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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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1. The amor options kick ass. In the DLC please include lots of Armor options. its gotta be easier than adding maps so give us some options please.

2. More map variety on playlist please it seems like there are only 3 options for every playlist. on big team It always valhalla. on lone wolf its always construct or infection some variety would be lovely.

3. please never reset the ranks like you did in halo 2. I spent alot of time getting my ranking up...please never again.

4. Is there someway to find people playing custum games or campaign. besides my frinds list.

5. MORE MAPS, MORE MAPS MORE MAPS!!!

  • 10.03.2007 2:26 PM PDT

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Standard issue information storage and sensory group housing.
- "If God didn't want me to kill grunts, he wouldn't have made their heads explode into confetti."
- I'm a guy.

Hey,

Aren't Saved Films related to the host anymore, because I see the bodies being thrown very far, then appearing in the proper place a second later, I thought that the saved films were taken from the connection host's file or something like that.

And, Will there ever be a way to combine saved films to be able to see first person of the opponents or anyone that isn't you.

Also, will there ever be a slight tweak to the HUD, because of the lack of detail,aka the outline from halo 1 and 2.

Thanks in advance.

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How EXACTLY can I get the Recon Armor, or Scout armor, whichever is the one thats hard to get? I read that there is a way, but the page was a bit hazy on the specifics.

Exactly what has been changed in Halo 3? I mean, I know that you removed the Ghost's vulnerable point (or rather, made it not vulnerable anymore), but what about the BR? Is it just as accurate as post patch Halo 2's BR? Is the Plasma Rifle any stronger than it ever was? Why is the SMG ever worth using?

How come sometimes I can Spartan Laser a Scorpion and the pilot won't die? MUST I hit the cockpit dead center?

Why not have the Hornet in a few game types? Just scatter some missile pods around... maybe a Spartan Laser or two... the former is almost totally useless against anything but vehicles, and the latter is very situational.

Got incendiary grenades? How about flamethrowers? C'mon, you KNOW you want to place them in more maps.

Do Elite players now have the exact same hitboxes as Spartans, or are they still gimped (albeit in a supposedly "balanced" way)?

How about unlocking some more options in Forge? Specifically, how about letting us place the invulnerability and cloaking devices that you can get in the campaign (off the Brutes, and on the floor). The equipment pieces.

  • 10.03.2007 2:26 PM PDT
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Ok, I loved the Believe ads, was blown away by the diorama... now where does it all fit in? Does Chief get to Earth, fight this battle than somehow get BACK into orbit to fall for the start of 3? The Last Man Standing exclusive short's description also implies that Halo 2 and 3 happen with so little time between them, that there is not room for the battle shown in the diorama. But than that leaves me with the question of how the Keyes, Johnson and the Aribiter all got to Earth so quickly. A totally honest answer is all I want, so if the diorama depicts a cut level, was purely for ad purposes or somehow requires I find and read the comic to understand, just say so.

  • 10.03.2007 2:26 PM PDT
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What happens if you are a Lt. and drop from a rank of 10 to a rank of 9? Will you go back down to a gunnery sergeant or does it not matter?

  • 10.03.2007 2:27 PM PDT

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Where in the universe is Master Cheif @ the end of the game when you beat it in Legendary? Please tell me i can sleep @ night from trying to figure it out.


i agree...i haven't slept in 5 years because of Halo 2

  • 10.03.2007 2:28 PM PDT
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is the bungie/microsoft breakup rumor true?

  • 10.03.2007 2:29 PM PDT
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Does Jason Jones still work at Bungie? I didn't see his name in the credits

  • 10.03.2007 2:29 PM PDT

Also on that same note of snipers, why when i snipe someone sometimes it says just "you killed" instead of saying "you sniped" and giving me a medal? I see this happen alot. Do sniper kills only count for head shots? If so why? A body shot is still a snipe...

  • 10.03.2007 2:29 PM PDT
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Good to see at least somebody takes this place seriously

I am sincerely disappointed in everyone except JIMH. JIMH, have a gold star.


',:\ IF YA SAHMELLLL

Is there anything in Halo 3 involved with the Energy Rowboat? You left too many clues for it to not be at least an easter egg.

  • 10.03.2007 2:29 PM PDT
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Sorry for not going through the 68 other pages of Qs in this thread to see if this Q was asked already, but I wanna play Halo sometime this week:

What determines the logic of who dies and who lives when two combatants melee each other simultaneously? If it really is "whoever hits the button first", that's a bummer.

If the timing is close enough, why not allow both combatants to receive equal damage or cancel each other out, like when swords clash? I can show you hundreds of clips of real fights in the UFC or NHL or boxing where both opponents are punching each other and connecting at the same time. I think it would be logical as well as fair if both people received damage if melees occur at a near simultaneous time. Just like Rocky and Apollo Creed! ROCKY AND APOLLO CREED!!!

It would be sweet to see this as an option at least in Custom Games to test it out. I understand that this would prolly stray away from the melee logic you guys have been using since Halo 1. It may cause more of a backlash from the uber-nerd Halo pro dork crowd; Lord knows they can whine as well as they can do jumping headshots.

  • 10.03.2007 2:30 PM PDT
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can you make the elite armour easier to get plz
ive tried for 3 days on lone wolves and havent got any yet
id really like to use some elite armour every once in a while
but i cant get it could you at least make it so we can unlock it in ranked team slayer instead of just lone wolves??


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  • 10.03.2007 2:31 PM PDT
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Can we get an update on the "unreadable disk" error? Have you found out what caused it? Is there any way to fix it without having to send you're copy of Halo 3 into Microsoft?

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  • 10.03.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: enforcedzac
1.why is it that when you charge someone with and assualt rifle and punch them they dont die but yet they shot you with a quarter of the clip and kill you
2.why doesnt the game make reasonable sense anymore for example i shotgun someone and melee then i die because i got shot once
3.why are the maps so vased on such dark themes like guardian you tried to hard to make this from a even game where kids who sucked at the game new they did and had to practice and now kids who are new just play and get extremely lucky i dont get it
4.the b.r. has gone to a new level why did you reduce its strength and accuracy from a full triple shot to like a bullet to bullet in like a delayed time that if they moved the bullets miss not the shot time like bang bang bang i mean the bullets themselves
5.what the F*@! is up with the over shield its like you guys broke it or sumtin it doesnt work within ten seconds im invincible and cant get hurt then it then im at regular shields
6.why is the game built so wrong in this its trying to be something its not i cant get the feel of why you changed so much the weapons damage too many features and the maps why are they so big and lockout guardian isnt a create it looks like sumthing i dug up in my sketch book
7.im not one to complain im probly wrong on all this but i feel the change in the game is to extreme why are the game variants so strange shotty snipers i dont get it you can shoot some one with a shotgun anywhere THIS DEFEATS THE POINT OF A SNIPING MATCH WHEN EVERYONE CAMPS
8.if the armor thing is changable does it really give u an edge or does it just make you a bigger target to shoot id rather stay a regular and make the game even instead of shootin at people with a eva mask (the walkin headshot)
9.do you understand the concept of how great you had this game why are the maps so complex there to extreme what the hell is the poin of a 4 story map a special kid could camp the drops
10.why are there radar jammers that screw you up instead of them that defeats the poin of what your creating
11.why dont the spikers have a shorter clip i feel like im firing a m-60 for god sake
12.what is the point of making skulls i wouldve have been your daddy doesnt change anything from what i see and the rediculos weaponary of grenades not being strong doesnt make sense
13.Why is it everytime i think about halo 3 nothing comes out of it but anger and rage this games to wack this games updates will they fix some of these screw ups

i know im not one to complain its very well made these are just somethings i think you could arrange to be fixed im in anger management cuz of this stupid stuff just the little things im sry that you have to anwser so many questions but i do have to say thank you


lol wow dude did someone not learn how to do puncuation in school?
it sound like you are one of the people that used BXR in halo 2 and got pissed when it was taken out. You also sound like you cant take in alot of info at once. The maps aren't that big other than sand trap.
Answers to questions:
1: learn to aim at their head
2:how close were you? what kind of gun did they have? sound like you cant aim
3:um..... dont even understand this question, how do you know the players that are getting "extremely lucky" are new players? maybe they have just been playing longer than you and are a ton better than you and you cant accept that.
4: ......... wow, once again learn to aim, you may have to lead your target by half an inch or so to make up for thier movement
5: don't charge directly at a guy (which im assuming your doing and dont get shot,
6: the new features are awsome (this is just an opinion, but so is you saying that the game is trying to be something its not), in all reality, if you hate the game this much just dont play it.
7: hate to tell you but no matter what kind of sniper game you are going to play people are going to camp.
8: the armor customizations dont do anything other than look cool. the EVA mask actually dosn't make your head any easier to hit, lets get a little technical: all characters have something called a headshot box, when you shoot at it it causes more than the normal damage, this headshot box in multiplayer never changes no matter what armor perm you have. thats why on some armor perms you can shoot next to thier head and they still die.
9: wow dude insult special ed kids thats nice, anyway, exactly what map are you talking about? And camping is a stratagy, dont dis it
10: it messes everyone up, all you really have to do is look for the slow moving dots to find the enimies.
11: who cares? it was tested by bungie and they deemed it the right clip size, and the ARE they game developers
12: the Would Have Been Your Daddy makes it so that when you shoot grunts confetti flies out of thier heads, and the skulls are just there to make the game harder for the people who want a challenge
13........ how about no the game is fine as it is.......

  • 10.03.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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Arbiter Perm?

Saved Films in SP?

Rewind in SP? (Limited only to loaded part of level)

I saw no Hunters. Atleast friendly ones. Where are they?


EDIT: Will we be able to play as the Arbiter, or choose to at the start of a level, in another update?

Why is the Arbiter so sexy?

Can you see Grunts and Jackals transform into a Flood Carrier?

Why is there a breaking-glass sound when a Marine gets infected?

Are you invincible from the Flood Infection Forms, because you have armor all over your body. If not, I wanna see ArbiFlood or Master Flood.



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  • 10.03.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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How come we cant download saved films to our computers??

  • 10.03.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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I think everyone addressed most of the issues with the game already (don't listen to the complaints about the AR, I think it functions perfectly), but I was experiencing some issues with the audio on the bonus disc and was wondering if this is a problem with everyone's special features disc or just mine. In all of the movies, shorts, etc. the audio doesn't sync up with the people talking and it's a little distracting. A minor annoyance but I was just curious what the deal was.

  • 10.03.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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Why is shotty snipers so prevalent in Team Slayer? It's fun on occasion but not 1 out of every 3 matches.
When will we get a ranked BTB? Also the legendary ending definitely sets us up for something (foreboding planet and ominous music) but you guys have said this is the last one or did you mean this is the last game regarding the war with the covenant and flood? Thus setting MC up to fight some new threat.

  • 10.03.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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Are you planning any tweaks for melee attacks?

  • 10.03.2007 2:34 PM PDT
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In the Ranked Medal chest, medals are aranged in groups. Does anything happen when you get all the medals in a group?

Also why no vertical splitscreen for two players, Less black around the edges (small bars on top and bottom) as aposed to the large bars left and right on my wide screen? It split vert in Halo 2 with no problems for me. The current way reduces my screen by about 1/3.

And covering the sides of the screen won't cut it.

Great Game btw, it's stealing my soul.

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  • 10.03.2007 2:34 PM PDT

Will there be any downloadable maps?

  • 10.03.2007 2:35 PM PDT
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how do you unlock the recon armor is it only for bungie and will there be new armors in dlc?

  • 10.03.2007 2:35 PM PDT
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I've been very happy with this game so far; I like how it's gone back to it's roots. I just have a few questions:

I was just curious as to why you switched Julie Benz for another actress? Same for the Prophet of Truth, I mean Terence Stamp makes it super epic ("...until it's surface is but GLOSS") and he did a great job, but I thought Michael Wincott was awesome and did really well in Halo 2 (and it's not as cool when there is a break in continuity). I also really liked the way Dee Baker did Gravemind in Halo 2, why the switch in direction to make him less animal-like and more big angry voice-like? Oh yeah and it was hilarious how you used some of the guys from Firefly for some characters, that was awesome.

And do you have any plans to make proximity voice like it was in Halo 2?

Thanks.

  • 10.03.2007 2:35 PM PDT
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The war isn't over......

WHY DID YOU LEAVE MASTER CHIEF TO DIE IN SPACE, IN A CRIO CHAMBER!?

  • 10.03.2007 2:35 PM PDT