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Subject: Please put CUSTOM GAME LIST in Halo 3
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Poll: Do you want an unranked custom game list?  [closed]
yes let me choose which game i join:  50%
(6 Votes)
no, just random:  50%
(6 Votes)
Total Votes: 12

Please Give us a custom games list online. I want to be able to look at a list of custom unranked games, see who the host is how many people are playing and what game type it is. Then i want to select a game ( already in progress) and join it. And i want to be able to stay with the host for however long i choose and not get kicked out after ten minutes.

Halo 2 does not let you do this. There is no list to choose from. If you want a custom game it forces you to send "Invites" to people on your friends list. BUT What IF none of your friends are online??!! Then you have send "Invites" to random strangers who do not know you and are already playing different games. 75% of the time NO ONE accepts your invite because they are not looking for custom games. THE SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK !

If only there were some kind of place where players could go to find other players who were looking to join custom games, some sort of ..... uh....... list Where like minded individuals can find eachother in the game, Insted of forcing us to send out "invites" into an ocean of online gamers who are to busy to respond to people they dont know.
IT IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY BUNGIE FIX IT !

  • 06.30.2006 3:22 AM PDT
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A custom game list would make cheating easier. Boosting would be an even easier thing to do.

  • 06.30.2006 3:28 AM PDT
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Agreed.

  • 06.30.2006 3:40 AM PDT
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Custom game list would be UNRANKED !!!

Listen the only reason bungie put in the ranking system was to make sure that new players did not get matched up with vets. So the game would be fun. BUt they took custom list because there no way regulate who joins who. BUt they forgot about the fun. People dont want to play random game type with random map and random people for 10 minutes and have NO REMATCH ? even if theres a TIE? And then get spit out into the abyss and start serching all over. People want to stay in the game they're in and JUST KEEP PLAYING.

What Bungie should do is Make rank invisible to everyone online and just let you choose on a check list " I do not want to be matched with a rank 37 or what ever"
And that would solve the problem of balancing skills and we could still have unranked custom list

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  • 06.30.2006 3:40 AM PDT
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"People dont want to play random game type with random map and random people for 10 minutes and have NO REMATCH ? even if theres a TIE? And then get spit out into the abyss and start serching all over."

Yes they do.

  • 06.30.2006 3:47 AM PDT
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Okay well everyone is different You already have a list for that,,so wheres my list?
see its not a fair setup we should have the options there anyway.

sometimes i get tired of getting matched up with random people somtimes from different countries, who dont even what game type it is. ( ASSAULT or CTF 1or 2 flag) and then in 10 minute right when you start to work togerther. you all get kicked out.

I just want some structure. there should be both

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I see the usefulness of your idea, but I can always start a custom game if I want to.

  • 06.30.2006 3:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: Centrocal
75% of the time NO ONE accepts your invite because they are not looking for custom games.


And they're not looking for custom games..why??
Because the system DOES work and work quite well

  • 06.30.2006 4:09 AM PDT
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No they are not looking for custom games because they are playing Matchmaking. But for people who want custom games there is no option for them to look at. They have to send Invites. and what about the time when none of your friends are online? Thats where it doesn't work

Im not saying get rid of matchmaking. im saying we should have more choices

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  • 06.30.2006 4:16 AM PDT
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do you mean opening your custom game for peopl to join who arnt on your friends list? kind of like the system that other games use as long as its just customs and keep the same matchmaking system

  • 06.30.2006 5:05 AM PDT

Posted by: Mr Lueckert
Posted by: Centrocal
75% of the time NO ONE accepts your invite because they are not looking for custom games.


And they're not looking for custom games..why??
Because the system DOES work and work quite well


Yeah, that would be why at least one person quits every other game...

  • 06.30.2006 5:24 AM PDT

These type of threads were done to death after Halo2 was released. As much as Matchmaking is fun I simply cannot see (Other than 'Matchmaking *cannot* fail, we have to make it the only way to play without hassle') why Bungie did not include a simple elegant way of finding custom games in H2 like just about every other online game already has and hope they add something like it in H3 to compliment the MM system. Make the customs unranked as they currently are and you have no problem of people "getting ahead of themselves" in rank.

  • 06.30.2006 7:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: Libarate Humanit
do you mean opening your custom game for peopl to join who arnt on your friends list? kind of like the system that other games use as long as its just customs and keep the same matchmaking system


Exactly Every other online game in the world uses this system.

There is no justifyable reason not to have this option in Halo 3. It would not change anything, it would just make online function better for everyone

  • 06.30.2006 12:07 PM PDT