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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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Why does Halo 3 attract so many people who use poor grammer? Has Bungie conducted any studies on this phenomenon?

  • 10.03.2007 10:54 AM PDT
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Why is it that everytime I play through the Cortana mission whether in co-op or single player mode, I get the disc read error right as the pelican flies away? I don't get any achievment for that level but I've got the campaign complete acheivement.?
BTW this game is awesome!

  • 10.03.2007 10:55 AM PDT
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Why won't my game load the Construct multiplayer map? Is this a common problem?

Will we ever see Infection, Rocket Race, or any of the Pirate Games in a matchmaking playlist?

no those playlist are just for fun


thats why it would be in a social MM playlist.

  • 10.03.2007 10:55 AM PDT

Is there any way to suspend forge objects in the air, to make a bridge or something?

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My question is, I finished the fight on Normal solo, and then after that i did a co-op with a bud online on Legendary, why does it say that I have only beaten it on Normal? I got the achievement and everything, but when people go on my profile, it just says finished the fight on Normal. Btw, Halo 3 is sooo good :D.

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Why is the BR so garbage on this game? It has no penetration like it used to on halo 2. The AR is seems to be much stronger than it. The sniper rifle is horrible, it is so slow and the aiming is way to difficult. Did you take out the auto-aim or something? It seems like the power weapons are all very slow and in turn slows the game down drastically.
When you have the sword out, why does your character hold out up high so that kind of blocks your vision on the right side of the screen. The grenades don't do enough damage. The multiplayer aspect seems to be catered toward noobs who rely on AR. We need more BR start matchmaking game types.

Why is territories still in the game? It is the absolute worst game type next to hammer slayer. Other than that Excellent job on the overall game.

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I know, as most people do, about the hidden video after the credits if someone beats the game on legendary. I was wondering, before I put the time and effort into trying to achieve a possibly insurmountable task(for me), if there is yet another secret video after the credits if someone beats the game a certain way, such as beating the game on legendary with all of the skulls turned on(or any other combination or number).

And I'm going to ask even though I seriously doubt you will answer. What's the time lapse between the cutscene after the last level and the Epilogue with Lord Hood on earth? What's the planet that the Master Chief and Cortana are drifting towards in the damaged hull of Dawn in the Legendary ending? And what is the connection( if any) between the post-credit ending and the Halo Chronicles, or any other Bungie or Halo related projectst, in development with WETA?

Plus, will there ever be any more expanding upon of the events that transpired during the last few days of the Forerunner before they detonated the rings such as the Flood's evolution, the Maginot line, the events surrounding their cataloguing of species, and how humanity is related to them?

Thanks for your time, and great work.

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Why am I not getting the Marathon Man acheivement even though I've already found all 7 terminals on the same difficulty, and wait until the screen turns red?

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If achievements are accomplished offline, will they show up on bungie.net?

  • 10.03.2007 10:56 AM PDT
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dear bungie..

-why do I, after getting my "killing frenzy" achievement didn't receive the 5th ("commando") shoulder thingies....
-please add infection to matchmaking
-why can't we rewind in saved films
-how the blam! does those terminals work.., I don't get the "//Fragment ends here"

but I'm still happy its finaly here :)

greetz!..

  • 10.03.2007 10:56 AM PDT
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Please provide indepth explanation of the MP ranking system (exp and skill points)

  • 10.03.2007 10:56 AM PDT
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Like others have said, seeing more info about the playlist when you're not leader is nice. Team chat needs to be fixed (d-pad won't cut it). Shotty Snipers needs its own playlist, or to be toned down in Slayer.

And finally, in theater mode, if right trigger is forward, what should the left trigger be? That's right. Reverse. This needs to happen. Also, maybe include the ability to record a clip in slo-mo would be nice.

  • 10.03.2007 10:56 AM PDT
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I LOVE HALO!!!!

What is the possibility of having a custom game search feature added? Although I LOVE Halo 3, I was disappointed as I thought this was a feature that would be included from reading past news on this game. (Please add it, no one on my friends list likes to play infection). :o)

  • 10.03.2007 10:56 AM PDT

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Halo 3 in the Workplace

What have you (Bungie) seen in matchmaking or the game in general once it was gobbled up by the masses that surprised you most? Other than Forge creations, that is...I am more curious about how people played the game, or what some unintended (good or bad) consequences were of matchmaking playlists, map layouts, gametypes, etc. I know it is inevitable that some things will operate much differently when such a large population is introduced, so what have some of the surprise been, and what, if anything, needs to be done in response?

Thanks for your time - and for the game. It is amazing.

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1. Will you release more armors specifically for the elites in matchmaking. I'm sorry but with the spartans with 10 armor variants and the elites with only 5. I feel so unorginal.
2. Will you be releasing more weapons or vehicles in the form of DLC?
annddddd
3.How about other player types than elites and spartans? Will we be able to run around as a flood variant or maybe a brute variant?
4. I miss Team Swat :(

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  • 10.03.2007 10:56 AM PDT

Halo's a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Gaudio1
That advertising threw me off. I might have missed the level somehow but i do not recall a single battle that was similar to that diorama. or the awesome commercial.
Why is this not canon to the Halo story? Or is the game not canon to the Halo story? Why don't the characters from the books ever show up in the game?

  • 10.03.2007 10:57 AM PDT

Why are the difficulty levels so awkward? Normal is too easy, but Heroic is sometimes too hard. What happened to incremental steps in difficulty? Halo CE normal difficulty was great for the average player.

Why are all the Flood with the exception of the Range Form easy on Heroic and Legendary in Halo 3? Why did you noobify the flood when they were perfectly fine in Halo CE?

What happened to ammo clips and rocket cases?

Why even add the auto-turrets if they barely do anything before being destroyed in campaign?

Why did you add another lame boss fight like Guilty Spark? Didn't you know boss fights are too easy on FPS games and shouldn't be done?

What is up with the inconsistant melee? I lunge. Saved Films show me fly first 3/4 of the way towards the other player. The other player lunges second, flys barely a foot ahead and kills me.

Why don't any of the fights in Halo 3 campaign reach the level of coolness like the Covenant/Flood battle at the end of Two Betrayals?

What happened to the glowing green on the Drones?

Where are Sentinel Enforcers?

Why is the last level so short?

Why didn't Flood Voi get cut due to lame enemies? I wouldn't mine the backtracking if the Flood weren't lame and easy to kill on Heroic and Legendary.

Why aren't there any Drinols? Where are the Flood Juggernauts? New enemies should by all means be in the game over permutations and even new weapons IMO.

Whose lame idea was it to give Marines the ability to throw grenades and use Rocket launchers? They usually end up killing me, before the Covenant.

Why do Marines drive so badly?

Where are the Spec Ops Jackals, Hunters and Brutes?

Why are there no fights that focus on using older vehicles like the Banshee. It would have been great if the Flying part was longer and the player started off with Elite loaned Banshees and then switched to the Hornet as a big surprise.

Where is this "next-gen" storytelling advertised by Microsoft? The characters still seem shallow and lacking and the facial animations come no where near the accomplishments made in storytelling by Valve for Half-Life 2. Why doesn't Bungie keep a better watch on the advertising?

Who chose the death sequences for Johnson and Keyes? Two Keyes dying is repetitive and Spark killing Johnson was a lame way to go.

Why aren't there any Elite sacrifices like Half-Jaw to show the Elite side of things?

Why not kill the lazy Lord Hood whom sits on his butt in Halo 2 and Halo 3?

If Spark had a darn big red laser to use why didn't he use it in Halo CE? Why didn't he have the Sentinels help kill Chief and Arbiter in last level? The whole thing could have spun off into a nice twist of Chief versus Flood and Sentinel like in Halo CE.

Please don't listen to the players complaining about the AR being too powerful. It's the BR being too inaccurate that causes the problem. The AR is perfectly fine.

Why no Covie vs. Flood vs. Sentinel all at the same time battles?

Why no Real-Time reflections? Please explain the how the costs led to it being cut. I've been waiting for it since Halo on the Mac and it will supposedly make it into GTA IV.

Why no Custom game search?

Why no survival mode? Since it isn't in the game thanks for recommending its addition in Marathon 2.

This is the finale. Why is the game shorter than the rest when it should be longer like other sequels?

Why do you guys hate bots when they are actually funner than the bad mouth twelve year olds on Xbox Live that ruin the experience?







  • 10.03.2007 10:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: Arikardo
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?


I second this question. I have a saved film of three sniper shots passing through the body of an individual.

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Posted by: NJ248
Why does Halo 3 attract so many people who use poor grammer? Has Bungie conducted any studies on this phenomenon?


"grammer" It is spelled "grammar"
Apparently it also attracts spelling bee dropouts!

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Why do I get random EXP penalties? My service record says I have lost 5 EXP but I haven't left a game.

  • 10.03.2007 10:58 AM PDT

"oh bother" said Winne The Pooh as he chambered another round.

I have a question about Swat actually last weekend i was at a LAN party with all my friends I HAD A BLAST! Halo3 is the most awesome game ever. But anyway we kept going through all of the settings multiple times and every time we tried to do swat we would select "NO SHIELDS" and when we would start the game shields would still be there. After a while we just gave up cause we couldn't figure it out.

  • 10.03.2007 10:58 AM PDT

who is that guy that is jumping up and down on the last lvl.

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Halo 3 - Solid Solo & Multiplayer Game.....(Best in my opinion) But I do have a few questions :
Why was the Skull in the Skull King emblem not able to be toggled off ? What happened to the Verticle Gradient stripes?
Why was sniping Made so difficult? Recoil? Recoil unbalance for the less auto aim. Headshots seem pointless when two body shots are extremely so much easier.
Why does Halo 3 favor lower sensitivity? Bad enough we have to deal w/ a 360 controller
Whats with the strafing? Halo 2's were much more effective
Why beatdowns so strong and effective? 100% shield depletion? Hit every time...I miss the days when you could actually dodge a melee
Why is the needler such a Beast?
Why isn't the crouch as effective as H1 while strafing
Why was kills beyond 7 invented ....obviously with the aim and reloads are impossible

  • 10.03.2007 10:58 AM PDT

How I got mine: Frank Helsing

When my Bungie Pro subscription expires next year, what will happen to my saved films over the 6 count mark? Will they be deleted?

Thanks a lot guys for all that you do, we are not worthy to play such awesome games and yet you bless with Halo 3... I love you Bungie!!!

  • 10.03.2007 10:58 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

[/]Never mind, found out :)[/i]

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