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Just out of curiousity, has anyone else had a problem not earning achievements when they should have (not just in campaign, any achievement at all)? Just curious if I'm more of an isolated problem.

  • 09.28.2007 3:50 PM PDT
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I think its odd that it takes me a long time to find a social game but no time at all to find a ranked game, if it was my connection i would think both would be similar.

  • 09.28.2007 5:06 PM PDT

Don't ask about the name-- it's a long story

My service record uploaded to Bnet (like my campaign kill count) but not my screenshots. After you take a screenshot, does it automatically upload or do you have to do it manually? Cause I've taken screenshots and it says uploading to Bnet. But I go to my page and it says, "This user hasn't uploaded any hi-res screenshots." And the first shot I took was on Tuesday.

  • 09.28.2007 5:18 PM PDT

Posted by: LinkinPrime
Answered 2 questions that I had...but I still have one.


Why didn't I get the "Basic Training" achievement when I got the badge? I want my achievement please!


Ditto....but the name of the achievement is Graduate. Yeah I think I didn't get that one because I partied up with a friend and went into ranked matches before I finished Basic Training (I think I needed to play one more game too). But I should still get the achievement after getting 5 EXP. Would be nice to have fixed but I'm not really worried about achievements, and I have the pin on my service record to show that I made it out of basic. :p

  • 09.28.2007 6:41 PM PDT
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I was wondering is there an issue of people getting signed out of live when in matchmaking ? my provider road runner came out and said connection is fine, I called xbox and they said do the test live connection everything passed,it dosent sign out in other 360 games works fine. she said that basically so many people are on all at once things are messed up from how they should work (which i understand) usually when looking for players or just when match is going to start it says signed out of live, i hit guide button sign back in.then start match making all over. it dosent happen all the time ,say 2 times an hour I thought maybe it might be my connection .but my laptop is fine never looses connection . i have netgear cg814wg gateway , halo360 wired, laptop wireless. looking through the bungie forms I never seen a thread about anyone saying they get signed out . which is why I ask this question. Anyhelp , hope, or ideas would be great.

  • 09.28.2007 7:44 PM PDT

Ahhhh ive found all the terminals, and accessed them, but no achievement? do i need to play through the whole level to get it? and yes it was on normal

  • 09.28.2007 10:23 PM PDT

Posted by: Spartan018_X360
Just out of curiousity, has anyone else had a problem not earning achievements when they should have (not just in campaign, any achievement at all)? Just curious if I'm more of an isolated problem.


I have missed out on a few achievements in both single player and multi, wtf y bungie hax game?

  • 09.28.2007 10:24 PM PDT
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what about a lot of the halo 3 discs messin up 360's such as mine?, was bungie gonna do anything since its their product?

  • 09.29.2007 12:15 AM PDT
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Going on station.

Ahhhh ive found all the terminals, and accessed them, but no achievement? do i need to play through the whole level to get it? and yes it was on normal

I've found them all, maybe you haven't yet? The achievement is marathon man, and it appears after you''ve read all of the last terminal at least once (e.g. the second message of the terminal).


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  • 09.29.2007 12:51 AM PDT

I'm having a problem with file sharing. When I go to the File Share screen and try to upload screenshots to my Bnet shared area, I can't see the thumbnails of my locally saved screenshots, so I don't have any way of figuring out which pics I want to upload except for the name - which is okay if I just have a few screenshots, but a huge pain otherwise. Are other people having this problem or just me? Hope it's fixable.

  • 09.29.2007 4:08 AM PDT
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I unlocked a couple of achievments that are suppose to unlock armor but I haven't gotten the armor that goes along with them. Like the "we're in for some chop" achievment is suppose to unlock scout shoulder armor but i don't have the scout shoulders when i try to change it. Can anybody help me out?

  • 09.29.2007 7:54 AM PDT
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Why are Rtas 'Vadum's eyes yellow?
They were green just three years ago.
Did he get contacts, or did he lose his green eyes just like his "ee" during the Schism?

Screw scratched disks and 640p and achievements!
THIS is the question that matters the most :D

  • 09.29.2007 8:58 AM PDT

Well, today I decided to start up a Legendary campaign by myself. At the time, I was signed in to my Live profile but was not connected to Xbox Live. During the opening cinematic, an Achievement notice popped up saying I had earned the achievement for completing campaign on Heroic. I'm glad I finally got it, but wtf, why during the opening cinematic of a Legendary campaign?

  • 09.29.2007 1:34 PM PDT
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I just realized something a few moments ago. What ever happened to the Covenant/Elite Spectre? That thing kicked ass in Halo 2, awesome alternative to the warthog. Let's see, there's the Mongoose/Ghost/Chopper, Scorpion/Wraith, Hornet/Banshee. There's 2 versions of the Warthog, but no Covenant counterpart, unless you count the Brute Prowler, but that's nothing in comparison.
Why was it taken out?

  • 09.29.2007 5:02 PM PDT
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"Well, today I decided to start up a Legendary campaign by myself. At the time, I was signed in to my Live profile but was not connected to Xbox Live. During the opening cinematic, an Achievement notice popped up saying I had earned the achievement for completing campaign on Heroic. I'm glad I finally got it, but wtf, why during the opening cinematic of a Legendary campaign?"

That's because the opening cinematic is sorta like it's own level, kinda like the first 2 levels in Halo 2 were just cutscenes.

  • 09.29.2007 5:04 PM PDT

"This party's over." ~Mace Windu
Bruce Lee > Chuck Norris
PPPPPP--POWER!

So I'm wondering why multiplayer, specifically coop, won't fit my entire hdtv screen. Solo campaign works just fine, but if I set up to play with a friend, I have two 2 inch black boxes on either side of the screen. Any idea why this is?

  • 09.29.2007 7:29 PM PDT

Posted by: Joric Deture
So I'm wondering why multiplayer, specifically coop, won't fit my entire hdtv screen. Solo campaign works just fine, but if I set up to play with a friend, I have two 2 inch black boxes on either side of the screen. Any idea why this is?


YES! so do I! this game seems to have a lot of errors, but its still awesome

  • 09.29.2007 7:33 PM PDT

the vertical split in Halo 2 on HDTVs sucked, plain and simple. The 8:9 screen put widescreen users at a major disadvantage. However, if they used a horizontal split and the entire width of the screen, that becomes a 32:9 (or 16:4.5) screen, giving widescreen users at a major advantage. So, they did the fairest thing they could and just made the game run in a 4:3 area (8:3 or 4:1.5 for each user). If you play with 4 people, it does use up the entire screen, with each player getting the 16:9 that a single player would get.

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  • 09.29.2007 8:06 PM PDT
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I can't get my custom game variants to work. I tried to create SWAT:

Went to Custom Games Lobby
Chose a slayer game and Chose Edit Options
I went in and turned off grenades, shields, only magnum, etc..
I saved it as SWAT

When I start the game, the primary weapon as magnum works, but people still have shields and grenades. Am I doing something wrong?

  • 09.30.2007 7:08 AM PDT
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And what about the sound issues??? =S

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13215576


  • 09.30.2007 7:43 AM PDT

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Yeah, there are also some online achiements. I haven't unlocked basic training, but I got the medal on my profile... Hopefully they are aware (which it would seem they are).

  • 09.30.2007 9:06 AM PDT
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I heart Halo 3! Where can I find a list of perms and how to unlock em and I found a skull on cortana (cortana? I think so)

  • 09.30.2007 5:21 PM PDT
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I'm a little frustrated. If you check my stats on bungie.net, you'll see that I've completed every mission on Legendary; however, I was not granted the gamer points for this large accomplishment. Is there something I missed or messed up by occasionally teaming up with friends on different missions while undertaking this???

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  • 10.01.2007 12:08 AM PDT
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please address the "used car salesman" bug. thank you.

  • 10.01.2007 5:26 AM PDT
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I have a question that is confusing many people.... What is the "Steaktacular" Achievement?

  • 10.01.2007 5:38 AM PDT