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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/22/2010

I wonder how long Bungie will continue to ignore Arena's epic failure with players. On average only 3.5% or less of the Reach players online play Arena (combining both playlists). Throw in the fact that 10x as many people play Team Slayer on Halo 3 at any given time as all the people playing both Arenas in Reach. Maybe I'm just stupid but I want a competitive playlist that is competitive ala Halo 2or3 not something that I have to play endlessly in order to be competitive and resets every month. You have an XP ranking system for people who wanna play this game and no other, your competitive system acts the same way. My level going up and down in Halo 2or3 is something i can pick up and play for 1 hour or play all night if I choose - Arena's division handout essentially demands that you play hours per day (IN ONLY THAT FREAKING PLAYLIST) or not at all if you want anything above the lowest rank. Just stick with what works because Arena doesn't.

  • 10.23.2010 7:10 AM PDT

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Im still confused as to why we have to complete these challenges collectivly in the first place. I understand Bungies want to keep the everyone involved in the game but i have friends that have been waiting on the cap to open up for about a month. Im almost there but these guys have lost interest in the game already for the simple fact that they have to wait on this cap.

  • 10.23.2010 7:29 AM PDT
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that was a great blame stosh

  • 10.23.2010 7:58 AM PDT

wow There's going to be alot Lt Colonel out there before the level breaks

  • 10.23.2010 8:04 AM PDT

The cap is THAT FAR AWAY!!! Well at least it gives me time to stockpile my credits for the flurry of usless purchases for armor that looks awsome until I find the next piece of amazing armor.

  • 10.23.2010 8:19 AM PDT
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omg thats so -blam!- bungie. Like why are you making us do that many challenges to unlock armor and new ranks. I am a un-satisfied customer. I quit playing halo its so -blam!- now. Why cant you be like modern warfare. Were you dont have to wait for 100 billion years before you get to rank up. Or you could just be like reguler halo three, and ofcourse the game also sucks because theres no master cheif. I know in the easter egg you get to see him but not in the game. God halo reach sucks. Besides the new forge.>_<

  • 10.23.2010 8:42 AM PDT

I am a very pestamistic person. I see the glass half empty, even when it's full. Dont expect much from me.


Posted by: XxH410 R34ch G0d
omg thats so -blam!- bungie. Like why are you making us do that many challenges to unlock armor and new ranks. I am a un-satisfied customer. I quit playing halo its so -blam!- now. Why cant you be like modern warfare. Were you dont have to wait for 100 billion years before you get to rank up. Or you could just be like reguler halo three, and ofcourse the game also sucks because theres no master cheif. I know in the easter egg you get to see him but not in the game. God halo reach sucks. Besides the new forge.>_<



so it does. but i still play it. i cant rank up that well because i suck at multiplayer and bungie took the oni-sword base glitch away (my only means of catching up in ranks with my friends), -blam!- them for that. but hey they cant be that perfect right?

  • 10.23.2010 9:10 AM PDT

Live free, or die epically.

Why is everyone complaining about the challenge cap? Consider this:
There's over 100,000,000 people who have played reach, roughly 10-100,000 people online and playing at any given time. If everyone who actually still cares about Halo (and hasn't reverted to the campfest that is mw2) completes one challenge per day, we could hit that limit inside the end of the week. It's not hard. Quit whining.

Oh, and because I need people to actually start a petition, post here:
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=50194599&v iewreplies=true#end

Thank you if you read my proposition and agree to post (I'm looking at you Urk).

  • 10.23.2010 9:49 AM PDT

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I'm looking forward to the map pack and I will try my best to rack up the challenges! Peace out.

  • 10.23.2010 10:38 AM PDT

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Nice work. Mah pants are off!

  • 10.23.2010 11:04 AM PDT

Atom is terrible. I love how baised you guys are when selecting maps for matchmaking. Choosing maps only out of a bnet group many of you are apart of. Shame on you.

  • 10.23.2010 11:09 AM PDT

"the base map was left largely unchanged and the overall performance increased dramatically" -Urk

Will framerate lag in forgeworld be one of the factors that determines who wins the forgetacular conest? The above statment makes me think so.. It would of been great to know this before wasting time on a well built map... I foresee hundreds, if not thousands, of amazing maps failing simply beacuse of the framerate lag. It ruins forgeworld.... Its sad that more time wasnt spent quelling this massive problem before the game was released... Instinct tells me this inst a simple "bug" that can be fixed with a patch...Am I right? Will we ever see a resolution to this issue? Whats the point in adding so much extra money and objects, if when you utilize them to there full potential, or even half there potential, the game starts sketching out and dropping framerate like crazy... Please let us know as a community if this problem will ever be fixed, with forgeworld, or even with the addtion of a new forgeworld map pack that doesnt drop framerate and actually works properly.

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  • 10.23.2010 11:36 AM PDT

I take pride in my insanity.

So much for raising the cap within 2 months.

  • 10.23.2010 1:01 PM PDT
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Sounds good.

  • 10.23.2010 2:33 PM PDT

Does the person that gets the 117 millionth challenge get some sort of cool prize?

  • 10.23.2010 2:50 PM PDT

WAR IS INFINITE PEOPLE TO FIGHT THEM ARE NOT

i know mount rushmore was amazing

  • 10.23.2010 2:59 PM PDT

WAR IS INFINITE PEOPLE TO FIGHT THEM ARE NOT

a real live warthog would be nice or perhaps a real spartan laser

  • 10.23.2010 3:01 PM PDT

WAR IS INFINITE PEOPLE TO FIGHT THEM ARE NOT

join wasp clan by contacting me on xboxlive we are a clan of complete bad !@#$%* in halo 3 & reach swat formats. I the leader. and semi when im on buisness is leader weedkiller 156 will also take messages. our newest members gravybone175 and adam fireblade are our trainees so if you play with them dont get the

  • 10.23.2010 3:56 PM PDT

WAR IS INFINITE PEOPLE TO FIGHT THEM ARE NOT

xbl gamertag SpartanA116

  • 10.23.2010 3:58 PM PDT


Posted by: urk
Lemme know if you guys like the Synth. Stosh whipped it up and we want to make sure you can all see it.



No, it says communication issue

  • 10.23.2010 4:28 PM PDT

hey whats up

  • 10.23.2010 8:25 PM PDT


Posted by: sanglant316v2
I wonder how long Bungie will continue to ignore Arena's epic failure with players. On average only 3.5% or less of the Reach players online play Arena (combining both playlists). Throw in the fact that 10x as many people play Team Slayer on Halo 3 at any given time as all the people playing both Arenas in Reach. Maybe I'm just stupid but I want a competitive playlist that is competitive ala Halo 2or3 not something that I have to play endlessly in order to be competitive and resets every month. You have an XP ranking system for people who wanna play this game and no other, your competitive system acts the same way. My level going up and down in Halo 2or3 is something i can pick up and play for 1 hour or play all night if I choose - Arena's division handout essentially demands that you play hours per day (IN ONLY THAT FREAKING PLAYLIST) or not at all if you want anything above the lowest rank. Just stick with what works because Arena doesn't.


Well if you have paid attention, they said before that on Halo 3 when some people got to a rank and slowed down some, it was near impossible to continue to level up. It happened to a bunch of people, and it happened to me. They made arena the way it is for people who, say they do bad on that one day, or that season, the next time hopefully they can do better.If you want a competitive playlist like halo 3, why not go play halo 3.And you dont have to play endlessly in arena. It's only three games a day, it doesn't demand more than that.

Good update, the yellow spartan with the explosion made it better.Can't wait for some good news next week.

  • 10.23.2010 8:39 PM PDT

i see u post vids of reach up in my file share is the fastest flag match around 1 min

  • 10.24.2010 12:55 AM PDT

wtf 1 min on flag

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  • 10.24.2010 2:32 AM PDT