, but the other team doesn't, why doesn't matchmaking just kick both teams out and wait for a new match up?

3.)what happened to the warthog that was on Highground? i saw it in the screen shot and have missed it from the Beta

4.)can you please make the Beta be able to go on system link and split screen after the Beta testing period has ended?

5.)are we going to be able to pick up the plasma turrets also?

6.)Why doesn't the "Honeycomb Hideout," aka bubble shield, roll down hills? that would add a lot more depth to it


also now, i have to congratulate you guys for making yet another game that will cause me to miss: work, school, sleep, and a friend's wedding. I love these games a whole lot. I know y'all have to put up with a lot of -blam!-ing, so thank you. Halo 2's party system was the best thing to happen to online gaming since the internet, so i am uber glad that you're keeping it. I probably wouldn't be a gamer/nerd if it wasn't for halo, so just know that you have influenced me to be a game programmer.

[Edited on 05.23.2007 11:11 PM PDT]

  • 05.23.2007 11:03 PM PDT
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a few times ill be standing near the ghost on snowbound usually running away shields low and someone throws a nade into the little hole and the ghost blows up

now this brings me to 2 questions

why doesnt the ghost blow up all the way? because ive seen it take a few explosions now and still keep coming

and 2 why does/did the death count as a suicide instead of a splatter?

and why is it that sometimes when i get stuck by a nade it is counted as a suicide even though i was clearly just killed by someone else?

how set is the laser? for that matter how set are any of the balance issues? how set are these maps?

how much can you tweak the guns equipment and powerups via patches?

is the highest possible rank still 50? or is it now 100? ive not seen anyone above 49 myself but it seemed kind of easy or atleast easier than in halo 2 to get to my current 41 in the rp, in halo 2 i was stymied at 25

infact how does rank work all together because ive gained a level coming in 3rd of four.

what for the love of god, what determines mvp? is it random i knew it was random

is it possible to have as an option a timer and a button press map included as features of the films

so i could for instance watch at 3 minutes and 21 seconds as i clearly hit the left trigger to throw a melee before my oponent but am still beat down by him.

i could argue for the timer and little controller view showing buttons pressed but i think you guys know why it would be helpful and can think up reasons it would be awesome.

also if gun grab icons and radar data could be included in the films thatd be swell they help to paint a fuller picture on exactly why so and so did such and such

and i guess the most pressing issue in my mind is will i be able to watch my films when the beta is no longer playable? and will my films be watchable in halo 3 this fall?

any chance you can somehow salvage that first batch of films you guys wrecked with update no. 1? will i ever see them again or are they gone forever?

would you consider adding in skilled glitch like tricks perhaps even making them an optional feature things like bxb and bxr from halo 2 or crouching to avoid fall damage, infact can fall damage be optional?

hell can the opacity of the cloak be optional?

can you fix the hud so i can see the score and read my ammo and messages on snowbound, maybe a color change or you could play with the opacity just make it so i can read

will you put back in the gained the lead lost the lead messages?

finally i may ask for alot and complain a bunch but its because im greatful for not only the chance to play the game even in an early but damn gorgeous state, but to be able to add my two cents to the final product, thank you

  • 05.23.2007 11:06 PM PDT

Well, it is a beta right? So where is the 'Red vs Blue' mentioned Bug report menu? I've done a lot of betas, and most have something like this....is it coming, or are there no real significant bugs that would require it?

  • 05.23.2007 11:07 PM PDT
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halo 3 takes place mostly if not completely on earth thus no ring

  • 05.23.2007 11:08 PM PDT
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It seems to me that some of the physics have changed dramatically, and i realize that a lot of these changes are in attempts to balance the game, but all too much in the beta am i steaming full blast at someone in a ghost....hit them head on...and instead of being pushed or flying through the air at all they just seem to fall over and die. I was just wondering if this is because of unfinished physics or if these are the types of problems with networking you're trying to address now.

  • 05.23.2007 11:11 PM PDT

I just want One thing resolved for the final game, Can you please take the blue or Black screen away when someone quits a game. Why cant you just keep playing and it could say so and so quit in the upper left corner of the screen. waiting for the game to restart sucks. Besides that the game kicks ass.

Oh and the answer the people who want to know about RP Points it goes like this. Win a Game Get 1 rp Point
Lose a game 0 rp point
Quit out of a game -2 Rp Points.

  • 05.23.2007 11:16 PM PDT
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I don't get the looking for exact/close/any match thing in matchmaking, what does it change?

  • 05.23.2007 11:17 PM PDT
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is last resort going to be in the beta? and eny other matchmaking types?

  • 05.23.2007 11:17 PM PDT
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why not just show a persons player details instead of the dumbed down service record screen?

in the fall knowing whether a person favors customs or matchmaking would be helpful in cleaning up the friends list.

can we veto more than once or veto just the map or just the gametype? i mean i dont want to play ffa shotty snipes on valhalla with 4 guys but i also dont want to play snowbound koth ffa.

and why the walls in the hill?

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  • 05.23.2007 11:23 PM PDT

Jorny32

OK guys lets take it easy because a whole lot of u are not using ur brains when u ask stupid questions like "y did u change the melee......." they did to balance the game and if they would have left it like halo 2, halo 3 would have completly sucked and been unbalanced and u guys would have been the idiots to blame!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 05.23.2007 11:24 PM PDT

Got a couple questions myself.

Why did 2 of my friends friend hit 150 RP and get Captain, while me and another of the group I play with frequently get Lieutenant Grade 2?

Why did you guys REPLACE Team Training, rather then adding in BTB Training as you've done with playlists in Halo 2?

Was the Waaaahhmbulance working overtime on May 16th? :P

May ask more later... Thanks for looking at this thread Bungie!





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  • 05.23.2007 11:36 PM PDT
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I like pirates. Where can I find some pirates?

  • 05.23.2007 11:44 PM PDT
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Will we ever get to play Last Resort (Remake of Zanzibar) beforethe beta ends?

Will we ever get to see what the sword looks like?

By Anychance will there be and update the public beta so we get to see some cool new things like new weapons, new maps, new Veihcals

Is this true that your'll get to fly the pelican on one of the new Multiplayer maps? (Rumor)

And by any chance do you know if anyone yet has hacked Halo 3 Beta?

Thank you for your time bungie and keep up the fantasic work.

  • 05.23.2007 11:45 PM PDT
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please bring back the pistol from halo one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please bring back the pistol from halo one
! please bring back the pistol from halo one you did a great job making halo3, but if you bring back the pistol from one the game will be perfect..
trust me


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  • 05.23.2007 11:47 PM PDT
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More of a demand than a question: Please tell me when the game ships that your shield status bar will move back above the radar. The screen looks too full with it at the top, put it back above the radar!

  • 05.23.2007 11:53 PM PDT

Is there something special that the cloaking does? Because its as bad as ever. Like take you off your enemies motion tracker?

  • 05.24.2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Will there be any further changes to the beta, IE. different gametypes, maps, playlists, or weapons perhaps?

  • 05.24.2007 12:02 AM PDT
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I don't know if this makes much of a difference to most people, but I play with the vibration off, and since the Ammo Bar and the Shield bar are both on the top of the screen it's hard to tell when they both flash bright red whether I'm out of Ammo, my shields are low, or both. Could the Ammo Bar be moved to the bottom or the Shield bar to where it was in Halo 2? I know a lot of people that seem to be running into this problem when they play without vibration.

  • 05.24.2007 12:04 AM PDT

couple things:

- why do the grenades feel like im throwing shotput balls? the distance and arch dont feel right.
- how come i get killed in like 4 or 5 rifle shots in the back of the head from far away, but then at the same distance on a guy facing be it takes way more for me to kill him. the rifles seem to be inconsistent. on occasion i have been able to kill with them from far away, but more often i cant and i get killed from far away.
- why is the laser so awesome?

  • 05.24.2007 12:07 AM PDT
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READ:

Sending me a group invite or some kind of other pointless, time wasting advert gets you blocked. Don't bother wasting your time. kthnxbai

I don't know if this has been asked, but i'm not going to read 36 pages of questions to find out.

Right, so Halo 2 had a "caching" system for the maps, where the maps would take a small time to load unless you deleted that data from the hard drive. Is this going to be in the final, retail version of Halo 3, so that we don't have to wait about 5-10 seconds for the map to load?

  • 05.24.2007 12:14 AM PDT