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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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could you please make a playlist for the shotty snipes and hammer matches separate from the ranked team slayer and lone wolves playlists please? i do not like and am not good at either of these adn i feel that they seriosly hurt my rank as i am forced to play them so often. make a different playlist with all of the awkward games so that team slayer and lone wolves's integrity won't be hurt by these games i hate so much.

  • 10.03.2007 9:48 AM PDT

Check out all my theories and creations at HBO!

Or read my fanfic, "Effort Cannot Conquer Faith" -- it won a signed novel from Eric Nylund!

Two promotional questions here:

1) What ever happened to that "World's Biggest Halo Fan" contest? It was implied that it would tie into the launch somehow, but as far as I know nothing ever came of it. Is it over yet, or what?

2) Will the Iris ARG participants who helped unlock Servers/Episodes 3 through 5 ever receive anything for their efforts, like those who unlocked the first two did? Or were the first two swag giveaways just a bait-and-switch? You can tell me... I'll just put the blame on Microsoft. :P

EDIT: And one more random question: Any idea what music was used in the "Monument" video? (link to video)

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  • 10.03.2007 9:49 AM PDT
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1 . Will BTB be ranked soon?
2. Is there an ETA for new maps to be released
3. Is there a problem with melee's , it seems whoever hits first loses / too powerful
4. MAJOR PROBLEM - Suicide in Double team, a player can jump off the map and not lose points.

  • 10.03.2007 9:49 AM PDT

Why are there problems with the achievements?
How come it took me 7 sticks in 1 game before I got the achievement?
What is going on with the armor, why won't it unlock?
How come when I shoot a guy in the head with my BR with 3 bursts, then melee him, I die?
Why, when I have a full green bar connection, do my sniper shots hit a person in the head and not kill them?
Are you guys leaving Microsoft?
Finally, how do you get the "ninja" armor, is it bungie only, or is it something else entirely?


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  • 10.03.2007 9:49 AM PDT
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Will you make it possible to board the mongoose, like it is with other vehicles?

Are you going to implement anything to prevent standbying?

Why is it not possible for the 360 to render saved films, and then allow us to FTP to that specific region of the hard-drive to retrieve them to our own computers?

Why can we not skip forward in videos? If it's due to lack of rendering in advance, why not (when we press the skip button) start rendering from that point?

Are any of the Halo 2 maps going to be remade besides Zanzibar (and the poorly re-created guardian)?

  • 10.03.2007 9:50 AM PDT

Just remember... I keep it real...

1)
Who are most of the online multiplayer achievements free-for-all Lone Wolf only? It is extremely difficult to get a mongoose mowdown, double spartan laser kill, and killing frenzy when everyone is higher then level 20. I don't want to have to derank just to get players who have no idea what's going on so they can stand still long enough for me to mow them down in a mongoose, which does like zero damage.

2)
I understand why we can't rewind saved films during campaign, but why can't we make video clips of campaign?

3)
Why did you remove the tripmine from Valhalla in matchmaking (from the Beta) and replace it which an energy drainer? Like nobody actually knows how to use a power drainer to its full extent.

4)
Why aren't people free to join and leave co-op online games? It is boring just waiting in a lobby to see if anyone will show up.

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Why can't we search for custom games or co-op games? What do I do if I want to play a game of infection or The Covenant on Legendary and none of my friend's are on? Just settle with matchmaking?

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Will BTB play lists ever be bumped up to 16 players and will it ever become ranked?

7) Halo 3 is now the most played game on Xbox Live, why don't we have a Team Snipers playlist or a SWAT playlist? There are pleanty of people for each playlist.

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Why does Shotty Snipers show up so many times in the Team Slayer play list?

Oh yeah, great game. I love it.

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  • 10.03.2007 9:50 AM PDT
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1. When is the Chief's next video gaming appearance?

2. What's Bungie's next project?

3. Can we get hang em high as a D/L map?

Congrats on the fruits of much hard work!

  • 10.03.2007 9:50 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lai217
Are there any plans to alter the ridiculously luck-based achievements for Elite armor unlocks? An overkill in ranked FFA means killing everyone on the server in one shot, essentially, which is almost impossible. I've tried, every morning, to great frustration. I got a triple sword kill only by chance, when three people were literally standing in a straight line. That just doesn't happen in most slayer games. The Spartans get about 8 easy to unlock helmets, the Elites get 3 hard to get ones. Seems a little unfair to dedicated Elite players. (And I'm the only player I've ever seen with the Steppin' Razor who plays an Elite, so there's a problem.)

All you'd have to do is make it not ranked FFA. I'm fine with an overkill, but in Big Team Battle, not some 4 person oddball match on Isolation. Seriously, help us out here, at least tell us why you did it. I can't even find Bungie devs with some of these achievements.


I'm not really after the elite armor but I want all the achievements... (42 out of 49) and all but one is not in lonewolf, and i and agree with him its driving me insane tryin to get any of em

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I got 3 questions for you guys:

1) How exactly do the ranks (Private, Captain, etc) work? What's the deal with skill point and levels both affecting it? (If there's a nice FAQ on this that I missed, could someone shoot a link my way?)

2) I assume you guys are hard at work on a patch for various small glitches that pop up in Multiplayer. But now that we can record games, if we see a bug, should we do something to alert you? ie. fire off an email to a special address with the game and bug details and have the vid on our File Share for you? My friends and I have encountered a few bugs here and there -- some probably just lag, some that may be real issues. (Multiple sniper headshots not counting, weapon ammo refilling when it's dropped).

3) I'm going to put on my angry hat for this one: WTF were you thinking making achievements only available in one fraking playlist?! *angry hat off* I understnad you don't want people setting up custom games and slamming out all the achievements in 10 minutes, but it's very frustrating to try and meet these requirements which are sometimes in odds with the objective of the game. (I'm looking at that damned mongoose achievement)

Thanks guys. Congrats on a record breaking launch!

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  • 10.03.2007 9:50 AM PDT

Why cant I use ninja?
If I can how do I unlock it?
Why isnt infection in a gametype?
Is there a way to avoid loosing exp when my internet connection messes up and Im booted from a game?

  • 10.03.2007 9:51 AM PDT

a) Shotty Snipers should be it's own playlist. I'm getting tired of playing it 15 times in a row in team slayer.

b) Why is the beat down so powerful? I'm getting tired of shot by like 4 bullets and getting beat down. The melee was better balanced in H2.

  • 10.03.2007 9:51 AM PDT

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You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

When the mods going to have a humpday challenge versus you guys? I am feeling lucky.

P.S. I love you.

  • 10.03.2007 9:51 AM PDT
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"Ninja armor" (hayabusa) is unlocked through achievements and unlocking all of the skulls (including the silver ones)

  • 10.03.2007 9:51 AM PDT

first off Bungie, thanks for making a great game. secondly, (and i know it's been asked before) what is up with the sniper? i have shot somebody in the head and it took another second after that to die.

next, my brother has found the double-shot glitch. do you guys plan on releasing a patch to cover up glitches like or are we gonna be forced to go back to the "who is the better button masher" playing that sucked the fun out of Halo 2?


again, thanks for making a great game Bungie...

much love

  • 10.03.2007 9:51 AM PDT
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Why haven't all my stats shown up on B-net? Many or the metals I got haven't shown up.

  • 10.03.2007 9:52 AM PDT
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1. Are you going to be fixing the hit detection and/or lag issues with weapons such as the sniper rifle and battle rifle? They can be seen in these videos (sniper)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RXJTXh5FGcI&mode=related&s earch=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e99Qf6TmLQA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sd6o-Ap_v08&mode=related&s earch=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=77WDjUyTqc0&mode=related&s earch=

2. Are you going to be addressing the problems with melee (possibly lag) which are far more apparant in halo 3 than in halo 2?

Link to Melee Issues

3. Are you going to be adding a custom game search feature? If not, tell us why.

Link to poll of custom game search feature.




  • 10.03.2007 9:52 AM PDT

Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

Why does the Mauler have the sweetest sound in the entire game?

Also, why was the Troop Hog made not to carry Spartans? It would have made for amazing multiplayer shenanigans.

Lastly, is it possible to release a patch to enable forgers to mount objects onto others, specifically vehicles? Having a Warthog be the hill in a KotH game would be more awesome than Chocolate-covered gold ingots.

  • 10.03.2007 9:52 AM PDT
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When do the new maps come out

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One more thing before i go. I know that at the end of H2 and Begining of H3 you guys did Uprising. How come you guys didnt include anything from uprising as a few parts in the story? I think it would of been great when you start off trying to scape from you been capture and find a way to get to earth...just like how H3 started..Dont get me wrong the way H3 started was Beautiful..and i have to say the scenes are gorgeous..im a graphic design so i love graphic work..any ways.. thanks.

  • 10.03.2007 9:53 AM PDT
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why is shotty snipers the most common game type in team slayer?

Why cant I rewind in a saved film from campaign? You do know that they can be over 45 minutes long, and starting over because you just barely missed a shot... is a huge pain in the @$$.

Can you tell people to stop whining about Lockout/Guardian?

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First of all, this is truly a great game. I love the gameplay and it is just fun to play in general. I only have one real gripe about it.

This doesn't have anything to do with the 640 vertical pixels instead of 720 or the 360 upscaling, at least I think it doesn't. In the weekly update response to the people complaining about missing 80p you referred to them as "tinfoil hats". I can understand that obsessively counting pixels can sound like a bit much but you guys (Bungie) are making it sound like this whole thing is a non-issue.

Here are the facts:

Many of us are using a 4:3 or 5:4 display with the MS VGA cable at 1280x1024.

The game looks horrible like this and things are seriously pixelated. I'm not talking about "omg, there is a tiny little diagonal line that isn't perfectly straight", I'm talking about the entire screen flashing around when we walk due to pixelation.

I don't know if this is due to the 640 upscaling, or if the 360 can't deal with 4:3 and upscale 640 correctly or if this is due to the fact that there is no anti-aliasing because of the HDR or what. Either way, the game really looks terrible.

The game also runs "fullscreen" with the setup I described above, which means that the 640 is being stretched out to be 1024. That is 384 pixels worth of stretching. Every other game I have for Xbox 360 places games like this in a "letterbox" format when running at 1280x1024 and doesn't try to stretch that entire resolution vertically to be full screen. Gears of War, BioShock, MOH Airborne all do this and they look great.

Why doesn't Halo 3 do this? Other than adding anti-aliasing or changing anything else I think a lot of people would just like to see an update that performs the letterbox scaling or whatever you want to call it that 99% of other games do.

This seems like a no-brainer to me.. why wouldn't it be part of standard development? Is it the console's fault because it doesn't know what to do with the funky 640 vertical or what?

Please release something that fixes this and let us know what's going on. Not everyone is experiencing this but those that are having this problem are seriously getting a negative hit with this game.

Thank you for your time.

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Every time I try to land a proper melee with the assault rifle the other guy wins even if he also melees with an assault rifle. What gives?

  • 10.03.2007 9:54 AM PDT
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Why are there discrepancies between my XBL service record and my Bnet service record?

For instance, Bnet has me at a lower ranking and hasn't updated my Spartan model or screenshots. Bnet even has an EXP penalty for me quiting a match, when I haven't quit any matches.

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Do you get less exp. when you are in a mixed party?

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Is there any way that we will ever be able to play as a grunt? Like a covenant playlist where you could choose to be brute, jackal, grunt, and your start equip based on rank? also, will any classical map be returning?

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