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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 02/08/08
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wow finally but hey at least its here right? *cricket sound*
thanks for the update it should make my day a little less frustrating and little more joyous.

  • 02.11.2008 8:49 PM PDT
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im maybe one of the few that like the current melee sysyem but there is no fixing,whats there to fix?players should just tough it,stop complaining because the loose melee battles and adjust

  • 02.11.2008 9:08 PM PDT
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I am loathe to say it, but this is to me probably the single worst decision Bungie could have made. I have played every Halo game in every format, and I have gotten my rifle butt in literally thousands of faces, so I feel decently qualified to say this. Melee should be about speed. Really. It is a split-second battle to see who can hit first. I do not want my fight decided by whether my opponent just spawned and I've already ripped my way through three other guys and have a lower shield bar. If I smack him first, I get the kill.
Don't think I didn't seriously consider the arguments, I just reached a conclusion that is apparently against the grain. Thank you Bungie for your willingness to take all views into account.

  • 02.11.2008 9:11 PM PDT

I carve a notch in my wall for every stall,
every fifth mark slants diagonal to symbolize your downfall...-AR

the best news i've ever heard in a weekly update, that commando picture brought a tear to my eye, and with the melee being fixed life is good!

  • 02.12.2008 9:50 AM PDT
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What if you have less life than your enemy... does that mean... don't even try to melee?

I think it will encourage less melee...

  • 02.12.2008 1:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: J Trip Out
What if you have less life than your enemy... does that mean... don't even try to melee?

I think it will encourage less melee...



Well, seeing that you can't know your opponents health unelss they're charing your tv screen, it would never hurt to try and make a finishing blow, and hope that you do have more health than him.

  • 02.12.2008 7:35 PM PDT

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

Posted by: snyper f1
im maybe one of the few that like the current melee sysyem but there is no fixing,whats there to fix?players should just tough it,stop complaining because the loose melee battles and adjust

Tough it? What is there to "tough it" when melee is all up to chance/randomness? The only way to currently deal with it, is avoid meleeing all together. Not a cool option.

You like it because you benefit from it, due to your slower melee reaction. There really is no other reason for someone to prefer it.

It's never preferable to noobify something to make it more accessible to those who suck.

[Edited on 02.12.2008 8:52 PM PST]

  • 02.12.2008 8:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: MadroKurgan
Posted by: snyper f1
im maybe one of the few that like the current melee sysyem but there is no fixing,whats there to fix?players should just tough it,stop complaining because the loose melee battles and adjust

Tough it? What is there to "tough it" when melee is all up to chance/randomness? The only way to currently deal with it, is avoid meleeing all together. Not a cool option.

You like it because you benefit from it, due to your slower melee reaction. There really is no other reason for someone to prefer it.

It's never preferable to noobify something to make it more accessible to those who suck.


Couldn't agree with you more on that matter.

On a side note, please tell me that I misread them saying that they "fixed" the flying through the air with unearthly force melee glitch?

That saddens me greatly. Getting my butt handed to me in melee was made much less painful by the glorious air I would receive. I petition you to add it back in!

  • 02.12.2008 11:14 PM PDT
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Hey bungie, in the auto-update, are you going to be nerfing the assualt rifle slightly? It seems to make most other guns obsolete, which makes for some pretty boring gunfights...

  • 02.13.2008 1:21 AM PDT

Oooo you're gna die!

YAY melee tweaked. 1 question, will they still reduce ur shields if you win the melee?
while this melee latency thing has been fixed, it still doesnt change the latency when i snipe some1 in the head a split second b4 they snipe me, they win and only their shield is reduced!
But thankyou bungie for realising been constantly paired up with american hosts is majorly unfair. lvl 50, here i come.

  • 02.13.2008 3:54 AM PDT
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Adding recon to the auction was so my idea!

look at the second page!

  • 02.13.2008 4:14 AM PDT
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Were is the playlist!!!

I want to play it!!

  • 02.13.2008 7:42 AM PDT
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You're not afraid of the dark are you?

YES!! cant w8 for Elite Commando Shoulders They are the best looking one's

  • 02.13.2008 9:44 AM PDT

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Time of the Season

Next week, folks all over the world over will celebrate their love for one another with diamonds, chocolates, baguettes, romantic nights out and then wives and girlfriends will then proceed to get headaches and go straight to bed after dinner, so what will the husbands do? Hopefully log in to Halo 3 and check out another one of those seasonal treats we’re putting together.

I resent the fact that wifes and girlfriends will be getting headaches after a valentines dinner and heading off to bed while hubbies go play! You assume to much...

I will be getting my game on after dinner, before dinner, at breakfast (you see my point).

Chicks play too, you know!

  • 02.13.2008 10:25 AM PDT
Subject: In regards to cheeting - Halo 3 and Network manipulation
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When is this stuff going to stop, or is it? I play hard and enjoy the game, except for this crap.


http://www.xbl-hackers.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1143&a mp;st=0

I'm sure you guys monitor this stuff, you know its going on, but when are we going to see a level playing field?

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  • 02.13.2008 12:29 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 02/08/08
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Posted by: metroid dragon

On a side note, please tell me that I misread them saying that they "fixed" the flying through the air with unearthly force melee glitch?

That saddens me greatly. Getting my butt handed to me in melee was made much less painful by the glorious air I would receive. I petition you to add it back in!



I couldn't agree with you more, the flying body made getting my arse kicked all the more enjoyable...

He dies a glorious death and flies through the air....

[Edited on 02.13.2008 2:07 PM PST]

  • 02.13.2008 1:05 PM PDT
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what helmet is that in the 2nd pic and how can i get my greedy little hands on it? :o

  • 02.13.2008 2:32 PM PDT

Posted by: Krazyjoker89
what helmet is that in the 2nd pic and how can i get my greedy little hands on it? :o


The flaming helmet(1st pic) is a staff only armor. Looks like the recon(2nd pic), just flaming. Their not giving it to anyone, or at least that's what I hear.

[Edited on 02.13.2008 2:48 PM PST]

  • 02.13.2008 2:45 PM PDT
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Yeah, Commando shoulders, that's great, Now what about the Security shoulder glitch? I've gotten more than 750 gamerpoints, Bungie. I want my shoulders back.
Another, but much less important thing you guys need to fix is the missing armor.
Every now and then while I'm playing a match or what not, my armor suddenly reverts back to original MC instead of my custom set.


Seconded, on both accounts. Firstly, it's just annoying to go into a match and get "defaulted", Spartan or Elite. There's no reason for it to be happening. Once we choose our custom armor in the options it should be "set in stone". Ocassionally when I have this happen it'll randomally get "fixed during the match after getting killed and respawning. Not often though. This needs to be fixed.

Security shoulders, yeah lots of people have earned them legit and then had them up and relock on them for no apparent reason and no way at all to get them back. A friend of mine earned his some months back and had them shortly after relock on him. At present he has all but 2 of the achievements. As seen in my avatar, I too have them unlocked. But I just can't shake the feeling of paranoia of losing them unexpectedly. Every time I get on Halo 3 the first thing I do is check my armor settings, to make sure I haven't lost them(Security is my favorite shoulders). This is a nasty bug. Much more important to fix than the freaking Commando shoulders.

  • 02.13.2008 6:28 PM PDT
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1st off, I just wanted to post something on here, so I'm not necessarily quoting the person above me b/c I couldn't find a regular post button. my bad.

2nd, 1st page posts...I didn't know there was something special about them but okay?...

and 3rd, I read the entire article on the melee fix and the damage point system is amazing! It seems like the point damage for the brute shot from Halo 2 to Halo 3 is a bit weaker though...but that's just me I guess. I do miss the head melee's with the bomb, ball, etc. were one hit kills and not just any melee attack...but okay again. Digging the melee system.

and 4th, why don't elites have as many armor permutations as spartans do? It feels as if elites are discriminated. We have feelings to you know....:( more armor variations please? :)

  • 02.13.2008 7:20 PM PDT
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I don't get it... It said that each player has 115 points of hp, 45 are body points and 70 are sheild points. melee takes away 70 points, an AR bullet takes away 7.5, and a BR takes away 6.... but what about headshots?.... If I shoot someone in the head with three bursts of a BR, then melee them, that should kill them, but then when I shoot someone in the leg three times with a battle rifle then melee.... It doesn't kill them... Also, why is it that when I melee somebody first, then shoot them with one burst in the face with my BR, it kills them, but when I shoot them once in the head first, then melee, they don't die? The math doesn't add up bungie.....

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  • 02.13.2008 10:04 PM PDT
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Um. Honestly, i didnt understand what they updated. What did they update? .. I read for a while and found out some stuff about how much hp people have. and that people with faster connections win a beat down fight.. How was it fixed ?

  • 02.14.2008 2:12 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 02/08/08 question.

so..will this auto update fix the armor glitches as well? cuz as it is i've already been cheated out of two pieces of armor.

  • 02.15.2008 5:42 AM PDT

I Hate Fracken Cheaters!

Honestly, if you were a fan of the old system then you were the one firing second and pressing B second and still winning the contest. No speed was not the issue, b/c 4.6Mb is more than fast enough. The H2 system worked perfectly and allowed the erasing of a surprise attack or a mistake (it was not broke). As far as connectivity or lag, 90% of the games that my friends and I have played against "50's' are all laggy. It is a real mystery though we just can't seem to figure it out(sarcasm). How does that one guy bring down everyone else's connection? That should be the specific target for looking at connectivity tampering.

No, I have no ambitions in life of going pro and no I don't think putting that I am a 50 on a resume will get me further in life. I play only for fun and being cheated is only more of the same from the H2.

  • 02.15.2008 8:59 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 02/08/08
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Yo guys go to the people finder and put in " Bianco B " he has such an awsome fileshare iteams.

  • 02.15.2008 5:52 PM PDT