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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 1/04/08

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Posted by: Ace Bond
Hello Grand Puba's of Halo
One suggestion for an update I would like to see become a reality is to find a way to show what level our friends are in the friends list. If we are set to Team Slayer then show what each friend is in Team Slayer in the friend list. It gets frusterating to invite a friend to a doubles game only to find I am a level 4 and my friend is a level 30, or as is...I am a level 29 in Team Slayer and one friend is a level 10. I hate it when a RL friend accepts and invite into my room and I have to tell them that they can't play with me 'cause their level sucks at the moment.
Thanx for your time
Ace Bond (age 38)


You should have less suckier friends.

  • 01.08.2008 3:16 AM PDT

luv..

the picture for this weeks update..

i was looking at it. and im like OMG thats my same pic.. for my trophy shot! but then i look again and theres a slight difference in the way Maste Chief is holding the battle rifle..

we have the same taste..

  • 01.08.2008 4:10 AM PDT

luv..

Posted by: Mr Snowballs
[quote]Posted by: Ace Bond
Hello Grand Puba's of Halo
One suggestion for an update I would like to see become a reality is to find a way to show what level our friends are in the friends list. If we are set to Team Slayer then show what each friend is in Team Slayer in the friend list. It gets frusterating to invite a friend to a doubles game only to find I am a level 4 and my friend is a level 30, or as is...I am a level 29 in Team Slayer and one friend is a level 10. I hate it when a RL friend accepts and invite into my room and I have to tell them that they can't play with me 'cause their level sucks at the moment.
Thanx for your time
Ace Bond (age 38)





how about this.. when you "View Party Details" and see your friend in the room with other friends.. is there a way we can see what ranks they are for that playlist there are playing so lower level or even higher level people know not to join. or maybe they will think "ok im not going to bother" to totally avoid what this guy is saying to his lower level buddies..


just a thought off what he said. instead of having on your friends list..


OR.. you could just send amessage and ask them. get them to respond and telll them ill catch up with you later..

  • 01.08.2008 4:16 AM PDT

Were it so easy.

PLEASE BRING BACK LOCKOUT AND MIDSHIP FOR HALO 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 01.08.2008 6:04 AM PDT

Were it so easy.

Posted by: mrworthless
No melee mention yet again? Back to CoD4!


It gets really annoying when people say "back to COD4".

  • 01.08.2008 6:14 AM PDT

@spawn031

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

when will the patch be coming out.?

  • 01.08.2008 6:52 AM PDT

@spawn031

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

i would like to say please bring back sidewinder from halo 1 ... the best big map ever

  • 01.08.2008 6:53 AM PDT

maps sound nice....

  • 01.08.2008 9:19 AM PDT
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Sidewinder is coming back.

  • 01.08.2008 9:56 AM PDT
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There is a roughly 77,7% chance that Purple Reign == Midship.

Discuss.

  • 01.08.2008 11:13 AM PDT
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i wanna know when the update will be released. anyone know?

  • 01.08.2008 2:16 PM PDT

Edge 2.0 - The New Sandtrap, but out of the map!!!!

I can has new maps?

  • 01.08.2008 2:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: CyberJezus
i wanna know when the update will be released. anyone know?

well after what happen last time they told us the date of something coming out people freaked out like hardcore wasnt out it took another day people complained so now they have decided to be more sneaky and not tell us when its coming out

  • 01.08.2008 2:58 PM PDT
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when are those newmaps supposed to be out?

  • 01.08.2008 3:20 PM PDT
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You know what I really want to see is some more armor pieces for both the elite and spartan.

  • 01.08.2008 5:58 PM PDT

BxRrX

First when Purple Reign was described i had flahsing images of Midship... purple... but it sounds larger and more closed off (in the bases)
. Secondly, I am praying that this "Frank" has favorited Lockout, like the other 95% of H2 players. If so im excited because If i heard of a Lockout remake I would be extatic. That might have been Guardian's purpose by its enjoyment level is not quite up to par with Lockout.
The End

  • 01.08.2008 6:24 PM PDT

if they have red vs blue on here, how come they dont put all of the red vs blue on here, including the new zune one, which i never got... anyways does anyone know where to find and download it off the internet?

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  • 01.08.2008 7:09 PM PDT

Rebellion in small things to let the world know I haven't surrendered.

Posted by: Ace Bond
Hello Grand Puba's of Halo
One suggestion for an update I would like to see become a reality is to find a way to show what level our friends are in the friends list. If we are set to Team Slayer then show what each friend is in Team Slayer in the friend list. It gets frusterating to invite a friend to a doubles game only to find I am a level 4 and my friend is a level 30, or as is...I am a level 29 in Team Slayer and one friend is a level 10. I hate it when a RL friend accepts and invite into my room and I have to tell them that they can't play with me 'cause their level sucks at the moment.
Thanx for your time
Ace Bond (age 38)


That's similar to something I was going to ask. The other day I, a level 25(now 27), was thrown in a Slayer match with three players with skill levels over 40. Well, technically, it said their "highest skill reached" was over 40, but their current skill was 20-something. Needless to say, they pretty much smashed myself and the two other lower level players, completely ruining the game for me. I assumed they had purposely lost games to drop their skill so they could have some fun demolishing people, and told them so. Two of them responded, claiming that the 40 skill level was for Team games, and was totally different from Lone Wolves.
So, my question is this:
If someone plays a ton of team games and moves up to a skill level of 40, what happens when they decide to switch to Lone Wolves? Does the matchmaking system still see them as 40, or do they have to start at zero and work their way up again? Is it possible for someone to have a skill level of 40 in Team games but a skill level of only 25 in Lone Wolves?
If you aren't really that good, but your team wins, do you get skill points?

  • 01.08.2008 7:21 PM PDT

You start out at Level 1 on every playlist, no matter what.

And what is so hard to comprehend about GUARDIAN IS A GREEN LOCKOUT?

[Edited on 01.08.2008 10:32 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2008 10:30 PM PDT

BxRrX

guardian is verrrrrrry roughly a green lockout
the gameplay of the acutual lockout was a lot better

  • 01.08.2008 11:03 PM PDT

u need lockout and a map witha hornet

  • 01.09.2008 3:08 AM PDT
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Technically you could be a level 50 in Team Slayer and a level 1 in Lone Wolves if you hadn't played it yet. I've had the advantage and disadvantage of playing lower ranked people and higher ranked people due to this. I was a 36 in Lone Wolves and then started playing with friends more in Team Slayer, but I was a 10 there, but 36 for highest achieved skill. I think that something more should be done to even those games out. Maybe an average skill level or something that combines your highest skill with your current skill level on whatever matchmaking list you're playing on.

Few more things:

The lunging melee. I know and understand how it happens with the sword, but it's unacceptable for someone with an AR, Mauler, Needler, Plasma Pistol, etc. to lunge 10 feet and melee. It hasn't happened in such a way ever in a Halo game and that's because it's ridiculous.

Valhalla is Gulch even though it plays different and looks the most drastically different. It's description says, "The crew of V-398 barely survived their unplanned landing in this curious gorge" and while I love Blood Gulch more than Valhalla or Coagulation I don't think it's likely to be remade unfortunately.

Sidewinder remade sounds awesome, but only if there are TELEPORTERS used and not man cannons to get to those far spots.

While I'm at it I might as well say I miss the Halo: Combat Evolved pistol because it was a weapon of elegance and grace and if you were any good it wasn't that it was too powerful - it was perfect.

  • 01.09.2008 1:54 PM PDT
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Ok well, after I discovered that the codenames for the maps in the heroic map pack were actually descriptors of the maps, I did my research on these two maps.

O.K. Corral was actually an infamous gunfight that took place in TOMBSTONE, Arizona. That has got to be the Hang Em' High / Tombstone remake, although I am confused by the weird dome with bright God Ray's shining through in the map's center that you mentioned in the update.

As far as Purple Reign goes though, you have me thoroughly confused; Purple Reign was that Prince movie from the 80's, right? I would really hope you don't have to fight a smally crazy black man on a motorcycle. Haha. Seriously though, if Purple Reign was a small, competitive map, I would have to guess that it's a Midship remake. I know how often Midship was used for MLG competitions and, if Purple Reign was indeed a re-make, it sounds like you're describing Midship in the update.

I am puzzled though by the one-way windows; can't wait to be suprised with the maps. Good luck and keep up the good work!

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  • 01.09.2008 4:05 PM PDT
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does any body know exactly when the new levels come out ?

  • 01.09.2008 6:02 PM PDT