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Subject: custom game search
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this is what BUNGIE needs to do with the HALO 3 coustom game, you should be able to search custom games like GRAW and B2F:MC has it

  • 06.18.2006 11:51 PM PDT
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then you could boost your stats with your friends hence peoples levels are not correct

  • 06.18.2006 11:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: someguy582
then you could boost your stats with your friends hence peoples levels are not correct
you are incredibly silly. custom matches would not be ranked....

  • 06.18.2006 11:58 PM PDT
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then i dont think you want random people joining your custom games

  • 06.18.2006 11:59 PM PDT
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You have stats for custom games? lol, what hes trying to say is you can search for unranked games that you want to play.

Say you wana play Waterworks multiflag? with 8v8.. problem is you have 7 friends online and only two are willing to play this you can then start a game and watch random people who want to play the exact same thing that you have never met in your life join the game and start palying.

Or you could search for anygame type on zanzibar and a list of zanzibar games would coem up showing the ammount of players and what the gametype is.

This would make onlnie gameing alot more fun as not may would cheat in a custom game? and you could always just play matchmaking to get ya rank up lol.

  • 06.19.2006 12:00 AM PDT
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then you can set it to private match

  • 06.19.2006 12:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: XTS Platinum
You have stats for custom games? lol, what hes trying to say is you can search for unranked games that you want to play.

Say you wana play Waterworks multiflag? with 8v8.. problem is you have 7 friends online and only two are willing to play this you can then start a game and watch random people who want to play the exact same thing that you have never met in your life join the game and start palying.

Or you could search for anygame type on zanzibar and a list of zanzibar games would coem up showing the ammount of players and what the gametype is.

This would make onlnie gameing alot more fun as not may would cheat in a custom game? and you could always just play matchmaking to get ya rank up lol.


but then that list would contain at least a couple thousand selections and personaly i think that is a lot

  • 06.19.2006 12:02 AM PDT
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The problem with a custom game search is that now Halo 3 turns into every other game on XBL- and ultimately, people will just stop playing. I truly think that this will happen- custom game searches will take away from people playing MM on a consistent basies, and then it gets just as little traffic as other games do. Have you ever tried playing another game over XBL? It's murder just to get into one, and let alone play it for longer than 20 minutes before everyone leaves. It's kind of like joining the custom game of one of your friend's friends. It always just ends up being lame.

  • 06.19.2006 12:04 AM PDT
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The problem with a custom game search is that now Halo 3 turns into every other game on XBL- and ultimately, people will just stop playing. I truly think that this will happen- custom game searches will take away from people playing MM on a consistent basies, and then it gets just as little traffic as other games do. Have you ever tried playing another game over XBL? It's murder just to get into one, and let alone play it for longer than 20 minutes before everyone leaves. It's kind of like joining the custom game of one of your friend's friends. It always just ends up being lame. IMO i like custom game over MM, and alot of other will agree with me

  • 06.19.2006 12:07 AM PDT
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its not gonna happen dont get ur hopes up

  • 06.19.2006 12:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: GHOST x SOLDlER
The problem with a custom game search is that now Halo 3 turns into every other game on XBL- and ultimately, people will just stop playing. I truly think that this will happen- custom game searches will take away from people playing MM on a consistent basies, and then it gets just as little traffic as other games do. Have you ever tried playing another game over XBL? It's murder just to get into one, and let alone play it for longer than 20 minutes before everyone leaves. It's kind of like joining the custom game of one of your friend's friends. It always just ends up being lame. IMO i like custom game over MM, and alot of other will agree with me


Don't get me wrong- I LOVE custom games. I haven't played in MM in months. But I'm thinking that both Bungie and MS want Halo 3 to have the longevity of Halo 2- I don't think that the custom game searches will allow for this to be fleshed out. The good thing about MM (that keeps Halo 2 so easy to play for many people) is that it just puts you straight into a game, without all the fuss. It's actually the easiest game to just jump online and play out of any I've seen. Very user friendly.

  • 06.19.2006 12:33 AM PDT
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Ya but With onethousand games you could join when you search a map you are bound to find a game you will enjoy. and custom games arent ranked so people will still play match making as long as its ranked.

And sure people can't handel loseing and leave as soon as they cant possibly win thats why you could introduce things that count how many games you leave that way custom games when being created have the ability to only let people who have left say 25 or less game inside the custom game. and for people who have to leave because there going out etc. well thats just to bad its the exact same for amtchmaking people just quit on ya team because they "got to go"

  • 06.19.2006 12:49 AM PDT
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Haha- see, I don't think you should punish people at all for leaving a custom game- that sounds a little over the top to me.

  • 06.19.2006 12:53 AM PDT
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unlike most people my levels are to high if i play slayer i always have a deranker or getting cheated, im a 41 in slayer was a 42 but got cheated 2 games and went to a 41

  • 06.19.2006 1:33 AM PDT