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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/22/08

Exceed your Limit and become Limitless

I understand the closer of ranked big team , rocket race, and head to head but why has bungie decided to retire big team social?

  • 08.23.2008 2:31 AM PDT
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Cool update for the most part. I don't like the Lone Wolves change or the loss of Head to Head. Other than that it sounds solid except for the dreadful news about the AU2.

  • 08.23.2008 2:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
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shieldless maps can be downloaded and played afterwards right?


When you've played a map, you'll have it on your HD. Just go to custom games, choose Recent Maps, and hit X on the map you want to keep to save it to your box.


If we put your Boundless map on our File Share's, will we get banned for harbouring modded content


Of course not! It isn't illegally modded so it's fine.

  • 08.23.2008 2:53 AM PDT
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So with the death of RBTB, does that mean that Heavy gametypes are dead too?

  • 08.23.2008 3:02 AM PDT
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Please don't remove the big team social playlist. By all means ad more with DLC but please leave Social BTB.

Cheers

  • 08.23.2008 3:26 AM PDT
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By far the worst bungie update. im not gonna brown nose like everyone else cuz they just want recon. This updat is so random. It's almost like this conversation happened..."I have a great idea shiska, lets take away shield doors, this will make all the customers lost to cod4 come back." -lukems

Whats the reason for taking away head to head. I can understand taking away BTB, cuz people use it to make their record better, but a five year old could make a better update than this. No shield doors will totally spice halo up..NOT! o ya and what the f is with pistols as secondary for TS. my god might as well give me a BR without ammo...i'd rather that.

Well i'll still play -blam!-lo (cough cough) i mean halo but i hope the september update is more thoughtful than this.

Love Always,
Cody Stoecker

  • 08.23.2008 3:34 AM PDT

For every action, there is an equal and opposite airstrike.

To be perfectly frank, this is one of the worst playlist updates I have ever seen. No Big Team Social? I'll grant you Shishka that RBTB was a bit ropey, but SBTB? Have you gone completely barmy? That was the one playlist where we could jump in and have fun immediately (the others requiring insane amounts of luck or team work) and not really worry about being gunned down by a midrifle firing squad 90% of the time. Ever had those days you just want to kill everything without much effort? Just press Left Trigger to melee with your Chopper?

Another item on my list of "Things that make me sad face" are the new shieldless maps. Whaa? You've listened to the morons who constantly Zerg-rush the Shotgun bunker and then whine. You gave them the hopelessly boring HC Snowbound. Now... what's the point? The entire appeal (or repulse) of Snowbound was the shield doors. Now I've got double the reason to veto that little frozen map. As for Epilogue.... less of an effect with the removal of the doors, but still, what's the point? If one person has a Shotgun, chances are the other will have Spike Grenades, balancing the situation out somewhat, and actually that applied to Snowbound 1.0. They had the Shotgun, you threw 7 million grenades into their hiding spot.

However, Squad Battle seems like a good idea (hopefully with a Social variant soon), even if it is lacking some fun gametypes (VIP, Territories, Assault). Hopefully they will show up eventually. You also made a good call with the AR/Magnum starts in Team Slayer.

Those things alone are not going to make up for the loss of SBTB (and in a way RBTB), nor will the new maps inspire anything good in my eyes. You may disagree, luckily we all reserve the right to do that.

[Edited on 08.23.2008 5:12 AM PDT]

  • 08.23.2008 3:59 AM PDT

Nice Update, much informations, but is it right, that i must buy the lagandery pack for playing Team Doubels? I like this playlist, but i won't pay money for a map-pack. I mean, i must already pay for Xbox Live. Isn't it enough? Map-Packs for PC Gaems are (mostly) free, so why must I pay for a map pack, just to be able to play my favourite playlist?

I'll miss Social Big Team :(

(Sorry for the bad english)


[Edited on 08.23.2008 4:05 AM PDT]

  • 08.23.2008 4:04 AM PDT

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no more head to head :( bummer.....other than that, EVERYTHING else is laudable. this PAX event is looking more and more amazing each day! man.....im in florida....still debating, ive got 2,000.00 i really want to come to this PAX event..........i will dwell on this for a few more days.

  • 08.23.2008 4:12 AM PDT
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Best update for a while! I always doubted the bots but i still hoped oh well free update and playlist update cant complain at all! Still hoping for more AU 2 features to be revealed though!

  • 08.23.2008 4:24 AM PDT

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The update sounds great. Carbines in Swat, grenades that work, 8 player LW, Ranked 6 v 6. I am glad the BTB went away, to many people used to quit out.

I like the 8 player DLC FFA with infection in it. Nice.

  • 08.23.2008 4:24 AM PDT

if knowledge is power and power corrupts, isn't knowledge therefore dangerous?
Black Tower

OES NOES NOT ROCKET RACE!
COME ON, one fun playlist and you kill it? :(

  • 08.23.2008 4:34 AM PDT

Look's like a nice set of changes and a secure release for AU2 and playlist update this playlist update seems to go towards the competitive crowd i am abit shocked about both Big team battles i think they should keep social after playing some ranked and getting stressed i went their to relax for a few games coming away knowing i had a good time and in the next update if their is anymore things in the AU2 that we should know about would you add it.

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  • 08.23.2008 4:40 AM PDT
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That BTB was removed made me sadface but the Squad Battle thing seems good.

And purple reign got an official name :)

  • 08.23.2008 4:42 AM PDT

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If I was in the U.S I would go to PAX just to play Bungie.

  • 08.23.2008 4:54 AM PDT
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20 pages of complaining, awesome.
Good update, Bungie. Infection on DLC aye :D

  • 08.23.2008 5:11 AM PDT

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We Help
We Sweat
But Victory is Are Aim.

Motto From "A Little Helping Hand"

WOT THAT MEENS A HAVE TO DL LEDGENDERY MAP PACK

  • 08.23.2008 5:13 AM PDT
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I was very angry face when I saw both BTB playlists retired, but seeing the new squad battle has made me happy face again.

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  • 08.23.2008 5:22 AM PDT
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I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.

What?
Big Team and Rocket race are gone?

Noooooo!

  • 08.23.2008 5:43 AM PDT

mmmmm....
It´s very sad that Social BTB will be replaced. The same destiny as Social Doubles.
What a bummer!

  • 08.23.2008 5:53 AM PDT
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Nice Update I Would Rather use A Pistol Then a AR = )

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  • 08.23.2008 6:06 AM PDT

So, why exactly did you change Sand trap...and then get rid of both playlists in which it would be played? No one in their right mind is going to want to play 6v6 Sand Trap (or Sand Tarp).

And how exactly is getting rid of 3 maps in a BTB playlist going to make it better? Now, playing DLC BTB...you have BTB Social basically, except with only Avalanche, Standoff and Rat's Nest; rather than having 6 maps possible, you have 3. THREE! Who wants to play BTB on only 3 maps? How in the world is THREE maps better (and going to make more people want to play it) than FIVE (or six, if you would have just kept BTB Social and added Legendary to be required).

Makes absolutely no sense. It seems that monotony is what y'all are going for. Congrats, you've accomplished it.

*Edit* and Commodore makes an extremely excellant point. How is making BTB "exclusive" in that you're required to have the Legendary maps going to increase the amount of people playing? That's what you guys have been saying the problem with BTB has been is the population, so now you make it exclusive? The number of players playing DLC will be higher than it was on Social BTB...only due to the fact that those who had been playing RBTB will come back to social now. That was the main thing that y'all missed...when you split a "specific" kind of playlist into two (for example if you had Ranked AND Social SWAT), the numbers are going to look bleek. But now? You've made it worse. Awesome.

I know that you probably spend more time looking at numbers than playing Shishka, but what you fail to realize is that BTB is what makes this game fun. When the annoyance of competition get so high, you go play some BTB with your friends (be it ranked or social). You grab a warthog (turret or gauss), you jump in a scorpion, you know - epic freaking battles on epic maps. But do you realize how excruciatingly painful it is to have this playlist dangling in front of us, "here kiddies...you can have your social BTB...but you're not allowed to play on the three original BTB maps for this game...this'll make y'all want to play more...we promise?" Just keep social BTB where it is and require Legendary if you're having such a hard time getting people to buy the map pack and need an extra boost. Sheesh.

[Edited on 08.23.2008 7:32 AM PDT]

  • 08.23.2008 6:15 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/22/08
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I'm not even supposed to be here today!

Why are you removing the Ranked Big Team playlist?! I love that playlist! You guys SUCK!

  • 08.23.2008 6:18 AM PDT
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I'm a bit annoyed at the removal of social big team and the adding of dlc big team because it seems a bit pointless and not everyone has the new maps. Ranked big team I can understand but big team social was a good playlist when you had a big party with some guests.

Eight player lone wolves sounds like mayhem, I thought six player was bad enough.

  • 08.23.2008 6:23 AM PDT