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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 1/04/08

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Hopefully the maps are good. The textures in Rat's nest are ugly. The one with the paint that is sappose to be chipping off. But Iiked the environment of Standoff. Hopefully this next map pack wont have a map that has a BSp ripped from campaghn. But I truely hope to see this smaller map.

  • 01.05.2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Just a question:

What if you have Xbox Live, got the Killing Frenzy achievement, but then the patch for the Commando Shoulders comes when you don't have Live and can't get it?

  • 01.05.2008 12:29 AM PDT

Sounds good Bungie, I can't wait to check out the new maps. I'm really hoping for a Blood Gulch or Sidewinder remake. I will play those maps over and over and over.

Awesome news about the update patch, I know so many people have been giving you guys flack over everything, but I know that you guys are working hard to try and make everyone happy.

Keep up the good work!

  • 01.05.2008 1:02 AM PDT

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Posted by: Fear Figment
Just a question:

What if you have Xbox Live, got the Killing Frenzy achievement, but then the patch for the Commando Shoulders comes when you don't have Live and can't get it?


When you say you don't have Live, do you mean Gold vs Silver, or just you don't have network connectivity at all? I think that as long as you can connect to a network you can get the update.

Now, whether they will "back date" unlockables as a result of prior achievements, it's suppose that it is theoretically possible, but I doubt it.

  • 01.05.2008 1:35 AM PDT
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All things being said, I suppose I can't say this.

Welcome back to work bungie :) Glad to see a new update. Can't wait for the maps and I really can't wait for the update. But I need to give you guys and gals props. I know some people have been ripping your game. But as a Halo fan from the beginning, I say H3 is the best yet. It rocks and I know you will only make it better.

  • 01.05.2008 1:54 AM PDT
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i wasnt too interested in the last maps, i didnt think they were very good except for standoff. so im not relly excited about these new maps....

  • 01.05.2008 2:00 AM PDT

I run Skirmish!!!

hopefully the new maps are better then stupid foundry and rats nest.

  • 01.05.2008 2:01 AM PDT

Halo: CE > > Halo 3 > Halo: Reach = Halo 2

The AU1 couldn't come more quickly...

Hope they address at lest 2 major issues:

1) Melee system

2) Increase the single screen Field of View (FOV), in widescreen, to that of the splitscreens 90 degrees FOV.

  • 01.05.2008 2:11 AM PDT

108th!
Nice update!
Eh, I'm going to look fowardto that remake more thatn the arena style map.

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  • 01.05.2008 2:20 AM PDT

don't get me wrong i lub the idea of new maps BUT halo 2 had some great maps. Beaver Creek and Sanctuary are two my favs. would it be posible to revamp old maps.

  • 01.05.2008 2:33 AM PDT
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I think we all have one thing or another that we like or dislike of the maps and the game play at one point or another. I personally hate it when I start shooting someone that is not even facing me, throw a grenade that goes off right at their feet, they turn around, start shooting at me, I me-lee them, they me-lee me and I'm the one that dies. I just don't get that but it's happened to me many times, and I'm sure it's not because they managed to shoot me in the head with every single one of their three shots. I think it's a great thing that Bungie is taking so much time to make sure things are corrected. One thing that I have to complain about is that, not because games are ranked, do they have to stop being fun, like doing sword games and hammers in lone wolves and such. Those games are fun because they're such pandemonium sometimes, and sometimes, to survive in war, you gotta be able to think in the midst of all that. I think that the new DLC will be fun and hopefully, the game reaches a plateau where we're pissed 'cause the other guy stuck is in mid air while we were reloading and not because of a glitch or anything like that.

  • 01.05.2008 3:44 AM PDT
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Hi Bungie and fellow posters,

Thanks for the weekly update - I always look forward to them and they seem to be so regular as well (about once a week)*

Yippeeee, I'll finally complete my armour permutation collection and get the long awaited elite commando shoulders. I don't want to use them or anything, I just have to complete the collection**. Yes, it is some sort of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). Don't get me started on the fact I have to switch a light on and off 10 times before I can enter a room and that my x-box game collection is alphebetised.

I'm really looking forward to the new maps and will gladly pay the money on the first night (even though it means my kids won't be able to eat for a couple of days).

I must admit, I was a little disappointed there was no apology in the update for all the negative EXP points I picked up over the holidays due to the network problems and frustration I suffered at seemingly endless 'Restarting Search' messages I kept getting. Was the problem with the Bungie servers or with X-box Live in general, I never did find out.

Anyway, have to go and watch High School Musical with my daughter now (Please, someone shoot me, shoot me now).

* that was a joke by the way, don't respond with "of course they're weekly, that's why they're called weekly updates -blam!-"

** it won't actually be complete, I still need that 'armour that should not be named'. Still, I'm working on shooting myself in the head and killing myself with a traffic cone so I should get that one anyday now.

  • 01.05.2008 3:45 AM PDT

Never Give up!

Never Fail!

Wow Those new maps Do sound cool. Cant wait to have a blast on'em :P


But when.....


How long do we have to wait?...

  • 01.05.2008 4:29 AM PDT

Good.

  • 01.05.2008 7:42 AM PDT

Hey thar just a guy who loves video games, just like you

that will happen if u take off ur hheadset it goes automatically

  • 01.05.2008 7:49 AM PDT
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You need to solve the ridiculous melee issue! There is absolutely no reason someone should be able to melee-lunge as if they had a sword. (I'm not just talking about assassination!) It feels awkward saying this because it's so obvious, but in a 1v1 conflict the melee should go to whomever hit the button first, not whomever has less damage. um...duh.

  • 01.05.2008 7:50 AM PDT

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2007:

Negatives; network problems. melee problems. server problems.
Positives; Halo 3, new maps, Living Dead Playlist, Heroic DLC Playlist.
Wished; (BUNGIE IF YOU ARE READING THIS I'M NOT ASKING FOR IT!!!). Recon Armor as a Christmas Present.:)
We found Ling-Ling's Skull In Halo 3.

Oh Well!!! Good Luck in '08 Bungie!!!

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  • 01.05.2008 7:53 AM PDT

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me either unless blood gulch is one of them...i don't why you guys haven't brought the remakes of the halo 1 and 2 out yet your losing people to call of duty(you know how bad that sounds when i say it out loud) and please give me a map were i can effectively use tanks and vehicles, cough(....blood gulch)
and um im just throwing this in there(for real) could u guys maybe make a map modeled after the 4th lvl of halo 1 the silent cartographer, use the exact map just put to bases on each end some tunnels running under the island and a path way the island (vertically) like a said just throwing it in there...it looks like u guys need help making maps so...yea there i said it.

  • 01.05.2008 8:05 AM PDT

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Posted by: ThinManMrJones
You need to solve the ridiculous melee issue! There is absolutely no reason someone should be able to melee-lunge as if they had a sword. (I'm not just talking about assassination!) It feels awkward saying this because it's so obvious, but in a 1v1 conflict the melee should go to whomever hit the button first, not whomever has less damage. um...duh.


yea /agree

  • 01.05.2008 8:06 AM PDT

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  • 01.05.2008 8:10 AM PDT
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Ok I have a question, why is it that, though I own the heroic map pack, I have NEVER seen any heroic maps outside of the heroic dlc in matchmaking?

also, remake LOCKOUT LOCKOUT LOCKOUT LOCKOUT LOCKOUT I dont need midship, I dont need sanctuary, I need LLOOCCKKOOUUTT

  • 01.05.2008 8:32 AM PDT

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Ok I have a question, why is it that, though I own the heroic map pack, I have NEVER seen any heroic maps outside of the heroic dlc in matchmaking?

also, remake LOCKOUT LOCKOUT LOCKOUT LOCKOUT LOCKOUT I dont need midship, I dont need sanctuary, I need LLOOCCKKOOUUTT


the way matchmaking is setup, when all players are connected and "ready to play" it does a quick check to see if all players own the heroic map pack, if not, a disk map will be selected. if all players have them, you're next to guaranteed to play one of the three. before long bungie is going to have to make them required, or hopefully make a search option for only those w/ the maps in ranked...

  • 01.05.2008 8:48 AM PDT

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before long bungie is going to have to make them required, or hopefully make a search option for only those w/ the maps in ranked...


They're going to be free soon. So they'll be a requirement for playing on line shortly after that.

Nice update. good to hear an AU is definately in the works, and more maps!

  • 01.05.2008 9:21 AM PDT
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Lol, love the maps reference, thats one good song on rock band.

NEW MAPS. I'm hoping for a tunnel-like map

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  • 01.05.2008 9:33 AM PDT