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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update

Skin Cancer is the #1 killer of Halo players worldwide.

Posted by: Skin Cancer Matchmaking is now even more pointless for good players, time for customs.

Posted by: Widowmaker naw man, time for a different game!

that too dude, i'm checkin out that Battlefield game whatever it's called, Modern Combat something and Star Wars Battlefront 2 as soon as I get back home for Christmas break to see if I like em enough to get some relatives to buy them for me :)
They're probably a lot better for mass multiplayer which is my favorite

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  • 11.11.2005 7:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: ShawnP1178
I wish I could even SEE the update as it seems that bungie is having technical difficulties with link right now! hope the fix comes soon.




yeah it's not workin for me either. i wanna read it!!! :*(

  • 11.11.2005 7:52 PM PDT
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Btb is the coolest gametype there is on xbl. who the heck would take that and put lame @$$ guests in? they always quit and people quit because they dont loose their level. 6 on 6?
you need 4 for def and 4 for off definately. why not keep it and make it unranked too? the times it lags for me is when people stand by. thats it. o m g bungie you do some dumb things and dont think about re setting the ranks because there are too many legits. if you re set them when 360 is out you will have a third or more people online quit including me and everyone on my friends list. bungie you reeeeeaaaalllllllyyyyyy suck!!!!!!!!!1

  • 11.11.2005 7:54 PM PDT

Skin Cancer is the #1 killer of Halo players worldwide.

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Posted by: ShawnP1178
I wish I could even SEE the update as it seems that bungie is having technical difficulties with link right now! hope the fix comes soon.




yeah it's not workin for me either. i wanna read it!!! :*(


let me summarize: Big Team Battle is gone/Bungie is filled with inbred retards

  • 11.11.2005 7:54 PM PDT
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I cant see the update!!! :(

  • 11.11.2005 7:54 PM PDT
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I can't see it. But from the comments, I can't honestly believe your unranking Big team battle. Thats just retarded. Oh well, I am just going to use the unranked one as sniper practice. If I don't get the sniper, I am going to quit.

  • 11.11.2005 7:58 PM PDT
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Dude that's kinda -blam!- : ( I love big team battle a lot. 6 vs 6 will be great on zanzibar but whats the point of making a 16 player online game if you don't impliment it in your matchmaking? Some maps you really need full players on to get a match going. Now team work will be absolutly paramount and we all know how hard it can be getting 5 other people to listen to your plan.

AAANNGH!! : o
I just read some of the other posts and a lot of people are just as upset. Honestly think about all the times someone and his guest quit on you in team training! It'll be even worse because the maps will be so big if 2 ppl quit you wont have a shot. Oh and you know all those times the other team had a good sniper working for them? Well subtract some of the lag giving him a dead eye shot and take out two of the targets. Now teams with one good sniper will own. Darn it all >_<

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  • 11.11.2005 8:02 PM PDT
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Hey I cant even read what you guys are t alking about I get some picture of a Pelican and no update about the playlist. Whats up with that?????

  • 11.11.2005 8:03 PM PDT
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great question

  • 11.11.2005 8:08 PM PDT

Well, I am Skin Cancer's partner that he speaks of that he plays TS and BTB with. We just got our 34's today in BTB, because it is the only playlist where we can still get legit games without having to worry about getting cheated. We got our 40's in TS a little while ago, and anytime we go into an "unranked" team training or something and start owning kids, they immediately quit because they think it is pointless. That is the advantage to having RANKS in BTB. The kids on the other team wont just quit when they check our 40's, they will stay in and play a legit game most of the time (with the exception of a few morons who quit anyways when they see our ranks). This new unranked BTB will be just as much of a flop as Team Training is for the pros. Kids quitting out immediately in this new BTB will cause for very few, if any fun/even games for the good kids. Hopefully this new 6v6 will not be screwed up like Bungie has done this time w/ BTB. As my favorite playlist, i will now be on Halo 2 alot less because i strongly dislike having to wait an hour or two for legit TS games, and liked going into BTB and getting a game every 10 minutes or so. Thank you Bungie for removing a good portion of Halo 2 people's favorite playlist!

  • 11.11.2005 8:09 PM PDT
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sweet but how much do u think tha 360'z gonna cost???? big bucks$$$$$$$or what??

  • 11.11.2005 8:09 PM PDT

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there having technical difficulties as it seems that multiple people are having troubles viewing the weekly update. Just so all you guys know ur not alone, i can't see the update either and when i tried the site earlier it was down for repairs or something. So my conclusion "technical difficulties".

  • 11.11.2005 8:10 PM PDT
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thats one of the poorest decisions that you have ever made bungie i am not pleased!!!!!!!
we usually play big team every night for at least 4-5 hours and get games as well so there are still people playing it and it is a shame you are taking it away :(

  • 11.11.2005 8:11 PM PDT

Skin Cancer is the #1 killer of Halo players worldwide.

yo Bungie, I was just thinking, 90% of the people who vote on these polls you run are probably people with very little to do and do not constitute a significant portion of actual players... so maybe basing Matchmaking updates on what people who vote on obscure polls I didn't even know existed isn't a good idea.

The more I think about it, the more angry I become about you guys taking away my favorite list, die a slow and miserable death, I hope for some reason the 360 doesn't support Halo 2 and that Halo 3 is a flop, shortly followed by some Playstation game that kicks Halo's butt and we all start playing that and that Frankie starves to death because he doesn't have a job and only 2 year olds play Halo 2 any more.... phew, long sentence, but die bungie, again.

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  • 11.11.2005 8:13 PM PDT
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This is how I would like my playlists to appear on my television screen:

Rumble Pit
Head to Head
Double Team
Team Slayer
Team Skirmish
Big Team Slayer
Big Team Skirmish
Minor Clanmatch
Major Clanmatch
Rumble Training
Team Training
(Novelty Playlist)
(Novelty Playlist)

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  • 11.11.2005 8:13 PM PDT

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Not many of us are happy with you bungie but we shall all live through it because we are not robots that are commanded byt "The Man" well.... most of us aren't.

  • 11.11.2005 8:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: Skin Cancer
yo Bungie, I was just thinking, 90% of the people who vote on these polls you run are probably people with very little to do and do not constitute a significant portion of actual players... so maybe basing Matchmaking updates on what people who vote on obscure polls I didn't even know existed isn't a good idea.

The more I think about it, the more angry I become about you guys taking away my favorite list, die a slow and miserable death, I hope for some reason the 360 doesn't support Halo 2 and that Halo 3 is a flop, shortly followed by some Playstation game that kicks Halo's butt and we all start playing that and that Frankie starves to death because he doesn't have a job and only 2 year olds play Halo 2 any more.... phew, long sentence, but die bungie, again.


I strongly disagree with you. Playstation is like an old fab it won't come back for another 30 or so years and by that time it'll have gone bankrupt, much to my pleasure, and your only saying this because its now unranked, all you have to do is remember that IT'S STILL THERE AND STILL ABLE TO BE PLAYED. that's it, that's all you have to do so now everyone stop your -blam!-ing and get on with your life. Go play team hardcore or something, it's a pretty amazing playlist which i highly enjoy.

Good day

  • 11.11.2005 8:18 PM PDT
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Problem, i got a picture saying what a mess

  • 11.11.2005 8:18 PM PDT
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Problem, i got a picture saying what a mess


Join the club, same here. scroll up and you will see what the jist of the update is all about though.

  • 11.11.2005 8:21 PM PDT

A what?

wow today was going great til I got home. First, I read That Sony may put DRM in the PS3 to make PS3 games only work on the first PS3 they play on and not on any other PS3.

Then I thought, this cant get any worse since I didnt like the PS3 already, then I go on Bungie site and find there removing the only ranked game I ever play, Big Team Battle, and making it unranked. Wow, what a bad day....

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  • 11.11.2005 8:22 PM PDT
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im just tring to figure out how this works

  • 11.11.2005 8:23 PM PDT
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I don't understand what the point of making BTB unranked is. Why not just make the new playlist ranked also, and possibly make a separate unranked BTB? A lot of people really enjoy BTB how it is, and we all know that guests ruin the game. I say keep BTB and make as many new playlists as you want, regardless of if theyre ranked or not.

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  • 11.11.2005 8:28 PM PDT
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sweet update, well i wasnt a big fan of big team 6v6 will hopefully be fun and finally me and my geusts can play 8v8 cant wait

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  • 11.11.2005 8:29 PM PDT
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that really sucks, i mean it really sucks..... :(

  • 11.11.2005 8:31 PM PDT
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Not sure what happened to the update but something has clearly gone awry. Not sure what the status is or what the ETA is for getting it fixed. :(

Regarding the BTB stuff.... head over to Optimatch for plenty of threads to celebrate or rage.

And please keep in mind that we haven't finalized this playlist yet. You can't read it now but the update says that - it's NOT final. Based on the scope of the reactions we're getting we will definitely be discussing this again so please don't get too worked up just yet.

  • 11.11.2005 8:32 PM PDT