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im a little confused. why did the medals go onto our ranked but the kills went to our social?

  • 11.01.2007 7:38 AM PDT

Didn't like this because I couldn't play it with my friends.

  • 11.01.2007 8:20 AM PDT
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I did really have a lot of fun on the temporary playlist. But not being able to play with friends was a huge let down. If these do come back, playing with ends would be the biggest thing to look forward to.

7hanks BUNGIE!

  • 11.01.2007 8:27 AM PDT
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This was fun. I like the special playlists! It would have been nice to have it longer, you know... for us working folks that only have a couple of hours to play on a week night. I also would have liked to have been able to play with my friends, that's my only gripe. All in all, it was good times... BRING ON THE SPECIAL PLAYLISTS! What will the play list be for Thanksgiving?!!?!?! Thanks for effort, unique ideas like this are always welcome and appreciated by the community.

  • 11.01.2007 8:49 AM PDT
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Look: I know you guys are American, but I am not (no offense though).
I don't celebrate Haloween or Thanksgiving (again no offense, because if you didn't, I wouldn't have had zombies).
Is bungie going to make special events on celebration days in other countries?
Like carnaval?

PS: keep up the good work BUNGIE!!!

  • 11.01.2007 8:54 AM PDT
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Thank you!!!! Thank You!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!
It was a refreshing treat to play this. I like the subtle use of the # 13.
Please make this permanent!!!
At least give us extra time for the lost time if you were trying to go in with a party.

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!!!
Can't wait to see what is next!

  • 11.01.2007 9:03 AM PDT
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I'm with you, man... it was REALLY unclear if multiple players were able to start Matchmaking. If you have 3 players and try Campaign, the game lets you know there are too many. Same with multiple people on Lone Wolves. IT WOULD LET YOU KNOW. Big props to Bungie for letting us sit through 10 minutes of unsuccessful Matchmaking with a friend. =P /slap

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  • 11.01.2007 9:13 AM PDT
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Thanks Bungie for the fun Halloween treat. It was an interesting change of pace from the other gametypes. I particularly liked the map names and the fact that the playlist had room for 13 players. Very appropriate. Always so clever with the numbers, aren't you?

It was fun, but I think it could use a little tweaking. In some games, the last man standing would decide that instead of getting killed and letting us move on to the next round he would repeatedly jump off the edge of the map. Of course he kept suffering a penalty, which is good, but it was boring for the rest of us having to wait for the timer to end or someone to be lucky enough to be near him and kill him when he spawned.

The variations on the maps were cool, though I noticed some issues when a large number of barrels would explode--usually I'd see "lag" or unusual physics for a second or two. Not a big deal, but looked a little wonky.

Infection seems to have a bit of a bug in it when you first spawn on either team. It takes about a second for you to join a team after spawning, and as such you show up as an enemy to other players (red on the radar and in the reticle). I saw numerous cases of teamkills because of this--a player would spawn in front of you and appear to be an enemy and you'd respond by lunging at them only to be punished with a betrayal. Not cool.

I also noticed in some matches that zombie (and sometimes human) players decided they would just run around and teamkill the other players, either just to grief or, more likely, to get more kills or be the one who killed the last man standing. This didn't happen a lot, but it was annoying when it did.

Finally, although the variations on the gametype were interesting, I didn't get to see many of them--it seemed like most of the time a majority of the people would veto anytime they saw the creeping or rocket variant (and then complain if the new gametype was similar). I don't know if many people really didn't want to play them or if it was just because one or two people were vehemently yelling "Veto this! This gametype sucks! You don't want to play it!" Of course, I instantly mute anyone who yells veto. :)

Regardless of these issues, it was a fun diversion. Thanks!

  • 11.01.2007 9:24 AM PDT

Thanks Bungie I was going to go to the bar last night... but I ended up playing infection untill 4am. Nice suprise though more stuff like this in the future please it was really fun.

  • 11.01.2007 9:31 AM PDT
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Interesting playlist. Save one bullet was fun, but I didn't like camo zombies at all. Zombies should not have shields, camo, resistance or a radar. Save one bullet was good, but the zombies didn't die enough.

A zombie playlist would own. Have a different leveling system, that makes it still just as hard to get to a high level as in normal playlists, and it would work well.

Definitely bring something like this back in the future. Maybe some sort of reward for a certain level?

  • 11.01.2007 9:34 AM PDT

"Inveniam Viam Aut Facium" _~

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I must be blind, I couldn't find the playlist.... I wanted to play. Now I am sad panda, and nobody likes a sad panda.

  • 11.01.2007 9:37 AM PDT

Bungie, thank you so very much for making this playlist. Although no friends were allowed, I love this gametype, but don't have enough friends w/ 360s to play custom games with...

I hope it becomes a staple of the playlists in the future!

  • 11.01.2007 9:46 AM PDT

Sucks I didn't get to try this playlist out. I guess that's what I get for having a life on Halloween.

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  • 11.01.2007 10:06 AM PDT

Eat Me!

The Halloween content was wicked fun. Ok, some of it was fun. Creeping anything is a horrible idea, like popped collars.

They only problem I found with all of this is that you cant add zombies to any of the other game types. Bungie please fix this horrible oversight! Everything is better with zombies. That and its kind of your job; you promised the tools to play halo the way we want to play it.

Zombies in other game types! Make it happen!

  • 11.01.2007 10:09 AM PDT

Thank You Bungie for the playlist.

If you do it again dont but creeping anything back in as no one I played with liked those gametypes.

  • 11.01.2007 10:10 AM PDT

Be determined and advance. - Hagakure

Thanks Bungie. Again you showed you care about keeping the community happy. This was a great idea. While you can't please everyone, I'm sure most of us are super psyched that more of this will happen in the future. Small bummer was not being able to play with friends but we made up for it by playing custom infection games.

Also now we have some of these new maps saved, right? You should post them and the gametypes somewhere for download. I didn't get to play every variant which I would like to. Sure others feel the same way.

Thanks again!

  • 11.01.2007 10:17 AM PDT

Be determined and advance. - Hagakure

Also I learned a few things from the official playlist:

• the more people playing infection the better
• invisible zombies are terrifyingly hard to kill
• being a human with rockets is not such a big advantage
• team-killing humans can be more dangerous than zombies
• always equip zombies with toothpicks because brains get stuck in your teeth.

  • 11.01.2007 10:28 AM PDT
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I want a refund. No one could join in a party, and creeping anything was horribible.

  • 11.01.2007 10:52 AM PDT
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Wow! What a great way to end Hallows eve! I don't know of any other company that offers the same kind of online support that Bungie does. Sure other people throw out maps here and there but bungie has really taken online playing to the next level. I just wish more people would appreciate what Bungie does for the online community, instead of complaining about not liking were the shotgun is placed on Highground and things of that nature. Really Bungie would'nt have to do any of the things they do. But thats not how they roll baby! They love and play this game just as much as we do and I can't think of anything to complain about, and I cant wait for the next surprise.
THANKS BUNGIE

  • 11.01.2007 10:54 AM PDT
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Wow! What a great way to end Hallows eve! I don't know of any other company that offers the same kind of online support that Bungie does. Sure other people throw out maps here and there but bungie has really taken online playing to the next level. I just wish more people would appreciate what Bungie does for the online community, instead of complaining about not liking were the shotgun is placed on Highground and things of that nature. Really Bungie would'nt have to do any of the things they do. But thats not how they roll baby! They love and play this game just as much as we do and I can't think of anything to complain about, and I cant wait for the next surprise.
THANKS BUNGIE


I agree I LOVE BUNGIE because they are very help at everything.

  • 11.01.2007 11:03 AM PDT
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Yea it would have been fun in all. To bad my 360 decided to get the three red lights syndrom right on Halloween eve.

  • 11.01.2007 11:32 AM PDT
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ive had the most fun in this playlist so far

u gotta bring it back bungie!!!

  • 11.01.2007 12:08 PM PDT
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THe living dead was fun to play but lag made it unfortunately difficult to compete.

I'm playing in New zealand and am used to a little lag disadvantage but I think that play list had more lag than normal games cause I was continually getting hosed. Once I had used up my laser I'd be lucky to get one shotgun kill. The sword and hammer were worse I would have the drop, go through the full swing animation complete with noise and still be dead. No chance of picking up those spree medals for me.

Played a couple of games late with a lot of NZ players and got matched with the umpa lumpa lord (don't know where he was from) a couple of times, He was literally untouchable you had no chance of killing him. He was winning every game by 10 and racking up every medal in the process. Eventually I had to leave avoid player - too skilled feedback though he wasn't too skilled his lag just made it impossible to play with him. Makes you feel like a -blam!- but -blam- dude there was no point in playing when he was sauntering through you like a hot knife through butter.

KOD

  • 11.01.2007 12:34 PM PDT

I guess I would have to disagree with the majority of people and say that I really enjoyed the "creeping" gametypes. They were different and not really any worse than the other types.

  • 11.01.2007 12:43 PM PDT
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Thank you Bungie for the innovative new playlist! H3 rocks!!!

I was unhappy with the scoring for Infection, however. When I started as the 1st Zombie, I won 12 to 4 or 5 (2nd and 3rd). I had lots of targets, and only one of them could kill me at a time. If I was human, and didn't die until 2/3 or 3/4 of the way through the game, I might have gotten 1 or 2 kills by then, but then I'm parterned up with 9 other zombies, with only 3 possible kills left for the bunch. It seemed like starting as a zombie was a BIG advantage. I'd like to see some sort of bonus for surviving as a human. (pre-flame warning) I know there's the last man standing, but how about a bonus for each minute your survive. Otherwise, the alpha-zombie wins...

  • 11.01.2007 12:45 PM PDT