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I work here: Sound Devices, LLC. We make bad-ass field audio gear, and you think that's awesome. My messy desk (With work-related items on the computer screen).

One does not simply grenade jump into Mordor...

JGD Live asks,

Will there be any chance of having an option to remove power ups from maps?
The Pit is perfect for my (Team) SWAT variant but I don't want to have to make copies of maps where I've removed power ups, surely this option should be there?


Bungie answers,

Why is that hard? It takes like, 30 seconds and the map is then neatly organized on your 360.
Actually, I'll humbly say that I totally agree with JGD's sentiment that it is sort of illogical that the option to include/disclude powerups isn't exposed in the variant options. Yes, you can go into forge and remove all the powerups, but that doesn't really make sense for a game element like powerups. Why? Because the desire to have powerups on or off the map is (I would guess) based 90%~99% on the type of games someone wants to play, not the map they are playing it on. I don't quite understand why I would have to go into forge to simply add or remove all objects based on their class.

OK, I've totally surpassed my whining quota for the next few weeks. This game is super fun and I'm just nit-picking.

  • 10.05.2007 12:56 PM PDT

Skillet was here and referred to himself in the third person.

Hey, um... can I help build the slingshot? I'm guessing we'll use broken 360s and a giant rubber band?

Thank god Shotty Snipers isn't going to be as frequent.

  • 10.05.2007 12:59 PM PDT
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Good for you guys at Bungie. Now you can release your games on other systems too.

  • 10.05.2007 1:01 PM PDT
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Can you please address the inability to find custom games? People shouldn't have to scour these forums for gamertags of people who want to play customs. Not everyone works for a game company and therefore has their friends list filled with people willing to play custom games. I don't care if you say it's not going to happen, just please at least acknowledge this issue.

Aside from this issue the game is spectacular.

Llatsin

  • 10.05.2007 1:02 PM PDT

Stooping to the lowest level of whoring...

My Halo 3 Wishlist, My File Share, Blood Gulch, Halo 1 CTF

I liked Chiron... :-(

  • 10.05.2007 1:04 PM PDT
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"Bungie will become an independent company and will retain a long-term publishing agreement with Microsoft Game Studios for “Halo” titles"
Does this mean Bungie will still have rights to the Halo franchise AND>>> Make future releases like Halo 1 and Halo 2 made from the ground up using the Halo 3 game engine? No multiplayer on those discs just bonus content like maps for download and/or in the XBLMP.! Thats would be freaking great! Or maybe How Halo all began or about the first Spartan team ever resembled. Laterz!

  • 10.05.2007 1:04 PM PDT

how i express my hype: \\MASTER CHIEF//

Posted by: -blam!-im40
OK the melee needs to be fixed than b/c if i hit the button first than I should get the kill not a "who ever has the most health". Your taking skill out of it when you say its "equal" by who ever has the most health rather than leaving it up to the skilled player who pushes the melee button first. True competition is rated on your abilities and actions not by stats or data.

You misread.

That only comes into account when both players hit the button, wait for it...

AT THE EXACT SAME TIME

nice job

  • 10.05.2007 1:05 PM PDT
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Bungie, can you address the proximity chat "issue" ?
I posted the question on your first FAQ, but I'm guessing that was abandoned. Then I tried to post it on your Q&A topic yesterday, but it wouldn't let me.

Why was proximity chat removed in games where you have to PTT? It worked in the beta, and it wasn't affecting the connection, it was working fine. Without team-side proximity chat, BTB is ruined ;_;
I can hear the enemies talking when they get close in BTB game, though. But it's not necessary, so could you just give team-side proximity chat and just remove cross-team chatting?

  • 10.05.2007 1:06 PM PDT

Sacrifice for the greater good.

agreed, stop the standbyers

They make me want to kill babies

  • 10.05.2007 1:07 PM PDT
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The Bungie ritual is almost complete! Quiet all of you! This shall be beautiful!

* Starts melting down rubber bands*

  • 10.05.2007 1:07 PM PDT
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bungie is not acknowledging the faults with their product. they don't talk about the split screen burn in, even though they answered a question about it.. They aren't talking about the DRE or the custom games list, which 90% of the community supports.

  • 10.05.2007 1:08 PM PDT

At 1:29 AM on Friday, Sptember, 28, 2007 I Finished the Fight

I am a member.

Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please dont shoot me into the sun.

Also could you please tell me why almost all of the achievments (and thus the armor) is unlocked online. I dont have the internet at my house.

[Edited on 10.05.2007 1:12 PM PDT]

  • 10.05.2007 1:10 PM PDT

how i express my hype: \\MASTER CHIEF//

Posted by: AnalogWeapon
JGD Live asks,

Will there be any chance of having an option to remove power ups from maps?
The Pit is perfect for my (Team) SWAT variant but I don't want to have to make copies of maps where I've removed power ups, surely this option should be there?


Bungie answers,

Why is that hard? It takes like, 30 seconds and the map is then neatly organized on your 360.
Actually, I'll humbly say that I totally agree with JGD's sentiment that it is sort of illogical that the option to include/disclude powerups isn't exposed in the variant options. Yes, you can go into forge and remove all the powerups, but that doesn't really make sense for a game element like powerups. Why? Because the desire to have powerups on or off the map is (I would guess) based 90%~99% on the type of games someone wants to play, not the map they are playing it on. I don't quite understand why I would have to go into forge to simply add or remove all objects based on their class.

OK, I've totally surpassed my whining quota for the next few weeks. This game is super fun and I'm just nit-picking.

Nah you guys are both being reasonable.

Forge is great, I'd just like to see it be all it can be. For Ex, letting the user *Delete All Objects On the Map? --Would be great.

Check this scenario out. I throw a fusion core at a buddy. It explodes and fun is had by all. But wait; not only did I just throw a fusion core, I also created a spawn for fusion cores therefor lowering my budget and the amount of fusion cores available. So essentially, you can only throw 16-20-30 (depending on the map) fusion cores before you either 1. Go back and systematically find and delete all of the ones you threw or 2. End the game, go back into the forge lobby, and load up your blank map again. Either way, you have to admit, it's kind of a pain, and not very conducive to "fusion coil" fights. In fact, I usually hold off on throwing them because I don't want to have to deal with deleting it after it hits the ground.

  • 10.05.2007 1:13 PM PDT
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I'm having problems with loading a few campain levels. I know that others are having the same problem is there a fix coming for that? I have heard it has something to do with save files on my hard drive. I tried deleting them and it didn't fix the problem.

  • 10.05.2007 1:14 PM PDT

Thanks a ton for the questions answered, everything seems more fulfilling now. Love the Chiron "night, day and dusk" joke, I wonder how many people didnt get that and started filling the internets with posts about "nigh day and dusk modes coming to haloe!!!1" :)

Posted by: Frankie
Yes – but Forge “budgets” are performance dependent, so certain maps can’t use certain weapons and vehicles.


Could you please explain a little more, do you mean performance dependant as in weapon performance on that map, or as in game engine performance?

Either way I am still not understanding why I cant put plasma rifles on Valhalla...

Not that its a HUGE deal, Halo 3 is still the most awesomest game ever.

  • 10.05.2007 1:20 PM PDT

"Teabagging is for homos"

-Frankie

"BunsenBeaker asks,
Perhaps I have missed it but is the Fuel Rod cannon and incendiary grenades available in Forge?




Yes – but Forge “budgets” are performance dependent, so certain maps can’t use certain weapons and vehicles. If it’s not in the list, it’s not available for that map."

If I'm making a gametype, I should be able to have everything available to me. "Performance dependent"? A Flamethrower or an Elephant on Valhalla would SLOW DOWN game speed or crash my 360? LAME answer there Bungie.

  • 10.05.2007 1:21 PM PDT

At 1:29 AM on Friday, Sptember, 28, 2007 I Finished the Fight

Here is a really freaky idea. How about a level with a completely green or blue room. Machinimators have a built in FX studio!!!

  • 10.05.2007 1:26 PM PDT

At 1:29 AM on Friday, Sptember, 28, 2007 I Finished the Fight


Posted by: Godzil1a
"BunsenBeaker asks,
Perhaps I have missed it but is the Fuel Rod cannon and incendiary grenades available in Forge?




Yes – but Forge “budgets” are performance dependent, so certain maps can’t use certain weapons and vehicles. If it’s not in the list, it’s not available for that map."

If I'm making a gametype, I should be able to have everything available to me. "Performance dependent"? A Flamethrower or an Elephant on Valhalla would SLOW DOWN game speed or crash my 360? LAME answer there Bungie.


It may not be what you want but it is the truth that you must deal with. If you want to do things like that go and build a better game system.

  • 10.05.2007 1:29 PM PDT

A clean divorce, thankfully. Behind your decision r I.

I wish y'all the best of luck with the Great Slingshot. It's time to choose a side, folks. ;)


  • 10.05.2007 1:33 PM PDT
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Three player coop lags a whole lot for my group, any person hosting, but matchmaking doesn't, or even a custome game between just us. How come?

[Edited on 10.06.2007 9:17 AM PDT]

  • 10.05.2007 1:37 PM PDT
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You didnt anwser my question if there will ever be another remake or spinoff of the halo series.Im betting there will be because you guys call it the halo franchise and not the halo trilogy like Marathon

  • 10.05.2007 1:38 PM PDT
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Whats the deal on the Halo 3 Disk Unreadable Errors Thousands is having can we get an update on that and nothing that is not important. http://forums.xbox.com/1/15759968/ShowPost.aspx#15759968 visit the website. Update on this and rest for sure that thousands of halo fans having this issue will be happy if you all get this fixed

  • 10.05.2007 1:40 PM PDT
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FINALLY!

This is what I've been waiting for!


NOW I KNOW WHAT BUNGIE'S WORLD DOMINATION PLAN IS!

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • 10.05.2007 1:41 PM PDT
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Wow so bungie is leaving the covenant huh???? Brutes stabbed them in the back???

Frankie is teh arbitor???

Carefull fellas ,what you say is heresy!!! The great journey is upon is ,the xbox360 is gonna fire and eredacate the flood (=sony) But you ,bungie will be left behing!!! Muwahahahaha oh and Shane Kim from microsoft is Thruth!!! Peter more Is a brute chieftan tartarus and is dead (= well he actually left microsoft already but it leaves a better story this way :P).

Who is the chief???


  • 10.05.2007 1:42 PM PDT
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Wow, this is amazing guys, congrats on your Independence Day and Halo 3's killer sales! 300 million dollars... that is truly amazing. But we're nearly there everyone, world domination is one step away!

  • 10.05.2007 1:48 PM PDT