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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/23/08

hey guys i have an idea, lets stop flaming each other over weapons and actually play the game!

  • 05.26.2008 8:22 PM PDT
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wow head to head as in old h2 days?! thats gonna make my day!
im at a loss for words about the DLC armor though:(

  • 05.26.2008 9:17 PM PDT
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wow head to head as in old h2 days?! thats gonna make my day!
im at a loss for words about the DLC armor though:(

  • 05.26.2008 9:17 PM PDT
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DONT REDUCE THE BR START GAMETYPES IN TEAM SLAYER!!!!

If anything, you should increase it. The BR is the one weapon that seperates the good players from the bad. If its an assault rifle fight, both players just end up meleeing eachother down.

EDIT: Bungie should also increase the Team Snipers or Shotty Snipers that appears in Team Slayer

[Edited on 05.26.2008 9:52 PM PDT]

  • 05.26.2008 9:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: J88BH
I would also like to add that ShWATguns sounds awesome!


Shwat sounds terrible. Its bad enough that swat has grenades, adding shotguns will just piss people off. All that i'm gonna hear is "I shot that guy first! Why the **** didn't he die??"

I admit that if I play that playlist i'll also be saying that a lot, and so will everyone else.

  • 05.26.2008 9:54 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.

There I fixed it. Dude your just like the rest of the garbage generals, your lost without your sniper rifle and br. Just another bad kid mad because he wont see the only weapon he knows how to use besides the sr.

  • 05.26.2008 10:20 PM PDT
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o fudge Popsicles ya 1 vs 1 playlist

  • 05.26.2008 11:17 PM PDT

Putting Head to Head into the playlist ist okay, but having an indicator over the head, as soon as you are winning? That's as if you were cheating and it gets incredibly unfair for the one who, let's say, leads with one or two score. I can already tell, because I've tried it with friends over Halo 3 on a LAN. Yeah, we actually do play through every type of gamemode that was shipped within the game :V
I must say, the idea of that indicator is bad. But then again, it seems like it's the only solution. But if that solution stays until the playlists are updated, you won't see me playing that hopper. Now to the nice and sweet comments: Good update, some of the most-asked-questions (armor pieces) finally got answered, which (hopefully) reduces the number of threads about this (boring) topic.

  • 05.27.2008 12:56 AM PDT

Slave, Are you just screwing with us?? You're post doesn't make ANY sense...The Assualt Rifle requires NO SKILL. The Battle Rifle and Sniper Rifle REQUIRE AIM AND PRECISION. You are just being -blam!- because AR starts means it would be easier for you to camp and level up to a level you should not even be close to...Team Slayer(Aka AR starts) are the single handed reason that 90% of halo is above a 40.. And about 85% of those people should be about a level 25 MAX. If you automatically start with an Assault Rifle you should start with a BR too.

[Edited on 05.27.2008 2:06 AM PDT]

  • 05.27.2008 2:05 AM PDT

Posted by: Baph117
This is an incredible step forward to being able to cure Downss sybndonre mn humans bineg.s

No DLC armour perms... well, i'm ok with that, but they say that they've researched it, so i wanna know... why not?

Also... FRANKIE LOST HIS FLAME?! thats bad...

Great update, btw!

  • 05.27.2008 2:23 AM PDT
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nice update. looking foward to 1v1. new additions to bungie.net next week?? sweeeeeet.

love you guys

  • 05.27.2008 6:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: romeo51186
anybody else notice the shotty starts in swat? First they ruin swat with nades, now adding shotguns? Please explain. Also, What is shwat?

Otherwise, looking forward to new playlists.


"Shwatguns" is a mash-up of "shotguns" & "S.W.A.T.", it's also one of the best gametypes from part 2. Thanks Luke n company.

  • 05.27.2008 9:40 AM PDT

Nice update, shame that legendary is never going to be free though.

  • 05.27.2008 4:28 PM PDT

"Seems to me you should spend less time on that article and more time working on that novel you've been working on!!!"

Okay first off, the BR is stacked. Secondly, the AR is stacked. Bottom line. However, I said my little spew on the BR, so I will talk about the AR instead. Countless times I have seen people run in a straight line with the AR, holding down the RT, and then either killing the opponent or melee-ing them down with a tap of the B or LT button, your preference. This requires no skill whatsoever. However, I think the thing most of you serious people out there forget is that Halo is not really like COD.

Halo is great in that it provides for all players, even the annoying noobs. Theres not as much learning curve. Many people can pick it up and at least play it, if not get good at it. I agree with some that earning your way to the top using an AR seems a little sad, but its not so much different from being a master of the 3-4 hit in the head with the BR. The AR is fine to keep you alive, but I think its overused. Perhaps if players only started with their fists, and had to go get the weapon they wanted, things would level out a bit. Its usually safe to assume that most people will continue to use the weapon they start out with. It can also be said that this weapon will remain as a secondary once they've found their favorite weapon. People who enjoy the BR are better off going to get one, because having everyone start with one is downright stale and boring as *insert 4-letter word here. I know what the other guy will have, and the match proceeds into a "who's faster" match. Yawn.

Before you attack me, let me say the AR is already like that. Starting everyone out with this usually invites the same ending. "OMG there's a guy! 'holds down right trigger as they sprint at the enemy. enemy does same, two meet in usual melee fight. This is also very stale gameplay. These two weapons are some of the most, if not the most, used weapons in the game.

Should they be nerfed so people go use some of the numerous other weapons Bungie has crafted for us? Sure. Will that happen? No. The elimination or tweaking of either of these weapons is probably not on Bungie's to-do list, and if this happened, there would almost certainly be a cry of rage from the community. I just believe that both are solid weapons, but both are also very controlling of this game, and make the experience very stale, because most of the time, these are the two weapons being used, next to grenade-spamming. We'll save that for another time...

[Edited on 05.27.2008 5:26 PM PDT]

  • 05.27.2008 5:25 PM PDT
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Halo 3's new beat down system + more AR starts. technically every team slayer game should end 50 to 50. you know?

[Edited on 05.27.2008 5:31 PM PDT]

  • 05.27.2008 5:28 PM PDT
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Have you guys checked out the "survival mode" thread yet? I think its a great idea and worth checking out, lukems. Of course, you probably already know about this already! Also, shWATguns FTW!

  • 05.27.2008 5:52 PM PDT
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OK 1v1 sounds awesome, but you decreased the appearance of BRs? Terrible.

  • 05.27.2008 6:07 PM PDT

Papa Bear, Ever heard of straffing?

Thing with Team BR's is, you start with an assualt rifle too..So you can choose what you want. And not everyone can 4 shot..With straffing and jumping, BR battles are exiciting and unpredictable..With the AR all people do is RUN AT EACH OTHER AND MELEE..How fun is that?I'd rather play Team Missile Pod's

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Posted by: Papa Bear 006
Okay first off, the BR is stacked. Secondly, the AR is stacked. Bottom line. However, I said my little spew on the BR, so I will talk about the AR instead. Countless times I have seen people run in a straight line with the AR, holding down the RT, and then either killing the opponent or melee-ing them down with a tap of the B or LT button, your preference. This requires no skill whatsoever. However, I think the thing most of you serious people out there forget is that Halo is not really like COD.

Halo is great in that it provides for all players, even the annoying noobs. Theres not as much learning curve. Many people can pick it up and at least play it, if not get good at it. I agree with some that earning your way to the top using an AR seems a little sad, but its not so much different from being a master of the 3-4 hit in the head with the BR. The AR is fine to keep you alive, but I think its overused. Perhaps if players only started with their fists, and had to go get the weapon they wanted, things would level out a bit. Its usually safe to assume that most people will continue to use the weapon they start out with. It can also be said that this weapon will remain as a secondary once they've found their favorite weapon. People who enjoy the BR are better off going to get one, because having everyone start with one is downright stale and boring as *insert 4-letter word here. I know what the other guy will have, and the match proceeds into a "who's faster" match. Yawn.

Before you attack me, let me say the AR is already like that. Starting everyone out with this usually invites the same ending. "OMG there's a guy! 'holds down right trigger as they sprint at the enemy. enemy does same, two meet in usual melee fight. This is also very stale gameplay. These two weapons are some of the most, if not the most, used weapons in the game.

Should they be nerfed so people go use some of the numerous other weapons Bungie has crafted for us? Sure. Will that happen? No. The elimination or tweaking of either of these weapons is probably not on Bungie's to-do list, and if this happened, there would almost certainly be a cry of rage from the community. I just believe that both are solid weapons, but both are also very controlling of this game, and make the experience very stale, because most of the time, these are the two weapons being used, next to grenade-spamming. We'll save that for another time...


lol starting with fists

  • 05.27.2008 6:09 PM PDT

Eh, Bungie! Why the heck can you only put a maximal of 8 weapon holders on the map in Last Resort? They are extremely useful for all kinds of things, yet 8 isn't even enough for a party of 16 people! Also I use them for floating bridges, platforms, etc. Just download my BUNKER DEFENSE map and you'll see some of all the uses I have for them! ALLOW US TO PUT MORE WEAPON HOLDERS ON ARE MAPS!!!

I have 3 quick questions for Bungie.

1) Why is it that in custom games you can only start out with certain weapons but not others (you can not even start out with a plasma rifle).

2) Do you guys have alternative modded versions of each map that you can play with each other?

3) The AA wraith asset happens to be on every level I've checked (and no I am not going to say how I checked :D) but we are not able to use it in a non-modded match, will any of the new maps feature this vehicle?

  • 05.27.2008 7:42 PM PDT

I was really hoping for a Team Snipers as a ranked playlist. not a weekend thing. its summer vacation, kids have more time to play during the week. what are we supposed to do to fill that void of no snipers during the weekdays.

WE NEED RANKED SNIPERS. IT WAS IN HALO 2, WHY NOT H3???

  • 05.27.2008 7:51 PM PDT

Eh, Bungie! Why the heck can you only put a maximal of 8 weapon holders on the map in Last Resort? They are extremely useful for all kinds of things, yet 8 isn't even enough for a party of 16 people! Also I use them for floating bridges, platforms, etc. Just download my BUNKER DEFENSE map and you'll see some of all the uses I have for them! ALLOW US TO PUT MORE WEAPON HOLDERS ON ARE MAPS!!!

I agree with the above ^

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I was really hoping for a Team Snipers as a ranked playlist. not a weekend thing. its summer vacation, kids have more time to play during the week. what are we supposed to do to fill that void of no snipers during the weekdays.

WE NEED RANKED SNIPERS. IT WAS IN HALO 2, WHY NOT H3???

  • 05.27.2008 8:26 PM PDT

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Sing Up Now!!

My Ranked Big Team still isnt lettin me play, any word on that would be great, thanks

=)

  • 05.28.2008 4:35 AM PDT