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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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I would like to know if the armour you unlock for your multiplayer Elites and Spartans actually improves your shields or movement or endurance from bullets ?

  • 10.03.2007 5:00 PM PDT
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What do the skulls Cowbell and IWHBYD do? Does IWHBYD unlock secret dialogs?

  • 10.03.2007 5:00 PM PDT

why cant i unlock marathon man?

i acessed all terminals in order on the same difficulty and read all of the pages and got no achivement :( im sad

  • 10.03.2007 5:01 PM PDT
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is there going to b an update the increses the sheild recharge time im waiting to long after a battle for it to come back why cant it b like halo2 recharge time that felt perfect

i was wondering b/c that is the only thing that pisses me off about this game people score easy kills on me b/c i juss owned a group of ppl and poof my sheild wont come back its the only thing that has me yelling at the tv about.

  • 10.03.2007 5:02 PM PDT
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What's with the beat downs? Many times I'm flying through the air to make a kill an enemy and I've almost reached him/her. With several inches to go, I fall to the ground in a pile of limbs. Clearly I attacked first but they still kill me. What gives?

  • 10.03.2007 5:02 PM PDT
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I've got a few questions:

1) Are new mulitplayer maps planned to the future? And if so, will they be free?

2) When will you start updating matchmaking with things such as a Forge play list?

3) Have you guys been checking out community Forge maps? If so, will you be adding them to Bungie favorites soon-ish?

4) When will you release the first big bug-fixing patch?

5) The lack of an "Armor Unlock" message is very annoying. Is there a possibility of that being added?

6) This isn't as much a question as a comment, but I just have to say that I love how multiplayer is more melee based. You aren't changing that, are you?

  • 10.03.2007 5:02 PM PDT

Well, here's my question to add on to the millions asked already.

q1: Some people, including me, are well above being a gradute on xbox live. I passed the graduate achievment without getting it, and realized that I passed it after I got to being a lieutenant and decided to scrolll down the achievments and check them out. It would really really suck to be stuck with 990 out of 1000 gamerscore with that last piece of armour just out of your grasp for the rest of eternity. Basically, i got he spartan officer achievment, but not the graduate achievment. Are you guys doing something about this?

  • 10.03.2007 5:03 PM PDT

Are there ever going to be new armor perms? one good one would be a packers helmet, jersey, and football pants, it would be called Favre, and if you wear it you automatically win every game ever.

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just a few hopes for the next halo3 update, will there be talking and friends allowed in lone wolves just to make the acquirement of achievements a little bit easier. Also please please lower the chance of getting shotty snipers, its great but too much of a good thing you know. One more thing will we be seeing the chopper and incendiary grenades on some of the maps that would be cool.

  • 10.03.2007 5:04 PM PDT
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I've got two questions.

!st: How come the complete weapon set in the game was not used in any of the mutiplayer maps to it's fullest extent? I don't expect (nor want) to see every gun on every map, however, I was disappointed to not find the fuel rod cannon or any incendiary grenades on any of the maps, and there is only one flamethrower over the entire map list. The same can be said about equipment, there is no clocking device, auto turret, deployable cover, ect... on any of these maps. I know that balancing weapons, equipment, and power-ups is a major factor in creating a map, but was there not a way to balance any of these maps with any of the stuff listed?

2nd: I've seen the question asked about how come there is no matchmaking for custom games and I understand that the answer is that it would take away from the social and ranked games. But could there have at least been a search feature for custom games that allows you to searc for a game based on the games type a la Call of Duty or Gears of War style? I also have this very same question reguarding Forge as I was hoping to PLAY forge online but it seems the only way to do that is to find eight people that are willing to join a party and play, could a search option for forge games be possible so that anyone hosting a Forge game type that is open to the public could be found and joined? I know you guys are creative, is there not a way to include these types of search options with incurring little to no damage to matchmaking?

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why is shotty snipers almost always the game type i play in the team slayer matchmaking?

Why is team crazy king and/or oddball a game type that comes up every time i play lone wolf?

why isn't the double kill spartan lazer achievement showing up even though i got a double kill with it in lonewolf matchmaking?

why does the mongoose flip when a BR is shooting it?

i have a few saved films showing me and an opponent shooting each other for the exact same amount of time, and it shows me punching him first, but somehow i die. is this a connection glitch or does my xbox just suck?

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Posted by: TheNameIsJohnny4
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?


In Forge, you can set the respawn time to never, and it'll stay where you leave it the whole match.

  • 10.03.2007 5:05 PM PDT
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i cant connect to the "Bungie Favorites" or upload saved files from my xbox... i got xbox live and a bnet account and theyre linked...so...whatsup?

  • 10.03.2007 5:06 PM PDT

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That's why they make sequels, because they have ideas left over.

WHERE'S MAH BLOOD GULCH VARIANT? lol yeah I miss that map with a passion, Also, is Bungie planning on releasing a patch to up the total amount of players in a game to 32? 16 is big sometimes, but it'd be so sweet to get like a 16v16 CTF assault going on.

  • 10.03.2007 5:06 PM PDT

Que Sera, Sera

Will there be a better method than the RSS feed for users to get stats about the games played? Will there an Bungie.net API or something similar?

  • 10.03.2007 5:06 PM PDT
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1. Will we see dlc before the year ends?
2.Will there be an update soon?
3.What has happened to the spartans in the shield world?
4.R U GUYS REALLY PLANNING ON LEAVING THE BIG M?

THANKS 4 HALO3

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  • 10.03.2007 5:06 PM PDT
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Second place is dead last!

This game is pretty tight but one thing pissing me off. To get the Elite Commando shoulder pieces you have to get a killing frenzy right? Well I've had a few of those and I still don't get to select them, WTF its BS. If any of my boys out here can help, hook a brother up.

  • 10.03.2007 5:06 PM PDT

Regarding Matchmaking:

Occasionally while looking for a game during matchmaking, it will find a match and then for some reason it will throw me in to a game with only myself. Normally this would be of no concern, however, it causes me to lose a point of exp. This has happened to me twice, what gives?

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1. I love the way the screen splits on coop - don't change it!!
2. Please update the matchmaking lists to include a better map rotation - particularly on Lone Wolf!
3. Why did you take away the spike grenades on snowbound?
4 Great job otherwise, love the game!!!!

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When is the soundtrackular coming out?

  • 10.03.2007 5:07 PM PDT

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I seem to be having a problem with saved films. I cannot take pictures or make film clips. I have gone to recent films and saved them in my library and it still does not work. Am I doing something wrong? Also is there ever going to be a "Video Library" tab in the theater? That would be very useful instead of having to scroll through loads of recent films.

Thanks

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  • 10.03.2007 5:08 PM PDT
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Bungie thanks for making one sexy game..lol..well can u please make the L trigger the rewind button...its crazy having to go back to stuff that u dont wanna see....and PLEASE!!!!! make a filter type matchmaking like in GEARS OF WAR because im tired of playing Shotty and Snipers 9 times in a row, sometimes i wanna look for matches that i wanna play..not forced to...and oh yeah....MORE MAPS!!!..lol thanks bungie

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Ok i'm gonna say it:
1) will the new maps be free, or are you gonna make cheap people very upset?
2)remake Lockout. This is a demand or else you will never see your wives or children again.
3) are you adding an armor unlocked thing cause i hate looking through the armor so much?
4)why is multiplayer flawed? this is HALO 3. The most perfect game ever made. it can't have flaws.
5)why is SixPacksAbs' question so retarded?

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Why did you change the names of the multiplayer medals?

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Lead us not into temptation, just tell us where it is, we'll find it.

Any idea when a patch for the armour permutations not unlocking will be coming?
Also could more free for all playlists be added to ranked matchmaking? (I guess you want the "Overkill" achievement to stick with Lone Wolves so you have to kill everyone else in the game but PLEASE?)
Any chance of the Halo: Ghosts of Onyx SPARTAN-III S.P.I mojlinor armour as DLC?
Did you hide a Scarab Gun somewhere in halo 3? (perhaps more than 1?)

  • 10.03.2007 5:08 PM PDT