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hey nice update!! woot!!!

  • 11.10.2007 11:05 AM PDT
Subject: Social Doubles.
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Seriously? Naw. Seeeeeeriously? Social doubles was a blast, man... and a great way to practice for Team Doubles. That creates a huge hole in matchmaking with no casual option for the hopper. Someone mentioned an EXP boosting problem as the reason - if that's the case, why not leave the hopper open and just disable EXP gaining with it? That way, those who want to practice for Team Doubles or play with a buddy on the same box still have the ability to. If that isn't feasible, then surely there's some way...

Killing the option altogether is borderline immoral. I urge you to hear my insignificant plebian voice of reason amidst a mass of meaningless posts, Luke. Do something.

[Edited on 11.10.2007 11:14 AM PST]

  • 11.10.2007 11:13 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 11/9/07
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Team Hardcore with first patch/maps please.

  • 11.10.2007 11:26 AM PDT
Subject: Social Doubles.
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I agree.
I play Social with one of my friends whose ever on or even by myself when I just want XP and not rank from Team Doubles.
Since I'm a level 22 in that it's somewhat harder to win a game. :P
Also on the fact of XP boosting, tehcnically you can do that on ANY Social playlist if you have enough friends.
So I don't think they should take it out just fix it somehow or only give them XP if thier friends arn't on the other team.
Whatever it takes to keep it alive!!!

Other than that looking foward to the Forge and the map and stuff!

  • 11.10.2007 11:27 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 11/9/07
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Im gonna miss social doubles, mainly cuz id play with my friend as a guest and it was really good competition, but i suppose its what has to be done to end EXP boosters

  • 11.10.2007 12:03 PM PDT
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i cant believe they are removing social doubles without adding a sniper or swat gametype. Fix whats missing before taking away a great gametype like social doubles. Or change it so in shotty/snipes you can have an alien sniper rifle. I really dont know where bungie gets their crazy ideas

  • 11.10.2007 12:06 PM PDT
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and as for experience boosters, HELLO, you can still do the same thing in rumble pit but they arent taking that away!

.....not yet anyways. soon you wont be able to play with guests at all

  • 11.10.2007 12:08 PM PDT
Subject: Social Doubles.
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BRING BACK SOCIAL DOUBLES

please?

i only have one friend :(

  • 11.10.2007 12:08 PM PDT
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Just do team doubles with him then, plus you rank up with it too so it's better.

  • 11.10.2007 12:10 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 11/9/07

$50,000,000,000 REWARD!!!

Santa Claus must be stopped! He is a menace who is not only guilty of billions of counts of breaking in entering, but also runs an illegal sweatshop of midgets forced to work for no pay using stolen materials to make gifts that infringe on every company and manufacturer around the globe, causing world wide economic disasters. He is to be taken dead or alive!

Posted by: Halo 3 X360
Nice update, can't wait for the matchmaking updates. Is it possible for you guys to make it so we can talk during lone wolves? That is the main reason I don't play it, because I like to talk with my opponents. The DLC sounds really cool too, can't wait.
It would be too easy to cheat to get the acheivements that way. Players often ask for help getting to achievements in the pregame lobby, which occationally works, so if you could talk in Lone Wolves people would be able to convince everyone else not to kill eachother and get the achievements during the game.

  • 11.10.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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i understand that you rank up with team doubles but sometimes i like to have a couple warmup games, and even if i didnt they still shouldnt go taking things away already. the way i look at it is they should be concentrating on adding things not taking them away

  • 11.10.2007 12:14 PM PDT
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god forbid anybody cheats to get an achievement or two. whats the big deal ive got hundreds of the suckers and dont care about any of them. yea they are fun to unlock but talking to your opponents right as you snipe there big heads off is twice the fun. i guess the problem is that there are too many opinions, and no matter what bungie ever does, they will absolutely never please everyone, which is why i dont really care. Sometimes i forget that halo is just a game

  • 11.10.2007 12:22 PM PDT
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When does this update come out? and if it already is how do you get it?

  • 11.10.2007 12:39 PM PDT

Please Bungie, redeem yourself w/ Reach.
Halo 2 and 3 both stink out loud.
In the immortal words of Mr Horse: Halo 2? No sir, didn't like it.

Posted by: X Treme Talent
why do they take so freaking long to fix something in this game? i dont get it. just fix the melee and mauler problems already, geesh.


Yeah Valve got out a bunch of fixes for the Orange Box within a week or two of release. I'm all for testing but some of the fixes necessary can't involve *that* much regression testing. I can see the melee being a big deal, but some of the minor stuff... no.

My guess is they would rather have one big massive patch than a bunch of small ones.

Good update although I'm waiting for a response to the "player offset issue" that does not seem to be due to lag and could be contributing to a LOT of the complaints about collision detection/hitboxes/etc.

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=14148359

~telengard

  • 11.10.2007 12:42 PM PDT

Please Bungie, redeem yourself w/ Reach.
Halo 2 and 3 both stink out loud.
In the immortal words of Mr Horse: Halo 2? No sir, didn't like it.

Posted by: MrGyro
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!-.


I don't like Matchmaking in general just for this reason. Bungie can't possibly please everyone. The very smart thing to have done would have been a way for people to find the types of games they want to play rather than fixed, static (except for these occasional updates made by Bungie) playlists. They didn't learn their lesson w/ H2 it seems.

Yeah I know about custom games but it's next to impossible to get a game even started with enough people let alone have it stay together for even longer.

~telengard

  • 11.10.2007 12:46 PM PDT
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SOMEBODY PLEASE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO U GET THE DANG UPDATE. and what is rocket race or whatever it is called?

  • 11.10.2007 12:51 PM PDT

Missing the headshot from across Last Resort: 1 sniper round, -1 kill.
Having that round ricochet 3 times before coming straight back through my head: Priceless.

So Monsieur Luke... what are the chances of hearing something about the Halo movie in the next update? I'm sure that I wasn't the only one to notice that the director of the Arms Race shorts, Neil Blomkamp, is the same guy who is supposed to direct the movie, and after what I saw in those shorts I'm stoked about the possibility of a Halo movie. So what's the dealio?

  • 11.10.2007 12:52 PM PDT
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Hey, about the heatmaps, does it display where you killed the person, or where you were when you killed them?

  • 11.10.2007 2:13 PM PDT
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R.I.P. hi im tap

why are they taking out social doubles?!??!!? that's so -blam!-

  • 11.10.2007 2:20 PM PDT
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i enjoyed social doubles but i guess it's gone so you can't boost your EXP as easily. like some other people, i am STOKED they are going to put rocket race in the social playlist.. so hard to convince people to play it in custom games.

  • 11.10.2007 2:28 PM PDT

Fun fact: While these people tend to use the term leet, or "1337" to describe something elite (or really, really cool) it really means "I'm a dumbass who doesn't know how to write in English. Please kill me."

"There are a couple of still-secret, still-in testing adjustments and changes that come to classic Halo vehicles."


Carrier Hogs.

  • 11.10.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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So i noticed all these playlist updates listed, and i started wondering, where is team snipers ? i loved team snipes in halo2 ! and i know im not the only one. The closest we can get to it in halo 3 is team tactical which by the way is a far cry from team snipes ! c'mon guys i know im not alone on this . . . . BRING BACK TEAM SNIPERS PLEEEEEEEEEEAAASSSE ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

  • 11.10.2007 2:39 PM PDT

I'm extremely disappointed with the removal of Social Doubles. I partied up with more people through that playlist than anything but BTB. I'm sad to see my favourite playlist ruined by experience boosters and the like...

  • 11.10.2007 2:45 PM PDT

Join Planet Reach
Hog sniping
Exalted is considered "the highest" because you can't get any bans or warnings of any kind for quite a long time, which is harder than just being a member for a long time.

cool

  • 11.10.2007 2:47 PM PDT

I'm very mad that you are getting rid of social doubles!

  • 11.10.2007 3:18 PM PDT