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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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How come in the game you do not get to fight in the Battle for New mombasa, as seen in the Believe ad videos? I was hoping to fight that battle in the game, but I did not get to. The game was great, but the face models kinda sucked. Will there be a halo 4??? I beat it on legendary and I saw after the credits MC ship headed twords a forruner planet. Is it Onyx? Earth?

How come you dont get to fight the gravemind in the game, I mean he is right there when johnson takes off from the pelican, but the gravemind just vanishes like a little girl. If you ask me that would of been a cool boss to fight.

When is the Halo movie comeing out??? I will pay to see that movie any day.

Thank you bungie for making Halo 3, I loved it. I finished the fight!!!

  • 10.03.2007 12:09 PM PDT
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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)

  • 10.03.2007 12:09 PM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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You mentioned that downloadable maps may come available in the future. how about armor/colors. And possibly game types that you have created?

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Yeah i was going to go and see if someone had already asked my questions but i decided that there was wayyy too many ?'s to do that so yeah.
I just want to know if there's going to be any way that i can get my films and clips on my computer because i can get my screen shots but not everything else. Another thing is you should bring back ranked team snipers, team or just regular swat and ranked clan matches.

  • 10.03.2007 12:09 PM PDT

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My gamertag is SHADOWRIDERJP.

I am still getting that damn can not read disc error. I also had security pads but now they are gone. O_o

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Also, I know this has been mentioned - but I figured it would be worth mentioning again:

VIP in the Beta was way better than it is now. Please bring back the overshielded VIP. That's one of the best strategy type games I've played in multiplayer Halo. Thanks...

  • 10.03.2007 12:10 PM PDT
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This is a response to an earlier question posted by SMG WIZARD about incorporating race.

Do you ever see the faces of the spartans because i never have. You dont knoe if they are black or white or hispanic or whatever, the race is decided upon who is playing it. By knowing what race the person is thats playing then we kinda get the idea of what your character would look like. You get it? If you have ever seen a spartan without a mask please send me a picture. My gamertag is GCO RAGEnFECTED, the one on this profile isnt right. Check me out.

  • 10.03.2007 12:11 PM PDT
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Question - In the meta-game scoring, to get the achievements, do you have to get the required score individually under the free-for-all option, or can you get the achievements if its on team?

  • 10.03.2007 12:11 PM PDT
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Will you Fix the Irritating Online Co-op Controller Lag?

In Online Co-op, whether you are hosting a game or not, there always seems to be controller lag. This dosen't occur in any other section of the game other than 2-4 player online cooperative play. It is just a fraction of a second between the time you tap a button and the motion on the screen, but it's just enough to get extremely irritating. It has been confirmed by myself and most others I have talked to on the matter. My question for Bungie is, have you guys discovered this issue, and if you have will you make a statement or possible fix for the problem via update or by other means?

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  • 10.03.2007 12:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Toph Nasty616
Yeah i was going to go and see if someone had already asked my questions but i decided that there was wayyy too many ?'s to do that so yeah.
I just want to know if there's going to be any way that i can get my films and clips on my computer because i can get my screen shots but not everything else. Another thing is you should bring back ranked team snipers, team or just regular swat and ranked clan matches.



If you had read about Saved Films before, you would know that it's not an actual film.

It's just game data that's actually replayed. Therefore there's no video to save to your computer

  • 10.03.2007 12:11 PM PDT
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Is there going to be an update for clans in halo 3? it was cool in halo 2 and it would be even better in halo 3.

  • 10.03.2007 12:12 PM PDT
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Why did you guys choose to make most of the multiplayer achievements for ranked free-for-all only? Because they would definitly be easier on a team gametype. Like overkill for example. Please consider changing these to ranked team games.

And is there anyway that for like a few months you guys could take the 3 maps from the beta out of matchmaking? Because I'm tired of those three maps, I really would liek to play the new maps.

Why is the Mauler so over-powered? You guys said it wasn't that good by itself but I see people get destroyed by it from like 7 feet away from a guy and they aren't even able to get half a mag out at the guy.

  • 10.03.2007 12:12 PM PDT

I gotta say ; your mother really is a great lady...

I've always wondered:

With the obvious interest in map remakes from older Halo games,why not release a "Greatest Hits Map Pack"?... with remakes of such favorites as:

Death Island
Sidewinder
Midship
Blood Gulch/Coagulation
Beaver Creek
Terminal
...etc.


With your collective knack for remaking maps even better,you KNOW it would be well received,so....WHY NOT?

Also....
I am owed one steak dinner from Lukems for receiving the "Steaktacular" achievement and I want what's mine...problem is I'm a vegetarian.
However,I do live in Seattle,and I'd settle for a hot bowl of veggie Pho.
[Vietnamese noodle soup;they're all over the place up here in the great NW]
I'll even buy for us both!...Luke,I'll be waiting for my PM.

  • 10.03.2007 12:12 PM PDT
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Is there anyway to turn Push-To-Talk off for your party (not team). I regurlarly with the same 3-4 people and I dont need PTT in the lobby, and its quite annoying to have it ingame.
If there isnt an option - would you consider adding it ?

  • 10.03.2007 12:12 PM PDT

Why oh Why can't i search for custom games, and don't say you can't add it cause that is complete bull-blam!-. also why do you have to be rude to us when we ask?

love you guys, can't wait for the master chief spin off......

  • 10.03.2007 12:12 PM PDT
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is there going to be an update if so how soon ??and what will the update do?? and are you guys gunna make new maps ... if so will Midship be apart of them ??.... if not PLEASE make it

  • 10.03.2007 12:12 PM PDT
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First off, thank you so much Bungie, the game was completely worthy of the comparison to Return of the Jedi.

I still have some problems though. First, if the game WERE broken, and it's not, the thing that would have broken it would be the friendly AI. The enemy AI is very impressive, but the friendly AI, to be honest, makes me wish I could join the other side and punish the stupid infidels.

Now, I know that you said before that the marines actually acted like there was a war going on. I suspect that was before you discovered that the marines could win the game by themselves in the right circumstances, and so I suspect that's when they were dumbed down to a level below that of a 2 year old Brute.

Examples? Well, a marine in a warthog will shoot at a concrete wall that a wraith is behind (the wraith either doesn't know we are there or doesn't care) while two grunt-piloted ghosts are chasing us less than 40 feet behind. On heroic and legendary, those ghosts would destroy the warthog in about 3 seconds, which is half a second more than the time it would take the marine in back to kill the grunt pilots with the AA gun. However, he insists upon shooting the concrete wall, and we all die. The same goes for when any vehicle where the driver has no control over armaments, being chased by any fast-moving attacker. I find Legendary to be about as easy as Heroic on Halo 2, as long as I'm on foot. I avoid warthogs and prowlers in non-coop campaigns because the marines refuse to exercise judgment in what targets to shoot, making any such vehicle a deathtrap. In parts of Tsavo Highway and the Ark, I view survivability in a hog the same way I view survivability on foot with all skulls turned on, in High Charity with no ammo on Legendary.

The game may not be broken, but the hog certainly is because the piss-poor marine AI renders the hog essentially defenseless.

Now, here's what I want to know. Can you make a patch that gives the marines better target selection when and only when a human player is driving? This way, the human player is still doing the work of playing the game, and the hog looks less like the gaping maw of death on wheels.

I emptied every round of every magazine of every weapon in the vicinity into the marine gunner's head last night. Your game should not generate this kind of hostility towards your own team/species, even if they are only virtual.

I'm not the only one who feels this way. Some friends and I were watching the ending scene, and when they did the gun salute, someone said "Oh, look, the marines are shooting at nothing. Just like they always do."

For the love of god, please make it so the marines give us less reason to kill them than the enemy does. I was killed by a marine's missile last night while sniping at a scarab from at least 500 feet away. The scarab couldn't kill me, it took the marines to kill me. The marines paid though.

  • 10.03.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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Is Bungie going to change weapon characteristics (sniper rifle, needler, etc.) based only on fans complaining? Are the bugs involved with unlocking achievements or armor perms going to be fixed soonish, or laterish?

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  • 10.03.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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This isn't really a question, its just the only way I can find to tell anyone at bungie about this but for some reason I had the security pads for two days (without getting 750gp on halo ) and then i lost them, also I got two killing frenzies in a row on one level ( the first time I was the achievement) and for some reason I haven't unlocked the elite commando pads

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Will Bungie be adding on additional achievements, and achievement points for Halo 3 at any time in the near future? The game has hardly been out a week, and I've almost earned all 1000 points already.

  • 10.03.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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When can we expect the next batch of new multiplayer maps?
How many new maps are you guys working on?
And, how often does the "Bungie's Favorites" section refresh with new content?

Great game by the way, i thought it could never live up to the hype I had for the game, and it did!

  • 10.03.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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Why the weaker trip mines and where's Team Sniper? Shotty/Sniper is ok (alot of people hate this) but Team Sniper was for a select group of Halo players. The ones who didn't wanna see the ugly face of the opponent unless it was 40 yards away and through a scope.

The trip mine.....used to be awesome. I knew certain things were going to change from the Beta, but it is really unfortunate that this did. I never heard any issues with it. It was powerful, but that's what made it great. You'd have to be deaf and blind to not know it was there, yet you could get a triple kill every time you used it. Like I've said in a previous thread, even the betrayals were hilarious.

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Posted by: Meecrob317
Why is the warthog so light, i get sent spinning and flipping across the map from a frag explosion 15 feet behind me? And for that matter why is there so many ways to kill the hog: rockets, laser, power drainer, plasma pistol, missle pod, grenades, trip mine?


If your a good wheelman, nothing can stop you

I once went off a man cannon with a gunner in the back, did a 580 and landed it, then got stuck and caused it to go forward flip and landed that, just after i did i heard the rocket lobber warning and avoided it till he was out, ended up getting a straight 19 kills off that run. Like i said, its all in the driving ;)

  • 10.03.2007 12:14 PM PDT

Don't mess with the best or the best will mess with you.

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When changing appearance (armor, emblem, colors, etc.) It sometimes reverts back to your original choice after choosing another. Whats up with the downloadable content? Also whats up with the martathon man achievement? I found the seven (big surprise Bungie...7) "access points" and read them in their entirety but nothing is unlocked. What gives?

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Whats the estimated number of DLC maps in the first batch? Will there be more Armor types, with new acheivements similar to the Gears of War, Oblivion, and Crackdown DLC?


Thanks.

  • 10.03.2007 12:15 PM PDT