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I hope I am doing this right, this is my second post. For starts let me say that you all have made a wonderful game and can't wait to see what you come out with next, even if it is not a Halo related game. Now for my questions, alot of the questions I wanted to ask have been asked so here is an off the wall one. Do you plan on maybe redoing Halo 1 and Halo 2 with the Halo3 engine at some point.? You don't have to do yourselves, because I imagine you have new projects now and are a little tired of Halo at the moment. Well thats my questions thanks for your time.

Jess

  • 10.03.2007 11:45 AM PDT
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Why are there only two large maps that allow vehicles? Personally, sandtrap is kind of lame. Valhalla is the only good one. Halo 2 had a bunch of big vehicle maps.

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What the hell is up with push to talk? It sucks.

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1. Is there even a small chance we will be able to play campaign using our custom armor? I know 4 spartans breaks the story line but it will make for some great movies.
2. What determines who is master chief in coop campaign? Ive been host and been all 4 characters. Why cant the host pick?
3. Why do some of my coop campaigns on B.net have a total score but no stats?
4. it would be very cool if you could control weapon load out for campaign, any chance?
5. In meta which score counts for the achievements? Ive been over 15,000 on the combined score and nothing....

Thanks

  • 10.03.2007 11:46 AM PDT

do we have to be in ranked ffa to get those certain acheivements, or can we be in any ranked playlist? in those smaller games, it would be impossible to get some of them, like used car salesman (no big vehicles for 3 people on those maps) and too close to the sun (no banshees, even though i did get this one in campaign. also, getting an overkill in ffa is damn near impossible, so if you have to get all of them in ffa, then that one should be worth way more points.

good job on the game, by the way. 170 million in the first 24 hours........Woot!

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Posted by: Bodendein
Could we please have the Halo 3 loading screen as a downloadable screensaver?



Now thats a feffing amazing idea!!!!
me wants go bungie go! =D

  • 10.03.2007 11:46 AM PDT

Will there be old maps we can play that are from Halo 2? (Please bring back Lockout)

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are you breaking with microsoft? is that true? what's the real story?

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--Team Shotty Snipers should be ranked and in it's own playlist, (Team Snipers). If someone happens to suck with the rifle, they're screwed evertyime on that gametype no matter what-sniper out does shotgun anyday.

--Please o' Please make snowbound more even by spawing TWO sniper rifles(1 on each base) and not that dam lazer that is honestly no match compared to a rifle. It has only 2x zoom, takes 5 secs to charge and you get one shot. It honestly isnt fair when it comes down to luck of the spawn if you get the rifle first or not which basically decides the game. Having just 2 beam rifles, or a human and beam would actually be balanced. Please take that into consideration when playing a team with any decent skill with the rifle that they will keep you at bay with ease. And yes you can go underground, but then the sniper team can just back up...kind of sucks in my opinion. Actually now that i think about it, you could toy with the idea of taking the sniper out completely or actually in the center of the map.

--Also i have been noticing bullet lag on a large amount of games played even though everyone is in green ping, the BR still takes 6-7 bursts in the head to wipe someone out..

Great Game for the record!

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SPOILERS




What is the significance of the Legendary ending, and what planet is that?

Why did you change the Prophet of Truth's voice actor from Michael Wincott to Terrence Stamp? It's not that Stamp's performance isn't good, it's just that Wincott became Truth, and was one of the more distinctive voice actors in the series.

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BRING GLITCHES LIKE BXB BXR AND DOUBLE SHOT BACK!!!NOW YOU CANNOT BE BETTER THAN THE HOST IN BEAT DOWNS IT SUCKS SO BAD ITS ALL ABOU HOST IN BEAT DOWNS!!!!!!

Why did you make such a great game that I can't study for class?

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Will we get more armor variants in future updates or content? I think it would be awesome if all the early concepts for the spartan armor became armor variants. Will co op ever get the drop in/out feature? Will forge ever become a matchmaking playlist? Will rewind ever be in theater mode? When will we get Containment and Coagulation?

  • 10.03.2007 11:47 AM PDT
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Have you guys ever thought of fixing unbalnced teams? Like 3 vs 4? It always bugged me when teams were uneven or when someone quits the match. Maybe you could program a solution were the team with more players rotate out after every death making the teams equal again. Maybe let the player "on deck" can fly around the level as the spark or something. Im sick of losing CTF cause we are a player short, Just a thought.

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I cannot play guardian when my harddrive is plugged in, why?

When I play without a harddrive in and just a memory card, in matchmatching the chief makes the same annoying death noise over and over and over, why?

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Why have bungie fixed things that wernt broken?

1. Why is proximity voice 10% of what it was in halo 2. I understand in ranked its not on, but even in customs its useless in comparison. The unique selling point of the live experience has been killed by its maker, and is baffling as a decision.

2. Why create the fire grenade and not put it into the game apart from a tiny area of campaign?

3. Why have clans, then not have clans - again a backwards step.

4. I presume BTB will be made ranked, otherwise its a 4man team game and only a mess about in bigger teams - ruined the large team competetive element.

5. Why are map selections so limited - i never see guardian or isolation in any team games.

6. Why do users get messages saying NAT is closed, when XBOX live itself will say its open. The whole system is very incompatible for routers.

7. Why are elites still the same unfavourable shape, despite acknowledging how now one used them because they were easy to kill in H2.

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What are you guys planning on doing about the Rocket/Melee/Shotgun lag. They all execute and then do not take effect until about half a second or second later. That is half a second or second too late. It makes the difference between many, MANY, battles. I love the game by the way. I hope Bungie releases new vehicles that can be forged in as well. (Dirt bike or a launch capsule type thing.)

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Why did you take the trip mine out of Valhalla?

Why is it that in certain maps in forge, different items, vehicles etc are available, and some are not. Could we not just have everything available for every map? (I can understand that a banshee on Guardian would be pointless, but I want a flamethrower on sandtrap. :))

Why is there no clan system for Halo 3? I have heard rumors of it, but nothing official by Bungie or Microsoft. Me and my friends were talking about clans for ages, and were majorly disappointed when it was released without clan support. Will this be in a future update, and if so, what will be included in the clan 'package'?

Why not have a "Custom Game" selection in the Social Matchmaking Playlist which are custom games approved by Bungie? (so as not to let boosters make the game their playground)

Also, as more of an idea as a question, following the post before me, I believe it would be nice to have an "Invasion" game or something of the type, in which one team defends a certain objective (maybe just a flag, like in the usual game), but the attacking team land down in pelicans / (forgotten the name of the covenant similar) and wreak havoc from above. That is a very loose idea by the way. I just always feel the campaigns on games (obviously due to scripting, and this is nothing you can change at this point, but just to make me feel better :P) tend to feel so much nicer than the multiplayer. The campaign, using scripting, involves the player more, and I'm still waiting for a game (Medal of Honor: Airborne is almost there) where (to use that game as an example) your jumps out of the plane do not always go correctly, and sometimes you will slip or stumble, and so it will therefore effect your jump.
I know what I sound like, and I was always the kind of guy to play around on those "Realism Mods" on Call of Duty, making it so that you fell over if you got shot in the leg, and dropped your gun if you were shot in the arm, and were definitely always dead when shot in the head :P, but I just feel that such things only seem to happen in the campaign using scripting elements, and I guess my question for this long, long paragraph is:

Could you not integrate a system into a multiplayer game that uses percent chance to decide the outcome of certain activities that a player might engage in?

Such as jumping out of a plane, and the possibility of slipping or the plane jerking as you jump, or such activities as shooting your gun and it suddenly appears to be jammed (I always had the idea that to show your gun had jammed a red light would flash on it, but only attentive players who saw the small light would know, and fix it before they got into a fight)

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I have a great question for you. Maybe this will present itself as I continue to play multiplayer, but from the rank of gunnery sergeant how does a person become a grade 3 or 4 in those rank classes?? What I mean is the experience points look like they carry you down through grades 1 and 2, because it takes less experience points to be a lieutenent than it does for a person to be a gunnery sergeant grade 3. So what's the deal.

  • 10.03.2007 11:48 AM PDT
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Will achievement problems be able to be fixed by an update? Even though I have far surpassed the requirements for the graduate achievement and have the pin in my service record, the Graduate achievement was never unlocked, so i never got the ODST helmet. Is there any way to fix this?

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when I play multiplayer with my friends on one xbox, then I want to play single player it wont let me exit them out I've tried everything! the only way to exit them out is to turn the xbox off.

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Why O why is it so easy to rank up? I already have friends with 50s and high 40's.

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Can we have the loading screen as a downloadable screensaver, and can you tell us a bit of general history in regards to the Forerunners?

  • 10.03.2007 11:48 AM PDT

Wise men once said, forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for a late pizza.

-Michelangelo, TMNT: The Movie

Ok first of all, love the game. I so totally got the all the hints back toward Halo: CE in the dialog. I myself love how the Heroic ending had MC back in Cryo, just like it all started.

Second: If you RETARDED people would read the Updates that Bungie Post, about 99% percent of your questions would be answered.
Third: Kasumi Armor? No. How about Hayabusa Armor and you get it by finding all 13 skulls. (Same note I think this also might be the "NINJA" Armor, except it is Samurai NOT Ninja)

OK now my questions:
1.) How come the harder achievements (Triple Kill, Over Kill, Two for One, Lee R Wilson Memorial, Killing Frenzy, Stepping Razor and Mongoose Mow down) are all in Free-For-All. Personally I hate free for all and know I HAVE to play it to try and get these uber hard achievements - that sucks.

2.) Everybody keeps asking about maps and DLC. So I would like to ask if you can bring back Sidewinder. Awesome map.

3.) And I would also like to confirm interest in the "Using custom armor in Online Co-op", sounds like a good idea.

Good luck cyphering through all of this....

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What is next for Bungie?
Will we get to play as Master Chief again (Halo 4)?
If not whats your next big project idea?

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