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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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Already been mentioned, but you guys need to add a rewind feature to saved films. And a faster fast foward. Or skip feature. Also, whats up with the sniper rifle? I've hit people three or four times before and they haven't died. And my friend has been sniped through solid walls, twice! Crazy good game otherwise, congrats.

  • 10.03.2007 9:54 AM PDT

Sorry for not reading the 9 pages to see if this had been answered but, a quick inquiry:

I accept not being able to rewind in campaign films, that's ok. But when I want to view the battle at the end of a level I just finished, I have to fast forward through the entire saved film to get to the end, sometimes more than 50 minutes worth of gameplay. It would be nice to have an option to "skip ahead 5 minutes" and just press that button 9 times rather than use a rubber band to hold down my controller's right trigger while I go make a cup of tea, walk the dog, check email... Any chance of such an option seeing implementation?

  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT

I like turtles!

What is the situation with the delayed reaction that the host suffers when playing a coop game. (This is not related to bandwidth or HDTV lag)

See the following thread for more details.
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13183122

  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT
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Why can't we lower our wepons during online play? please let us, it would make machinima creating alot easier.
+How do we get flaming heads like these guys?
Thanks.

  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT

Fight to the Finish!

Wow. This is really late...but here goes. Will we ever be able to use some of the weapons and vehicles in multiplayer that are not currently in multiplayer some day soon? Like the Fuel Rod Cannon , the 5 Passenger Warthog and Cloak Equiptment and other stuff like that.

Thanks!
The Diakonos

  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT

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Punks jump up to get beat down. I'll holla

Arbiter: You Wen't over your minutes again Master Cheif.
Johnson: Now how in the hell did you do that Spartan!?
Arbiter: Who have you been texting?
Master Cheif: IDK My BFF Cortana?
Arbiter: Wow....

Ok Frankie. Seriously, lets get to the mind boggling question that i have spent countless as well as sleepless hours trying to think of.
Can i be in the Bungie.net Update when you create this Q&A??
And I think the assult rifle is perfecty balanced, as well as the other weapons. I think the ones complaining just havn't adapted and need to run home to their mommys.

:)
-TwitchyAce

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  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT

Get WorkPLaced!

Are you and Microsoft parting ways?

Also - any idea whether it would be possible to have regional matchmaking? Playing guys in the US with the latency we suffer in the UK is often thouroughly depressing. Like SERIOUSLY.

  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke-

Two things.

1) Possible armor customization, such as more colors, or the addition of areas to color. (I.E. The spikes on the Haybusha Helmet, if I could change those from white to something else.)
2) Plasma Nades, for some reason half the time they dont stick. Is is possible to update that?

And also....Kudos on an AWESOME game!!

  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT
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Will the EOB armor ever be available to the public?

  • 10.03.2007 9:55 AM PDT
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Why was any information on the Forerunners absent from the campaign? The story this time around was pretty cool albeit that single but glaring omission. -



Go find the terminals, and actually read all their info... there are 7 in the game and they have lots of good backstory.

  • 10.03.2007 9:56 AM PDT
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Why is the hog so slow? in H2 it seemed faster

  • 10.03.2007 9:56 AM PDT

"Teabagging is for homos"

-Frankie

I'll put this in caps so it can be seen:

HOW COME THERE'S A 50 SCREENSHOT CAP WHEN i SAVE SCREENSHOTS TO MY HARD DRIVE YET I CAN HAVE AS MANY SAVE FILMS AS I WANT?

Ok, I hope this one gets answered. It's been bugging me :)

  • 10.03.2007 9:56 AM PDT

"my quest is over I see the flag it's so flappy"

When playing at 480i/p does halo 3 still render at 640p then scale down, or does it render at 480p?

The trailer that plays after you sit in the Main Menu for awhile, it played for me, but its was skippy.

Another thing with loading, at the beginning of a game on Epitaph, I saw this dude, shot him a few times then killed him, no sound played until after he was dead. Is this a disc issue?

Are you going to put in a custom games browser?

The mongoose mowdown achievement is stupid, no one should really be mongoosing in FFA slayer

In forge, why can't I get the fuel rod cannon on some maps?

I play on a VGA 1024x768 and I swear I see interlacing at the 768p level, it might be motion blur though, is this interlacing?

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  • 10.03.2007 9:57 AM PDT
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Why does the other team respawn behind you? I've been in countless games of Shotty Snipers on Highground and my team can have the lead and takeing control of the beach when all of a sudden a random guy we just killed respawns behind us. Why does that happen instead of them respawning near their team?

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Are you goign to change the Voice Chat? I dont want to push to talk in order to talk with my buddies.
The best way: Remove Push to Talk completely

  • 10.03.2007 9:57 AM PDT
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-Will you guys update the theater mode for even better usability, preferably the campaign replays?
-Will bungie.net be updated with your personal total time spent with Halo 3? It seems that it's already tracking the individual time of each MP and SP match, so you guys track the data.
-Aside from the standard DLC like MP maps, will there also be unusual DLC like more armor permutations, new skulls, new forge objects?
-Will you guys please make Bungie.net more compatible with firefox? I'm having problems with the javascript stuff like submitting messages. I had to type this in IE cause firefox didn't respond to sumbit button.

  • 10.03.2007 9:58 AM PDT

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In theater why did you guys make rewinding and fast forwarding so hard? It would be so much easier not to have to fast forwards through an hour of forge (taking 20 minutes) just for a screenshot. Also, why can't you rewind in campaign videos? If you miss something you have to go back and fast forward for 30 minutes. A few tweaks to films would make the feature so much better (not that it isn't amazing now!).

Thanks guys/gals.

  • 10.03.2007 9:58 AM PDT

campaign lag issues. if anyone besides the host, jumps or fires or turns a vehicle, or whatever. then there is a 0.8 second delay for it to actually happen. and it is 0.8 long, ive tested iit. in seconds that is. =)

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Is there a way to reset the Solo game? Not playing the Campaign solo, but selecting the first option of the main menu. When I select it, it automatically loads where I left off, there is no option to reset the difficulty or go back to the beginning.

  • 10.03.2007 9:58 AM PDT
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Get it roon' ye!

Thanks for this opportunity, Bungie guys!

1. Will there be a RANKED Big Team SLAYER match type? It's something I've wanted to see since Halo 2! You can always have a seperate ranked/unranked BTB Objective.

2. Can you please tell us what the thing is in the bonus Legendary cutscene? I want the "It's Onyx Hax0rz LOLOLOLZ" to end... Please - for the sake of my soul...

3. Will the next story arc be told through a game, book or Marvel comic? As much as I dig the books and comics, it isn't anywhere near as satisfying as playing the story and making it your own.

4. Maps: What are they and when are they? And if there are remakes, will they be just be done up with spiffy H3 visuals or would they have the new stuff put in, like mancannons for Coagulation?

5. Expansion Pack - will you give us bonus missions? Or add a Marathon - style Arena mode?

6. How much would maps and other bonus content cost? Is there an estimate?

7. What do you guys make of this "sniper-shot" problem? Is there one or is it lag? (I haven't came across this, but there are plenty of videos and threads to show it needs answering.)

8. Is that "skull that doesn't do anything a decoy or a -blam!- up? Or is it just a super secret thing that would be revealed on Bungie Day next year?

And can I just take this opportunity to say thank you to Bungie and the B.net community, because during the summer I seriously injured my back and was confined to my house for three months. It was this site, thanks to it's fantastic info services on the H3's progress, and the forums that stopped me going bat--blam!- insane.

Thanks again for a great game. Surely you have achieved World Domination now?

  • 10.03.2007 9:59 AM PDT

I love Halo!!

Just some simple questions:

I have seen players with "flaming heads". Is that ONLY for Bungie people? That looks really cool and I would like to have it myself.

Who is the floating, half naked guy supposed to be in the last level??

And something I gotta know cause me and someone else have been arguing over this:
I understand that there is the Hayabusa armor and I have the full outfit, but I also understand that if you beat the entire game with all of the achievements, you get to wear a neat Katana sword on your back. Is your armor now called Katana armor just because of the sword? I kept telling him it's Hayabusa armor just with a sword and he says "no it's not! It's Katana armor!" Please tell me.

P.S: I'm still lovin the game. Although there are a few things that I drive me crazy, but I still like to play anyways!

  • 10.03.2007 9:59 AM PDT
Subject: Matchmaking and DLC
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I'm curious about a few things:

A specific item is that matchmaking tends to often repeat gametypes and maps when I play in larger groups (Social Big Team Battle), so I'm interested in knowing if there is work being done to include a larger variety of gametypes and maps for the larger game groups, (which will likely add greater longevity to the Matchmaking Playlist)?

I have noticed that at certain times of day/night the time to find a new game sometimes takes a while. Is the fix for this been determined to be hardware, network, or software based, and is it possible to shorten the network timeout when the matchmaking engine is having difficulty finding a new game?

There is a similar lag on occasion when trying to connect to my account file store which I'm pretty sure has to do with the underlying authentication... Isn't there a way to attach this to the existing security entity involved behind the scenes with the Xbox/Windows Live Id to speed this up a bit and allow the connection to be more assumed, or is it an exchange of database credentials?

I think there needs to be something more concise about earning achievements (documentation wise), as I discovered I was able to complete the whole game without earning the Achievement for completing the whole game as well as the level 5 achivement, as I jumped back into level 5 from a perviously saved game, thus not earning the level 5 achievement, and that as well prevented me from earning the completed game achievement even though I had obviously gone through the levels to get to that point. I was unable to find anything that supported this information other than my own experiences and those of my friends whom have also experienced some similar issues.

The only other question I have is for DLC - Other than maps, with the expansion of adding in more Achievements to Halo 3, are you able to discuss the new possible Achievements list, and any other Downloadable Content being added in the first push out to the masses, and can you answer about what the cost will be for it? I think 800 points is reasonable for extra maps, and a little more, such as more achievements, armor, or additional game types.

  • 10.03.2007 9:59 AM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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How successful was the Halo 3 launch in terms of sales? The single biggest 24 hours in entertainment history, better than Halo 2, etc.?

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Me and my friend were playing double team and we both started at lvl 21. He was a liuetenant and I was a seargent and then a gunnery seargent for most of the time. For some reason I started double lvling and he didn't. By the end of the night he was lvl 26 and I was lvl 30. He feels very cheated. Mind you I am fine with it but apparently he was upset.

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Will there be any chance of having an option to remove power ups from maps?
The Pit is perfect for my (Team) SWAT variant but I don't want to have to make copies of maps where I've removed power ups, surely this option should be there?

  • 10.03.2007 9:59 AM PDT