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Subject: Halo 3 Launch Week FAQ

I have defied Gods and Demons
I am your shield, I am your sword
I know you, your past, your future
This is the way the world ends

About the Armor Permutations...does the game notify us when we unlock a new permutation, or do we just have to keep checking the appearance>armor page manually? It would be nice if it let us know when and how we unlocked the permutation, maybe not how, but definitely when. /that way you wont be using the Mark IV or CQB armor when you really want to use a different one, just because you havent checked...but then again maybe im just lazy...

  • 09.26.2007 9:37 PM PDT
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you can't unlock achievements on easy?

then how come I unlocked one?

I unlocked the needler one the first time I used the needler.

  • 09.26.2007 9:48 PM PDT
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http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13106831

This post has several replies.....the 4:3 screen issue and black bars on split screen co op and multiplayer need to addressed and more importantly FIXED!

Unacceptable problem.

  • 09.26.2007 9:50 PM PDT
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Why am I unable to hear my buddies'/my own voice on the Save Films? It's not much good for Machinima if we have to record the audio the old fashion way.

[Edited on 09.26.2007 10:06 PM PDT]

  • 09.26.2007 10:06 PM PDT

Because I never had time for a quote.

I have a question. Is it neccissary to beat the campaign in order to watch saved campaign films? I have tried to watch and it wont let me veiw "user content" even though it is mine. Is this a problem with my box, or should I just rush though the campaign?

EDIT: Fixed the problem, t'was in my Xbox live settings.

[Edited on 09.27.2007 4:53 PM PDT]

  • 09.26.2007 10:09 PM PDT
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Why is Shotty Snipers showing up on the Team Slayer playlist way too much ?? When I play Team Slayer, I expect to play a slayer game. I'm sick of the shotty snipers, ever since the beta. Do away with this Shotty Snipers crap !! Please !!

  • 09.26.2007 10:10 PM PDT
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Some, if not many, people are unable to play on matchmaking, it says:
"Information could not be retrieved from the halo3 server."

I know I am not the only one but the problem hasn't been explained with any confirmation.
People are just guessing it's the "overload" , to many players. NAT restriction isn't the problem.
Alot of players are going to finish the fight soon and will want to play matchmaking as well.

Will this issue be adressed ?
Any solution yet ?
What gives ?


  • 09.27.2007 3:03 AM PDT

Don't make a girl a promise, if you know you can't keep it.

This may be an obvious question, but can I register my gamertag on my friends machine as well without taking my HDD? He has a great setup for Halo 3 and it would be nice to earn achievements when playing on his 360 too.

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  • 09.27.2007 4:10 AM PDT
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To above: Yes, you can. Just go to his xbox, and retrieve your gamertag. I do it a lot with a friend.


1. I was assessed a 1 point EXP penalty for no apparent reason after one of my games last night. Do you lose EXP for coming in last?

2. When you view my profile, and go to career stats(on bungie.net), it works. If you click achievements however, it takes me to another user's profile. WHY?

Thanks.

[Edited on 09.27.2007 5:47 AM PDT]

  • 09.27.2007 5:45 AM PDT

I was playing a Local co-op match with a friend on Heroic. We went through the entire campaign together, both of us for the first time. My 360 profile is a Live account, his is just a local profile not attached to any Live account. Upon completing the final mission, his profile was awarded the Achievements for completing the campaign on both Heroic and Normal, whereas I was only awarded the Achievement for completing the campaign on Normal. I doubt there is any way I can have this fixed for myself, but I figured I'd report it anyway. You can check my profile for recent campaign games for proof that I did indeed beat the game on Heroic.

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  • 09.27.2007 6:27 AM PDT
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YOU HAVE TO UNLOCK ARMOUR?!?!?!?!?

  • 09.27.2007 6:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: VagrantPhantom
This may be an obvious question, but can I register my gamertag on my friends machine as well without taking my HDD? He has a great setup for Halo 3 and it would be nice to earn achievements when playing on his 360 too.
You lose your saved games when recovering a profile so be careful. My suggestion is buy a memory card, that's what I do because I have a few setups.

  • 09.27.2007 7:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan018_X360
I was playing a Local co-op match with a friend on Heroic. We went through the entire campaign together, both of us for the first time. My 360 profile is a Live account, his is just a local profile not attached to any Live account. Upon completing the final mission, his profile was awarded the Achievements for completing the campaign on both Heroic and Normal, whereas I was only awarded the Achievement for completing the campaign on Normal. I doubt there is any way I can have this fixed for myself, but I figured I'd report it anyway. You can check my profile for recent campaign games for proof that I did indeed beat the game on Heroic.
I can't check your stats. It may be set on private but your problem could be you played one of the levels on a lower difficulty by accident when playing alone or something and you just need to go back and beat it on heroic.

  • 09.27.2007 7:44 AM PDT

Thats the thing, I haven't played campaign alone, and we started Arrival on Heroic and went straight through to the end. Heres a link to my stats, hopefully they'll show up now
http://www.bungie.net/stats/PlayerCampaignStatsHalo3.aspx?pla yer=Spartan0018

  • 09.27.2007 7:51 AM PDT
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Playing Halo since November 17, 2001.

Can anyone explain to me why when I go to the leaderboards for my friends the skill level is different than their highest rank? Is that an error or is there another factor that determines your skill level. (BTW, Im sure Im not looking at the experience points so dont say that!)

  • 09.27.2007 7:56 AM PDT

I'm probably twice your age, punk!

Oh, and say hi to your Mom.

To get the campaign stats/achievements do you have to be connected to XBL while playing campaign mode, or will it upload the data the next time you connect? It doesn't seem to be working for me (but I haven't been connected during the game).

  • 09.27.2007 8:03 AM PDT
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Not sure if anyone else is having this problem on bnet, but if I goto my halo 3 stats page (or anyone elses for that matter), and i click on "[ see more achievements ]" at the bottom it takes me to a random players achievements and not mine.

The link that i click on even says http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo3/Achievements.aspx?player=Ea stLander8g

Is this how it's suppossed to work? Is anyone else having this issue?

[Edited on 09.27.2007 8:34 AM PDT]

  • 09.27.2007 8:04 AM PDT

I'm probably twice your age, punk!

Oh, and say hi to your Mom.

I saw that too this morning. They must be having issues.

  • 09.27.2007 8:09 AM PDT

I was connected to XBL, I just had to have the party system set to Local because he doesn't have a gamertag.

  • 09.27.2007 8:11 AM PDT
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Great game guys! I think it will be a lot of fun once I get some of those new Multiplayer maps down.

I have two questions though. Why can't I set my custom games to grab people looking for games as Luke mentioned in a 1up.com article? I thought I heard something about how this was going to be possible through "XBL Public". Right now it kind of sucks if you create a game variant but have no one to play with. Will it be something that can be included in an update? Here is a link to a related thread in the forum.

Also, a lot of people have been wondering about starting weapons in custom games and why you aren't given the full array of starting weapons to choose from. Is this something that needs to be unlocked? Please answer! Thanks!

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  • 09.27.2007 8:19 AM PDT
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Posted by: darkknight817
you can't unlock achievements on easy?

then how come I unlocked one?

I unlocked the needler one the first time I used the needler.

You can't unlock the mission completion achievements on easy.

Read the description: Complete Mission [#] on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.

  • 09.27.2007 8:41 AM PDT
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Ya, I was wondering if we could get an answer on the audio problems talked about here. Its extremely sucky.

  • 09.27.2007 9:07 AM PDT

Well, I read the FAQ... I've sent 5 screenshots to Bungie, 2 almost 48 hours ago, 3 of them 12 hours ago, and still nothing has shown up. And those last 3 were sent after I'd had an image in File Share for some 12 hours, so there's still something screwed up, I'm afraid.

  • 09.27.2007 9:39 AM PDT

You splattered a dumb cat

REGARDING THE SCRATCHED DISCS IN LIMITED EDITION:

What about the postage costs for shipping the discs back for replacement? Why has Microsoft refused to pay for our shipping costs? It is admitted by them that they had faulty cases manufactured and therefore the problem is NOT a result of the end user.

I spoke to Xbox customer support and they said they will NOT be sending any pre-paid shipping labels for the damaged discs, and therefore the consumer pays all shipping costs to get the discs back to Microsoft for replacement. What gives?

I know it is not Bungie's fault, nor is it necessarily Microsoft, but MS is the publisher and takes full responsibility for the quality of the product (particularly the casing the game discs came in). So whichever company manufactured the shoddy Limited Edition tins needs to own up to the mistake that was made.

[Edited on 09.27.2007 10:15 AM PDT]

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