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Subject: What would you like to see in Halo PC?
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With all this interest with Halo 2 Vista, I was interested in canvassing the Maw to see what problems you see in this version of Halo PC, and how you would like them addressed, perhaps in one final patch for the game before Halo 2 Vista comes out. I would like your opinion on what can be done to improve the game further, and to make it a more enjoyable experience?

Personally, the top three issues in the game I see are:

* Netcode (Lag)
* Friendly Fire on Bungie Servers
* No admins present to supervise public servers during peak hours.

  • 11.18.2006 7:09 AM PDT
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I would like to see:

* No aimbots.
* Bungie admins helping to clean out the Bungie/EU Bungie servers.
* And most of all, I want more people playing this game. xD

Oh and I don't mind the lag. It actually requires practice to play this game well, due to the lag. It makes HaloPC unique and fun.

  • 11.18.2006 7:14 AM PDT
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I don't mind leading my shots in the game so much as how retarded it is when I melee a person in the back about a billion times while he's running away from me with absolutely no effect. Like, you can even see him cringing from the whack, but because of the netcode it doesn't register. I especially love meleeing a person in the face about several billion times but, since I didn't lead my melees, they have no effect, and I'm watching my dead body being humped on the ground while I hear the respawn counter beep.

  • 11.18.2006 7:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
I don't mind leading my shots in the game so much as how retarded it is when I melee a person in the back about a billion times while he's running away from me with absolutely no effect. Like, you can even see him cringing from the whack, but because of the netcode it doesn't register. I especially love meleeing a person in the face about several billion times but, since I didn't lead my melees, they have no effect, and I'm watching my dead body being humped on the ground while I hear the respawn counter beep.


Yeah, I remember once when I was playing in the COG server, in Chiro. I had the flag, and I was bravely hunting down the enemy flag carrier on my own, and I spot him in less than a minute. Luckily, he doesn't see me, so I start sneaking in back of him, whacking him on the back. He doesn't die, and I repeat this 50 times before I finally get my stomache stuffed with 7.62 mm AR lead. I was so pissed off that day. =/

Gearbox kills my inner child.

  • 11.18.2006 8:00 AM PDT
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Yeah, melees are really tough to pull off, unless they are backing into a corner/you, or run full on into you. I just continue using my pistol and sniper at that range.

  • 11.18.2006 8:30 AM PDT
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It is annoying when at close combat, and having to lead your melee. Now, leading your shot at long distance with your sniper rifle, makes some sense.

I know some people enjoy FF being on, and thats ok. But, would it be a big deal to turn half the Bungie servers on with FF, and the other half off?

Just some issues that should be considered.


  • 11.18.2006 8:31 AM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

All of the above could be fixed with little or no effort I'm sure. I'm still hoping to see friendly-fire shut off so the teamkillers can go on their sprees somewhere else, or nowhere at all. Halo CE has the better netcode, so why not a final release merging the best fixes from CE with Halo PC? One more patch people, come on...

  • 11.18.2006 8:47 AM PDT
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1. Lag. nuff' said
2. More multi-player options
3. More shineez for us good graphics card users

  • 11.18.2006 12:53 PM PDT
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The shineez we love
To use it you need PPF-O-Matic from here
Select bitmaps as the file your applying the patch to in one slot. Put the PPF patch in the other slot. Shiny makes it look so much better.

  • 11.18.2006 2:29 PM PDT
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There's a glitch in the game where if you quickly switch to another gun and then swap it with a gun from the ground you lose your secondary and can only use one weapon. I've had this happen countless times. A few times when I had this glitch I couldn't capture when I reached my flag stand. The scoreboard showed that I had the flag but when I try to drop it to a teammate I just fire my invisible gun while carrying a flag! The only remedy was to type to a teammate to betray me so we could finally score.

  • 11.18.2006 2:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Fatso
There's a glitch in the game where if you quickly switch to another gun and then swap it with a gun from the ground you lose your secondary and can only use one weapon. I've had this happen countless times. A few times when I had this glitch I couldn't capture when I reached my flag stand. The scoreboard showed that I had the flag but when I try to drop it to a teammate I just fire my invisible gun while carrying a flag! The only remedy was to type to a teammate to betray me so we could finally score.


Yes! This has happened to me as well. Very irritating.

  • 11.18.2006 3:25 PM PDT

In high definition baby!

No lag because I hate it a lot.

  • 11.18.2006 3:46 PM PDT
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You can't get rid of lag. Not that it's really hard, but it is imposible. I don't much about the subject, but I do know that no matter what you do, there will always be lag, sometimes it not as noticable.

  • 11.18.2006 4:49 PM PDT
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A way to distinguish team chat and vehicle chat at the receivers end.

  • 11.18.2006 5:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: Fatso
There's a glitch in the game where if you quickly switch to another gun and then swap it with a gun from the ground you lose your secondary and can only use one weapon. I've had this happen countless times. A few times when I had this glitch I couldn't capture when I reached my flag stand. The scoreboard showed that I had the flag but when I try to drop it to a teammate I just fire my invisible gun while carrying a flag! The only remedy was to type to a teammate to betray me so we could finally score.


Yes! This has happened to me as well. Very irritating.

I know, right? It's especially awkward on Blood Gulch after you try to pick up that sniper rifle and you drop your secondary and it's floating in midair near the enemy teleporter and they keep swarming into the green door.

  • 11.18.2006 6:51 PM PDT
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What would I like to see in Halo PC?

I would like to see the damn game completed.

  • 11.18.2006 10:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
I don't mind leading my shots in the game so much as how retarded it is when I melee a person in the back about a billion times while he's running away from me with absolutely no effect.


Ah, the subtle irony of HPC. In order to melee someone who is running forwards in the back, you need to be in front of them.

This is obviously Bungie's way of making a parable on modern society.

  • 11.18.2006 11:09 PM PDT
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I would like to see it not in Vista or let it be free if we buy Vista :D

Seriously, 300-something bucks for an OS and then an extra 50-some bucks for H2PC? Bungie better add in a couple of premium upgrades that would make those console junkies hate us.

  • 11.19.2006 12:07 AM PDT

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1. AFK kick for the love of god
2. the ability to take heavies off the map completely.
3. fix the netcode.

  • 11.19.2006 9:17 PM PDT
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Oh -blam!- didn't realize it was about HALO. Well, Bungie should have ranks for Halo, just as they would for the console version. Something like Battlefield 2.

  • 11.19.2006 9:23 PM PDT
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I guess this is a for a theoretical patch, since I wouldn't be surprised if Bungie deleted the source code for Halo 1 while they were tooling up for Halo's 2 and 3.

I suppose the biggest issue I'd like to see fixed is the lag. And that annoying problem with plasma nades falling off the people/objects you stick them too. Damn that really fries my beans.

  • 11.19.2006 10:25 PM PDT
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i actually like the lag in the game, sue me. it makes the game more skillful. also, AFK kick and a faster way to kick/ban crazy players. also, a more effective auto-tk ban.

  • 11.19.2006 10:29 PM PDT
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Someone should install a server bot that auto-kicks people who are being jerks on BUNGIE servers. That way, there would be no need for admin. Kinda like what BFM has on their server, except not so strict. I know it's possible to do that too.

  • 11.20.2006 5:40 AM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

Hmm, complaints.

First, I would like to see the Xbox HUD. Or at least make it optional, because I liked the Xbox HUD. I'm not saying the PC HUD is not good or anything, I just like the shiny on the Xbox shield bar.

Second, we should get support for anti-aliasing. I don't want to buy a new GPU and not take advantage of it.

Third, I would like to see a more integrated friendly game. The GeForce 6150 is not as bad as it seems.

I won't beat the dead horse on the lag, but all they have to do is remove 56k support. I think it's that easy.

[Edited on 11/20/2006]

  • 11.20.2006 8:21 PM PDT

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