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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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ok so all i have to say is that im real happy halo 3 is in the making.......i use to compete a lot with halo 2 but it all just got messed up......please make the weapons better, maybe bring back some old ones?.......and before halo 2 u guys said the fighting would take place on earth the whole time....it was a let down to know that there were only 2 or so levels on earth...and most of the game with Arbiter....which was cool at first but just dumb....and how the game ends as arbiter is really dumb...so i think levels with the chief only would be good....oh and please do something about the pistol...because it shot 12 rounds in halo 2 and each shot to the head did nothing but take down someones sheild, and after u reloaded to shoot him once more, it took too long thus making his sheild revive...so the pistol in halo 2 was pointless, especially after halo CE. maybe u guys coulld make the pistol powerful again. the sniper is good, maybe u guys could make it bolt action or something...........im just hoping the campaign is worth while, with a lot of levels on earth...another stupid thing in halo 2 was the scarabs, i mean come on they were just dumb....u guys should put more pelicans in levels and more marines, that are acutally smart........the smg's should be made better, dual weilding got out of hand with halo 2, it was kinda dumb if u ask me......u should put more human rifles in the game...it looks like the MA5B assault rifle was brought back after seeing the trailor........dont go to heavy with banshee stuff, cuz in halo 2 they werent even that good....there were a lot of dumb vehicles in halo 2.........i think u guys should just build off halo 1 and forget halo 2 and what u did with that game......One last thing........ARMOUR for god sake.....u guys really messed up with sheilds/armour in halo 2 making it pointless to shoot someon across a map, when u can hit them a hundred times and they can just duck behind a rock for 3 seconds, and there sheild would go back and they would be fine, it ruins the idea for strategy of shooting, halo 1 was good because u could take down someones health, for ur teamate to finish him off later.......u should def think about bringing back healh bars of some type

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  • 05.14.2006 12:11 PM PDT
Subject: Where HAve the Marines Gone !
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You told us that the covenent have control of earth How. In Halo 2 it is stated that the only place on earth that the coventent landed was New Monbassa. And the fleet that atacked Reach was 3 times the size of the fleet that was atacking earth at the start of Halo 2. So your telling me that that small covennet fleet wiped out the whole UNSC fleet apart from the Mac gun that the admiral in on . And after the covernent carier slip spaced inside new monbasa more Covernet landed and took over the world kiling all of the UNSC forces including the Marines.

The Marines are what makes Halo and Halo 2 Awsome please dont tell me that that there all dead. sorry about the bad spelling!

you have probally herd al of this before but i need to Know.
sorry about the bad spelling!

  • 05.14.2006 12:44 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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Mister Chief and Master Chief are 2 different guys. Mister chief is the drawing that Frankie does on most updates.

  • 05.14.2006 12:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: odin123
Thank you for making this a darker game. The halo series is all about despair.

In fact, I will be truely upset if the final mission of the game does not involve a timed level, or at least a story line leaving the whole fate of humanity on my sholders.

Unless we all die. That wold be acceptable.


I 100% agree with you my firend. Halo was supost to make you feel like you were desprite, and guarenteed to lose. The flood were supost to be so tough that it took you a few times to get it down. (Destroying the Generators on halo.) It was suppost to have hudge battles and new threats. (Look at Two betrals and the flood coming out all of a sudden.) The level with the Arbitor trying to retreave the Key is a good halo 2 example.

Posted by: northwoods
Gravemind (aka Audrey 3 or the Brussel Sprout King) would seem to be using Cortana to communicate. "I have defied Gods and Demons", sounds like that dirty old fella has pirated her software (the cad!) and corrupted her operational heirarchy! Oh well, she always did have a thing for the bad-boys.

" ...Your Sword and Shield", maybe the big guy is going to shake off the croutons and lend a hand..or a vine-thingy..and help.

"This is how the world ends" Like, when you are going to make an omlette. I hope once this world is broken, the next has crunchy bits of bacon and jalapeno!

Peace.

ROFLE. People have to read that again.

Posted by: UNYEILDING
that was not MC.

It is MC, its just that he got new armor that got beat up.

Posted by: Cparsnips
ok so all i have to say is that im real happy halo 3 is in the making.......

I do wish there was more Earth levels. They were fun. But I still want to play mostly on Halo. After all, we have all grown acustummed (spelling?) to playing on halo.
The pistol owns when someone duel weilds. Look at the combos that take mere seconds to kill:
BPR + P
PR + P
SMG + P
PP + P
P + P
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You also forget that if you shoot the person with the sniper and then wip out your pistol, you can kill them in one shot. If there shields are down, there gonners. The pistol is good enough. :)

Remember when you went to kill the first Prophet? Remember how many pelicans came and droped reinforcements? That level was tight.

What I would love is that Halo not limit your Allies reinforcemnts. marines would only come if you had 1 or none left. Then the pelican would drop 3 more. If you had them all alive, then you would not get any more reinforcements. GRRRRRR!!!!!
Health bars limited what a player could do, and gave us less freedoms or the fun of charging. So this part I don't agree with.

Anyways, thats my cramming of all in one post :) THANK YOU BUNGIE!
-Aktins Diet

  • 05.14.2006 1:38 PM PDT
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Hey Bungie.
First of all I want to say I'm very happy you're making halo 3.

I've got four questions and I hope you can answer them.
1. Can we expect any new spartens in de game that play a role in the story mode?
2. Will there be any new playable character's, like Flood or something else?
3. Will the graphics in de trailer be the same like when you're actually playing the game and not waching a scene?
4. will "Halo the movie" get a new story line or will it have the same as the game?

These where all my questions. Good luck. And thanks for reading and maybe answering my post(if you did)
Keep up the great work.

  • 05.14.2006 1:41 PM PDT
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IMO MC is controlling all the banshee's via his new controll panel glove. Everyone (including the flood) has teamed up to take on a new, unkown super enemy living in that big hole!
you heard it here 1st!!!

  • 05.14.2006 1:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: halofreak28
because they think the older guns are better but they are not better than the new weapons they are stupid enough to put the sucky guns in halo1 to halo3 again but they did it because it is the last halo i read it in gameinformer


Blah! I'll admit, some of the guns weren't as good in Halo 1 as they were in Halo 2 like the rocket launcher. Locking on kicks ass! But the SMG for example, pistol, etc. etc. I pray that that is a fully automatic Assault Rifle. Short bursts like the BR as well but I so want my Assault Rifle back. Damn SMG's. THEY SUCK!

  • 05.14.2006 1:57 PM PDT
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sweet update guys, but what would be really sweet would be if you guys would release a video of you flying around the environment of the trailer. like what you did for the press. that would be incredible

  • 05.14.2006 2:01 PM PDT
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In the last halo novel there were more spartans than just the master chief. They were not included in halo 2, will they be in halo 3?

  • 05.14.2006 2:13 PM PDT
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Hmmm, This may have been asked before, but I would find this suprising if this wouldn't happen. Earth is in rubble, and the covenant juggernaunt totally owned the human race so far. But, the main focus has been on Master Cheif, reading the books, its obvious that there are more Spartans, and a clue in the New Mombasa trailer for Halo 2, where the guy said "I didnt think they'd said a spartan" Meaning, that he wasnt the only spartan, if he was they would say "I didnt think theyd said the spartan". Anyways will there be more Spartans in the game, like Kelly for example? Will there be flashback levels or a new halo game to go back to the origins of Reach and its destruction? Thanks

  • 05.14.2006 2:29 PM PDT
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Hey Frankie me and alot of my friends are big time Halo CE and Halo 2 players and we got a question that we'd really love to be answered.

Alot of people in our area love CTF matches and though 1 flag on H2 is fun we would all really love to see the return of 1 flag from Halo CE. It was just a better test of skill to to go from off. to def. with no time in between because teams didnt have the time to set up like they do now. Is their any hope that we will see this style of CTF in H3 or is it too early to know?


  • 05.14.2006 2:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nimac91
1. Can we expect any new spartens in de game that play a role in the story mode?


Man that would be so sweet playing as like Linda or Fred but an even better idea was that somehow the Master Chief links up with the Spartan - 111's and you get to play as one of them or alongside them.

  • 05.14.2006 3:15 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 3 release date 2007.What month releasing halo 3?
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Hey bungie can you be a little genouros and tell what month you release halo 3 because i just got a 1yr. xbox live renewal and im worried that it might run out before you guys release it.F.Y.I the xbox live will end in march 2007.

  • 05.14.2006 3:37 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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is lyca.com connected to halo 3 or bungie in any way whatsoever?

  • 05.14.2006 4:04 PM PDT

"There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now?" -Prophet of Truth (Halo 2)




Now to the Update:

WOW, that was really cool! I never expected it to look that good. Damn those guys are something. The music was a little over the top though I thought. But I have confidence that Marty will pull through, because his music is always excellent. Maybe its an example of what direction he is heading? And what of the Arbiter? What of the flood? God I hope there is a lot of flood. I love them. I also want to ride the dinos:)

*sigh* that sucks that it is the last one. Damn you Bungie. Well, I guess the map editor is even more important then!

Oh, and Please show the demo. Or at least some pics of the Ships!
-Aktins Diet
Edit: I change my mind on the music. I guess I did not "feel" it cause it was so alien. But now it feels right.... Thought I might let you know. Good job Marty.


Yeah thats right. Edit yourself for complaining about greatness.

  • 05.14.2006 4:08 PM PDT
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hmmm..... maybe this has been asked, but cortana can't be a good guy any more. In the end of Halo2 after the longest credits, she and that plant looking thing were talking. she told him she knew everthing(which i think was refering to the humans and covenants) and i think she she said it was alright to ask her questions. So basically she told the bad guys everything and dosen't care any more. Is this why she seemed so evil on the trailer?

  • 05.14.2006 4:19 PM PDT
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just wanting to know will halo 3 be launched simultaneusly??coz i really hate the fact that i live in england and the americans get it first!!!no offence to americans

  • 05.14.2006 4:42 PM PDT
Subject: Wallpaper
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Is there any chance of some widescreen versions of the wallpapers? "Finish the Fight" looks fine centered, so that's not a big deal, but "Return of Chief" doesn't work nearly as well for that. 1600x1200 is too narrow for even a 1680x1050 screen (which is getting more and more common on notebooks down to 15" and 20" desktop displays), and many people now have 24" and even 30" displays with massive resolutions. I think you should offer any wallpapers that don't center nicely in at least 1920x1080 resolution, for those of us who have 24" 1920x1200 displays or 1080i/p HDTVs. 2560x1600 would be nice for the 30" users out there, but if that's too much of a hassle I guess it's understandable since they're a serious minority of users.

And another thing, what's the point of even offering 800x600? Who uses that anymore?


or maybe I'm just a resolution snob, ah well...

  • 05.14.2006 4:44 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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Nice Update!

Should we expect more trailers, video clips, pictures or anything like that anytime soon? Or are you going to keep all that stuff on the low down and keep Halo 3 more mysterious?

Oh and take your time Bungie, make this game the best it can possibly be.
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  • 05.14.2006 5:02 PM PDT
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Glad to see my question get answered about 3d screenshots, really put that into perspective.

By any chanca in Halo 3 Multiplay would we see Xbox Live Camera options, such as, helmet removal if you are a spartan? That would be a really neat feature.

  • 05.14.2006 5:05 PM PDT
Subject: Wallpaper
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I would love to know are there any new gameplay elements in Halo 3 like the ability to hide behind objects like G.O.W or something like that. Or will it be the same smash mouth in your face type of gameplay.
Plus will there be any new veichles (spelling). All together now. ATV.ATV.ATV.ATV.ATV.ATV.

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  • 05.14.2006 5:05 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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FINALY!!!! a good game for the 360!!!!!!

  • 05.14.2006 5:12 PM PDT
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hey, what would mr. chief look like without his helmet on (...hes gotta takeit off to eat, doesnt he... if not, how does mister chief eat?)

  • 05.14.2006 5:20 PM PDT
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I am so happy that they put up the "lyrics" of the trailer. Now no one can say "oh she said SOURCE" and crap like that. But yo it was a GREAT Q and A this week. I seriously hope they put out andother Special Additon DVD with the game ! I really liked the H2 one So i hope they do it again.!

Also.....The Assault Rifle is back. Its back! (HEART THUMPS WITH LOVE)

  • 05.14.2006 6:18 PM PDT
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WoW PLeEz TeLL Me ThAt ThE BR WOnt LoOk LiKe ThE BR In HaLo 1 ItS SoOoO NoObie

  • 05.14.2006 6:46 PM PDT