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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 4/11/08
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im gunna miss team control i was a lvl32

as for the map pack ghost town is what ive been wanting to play, but i love that u need to buy the map pack to play double xp. if these noobs remembered before the heroic maps were free there was double xp grifball and only ppl who had map pack could play.

swat in my opinion isnt that good, and i dont want team snipers for the weekend thats stupid living dead has been a blast so far tho.

one more thing. bring back regular snowbound im tired of this hc snowbound

  • 04.11.2008 8:50 PM PDT

nice job bungie. good on you for offering something extra with the map packs. hopefully that will silence the price critics.
ih yeah-OMG 250TH:P

  • 04.11.2008 8:50 PM PDT
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Frankie's head on Mr. Creosote's body is equal to copious amounts of win.

And it should be good playing Team Snipers. I really need to up my abilities with that sniper rifle. Currently garbage with it.

  • 04.11.2008 9:01 PM PDT
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Posted by:xTCx Reloaded
Im pretty sure i could have read The Bible faster than all of those posts.

Greatest H3 Match EVER

*head asplode*

I can't believe it's not Frankie!!

Anyway, I love the updates. For no real reason, I'm going to present the things that made my day (emphasis added).
ive been killed 37 times by a sword in a game of griff and 5 by hammer that shows how noobs work
That isn’t the last you’ve heard of the Community category, mind you. It’s just taking a break for now.
Besides, how the hell did you get to 40 when nobody else has even been able to make a match?
Something tells me Shishka can't make it to 40... xD jk Shishka


  • 04.11.2008 9:11 PM PDT
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OMGBBQ. What the hell. This is n't fair. I think Bungie should make Heroic DLC and Legendary DLC. Because i pretty much love the Heroic Map Pack and when the new one comes out i wont be able to play those maps when i want because it will always be Legendary.

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  • 04.11.2008 9:17 PM PDT

Reach!

Glory, glory, hallelujah Team Swat is marching home!! Damn that's great news... As for the Legendary Map pack, it'll be great fun playing the new maps!! Also thanks for throwing us poor bastards a bone with Bungie pro!

I also knew the fate of Team Control, not that I hate it... just can never find a match with 100 people playing it. It's exciting to get back into the loop here at Bungie.net Team Snipers would be great 'cause I can't think of another weapon I need more practice with! All in all Shishka you're kickin ass and taking names... Keep up the good work! No reason to fret you got it figured out; at least for now. Please add a playlist for newbies that really suck so I can have a playlist where I can actually win!! Thanks for the recon armor too!! Heh, heh!

  • 04.11.2008 9:30 PM PDT
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Awesome! New maps look great and I can't wait to play team swat and team snipers.

  • 04.11.2008 9:49 PM PDT

Shmokin a pancake

This update was a bit meh due to the lack of info... Mostly just marketing stuff. And by that I mean anything related in any way to selling of stuff, not saying that the promo isn't an awesome thing Bungie is doing to thank the people that support them, and I think its a smart move to attract more people and stem the flow of whiners complaining about how they have to pay Bungie, who is practically an employee of the player (in the loosest sense of course), for the work they do.

Hope Frankie enjoys the paper Umbrella drinks, and i hope he comes back with a sexy tan! =)

Also a big huge welcome back to Shishka, we missed you mate!

WOO 7th page!! Now THATS something to brag about =) If only I was the 7th post on the page lol

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  • 04.11.2008 10:02 PM PDT
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Wow, that 'shopped screen from the Meaning of Life is excellent.
But Frankie, its just a little thin mint.

Thanks for the update, Bungie. Lots of new stuff to anticipate.

  • 04.11.2008 10:05 PM PDT
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ya i agree with that 1 dude about the weapon lower feature over xbox live.I meen, the combo button thign iagree with to stop n00bs, but why not over xbl!!!???its basicly impossible to do a good machinima with only 4 people, and harder yet to have all 4 on the same console.C'mon bungie, make the update and save our machinima souls!!!!!!!!

  • 04.11.2008 10:06 PM PDT

Maybe they'll have a hot-wiring meta-game.
Grand Theft Auto: New Mombasa. TM.

this is great, I was going to get the new maps anyway, but now I getting them as soon as I can, that 4 month bungie pro thing is a great idea, and I look foward to it....
Thanks again, Bungie

  • 04.11.2008 10:28 PM PDT
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LOL at pic from montys ''The meaning of Life'' part 5.

  • 04.11.2008 10:47 PM PDT

Eh, I'm not so happy about this. I mean if you don't buy Legendary maps you'll be pretty much screwed up. You miss all fun that come along with DoubleXP weekends and Team SWAT. Bungie shouldn't force us to buy the maps. In my opinion the maps look awesome but if I think realisticly when GTAIV and such come out I don't have much time to play Halo and therefore it wouldn't be worth it to buy maps. But when I get bored of GTA and maybe just want relax and take couple maches in Grifball weekend hopper...I can't. That's nice.

I know that Bungie isn't responsible for maps' prize but I have to complain again. In Finland the maps cost 18 dollars. That's simply too much.

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  • 04.11.2008 11:05 PM PDT
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Good Job Bungie, another magnificient weekly's update. It's great to see so many tweaks being made to the MM hopper, on top off course Team SWAT being added next may (I'm going on holiday for 3 weeks to the States then but when I get back all I'll do is play SWAT :d)

I'm however quiet confused and maybe I missed something throughout the lines, but to be able to play the Legendary Map pack from next Tuesday onwards we should use the normal DLC Slayer/Objective Hopper. It's no problem if Heroic Map packs manage to get through the filter cause we will veto them anyways for the first coming weeks, however I just wanna know whether the other people that only have the Heroic Map Pack and not the Legendary Map Pack won't be able to use the DLC hopper. Cause if they can actually use it it will be just like the ranked and social hoppers a few months ago with the Heroic Pack, all 8 or 12 people need the Legendary Map Pack to be able to play it. Therefore if all people with only the Heroic map pack (or the Legendary one too) can use the DLC hopper it is most likely that we will only get Heroic Map's. Now that everyone has the Heroic Map Packs they come at a regular bases on the normal playlists too, therefore I think that access to the DLC hopper should only be granted to people with both map packs.

Maybe you've already confirmed this somewhere in the update but I probably missed it then, I'd very much appreciate it if someone (from Bungie?) can confirm what I said or give me textual prove.

Thanks,

JFK

  • 04.11.2008 11:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: StammyFi
Eh, I'm not so happy about this. I mean if you don't buy Legendary maps you'll be pretty much screwed up. You miss all fun that come along with DoubleXP weekends and Team SWAT. Bungie shouldn't force us to buy the maps. In my opinion the maps look awesome but if I think realisticly when GTAIV and such come out I don't have much time to play Halo and therefore it wouldn't be worth it to buy maps. But when I get bored of GTA and maybe just want relax and take couple maches in Grifball weekend hopper...I can't. That's nice.

I now that Bungie isn't responsible for maps' prize but I have to complain again. In Finland the maps cost 18 dollars. That's simply too much.


I agree with you, it's quiet weird that the prices of maps are so different. It's mostly Americans that are whining about the price of the maps, even though they can buy it the cheapest, only 10 USD so to say. Here in the Netherlands we also have to pay 800MP for the maps, however that is 10 Euro's which at this moment means a little over 16 Dollars, in Finland apparently it's even worse with 18 dollars for 800 MP. I personally feel that Microsoft should pay more attention to the price of the Microsoft Points in each specific country, it looks like as if they just switched the Dollar symbol with the Euro Symbol.

However I disagree about the first part, or no wait. I do agree that you can't enjoy the full extend of May's Playlist update without the Legendary Map Pack, but that has to do with marketing. People forget to realise that Bungie, even though they act and ARE very nice to their community, still is a profit-organisation and wants to make as much profit as possible. To do this they "indoctrinated" us in the past 1-2 weeks with magnificient images and footage of the new maps, trying to stimulate us to buy the maps.I was going to buy them anyways but this way Bungie has managed to raise thousands of more potential buyers. It's all part of the marketing machine, and even though it might be slightly in conflict with their community policy I fully respect their decision, that's how marketing works, that's how you're supposed to make the big money in this world.

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  • 04.11.2008 11:25 PM PDT

The pie is a lie! Just spreading the word.

Interesting article. I'm glad that Team SWAT will be a permanent addition to the playlists.

  • 04.11.2008 11:52 PM PDT

"Teabagging is for homos"

-Frankie

Good job on sweetening the deal with Bungie Pro. $10 for 3 maps is lame.

  • 04.12.2008 12:06 AM PDT

People's words can only effect you if you let them do so.

[)~

Roooaaawwww!!

  • 04.12.2008 12:12 AM PDT
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Mostly likely when the Legendary DLC comes out all the heroic maps will be vetoed in the DLC hopper :D

Oh and I nearly laughed when you said that SWAT requires the LDLC. Expect many angry threads about this later....

  • 04.12.2008 12:58 AM PDT
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I played Halo one morning when it was assembling 3v3 teams in Team Slayer, and was shocked at how well the game flowed. The string of matches I played was the most cohesive Halo experience I've ever had! It's the difference between running around randomly, spraying bullets all over the place, and playing with ACTUAL STRATEGY! I would give it a trial playlist to see if people prefer it...

I have some other issues.

Firstly, why is Shotty Snipers played so seldomly? I don't think it's vetoed enough times to warrant a decrease in its rate of initiation. If anything it should be given its own playlist. It's differentiated just as much from Team Slayer as any objective match. It would definitely be successful.

Secondly, why on earth is Team Snipers ever included in any hopper?! Don't you realize that it's for cavemen? We get Shotty Snipers, the perfect remedy for the only bad aspect of Halo 2's Team Snipers, and you throw it away! Do you think people enjoy jumping around with the same guy on another team for five minutes, trying to kill him with arbitrary 'nades, melees, and shots from a slow-loading, slow-firing, and low-clip gun??? No!!! We all know how painful it is, so just eliminate Team Snipers, and we will try to forget about it too.

Lastly, there is a glitch problem that everyone knows about which must be fixed, as it is a HUGE problem. That's right, I'm talking about the issue of 'nades after death. Not only will they disappear, not killing the guy who just killed you whose shield is down, but it will stick onto the guy's body and simply DISAPPEAR!!! What the heck dude? The huge Halo fan base deserves better than that, and I don't imagine it would be too difficult of a fix.

Those are my burns, so if you agree with anything I said, say it in a post to let Bungie know that you're out there.

Church

  • 04.12.2008 1:50 AM PDT

New maps are gonne be awsome!

  • 04.12.2008 1:58 AM PDT
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nice update

please please fix the following exploits that im sure your aware of before the next infection hopper

the pit - under stairs near shotgun corner

narrows - jumping to side structure and hiding inside crevace

rats nest just east of the rocket spawn people jumping through the fence with wart hog in place next to fence.

it is unbearable to try to enjoy some fun when people are hiding through exploits sitting for 3 to 5 minutes waiting for time to run out is by far the biggest waste of halo 3 game time ever...

other than that keep it rockin

  • 04.12.2008 2:05 AM PDT

"they said this day would never come; what are they to say now"

Truth

Glad to hear about the bungie pro deal. Nicely written guys.

  • 04.12.2008 2:44 AM PDT

Alright bungie, you swayed me. With the promise that you're looking at a way to get the new maps in regular matchmaking more that will do for me!

  • 04.12.2008 3:02 AM PDT

i am buying them the day they come out

  • 04.12.2008 3:31 AM PDT