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Thats why pretty much why THEY got pissed Nedus. And by the way, they unbanned you Frankie

  • 07.16.2004 8:28 PM PDT
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With every update posted it reminds me that we're one week closer to the release of Halo 2, and seems thing to be pretty sweet down at Bungie Studios. Keep up the good work Frankie and everyone else at Bungie!

P.S. It seemed like some of the forum members weren't pleased with the fact Frankie posted the update their...yeah, but what the hell do they know?


Nice update Frankie!


-Dill X

  • 07.16.2004 8:33 PM PDT
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Heh, heh, they just locked the thread. Crazy -blam!-.

Hmm, you know, I'm starting to think that bungie did this whole thing as a joke, because they knew it would piss people off.

Crazy -blam!-.

  • 07.16.2004 9:19 PM PDT
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Check this out.

OK everyone, here's the lowdown.

Bungie apparently goes around making these update threads in random forums every week. This week they picked us. While it would've made a lot more sense for them to clear it with admin staff ahead of time, and to explain in the opening post what the heck was going on, what's done is done, and it is time to move on.


Postcounts and Joindates have been enabled for this thread, and this thread only. The idea is, there is a massive influx of newbies coming in here, and they can't tell the regulars from the semi-regulars from the rest of the newbies. Reg's found posting in this thread solely to find out their postcount will end up temp-banned, and may get their postcount reset to zero.

While I'm none too thrilled about the way this travelling thread was executed, it is our duty now that it is here to be gracious hosts through the rest of the weekend. If some newbie signs up and starts trolling from the get-go, by all means notify mod-staff that they need to be banned. But everyone else coming into this thread is just here to see the update, and then is sticking around because they are intrigued by our "unique" first impression on the people coming in from the frontpage of bungie.net, caught as unawares as we were. Try and cut them a little slack as they get acclimated.



Clear it with the administrators first? Its like a freaking -blam!- camp over there. All frankie did was put up info on Halo2... Those dudes need to chill.

  • 07.16.2004 11:11 PM PDT
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Yeah, I really don't think that's why they got mad. Funny thread though.

  • 07.17.2004 12:13 AM PDT
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They got mad because you came into the forum with spam and posted a link to the thread on the main page of your site, which several people followed. Not that there's anything wrong with either of those things (oh dear, just kidding, they're both punishable by molten iron), it's pretty annoying to have a thread come out of nowhere and start bringing new faces along with it, especially when it's for a game that has more exposure than Tom Hanks.

  • 07.17.2004 1:28 AM PDT
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Yea i can see how getting more visits to your forum and more new members can really piss you off..............

Anywayz, i suggest the next update to be on a fansite again, at least it will be appreciated and you won't get banned for it....

  • 07.17.2004 1:43 AM PDT
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That was quite an ordeal, the penny arcade update mutated into 21 pages of bad puns and pointless verbal abuse. That has happened me before, and it is always for no particularly logical and jusitifeid reason. As for Cardboard Tube, may his plasma grenades forever bounce back at him.

  • 07.17.2004 2:19 AM PDT
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sheesh, yup, i agree.

whaha, these ignorant bastards are really having a go at frankie and bungie. its an outrage how they behave!
FRANKIE, give the devs over at bungie a good peptalk, and make these losers at PA pay for ever flaming bungie.net/Halo 2 again! show em whos boss, and when the time is there and everyone's talking bout halo2's superiority, you flame their friggin heads off!

phew. am i mad. soo. good update. is some of these bits of censored btw in any chance BOTS? cuz i don't like playing in a little window with 3 players with me... so plz say its bots... and well, whats that vehicle too. like a really bad-ass vehicle compareble with the leviathan in UT2004 with its changing capabilities. anyways, make it look goooood.

  • 07.17.2004 3:22 AM PDT
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I can maybe see how the administrators of PA might be annoyed. Having such a massive increase in traffic costs money you know. It might have been a good idea to at least ask the administrators for permission to bring thousands of new posters to their forum. However, that does not excuse the behavior of their moderators and forum members who started a flame war!

However I also agree that Frankie should stick to halo fan sites in future. He will be sure to get a friendly response, and im sure 99.9% will welcome the extra exposure this would bring to their site. In fact TCLN have been asking for a post for months and would love to host one of Frankies updates. It would be more than welcome.

If Frankie decides to choose TCLN, please use the following forum:
http://www.tcln.com/leagueforums/viewforum.php?f=44

  • 07.17.2004 3:27 AM PDT
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Sweet, cute, cool and handsome update! Right...
Stinkles, the goat! Hell yeah! That rocks!

  • 07.17.2004 3:37 AM PDT
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Nice update, it seems like PA's mods are a tad twitchy, but that doesn't matter, its not like they'll be getting an update again. It also seems possible to label some of the 'regulars' and 'semi-regulars' as flamers and mini-mods, of course that's their problem so it doesn't concern us.

As for the multiplayer levels, I won't judge until I seem them. They sound good, but I will make my opinions when I get to play them. I hope Bungies does an article on the beta like they did the alpha, I would love to hear how the testing went with the new features like dual-wielding.

  • 07.17.2004 5:24 AM PDT
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Thanks for the update frankie. Wow, I didn't know the PA forums were so lame. B.net will never get so bad. Jeeze I'd hate to be a new user there.

  • 07.17.2004 8:47 AM PDT
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wow, some of the members and mods on penny arcade are really arrogant uppity a**holes. why are they too good for an update? what do they do they makes them better than all the halo fans? do they have darjeeling tea for blood?

  • 07.17.2004 9:26 AM PDT
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it isnt working!

  • 07.17.2004 9:54 AM PDT
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now it is

  • 07.17.2004 9:54 AM PDT
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Great update! I'm really glad to hear about a mode for people without Live and only 1 box. Having a mode soley for only a couple people will be nice.

As for PA.....all i can say is disgusting. I posted my opinion there in the off chance one of them WOULDN"T be obnoxious about it, but I figure no chance of that. My one regret is that my arleady poor spelling and only 4 hours of sleep combined to make me spell "Bungie" "buji" which of course was the only thing they could find to fixate on and ridicule an otherwise intelligent post for. Oh well, jerks will be jerks.

I should only hope that my forums, a non-halo fan site, would take it in better stride if something like that happened.

  • 07.17.2004 11:01 AM PDT
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I should hope that they would not take offense at useful information and the influx of delighted fans. I look forward to the weekly update, sometimes it makes up for a bad friday to see that the guys at Bungie are pounding out the hours on the greatest game ever. The forumgoers at PA just ruined it. The mods are are all -blam!- bites, and the people there seemed to be looking for some ususpecting person to vent their anger on.

Kind of reminds me of the Covenant...

Anyways, the incident has passed and I beleive that we can all move on now. The PA regulars think that we are all idiots so I can guarantee that they will not migrate to our forums. The point is, we all need to move on, its their loss.

  • 07.17.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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Great update, Frankie! Cool stuff, that new level sounds awesome. Heh, everyone at the penny-arcade forums thinks we're mental. Heh...

  • 07.17.2004 11:40 AM PDT
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heh. mental. who's mental right now. ooh if i only...

  • 07.17.2004 11:44 AM PDT
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Heh. Tthis is on the main page up at PA:

"Bungie decided to make their most recent Halo 2 update in our forum. They are all really nice guys and had they told me of their intentions I would have begged them to reconsider. They post these updates in forums all the time but I don’t think they really understood just how bad ours is. The only reason it still exists is because at some point someone in there will blow up a nursing home full of senior citizens and the FBI will want a history of their online activities. It’s really just a big pile of evidence that we’ll hand over to the authorities the second they stop posting pictures of their asses and start killing people.

-Gabe out"

Scroll down to the botom of the main PA page and you'll see it.

That said, those dudes in that forum are total -blam!-s.

  • 07.17.2004 12:20 PM PDT
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"Earth City uses 3 types of water so far."

I geuss this means that Earth City IS an actually map now.

P.S. clangina?

  • 07.17.2004 2:20 PM PDT
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I can't believe the admins went batcrap insane and banned you. A bunch of morons apparently run the place. :(

About the update:

I'll give you $5 to tell Chris Butcher to keep that non-moving Master Chief AI in the game (with an option to turn on/off), as it doesn't look hopeful for the bot idea. :( I keep having this awful feeling that the other gametype that Perez cut would be a gametype involving bots. :( Besides, it makes sense: if the MC was just added, then bots obviously have not been worked on. :( As sad as I am, I'll live. (Only because Deus Ex should be arriving at my doorstep Monday and Fable's release date was bumped up to September 14... And because Doom 3 will be out in a little over two weeks)

Max's "we almost cut it!" line worries me. It makes me think split-screen won't be worked on too much. Even if it's a fraction as good as Halo's multiplayer, it'll still be great.

Back on the PA topic, I think everyone already knew about Penny Arcade. No one had a reason to join their forums until now, however. Of course, when you ban the Frankinator, you've just lost about half of your forum activity. :|

  • 07.17.2004 3:39 PM PDT
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We have a big milestone this week so I spent a lot of it crushing through the last few bugs I had. One neat one is now the artists can specify random damage to get applied to objects when they spawn; they can just say “I want 3 busted warthogs in this area” and the game will determine an appropriate and different level of bustedness for each one.


^i love that part, that sounds awesome, cant wait to do that and have some awesome games

oh yeah....Penny Arcade regulars are a bunch of -blam!-es, way to be kind jerkasses!

  • 07.17.2004 4:06 PM PDT
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How about the Halo 2 forum over at www.gametalk.com? those guys are great. The only thing is the forum is a very different setup then others.

  • 07.17.2004 5:33 PM PDT