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Subject: Message to Bungie from Australian Xbox Live community - Energy Swords

I'd die to become immortal,
That's why I play Halo Reach

I am here, as a representative of the Commonwealth of Australia (not officially or anything) to express my concern about the inclusion of Swords, not only in Halo 2 Xbox Live, but also in the upcoming Halo 3's Xbox Live section.

I, like all Australian Halo 2 fans, hate the lag we experience all the time when playing online. No matter what, when playing with Americans or anyone outside Australia, we experience lag that severely impairs our ability to play. I'm sure there are many people who are sympathetic to our situation.

This lag is not really a problem most of the time. One bar less than our international buddies is alright when playing a simple game of Team Slayer BR (sometimes). But when playing something like Team Rockets or any map with an Energy Sword, this opne bar of lag can severely stifle our performance.

Many Australians (including me) have been victims to this problem. I have played many a game where i will finally get my hands on the coveted energy sword, only to get it taken by a cocky American who somehow managed to kill me with an SMG. They will then often proceed with teabagging me, slashing my corpse with my own sword, calling me a "british n**b" and bragging about how they "killed the sword guy with an SMG".

Bungie, if you plan to include swords in your Halo 3 Xbox Live arsenal, please try to minimise lag for your friendly Australian friends. We only wish to play fair, friendly games (most of us) without having to suffer such humiliation and annoyance. Thanks for listening.

  • 06.14.2006 2:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: AAAAHHHH GRENADE
I am here, as a representative of the Commonwealth of Australia (not officially or anything)

I was about to ask when we got a Halo 2 representative for the Commonwealth. >_>

-TGP-

  • 06.14.2006 3:00 AM PDT

I'd die to become immortal,
That's why I play Halo Reach

Great Pretender, you're from Perth, aren't you?

Surely you must know what I am talking about.

  • 06.14.2006 3:07 AM PDT
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While your lag I'm sure is much worse, here in America there are problems too. Our swords go through people, stop short, don't lunge, etc.
I think it's the whole sword that's glitchy though, and the lag only makes it worse. (I've also had these problems on a system link and split screen, only less severe)

  • 06.14.2006 3:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: AAAAHHHH GRENADE
Great Pretender, you're from Perth, aren't you?

Surely you must know what I am talking about.

I don't have XBL. But I'm sure it's horrible.

-TGP-

  • 06.14.2006 3:09 AM PDT
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Amen to that. I'm from New Zealand and we get it even worse than you.

  • 06.14.2006 3:14 AM PDT
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I know what you mean, My lag is terrible.

Oh, wait I'm from Virginia. Maybe we should remeber that everyone is having those problems.

  • 06.14.2006 3:20 AM PDT
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Ya im kiwi and i dont even touch the sword. the only use in me picking it up and holding it is so my team dosent get killed by it. i gave up even trying to use it id rather take my chances with a SMG or BR mele because these are more effective for me.

And yes its all because of lag.

  • 06.14.2006 3:29 AM PDT

Heres to hoping for a better game next time around, eh?

  • 06.14.2006 3:32 AM PDT
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I just pickup any weapon in my visual radius that I don't have to do a great escapede for. I bearly use the sword (unless my friend starts beign a <<<Insert Alternative For Donkey Here>>>, and he needs a good slap, slap stick between the eyes)

  • 06.14.2006 3:44 AM PDT

I'd die to become immortal,
That's why I play Halo Reach

Don't you just hate it, too, in those games of Team Rockets when you turn a corner and see someone three metres away and you know that you've fired the rocket first, yet theirs always seems to blow you up.

  • 06.14.2006 4:35 AM PDT
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im from australia and i have a 2 MB/s connection...

and yes i ALWAYS laaaaaaaaaaaaaag. i shoot someone in the face with my shotgun. 2 seconds later im dead, from them shooting me with thier SMG.

It sucks.

  • 06.14.2006 4:55 AM PDT
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It's latency not lag. Lag is the slight packetloss on the way to Australia (which would be somewhat expected because it travels half-way around the world).

Latency however is the big problem. And the green bars don't account for it.

  • 06.14.2006 4:58 AM PDT
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it's fine with me well most of the time
but yes I usually get lots of laag and standbying
Edit: and yes I'm form Australia

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  • 06.14.2006 5:00 AM PDT
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Yeah, I don't have Live. But my mate has it (toadmurderer I think?)
I LOVE! teabagging people.
There was a sniper on the Halo2 Blood Gluich level and I saw this guy thrying to snipe my friend. So I krept up on him with my sword and bare raped him with it and then proceded to tea-bag him!!! good times.

  • 06.14.2006 5:05 AM PDT
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Oh good the Governor General is speaking up about Halo 2 - wait... you're not an official!
We need regional filters though, servers would fix nothing (get that idea out of your heads), an option to use regional filtering would ensure minimal lag at the expense of extra time to start up a game.


Edit: Latency is the killer not lag. And it certainly isnt spelt 'laag', that means "light anti aircraft gun" aka warthog turret. Latency is the delay between our information being sent from our xboxes to the host. Lag is irrelavant.


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  • 06.14.2006 5:26 AM PDT
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Don't feel alone in the sword shenanigans.......Some times when I try to scrape the dirt off my buddy's armor, I kill him. But it's ok, I have more friends......

  • 06.14.2006 5:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: AJaflame
Don't feel alone in the sword shenanigans.......Some times when I try to scrape the dirt off my buddy's armor, I kill him. But it's ok, I have more friends......


Not to get off topic, but I love your sig!

  • 06.14.2006 2:22 PM PDT
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ur a f4g

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  • 06.14.2006 2:24 PM PDT

"On the seventh day, god did not rest, but rather he created 64 player multiplayer!"

we get lag here too at Bill Gates' estate -_- pretty lame

  • 06.14.2006 2:40 PM PDT
Subject: Message to Bungee from Australian Xbox Live community - Energy Swords
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doesnt australia have some law against M-games and up?

also it relly just tells me you suck at halo2......there relly shouldent be a problem

  • 06.14.2006 2:58 PM PDT