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5/23/2007 5:41:39 PM
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Beta: We're Taking Your Questions
Are some things about the Halo 3 Public Beta confusing you? Do you want to know more about a feature or why you keep getting owned in Oddball on Snowbound? Here's where to ask.
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i hate to bring any game besides halo into this, but why isn't chatting IN GAME, the same as say, gears of war? we have a mute button in the pre-game lobby, so anyone we dont want to hear we mute, and we listen to the people who one can rely on. Why must i have to push a button during a firefight to say that in being pinned down by sniper fire by the turrent in valhalla? Im sure some idiot will tell me, "by the time you say that whole thing youll already be dead." or say, "well, everyone has an indicator, so if someone is in trouble then the team knows." but what if there are multiple firefights and one is just too preoccupied to pull a 360 degree turn around the entire map to make sure every team mate is accounted for. So my question, Why MUST i push a button to comunicate with team mates that arent within my general vicinity?
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Where do babies come from?
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How EXACTLY does the ranking system work this time around, and what are all of the ranks?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] StraightFacedFSU playing as an elite is lame and it always will be. cool dinasaur bro. wow mom, check out my huge head. [/quote] Haha, quite true! Elites look cool but are bad to play as.
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playing as an elite is lame and it always will be. cool dinasaur bro. wow mom, check out my huge head.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] StraightFacedFSU what map has the banshee?[/quote] Valhalla on BTB training :)
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what map has the banshee?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sleepless Gamer 8th. Will there be a zero point achievement for people that have tested the beta in the final release?[/quote] Good idea with that achievement! :)
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Does the beta's game play seem slower? If it is slower, why? it takes getting used to, but now that I have, its not so bad. However, the slower game play was a difficult adjustment. Does anyone else feel this way?
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1st. Will there be more equipment in the final release? 2nd. Will there be more medals added? I like the new medals for a sniper/shotty spree and the Perfection medal. 3rd. In the final version will the maps have different time settings? Like night or day? 4th. Will there be even more gametypes? I like the new VIP game. 5th. Will the Video feature if still in the final version allow multiple people to view since you can switch the game to theater? 6th. Will there be an Online Co-op Feature? 7th. Why is the banshee now harder to fly? 8th. Will there be a zero point achievement for people that have tested the beta in the final release?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Zero7 5. The King of the hill boundary marker is not transparent enough and can sometimes be difficult to see through making TK's abundant. Will it be toned down for release ? [/quote] That's one I forgot. It makes it impossible to see what's going on in some situations. Also, why does white show up slightly darker on the H3 icon/emblem screen? I used white for my background and it looks slightly gray. Its not a big deal, but I don't see why it's not a true white like on H2. [Edited on 05.24.2007 12:57 AM PDT]
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I apologize if I'm repeating what's been said, but I don't have the time to read 37 pages right now. 1. Why can't the Banshee look straight down? I miss that ability, it made it a lot easier to attack Spartans on the ground. 2. The Warthog seems to have some physics issues (ex: it seems too lightweight) and it's practically indestructible if you don't have a laser. 3. I'm not a huge fan of territories, but is the old variant where you tried to rack up time coming back? I actually think I prefer it to the new "permanent" version. 4. I really would like to see the RP system explained. 5. Why does the game freak out so badly when someone quits? Often it causes the game to end and our party to be broken up, and sometimes I end up in a game where the whole other team are 'zombie walking' into walls. 6. Sometimes I've noticed myself and other being killed by the guardians for no apparent reason. It seems to happen with stickies a lot too. 7. What's up with the medal changes? (Like killtacular)
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1. How’s your new job going ? talk about jumping in at the deep end. 2. Why is the FOV limited compared to other first person shooters which tend to have a 90 degree FOV ? 3. Is there any chance of us getting a region filter option for MM searches in the final product ? Search by connection just doesn’t seem to be much of an improvement. 4. What is the spinning planet like object behind the match making screen ? 5. The King of the hill boundary marker is not transparent enough and can sometimes be difficult to see through making TK's abundant. Will it be toned down for release ? 6. Areas that are in shadow and weapons when turned towards dark areas seem blacked out like the contrast is incorrect. I tested this on all 3 maps and all lighted areas appear correct while areas in shadow appear unnaturally dark. Tested this on a an Acer 32 inch HDTV, set-up with Microsoft media centre picture config tool. So my TV is set-up perfectly, also its fine for all other games I have played. I have to raise my contrast level to get a clearer image, but that also makes the lighted areas much brighter and not looking so great. My question is, is this a bug of the beta or will contrast and brightness options be available in the final product ? 7. And my final question - Why does the crosshair appear lower down the screen like it did in Halo 2 ? [Edited on 05.24.2007 12:52 AM PDT]
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Great Games, but a few suggestions/complaints -First, a small glitch, i got a splatter spree on snowbound with the ghost, and then after that everytime i killed someone with the ghost guns it gave me another medal, is that intentional or a glitch? -why is the carbine so much better than the battle rifle? -can the "your flag has been taken" notice be made smaller, the voice kinda does the job anyway -why are there team slayer games in team skirmish? -sometimes Tips come up, like how to dual wield, but why do these things take up the whole screen? -can u make the radar icons darker, they are hard to see on white background (i.e. snowbound) -can u make it possible for a guest to sign out of an unranked game without signing out the other person on the screen? -just something random that would be cool: a medal tracker showing all the medals ever recieved in ranked games? -Thank you for making sniping harder -I really, really, really do not like the plasma pistol disabling an engine thing. its already easy enough to kill someone out of a ghost -the frag grenades seem MUCH weaker, any possibility on them being made stronger before the full release? -the wharthog seems too strong. I see that youre trying to make it that people are individually killed from the whathog, but because of that it takes WAY too many shots to kill a wharthog -can it be easier for the mongoose to run people over? Like putting a spike on the front or something? -Can the missle pod be loaded onto a mongoose? -I know youve already heard it, but how is mvp chosen? -Can you add a custom gametype for popular halo 2 games, like zombie? (one person starts red, everyone else blue, when someone on blue team is killed they are switched to red) -And finally, can the shield bar be put back onto the bottom left? please? [Edited on 05.24.2007 4:50 AM PDT]
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Hey Bungie, I would like to know if the speed of the game play will get faster on the final release? Also, in Halo 2 during matchmaking, when a host would quit we would get the blue screen from hell!!! I have noticed that we are getting loading screens on Halo 3 Beta when players quit? Other games, like COD 3, seemlessly hand the game over to the new host, is Halo 3 going to be capable of that? Please, please, for the love of GOD, make the grendades more powerful, like Halo 2!?!? Thank you for the Beta! Daddio
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will there be elite ranks when you play as an elite in the full version? or am i be able to play as an elite before the beta ends? I noticed that it sucked to play with an elite model in Halo 2s multiplayer, is this going to be fixed in Halo 3? cuz elites are awesome=D!
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Hmm yeah will there be a actual black? i mean what sort of a colour is STEEL!?!? I want a black :p you cant have white with no black its just not right :)
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So far, are you recieving the kind of Data that you were expecting to get, or have people been playing the game differently than predicted?
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I don't know if this has been asked, but i'm not going to read 36 pages of questions to find out. Right, so Halo 2 had a "caching" system for the maps, where the maps would take a small time to load unless you deleted that data from the hard drive. Is this going to be in the final, retail version of Halo 3, so that we don't have to wait about 5-10 seconds for the map to load?
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couple things: - why do the grenades feel like im throwing shotput balls? the distance and arch dont feel right. - how come i get killed in like 4 or 5 rifle shots in the back of the head from far away, but then at the same distance on a guy facing be it takes way more for me to kill him. the rifles seem to be inconsistent. on occasion i have been able to kill with them from far away, but more often i cant and i get killed from far away. - why is the laser so awesome?
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I don't know if this makes much of a difference to most people, but I play with the vibration off, and since the Ammo Bar and the Shield bar are both on the top of the screen it's hard to tell when they both flash bright red whether I'm out of Ammo, my shields are low, or both. Could the Ammo Bar be moved to the bottom or the Shield bar to where it was in Halo 2? I know a lot of people that seem to be running into this problem when they play without vibration.
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Will there be any further changes to the beta, IE. different gametypes, maps, playlists, or weapons perhaps?
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Is there something special that the cloaking does? Because its as bad as ever. Like take you off your enemies motion tracker?
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More of a demand than a question: Please tell me when the game ships that your shield status bar will move back above the radar. The screen looks too full with it at the top, put it back above the radar!
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please bring back the pistol from halo one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please bring back the pistol from halo one ! please bring back the pistol from halo one you did a great job making halo3, but if you bring back the pistol from one the game will be perfect.. trust me [Edited on 05.23.2007 11:51 PM PDT]
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Will we ever get to play Last Resort (Remake of Zanzibar) beforethe beta ends? Will we ever get to see what the sword looks like? By Anychance will there be and update the public beta so we get to see some cool new things like new weapons, new maps, new Veihcals Is this true that your'll get to fly the pelican on one of the new Multiplayer maps? (Rumor) And by any chance do you know if anyone yet has hacked Halo 3 Beta? Thank you for your time bungie and keep up the fantasic work.
