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Subject: Halo 3 AutoUpdate
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i have the exact same problem i cant do anything i join a room and then i get booted my stats dropped and bungie wont even email me back i want some answers i spend a -blam!- load of my on xbox games internet modems pcs and this is bull-blam!-

  • 02.23.2008 3:12 PM PDT
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bull-blam!- i can't even play my damn game now bungie won't email me back xbox reps hang up on me or tell me its my internet, my internet provider at&t says it's xbox. So i have been on the phone for 10 hours with these people and email bungie for some answers i spent a lot of money on this -blam!- and i can't even play the game and bungie is to chicken -blam!- to even send me an email of what is wrong so give it some time my ass

  • 02.23.2008 3:20 PM PDT

I completly agree. You took something that worked perfectly and screwed it up. Now whenever I go to beat someone down we both die. All you have done is allow people with bad connections and slow reaction times to be better while the rest of us whi can play the game get screwed. Thanks Bungie for screwing things up as usual.

  • 02.23.2008 6:54 PM PDT
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I would like to let you know that the update isnt as good simple because of the mele everthing else is fine but the mele

  • 02.23.2008 8:12 PM PDT
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well i want to know what happened to my security shoulders there gone and i'm pretty sure it happened around the time of the update.

  • 02.23.2008 9:44 PM PDT
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whats the latter bug?

  • 02.24.2008 11:47 AM PDT
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we need to start a new thread with just people who are having the problem with the update working.. rather than hoping that bungie sifts through 18 pages of people complaining about the new melee system. I personally don't give a *blam* anymore. My Halo disc apparently got tweaked by ghosts while in my drive.. bungie tells me to call xbox.. xbox tells me to call bungie. I'm officially over it.. If I see an easy way to fix the problem.. I might do it.. but I'm just as happy never playing halo 3 again or any other bungie product for that matter.

  • 02.24.2008 12:19 PM PDT
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man the update is ok but the whole melee thing is insain i mean its horrible

  • 02.24.2008 8:50 PM PDT
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I noticed the Melee contest difference right away. It's good and alot more fair. I felt satisfied when I died, when I saw that my opponent received a beat down too. It's also fun to watch when both contestants go down.

  • 02.25.2008 12:36 AM PDT

My Coup avatar is from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrwNz24j_g#t=01m46s.

The melee system feels so unfair now. If you have less than perfect health you will almost always lose. Melee use to be a last ditch effort to kill someone. And whats up with taking two hits to the back to assasinate someone?

  • 02.25.2008 2:04 PM PDT
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ever since these new updates have come out the game hasn't been the same.. The good connection is crap and the melee is nothing to brag about. How about bungie getting rid of some of these laggers and cheaters..

  • 02.25.2008 2:47 PM PDT
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laggers i can deal with, i havent seen cheaters really..bungie definitely should delete epitaph from the map list. does anyone else see the problem with people lunging from 7 ft away and killing u with a melee atck ? i hope that gets fixed

  • 02.25.2008 6:35 PM PDT
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i still cant get my scout shoulders and the security shoulders can you fix this plz

  • 02.26.2008 4:55 AM PDT

I'm a hyperactive, very sneaky and prone to laughing like a crazed maniac. I love seeing stuff blow up and fire is my third favorite thing behind soda and movies. Other than that I'm usually a good conversation...

whats the last auto update mean? the one that affects the main menu.

  • 02.26.2008 4:50 PM PDT

When in Trouble use the Bubble! ✇

I really like this update. The game feels more fair. but, the swords contests are very different and sometimes unpredictable now.

  • 02.27.2008 5:07 AM PDT
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Finaly the melee feature is gone i hate it when we both die!

  • 02.27.2008 2:09 PM PDT

Oh hai 2 u

Cheers dude-for bungie

laggers i can deal with, i havent seen cheaters really..bungie definitely should delete epitaph from the map list. does anyone else see the problem with people lunging from 7 ft away and killing u with a melee atck ? i hope that gets fixed

i REALY hate epitaph!! it is the most anoying map ever and it is realy unfair once someone gets the gravity hammer or shotgun they dominate the rest of the map....rant over:D


[Edited on 02.27.2008 2:47 PM PST]

  • 02.27.2008 2:44 PM PDT

$$Pride and Honor$$

@@No one gets left behind@@

Youll see blue once i stick a nade in ur hud

Dear bungie, i been a fan of halo since i was 8, from the plains of halo to the city of new mombasa i been there, from the ragin halo splitscreen battles to the extremely fun halo 3 MP.
Me and my friends usually come to my house and do Ranked team slayer and we are very good at this game.. we have our own clan.. when we die we just laugh about it and try to improve our skills.. but since this "patch"came out, seriously gameplay is more frustrating then ever. 2 of my friends said that was bullcrap and got extremely mad at the game when they got killed by biased meele or uberly stupid assasinations.. never have my friends gotten mad at halo 3 until this patch and i been playing for a long time and since this patch came out my skill went down due to the poor use of the meele. you could shoot then meele and you got a kill, now you shoot and hit and still you have to do another hit to kill te guy.. that is very annoying belive me.im not wining im just statin the fact that this patch has caused alot of weird stuff since i dunno how to describe it. and its not only me that has adressed this matter since 4 of my friends that i usually invite over have stated the same feeling then me. Thank you-Flamingspaz600 GT

  • 02.27.2008 10:02 PM PDT
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Haha that would be the best to just see bodies flying all over th place! you should keep that on there.

  • 02.28.2008 6:47 AM PDT
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are you seriously complaining about it? They didnt do it to piss people off they just made it more challenging for people who just like to run at people, shoot then hit to work a little harder to get their kills. its all in good fun man so tell your friends to get some real skill...plus it makes them better players with mad accuarcy!

  • 02.28.2008 6:50 AM PDT

-MaraJade1973-

I've noticed after the update that Plasma Grenades will sometimes bounce off a person or they will stick and not blow up (same goes for spiker grenades). WTF is up? The auto update was supposed to fix stuff, not make make it worse.

PS: I am tired of playing with people that are cheating and getting maps to glitch. There is no fun in trying to have a good time with people that don't have any skill, so they have to cheat to make up for their "short comings". There should be something in the next update or atleast a way for people cheating to be caught and banned. It makes a crappy play experience for everyone else.

  • 02.28.2008 10:26 AM PDT
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The sticky thing is really frustrating me. I used to get a stick about 95% of the time I threw a sticky or spiker grenade. Now they only stick about 30% of the time and when they do stick they frequently don't kill the opponent.

Something is seriously glitched about the melee system. I was in a match where I was trading blows with another guy. After emptying our assault rifles into each other I meleed him 4 times and he hit me 3 times and neither of us died. We both ended up getting killed by gunfire.

Shotgun behavior has been dramatically affected. Shooting someone point blank with a shotgun is apparently no longer a guaranteed kill. Other behaviors have gotten worse. For instance, if a shotgun wielder is about to die and receives a melee attack, firing at and hitting the attacker would prevent him from dying. Now apparently it doesn't matter who he shoots as long as he kills someone within a few frames of receiving a melee blow he survives the attack.

Overshield behavior has changed. Formerly, when you collected an overshield you were invincible until the meter was full and being shot briefly halted the shield charge. So as long as you were taking damage continuously, overshield=invincibility. This is no longer the case. In fact, collecting an overshield while under fire seems to have no effect at all. I collected an overshield while under fire today and after collecting the overshield, 2 shots from a BR killed me. The overshield was still charging on screen when I died.

Melee blows (without firing a weapon) dealt to a person with full shields and health (face to face) are frequently counted as assassinations. I've been using this glitch to kill people that run around with the shotgun. I just run up to them without firing and melee and it gives me an assassination. The shotgun doesn't even deal damage. I've witnessed this as the shotgun user and as the assassinator. In one case, both the shotgunner and the assassinator were on my xbox. They were definitely facing each other when the attack ensued. The shotgun fired centered on the other person, yet melee attack resulted in an assassination.

I've been killed once or twice a match since the patch came out by someone connecting with a melee without them firing a single shot

Sniper headshots have been made "harder". By "harder" I mean you can aim directly at a person's head, such that the dot appears in the reticule and pull the trigger and they will survive one, sometimes 2 hits to the head. Just today I played in a game where I shot someone in the head with the sniper rifle 5 times in a row and he never died. In the replay you can clearly see his head is targeted in every shot. Every shot connected and caused the player apparent harm (shields flashed on impact).


Besides all the random ridiculousness caused by lag and people fiddling with their connections during the game, the matchmaking keeps getting worse. My dad is a gunnery sergeant, with VERY little gameplay experienced, and in most of the matches he plays in, he's matched against generals, brigadiers and the like. I'm not ranked quite that low, but I'm continually matched with people FAR better than I am in social playlists. It's gotten to the point where I'll switch to ranked playlists for an EASIER game.

Prior to the release of this patch I had been playing on as a guest of a friend ( a colonel) and have been an excellent player. I started playing on my name again because I didn't like that I wasn't getting the various awards (including an invincible, perfection, killpocalypse and an extermination). As soon as the patch comes out, all of the sudden I can't kill ANYBODY. Not even the n00bs. For the first few matches it seemed like most players were mostly impervious to ONLY MY bullets. You can call it network issues or lag, but the game has gotten far less fun when I have to shoot someone with EVERY bullet in my gun and hit them with grenades and melee blows before they die, while I'm dying before I finish spawning several times a match.

The online playability of this game has been dropping like a brick since December and since the release of the patch I've finally started contemplating selling Halo 3.

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  • 02.29.2008 9:30 PM PDT
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I've been having that same problem also sometimes i kill people instantally then other times it doesn't. i try shooting people in the face and they don't always drop so how do i know when i should melee if i don't get the same result every time I use the shotgun. also what is up with the gravity feture online compared to custom games i leave it on unchanged and can grenade jump and get to higher spots playing custom games compared to online also brute shot jumping is different in the pit it take me only two shots to get in the upper room on custom games and online it takes three. What is going on?


[Edited on 03.10.2008 1:31 PM PDT]

  • 03.10.2008 1:22 PM PDT