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What is the (*******) point in removing team swat, it was so fun to play and you never got bored into it my Halo 2 gaming has allready gone whiuuuf... buum down like a bomb! and now the game mode i love the most is being put to team training; i mean it's good that it still exists but your putting the actionsack games etc. into team training so what are the odds of getting team swat? like maybe 1 team swat in a 100 games? that allways happens to me it's for me like not getting lockout ever some people might get it all the time but are not getting there other maps never.
and it was so cool to actually get at least 1 killtrocity a day.
(i'm really sorry for saying this bungie... and of course microsoft as well ''im going to mod my old xbox to have some fun out of the game by modding i mean im not going to mod on xbox live but oncampaign and my own multiplayer because i dont want to cheat and make others lose there levels i hate cheaters ''online'') because i really love halo but it's getting a little boring allready i mean of course it's still more fun then the other games it's just getting a little boring because you have played like more than a thousand hours of halo and it's honestly getting too familiar and because of that BORING you could at least keep some of the game modes.


BUNGIE (and everyone else) this is not going to mean that i will stop playing halo it just means im going be playing ALOT LESS of halo.

And thirdly now that gears of war has been released do you really want to **** off your players everyones just going to play GOW now

Ok im also sorry for using rood language (even though i sensured it myself) and i am also sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes I AM FINNISH so my national language is not english.



I agree. Im sure bungie has a good explanation tho. they wouldnt go to scool for years to mess up their best creation. Atleast it will come back. I want some new maps im getting tired of the same thing everytime. ive been playing ever since it came out and the only thing that has changed are the maps. y dont u add a weapon or vehicle to content download im sure u could make that work somehow. How about a new level with a cool new feature. Last year i would play halo all the time until the new maps stopped coming out. How come backwash never gets played in matchmaking??? Why would u add a map and make it become unused?? Just makie sure halo 3 has content download with more than maps. because if there is no halo 4 comin out halo 3 will get boring just like halo 2. Will there be superbouncing in halo 3???
bungie all ready told that they are going to make new multiplayer maps for halo 2 they told that they would be coming next spring but anyways it would be so nice to play TEAM SWAT ON THOSE NEW MAPS

  • 11.18.2006 4:02 PM PDT
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Hey every one ill make a list for both of you swat haters and swat lovers of what is good about team swat and what is bad about it. you can just quote if you think there are more things to say. and BUNGIE could make there own list. to explain why it was removed.

The good:
1. you ''basically'' never got retarded people quitting fooling around or doing something STUPID ''like in Team slayer.''
2. you barely ever get cheaters.
3. you kept getting alot of medals like killimanjaros killtrocities etc. (my friend got his first killimanjaro in team swat after playing 2 years of Halo 2).
4. most of the people didnt take the game ''super seriously'' like ''Must get lvl what ever it takes even thought it would include !CHEATING!
5. people took the game much less seriously than slayer meaning people acted nice to each other like ''good game'' ''aww... it doesnt matter if we lose what matters is that you have FUN'' INSTEAD of ''SHUT UP YOU JERKS AND GET MORE KILLS!'' even though that person would have the least kills.
6. all these 5 things make it a really enjoyable game mode to play. with all the
fun you need and all the really good gaming enviremont to not get angry or mad.

THE BAD:
1. the most obvious one... Swat carbines name should be changed to ''Host carbines!'' or take smaller maps for carbines.
2. sometimes Spawn killing can get really annoying because of BAD spawns.

well i didnt have any ideas for the bad ones just quote if you want to say of adding something

And BUNGIE i really hope you would make the same kind of a list for the tecnical or the playing so that we know why you delete swat!

AND still my native toung is finnish so DONT COMPLAIN about my grammar please, thank you

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  • 11.18.2006 4:25 PM PDT
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I find it disturbing that not one bungie employee has responded to the SWAT thing yet.

  • 11.18.2006 4:34 PM PDT
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Amazing stuff, keep it up!

  • 11.18.2006 4:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: ReturnofAnnFrank
I find it disturbing that not one bungie employee has responded to the SWAT thing yet.
I agree. why remove team swat? Just like that i mean they didnt even mention about it in the happy halo days they mentioned only just before they are going to remove it.
i have a super wild theory for this BTW.

Some people claim that microsoft uses Halo 2 as a cheater magnet so that they can Ban people for modding because microsoft doesnt like people modding there xbox because of that ms looses money bacause people can just burn there games and play them.
and maybe it was ms's idea in the first place to make swat ranked because in the first place bungie didnt really want to make it ranked and just suddenly its being ranked? Strange... anyways ms didnt succeed in using team swat as a cheat magnet and so it is being removed because bungie needs to remove game modes and this one didnt work as a cheat magnet so they delete it.

OK, My story is completely random AND i Do not think any of my theory has any point (maybe some point) but this story was really just a silly though. because BUNGIE hasnt answered to ''WHY'' is the loved game mode being removed.

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  • 11.18.2006 4:45 PM PDT
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That Sucks, Team Swat was one of the best Playlists. Come on Bungie why'd you remove it! Now I'm definately going to keep playing Gears of War on Live.

  • 11.18.2006 4:46 PM PDT
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I'm getting really bored with this halo 3 "information". "We added a map today!" Whoopdeedoo. I thought "halo day" was a bit poor, we were promised masses of information, and we got a -blam!- screenshot. And it looks nothin like the graphically immense master chief we saw in the announcement, i don't care what bungie says. And now with the removal of the best playlist in halo 2. "popularity doesn't play a big role" then what does?! why take away a playlist you're fans love? i just dont get it bungie. i love your games but what are u playing at? you're messing with your fans a bit too much

  • 11.18.2006 4:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stalker3000
That Sucks, Team Swat was one of the best Playlists. Come on Bungie why'd you remove it! Now I'm definately going to keep playing Gears of War on Live.
i totally agree with him im not myself going to play gears of war alot but people will stop playing halo and move to other games. if this continues soon your 200k people online will fall down to 1k and games like nfs carbon and gow will take the lead IS this what you want bungie?

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  • 11.18.2006 4:49 PM PDT
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  • 11.18.2006 4:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Finnish Spartan
Posted by: ReturnofAnnFrank
I find it disturbing that not one bungie employee has responded to the SWAT thing yet.
I agree. why remove team swat? Just like that i mean they didnt even mention about it in the happy halo days they mentioned only just before they are going to remove it.
i have a super wild theory for this BTW.


lol.

Funny I didn't say anything about I agree or disagree about the removal (although I disagree).

I just want to hear bungie's reasoning behind it.

  • 11.18.2006 4:55 PM PDT
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I'm not trying to sound negative but that gave no explanation as too why Team Swat is being removed, if anything it's popularity alon should have been the deciding factor to KEEP it there.

I would understand it more if you guys would have explained why it's being droped from the playlist and spread out to playlists that in my opinion arean't interesting at all. If anything this would have a negative effect on the amount of players online, not including the holiday season.

And even after the holiday season I feel it will continue to fall, unless you intend to bring it back. Now I know that your in the works on releasing new maps, which is fine, but it's the playlists that are keeping most of the players interests.

That's all i'll say on the matter for now.

  • 11.18.2006 4:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: ReturnofAnnFrank
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Posted by: ReturnofAnnFrank
I find it disturbing that not one bungie employee has responded to the SWAT thing yet.
I agree. why remove team swat? Just like that i mean they didnt even mention about it in the happy halo days they mentioned only just before they are going to remove it.
i have a super wild theory for this BTW.


lol.

Funny I didn't say anything about I agree or disagree about the removal (although I disagree).

I just want to hear bungie's reasoning behind it.
i didnt say that you would have sayd anything about agreeing or disagreiing i ONLY agreed for the thing about BUNGIE not quoting about this

  • 11.18.2006 4:59 PM PDT
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swat removed! oh come on plz i love that game type its all i play at lan parties and online
wait that means i lose my rank :'( im now a lvl 3 or 5 or sumfin like that

  • 11.18.2006 5:00 PM PDT
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I sayd that the theory isnt anything its more like i joke BUT
really i think its microsoft who decides whic game mode is to be kept BECAUSE they get all the MONEY!

  • 11.18.2006 5:01 PM PDT
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who cares about swat, it's fun but it never adds up to the other playlists

  • 11.18.2006 5:03 PM PDT
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QUOTE:
who cares about swat, it's fun but it never adds up to the other playlists



I disagree 110% because i think the game mode is taken less seriously then others so ppl dont cheat act like retards etc. which makes the game more comftroble and fun
like in team slayer everyone cheats is cheating and rood to each other which means an uncomftroble game experiance

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  • 11.18.2006 5:06 PM PDT
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I don't usually post to these, but I wanted to agree with the point made above that Bungie needs to be careful how it treats its fanbase.

1) The Halo 2 maps coming out on 360 (whether or not you agree with the decision) does at least SEEM abusive to fans - fans who bought an X-box, X-box live, and a copy of Halo 2 to play the game. **Yes, I am aware that this was not "Bungie's decision" but Bungie is part of Microsoft and their input into Microsoft decisions are probably considered**

2) The decision to remove team swat (whether or not you liked the mode) does at least SEEM like they don't care about the fan base.

However, at the same time I appreciated the Halo 3 news coming this month. It just hits me as bitter-sweet.

  • 11.18.2006 5:28 PM PDT
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I agree with you xShad0w, I have a hard time understanding bungie's logic behind taking away one of the most popular matchmaking playlists. In previous updates, they had given charts and even had a sweet pie-chart showing that team SWAT was the most played matchmaking playlist of them all. When they say that they had to take it away out of "neccessity", it seems to stand against reason, as a great percentage of folks enjoyed playing this certain playlist. Halo 2 is only kept alive by the fanbase - there is honestly no other reason this game is still played, other than the fact that the fanbase loves certain matchmaking playlists - like team SWAT - and will play just for the fun they recieve within those games. Also, considering the lack of evidence provided for the removal of team SWAT, I wonder again at the logic behind it all. Why sit in silence and let us all continue speculating bungie? Please... enlighten us, as I for one will be playing less, as team SWAT was the one playlist that I was very good at and enjoyed. Thanks for your time.

Maximus Sidious

  • 11.18.2006 5:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: Maximus Sidious
I agree with you xShad0w, I have a hard time understanding bungie's logic behind taking away one of the most popular matchmaking playlists. In previous updates, they had given charts and even had a sweet pie-chart showing that team SWAT was the most played matchmaking playlist of them all. When they say that they had to take it away out of "neccessity", it seems to stand against reason, as a great percentage of folks enjoyed playing this certain playlist. Halo 2 is only kept alive by the fanbase - there is honestly no other reason this game is still played, other than the fact that the fanbase loves certain matchmaking playlists - like team SWAT - and will play just for the fun they recieve within those games. Also, considering the lack of evidence provided for the removal of team SWAT, I wonder again at the logic behind it all. Why sit in silence and let us all continue speculating bungie? Please... enlighten us, as I for one will be playing less, as team SWAT was the one playlist that I was very good at and enjoyed. Thanks for your time.

Maximus Sidious
i agree wih both of you

  • 11.18.2006 5:46 PM PDT

Hooah!

Posted by: Morpheus414
.............so which playlists ARE staying?

I just got somewhere in Team SWAT and all goes down the drain.

Just like everything else in my life.

Oh well.
some1 get this kid some help

as for the update, eh...take it or leave it (didn't realy play SWAT that much, but do know people that will be pissed)

  • 11.18.2006 6:09 PM PDT
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i will be depressed for until the new halo maps come or team swat comes back
either way i would have commited a suicide (in real life) a long time a go (2 years ago) so halo 2 actually saved my life otherwise my life sucks like the thing about team swat.

  • 11.18.2006 6:13 PM PDT
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Taking out Team SWAT is a mistake Bungie. Too many people like it, and you guys FINALLY had it ranked, then REMOVED it?! Whatever, i guess i can't stop you, but i can -blam!- on your forums. Actionsack was my favorite unranked playlist, and now it's gone too! Damn guys, what next, you gonna take out Team Slayer? I swear i will break my halo disk. I added up all my games played, and i've played over 7000 ranked games now. So i'm probably looking at 10,000 all together. Looking forward to Halo 3 guys. My copy has been preordered and fully payed for since august of 2005 when i put in the preorder for my 360. At the time i was thinking it would be released with the 360, guess i was wrong.

Anyway, goodbye SWAT, goodbye Actionsack, and i can't wait for Halo 3. I was never that into video games until i played Halo 2. I then went and bought a Xbox and Halo 2. And once i got Xbox Live my life ended. And my PS2 has gathered dust ever since.
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Short and sour this week, with some interesting snippets, but mostly stuff that will make fans of certain matchmaking playlists really angry and abusive. So to them, we apologize in advance.



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  • 11.18.2006 6:32 PM PDT
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All SWAT lovers should unite and revolt against bungie. That is the most ridiculous update ever. Everyine was probably expecting a release date for Halo 3 but nooo we dont get that but we get the removal of team SWAT from matchmaking. I for one am not going to be playing halo for a while and im not going to waste my money on new maps just months before the release of halo 3 (at least we hope just months before). I do not know what bungie is thing but they better get their sh@t together if they dont want Gears of war and other games to dominate Xbox live. And thats all i have to say about that.

  • 11.18.2006 7:53 PM PDT
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"All SWAT lovers should unite and revolt against bungie. That is the most ridiculous update ever."


I second that. I love swat so much why would they take it out and put it in training?!?! Have they lost their minds?!? I play it everyday, and really don't want it disfused into another playlist where i wont be able to play it as much. I really dont know why they think taking it out is a good idea.

  • 11.18.2006 8:27 PM PDT