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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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WHY Can I not pause while I am recording, so I can switch angles and get the view of the grenade stick as it lands on the guy's face? Why can I not rewind or use the Theatre Palette while recording so I can get that sweet snipe from multiple angles and MAKE good use of my file share, instead of having six 1MB clips and 19 MB left over?

Why MUST we use the 360 party system? Oh lord... I hate the dashboard system.

  • 10.03.2007 1:28 PM PDT
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*Spoilers included*
Why are there twice as many SPARTAN permutations as Sangheili?
If I read the Beastarium correctly, before the Forerunner were Precurser. Any info on this?
Is Cortana corrupted? A friend pointed out her code seems to dead end now.
Since Forerunner are Wolrd Builder Tier, Any info on the planet at the end of the legendary ending?
Will there be more Halo games about the other Rings or for the fact the Flood are extra-galatical? Or anything were we get to play as the Sangheili again, like in Halo 2?

  • 10.03.2007 1:28 PM PDT
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My Bigest Problem is THE BEAT DOWNS they changed them from the beta they are WAY too powerful... and i will quote ome one else has said that AR has to much range and i think it does too.. because no one seems to pick up any weapons they just beat down or shoot you down when you have a BR witch should have some power... i thought HALO 3 was a fps not a fighting game... other wise fun game Co-op online is great as with forge.. :P

EDIT: PS: i want lockout so much i would pay 800 ms points for it in halo3 :)

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  • 10.03.2007 1:28 PM PDT
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Why trying to play team slayer why am I always forced to play shotty sniper....you guys didnt do that good a job at the shotty or sniper so why do you love both oh so much. Bungie Please.

  • 10.03.2007 1:29 PM PDT
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Wow. Finally I can ask you a question and get a answer. Clearly ignored me when I sent that E-mail.

I have 1988kb downspeed and a 187 average upload speed.

Someone said to me that Halo 3 was based on a 256kb upload. Why is this? I get tremendous lag on Halo 3 Online, but it doesn't start straight away, it comes after 3-4 minutes. It's annoying because I've played games similar to this on a PC with a low connection. The game has had good graphics up to 24 players and the environments and the going-ons within the game are absolutely massive, yet my speed could handle it. Why should this be any different?

So why does Halo 3 take so much of my upload speed? Is it that theater thing? Because given the chance, I'd turn it off, because for all I know, it's taking alot of speed just recording the goings on whilst online. I can play ALL my games on Xbox Live without a hitch. 2 meg down, and 190kb up is fine. But now, because Halo 3 requires so much, I now have to consider paying more just to attempt to enjoy my first Halo experience. Which I have to say, so far has been a disgrace.

Also... Halo 3 apart from it being lagging and stealing tons of upload speed so I can't ever enjoy it online, I've come across another thing. At evening times, the US people are playing so there are very few British people playing. So, with your little search thing, it doesn't find any Quickest found games, or Good Connections because anything overseas to us is rubbish.

So how can you fix this issue? British gamers go without on the weekends in the evening? Oh that's not fair. Neither is it fair that I have to pay monthly to increase my internet connection speed just for the sake of your game. So I recommend and update for your game.

Could you please tell me, what upload speed is required for Halo 3 and whether there will be a function to turn that silly Theater (resource eater) function off. And also... to apologize to people like me who were fooled into buying your game. Had I known it would take that much upload I would not have bothered purchasing it.

This is a Q&A right? So seeing as I purchased your beloved game, I want an answer.

Why is Halo 3 lagging for me?

Why should I upgrade my connection for the sake of one game?

Why did you not give any warning why your game is a upload eater?

Why can't British play in the evening.

Thanks alot

FX

  • 10.03.2007 1:29 PM PDT
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I vant to suck....................................................Yor vlad.

alright forget lockout. Midship was a popular map and way too awesome. will we see a remake?

and what about anything for Mlg lovers.
Hardcore playlist?

  • 10.03.2007 1:29 PM PDT

why aint there a way to delete pics while watching a movie in theater ? having to exit the movie and go manually delete the pics and then return to the movie is ok except when its really long campaign films.

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No Leaderboard for Campaign Scoring, please explain why you would add scoring and not have a Leaderboard?

  • 10.03.2007 1:29 PM PDT

"Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bull-blam!-, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you."-Lemmy of Motorhead

i belive shhave funzes suppos

Yes, I'm the guy who had the Flood admit to being furries.

1. What is your response to the Recon Armor Permutation? Currently, there is no known way to unlock it, even with every Campaign achievement, Legendary Terminals etc. I've heard it is Bungie Employees only. I hope not. Can you confirm this? And can you mention how to unlock it? I also believe it may be bugged like Security Armor and the Commando Shoulders

2. Like many are asking, what will be the downloadable content? Maps? Campaign expansion(due to the slight after credits cliff hangar)?

3. What is the future of Master Chief?

4. What happened to Admiral Xytan in Ghosts of Onyx? Or do we have to wait for Erics new book?

  • 10.03.2007 1:30 PM PDT
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I have 2 questions about matchmaking, one ive seen a thousand times and one i havent seen in the 7 or so pages ive read through thus far.

1) Do you guys have any idea when we will see the return of some old halo 2 playlists? Like the retun of ranked Snipers, Head 2 Head, Hardcore, or Big Team Battle?

2) Why did you guys decide to make it so easy to rank up? After three days i had several friends in the high 40's. This almost seems counter intuitive because i know once i get to 50, ill quit playing that game type. Also, getting that high wont be as big of a badge of honor anymore if it is so easy. Are there any plans for changing this? (like after the first stats reset in halo 2 where it went from INSANELY hard to level up to just normal).

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http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13370019

That thread says it all.

My Question:

If you could go back, would you have executed Halo 3's storyline in any other way? Would you have shown more, gone to greater depths, etc.? I enjoyed the game a lot, but the story's execution never quite matched the drama and epic nature it tried to portray. Also, how should we interpret the ending to Halo 3 on Legendary? Are the possibilities open for a Halo 4?

P.S. Are you guys really tired of making Halo, as the rumors claim?

  • 10.03.2007 1:30 PM PDT
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if you go on mlgpro.com there is a video titled "broken sniper?" and the person in the video is sniping people but they arent registering. if you watch the video he goes into 3rd person and you can easily see the blood splatter yet his opponent does not die. and alot of people say that this is because he is too close to the corner of a wall and the game reads each shot as a hit but the host doesnt.

so givin this information, i would like to know: will there be any updates or anything to solve this problem?

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Now that you guys have problable become aware of some ways people are missusing the matchmaking system with the language selection, and asking poeple to help them with achievments in the lobby. What do you guys plan to adress these issues and how long till we see them fixed?

  • 10.03.2007 1:31 PM PDT
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Why is there no server browser? It gets really old going into ranked or social slayer playlist and having to play (or veto) shotty snipers on valhalla for the 18th time. I would like to be able to only see Team Slayer games for example and maybe I only want to play Valhalla for the day, no way to do that now, its luck of the draw.

Why is the Subject line of this thread broken? Your ampersand isn't properly displaying :( "The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A"

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I know that there will be an update for Xbox Live in which clans will be run from the dashboard, my question is will there be included in that update a way for us to message all friends, and also will the same structure apply within the clans (peon, member, staff, overlord)?

  • 10.03.2007 1:31 PM PDT
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Why did Master Chief light the ring? Isn't that what they worked so hard to prevent in Halo 1 and 2?

  • 10.03.2007 1:32 PM PDT

FINISHED THE FIGHT 2007

In response to the question about "Why can't we rewind a film by simply pressing the left trigger"? This is absolutely my biggest beef with the game. A future update that fixes this issue would be awsome!!!!!

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  • 10.03.2007 1:32 PM PDT
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SPOILER
Why was a whole bunch of time and money spent on a diorama of a battle that didn't happen in the campaign? (The Believe Monument)
Will the Master Chief ever be found in the ruins of the ship?
What happened to all the other brutes, grunts and jackals after Truth was killed?

  • 10.03.2007 1:32 PM PDT

Why was it decided to not include more information about the Covenant civil war in the campaign? Why did the grunts and hunters return back to the Covenant against the elites when they fought beside them in Halo 2? I realize that there are probably gameplay reasons for this but why did it happen in the context of the story?

  • 10.03.2007 1:32 PM PDT
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Why can't we search custom games online?

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Posted by: lThe Gruntinator
i was voted prom king and queen, and then I got to -blam!- myself. It was great.

Is there any chance that, assuming halo and marathon are related, the alien species that parallels the forerunners in marathon are the "Precursors", referenced in the Limited Edition creature book?

or could LF from the terminals even be the "Precursors"? this seems likely as it is mentioned the Precursors are both advanced and have come in contact with the forerunners before.

Maybe this is obvious to you all im just getting into this backstory thing and i know little of marathon

  • 10.03.2007 1:32 PM PDT

I used to do drugs, i still do, but i used to too. - mitch hedburg

Are clans ever coming back?

  • 10.03.2007 1:32 PM PDT
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Can we please get an answer on the 5.1 issues talked about Here and all around the internet. Theres a bunch of links in there to different places talking about it. Basically, there is no gun sounds and such in the center channel and its makes alot of things in front of you sound very, very weak.

  • 10.03.2007 1:33 PM PDT

Zerogreenchief is eh pretty cool guy, eh trolls people and doesn't afraid of anything.

What did you guys do after you launched Halo 3 on the 25?

and more importantly, Halo is done wheres my Pheonix?



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