Why are we not able to play team doubles anymore? When I bought Halo 3, I could play it. Now you bring out these new maps, and I can't play it anymore. I'm not saying the maps should be free, but you should still be able to play doubles on the old maps.

Haha, nice update! I loved the "Secret" map's Thumbnail. xD

Rock Ban 2....I know I don't do anything wrong when playing halo 3. any idea why I would not gain any experience? I know I haven't done anything to get banned, although I did end up in one game of squad battle where 4 of the competitive players quit. We won,, an no one recieved experience which i assumed as because the game wasn't trackable. Would that cause me to get lumped in with boosters? I was randomly put in with people, but I don't quit games because it's cheap and I don't want to lose EXP. Since that game I haven't gained any experience though. Is this new ban system flawed? are they still working out kinks?

Very nice man, i feel everything you have said is exactly how i feel Bungie stop thinking you know everything, just listen to this man he seems to know what he is talking about, When i pick up my controller to play halo 3 I want infinite possibliltes not everything restricted to a hand full of things i can do, its just not as fun. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Seiryu99 god....they messed up in my opinion anyway 1. lone wolves with 8 ppl......are you F******* serious i was just in one it was so hard now considering on a small map like construct u spawn right next to people and with 8 people its harder to get exp and wow i had like 20 assists people can steal kills now more than ever with a well placed grenade... 2. WTF they didn't take out grenades from swat they added in more!!!! yeah sure u don't SPAWN with frags but now they on the map in addition to Sticky grenades yeah.....grenades with swat is just retarded to begin with now they have sticky's. 3. I guess its sorta cool that they have a separate rating system for each game type...but they didnt reset exp they just added a whole different exp entirely. as in above your normal exp it says Lone wolves EXP. 4. COOL!!!! they got new achievements o w8.....theyre f****ing retarded wow some of those dont have anypoint at all not just because they are worth 0 but come on.... Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month. What does that accomplish....besides not being able to play that game type for a month if u miss the 7th ...unless you pick something that sucks and you dont play anyway like... team objective. not only that they just seemed to add achievements for all the weapons they can like the oddball...the flag..splatter spree....warthog chain gun.... o and also.... Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts. I dont know if they added ghosts to the last level or i just past them or what...but im pretty sure their arent ghost in the last level of them game...... 5. ok this one i really don't get.... they added squad battle to "fill some of the void left by excising Ranked Big Team Battle" ok.....then why the hell did you take it out?! the only damn difference between the 2 game types is instead of 8v8 its 6v6 they play the same games still just with less people..and also because of that people who were high ranks in that game type are screwed out of that so now they have to play the almost exact same thing again to gain it up. 6. ok so i just read something regarding to the big team battle... they made the SAME EXACT THING!!! except now its called DLC Big Team which means you need the new maps and still all of your exp from the ranked big team is gone. 7. ok the new "spike on the banhammer" i dont really get that one that much maybe someone else can check that one...but quitting of of games early is a bad thing....well yeah it sucks when someone on your team leaves in team slayer or team battles but is that enough for them to get banned....and if your losing at Lone wolves in last place does it really matter if you quit...your gonna lose exp anyway isnt that enough instead of banning them?well i dont really wanna say ban cause they didnt say ban DIRECTLY but lets just say "a courteous notification that this is something we’re investigating and intend to continue investigating in the coming months? 8. I dont know this could just be me being a dick(sorry if im not aloud to say that im not really sure -_-.) but TO ME it just seems like bungie is just trying to squeeze the life out of halo just like halo 2 at the end with the new maps but at that point no one really cared that much. in MY PERSONAL opinion the only reason halo 2 lasted so long was cause all the games glitches and secrets kept everyone interested like when someone would find new super bounces or how to get outside the map that itself made a whole new game which was mostly called "glitches" not only that but (not saying that its a good thing in some cases a.k.a the douche bags who it in matchmaking) playing with modders and modding was continuously fun with new map designs and cool new weapons and stuff all the time it opened up infinite possibilities. which is why people found out about how the new maps couldn't do super bounces and had death barriers people just didn't give a damn about those maps or at least everyone i knew anyway. yeah ok halo 3 has forge but you have a set number of items and certain items and all sort of death barriers. 9. Dont get me wrong i dont hate halo 3 not at all its just that alot better games are coming out and eventually halo 3 isnt going to be able to compare to them. as in now i looked on my friends list when the game first came out bam EVERYONE had it no one gave a damn about anything else halo 3 was the -blam!-!!!! but now when i look its sad to see the only people that play it are people who only play when someone else is there im not saying no one plays it but if you would compare like the first year this game came out and now there is a huge difference . so...i cant help but giving it a try....maybe if you came out with a new version or entirely different halo *wink wink halo 4 wink wink* halo wars doesn't count -_- Well i was gonna end on 10 but i dont know anything else and now that i look i really went off topic haha it was supposed to be about me not liking the update but then it went to.....everything else . so look at it or not i dont care it just feels good to get all that stuff thats been bugging me, out.[/quote]

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Bungie will never fix the BR spread because they know nothing about MLG

um what about the maps and the achevments. like what happens when the maps cume out will they be in the update or will we have to pay for them and then theres the anervesery will they do the same thing thay did with bungie day or will we have to pay for them like I said in the previous sentence? I think seiryu99 is correct in saying that bungie mest up the multiplayer It's a pain to be get your rank up when your play agenst a team of generals when your still a lieutenant grad 3 and you dont even play to much. [Edited on 09.24.2008 10:53 AM PDT]

September 23rd is my birthday. Beyond that however, what is so "particular" about this day that people were able to predict Bungie would release an update on this day. There can't possibly be a rule somewhere at Bungie that says [i]titles will be updated on Johnrap's birthday, or five days prior to that event[/i] could there? I know they did release Halo 3 on 9/25 and I did sort of consider that a belated birthday present, that for some reason I had to pay $129 for, only to watch everyone else pay $99 for it just weeks later.

Uhm, two small questions. One: What is a spawn hive on The Pit? I played Pit Stop twice, and noticed no change. Two: The 7 on 7 achievement, would you enter into a playlist on the 7th with 7 experience already, or 0 and work your way to 7 in that day? Or enter that playlist with 6 experience and get the 7th in a game on that day? I'm sure this has been asked in many different ways, and I apologize for being the redundant one.

hey lukems is there any way i can get my 60 dollars back for this -blam!- game because the update sucks

god....they messed up in my opinion anyway 1. lone wolves with 8 ppl......are you F******* serious i was just in one it was so hard now considering on a small map like construct u spawn right next to people and with 8 people its harder to get exp and wow i had like 20 assists people can steal kills now more than ever with a well placed grenade... 2. WTF they didn't take out grenades from swat they added in more!!!! yeah sure u don't SPAWN with frags but now they on the map in addition to Sticky grenades yeah.....grenades with swat is just retarded to begin with now they have sticky's. 3. I guess its sorta cool that they have a separate rating system for each game type...but they didnt reset exp they just added a whole different exp entirely. as in above your normal exp it says Lone wolves EXP. 4. COOL!!!! they got new achievements o w8.....theyre f****ing retarded wow some of those dont have anypoint at all not just because they are worth 0 but come on.... Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month. What does that accomplish....besides not being able to play that game type for a month if u miss the 7th ...unless you pick something that sucks and you dont play anyway like... team objective. not only that they just seemed to add achievements for all the weapons they can like the oddball...the flag..splatter spree....warthog chain gun.... o and also.... Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts. I dont know if they added ghosts to the last level or i just past them or what...but im pretty sure their arent ghost in the last level of them game...... 5. ok this one i really don't get.... they added squad battle to "fill some of the void left by excising Ranked Big Team Battle" ok.....then why the hell did you take it out?! the only damn difference between the 2 game types is instead of 8v8 its 6v6 they play the same games still just with less people..and also because of that people who were high ranks in that game type are screwed out of that so now they have to play the almost exact same thing again to gain it up. 6. ok so i just read something regarding to the big team battle... they made the SAME EXACT THING!!! except now its called DLC Big Team which means you need the new maps and still all of your exp from the ranked big team is gone. 7. ok the new "spike on the banhammer" i dont really get that one that much maybe someone else can check that one...but quitting of of games early is a bad thing....well yeah it sucks when someone on your team leaves in team slayer or team battles but is that enough for them to get banned....and if your losing at Lone wolves in last place does it really matter if you quit...your gonna lose exp anyway isnt that enough instead of banning them?well i dont really wanna say ban cause they didnt say ban DIRECTLY but lets just say "a courteous notification that this is something we’re investigating and intend to continue investigating in the coming months? 8. I dont know this could just be me being a dick(sorry if im not aloud to say that im not really sure -_-.) but TO ME it just seems like bungie is just trying to squeeze the life out of halo just like halo 2 at the end with the new maps but at that point no one really cared that much. in MY PERSONAL opinion the only reason halo 2 lasted so long was cause all the games glitches and secrets kept everyone interested like when someone would find new super bounces or how to get outside the map that itself made a whole new game which was mostly called "glitches" not only that but (not saying that its a good thing in some cases a.k.a the douche bags who it in matchmaking) playing with modders and modding was continuously fun with new map designs and cool new weapons and stuff all the time it opened up infinite possibilities. which is why people found out about how the new maps couldn't do super bounces and had death barriers people just didn't give a damn about those maps or at least everyone i knew anyway. yeah ok halo 3 has forge but you have a set number of items and certain items and all sort of death barriers. 9. Dont get me wrong i dont hate halo 3 not at all its just that alot better games are coming out and eventually halo 3 isnt going to be able to compare to them. as in now i looked on my friends list when the game first came out bam EVERYONE had it no one gave a damn about anything else halo 3 was the -blam!-!!!! but now when i look its sad to see the only people that play it are people who only play when someone else is there im not saying no one plays it but if you would compare like the first year this game came out and now there is a huge difference . so...i cant help but giving it a try....maybe if you came out with a new version or entirely different halo *wink wink halo 4 wink wink* halo wars doesn't count -_- Well i was gonna end on 10 but i dont know anything else and now that i look i really went off topic haha it was supposed to be about me not liking the update but then it went to.....everything else . so look at it or not i dont care it just feels good to get all that stuff thats been bugging me, out.

ok it is not clear yet on this 7 -7 thing. Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month. Maybe it's because I have not had my 7th cup of coffee yet while driving 77mph while trying to get to work by 7am. If EXP is getting reset to 0 and the next time it will be the 7th of a month will be in October, that is 14 days away. So the way I am reading this is that i have to enter a ranked or social playlist on Octobet 7th in order to get this achievment. That also means that I can only win 7 games in the next 14 days to get this acheivement. Since I can easily win 7 games in one day how am i going to get this achievment and still play like normal til then? I will have to play a game every 2 days so i will have 7 EXP on 10-7-08. This means I will not be able to play very much over the next 14 days.

U GUYS ARE AWESOME! BUNGIE IS BEAST! HALO BEST GAME EVER!

lol my birthday is on the 23! cool anyway i have a question about maxed out ranks what will happen to field major and staff captains etc? will people still be able to get to those ranks?

Does anyone know what time it will be released? (12:00 AM?)

awesome update. bring the pain!!

will there be new maps because it says that guy was on secret ????

how many gamer points will the new maps cost?when will they be released?

is recon challenge goin to be availale on the 23rd as well [Edited on 09.22.2008 1:33 AM PDT]

[quote] MC Springer No No No No No!! why bungie? You guys are making Halo 3 ranking system to easy? and misleading? anyone can be a general with 600 exp.. no no no! its defeating the purpose I love Halo 3 the way it is i think this change is gonna make us loss alot of people to call of duty 4. Most my freinds switch to Call of duty now even more will!! Not cool:( [/quote] To be honest...kind of agree. It defeats the purpose of having a rank when all you have to do is play. Bungie should do something like massively increase the amount of experience needed to rank and make it like: 1 exp for dbl kill, small things, etc...2 exp for triple kill, killing spree, etc...3 exp for killing frenzy, etc...4 exp for overkill, running riot, etc... Something vaguely along those lines. Nothing like getting a flag capture though. Things like that would wreak havoc among teammates in objective games. Maybe 5 bonus exp or even a multiplier if you end up winning the match. Just pondering. This would weigh halo ranks with both skill & experience [Edited on 09.21.2008 9:29 PM PDT]

That kind of sucks that there is no more big team social :( I loved playing Big Team social. Goodbye Sandtrap and Valhalla. But everything else looks good, I like the new Bungie.net improvements.

Kgod, your gunna get a cookie

will we get any thing if we get the new achievements

Lets get this cleared up. The playlists. The playlists listed in the texts were the ones being updated. Those unmentioned are not changing, and they still exist. As for your katana, it will stay, noobs. No one with any sense cares about katanas/being a general. It's a game, albeit a fun one, but a game nonetheless. Now shut the -blam!- up.

nice update guys lots of new info