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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 3/21/08

All over the ship, dancing through the wreckage
of the Pfhor computer core,

DURANDAL WAS LAUGHING

I love the song.

Anyways, great update. I'm serious...one of my favorites..."these are a few of my favorite things!"...god...gonna have that stuck in my head...thanks Bungie...

  • 03.22.2008 12:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: NsU Soldier
When will the Legendary Map Pack be free?

We are not currently aware of any plans to release the Legendary Maps for free.


Uh-oh, I smell a party pooper!


wow that means we will never be able to play them on any thing, except on the dlc playlist

  • 03.22.2008 12:22 AM PDT
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Yes finaly the maps are going to be free me and my friend were like wating for 2 months hmmm witch heroic map should i paly on first!!!!! but also the legendary maps are awsome too i will probily get them

  • 03.22.2008 12:38 AM PDT
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Awesome Update.

Cant wait till Wednesday(for us in Singapore) to see the True Moonlight Sonata.

Good Job.

  • 03.22.2008 12:47 AM PDT

Great update, loved the 'favorite things' video, it made me lol quite hardily.

Just a small sidenote, did anyone notice anything weird about the picture representing the update on the front page of b-net? It's a guy wielding a flamethrower on a level that I'm pretty positive isn't Construct. Whats up with that? The floor that he's standing on looks exactly like the floor in the main hallway of Epitaph though. It's probably either just a 'shoop or some other secret lukemshennanigans. It'd be pretty cool if they were hiding the first glimpse of Moonlight Sonata under our noses like that though.

  • 03.22.2008 1:06 AM PDT
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for the MLG top ten..the second one shouldve been the first.

  • 03.22.2008 1:19 AM PDT

Looking forward to Tuesday, of course, as I can't wait to see if MS is really Lockout (I may get flamed for saying that). I'm sure it'll be great regardless of what it is though.

@ CF: That picture did get me thinking, though I came to the conclusion that it would most likely be Epitaph (though the wall in the distance looked odd...).







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  • 03.22.2008 1:21 AM PDT

Thats what I figured as well but hey, a flamethrower fan can dream can't he?

  • 03.22.2008 1:25 AM PDT
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oh........
well that explains why i hit like an infant. Oh well *shrug* better start aiming higher

  • 03.22.2008 2:10 AM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

Can't wait for the Legendary mappack!

  • 03.22.2008 2:10 AM PDT

Get WorkPLaced!

The manor was on the favourite things video! sweet!

  • 03.22.2008 2:59 AM PDT

Soffish for everyone!

Art and Halo = my life... pretty much.

I was hoping there would be a map lay out for avalanch- Thanks Bungie! join this

  • 03.22.2008 3:33 AM PDT

wow bungie you guys are -blam!- -blam!- u remake all the -blam!- -blam!- ass maps sidewinder wow -blam!- get your moms -blam!- out of your ass

  • 03.22.2008 3:59 AM PDT

When will the Legendary Map Pack be free?

We are not currently aware of any plans to release the Legendary Maps for free.

I don't believe this...Your telling me that Microsoft hasn't discussed the pricing structure for this or any future content?We all know the negative feedback Halo 3 has had due to the high price of the mappacks(not your fault?)I personally have been disappointed with the way the Heroic pack has been implemented.I've only played a heroic map once in normal matchmaking and the DLC playlist is a joke.
What makes you think the legendary pack will be worth purchasing for?
If one person in my party doesn't have the maps,i'll never play them unless i boot him and go into the DLC playlist to enjoy my purchase.Why not force players without the legendary maps into a playlist of their own to take the place of the DLC as it is and open up general matchmaking to the true fans who've paid for the new content..
Halo has been around long enough for the casual gamers to move onto other games...

When will we see Moonlight Sonata?

Moonlight Sonata, the third map from the Legendary Map pack will be unveiled next Tuesday, right here on Bungie.net.

Is it really going to be tuesday?or wednesday for us here in GMT.
I'm sorry for the rant but i'm feeling a bit let down by you guys lately...

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  • 03.22.2008 5:15 AM PDT

every other virtual=61

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Are those icons for Brute Phantoms or for Brute Choppers on the left side of the map?

It is odd that we haven't seen Phantoms yet in the game to balance the Warthog.

  • 03.22.2008 5:21 AM PDT

I still love that you are going to require the Heroic to be downloaded. Its going to solve the problems of "The Following People do not have the required maps."

I wish you would give the links to the maps in the video though.

Hey,for the next update,can you get rid of the 100 Custom Content limit. Its really annoying that I can't download anything more. :(

Nice site update to the downloads. Download Play Rate. If only everyone did that.

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  • 03.22.2008 5:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: DAFT VADER1
When will the Legendary Map Pack be free?

We are not currently aware of any plans to release the Legendary Maps for free.

I don't believe this...Your telling me that Microsoft hasn't discussed the pricing structure for this or any future content?We all know the negative feedback Halo 3 has had due to the high price of the mappacks(not your fault?)I personally have been disappointed with the way the Heroic pack has been implemented.I've only played a heroic map once in normal matchmaking and the DLC playlist is a joke.
What makes you think the legendary pack will be worth purchasing for?
If one person in my party doesn't have the maps,i'll never play them unless i boot him and go into the DLC playlist to enjoy my purchase.Why not force players without the legendary maps into a playlist of their own to take the place of the DLC as it is and open up general matchmaking to the true fans who've paid for the new content..
Halo has been around long enough for the casual gamers to move onto other games...

When will we see Moonlight Sonata?

Moonlight Sonata, the third map from the Legendary Map pack will be unveiled next Tuesday, right here on Bungie.net.

Is it really going to be tuesday?or wednesday for us here in GMT.
I'm sorry for the rant but i'm feeling a bit let down by you guys lately...


I completely agree. This update has made purchasing the new maps more tempting thats for sure, but I'm still not totally convinced. I expect they'll become free once they make and release the "Mythic" map pack or something...

  • 03.22.2008 5:39 AM PDT
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-blam!-, -blam!-, -blam!- I knew there was a reason my frags weren't killing like they should. This SWAT playlist just didn't play like Halo 2 SWAT for me. I guess it's because of the different spread from the BR at long range. Oh well, It'll soon be over. I'm already over SWAT.

  • 03.22.2008 5:46 AM PDT

Toastyloasty

I am so glad they are going to be free! I still need my parents to let me renew my live on this account.... hopefully they'll do that before these become free so i can get them.

  • 03.22.2008 6:22 AM PDT

"It's better to live one day as a lion, then one hundred years as a sheep." -Italian Proverb

A Marine scout sniper was once asked what he felt when he killed terrorists.
His response? "Recoil"

"Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

Thanks for the birthday present Bungie (my birthday is the day Heroic Maps are released free,) too bad I already bought them. =/

Oh well, at least I can play them with all my friends who were too cheap to buy them.

  • 03.22.2008 6:22 AM PDT

I posted a long rant about this a few pages back.

I think people are skimming right by the "We are currently unaware of any plans to release the Legendary maps for free" part of the update. Read between the lines. Bungie has said all along with every map pack they've released for the Halo series that eventually they would be free. This time, they are not saying that. That means Microsoft is telling Bungie that they won't release the maps for free (Microsoft owns Halo, Bungie is currently the developer).

That means, the people like me that buy the map packs the day they are released will be severely limited to who we can play with, for good. Not just a couple of months. For good. These maps will never permeate ranked matchmaking, they will be fun custom maps and "I'm feeling social" maps for the DLC playlist (all of 10,000 people that actually buy it). And that's it.

People really need to pay attention to this and speak up. It takes a lot for M$ to listen and if you don't speak up this will ruin our game!

  • 03.22.2008 6:32 AM PDT

There are offically too many little kiddies that play this complaining about 10$ map packs. First off you probally don't have to pay for any of them anyway, so go just ask your parents for more free money and then complain about having to spend it. I can't wait till some of you kiddies grow up and actually have to pay bills, then will see how much you complain about a 10$ map pack that will bring you hours upon hours of fun.

  • 03.22.2008 6:41 AM PDT

Posted by: Serebrate
I recall Bungie saying Microsoft set the price, but I'm sure Bungie had a hand in making them free. Sure, sure, marketing issues, legal stuff, and all that other drib-drab aside, my main point was to make something special for the people who bought them. An extra map or something, you dig?

@ FearlessHen

In direct combat, yeah. The Wraith is a mortar and can shoot at angles, which gives you the advantage in rocky terrain and over-the-line-of-site combat but it's very rarely used in that fashion.

What I'd like to see most, and am most giddy of the prospect of, is capture the flag by having a Hornet quick insert a team to the roof or upper story of a structure and then the flag carrier getting into the side seat to make a quick get-away.

That's exactly what makes the covenant vs. human setup unfair.

  • 03.22.2008 7:15 AM PDT
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AWESOME

  • 03.22.2008 7:40 AM PDT