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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update 02/01/08

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So did anybody notice how remarkably similar that picture looks like halo2's Tombstone. thought i'd point this out >.>;

  • 02.02.2008 6:46 PM PDT

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so is the replacement map Tombstone from halo 2 cuz thats what the pick with MC w/ the lightsaber looks like but just better grafict

  • 02.02.2008 7:16 PM PDT
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  • 02.02.2008 7:46 PM PDT
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i saw some elites with Commando shoulders, but i have unlocked Overkill and the shoulders are still locked. what is going on?

  • 02.02.2008 8:55 PM PDT

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hey frankie. i just wanted to say that i didnt enjoy the comment that you made about hitler. I know you were joking( i read your * at the bottom of the page), but being jewish and having a fair amount of family that were killed in the holocaust made me a little uneasy about the comment. i still have a tremendous amount of respect for you, the staff at bungie and what you do. i just wish you would you would apologize. please

  • 02.02.2008 9:35 PM PDT
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I was looking forward to purple reign. but when he mentioned the other map i started haveing visions of the pit which is the map i hate the most which sent me a mixed message about this new - new map. Anyway also about the first topic with the BTB I would like to see less Banshee its very anoying. also on sand trap some sort of sniper tower or observation platform in the sky to spy on the enemy, and last but not least BTB on foundry I can never get enough people to play on that map with me its lucky if I get five so force them to.
P.S. Foundry, plus forge = very nice.

  • 02.02.2008 10:08 PM PDT
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so ifl the melee is being updated what about the sniper?? it needs and update to!!

  • 02.02.2008 11:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Acglaphotis
I think the melee fix is that instead of the one we have now, is that we're BOTH going to die.


That kind of melee fix is a fair, good thing...especially on XBL (with latency and such)

Ah yes...goin' back to the Halo: CE days... now about that pistol =) just kiddn

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  • 02.02.2008 11:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Downserj
I don't get why everyone hopes the newly added level is going to be Lockout.

Yes, it was a good level, but we have Gaurdian now. If they remade Lockout, it would ruin both maps because they would be competing with each other. I know that Gaurdian is not Lockout, but it is too close (don't even say it's not, Bungie even said it's a spiritual successor, end of story). I think it is Moonbase Alpha myself, which is closer to The Longest.

Why should they keep on making old maps when there is so much more potential for new, original ones? Halo 3 isn't Halo 1 or 2, so the maps won't play as well, they weren't designed for the features offered in Halo 3 opposed to the old ones.

I do love Cottonball already though. They said it is officially a remake of a Halo 1 game. I can handle a remake occasionally, to bring back a familiar feel, but with a new touch.


Thank you, finally someone who has sense! Why are we so fixed on having remakes of OLD maps, Halo 3 is a NEW game therefore there are NEW maps. Be happy with Last Resort. Why would they make a new game but keep making old (remakes) maps? That DOESN"T make sense!


Be happy with Last Resort? Last Resort? I, for one, want a remake of a small Halo: CE maps (Chill Out, Rat Race, Prisoner), not a large remake of a map we have already played on XBL.

But, hey, what do I know, I've only been a Bungie Fan since 2000.

  • 02.02.2008 11:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: roggie 2499
If Halo 2 is so much better, why are you playing Halo 3? Just stay on Halo 2. It still has enough players to easily find a game.

And, CoD4 is much better than Halo 2. You don't have to use glitches to be able to dominate. (And yes, I use glitches in Halo 2. You have to to survive.)


glitches are from people who can't fight their way out of a paper bag..it's called skill dude, c'mon

also I thought matchmaking for "halo 2" would've been shut down a WHILE ago...

Posted by: forward1138
i saw some elites with Commando shoulders, but i have unlocked Overkill and the shoulders are still locked. what is going on?


they've told us it will be resolved in due time


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  • 02.02.2008 11:27 PM PDT

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Great update. I'm excited for the new melee system and the new maps.

  • 02.02.2008 11:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: VICIOUS713
So did anybody notice how remarkably similar that picture looks like halo2's Tombstone. thought i'd point this out >.>;


and I thought I'd point it out that it WAS Tombstone!


Posted by: tartaras579
first page



look again...

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  • 02.02.2008 11:30 PM PDT
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also I thought matchmaking for "halo 2" would've been shut down a WHILE ago...


the pc version of halo 2 connects to the same live server as the console version.

  • 02.03.2008 1:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: Frankie
The new map is not Hang Em High.
Okay, now I know it's Hang 'Em High.


why WOULD it be Hang 'em high?

Because Tombstone (Hang 'Em High remake) was used in the pic for this update.


why are y'all debating this

frankie himself said it wasn't hang em' high


then why would a pic of tombstone be used? ;)

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Posted by: Sgt Hartsock
also I thought matchmaking for "halo 2" would've been shut down a WHILE ago...


the pc version of halo 2 connects to the same live server as the console version.

had no idea, thought the console version of matchmaking hosting was shut down..hm

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  • 02.03.2008 1:38 AM PDT
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how long will it take until the new maps are ready for screenshots

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thank god i'm tired of melee BS and double assassinations. yeah its happened at least three times to me. And that "automatically surviving a melee attack because ur holding a shotgun regardless of whether or not u shot me first" is annoying too.

  • 02.03.2008 5:37 AM PDT

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so ifl the melee is being updated what about the sniper?? it needs and update to!!


actually the sniper is the fairest weapon in the game

  • 02.03.2008 7:04 AM PDT

The next map pack should consist of maps roughly the same size as midship, gemini and burial mounds. I'm not saying they should be the same exact maps but similar in size. And are all maps packs just gonna have 3 maps, I recall one of them in H2 having 5, thats doesn't mean u need to charge more points for it either

  • 02.03.2008 7:19 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Defnop552 has confirmed he has fixed his dick.

Ranked BTB is fun as heck..Sure, my mic port on my controller is busted and i can't even talk, but its still fun!
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  • 02.03.2008 8:40 AM PDT
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Hey Luke and Frankie, why do you need people that play the game for money to test melee physics? I was playing Halo 3 last night and didn't enjoy it as much as I used to now, seeing the glitches for what they are. Alot of my friends are disapointed in the fact that you allowed these people to come in, I have nothing against MLG, but considering you made Team BR's a part of a few playlists is disturbing. I do not like the fact that you start with a BR and then are forced to shoot at someones head with either a four shotter or three. It's terribley unbalanced in my opinion. The Melee system is faulted by the fact that if two people hit and they both score damage yet the most shield or health in this case is the victor? And the rumor going around that the Melee might be fixed into both people dying at the sametime? Thats not fun at all. Another thing I noticed was that when you die and you throw a grenade before the final hit from your enemy, and your Grenade goes flying and then disapears when you die? Whats the point in Death from the grave when that happens? Another thing that should be addressed is the frequent lag spikes in Ranked Big Team battle, covies primarly, where you fire a plasma mortar from a wraith, only for it to hit the ground with invisible effects. The Splatter system is alittle glitchey as well, you'd run into someone going full speed in a ghost and hit them only for the target to go flying with his shields depleted.

Just thought you should know.

The Melee should be how it was in Halo: CE. Whomever strikes first. Not by health or latency, but by skill, and should they both hit at the sametime then it should result in a clash of some sort, much like the sword clash. That would be the anwser to the Melee problem. My friend made a comment last night about MLG and it's probley not accurate, "Those that play for money do not deserve to make decisions based on wether something is flawed or not, because they don't get the same enjoyment out of the game as others that just play for fun."

Thats why I disagree.

This game is far to noob friendly, thats why COD4 is game of the year on Multiplayer.

So hopefully the next update will have something alittle more meaningful..

Hope you guys resond to this.

Shadovar360

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  • 02.03.2008 8:42 AM PDT
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From what i've read, about the constant whining about Team Hardcore and a need for team BR, by some MLG players, which are probley kids, and I am not making reference to bungie profiting from the game although that could also be the reason why it's so Noob friendly.

But thats besides the point, I disagree with MLG players being there, because that in my eyes puts them in a more favorable position.

Whats the difference between someone that plays for money and those that do not? Is it that we cannot fathom all the glitches in the game? It's spectulation, but my personal experience with a supposedly MLG Pro, were problematic.

I just find it rather odd.

  • 02.03.2008 12:25 PM PDT