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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/01/08

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Im sorry but that was the worse update ever. Can't believe you guys caved in to the lil whining -blam!-es.

  • 08.01.2008 10:49 PM PDT

Godservant, reporting for duty.

All I want is the glitchy Security Shoulders to be fixed.

  • 08.01.2008 10:51 PM PDT

Godservant, reporting for duty.

All I want is for the glitchy SECURITY SHOULDERS to be FIXED.

  • 08.01.2008 10:52 PM PDT

It's a TRAP!

Thank you for adding Slayer Heavy to Ranked BTB; Flag Heavy was super, but Slayer has always been reveled as the best. Brings me back to Gulch Wars, which was one of the best gametypes ever. Any chance we could get that little gem back? Or some of the old big maps? Containment and Coagulation were so freaking awesome. Oh memories.

  • 08.01.2008 10:52 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie is crazy.

Sarge: I need to see into this window
Caboose: I do not think you are tall enough
Sarge: I know give me a hand
Caboose: I do not think I am tall enough either, plus my head is round, that window is square.
Sarge: Get over here.

OK so apparently what bungie decided was, take a game that was made for people who suck at halo, hence the playlist for noobs, starting games with ARs, having objective games in lone wolves, which are won completely on spawns and random grenades, and the "new and improved melee system", and noob it up some more. Now they feel that these people who have no talent at halo should be able to get their generals by playing a playlist over and over again. They for some reason feel the need to compensate for people who suck by giving them new opportunities to become generals. So now we finally get an autoupdate, and the only thing they feel like doing is helping the people who suck. How about some help for the overall gameplay, im pretty sure that swords glitch A LOT more often then they should, rockets don't need to be on almost every single map, considering they're a fire and forget weapon as in, fire and forgot it took no skill to get that kill, melees that kill both players at once is the most ridiculous fix i've ever heard, how about you go back to halo 1 where we were playing first person shooters, and not first person beat downs. I know i'll get a whole bunch of stupid comments like if you hate the game then dont play it. But its really not that simple, I love the bright sides of halo, but theres so many aspects that could be fixed.

  • 08.01.2008 10:54 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/01/08

Sarge: I need to see into this window
Caboose: I do not think you are tall enough
Sarge: I know give me a hand
Caboose: I do not think I am tall enough either, plus my head is round, that window is square.
Sarge: Get over here.

OH! and btw, I had 47 for the longest time and eventually got my 50 a couple weeks ago on bungie day on my 1201 experience, so its not impossible to level up after playing a lot of games, and having a 50 and being a general is NOT THAT AMAZING, I AM NOT MORE OF A PERSON BECAUSE I HAVE A 50, JUST MEANS I'M PRETTY GOOD AT HALO.

[Edited on 08.01.2008 11:02 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2008 10:55 PM PDT
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Exactly what i tried to say, but with more good words, need to practice my english :P french is so different!


Mais le français est beau, prendre soin ami.

  • 08.01.2008 10:57 PM PDT
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this is the most depressing thing ever.not only does being a 50 not mean anything anymore( not like it really did because it was so easy to get) now all the time i played my exp went down the drain. i wasted my life and my time. and to all the people saying this is sweet quit d riding because almost everyone thinks this is stupid

  • 08.01.2008 11:00 PM PDT

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This thing about modded screenshots is bull; most of my friends are about to loose their accounts! They don't visit this site and they only skimmed the user manual, but they're all nice guys who don't deserve such ruthless punishment!

This is essentially like you loosing your driver's license for speeding once in a while; Everone around you is going that speed, and it doesn't seem like a big deal but TOO BAD F*****S! We gave a warning on the police website; didn't read it? Oh well, say goodbye to ur car! Oh, and btw: We're above the law.

Tell me that wouldn't **** u off; now think about all the people ur doing it to...

You thought u were getting death threats before, you ain't seen nothin yet.

  • 08.01.2008 11:03 PM PDT
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yea that screenshot thing is really harsh because i know tons of people who dont come to this website and they're all nice people and they got pictures in their file shares just for kicks. bungie pretty much is taking the halo 3 and making it more nubby and way more easier for all the people who suck and cant get good rankings.

  • 08.01.2008 11:06 PM PDT
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and i dont understand why they dont make more good maps, fix the br and off host lag, and just bring back the old h2 mm system it was perfect. and that stupid reload glitch with rockets and sniper.sometimes i reload rockets like 3 times in row and i dont understand why

  • 08.01.2008 11:08 PM PDT

Sarge: I need to see into this window
Caboose: I do not think you are tall enough
Sarge: I know give me a hand
Caboose: I do not think I am tall enough either, plus my head is round, that window is square.
Sarge: Get over here.

To comment on the fileshare bans, I think it was about time. Seriously, if you retards who had that crap on your fileshare actually took the time to put it there, then you have some issues. If you want to see pictures of stuff other than halo, go on google images and search it, you actually get more pictures for your time. If you're seriously making threats about being banned, bungie might actually be doing you a favor so now you can spend your time doing something productive and probably pissing off less people playing the game. And for those people who need to go on forge and create nude images out of pixels. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?

  • 08.01.2008 11:10 PM PDT

One good shot is worth a thousand bad ones.

Not sure if I am into the whole multiple rank thing. I retired from Halo 3 when I made general and I think I am going back into retirement.

  • 08.01.2008 11:12 PM PDT

looks good to me personaly im stuck were im at right now so this will help. thanx bungie.
Ravag3d Gh0st

  • 08.01.2008 11:18 PM PDT

I'm hoping whatever it is they are changing (because I struggled to follow it a bit TBH) discourages the morons who are very good from starting up new accounts and wrecking up the skill based matchmaking system.

  • 08.01.2008 11:24 PM PDT
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i agree with you

  • 08.01.2008 11:28 PM PDT

Through a circus eye, I saw everything

Posted by: Noob Masher
This thing about modded screenshots is bull; most of my friends are about to loose their accounts! They don't visit this site and they only skimmed the user manual, but they're all nice guys who don't deserve such ruthless punishment!

This is essentially like you loosing your driver's license for speeding once in a while; Everone around you is going that speed, and it doesn't seem like a big deal but TOO BAD F*****S! We gave a warning on the police website; didn't read it? Oh well, say goodbye to ur car! Oh, and btw: We're above the law.

Tell me that wouldn't **** u off; now think about all the people ur doing it to...

You thought u were getting death threats before, you ain't seen nothin yet.




You're an idiot, please don't ever breed. You're friends are idiots. OMG you're a clan of idiots. UM, BTW pretty sure giving death threats might graduate you from idiot to F#@king retard king of the world (as well as a psychopath and eventually someone's lady behind bars). It sucks you're friends are illiterate and can't read messages that are on the screen when they play the game. It also sucks that you were such a crappy friend that, even though you DO visit the "police website", you didn't bother to warn your friends that maybe putting p@rn in their file shares (that kids have access to) is probably not in their best interests.


P.S. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :.(

  • 08.01.2008 11:32 PM PDT

Wow....objective games like Oddball and KOTH in Team Doubles.

Worst. Mistake. Ever.

I probably will not be playing a lot of team doubles now....might even go to Call of Duty 4 so when I want to play Death Match...I get Death Match and not some crappy objective game that I'm not in the mood for.

  • 08.01.2008 11:34 PM PDT

It's nice to see that Bungie is to be releasing more AutoUpdates but as many have said, I would like to see new or improved game features. Instead of just releasing new rank systems, why don't you listen to the community like you say you do. I understand. I read the comments you post. That's great that Bungie employees can use the forum they provided to the masses but could you actually give us some visual feedback in the game? I highly doubt the majority of online players actually use this site. If everyone is shouting for something let them have it. It will teach them to learn from their mistakes and soon everyone will understand why you don't want to do as we say. If we are such a community, then let the community speak for ourselves. I want to see more community favorite playlists active for longer periods of time. You say that it is so difficult to switch out the playlists' files but with a game with such an active user usage, you would think the server admins would be more waiting and willing to do such changes. I miss not having playlists, such as Grifball. That is one of those games that gets a party going. Another thing I am wondering about. With these new ranks on the playlist, would it be possible to bring back social doubles? Oh and could someone please get rid of Rat's Nest in SWAT? That's all for now.

Love, Josh.

  • 08.01.2008 11:45 PM PDT
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I can't think of a single reason why showing individual ranks in playlists is a good idea. It means that skill and rank will both be showing exactly the same thing - the level that the player has reached on that playlist.

I'm fairly mid-ranked and at the moment, when I enter a lobby, I instantly have a very good idea who is going to be better than me, by checking the various ranks. I can see who to avoid, the weaker players I should be attacking, and who is the strongest player on my team who I should be backing up.

With the new system, all that will be gone - a general joining a playlist they rarely play will look very weak, unless you open up everyones record one at a time to check.

At the moment you can count the stars to have a pretty good idea of which is the stronger team. Beating those players feels like an achievement. That will be gone too.

I genuinely cannot see how the new system is a good thing - skill and rank will now be showing exactly the same thing.

  • 08.01.2008 11:55 PM PDT

well i think it is pretty cool but i didnt get the part about rank. So if there is a lvl 50 who started a new game type say SWAT, will he play with some one who just started like some one who never played halo3?(not me by the way) And i have to ask about this boosting stuff. Have you fixed that in the new AU or no?(please say yes i hate them so much because im being paired up with lvl 50s and i havnt had a chance to reach that because my xbox broke but i fixed it bymyself)Thanks

P.S sorry for telling my xbox life story

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  • 08.02.2008 12:05 AM PDT
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First.
Posted by: iCashmere
All this does is give the horrible players out there the chance to get their "General". Seriously.. you could be a legitimate level 10 and still have a General in Team Slayer because you played a ton of games.

What does this solve? It just trivializes the General rank if anything.


Second accounters trivialize the general rank, good going.


Posted by: REBEL BOY 0O9
Hey uh Bungie... Thanks allot for completely ruining the ranking system in halo. to become a General you should have to be good, not just play allot. Because of this update I know know that all of that precious time I spent getting to my lvl 50 was a waist. I will probably stop playing Halo now because of all the n00bs that will be Generals and Im a 5* General so ya I earn my level and they didn't so I am going to say this is a very big mistake and you shouldn't change anything the ranks are perfect as they are so DON'T CHANGE THEM! D:<


5 star general with 1300 games on social foundry and a 0.98 ranked k/d ratio, 0.96 ranked teamslayer.. I think that's the definition of not earning a 50.

You either got carried, hostbooted, or got extremely lucky in ranked, and then boosted in social. How can you even talk about earning anything? Or call anyone a noob? Or even pretend to be good? I think your stupidity actually just hurt my head...

I don't even know what else to say, I just hope you know that you're everything that is wrong with halo wrapped in one big idiotic shell smothered with a topping of pompousness.

I super-loathe you.
/rant

(sorry to everyone who's not him for having to read my rant)

[Edited on 08.02.2008 12:15 AM PDT]

  • 08.02.2008 12:08 AM PDT
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halo 3 is falling down the gutter

  • 08.02.2008 12:11 AM PDT
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*crys*

I want AU2!

  • 08.02.2008 12:14 AM PDT
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This new playlist ranking system does not sound like a good idea. Now people who do nothing but play a certain playlist will get to General simply because they played enough games. You'll have mediocre players will have high ranks with a skill of 23. A better idea would be to apply the current overall ranking system to each individual playlist. That way a person who is a Colonel overall will generally have a similar rank in there playlists of choice. But there is a reason that the bungies guys are calling the shots, and I'm reading about it on the internet. We'll see how AU2 goes. Wont stop me from playing.

  • 08.02.2008 12:26 AM PDT