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i agree.my friend who plays halo 2 everyday.likes playing swat.so why be a kill joy.

Posted by: OdinVII
Removing Team SWAT, are you serious? It's one of the most played playlists.

  • 11.18.2006 9:13 PM PDT

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  • 11.18.2006 9:13 PM PDT
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great update, i cant wait for the new maps and HALO2 ACHIVEMENTS! im glad that bungie is giving something else for 360 users. also how will i be able to get a copy of halo3 beta?

  • 11.18.2006 9:19 PM PDT

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W00T!!! great update. even though it is short, it is very sweet, as always!
(call me a suck-up)

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  • 11.18.2006 9:32 PM PDT
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Wow...the Team SWAT playlist is gone?
I'm angry enough to punch a sleeping baby.
*punches sleeping baby*

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  • 11.18.2006 10:19 PM PDT

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Haha. I like the pic there, baldness.

I just wish you guys wouldn't unveil so many things about the game! Oh well.

Thanks for the update!

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  • 11.18.2006 11:39 PM PDT

A witty signature you say ! ? well at the moment i have nothing witty that springs to mind, so sory..................nope still nothing.......

nice update frankie

i'm sure the matchmaking playlist changes are for the best. looking foward to the hi res multiplayer screens. one thing that got me thinking was if you are planning on having a retail disk of the new halo 2 multiplayer maps for those without live ?

and that's quite some upper cut bender has there !,lol, another great mister chief

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  • 11.19.2006 3:10 AM PDT
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WTF is that !!!!!!!!! the latest halo 3 screenshot completely sucks,it doesn't even looks like a next-gen game,gears of war looks nex-gen.I thought microsoft game studios suppose to pay 20 or 30 or 40 million dollars to bungie to make halo 3.what happened?it looks completely different from what i saw in the E3 trailer.bungie promised us that we are able to play the game exactly like watching the trailer and now they gave us this.i hope it is just an early production screenshot,hopefully the final game looks exactly or better than the trailer.if the final game looks like that screenshot,i won't buy it.come on bungie,halo is always well-known for its groundbreaking visuals,please don't disappoint us

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  • 11.19.2006 3:20 AM PDT

Best Song ever: You Cant Quit Me Baby by Queens of the Stone Age

Also Guns and Roses are the biggest load of pish-posh ever

Horray! No more SWAT! i hated that 'cos whoever had host had the advantage, or if your a modder you did. Im not too happy to see Actionsack or Multi Team go, more muti-team 'cos it was always intense

Also the campaign screenshot looks like the cheifs body has been rounded off with a Black&Decker power Sander which has been exposed to too much power and has been installed with Titanium paper. Also he doesnt look battle hardened or scratched.

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  • 11.19.2006 7:45 AM PDT
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hahahaha bungie got rid of team swat. Now i don't feel so bad that my peice of crap xbox 360 died on me, the only fun multiplayer game out there is going to hell....i thought swat was like the most played game type? Maybe it stopped being the most played game type when they made it ranked? So instead of turning it back the way it was they just kill it all together....brilliant....i wish i had such wonderful problem solving skills. but alas, it dosnt matter, my box died....

  • 11.19.2006 8:09 AM PDT
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nobodys playin swat cause gears of war is out :)

  • 11.19.2006 8:49 AM PDT
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  • 11.19.2006 9:03 AM PDT
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there is no point in having bender in a halo drawing cause he won't win but in this case he did :(

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  • 11.19.2006 12:48 PM PDT
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LOL! I love it. From the sound of comments in this thread in looks like Bungie has succeeded in giving their fans everything but what they want yet again!

I also want to remind everyone that in a year from now, when Halo 3 does launch, If changes are not made to the "New Assault Rifle", it will be old due to the fact that it is a "Copied" weapon from the starting weapon in "Gears Of War"... which in a year, we would be bored of a Mid-Range "FULLY AUTOMATIC" Rifle.... WITH NO ZOOM! They may as well add a Chainsaw Bayonette to the "AR" and call it a day!

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  • 11.19.2006 1:35 PM PDT
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Finally, Team Swat is back to being a headshot practice game. Practice isn't meant to be seriously competitive, Team Training is once again back to it's place as a great training playlist. Taking out team swat also helps balance the amount of people playing the other playlists. When Team Swat went live as a playlist, soooo many people jumped on it that it took noticably longer to find a game in most other playlists. Now we can finally get on XBL, jump into a playlist, and quickly find a match again :)

Sure, the change will dissapoint some, but not enough to completely get off XBL. If they do, it'll better the gaming environment anyway. If you leave because Bungie takes your precious little Team Swat and moves it to another playlist, your retarded.

Thank you Frankie, and NinjaOnFire, and everyone else that went in to making this wonderful decsision. You rock. Keep up the good work.

  • 11.19.2006 3:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: M3ATB4LLZ
I cannot belive you took out TEAM Swat....that's the best gametype in the whole game! Whenever I took a break from Gears of War to play some Halo 2, it was to play Team Swat, because it's pretty much the only playlist I don't get cheated on...and now that it's gone, I don't see a point of playing any more. Removing such a popular playlist will definitly get a lot of people who were play Team Swat all the time play a different playlist, if thats what you were trying to accomplish, good job. But doing that will only encourage modders to cheat more in a playlist such as Team Slayer because there's so many more people going to it. Smart move Bungie, guess its back to GOW.

Now, about the update. It was good, no new h3 info really but I suppose I can't ask for much considering everything we got on halo day. I don't get the mister chief this week though, MC would easily pwn Bender :P
Wow you sad little fellow. Team Swat is (was?) not the only good playlist on matchmaking. And do you honestly get cheated enough to quit Halo? Besides GoW is great but I alternate between it and Halo now. Also THANK GOD! You guys didn't remove any of my favorite ranked playlists. I was terrified when you announced the removal of certain playlists. Now I furiously sweat with relief.

  • 11.19.2006 4:01 PM PDT

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nice update especially after all the info on halo day i cant believe we are actually getting new maps thats so rapeage im so glad i sprung for the 360 o yea ive been dyin to say this BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLAYSTATION 3 BOOOOOOOOO heh sry couldnt help myself as to the Wii umm yea lets just leave it at that

  • 11.19.2006 5:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ninjer
However, popularity isn’t the deciding factor in these changes.

I'm so confused.

  • 11.19.2006 6:46 PM PDT
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Just one little question, I never post but I do read.

Quote; "One (yesterday afternoon) was about something collectible you can probably buy next year."

Here is the question any chance that we will be seeing a "Halo 3 Edition Xbox 360" along with that ? Not just a face-plate. It would be very cool to have a clear green xbox 360 to take to lans and a friends house and brag about.

Well that is my question, hope to hear "see" a reply !
P.S Keep up the good work on the game, looks good from what I see so far!

Thanks
Behemoth

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  • 11.19.2006 6:48 PM PDT
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I can't believe that the Swat playlist is gone... That and Team Snipers were the only playlists me and my friends ever really played. I think it should have been kept as a ranked playlist, in my opinion. And also, how does popularity not go into consideration on these changes? Obviously, if something is popular, then that's what the fans want, why change it? It seemed fine as it is. Swat is a fun and challenging gametype and should be kept for people who want those short and sweet matches. I really hope the playlist gets reimplemented into matchmaking.

  • 11.19.2006 8:40 PM PDT
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That is fustrating that swat is being removed for Microsofts money. And the new maps will only be for 360. That SUCKS . Microsoft already has enough money. they need to worry about their fans not whether or not they have an extra million dollars they they arnt gonna spend wisely. Why is the 360 so expensive its not the better then the regular xbox, i mean cordless is nice but what about those who just want to play a single game but its not for regular xbox. I wanna play halo 3 but i dont wanna spend 500 dollars jus to play the single game.

  • 11.19.2006 9:23 PM PDT
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If u dont want swat to go then keep posting. I think all this discussion and hate about swat being removed will convince bungie not to do it. I think they will listen to their fans.

  • 11.19.2006 9:26 PM PDT
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Don't you even dare take off Team Swat I am not going to even play during the Holiday Season if you do, so there goes one of your people for the holiday season if you do

  • 11.19.2006 9:44 PM PDT
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The truth is out there. We're just not looking in the right places.

I like the part at the end of Ninja On Fire's quote.


"We will not reveal Ninjer's disclosed location at 123 Fake St in Belvue." Priceless.....


SWAT being merged with Team Training sucks. But it'll be back by the end of Christmas. All in all it really didn't effect me that much.

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  • 11.19.2006 10:53 PM PDT

So essentially this update says there will nothing but ranked and training again...some how this seem vaguely familiar of how the game started and the reason why more was added. Oh well looks like there won't be much halo for me cause I only liked to play SWAT, Action Sack, Multi-Team and Carnage, all of which are now gone. Good thing I have PSU and Gears of Wars to keep me company for the holidays. I suggest that Bungie recalculate the number of people who play the game types again before you remove decide to remove it. Also, why take away everything without giving us anything in return. We shouldn't call this an update, we should call it a rollback.

  • 11.19.2006 11:42 PM PDT