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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/26/07
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I like the "new maps" idea but why do you constantly make large maps that support vehicles? I know bungie went to MLG Nationals, were there any maps that used vehicles? NO!
Just bring back back the following halo 2 maps EXACTLY, don't change where weapons spawn or espicially how players respawn. Keep them the SAME:
Midship
Warlock
Sanctuary
Ivory Tower
Beaver Creek
Also bring back the following Halo CE maps only changing the magnums for Battle Rifles:
Chillout
Damnation
Prisoner
I'd suggest Derelict and Hang 'em High, but you guys already destroyed those maps in Halo 2.
The Bad players have Campaign and the Good players have Multiplayer, don't take that away from us too.

  • 10.28.2007 12:13 PM PDT

Fresh out the shower only way I could be washed up!

i dont kno so much that the melee got fixed cuz sum BS happened to me 2day but then again melee is a tricky thing anyway and ya I'd def like to see new maps and not hug ones like Sandtrap but medium to small like Snowbound, Highground, or Gaurdian

  • 10.28.2007 1:44 PM PDT
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you are NOT all that

cool

  • 10.28.2007 2:11 PM PDT
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New maps huh? PLEASE PLEASE let it be a new Lockout. Even if its exactly the same as the one in halo 2 t it would still be great (maybe better because they might mess it up if they add stuff to it). Im positive that it was the most played map on halo 2 custom games so i'm sure everyone wants to see it again.

  • 10.28.2007 3:08 PM PDT
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Dynamic. Guardian is pretty much the new Lockout already. :P As well as it being my favorite map.

  • 10.28.2007 3:29 PM PDT

Check out my video, I also sniped myself in the face...the bullet goes from seawall cave, bounces below froman, then off the back wall, and hits me right in the brains. It's pretty hilarious. So um....yeah, check it out on my file share.

  • 10.28.2007 3:32 PM PDT
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i got a vid on sandtrap.my brother hit the mongoose on the elephant with a gravity hammer and it sails across and hits me head on thus ripping my face off and killing me.also i think people who get all achievments should get recon

  • 10.28.2007 3:42 PM PDT
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sweet stuff and i got a cool vid of one of my friends he was about to go get a mongoose when it randomly ran away.

  • 10.28.2007 5:08 PM PDT

I live to ride as I stay alive to die another day!

Well since we are all talking about videos and showing some funny stuff I got a video of me not dieing what so ever I got the perfection badge (black diamond badge) for getting a perfect game. I got 16 kills and no deaths I'm pretty proud of that accomplishment.

  • 10.28.2007 5:25 PM PDT

--*whispered*"Hold still I'm Going to Assassinate You"(the funny thing is that it has worked)--
↨↨↨Im the TedyBearOfDeath you should be scared.↨↨↨

i deffinately think that people with all achievements should NOT get recon. for one people are helping eachother get achievemnets which takes away the glory of getting them all and you already get armour for getting all the achievemnts why would you get more???????

  • 10.28.2007 5:25 PM PDT
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nice update! im excited to see more about these new maps. and im glad you guys are looking into the melee. i totally get what you mean about it looking bad even though its working right. would be funny if a new animation was the only fix it needed. but there are a few things i dont get.

rankings being not a goal, but a tool...
a) then why show them at all? obviously i can understand a 45 not wanting to go into ranked with a 20 and not know it. but you guys put something else in place that does the same thing and is my next question.
b) why is it tied to advancement in your EXP rank? so if you can just look at someones skill rank number, then why does the EXP rank system not allow promotions until you reach a certain skill rank? that in itself implies a goal doesnt it? it would be a good way to tell a persons skill if you COULDNT see the number. i.e. this person is a captain grade 3 so i know they have a number of games played and are somewhere in the 20's skill wise. but i can just look and see highest skill achieved. so whats the point of all that? tieing the two systems together and saying they are for separate things doesnt make any sense to me.
i think you should split them, let the EXP rank go by EXP alone. its fine when you are in the skill level range for your EXP rank, but ask a captain grade 4 if they are happy with it, or if they are given a ton of $h!7 by others for not being able to skill up and get promoted. i play alot of social matchmaking and i went into lone wolves (which i hate) for three hours one day so i could get my 40 and shut everyone up.

and for recon...
you had to know when you put it in the game for only yourselves that people would bug the hell out of you. i'll be honest, i spent $130 dollars on legendary edition only to find out that i dont get everything? that rubs me the wrong way, and it should. not only do you guys have one of the best and coolest jobs ever (people would kill for a job wiping your guys 4$$e$ and you know it), but you get the game for free, early, for FREE. and now you're annoyed because people are bugging you that they want your cool helmet. come on guys, did you really think people WOULDNT really want it? its like being a kid, taking your brand new transformer to your buddies house and not letting him play with it. you KNOW he really wants to play. why even take it over there if you just want to play with it by yourself? because you want to show off, thats why. we all did that scenario, or similar, as kids. so we all know what it is that we are seeing. childishness. hate me if you want, but you know im right.

apologies for the lengthy post

edit: i wanted to add that by recon helmet, i mean the design itself, not the flames. i like a way to identify you guys when i happen to match up against you. but the recon helmet without flames, how it looks in the service record, is what i mean. its the coolest looking one and you guys couldnt even give it to legendary edition or something? oh, and why dont i have elite shoulders on my commando? errr, you know what i mean! 1000 G in halo3 c'mon! Bothari i want a rematch!

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  • 10.28.2007 5:27 PM PDT

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I most deffinently agree like every online match on lone wolf I hear "Do you guys want to get achievements"

  • 10.28.2007 5:29 PM PDT
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yeah i'm waiting for the new maps and all, but i'm also waiting to get an update. there hasn't been one yet probably because a lot of minor changes are taking place. we need some new downloads and some new armor perms. change is good, but everything is already fine.

  • 10.28.2007 5:33 PM PDT
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nvm i got 970 gamerscore now and i finally got it back - thank god

  • 10.28.2007 5:34 PM PDT
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T_T

  • 10.28.2007 5:53 PM PDT
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1280*1024 Stretching:

I believe what the majority of 1280*1024 players want is the ability to select widescreen in the xbox console and have it show up as letterboxed 720p. Then those who like the fullscreen can still select 1280*1024 fullscreen and get what is available now, and those of us who want letterbox can select 1280*1024 widescreen and get a letterboxed widescreen image.

Its a win win situation and is how the majority of 360 games approach the problem.

That is how to fix the problem. Please do something, I'm sick of playing Halo 3 in the living room HDTV (my wife is tired of missing out on her crappy reality TV shows). I would really like to have the option to choose a letterboxed 720p image on my 1280*1024 monitor (my monitor doesn't support 1:1 pixel mapping so it stretches the widescreen).

  • 10.28.2007 6:12 PM PDT

I liked when the Marine went ballistic and just hurled this spike grenade right into the side of the Banshee. Shouldn't have expected anything less from the brilliantly creative mind of Neill Blomkamp.

I personally would not mind having a Mister Chief permutation, custom-drawn by Frankie, but you can't always get what you want.

  • 10.28.2007 6:14 PM PDT
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i'm still waiting for a update to fix the armor unlocking glitches...

  • 10.28.2007 6:20 PM PDT
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So they are going to remove the black bars in the update or they aren't? He said they will do what the majority wants....as far as I know everyone has been complaining about the black bars.

  • 10.28.2007 6:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: SoloHeart
Dynamic. Guardian is pretty much the new Lockout already. :P As well as it being my favorite map.


Before Halo 3 came out i always heard that it was the new Lockout but recently i read in the Halo 3 Q&A forum from a Bungie guy that "guardian was never meant to be lockout, it was meant to be Guardian". Maybe it was intended to replace lockout, but if it was i think they really messed up. Its not that bad of a map but it doesn't match the glory of lockout. Bungie should really consider bringing it back or at least making a new small map that'll match it.

  • 10.28.2007 7:01 PM PDT
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Nice Update. I Don't know if all of you have seen this but i'll say for the other guys
After the credits theres the scene when chief goes into the cryo right?
Don't turn your xbox off at this point. Wait even further and it will show the half ship floating through Space and (Well this is my guess) but the ship is floating towards the planet onyx

  • 10.28.2007 7:06 PM PDT

New Marathon? Thanks Bungie!

nice update sux that ur giving out the Recon helmet cuz it was in easy way of identifing Bungie dudes but hopefully u guys will make another exclusive (lol l wonder if l got the helmet....) hmm that Halloween thing l get a feeling its going to be an Infection in social games want to see ur new maps hopefully theyll bundled with more armor choices?

  • 10.28.2007 7:13 PM PDT

My last thread: Why Reach Sucks

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bull -blam!-, a simultaneous smack is not actually simultaneous, its a good 5 frame window, or what like .15 second window? That's twice the time it takes me to attack and effectively nerfing the melee situations in the game. Don't fix what isn't broken.

  • 10.28.2007 7:50 PM PDT
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Bungie, you better take care of those cheaters which I have already encountered in Lone Wolves.

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Default.aspx?player=hVx NaiLeD

Check my file share for the games where I was standbyed.

  • 10.28.2007 8:09 PM PDT

People's words can only effect you if you let them do so.

[)~

Okay, this is about the traffic cone thing. Almost the exact same thing happened to N3AND3RTHAL. He pegged his friend with the cone instead of himself. His video was made two days before ZB SHOGUN's.

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13685972

What I'm trying to say is; If your name is in all caps, beware of flying traffic cones.

  • 10.28.2007 8:10 PM PDT