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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 11/9/07
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Team Slayer: Guardian has been added to the playlist / Valhalla has been added to Team Slayer. Pardon me but wasn't they already in the playlists?

Guardian linked here in one of my games http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=832748 89&player=II%20Bagelzend%20II dated 10/23/2007, 12:04 PM PDT in Team slayer playlist. (page 8 of my Game History - inacase the link doesn't work)


I believe it was only available if the game happened to be a 3v3

  • 11.10.2007 7:27 AM PDT
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Lone Wolves:

* Player count has been increased to 6 players
* Swords gametype has been added
* Oddball games on Snowbound and Epitaph have been reduced considerably

WTFFFF. man never has an update pissed me off so much. social doubles is gone, and they added SWORD to lone wolves? wtf man, trying to sell this gametype to the -blam!- players? wow such bull-blam!-.

  • 11.10.2007 7:48 AM PDT
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I think it would be interesting if the global heatmaps could be filtered by rank.

For example, show only results for games where the average player skill is below 20, or above 40.

I think this would help keep the information relevant to the person looking at it, as well as help identify what the better players are doing that the lesser players are not. Yes, to a certain extent you could do this by looking at one high-ranked player's maps, but it would be nice to pull a wider cross-section.

Oh, and everyone should just relax. Things changed. They'll change again.

  • 11.10.2007 8:09 AM PDT
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What if for a new map, there was something similar in size to Sandtrap, but instaed of having elephants to drive there were scarabs you could drive? To get on the scarab when it's parked, there would be some sort of grav lift boostin you into it. It would be sooooooo much fun!

  • 11.10.2007 8:26 AM PDT
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MrGyro:

Why do you care social doubles is gone, were you one of the people who was using 3 guests in it to stat boost? And so what swords is in lone wolves, just VETO it!

  • 11.10.2007 8:31 AM PDT

Dali Lama says to the hotdog vendor:

"Make me one with everything."

Holy crap... Smoken update... Great news on all fronts.

Thanks!!!!!!

  • 11.10.2007 8:39 AM PDT
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How do peple get 1st post do they jst sit and wait on their comp until the Update comes lol

  • 11.10.2007 8:39 AM PDT

I have walked among man and angels for three thousand years...
time has no begining, no end, no purpose...
i wander the earth, seeking forgivness for my own crimes against God and man...
i wish to seek death, destruction over the light, but the light cannot be extinguished...
i live in a prison of my own demise...i am lost in time...

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awww, i liked social doubles, playing swords and hammerzeit was really fun, and it was a break from the very competitive ranked doubles

  • 11.10.2007 8:46 AM PDT
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So your removing Social Doubles, adding a hammer game to Multi team, but still no HC, awesome guys awesome :(

  • 11.10.2007 8:53 AM PDT

Any news on when the bloody "Information could not be retrieved from the Halo 3 server" issue is gonna get fixed? I can play in custom games with friends if I invite them or they invite me, but I cant use File Share or Matchmaking.

This issue has been going on for one and a half month.

  • 11.10.2007 9:03 AM PDT
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Why take Social Doubles out?!?!?

Bungie - 1

[Edited on 11.10.2007 9:15 AM PST]

  • 11.10.2007 9:08 AM PDT
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What playlist will rocket race be on? I wanna play it!

  • 11.10.2007 9:10 AM PDT
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i like the idea of changing the hoppers but i'd still like to see a hardcore playlist :o

  • 11.10.2007 9:10 AM PDT
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Social Doubles should stay!!! That was one of my favorites! But Bungie cares only for the stupid school girls who only care about their stats so they can brag about on Monday in their 7th grade history class. Bungie cares nothing about having fun playing their game.

[Edited on 11.10.2007 9:16 AM PST]

  • 11.10.2007 9:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: DeadlyTedyBear
Posted by: Kagebutsu
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"REALLY BUNGIE, you could have fooled me since you have fixed absolutely nothing, no hardcore, no swat, no snipers."

Bungie does not respond to whiney children, nor should they. :)


Nor do they listen to little pricks like yourself who suck so much they don't care about playlists that actually require skill. Lvl 25 much?


WoW can any one say 14 year old with major anger problems

Well bungie this is an amazing update i cant wait for the new maps and i think it was a great idea to take away social doubles so people stop boosting as much because its pethetic to have some one be a grade 4 general but have only 200 ranked games and 5200+ social games and most of them social doubles - ive never played rocket race before i hope its good


So its better to stop people from boosting their exp then having fun actually playing something they like? How does that make any sense? Why does anyone care about exp? I want to meet the person who actually "brags" about their H3 exp! Seriously because I need a good laugh.

My buddy and I used to play social double exclusively, not because we were trying to get exp but because it was fun as hell. We could drink all night, have a good time and play H3 and do pretty well.

Oh well, thank GOD COD4 came out.

  • 11.10.2007 9:23 AM PDT
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I am lovin' the fact there's gonna be a rocket race gametype in the social playlists. Here's for hoping that one of those new maps is big enough for it! 2 maps for RR is fun but..... repeditive.

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  • 11.10.2007 9:39 AM PDT
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Nice update, love the Heatmap. THat's the story of most od my games on Guardian.

Anyway, Why Social Doubles? There's nothing more fun than bringing a party of 4 into social doubles and get EXP for whooping your friends. PLus, I use it as a warm-up for Team Doubles, because i can't play without a warm-up match or two.

Congratulations, you caved into the whiny community that couldn't get achievements without your help. So you give them swords matches, wa to ruin a great playlist. Now i'll be seeing everyone get their overkill, steppin' razor, and killing frenzy achievements like they're goin out of style, while I earned mine the hard way. Now i won't be able to play Lone Wolves without a bunch of people asking "Can I get my steppin' razor achievement?" And i'll probably be the only veto. I only like swords when one person has it, so you don't have that lunge crap, b/c that's only fun in custom games to me.

  • 11.10.2007 9:45 AM PDT
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Would it not have been much more efficient if they just got rid of the ability to enter Social Doubles with 4 players? That way everyone can still enjoy a skill level-less social 2 vs 2 game without those -blam!-mooks boosting their ranks. Taking away the entire game mode seems a little extreme to me...

  • 11.10.2007 9:53 AM PDT

Don't ask about the name-- it's a long story

They're finally gonna add Swords to Lone Wolves! Now it's gonna be a lot easier to get Steppin Razor.
As for the vehicle tweaks... Rocket 'Hog anyone?
EDIT: Or maybe instead of the regular Rocket 'Hog, make a Warthog with a Missle Pod turret on the back! Better than the original Rocket 'Hog. But the firing rate could be adjusted so it can be balanced. Besides, it'll make a great vehicle for Rocket Race! Escort Driving, VIP on the turret.

[Edited on 11.11.2007 7:30 AM PST]

  • 11.10.2007 9:58 AM PDT
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I'm happy about the matchmaking changes, thanks!

  • 11.10.2007 10:00 AM PDT
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once again, another update, and still no news about the machinima problems over xbox live, thanks again.

  • 11.10.2007 10:07 AM PDT
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When are the new maps coming?

  • 11.10.2007 10:18 AM PDT

Style is everything.

Nice post. I really like the short and sweet part about the melee system. How bout you guys make an update thats actually useful. Instead of wasting time, energy and effort on adding sword and rocket game types, how about you eliminate Snowbound or at least take out the shield doors. Hears a question. Why on gods green earth would you make it so kids can camp on a fast paced FPS? I'll cut this short. Heres a few things you guys might want to think about changing.
-Shotgun, and Mauler range the fact that the mauler is strong as it is. So why is it duel wieldable?
-The amount of damage that grenades do.
-When people get sniped in the head and blood squirts they should die.
-The fusion core respawn, now that in it self doen't even make any sense.
-Team Tactical, again with the camping Bungie! What were you thinking? Eliminate tactical and make Big team ranked. Your H2 MM list was descent this one is garbage.
-try adding odd ball and KotH in Objective.
Oh, back time my little rant about Snowbound and camping, if you can't eliminate that awful excuse for a map, then try taking it, Guardian and Epitaph out of the lineup. Seriously all people do is hide in H3, why encourage that. I thought it was supposed to be fast paced, not who can hide on the other end of shield doors with a shotgun.
So once again instead of making this game more noob friendly, lets stop worrying about file uploads, adding swords or hammers to Matchmaking. And worry about stuff that will increase the level of competition and make your game more skilled.

[Edited on 11.10.2007 4:27 PM PST]

  • 11.10.2007 10:26 AM PDT
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I don't know if anyone has already asked this but is this why you are getting rid of social doubles?

  • 11.10.2007 10:28 AM PDT
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nice update i didnt like social doubles all that much there was too many bad gamtypes in it. But i want to hear more on what u guys are doing with the beat down situation because that is a pretty big problem. And last WHERE IS TEAM HARDCORE!!!!!!!

  • 11.10.2007 10:34 AM PDT