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Subject: Special Q&A Today!
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Ok Frankie I have three quick questions.

1. Will the ATV's be in Halo 2? I made a bet and my left nut depends on it.

2. Is there really a third version of the Warthog with a Gauss turret or whatever you want to call it on it?

3. Will you still be able to "dash" in multiplayer? I heard a lot of rumors about this early on and I think it would be an awesome feature to have.

Bonus question: Are there any human weapons for multiplayer you haven't told us about yet?

Thanks Frankie.

  • 09.17.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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How many multiplayer maps will their be?
How many multiplayer modes will there be and what will they be?
What other maps havent been announced that you can tell us about?
Will there be more vehicles that we havent seen yet and what will they be?

  • 09.17.2004 12:38 PM PDT
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were bots not included in the game because of time constraints or because the team felt it would rather focus its efforts on other, more important aspects of the game?

thanks guys, keep up the good work.

  • 09.17.2004 12:38 PM PDT
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I'm Interested in working in the game industry. What collage courses should I take to be a modeler/enviromental artist. And other stuff like books and programs i should get. Thanks

  • 09.17.2004 12:39 PM PDT
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Are the remote control plasma grenades still in that we heard about from a magazine?

  • 09.17.2004 12:39 PM PDT
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How many shades and polygons are used in the master chief character model?
Can you answer our questions now?

  • 09.17.2004 12:40 PM PDT
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People!

For the sake of Sketch's and Frankie's sanity, read a few of the previous questions so the EXACT same question is not asked 378643 times!

  • 09.17.2004 12:40 PM PDT
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When your on Xbox live to talk to ONLY your teammates do you have to hold down the white button or can you toggle between team speak and the other type?


Thanks ----HALO IS THE GREATEST GAME ON XOX BUT NOV. 9TH ALL THAT WILL CHANGE!

  • 09.17.2004 12:40 PM PDT
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My question is...


Is there a New halo 2 beta called "DELTA" and will we be seeing it in action?

Im doubting there is because your devoting your time to the completion of Halo 2

Any way to play the Zanzibar beta or partake in the next one...Maybe halo 3's beta?
Thanks bungie your skills are pure 1337!

  • 09.17.2004 12:40 PM PDT
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OK, some NON-game questions.


-What have you noticed that is different around the office during the H2 crunch time than during the H1 crunch time?

-Do you already know what the next Bungie game will be? or have any idea what type of game it will be?

-Are you guys expecting any sort of "compensation" for all the extra hours? Time-off, extra pay, etc.

  • 09.17.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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How many multiplayer levels will there be?

Will any more screen shots/movies be released before November 9th?

Are there any other guns besides the ones we know?

Are there any other vehicles besides the ones we know?

On XBL, will you be able to play people of differnt ranks, even if you arre higher or lower than them?

Thanks a million for any answers, this is a really cool update

  • 09.17.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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ok question(s)

1 are u going to be able to lay mines in halo2?

2 are u going to be able to duel-wield all weapons or just certain types?

thanks u guys rule, but of corse u guys already knew that ;)

  • 09.17.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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I heard that the voice works as follows: proximity voice always on, and team chat when you tap the white button, and the channel stays open until you stop talking. Will there be an option to switch this, or perhaps a toggle feature where its team voice always on and proxy voice only when you tap white?

Will we be able to fully customize the symbols over our heads in multiplayer with some sort of editer a la steel battalion LOC, or will we have to choose from a preset list? Im not talking about the clan symols on the armor, but the symols that are now replacing the green arrow friend indicators.

Is there a human flying vehicle in multiplayer, or perhaps another covenant one besides the banshee?

Is there going to be TRUE single flag ctf where there is one neutral flag in the center of the map and both teams are trying to score it to their own respective goal, like the "retrieval" mode on R63: BA? The single flag you show in zanzabar is more like the objective based invasion from return to castle wolfenstein where the allies charge the beach to get the documents and take them to a score point.

Is there going to be more then 2 team ctf?

Just confirming, no dedicated servers?

In parties or in rooms the person with the highest bandwidth is the host of the party. Does that mean that people with lower bandwidths will always be at the whim of whoever happens to come in the room with a larger band withdth? Or will there be another method for deciding who gets the choose the game options.

Since there is vehicle damage now, do you still take damage in a vehicle if the vehicle itself gets shot and you do not. Such as in halo:ce blood gulch ctf, if youre on a hog run and youre flying with the flag across the middle of the map and the other team opens up on you with their pistols and shoot the turret or hood, they could kill you with enough shots. Is the same true for halo2.

Are there going to be stats for flags returned, flag runners killed, flags scored/flags grabbed. etc? I like the flags.

Are melee combos still in the game, and do different weapons have different damage in melee combat? Such as the rocket launcher causing way more damage then the pistol, and being able to tap the melee button in a timely manner in order to bring about a chain of melee hits. You answered in the gamespot Q&A, but you answered and dodged the question at the same time.

  • 09.17.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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OK so here goes. Currently I play on a clan playing grit. One of the problems associated with clan play are cheaters. Now most people who play in clans do so through teamcompete.com. Now these guys are pretty corrupt as it is. I know bungie is supposed to have something set up for clan matches, so my question is what kind of prevenative measures will there be against cheaters using Action replay and things like that to enhance certain preformances in a game. I mean if you guys are just going to have a place where people can send and accept matches with no admins or moderators to handle cases of cheating and/or disputes then your guys' idea of hosting the clan stuff will fall through rather quickly. Serious gamers out there want rules and penalties for breaking those rules. Imagine trying to play a game of football with no referees. It would be chaos. And if we really want the online gaming to be as popular as pro sports then someone is going to have to be the one to make a paradym shift and who else better than bungie to make this happen. Seeings how I dont use your forums that much, could you please email me your response to srimmortal@earthlink.net. Thank you....and I cant wait to steal a ghost from my co-captain Ranxerox and then splatter his old butt into a cliff wall :-)

  • 09.17.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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My apologies, if this has been asked before.

Is Halo 2 Live 2 person CO-OP in place? Will it be by release time?

Thanks!

  • 09.17.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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Hey Frankie, you guys ROCK! Anyway on to my question.

Will there be an emergency escape on any of the vehicles? Like, instead of just stepping out of your ghost you could hit a, and dive out or something like that. If that question can't be anwsered, then will there be any bots?

Thanks A lot!!!

: )

  • 09.17.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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WIll you reveal a new weapon in this update?

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How big will the multiplayer maps be?
Will there be any more skins for multiplayer?
Will the destructible enviroments be as good as hacok 2 engine?
Can you board any vehicles?
what sort of enviroments will there be snow rain etc

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-Will the new maps from Halo PC (Danger Canyon especially) be included in Halo 2?

-Will the weapons from Halo PC (Flamethrower especially) be included in Halo 2?

-Will dedicated servers be included with Halo 2, and how will they work?

Thanks

  • 09.17.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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LAG REALLY SUCKS.....what are you guys doing to combat this?

  • 09.17.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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With all due respect mastercheif420, there are people posting in this forum once every two seconds. And its a little hard to keep up with it as it is, let alone reading the old posts....

  • 09.17.2004 12:43 PM PDT

Veteran member of The Frozen Minority.

This is an awesome idear I must say. I went over questions that people have asked, and I must say, one of the more better questions was a question from a lad in which I can't remember his name and I'm too lazy to go back and check, but it went like this; how much better is the shield on the Mark VI than the Mark V?
Good question!

My question(s) are:
- What kind of pranks around the studio do the "Grizzled Ancients" play on the "Newbies"?(That is, if they still do)
And for some reason I have this image of them hurdled up in a group planning out an "attack", and then one of the Grizzled Ancients casually walks up to a Newbies desk and knocks his/her pencil holder down and scatters papers around and then he'll run back to the group and they'll turn their backs from the desk and start giggling.

- Knowing that Halo2 will only be getting better from now till the release. How happy is the team to see how much of a hit this game already is? (ie, press coverage, fan feedback, all of the viewings of the game, et cetera)

- And finally, last but not least, um... Oh ya! Damn near forgot it. When the game's released, where will ye by's be going: Disney World, or the Carribean? You guys need it, I would imagine.

(I decided to stay away from actual game questions, just because, well, everyone else wanted to ask those)
Alrighty, those are my questions, you don't have to answer them all, but if you do that would be, as the cool "hip" people would say, "sick". But due to the fact that I'm not a thug/"hip" person, I say, "that would be swell". :-)

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did halo 2 go gold today , so you guys are doing this instead because updates are no longer going to be available?

Will there be a prone in halo 2? we really would like it, thanks for your time keep up the good work.

  • 09.17.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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What is the budget of the entire Halo 2 project?

Love, Adam Malone

  • 09.17.2004 12:44 PM PDT