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Subject: Keep Griffballsocial for good !

RIP Halo 2: November 9, 2004-May 10, 2010
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that would be reallly cool, griffball is an amazing game and to be able to play it and get exp is awesome, even if we dont get double exp for winning.

  • 03.06.2008 11:36 AM PDT
Subject: March Playlist Update

RIP Halo 2: November 9, 2004-May 10, 2010
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yeah man swat would be sweet

  • 03.06.2008 11:37 AM PDT
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do u guys have to put work in to get these up and running every week or what? just curious..?

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WOOT!!! SWAT

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is grifball really for good??
Love the bungie podcast and the ppl who thought of this!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.06.2008 11:55 AM PDT

Posted by: Havocberrys
WOOT!!! SWAT

Lol, that quote just looks really weird with your frowny face emblem right next to it.



Ok! I have a really big question, and I don't think anyone official has answered it yet in this thread:
Will there be more than just that one Grifball arena to play in? I've seen some people post their own Grifball courts on the forums, and some of them looked really nice as I remember.
I'm asking because I think it could get boring to play in that one flat, wide open arena all the time. Some variety would go a long way.

I had an idea for one, but just never got around to it: Take the Grifball as it is now, and just put double boxes standing on their ends and place them around the map. Maybe have about 8 of them. I'd call it "Pillars of Loki."

  • 03.06.2008 12:11 PM PDT
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Apparently you also forgot to mention that you need the Heroic map pack to play.

I've been excited about Grifball since the announcement, now I'm screwed over because I don't have the map pack. I planned on just waiting until it became free, but maybe I'll get it just for this hopper. I just wish I'd known about this when this was announced so I could've gotten the map pack sooner, now I have about a whole day of the tournament hopper wasted because I can't get it until tomorrow.

Before you all flame me, I know Foundry is the typical map for Grifball, but since nothing on this thread said you needed it, I assumed there would be other maps playable as well. Which made sense, considering there's an official variant made for Last Resort and both Sandtrap and Valhalla also have areas where a field would work well.

This sucks.

  • 03.06.2008 12:31 PM PDT
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No Team Snipers...yet another useless update...

  • 03.06.2008 12:33 PM PDT

Posted by: CWalker14
No Team Snipers...yet another useless update...


God I can't stand you people.
Just because there isn't team snipers doesn't make it automatically useless.

Maybe it's useless in your feeble mind, but to the rest of the community, the changes and fixes are quite welcome.

  • 03.06.2008 12:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: herky1
Apparently you also forgot to mention that you need the Heroic map pack to play.

Before you all flame me, I know Foundry is the typical map for Grifball, but since nothing on this thread said you needed it, I assumed there would be other maps playable as well.

This sucks.


If you scroll through the entire thread real fast, and look for yellow text, you will see it was mentioned.

DLC is required for the Grifball playlist.

And this doesn't suck. Your mistake for not buying the maps. Who doesn't have ten dollars?

  • 03.06.2008 12:52 PM PDT

Posted by: REV 00
Posted by: herky1
Apparently you also forgot to mention that you need the Heroic map pack to play.

Before you all flame me, I know Foundry is the typical map for Grifball, but since nothing on this thread said you needed it, I assumed there would be other maps playable as well.

This sucks.


If you scroll through the entire thread real fast, and look for yellow text, you will see it was mentioned.

DLC is required for the Grifball playlist.

And this doesn't suck. Your mistake for not buying the maps. Who doesn't have ten dollars?


More of the problem is "who doesn't have the resources to get someone to transport them to the store to buy the microsoft points?"
I'm old enough to drive and have my own car, so it isn't a problem for me, but a lot of other gamers out there are younger.

  • 03.06.2008 12:55 PM PDT
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cant get enough of griffball. excellent idea for a playlist. It should be in social permanently.

  • 03.06.2008 12:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: SanguisDiabolus
Posted by: REV 00
Posted by: herky1
Apparently you also forgot to mention that you need the Heroic map pack to play.

Before you all flame me, I know Foundry is the typical map for Grifball, but since nothing on this thread said you needed it, I assumed there would be other maps playable as well.

This sucks.


If you scroll through the entire thread real fast, and look for yellow text, you will see it was mentioned.

DLC is required for the Grifball playlist.

And this doesn't suck. Your mistake for not buying the maps. Who doesn't have ten dollars?


More of the problem is "who doesn't have the resources to get someone to transport them to the store to buy the microsoft points?"
I'm old enough to drive and have my own car, so it isn't a problem for me, but a lot of other gamers out there are younger.


@REV 00
Why would I want to scroll through an entire thread of people posting "YAY GRIFBALL AND SWAT!" just to look for something like that? It makes no sense to not put it in the original post to begin with. I mean, even if it were forgotten, that's what an edit button is for.

My "mistake" for not buying the maps? It's not that I don't really have ten dollars, but any ten dollars I do have can be much more useful than buying two maps that see very little play and I can get for free in a couple months. Generally by the time they're free and the next maps comes out, most people who bought them are like "wow, why did I spend money on these when they're free now? I barely even played them." I said I'd probably buy them JUST for this, because then it's kinda worth it. But after not being able to play for a day, it's not so much anymore.

@SanguisDiabolus

Thanks for understanding and not being such an idiot about these kinds of things. That's actually not really why I can't, but it doesn't really matter.

  • 03.06.2008 1:05 PM PDT

Well thanks. I know there are tons of reasons for people not being "able" to buy the maps, since pretty much everyone here either has a job or gets an allowance from their parents (ah, those were the days! lol), so money isn't so much of an issue.

  • 03.06.2008 1:07 PM PDT

it's snowing in Texas and it's spring that means you should release the dates for the new maps... better yet don't release the dates cause that just makes it harder to wait for. Just like spring it on us one day that will be better.

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That is fantastic Grifball and SWAT are AWESOME!!!!

  • 03.06.2008 1:16 PM PDT

how will you know who deserves a prize without rankings?

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY SWAT IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.06.2008 1:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: herky1
Why would I want to scroll through an entire thread of people posting "YAY GRIFBALL AND SWAT!" just to look for something like that?

So you could know the answer. It takes what, a minute?

It makes no sense to not put it in the original post to begin with. I mean, even if it were forgotten, that's what an edit button is for.
Agreed.

My "mistake" for not buying the maps?
Well, fine. Your "choice" for not buying the maps. But if you say it sucks, then it's your fault that it sucks, because you chose to be in the situation of not being able to play in the playlist.

[Edited on 03.06.2008 1:29 PM PST]

  • 03.06.2008 1:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kap4310
how will you know who deserves a prize without rankings?


The rankings are not visible. Bungie knows.

  • 03.06.2008 1:28 PM PDT

Thanks Bungie. You guys are the best

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Posted by: PL4TINUM SNIP3R
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY SWAT IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I am sorry I love the idea of Grifball but I dont like the SWAT idea because this game take almost 0% skill, the only good thing is it MIGHT help SOME people be able to shoot the head better with BRs but not really anything else, sorry but if u wanna kill people with 1 shot go play CS:S, this is Halo 3 not a real life simulator. Thanks for the other updates though, cant wait to go into Salyer with my lvl 1 friends :D j/k lol

  • 03.06.2008 1:30 PM PDT

omg this is awesome

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So basically.. release grifball only before the map pack becomes free.. bit of money..

I can't afford that -blam!-.

  • 03.06.2008 1:57 PM PDT
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CAN YOU PLEASE KEEP TEAM SWAT AS A PERMANENT PLAYLIST. RANKED or SOCIAL ITS THE BEST VARIANT

  • 03.06.2008 2:10 PM PDT