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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 2/22/08

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  • 02.23.2008 12:52 AM PDT

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  • 02.23.2008 1:00 AM PDT
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the new maps look really sweet!
it definately has that sierra 117 vibe.
im excited!
what i would like to see personallky though right now is standoff more often in the ranked hoppers. i purchased the HMP right after it came out, but i havnt really found any good use for the maps since i dont play social or custom games often. i really HATE foundry.... and rats nest is really only good for BTB, so i would really like to see standoff replace valhalla in the team slayer hopper.

just my opinion, once they are free i dont see why that wouldnt be possible, bungie did it with Halo 2.

  • 02.23.2008 1:35 AM PDT
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"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood"

- White Goodman, Dodgeball

What I want to know is.. how long is it going to take before we get some better maps into the proper playlists? I mean, by the time the free ones come out and are put into matchmaking and everybody downloads them, these new ones are gonna be some crazy price again like 800 MS points, which will stop everybody from getting them again. Then when those maps become free, the next 3 will be out for another 800 MS points.

So this is gonna take flippin ages for some decent maps to be in matchmaking... at least halo 2 already had a healthy 15 maps from the beginning and they were good. Everybody vetos:

Snowbound, Epitaph, Last Resort and Isolation. That leaves us with 7 maps that everybody has until all those maps are free.. nice job.

  • 02.23.2008 1:43 AM PDT
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I followed Frankie's advise and I guess it was my disk. I am just trying to be sure I understand. Is the imporant data of the game stored in the xbox cache and the disk only usually used to verify the ownership of the game, assuming that it is the only game ever in the system? But if the disk was damaged at some point after that data made it to cache, it would still work since it didn't have to fully load the game. With this update, the system had cleared the cache so all games had to be reloaded from the disk, thus any damaged disks out there have just been discovered. Is that right? As sad as it is, at least it is my fault and I can keep loving the game!
Thank you so much for your help!
Spireia

  • 02.23.2008 2:49 AM PDT
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This map = fail

You left the ghost out of ghost town!!!





Lol just kidding looks great

[Edited on 02.23.2008 3:35 AM PST]

  • 02.23.2008 3:34 AM PDT
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Nice Update, but why do you guys always have to ruin maps by stupid Power Weapons?
First every secound Halo 3 map had 4 Maulers, no we get a nice, mauler free map, and you guys have to put a Rocketlauncher on it...

  • 02.23.2008 3:35 AM PDT

Awwww... I was hoping for a more definitive list of changes in the AU.

  • 02.23.2008 3:41 AM PDT
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i still think there should be flame nades in matchmaking because halo 3 introducuded them but didnt use them, but i guess its their choise. Map is nasss.

  • 02.23.2008 4:32 AM PDT

You'd probably shoot back if i wasn't T-bagging your dead body.

I think that sniper will get very annoying in the future.

Yay 110th post lol

[Edited on 02.23.2008 4:57 AM PST]

  • 02.23.2008 4:57 AM PDT

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Wow....so you are saying that if i actually took the valintines day massacre seriosly....i would have RECON ARMOR. I honestly...if bungie would have said that in the beginning...we would have had more dudes to play with...more competition....MORE TOURNAMENT....
anyways....i absolutly sucked at Valentine's day....2 days later when the tournament was done...i started playing team doubles.....i couldn't stop winning.....wow....this really sucks...poor me.

Next time you should definatly start telling us what we get....and it sucks we had school almost everysingle day and i had practices....NO TIME TO PLAY!!!!!!!!!!

  • 02.23.2008 5:37 AM PDT

Nice update, thanks Bungie.

  • 02.23.2008 6:18 AM PDT
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wha!?

Bungie the Ghost Town map looks awesome can't wait to play it! thanks for the sneak peak!
you should totally have the pa-blam!-o mancannon thing as a separate downloadable game on XBL with achievements and stuff, that would roxorz!

  • 02.23.2008 6:19 AM PDT

about the hopper prizes, when i read the Vday announcemenet update, i saw the how vehicle jack wouldbe an example that was not used,so i thought i might get something by jest playin for fun. Next recon prize oppurtunity, i better start thinking about the criterion about prizes like that guy who had 1500 sticks. He probably guessed that "stuck on you" criterion and whored the stickies. Could bungie include criteria that is possible for the casual play-for-fun lot like me, something like number of kill sprees or so, the double kill criteria was not enough. Also bungie should not look at not the number of stcks or flames, but they should look at the percentages of the players total kills, of which they are of stcks and flames. They should first look at the people who have played above a certain number of Vday games like 20 or above, those people will qualify for winner selection. Then they start looking at the percentages from there. Otherwise, the winners will be those people who have too much time on their hands. Those free people will win the recons just because they can play longer than people like me with other things to do.

  • 02.23.2008 7:32 AM PDT
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"Everybody vetos: Snowbound, Epitaph, Last Resort and Isolation."

Well, I've always, ALWAYS vetoed Isolation. I think it is by far the worst map of Halo 3 (no offense to the map's designers, no one expects perfection). But, it is simply just a bad map to play on, frustrating, aweful.

I would love to never play it again. If I never booted up or saw Isolation ever again, it would make Halo 3 a better game.

So, is it possible just to remove it completely from the playlist?

  • 02.23.2008 7:47 AM PDT

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I hope they come out with a team snipers playlist, it would be great on Ghost Town!

  • 02.23.2008 8:01 AM PDT
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Ghost Town looks like a very tactical map and looks like it will be fun with capture the flag
well anyway im glad to seee bungie working on halo because it makes all halo gamers feel like theres always something new coming and keep us gueesing about whats next just thanking the Bungie staff for doing a great job on halo
thnx

  • 02.23.2008 8:09 AM PDT
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I got a 50 in the v day tourney. Will I get anything for reaching the highest level achievable?

  • 02.23.2008 8:28 AM PDT
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The Sentinel Beam isn't excluded from Matchmaking due to any performance concerns. It's excluded because it's ridiculous. It may as well be firing super-accelerated clowns. - Shishka

Isolation is a great map, people veto because they aren't good at it.

  • 02.23.2008 8:28 AM PDT

Things that do not kill me make me stronger. Unless I'm playing a Bungie game.

As One of Bungies biggest fans, I have one eyebrow raised at the thought of the Sarge being launched into that "Price is Right" Plinko Machine. Sarge come on down!! But seriously . . .

Thanks for the update.

P.S. - What happens to the Sarge's cigar in the machine? <<< (three stripes)

  • 02.23.2008 8:29 AM PDT

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Posted by: Sauby00
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Edit lukems deleted the two post above so he got first post how cheap.


lol. Who cares who's first. You will not go down in history for being first to reply in a multi-weekly update.

Congratulations to all the V-day winners!

  • 02.23.2008 8:38 AM PDT

Pretty cool! Good update

  • 02.23.2008 9:02 AM PDT

Don't ask about the name-- it's a long story

How about highest kill spree? I had a spree of 13 (not sure if someone beat me on that).
Highest K/D ratio in one game? I had +15 (not sure about that one either)
Match Linky for above two
Anyways, you should release the game where you launch Sarge as DLC! Put an extra option in the Main Menu once you download it "Mini Game" or the name of the game. Maybe an Extras Menu and put it in there. You can make it free so the ESRB isnt all over it or something lol

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  • 02.23.2008 9:29 AM PDT

Try out my map variation out of Rat's Nest: Hangar 92!

I think I should've deserved something from my 1vs2 games. :-] I played alone agaist two guys in a Valentine's day tournament for several times due to the partners' dissappearing, sniff. May be due to the connection, no one ever knows.

By the way, there's already a map named Ghost Town in Bomberman Live. Coincidence? Who knows. But it doesn't really matter, as long as the name suits.

  • 02.23.2008 9:34 AM PDT