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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

Please Bungie, redeem yourself w/ Reach.
Halo 2 and 3 both stink out loud.
In the immortal words of Mr Horse: Halo 2? No sir, didn't like it.

Posted by: graphitti
While playing multiplayer, I sometimes see lots of red dots on the radar, appearing to swim around randomly... way more red dots than there are opponents. This appears to coincide with "lag" from my ISP. What causes this?


That's the radar jammer "equipment". No lag involved ;)

~telengard

  • 10.03.2007 11:38 AM PDT
Subject: Does a matchmaking saved film record what *really* happens?
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Posted by: ThriceDamned
See saved film '4 hits' by regulator on his file share. another player takes 2 clear head shots with blood and everyhting, and 2 more body shots. shield doesn't even drop (and there was no overshield picked up by that player). So I assume either the saved film isn't the 'official' story of what happened in the game -- a recording of what the saving 360 said hapened and not what the host machine said happened. Or, there is some sort of glitch in the system, since those shots should clearly have killed that person.

Thanks


yea ive had my own experiences with this exact nonsense... reviewing the head shots and seeing blood and the trail going straight through their heads, but no death/damage done...

  • 10.03.2007 11:39 AM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

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Why are there issues with the sniper hitting somebody, and still not doing damage?

Where did Team Snipers go? (Shotty Snipes is not a replacement)

Why is there no more Team SWAT??

Why does the Halo 2 sniper shoot fast, yet the Halo 3 sniper shoot and reload so slow? I used to bring Snipers into close quarters fights, but now I feel slightly upset.....

Why are the multiplayer achievements mostly only attainable in Lone Wolves?

Why are the skulls so easy to find? Except for IWHBYD....

What is the purpose of unlocking a Ninja sword, if you can't use it?

Why has the beatdown lunge been severely reduced? I used to own at beatdowns, and now I always swing too early...

When you update matchmaking in the future, will my K/D reset? A little kid played on my account while I was asleep....I should be able to bring it back up in due time.

Why no awesome version of Lockout? (DLC possibly)

Why is AR so powerful at even mid-range? I can be annoying when being shot in the back...I used to be BR and SR all the way. But now I hardly ever use BR, or Carbine.

Why can't you talk in Lone Wolves. I understand the Team Slayer gametypes, and having noobs shouting all the time, but if your not on a team, why can't it be in FFA? FFA is hardcore, so smacktalking is just part of it....

Why are there still small glitches? Weapons, out of levels...etc. (faster beatdown, people getting out of the Ark.)

Is clan support a thought that will surprise us with its majestic tones in the near future?

And Lastly, What makes the team at Bungie, and an awesome game like Halo so great?



  • 10.03.2007 11:39 AM PDT
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Is the end of Halo 3, an allude to Marathon, or is it Onyx? I'd love some closure with Master Chief. With how he reacted with Kurt being sent into space, totally helpless I don't think he would see it as a fitting end for such a brave man.

Are we going to see any more Eric Nylund books, other than Contact: Harvest?

  • 10.03.2007 11:39 AM PDT
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1 Why On Earth Are almost all of the elite perms online?! I dont have xbox live so I have to spend even more money to look cool. This is very aggravating.

2 Is there a list anywhere of what difficulty skulls are avalable?

  • 10.03.2007 11:39 AM PDT
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Why the heck doesn't The Ark load up from my disc?? I want an answer. I can't "Finish the Fight" if my darn Halo 3 disc came defected. Send me a new one now. Also I don't want to be without my disc. God, MS needs to get these little things right.

  • 10.03.2007 11:39 AM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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Will there be a patch to make Saved Films more friendly with Campaign (support for films and not just screenshots, and the ability to rewind)?
Will you be removing or at least reducing the frequency of Team Shotty Snipers in Team Slayer?

  • 10.03.2007 11:39 AM PDT
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Halo 3 is your best project yet and I have already held a kickass LAN party! Will there be any way for my friends to access the different armor I've unlocked and are there any plans to unlock the armor for everybody or downloadable armor?

  • 10.03.2007 11:39 AM PDT
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To start, love how you balanced the game play perfectly. (i.e. sniper, sword, and power weapons like that; being slower giving everyone else a chance against them). I also love how you now start with a weapon when you spawn that doesnt render you useless against any oncoming attacker (SMG). My only question is at the end of Halo 3 on legenday after the credits, the planet they show for a split second, is it the covenent planet, the elite planet or some new random planet full of unknown aliens?

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
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can we please have a setting so that our gun is on the left hand side of the screen?

if you ever reset ranks, will you reset EXP too?

Will there be downloadable premutations? emblems?

Is the inability to have proxy chat with team mates intentional?

Were you surprised by how quickly we found IWHBYD?

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
Subject: Free camera
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How l long would it be for the first installation of map packs? I am kinda disappointed in the map variety of Halo3. Otherwise great game, I just wish we had lockout and battle creek.

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
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Why do detached Flood limbs roll and roll and roll forever and ever and ever?

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
Subject: Free camera
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beat final mission on heroric but didnt get flight helmet. do i complete every mission? can i do it on co-op?

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

BOY HOWDIE I SURE HAVE LIKED THE LAST TWO HALO BETAZ I WUZ IN!!!

What I want to know is why there was no option to run added to halo 3. I know that this would cause balancing issues to the game but really if everyone could run for a short period of time like say 3 seconds wouldn't it balance itself out? The reasoning I have behind wanting to run is to counter sniping. I am better at close range than I will ever be with a rifle and find it quite annoying when the opposing team wins because of their camping sniper. The addition of even a 3 second run would go far to make the sniper have to "rejoin" the battle.

On a side note, what is with all of the shotty snipers in team slayer. Shouldn't that gametype belong in one of the other playlists?

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
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Thanks for making a beautiful game. Looking at the timeline from Halo2 and when you decided to make changes to playslists and maps it looks like we'll possibly see DLC in the form of maps early next year. It would be great though if you followed the timeline and added some additional playlists. I'd love to see Snipers and SWAT. As member of 2old2play I speak for several of us grown ups when I say that we have a great game in our hands, and that we're patiently waiting for the return of those playlists and for Shotty Snipers to leave Slayer (although I love it in there). Thanks again for a great game!

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT

I work here: Sound Devices, LLC. We make bad-ass field audio gear, and you think that's awesome. My messy desk (With work-related items on the computer screen).

One does not simply grenade jump into Mordor...

What influenced the decision to go from 8 players down to 5 in the ranked FFA playlist (Lone Wolves)?

All the new maps are really well designed in my opinion. As far as new maps for the future, are there any ideas on the drawing board that can be discussed yet? Is it possible we'll see more maps created / co-created by third parties (Like we saw with Tombstone and Desolation) like Creative Infinity? (I don't know about the other million or so players out there, but I'd like to see added some smaller, symmetrical, "arena" type maps, A La Warlock, Midship, Sanctuary.)

Thanks!

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  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
Subject: Free camera
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Just Chillin'

PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GET THE FLAMING HELMET.... I saw a guy in matchmaking running around with his helmet on fire, he would not tell me how he got it or what to do. so Bungie! helpith meith outith lol, ith!

  • 10.03.2007 11:40 AM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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There is no I in team, but there is an I in pie. And in meatpie. And the anagram of meat is team... so... there you go.

I've had this problem a couple times. I'll unlock an achievement, such as a Skull, but when I recover my gamertag on another Xbox, it will not be there. And when I get back to the original Xbox and recover it, it won't be there either. Do I need to play a match online in order to make sure it gets saved? Shouldn't it be saved regardless of that? This is starting to get very annoying. I've had to get the IWHBYD Skull 3 times now!!

  • 10.03.2007 11:41 AM PDT

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I'll take your best shot...

Sorry, this is only partially a legit question, but I have to ask:

Are you going to give into the whiners and ruin a completely balanced game like you did with halo 2? I've played both halo 2 and 3 since their launch days, and I have to say: nerfing weapons because the majority of posters on any given forum whine about anything and everything really suxors. I liked the original halo 2 pistols, but they got nerfed =( I like the weapon balance of halo 3 (in it's entirety), and it is more than abundantly obvious how much effort went into perfecting them. So, my question stands. Will you give into the complainers and change stuff like sniper rifle delay, invisible sword wielding, etc? Obvious bugs, such as melee woes should be fixed, but they were never intended to be bugged now were they? Perhaps it would be a better solution to leave the weapons balance alone (which are not bugged, but designed) and focus on fixing replays (rewinding/chapter selection/campaign recording) and melee instead. One other thing, I miss clans...and while I wish CTF, Infection, and such were their own playlists...I realize that xbox live limits those (as you said about halo 2 haveing to design playlists due to lack of number of players). it just seems, that with so many people online in matchmaking (650,000 at one time i noticed) you would have a bigger allotment for more playlists? Where is daddy bill gates who used bungie to crush PS3 hopes?

P.S. LOVE HALO 3 I am involved with a little bit of programming, so I can appreciate the efforts you went through to accomplish this (also in the artistic, music/audio, and storyline areas as well). GREAT JOB!

  • 10.03.2007 11:41 AM PDT

"Heart grow Stronger, Will Firm, Mind more Calm, as our Strength Lessons..." Battle of Malden 991 AD

i cant vew any of my recent games in the theater it doesnt show up

by the way this game rules

  • 10.03.2007 11:41 AM PDT
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Why can't we get videos through bungie.net like we can with screen shots? It would promote the game and the community in a way never before experienced in the industry.

  • 10.03.2007 11:42 AM PDT
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Is there going to be MORE ARMOR created beyond what has already been placed in the Halo 3 game? I like to mix and match the armor to create a look that best represents me. More choices would be great! Thank you for all the existing armor types that you put time and effort into.

  • 10.03.2007 11:42 AM PDT

Any plans to make new gametypes downloadable?

  • 10.03.2007 11:42 AM PDT
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I want lockout! guardian resembles lockout...kinda. but an exact remake would be amazing with these new and improved graphics. Midship, Warlock...even Sanctuary would be great.

Also, no rewind in saved films is a pain, pressing the back button on D-pad skips you back 10 seconds, why not just use the left trigger and rewind like with the right trigger.

Overall, HALO 3 is awesome. Everything I hoped it would be...besides the little things above....and sniper lag. isnt it the year 2553. wouldnt they have some advanced sniper technology or something??? kinda sucks. how i have to waste 2,3 sniper shots half the time to get a headshot

  • 10.03.2007 11:42 AM PDT
Subject: Free camera
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Posted by: raptor117
Posted by: Ez Pez
Why cant i stop the camera focusing on a player?!? i want to look around the map. I.e stop time, detach camera, move to another battle, start time. not just jumping from person to person


press y


feel like such a noob now :(

  • 10.03.2007 11:42 AM PDT