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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/01/08

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How is this new EXP system going to effect double EXP weekends? I mean, if you only get exp per playlist now, whats the use of a double exp weekend at all anymore?

  • 08.01.2008 6:43 PM PDT

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Hey, looks good!

Can't wait for grifball again =]

That rank update could use some clarification though... It looks like it will show a different rank depending that is calculated from your respective level and exp in the specific playlist you are in, and your overall rank will only be available online. I don't believe that is the case, however. That would mean that all the people who are general grade 4s, for example, would only be generals grade 4s for the playlists in which they are a level 50 AND have 6000 exp.

That can't be right...

edit: I guess my question is this... I've been working on getting my Force Colonel for a while now. I got a 40 in lone wolves and i've been playing a lot of double xp and social games since then (I'm not a big fan of the super-competitiveness you usually encounter in ranked playlists). After AU2, will I still be a colonel gr.3, or will I be a lower rank in each of the playlists because it only calculates your rank using the exp gained playing that hopper?

Someone told me they believe you will have 2 ranks next to your name in each playlists. One the playlist-specific rank, and the other the overall rank. I'm confused. =[ (sorry if that doesnt make sense)

[Edited on 08.01.2008 6:59 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2008 6:43 PM PDT

Just remember... I keep it real...

I understand that they spread modded content, but wow... Perm ban of the file share. I think a 1 month ban if you just spread the content would have been better. If you made the mods, then I understand, but some average joe that has even no clue that HTML is? That's harsh. But whatever, I haven't played Halo since before all of these happenings started.

  • 08.01.2008 6:44 PM PDT

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I'm dissappointed in the fact there's no BetaMine....only thing I was looking forward to the most to be honest :(((

  • 08.01.2008 6:44 PM PDT

Posted by: randomFATperson
This update is by far the worst thing bungie could ever do to this game. Instead of changing something why dont they just fix what they have at hand right now. As of now the ranking system is pretty messed up as far as people winning hundreds of games and NOT ranking up. That my friend is BS. So instead of changing it...FIX IT! I guess that concept is hard for them to grasp. We all know bungie likes changing stuff thats not broken so why change now. So about the general thing. It will no longer take any skill what so ever to reach the rank of general. Yes, I realize that unless your a 50 it will not appear on your service record. But I'm sure somewhere it will say what yours ranks are in all the playlist. So pretty much there are going to be a bunch of BK generals. So pretty much bungie I think this update is the worst thing ever and it pretty much sucks. This only people that do like it are the people that can't get to a 50 and have 17 thousand bars under their rank. There is a reason for that. Those players aren't good enough to reach the rank of 50 and thus shouldnt be a general. Thanks bungie for this BS update.


Way to be ignorant.

Do you honestly think when you see a General in Team slayer after AU2 they will suck? No, they won't, it will take SKILL to win enough games to make a general in a playlist, hundreds, upon hundreds of wins will be required to rank up in a playlist. And the more you play, the tougher it gets, NOTHING IS BEING CHANGED with the skill, the emblem rank is just an emblem, to be a general in a playlist will still be an accomplishment.

  • 08.01.2008 6:45 PM PDT

I got all giddy reading the update. It seems that you guys have really been cracking the whip lately (or more like slamming the hammer; banhammer that is). It's comforting to know that Halo 3 Fileshare content will now be kept under control. Makes me feel secure. Very bueno.

  • 08.01.2008 6:46 PM PDT

yeah for palindromes!!!

  • 08.01.2008 6:48 PM PDT
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Am I the only one that has noticed, most of the people happy with the update are people below level 40?

Which I guess is the "Smart" Decision for Bungie since the majority of the population are low levels, and the only people pissed off are the people with high levels, and we are the minority.

[Edited on 08.01.2008 6:52 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2008 6:51 PM PDT

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  • 08.01.2008 6:52 PM PDT

Posted by: Timmie
Am I the only one that has noticed, most of the people happy with the update are people below level 40?

Which I guess is the "Smart" Decision for Bungie since the majority of the population are low levels, and the only people pissed off are the people with high levels, and we are the minority.


Why would having a higher level piss you off?...

  • 08.01.2008 6:54 PM PDT

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It sounds like the new ranking system will give you more insight to your opponents. You will know how much experience they have gained in a particular playlist. It will be interesting to see how this affects who I get matched up with in particular playlists.

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You my friend are a moron. Thank you sir for giving me your bs input. Have a fantastic day moron.
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Posted by: randomFATperson
This update is by far the worst thing bungie could ever do to this game. Instead of changing something why dont they just fix what they have at hand right now. As of now the ranking system is pretty messed up as far as people winning hundreds of games and NOT ranking up. That my friend is BS. So instead of changing it...FIX IT! I guess that concept is hard for them to grasp. We all know bungie likes changing stuff thats not broken so why change now. So about the general thing. It will no longer take any skill what so ever to reach the rank of general. Yes, I realize that unless your a 50 it will not appear on your service record. But I'm sure somewhere it will say what yours ranks are in all the playlist. So pretty much there are going to be a bunch of BK generals. So pretty much bungie I think this update is the worst thing ever and it pretty much sucks. This only people that do like it are the people that can't get to a 50 and have 17 thousand bars under their rank. There is a reason for that. Those players aren't good enough to reach the rank of 50 and thus shouldnt be a general. Thanks bungie for this BS update.


Way to be ignorant.

Do you honestly think when you see a General in Team slayer after AU2 they will suck? No, they won't, it will take SKILL to win enough games to make a general in a playlist, hundreds, upon hundreds of wins will be required to rank up in a playlist. And the more you play, the tougher it gets, NOTHING IS BEING CHANGED with the skill, the emblem rank is just an emblem, to be a general in a playlist will still be an accomplishment.

  • 08.01.2008 6:55 PM PDT

New Marathon? Thanks Bungie!

so something HUGE is coming? sweet

  • 08.01.2008 6:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: Da Kr3w 4893
Why would having a higher level piss you off?...

Because when AU2 goes live, our level means nothing, and everyone will be generals and brigs, just for playing alot of games.

  • 08.01.2008 6:55 PM PDT

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I have a question. I have skill 50 in 5 playlist so I have to win 600 games against lv 50s in order to be a general. Shouldn't the games we already played count.

  • 08.01.2008 6:56 PM PDT

Never eat yellow snow, unless of course, you spilled your Mt. Dew!

I think they are pissed because now they feel like they have something else to accomplish. People that got their 50 and their exp for a general can't just sit back like "Hey look at me, I'm a general." Now they have to try and be a general in each playlist, even the ones they hate.

  • 08.01.2008 6:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Timmie
Posted by: Da Kr3w 4893
Why would having a higher level piss you off?...

Because when AU2 goes live, our level means nothing, and everyone will be generals and brigs, just for playing alot of games.

Emblems will mean nothing sure, but the SKILL NUMBER will still mean that same.

Remember, to reach General requires you to play alot of games, and winning those games, the more you win, the tougher it getss to win because everyone gets better.

[Edited on 08.01.2008 6:58 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2008 6:57 PM PDT

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I have a question. I have skill 50 in 5 playlist so I have to win 600 games against lv 50s in order to be a general. Shouldn't the games we already played count.
thats what I was thinking

  • 08.01.2008 6:57 PM PDT

yes me too, I'm already a very inconsistent player in TS, I don't want to have to win 600 games against Brigs and Colonels, because that would suck.

  • 08.01.2008 6:59 PM PDT
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so i aint gonna have to get my fifty again right?and is there a social rank now

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Right firstly, i have never posted in this forum so bare with me,

Through out all of this i didnt notice much about the way people "sponge", the hit box's seem some what, not there in some cases, i mean i can shoot someone in the head with the sniper, see the blood come steaming out of their face, and.... nothing, they turn around and 1 hit me with a br?. Just something to be looked upon imo.

Secondly,

Q: OK, I’m really, really, really sorry that I filled my File Share with pictures of naked women. I won’t do it again. Can I have my File Share back please?
A: lololololol


That was frigging hilarious, i was in sticthes on the floor, litrally, i thought i was going to have a stroke.

Thirdly,

"ADDED King of the Hill ADDED 2 Flag on the Pit ADDED 1 Flag on Blackout "

Ewwww, How can we possibly go in to doubles knowing alot of people dont have microphones that play and boost in doubles, then getting stuck with a Flag for instance?, I find it reasonably unfair about this, i think if your going to do it "in doubles i believe this is preety wrong, as you cant really have a 2on2 flag, but carrying on" then you should atleast hold the playlist for people who have previosly "Grouped" or "Partied" up.

Just a thought.

Oh and, im Exited about the new ranking system, But will we be able to see who is the pure boost and who isnt? i mean, will it show xp against Rank still? i didnt quite catch on,

Creamed,
Ben.

  • 08.01.2008 7:00 PM PDT
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I was not ban but my friends were I think it was totally wrong for bungie to ban people from matchmaking and about your little warning you said you had on bungie.net do you really call that a real warning not all of your halo players go onto bungie.net I have 8 year olds that are ban from matchmaking because you wanted to be jurks

  • 08.01.2008 7:02 PM PDT

yea, i think the au thing is a dumb idea. Because even though you have a 50 (which MOST PEOPLE cant get anyway) you will still have to play that play list over and over until you get 600 xp. That is the dummest crap ive ever heard

  • 08.01.2008 7:02 PM PDT
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I was not ban but my friends were I think it was totally wrong for bungie to ban people from matchmaking and about your little warning you said you had on bungie.net do you really call that a real warning not all of your halo players go onto bungie.net I have 8 year olds that are ban from matchmaking because you wanted to be jerks

[Edited on 08.01.2008 7:09 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2008 7:02 PM PDT