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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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Spectator mode?

  • 10.03.2007 10:00 AM PDT

Lawl, I am teh Master of Ness!

I have a couple of questions that I don't think have been asked:

1. For skulls, do you have to complete the whole level for it to appear? We got to a skull on The Ark, and one of my friends' game froze, so we started from a checkpoint to get back there, but the skull didn't appear. We haven't had time to play the whole level again, but maybe you can answer this anyway for others.
2. Do terminals have to be found by yourself? My friend was showing us terminals and we didn't get the RB option to view them. However, this morning I was able to while playing solo.
3. In matchmaking, why do my friends and I occasionally have to wait forever to find a BTB game? It shows us the population (usually around 45,000), and yet we'll find 100+ games, get some matches, then lose matches. Personally, for social games, I don't think it shoudl be looking for skill levels since most play social lists for fun.

That's all I can think of for now. Great game bungie! I have immensely enjoyed it.

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First, Amazing game! And that I hope you make many more, in your quest for world domination!

Second, What planet are the Master Chief and Cortana, heading for in the video when you beat the last level on Legendary?

Also, Will Bungie really be splitting from Microsoft?

  • 10.03.2007 10:00 AM PDT

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Oh one more,

Can we ever get the Halo 3 campaign loading screen as a screensaver? That would be very cool.

  • 10.03.2007 10:00 AM PDT
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I have a question, why do people keep crying about shotty snipers? I know it has been asked before but is Lockout coming back? Also if you decide to listen to the people of questionable intelligence that are complaining about the new split screen format on widescreen TV's, will you leave an option to keep it the way it is now? The widescreen splitscreen set up in Halo 2 made me want to smash my Xbox so the current change is very, very welcome.

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One of the first questions posted was about enemy count differences between difficulties; I have an offshoot.

For each difficulty, if you follow the progression of the story, what is MC's total kill count broken down by species?

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Why are achievements only available in a 5-player FFA playlist? (Lone Wolves) Some achievements are stupidly hard to acquire in a 5-player game without miraculous luck. Is there any chance for a change to either the Lone Wolves list or to the achievement requirements to make these achievements hard to get in a fun way instead of hard in a frustrating way? (right now they're like legendary jackal snipers in H2)

  • 10.03.2007 10:00 AM PDT

1) What's up with various achievements not being unlocked once the task is completed or having to complete the task multilpe times? Is there known achievement issues that you'd like to tell us?

2) Can we get a bookmark feature implemented into campaign or multiplayer for easier theatre viewing?

  • 10.03.2007 10:01 AM PDT
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Where the heck is Survival mode?!!?!?!!?

over 9,000 votes, along with a well-described layout for the option, everyone who read about it just knew it would be in... so why no survival mode?

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Why are incendiary grenades not on any maps? And why are spiker grenades few and far between it seems on most maps as well?

  • 10.03.2007 10:01 AM PDT

You can run... But you'll only die tired.

Why are some of the options for creating custom games in Halo 2 not present in Halo 3?
For instance in H2 you could change the Bomb/Flag/Oddball indicator for different situations. My friends and I had a game type where the bomb indicator was turned off except when your team had it, meaning that when your team had the bomb the player could put it down without the defensive team knowing where the bomb was, thus allowing the bomb carrier to continue sneaking after defending himself. It made for very intense situation which we would like to recreate in Halo 3. I have not been able to find any way to recreate that H2 setting.

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I have a dsl modem/router. I connect using an ethernet cable, my brother that lives next door to me is using the wireless off my modem. There are times when we play he get knocked off the network. This really sucks when your playing legendary and we have to start the mission all over again.

Will it be better to run two ethernet cables instead of wireless?

I don't get knocked off the network using an ethernet connection. Is there a fix for this?

BTW I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!

  • 10.03.2007 10:01 AM PDT
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First of, amazing game guys. The campaign really was so much fun to play. Especially cooperatively with mates.

1) Out of curiosity, have you changed the way (or more so, how quickly) your levels increase in matchmaking? I only ask because i remember most people pretty much hitting their limits at around the level 35ish back in Halo2. And they were the terrifyingly good people as well.
2) What factors effect how many points you get for a kill when you do the campaign scoring?
3) Whats the word on Big Team Battle? By that i mean the good old 8 Vs 8 version of course. Ranked? Coming out anythime soon?
4) Rewinding in Saved films. I know this point has already been discussed well enough in previous posts that i agree with, so i'll leave it at that.
5) Clans. I know they didn't exactly work out fantastically well in Halo 2 in regards to the matchmaking clanmatches, but we could always try them out for a period and see if theres any improvements. Perhaps you could include some sort of feature that requires a minimum number of participents in a clan before it can have matches? This would be in order to have less clans, but of a larger size, as opposed to many thousands of clans with just a few people in. You guys would have better ideas i know. ;-)

Thanks! Jordyboyo.

  • 10.03.2007 10:02 AM PDT
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Why can't I get letterbox widescreen (720p) on my 1280*1024 computer monitor? It's either stretched or full screen upscaleage. Thanks. Love the game.

  • 10.03.2007 10:02 AM PDT
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Are their names to the Pure Forms of the Flood?

FYI
The Flood: Questions that Need Asking and Answering

  • 10.03.2007 10:02 AM PDT
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Is "stealing a kill" a bad thing?

  • 10.03.2007 10:02 AM PDT

shotgun singing sunshine......

Nice work on the game it plays very well but i have one problem and it's in relation to cheating, last night i played a game of social double team with a friend of mine over live and the guys we played against where trying to use "STAND BY" on us but to limited effect.........

I thought this was fixed due to your endless hours of testing and waffle on your podcast.....

So here's the thing is it really fixed????

Or are there going to be endless amounts of kiddies out there flicking the switches on there modems just to best a player far far better than them?

  • 10.03.2007 10:02 AM PDT
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Hey Frank!

Do we get anything for beating the Warthog minigame on the Limited/Legendary Edition Extras disc other than the glory of beating it completely? I'm at Level 38 right now, but I'm itching to stop and get back into Matchmaking - let me know if stopping was in vain or not!

And it's probably been asked a million times by now, but I'm guessing that the Ninja helmet (not the flaming one) is either a Bungie member exclusive, or extra hidden? Because I got 1000/1000 and don't have it - also, are the Elite Commando shoulders extra hidden as well, or just glitched?

Thanks!

  • 10.03.2007 10:03 AM PDT
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to make an object float all you have to do is make a base object (like a crate or a radio antenne tower) and then place whatever you want to float on top of this base item. once this is done, simply delete the base item, and the object that you put on top will appear to float.

while this works excelently for things like teleporters, spawn points, or hill barriers, it doesn't work so well for physical objects like vehicles or weapons. for example, if you made a floating crate (just like in Super Mario Bros) it would float right up until you touched it. i guess it has something to do with the physics engine, but after that the object will not float any more.

so basically, if it's a non-physical object it should stay afloat but if it's a physical object it will only stay on until you touch it. after that, it'll respwan and fall to the ground.

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Three Questions....

1.) Why did you choose to do a map re-make of Zanzibar? What was the reason behind that? I could understand Midship or Damnation. But Zanzibar?
2.) Will there be new, smaller, symmetrical maps released at some point for Halo 3? I noticed something like this was mentioned in an interview at some point.
3.) Why did you limit the amount of players in a ranked Free For All match but enlarge the maps that these games are played on. I could understand playing a 5 person FFA on Lockout or Midship, but when it takes an entire minute to find someone on The Pit it gets a little ridiculous.

Thanks for the game! Keep up the hard work!

Love,
EIEIOWNU

[Edited on 10.03.2007 10:09 AM PDT]

  • 10.03.2007 10:04 AM PDT
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Is there a possibility the video editor will be updated to include multiple viewpoints within the same video clip. It can be hard showing what happens with only the one viewpoint. I'm think something about something similar to EA's Skate.

  • 10.03.2007 10:04 AM PDT
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Can there ever be a setting in Forge to have Halo 1 "timer" spawns?

Why isn't there a custom game search feature?

Why isn't there a BR/Carbine start playlist?

How exactly do you use the "veto" feature for information?

  • 10.03.2007 10:04 AM PDT

I am an artist. The sniper rifle is my brush, the bullet my paint, and your head my canvas. My only regret is that I am the only one who ever sees my great works. I am not a sniper, I am a shadow in darkness, a whisper in the wind. I am everywhere, I am nowhere. You can't see me, but I. . . can. . . see. . . you. . .

Is there any way you could give us some more information on the massive list of medals available? I know that some of them are self explanitory (sword spree et al) but Luke owes me a couple steak dinners and I would like to know why so that I can rub it in his face when he comes to buy them for me. I know you probably don't want to just give it all away, but some hints would be nice. Also, could you explain the physics behind spawn points, because I am getting spawn killed very often.

  • 10.03.2007 10:04 AM PDT

2 questions.

1) Will XBL Public be implemented in the future?

2) What are the differences in the frag grenade blast radii between the Halos? In Halo:CE, it seemed like it was much larger than Halo 2 until the first or second update (I don't remember which one added more damage/area). With Halo 3 it seems that the blast damage area is more like it was in Halo 2 before the update.

Thanks for the game, by the way.

  • 10.03.2007 10:04 AM PDT
Subject: AVERT EYES IF NOT FINISHED CAMPAIGN
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Dont look, May contain ....possible minute spoiler...



But Is there any way that some sort of Halo 3 add on campaign or something downloadable, as to the Ending on Legendary ???

I mean come on ! Whats with the Cliffhanger planet thing ???!!!!!!

Sorry , if I accidentally disappointed anyone : P

  • 10.03.2007 10:04 AM PDT