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I have a question that is confusing many people.... What is the "Steaktacular" Achievement?

Apparently, Frankie owes you a steak. I think there's a question in the forum somewhere on this and how it was unlocked. I can't remember what it is though. Sorry.

Here's some info.

[Edited on 10.01.2007 6:41 AM PDT]

  • 10.01.2007 6:38 AM PDT

Posted by: CombatShadow27
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???

I had the same problem but with Heroic. Try watching the opening cinematic on Legendary (the 'Arrival' level), in the middle of it I was given the Heroic achievement. If that doesn't work, just keep asking for help, hopefully Bungie will address the Achievement issues.

  • 10.01.2007 11:40 AM PDT
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Could you explain why we don't have team-side proximity voices when in games you have to PTT?
I can hear the other team, but as for my own team, the only way to communicate is to PTT.
This wasn't so in the beta, so I'm really hoping it's a glitch and not a feature.

Please bring back/fix the proximity chat!
It's the only thing ruining my online experience, BTB is my favorite mode, but without proximity chat it's not worth playing, IMO.
Also, could you make it so that dead players can't talk in smaller games? I know it's in BTB, but I would love to see it in small games.
It makes the game experience so much more intense! I loved hearing the dying grunt of a player yelling for help in Halo 2.
"I see them!!! Their whole team is coming in from the-- ungh!"

  • 10.01.2007 2:56 PM PDT

William Joel Ross

My question pertains to the custom game variants and if they are going to be put in Halo 3 for those of us who don't like the game variants you have in your playlist.

  • 10.01.2007 4:40 PM PDT
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My 5.1 surround system never leaves Dolby Digital for the XBOX and has nothing set on it that would screw up the sound.... Halo 3 is the ONLY game where my weapons sound like pea shooters... Is the assault rifle supposed to sound like this? If it is then, fair play, I don't like it but i'll have to live with it... Seems very strange that someones weapon that is next to me sounds louder than my own weapon but so be it.... Seems even stranger that people i'm shooting ats voices sound louder than my weapon.... but if that is how its meant to be.... who am I to argue....

  • 10.02.2007 4:24 AM PDT
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I'd like to say thanks to Bungie for replying on the 'Muffled Weapons' problem pretty quickly, but the comment only seems to be addressing the issues with 5.1 Surround. The music overpowers the weapons on my non-surround system so much; it really takes the atmosphere out of the experience. I have tried my 360 with my TV, my monitor and the Aux inputs on both my stereos, I've also changed the settings on the 360 dashboard to test every possible combination, all to no avail. I really want to play through the campaign but it kind of feels like I'm hovering my reticule over enemies and they are just falling down. I actually tried to return the game on the basis of the strange sound levels, and the guy in Game was just plain rude and basically told me where I could stick my polite complaint. The annoying thing is that I'm sure all this could be solved with simple individual FX, MUSIC, VOICE volume controls on a sound menu somewhere. I think that's a fairly reasonable request, so I hope it makes it into an update one day. Thanks for listening to my little rant.

  • 10.02.2007 5:13 AM PDT

Posted by: SketchFactor
Q: Why didn’t I get my achievement after completing a mission?

A: First off, you can’t earn any mission completion achievements if you play on Easy. Secondly, don’t quit the game until you see the Achievement indicator appear on screen.
I'm playing through the entire campaign on Normal, and have recieved my achievements for each of the first four missions. However... After completing the fifth mission, watching the longest cut-scene in history, and continuing through part of the sixth mission (without quitting once), I received no achievement.

What's up with that?

  • 10.02.2007 6:10 AM PDT
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Hey what's with the ranking system? I play 4 in a row win them all in Team slayer and then find that I still haven't gone up a level. I then win my 5th and go up 2 levels and then yet again I play 3 more games with no level ups. I then lose one game and go down a level as does my entire team, I lost by 1 to guys with higher ranks in slayer than me but lower exp. Why do I lose a level after 1 game when it took me 5 to get any level ups and still had 3 wins between me and my last level up? Are the people who like to play all the game types being punished in favor of those who only play 1? Should I not have enjoyed more types other then team slayer if I wanted to have a better rank? If this is a bug then so be it. If its the new system then WTF the side thing is but a double ranking system that's threaded together is not cool.

  • 10.02.2007 6:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: Coquiton
Could you explain why we don't have team-side proximity voices when in games you have to PTT?
I can hear the other team, but as for my own team, the only way to communicate is to PTT.
This wasn't so in the beta, so I'm really hoping it's a glitch and not a feature.

Please bring back/fix the proximity chat!
It's the only thing ruining my online experience, BTB is my favorite mode, but without proximity chat it's not worth playing, IMO.
Also, could you make it so that dead players can't talk in smaller games? I know it's in BTB, but I would love to see it in small games.
It makes the game experience so much more intense! I loved hearing the dying grunt of a player yelling for help in Halo 2.
"I see them!!! Their whole team is coming in from the-- ungh!"


My 2 cents, I ABSOLUTELY agree with Coquiton. The PTT has ruined play. There is nothing worse then having to push the d**n d-pad while manning the 50cal to talk to your driver ONLY to be killed because you had to take your finger off the joystick.

BUNGIE, PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME TAKE MY FINGER OFF MY STICK!!! ;)

  • 10.02.2007 7:00 AM PDT

Oh, and I'm curious as to why the decision was made to revert back from the Halo 2 split screen Start-button system (you know, how when one player hit start, something would pop up on their screen only and not block everyone else's screen). This is really annoying and is a pretty massive mistake. You had a good thing going in Halo 2 with that.

  • 10.02.2007 11:20 AM PDT
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Thanks for updating the FAQ with a comment on the read disc error, it is preventing me from enjoying Halo 3 and I look forward to more information from Bungie and Xbox about this issue. Thanks!

  • 10.02.2007 11:34 AM PDT

I think I should mention that when I completed the campaign on Heroic, I watched the credits all the way through (do I even need to say why?), so the "Don't quit to the menu until you see an Achievement bubble" line doesn't apply to me, I waited (plus, even if I hadn't my friend got the Achievement while I didn't and we were on the same box).

On a lighter note, I look forward to hearing about DLC. I'm hoping for a Beaver/Battle Creek remake because we need smaller maps, maybe even a Sidewinder remake (the rest of Halo 3 is an homage to Halo 1, might as well just make it complete. Hell, maybe even throw in a Chiron remake). And I know Valhalla is a loose remake of Blood Gulch, but any chance of a more strict remake?

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  • 10.02.2007 12:42 PM PDT
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Why is Forge so limited? Why are some weapons, vehicles, and equipments only available to one or two maps? This bothers me almost as much as not being able to search for other gamer's custom games. Almost.

Why can't I put the Fuel Rod Gun in any map I choose? Why can't I put deployable shields in any map? Or the flamethrower! It can't be something technical! As far as I can tell it was done "just because". Just because they didn't think about it or just didn't care. It makes me wish I wasn't even teased with Forge when I can't put a Scorpion in Snowbound?!? Or put the Carbine in Sandtrap?!? Or have more than one flamethrower in Construct?!? Or put any and every scenery on any and every map?!? So what if it looks stupid?!?! You don't have to play it! I'll run around in my creation myself, imagining the glorious battles I orchestrated! Alas!

To people who only care about matchmaking: I know you don't care! But many of us have become very excited by the possibilities of Forge! I still am very addicted to it! Yet, I'm very disappointed because it could have been so much more enjoyable without the weapon/vehicle/equipment censoring!

  • 10.02.2007 2:03 PM PDT
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Why are a lot of people having problems getting in to Unranked/Social matches? A lot of people are able to play ranked games but not social games. My particular scenario is as follows:

I have ran the network test via the dashboard and everything checks out fine, my NAT is open

All appropriate ports are being forwarded on my router

I can play ranked matches with no problems what so ever. I can also play every other game I own with no problems

I can get in to 1 out of every 30 or so unranked/social matches. What I have to do is start matchmaking and then exit it if no matches are found. After doing this for 30 or so times I will eventually get in to a game.

Obviously some different people will have different scenarios, but I am still seeing people on the forum complaining about the same thing as I am. For myself it is particularly frustrating because I enjoy social matches because they allow me and my sister to play together, we are both busy and when we get free time, we like to play Halo together. This has almost completely stopped this activity because it takes so long to get in to social matches.

  • 10.02.2007 5:36 PM PDT

I was wondering why on the "Halo 3 Believe" monument, the video featured to "open" on October 1, 2007 has not opened yet, and here it is almost October 3?

By the way, I love Halo 3, and I love Forge, and the multiplayer. It is just really funny for me, and probably annoying for you guys, to see that soOoooOoo many people would have their questions answered if they would just read the manuals, your FAQ's pages, and just ask other people, instead of straight to you L337 persons!

Thanks again.

  • 10.02.2007 7:58 PM PDT
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also having probs with TS Keeps Putting us in Shotty Snipes but im glad you guys are seeing to it also the Maps on TS seem unbalanced keep getting the same maps havent played hardly any high ground in slayer that might just be luck of the draw ? is Epitaph even in TS playlist , also i regularly play with 4 close friends we want to play ranked but we have to either play big team unranked or social slayer anychance on getting big team ranked or social ranked ?

  • 10.03.2007 2:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: Coquiton
Could you explain why we don't have team-side proximity voices when in games you have to PTT?
I can hear the other team, but as for my own team, the only way to communicate is to PTT.
This wasn't so in the beta, so I'm really hoping it's a glitch and not a feature.

Please bring back/fix the proximity chat!
It's the only thing ruining my online experience, BTB is my favorite mode, but without proximity chat it's not worth playing, IMO.
Also, could you make it so that dead players can't talk in smaller games? I know it's in BTB, but I would love to see it in small games.
It makes the game experience so much more intense! I loved hearing the dying grunt of a player yelling for help in Halo 2.
"I see them!!! Their whole team is coming in from the-- ungh!"



My 2 cents, I ABSOLUTELY agree with Coquiton. The PTT has ruined play. There is nothing worse then having to push the d**n d-pad while manning the 50cal to talk to your driver ONLY to be killed because you had to take your finger off the joystick.

BUNGIE, PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME TAKE MY FINGER OFF MY STICK!!! ;)


everything said above is right if u play slayer the chat is normal but if u go on BTB or Social Slayer then u have to push D - pad totaly destroys communication

  • 10.03.2007 2:50 AM PDT
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Why did you take out Team Snipers?If shotty snipers is such a big issue, then just bring a Team snipers playlist back. That was my favorite playlist.

  • 10.03.2007 3:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: SketchFactor
Q: Why didn’t I get my achievement after completing a mission?

A: First off, you can’t earn any mission completion achievements if you play on Easy. Secondly, don’t quit the game until you see the Achievement indicator appear on screen.
I'm playing through the entire campaign on Normal, and have recieved my achievements for each of the first four missions. However... After completing the fifth mission, watching the longest cut-scene in history, and continuing through part of the sixth mission (without quitting once), I received no achievement.

What's up with that?
Son of a -blam!-! it happened again on Mission 7. What the hell?? I'm tired of playing through every mission twice!

  • 10.03.2007 7:02 PM PDT
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i dunno if it is diff in halo 3, but last night i was playing and i stuck a guy who had oversheild's gun. and he didn't die. is it cause i stuck the gun? i have the VID To PROVE :) HomesickCINCI

  • 10.04.2007 7:16 AM PDT

a wise man once told me to -blam!- off.

BRING BACK TEAM SNIPES.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

  • 10.04.2007 12:55 PM PDT

a wise man once told me to -blam!- off.

AND it'd be pretty cool to have more slayer in lone wolves, and way less ball and king.

it almost always gets vetoed anyway.

lone wolves should have some random -blam!-. like all hammers, or needlers..... elimination maybe.

or last man standing zombies (infection)

  • 10.04.2007 12:57 PM PDT
Subject: I love you, marty.

Halo 3 soundtrack. Now please?

  • 10.04.2007 4:03 PM PDT
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heres some questions.
why are there not more maps like the original and halo 2 mulitmaps?
what cant you make turrets in the froge and fuelrod cannons?
why cant you play infection in multiplayer?
why cant you choose your game type before you search in mm?
why not have a mutiplayer flood moode you and players vs endless flood how long can you suvive

  • 10.04.2007 4:26 PM PDT