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MTFBWY!

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Why is there a limit? Why was that number chosen? Will this limit ever be increased?



to keep the map stable...and no


No, not the maps in Forge. I'm talking about how many different versions of maps, or different gametypes, or saved films, screenshots, etc. that you can have on your Xbox 360. I'm fine with the limit in Forge, I just think 100 items is small for how much user-generated content you can either make or download.

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  • 10.05.2007 11:18 AM PDT
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It would of been nice to hear something about the DRE problem that 500+(just on the forums) have ben experiencing. Are you guys just ignoring it, WTF is going on. GIVE US SOME ANSWERS

  • 10.05.2007 11:18 AM PDT

Send A Friend Request to Schloxictonkey if you need a good teammate and you are good

WOOOO Second on sixth page

Edit Dammit third

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  • 10.05.2007 11:19 AM PDT

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"I use the Force all the time. You know those doors at supermarkets? I can make those open when I approach with only a small wave of the hand.."
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I'm sure it's too late to ask, and someone else probably did... but what exactly do you have to do to get the Marathon Man achievement? No one seems to have a single way to do it. Some say you have to finish the level you find the terminals on...others say you don't. Some people say you have to play it all on the same difficulty, and others say you can save and quit after finding them...and others say the opposite. So...I'm very lost. Is the achievement glitched? or made to be a bit random on how you get it?

  • 10.05.2007 11:20 AM PDT
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please dont make a halo game for the pS3 that will break our lil' hearts ;(

  • 10.05.2007 11:24 AM PDT
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"Theres more to life than making other people die."
Oderus Ungerous

First off let me say you did a fine job with the Halo trilogy.IMHO, it is the best series of games to ever be produced.
Congrats, now to get myself off your collective jocks, let me say this, the answer to the sniper inquiry is the biggest coverup since the magic bullet theory! MORE SKILL, you say?Thats absurd, let me list my reasons for disagreement.
1. Youve shot yourselves in the foot with the films option, i have gone through many games and instances when i know i should have had a kill/headshot, only to see my opponents FACE EXPLODE with sparks and BLOODY TISSUE, yet his shields do not even light up or "shimmer"!!!! Im no game designer, but everything in my being tells me this is faulty hit detection.
2. While playing shotty snipers, my team will get owned by ppl with considerable less skill with snipers, let me clarify, i am not pro, but good enough to know who is, by looking at various things, teamwork, confidence, movement, weapon management, and these ppl with god like skills are not good, yet my team has handled much more efficient teams at times with the sniper, it almost feels as if the winner is predetermined at the beginning of the game, and for whatever reason, sometimes there will be a shifting of power(one team has awesome accuracy at the beginning of the match, and the 2nd half the opposite team has it), which puzzles me to no end.I could be imagining things, but i calls em as i sees em.
3.I do realize youve toned down the auto aim with the sniper significantly, which i applaud, for it does make a weapon harder to use, especially with a console controller, however, youve left the swipe technique in the game, which is pretty much the same thing, if you know what your doing.

In short, i think we all deserve a little better explanation of the sniper rifles flaws, and advantages to MP, to me it seems blatantly arrogant to say it takes more skill to use than previous versions of Halos sniper rifles, and to just leave it at that.

  • 10.05.2007 11:25 AM PDT

In this great future you cant forget your past

Bungie Arrogant? NO WAY

  • 10.05.2007 11:28 AM PDT

Here, go to this website and get your Halo clips recorded in HD for free.

http://sites.google.com/site/holdrbtomorph/

Can we ask questions here, too? I wanna know...

In Forge, I made a CTF map and game for Last Resort, and I've deleted the original flag spawn and return areas and placed new ones where I pleased.

Only problem is, whenever I start the game, new flag spawn and return points are added where they were in the original version of Last Resort!

What's wrong with what I'm doing??

Do I need to upload them for how they work?

  • 10.05.2007 11:31 AM PDT
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I dont know if anyone from Bungie will see this but I also have the thing Broward mentioned after you get hijacked from a banshee you are in crouch or just dazed for like 1 second and you are really slow. Happened 3 times last game.

  • 10.05.2007 11:31 AM PDT
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I love the Bungie's replies to the dumb questions and suggestions. Some people.....either clueless as hell or just plain stupid and have the worst ideas ever.

  • 10.05.2007 11:38 AM PDT
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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

Now Bungie, really, there was no bloody coup. Unless someone got a nosebleed/paper cut.

  • 10.05.2007 11:39 AM PDT
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YAY BUNGIE. Please be rational with the slingshot.

  • 10.05.2007 11:40 AM PDT

Halo2 -
- LvL 35

Halo 3 -
- LvL 50 General Grade 3

Question:

Why is it that sometimes when i click on a friends service record from the xbox guide...it shows them being MANY ranks lower than what they are? With much less experience? Is this a glitch or something? Whenever they are in my party and i click their name it shows their record correctly, but when they are elsewhere, it seems to mess up =(

  • 10.05.2007 11:49 AM PDT
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Please, something about the Disc Read Error. I have been through more copies of the game than anyone should have to. It was first only the campaign (couldnt even begin to "finish the fight" and now it is spreading into the multiplayer, saved films, and post-carnage stats). Why does it happen? My disc is clean, its only a day old--so why the error message? If you dont know a remedy than say so, if there is one tell us, and if there is no fixing it (faulty batch?) than "exchange" (lack of a better word) our games for us (either you or Microsoft). You stand by your product, right?

I am a loyal halo player and will wait, just please tell us whats is up.

  • 10.05.2007 11:49 AM PDT

They didn't answer whether Lockout is going to return or not.

  • 10.05.2007 11:50 AM PDT
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man, so far no good questions have been answered :(

  • 10.05.2007 11:50 AM PDT
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amazing rather than concentrate on the serious questions being asked, you seem more inclined to go with questions which you've already answered or mock questions without giving reasonable answers.

"what you describe is weird" << isn't an answer

you've already managed to lose 400,000 online gamers this week (congrats), you went from over 1.6 down to 1.2 million, and with xbox live supposedly hitting 11 million next year, you're very little 1/10th so far without TF2 or COD4 even being released. Awesome. I'm sure your wondering whats going wrong.

Why are some armours not appearing? or disapearing without any reason?

What happened to the 12th map that was in the beta code?

Why is the hit detection slightly off on a number of areas and weapons?

How do people win in melee if they have a larger health which we can't even see?

oh and just update BTB now, seriously Halo 2's works fine, and 5 man slayer... it just feels dial-up era, not next generation. Up to 16 players.. come on just turn those on now.

Exactly what have you been doing these 3 years, because it took you 1 year to do halo 2 (after all the squabbling) and that engine just needed refurbished... so exactly whats been going on, that we get a pitiful unimaginative 11 maps. Rubbish gametypes that appear too often which you've already said was a flaw (what was the beta test FOR again?)

lets face it, you've let people down... you've let the industry down. This game is average - mediocre. Did you play the COD4 beta, it rewarded players for just taking part; win or lose. It had a purpose, it lacks online achievements. Whereas your game emphasises and attracts glitchers and cheaters to ruin games for players. Didn't any of this cross your mind, with the experiance already shown in other Xbox live games?

the only people still playing Halo 3 by christmas, ironically will be people that can't buy it legally ;)

worst thing is, there's nothing better with a large enough community that can compete (for now) but really, you could have done better.... you could have done better

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  • 10.05.2007 11:52 AM PDT
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Frankie if you get a chance; In Halo it seemed like physics played more of a role in sniping, and leading your target was necessary. In Halo 2 it seemed like you needed to be dead on (or use the auto target trick), and leading your target was not necessary. When you comment on the sniping as being a little more difficult, do you mean that the physics of sniping are in effect i.e. leading shots are now important (again)? Also, is this the issue with long range BR kills? I assume this is the case but confirmation would be great. Thanks.

  • 10.05.2007 11:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: dirtyShisno 213
NIGHT. CHIRON. O.M.G. I. LOVE. BUNGIE.


Huh. Hey I just realised the other night how bungie could subvert the trilogy if they wanted to and keep making halo games. Now Bungie splits with, (or apparently stages a bloody coup of) M$, but maintains a long term publishing agreement for 'future Halo titles' . -blam!- yes with a capital BLAM.

ED: oh and indefinable? stfu. Nobody cares.

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  • 10.05.2007 11:56 AM PDT
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Here's a question...

Why can't we setup a neutral flag game? I can set a flag stand to be the neutral team, but there are only to varieties of CTF available, One Flag and Multi Flag. If there is neutral bomb there is surely the capability for neutral flag CTF.

Also, why am I unable to set the Plasma Rifle as a starting weapon on CTF?

  • 10.05.2007 11:57 AM PDT
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Please, something about the Disc Read Error. I have been through more copies of the game than anyone should have to. It was first only the campaign (couldnt even begin to "finish the fight" and now it is spreading into the multiplayer, saved films, and post-carnage stats). Why does it happen? My disc is clean, its only a day old--so why the error message? If you dont know a remedy than say so, if there is one tell us, and if there is no fixing it (faulty batch?) than "exchange" (lack of a better word) our games for us (either you or Microsoft). You stand by your product, right?

I am a loyal halo player and will wait, just please tell us whats is up.

Maybe you need a new machine.... And I'm pretty sure there are measures to go to to replace the disk if necessary

  • 10.05.2007 12:01 PM PDT
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Bungie, GET RID OF PUSH-TO-TALK! Who cares if its wastes bandwidth? ALL of the other games I have on my xbox 360 are OPEN. Bungie, this STUPID push-to-talk feature is loosing alot of your players. Everyone on my friend's list HATES that junk!

Make the chats open, and get rid of that STUPID PUSH-TO-TALK!!!!!!!!

:)

  • 10.05.2007 12:03 PM PDT

With the MS/Bungie split, who maintains creative control over the Haloverse? What's to keep Microsoft from going all Uwe Boll on our beloved story with subsequent games, movies, books, and other tie-ins?

  • 10.05.2007 12:03 PM PDT
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This is a fiction Question: What the Heck is High Charity? A space ship, a planet, some weird combination? Wikipedia says:

"In the video game Halo 2, High Charity is the name of the mobile capital city of the Covenant. Its structure consists of one half of a small planet or moon that has been hollowed out, forming a roof over the city and a spire sticking out from underneath it. It is capable of slipspace jumps. The city houses the majority of structures sacred to the Covenant, such as the Council Chamber, the Mausoleum of the Arbiter, and the Sanctum of the Hierarchs, as well as a central tower (a Forerunner ship modified to provide power to the entire city)."

How accurate is that, any other insights?

One More Question - In Halo 2 the Gravemind "teleports" Master Chief to High Charity, doesn't this break the fiction? Why wouldn't the Gravemind just teleport a bunch of Flood all over the Galaxy? No need for Space Ships when you can just Mr Rogers teleport to the land of Make Believe.

Most of the questions you have answered so far have been MP related, time for some fiction discussion.

  • 10.05.2007 12:03 PM PDT