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The Overkill achievement is really hard to get, but now there's a Killtacular acheivement (Lovely! I just had to jinx it!)
-SyKhotic V2, Purple and Proud!

Posted by: xX_OwNnagE_Xx
Blackout replaces Guardian as Oddball map
Legendary not required on this playlist.


Can somepone read this then tell me what you think?

If you dont need the Legendary Maps then how can you play on Blackout?!?


It means that Blackout is the only Legendary map that'll come up during MLG. If at least one person doesn't have the Legendary DLC, then it switches to another map(either a Heroic map or a normal map).

  • 05.26.2008 7:50 AM PDT
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wow really they are gonna decrease the BR start for Team Slayer thats so not cool
and 1v1 really we gonna let people figure out how to stand by i klnow they talk abotu this "BAN HAMMER" but 2 friends of mine there accounts have been hacked and stolen and they dont do anything i have posted videos of me and my friends being cheated yet these kids are still on man bungie dont talk about a ban hammer if you aint gonna use it seriously its just sickening how kids ruin this online experience

  • 05.26.2008 8:52 AM PDT

I work here: Sound Devices, LLC. We make bad-ass field audio gear, and you think that's awesome. My messy desk (With work-related items on the computer screen).

One does not simply grenade jump into Mordor...

Posted by: lukems
It took Brian Wilson 30 years to make SMiLE.
That it did. For any kids out there who (Like me, at one point) are under the impression that the Beach Boys weren't - at one point - cool, go grab a copy of SMiLE. It is a testament to art driven by passion and fueled by... stuff.

What a second... Bungie is in a state similar to Brian Wilson circa 1966? Any of you kids going for a visit better take your parents along... :P

[Edited on 05.26.2008 9:08 AM PDT]

  • 05.26.2008 9:06 AM PDT

We're building a better world...all of them, better worlds.

Second accounters have been a hot topic lately. Do you guys care about this issue or should people just live with it?

The problem with this is, in my experience recently, most games are against people with second accounts who are obviously boosting. On several occasions, people have sent me messages for a Web site where you can go and pay people to boost you. Just pathetic. I don't care if people do it, but I'm getting sick of playing REAL generals in Team Doubles every game. I'm not exaggerating...well, maybe a little.

  • 05.26.2008 9:48 AM PDT
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Can you please make a seperate SWAT objective playlist so that we can still keep playing a Team Slayer type game also? Some people are just not good at Objective and that sort of takes the fun out of MLG also.

  • 05.26.2008 10:00 AM PDT
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For the 1v1 playlist something was mentioned about customized forge maps. I was wondering if user created content will be uploaded. Anyone know?

  • 05.26.2008 12:02 PM PDT

cool 1v1. I look forward to getting my butt kicked all year long.

[Edited on 05.26.2008 12:47 PM PDT]

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BR's SUCK, Glad your lowing that bull in TS. They brought back the AR for a reason. BR's should always flood the crap out of TS.



  • 05.26.2008 1:30 PM PDT

Mabye you need to rethink what you said I MAD DOG 5 I. the BR is the most -blam- weapon ever. three shots and the other person is dead. the AR requires skill because you can't just aim at the head and shoot three times to kill them

[Edited on 05.26.2008 1:32 PM PDT]

  • 05.26.2008 1:31 PM PDT

Why the hell would Bungie remove the likelyhood of BR starts...This just makes the Halo 3 level system even more screwed because kids with less skill are more likely to win...To me this is why matchmaking is so easy, so someone please explain why Bungie would have just made the worst decision ever..If anything people should start out with a BR by default

  • 05.26.2008 4:50 PM PDT

wow INKOGNITO are you serious, first off the BR requires four shots and you need to be able to aim it at the and finish them off with a shot to the head..The AR all you do is aim at their stomach pull the trigger and run at them, wow thats hard...

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  • 05.26.2008 4:51 PM PDT

Campiagn Kill Count :31,745. And growing.

The Revisionaries- One of the greatest screenshot groups on B.net. With 250 members and growing.

For the most part, this is a really great update. No DLC perms will dissapoint a lot of people, that's for sure. But I like the whole 1v1 thing, me and my freind were talking about how much fun that would be if it were made.

You should have adressed other bugs people have mentioned, though. Updates are cool, but I want the hit-decection system fixed, along with about 90 percent of the community. People will be shot, and sometimes nothing happens. Like the sniper, for example. You shoot their head, blood flies, but the emeny doesn't die. I know that that's lag, but you still should say if it's something you're working on or not.

Great update, however. this definintely made up that the last few updates, which weren't nearly as interesting. Except for the whole Frankie thing.

  • 05.26.2008 4:54 PM PDT

Campiagn Kill Count :31,745. And growing.

The Revisionaries- One of the greatest screenshot groups on B.net. With 250 members and growing.

Posted by: Blake326
For the 1v1 playlist something was mentioned about customized forge maps. I was wondering if user created content will be uploaded. Anyone know?


Yeah, I think they're using community created Forge maps that are really popular. And a few of their own.

  • 05.26.2008 4:56 PM PDT

MadDog made an EXCELLENT POINT. Let's saying you're playing Team Slayer on The Pit in Team Doubles. The other team essentially has you spawn trapped in your own base with at least a sniper and rockets pointed at you..You keep spawning and try to kill one of the snipers, well the only thing you can do it crouch up to him and AR him from up close, the AR is completely ineffective from more than oh say 10 feet. If you are playing any sort of decent kids at all, they won't just let people sneak up on them..So essentially, there is absolutely NOTHING you can do to stop them destroying you..If you have a BR as default spawn weapon you can keep them out of scope and force them to back down..Am I wrong?

  • 05.26.2008 5:07 PM PDT
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Ya im gonna have to agree with ll Mad Dog5 ll and II PoMpIzZlE II on this one. Less BR more AR? anyone whos more than half-way decent at this game should have a problem with that.

  • 05.26.2008 5:15 PM PDT

if knowledge is power and power corrupts, isn't knowledge therefore dangerous?
Black Tower

candy? vans?
throw in a chance to find your lost dog and you got a customer :D

  • 05.26.2008 5:51 PM PDT

Posted by: spartan11bungie
candy? vans?
throw in a chance to find your lost dog and you got a customer :D


Wow good contribution Random Dan

  • 05.26.2008 5:58 PM PDT
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you guys keep fighting over the BR and AR if you look on page 11 you'll see my opinion. Be glad we don't have the SMG as a starter.

BTW: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! :)

  • 05.26.2008 7:24 PM PDT
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dammit bungie, the shotgun variant for swat, i have been using that word for like a year, but i spell it differently(sounds the same) SCHWATGUN

  • 05.26.2008 7:41 PM PDT

Posted by: hamwinkie
you guys keep fighting over the BR and AR if you look on page 11 you'll see my opinion. Be glad we don't have the SMG as a starter.

BTW: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! :)


Oh Happy Birthday, What's your address I'll send you a cake

  • 05.26.2008 7:42 PM PDT
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I Mad Dog5 I wow dude, for real thats probably the worst and most ignorant thing ive ever heard. I have a few things id like to comment on. 1: The AR is a precision weapon they have brought it back for the purpose of making people balance everything they use from gernades to poer ups, the Br and the Sniper Rifle our poor excuses to call yourself pro, they are just weapons you use to camp in cowardice because your close range combat skills lack so bad that they arent even within exsitance unless you have a sword or a shotgun. 2: No offense to the lvl 50 members of halo 3 but a good 98 percent of them are no good unless they can find a sniper rifle or a BR. 50s should be thankful that there limiting br starts so that they can find out wether or not they are any good without there brs and snipe. 3; Why shouldnt bungie favor the less skilled players, it would be stupid to give the elite members of 3 all the advantages over less skilled players. 4: So what your saying is generals deserve more of gain over staff captains because you can boost in doubles and slyer of create bots to get a 50, because your MLG and there recreational players, Thats really sad that you get all bent out of shape over that, and it shows that you and others just like you are nothing without those two weapons. Thats a real pitty. 5: personally a noob uses a severly limited amount of weapons and uses them all the time. Lets say for instance oh idk THE BR AND SNIPER RIFLE, but once those weapons arent within sight they start to show there true colors/skill. 6: Generals and Mlg players should be challanged more, arent they the best, arent they the people that can kill 50 people in ranked matches flawlessly, or is the truth really you only use 3 or 4 weapons, camp, and hide to gain your wins. Your not pro bud just another bad kid lost in a world of long range camping weapons, who couldnt survive 10 feet from another player. On a final note ranked btb is awesome thank god bungies working at it, I also hope to see some new things happening with recon (even though im probably blaclisted like the scrub i just commented on), And I also hope that bungie can ind a possibility within the works of armor perms.

  • 05.26.2008 7:50 PM PDT
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Wow nice wall of text.

  • 05.26.2008 7:59 PM PDT

Bungie,

Obviously you guys do not like it when people mod maps, frankly i don't either. but maybe less people would mod maps if we had the stuff that we moded. Of course we could never have a frigate on a map, but the covenant snipe tower, the shade turret, the pelican or the troop hog are easy thing to incorporate to a new map, because the don't really affect game play that much.
I already sent you guys an email with a detailed explanation on how the pelican/phantom would work IN CUSTOM GAMES AND FORGE ONLY.
They would be piloted much like the hornet, look up to go up, look down to go down, and left stick to move.
Pelican:
10 people in the cargo hold plus 2 mongooses/ghosts. Either indestructible with no weaponry, or destructible(2 spartan laser/rocket hits) with a warthog turret on it's belly and two brute shot like rockets that travel in a strait line(much like the hornets).
The pelican pilot would also be able to pick up, and drop an UNoccupied vehicle with "X".

Phantom:
Same capabilities as the pelican, except that it would have the purple laser turret, the 2 UNremovable plasma cannons, and the banshees green rocket.

  • 05.26.2008 8:09 PM PDT

Posted by: x7slavesx
I Mad Dog5 I wow dude, for real thats probably the worst and most ignorant thing ive ever heard. I have a few things id like to comment on. 1: The AR is a precision weapon they have brought it back for the purpose of making people balance everything they use from gernades to poer ups, the Br and the Sniper Rifle our poor excuses to call yourself pro, they are just weapons you use to camp in cowardice because your close range combat skills lack so bad that they arent even within exsitance unless you have a sword or a shotgun. 2: No offense to the lvl 50 members of halo 3 but a good 98 percent of them are no good unless they can find a sniper rifle or a BR. 50s should be thankful that there limiting br starts so that they can find out wether or not they are any good without there brs and snipe. 3; Why shouldnt bungie favor the less skilled players, it would be stupid to give the elite members of 3 all the advantages over less skilled players. 4: So what your saying is generals deserve more of gain over staff captains because you can boost in doubles and slyer of create bots to get a 50, because your MLG and there recreational players, Thats really sad that you get all bent out of shape over that, and it shows that you and others just like you are nothing without those two weapons. Thats a real pitty. 5: personally a noob uses a severly limited amount of weapons and uses them all the time. Lets say for instance oh idk THE BR AND SNIPER RIFLE, but once those weapons arent within sight they start to show there true colors/skill. 6: Generals and Mlg players should be challanged more, arent they the best, arent they the people that can kill 50 people in ranked matches flawlessly, or is the truth really you only use 3 or 4 weapons, camp, and hide to gain your wins. Your not pro bud just another bad kid lost in a world of long range camping weapons, who couldnt survive 10 feet from another player. On a final note ranked btb is awesome thank god bungies working at it, I also hope to see some new things happening with recon (even though im probably blaclisted like the scrub i just commented on), And I also hope that bungie can ind a possibility within the works of armor perms.


Wow slave ur such an idiot I'm not even gonna read your whole wall of bull..Just one question, If you are gonna camp in a corner and wait for people to come to you, do u have the br or the ar out..That's what i thought.And just read my comment earlier...There is NOTHING you can do against a sniper rifle long range with the AR..With the BR, you can at least hit them from a distance and knock them out of scope right..And why do people hate team BRs...You get your stupid assualt rifle as a secondary weapon right? Let me know when you come up with a realistically response or reason why i'm wrong

  • 05.26.2008 8:16 PM PDT