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Subject: Weekly What's update
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I agree fully with the above post: the motion tracker added a level of strategy that is now missing in head to head games. However, oddball and KotH games should not have the motion tracker. Rifle Duel shouldn't either. But it should be put back in Sword Duel and the classic Slayer Duel. I can’t wait to see some more interesting and odd gametypes.

I also miss race. Headlong and Waterworks seem to have been designed with that gametype in mind. I don’t really mind all that much, when I feel like playing race I get a few friends together in a custom game set a course and drive around.

I know that apparel with a player’s gamertag and emblem was a idea that was thrown around prior to the release of Halo 2. I would love a T-shirt with my gamertag on the breast and my emblem brandished on the back. There are web-sites that sell custom made shirts designed using a simple wizard and uploaded image files. My question is, if I were to take my emblem and design the shirt would I be liable for copyright violation?

Moving on:

This is a message to all those who post messages consisting of "1st”: I don't care that you got the first post, I shudder to even call it a post. There is no prize for being the first to "reply" to the topic, the only end achieved by your childish game is annoying true Bungie fans who want follow the discussion. You force them to scroll through 1 or 2 pages of BS before finding a post that has even a grain of substance.

The same applies to posts that bash Frankie and complaining that the WWU is not giving any substantial information. They gripe about the lack of substance but post messages so shallow a baby could lie face down in it and not drown. I found that there is plenty in this week’s update. I admit, there have been weeks where the useful information in the update is close to nil. But those are weeks where very little has happened. I ask you to also take into consideration that Frankie can not tell the public certain aspects of Bungie's current doings... let me explain this aspect of life in a parable: two friends are talking, one is a technician for the army and he works in a nuclear missile silo. The other asks him how to infiltrate the silo, access the launch systems and override the security protocol to fire a missile at a target of his choosing. The technician laughs and doesn’t tell him anything of any use (hopefully). Not because he's an ass but because there are some things that we are not supposed to know: one being the internal workings of a nuclear missile silo, another being what the good folk Bungie have up their sleeves (just to name a few).
It is also probable that Frankie does not happen to know the answer to many of the queries posted. The question: "Why are we here?" answered by: "Because they have a blue base over there." will make many laugh (anyone who remembers the first Red vs. Blue episode “Why are we here?”). The same response will annoy those with a sense of humor equal to the amount of substance found in the posts I referred to in my second paragraph and they will go off and call Frankie a (insert long list of profane words and terms here).
That being said I don't care if you bash Frankie, just do it on your own forum, not on a forum where there is supposed to be discussion about the update. I know there are moderators for the forums, I request that all posts deemed inappropriate (be they offensive, insulting or just completely off topic) be removed... repeat offenders be blacklisted. I'm just fed up with all this BS.

I know I’m griping, I apologize for being hypocritical but there are things that must be said.

PS: I can’t wait for the new maps… and if the little blurb about Pimps at Sea was a continuation of the April Fools update I will be very angry.

  • 05.28.2005 11:53 AM PDT
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When is the price on the Xbox 360 going to be announced. I keep hearing people say it is like 600 and other say 350. I think it is about time to announce the price, after all it is only like 4 months till november.

  • 05.28.2005 12:00 PM PDT
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Its probably gonna be like 500 bucks.

  • 05.28.2005 12:34 PM PDT
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Dude who wrote that really long paragraph, I totaly agree with everything you said.

  • 05.28.2005 12:37 PM PDT
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Aright, i have had some problems with XBL. Someone might have said this in another way or form but when i play games especially big team battle it says that i betray my teamates like randomly. When it says i do i am not even near that player or i didn't thorw any grenades or shoot anything iwas simply like walking down an isle or something. So then when it happens a couple times a game and i really never did the boot option comes up and my teamates think i am doing it on pupose and being a noob but i really am not. so i have lost alot of levels and can't get them back and most of my friends say they don't want to play with me any more becasue of it. I think it is internet problems but i am not sure. do you have any advice or things i can do to prevent this? please i really want to know nad need to know becasue it makes halo suck realy bad and it is my favorite game.

  • 05.28.2005 1:13 PM PDT

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holy -blam!- u mind not taking up half the -blam!- page with this crap that we know man i could barely stand to read this post its to long and if i was frankie i wouldnt even read this but theirs one thing i aggree with u on red vs blue is funny exspecaly episode one when they ask why r we here and even if we capture the other base we r still in a canyon in the middle of nowhere whopty fuking do!

  • 05.28.2005 1:13 PM PDT
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Hey i was wonderin is there ever goin to be new versions of the warthog or is there goin to be boats or a human equivlant to the banshee???

  • 05.28.2005 1:13 PM PDT
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I would like to know if "super bouncing" is concidered cheating, not that i've done it I assure you but i've seen people doining it on zanzibar and just wanted to know

  • 05.28.2005 1:22 PM PDT

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hey spud i aggree with u its not your connection even make a game about it with three people and be on the same team and have one person beon one side of the lvl and havethe other two kill each other and it will say the person doing nothing did it i think bungies system has some proble in it that needs to be fixed and believe me it happens to every one but most people dont know about it because theirs actuly some desent players that i know that dont betrey people intentualy but ive not lost a level from it yet oh and if u check the score list at the end of the game it shows which person was betraying people and dosent show any betrayals on the person that gets booted for it so whats up with that bungie!

  • 05.28.2005 1:25 PM PDT
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It seems to me that Bugnie is making Horrible gametypes now. Pistols on Lockout? Who's bright idea was that? Or another example, 1v1 Oddball. It just seems that some of the game types are completely one sided depending on where you spawn. When will Bungie fix all these one sided gametypes and stupid gametypes?

  • 05.28.2005 1:30 PM PDT

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hey i wounder if somehow bungie would let us drive the shadow because i dont want to wait till the next game like i did for the banshee !

  • 05.28.2005 1:40 PM PDT
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i was reading the weekly what's update, and someone mentioned something about having race in the playlists. I have to admit myself that race was great in halo one because u could have great warthog wars. could you possibly just return the gametype to custom games so us hog fans can have more than four in a level at one time? oh and could u make it not possible for you to pick up a plasma pistol while carrying a battle rifle or carbine and vice versa. I have lost many games do to this "noob combo" and have been very frustrated at the frequency people use it. thanks

  • 05.28.2005 1:50 PM PDT

// UNSC Database - ODST Fire Teams • [Operation: Twilight Zone] • Mission: Classified - Fire Team Xenon...
- X01... KIA
- X10... KIA
- X25... KIA
- X51... MIA

he is

  • 05.28.2005 1:59 PM PDT

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why cant we have agame where u could drop your wepons and have like a boxing match with our hands. and would it be so hard just to let us vehicle fans drive our whole team in a shadow in big team battle?

  • 05.28.2005 2:09 PM PDT
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is there going to be any pictures on the "new maps" that are comeing out any time soon

  • 05.28.2005 2:24 PM PDT

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what would mister cheif look like in a bikini wax comercial?

  • 05.28.2005 3:10 PM PDT
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I don't know if this has ever been asked/answered before, but wouldn't it be better to have a "Preferences" section for your accounts in Halo 2 where you could choose what gametypes you like/hate playing... Ex:
Shotguns: No
Snipers: Yes
I believe this would stop most quitters from quitting because they know that they will only play the levels/settings they like... Just a thought.

  • 05.28.2005 3:11 PM PDT
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That would make it REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY HAAAARRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDD for live to find a game because it would have to match like 8 prefrences. Now a level(stage) preference might work because thats much broader.

good idea though

  • 05.28.2005 3:19 PM PDT
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true halo player ha!! don't make me laugh holy pimp

  • 05.28.2005 4:24 PM PDT
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Hey Frankie,
Two ideas for Halo 3, or a possible update, I think these ideas would be really helpful to other people:

1. Have some kind of option to select a language for matchmaking instead of getting stuck with people you cant communicate with for a tactical game like team slayer.

2. For custom games, allow leaders to record a set of rules for the game instead of people joining and missing instructions, and ruining the game. This would also prevent the leader from constantly having to repeat the instructions for the game.

Thankz, I hope you take these ideas into consideration,
Islandboyz20

  • 05.28.2005 5:00 PM PDT

The Beatles kickass.
Also, I probably hate you.

I know there won't be any emblems in the updates, but do you think in your next game you could have customizable emblems? I know, you're saying, "Shade, we already told you that people would make them obscene". But see, first you make only a certain level of customization, and then you make a new feedback option that says, "Offensive Emblem".
I'm a genious...

This is also what I think about you're next Halo game, first, make it your next project. You know everyone is pissed about the ending. Don't try to deny it. Don't rush this time either. Take your time. We want the experiance the game in its full glory.
And another thing... Different Character classes. Just think, lumbering into battle as an enormous Hunter, screaming in fear as a grunt, buzzing through the skies as a Drone, etc. But there could be things to balance it out, like add shields to grunts, remove enormous shield/melee object on the Hunters arm, etc. Most of all, though, make all of these options changeable through the match options, and keep most of the Matchmaking games with only Spartans and Elites for balance, but make at least one type where all are accepted. Each class would use the D-pad for their "Special" for Grunts it would be taunt, for Drone it would control some of the flying(Cling?), can't think of anything for the rest... but you probably could. It would also be good to be able to change class at the respawn point, but only at the beginning of the game would make sense too...
I'm a genious...

  • 05.28.2005 5:09 PM PDT

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why cant we drive the shadow

  • 05.28.2005 5:47 PM PDT
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Hey, what game genre will your next game be?

Do you expect your next game to be as notorious as the H A L O series?

If it is another H A L O game, will you add some of your Ideas that you cut from
H A L O 2, like the ATV.

If it is another H A L O game, could you add online co-op, those other warthogs, the choice to have the weapons from H A L O 1, some REAL camo, the ability to change your mask color, the ability to use your flash light in multiplayer, combat knife, to switch battle rifle from burst to semi automatic, have boats maybe some ship battles, and please DONT! put a flame thrower in the next H A L O, i hate flame throwers, and put in mines and or timed grenades.

i also have some multiplayer game Ideas, bomb diffusal (where each team starts at there opponents base and rush to there base to diffuse the bomb),
skull dodgeball (where you throw the skull at someone and if they get hit they're out), kill to survive (where you must kill atleast one person in under a minute or you die), pitch black slayer (where it is an all black level and you can only see five feet infront of you and you have NO map)

that is it,
hey frankie tell me watcha think.

  • 05.28.2005 6:47 PM PDT
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Will the amount of actual experience "one" has on a gametype, ever be displayed on bungie.net?

  • 05.28.2005 7:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frankie
Here we go - answering all your questions. This week we cheated and got all of our questions from the HBO forums, because ours were busted. The HBO crowd is a classy, curious lot, as you'll see inside.


What a surprise...the Bungie Net was down.

No RACE! I'm shocked...Race was the best game ever!

Magnums will forever be worthless now. Tell all the little -blam!-s that complained about them THANKS.

Glad to see that the release dates for the maps were announced again. It's not like there posted on the front door of every game shop in America. Oh wait did I just say door? I ment:
Door
Cash Registar
Game Shelf
News Add
Buttons that the employies wear
So people stop asking stupied questions without doing some reasearch first, GOSH!!! If you don't know by now then it will be an even bigger surprise on JULY 5.

Also Bungie when will the Needlers be given the respect they deserve? I believe that the needlers should be twice as powerful, and the lockon should be better too.

  • 05.28.2005 8:11 PM PDT