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NightCougar_37 wrote:

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As far as the XBL friends go...I never see enough on when I do play .

Bat wrote:

So organize some private, friends-only games.

"Organize" involves a li'l preparation, like [MA] events- just not necessarily as much.

When you guys play Gears, or whatever. With Halo it's always like "no, we're out drinkin'. ". I do want a massive CH54 vs. GTFOutsider with some M|LF filling the gaps, though.

Bungie Weekly Update: 10/26/07
Posted by Frankie at 10/26/2007 4:40 PM PDT
 
Banhammery

We’ve mentioned before that we have implemented lots of security and anti-cheating systems in Halo 3. We’ll never have it perfect because we cannot stop people being idiots, but it’s already significantly better than ever before. We’re about to activate a part of it that required a few weeks of folks playing in the wild before we’d gathered enough data to activate it. Well, we’re just about ready to swing the mighty mallet of justice and it should make a couple of types of cheating extinct very shortly.

Halo 3 has been available for precisely one month and we’re going to be working harder than ever to make sure it stays a safe and fair place to play for the next few years. So please bear with us and remember we’re always watching and more importantly, acting on the information we receive, whether it’s immediately visible or not.

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Map Flap

Our multiplayer design teams are hard at work on a couple of things. One of them is a fun, seasonal addition to the matchmaking playlist which should keep you entertained for about 27 hours around Halloween. No specifics yet, but suffice it to say that if you want to spend your witchy holiday playing Halo 3, we’ll give you some spooktacular reasons to do so.

The other thing keeping the designers busy, and the artists and audio guys for that matter, is downloadable content. The maps themselves are being prepared in a logical order, designed to fill gaps in our matchmaking selection and add new, interesting environments to our multiplayer arsenal. The more finished the maps are, the faster they’re likely to make it to marketplace. We’ll have more news on the specific plans for timing and availability soon, and we promise to let you guys get a look at the maps and hear more about what they have to offer.

We’ve been testing the new maps pretty regularly and I loved all except one, which for the purposes of this article, I shall refer to as, “Purple Reign.” I sometimes have an initially adverse reaction to symmetrical or semi-symmetrical map designs because I am not terribly smart and I sometimes have difficulty become oriented within those types of space. Invariably, I get used to it and learn to love them. This was just such a case, but when a new slew of architecture was added in the distance recently, it was enough for me to recognize which way was “up,” so to speak. Now I love it.

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HALO: LANDFALL Direct Downloads!

Director Neill Blomkamp explores the lives of Marines and ODSTs on a last, desperate mission in a post-invasion Earth – a mission that may secure the salvation, or usher the destruction of the entire galaxy. Edited together as a standalone piece for the first time, these three shorts are the first glimpse at what a live-action Halo could look like and a must-see for Halo fans of every stripe.

I Can Has Recon?

Oh, folks are begging us for the Recon Armor perm, and we’re giving it out to a couple of community members today as a special treat:

ZB Shogun for suffering the most humiliating traffic accident ever:

Rubber Bullet

and...

Skyllus vBi for shooting himself in the head with his own Sniper Rifle.

Oh teh Noes

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx … ;cid=12901

Whatever types you use to occasionally beat me, say in Forge ... altho Louis has words for the wise:

Chocolate frosting + pound cake = win.
I spent yesterday evening at the birthday party of Miguel "Ding" Chavez's oldest - and yes, it was a Halo party. We discovered that old and wily often beats young and fast... remember that. (Louis Wu 13:35:40 UTC) (permalink)

Now to get me some wiles...

Pwning you Hornet v. Banshee & Chopper v. Ghost is funner.

"Choppers just can't maneuveeeeeerrr..." [blam]

Hey, I played Friday night with Justin Fic, of Kill Monty fame, among others. He succumbed to the Dark Side.

The Chopper's front is heavily armored specifically for ramming. Do not go nose to nose against one in a Hog unless you want to respawn pronto.

Besides ramming, those nose-mounted cannons are vicious. They will succumb to SPANKrs, tho; I put on a demo last fight for Books on The Ark (Leg), using and abusing Choppers as needed. Without trying and with him away 15 minutes we went over 42,000 pts. Whee.

And it was me Chopper/Hornet, you Ghost/Banshee.

I can't believe someone has less of a life than WoW players .

Those sort of inflaters are great, because when they actually do get around to playing, they're so atrophied in skill that it takes nothing to kick their ass and bring their levels back down.

Now having a few MP matches under my belt. I gots more gripes, not that it'll do any good.

1) FFS I'm sick of staring at my corpse in MP and SP. WhereTF are the handy cam shots. Oh wait those are in that other superior MP game.

2) Lack of custom buttons. WhyTF is it so locked down.

3) If you miss a frag that wasn't there, did you really miss it? Yeah the lag gripe...blinking bitches get off the tubes.

4) Auto Aim. I think I can turn this off, have to look but it should be off by default in MP. Hate seeing my XHairs move w/o me.

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Now having a few MP matches under my belt. I gots more gripes, not that it'll do any good.

1) FFS I'm sick of staring at my corpse in MP and SP. WhereTF are the handy cam shots. Oh wait those are in that other superior MP game.

The one where you get a Saved Film of the entire match, where you can detach the camera and watch the entire match at variable speed from any vantage and even take custom screens of your demise and find out what kilt ya (unlike that 'other' game) ?

2) Lack of custom buttons. WhyTF is it so locked down.

3) If you miss a frag that wasn't there, did you really miss it? Yeah the lag gripe...blinking bitches get off the tubes.

See Saved Films.

4) Auto Aim. I think I can turn this off, have to look but it should be off by default in MP. Hate seeing my XHairs move w/o me.

Not fond of it myself, but it's been the console standard since before Halo 1 and nearly universal since. You're too used to GoW... which likely could've had crossplatform play, but without auto-aim PC players would've hurt too many fragile egos by pwnage unless the PC version was more limited than it is, and as a devotee of that other m/kb game, you know that well.


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Last edited by Bat (2007-11-13 12:16 pm)

Yeah I agree they need custom buttons. After messing with it awhile, I saw where button placement needed to be modified but when I went to do it, the options were terrible. Think they just don't want people to have any edge over others.

Bungie seems to have cooked up something just for NC (besides ongoing tweakage of the MP types and lists). The Weekly Updates are going on hiatus for a bit, but..

Pre-Holiday Parting Shots

We’ve got a whole week off to starve ourselves before gorging on turkey and whatever else folks decide to mow down over the week break (I'm going to be dining on a smorgasbord of awesome games) so there won’t be a Weekly Update, Humpday or a Podcast next week. But, on Monday (November 19) folks are definitely going to want to check back in here at Bungie.net and keep faces pressed to their monitors like children breathing on school bus windows in November, because there will be news. Oh yes, there will be news.

Kin yew say new maps?

Meanwhile:

Achievements Unlocked

Joe Tung tracked down some data on the achievements that have been completed by folks whose 360s are connected to Xbox Live. Here’s some data for folks to chew on:

• Campaign Complete: Normal – Completed the Campaign on Normal Difficulty: 43.28%
• Campaign Complete: Legendary – Completed the Campaign on Legendary Difficulty: 15.14%
• Graduate: Graduated from basic training. Stick with it to earn your Spartan insignia: 66.92%
• UNSC Spartan: Promoted to Sergeant. Proven in combat, you are a Spartan: 52.07%
• The most found metagame skull? Black Eye skull with 34.26%
• The least found metagame skull? Tilt at 22.98% (Go find it, jerks! It’s one of the best skulls in the game!)
• At 6.21%, Steppin’ Razor is the hardest multiplayer Achievement to earn, with Two for One right behind it at 6.77% and Overkill nipping at its heels (6.75%)
• 8.68% of players have unlocked the Marathon Man Achievement
• 1000/1000 Gamerscore: 2.07%