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Subject: The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
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What’s up with the secret ending for legendary are you guys done with master chief or is he going to make a appearance in the next game you make.

  • 10.03.2007 6:31 PM PDT
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Bungie:

Are you guys aware that the black bars in multi-player are causing screen burn-in on a variety of susceptible HDTV sets? I really respect everything you guys do, but my TV has come into harm's way due to it. Now, I have burn-in lines on the sides of my TV because of it. Is there any chance a patch is coming to perhaps put those now-unused pixels into use? I've often suggested an animated Halo 3 logo blended with the side pixels of the screen to reduce wear on those areas, but you guys are the experts.

Please answer this question the best you can.

  • 10.03.2007 6:32 PM PDT

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I love Halo 3! best game ever made! I have two questions though. One, I heard that one needs to get a Kill Frenzy to unlock the Commando shoulder piece. I got a Kill frenzy in my first Lone Wolves game ever!!! I WAS SO AMAZED! I din't think i'd ever get the achievement! But alas, I have no armor. Secondly, there is alot more need to take viodeos in campaigne than in multiplayer. That would be cool. The main questions is though why did I not get my armor?

  • 10.03.2007 6:32 PM PDT
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What the heck was that whole diorama for? We know whatever it represents never happened in the story cuz we're with Master Chief the whole time from A to Z, we know it didnt happen after, and we know it didnt happen before. The only answer i could figure out is that some marketing guys decided to go all crapulous on us and lead us to believe that we'd actually be playing that battle.

P.S.: sorry if this question has been asked before, but i really didnt feel like reading through all 98 pages of forum content.

  • 10.03.2007 6:33 PM PDT

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Questions, both customization-oriented-ish:

1.) Is it possible (or will it be possible) to set voice options such as proximity, free speak, etc?

2.) Is it possible (or again, will it be) to lock items into place in Forge? IE; setting a crate that cannae be moved by force?

3.) Can you take me down, to funky town?

  • 10.03.2007 6:33 PM PDT
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Here are my suggestions for the update. Hope u can read them.

General
-turn on/off vibrate on the controllers option
-More Maps and some H2 Maps like lockout and midship.
-More gametypes for Team Slayer,Team Skirmish ( like oddball or something else),etc,etc.
-Ranked BTB please.
-Can you guys please fix the rank system on MM?. It's weird and you can lvl up really quick.(Btw can u guys add some colors to the number ranks ? lol )

Weapons and gameplay.

-low the damage of beatdowns plz
-Make the br a bit more powerful such as the carbine. ( i dunno if its the aim assit. But it would be cool)
-low the damage of the AR for middle distance.
-More delay time on the beatdowns plz.
-Make quicker the delay on the sniper shots

I have a bunch more of suggestions but i cant write them all cuz i g2g to do something else. See you



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  • 10.03.2007 6:33 PM PDT
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just thought of 2 more:

5. if they MC didnt make it throuhght the portal how is he alive and if he did why was he just dropped off half way home???

6. Narrows is a remake of one of the halo pc maps and that one was sooo much bigger why r these ones soo small??

  • 10.03.2007 6:33 PM PDT

Master marksman Halo 3

ok just one quick question to get the legendary achievement do i have to press start solo mission then select legendary or can i just select individual missions and beat them all on legendary that way?

  • 10.03.2007 6:34 PM PDT
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Clans are being brought back in the next set of updates

  • 10.03.2007 6:34 PM PDT

Sgt. Johnson: Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn't have fancy tanks! We had sticks. Two stick and a rock for the entire platoon! And we had to share the rock! You should consider yourself very lucky marines!

Here are some questions.

1. Why does the bomb sometimes go off and not give us a score in One Bomb on Zanzabar???
2. Why is the gravity you can place on a player so limited. I would really love to prevent people from being able to jump all together???
3. Why are we limited to 1 custom powerup???
4. Why isn't there carbine as a choosable starting weapon on Sandtrap???
5. How does the sword Clashing work???
6. Where is the fuel rod cannon in multiplayer???
7. Why in forge don't we have more control over the effectiveness of a weapon, like lets say change the damage value of a weapon, for balancing???
8. Why can't we take the elephants out of Sandtrap???

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  • 10.03.2007 6:35 PM PDT
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Is the security shoulder armour bugged? Ive got 765 gamerscore but no armour.

  • 10.03.2007 6:36 PM PDT
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How would you go about unlocking the Recon Armor permutation?

  • 10.03.2007 6:37 PM PDT
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How can you control spawning of the humans or zombies (for infection) in the forge?

  • 10.03.2007 6:38 PM PDT
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I was wondering....

If u can re-make blood gulch, vahalla is sort of like it.

and what is the last rank u can earn and how much experience points do u have to have in order to obtain this.

also, can u please make halo ds, i recently read and saw that it is real but it was cancelled, i just want to know what id the back story behind this and if you might reconsider in the future

  • 10.03.2007 6:39 PM PDT
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1. Is there a multiplayer map that has fire grenades set as a default? If so, which one?
2. Is there any matchmaking catogory (whether it's social or ranked) that has Infection in it?
3. So what happened to the other Halos? Since MC blew the Ark up to destroy the flood on it, wouldn't there still be flood on those Halos?

Thanks in advance and good idea for this Q&A

  • 10.03.2007 6:39 PM PDT

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Highly doubtful, but a patch or something to edit button placement would be great (i.e. RB and X switch).

  • 10.03.2007 6:41 PM PDT

You do not have to live by the sword... to die by it

First off : Excellent job with Halo 3 Bungie, I was expecting this game to be a little better than Halo 2 when in fact the game, I thought, turned out to be leaps and bounds above 2.

I have a few questions

1- In Forge, Is there any possibility of letting players spawn any weapon/vehicle of their choice on any map rather than limiting what you can spawn per map? For example I've noticed you cant spawn the flamethrower on a lot of levels, same for spartan lasers, hammers, gauss hogs, etc etc.

2- When setting up custom gametypes to play with my friends I've noticed that there is no "Starting Grenades" option anywhere to be found, this really ruins people who like to play no-shields style games or shotgun/swords only games for example. If possible could you look into a patch that disables starting iwth grenades along with no grenades on map?

3- This has been commented by others probably but are there any plans to path or improve the film system at all? For people who like getting very precise screenshots for whatever purposes (comic booking, etc) if you overshoot your image by a frame its very frustrating going back 10 seconds and having to find that one frame again and potentially missing it again. Using the left trigger to do a frame by frame rewind like the right trigger does fast forwarding would be very helpfull, are you going to look into those ideas at all?

4- Lots of people are talking about changes to the armors for multiplayer and if we'll get more of them. I personally was more curious to if you guys are looking into allowing customization into new regions of your spartan or elite, for example giving different options for your characters right and left leg plating or perhaps your characters back plate to coincide with being able to change the chest piece.

and my fifth and personally most important question...

5- Now that people have seen the ending to Halo 3 (and by see the ending I mean beat the game on Legendary, sit through the end credits, and watch the entire final cinematic) is Bungie planning on possibly releasing add-ons to the game's storyline at all? Something like how Valve is continuing their game's storyline through Half Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2? Possibly side-stories involving the Arbiter or perhaps a continuation on the story of the Master Chief and Cortana after their ship reaches/crashes its destination.

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  • 10.03.2007 6:43 PM PDT
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Whats Bungies total revenue from Halo 3?

How many copies of Halo 3 were sold?

Can we expect new maps later in the life of Halo 3?

How awesome is the next soundtrack from Marty?

Does Marty have a solo album(piano, w/e only)?

What is the future of Chief after the Halo trilogy?
(Rumor has it that there will be another trilogy)

  • 10.03.2007 6:43 PM PDT
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I LOVE Halo 3!! its, better than the beta 10 fold. some things, as with every sequel, r different than its predacesor (idk how to spell it) and took a lil while to get used to it being diff than halo 2. which, wasnt that hard. if only it was like school.....

but, some questions are why levels like construct, epitaph, etc arent in matchmaking often. I play always on the more talked about levels on bungie, but none of the maps u didnt reveal to us before halo 3's launch. Also i kno u guys said after connection things that u wood make BTB 8 vs 8 cuz i read this site like, daily almost. but wondering if u cood take off shotty-snipers. its fun, but there r a lot of noobs, including me, with sniper in hand.

a few others were if you will at least give us a list of wat the armors r called n wat they look like, but have us figure out how to get them ourselves. thats all.

Im very pleased, as some i have read arent so much. its a video game, very well done. it isnt a simulation.

  • 10.03.2007 6:44 PM PDT
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Infection is a great new mode for MP, but could we have a Flood character model to the game? The model doesn't need to have any special abilities (in the same way Elite models aren't different than Chiefs), but would just be a different and distinctive skin for the zombies in that game mode so we could visually see them clearly, rather than trying to pick out the black toned characters from the multi-colored ones.

  • 10.03.2007 6:44 PM PDT
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why isnt the warthog (the one that carrys people in the back in multiplayer? i thought it would b a really good vehicle for ctf or just 2 give team mates a quick ride from a to b. thanks :)

  • 10.03.2007 6:44 PM PDT
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One question. And only one.

Why are more than Half the achievements for Campaign and the only ones for Multiplayer are easy to get?

Multiplayer achievements should have been like "Accumulate 10,000 kills in matchmaking" or "500 Sticks in Matchmaking"

Something to make every Kill feel closer to some sort of goal!!! Please tell me you will have this in DLC...

  • 10.03.2007 6:45 PM PDT
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Will there ever be clan support for halo 3, either through the game or xbox live. There is a very large amount of the community involved in halo clans and we as a community who have contributed so much to the games throughout the years feel very cheated by this.

When can we expect an announcement on matchmaking being updated, because obviously you can't leave it how it is with such large outcries from the community on how the current play lists are set up.

Thanks for the time and the game was really good.

  • 10.03.2007 6:45 PM PDT
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dont feel dumb at all i deffinatley agree with your statement i was a 31 in snipers now like i can tell it will take a year to get there cuse the crappy sniper delay

  • 10.03.2007 6:46 PM PDT

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Sad but true... Halo 1 > Halo 2>>>Halo 3

Is there going to be a patch anytime soon? If so, what is going to be included in it?

Why are grenades so weak? They don't seem to have all that much impact on battles. The grenades feel very similar and have the same problems as they did in Halo 2 1.0.

Why is sniper so inconsistent? No, I'm not missing; I played tons of Halo 1, I didn't have trouble adjusting to the lower auto-aim. I have tons of instances on saved films of shots connecting but registering no damage. This problem seems even worse than it was in Halo 2.

Why are melees so freaking powerful? One melee will take out your entire shield. I don't know about you guys, but this seems too powerful to me. I personally would make it so melees do exactly enough damage to kill in two hits, so one will only bring a player to low shields. Right now, pretty much every close range battle is won by the player who shot first, due to the fact that the other player can't even really react fast enough before enough bullets have been put into him for a melee to finish him off. Currently, close range combat pretty much always ends with a melee. It gets old quick. Weakening the melee would give players more options in close range.

Lastly, why is there auto-aim (not magnetism) on the sniper while it is uncsoped? No scopes are ridiculously easy to get in Halo 3. It was better in Halo 1 and Halo 2 where there was no aim assistance whatsoever.

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  • 10.03.2007 6:47 PM PDT