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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/22/08

So your getting rid of two social play list and replacing them with nothing? Lame!

  • 08.23.2008 6:43 AM PDT

Sorry for double post.

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  • 08.23.2008 6:44 AM PDT

I would have to say that getting rid of rocket race was an awesome idea!

But, adding two more people to the lone wolves matches is a little to much.
(Does that mean that you only have to finish 4th not to go down?)

As soon as a started reading the changes to the swat playlist, I was really pumped, but now there are going to be grenades on the map?

it was an ok update because team doubles looks awesome, but DLC Slayer was awesome
:(

  • 08.23.2008 6:46 AM PDT

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So now that you guys took out some ranked playlists, could you add team snipers? It's sure to get a consistent number of players- just look how it does in the double exp weekends. Anyways, I'm sad to see all big team go save dlc, and head to head ( I was just warming up in that one). Oh well, good update, and can't wait for more news on Assembly.

  • 08.23.2008 6:54 AM PDT

I am sad about the whole Social BTB retiring, I had some fun times playing it and some crazy vids. It was fun to ride around in the back of a mongoose and snipe ppl and all that. But other than that great udate guys can't wait untill sept.

  • 08.23.2008 6:56 AM PDT

As for those of you saying that it's great BTB is gone altogether only for the sole reason that you didn't like playing in it is just plain ignorant. That's the same as someone coming on here and making the case that the MLG playlist should be taken away altogether as well since said person doesn't like that's it's so competitive....

  • 08.23.2008 6:57 AM PDT

Well, Halo is reason why I'm gamer.
Feel free to ask anything if have problems and I'll see what I can do.

All my favorite things are goingto be trown out from the window! boht Bigteams and doubles gona need legendary which I dont have! why you always have to bully poor people? and rocket race in multi team and low weight??? daaamn! but at least shieldless epitah, snowbound and 8 player slayer sounds interesting.

  • 08.23.2008 7:00 AM PDT

Posted by: RonGermany
As for those of you saying that it's great BTB is gone altogether only for the sole reason that you didn't like playing in it is just plain ignorant. That's the same as someone coming on here and making the case that the MLG playlist should be taken away altogether as well since said person doesn't like that's it's so competitive....

Indeed.
Also, I'm glad not everyone is too busy brown-nosing to see that we're getting a pretty raw deal here.

[Edited on 08.23.2008 7:05 AM PDT]

  • 08.23.2008 7:04 AM PDT

i dont no if this has been mentiond before but will grifball ever be made perminent?

i would love it to be and so would every1 else in the gball leauge on grifball.com

  • 08.23.2008 7:19 AM PDT
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pretty good update but im annoyed about getting rid of big team social and ranked and cant wait for infection in dlc ffa

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  • 08.23.2008 7:35 AM PDT
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I am going to miss Heavy Valhalla and all the ranked maps. I will also miss head to head.
but i am looking forward to the new DLC maps; as when i looked at DlC on matchmaking it would be something i'd avoid but now it sounds pretty exciting.

Great update.

( i also hope those bungie guys arn't very good at playing Halo...)

[Edited on 08.23.2008 7:44 AM PDT]

  • 08.23.2008 7:42 AM PDT

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I am most disspointed with the removal of Head to head!!!

  • 08.23.2008 7:50 AM PDT

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At first i was all like "No big team social" but after reading it a few times i feel this is better.... thank you bungie

  • 08.23.2008 7:51 AM PDT

Is PAX going to be somewhere else in the future? I dont think I am going to make it to this one.

  • 08.23.2008 8:09 AM PDT
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They did not say anything about the MLG playlist.



Is that because they're not doing anything to it, or because it was removed?

  • 08.23.2008 8:12 AM PDT

This would be where my signature goes...

WOW. I'm not going to read all ten billion posts to see if this was already discussed, but w/ the retiring of RBT and BTS, Bungie has effectively killed all my drive to play Halo, which was already at an all time low. DLC Big Team is not a good enough replacement... I have no idea wtf Bungie is thinking.

8v8 was pretty much the only thing I found consistently fun in Halo, even with the lag it sometimes induced. I just wished there was options for 4v4v4v4, especially for SWAT, built into the BT playlists.

As far as SWAT goes, the reducing of damage resistance from 200% to 150% is a good move, IMO (more like the SWAT that we used to play on XBC) But it's completely overshadowed by the absence of real BTB playlists.

  • 08.23.2008 8:20 AM PDT

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All I saw was cuts, cuts, cuts, Bungie. Not cool. Not cool at all.

I mean, seriously, my 2 favourite playlists are gone by this update! (RBTB + RR) HOW THE -blam!-, am I supposed to become a General in Rocket Race now?

I'm not even joking, I'm really pissed off by this update.

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  • 08.23.2008 8:24 AM PDT

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BUNGIE YOU SUCK! i gottta say i LOVE HALO BEST GAME AROUND MOST DEFINITLY! but what your doing is wrong your deleting hiding spots making not even halo online exp and truthfully i dont care if i git banned from halo because i probably will not play it anyway due to you the bungie staff and serers not being good enough so it always lags but with what your doing is corrupting the whole HALO FOUNDATION your stoping peoples creativity and everything about a game and human personality so F**CK YOU BUNGIE I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY YOU WILL MAKE A GREAT GAME LIKE HALO BUT KEEP IT AS INTENDED.

-cody

  • 08.23.2008 8:25 AM PDT

Argh, I want to go to PAX.

  • 08.23.2008 8:26 AM PDT

Not one BTB left?? =[
Well I mean, still some left for the DLC maps, but...

  • 08.23.2008 8:29 AM PDT

Posted by: Rorrinaterr
i dont no if this has been mentiond before but will grifball ever be made perminent?

i would love it to be and so would every1 else in the gball leauge on grifball.com


Maybe making Grifball permanent will help quell with the shock of losing every single standard BTB option. Teamwork worked best in BTB and Grifball (even more so than Team Slayer, especially when doing Team Snipers)...

  • 08.23.2008 8:32 AM PDT
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Reach sucks.

What I don't understand is why SBT is gone really don't understand it. By the way for all the playlists you removed I don't see any new ones taking their place (i.e. Team Snipers), so far this is one of the worst updates I've seen in a long time. I'm really disappointed, sure turned out to be a real summer for the fans......

Once the new updates take effect your not going to see me playing much Halo 3.

[Edited on 08.23.2008 8:34 AM PDT]

  • 08.23.2008 8:33 AM PDT
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Thanks for choosing to whine over being a productive member of the community and possible element towards advancing Reach.

Goodbye Big Team....we knew thee well. *moment of silence.*

Head to Head....meh no one will miss you.

  • 08.23.2008 8:42 AM PDT
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Well Enough Alone...

~"The people who play Bungie games tend to sense that there's something behind the games that's attractive to them. Then they become fans of the games. And then they become rabid fans. And then they become employees of Bungie."(Life story) -Marty

Well that whole "no, nothing in those vids was real and you will never ever see any of it ever" thing is a bummer. Why show us what's possible if you never plan to give it to us?

But everything alse was good. Like matchmaking.

  • 08.23.2008 8:42 AM PDT