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Subject: Bungie Weekly What's Update!

"Ignorance is not bliss, its normally."

Now that Bungie is split from Microsoft (congrats) will we ever see a halo 3 mac port?

  • 10.06.2007 2:11 AM PDT
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Here's a question: What kind of company spends 3 years to release a game that is full of bugs and has LESS features than it's predacessors? Were you busy fixing Halo 1.2, aka Halo 2, with patches?

Here's another: Do you really think that a buggy replay mode and being able to change the weapons on a map was revolutionary and made Halo 3 a completely different and new experience? Is that what you were spending all your time on, trying to figure out how to make a floating camera? Or did you spend all your time trying to figure out how to get the game to rewind, only to fail? miserably.

How bout this: You leave us a cliffhanger ending in Halo 2, promising to end on the series spectacularly in halo 3, and then you spend ALL your time on the CRAP multiplayer. The campaign ended EXACTLY THE SAME AS H:CE! Shoot your way up the pyramid, press a button and then drive through a bunch of flood before the universe explodes. Master Chief beats the entire covenant and eliminates the flood the same way he blew up the first halo. Thanks Bungie, what a creative ending. Did you guys have a contest to see who could write a storyline in 10 minutes or something? You seem to have forgotten that the war in Halo is between the covenant and humanity, not between the covenant and Master Chief. Would have been nice if we had a story that was a little deeper than Master Chief blowing something up, with no surprises and no desire to save humanity, which doesnt even appear in the game. Funny how we never even see the humans we're saving, just a bunch of retarded marines that fight even worse than they did in Halo:CE. And why is it that you had to make the Arbiter invincible to actually be useful? Hell, at least you made the flood a little bit smarter, yet the humans still just stand in the open firing short bursts at the enemies they cant even kill. Guess I'll always have to split my screen up into tiny little bits to have a decent ally.

And whats with the skulls? If I'm going to hunt for something, it better make the game more fun, not make it harder! WTF is wrong with you, you don't make unlockable stuff that makes the game more frustrating. The only skull that actually does give you interesting stuff, is totally unfindable without hacking into the games code. Jumping through unnumbered hoops in order? Thats just cheating. Thats like someone hiding in a room and locking the door while playing hide and seek.

Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh. After all, all the big game reviewers gave halo 3 9s and 10s and every time someone complains, which is often, someone else says "STFU -blam!- halo -blam!- 3 is the -blam!- best game ever -blame!- made -blam!-".No, F.U.C.K. THAT, I shelled out big bucks to get a xbox 360, just so I could play this game, because I thought you guys were going to redeem yourselves after the horrible ending and barely there multiplayer changes you made in halo 2 (-blam!-, you actually took weapons OUT of halo 2).

Instead you give us THE SAME OLD THING, with NOTHING new, It's just halo:CE with new *subpar for a 360* graphics, new weapons, ONE new MP playable vehicle, LESS maps, and crappy matchmaking where the only thing players control is how many people they fight. Even halo:CE had better online play. Halo:CE was good Bungie, but that was 6 years ago, and gameplay has come a long way since then. It's so sad to see that Halo 3 got left behind.

Now I have to find a good game to use this stupid 360 on.

[Edited on 10.06.2007 2:46 AM PDT]

  • 10.06.2007 2:35 AM PDT
Subject: What's with 1280x1024-Screen resolution?
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THAT IS THE LAST DROP.

FFS, EITHER SAY YOU ARE GONNA FIX THE VGA PROBLEM; OR ATLEAST ACKNOWLEDGE THERE IS A PROBLEM!!!!!

This is BS, Bungie

  • 10.06.2007 2:36 AM PDT
Subject: Thank You Bungie :)
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A couple of posts have been crying about the ending of Halo 3.

**Spoiler Alert**

My first time through, we turned scoring on and didn't get to see the credits, suffice it to say, I was depressed for about a week. My second go around though, I watched the post-credits movie, and I was pulled from my depression and into a state of elevated joy. I haven't played any of the Marathon games (gasp, I know.) But I have heard that Marathon begins roughly similar to how Halo 3 ends, I was just hoping/praying for some confirmation or denial on that subject. Another thing, one of the terminals mentions a Forerunner AI that had become rampant, and I was curious if that had anything to do with Durandal. Thank you for making this awesome and addicting game.

[Edited on 10.06.2007 3:25 AM PDT]

  • 10.06.2007 3:24 AM PDT
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Yey one step left!- Haha can borrow your giant slingshot it sounds fun XD

  • 10.06.2007 4:06 AM PDT
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i hate halo3 because the beta of halo3 was much better because the blaming blam beatdowns werent so dumb and blaming strong and blam its really blam.............. :'''''( bungie makes me cry

  • 10.06.2007 4:37 AM PDT
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I'd still like to know what happened to the other Spartans that were supposedly spotted in campaign a long while back...

Also, to mvidmaster a few posts up... Quit whining and go play something else.

[Edited on 10.06.2007 4:52 AM PDT]

  • 10.06.2007 4:46 AM PDT
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Uh, I can't load the Campaign maps Floodgate or Halo. Sorry if this has already been asked but what can I do about that besides trying another disc?

  • 10.06.2007 4:58 AM PDT
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It's nice how they conveniently not answer the guy's whole question:

Guyver45 asks,

Is it true that the Flaming Head and Ninja Recon helmet is for Bungie only?



No idea what you’re talking about. Flaming Heads? Nonsense.

  • 10.06.2007 5:33 AM PDT
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Does this mean it is possible that bungie will sell its games to Sony because the split with microsoft

  • 10.06.2007 7:00 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly What's Update!

it is I tyralpha. say my name like (teer) NOT "tirealphuh". PLEASE!!!

halo and COD4 are both 10/10 to me, so yeah, I won't take sides in the argument,
wanna fight me? I challenge you to swords then!

just wondering, now that bungie's seperated, will it make games for other consoles? just curiosity.

  • 10.06.2007 7:04 AM PDT
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i hav a lil brother i play with and becuz he's a stubborn ass he quits out of matchmaking games, causing me to lose exp. wen i finally got to corporal grade 2, i went bak down to corporal. is there any way that if ppl are playing matchmaking co-op if the person that chooses to leave the game loses exp, and not the other person?

  • 10.06.2007 7:36 AM PDT
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awsome update i have been in withdrawl missing tmy weekly updates u guys explained alot but i had one question that didnt get answered

i have been playin ranked games up the *** and i was split from my party one game left by myself in a game and when it started it was over then i looked at my stats and i lost 4 exp for no reason at all i didnt quit and its lthe only time it has happened is this going to be a recurring problem or was it just a fluke cuz i neva quit i could be gettin pwned 40 to 3 i will still stick it out in hopes i can pull off the amazing unbeleivable but it neva happens its just the point quitters are p******s anyways awsome job on halo 3 congrats on becoming more independent.

i cant wait to see what u have in styore for matchmaking and other aspects of your new baby halo 3

  • 10.06.2007 7:47 AM PDT
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gee....all i read is everyone is setting records, making 300 million, and really enjoying the success at MS and bungie.......Are there any plans to spend some of that money on basic functions, like a site that updates stats without taking 2 days, faster matchmaking, matchmaking that can't access servers,........you know, the BASIC things a gamer expects when he plunks down 50 dollars a year for live, and 129 for a legendary edition.....and all he sees is lag( BIG ISSUE ON LIVE)....JAGGIES( BIG ISSUE ON LIVE).......NO STATS UPDATING( BIG ISSUE ON LIVE and BUNGIE.NET)


or does my game go back??????



PS....I guess on top of everything else, unique players is no longer updating either.........Whew, that beta really helped. Let me guess, you had NO idea what a success HALO3 was gonna be......

[Edited on 10.06.2007 8:33 AM PDT]

  • 10.06.2007 8:18 AM PDT

Is this crap flamable?

I made a remake of Chiron in the Pit using the forge. It's all done and great now, but the first player spawns always at the same point, which is not a spawn point I set, and there is nothing to remove. It kinda ruins the map because it is out of my boundaries... Please explain this unexplained spawn point!

  • 10.06.2007 8:24 AM PDT
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OMG Bungie recovered Ling-Ling's head o0?!

Awesome ^^

Still... why aren't you admiting that you just don't WANT to change some issues (i.e. the aspect ratio... let us choose without messing up with the tv settings!)?!

Even though GoW was somewhat glitchy in multiplayer, it was perfect! Can't say that about Halo3... very good, but not perfect :/

  • 10.06.2007 8:47 AM PDT

I just wanted to say that I'm getting the same type of issue when ever I get my vehicle jacked. It seems I get stuck in the ground and I have to jump to get my chief back to normal. And my crouch function is not set to toggle. I'm not alone. I've heard many teammates curse in anguish describing a similar fate.

But on another note, your game rocks, but you already knew that.

  • 10.06.2007 9:18 AM PDT

pyroanimaniacs

Okay, so Halo 1 was for PC and Mac, so will you bring over halo 2 or 3 to the Mac?? I know you probably wont halo 3, but I had to ask

  • 10.06.2007 9:23 AM PDT
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On Sierra117 whats up with the "family" of monkey men holding a teddy bear?? Are there more strange groupings of people in the game to find?

  • 10.06.2007 9:25 AM PDT

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...

Posted by: CT Shnoon
how can some of you think that bungie splitting with microsoft is a good thing? Now there is a possiblity that bungie can make games for the ps3...
I think most people regard the news positively because it implies that Bungie has obtained more freedom to do whatever they please with their art. I don't think that the news says anything at all as to whether we will see Bungie titles come out on different platforms. But so what if they do make titles for other platforms? Maybe you're too young to remember Marathon and how awesome of a Mac game it was at the time.

  • 10.06.2007 9:32 AM PDT

how come we can't talk in lone wovles it makes the game boring if we can't talk

  • 10.06.2007 9:39 AM PDT

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...

Posted by: mvidmaster
Here's a question: What kind of company spends 3 years to release a game that is full of bugs and has LESS features than it's predacessors? Were you busy fixing Halo 1.2, aka Halo 2, with patches?

...Etc, etc, etc. Truncated for brevity...

Now I have to find a good game to use this stupid 360 on.
Two questions:

Who do you work for?

Have you played the new game called "Halo 3" yet?

[Edited on 10.06.2007 9:41 AM PDT]

  • 10.06.2007 9:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: JROCK420
I understand that the sniper is harder to use than it was in Halo 2, but did you change it dramatically from the Beta. I had no problems with it in the Beta, but the final version seems off.


Spot on. We aren't stupid, and we aren't bad at your new game. We realize that there is less auto-aim, and there is recoil to the new sniper. And yeah, we also realize that lag exists in online play. It's the nature of the beast. But this is not lag, and this is not a learning curve. This is a matter of hit detection and I can't believe you guys are shrugging this off or simply ingorant of it. Everyone who is decent at this game and was decent at previous Halo games is noticing this, and complaining about it. Mabey you're not hearing it all here on the site, but I hear it plenty in matchmaking and from my friends. It's not lag when I snipe somebody in the head and their shields flash and go down. It's not lag when I snipe a nonmoving, nonshielded target in the body and see blood splatter with no resulting death. It's not lack of skill when I have to empty a full clip into somone because two of my shots didn't count and I have to resort to desperate body shots just to finish the kill. It's a glitch. It's a problem. And it needs fixed or a fun game is going to turn into a frustrating one that we stop playing for Team Fortress 2 really fast. Like JROCK420 said, this wasn't a problem in the beta. Something has broken between May 16th and Septemeber 25th.


I completely agree and bungie needs to stop being f'n arrogant and fix this!

  • 10.06.2007 10:06 AM PDT
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Bungie FTW

  • 10.06.2007 10:08 AM PDT