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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

i was wundering why you did not do a back part to the armor types

eg when you have a mark V head and mark V looking body it just looks odd to have a mark VI back.

or any other part of the body like the fore arms and the legs? :)

  • 10.03.2007 1:42 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 3 Questions and Wants
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Things I want to be in Halo 3:
-Midship remake
-Lockout remake
-Blood Gulch

Questions:
What's the point of the Elephant? Its completely useless and it CANT hold a scorpion.
Why is the Halo 3 limited edition case so cheap?
Why are the Halo 3 and Bungie.net player counts different?

  • 10.03.2007 1:43 PM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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why is there a delay when i hit the melee button? is it tied to a certain player being the host and/or the connection speed? I running wi/fi. Thanks.

  • 10.03.2007 1:43 PM PDT
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What I am, is trapped. And I've been trapped for so long that I don't know what it feels like...to be free.

Now I know you guys have gotten a lot of flak about the controversy over the Xbox Live Public removal, but do you think it's possible that you can add those favorite custom gametypes to matchmaking ? For example: Adding Rocket Race to Multi-Team, and Infection to Rumble Pit, etc.. ?

  • 10.03.2007 1:43 PM PDT
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Why cant we use bxr, bxb, and doubleshot anymore? Why have customs been curbed so bad? Why do i feel like the community aspect has been completely destroyed due the extreme pain u have to go through just to say hi to someone? People no longer communicate or have fun because it takes 8000 buttons to say something or message someone. No one wants to play because you cant even laugh at the other team... Why does it seem like the Ar is the most godly weapon in the game and you start with it? Why does it seem like no matter how good you are, halo 3 dumbs you down? Why is the sniper so godly hard to use? Why are the maps so hard to get used to and play on? Why are they so generic? Why are theyre no old remakes besides last resort? Why dont the halo 2 gods have any advantage over the halo 3 players? Why doesnt this game seem as fun to play as halo 2 did? Its a great game just lacks all that made halo 2 a long lasting achievment. You cant stop trash talking....and why would you? Its fun.... This game is as serious as halo 2 but not as fun to be serious on.... In halo 2 when you won it was awesome to feel that success. But in halo 3 you're like w/e. If you had brought halo 2 back with better graphics, new maps, weapon changes and new vehicles it would have been just as good if not better than halo 3 is currently IMHO. Again great game but please try to bring back the traditional online game.

  • 10.03.2007 1:43 PM PDT

Est. '06

Cant take the heat, get out of the kitche...er...forums.

Why is it that if I try to watch a saved clip in the theater with my friends, it goes to a black screen that lists the players...but never loads the video?

  • 10.03.2007 1:43 PM PDT
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what's a little spinal fluid between you and a friend?

1) Will you (fix) change matchmaking?( team snipers playlist, ranked BtB infection and rocked races playlist)

2) will you remove some of the limitations on forge?(No flamethrower on sandtrap)

3) Will you alter the ffa achievments?( any ranked playlist, more than 5 people on ffa)

4)For DLC, will there be more than just maps?(Armor perms, weapons ect)

5) will DLC cost money? ( PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NO)

6) for DLC will you remake older maps?(Specifically Blood gulch/coag.)

7) Will you create a chapter skip for saved films.?

8) Could you please ad campaing clips to saved films?

9)what is the second blind skull for?

10)When is the next update coming?

7hanks in advanced.

  • 10.03.2007 1:44 PM PDT

Posted by: Phoenix 641
Let's mount our chairs on the wall.

Why can't I make short clips out of my favorite campaign moments?

  • 10.03.2007 1:44 PM PDT

I don't know

How come when you are searching for a game and want to go back to the lobby, only the party leader can go back and everyone else will leave the party?

  • 10.03.2007 1:44 PM PDT
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For Machinima why did you guys make it so you haft to press so many buttons to lower your weapon instead of the Halo2 way?

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
Subject: My Questions
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Ok, I'm positive that some, if not all, of these questions have already been asked but theres 50 pages and I'm not going through all of it. Here they are in no specific order.

1.) Is it possible to make it an option to turn off the Cortana/Gravemind interruptions? I mean the first time you play through they're needed, every other play through they're a pain in the ass. Probably not possible, but it would be nice.

2.) Why is Forge so limited? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this feature, but why can't I put any bit of scenery, or weapon, or vehicle, on any map? Also some of the limitations are weird, only 16 fusion coils + 8 plasma batteries on Sandtrap, yet 32 fusion coils and 16 propane tanks on Last Resort? Wtf? Also having a way to clear an entire map easily would be nice. Oh and just a general tweeking of the controls in general, why do something zoom up to me when I pick it up? Makes precision placing of crates way more trouble than it should be.

3.) Proximity chat. Please, please, PLEASE, put it back in! Make it just for you team or in free for all, but for the love of god, please put it back in! I mean take big team, I'm a driver. Do you know how annoying it is to have to take my thumb off the stick just to tell my gunner where to shoot? At best its a major annoyance, at worst it can screw up a great run. This is by far my, as well as the rest of my friends, biggest problem with Halo 3.

4.) The Sniper Rifle is broken, a fix would be nice.

5.) Shotty Snipers. Make it its own playlist, or reduce its weight by a LOT.

6.) Team Training, please bring it back. The 5v5 playlists are nice, but having to play it if you don't want to do ranked is a pain.

7.) The AR-BR problem. The AR has completely replaced the BR as a mid-range weapon. The only time the BR is worth anything now is at huge ranges. Making the AR a bit less accurate at mid-ranges would help this.

8.) AR+Beatdown = New Noob Combo. 1 quarter of a clip + a beatdown and your done. Shouldn't this be at least a full half a clip? I don't know, but it seems completely over powered as is.

9.) A true rewind and a real fast forward for saved films would be fantastic. I love this new feature, but its kind of unwieldy.

10.) Why do only 4 maps ever seem to come up in Team Slayer? Construct, Narrows, Isolation, and the Pit. Also, the maps used in Team Objective are odd. 4v4 on Vahalla? Why not use some of the smaller maps? Many was the time I played CTF on Lockout and had a great time.

Ok, well theres my list of questions and concerns which I'm positive the eyes of a Bungie employee will never lay upon. It may seem from my list that I'm -blam!-ing or somehow don't like the game, nothing could be further from the truth. I love Halo 3, love it to bits. But it could also be a much better game than it currently is with some very minor tweeking. I hope that at least some of these concerns (#3) will be answered in the near future.

NarsilFMJ

i am with you 100% on this NarsilFMJ

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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First, I would like to say that Halo 3 is the best game ever, but there are some things that I don't understand.These aren't issuses that must be fixed immidiately. They don't have to be fixed at all. I would just like an answer to why these issuses are this way. Why is it that sometimes after I play a custom game or a campaign level offline, there is no recent film to save? It doesn't do it all the time but usually when something awsome or extremly funny happens.
Also,why is it if I check my friends service record in the friends list they have a low rank, standard spartan armor,and haven't completed anything? If I check their service record while they are in my party, they have finished the fight, have a higher rank, and they are using unlocked armor.This isn't over the course of time either. I'm in the room with them and check friends list, then imediately check them in the party.
Another question is why can't I view other player's first person view in saved films?It seems the information is there, I just can't view it.In online co-op I can't look through their eyes,but if I am following them in third person and then a cutscene happens, when we come out of it I can see their view in first person. If I cange to me and then back to them, I can no longer look through their eyes.
In my opinion the new fire grenades are the best of the four. They are fun to use but if you don't hit them directly they don't do much damage, so they are balaced.Why are there no fire grenades in any of your default map set ups? Also in custom games, if I set it to regenerating grenades, why don't the fire grenades regenerate too?
Finally , I understand why you can't put all vehicles on all the maps in forge, but I don't understand why you can't put all weapons on the maps in forge. I know there are lots of post you have to filter through, but thank you for reading mine.

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT

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Why can't I do Matchmaking? The blinking phrase: 'Information could not be retrieved from the halo 3 server' is getting pretty annoying.

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT

How do you edit the properties of the "Custom Powerup" in Forge?

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
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Alot of people are speculating that the Halo trilogy leads into Marathon. Is this true?

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: UDeMaio53
Here's my question. Why do the AI teammates in campaign drive like blind asian women? They are absolutly terrible!! And their shooting isn't much better.


Exactly. I have to kill them sometimes, because if you don't they always yell out, "I'm driving." And then proceed to drive us headfirst towards a tank. There should at least be a button to make the AI not get in your vehicle.

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
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do you think we can get ffa ranked up to at least 6 and let it take a little longer to level up

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
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Why are there twice as many SPARTAN permutations as Sangheili?
In the beastarium, there was something about a race called Precurser, any information?
Any more games or information about the Flood and the Sangheili vs. Covenant?
Did the rest of the Covenant die on the Ark?
Any info on the planet seen at the end in Legendary ending?
Will we ever know where the Flood originates?

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

Hated by many, confronted by none.

Well, two questions:
1. Why are there no clans in Halo 3? I understand the lack of clan-matches since there wasn't any in Halo 2 at the end, but why remove the entire support for clans? In my humble opinion it's just stupid (no offense though, unless you fix it, that is ^^)...
2. Why are there two man-cannons on Narrows instead of four? nad if there are to be just two, why are they not positioned on different sides, why facing eachother and getting you killed?

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
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"A man chooses. A slave obeys."- Andrew Ryan
Should a feature that no one would say no to get into the game?

why are there no fire grenades at all in multiplayer?

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT

"Tucker, there's a fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life."-Church, RvB

Will we ever see a remake of either Boarding Action or Prisoner?
How about Coagulation or Terminal?
And what does it mean, when the last of the 7 Terminals says: "There is more but you are not worthy yet"?

  • 10.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT
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Okay I'm not going to complain about any of the tiny details that have been bugging me about matchmaking, All I want to know is how I get that fiber optic cable you guys keep telling us about, I think if I had a better connection all my gripes would go away... I hope atleast. ;)

  • 10.03.2007 1:46 PM PDT
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Will thier be Survival mode ever???

  • 10.03.2007 1:46 PM PDT
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I'd like to have the matchmaking settings to play custom games with. Will Bungie upload all the matchmaking gametype settings for us to download?

  • 10.03.2007 1:46 PM PDT
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why is there no infection in match making ?

  • 10.03.2007 1:46 PM PDT