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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/22/08

The PAX details are what I've been looking forward to.
My predictions of Assembly being playable are true, which is awesome.
I can't wait to see you all there, it's going to be a blast!

Does this mean we'll see first screenshots of Purple Reign this Tuesday?
I think it does.
Hopefully that means the next map will be shown a week or two after that, and the map pack will come out three weeks after that. So that means... either the 23rd or 30th of September, the maps will come out.

The wait for a grade A update was worthwhile, nice job guys.

[Edited on 08.22.2008 3:37 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 3:34 PM PDT

Why retire head to head?
It was a great playlist in Halo 2 and Halo 3, and retired both times.
Fail.

Now that shield doors are gone, maybe all the MLG-wannabes will stop -blam!-ing, yet at the expense of all casual gamers.

Rocket race is fianlly gone, but no social doubles = wtf?

Finally grenades will work in Swat, but carbines will break it.

Bungie Fan's Summer 2008, indeed.

  • 08.22.2008 3:34 PM PDT

RIP Logan ~B.B.

I almost went ape-blam!- when you said Big Team Social : retired. Phew, now it's just BTS with Avalanche. Awesome. However, please keep Valhalla heavy in the rotation.

  • 08.22.2008 3:35 PM PDT

Me gusta

Best update ever thank you bungie this is gana be sooooo cool.

  • 08.22.2008 3:35 PM PDT

Yar-har!

This was a great, yet tragic, update. I am so extremely excited about the Sandtrap without Elephants and shield door-less maps. Also Lone Wolves is going to be a little more chaotic now. But the removal of Social Big Team has made pretty sad. Great times on there. It's the playlist that I've always played the best in, and now it's gone. I know there will still be DLC BTB, but it's just not the same without Sandtrap/Valhalla/etc. Unless they'll be included in that playlist too somehow, but I doubt.

RIP BTB. :'(

  • 08.22.2008 3:36 PM PDT

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@Geegs30

Posted by: MLG Divinity

btw does "Title Update 2" mean AU2?

Yes they are synonymous

  • 08.22.2008 3:36 PM PDT

Bugs in halo reach final game as of 9/2/10

in forge i am trying to make gametypes objectives but all i see is hill markers and flag points. If im trying to make a ctf game variant and i use the capture point and the flag stand and go into custom games. There is always a error saying "map not compatible with gametype" This is not just with ctf but with most other custom game and map variants.
EDIT: this was just a understanding issue that was cleared post-game release

no iwnt to see new maps

  • 08.22.2008 3:36 PM PDT

I am not my brother's profile The Elites yell my name in FEAR

No,no,no Big Team Social :( Everything else :)

  • 08.22.2008 3:37 PM PDT
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This all looks good to me!

  • 08.22.2008 3:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Geegs30
Posted by: MLG Divinity

btw does "Title Update 2" mean AU2?

Yes they are synonymous


YES!! FINALLY A RELEASE DATE!!

  • 08.22.2008 3:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: I no have halos
You're getting rid of big team...
8 player lone wolves.

Wow...

make a vid out of halo that shows a spartan using a new gun.

then tell your community that the gun won't ever exist.

Thats. Cool.

totally for the intentions of your community.

/sarc
Tell me about it. Also is the new maps really what bungie has been hiding up its sleeve the whole time? Im sorry but im disappointed, i mean the shield doors didnt bug me that much to over exaggerate and say that its as 'revolutionary as the matchmaking system'

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That was the best update in a LOOONG while!

Question: why not release just one piece of that beautiful information per week?

Something like, "Yeah, and we're messing around with Snowbound." Just that one comment would have been great to chew in the previous barren weeks - weeks with no rain.

Thank you, though, for making my Friday, my week, and my life a beautiful place. (that last one went a bit far).

  • 08.22.2008 3:38 PM PDT

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Thanks for the Update! Really looking forward to seeing the new maps/playlists play out! That'll be fun! 6v6 was my favorite Halo 2 playlist!

We can has more updates?

  • 08.22.2008 3:39 PM PDT
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Big team was like the best playlist... ever... for anything...Ranked wasn't so great cuz of the load times but what was wrong with social? My friends are too poor for the dlc maps!
And a downed pelican on Sandtrap? Don't ya mean an albatross? tsk tsk tsk

[Edited on 08.22.2008 3:43 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 3:39 PM PDT

Hey Luke and the rest of the bungie team you will see me next week at the booth ready to buy a shirt or two and have them signed.

Talk to you more when i get there next week!

  • 08.22.2008 3:39 PM PDT

I pwn all noobs.

Lone Wolves 8 players?! Very interesting, we'll see the effect.
REMOVED BTB? I understand your removing it from ranked, but SOCIAL BTB? That was hella fun! Bring it back! It's not that bad, I always find games, and I always enjoy them. I always find myself playing 8v8 with my guesty friends.

Team Doubles requires Legendary Map Pack... nice, but I don't wanna play 2v2 on Avalanche.
Removing head to head was a big mistake, I love it.

Rocket Race added to multi team was also a TERRIBLE mistake - me and my friends join multi team to play multi team, I don't want to start playing rocket race on multi team. Either you keep it or you don't, but don't ruin other playlists like this.
I know it has low weighting but even having to play rocket race on 1/10 games is annoying.

Other than that I guess I'm fine with the rest, keep up the work Bungie.

  • 08.22.2008 3:39 PM PDT

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could never be done.

Yes big team DLC! I have always wanted to play on avalance!

  • 08.22.2008 3:40 PM PDT
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UNLOCK Epilogue? Downed PELICAN? Is this a hint, or just forgetfulness?

  • 08.22.2008 3:40 PM PDT
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No BTB... Blam! Blam! BLAAAAAAAM!!!...
Aims gun at head! :(

[Edited on 08.22.2008 3:41 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 3:40 PM PDT

I'm glad rbtb is gone, that was just a lagfest, but why h2h. I think if some better maps were put in the playlist, it could be better. I'm excited for purple reign, anything close to midship is good news to me. Shieldless snowbound willl actually make the map playable, so I'm looking forward to trying that out. Doubles cold storage will be great. I think oddball CS could be a great team objective gametype. One thing- The Pit with inaccessible spawn hives, what does that mean?

  • 08.22.2008 3:40 PM PDT

"I don't even dare call those things magnums."

Really though, it's sad to head about the no AI in maps. I hope that you guys do release a map editor though. Something a little more than forge. I know tons of people would appreciate it. If this is a possibility please Bungie, say yes or no.

  • 08.22.2008 3:42 PM PDT

Posted by: Crusading Wyvern
UNLOCK Epilogue? Downed PELICAN? Is this a hint, or just forgetfulness?
Well seeing as it's an Albatross and not a Pelican, it very well could be a hint.

  • 08.22.2008 3:42 PM PDT
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Dang peeps get in quick.

  • 08.22.2008 3:42 PM PDT

I don't want random messages (ie, Join my group, etc). I have begun blocking solicitations.

Posted by: Seanroc2
Finally grenades will work in Swat, but carbines will break it.
Maybe, maybe not. I find the BR far easier to use on Spartans: Just sweep the head, one of the bullets is going to hit. If not, the second burst sure will (and if you still can't hit anybody, maybe you shouldn't play SWAT).

Carbines will obviously dominate in the hands of a crack shot, but I find it far harder (and I and my friends consider myself decent/good at SWAT) to headshot with the Carbine. Will make killing Elites easier, since swiping never seems to work, and the carbine allows for shot correction easier than the BR.

  • 08.22.2008 3:42 PM PDT