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Yea it hasn't been working for me either. Why is the playlist set at 13 people when they let groups of 4 in? but yea idk what's going on with it.

  • 10.31.2007 12:48 AM PDT

I'm not drunk, I'm just exhausted 'cause I've been up all night drinking.

they owe me an hour more on this bs cause it hasent been workin for the whole first hour and i have been tryin the min that it came out still have not gotten a single game .


jk still love ya im just gettin annoyed that i cant play :(

  • 10.31.2007 12:55 AM PDT
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THIS IS NOT WORKING IN PARTIES! YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE. BUNGIE NEEDS TO FIX THIS.

  • 10.31.2007 1:05 AM PDT
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Thank You!

  • 10.31.2007 1:19 AM PDT

Right, this is not working in parties. Well, it is--with the following caveats: One's wait time is directly proportional to one's party size; and one's chance of finding a game is inversely proportional to party size.

Something tells me this has to do with the playlist size being 13 players, and a large number of people entering with parties of 4 (or parties of 3, or 2, for that matter, since 13 happens to be a prime number). The system tries to match up parties of similar size, which as one can see, will be wont to create problems.

  • 10.31.2007 1:29 AM PDT
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As fun as this was going to be, I'm finding that these gametypes really aren't that fun.

  • 10.31.2007 1:35 AM PDT

Invisible zombies that don't die with a single shotgun blast or--get this--a rocket do not make for a fun gametype. One's best chance to score points is often by starting as a zombie.

  • 10.31.2007 1:48 AM PDT
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The maps were pretty well done, and gave me some ideas for some more of my soon-to-be-famous infection maps, but giving the zombies shields, while they are invisible, AND damage resistence....come now bungie. The only gametype that was even remotely fun was "One last bullet" or whatever. Same movement speed as players, but changed gravity, makes it seem like the zombies move even slower. Plus, if you are going to give them camo, it should be poor camo, and only on the Alpha zombies if at that. I stayed up until 2am to play this, and i'm really wishing i didn't. Because i spent over half that time waiting to get matched up with nothing. I do, however, have a picture from my camera phone of me and a friend being the first 2 people playing (population says 0). I think we should get recon armor for this.

  • 10.31.2007 1:58 AM PDT
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I'm sure when everyone started out it said 0. When i started with my three other friends it said population 0. Now it says 19000 and it hasn't let me in a match in 15 mins now. The zombies shouldn't have any shields though, cuz it's pointless to try to stay as a human if you want to get points. People are just running right to the zombie so they can become one. They should fix these things and run this for a while longer so we get to actually play some good infection games.

  • 10.31.2007 2:02 AM PDT
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BRAINSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 10.31.2007 2:06 AM PDT

No, no really...I love having my ass handed to me by a squeaky voiced 8 year old...seriously!

whinge whinge...moan...whinge.

Quit whining.

Get playing.

If you get your human comrades to work better as a team in the first place you should easily be able to hold off even invisible badass zombies - that's why there are fortified zones for you to hold.

Brits Rule

  • 10.31.2007 2:09 AM PDT
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So we should just play it and be quite about how silly they made some of the gametypes? Thats really thoughtful response. If this were a map or another game from Bungie, i wouldn't be whining, and i would be playing. BUT making a gametype takes all of 45 seconds. They decided to do about the only thing wrong they could do, and give the zombies shields and damage resistance. Invisibility is hardly a problem, its when everything is stacked that it becomes silly. Fortified zones do pretty much nothing when all the zombies have hammers and damage resistence.

  • 10.31.2007 2:28 AM PDT
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When I search by myself I get matched up every time but when I'm in a party with anyone it goes nowhere.

  • 10.31.2007 2:30 AM PDT
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Its -blam!- me and friend wait in room for like 15 minutes and it cant find anyone.
Ive got to play 1 game that was it and that was from 10 minutes of waiting played for 5 havent played a game since and tried for over hour now.
Yet Bungie claims 15k people online

  • 10.31.2007 3:04 AM PDT
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I'm having problems with partying up and joining too. PLEASE fix this. BTW I REALLY like this new variant for ranked matches. PLEASE BUNGIE....KEEP IT!

  • 10.31.2007 3:38 AM PDT

I love the smell of badass in the morning.

Can't wait for New Year's, Grunt Birthday Party on Spartans !!!!

  • 10.31.2007 3:53 AM PDT

Yea i hate makin a custom for Zombies i just wanna play i dont care if its social or invisable zombies. great job bungie zombies ftw! p.s. if i did something wrong i dotn no how to post =p

  • 10.31.2007 3:53 AM PDT
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Well, just tried to play this gametype but seems i cant. took about 5 mins to find a game with max players and when it did it restarted the search. It did this 3 times before i turned off my xbox as i gave it up as a bad job. Any ideas on why? i've had no problems playing slayer etc in the past.

  • 10.31.2007 4:15 AM PDT

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Couple of Gripes...

1. Zombies are way too difficult. The fun of zombies is to be able to get tons of kills. Its becomes quite monotonous. If this was planned, so be it... But it's not that fun.
2. Invisible...?
3. Bonus points for last man standing.

  • 10.31.2007 4:20 AM PDT

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Well, at first I thought "Oh cool", but after a few games I have this to say:

What an awful choice of gametypes!
Shotguns and lazers, without the ability to pick up new weapons? When the zombies have shields?

What were you thinking?

It is far too easy as a zombie, and far too hard as a human.
Please, please add some plain old Infection, or at least give the humans a fairer chance!

  • 10.31.2007 4:49 AM PDT

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good stuff, I'm hella excited to play tonight

  • 10.31.2007 5:09 AM PDT

"You think it is over, but the games have just begun."

What a blast! ^_^
I'm having a blast playing this playlist. It's always fun to hear people just before the game starts "i hope I'm not a zombie!"
I don't have any complaints. Helps you work on your lazer aiming. Unlimited rockets is nice also.

Never had so much fun with other people. "-blam!-, we're the last 2 up here." "-blam!-, this is scary!!" "BRAINS!!!"
And also seeing 12 other people just going after one person. He probably needs to change his pants when he sees a whole army coming at him.

I became the last one standing in the middle of Guardian and I was scared when I saw all the red dots around me. Went and looked at in Theatre and saw I had enemies coming from everywhere at me. I was laughing when I saw it.

Thanks Bungie!!!

  • 10.31.2007 5:33 AM PDT

Halo's a hell of a drug.

This should stay till the weekend. I wonder what game type Bungie will put out on Christmas and Thanksgiving?

  • 10.31.2007 5:59 AM PDT

I swear Bungie could give everyone black recon armor with a flaming head and someone would complain that the contrast between the flames and the black gives away their position. Is there ANYTHING we can just be happy about? Infection is fun, if it's not your cup of tea don't play it. I never liked zombies in H2 but this has my seal of approval. I hope we keep it around for more than just a day, if even just a social version. Good job Bungie and thanks for making a fun thing for us to do at 3:00am.

Edit: Christmas game must include a sleigh on Valhalla. I want to make a screen shot of me as santa, and someone as the red laser nosed reindeer flying across the map.

Thanks Giving.. put all the complainers that have no basis on the same chopping block as the turkeys, and turn the hammer into an axe.

[Edited on 10.31.2007 6:03 AM PDT]

  • 10.31.2007 5:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: TEAM HOLT
Why isn't Infection, as well as all the other game modes that came with the game, in the playlists by default? Playing vanilla Slayer and Shotty Snipers all the time gets boring, doubly so when you just get bounced between the same two or three maps over and over again.

They're game modes that shipped with the game, they should be supported by matchmaking.



I completely agree 100% on this one, while I do enjoy Bungie matchmaking I can't help but feel a little bullied by this technique. I love infection but it takes a lot of coordination offline to get enough of my friends on-line at the same time to make the game type worth it. Bungie I appreciate the love of trying to do something different with the differernt holidays and while it keeps things fresh I just feel cheated, Infection was such a popular player created game type in Halo 2 that you actually created it to be supported by Halo 3, why can't we keep our playlist??

  • 10.31.2007 6:42 AM PDT