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  • Poll [40 votes]: How would you prefer the booting system in H3?
Subject: Booting in Halo 3
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Poll: How would you prefer the booting system in H3?  [closed]
It's a dandy the way it is.:  28%
(11 Votes)
Two team kills and you're booted.:  38%
(15 Votes)
I don't know.:  12%
(5 Votes)
My idea (post below):  22%
(9 Votes)
Total Votes: 40

In my opinion, Bungie can come up with a far better "booting" system for Halo 3 than they have for Halo 2.

If you are hunting teammates down with a shotgun, you should be booted.

If you are using a Warthog turret and a couple stray bullets hit a teammate and an enemy kills him soon after, you should not be booted.

You should only be given two chances in a game. Two betrayals (no reference to Halo CE), and it is the victims' choice as to whether or not you get booted.

Also, you should only be booted if you actually >>KILL<< a teammate. Hitting an ally in the ankle with an SMG bullet by accident and then having an enemy kill him with a sniper headshot should not result in the dead person's ability to boot you.

As my final rant... Don't boot someone if the option comes up. I have been given the choice to boot a teammate even though he didn't betray me or shoot me by accident... So I didn't press X. Hopefully others can do the same.

Who thinks that a much better system is needed for Halo 3?

[Edited on 6/6/2006]

  • 06.06.2006 2:18 PM PDT
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VOTING SYSTEM

when your betrayed you can choose to cast a vote and everybody else can press the back button and A for yes or B for no that way noone misses out if they are in the middle of something and they can still keep playing when they vote. Also if you have a deleveler, you can go through the start menus and call a vote that way.

Votes work for other games why not halo

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I think that it shouldn't be limited like that. I think that there should be different booting values for different gametypes. For example, it should take maybe four teamkills to get booted in a Rocket match, and maybe two in a Snipers match, and teamkilling in one game should not affect how many teamkills it takes to boot you from a different game. I know that Bungie was thinking for the best when they thought of this system, but it just doesn't work most of time.

  • 06.06.2006 2:30 PM PDT
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just so you know, hitting your teamate in theleg with an smg and then hm getting sniped would not result in a betrayal. that is a fact

  • 06.06.2006 2:57 PM PDT
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you should be booted for killing yourself over and over again automatically so you cant delevel and ruin everyones game

i agree with the two betrayals and your out. however there should be a system so you cannot betray people to get power weapons. so if you betray a person in your team for thier power weapon like a launcher it disappears and appears in front of a different random team mate so your team dosnt lose the weapon.

  • 06.06.2006 3:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: mmm_ARVO
just so you know, hitting your teamate in theleg with an smg and then hm getting sniped would not result in a betrayal. that is a fact


OH YEAH? Just this week it happened. DON'T ASK ME HOW. But it's worst when you're using the chaingun on Turf. I was booted while I had a 12 kill spree on the gun because I turned the turret while it was firing to shoot other enemies, and skimmed an ally. Boom, he gets wasted by sniper, and im booted just like that.

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  • 06.06.2006 3:05 PM PDT
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I think if you get killed by a teamate the option to boot goes up no mater what. Because sometimes it takes awhile to be able to boot some idiot on your team. After they kill you and you hear them say sorry or something, you just don't boot them, but if their lauphing and saying "take that -blam!-" you can boot them.

  • 06.06.2006 3:06 PM PDT

Call me crazy....but how about this?

right now, your only option is "hold X to boot palyer" when he or she betrays you (accident or not).

What about adding custom text options to the other buttons ?

Y to tell player "That better have been an accident!"
B to tell player "My grandma can shoot better than you and she'd dead!"
A to tell player [whatever you want....]

you could set up all these options during game setup/character creation.

But overall I think there still needs to be a way to boot someone who betrays you. Sometimes that's the only way to get rid of a jerk who is ruining your game. Plus sometimes 3 on 4 is better than 4 on 4....

  • 06.06.2006 3:11 PM PDT
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3 on 4 for snipers and slayer yes, but CTF and BOMB or TERRITORIES, no, but then again yes if you got a idiot !

What deffinatly should be changed is pressing x cause I have mistakenly booted people cause I was trying to get into a vehicle or something...lol

  • 06.06.2006 3:16 PM PDT
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If you have -5 kills you should be booted, but otherwise, it's just peachy.

  • 06.06.2006 3:17 PM PDT
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i got a good idea how about it could work like normal but the only way to counter gettin booted is to T-Bag the person u betrayed

OR more T-Bags on the enemy the harder it is for u to get booted

or no way to get booted for a select few people

and it souldnt carry between games ill betray a bunch people in one game an just bump into a friend another game and it gives them the optian

  • 06.06.2006 3:17 PM PDT
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okay..i agree the booting systom needs changing. i have been booted b4 becuz i have betrayed teammates bcyz they run rite into my grenades...or sumthing lyk that adn bcuz they are stupid they boot even tho it was accident

and in rocket matches i kill myself alot (on accident of course) and betray teammates also cause im not relly good with rockets.

ok... the voting thing where you go into the menu and vote to kik sum1 out wont work...
i have been booted out b4 in other games (area 51) when i wasnt team killing or killing myself or being a jackass or anything. if a new player was doing badly people would want to kik him/her out of the game. i dont think thast very fair...they wont get better if they never play

my idea: 2 teamkills adn vote to kick
4+ teamkills = last person killed get a choice to boot him
2 suicides = vote (except on levels that have places ware you fall of edge ex. lockout[i sometimes fall of alot] or rocket gametypes)
4 suicides (on levels like lockout or rocket gametypes) = vote

  • 06.06.2006 3:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Monky2Guns
If you have -5 kills you should be booted, but otherwise, it's just peachy.


that woodnt work cuz in one game i played we was about to win and one noob started kiling himself(he had about 10 kills) and he killed himself about 6 or 7 times so we lost

  • 06.06.2006 3:27 PM PDT
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I dont know if this has ever been proposed, but i think that if Bungie is upping the # of players, they should allow co-leaders in cutom games. That way, there is more than 1 person capable of booting in a custom game.

  • 06.06.2006 3:29 PM PDT

Posted by: Mr PWNAG3
okay..i agree the booting systom needs changing. i have been booted b4 becuz i have betrayed teammates bcyz they run rite into my grenades...or sumthing lyk that adn bcuz they are stupid they boot even tho it was accident

and in rocket matches i kill myself alot (on accident of course) and betray teammates also cause im not relly good with rockets.
ummm...I don't think suicides/betrayals count in rocket only games....pls someone correct me if i'm wrong.

ok... the voting thing where you go into the menu and vote to kik sum1 out wont work...
i have been booted out b4 in other games (area 51) when i wasnt team killing or killing myself or being a jackass or anything. if a new player was doing badly people would want to kik him/her out of the game. i dont think thast very fair...they wont get better if they never play

my idea: 2 teamkills adn vote to kick
4+ teamkills = last person killed get a choice to boot him
2 suicides = vote (except on levels that have places ware you fall of edge ex. lockout[i sometimes fall of alot] or rocket gametypes)
4 suicides (on levels like lockout or rocket gametypes) = vote
Too many options too much time for people to "vote" or whatever...

If anything new is added, it still has to be easy for everyone to use.

How about a "demerit" system.

upon a betrayal, you can either boot that person right away, or give them a "demerit" vote....or do nothing.

After 3 or 4 "demerits" that player is booted.

and maybe...the more demerits the longer your respawn time is.

In custom games you can change all the options of course to suit your gametype.

Accidents are going to happen, and I usually wait until the 2nd or 3rd time a player betrays me (who knows if he's betrayed other teammates...) before I boot. Unless the guy is a total jerk and won't shut up....

  • 06.06.2006 3:40 PM PDT
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I think that how many betrayals before being booted should be a setting in the game variants creation. Because you always have that party leader who will kill you but if you kill him your booted.

[Edited on 6/6/2006]

  • 06.06.2006 4:31 PM PDT