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Subject: Weekly What's Update: SPECIAL EDITION!
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Bungie usually updates the WWU around 3 my time...and it's only 11:28 sooooooooo if they update today it'll just be a few hours. They better update today with all that crap they said yesterday...

  • 04.02.2005 11:29 AM PDT
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are you sure?

  • 04.02.2005 11:35 AM PDT
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i agree bungie should release a update soon cuz yesterday was funny but i wanna see some screen shoots of the new map's

What would the chief look like if he was a pimp

by the way anyone got a group for me let me know

  • 04.02.2005 11:55 AM PDT

"my quest is over I see the flag it's so flappy"

What happened to the articles that were up yesterday? about the mountain Dew logo and chiron and fixing cheap combos??

  • 04.02.2005 12:19 PM PDT
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This sucks alot. All of these maps come from the campaign. Bungie just couldn't come up with something new? Wow. Also besides maps, will there be any weapon upgrades?? Why not any fuel rod cannons or flame throwers from Halo pc. Why not let the banshies have the fuel rod like in the campaign? Come yall can do better than that.

  • 04.02.2005 12:44 PM PDT
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this is awsom idk what u are talkin about the campign was awsom there were so many spots in the campaign that i thougt would be great mp levels and out of the one i have seen so far it looks great thx bungie.

  • 04.02.2005 1:01 PM PDT
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I just can't believe what I'm reading in these posts. Almost all of the questions can be answered by simply READING THE FN UPDATE. If our community is this saturated with people who can't even read or comprehend what the read, no wonder so many are complaining about the cost of the maps which are "FREE!" later this summer.

READ! and if you can't READ then please don't post the senseless garbage you call a question.

I have been gaming for 24 years. Every year a buy games that I play and beat in 10 to 40 hours tops and spend 30 to 50 dollars on. Halo2 by itself has given me over 50 hours of game play the first week. I have more than got my moneys worth for the game.

I think the game experience costs to little. I wish Xbox live never had a two month free incentive and cost more than 50 bucks a year. Then maybe, just maybe I wouldn't have to deal with all the immature feedback on this site or in the game from a bunch of crybabies who can't come up with 20 bucks. Go grow up! mow a lawn or something you sissies. It makes me happy knowing that a lot of people pay 50 dollars a year to get smoked by true gamers.

True gamers know that this game is way better than what's out there. And, most online games cost more than this to enjoy, especially MMORPG's.

Bungie I'm truly sorry for all the cheap attacks and insults that you have to deal with. Please don't pay them any attention period. They do not deserve what you have given us.

Thank You

  • 04.02.2005 1:15 PM PDT
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I agree that we need a real update. I'm one of these people that looks forward to updates, and I was probably one of the first to read the april fool's update cuz it was posted about 3 minutes before I read it( I checked for the update like 15 times yesterday). Great joke Frankie, you actually had me for a second. I'm just wondering how come it took you til almost 4pm your time to post something that was completely made up? Don't you think it would've been a lot funnier to post that stupid update at the beginning of your day, then just before your day was over to send a real update? You definitely have a great sense of humor, but it just confirms what most of us already think, THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR BUNGIE ARE LAZY. Not only has so much of time been wasted playing games with cheaters, but now you guys are doin it too.

  • 04.02.2005 1:59 PM PDT
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Wow Hiro Protagnist but be a very talented guy. From what I've heard it's hard to type when your lips are glued to Bungie's butt. Though he is right about the 2month thing, it's like only little girls and cheaters use them. No doubt this is the best first person shooter out there, hell it's probably the best multiplayer game period. We're all just sick of cheaters and waiting for that fix, I know I get mad when I lose a neutral bomb game when i have 3 teammates and we're playing only one person. My question to Bungie is since I have to pay for new maps ( which seriously is a normal thing ), will they pay to replace the controller I broke after being standbyed 3 games in a row?

  • 04.02.2005 2:05 PM PDT
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I BELIEVE THAT THESE NEW MAPS ARE GOING TO BE THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO HALO 2, POSSIBLY EVEN XBOX LIVE, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE CONTAINMENT, BUT FOR THE MOMENT I'D SETTLE FOR SOME SCREENSHOTS, FROM WHAT I HAVE READ, IT IS GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST HALO MAP EVER!!!!!!!
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ INTO DETAIL, THE BASES ARE SO BIG, YOU CAN DRIVE VEHICLES COMFORTABLY THROUGH THEM!!!!!!! I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO FIND A REALLY COOL SNIPING POSITION TO TAKE UP AND SNIPE ANY COCKEY DOOSH BAG AND/OR BLAST ANY VEHICLES AWAY INTO THE AIR WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER THAT TRY TO ENTER THE BASE!!!!!!!!! IT WILL BE SOOOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!

  • 04.02.2005 2:57 PM PDT
Subject: HALO 2 IS SOOOOO COOL
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Do you think that Containment will be the biggest Halo 2 map ever? From what I have read, the bases are sao big that vehicles can drive through them with ease and at each base there is a teleporter to the center. Would some one please answer my question.

  • 04.02.2005 3:01 PM PDT
Subject: Weekly What's Update: SPECIAL EDITION!
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dewd... shut up.. its not bungies responsibility to change nething.. your lucky this crap is being changed at all!!! i remember back in the day.. when a game had a glitch or a problem.. you lived with it, or you stopped playing it... its that easy... stop whining, we are all super lucky that they actually are releasing an update. They coulda made the game and then be done with it, but we are getting new maps less than 6 months from when the game was released, we played halo 1 for over 3 years without complaining. Im not kissing bungies ass im just happy that they do care enuff aboot this to help out the gamers. You know that any other company wouldnt give a damn, take EA. if there was standying in madden, i dont think neone would do nething about it. Live with it man. Bungie didnt make u smash a controller and it isnt their fualt peole standby.. just dont play ranked games or nething if ur sick of losing.. just wait for the update like me

[color=red] THANKS BUNGIE FOR CARING [/color]

  • 04.02.2005 3:05 PM PDT
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Yes CabooseX07, people who don't have xbox live cand get the new maps, by purchasing them from a shop. Besides getting the maps, you will get some or only one documantary with the maps, for a price of $19.99 (i'm not sure what that is in pounds, if your'e British)
Peace out CabooseX07,
sgtpepperer

  • 04.02.2005 3:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: VK Disciple
Wow Hiro Protagnist but be a very talented guy. From what I've heard it's hard to type when your lips are glued to Bungie's butt. Though he is right about the 2month thing, it's like only little girls and cheaters use them. No doubt this is the best first person shooter out there, hell it's probably the best multiplayer game period. We're all just sick of cheaters and waiting for that fix, I know I get mad when I lose a neutral bomb game when i have 3 teammates and we're playing only one person. My question to Bungie is since I have to pay for new maps ( which seriously is a normal thing ), will they pay to replace the controller I broke after being standbyed 3 games in a row?


Ha ha ha I laugh at you. u were stupid enough to break ur own controller. Just go play Mario or something.

  • 04.02.2005 3:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: sco 777
This sucks alot. All of these maps come from the campaign. Bungie just couldn't come up with something new? Wow. Also besides maps, will there be any weapon upgrades?? Why not any fuel rod cannons or flame throwers from Halo pc. Why not let the banshies have the fuel rod like in the campaign? Come yall can do better than that.


Just be happy with what u get.

  • 04.02.2005 3:27 PM PDT
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Here's a novel idea... let's release the patch now so the 99% of the Halo 2 players won't be able to cheat like the little <insert explicit insult here> that they are. Then maybe ranking will be worth noting, unlike the rank we have now which just shows who can cheat the most.

Maybe we could get some balance into Halo 2 as well... Multiple times have I unloaded two full clips from SMGs at POINT BLANK range, then was shot two-five times by their one SMG or Plasma Rifle and I was killed. The game as it is, while ever occasionally fun to play, is a complete and total waste of precious life while playing on Xbox Live. I don't think I've seen another game with even half as many glitches/cheats as Halo 2.

Or, the other team whores out the sword, rocket launchers and snipers and camps like <insert explicit insult here> for the entire game. In my humble opinion, that's a huge load of bull-blam!-. Need to think of something to do about that. Maybe removing some of the all-too-many overpowered weapons from the maps (sword, rocket launcher, multiple sniper rifles scattered about, shotgun on occasion) would help.

Master Chief (all big and powerful that he is [not]) needs to be upgraded (*hint* we need another patch *hint*) to actually react when he's supposed to react. When I run out of ammo, I want to throw a grenade, not stand there like a complete and total retard only to be killed by one of the multiple underage children that run rampant through Halo 2 who gleefully crouch repeatedly over my carcass while yelling incoherent babble through the microphone, usually about my mother or the male genitalia.

And why must I hold X to pick up a weapon? I should be allowed just to pick it up with the slightest tap to keep the game going and keep the blood inside my character’s body.

I tried to keep civil in this post, but that's as clean as I can keep it. I am really tempted to say that Halo 2 was a complete and total waste of my money. If you ask why I keep playing it, I'll tell you it's because no other games are played on Xbox Live, and I don’t want my account to go to waste.

  • 04.02.2005 3:35 PM PDT
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i agree with everyone out there who supports bungie. They don't need to work on an anti-standby cheat, they don't gotta give us new maps. and who cares if they are similar to compaign, have you ever seen that level exactally before? they have been making these maps from day one, plus all the graphics upgrades, and fixing grenade and maylee bugs.

and if you didn't know, Bungie is recrooting people for jobs 'cuz they need more poeple to put up with all you others who are comlpaining. They are working on putting in as much as you ask for, and you are compaining that it took 6 months to make? wich isn't that long. Plus there will probably be a halo 3 for the x-box 2.

So be happy that 20 bucs is ez to make for 75% more maps, plus behind the scenes about making the maps, and bug fixes, and standby cheat fixes, and be happy that sooner or later all of it will be free. Plus now ppl on non-live can get all of this too. Bungie is not your average video game makers, they are trying to make you happy.

  • 04.02.2005 3:49 PM PDT
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ahhhhhhhhhhh i cant wait!!!

  • 04.02.2005 3:54 PM PDT
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i agree with everyone out there who supports bungie. They don't need to work on an anti-standby cheat, they don't gotta give us new maps. and who cares if they are similar to compaign, have you ever seen that level exactally before? they have been making these maps from day one, plus all the graphics upgrades, and fixing grenade and maylee bugs.

and if you didn't know, Bungie is recrooting people for jobs 'cuz they need more poeple to put up with all you others who are comlpaining. They are working on putting in as much as you ask for, and you are compaining that it took 6 months to make? wich isn't that long. Plus there will probably be a halo 3 for the x-box 2.

So be happy that 20 bucs is ez to make for 75% more maps, plus behind the scenes about making the maps, and bug fixes, and standby cheat fixes, and be happy that sooner or later all of it will be free. Plus now ppl on non-live can get all of this too. Bungie is not your average video game makers, they are trying to make you happy.


And why are they trying to make us happy? Because they're a business, and businesses want money. Happy customers = more customers which leads to more money. It's all ethics of business. If they didn't fix the horrendously numerous amount of bugs in Halo 2 many people would not get the third installment in the series.

And yes, Microsoft did double Bungie's staffing to get Halo 3 done for Xbox 2. If the rumors are correct, Bungie has lots of work ahead of them to get Halo 3 released when Sony releases PS3 (or they just need to do work, unlike Halo 2 where they screwed off for years before doing anything remotely constructive).

By the way, it doesn't take long to make a map. I'm just a beginner in map-making, but I can EASILY make a decent map in Unreal Tournament 2004 in a few hours, a good-great map in a few days max. Bungie made the game. They're professionals. It's not as though the maps they shipped with the game were even remotely balanced to begin with, so balancing what maps they could create in an afternoon after their lunch break probably didn't even happen. It really isn't that hard, I don't know why all you guys are saying that it wasn't a long time. Fixing a bug usually takes even less than a map does. They're way overdue for these cheat fixes that probably won't work anyway.

  • 04.02.2005 4:14 PM PDT
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Anybody know how much storage space this will take up on my precious hard drive?

  • 04.02.2005 4:30 PM PDT
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Anybody know how much storage space this will take up on my precious hard drive?

  • 04.02.2005 4:30 PM PDT
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All I want to say is WHAT THE HELL there still isn't a real update.

  • 04.02.2005 4:32 PM PDT
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Bit of a harsh response back there wasn't it? I'm a gamer in my mid twenties, have an income, loved halo 1 and all that...

My gripe is with bungie saying one thing and doing another and then being defended by you for doing it. YOU go look at the weekly updates like I have since last easter, see Frankie's comments on the updates being absolutely guaranteed free of charge, and then having said this they charge for maps which quite frankly should have been budgeted for when they realised that they had one of the most enjoyable multiplayer experiences available in production. This is a totally legitimate gripe and I don't expect a novel-length flame for pointing it out.

It's a great game (I won't bother to mention that I thought the campaign was somewhat meh incase some of you start crying) and nice one Bungie for pulling it off, but there's load of people who also feel like this has been a bit of a cash in p**stake from the get go.

do your fcking homework and don't bother with the old-skool gamer -blam!-, to be honest i got bored reading your post and skipped blah blah...

see I even got bored talking about your post

  • 04.02.2005 4:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: ThE DaRkAgE
Anybody know how much storage space this will take up on my precious hard drive?


Does it matter? It's almost impossible to fill the thing anyway, unless you have too much music or something there.

  • 04.02.2005 4:42 PM PDT
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Holy #!%$ these maps look great! I mean seriously, they do; but has anyone else noticed, on the picture of Containment, near the bottom right-hand corner, close to the wall there seems to be some sort of turret sticking out? It's not the warthog, 'cause the warthog doesn't have those yellow stripes on it; could it be a new, all-powerful weapon that Bungie cooked up especially for this map? Or is it a new 'modified' version of the warthog? Maybe Bungie's planning to release some downloadable weapons around the same time that the four maps come out. What if they even give us some new vehicles, say, the ATv? That'd really make my day.

three cheers for bungie and the colour purple!

  • 04.02.2005 4:48 PM PDT