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Subject: Panel Discussion: TTL on Improving H3

One side note which may have been posted already.

When looking at someone's File Share and you hit Back it should go back to the previous page not back to the matchmaking / game menu. This makes it rather annoying to navigate especially if you're looking to see if someone has the exact game variant or similar that you want to download & play by yourself or amongst 1 or 2 friends.

  • 08.18.2008 3:26 PM PDT

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Put some Team Melee games like Team Swords and Team Hammers in Team and Social Slayer. There's a tad bit too much Sniper games in there, IMO.

  • 08.22.2008 4:24 PM PDT

If you look at this stuff....go to a park or something else active

Things to improve upon:
1. BRING BACK SOCIAL BIG TEAM BATTLE!
2. If you can't do #1 then make a playlist that has 12 vs 12! Gargantuan Battle!
3. Bigger forge map.
4. Better respawning system
5. Better vetoing system: It gives you three maps to choose from, and you pick which one. If there's a tie, it chooses either the remaining one, or randomly chooses one of the two. After the map is picked the map starts to load.
6. Racing maps. Make a playlist for maps that you can race each other in. You could add really good player-made maps and give them credit.
7. More objects to choose from in the Forge Selection. Also for the maps outside you could include weather. For weather just don't make it obscure the entire screen so you can't see at all (I could name some games that did that)...
8. When your gonna stop making downloadable content for H3 make some kind of creator so you could create maps instead of editing ones already made.
9. Some contest every couple weeks where like funniest suicides or pictures or some clip or something.
10. Brand new guns for the new map packs would be cool also.
11. Have maps have the Halo 2 feeling. Like someone said have New Mombasa before it was destroyed. That would be pretty fun. Beaver Creek and Headlong would be nice.

These would be for the next halo:
1. Destructable environments.
2. Sprint option to get places faster.
3. Blind firing. If your running away you can shoot behind you, but you don't know where the heck your shooting.
4. If there's no Gargantuan Battle for H3 put it in H4!
5. More realistic enemy and teammate AI (like in movements or dodging attacks or actually helping you out).
6. Way better graphics, like in the jump from H1 to H2.
7. Much better campaign that includes massive battles with more than 100 people on each side if possible.

[Edited on 08.23.2008 1:36 PM PDT]

  • 08.23.2008 1:24 PM PDT
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This might be not possible to add into halo 3 but then put it in halo 4.
What I would like to see it much more customizable custom games.
-Firstly there need to be a quick custom and advanced custom game cause it would frustrate people making a simple quick gametype.
-Next you should be able to start with any weapon in the game.
-I would like to customize exactly how powerful each weapon is. Say I want the assault rifle to be really weak but the magnum unbeleivably powerful. For rockets, needlers, and fuel rods need an adjustable splash size.
-I would like the speed, clip size, bullets per burst, gap of time between bullets and bursts, accurracy, bullet magnetism size and anything else I might have forgotten.
-Now for melees, I would like to see adjustable melee lunge, power, and assassination damage. Adjustable for each gun.
-Grenades need the ability to have an adjustable damage, splash size, delay time and maybe weight.
-The option to adjust objective Items weight so you could recreate flag games similar to the earlier halos
- I would like to see a force armor to elimate the hitboxes issue on elites.
-You should also implement an adjustable fall damage.
-Turn on an off health packs and visable health.
-A larger and easier map creater. Keep forge for weapon and scenary placement.
-delay between switching weapons adjustable.
-Touch return is a must
-Halo 1 and 2 power ups in forge.
-more custom power ups.
-Add some new gametypes too.
This would be great for any type of player. If there are any other option you might want to put in there do it. You could make a very balance game or the most random game ever.
-An option to use a halo 1, 2, 3 and a few diffent types of spawn system.
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  • 08.24.2008 8:55 PM PDT

There are only two things I hate in the world. People intolerant of other peoples cultures, and the Dutch


Don't hate my hands just cause they smell of cabbage.

Capture the flag as it was in it's glory days.
having the three people in a warthog with people screaming behind you, a banshee overhead and a terribly innaccurate scorpian driver missing every shot!

I don't see this anymore, instead it's mancannon, then run, die, someone behind grabs, dies, flag spawns, flag grab, mancannon, run, die, someone behinds lives and scores.........repeat repeat.

What happened to the prowler? it is unused. Flamthrower and fuelrod are unused in most or all maps, and in forge there only a limit of options on most of the maps.....edit- of weapons you can pick from. no spawn duels, and most duels can't be spawned with i.e. no plasma pistol spawns, smg, or other few.

[Edited on 08.26.2008 11:57 AM PDT]

  • 08.26.2008 11:55 AM PDT
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I was just thinking about this the other day. I enjoy playing campaign with a team of 4 but don't always want to do it with the same group of people. What a great way for bungie to increase the concept of making Halo more of a social network by introducing a Campaign match finder. So wouldn't it be cool if you could either join a lobby/party or create your own? You could specify what level, how many players, skulls on/off, difficulty, etc. I don't I just thought it would be cool to have a way to search for players to play campaign with. What do you guys think?

  • 09.06.2008 3:12 PM PDT
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Matchmaking connection glitches need to be addressed. When selecting prefer good connection I and many other players find that in the game you can be owning a team and all players are green, halfway through one players connection goes red and no one on that team recieves damage like before. They end up taking the lead and near to the end of the game they are all green again giggling, and no matter what you tell me the feedback system doesn't work. Suspensions I've witnessed come mostly for border line code infractions due to content on profile more often than behaviour in the game. Most people don't even bother to file complaints because they know it does nothing. And the router button boys keep going up in levels while players who don't , level down. The true skill system won't be true until the people who cheat are gone and can no longer work your matchmaking system against the ones who don't. I went from level 29 in team slayer down to 20 in a few days because I end up hosting most of my games because I have a great connection, my game suffers as well as my level. So we started playing social but because some genius decided to award social playlist with points as well, more and more you see the same suspect behaviour in there. Your game is not only awesome but addicting so I find myself still playing although often I leave with a bad taste in my mouth. Social playlist wins should not be rewarded then maybe there won't be incentive for glitch happy kids who ruin the game we all love, your game!

  • 09.21.2008 9:52 AM PDT
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Hi, my career stats aren't actually keeping up on Bungie.net with the stats I see when I'm playing H3. I know for a fact that I have 6 EXP in DLC FFA as my thought at the time was not to play that playlist again to get 7 until Oct 7th (obviously). Since then, I haven't played the game, and on here it says I've only got 5 EXP in that playlist. What's the deal with this? The site has registered my last game correctly, so I don't understand why the stats are different. Also, it's been a problem I've noticed for a long time, for example my 'global' EXP is actually one higher when I see it with H3 loaded up.

This does make a difference when ... say you've got that 1 EXP while playing H3 to get a particular number/ officer rank, I first noticed it when I got to Captain rank on the game but it still said Lieutenant on here.

I'm only moaning about it now because I don't want anything to mess up with the 7th of the month thing. And this has been bugging me for ages.

Can someday explain it to me?

  • 09.25.2008 6:21 PM PDT
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One thing I think would be cool is if you can pause a recording, reposition the camera and continue recording from the new spot, effectively giving you the ability to make cuts while recording a film clip.

  • 09.29.2008 10:34 AM PDT
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1) Quit regulating and penalizing people with blind self-righteousness you've borrowed from the justice system. People play FUN games... I want cheaters banned, but I don't want annoying people banned. I don't care if they quit, curse, spawn kill me, help the other team, run aruond shooting the air, eat a burger and not touch their controller, for God's sake, its a GAME. I know you're trying to keep your game as relevant as long as possible, but you're trying to shape the people who play it. I personally LOVE unranked games, try to ignore ranks, exp, whatever you have going, quit games I'm losing real badly, and like to squat on corpses, make fun of people on the headset, and run around shooting in the air. If I want tightly regulated competition I'd be a professional athlete.

2) You're not celebrities. I WILL NOT recognize you in your bungie shirt in Arizona. Stop hyping yourselves up and just get paid to make stuff and see if it sells.

  • 10.06.2008 8:28 PM PDT
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o.k, we all want a separate, permanent Team Snipers Playlist.

But this i sthe main thing i would love to have. Search Custom Games! Like you go into matchmaking, and there will be Ranked, Social, DLC, Hardcore, Custom Games. And in custom games there should be, FFA, Team Slayer, CTF, Assault, Territories (but who plays that anyways) KOTH, and Infection. There would be a MILLION people taking advantage of this. Because when i am in a lobby with friends, and were bored, and want to play a custom, we search our friends list, and people are either searching in MLG, or already playing a game. So, imagine if we could search for custom games!

  • 10.07.2008 9:50 AM PDT
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frags need to be less stupid. random frags to the face are a beach

  • 10.07.2008 12:57 PM PDT

Completely agree and I already posted this probably 20 pages ago. Added a Snipers playlist along with reducing the appearance frequency in the Social Slayer hopper.

Lag-cheaters need to be banned a lot more frequently. The 3-4 player groups that go teamkilling to boost their skills or just to go griefing need to be banned as well.

Tighter restrictions on Global Rank with matchmaking.

Include Playlist Rank in matchmaking.

Add a Playlist under both Ranked & Social where you can select by either map or gametype.

Make the Player Reviews do something other than just block a particular player from being matched with you again, such as much tighter restrictions that actually apply to the new BanHammer.

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  • 10.08.2008 4:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: jlp31
One thing I think would be cool is if you can pause a recording, reposition the camera and continue recording from the new spot, effectively giving you the ability to make cuts while recording a film clip.


just as i was thinking that would be awsome. And adding affects to your movie....

actually make theater mode like the new windows movie maker!

Also be able to have bots and programme what they do.

One more thing on co-op they should be able to have 16players! Like people playing as cheif, ODST's, arby, elites, marines, johnson and on some levels miranda keyes.

  • 10.11.2008 10:02 AM PDT

Take off whatever it is that makes you have to push the D-pad to talk when you have more than 4 people. In Call of Duty 4 you don't have to phsh to talk and it works fine.
Seriously you have no idea how many times I thought I was talking to someone only to find out that I wasn't pushing therefor I was talking to myself

  • 10.22.2008 7:39 PM PDT

I heard a rumor before H3 came out that you could place AI bots of Marines and Covenant in forge, but you couldn't kill them because they were for show



And i just thought of this
you can play as an Elite, with different armor, A spartan with different armor, SO WHY NOT A FLOOD I mean come on that would be fu***** awesome

  • 10.22.2008 7:42 PM PDT