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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 3/14/08
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Snowy vehicles?!?! Does this mean Sidewinder is back?!

Edit: nevermind... prolly gonna be Containment, because its big and all the vehicles will fit.

[Edited on 03.14.2008 7:24 PM PDT]

  • 03.14.2008 7:22 PM PDT
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I see..so Cottonball..might be a remake of Sidewinder.

And awesome Scorpian, cool arctic camoflauge.

The Hornet is understandably nerfed, but the machine gun was always quite potent. And the nerfing will enforce using the Hornet as Air Support, not MOBILE FLYING HELL UNLEASHER.

Cool, Bungie.

  • 03.14.2008 7:24 PM PDT

Even though the Hornet is getting its missiles taken away, remember that you can have two people hop on the sides for support!

Think how cool team games will go, air drops, mid air beat-downs, running over people in the Hornet for the ultimate humiliation, lots of cool possibilities!

  • 03.14.2008 7:25 PM PDT
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One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.

SIDEWINDER ! OMFG

  • 03.14.2008 7:30 PM PDT
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About the grifball winners, does 50 games of grifball mean, 50 and more or exactly 50 games?

  • 03.14.2008 7:30 PM PDT
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Omg air drops FTW!

  • 03.14.2008 7:30 PM PDT

Posted by: yankeesfan484
Seriously? No NEW vehicles? Just OLD vehicles? Not even a TRANSPORT HOG? I just lost about 83.5 % of my faith in Bungie.
Are you serious? What would having a troop transport hog accomplish? You cant get into the back, so havinit and not being able to pack four buddies in it would suck. It would be nothing more than an empty, slower, less defended warthog without a chaingun. seriously man, WTF?

  • 03.14.2008 7:34 PM PDT

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snow eh? HMMMMMMM

  • 03.14.2008 7:38 PM PDT

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nice

  • 03.14.2008 7:39 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

So, I hope that means the Hornet will be implemented on Sand Trap, etc. not digging the Scoprion Cammo though.... looks funny to me.


ZOMG 9th PAGE!!!!

  • 03.14.2008 7:53 PM PDT

The original Lemon Head.

i think that Onslaught sounds large, large like sidewinder is.

  • 03.14.2008 7:54 PM PDT
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holy crap new vehicles holy crap

  • 03.14.2008 7:55 PM PDT
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have you changed the hornet's powers through all maps?
Because then I can put hornets in my map without being pwned.

  • 03.14.2008 7:59 PM PDT

Awesome update! Congrats to the Recon guys, but when I saw the vehicles I almost started hyperventilating. They will be SO cool! Plus it means a snow map. AKA Sidewinder?
Now, to get my Xbox back...

  • 03.14.2008 8:02 PM PDT
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w00t snow paint jobs freakin rock!!!

  • 03.14.2008 8:02 PM PDT

(with sarcasm)I wonder if the new map will be snowy?

Paint jobs are awesome. A remake of containment would be awesome. But the hornet... it could keep the missiles just remove missile lock and the guns weren't that overpowering

  • 03.14.2008 8:07 PM PDT

For every action, there is an equal and opposite airstrike.

The vehicles look interesting, except the new Hornet.


It's meant to be a gunship, it's meant to overwhelm infantry, it's meant to kill everything it touches.

Now it's Halo 2's Banshee all over again? Now with even more ways to bring it down*? This is a sad day. Snow Scorpion looks nice at least, hopefully that'll show up unchanged.


*Yes, the Laser is more unfair than the homing Rocket Launcher. Light travels much faster than a small rocket engine I assure you, and not to mention the Missile Pod, LAAG, Gauss Cannon and HV Cannon all wanting a try at the aircraft.

  • 03.14.2008 8:08 PM PDT
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Sweet!!!! My map Onslaught is in matchmaking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.14.2008 8:08 PM PDT

04-A: /Contained

Logic would make me assume that the Legendary Hornet will not replace the current Hornet. If it did, then the Warthog, Mongoose, and Scorpion would also be replaced, but I don't think this is the case. Can't wait for these new maps, guys!

[Edited on 03.14.2008 8:17 PM PDT]

  • 03.14.2008 8:17 PM PDT

Posted by: Random Elite
The vehicles look interesting, except the new Hornet.


It's meant to be a gunship, it's meant to overwhelm infantry, it's meant to kill everything it touches.

Now it's Halo 2's Banshee all over again? Now with even more ways to bring it down*? This is a sad day. Snow Scorpion looks nice at least, hopefully that'll show up unchanged.


*Yes, the Laser is more unfair than the homing Rocket Launcher. Light travels much faster than a small rocket engine I assure you, and not to mention the Missile Pod, LAAG, Gauss Cannon and HV Cannon all wanting a try at the aircraft.
It's true, the laser completely ruins the whole air combat experience. You literally have to spend your whole time just worrying where it is. The Banshee needs better armor.

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Posted by: FunkyHum24n
By the way I'm hoping Bungie will put the new Legendary DLC map in Canada,although I have a feeling it's going to be placed in Antarctica. :(
nah, it will probably be one of the colder sections of Halo...but we can dream, can't we :)

  • 03.14.2008 8:20 PM PDT

Posted by: HaloWeapons
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Posted by: SD2522
Is anybody else thinking Containment or Sidewinder? Not saying that one of those two are coming out for Halo 3, just throwing it out there,
Seems like it would have to be one of these two, and it seems like Sidewinder was more popular than Containment. Either one seems an odd choice for a remake though, as was Zanzibar in the face of all the more beloved H2 maps.

We could be wrong though, like you said. Maybe this apparently big, snowy map isn't the remake at all.
Actually Containment would be cool... It was underplayed...I never really was able to play Halo 2 on live or anything and I only played 2 half games on Containment, but it was well made and could be really great, especially with a few updates...

Oh well =)
Containment was a totally decent map, and it offered an experience that is sorely missing in H3. So in hindsight it looks pretty good. But I played a lot of H2 on-line, and I played a lot of Big Team on Containment. It wasn't really one of my favorite Big Team maps, and in my personal experience I don't think it was that popular. I definitely had some epic CTF games on that map though. I'm actually not sure which of the two I'd rather see. I never got to play Sidewinder with Big Teams.

  • 03.14.2008 8:25 PM PDT

Campiagn Kill Count :31,745. And growing.

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This is one of the best updates in a long time. Hornet and Scorpion will be back (YES!), and now there will be an MLG playlist. Sounds like a good idea.

I knew it would be sidewinder. Or containment.

And since when is S80 a popular tag? I've used that since the beginning and I almost never see it on other poeple. I see F11s like crazy.

Great update Bungie!

  • 03.14.2008 8:30 PM PDT