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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

I remember the first time i played halo 1. I came home sold my gamecube and went out and bought an xbox 4 controllers and halo; and that was the only game i owned for my xbox, until halo 2 of course..

Two words: CLAN SUPPORT!

i dont want the crappy xbox live dashboard clan support you talked about, i want CLAN SUPPORT FROM BUNGIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i want 4v4 CLAN BATTLES! and 8v8 CLAN BATTLES!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my head hurts from not having them!

  • 10.03.2007 10:45 AM PDT
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I use the sniper rifle alot, and sometimes I will shoot a guy like 4 times and he takes no damage, I got the saved films to prove it! Is this just lag or is it a glitch?

  • 10.03.2007 10:45 AM PDT

Friendship is like peeing on yourself everyone can see it but only you get the warm feeling it brings.

ok here it goes

1.i got the used car salesman where in for some chop and to close to the sun achivements but im still missing the scout shoulders wtf?

2.only 8 single player levels and 11 multy player maps? talk abiut rushed are you planing on making single player missions downloadble?

3.how come forge is so limited?

4.why do i have to headshot some one that standong still 3 times wile if there moving its 1 time?

5.what dose the fourth white skull do?

6. where is team swat team snipers and 8v8 big team battle?

7.will there be dowladble weapons and armor?

8.wheres beaver creek!

9.im like lvl 9 i thing right now in team slayer why did i play against a 23 the other day and no i wasent in a party i was alone

10.why did you make the so called remake of lockout suck? i mean cmon you should haad changed zanzibar around and lockout alone it was perfect the way it was

11.why did you over power the needler?

12.why did you put the final cutseen after the credits? alot of pepole missed out

13.how come we cant sord cansel? it was funflyng of a map wile in mathmaking

14.how come epitaph sucks but im good at it?

15.why is some guy i met letanat grade 2 with only 32 ranked games playd and 4 social?

16.why do pepole still shoot trou walls you didint fix that glith and yes im sure they are shooting trou it thanks to saved films

17.why cant i rewind! theres aonly a skip back

18.in sand trap i deleted all the spawn points and i put 16 (8 on one side ad 8 on the other) i made the map for huge dog fights but the spawn points wont work it spawns the the same places

19.why did it take 47minutes and 32 seconds to "send" a pic to bungie.net?

20.in the map "the pit" on the top of the base why did you onlt make it posible to get there by spawning there?



i got tons of more questions but im not gonna type all 72 of them so i gave you my top 20 plz anser! oh and other than the billions of glithes great game

  • 10.03.2007 10:46 AM PDT
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Will you add the ability to load a map minus all the doohickeys in forge? It's really annoying having to delete everything and start with a clean slate.

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Why is the brute shot so inconsistent in multiplayer? You can it hit a person with no shields directly and most of the time it won't take them out.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to have it kill any player with no shields in one shot, rather the two it seems to take (like the BR does). Then just have it less effective against dropping shields (thus keeping it at the same balance level but making it reliable)? It seems so powerful up until the shields come down, then it re-acts strangely.

What's up with the audio mix in campaign? Is a sound tweak planned?

Where is my steak luke?


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  • 10.03.2007 10:46 AM PDT

Will we ever see big team battle ranked?

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Great game.

When does the encounter with the brutes feature in the believe ad campaign take place, What is it's relation to halo 3's time line? Also can we get all the believe content in HD on the marketplace.... Please!!!!

How come we don't have a encounter with Gravemind? I love the new flood by the way and the transition from a human/elite/brute to flood form.

When is the rest of the uprising series coming out, it keeps getting delayed? There's a lot that seems to of happened between H2 and H3

Whats the difference between the limited and legendary beastariums, is the legendary the better version?

Thanks

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Can you give us a genral idea on the sort of DLC we will be seeing in the future, and how often will we be seeing them? ( I would personaly love to see some more Elite permatations)

And when do you beleive these acheivment/armour bugs will be fixed?

  • 10.03.2007 10:46 AM PDT

Will we ever be able to view our video clips on the web?

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Sorry if these have been asked but I truly don't have the time through through 16+ pages.

1.) How come there are no leg parts for your permutations. Most look fine with the standard Mk VI legs but I find they look way too thin compared to the unlockable MK V body armor (or E.O.D as it is called). Just a thought since the E.O.D's purpose is to protect from explosives and dismemberment wouldn't they do the same for their legs? Also I just want to look completely old school H1. =P

2.) A big qualm of mine is that my saved films keep saying they are not viewable as if they are corrupted. I saved my 1st time playing through Sierra 117 and wanted to remember it forever but now it wont play. :( Is it a bug in Halo 3 or my 360?

But really these are small things in comparison to the awesomeness you did on this game. I cannot wait to see what your next project will be. :)

  • 10.03.2007 10:47 AM PDT
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The Sentinel Beam isn't excluded from Matchmaking due to any performance concerns. It's excluded because it's ridiculous. It may as well be firing super-accelerated clowns. - Shishka

What is the deal with recon armor? (aka the super pimp armor most bungie guys wear)

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Do we have to have a Gold XBL membership to upload screenshots and saved films? I've taken probably half a dozen or so screencaptures so far, it asks me for a name and then a description, then it displays the "uploading" (or "sending" or whatever the word is) display for a few seconds but then when I check my profile here it says I have not uploaded any screenshots...where did they go?

Also, what's the deal with the re-mastered and then promptly fumbled cutscenes on the extra disk? Ok, sure they may be *technically* more up-to-date, but you guys of all people should know that nobody cares about "technically" better when it *looks* worse. For all the world it looks like you found the crappiest codec you could find, set it to the lowest settings it supported, encoded it at 320x240 and then recorded it to an old tape on an old VCR just for good measure before burning it to VCD and letting some yahoo convert that (poorly) to DVD.

Alright, there, I'm done ranting. It wasn't *that* bad, but seriously, it looks terrible. Are you going to release *actual* re-mastered decent looking versions sometime? Or better still, re-created using Halo 3's engine and the geniuses that did *brilliant* work on the Halo 3 cutscenes!

Thanks

  • 10.03.2007 10:48 AM PDT

Get outta my store!

How's the Peter Jackson Colaborative project coming along? Any news or tidbits would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, are there any easter eggs that have not been found yet?

As well, When the casting is done for the Halo Live Action movie, you must contact Al Matthews (Sgt, Apone from Aliens), for the role of Sgt. Johnson. He has a website and he's not dead, contrary to popular belief.

Thanks for your time




  • 10.03.2007 10:48 AM PDT

I played and beat the game before I got Xbox Live, and now with my Live account, it says that I haven't beaten anything.

-If you play off line, will your profile automatically update when you get back onto Live?

-If you have your account on two boxes, and play on both boxes, are the stats and achievements saved from only one of the boxes? Or can you play on one account from two boxes (at separate times obviously) and keep the stats and achievements from both times you play?

THANK YOU FOR MAKING SUCH A GREAT GAME!!!!!!!! THE CAMPAIGN IS AWESOME TO PLAY AND THE STORY IS GREAT!

Thank you Bugnie Employees and all who contributed

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Please explain how social hoppers are supposed to be matching people up.

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=240680 08&player=A%20Krazy%20Klammer]example

A 36, Captain 2nd Grade
48, Captain 2nd Grade
18, Lieutenant, Grade 1
14, Sergeant, Grade 2
16, Gunnery Sergeant, Grade 2

VS
14, Lieutenant, Grade 1
8, Corporal, Grade 2 + guest
3, Recruit, Grade 1 + guest

We got killed 10-1! KD spread was them +52 us -54.

How is that a fair matchup?

Is matchmaking still needing games to figure it all out, will this not happen after more games are put in? Just wonderin.

A Krazy Klammer

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why are so many of the multiplayer achievments only for rank free for all? why not any ranked match?

how did the first non-bungie employee figure out the IWHBYD skull? did you guys tell them cause there is no way someone just randomly found it

why so short?

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Throughout the entire series of Halo, there has always been an issue with the shotgun's screwing up when you know it should have hit the person targeted. Are there any efforts to fix this?

Also, why is the camo SO invisible?

One time, I shot a guy right next to me with a laser. he didn't die (his shields weren't even down), but I did. It said I committed suicide.

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Subject: why can't we have a true customizable controller

the game needs a customizable button configuration. and if not just make a new config. with grenades and melee on the left trigger and bumper and shoot and jump on the left trigger and bumper. this is great because you can shoot all the way up to the point that you want to grenade or melee while keeping your thumb on the right joystick (for aiming while hitting someone with the melee or trying to stick someone who is falling while you yourself are jumping off a building. awsome game guys i love it.

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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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first off i love the game i am a huge fan of the halo series and always will be. but i do have a few problems with it, but what gamer doesnt have problems with a game...

1. why does the melee do as much damage as a sniper bullet? and are you gonna fix this? it makes the mauler way to strong and makes the AR a great close range weapon, few shots then a melee.

2. will shotty snipers be moved out of team slayer and given its own match making playlist? it happenes way too often.

3. too many people wear the hyabusa armor.

but really great job on the game and all the hard work you guys put in to it, its fantastic. and i look forward to what bungie has in store for the future. <3

  • 10.03.2007 10:49 AM PDT
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It seems that every time, while playing co-op campaign, there is lag at every checkpoint no matter what level you are on. As I understand it there are many concerns that have to do with lagging while on xbox-live, what is being done to address this issue...if anything?

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its called blood gultch not clutch you think you might know that if it was the best map ever

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Is there anyway that you can update Campaign? Specifically, it would be nice to have a way to play with a Banshee in Campaign (without having to first hijack it).

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My question is first why don't we have the ability to pause recording of a multiplayer match film clip, readjust the camera and then continue recording. It would be nice to have film clips with nice smooth cuts from camera shot to camera shot rather then having to move the camera around while recording and having more of a Blaire Witch thing going on. Secondly, is it possible, at this point, to add such a feature.

Also, I think the idea for the Infected in multiplayer to take on the appearance of the flood but I'm going to guess it's not possible. I mean granted I'm sure you have Flood Elite models already made up but I doubt there are any flood infected Chief models lying around. Plus, you would probably have to make sure all the infected models could still somehow support the different types of armor, right?

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Also why do I get messages like "Cannot access screenshot at this time" or whatever it says when Im checking out my friends File Shares. I thought at first it was because I was doing it while waiting to be matched up in matchmaking, but I have it happen just as much when Im sitting at the Title screen doing nothing.

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  • 10.03.2007 10:50 AM PDT

I'll see you in the game.

Why when i have guests sing in for multiplayer are the guest profiles not saved at all? As in why is it that every time they sing in the colors and emblem are random? Why cant they be saved so that if I were to have a roomate play with me he wouldnt have to change his stuff all the time.

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Why is my game disc not compatible with my xbox but works without problem on my friends xbox?

  • 10.03.2007 10:50 AM PDT