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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/22/08

Oh ur Face , but wait maybe a host lag head shot ouch !!

I love the Barrens chat lawl kinda of like Chuck Norris all over again. Keep up the good work guys cant wait to see whats to come.

  • 08.22.2008 6:52 PM PDT

Bathed In Blood, Crowned In Glory

This Is rediculous. Removing Big Team? Removing Ranked Big Team also? Why? Those had thousands of players, everytime I went on it it had thousands of players playing It. What happened that you're taking it out? I saw they added DLC big team...I rather play the older levels, Only new DLC map thats big team is Avalanch. Half of this update Is garbage. Im probably gonna end up throwing Halo out.

I swear, all bungie does Is come out with a great game, and ruin it with every update.

  • 08.22.2008 6:54 PM PDT

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I wonder if Shishka and Lukems are reading all these comments or not. There's a lot of meaty, useful feedback in here.

  • 08.22.2008 6:56 PM PDT
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Still ignoring Team Snipers. Yet another epic failure of an update.

  • 08.22.2008 6:57 PM PDT

Bathed In Blood, Crowned In Glory

wow...Bungie REALLY knows how to ruin a good game, huh?

  • 08.22.2008 6:58 PM PDT

All right, no bots, but will there ever be a map where you can set up targets from a gun range to make a shooting gallery? And is it possible/likely to put the Forge Filters into the on disc and Heroic maps?

  • 08.22.2008 6:59 PM PDT
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I don't know how many people have already said it but

"Team SWAT

Objective Gametypes, SWATGuns set to skip after veto
Weighting on all Objective games, SWATGuns and Magnums reduced
Player Damage Resistance set to 150% (was 200%), players no longer spawn with grenades
SWAT map variants now have Carbines and grenades available to pick up.
'

No nades team swat. . . *kisses* it's about time!

  • 08.22.2008 6:59 PM PDT

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Jesus, what do you guys have against Big Team Social? IT WAS PERFECT!!!

  • 08.22.2008 7:02 PM PDT
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yeah i know it sucks especially the ranked that was my highest score

  • 08.22.2008 7:04 PM PDT
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Head to head gone......tear

  • 08.22.2008 7:04 PM PDT

I think bungie is trying to throw us off a little to make us think there is no update for halo 3's forge. I mean at the end of the video he said "their is no way we're showing this yet" and you see the blue grid. I think the "special forge" they used to delete the elephant, sheild doors, etc. will be the updated forge. Im not saying yes their is going to be A.I. from campaign in multiplayer (I hope they wont add that into the game anyways)

  • 08.22.2008 7:06 PM PDT

Reading that Social BTB is retired was probably the only time my jaw has dropped and my eyes narrowed in outrage. It's a good thing I read the rest of it.

  • 08.22.2008 7:06 PM PDT
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....big changes. Sheesh.

  • 08.22.2008 7:08 PM PDT

Posted by: J88BH
I think bungie is trying to throw us off a little to make us think there is no update for halo 3's forge. I mean at the end of the video he said "their is no way we're showing this yet" and you see the blue grid. I think the "special forge" they used to delete the elephant, sheild doors, etc. will be the updated forge. Im not saying yes their is going to be A.I. from campaign in multiplayer (I hope they wont add that into the game anyways)

If you had read it closely you would know that that Forge is internal-only.

  • 08.22.2008 7:08 PM PDT

Wow, now that was a meaty update.
The second I saw that the new map's name was "Assembly" I had nightmarish visions of Colossus and it's stupid exploding barrel assembly line things running through my head, definitely looking forward to some new maps. Cold Storage managed to be both amazing to look at and amazing to play so I have high hopes for Assembly. I also hold similarly high hopes for Epilogue, Boundless and Sand Tarp. Personally I never really minded the shield doors, when Halo 3 first came out I thought "maulers everywhere+shield doors = :(" but with maulers wrangled in to control I don't think the shield doors really have been that much of a problem. It's great that new things are being tried though, I'm interested to see just how much impact the shield door removals will have on gameplay. My guess is that the impact will be negligible (especially on Epilogue) and the real differences will come from the changes in weapon spawns.

Can't say I'm surprised to see RBTB, as much as I loved the idea behind it Ol' Yeller really needed to be taken behind the shed and put out of it's misery so to speak. I'm kind of shocked that Big Team Social got cut too, I'm not sure exactly why it was cut (except for the whole 'it needs heavies, please' comments being made by certain people). Is there a replacement in the pipe for Big Team Social? I see that the DLC playlist has been revamped to step up and fill the gap but a couple levels (Valhalla, Standoff) that have been with us since the beginning made solid Big Team arenas. Just seems silly to get rid of something that wasn't broken to replace it with essentially the same thing minus a couple maps. All I ask from the new Big Team replacement hoppers is Heavies. That's it. Just throw me some Heavies and I'm happy (of course I'd love to see Big Team Social not get cut buy hey... I pick my battles).

I really was never a huge fan of Head-to-Head but again pretty shocking that it's being removed so quickly. My guess is that it's become full of people trying to lose EXP just so they can roll in to a game and have people say "z0mg! He's a 39 but only an Apprentice! WTF!!!1". That's my guess at least, about a third of the Head-to-Head games I played involved my opponent quiting before the match even began.

In closing I'd really really really really love to see a better explanation for the elimination of Rocket Race. I know it had a low population and I know there's a small but certain percentage of that population consisting of griefers just trying to wreck that experience for everyone but the low population numbers were justified by the uniqueness of the gameplay. Nothing else is like Rocket Race! Adding Rocket Race to Multi-Team makes about just as much sense as adding Griffball to Team Slayer (actually Griffball makes more sense in a Team Slayer environment than Rocket Race in Multi-Team)... the number of players and the team set up is the same but other than that...? It's just going to piss the people who want to play Multi-Team games (Slayer, KotH, Oddball) off and disappoint the players that are after Racing games. Great Rocket Race games play like a highlight real of what makes Halo awesome (I've got a couple things in my file share alone that make me lol quite a bit just thinking about the game).

I've played a ton of Halo (4000 games and counting!) and pretty much every playlist and Rocket Race has always been the most fun. Definitely the playlist that I always go to when I'm just looking relax and Halo for a bit. I know this post won't receive a response (much less than any post made out of vitriol, poor grammar and fail I'm guessing) and I know its far too late to sway anyone who is anyone's opinion on the subject but it's a really disappointing move. Quite frankly this is the most disappointed I've ever felt ever since I picked up that gigantic 'Duke' Xbox control back in 2001 and tried Halo for the first time.

  • 08.22.2008 7:08 PM PDT
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Y WONY DEY PUT INFECTION AS SUMTHIN 2 PLAY ONLINE

  • 08.22.2008 7:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: ZeRoxXxKilR
Y WONY DEY PUT INFECTION AS SUMTHIN 2 PLAY ONLINE
Please...be intelligent.

This is by far the best update of recent times. Everything in there is great, however I was surprised to see Social Big Team taken out. It was such a strong playlist and I will miss it.

But for doubles-Unless the ledgendary mappack spectacularly becomes free, you will harm the population. A 30,000 player strong playlist must have some players who don't have the maps, and I think that it is a bad move to make it DLC required.

  • 08.22.2008 7:16 PM PDT

I know, but they add can always add things to forge, plus if it's on another disk god knows what could be added to the game. And what about the blue grid room with him standing there?

[Edited on 08.22.2008 7:17 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 7:16 PM PDT

Posted by: J88BH
I know, but they add can always add things to forge, plus if it's on another disk god knows what could be added to the game. And what about the blue grid room with him standing there?

That blue grid isn't going to be in the game. And they are definitely not going to release a second disk. If they do I'll PM you MS points or something.

  • 08.22.2008 7:19 PM PDT

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looks good now if we can just have the shotgun back on Snowbound/boundless that would be awsome cuz i know u mlg kids cryed about it

  • 08.22.2008 7:21 PM PDT
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So u guys are showing something at pax and decide to rip off canada by not showing anything at MLG Toronto. Thanks alot.

  • 08.22.2008 7:22 PM PDT

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Great Update. Only thing I'd recommend is adding more forge-able objects to these new maps and not getting rid of Rocket Race.

Other then that.... great work and I hope to see these updates in September.

  • 08.22.2008 7:23 PM PDT

We will see what happens, I can wait for whatever bungie is doing...it will either be a new disk or a huge download off the marketplace.

  • 08.22.2008 7:24 PM PDT
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why bungie why?
u get rid of bigteam social and rocket race ....why ? those were the 2 matchmaking games i play all the time and favourites among all my friends what do you gain by getting rid of them? now all i have is campainge and forge thanks a fricken lot

  • 08.22.2008 7:25 PM PDT
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Add my voice to the cahophany of sound that says NOOOOOOOOO to you guys dropping BTB social. Ranked i guess i can understand even though i think the numbers were good everytime i hopped in, but BTB social always had 10k everytime i didn't feel like waiting to be matched up with other 37's.

I stopped playing DLC because 9 out of 10 times i had to play avalanche which while great map, i have seen it far to many times.

  • 08.22.2008 7:28 PM PDT