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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/01/10

DAC4

Maybe there should be a thing where it says your going to get booted and you have one more strike before your out of the game to insure accidental kills don't result in loss of credits.

  • 10.03.2010 12:49 PM PDT

DAC4

YESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dog FIght Space Battles and land battles at the same time!

[Edited on 10.03.2010 12:58 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2010 12:57 PM PDT

Is there going to be a rank up update too? cause ive been lt. colonel grade 3 for 2 days now and colonel isnt even available yet =( im trying not to play because i dont wanna earn credits for nothing

  • 10.03.2010 1:37 PM PDT

Swat on hemorghage= bull s*!

  • 10.03.2010 2:04 PM PDT

Just a general question, because it's driving me mad - is there a radio on Sword Base? I've found the radios on all the other maps, but I can't see any on Sword, and it's bothering me. I'm up sleepless nights, searching the corridors for the faint hiss-crackle-bloop of a manpack radio.

Please, put my mind at ease.

  • 10.03.2010 2:54 PM PDT
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All the changes are great, except softening the betrayal-booting system. It works well now. A griefer gets booted right away.

Giving griefers 3 kills before they get booted, like in Halo 3, is two too many kills. Teammates know when it's an accident, and can decline to boot.

Anyone tell me why it's being changed?

  • 10.03.2010 3:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: LilGideon
All the changes are great, except softening the betrayal-booting system. It works well now. A griefer gets booted right away.

Giving griefers 3 kills before they get booted, like in Halo 3, is two too many kills. Teammates know when it's an accident, and can decline to boot.

Anyone tell me why it's being changed?


It should be 2 strikes -- there is no reason for 3 strikes. That is way too many.

  • 10.03.2010 4:47 PM PDT

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.


Posted by: LilGideon
All the changes are great, except softening the betrayal-booting system. It works well now. A griefer gets booted right away.

Giving griefers 3 kills before they get booted, like in Halo 3, is two too many kills. Teammates know when it's an accident, and can decline to boot.

Anyone tell me why it's being changed?


It's being changed because idiots were abusing it and doing stuff like sitting on tank turrets and drop shielding teammates as they fire a rocket launcher just so they could fake a betrayal and boot people. This is why we can't have nice things. Now the team killing sniper grubbers will take advantage of the 3 strikes rule too. It's a lose/lose situation for good players who play nice.

[Edited on 10.03.2010 5:20 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2010 5:16 PM PDT

When I hear about credit farmers and how bungie is hard at work to put them down with the all mighty ban hammer I can not help but ask myself one question. Why are people credit farming?
Perhaps it is because of the prices on certian things in the armory? *coughs inclimate weather and pestilance*
Maybe if we lowered the prices on some of the armor and effects, then this problem wouldn't exist. Seriously who wants to spend the whole day trying to get 100000 credits just so they can buy a helmet that later on also requires more credits for the add-on pieces?

  • 10.03.2010 6:39 PM PDT


Posted by: LilGideon
Teammates know when it's an accident, and can decline to boot.

Anyone tell me why it's being changed?


See the thing is with people is that some of them want to believe that the betrayal on them was indeed on purpose and will not consider the fact theat it was an accident. That being said I think that the new system will be much better than it is now. Sure there will be those people who abuse the betrayal system, and there always will be. However this is just something that everyone has to deal with every once in a while.

  • 10.03.2010 6:45 PM PDT

This literaly has nothing to do with the subject at hand i was playing halo reach a minute a go and i was playing infection i was a human all by myself there were 2 zombies in front of me i shot my shotgun right when he killed me it said betryal and the kid booted me you guys should fix it

  • 10.03.2010 7:32 PM PDT

The only update i have is....uh...????????????????????????????????????????????????? What were we talking about again?

[Edited on 10.03.2010 7:59 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2010 7:58 PM PDT

"The only thing necessary for evil to survive is for good men to do nothing"

My 10+ years of tactical weapons training and marksman qualifications NEVER prepared me for Halo!!!

So my understanding is that you are NOT getting rid of SWAT, but giving it its own special place right? As far as I am concerned SWAT is one of the most addictive, fast-paced, fun styles out there. Also, in response to the problem with betrayals,I am so glad this is getting changed. My son and I play alot and what I find annoying is when we get betrayed, we look at the situation of how it happened. If we were in the middle of some massive battle and explosions everywhere and we just happened to die during it or were foolish enough to jump in the middle of someones rocket launch or grenade throw then we are not going to boot the other player. In fact we very rarely boot someone unless it appears intentional. However, all the other unpleasant players out there (you know who you are) don't care and I think take pleasure in booting someone. As soon as they jump in front of a rocket or come to close to a stuck elite and die-even though I was trying to help them-I get booted along with my son. This needs to stop. All the immature players out there need to stop mass booting people for their own stupid mistakes. Please, please fix this.

  • 10.03.2010 7:59 PM PDT
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Thanks for the answers to my betrayal question. I do agree that 2 strikes is preferable to 3. I wonder why they're going back to the old Halo 3 way, which was pretty clearly not the best (since they changed it for Reach).

The number of players griefing in Reach is not small, from my experience. And from the griefer's perspective, when your fun and games is frustrating other players you will always succeed, so the problem isn't going away.

  • 10.03.2010 8:48 PM PDT

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any news on new ranks?

  • 10.03.2010 8:59 PM PDT

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Im glad there will be a separate playlist for SWAT, I've been getting it waaaaaay too much.

All in all I'm quite pleased with this update.

EDIT: Getting booted is really annoying though, I always get screwed over by it. I hope this will allow some leeway from accidental team deaths (which I apologize for) and stop some random on my team from grenading me to bits because of his desire to have the sniper.

[Edited on 10.03.2010 10:40 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2010 10:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: Reflex75
Can't wait for SWAT!

  • 10.03.2010 10:53 PM PDT
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love the new audio test, but i reckon you should have updated the voices as well

  • 10.04.2010 12:35 AM PDT

Bring on the SWAT!!

  • 10.04.2010 1:37 AM PDT

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

That was a lot of meat. I bet I could eat the leftovers for a week. Campaign MM makes me smile.

  • 10.04.2010 3:11 AM PDT

When is the level cap getting raised?

  • 10.04.2010 5:01 AM PDT

Join Planet Reach
Hog sniping
Exalted is considered "the highest" because you can't get any bans or warnings of any kind for quite a long time, which is harder than just being a member for a long time.

Damn credit farmers...

I've seen videos of that target locating BS move.

  • 10.04.2010 5:57 AM PDT
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REACH,REACH,REACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think its a load that they are reducing the amount of credits
u can earn in gruntpacolypse bungies going to far with alot of things now i like playing it and i could play it for hours if u cant grow a set and play it over and over cause your add or what not fine but dont complain cause some people will sit and play it allday this update might just make me sell reach or trade it in for medal of honor

  • 10.04.2010 6:03 AM PDT

POPTART

should be more credits given to mm winners, so credit farming would be less necessary.

  • 10.04.2010 6:31 AM PDT

im going to miss swat alot me and my freinds were good at it

  • 10.04.2010 6:38 AM PDT