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Subject: The Bungie Weekly Update

-thirst

Can I be in it next time??? My Account , DrXThirst is banned and I dont care , Its gonna run out in August , and I still mod on it , and no , not in MM - I have a scarab on turf and I added teleporters that take you outside the map and one that takes you on top of the scarab and other things that are pretty cool , anywayz I wanna be in the Next Waaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!!! Please!! Oh , and btw , Ask AgdTinMan if he remembers me! Thanks , thirst (lol , you probably think Im an idiot!)

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  • 06.30.2006 8:55 PM PDT
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For Legendary thirst, what the... For the update, great waaaaaaaaaahbulance. Worst excuse ever, "my cousins sister dropped his out the window, and i let him use mine." First off, wasn't it a sister? what's with all these his?

  • 06.30.2006 9:00 PM PDT
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LOL! I have never laughed so hard! I never knew cheaters had a point in life but now I have found it: to entertain us with their pathetic excuses. These have got to be the funniest excuses for being banned i have ever seen. Keep them coming!!!!!

The AI sounds like its gona be wicked it h3 oo and a new creature 'bigger than a grunt' ooooooo and making the sniper more powerful etc.... DAM you time! takes so long...

  • 06.30.2006 9:15 PM PDT
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p.s. sorry i cant spell im only 13

If by your only 13 you mean your I.Q. is 13 then you have an excuse.

Bungie you guys are F'ed Up really stop putting peoples letter just to mock them. Your hitting them when their down even if they did cheat its still F'ed up. Plus you guys are friggen lazy noobs at your own game, there are so many problems and Mistakes in halo 2 multiplayer I could only have guested that you hire Retarded Monkeys to MAke Halo 2. GOOD GAmes BUt so much crap I don't want to deal with. Also you better step up to the plate and start Banning more people who cheat 8 out of 10 games I play against Modders, Bridgers, and Stand Bying Retards I know a guy how has been bridging for SO damn long he is a 40 in everything and still hasn't been caught, WOW shows how much you guys are working, that kid played over 200 games cheating and was not banned that is retarted.

someone call the waambulance


if u can't spell you should be banned for that straight up and down....but yeah umm i think its great that bungie is crackign down on ppl for cheating.....

I aGrie WiT Yoou



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  • 06.30.2006 9:18 PM PDT

Strike with great vengeance

-The "Omnipotent" Sean Connery

Your overconfidence is your weakness.

Much as a Jedi in KOTOR II, I try to look at the big picture. One good deed now could mean severe consequences for the future. Ban a modder, they turn to Sony to sate their gaming lust. This is not the main point in my post. It's actually rather unbased and mostly insignificant. My main point in this is to get some information about banishment and if its possible for people that do not cheat to get banned. I know why I pity the emails from these cheaters, although I hate them with a passion. They are a wretched hive of scum and villainy.All I pity is what could be the truth. Is it possible for one to steal another's account via IP addresses and such and get them banned. If this can happen than these wambulance reports are that of tragedy and sadness. Can you get banned for getting put with a team of modders? When I get matched with modders on my team I either quit or betray them as is possible, but very difficult. I so very fear getting banned for these reasons. I do not cheat. Never have, but can someone hack my account, can I get banned for random teammates cheating. What if one had a friend that they know ONCE modded, and now claims to have stopped. What if he's lying? What if he mods secretly, betraying that persons trust. Could that get the one banned. I find no value in a number there for the reason that someone cheated. I don't even know why I find value in the number earned for killing thousands, tens of thousands, of strangers, and yet I do find value in that sort of number. I do not want to get banned. I am blessed with an awesome gamertag that I intend to keep. I just want reassurance that an innocent such as myself can not suffer due to the sins of others. Fight your war against cheating Banhammer, but do not crush the innocent on your path to righteousness. For this is the downfall of all good deeds.

  • 06.30.2006 9:22 PM PDT

They should post there gamer tags so people could shame them even more.

  • 06.30.2006 9:24 PM PDT

I have a rendezvous with death. At some disputed barricade.

Dude!

Im 12 and I can spell better than that kid...

What do they teach in America these days?

Peace out,
~Tuan

  • 06.30.2006 9:37 PM PDT
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i am a new member on bungie my account aint very old but i have been on xbox live for half a year now playin halo 2 and i can 't balive half the people who send these stupid letters to bungie about thier account like i don't think bungie employies would ban some one unless they had eviedance and poeple who complain about other people messing up thier account like serouisly bungie aint gona reactivate the account and to all those halo 2 players who got banned and are complaining

SUCK IT UP POKAHAUNTAS and sorry for my grammer

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  • 06.30.2006 9:48 PM PDT
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The Waaahmbulance really pisses me off, i cant believe there are such pathetic life forms in the human race.

BTW nice post Pastree

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  • 06.30.2006 9:50 PM PDT
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like if i did mode i would just say gongrats if they caught me and suck it up and buy a new account like don't send these pathetic email's wich u r just gonna get laughed at for


AND OW YA THX FRANKIE FOR THE UPDATE

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  • 06.30.2006 9:51 PM PDT

I have a question... have you actually unbanned anyone before because of one of those e-mails? I would be very suprised if you have, but who knows. Just wondering.

  • 06.30.2006 9:56 PM PDT
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that is a good question

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That was one of the best updates I have ever read. Frank, you did awesome talking about the progress of Halo 3 without revealing what will be in it (besides the beam rifle, but I guess most people would assume that is going to be in the game).
The only thing that was not so good was the plea from the 1st ammendment guy. Did he get banned? I hope so because he really needed to learn some phrases, including: "rules", "term of use", "code of conduct", etc.

  • 06.30.2006 10:00 PM PDT
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hey to the mother of the kid that got acct banned for no apparent reason or what not i know its a long stretch but itf it was ever transferd to the xbox 360 theres a chance that the parent settings are stoppign him from playing online happened to me so yep check the settings if so

  • 06.30.2006 10:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: SNIP3RS R UZ
Dude!

Im 12 and I can spell better than that kid...

What do they teach in America these days?

Peace out,
~Tuan


They teach you how to cope with ignorant people like you (assuming that the kid was American, I mean ****, he could have been from whatever country live in), spelling that would surprise you more than if you saw a girl without clothes, and a bunch of other stuff that would be more devastating to your brain than a lightning bolt.
Besides. The moron could have spelled 31 wrong, or he might not be going to school so he can help his poor family get some money. Both of you should shut up, and stop hogging community game consoles and computers.

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  • 06.30.2006 10:14 PM PDT
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You tease Frankie. I was playing and like I got attacked by grunts and other....not grunts. ZOMB

EDIT: NightHunter, no offence man, but you need to calm down a little. Your going to have a heart attack or something.

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  • 06.30.2006 10:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Pastree
Your overconfidence is your weakness.

Much as a Jedi in KOTOR II, I try to look at the big picture. One good deed now could mean severe consequences for the future. Ban a modder, they turn to Sony to sate their gaming . This is not the main point in my post. It's actually rather unbased and mostly insignificant. My main point in this is to get some information about banishment and if its possible for people that do not cheat to get banned. I know why I pity the emails from these cheaters, although I them with a passion. They are a wretched hive of scum and villainy.All I pity is what could be the truth. Is it possible for one to steal another's account via IP addresses and such and get them banned. If this can happen than these wambulance reports are that of tragedy and sadness. Can you get banned for getting put with a team of modders? When I get matched with modders on my team I either quit or betray them as is possible, but very difficult. I so very fear getting banned for these reasons. I do not cheat. Never have, but can someone hack my account, can I get banned for random teammates cheating. What if one had a friend that they know ONCE modded, and now claims to have stopped. What if he's lying? What if he mods secretly, betraying that persons trust. Could that get the one banned. I find no value in a number there for the reason that someone cheated. I don't even know why I find value in the number earned for thousands, tens of thousands, of strangers, and yet I do find value in that sort of number. I do not want to get banned. I am blessed with an awesome gamertag that I intend to keep. I just want reassurance that an such as myself can not suffer due to the sins of others. Fight your war against cheating Banhammer, but do not crush the on your path to righteousness. For this is the downfall of all good deeds.


If cheaters weren't banned, then legitimate players would switch to sony. Every time they'd go into matchmaking, they'd be cheated. It's like opposites! .WON TI EES NAC i ,OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOw

  • 06.30.2006 10:31 PM PDT
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R E A D T H I S! <Ok, those guys that keep sending those messages are a bunch of nerdy losers who live and breath Halo. GET LIVES! Some of those guys are a bunch of bastards if you ask me>

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  • 06.30.2006 10:32 PM PDT
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Yo Bungie, by the way, u should consider the fact that maybe the dudes cousin dropped it out a window, people are stupid sometimes after all. 1 time, a hammer nearly dropped on my xbox cause my cousin was being careless

  • 06.30.2006 10:37 PM PDT

OMG
Master Chief w/o his Helmet!


Stosh <3's me vicariously... at least someone does...

Mister looks scared...

  • 06.30.2006 10:38 PM PDT
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Ugh. Thanks a mil, Frankie. Now I have pink lemonade all up in my nose. It frickin' burns!

Oh well, It's the price we pay for the Whaaaaambulance. Good update. I'm glad the Beam rifle's getting beefed up, I like it far better than the Human Sniper anyday.

Hm... Time for idle speculation... Scary gametype? Maybe a Survival mode, with dark corners, creepy green goo dripping from the ceiling, Flood monsters jumping out from around every corner... Flood brutes, maybe? I don't use the term lightly, but... ZOMG... That'd be cool... While I'm dreaming, I'd really like a pony...

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Posted by: SNIP3RS R UZ
Dude!

Im 12 and I can spell better than that kid...

What do they teach in America these days?

Peace out,
~Tuan


Haha where the nearest liquor and ammo store is IMO.

Was a decent update Frankie, however something bothered me. I’ve noticed quite a few people over the last month or so say in the weekly report they were simply in a game where there was already someone cheating.
Now I don’t have Live yet, but plan to by the time H3 rolls around, and I’m sort of concerned. If I’m matched up with other people that I don’t know...and I will literally know nobody when I get connected, if someone is cheating and I don’t know they are and I’m in the same game as them, there’s a chance I could get banned as well? That doesn’t sound very user friendly. One guy, or his mom, couldn’t really tell who, said he played for 3 hours and was purma banned...Bungie says, all the people on his friends list were cheaters, so he wasn’t innocent.
So my question is, how do you spot cheaters and or bridgers? How do you know if you've been matched up with one and if you do...then what? Leave the game when you know? Or leave a match list prior to starting the game? Report it?...unplug your Xbox and say nothing?
You guys dont really incurage people to report cheaters if your going to ban the person that reported them, only because they were in the same game as the cheater?

I’m sure not everyone who gets banned cheated, and if you ban them for being in a game with someone who is cheating, then I can see how a lot of people who are new to Live (or in my case know absolutely nothing about it) could get screwed over.

Perhaps what would be smart, although not as funny for some of you, would be to educate people so they know what to look for when playing so that they don’t enter a game with someone who is breaking the rules. Its nice to have rules, but it sounds like prehaps some people dont understand them, or dont know well enough to know when someone else there playing with or aganced is breaking the rules. I could get pulled over by a cop for driving 140, (kms) and he would say, "I pulled you over for driving too fast, this is a parking lot, its not safe to drive that fast here." and then I would know why my lecence was taken, but if Im driving along and someone blows past me doing 140 on the highway, and I was driving the limit, a cop couldnt very well pull me over and say..."well you were sharing the same road with that maniac, I couldnt get him, so I pulled you over instead." If this is what your doing with the matchmaking, matching people up with cheaters, and then banning everyone else that was in the game, haha how can you even post up all these letters and somehow think you have done what was right? If that is what your doing...I dont know, but thats what it sounds like. And I dont mean to rant but Im sure Im not alone when I say this concerns me as someone looking to get Live, yet know nothing about it. Im pritty sure last time I checked Im not in the minority group here...about 85-90% of people who are playing your game dont know anything about Live ether, not to burst any big bubble or anything. Do you not for-see this problem only getting worse as more and more new people get on Live?

Im not saying dont ban people you know are cheating, (do it, serves them right if there the ones breaking the rules) Im saying it sounds like some of these people dont know what to do when they enter a game where there is cheating or dont know when someone else is cheating and there getting blamed for playing "with" these modders. So Im sorry Frankie, but that just really does'nt strike me as being all that funny.

I liked the rest of the report though, looking forward to hearing more about H3s missions, (the real reason for playing Halo anyways)

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  • 06.30.2006 11:01 PM PDT
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what exactly is the email address that people send those whaaambulance emails to? i've always wanted to send an email (just a general email, not a whinge), but i have never seen an address anywhere...

  • 06.30.2006 11:12 PM PDT