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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 11/9/07
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Posted by: STD Spanky
my mate and I used to play Halo 1 non-stop so I'd love to see some remakes of Halo 1 maps make their way into future DLC
death island, timberland. I can't remember the names of all of them but I'd really wanna play at em again on the 360


Bring back Sidewinder PLEASE!

  • 11.12.2007 8:58 AM PDT

~!J-Dub Christians!~

so you say that odball on snowbound and epitaph have been reduced considerably? thats funny because just last night, I played about 3 or 4 odball games on snowbound consecutively. And everytime we vetoed something, it went to odball... whats up with that man? It was either odball or Crazy King,,, Mostly everyone I talked to that played Lone Wolves last night, said that that kept happeneing to them too. It's hard to get achievments and such during odball, but that just may be me! LOL anywayz, yeah please look into that. Would like to see more slayer and more diverse games than just objective games. If I wanted to play objective games, I would choose them. A few here and there is fine but yeah, so anywayz yeah, ok bye!

  • 11.12.2007 9:31 AM PDT
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WHY ARE YOU REMOVING SOCIAL DOUBLES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • 11.12.2007 9:39 AM PDT
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yeah dont remove it,its so fun,espeacialy when you have friends taht arnt as good as you and you dont wanna risk your rank.

  • 11.12.2007 9:47 AM PDT
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Why would y'all put swords on Lonewolf!!! Dammit that is a -blam!- gametype, plus people just sit there and chunk grenades all game anyway! BOO swords..

  • 11.12.2007 10:10 AM PDT
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Congrats on the 777,777,777 games played, u guys and gals are doing a great job.

  • 11.12.2007 10:49 AM PDT
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Thank god for more Team Slayer maps! I like all the maps, but some seemed too repetitive.

Also, please make some object changes on Isolation to make it less "vetoable"

  • 11.12.2007 11:53 AM PDT
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Yeah i just wish that bungie would fix my security shoulders, they locked up on me after i had already played the Ark on the meta game and unlocked them. Now i dont think i can get them back, cuz ive retried it like 5 times

  • 11.12.2007 12:37 PM PDT
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I love the ideas of being put into halo 3 because the heat is showing people the areas controlled and used the most during games. it allows many people to see what people play like whether they are campers or people you can never find. But i disagree with it at the same time for one reason it may make it lag which is what you are going to wait and see. But is also may make it very hard to see whether its on the first or second floor or the basement. will you be able to change the directions of the camera like a game preview is able to?

  • 11.12.2007 12:53 PM PDT

"Go then. There are other worlds than these."

Sounds like some interesting changes. Yay for swords and rocket race! Also, Team Slayer on Valhalla is very cool.

  • 11.12.2007 2:04 PM PDT
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I am so thoroughly disappointed that the cheaters had to ruin everything for me. My favorite playlist by far was Social Doubles. I understand that there has been a lot of boosting on it, but people are going to boost anyways. Why do I have to pay for something they've done? Now the gametype I enjoy most is gone, and I have to settle with camping retards in Team Doubles. For me, that's the difference between the two. And that's also why I have used Team Doubles to get my level 41 and have not been playing it since. It's not fun to play, and I hate having to worry about my ranking. I can't warm up for it now, either, because the Social variant is now gone.

Look at my records: I don't boost. There are times when people are rubber-banding their controllers and I encounter a permanent loser from somebody else's boosting match, but what do I do at that point? Back out and lose EXP? Sit there for 10 minutes?

I'm very appreciative that Bungie is, as always, heavily supporting their community. I've had the same complaint everybody else has had. I'm sick of seeing General Grade 3's who have boosted thousands of Social Doubles matches to get their rank.

Halo 3 might be seeing a lot less playtime from me. There's very few ranked types I like to play, and most of the social variants suck. Social Doubles is the perfect match for me. Less walking targets, and you have to account for every kill and death instead of running in, ganging up, or taking potshots at people. Aside from the campers, which I would get over because it's a Social gametype, the match was the perfect combination of teamwork and being accountable for your own performance.

But, hey, I'm probably one of those that won't reach Bungie's ears, so what am I to do? I guess I'll just go out and buy COD4 to keep me busy.

  • 11.12.2007 3:14 PM PDT
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Just when is the update to occur. My system has not updated any matchmaking playlists. So something must be happening in the future even though the article makes it sound like it already happened. Let us know.

  • 11.12.2007 3:32 PM PDT
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AA Wraith Rules!

AA Wraith WILL BE IN MULTIPLAYER!

  • 11.12.2007 5:01 PM PDT
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i never liked social doubles

  • 11.12.2007 6:03 PM PDT

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If you don't like to play a lot of the ranked variants of games, why do you also care about your rank so much?

Just play ranked doubles as if it was social. Warm up on it etc. That way your rank will get attuned to how hard you are trying/how well you are playing and give you good, even matches that aren't full of campers. Just don't care about how high it gets and use it for it's intended purpose - to find you fun matches!!

I wrote a real nice reply to the Melee's and other issues and then my connection crapped out on me! I lost it all, that'll teach me to type into a browser. (Yet again... I'm still not learning - here I am doing the same thing AGAIN!)

Anyway - SO glad to know you are looking into melee's, the current system really sucks. Badly.
I also hope you might return the physics side of melee's. One where gravity counts. A running melee does more damage etc. I hate to see things go backwards and it was a really good part of Halo 2.
I hope that others agree that the melee system needs changing - perhaps the timing of what is considered "simultaneaous" needs adjusting. Democracy FTW!! ;)

  • 11.12.2007 6:11 PM PDT
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Guys the updates haven't actually been put into play yet, they will be soon. So stop complaining if you had to play Oddball on snowbound last night, it will be gone soon. So just be happy that it IS going:)

These updates are awesome though, cept for the swords on lone wolves, dunno bout that. But taking out Epitah and Snowbound on oddball is a GREAT idea, those stupid force feilds make it impossible to get the oddball off anyone.
And Valhalla on team slayer is going to be great, i been wanting that for way too long:)

  • 11.12.2007 7:21 PM PDT

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! I DRINK IT UP!

Art Vandelay sounds awesome and good joke.

  • 11.12.2007 7:52 PM PDT

Style is everything.

I completely agree with you man, they -blam!- garbage at makin updates. All these kids are like good job bungie when Bungies not even doin anything. I agree Bungie is garbage.

  • 11.12.2007 10:07 PM PDT

I swear to DRUNK, I'm not GOD!

I don't know if anyone has already asked this but is this why you are getting rid of social doubles?

WOAH!!! Holy Mary Jesus and Joseph! That's freaking insane! This guy is cheating the system! He hasn't won a single match! He just levels up over and over and over because his friend on the other team keeps forfeiting the game, and he ends up leveling up! Seriously! Check this guy's game history here It's insane, it really is!

  • 11.12.2007 10:08 PM PDT
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I think those heat maps are really goining to help out, it will be easier to find where most people are and be able to counter act their strikes.

  • 11.12.2007 10:48 PM PDT
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The heat maps may be cool but right now they are really slowing down the functionality of the site. Whenever I look at someone else's stats(or my own) it takes 5-10 x longer then usual and sometimes freezes entirely. Can this be looked into?

  • 11.13.2007 2:33 AM PDT
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No more social doubles? So how do I practice before my ranked games?? :( I'm glad that we get to suffer because of a small number of cheaters. Yay.

And ranked swords? Are you serious!? Is there any other game that's based less on skill? (Apart from rockets) Very disappointed to see swords on the ranked FFA playlist. May mean I give up playing Halo 3 multiplayer all-together. At least until there's a playlist with a decent amount of straight slayer games in it (glad to see less oddball, though, on that note... less crazy king would be good, too!). I am very worried that the priorities of the people setting up the playlists are focused on playing silly, unpredictable game types, rather than tests of the players' skills at playing Halo 3.

Ah well, at least team fortress looks pretty good...

  • 11.13.2007 2:42 AM PDT

Just ballin' with powah, dawg.

I kind of agree with you but I still like the other play lists and why can't bungie just make it so social doubles gives no exp, because that would keep everyone happy

  • 11.13.2007 6:59 AM PDT
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I want to know what happen to the prox talking, I hear nothing like I did in halo 2 comming through the TV. Is this still something that works in halo 3 or do I have something setup wrong? It just seems that I never hear the other team durring a match at all.

  • 11.13.2007 7:53 AM PDT