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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

1) Whatever happened to the amazing skybox that represented an actual atmosphere?

2) Why are the distant events too...distant? The vehicles simply fly around shooting each other, and the animations pop, as if restarting. (Which looks absolutely horrible when viewing the cruisers digging up the Portal)

3) Why did we not play as the Arbiter? As much as I loved playing only as the chief, alot of the story elements from Halo 2 came to an abrupt end the moment we put in our Halo 3 disc.

  • 10.03.2007 7:08 PM PDT

Posted by: J90x
Why can't we make weapon/scenery spawn points in mid-air?


You can, but it is a cheap trick. Build a tower of other objects (say crates or radio towers), place the object you want on top, then delete the objects below it. Presto, floating object. Every time that object spawns it will either stay up there, or fall to the ground.

One thing that would be nice is in the forge, you know when something has dissapeared or picked up, you get a nice little placeholder? It would be nice if that had an outline of what was once there, and if you could click it and delete it.

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Sorry, don't know if somebody has asked yet, but... It's pretty annoying when i have to switch party leader to a friend in theater when we want to watch one of my films. Somehow my connection is never the best. But can't it pick a person to host the "match" but still give me controls?

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Why can I not rewind by using the left trigger or a button?
I can't seem to rewind my campaign games in theater, is something wrong with my disk or is there a seperate issue?
Why can't you fast forward at a quicker rate? My friends and I wanted to make a clip of something that we did about 45 min into a 50 min forge game, it took like 15 min to advance to that point.

  • 10.03.2007 7:09 PM PDT

MLG sucks

Also any new levels coming through downloads?

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Jeez, there are a lot of questions posted here. I'm going to throw out some stuff that hasn't been asked yet.

1) With Halloween around the corner, one would expect an XBL download of the costume Master Chief would wear for Halloween this year. Being one that is always late on the latest social trends and what's "in", I would expect an Austin Powers outfit out of MC or maybe even a Cabbage Patch Kid. Who knows? So, what Halloween outfit has been chosen by MC?

2 ) My Legendary Helmet looks all well and good sitting on its base--but wouldn't it look better on my head? I'm sure early in the concept and development stage the helmet went through the "Should they wear it? Should they not?" phase or maybe it was never discussed. What was the deciding factor on the final "You will not put on this helmet, mister!" choice.

3 ) When you say the trilogy is closed, do you really mean closed? Do you really? I say this, because many a trilogy goes through this "Let's give them one more!" phase. It's not necessarily right away, but it seems to happen. Indiana Jones, Die Hard, Star Wars, and soon Jurassic Park have all been guilty of this and have killed the lore of the previous films. Can you set in stone now that--in fact--this book is closed and will not make a Live Free or Die Hard?

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  • 10.03.2007 7:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: KARBON KILL
Ive gone to all the terminals on legendary twice and still no achievment....glitch?


you dont just go into it. you wait till the terminal turns red and then searches for a little bit. then go to end fragment. then your done with that one terminal.

  • 10.03.2007 7:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: Deteno
Is there any chance you will be making more elite armor? I think it would be good to see more because they have alot less options than the spartans and they have to do insane things to get any of it. Like with the commando helmet. Overkill in a ranked free for all match seems kind of... close to impossible if you ask me. I dont think I've ever even seen the opportunity to kill everyone in the match within four seconds... Most of the spartan armor that requires things like that can be done during campaign.

Anyway that's all I have to say, thanks for listening. =)

Fantastic game by the way!


1.) Also, once I had unlocked the Killing Frenzy achievement, I never got any Elite armor for it, I believe it was supposed to be the Commando shoulders.

2.) Please make the touch to talk feature optional, like the hold to crouch feature.

3.) Please release more Elite armor permutations through DLC.

Overall an amazing finish to an amazing series. Keep up the good work Bungie.

  • 10.03.2007 7:10 PM PDT

Because I never had time for a quote.

I have a question? Are you going to lump all the complainers who want a replica of halo 2 into one big pile and burn them, and then answer the remaning 15 questions?

  • 10.03.2007 7:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cashed
Why was the trip mine's magnetizing to vehicles ability that was seen in the beta taken away?

Was it?

Anyways, I would like to know if Bungie is considering making it possible to see from all players' perspectives when viewing a film. It doesn't seem to let me see 1st person of anyone else besides the party leader and yourself. It would be great if you could see anyone's point of view at any given time during a saved film.

Also, on the same topic, me and a group of friends had just finished a game of Team Slayer and I got a really good kill. I wanted to share with them my glory but when I went to show the film, the game told me that one of my friends had the best connection and the film could not start unless he was party leader. So much for showing them that good kill from my perspective since we cannot view everyone's 1st person perspective. Yes, I understand that I could go and record the clip, upload it to my fileshare, let them download it and then watch it on their own (otherwise it would take forever to start). But that would be too time-consuming for such a simple concept in my opinion.

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  • 10.03.2007 7:11 PM PDT
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why cant you take film clips or rewind while watching videos of campaign?

  • 10.03.2007 7:12 PM PDT
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Are you going to reset stats because I think they are way to easy to get a 50. I think you should reset them and make them much harder to gain because it is way to easy.

  • 10.03.2007 7:13 PM PDT
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I'm enjoying the game oh so much, and having trouble unlocking all the armors, but that's not the question. My questions are:

1: WTF is a Steaktacular, I've got one in ranked and one in unranked and I don't even know what I did to deserve those steaks that some one owes me.
2: As said before, are there more armors to be released? And I haven't heard of this armor that every one keeps saying only Bungie dudes can have.


Any ways, props to you guys for making such an awesome game and inspiring me to try to do a fan flash in your pursuit to constantly take my money.
~ Steve of STMP

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I think I remember hearing or reading from a Bungie source that you made Halo 3 with a much greater ability to change how the game works through updates than previous versions; any chance you could add a feature where the players in matchmaking are given a preview of the map/gametype that they will get if they vote against the one that was selected for them first? They would essentially be voting between two games instead of voting against one, a bit like MTV's Control Freak or whatever it's called. That would make everyone feel more powerful and probably give you richer data on preferences.

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  • 10.03.2007 7:14 PM PDT
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Why did Halo 3 kill my 360, now I need to send it in cause it keeps freezing, yay... >:0

  • 10.03.2007 7:14 PM PDT
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Yes I have the question, also, WHAT HAPPENED TO BTB, NO RANKS!?, 6 PLAYERS!?, are you guys going to fix this? PS. bring back headlong

  • 10.03.2007 7:15 PM PDT
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whats the deal with disappearing or non-appearing armour permentations, obviously somethings gone wrong?

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  • 10.03.2007 7:17 PM PDT

Why is there no colongaltion (sry cant spell) but ya, that was the best map ever.

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Why is it that Bnet will not record your UNSC kill count unless you are playing the game on XBL? Doesn't it make more sense (at least for Single Player) to record it on your memory device and then to upload it once you log on to XBL?

  • 10.03.2007 7:18 PM PDT
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Hey Fankie.
Well no need or time for chit chat, so str8 2 the problem.
Now I see you fixed the problem with "delevelres"
But I just lost my 46 in team doubles by the opposing team (ahead by 1 kill) committing suicide.
They had no score penalty.
They just kept suiciding for the remaining minute, and couldnt find them, and fist.

Game over.

Now wth man?
Thats lame as -blam!-!

Please fix this in an auto update sometime in the future.
Thatnks for listening man.

Take it easy.

  • 10.03.2007 7:18 PM PDT
Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

There's an "I" in Win

1) why can't black be a selectable player colour? you can set it as a forced colour in the player attributes in game set-up, but you cant pick it in the appearance menu? Pleeeeese make it a selectable colour!

2) why is it nearly every time a map gets vetoed in team slayer, the substitute gametype is shotty-snipers? I once played it 4 times in a row!

p.s awesome game


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  • 10.03.2007 7:19 PM PDT

1. Are you going to introduce 8 v 8 BTB?

2. Can you remake Sidewinder from Halo 1? You don't have to do it now, you could wait a couple of months before you begin production.

3. Could you add B.net only achievements that obviously don't give you Gamerpoints, but just show how awesome you are at H3? e.g. Get a running riot in ranked FFA, get a Killtacular in ranked FFA (I came close), get to General, etc.

4. Is there anyway to add medals now that Halo 3 is out? Could you add a no scope medal that will say "You no scoped New0001" or "You were no scoped by New0001" just so people know when I shoot them in the head without zooming (with sniper or beam rifle), or a separate medal for spike grenade sticks?

5. What formula do you use to calculate the experience gained by a player for ranked matches in order to progress their rank? (Numerical rank, not the EXP that gives you captain, major, commander, etc.) Is this a trade secret? If not I think it would be interesting to see.

6. What computer language was Halo 3 programmed in? Is it proprietary to the Halo 3 engine, if so which language does it most closely resemble?

7. What do you have to do to get the terminals to activate? I went to all 7 and accessed them all, plus read everthing got the error message and read everything after the error message, but still didn't get the achievement.

8. Is there anyway you could increase the number of film clips you can store on your HDD? The last I heard you could only do 100 per account. Or is there any simple way to transfer the save films to another account?

9. Why does you game start up so freaking fast? It takes like 10 seconds to get to the main menu and some other games can take more than a minute.

10. Sorry for all the questions, but I figured I'd put them out in a well organized manner. One more, does Bungie offer Summer Internships? I'm trying to plan ahead for next Summer, I'm currently a second year Computer Science major at the University of California in Irvine.

Oh, and thanks for Halo 3. It's really fun to play you guys did a terrific job.

Oh, I just saw this was on page 102, I hope you guys see it, I was at school all day long.

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  • 10.03.2007 7:20 PM PDT
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Complaints:
1. Pretend your playing capture the flag on Valhalla.....Your driving a warthog with a gunner when the other team takes your flag....Your chasing him down but out of the corner of your eye you see i guy about to laser you and a hornet trying to take you down..While driving the warthog chasing the guy with the flag and dogging the bullets and missle of the hornet you have to press up on the D pad to tell your gunner to take down the laser dude...
Bungie, make it so that you can just talk into the mike to talk to your teamates instead of having to press a button and ruin the chance of winning a game...

  • 10.03.2007 7:21 PM PDT

Is there any chance of having 16:9 split-screen COOP on a single 360? If not, why?

Thanks for the great game in any case, Bungie. I love you guys.

  • 10.03.2007 7:22 PM PDT
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Why can't I make a clip in a Campaign saved film?

Also, why can I not use any of the slow motion or time stopping powers while recording a clip?

Why can you not use the left trigger or left bumper to rewind and why can you not rewind at all during campaign saved films?

  • 10.03.2007 7:22 PM PDT