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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A

O.K. This is going to be a biggie...

WEAPON BALANCE
Why does the assault rifle overshadow the battle rifle on almost every map?
Will you reduce the range/power to make it balanced?
Why is the melee so strong?
This needs to be fixed but the question is how long will it take?

SAVED FILMS
Why is there no rewind feature in Saved Films, only skip back 10 sec?
Why are we not able to record clips of campaign?
Will you fix the problem with films crashing when trying to watch with a party?
Will you fix this?

CUSTOM GAMES
Why are there no incendiary grenades or fuel rod cannons in multiplayer???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is there no option to make players have infinite grenades like in Halo 1?
Why can grenade regeneration be faster and include incendiary grenades?

FORGE
How long will it take for you to fix the glitch where anyone can change into a monitor despite the restrictions?
Why are we limited to so few items?
Why are we not allowed to make objects stay in the air?
Why not instead of putting severe restrictions on all of the forge settings, just make it that you cant load the map if the settings are extremely over the limit?
Will we see a fix to this?

MATCHMAKING
Will you stop the boosting of level and rank in MM by searching matches according to a specific preference that is easy to manipulate? (Do not want to state what it is but I think that you people at bungie already noticed the boosting by now.)
Why is shotty snipes so common in TEAM SLAYER? Why not just make a Team Snipers play list?
Lone Wolf is very boring and feels more of a task than a competition because of the insanely low number of players. Will you change it to 8 players to make it a better experience or will it stay the same boring old 5? (Remember unranked Rumble Pit in Halo 2)
Why is team slayer more based on smaller maps than medium to larger maps? In Halo 2 you can get slayer on Burial Mounds and Zanzibar.
Why must we press up on the D-Pad to talk to the team when more people are in a party? Will there be a fix to this annoying issue?
Why is ctf and assault so rare in Team Objective if those are supposed to be the 2 major game types?
Why not just rename 1 Sided VIP to "HIDE N SEEK"?
Why no ranked BTB? (Remember what happened in Halo 2)
Will we see a team hardcore game type that will be focused on the MLG game play? (Team Hardcore in Halo 2 was excellent)
Remakes of the popular Halo 2 maps will make the multi player even greater than it is now. When can we expect remakes of our favorites like Lockout, Midship, and Sanctuary?

HOW LONG UNTIL THERE IS A FIX TO ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





  • 10.03.2007 4:49 PM PDT
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Why in Forge are there caps on specific items you can spawn? (i.e. 10 fusion coils, 1 flamethrower, 2 hornets...) Was the budget system not enough to keep the frame rate up and the 360 from exploding? Also, I like Guardian better than Lockout. Halo 3 rocks.

  • 10.03.2007 4:49 PM PDT

1. What happen to the so called Xbox Live Public I read about in EGM a year ago.. where you could search for custom games not only matchmaking?

2.Will we get RANKED BTB?

3. In halo 2 I could move a create around and it would stay there the whole match.. in halo 3 the item that is moved form its "spawn point" always disappears or re-spawns in its original place.. is there a way to fix this? It really ruins making infection game types with forge when all the barricades re-spawn or disappear?

  • 10.03.2007 4:49 PM PDT

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when will you guys reveal how to get all the armors? ive also heard the ninja armor is bungie-employees only, is there any truth to this?

  • 10.03.2007 4:49 PM PDT
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Marty O'Donnell, he of the flowing locks and cantankerous demeanor, is credited as the voice of the Hunters, Jackals, and the Flood. Can we hear what Marty-Flood sounds like BEFORE it's mixed and distorted into the horrifying gurgles of the infamous Parasite?

  • 10.03.2007 4:50 PM PDT
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There are 103,780 people playing, why the f' can't I find a match in social slayer?!??!?!?!?!?!? And when I do it kicks everyone off and starts over, please tell me, I still have a couple of days to take this game back...........

  • 10.03.2007 4:50 PM PDT
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Okay, I'm in Arizona. So why when I hit the "Good Connection" option am I playing with Aussies and Brits? I mean I lub the little bastards, but playing across the pond is not what I call a "good connection."

  • 10.03.2007 4:51 PM PDT

A couple of things

1. Why can you set the shields to "invincible" in multiplayer but still be assasinated?
2. Why aren't there any fire bomb grenades on the maps?
3. Why can't I select whatever weapon I want to be the starting weapon (I.E. beam rifle)?

  • 10.03.2007 4:51 PM PDT

"When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by it's magesty? Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?"
"Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred rings, and desecrate it with their filthy footsteps!"
-The Prophet of Regret

Brothers in Christ

Why did you not FINISH THE STORY???
Will there be another game involving the cheif?
Why wasn't the battle you depicted never even REMOTLY shown in the games (very upsetting)?
Can you please give us more of the story? PLEASE???

  • 10.03.2007 4:51 PM PDT

"How priceless is your unfailing love, Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings!" Psalms 36:7

UT300

I would like to know why i got a few achievements that unlocked some new armor but i didnt get the corresponding.....well...armor....It kinda makes me mad because a friend of mine has way cooler armor but he is only a private....
Thanks for your time....
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  • 10.03.2007 4:52 PM PDT
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Why is the sky blue?

  • 10.03.2007 4:52 PM PDT

Murphys Laws:
If you drop a cat from a building, it lands on it feet, buttered toast lands butter side down. what happens if you glue a peice of buttered toast onto the back of a cat and drop it off a building? It hovers, and you make a freeway of hovering cats.

Q1: What are the apoximate odds of hearing something extreamly rare in Halo 3 with & without IWHBYD on? I.E: how much of a rare occurence is it with it & without it turned on and shooting Guilty Spark and him replying "Ouch! that hurt my feelings! Oh my God i have feelings." Just and example as that happened to me and i was shocked :) .

Q2: Why can some weapons on forge be added on some maps and not others. For example I can place Battle Rilfes around Narrows, but no carbines, vise versa for Guardian. Also, especially with scenary, why dosnt the tab have one joint limit, not just a limit for each object. I see no pratical use for a "Floodlight" or a "Camping Stool", and would much rather being able to place more crates.

[Edited on 10.03.2007 4:59 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2007 4:53 PM PDT
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will you make it easier to lower the weapons for machinima makers at any point? or anytime soon?
also what kind of game updates can we expect? will there be new armors, and maps. or will there be extra features for campaign as well, or weapons.

btw
INCREDABLE job on the game, congratulations to all involved on a job well done to put it mildly ^__^ i apreciate everything youve done
and thank you

  • 10.03.2007 4:53 PM PDT
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How would Master Chief look like while playing halo 3?


Why do we have to press a button to talk to our team with 5+ people? Can't we just have it so they're always able to hear us?


Can button glitches be patched?



Will there be any other way to buy the armor? Microsoft points or something like that?


Any new weapons in development?

Thanks in advance!

  • 10.03.2007 4:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: livetodie1222
Why did you not FINISH THE STORY???
Will there be another game involving the cheif?
Why wasn't the battle you depicted never even REMOTLY shown in the games (very upsetting)?
Can you please give us more of the story? PLEASE???


The "Believe" ad was not part of the Halo canon. Bungie stated this to several sources of game media.

  • 10.03.2007 4:55 PM PDT

when or will you release the recon armor?

  • 10.03.2007 4:56 PM PDT

Why are you not able to see from other players' first person perspectives while watching a saved film?

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why isnt there a "clear all objects" option on forge?

i know i can dl them from a guy on file share but if this were a feature this would mack custom maps a breeze to make. its hard trying to find like an item that is buried in the most obscure foliage on the map.

why does the assault rifle sound so... weak? halo 1's sounded amazing plus it was so good

i know this has been said before but, why isnt there a rewind and skip button for the film feature (which i love). this alone would be god-like


lol i couldnt find a "post" button so i did a reply

  • 10.03.2007 4:57 PM PDT
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1. im not reading 88 pages of posts (sorry)
2. I WANT THE CLAN FEATURE BACK!!!
3. my bungie service record thing has said im a sergeant grade one since yesterday even though im a grade 2
4. Why isnt there a Blood Gulch map??? Its one of the classic maps!!!!
5. im not being bitter

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  • 10.03.2007 4:57 PM PDT

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Y is BTB not ranked

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How does leveling up in the skill level system work?

  • 10.03.2007 4:58 PM PDT

many of your fans would like to have the Ninja/recon/EOB armor available to them. How will you accomplish them? Beat all meta games? Perhaps DLC?

  • 10.03.2007 4:58 PM PDT

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  • 10.03.2007 4:59 PM PDT
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There's a few things i don't get. One, some of the skulls are not where they're suppose to be, unless about 80 videos are lying to me. Second, why is the assault rifle so strong in range? It makes the BR almost useless. Also, i don't know why ghosts are so easy to kill. It seems that assault rifles can easily take out the ghosts driver, just by shooting the actual ghost, not the driver. This doesn't make sense. Beat downs are a little too powerful too, they shouldn't take out your full shields from the front. Also swords and rocket launchers seem too underpowered for what they're suppose to be. Shotguns have a little too long of a range in my opinion. Also, beating down with something like the ball or bomb shouldn't kill. This is making the bomb guy too powerful and too hard to kill

In forge, i don't know why every weapon isn't available for every map. I couldn't put a beam rifle or carbine on Valhalla. I can see why a tank wouldn't be available on Guardian, but still, weapons should be allowed on all maps.

Also, my friends are wondering why they cant make profiles to save all their settings and appearance like they could in Halo 2. Since they cant, they have to switch to inverted every time they play, which is kinda annoying

Also, i wish we could rewind in the videos. Going back by intervals is frustrating.

Also, in my opinion, I think, whenever new maps are made, i think there should be an almost exact remake of Lockout and a remake of Terminal. Those were my favorite two maps in halo 2.

Other than that, Halo 3 is amazing. I love almost all the maps and the new features. Sorry this is sounds like a lot, I just want a perfect game out of halo 3 and there's a few things i want changed. I love everything else, and if i rated this game id still give it a 10. Plots amazing too.

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> I would like to make Halo 3 machinima, but I'm having trouble with recording on Saved Films. Without using a camcorder, how can I record clips, upload them to Bungie.net, and transfer them to Windows Media Maker?

> What computer programs can I use to record Microsoft Sam or voiceovers at my computer (using a microphone)?

  • 10.03.2007 5:00 PM PDT