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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update 12/21/07

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  • 12.23.2007 11:35 AM PDT
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I think by Zanzibar he meant Last Resort :)

Anyways, nice updates, but it seems to be more directed to those who are lucky enough to have the DLC, unlike me.
I was hoping to see a new hopper like halloween or something, that'd be great, but I understand also that they need a break as well :).

Merry Christmas.

  • 12.23.2007 11:46 AM PDT

stop removing the f*&%$#@ maulers it's a usefull weapon is it left anywhere in any of your maps if your so bent on removing anything remove the spawn points in the buildings on the pit.

  • 12.23.2007 11:57 AM PDT
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You can't be serious. Maulers removed from Guardian? Now it's haaard to kill those shotgun guys.

  • 12.23.2007 1:11 PM PDT
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Bring back the mauler! please? ^_^

  • 12.23.2007 2:32 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update 12/21/07 ----> ASSPLODE!!!
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lolz check my picture of assplode

lol... a few days after reading the latest update i fell into a situation that reminded me of bungie's assplode comment. On update 12/21/07 bungie, "So there won’t be a Holiday playlist in the vein of our fun Halloween list – the reason being that nobody is around here or at Xbox Live to make sure it doesn’t assplode". Flow23 to opposing red teamer on 12/23/07 TS Game on Last Resort, "Lolz i stuck ur assplode". (see picture)

ahh great times lol


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  • 12.23.2007 6:16 PM PDT
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Great update and happy holidaze gamers+bungie :)


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  • 12.23.2007 6:17 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update 12/21/07

I have walked the edge of the Abyss.I have governed the unwilling.I have witnessed countless empires break before me.I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear.[I was there with the Angel at the tomb]
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And I have learned.
There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy.
I HAVE WON.
Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends.
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arent the mauler changes a bit drastic?
BRING BACK SOME OF THE MAULERS!!
at least 2 maulers on guardian,
and i think the mauler changes on construct and narrows were both a bit unnecessary

  • 12.23.2007 6:57 PM PDT
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I WANT MY MAULERS FOR CHRISTMAS

  • 12.23.2007 7:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: Frankie
The last update of 07. Have a happy holiday season and we'll see you all again online and in '08!

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Merry Christmas! Hanukkah is over
Nice, but brief update. BTW, Frankie have you by any chance visited a Gamestop today? Cause ether that or I saw a "complete-look-a-like" of you.

  • 12.23.2007 7:52 PM PDT

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well hello there. just thought that was a great update thanks but not only that i just was looking over it and saw that he wrote zanzibar other than last resort when stating the new features. very clever. i know we all still have some old halo maps on our minds what will the old one be that is returning.

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  • 12.23.2007 11:12 PM PDT
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good stuff. I think we all know that dual mauler are the problem, not singles. Singles were fine. I mean even in close quarters, who doesn't know how to stick a guy before he kills you. Even if you die too, the mauler/shotgun/sword/grav hammer is down for your team mate who should be right behind you to pick up. Most guys die because they rush the dude with the Maulers, or the shotgun. Why on earth would you rush that guy. Back up, and keep shooting. You will most likely win. You can easily AR or BR the shotgun or Mauler guy if you just get a little lead time. Especially if you work together. Most of you just need to un newb yourselves and slow down a lil bit. That's about as smart as rushing a guy holding the flag who will kill you with one hit while he's inside a bubble shield. Come on, wait a sec for your next guy to show up and attack from two sides and he's done for.

  • 12.24.2007 12:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: CLARKISGODXXX
good stuff. I think we all know that dual mauler are the problem, not singles. Singles were fine.


I second that . . . the same went for the double needlers in halo 2. You can solve the problem by bringing single maulers back.

  • 12.24.2007 8:25 AM PDT

Dude i hate the maulers to they are way to powerful. But what they need to add is the other weapons that where in one player mode. Like the Firebomb grenades, and Sentinel Beam and the Fuel Rod Cannon. Those weapons are sweet and they are strong to if you know how to use them!!!

  • 12.24.2007 10:09 AM PDT
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The removal of the Mauler on some boards is unacceptable. I think I'll start playing COD4 until I hear news that bungie is fixing its mistake.

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  • 12.24.2007 10:11 AM PDT
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nice update bungie I'm glad you put tanks into big team battle

  • 12.24.2007 11:07 AM PDT
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The problem isn't that Bungie made a change with the maulers... the problem is that they did it way overboard as usual... Like with the handgun from H2, which was slightly overpowered, they adjusted it to the point that it is nearly useless... instead of slightly modifying the Mauler's spawn times, or removing one or two here and there, they practically removed it to the point that matchmaking is skrewed.... I think I'll stick to FFXI, or CH, or maybe the ocasional custom game until this is fixed....

  • 12.24.2007 1:19 PM PDT
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i agree. i am very upset by the huge lack in my fav. gun.

  • 12.24.2007 3:36 PM PDT
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sounds great, but my only concern is with snowbound and the removal of the laser...how are we supposed to kill those ghost whores with no laser and only a limited number of plasma grenades on the map (and only 1 pistol, too)??

i agree with the removal of the shotty, just i don't see the reason for the removal of the laser. IMO you should have moved camo to under the bridge (where ghost is) and the overshield to the brute shot spawn...there's just a bunch of issues with balancing snowbound for both sides though, which is why i'm assuming is your reason for removing the laser -- balance. since the other side wouldn't have the beam spawned there, makes no sense at all to have 1 side have the laser ^_^.

really though, you fixed the powerup imbalance on narrows but you completely ignored it on snowbound. even ignoring the powerups, maybe make the laser spawn where the brute shot spawns and put the brute shot directly over the ghost? that would put 2 power weapons right on top of eachother, though...i don't know, hard map to balance properly.

can't wait for team hardcore though. i'm not an MLG fool either, i just prefer BR starts to anything else...and playing against a higher average skill in every game (since it IS geared towards MLG) can't hurt either ^_^

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  • 12.24.2007 8:07 PM PDT
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Yes, Zanzibar was a Halo 2 map. Last Resort is the Halo 3 version. WE know this, but do they>>>>? LOL... JK Bungie.

  • 12.24.2007 10:03 PM PDT
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i can understand taking a few maulers out but damn near all of them? chriminitly bungie wth??? and leave the needler as powerful. i know what my new weapon of choice is. needler rarely loses a confrontation...and way overboard on the br starts. wow!

  • 12.24.2007 11:47 PM PDT
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Of course they know that Last Resort is Zanzibar. They said that they refuse to call it Last Resort. If you ever read the updates instead of just putting up "WOOT FIST PAGE I pfukng pwnds omgwtfbbq!!!!@1!@!!@!1!!!!@!!!!2222!!ione" you would understand this. mmmkay. bubye.

  • 12.25.2007 1:12 AM PDT
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@Longball: I believe BR starts are just for Team Hardcore, everything else should stay AR start.

  • 12.25.2007 6:05 AM PDT
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@Longball: I believe BR starts are just for Team Hardcore, everything else should stay AR start.

'Fraid not, they added the BR as a starting weapon for most BTB levels, which is unbelievably lame... I miss being able to get to the power weapons with little more than a few assault weapons firing, but to be completely assaulted by BR fire was crazy the first map I played since the update...

  • 12.25.2007 9:13 AM PDT

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  • 12.25.2007 10:03 AM PDT