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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 1/04/08

ausome! i cant wait for the update!

  • 01.05.2008 3:07 PM PDT

Uh why do people keep talkin about swat? Is it just me and my console, or is there no swat on Halo 3? and what are the advantages to being a heroic member?

  • 01.05.2008 3:08 PM PDT
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I enjoyed the newbie vidoc even though I'm not a noob so well done on that

  • 01.05.2008 3:09 PM PDT
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Playing halo 3 for 3 hours straight (i still don't see the problem in this) in a well ventilated area has deemed my 360 nearly extinct. i have been given the vision of the lights of death, nd now must send in my poor box for repair. NOOOOOOOO!
In other words, three flashing red lights, can't play online or offline for that matter, sorry friends. and i just downloaded the new maps too. bad luck, sure. nobody gives a dang about me, probably.

respect, peace out
zaeet

  • 01.05.2008 3:15 PM PDT
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Additionally, the Auto Update, like others for other games, will be required to play the game on Live, however if one console has the Update and another one doesn’t, system link play will still be possible between the two boxes.



meaning no fix for melee then

  • 01.05.2008 3:31 PM PDT

nice reference to the yeah yeah yeahs. awesome band. +1 internet

  • 01.05.2008 3:37 PM PDT

I wasnt very impressed by the some of the last maps ( rats nest, foundry default setting), but I beleive that these maps will be more satisfying. Anyway good update.

  • 01.05.2008 3:51 PM PDT
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I hope someone from bungie takes a look at my post here.

Now as a regular competitive player, I was glad to hear you trying to make a map for us (Will never forget midship <3). However, something has really got me worried, and that is these windows that you can see out of but not in. That to me is not competitive, that clearly gives anyone inside an advantage over the people who are on the outside, which detracts from the competitive side. That's a reason why I believe that this map wont be used as you intended. Stick to the old map making formula, however I know you guys will insist that these windows are put in place, so this is my request to you, which I can safely say for the competitive community, let us forge those windows. Make it so that we can remove those windows if we need. Please don't let your map go down just because of that, please.

On another note you could bring us back midship and sanctuary and chillout please I'd be a happy guy :)

  • 01.05.2008 4:09 PM PDT
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Are the "God rays" actually going to line up with the glowing sky orb ? Or are you calling them "God rays" because they won't line up with the glowing sky orb (like on Foundry -- thus must come from the graphics god) ?

  • 01.05.2008 5:08 PM PDT
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I know you Bungie is bored of the old maps, but we love the old maps please make them for us. Lockout and Turf?

Or give us a forge map where we can lay terrain (water\land) as objects and let us make them....

I am sure you guys got a Forge Premium version you use to make all these maps where you can upload all kinds of stuff and set physics, but please throw us a bone! :) p.s. if we like the maps enough we wont spend all day trying to figure out how to get out of them...

  • 01.05.2008 5:17 PM PDT
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Can you believe it?

Nice, the first update of the year.

  • 01.05.2008 5:25 PM PDT

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

1. Who cares what number poster you were? Especially when you have nothing to say, just "third". WTF?
2. No point in arguing about what levels are coming out-nobody knows except Bungie, and they obviously aren't telling you. So don't argue that it is or isn't one level or the other, because you don't know.

3. Now the important thing: Is the update going to fix the problem with plasma grenades going through guys? I have several videos of plasma grenades clearly going through someone (usually when they have a sword) [my Gamertag is Lieutelant, if you want to see them, sorry my profile isn't linked right now.].

4. Oh, and yeah, I agree that our EXP should be fixed to reflect the games we were dropped out of. It makes me look bad, but people won't know that I didn't actually drop out.

p.s.-The picture they used for this update looks a lot like one I took.... hm, I'll have to take a closer look and check to see how close they are...

  • 01.05.2008 5:30 PM PDT

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I LOVED the new Vdoc! =) Good luck with the work ahead!

  • 01.05.2008 5:32 PM PDT

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

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p.s.-The picture they used for this update looks a lot like one I took.... hm, I'll have to take a closer look and check to see how close they are...


Yup, looks a LOT like a screenshot I have up, called Master Chief. It's definitely NOT mine, but VERY similar... Meh, I think my "lithograph" is better anyway.

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  • 01.05.2008 5:54 PM PDT
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"Were it so easy?"

I think one way windows would be interesting, and who said you cant attack through the side you cant see. Plus the only way your screwed is if you play like a noob and stand around wondering how your getting shot. Or for that matter, is it for sure you can attack through the one way window? Cause that would be the only real advantage. Either way I trust bungies ability to inovate and create new forms of game play for us. So lets see what happens, they havnt let me down yet. (Although I got to admit, I kind of hate the power Warthogs have on Standoff, but the level its self is great.). Maybe see you online sometime.

  • 01.05.2008 6:09 PM PDT
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dang still no info on the new maps being added into existing playlists. Before we talk about new maps, can we get the 'old' "new" maps in something other than just that one playlist. but since we are talking about new maps, I really hope that third map is blood gulch

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  • 01.05.2008 6:54 PM PDT

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  • 01.05.2008 7:13 PM PDT
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finally!! somebody said it. i'm sure everyone thinks it and nobody says it. i love halo, but there are so many problems, it drives you to the other game of the year shooter.

  • 01.05.2008 7:48 PM PDT

O.K. Corral sounds AWSOME! and so does the one-way windows on Purple Rein

  • 01.05.2008 8:43 PM PDT

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Wow, no Midship remake? It's official, I'm done with this game. The competitive hardcore community have been practically begging for a Midship remake and we still don't get it, just more large maps and a Bungie attempt at a new arena map. I have faith that the new arena map is going to be good since Bungie has NEVER made a bad one but Midship has been asked for by the MLG community since Halo 3's release. *sigh*

Now I'm going to get like 9 fanboys attack me. lol


Did you even READ the article? They only HINTED at what they would remake for this map pack. There's no guarantees on anything, but Midship seems to be a very likely choice. So chill. And also, we have NO NEED FOR A LOCKOUT REMAKE. In case you haven't noticed, Guardian is basically a green version of Lockout. I'd personally like to see a remake of one of Halo 2's several city-based levels, such as Turf. God I love Turf! Terminal, too! It's a big, vehicle-based, all-around cool map. We need more big maps! Right now, we only have four BTB-sized maps!

Oh, and according to IGN's release date calendar, this new map pack will be available some time around April.


We need more big maps? Please tell me thats a joke. Almost all ofthe maps are TOO big. Terf was one of the most disliked maps, AND purple reign was the best hope for a middy, and now its gone. Can you blame him for being unhappy?


Why do you think that Purple Reign can't be Midship because of my post? And yes, we need more big maps! I'll admit that most of the maps are big, but only four of them are BTB-sized, and Rat's Nest is in the DLC! And do I have to hate Turf because you said so? I liked Turf better than most of the other maps. In fact, the only ones I liked more than Turf were Terminal and Zanzibar.

meaning no fix for melee then

For the last time, they haven't revealed many of the fixes yet, probably for fear that the fixes will have to be canceled if they cause other problems.

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  • 01.05.2008 8:52 PM PDT
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Anyone else get the Rock Band reference? Maybe it was just a Yeah Yeah Yeahs reference but my bets on RB, cause of the multiplayer music making.

Wait, they dont love you like I love you. MAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAPS! YAY NEW MAPS! but got that song gets old in RB. SO yeah, anyone else see that? I think... we should get a speaker system in the mongooses and warthogs, at the least the Warthogs.(LOL JK but it would be neat even if its only cosmetic.) Oh and im really looking forward to some police interogation style vids on teh second map... even like some war battles, watched from the window... YAY!

  • 01.05.2008 11:06 PM PDT
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Sorry for the flaming......

Frankie's fav better be sidewinder or I'm snapping this game. I'm getting tired of the constant let downs such as:

- Good looking maps, but poorly designed for fair gameplay, which results in camping and all the people on my friends list going to COD4

- Melee problem (doesn't bother me too much, but still leads to people on my friends list going to COD4)

- Host determining bug, where people with high upload speeds seem to get 'ignored' by the game for dozens of games until it fixes itself, which results in people with 128kb up getting host every damn game.

- Snipers Playlist... where is it? it was successful in halo 2, so why is it not in this halo?

- Assault Rifle being too powerful in comparison to the Battle Rifle. I am sick of getting shot 3 times and being beat down by people. Extend the clip and tone the gun down for crying out loud. If you guys tried that already and it was too similar to the smg, then why do you need both? AR fails.

- Taking five years to find a match. You said this was something you guys where going to fix ASAP, yet its been over 3 months and you have lost a lot of the new community (people that are new to halo) because of it. In one playlist alone there is like twice as many people than what halo 2 had in its entire population on a weekend, yet you can still find a game in halo 2 much quicker than in halo 3, and halo 2 has less than 1000 people in matchmaking put together.

- VIP having crap traits. I'm getting sick of people not vetoing VIP and then people on my team start committing suicide because they don't want to be VIP due to the fact that you have:
* crap all shields
* shields take ages to recharge
* when the shields recharge, they take longer than normal
* you have a pistol, a mother f-ing pistol... when you have an indicator on your head 0_o

I'm not having a sook because I am a fanboy of something else btw. I am having a sook because I absolutely love halo more than any other game around, yet there are so many problems when its meant to be THE title on 360. Its like making the most amazing looking pie ever, but once you bite into it, the insides are slightly mouldy.

Bungie needs to buy new thinking caps because the ones they have now, seem to be missing a few threads.


Exactly, more so the melee system is -blam!- and there is no sniper playlist as to why I dont play -blam!-LO 3! (But all those other things don't help either, couldn't have been any better said) Bungie you lost me your biggest fan! All I can recommend is people buy Timeshift and hit me up for a game of their sick intuitive and fair multiplayer. It is the sort of game I expected Bungie to do but HEY: THEY DIDNT! By all the videos they were releasing you would think that they were going to do a halo 2 with better graphics(would have been better than this piece of -blam!- they call -blam!-LO 3) By all means email me or call and I will tell you exactly what a -blam!- job you did, then you have the ordasity to charge 800 Microsoft points for 3 -blam!- maps which should have been a complimentary gift considering how much YOU -blam!- UP!

Yes I was a halo fanboy and now cannot even imagine putting myself in that catergory as anyone that is in that catergory has obviously not played a decent 360 FPS such as Timeshift or COD4, or favours unfair and -blam!- gameplay. Singleplayer still rocks and I love it But multiplayer! WHAT A JOKE! Fix it or give me my money back or talk to my lawyers about how it isnt even a 1080p title! Bungie is this a joke and you are going to release the real halo 3 in 08 or was that what you call The Real Deal?

Anyway it has been almost 4 months and the game still has these big bugs. How sad! Bungie PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix it as I dont want to sue or even hate your company and tell evryone I talk to to buy and play anything but! You must know what a -blam!- job you already did as the numbers have gone down dramatically! ROFLMAO(to think six months ago I was raving on about it and even quit my job just to have a week off and play it)ROFLMAO

What an image you put in everyones head Bungie! What an image! You are just a bunch of liars li,e your president Bush, I wonder if him leading you made you like this or if you are just money hungry pigs that dont actually give a -blam!- what anyone thinks now the ggame is out and you have your money. If you do read this I will probably be kicked fo free speech in which case I can also sue!ROFLMAO
What a joke


Instead of complaing about how unfair Halo 3 is, how about you just play better.

And to widget downunda, You have no grownds to sue! calm down! I think that if you cannot act more mature, you need to go to your room. If you really are as imature as you seem, I'll go ahead and mute you, because players with with high pitch voices annoy me.

However I must appluaud the fact that you somehow found a way to blame George Bush for your unsatisfaction with Halo 3. In fact, I think we should blame George Bush for more things, like the batterys dying in my wireless controler, and because I just stubbed my toe earlier today, and because there is a drout in Georgia, and because of the writers strike, and because Oklahoma has lost four strait Bowl games in successive years, and even because you have no life (which is evident if you are willing to take a week off of work to play a new video game). Blaming George Bush is exactly the right kick in the butt this country needs to start improving things around here.

But one of the real reasons alot of people don't like Halo 3, is because it is not the Halo 2 we have all come to know and love over the last three years. We have memories form the Halo 2 maps not the Halo 3 maps. Every thought of the old maps bring back memories of fun, luck, and domination. Everybody has a story from the old maps and they do not have enough good stories for the new ones yet. The halo 2 maps have alot of character. Alot of players feel a loyality towrds Halo 1 because it is classic and the original, it's kind of like having respect for your elders. And alot of players liked Halo 2 so much because, since they came with the 2 week free trials codes (I think they were for 2 weeks), those players were introduced to live through Halo 2 and therefore they played it on Live longer than any other live games. So now Halo 3 comes, and it is suposed to be great, and there is all this hype and it's good, but it lacks the nostalgic effect that Halo 1 & 2 now have, and it is not perfect, so now people are dissapointed. And I'm not gonna lie, I enjoyed Halo 2 better than I have enjoyed Halo 3 but it is still a pretty good game. I can't quite put my finger on what it is that's different about Halo 3 that, makes it worse than Halo 2. But I do know that I had more fun on Halo 2 after the updates than I did before the updates, so lets hold off on criticizing Bungie for painting a crappy picture before they completely finnish it.

  • 01.05.2008 11:20 PM PDT