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wtf is a steaktacular? i have a few and have no idea what the hell idid to earn it.

  • 10.05.2007 12:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: xx21xx
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.


Agreed.

And a steaktakular comes from winning a game by 20 points or more.

  • 10.05.2007 12:09 PM PDT
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PUSH-TO-TALK SUCKS!!!! Everyone I know hates that stupid thing. Please get rid of it!

  • 10.05.2007 12:12 PM PDT
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Shut up and enjoy the game like the push talk changes the game that much. Bungie you guys have done a hell of a job i cant wait to see what you guys do next. Keep up the good work.

  • 10.05.2007 12:15 PM PDT
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They can update their game anytime they want, just update that ONE feature, and the game would be the best game I have ever played... Screw that stupid push-to-talk crap...

  • 10.05.2007 12:17 PM PDT
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YEAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR FREE!!!!!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

  • 10.05.2007 12:19 PM PDT
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You just hit the nail on the head. There's so many disappointments with Halo 3. Unlocking achievements for armor with no avail. Armor that just is never there when it should be. People beating you down from 5 feet away. I mean, dont get me wrong, its a good game. But when half the stuff we unlock or achieve never shows up, how are we supposed to feel good about that? For instance, I have all 1000 achievements and all skulls, and still no Elite Commando shoulder armor. Whats up with that?

  • 10.05.2007 12:22 PM PDT
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Couple questions.

-We can still carry 8 grenades in theory but none of the maps on matchmaking have all 4 kinds of 'nades on them. So we really don't have 8 'nades any more, I thought grenades where part of halo's melee-grenade-weapon balance triangle. What's up with that?

-Can we expect to see Slayer Pro start showing up in matchmaking games again?

-Finally, is infection gametype available in matchmaking? If so underwhat playlists?

  • 10.05.2007 12:26 PM PDT

Posted by: Broward asks,

When you get hijacked in a vehicle, it seems you are always crouching when you get out, and you have to click the analog stick in to stand up. Is this a glitch, or how you wanted hijacking to work? Thank you for your time!

Do you have toggle crouch turned on? What you describe is weird.


This happens to me too, I like move insanely slow whenever I am thrown out of a vehicle. I do not have toggle crouch turned on. This seems like a rather big bug. BTW: BTB Ranked FTW!!!

  • 10.05.2007 12:27 PM PDT

Sorry about the double post. Deleted.

[Edited on 10.05.2007 12:28 PM PDT]

  • 10.05.2007 12:27 PM PDT
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Not sure if you all are still accepting questions, but:

Why was the ability for guests to make their own Live profiles (colors, avatar, etc) in Halo 2 but not Halo 3? I have three roommates, and one 360/TV. Memorizing new icons and service tags is pointless, knowing they will be changed upon the next login. Are there plans of bringing this feature back?

  • 10.05.2007 12:33 PM PDT
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Bungie, LLC, in which Microsoft will hold a minority equity interest. As part of this transaction, if this is the case then MS still owns you.

  • 10.05.2007 12:34 PM PDT
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SWEET!!! love how you guys keep the rights to make halo!

  • 10.05.2007 12:37 PM PDT
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what the hell? theres like a billion questions unanswered

  • 10.05.2007 12:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Niceguy876
Not sure if you all are still accepting questions, but:

Why was the ability for guests to make their own Live profiles (colors, avatar, etc) in Halo 2 but not Halo 3? I have three roommates, and one 360/TV. Memorizing new icons and service tags is pointless, knowing they will be changed upon the next login. Are there plans of bringing this feature back?


Create silver accounts. Then when they log in to play on Live they'll have to be a guest (but I believe they can still select their player profile from their silver account)

  • 10.05.2007 12:40 PM PDT

I'm disappointed not to see anything about proximity talk. When I'm driving any vehicle it is too hard to drive/gun and press the the D-Pad. Another thing I don't like is when in a party it doesn't say what type of gametype we are about to play. Now that I'm on the subject I read the one question about when you get hijacked off a vehicle you move like your crouched and this happens to me too, I just assumed it was part of the game.

  • 10.05.2007 12:41 PM PDT
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It's time to start building that slingshot.
Sweeet! Let me know if you need any help. I'm very handy in the builds/creation department...lol ;)


Oh, question.
Why is it that some players are having network problems joining others (can't join or see party details) when their NAT is shown open? Is there a possible network compatibility issue with your network code and the players ISPs?...or what ever it's called.

thanks, BOE

  • 10.05.2007 12:41 PM PDT

-KOS-

Sweet update.

  • 10.05.2007 12:42 PM PDT

Get Ghost.

one step closer to world domination.

Bungie will become an independent company and will retain a long-term publishing agreement with Microsoft Game Studios for “Halo” titles
so does that mean more Halo games?

  • 10.05.2007 12:42 PM PDT
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what about the not leveling up glitch? is that being sorted?

I think its also lame that the guy with more health wins a melee battle, it should be the quickest

Why is it every time I try to watch a 5 second cutting of a game along with my friends despite having a MEGA connection it takes like 5 minutes to load and then everyone gets booted out when the video starts?

Other than that, great update and theres a lot of things I was wondering about that were covered, apart from those issues ^^ :)

  • 10.05.2007 12:42 PM PDT

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3727/1001500.jpg

nothing answered on the "cannot read disk" problem?

  • 10.05.2007 12:43 PM PDT

Well, that trick to make videos fast forward on their own is useful. I'd still prefer some tweaks, such as a way to fast forward faster, or a way to specify a checkpoint to jump to in a video (i.e. jump to the 45 minute mark, or whatever). Trying to fast forward through a campaign video to get to an awesome gunfight where I wanted to take screenshots can be tiresome. And then there's the frustration of not paying attention because you've been fast forwarding for the past 15 minutes and you miss the part you wanted to see. At that point a long load time to go back a minute into the footage would be preferable to having to restart the thing and fast forward through it all again.

  • 10.05.2007 12:43 PM PDT
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Nice info. I just wished you addressed the lack of Team Snipers in the playlist of halo 3....Where is it???

  • 10.05.2007 12:44 PM PDT
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Question about the Forge.

I like it, don't get me wrong, and I understand that allowing players to edit the level geometry would be a gigantic pain. That said, I'd love to have some primitive shapes available as scenery, be able to anchor them so they can't fall or be knocked over, scale them (uniformly and not), and have a big featureless map to do it in.

Was this ever considered during the game's development? And if so, why did you decide to go another route? The only real problem I can think of would be that the maps would turn out fairly fugly, but I'd still love to have that kind of freedom.

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  • 10.05.2007 12:47 PM PDT
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Question about CHEATING:

People have been exploiting the Lone Wolves Playlist to get their achievements in multiplayer. I told them it was cheating to do that, but they all worked against me and decided to kill me every time I got in the hill. However, I have a saved film of that... Also I have a saved film of a guy who was using standby in an oddball game in Lone Wolves.

Do you all have any plans to stop this kind of stuff from happening?

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  • 10.05.2007 12:49 PM PDT