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Subject: Matchmaking Update!
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So yeah, double team on battle creek is pretty lame b/c theres no way to counter the sniper and rockets there. most the time if you're red team you start out both of you inside the base and by the time you get out of the base one of their guys already has the rocket launcher while the other guy gets an overshield and on to the sniper. to sum it up, the "noob" combo is a good part of the game b/c on double team and head to head a battle rifle doesn't do it for countering those power weapons. and the "noob" combo isn't invincible by any means. i've taken plenty of guys out that were coming at me with it. some of the game variants are kinda cheeseball too. slayer should be the game you get 3 of 4 times.

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  • 05.04.2005 5:56 PM PDT
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i love cheese and halo........and cheese.,,.........and halo .............and ch......halo......chhhe.
.......halo.........HHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO addicting sorry i just just just just just just love it so much *sniff* i love chhh.............. grrrr i love chhhhhalo.
ahh i cant say i love anythign but HALO i have a problem i admit it i just love chhhhalo so much i cant help my self (\/\/) }{{}}{{}}{{}}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{ halo bungie should take over the world so they can update and make halo stufffffffffffffffffffffff................................... ..............
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  • 05.04.2005 5:56 PM PDT
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all i have to say is YAY!!!!!!!
and thank you bungie thats alot of annoying things fixed on halo 2

weeeeee time to have fun now !!!hehehehehehe.

  • 05.04.2005 6:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: MeatBones
So yeah, double team on battle creek is pretty lame b/c theres no way to counter the sniper and rockets there. most the time if you're red team you start out both of you inside the base and by the time you get out of the base one of their guys already has the rocket launcher while the other guy gets an overshield and on to the sniper. to sum it up, the "noob" combo is a good part of the game b/c on double team and head to head a battle rifle doesn't do it for countering those power weapons. and the "noob" combo isn't invincible by any means. i've taken plenty of guys out that were coming at me with it. some of the game variants are kinda cheeseball too. slayer should be the game you get 3 of 4 times.


Very well said, combo is part of the game as it is used on Beaver Creek to take out Snipers/ Rockets. I do agree with taking it out on colossus and battle creek is strething it. Yes, you should get slayer at least 3/4 of the time as skirmish with only 4 ppl is kind of lame!

  • 05.04.2005 6:21 PM PDT
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THE UPDATES ARE KILLING EVERYONE Whos not a Battle Rifle wiz and the fact that im paying every month to get my Butt kicked by guys who spend their whole life playin this game is ridiculous.....ME AND MY FRIENDS WILL BE CANCELING SUBSCRIPTIONS......I Can Understand fixing the cheaters and i appreciate that and the battle rifle combo was getting annoyin in places....BUT youve made it impossible for anyone who plays for recreation and doesnt play it religiously to have any fun playing this game
THANKS BUNGIE

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  • 05.04.2005 6:28 PM PDT
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y have the stats not been reset?

  • 05.04.2005 6:28 PM PDT
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SO

Has anyone played team snipers on colossus i matchmaking yet cause that was a really cool game.

  • 05.04.2005 6:38 PM PDT
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BUNGIE MESSED UP BIG TIME
This has got to be the worst autoupdate EVER!!!!!
Double team has terrible gametypes. I played 2 games of oddball on warlock and a capture the flag. IN THE TIME IT TAKES TO RESPAWN THE OTHER TEAM CAN SCORE A POINT. I played 4 games and turned off my xbox because they were soooooo bad. I can't stand it.
And whay is it that some people still have their old stats. Over 20 of my friends still have their old ranks. I seriously doubt that they could play 1500 team slayer games in 8 hours. WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!

  • 05.04.2005 6:39 PM PDT
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So how much is MLG paying you guys to screw with the game like this? I just played "Battle Rifles" on Colossus and it completely takes the strategy out of it. It used to be a "get the sniper, hold the sniper" game...now it's just "who cares about the sniper everyone has a battle rifle."

  • 05.04.2005 6:41 PM PDT
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I think bungie did mess up big time because u can't now do any sniping on this game.

I was trying to snipe on beaver creek and all of a sudden i have 3 guys shooting battle rifles at me and i cant shoot the guy i was aiming at and that just really sucks.

  • 05.04.2005 6:50 PM PDT
Subject: Why did you guis reset the stats!!!!
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Ok I love the new matchmaking but why would you touch the stats, in my opinion is stupid to reset the stats because now you will fight with people with a higher leve( even if it does not shows it) and thats not fair to people who is a beginner and has to play with a pro. I think that the stats should have been left alone for good.

  • 05.04.2005 6:56 PM PDT
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All I care about is when bungie is gonna -blam!- stop reseting stats of those they've already reset. I thought bungie had stopped that by now so I played Double Team, getting up to lv.8, and about to go onto 9. I annihalate a team so badly they quit(king of the hill at Ascension I had a sniper >_>), and what do I see? A nice level 1. Thanks Bungie. I'm just concerned because of the 3 hour period of time I played that they reset noones stats that I know of. Damn bungie, could at least make it so if I lose a match I go to lv. 27 ;)

  • 05.04.2005 6:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: fiendishdrew
THE UPDATES ARE KILLING EVERYONE Whos not a Battle Rifle wiz and the fact that im paying every month to get my Butt kicked by guys who spend their whole life playin this game is ridiculous.....ME AND MY FRIENDS WILL BE CANCELING SUBSCRIPTIONS......I Can Understand fixing the cheaters and i appreciate that and the battle rifle combo was getting annoyin in places....BUT youve made it impossible for anyone who plays for recreation and doesnt play it religiously to have any fun playing this game
THANKS BUNGIE

I couldnt agree with this guy, and those that share his views anymore. That BR fiascos are not much fun at all...

  • 05.04.2005 6:58 PM PDT
Subject: What is going on?!!?
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Ok, now that the new update has come out my friends and I have been playing double team furiously. I leveled myself up to 3 (not hard I know) and mysteriously I leveled back down to 1. I have yet to lose a game also. Not to mention, my friend Runinboys was a level 13 in DT and also after a win, he leveled down to a 3. Still not done. Ryota25 (another friend) was playing with me and we leveled up to 7, and the next game we won, I leveled up to an 8 and he leveled down to a 1. Now, I ask Bungie, what the hell is going on?!!?

  • 05.04.2005 7:01 PM PDT
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This autoupdate is not so bad but sometimes when you win sooo much bungie wants to keep it even and so you level down for no apparent reason. The game types are built on strategy so you have to actually be good to win these 2v2 games. Quit wining about the games since your not good. I would like to know how come me and my friends level down. Oh and if you don't believe me check my stats. It will say 0 losses.

  • 05.04.2005 7:04 PM PDT
Subject: It's a mess!!!!!!
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Yo bungie, now we're playing with people of a much higher level, but we dont' know.
Also is a living hell to find a player as good as me to play and have fun playing, but now we play with levels 1 2 3 but they are really levels 16 17 18 19 and who knows what more. It SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 05.04.2005 7:06 PM PDT
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You guys are brilliant, can't way to start from scratch, erase all those BS games, but people are already like level 20 again it's crazy.

  • 05.04.2005 7:07 PM PDT
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it sounds cool but for some reason i can only play double team right now and team skirmish and all the other things cant find any damn games

  • 05.04.2005 7:16 PM PDT
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yo, this is still cool tho. at least bungie is updating the game. i have plenty of games that say "downloadable content" and they dont have -blam!-, and pronounce they never will. maybe they could have done better with the whole battle rifle crap. but at least bungie is doing needed and wanted updates to the game.
I dont know about you, but i think that halo: CE helped the xbox come to what it is now. when people bought an xbox, they bought Halo and extra controllers (at least i did) and now they have furthered their role in the xbox with Halo 2. Because of Bungie and their contributions to the xbox, there have been a spike in sales above what would be if these games did not exist.
Many people have gripes and complaints about the games, and i will say that i dont totally disagree with you. but please, quitcher-blam!-in and just play the game that is halo 2.
i know that many of us are die hard fans of bungie and halo (..me..) and then there are those that dont appreciate everything that goes into making the game, not to mention the constant update of the game, its playlists, its scoring, post game carnage reports, and post game overviews offered on this site. It takes a lot of effort to keep all these things moving forward and smooth. we payed 50 bucks for a game that is constantly evolving and changing at our every request to better suit US..
All i know is that bungie exceeds my expectations as a game developer.

Thanks Bungie, you have gathered quite a following due to this.

-oh, and if anyone wants to get served, holla back.














Dark 1 4 life out.

  • 05.04.2005 7:27 PM PDT
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i have played the new 2v2 on lockout ctf and that was the -blam!-ist gaes ever. the others r fine but that was the first time i played 2v2. O ya one of my friends has a great idea...have smoke granades. i mean think about it throw a couple sg (smoke granades) in the top of the base on coag then drop in and plant the bomb of grab the flag. it could go the othe way to throw a couple sg's in and then -blam!- the intruders. and they wouldn't know what hit them.
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  • 05.04.2005 7:29 PM PDT
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well... all of you guys complain, you all have XBL where you live, you can expienence these changes, and complain... hey... if you havn't guessed... I DON'T HAVE IT HERE!!!, I HAVE IT AT MY DADS!!!, I'll be playing with REAL lvl 1's when i play... STOP UR BITSHEN!!

I am gonna FREAK! ok... GT Fast400 , see ya with the lvl 1's... in 2 weeks, after i have been killing myself on splitscreen... *sigh*

  • 05.04.2005 7:39 PM PDT
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My Ranking was reset twice!!! once when I got on, then another when I hit lvl 6 in Rumble Pit, Someone tell me whats going on???

  • 05.04.2005 7:43 PM PDT
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ok i thought the changes would be cool, but damn was i wrong.

burial mounds should not have 2 wraiths, people spawn camp with them. i spawned and i see this giant blue blob streaming at me, me dead.


the battle rifle is the new pistol (rember the pistol -blam!-es from halo1? accross the map sniping)

any kind of tank should not be in team skirmish, its just too damn hard to kill it. maby if you spawn with some plasma 'nades it wouldnt be as bad.

team skirmish needs some playlist help.... i think you need to fix a few things


at least there arent any phantoms.....

  • 05.04.2005 7:44 PM PDT
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yea right even the playing field..... my ass! bungie you just made it so that the legit high ranked ppl can play with all the new ones and get easy wins if you can explain 2 me how thats evening the playing field id like 2 kno. Thx 4 nothin


  • 05.04.2005 7:53 PM PDT
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i hate battle rifles so much!!!

  • 05.04.2005 7:53 PM PDT