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How much of Halo 2 is complete in terms of percentage? 90%? 95%?

Will there be any human flying vehicles in Halo 2 (helicopter for instance)?

How many new weapons will there be in Halo 2?

How many new vehicles will there be in Halo 2?

Will there be online and/or system link co-op?

How many hours a week do you guys work?

Will Bungie's employees take a well deserved break once Halo 2 is released or are you going to immediately start on a new game (Halo 3 perhaps?) and continue working your asses off til you drop?

How much money has Bungie made from Halo so far?

Can I have a job at Bungie? I can mop floors and shine shoes..whatever you need.

How many stars are there in the universe exactly?

Do you like Pepsi or Coke better?

Who are you voting for in the election?

What is your favorite movie?


  • 09.17.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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So how does the life work like in the Zanzibar demo it look's like there is only a sheild meter is the HUD gonna look different then the demo?

  • 09.17.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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Is the creep in the game?

  • 09.17.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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1.will the transpot hog be in the game
2. REdleader wanted to ask
"[color=blue]Gavnor2002:[/color] do they take much notice of fan work over at bungie? and have they seen the worlds largest sick day?"

  • 09.17.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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Will all the weapons from Halo PC, besides the assault rifle, be available in Halo 2? example flame thrower and fuel rod cannon, im a big fan of the flame thrower.

  • 09.17.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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Whats your Gamertag Frankie, can i add you to my friends list?
If your going 2 tell me send it to ferociousgoose@hotmail.com
Aren't u the guy who worked 4 the official xbox mag? if you are why did you leave and how did you get in contact with bungie for a job?
P.S - I will know if its u or not.

  • 09.17.2004 1:26 PM PDT
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I recall seeing pictures of the Halo 2 title screen with an option called "Saved Films".
Is this feature still in the game, and if so how much memory will it take up?
Will you be able to save on an memory card to take to a friends house to show?

  • 09.17.2004 1:26 PM PDT
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Dear guys at Bungie.

How will the Live 3.0 clan features work on Halo 2? There is currently only 1 game that supports the features fully and it doesn't support them very well (I don't know if I should mention the game) Anyway here's a few q's regarding the features:

- Will the clan anagram be displayed in all games including public servers? Can it only be 4 characthers max like the said game?
- Will for e.g. clan A be able to challenge clan B. In the said game you could not specifically challenge one clan and you had to create a tournament. Also in the said game when the match was to begin everyone got sent an invite and the first person to accept had to host regardless of their connection. Ugh.
- How will clan rankings work? I heard that the stats system on Live for individual players will be a levelling up system and you get experience points (you get more points for beating players with higher points than lower points) A similar system would be nice for clan rankings.
- When customising your suit can you make your own emblems like the 3.0 live spec 'user created content' would suggest? Players could make emblems and upload them on bunige.net for use in the game. Although this would be great, I understand there is obvious problems with doing this...

Thanks for any feedback

  • 09.17.2004 1:27 PM PDT
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All I go to say is this game needs online co-op, it has to, and by the way does it have online coop? pleassssse

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Will we be able to communicate with other members of our team (on Live!) while we are dead?

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Where are the bungie headquaters?

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I have a question about the webcams, that I've never been able to figure out. Where are we in the bungie studio with each camera? Marketing, testing, design...??? Who do we normally look at sitting at desks? Also, how big is the bungie studio? How many floors?

  • 09.17.2004 1:28 PM PDT

GT: BLACK SABBATH

1. Does Target Tracking work on Spartan's and Elites in MP?

2. Is there any, "fall damage?" In the videos there appears to be little or none.

3. How much have the physics (especially regarding vehicle explosions) changed since the E3 demo? I was honestly a little concerned that the ghost blowing up did not send the Elite that was standing next to it, flying. Pieces went flying but the Elite just dropped to his knees and keels over. (I'm assuming that's not the case anymore but confirmation would be great!)

4. Roughly how many unzoomed battle rifle shots does it take to blow up a warthog & ghost?

5. Can we please have another level fly by like that of Zanzibar before release!??! Pretty please? Waterworks maybe? I mean, c'mon, its not like the guys need a vacation or something. ;)

6. Oh and while I'm here. Can you guys describe, as much as you're willing to, the degree to which MP maps are destructable? I know the main bases won't be demolished but is it possible at all on some maps to kill someone by, "sawing off," a concrete support slab or something so it falls from above ect? (sorry, kinda radom.)

7. Please assure people that un-ranked games that you set up can be seen/played by random people you don't know, just not everybody in the freaking world.

8. Do dead vehicles dissappear after respawn?

9. Thanks for doing this you guys!!!!

10. And thanks for all your hard work!!! Its REALLY APPRECIATED!!!!

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I like to play Halo 2 vs. 2 system link with my friends. Have you remembered us people without Live and included several maps for 4 player matches? This has probably already been asked, but will there be maps like Blood Gulch? At least something similar?

  • 09.17.2004 1:28 PM PDT
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Will there be ragdoll physics? How many death animations are there?

  • 09.17.2004 1:29 PM PDT
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My top question has to do with the way the auto-select of the server for Live games works... Does the algorithm simply go by ping values, or does it also notice when some of the players are on a LAN (by noticing that the IP addresses are all on the same subnet)?

Reason for asking is, if the algorithm is more likely to select one of several machines on a LAN as the server, and pings between machines on that LAN were minimized as a result, this might encourage folks to still LAN up before going online (as opposed to staying in their homes). I hope this question is clear... to summarize:

Will there be any advantage, lag-wise, to playing as a team on a LAN connected to Live, versus playing as a team with individual Live connections?

Actually, I'm now wondering whether we can even connect a LAN to Live... perhaps we can only connect a single XBox to Live? If so, this questions' moot. Moot moot moot!

Other questions (that I *won't* try to answer myself ;-)
- We've heard that several "features", including the backpack-reload and the powerup multi-pickup, have been "fixed" at H2. What about the "feature" where, if you fall from a great height but land on a sufficiently steep slope, you sustain less damage... is that ability still present?
- Can you share with us a "power map" for the weapons? That is, something that describes for us the difference in effectiveness of shooting someone in the chest with a shotgun, vs. shooting him in the head with the same, vs. other weapons, and how the effect falls off at distance? (Note to forum-readers: if this question isn't answered, and I'd be surprised if it were, then perhaps this would be a good community project? :-)

Many thanks to Bungie for being exactly what they are, and for Microsoft, for being their benefactor, regardless of the motivations.

- Spidey

  • 09.17.2004 1:29 PM PDT
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I was wondering? On a scale of 1-10 how much did you guys think about the story line of the game. Now i am NOT asking you to tell me anything about the story line just wondering how much thought was put into it. Also if the story line is going to correspoing with the books. One last thing is there going to be another book and if so when can we be expecting it.

Thanks for Giving the World Halo 2

  • 09.17.2004 1:29 PM PDT
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In Halo:CE there were "plasma reactions" in which one grenade would explode and cause other grenades around it to explode as well. This happened in campaign mode only, but not in multiplayer. I always thought it would be a great addition to a great multiplayer...

So basically, my question is this:

Will there be "plasma reactions" in Halo 2 Multiplayer?

  • 09.17.2004 1:29 PM PDT
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Are you going to put in multiplayer levels from Halo into Halo 2? I'd like to see Blood Gulch, Sidewinder, or Prisoner in the game.

  • 09.17.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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HDTV questions.

Since I am going to be playing so much, I am worried about burn-in. Do you have time to fit in an "alternate-hud" that we can switch between in options so I dont have a shield-meter burnt in the top right corner of my wife's episode of Survivor?

Also - does Halo 2 support widescreen natively, or is it stretched?

  • 09.17.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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In a situation where you have, say a needler and you walk over a plasma pistol and the game prompts (at least at the e3 build) x to pick up y to dual wield and you press x.
Can you go from holding one needler to dual wielding the needler and pistol if the pistol is your secondary gun? And how would this be done?
Also if you dual wield how can you go back to wielding a single gun? And do you get to choose which gun you single wield? And how would you do that?

On a similar note will the Dpad have a better use such as up is duel wield left is wield left hand gun and right is wield right hand gun.

hmm... I wonder if master chief is a righty or a lefty

Anyway thank you for your time in answering my questions

  • 09.17.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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Can you please mention at some point that people just have to press the white button to talk to their teammates on Live and not hold it down. I've noticed a lot of people are confused about this and they're getting upset for nothing.

  • 09.17.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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First off, I am new to these boards so go easy on me =) Secondly, I didn't read all the posts prior to mine so sorry if a question is repeated. Lastly, Bungie and co. you guys have basically renewed my faith in console gaming, if it wasn't for you god only knows I'd be playing Counter-Strike still or Battlefield, and I thank you alot since most of my gaming time now goes towards consoles, I have quite a bit more time on my hands as well (computers are quite addicting as you know, especially when you interact with alot of people such as CAL teams and so on).

Now the questions!

1.) Does Halo 2 have that unique feeling when you play it such as Halo did?
2.) Is the Battle Rifle strong? (i.e, three shots to head = death?)
3.) Are melee combos in multiplayer?
4.) Can you disclose the ranks that Halo 2 will incorporate? If so, what are they?
5.) How does someone go about getting a job at Bungie, and what positions do you guys have a hard time filling?
6.) If is possible of a shortage of Halo 2? Or will you be mass-producing and stock piling your masterpiece so we can sleep November 8th/wait at GameSpot, EB Games, etc. peacefully at 12a.m?

That's about all I can come up with right now. I'll add more later if you guys are still in a generous mood after answering many things that have been answered prior to this update.

Thanks Bungie!

  • 09.17.2004 1:31 PM PDT
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One more question.
Many have noticed that the health bar has been removed.
My question is that since youve taken the health bar out, will there still be health packs and how will you know that youre about to die and need health?

  • 09.17.2004 1:31 PM PDT