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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/22/08

Non Facete Nobis Calcitrare Vestrvm Perinævm!!!

8 player Lone wolves AND no shield doors. Jeez, surviving was already hard enough...

  • 08.22.2008 4:19 PM PDT
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NOOOO wow the only thing that dissapoints me is that You got rid of rocket race i understand that it didnt have that many players in it but it was one of YOUR own favorites and also one of mine and why get rid of big team other than the LAG issue i completely understand that and thank you for getting rid of Head To Head the maps were all screwed up Overall Good Job Luke and Shiska FOr updating matchmaking

YeZzZy
XD

  • 08.22.2008 4:19 PM PDT
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wow. no rocket race?... that doesn't look good...

  • 08.22.2008 4:19 PM PDT

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I wanna be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Good update.
Why did you remove Big Team?
Keep the Elephants in Sandtrap and the Shield Doors in Snowbound.
I will like the DLC Big Team.
I really want to go to PAX but I from in Ireland.

It's a shame about the bot, but they never said anything about the map editor.
Can wait to play Assembly!

[Edited on 08.22.2008 4:36 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 4:19 PM PDT
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I'm really going to miss DLC Objective and Ranked Big Team. I spent so much time in both of those playlists, I almost feel lost. Well, not yet. But I think I will.

  • 08.22.2008 4:20 PM PDT
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Delicious PAX info, how I love the.
Though I am a bit confused by the removal of Big Team Social. I'm sure there a good reason for its removal, yet I can't think of what it would be off the top of my head.

  • 08.22.2008 4:20 PM PDT

NOOOOOOOOO i love head to head why does it have to go

Thank you bungie now i'm sad

but the other stuff does seem pretty good nice update

  • 08.22.2008 4:20 PM PDT

Riverside23: For all the women of the group, if you've got a real man at least let him have his big piece of chicken.

WhtButterflyLiz: lol. Bring home bigger chikkinz, then, real man!!!

DEATHPIMP72: *throws pterodactyl on table*
Suck it JoeSki!!!

If Ghost Town and High Ground are on Squad Battle, then I don't think I'll mind the death of social BTB.

  • 08.22.2008 4:20 PM PDT
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Shocked to see Big Team gone, but it seems to have been replaced pretty well.
Boundless sounds better than HC Snowbound, hopefully the Spartan Laser will be there.
Assembly! I knew it!

  • 08.22.2008 4:20 PM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Default.aspx?player=dxex

First off, if you really want to get rid of shield doors and all of that, you can do it in a custom game. It's called spamming trip mines on a shield door, snowbound guard turret, or gravlift in epitaph. if you overload the area with trip mines, eventually the shield door, lift, or turret will go away. It's good that Bungie is doing it for us and putting it in match making though.

Kinda iffy on the removal of SBTB but I can see why. You want to promote your Legendary map pack, which is good. RBTB was always laggy and you run into nothing but soft-modders and packet-flooders anything past level 35, so good riddance, tired of being cheated. Hopefully you can single out cheaters easily in the new DLC BTB playlist. They will still be there, just as they were in RBTB and SBTB, yes SBTB had host booters and packet flooders.

H2H could've been made much more fair and legit if you didn't have all the fusion coils and unequal spawns that separate you from weapons. Also, no power weapons or active camo would've made it playable. Other than that, you're spending the whole time just trying to camp power weapons and active camo.

6vs6 squad sounds awesome make it work great! don't cheese it up with extreme weapon placement changes or anything like that. Just make it equal on both sides.

overall, removing SBTB is going to decrease population. But as soon as the new maps come out, DLC will thrive above the rest.

Great update overall, RIP RBTB, sucks that things didn't work out as planned. It might've if legendary map pack was free but nope.


  • 08.22.2008 4:23 PM PDT
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awesome update, can't wait to play epitah and snowbound without shield doors. now all the noobs who grad a shotgun and camp on the other side of the shield doors are going to get what coming to em.

  • 08.22.2008 4:23 PM PDT
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wow this is gonna be the worst update ever, your trying to improve the worst maps ever made and its not going to work Tom Clancy's ENDWAR and Fallout 3 FTW

  • 08.22.2008 4:23 PM PDT

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Delicious PAX info, how I love the.
Though I am a bit confused by the removal of Big Team Social. I'm sure there a good reason for its removal, yet I can't think of what it would be off the top of my head.
Perhaps the reason for this is to get more people to download and use the DLC... ?

  • 08.22.2008 4:24 PM PDT

Fac Fortia Et Patere

Wow, I guess the past few updates were just the "Calm before" this storm of an update.

I'm pretty upset that both big teams were eliminated, but it's good because the DLC Big Team will hopefully let us play more than just Valhalla all the time.

Though, I'm pretty happy that I'm going to PAX, Assembly and the shirts will be awesome!

  • 08.22.2008 4:24 PM PDT

Shmokin a pancake

Oh man, cannot wait for PAX. I'm going Saturday, so that works perfectly =) See you guys there I guess! Rock on! Can't wait to see Purple Reign

  • 08.22.2008 4:25 PM PDT

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  • 08.22.2008 4:26 PM PDT
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RIP Head 2 Head...we hope he's gone off to a better place :(

DAMN my stupid car breaking down, erasing my hopes of making PAX!

  • 08.22.2008 4:27 PM PDT
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You should add head to head and hardcore ffa in halo 2(two playlists we used to have but don't have no more). Give a treat to the people who still plays halo 2.

  • 08.22.2008 4:28 PM PDT

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Thank you! I was waiting for some good news for a very long time.

  • 08.22.2008 4:29 PM PDT
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This update is kind of a bummer, I enjoyed rocket race from time to time and social big team was great when you had a guest on. People at Forgehub were getting pretty hyped at the prospect of a new forge and being told thats not happening is a bit of a let down. Not sure if its gonna be harder or easier for me to get my 40 in Lonewolves with 8 people playing so I dunno 'bout that, not that I really care. Hopefully with all these play lists going then Team Snipers can be

At least the shields doors are being removed somewhat in Snowbound and Epitaph and pistols in Team Slayer will add some variety. Just wondering will we be able to use the Elephants on Sandtrap be like any other forge object now?

Overall a bit of a disappointment, but I guess you know what your doing.

[Edited on 08.22.2008 4:37 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2008 4:29 PM PDT
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Sounds Awesome! cant wait.

  • 08.22.2008 4:29 PM PDT

The search bar is like a DMR.

Anyone can use it effectively if they try.
Smart people do use it effectively.
Idiots don't, then complain about how it doesn't work.
The only problem is that, the DMR is used in Reach, but the search bar isn't used in the Reach forum.

Awesome update except I don't know how the no shield doors will work. And why did you take away both BTB and take away DLC slayer? I'm glad we now have a BTB DLC though.

  • 08.22.2008 4:30 PM PDT

Godspeed.

finally head to head dies.
i just hate it cause i suck at it.

sad to see social BTB go, but DLC BTB is more than enough to fill the void.
not looking forward to 8 players in lone wolves, but i guess we'll see how it goes, plus, i don't play much lone wolves anymore anyway. changes to snowbound, epitaph, and sandtrap sound very interesting as well.

thank you shishka for changing SWAT a bit. i think 200 was too high. also, carbines and grenades sound pretty cool. well, carbines sound cool. grenades? guess we'll have to wait and see with that, too.

to be honest, i love SHWATguns (and magnums). i often times veto hoping to get SHWATguns instead of 2 flag on snowbound or the pit. most people i play with don't like it though, so i'm sure it's better if its frequency is reduced a bit.

...and purple reign FTW.
great update!

  • 08.22.2008 4:31 PM PDT
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*sniff...* Farewell, Ranked & Social BTB.

HELLO Squad Battle & DLC Big Team!!

Epilogue and Boundless sounds neat, as well. Looking forward for the other map variations!! Felt kinda bummed about no AI in Multiplayer, though. I knew I shouldn't get my hopes too high... *sigh*

  • 08.22.2008 4:31 PM PDT

Those Ts are suxart sweet awesome sexy.
Now to get to the other side of this rock.....
Hmmm... I'm going to build some rocket pants.

  • 08.22.2008 4:32 PM PDT