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Subject: Weekly What's Update: 2/29/08

New Marathon? Thanks Bungie!

lol

  • 02.29.2008 4:53 PM PDT

This, is the way the world ends.

Is there any chance you will privately answer some of the unanswered questions that weren't included in the Weekly What's Update?

  • 02.29.2008 4:53 PM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Default.aspx?player=dxex

*sirens blaring*

WAAAAAHHM! WAAAHMMMA!!!!BULENCE!!!!

Luke's right guys, you can just give everything to everyone because sometimes future projects, patches, and add-on's to Halo 3 need time and space to get ready for matchmaking. And if you didn't get that, how about this?

Let's say you do add Team Swat and Team Snipers, like I myself, have been asking Luke for the past 2 months or so. K, you'd have to set up a whole ‘nother data server if not two to harvest the play list and it's information, maintain it, so on and so forth. And I am sure if it were that easy, it would happen, but it's not. Bungie is constantly working on breaking code to find easier ways to transfer game data through their servers and so on and so forth. So maybe someday soon when they get all that code cracked and can make things work smoothly, we can care freely enjoy any matchmaking play list without a hitch.

On top of that, they have REAL jobs that take up a lot of time. Deadlines, multiple games they want to launch in the future, so on and so forth.

Trust me; it’s hard to please everyone. Being on top in a great company surely has it’s pits of despair.

So that brings me to my point. You can't just represent Bungie, go on the site, make a bunch of promises that you WOULD indeed like to make true, then some OTHER whole mess of burl-blam!- comes up in the company and then you have to go back on your word.

Bottom line:

Shut it and wait son. :D

[Edited on 02.29.2008 4:55 PM PST]

  • 02.29.2008 4:55 PM PDT

Posted by: lukems

Every week is a map reveal or an announcement of a game in fantasy land.


hmmm...How would I gain access to these games in this whimiscal territory?

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Posted by: Ix KoTaRo xI
no wonder COD4 is owning the -blam!- out of Halo3.

Alot of people left because they feel let down by retards who won't tell us anything other than -blam!- that has been repeated a million times.


Updates come weekly from Bungie. The fact that they don't have ground shaking knowledge for you once every seven days is normal. Also, do you really think that more people are playing CoD 4 more now because of Bungie's weekly updates? If yes, you are Bat -blam!- -blam!-ing Loco.

Lastly, as this is a place where some people may listen to my opinion I will espouse my opinions of Call of Duty 4. It is a fun game. I enjoy both the single and Multiplayer games. Both of these have giant gaping crevices of problems though.

The Single player game is not well balanced, or they lack clear instructions for the player to complete the mission with any degree of ease. There are sections of the game that go from fun (and challenging) to absolutely impossible/unplayable in the span of one checkpoint (play the end of the sniper stage on any difficulty but easy).

The Multiplayer is also very good... most of the time. When you and your team are being soundly beaten, you don't just have to outplay the other team to get ahead. You have to outplay the other team, their two helicopters, and their air strikes. These are things that, if anything, you should get when you're being beaten, not when you're already winning. Do we give a rocket launcher to every player who gets a killing spree (because clearly, they need a rocket launcher)? Do we turn the Motion detector off for every player who's just spawned? No, because that would be stupid.

Aside from those things, CoD 4 is a really great experience, and that's why people are playing it (but you only have to scream at your television once for your room mates to tell you to play a different game). Halo's only problem is that if you don't get a good connection you don't get a good experience (honestly, there's more, but nothing as big as the problems with CoD4). Name one multiplayer FPS game where that's not true, and I will personally hand you a cookie (a vegan cookie). Seriously, I'll do it too. It won't even be poisoned.

Lastly:

Posted by: Ix KoTaRo xI
I am wrong. I am very sorry.


Yes... yes you are. Apology accepted. Find where he said that, and you too, will get a vegan cookie.

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  • 02.29.2008 4:57 PM PDT

What's up? I'm Anthony, from Maryland. I play a lot of video games, too many. Enjoying the Halo Reach Beat right now. Also Halo was kind of my life from the age of 11-14.

Cool, cant wait to see the new updates.

  • 02.29.2008 4:58 PM PDT
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Because of the fact i spent weeks learning to bend and contort my fingers in ways humans should not be able to do (claw) i basically skipped the need for bumper jumper but its definitely a great controller layout.

I just wanted to note that they said they took out radar jams and flares probably because of the equipments jumps you can do. You can do it with the power drainer too but its harder and I guess its a payoff cause you will lose your shields and be setup for an easy death if anyone sees you.

  • 02.29.2008 5:00 PM PDT

Posted by: XxJuicesxX
Because of the fact i spent weeks learning to bend and contort my fingers in ways humans should not be able to do (claw) i basically skipped the need for bumper jumper but its definitely a great controller layout.


I tried to claw and had to go see an ergonomics specialist.

  • 02.29.2008 5:01 PM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Default.aspx?player=dxex

Luke, try using Green Thumb in every sword match, you can circle people and assassinate them easily! That's how I got 5 official Slice N' Dice's in Rumble Pit! :D

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Posted by: lukemsI tried to claw and had to go see an ergonomics specialist.

LoL

  • 02.29.2008 5:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shady K1llaz asks:

When are we going to see fire grenades in Matchmaking?

Fire grenades are a huge performance hog – so while they’re a fun addition to Customs, they would cause significant horror in a big matchmaking game. That’s not to say you never will, but in this case the downside outweighs the benefits.


Nice to see that you guys justified why we don't see fire grenades in Matchmaking, but what about all those other weapons; where's the Beam Rifle, Carbine, Fuel Rod Cannon, and heck while I'm at it, the Sentinel Beam? If looking at the weapon layout in Ghost Town tells me anything, it is that we're going to be seeing the same default weapons in the other dlc maps as well. That's my assumption anyways. While I'll keep in mind that some weapon/object placements could change, more and more I'm seeing that all the maps are too similiar with their weapons and vehicles. While Halo 3 has all these new vehicles and weapons, it seems like every map has the same set of default weapons. What's the point of releasing new maps, when we're going to be seeing the same stuff and getting bored of it after a while?


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>Overall an ok update. Little long on the bumper-jumper part, but we all know bumper-jumper is owns all. It does seem that Team Snipers and S.W.A.T will thankfuly be added to H3 sooner or later.
>Yes, the melee is fixed.
>Bungie, you do really need to do something about the mixed party restrictions, but you already know that.
>It does really suck that there were no new pictures in the update. Waiting the whole week for the posibility of new pics of the new DLC seemed to take forever, and when the UD came out, no pics. If not pics of the other maps, at least more of Ghost Town! The suspence is killing me. Sorry Bungie, but I am obsesed with this game. JUST ONE MORE HIT, MAN!
>Either way , I like the direction that I think Bungie is going with H3, I'm just not patient enough.

  • 02.29.2008 5:04 PM PDT

This is the worst update ever. The mysterious answers were retarded and the update revealed no useful information. Bungie, you wasted your time writing that, and I wasted my time reading it. Next week's better be good.

  • 02.29.2008 5:04 PM PDT
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Hey Lukems, since my question didn't get answered (no biggie) maybe at least you can reply here. Should we even bother informing you guys about glitches ? Is there a list of them somewhere ? so we don't bother thinking "this one is new" in the future ?

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By the way, how's the security guard doin, forgot his name but someone took a pic of him wielding a gravity hammer.

  • 02.29.2008 5:05 PM PDT
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Weekly Update- Pretty Baller.

  • 02.29.2008 5:05 PM PDT

What about "When will the Heroic Map Pack be free?"

  • 02.29.2008 5:07 PM PDT

Posted by: D1Mik
Hey Lukems, since my question didn't get answered (no biggie) maybe at least you can reply here. Should we even bother informing you guys about glitches ? Is there a list of them somewhere ? so we don't bother thinking "this one is new" in the future ?


Yeah you can always send them to us, odds are we won't respond, but we have a log of bugs and such. Video evidence is always appreciated.

Posted by: Strategy
What about "When will the Heroic Map Pack be free?"


When the answer changes from "this Spring" we'll tell you?

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  • 02.29.2008 5:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Strategy
What about "When will the Heroic Map Pack be free?"

i belive they said at one point that they will... in the summer

  • 02.29.2008 5:08 PM PDT

Owners of the Katana: A place for those who have a Katana or over 1000GS in Halo 3.

Posted by: SHADOW167
Somewhere out there... in an alternate reality... Marty decided to stay in the ad jingle business, bringing about an age of amazingly orchestrated Pampers commercials.

Lukems, you didn't answer my question, cough it up, bub.

(Great Update! On a fake day!)

  • 02.29.2008 5:09 PM PDT

DEEP NNN = Depends

Clan 2old2pwn on 2old2play.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

What! Not one person asked if any new weapons or vehicles were going to be added?

  • 02.29.2008 5:09 PM PDT

Posted by: Johnny Armenian
Posted by: Shady K1llaz asks:

When are we going to see fire grenades in Matchmaking?

Fire grenades are a huge performance hog – so while they’re a fun addition to Customs, they would cause significant horror in a big matchmaking game. That’s not to say you never will, but in this case the downside outweighs the benefits.


Nice to see that you guys justified why we don't see fire grenades in Matchmaking, but what about all those other weapons; where's the Beam Rifle, Carbine, Fuel Rod Cannon, and heck while I'm at it, the Sentinel Beam? If looking at the weapon layout in Ghost Town tells me anything, it is that we're going to be seeing the same default weapons in the other dlc maps as well. That's my assumption anyways. While I'll keep in mind that some weapon/object placements could change, more and more I'm seeing that all the maps are too similiar with their weapons and vehicles. While Halo 3 has all these new vehicles and weapons, it seems like every map has the same set of default weapons. What's the point of releasing new maps, when we're going to be seeing the same stuff and getting bored of it after a while?


That is a separate issue - it's a memory budget decided on a per map basis. Again, these things are compromises yes, but they exist for a reason. If we COULD include every weapon on every map, we would - and in fact that would make our job easier. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

  • 02.29.2008 5:09 PM PDT
Subject: Incorrect Sir!

It is my understanding that the Gregorian Calender was instated in 1587 by Pope Gregory.

It's okay to be wrong on a day that hardly exists anyway, so keep bouncing Bungie!

-corpsegrinda

  • 02.29.2008 5:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frankie
Posted by: Johnny Armenian
Posted by: Shady K1llaz asks:

When are we going to see fire grenades in Matchmaking?

Fire grenades are a huge performance hog – so while they’re a fun addition to Customs, they would cause significant horror in a big matchmaking game. That’s not to say you never will, but in this case the downside outweighs the benefits.


Nice to see that you guys justified why we don't see fire grenades in Matchmaking, but what about all those other weapons; where's the Beam Rifle, Carbine, Fuel Rod Cannon, and heck while I'm at it, the Sentinel Beam? If looking at the weapon layout in Ghost Town tells me anything, it is that we're going to be seeing the same default weapons in the other dlc maps as well. That's my assumption anyways. While I'll keep in mind that some weapon/object placements could change, more and more I'm seeing that all the maps are too similiar with their weapons and vehicles. While Halo 3 has all these new vehicles and weapons, it seems like every map has the same set of default weapons. What's the point of releasing new maps, when we're going to be seeing the same stuff and getting bored of it after a while?


That is a separate issue - it's a memory budget decided on a per map basis. Again, these things are compromises yes, but they exist for a reason. If we COULD include every weapon on every map, we would - and in fact that would make our job easier. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.


You just answered my unasked question.

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Posted by: shadow4747
1st post =p

Decent update. No pics...


Hey at least they had the "Lord British" picture in it.

And the following is interesting:

Legitt Legit asks:

Are there any intentions on making [sic] a foundry like map set in the open instead of a warehouse?

Reception to Foundry has been really positive. We’re impressed with the types of content that folks have created with the tools at their disposal.


That's not what the man(woman?) asked, Bungie! Are you hiding something, or are you suspicious of this man's(woman's?) character? I mean his(her?) name is Legitt Legit after all. The fact that the first word ISN'T legit and being followed with "Legit" does seem rather suspect.

~NsU Soldier (uSn Pacifist?)

  • 02.29.2008 5:11 PM PDT