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"Brick, where'd you get a hand grenade?"
"...I don't know."

Bungie, there's a problem on Snowbound. The shield door near the shotgun has a bunch of fusion coil things on the wall inside, and if someone throws a grenade at the door from the outside while those fusion coils are spawned, the grenade outside the shield door will cause them to explode, killing the guy that was laughing at the grenade thrower.

Is that supposed to happen, or is it a glitch?

And also, how do you lower your weapon for filming machinima?

  • 10.07.2007 6:53 PM PDT

ummm question about the Chiron map: wasn't that the one with all the portals in it? and if it was it was inside, so the daylight, dusk, night versions wouldn't matter. Prob BUngie aking a joke i guess, and to those whose questions weren't answered: did you ever think that there are over a million ppl playing a day, so there are prob over a million questions asked, it's a great game, waited for it for 3 years, but still a game, its not perfect

  • 10.07.2007 7:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Oddballforlife07
And also, how do you lower your weapon for filming machinima?


Use the theater/saved films. That's what it's there for.

I have a question: Why do I have to be connected to Live for saved films to save? I set up a system link game at a friend's apartment, and like every other system link setup I've done, ever, we weren't connected to the internet. Subsequently, we were unpleasantly surprised when we discovered that our games weren't being saved to the theater. So many great moments we wanted to see again, that were just lost forever. And here I thought saved films were supposed to fix that problem...

  • 10.07.2007 7:32 PM PDT

Hold on why is it that assassination beats everything else? And there's no option to turn it off. It really makes no sense when like I make this scenario game and it gets foiled even when the Hero character with 4x overshield gets pwned in one tap on the back of the head. Not right! Also when we make that Hamster Hill scenario (KOTH, Hammers, Invincibility) assassinations STILL GET THROUGH! I don't understand. Invincible!! Not right.

  • 10.07.2007 8:05 PM PDT

"Brick, where'd you get a hand grenade?"
"...I don't know."

Posted by: SvenRIT
Posted by: Oddballforlife07
And also, how do you lower your weapon for filming machinima?


Use the theater/saved films. That's what it's there for.



I mean how can you make it so that when someone looks at you when you're holding a weapon, the weapon isn't pointing at you, but is being held lower by the chest. In Halo 2, you had to hold the left trigger. I've tried everything and can't figure out how to do it in this game. T_T

  • 10.07.2007 8:35 PM PDT
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I have a belated question. I've gotten liuetenant (now up to 75 exp) and I have the katana body armor equipped but my B.net "player snapshot" doesn't show the sword and it says my rank is only gunnery sargeant... Please fix it soon, I want to display my abilities proudly. (And yes, i got all the ranked FFA achievements legitimately).

And gothic, while i like how assassiniations penetrate overhshields, I do think your right about how they shouldn't kill invincible people.

[Edited on 10.07.2007 8:41 PM PDT]

  • 10.07.2007 8:39 PM PDT

Let us cast arms aside
And discard our wrath
Thou, in faith, will keep us safe
Whilst we find the path

"There are no winners in a war. There's just the side who loses a little bit less than the other."

1. I've played so many Xbox live games and beat the campaign, yet it only shows two multiplayer games that i played with some friends. Why aren't they showing up?(btw they are the only custom games I've played over live.)

2. Could you add Infection on the playlists? I love infection its really fun.

  • 10.07.2007 9:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: phx casey147
when checking scores in a game iv noticed that your own name isn't highlighted and often its difficult for me to find my own tag.
could this be in an update?

and using the xbox dashboard, when using the friends list if at any time you hit B, it will completely exit out of it, and that damn thing is so slow it a hassle to cycle thru your friends service record or invite multiple people. probably not in your guys control, but, its a douche.


Hey, U now you can just press X when your highlighted over a friends name to invite them to your game while in your friends list. Hope that helped.

  • 10.07.2007 9:58 PM PDT
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I have a Question...
Why is it that whenever i play ranked team slayer, sometimes ill get Valhalla, and it will automatically switch to a new map with out anyone vetoeing or anything. is this because the map is too big for a 4v4 or what?
[email]lacross1029@sbcglobal.net[/email]

  • 10.07.2007 10:19 PM PDT

Because I never had time for a quote.

Posted by: SvenRIT
Posted by: Oddballforlife07
And also, how do you lower your weapon for filming machinima?


Use the theater/saved films. That's what it's there for.


I think he means put the weapon down... like to not always be pointing the weapon at somebody. In RvB they did it so that if you looked down far enough, the weapon would be lowered, but the player would then look up. but Bungie said they put in a button combo where you could lower it without doing this floor looking madness...If only I could find out what it is...
EDIT: Also about your saved films thing, didyou look in the recent fimlm section of the theater? YOu have to hit x on the recent films for them to be saved to the other catagories.

[Edited on 10.07.2007 10:42 PM PDT]

  • 10.07.2007 10:38 PM PDT
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Every time i go into matchmaking it states "Infomation could not be retrieved from the Halo 3 server". i have xbox live Gold. I can play other games online fine. I can even play online co-op and custom games with friends fine. I have tried directly conecting my xbox 360 through my modem and it still doesn't work. What is wrong and how can it be fixed?

  • 10.07.2007 11:34 PM PDT

- Worlds Best Assassin -

Posted by: Yo mamma 2428
Hey bungie, I don't know if you can still do this, I'm not a godly game designer like you but I think a really cool idea would be the ability to change the skyes in the multiplayer maps. I've alwas wanted to play blood gulch at night (in the game) and wouldn't it be cool to live out that Wallpaper of Valhalla at night? Just a suggestion. Oh and by the way, you guys did an exellent job on Halo3. I was completely 100% satisfied as an individual gamer. Anyway I just thought you'd like another annonomous voice throwing ideas out. Much love:Yo mamma 2428
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I agree with Yo mamma 2428... changing the time of day settings would be great! I'd love to play snipers (yes i do like the sniper!) on Valhalla or High Ground at night! thats would be so fun... and games like infection on sandtrap would have that spooky new twist :)

Love your game Bungie!

  • 10.08.2007 4:21 AM PDT

are you gonna add new vehicals and wepons

  • 10.08.2007 6:50 AM PDT
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Posted by: salamone
Every time i go into matchmaking it states "Infomation could not be retrieved from the Halo 3 server". i have xbox live Gold. I can play other games online fine. I can even play online co-op and custom games with friends fine. I have tried directly conecting my xbox 360 through my modem and it still doesn't work. What is wrong and how can it be fixed?


they need to spend some of that 300 million of OUR dollars, and get the system fixed....

or my game is going back......

  • 10.08.2007 7:08 AM PDT

where is the podcast. i need my weekly dose of scotland.

  • 10.08.2007 7:09 AM PDT
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I can't find the options for "Odd Man Out" nor "Max Players of Map". Are they even there, of can they be fixed via Forge? If so, please tell us how.

  • 10.08.2007 8:35 AM PDT

Sigs are stupid.

Bungie are finding Ling-Ling's head!?!

Happy day!

-Bee

  • 10.08.2007 8:51 AM PDT
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Why does my Ranked Metal Chest on Bungie.net not show all of my medals that I have earned.

Great Game!!!

  • 10.08.2007 9:35 AM PDT

Posted by: tvpanther
Why does my Ranked Metal Chest on Bungie.net not show all of my medals that I have earned.

Great Game!!!
just wait week or two, it may eventually update

  • 10.08.2007 10:46 AM PDT
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To bungie and all those who work there,

Yeah, I played the crap out of Halo 3. I played the crap out of all of them. I took 2 days off from playing to really think about the game so I could get a good judgement of the game that was unbias. Halo 3 is a great game, with an incredible amount of polish and so many great features it almost makes your head spin, but now I've come to the problems of the game. There ARE more areas that feel more open and vehicle oriented, like Halo CE, but that made me think of the reasons why I loved Halo so much.

This is why, in my opinion, the Campaign for Halo and Halo 2 were actually more fun that Halo 3's Campaign. (Note, this is all done from the perspective of playing on Legendary) First off, the length. After playing through the game, I realised it was short. A single mission will take roughly 25 to 30 minutes to beat, minus 2 missions that take roughly 40 minutes. In Halo CE or 2, there were more, longer mission, and I know length of game isn't always an issue, but I really feel Halo 3 is just too short.
Second, and this is the main reason. My friend and I can sit down and play Halo CE's Campaign any time. When he comes over, we can just sit down and play any of the missions, even the ones people say they hate more than Saddam (I'm looking at you Library), and it's just plain fun. If I MYSELF sit down to play the Campaign of Halo CE, I have a ton of fun. When I go to talk to my Uncle about everything Halo, we have very specific conversations, and those are about battles. Very specific confrontations in Halo CE and Halo 2 that were just so hard we had to come up with picture perfect strategies to get past them.

For example: In Halo CE, on the mission Truth and Reconciliation, the part of the mission just under the Covenant Cruiser, to the part when you just get inside, to the part in the docking bay are all really hard, but that's why their fun. We would all talk about how we got through that part of the mission, what we did, and how many tries it took to get right. It's great to hear what your friends and family come up with that you didn't even think of.

Again, during Halo 2 on Cairo Station, there's the one docking bay where there are 2 Grunt turrets, and a whole bunch of Elites at the other end of the room. What I did was completely different from what my uncle did, which was completely different from what my friend did, which was still different from what my uncle's friend did. It's just great to see how versatile the level design was for such a small, yet incredibly hard room.

In Halo 3, myself nor my uncle have come to a single point in the Campaign where we said, "That part was really hard. How'd you do it?" We just played the game and got through with very little problems. The only point we did mention was on the mission Cortana where you come to a spiraling starcase like room with Pure Form Flood on the ceiling shooting at you with their spikes, but we both noticed the Cloaks in the previous room, and the Cloaks half way up the room in question, making that part a walk through. We weren't challenged like we wanted to be, and it wasn't that fun. The games great, and will appeal to the every man, sure, but what happened to my problem points? I WANT to be stuck on a part of a level where I have to think really hard, and play really well to get through it. I miss the Elite that took 4 headshots, or the Jackal that could kill me in 8 shots and could get those shots off in one second. It didn't make for good gameplay I'm sure, but it was still hella fun.

Now, I know the skulls are meant to make the game harder, and I really should test whether or not I'll get to a point that challenges me truly when I have them turned on. I would have to turn on the Tough Luck, Famine, and Mythic Skulls, just so the game's harder without being silly or out of the ordinary. Maybe then I'll get what I'm looking for.

There are still memorable moments, don't get me wrong, such as when my friend was flying a Hornet with me on the side, then he got me close enough to jack a Banshee, but there aren't memorable segments of missions. That's what I miss the most. Halo 2's Campaign may not have been that great at all (in my opinion), but it still had memorable segments. The multiplayer isn't in question. It's still just as fun as Halo 2's, if not far better... yeah, it's far better.

This isn't really a question, or really me asking/telling you to do something, I'm just informing you, or at least I hope I am.
Also, nobody uses the Sniper Rifle or Energy Sword on Constuct, you might want to tweak it somehow. Just a thought.

  • 10.08.2007 11:26 AM PDT

Many herps were derped back in my day

I wish Bungie would've given us an answer regarding what happened to the Customs Server List...

  • 10.08.2007 12:49 PM PDT
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Bungie,
Can you take a look at the speed of deploying equipment. It takes too long. Multiple times I've been killed before the bubble shield, regenerator could be activated. No it's not because I'm slow to the button, I'm very fast.

  • 10.08.2007 1:29 PM PDT
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I second the "answer about Custom Server list."

[Edited on 10.08.2007 1:55 PM PDT]

  • 10.08.2007 1:54 PM PDT
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why were all the online only achievements made for ranked FFA, when the majority of players prefer team games?

also, why was the way films are saved changed from the beta? its nice to have the film temporarily stored in case we forgot to save it after the match, but it would be nice to save immediately in case we're on a run and forget later on to switch lobbies and save it.

  • 10.08.2007 1:55 PM PDT
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Where do you get these questions? 'Cause I'd love to ask one: why did you ever re-merge the Big Team Battle gametypes? A lot of us don't want to spend 20 minutes trapped in an objective gametype we didn't want to play when all we really wanted was a game of Big Team Slayer. Are there any plans to bring BTB Slayer back?

  • 10.08.2007 2:35 PM PDT