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This is my original acc, but I changed my GT email, so its not linked to this acc anymore.

I liked the update until I saw....Rocket Race is gonna be removed!!! Please Bungie!!! Reconsider!!! (Yes, I know its gonna be in Multi-team, but still!!!!)

But when I saw the new "Assembly" map being able to be played there, I totally forgot about all the playlist that were being removed!!!! (Too bad that I won't be in the US when this happens...)

[Edited on 08.27.2008 6:22 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 10:21 PM PDT

Bungie, Keep Social BTB!

  • 08.22.2008 10:25 PM PDT
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Well I'm not happy about that at all... and what was wrong with Social Big Team?

  • 08.22.2008 10:26 PM PDT
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can i haz AIs?

  • 08.22.2008 10:26 PM PDT
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Screw you bungie....
You guys already messed up this game way too much by putting up invisible walls in all the good places to hide, you took maulers off of the pit, u made snowbound a noob game, you f***ed up on making a remake of lockout, you made the oddball to melees to kill someone, you made swat into a horrible playlist by putting in swatguns and flag matches, u messed up doubles by putting in oddball games and crazyking games and flag games, one on one was the -blam!-est thing ever with the losing person being able to see the winning person at all times, your match making is so f***ed up because you can find 7 people for and 8 person game but, you cant find that last person even though there is 50,000 people playing in that playlist, and you made the buteshot way too powerful, ohh and u need to put the bubble sheilds how they used to be, so that the second you press X it deploys, not 5 seconds later like it does now, because that is spose to be ment as a way to save yourself from dying but now you just die faster because you have to stop shotting for 5 seconds and wait for the bubble shield to deploy, and you need to put radar jammers back on the maps and flares.

And now you guys want to mess the game up even more by taking shield doors off of Epitaph and Snowbound, and making lonewolves an 8 person game and spwn hives on the pit inexcessable. Man you guys really suck at doing the right thing for the people that actually play the game. Just because noobs cant win at a game doesnt mean that you have to change everything up.

You guys are in the gaming industry and you guys are spose to make the customer happy, and guess what, doin this will not make the majority of the customers happy, it might make the noobs happy but thats about it, ohh and last thing, Ghost Town is one of the worst maps ever made....

  • 08.22.2008 10:29 PM PDT

If it can be imagined, then it exists.

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  • 08.22.2008 10:34 PM PDT
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I hear that. I love Bungie as much as the next guy. In fact, I'll fight you for that steak dinner Luke owes all of us. But to me, BTB has always been synonimous with Halo just as much as Xbox Live or Capture the Flag. If you wanted to enter a warzone with guns, vehicles, objectives, and a whole lot of targets, you would go to BTB. My first Halo 3 BTB was on Vahalla on September 25, 2007. It was freakin' awesome! Now BTB is going to be focused on DLC maps. Whens the last time anyone here has played any DLC playlist? I think it was struggling to stay alive just as much as RBTB. It would take me around 5 minutes to find a single match in that playlist. Now that's going to be the only place to play BTB? Come on!

Next, Squad Battle. A fancy name for Team Slayer with +2 players per team. When I first read the update, I thought we were actually getting a Squad system, like the Battlefield Series. Then I realized it would just be modified Team Slayer with minimal voice communication. (Sigh) As far as the "new" maps go, I'm dissapointed. Some features have been taken out, the weapon layouts rearranged. But is that really enough to warrant a new name and priority level. Between this and the emphasis on the Legendary DLC (will it ever be free?), I feel somewhat cheated by Bungie. True, it's at the top as far as DLC goes (Suck it CoD4!), but for what seems like forever, all we've gotten are remakes. Purple Rain should be good, but when you think about how quickly Cold Storage became boring, you sort of lose hope in the new map.

Could it be that this update isn't as good as everyone on the first few pages says it is? It's always, "Awesome, Bungie!" or "Great job, Bungie!" I know they work hard, but is this really their full potential as far as updates to Halo 3 go? Well, I'd better split. I heard Luke was around here somewhere with the Banhammer. = D

-Tea-bag ya later! = D
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  • 08.22.2008 10:34 PM PDT

If it can be imagined, then it exists.

Posted by: Horseamen
Screw you bungie....
You guys already messed up this game way too much by putting up invisible walls in all the good places to hide, you took maulers off of the pit, u made snowbound a noob game, you f***ed up on making a remake of lockout, you made the oddball to melees to kill someone, you made swat into a horrible playlist by putting in swatguns and flag matches, u messed up doubles by putting in oddball games and crazyking games and flag games, one on one was the -blam!-est thing ever with the losing person being able to see the winning person at all times, your match making is so f***ed up because you can find 7 people for and 8 person game but, you cant find that last person even though there is 50,000 people playing in that playlist, and you made the buteshot way too powerful, ohh and u need to put the bubble sheilds how they used to be, so that the second you press X it deploys, not 5 seconds later like it does now, because that is spose to be ment as a way to save yourself from dying but now you just die faster because you have to stop shotting for 5 seconds and wait for the bubble shield to deploy, and you need to put radar jammers back on the maps and flares.

And now you guys want to mess the game up even more by taking shield doors off of Epitaph and Snowbound, and making lonewolves an 8 person game and spwn hives on the pit inexcessable. Man you guys really suck at doing the right thing for the people that actually play the game. Just because noobs cant win at a game doesnt mean that you have to change everything up.

You guys are in the gaming industry and you guys are spose to make the customer happy, and guess what, doin this will not make the majority of the customers happy, it might make the noobs happy but thats about it, ohh and last thing, Ghost Town is one of the worst maps ever made....

"noobs," as you call them, matter just as much as you do.

  • 08.22.2008 10:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: Horseamen
Screw you bungie....
You guys already messed up this game way too much by putting up invisible walls in all the good places to hide, you took maulers off of the pit, u made snowbound a noob game, you f***ed up on making a remake of lockout, you made the oddball to melees to kill someone, you made swat into a horrible playlist by putting in swatguns and flag matches, u messed up doubles by putting in oddball games and crazyking games and flag games, one on one was the -blam!-est thing ever with the losing person being able to see the winning person at all times, your match making is so f***ed up because you can find 7 people for and 8 person game but, you cant find that last person even though there is 50,000 people playing in that playlist, and you made the buteshot way too powerful, ohh and u need to put the bubble sheilds how they used to be, so that the second you press X it deploys, not 5 seconds later like it does now, because that is spose to be ment as a way to save yourself from dying but now you just die faster because you have to stop shotting for 5 seconds and wait for the bubble shield to deploy, and you need to put radar jammers back on the maps and flares.

And now you guys want to mess the game up even more by taking shield doors off of Epitaph and Snowbound, and making lonewolves an 8 person game and spwn hives on the pit inexcessable. Man you guys really suck at doing the right thing for the people that actually play the game. Just because noobs cant win at a game doesnt mean that you have to change everything up.

You guys are in the gaming industry and you guys are spose to make the customer happy, and guess what, doin this will not make the majority of the customers happy, it might make the noobs happy but thats about it, ohh and last thing, Ghost Town is one of the worst maps ever made....


*groans* save it buddy, they didn't ruin anything. It is THEIR game and they can do what they want with it. Luckily for us, they choose to put our (their fans) desires and concerns before theirs, something you seem to be oblivious to. Even if your concerns were more than a rambling of how YOU think the game should be, at least word your arguments better and with a little less juvenile whining. Bungie made you an awesome game and is trying to enhance its awesome factor, and you're telling them to go screw themselves? not only have you insulted Bungie, but you've insulted a lot of their fans too, good job. To clarify, i don't have a problem with your opinion, I have a problem with how you choose to express it; obnoxiously.

I wish i was somewhere near PAX, I collect halo and Bungie stuff but i live in southern Canada (Ottawa) so I can never go to these things. It would be cool if Bungie came to Toronto... Or even better, Ottawa. that way Bungie can has Canada.

  • 08.22.2008 10:42 PM PDT

"When you can't run anymore, you crawl. And when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you. That's what friends are for."
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Veritas vos liberabit

OMGWTFBBQ!!1! 1337 HAXORZ IN MY N00B SAUS!!1!!1one!!eleven!!11!!! Sorry 'bout that, but I must say, I'm rather disappointed that Big Team Social, DLC Slayer, and DLC Objective have left us and gone to the pearly, white gates of matchmaking heaven. I'm not at all surprised that Ranked Big Team has also left us, as very, very few people graced it with even a sideways glance, but I quite enjoyed DLC Objective. Nigh every night my best friend and I would enter its ranks solely to veto whatever showed itself and pray that we got Avalanche in return; well, except for maybe Team King. Yes, we are "those guys," or, more compassionately, "You f****** n00bs!1!" But we enjoyed the viscerality that the flags and bombs on Avalanche permitted us. I play halo because it is fun, not for riches, glory, or... well you know. But sometimes it can get frustrating. Avalanche was my mental retreat, my snowy cottage in the mountain-tops where I could find inner peace. Not that I find solace in blowing people to smithereens at a cottage in the mountains... But it was just plain silly. That's what made it so enjoyable and relaxing. Hatching secret plans to attack the Enemy; strategizing with our comrades; defending our base as though it were our home and our real lives depended on it; literally obliterating a full, six-SPARTAN-strong team after three quit from the offset; fighting tooth-and-nail even though resistance was futile; unimaginable feats that were mostly the result of luck, bad and good; flying off the cliff's edge in mongooses and warthogs, just because we could... But most of all, we enjoyed it because it was fun. Because you guys made it that way. And that was your intention all along: for us to have fun. I suppose I'm just saddened at the loss of DLC Objective, for it held a special place in my heart, right next to the sniper rifles and the stuffed animals. DLC Objective, you should know, everywhere I go, always on my mind, in my heart, in my soul... I shall mourn you DLC Objective, but not long, for from the ashes rises...

  • 08.22.2008 10:57 PM PDT

Woo baby, yeah!

Honestly I'm feeling pretty betrayed that Bungie is taking SBTB and making it a DLC required playlist. If I could I would play nothing but BTB slayer on sandtrap I would. I better go play because I'm not going to be getting to come September 16th.

I'm disappointed...LAME>

  • 08.22.2008 10:57 PM PDT

"The only good Elite is a dead Elite."
-=-=Chernobyl Recon Squad=-=-

Words cannot express my sadness and discontent at the loss of Ranked Big Team. If there are any funeral arrangements let me know. Things will be hard afterwards, so I'm sure I can make you a casserole or something.
Maybe a cake, too.
It's not a lie.
It's delicious and moist.
Oh wait a sec, Still Alive is about to come out, and so is Gears of War 2. How about I just send you a condolences card? It looks like my Halo playtime is going to be otherwise occupied for a while.

  • 08.22.2008 10:58 PM PDT

I love how everyone is complaining about big team battle being removed and no ai bots.

Let me start off by saying change is good!!!

I for one say PEACE to rbtb I have never had a great experience with that game,I see constant lag sometimes and other times its just pretty much lame.

Honestly people stop complaining about the changes being made because it really does not matter,rocket race sucked no one really played it like it was meant to be played,Btb is nothing really special,that squad stuff they are putting in is like a smaller version of btb almost,its like twelve players total and btb was 8 vs 8 right? so yeah,Head to head,I never had any want,need or desire to even try that game type basically because it was kind of a dumb concept.
Lets sum it up
Great update,can't wait till sept,the new "Configs" OR "Tweaks" sound pretty interesting,I'm worried about how it will play out *remove the ghost!!!!* without shield doors on snowbound the ghost can get down to the "Underground".

All in all,I'm highly interested.

  • 08.22.2008 10:59 PM PDT

Posted by: EMoneyACIDPISS
Words cannot express my sadness and discontent at the loss of Ranked Big Team. If there are any funeral arrangements let me know. Things will be hard afterwards, so I'm sure I can make you a casserole or something.
Maybe a cake, too.
It's not a lie.
It's delicious and moist.
Oh wait a sec, Still Alive is about to come out, and so is Gears of War 2. How about I just send you a condolences card? It looks like my Halo playtime is going to be otherwise occupied for a while.



LOL,I honestly don't see the point in telling bungie or who ever reads this your jumping ship,There are a lot of players here that are going to stay on halo 3 because we love change,so Peace hope you have fun in your games while we kill and mane other players.


Those shirts on the update are sooooo sexi!! I want one!

  • 08.22.2008 11:01 PM PDT

Bots Squashed, SBTB removed...Why, exactly, do you hurt us so?

Furthermore, Hills now move in set order? Now people will just camp the next hill. That doesn't make any sense.

[Edited on 08.22.2008 11:15 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 11:05 PM PDT

Posted by: Gwozdzilla
Editor and Bots Squashed, SBTB removed...Why, exactly, do you hurt us so?



the editor was not squashed they never accepted nor denied the map editor.

  • 08.22.2008 11:07 PM PDT
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whos the other people? U and 10 other people along with the rest of bungie?
And with the removal.
WHY! Head 2 head was perfect, same was SBTB and RBTB. I dont know whats going to happen with this game but its not heading they way it should.

  • 08.22.2008 11:08 PM PDT

No Superintendent shirt? =(

  • 08.22.2008 11:15 PM PDT

[BTB Life]

Quit sucking up, and only talk if you know what your talking about.

Motha Fxcker Im Awesome!

WTF's

- no more social BT?!?
- 8 player FFA, i thought lonewolves was already to chaotic.

thank god's
- RBT replaced by 6v6
- SWAT changes
- no more rocket race
- DLC Big team

whats wrong w/ SBT?!?!??!??????

  • 08.22.2008 11:15 PM PDT
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Keep Big Team Social.

Bad update playlist shishka!

  • 08.22.2008 11:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Adthomson
So there is no map editor right??? cus that would be amazing. squad battle sound cool will kinda replace social slayer when your party is to big for team deathmatch. sweet loving the changes to the playlists. bit unsure about no shield doors in snowbound kinda gave the map character and made it different, but i understand why cus it annoyed me to. but the map may seem plain. epitah bah i hate that map anyway. t-shirts look awesome. wish i live din us for that. just wondering the announcement must have been on a halo project otherwise microsoft wouldn't have been able to stop u announcing it??? because they own the ip dont they, but any new ip's u would own am i mistaken??





GTFO this forum and go shove an M16 up your...




nose.

  • 08.22.2008 11:23 PM PDT

All this update had to say was:

Pit Stop now added.


and that would have been enough. Thank you for Pit Stop Bungie!

  • 08.22.2008 11:31 PM PDT

*sigh*
I usually don't speak up much in here... But I have to say that this update hurt. Now, I'm not one to thrash the devs, as a matter of fact this is my first somewhat negative comment on here, ever. But now I'm just... generally dissapointed.

Actually, the playlist updates put me down more than the apparant non-existance of the rumored "mapmaker", or bots, as these were very far fetched from the very start. That said, bungie really didn't think those videos through, did they? Show NPC's on a multiplayer map, and you wouldn't have to be crazy to assume that you can now put NPC's in multiplayer maps. Looking at the history of community assumptions, this was just a bad idea all around.

Anywhoo... the playlist updates. For me, this is a huge kick to the family jewels... If these are the playlists in their entirety, as they will look in september, I have a problem with them...
As an example, and as numerous others have mentioned, cutting BTB from social is bordeline mental. Personally, this affects me a great deal, as social BTB is pretty much everything I play. I can understand cutting the ranked version, on arguments of fairness and whatnot, but why the social version? The only reason I can see to do it would be to increase demand for the legendary map pack... And honestly, I thought bungie were better than punishing their own paying customers for not buing an optional extra.

Sorry if I rambled on.

[Edited on 08.22.2008 11:35 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 11:32 PM PDT

Posted by: EVMARSHATR
whos the other people? U and 10 other people along with the rest of bungie?
.


If you were referring to my post then:

Actually a lot of people would not leave halo because matchmaking changed,there is so much more to do in halo 3,forge,custom games,download other peoples maps and try em out.

if not:
Disregard

  • 08.22.2008 11:34 PM PDT

Posted by: no332
*sigh*
I usually don't speak up much in here... But I have to say that this update hurt. Now, I'm not one to thrash the devs, as a matter of fact this is my first somewhat negative comment on here, ever. But now I'm just... generally dissapointed.

Actually, the playlist updates put me down more than the apparant non-existance of the rumored "mapmaker", or bots, as these were very far fetched from the very start. That said, bungie really didn't think those videos through, did they? Show NPC's on a multiplayer map, and you wouldn't have to be crazy to assume that you can now put NPC's in multiplayer maps. Looking at the history of community assumptions, this was just a bad idea all around.

Anywhoo... the playlist updates. For me, this is a huge kick to the family jewels... If these is the playlists in their entirety, as they will look in september, I have a problem with them...
As an example, and as numerous others have mentioned, cutting BTB from social is bordeline mental. Personally, this affects me a great deal, as social BTB is pretty much everything I play. I can understand cutting the ranked version, on arguments of fairness and whatnot, but why the social version? The only reason I can see to do it would be to increase demand for the legendary map pack... And honestly, I thought bungie were better than punishing their own paying customers for not buing an optional extra.

Sorry if I rambled on.



A video game hurt you? ok then...you need help,I'm sorry to bash you but if it hurts you that much then seriously leave haha.

  • 08.22.2008 11:35 PM PDT