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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 4/04/08
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But she's using metal tongs in a non-stick pan! OMG, scratches!

  • 04.05.2008 1:16 PM PDT
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wow, I cant wait to play a colorblind game of CTF lol!!! now to find 2 colors that look identical when converted from RGB into BW, and that is game!

  • 04.05.2008 1:39 PM PDT

X-Wing and Battlezone (1998) are two of the best games ever made, srsly

The filters look HOT.

  • 04.05.2008 1:49 PM PDT

I'm sure that the Gloomy filter will be great for Infection maps. It'll add a whole new tone to the gameplay and change the mood drastically.

  • 04.05.2008 1:56 PM PDT

"If ur are my hateful enemy on this world.. i'll be ur worst nightmare ever.."

WARNING: im deaf guy and i can kick some serious ass..

oh yeah! WICKED!! superB baby

  • 04.05.2008 2:45 PM PDT

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

If you are hating on Griffball, you suck at H3! If you can't be good enough to not BETRAY you team mates constantly, TIME all of your attacks, and not manage to plant a bomb that while you are holding makes you RUN faster, you got some serious h3 issues you need to work on.

Try watching your radar in Griffball, right before a red dot enters that smallest circle in the middle of your radar, hit the right trigger and keep walking forward with the hammer. You will have the split second distance to kill him before he does you. Also, use the hammer and watch your opponents, try and break that thin layer of shield they have left before you go in for the kill.

Wanna stop the bomb guy? Pull out the sword, walk toward him, last second, walk backwards and he misses his melee, you slice him, BLAM!

What else? As the ball carrier, make sure you know when to take your opportunity, keep you shields up, never get flanked, always run backwards when you need to, and DONT hesitate when it is your time to score because people respawn quick! Use your team to blindside the enemy while you have the ball. Serve as a major distraction then move up the field with your team, spawn kill, score. TOO EASY!

and if i remember correctly, bungie even has a griffball update from a previous time that explains various strategies and words to call out that can help you and your team. ALSO, always have a team that knows what they are doing. :D

[Edited on 04.05.2008 3:11 PM PDT]

  • 04.05.2008 3:09 PM PDT
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ya they do huh i can't wait

  • 04.05.2008 3:12 PM PDT

mike

they need 2 make more stuff 4 the elite

  • 04.05.2008 3:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: dalmedya
Bungie doesn't see gamers any more. They see walking credit cards.

Screen effect: Colorblind
I take offense to this, as I am colorblind, and that is not even close to color blindness.
Color blindness is different from person to person.

That screen effect is black and white, not colorblind.

  • 04.05.2008 3:49 PM PDT

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Batman: "And you'll never have to."

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Posted by: FuVA 1
Hey Bungie, you must give a special gifts for the people who buy the map packs, (maybe like a new helmet), that could increase your sales.

completely agree
excellent move bungie very well done
this is the so called power to the gamers move as according to gamestop that everyone's been waiting for and it can only get better
it will definitely be a nice twist and add some spice to the game
once again very nice move to add some extra dimension and intellectuality to the game well done i cant stress it enough lol

  • 04.05.2008 3:53 PM PDT

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nice!!! the maps look amazing
RELEASE THEM NOW OR I WILL BE FORCED TO EAT BABYS

anyway the new effects look awsome and i cant wait to play

WHY CANT IT BE THE 15th ALLREADY

its not fair

  • 04.05.2008 4:03 PM PDT

Posted by: Hylebos
I don't feel any better when I reach a rank. I feel great when my enemies burn around me and I scream to the night air "Why the hell am I still alive?" as grenades explode around me and I continue to throttle people.

lol, exactly what i was thinking =P

it'll make it seem more like you're actually being attacked by zombies in some dark area

  • 04.05.2008 4:37 PM PDT
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Well I'll be damned. Legendary doesn't look like it's going to suck one bit to me. The new paint job on the vehicles for Avalanche looks sick, I'm going to have fun forging there. Blackout looks iffy, but I'm sure it'll grow on me. And Ghost Town should be really fun. I don't know about those new screenshot things, but hey, if you like taking shots, more power to you.

Now, Bungie, thank you so much for your hard work and time put into this game. However, your fans' thirsts for more will never be quenched. As for me, I think it'd be very useful (and cool) to have a camouflage-patterned color option. And not only for your armor, but also for the weapons. I like the tan color, but I wish you could make it so all the armor and weapons can have different patterns.

Halo 2 fanatics be damned...this is the Halo 3 era now. Quit -blam!-ing if Bungie doesn't get something right, and stop complaining about the armor perms and anything "Not Halo 2" in this game. Grow up and just fight.

  • 04.05.2008 5:32 PM PDT
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i cant wait for the filters there so cool!!!
but anyways forge wont be a big thing for me... the maps will be sick WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 04.05.2008 5:32 PM PDT

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Finally! Some Forge News! I'm now going to buy the map packs just because of the Forge items. Too bad they can't be used in the rest of the Halo 3 maps., especially the new camera option.

  • 04.05.2008 5:41 PM PDT
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Awesome update. Can't wait for this to come out.

Q: Will the Filter object be added to the palate across all maps, or just the Legendary Map Pack?

Q: Will you guys eventually release a DLC for Forge items? Like objects across all palates on all maps?
One thing I would love to see is the Man Cannon placed on all maps. I'm not really even sure why it was placed in Foundry to be honest. All it's really good for in that map is for people to make Rube Goldberg machines or marble tracks. Maps like Standoff, Sandtrap, High Ground or Isolation could see more use for them. And to make it all the more fun, perhaps have a "Power Knob" for them, i.e an option to modify power so you can toss a man or throw a man.

And one final question/request:
Can you PLEASE remake Bloodgulch?! It was such an awesome map. It survived for 3 Halo's. Why'd you have to kill it?

  • 04.05.2008 6:52 PM PDT
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Now what bungie should do is make an update to foundry when you buy the maps to make up to date. They should also make one more map pack to quench the never ending thirst of our gamers.

  • 04.05.2008 7:42 PM PDT

This is going to be Legen--wait for it--dary!

  • 04.05.2008 8:54 PM PDT
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YEY!

omg this looks shweet!!!!
bungie, marry me!

  • 04.05.2008 9:09 PM PDT

those lookout posts look so cool, i already have 4 ideas after one minute of thought of what i could do with those.
By The way, ever since I blew up my first scarab, I was EXTREMELY disappointed I had this anticipation and I heard this huge WHOOSH and there was an explosion that I can imitate on forge.
PLEASE MAKE THE EXPLOSIONS BIGGER!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder when we will be able to have elephants that can be moved, spawned, deleted and fundamentally changed in terms of armament. Also why cant we have one phantom, pelican, along with other vehicles ( AA wraith, transport hog).

the pelican and phantom could be piloted much like the hornet, look up to go up, etc.
you could pick up/drop vehicles with "X". and they could have minimum armament: pelican: just a hog turret suck on the bottom, and the Phantom: just that pink cannon that is on the bottom, of couse the biggest part of it is that it is a troop transport carrying up to six people, not including the pilot. The hold could also hold one mongoose.

That for me would be the coolest thing that you guys at bungie could do on forge/ custom games.

And Why don't you guys open up a permanent discussion topic where you get ideas on future maps/game types/updates based on what ideas we put down/vote on so you don't need to go through the trouble of thinking it up yourselves.

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  • 04.05.2008 9:59 PM PDT
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WOW! ncie stuff Bungie. I cant wait to see what juicy or nova + plasma grenade will look like, and as a machinima director, I cannot tell you how much this will rock (although it may lead to moar n00b movies, which usually suck). I wonder how will you top this for the next map pack.

  • 04.05.2008 11:14 PM PDT

wow, this made me pretty excited for the new maps to come out.

  • 04.06.2008 1:59 AM PDT

You’ll notice that we definitely have more building-type items now and less decorator style objects.

That is a very good thing. Makes forge much more useful. Nice work guys!

That photoshopped picture of shishka is truly nightmare-inducing.

  • 04.06.2008 3:55 AM PDT
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wow the new forge stuff looks great (i like the impassable doors) but i have a question about the filters, can you combine them to create a custom layered filter?

(if not i don't care they still look cool on there own)

  • 04.06.2008 8:22 AM PDT