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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update 05.07.10

-Stu (Smelly Old Goat)

Okay, although I do not have the exact details on the "quitter ban", I will say this. It has been said that you will not be banned for the occasional quit game. Not to mention, if you do have an emergency or something to do, most likely it won't kill you to wait 15-30 min. The same goes for everybody with the "my internet sucks" excuse. This small and temporary ban is for habitual quitters, and in my opinion very much needed. So please everybody, stop using those excuses to try and convince bungie to stop the quitter ban.

This ban is probably the best thing to happen to matchmaking, in any game, in a long time. Quitting shouldn't happen (at least not on a regular basis). Thank you bungie, this is a true gift for all.

  • 05.08.2010 11:59 PM PDT

If your internet is making you drop games, you should probably worry less about losing out on a few games of Halo and more about how your ISP is screwing you for $40 a month. Seriously call them and request a new modem.

I want more explanation for the aggregates/commendations NOW.

  • 05.09.2010 12:06 AM PDT
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can i just say but you dont get enough credits from doing invasion it takes the longest and you dont get much

WHY IS THIS?

  • 05.09.2010 12:07 AM PDT
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You may also know me as: StalkerGrunt117, at halopedia,
and Alex117100, at youtube,

Whats ghosting?

  • 05.09.2010 2:14 AM PDT
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i like some of the changes made but one thing that could be changed is the armour lock. ive seen alot of teams that spam it and i think that the recharge time should be longer, cos ive been spammed armour lock so much that i can hardly get a kill some times.

  • 05.09.2010 2:33 AM PDT
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yeah, invasion should get lots of credits otherwise it is kinda annoying get so little from such a long hard game.

  • 05.09.2010 2:35 AM PDT

*agrees with everything scissors67 said*

  • 05.09.2010 4:36 AM PDT

i think bungie should make a sword for the UNSC that might be random but true

  • 05.09.2010 5:04 AM PDT

I have not been wating for any game more than this i love it.........but i wish we could have the beta longer. could there be a single player beta to hold us over?

  • 05.09.2010 7:46 AM PDT

i see alot of people whinning about armour lock...and its duration/recharge...if you have used armour lock then you know it is set up like the rest of the abilities...on pretty much the same charge and disipate times...save for the jet pack..which almost recharges the second you let off the use button..armour lock is easy to defend against...stand back count to 5 and throw a nade...dead armour lock dude...there is a bit of stratagy involved in this game..the days of mindlessly running around, shooting and meleeing are over...use ur head on reach or some guy with armour lock...you know, the guy that cant move...or shoot...or scratch his butt while in lock down....kills you dead for being a moron trying to stand on him while hes locked...armour lock in my opinion was ment for a recourse..if ur almost dead, lock it up..the enemy has two options...1. stand at a distance and wait...2.move on to the next target....NUFF SAID

  • 05.09.2010 9:00 AM PDT
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My new account is enyad

Note to self, Don't tick off Urk.

*throws kitten*

  • 05.09.2010 10:44 AM PDT
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Don't damage my calm.

So is the invasion party split up issue going to be addressed for the beta or the fall.

  • 05.09.2010 11:28 AM PDT

Nice update. I am SO GLAD you are going to ban quitters. That is by far the most annoying part of playing online shooters.

  • 05.09.2010 12:40 PM PDT

Posted by: dean0null
Are you guys going to update the beta before you take it down?


I'm also wondering this. I know the update says "fixed for fall" for everything, but shouldn't we be allowed to test the new changes as well? This is a beta, after all.

  • 05.09.2010 1:09 PM PDT

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This is all super impressive stuff! Nice work!

  • 05.09.2010 2:08 PM PDT
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Cool kids don't smoke.

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=30355277&p ostRepeater1-p=1
^Bungie Cares about it's customers.

My only question is what if everyone else on your team, or a large part of it, quits? Are you supposed to sit in the game and waste your time getting your ass kicked or quit out and suffer a small swing of the hammer?

  • 05.09.2010 2:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: stosh
Posted by: Fearing
Great update, and Invasion is awesome.

Also, the seasonal division thing. How do we tell what division we are in once we get rated? I have a star with a 1 in front of it, which I'm guessing means season 1 or something, but is there a place to see what the different division colors actually look like so we can tell for sure where we are? Just checkin.


You are in division 1. Steel.


Well at least the worst division is labeled number 1, so I can FEEL like a number 1 despite my suckiness. :)

[Edited on 05.09.2010 4:02 PM PDT]

  • 05.09.2010 4:01 PM PDT
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the halo reach is good to rule!!!!!!!!! all of the xbox360 games i can not stop playing the halo reach bate

  • 05.09.2010 4:04 PM PDT
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"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide." - Abraham Lincoln

Quitters are out in full force today. You guys definitely need to throw the switch on that ban.

It is getting a little ridiculous. (For example, I just played Team Swat on Sword Base where 2/4 of my team quit right away, then about 2 minutes before the end, 3/4 of the other team quit. By the end it was 2 vs 1...)

  • 05.09.2010 4:14 PM PDT

Looking forward to the fixes! The beta is great guys! Can't wait for this fall.

  • 05.09.2010 4:16 PM PDT

Hmmm the only complaint I have for Invasion is a spawning issue where if a teammate is in the air in a banchee you spawn in the air next to them and automatically die. Um yeah that needs to be fixed.

  • 05.09.2010 4:18 PM PDT

some body prolly posted this already but the font size is way too small i can barely read anything and im on a 46 inch lcd with hdmi. i cant get any more high def and still cant make it out.

  • 05.09.2010 4:39 PM PDT

I dont really like the system for finding matches. sometimes it takes too long. i dont know if it will be better for every1 but id like the search to be like modern warfare 2.

  • 05.09.2010 4:59 PM PDT

Dragon spartan D133

Ok Smelly Old Goat so by your words you think 4 friends on 1 ramdom player because the other 3 quit out on him is fair huh sounds like your stupid or ether just a dummy like the person who suggested the quitter ban for a game that is sopossed to be fun to play with or without anyone else. So from those words let's all step back and say well i thought this game was to be fun to play not like some pice of crap game's like many others and for the my last thought is i hope mlg stay's out of halo reach's final mutiplayer product and any kind of ban for quiting is droped and forgoten because i will say this players who don't have friends to help them will not play halo reach's match makeing at all i know i won't ever if any kind ban is put on ever.

  • 05.09.2010 6:16 PM PDT

Put me down as being 100% in favor of the quitter bans.

Also, any chance we can have a similar soft-ban for people who get habitually booted from games for betrayals? It's the uglier side of the same coin and just as, if not more, annoying to those of us who just want to play the game.

  • 05.09.2010 7:03 PM PDT