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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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Several Questions regarding important stats:
1) how many people will moan about lockout? will you tell them to play halo 2 and stop bothering you?
2) how many people will complain about the AR? it's a great gun. will you tell them they can use whatever gun they want and stop complaing about dumb things?
3) how many people will complain about the needler? will you tell them that saying it's too powerful is not a valid complaint, especially since they're probably mad about being owned in matchmaking by somebody who knows how to use it when they don't and they're being babies and crying?
4) how many times will you sigh when you read things that have already been answered in podcasts, updates, or the how-to guide? if you add all those sighs together, would the gust be enough to blow a ladys clothes off? how about knock over a ninja?
5) would this next statement sum up what a lot of these posts sound like: "yo, how comez u guys put out a game LAST WEEK and then i findz all thees glitches and u havnt fixed them yet?!? wtf??!? give me an unreasonable fast update!! i wants lockout! i wants team snipes! i wants no ar, n no needlerz!! theaters is not designed good and u haves to fix it b/c i'm a busy and important person n i haves lots of thingz to do when i playz halo on friday night by myself!! ZOMG!!!" does that about sum it up?
6) is this too much sarcasm for one post? do you think people will even get that i'm mocking them?

  • 10.03.2007 11:24 AM PDT
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Is the Recon Armor only for Bungie?

What happened to Xbox Live Public?

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  • 10.03.2007 11:24 AM PDT
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whos knows doger99

  • 10.03.2007 11:24 AM PDT
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Hey Guys,

First of all, Halo 3 rocks my socks, then it incinerated all of the socks in my drawers, which was a problem for a bit, but regardless...

OK so losing XP for quitting is a great feature that will definitely prevent people from doing it as much as they did in Halo 2. However, atleast twice now, I have run into a horrible lag situation where I have died, and could not respawn. The game clock has stopped running, and I've had no choice but to quit because I could not respawn or switch my view to other players (who I viewed as all dead), and I lost XP because of it. I'm not concerned so much with the XP I lost as to this unique situation which I never experienced on Halo 2. Also, this has happened to me on 2 different Xboxes and two different connections. Once at Home, and once in my dorm at college (Any Quinnipiac Alumni at Bungie?) Please Help

Much Love and Thanks

Master Balzak

  • 10.03.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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When will luke give me my steak?
I'm owed four so far!!
Any chanse he'll throw in a side helping of BBQ sause?

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  • 10.03.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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Tell me why you guys love Shotty Snipers so much. That gametype sucks and its all I ever get.

  • 10.03.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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I have unlocked the "We're in for some Chop" achievement and I have over 750G on Halo 3. Why am I missing the security and Scout shoulders? (P.S I'm sorry if this question has already been put forward)

Oh and Luke, I like my steak well done :p

[Edited on 10.03.2007 12:30 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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--Appox. how long till the clan support comes available to everyone, just to see if u guys know?
--Is Bungie the only guys who can have Flaming Helmets?
--Is BIG TEAM BATTLE gonna have 16 player support soon, just like Halo 2?

  • 10.03.2007 11:25 AM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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Can you give us any indication of when the new map pack will come out? I do enjoy the levels now, just more smaller symmetrical maps wouldn't hurt either!

  • 10.03.2007 11:26 AM PDT

Hoopajoop


I received my Halo 3 Recon armor on 8-3-09 for completing Sierra 117 on Mythic Difficulty through the Summer Mythic Recon Challenge.

Why are certain types of scenery/weapons/vehicles only allowed on certain maps with Forge? For example, I can't put a Prowler or Carbine on Valhalla. Also, why can't we make a player start with any weapon with game settings anymore? I.E. I can't make a player start with Carbines or Plasma Rifles?

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Why can't we start with Carbines or Beam Rifles (among other things) in custom games or even put certain weapons like carbines on a map with Forge?

How do you get those "flaming heads" shown in some of the Bungie crew's screenshots?

Thanks for making such a great improvement over Halo 2, and PLEASE keep the AR the same range at least, it balances the game gameplay wise and it really is the "perfect spawn weapon", anyone who thinks it should be nerfed is really just asking for another Halo 2.

  • 10.03.2007 11:26 AM PDT
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Why cant I spawn stuff like the transport hog and AA wraith in forge?
Why are some weapons/vehicles restricted to certain maps?

  • 10.03.2007 11:26 AM PDT

its my world and your all just living in it

Posted by: MaxRealflugel
Sorry for this question but it has to be asked.

Will we see the Master Chief and Cortana again? Halo 4? or whatever it might be called.

We are still waiting to see the Forerunners...
humans are the forerunners truth even says so.

  • 10.03.2007 11:26 AM PDT
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It would be really nice for you to actually make the AR balanced and not have an insane range along with so much power, it must be weakened. Also, I like many other people who love MLG and hardcore in H2 would like to see a BR start along with no radar as a new matchmaking playlist. Then last complelty remove shotty/snipers from matchmaking or limit it greatly...that gametype alone has driven a bunch of people away from teamslayer and most matching ranked because it is so annoyingly common...

  • 10.03.2007 11:26 AM PDT
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how come sometimes when i enter matchmaking it says "cannot load information from halo 3 servers"?

  • 10.03.2007 11:27 AM PDT
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Why are there no custom games list? Why do yu guys say you can't do it when other games have it (GOW), and other games have put it in later (COD3)? You guys say you want to keep the matchmaking population up, but if more people want to play custom games why not let them? It's more fun for the consumer.

Why can't you customize everything in the forge and have like 20 crates, or put certain weapons on certain maps? I understand the memory limitations, but its just dumb when I cant put a flamethrower on a certain map, and crates do not take up that much memory.

Why can't I view my player snapshot?

Are you guys really leaving Microsoft?

Is there an issue with the sniper rifle, and can you guys fix it?

Why push to talk?

Why can't you put an animation non the side during split screen so plasma screen users wont get burn in?

Will you fix the vga settings so that people palying on a 1280x1024 monitor can play correctly?

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  • 10.03.2007 11:27 AM PDT
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How come when I played in the beta there was rarely or never any host advantage but in the final game every game I play is plagued by host advantage? And I'm on the same router, same house and everything. Played over 500 games in the beta and over 200 so far on the final version so its not like I'm basing my question off a limited sample size. What did you change?

  • 10.03.2007 11:27 AM PDT
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Is there any intention to give us more customization over our controls? Specifically, Theater mode. I would love to have the ability to reverse the left and right bumpers. The up and down camera movement would feel much more natural to me.

  • 10.03.2007 11:27 AM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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Fighting solves everything

Although saved films will already store your last 25 matches, is there any way you can flag your most recent played match for saving in the post game lobby?? That way you dont have to go to the theater lobby to save it (which is not an option unless you are the party leader).
The problem is that when you play a lot of matches and if you dont go save it immediately, by the time you are done with your long gaming session sometimes its hard to remember which match that you wanted to save.

  • 10.03.2007 11:27 AM PDT

"Each one of these souls is finite and precious.

And I'm close.

Close to saving them all.''

Posted by: llammalrdsofsci
Way before Halo 3 was released, you would refer to one of the maps as JubJub, which map was this and how has it changed from way back then?


The map was Guardian, and they only called it JubJub as a code name for the map because it reminded them of the ewok forest planet in Star Wars VI. There were probably no major improvements, just a simple code name to keep it secret until release.
(Listen to the Bungie Podcast, I think #5 or #6 was it, for the little story about it)

  • 10.03.2007 11:27 AM PDT

Subject: Halo: Reach, is it a game?
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Could it be a movie?
Just putting it out there. Someone find me some evidence for or against.
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Why haven't Commando Shoulders for the Elites or the Security Shoulders for the Spartans shown up for me after getting over 750 gamer points in Halo 3 achievements and getting a Killing Frenzy in FFA Slayer? I have the official Halo 3 strategy guide, and it says that it takes 750 gamer points to unlock the Security Shoulders and a Killing Frenzy in FFA Slayer to unlock the Elite's Commando Shoulders. Another thing I would like to ask about is that frequently I "lose" the armor permutations I'm wearing while in game and it goes to the default armor setting. They may be gone for only the first round, or they may be gone for the entire game. Is this (or both) issues Bungie is looking into?

Another issue I've had is that I cannot view player snapshots on the Bungie.net website, is this a problem at my end or is there something more to it?

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  • 10.03.2007 11:28 AM PDT
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I go to N.C. State where we have a LAN center. Because so many different people play on all the different xbox's with all different kinds of settings each person is required to create a new 360 profile. Then you have to sign in and sign out using the 360 sidebar thing. Is there anyway to save guest or temporary profile settings, or to sign in without using the 360 sidebar? In general the interface seems less refined then in Halo 2 where anyone could quickly and easily sign in and out without going through a bunch of screens.

When are you going to update the matchmaking playlist and are you going to use the veto feedback to make the playlist better? e.g. no one wants to play oddball guardian in lone wolves. It gets vetoed everytime.

When can we expect to see a team hardcore playlist and will it take advantage of the forged maps that MLG has done?

Can we expect to see updates to the existing maps as part of the MM playlist update? e.g. a shotgunless snowbound.

Why can't i set the carbine as a starting weapon?

Don't nerf the assault rifle no matter how many people object.

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  • 10.03.2007 11:28 AM PDT
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With 30 pages of responses I'm sure someone has already asked a question similar to this, but here goes:

Obviously I want more more more Halo 3 just like everyone else, but I'm more curious as to the technical limitations that exist on adding downloadable content to the game. For instance, we know a patch to tweak damage is possible--you've done it before. We know new maps are possible--you've done it before.

But what about adding new features? Expanding upon old ones? Is there any chance we'll see enhancements to Forge, such as the ability to place any item we want on any map? For every awesome thing Forge lets us do, there seems to be some equally frustrating or seemingly pointless limitation. Is it possible to add entirely new things to the game, such as new gametype classifications, or something as large as a true map creator? (I know it'll never happen, I just want one so bad).

Think we'll ever see some larger maps/remakes akin to the ones seen in Halo CE? Those were awesome.

Thank you guys for making such an awesome game. We're never going to stop demanding more maps so we can play online for years to come. :P

  • 10.03.2007 11:28 AM PDT
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Congratulations! You found where the signatures are hidden!!

I'm sure this has been covered, but sheesh, 28 pages already? I can't read through all of that to confirm it.

Anyway, is there going to be any fix to the odd achievement issues? Most of the time they work fine, but they seem really finicky. For instance, I JUST finished the campaign in Heroic, but looked back and noticed I didn't get the achievement for completing level 1. Um, if I went through to the end of the game, I would hope it's obvious that, yes, i DID do the first level.

Would be nice if there could be a way for something to do a quick check of your status and your achievements to make sure none were missed.

  • 10.03.2007 11:28 AM PDT
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No kidding, every time I have to do that crap it makes me want to shoot myself in the balls.

  • 10.03.2007 11:28 AM PDT