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Subject: Reminder: Team SWAT is Live at Noon PDT
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i think you should make a team swat social AND ranked playlist because at any one point there was AT LEAST 100.000 players playing team swat!

everyone loves it!
it should be a permenant thing, replace team control with team swat and replace multi team with social swat

  • 03.23.2008 10:57 AM PDT


Posted by: robburton
replace multi team


Err, how's aboooot... no.

  • 03.23.2008 11:03 AM PDT
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whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. Swat doesn't work in halo 3? BR is horrible? Carbine???!!!! go play in traffic hahah jk but not realy

  • 03.23.2008 11:06 AM PDT

So SWAT is down, and could be for awhile, eh? And Bungie, you say you will make it up to us. May I make a suggestion in saying to make it a permanent playlist? I don't care if I get double exp or zero exp from it, I just love SWAT and always have since Halo 2! Please consider it seeing as how there were more than 100,000 people playing it.

Oh, and Happy Easter! :D

  • 03.23.2008 11:06 AM PDT

Posted by: Styles P
SWAT needs to go away forever, it doesn't work in Halo 3 due to the horrible BR.

Maybe if the Carbine was available to start with but noooo..


While it's true the BR has seen some change, I think it's changed for the better. Feels more responsive.

By the way.... Carbine = Lame, but it IS better than the current magnum. If it replaces SWAT Magnums in the playlist, I'd be alright with that. xD

[Edited on 03.23.2008 11:10 AM PDT]

  • 03.23.2008 11:09 AM PDT

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I agree with Sol Knight. Please make Team SWAT a full time Playlist!

  • 03.23.2008 11:17 AM PDT

Ok everyone, before you go screaming, "OMG BUNGIE MAKE SWAT A FULL-TIME PLAYLIST" and "OMGZ BUNGIE DOESN'T CARE THAT I'VE BEEN WAITING A WHOLE WEEK FOR THIS BORING UPDATE," you need to consider a few things:

1.) Making tons of playlists will spread out player concentration in matchmaking. For example, if 1,000,000 people are online, and there are 50 playlists, each playlist will have significantly fewer people, making match time/quality go down the pooper.

2.) Part of SWAT's 100,000+ popularity is because of its novelty, and double-xp. If it were a full-time playlist with normal XP, people would stop playing as much after the first week or so. (Think rocket-race.) (Also please understand that SWAT is a much better game than rocket-race, but the same decrease in popularity would happen over time)

3.) QUALITY TAKES TIME. Don't think that just because Bungie doesn't pump out a new map, gametype, and armor permutation every 7th day that they don't care about their fans. They take their time to make QUALITY CONTENT for us. It is extremely frustrating to see fellow Bungie "fans" bash them for "boring, lackluster" updates. Just because there is an update every week doesn't mean there will be groundbreaking new features each week.

Everything being said, I am a very avid fan of SWAT, and hope that it will still be live by Monday when I can get back home from Spring Break and play it!

  • 03.23.2008 11:29 AM PDT
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HEAY THIS NEEDS TO BECOME A PERMONENT PLAY LIST OR ELSE THE GAME WILL ONLY BE FUN FOR LIKE 2 MORE WEEKS WITH THE NEW MAPS

  • 03.23.2008 11:36 AM PDT

Hellll yess!!!

  • 03.23.2008 11:50 AM PDT

Robert Nicho

Ok if SWAT is down, exactly how is Bungie going to make it up to us? Are we to get another Double XP SWAT weekend?

  • 03.23.2008 12:00 PM PDT

Think About it if it is called "SWAT" (I police force Run by american HUMAN officers)
Dont you think it should have human weapons?

Also if your worried about there being to many game types on Matchmaking..
Run a Poll asking: If you want SWAT on a playlist; What game type should we get rid of?

Im my opinion i think we should get rid of "Rocket Race" for the reason of it just sucks.

  • 03.23.2008 12:09 PM PDT

Nowadays, anything can be trademarked.™

Posted by: Chedda Mattt
You are an idiot if you think TEAM SWAT needs to go. It is cake work to kill people with head shots. I've already gotten 3 double kills with just one pull of the trigger. Not to mention an overkill with 3 pulls of the trigger. You stink if you cant hit people. If Bungie doesnt leave swat on for good, or make a ranked SWAT, Im gonna start up a web page dedcated to bringing SWAT back. An email campaign would work too. EMAIL bungie everyone, bring SWAT back to stay!!!


Amen to that.

  • 03.23.2008 12:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lizer McGee
Ok everyone, before you go screaming, "OMG BUNGIE MAKE SWAT A FULL-TIME PLAYLIST" and "OMGZ BUNGIE DOESN'T CARE THAT I'VE BEEN WAITING A WHOLE WEEK FOR THIS BORING UPDATE," you need to consider a few things:

1.) Making tons of playlists will spread out player concentration in matchmaking. For example, if 1,000,000 people are online, and there are 50 playlists, each playlist will have significantly fewer people, making match time/quality go down the pooper.

2.) Part of SWAT's 100,000+ popularity is because of its novelty, and double-xp. If it were a full-time playlist with normal XP, people would stop playing as much after the first week or so. (Think rocket-race.) (Also please understand that SWAT is a much better game than rocket-race, but the same decrease in popularity would happen over time)

3.) QUALITY TAKES TIME. Don't think that just because Bungie doesn't pump out a new map, gametype, and armor permutation every 7th day that they don't care about their fans. They take their time to make QUALITY CONTENT for us. It is extremely frustrating to see fellow Bungie "fans" bash them for "boring, lackluster" updates. Just because there is an update every week doesn't mean there will be groundbreaking new features each week.

Everything being said, I am a very avid fan of SWAT, and hope that it will still be live by Monday when I can get back home from Spring Break and play it!


Never mind that the total number of players goes down when the playlists remain static. I picked up H3 for the first time in months for Grifball, and now for SWAT. I play now only because the weekend playlists are more interesting than the regular ones. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Updating the playlists increases the total population.

  • 03.23.2008 12:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Supar Tom
Think About it if it is called "SWAT" (I police force Run by american HUMAN officers)
Dont you think it should have human weapons?


So should Team Slayer have Vampires?

  • 03.23.2008 12:16 PM PDT

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop smokin'!"

Posted by: mvidmaster
So should Team Slayer have Vampires?

that was a horrible sass...

  • 03.23.2008 12:26 PM PDT
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i got freaked last night when i turned my 360 on and went to where swat's suppose to be and it was GONE!!! i was like what!!!?!?! but im glad it was just a mess up and that it will be back. they'll prolly keep it up until monday or tuesday night. swat is awesome, it used to be my fav playlist in h2 besides snipers. but still grifball>swat anyday...

  • 03.23.2008 12:57 PM PDT

"I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all outta bubble gum."

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PLEASE KEEP IT FOR AN EXTRA DAY NOW! I only have like forty two wins in it and want to make sure I get 50 so I have a small chance at getting the sacred "Messenger of the Bungie Godz" Armor.

  • 03.23.2008 1:05 PM PDT

HALO:
IT ISNT CHOPPY ENOUGH
IT ISNT DAKKA ENOUGH

bungie needs to stop messing around with heallth values, ii mean they screwed up zombies, now theyve screwed up SWAT,

Bungie stick to the tried and true, please

  • 03.23.2008 1:07 PM PDT

Posted by: Xysterial
bungie needs to stop messing around with heallth values, ii mean they screwed up zombies, now theyve screwed up SWAT,

Bungie stick to the tried and true, please


Actually, I've deleted my self-made SWAT gametype and saved Bungie's. Why? Because SWAT is primarily about BR and Magnum (and Carbine) headshots. In H2 SWAT, you couldn't have grenades, and melees were one-hit kills. The damage increase allows shields to be zero, making headshots instant kills, while weakening grenades and melee so it puts them in perspective.

Essentially, it makes grenades more of a support option by killing if you've been doing body shots, or weakening them incase your going close range. Otherwise, SWAT would become a grenade-fest.

  • 03.23.2008 1:15 PM PDT
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I don't think a weekend was enough, SWAT should become a ranked playlist

  • 03.23.2008 1:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: Styles P
SWAT needs to go away forever, it doesn't work in Halo 3 due to the horrible BR.

Maybe if the Carbine was available to start with but noooo..


While it's true the BR has seen some change, I think it's changed for the better. Feels more responsive.

By the way.... Carbine = Lame, but it IS better than the current magnum. If it replaces SWAT Magnums in the playlist, I'd be alright with that. xD

but if they replaced the pistol with the carbine, how am i supposed to get kills? br/carbine? pfft, too easy to get headshots, that's why i used straight up pistol all weekend(oter than occasional nade and beat down)


[Edited on 03.23.2008 1:32 PM PDT]

  • 03.23.2008 1:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: El Capitaine
Posted by: Xysterial
bungie needs to stop messing around with heallth values, ii mean they screwed up zombies, now theyve screwed up SWAT,

Bungie stick to the tried and true, please


Actually, I've deleted my self-made SWAT gametype and saved Bungie's. Why? Because SWAT is primarily about BR and Magnum (and Carbine) headshots. In H2 SWAT, you couldn't have grenades, and melees were one-hit kills. The damage increase allows shields to be zero, making headshots instant kills, while weakening grenades and melee so it puts them in perspective.

Essentially, it makes grenades more of a support option by killing if you've been doing body shots, or weakening them incase your going close range. Otherwise, SWAT would become a grenade-fest.


I agree with El Capitaine this gametype is much better game and more fun IMO

  • 03.23.2008 1:41 PM PDT

"Gaming is what I do... it's what I know... It's what I love!!!"

OK... I've been a veteran of SWAT since Halo 2...

Why did Bungie put infinite ammo? And grenades?!?! i've NEVER played SWAT with grenades before...

Also... elites... what fun is it when 80% of the people you fight can't be headshotted from behind... You LITERALLY have to jus tap shots into their back and hope you kill them before they turn around and kill you first... (My guy is only an Elite right now because i got sick of everyone i played having an advantage over me yesterday and last night, so i switched to an elite to level the field a bit)

And what's with the damage? Did bungie turn it down for the double exp or what? I mean, i don't recall every having to shoot someone 2 or 3 times in the face with no shields and a BR to get a kill...

Sometimes, i can oneshot a player from across the map, and other times i can spray and spray into the head of someone at point blank and they won't die...

Does anyone else have these problems while playing SWAT online?

  • 03.23.2008 1:47 PM PDT