[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hampster Farm It would be nice to have a spell check on the forum, I count on it usually, and it's a good tool to keep young people learning[/quote] The Firefox browser has a built-in spell checker. It's underlining "Hampster" as mis-spelled, for example. *wink* It's not a perfect spell check, but it's a heck of a lot better than nothing. You can get Firefox here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ (I feel like a shill.)

guys, i think bungie fixed the problem with the plasma pistol then melee, cuz the last time i tried it, i shot the plasma pistol, then it took, seriously, a few seconds for me to melee, i thought there was somethign wrong, like i was lagging or something, but its that bungie fixed it. and they also fixed the ghost highjack, before, when people were highjacked, they were able to run around and kill the guy who highjacked their ghost, but now, when u get highjacked, you crouch down automatically, and you move extreemly slow for a few seconds.

i agree with that post about the sniper playlist.. i greatly miss the classic H2 style of snipes with no radar/beam rifle instead of shotgun.. also i would like to be able to play ranked snipers without having to go through about 15-20 team slayer games before i finally get one! lol i think many others can back me here. i say u see what the majority of the players like whether it be H2 style or shotty snipers, and make a ranked playlist for it! [Edited on 12.09.2007 8:20 PM PST]

Let me just be one of the first to say that the winners of those awards on Spike VGA were total BS. The things that Halo 3 were nominated for, well, Halo 3 should have won. I mean, wtf? Bioshock for Game of the Year?! C'mon. And the announcer said "You gamers are the ones that voted!". Uhh hello? Most of us don't watch TV, much less go to a channels website to vote for crap. (sigh). Bungie, you should'a won best studio and game of the year. Sorry you didn't. >.<

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] event horizon45 Sol, I am glad to find someone that wants TEAM SNIPERS! I love sniping, it was my favorite part of H2, but now it's ridiculous. You can't even get a variant that doesn't have radar. Bungie needs to stop putting AWFUL variants like Swords because they like them or they had fun playing them at the office. I can't stand having to swing the GD sword three times and watch in dismay as I get killed by some noob. Swords has no real skill at all, its a joke. Snipers was totally different. Lag is not near as much of an issue, I find it to be the most accurate variant of H2. Sure some people will lag, its inevitable. But I would trade ten BTB or Hardcore variants for one that started the players with a Beam rifle and a Sniper rifle with NO RADAR. And don't give me this crap of "Shotty Snipers" it doesn't even compare. Also if you wouldn't like a Sniper variant, DONT PLAY IT YOU ASS! Don't pick up your controller and select that gametype in Matchmaking. I think we should still have the right to choose that variant, even if you don't care for it. Now we got soccer, grrrrreeeeeaaaattttt. It's like "Rocket Race", WHO CARES? I do not like how Bungie has taken over the playlists and deleted the games I really liked for no apparent reason. And yes the beatdowns are ridiculous. I just laugh now because I used to get pissed off as all hell but then I realized it's not going to change, so I adjusted my style of play. It still feel robbed when I get beatdown by someone that I just decimated with a shotgun, but Bungie knows about it and I believe they will fix the problem, eventually. It's just enraging when someone shoots you with 5-10 rounds with the AR, melees you and its lights out. I personally love the noob in H3, it is a lot harder to get a kill which is exactIy what needed to happen. And the term "Noob" was created to describe some rookie abusing a noob combo in H2. It was way way too easy to shoot off a noob and use a BR to get a headshot, so easy even a NEWBIE can use it. It was a term used to describe someone that wasn't skilled enough to use regular weapons to get a kill, instead they resorted to being a cheap NOOB. But in H3 it is much harder to pull off the noob combo. I laugh my ass off because I will go around and use a noob melee combo or "Noob Boxing". I rarely use it to pull off a cheap headshot. Either way im happy with H3, it just needs some fine tuning.[/quote] I agree with you on everything except the "noob boxing". Lmao. You DO realize that's abusing the Halo 3 melee problem right? xD

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] odin1156 Hmm...where to begin..you know i was alright with most of the stuff you said until the end when you said you and a FEW people...umm yea they listen to the Majority of people like your saying they should it just happens to be that your not part of that majority...as to that sniper comment I believe the sniper is either my highest tool of destruction or my second highest...I Love sniping...but i DONT WANT A TEAM SNIPERS PLAYL:IST...you ask why if i like sniping so much...your answer is as follows...I dont want team snipes playlist due to the fact that in regular slayer sniping is fun you can move around and stuff...in team sni[pes playlist all noobs HIDE..seriously i dont like playing games where the games only go up to 15 killsa due to the fact that people like to hide with the sniper and wont mogve the entire game its ridiculous and its more fun and challenging when everyone is running around and such....as to that whole noob combo thing....tge whole point of the plasma pistoo is to take people shiels to nothing when they say they fixed it they have....just because after youve been hit with a plasma pistol charge and one shot to the HEAD with a br kills you doesent mean its broken it means that the plasma pistol does exactly what its supposed to...they have in fact fixed the noob combo it actually takes timing and skill to use now instead of just looking in someones general direction letting go of the trigger and having this green blob fly across the map at a billion miles an hour and following people around corners and such...actually i love the H2 noob combo...as i always say its called noob combo because its used to kill noobs not because its used by noobs...i also enjoy the H3 noob combo..it works exactly asi believe it should and im pretty sure bungie thinks the same....that melee nedding to be weaker thing you are aware that two smacks in Halo 2 would kill someone just like in halo 3 right? its exactly the same its perfectly fine...the onlyy thing i have to say about that needler thing is that all i tink should be change is haveing a little more rumble or something when you start getting hit with them instead of having nothing and then BLAM a little fir warning would be nice...that whole Infection Playlist and SWAT playlist...im not even going to comment..or maybe i will ....the reason bungie hasnt made a swat playlist is because it didnt do very well in Halo 2....thats why it was ranked and then a little while later and still to this day it is OMG UNRANKED......i personally dont find swat very fun its too easy i know alot of a few people like it but if bungie did everything that a few people like there would be an entire playlist where people can fly around as the monitor and try to drop things on people or a playlist where theres no gravity you have the fastest speed and you start with a gravity hammer and a spartan laser....hello i am Master chief lolololollololoolololllololol.....wonder if anyone got that reference...anyways..as to the whole balanced weapon thing almost evry map..in fact i cant even think of one that this isnt rue on...ha sthe exact same setup at each base and the maps with only one of certain weapons the distance from one base to the weqpon and another base to the weapon is exactly the same....the only thing i lightly agree with you on is the spawning...occasionally you will get boned and spawn by team mates that are in a firefight...of course this usually only happens when the teammate in question is at your base and is next to the general spawning area for your team...i think this was purposely done so you will be able to help your teammates...although you dont aLWAYS GET THE DESIRED EFFECT oops pressed caps lock...anyways im going to stop typing before i take up two pages for one post[/quote] Oook... So all that mumbo-jumbo says is that you disagree with me, like using a noob combo, and hate SWAT/Sniper playlists? Bejebus dude, learn how to hit the enter key. Read DeadlyTedyBear's post on page 6. That's basically my reply to you. However, I'll add some thought on what I meant when I said "fix the noob combo". It's not exactly the same as Halo 2, of course not. However, this time around, you can run up to people and melee the crap out of them. Not to mention, charging shots and using a br still works. You say people need to aim? Sure they do. If you can't do that, it means your'e one of those people who run around shooting wildly and shouldn't be playing Halo. Period. So you see, I'm not mad that people shoot me from across the map with a plasma pistol then br. No no, I'm mad with the NEW noob combo of charged shot and a melee to the face. Total bs. (Edit): Uhh, how am I not part of the majority? I play Halo 3 every chance I get, so excuse me for not wasting my time on the forums flaming people and giving them headaches with a lazy style of typing like you. -.-' [Edited on 12.09.2007 5:58 PM PST]

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CounterParrot [Edited on 12.08.2007 3:10 PM PST] The noob combo should be renamed because a noob could not use it in Halo 3. Have you tried to, it takes a good bit of skill to line up the plasma bolt, and then follow it up with a well placed headshot. Fix it, what's to fix. You should be able to use something that makes sense and is fun. If you are mad because you can't figure out how to couter it then why dont you just call the whambulance. (cant figure out how to do that reply thing)[/quote] Uhh, did you know that a noob is someone completely different than a newbie? Noobs are people who are, in general, just idiots who want to piss you off. So you see, there's a good number of noobs who can line up that shot and even lead it. Then after it hits, whip out a br or something. However, the original noob combo isn't my problem. Melee is another factor in this new combo. People run up to me with a charged plasma pistol, shoot me, and then beating me down. So far, I've only seen a few people try this on me, but what happens a year from now when that's what people resort to? Personally, I use a shotgun/melee combo. Compare a shotgun to a plasma pistol. How can they both have the same results when used in a shoot-then-melee combo? (sigh) Do you see what I'm getting at? Check the first file of my fileshare. Sure, the other guy isn't moving around, but I'm home alone. Wtf do you want me to do? xD

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] blottt Sol Knightt , not 5 players , but 8 like halo2 and def not allowing 4 player games[/quote] Uhh, I don't know what the heck you just said. Lol. Care to re-phrase that?

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] X Treme Talent the main reason i dont like team snipers is because it usually boils down to connection. like all swords gametypes, usually the person or team with the better connection wins. [/quote] That can be true sometimes, but it's usually not the case. In my experience, simply the better sniper wins, or in the case of sword games, it's just whoever uses melee or stickys.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tru_Warrior Um....Team Swat and Team Snipers, hello!? Ever gonna add those?[/quote]NO. Where are the damn arena maps? Why the hell must we have every damn map huge or asymmetrical? If you're going to make a asymmetrical map at least make a good one like Chill out (Best multiplayer map ever) or Lockout dammit.. I NEED MIDSHIP. [Edited on 12.09.2007 4:57 PM PST]

Podcast = Massive Disappointment. Maps = Good.

o ho, do i hear swat map for that building block map? Am i also hearing new playlists? this is gold, start writing, bungie!

it u want to add me put in KingRicer as my gamer tag

yah

@Hampster Farm Microsoft is responsible for the DLC costs. Not Bungie. Were it up to Bungie completely, I'm sure they'd give the maps away.

ok

ok but i want to be a good lv

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] screw you nub All of you that are mad that they are putting the battle rifle as the map default weapon need to shut up and learn to use it. [b]It is the best weapon in the game[/b] besides the sniper rifle.[/quote] Exactly why BR starts aren't a good idea. It just turns matches into BR and Sniper fests. I don't see what the problem is otherwise though. Want a BR? Just go grab one. They're not hard to find.

so do we die when we git hit by the soccer ball.and can we put on running fast when we play [Edited on 12.09.2007 2:52 PM PST]

Ok, I was playing around last night and something happened that I don't understand. I especially posted two videos on my file share to illustrate the situation. First, or WTF part 1, I am following a guy who has a shotgun and he passes through one of the energy barrier/doors. I too pass through and throw a grenade trying to lure him out. I see him throw a grenade so I back completely on the opposite side of the door. His grenade bounces on the door and lands right next to it, still on his side. It detonates and I, on the other side of the barrier/door get blown right off the map. ???? So later in that same game I saw the same guy, shotgun and all, and decided to try the whole grenade through the door thing (see WTF part 2). I throw a Brute grenade which misses him by an inch as he passes through an energy door, and the grenade sticks to the door. He is standing very close to the door, closer than I was when I died, and his shields don't even flicker other than to recharge. I know I will probably get torn apart for posting this because there is some obvious reason why it worked for him and not me. Little inconsistencies like this piss me off to no end. Please someone watch the videos and give me an explanation.

Um....Team Swat and Team Snipers, hello!? Ever gonna add those?

Hello Frankie. Jeremy Hall here, from Thornton CO. Congratulations on the success of Halo 3! After reading the update, & browsing the forums, I wanted to post a few online suggestions: It would be nice to have a spell check on the forum, I count on it usually, and it's a good tool to keep young people learning. Also I would like to upload my own crystal skulls pic that I have used for years. The resources on this website are pretty amazing, & I would have liked to have known about them sooner. I've wasted months searching for good custom games, to be taken back, when I looked through some of them online here! And to find out, it would have been better to just wait a few months, for this new foundry! Custom Games: So much fun, so impossible to run. I'm an indpendant gamer, and take & toss online friends daily. It's really difficult to get a room together. When I finally do, all I hear is wa wa wa wa from all the jr gamers. Because I host the room, I'm suddenly responsible for all the content, & suggestions for that content. The luster of these great games, is quickly dimmed on most occasions, by the difficulty of running them. Or the frustration of trying to find a room, with a competent host. My suggestion is to provide group linking to random custom games. I was frankly suprised when I first put in Halo, and could not auto find a gamer for these game types & campaign. A play at your own risk, "community content, not bunjie tested" circut would be amazing. Of course there would need to be quality checks. That brings me to my next suggestion, which would enable such a gametype. Forum managability for custom games. It's really tough to identify exactly which custom games are for how many people, & their level of action, etc. A forum post suggested a "fill in" of pertinent data for each game, just like the creation process, too tedious. Instead a special "maps & gametypes" submission forum, with specialized in-submission box checkboxes may work. How about 4 questions (after submitting by type of game): optimum # of gamers, Gamer tested & how much....etc. Basically something that qualifies submissions, so that submissions can at the least find better organization within the forum, with links to type & game together, within more comprehensive peramiters. THEN, a vote system, that brings favorite, most quality gametypes to the top. Then the monthly top 100 or just 10 games & types could be locked in for a temporary playlist (x amount of player vetos would be a great que to take that game out of the circut). Or mabye just available in the Bungie favorites, (which is so painfully limited). I could choose custom games and have 2 or 3 choices to get in to the matchmaking: under so many players, over so many players. And the ensuing game would be completely random. Talk about taking advantage of all these independant gamers ideas & games. OH, with the current system in place, I at the very least need to be able to invite people more efficiently into custom rooms. I cannot build a party in btb because my party leadership is not guaranteed. Right now, I would like to group spam invites, just like I may a message, to my recently played w/ players & friends. Having to play btb for an hour, just to get fresh invite power is really weaksauce. And I'm not going to join a clan full of jr gamers. Ranked: Ranked big team battle sounds just wonderfull. I'm thankful the lone wolves is 6 players now, I thought I would never get overkill. Not enjoying having to play tactical games in my lone wolves slayer area though. Played some new games, like hammers, etc, lots of fun. At first, I tossed the veto at every shotty snipe game, & now I miss it. I just was not good enough yet, to enjoy that gametype. Mabye one in 10-20 games is a good ratio. I'm stalled on rank, because I'm a support type / defensive player, we can't all be triple majors, I guess. I wonder if these various connection problems affect my play, or if the players are simply better than me. The limited levels are a big problem. My favorite gametype is not in my favorite level. A link to ranked medals chests online would be super duper amazing. Also what am I missing?!!!?!?!!?!? Fees & new maps charge: This is a big dissapointment. I have objected to buying new maps, ever since I bought the GRAW 1 update package. It ruined my game experience, and Graw was not fun anymore until 2 came out. I've never paid for anything like that again. When you buy additional product, you are cut off from casual gamers, usually the majority of gamers, and most likely, many of your favorite gamer friends. Didn't Bungie make 140 million in sales the opening week? I actually EXPECTED free levels. This talk of buying maps has me seriously considering moving on to another game a lot earlier than expected. It's an insult to me as a consumer, I already bought the product, you should warranty it's usefull life. When corporations upcharge me, I loose confidence in them. Even if I do buy that product of the day, they loose me as a permanent customer. If I have to pay for new maps now, I'll have to pay for them on halo wars, and then more for 3, etc, etc. The utility features of the 360 are being exploited by profiteers, and not explored by inventors. I'm just not into paying extra. If you knew how poor we are... How about if these maps are going to cost money, you could mabye get me a free copy of them? Now I'm a beggar, see how it sucks? Actually I'm a certified real estate appraiser in Colorado. I work for myself, build & manage my own computers, have reliable connections, and don't answer to a boss. I'm pissed that my favorite passtime is trying to upcharge me. It's hearts and minds guys, not skulls & bones. I starting to think Bungie is just another company in a long line of increasingly greedy, self serving companies, to upcharge for one of the most successfull 360 products to date. I'm sorry, I'm off track, thinking about taking money out of my pocket to enjoy something I thought was permanent, puts me in a sour mood. I really do like Halo 3, and wanted to be a long-term gamer, but this might change things. I'm not interested in being part of some extra-classy, elite section of gamers who have paid for the maps, I want to be in the majority, and not feel shafted. Wow, now I'm really off track, but I guess I've got a few suggestions, & comments across. Please pass my comments up the line, if you feel they have merit. Thank you again, Jeremy W Hall actually, I'm going to post this as a comment, mabye it's the popular vote that counts here?

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] odin1156 i swear this is (hopefully) going to be my last post on this update...i just felt that i had to clarify a few things...to begin...when i said i dont like snipers i explained exactly why i dont like it and i didnt say they shouldnt put it in matchmaking just because i dont like it i personally believe that they havent and most likely arent(well maybe in the future when they have all the other playlists how they want them and have people playing all of them) going to put snipes in becausenot enough people played it...yes there is a group of fans who love snipes as a playlist but im uesing that group isnt large enough to where bungie feels like hey we better put this in or we are going to lose a crapload of people(i say crapload for lack of a better term...i guess myriad or something like that would work but hey why confuse people) the same goes with swat i dont remember exactly who said the thing about how swat is still in H2 unranked...the key word being UNRANKED they only kept it because they knew there were a FEW people who enjoyed it...but once again not enough to make it RANKED...it is all part of the eb and flow of the playlists they go hrough see what people like see what people dont like and go from there...i dont know if anyone remembers but a while back they showed this whole thing of which maps people played the most and whiched playlists people played the most....just look at that and it will explain exactly why they havent added these playlists.....ill look for the page and add a link later if i find it but yea anyways....one last comment to the person who said that he uses the plasma pistol to beat people down instead of going for the "CHEAP" headshot umm.....were you like i dont know dropped on your head as a child last i knew standing right next to someone and letting the plasma pistol go and pressing B is way less skillful than knowing exactly how to use e plasma pistol to hit someone with the charge and then shooting once and getting the headshot...imean seriously the average Halo player has a ridiculously bad hit percentage let alone headshot percentage its way harder to hit someone in the face with a br after using the plasma pistol than it is to just be next to some one and pressing B in their general direction...seriously dude get with the program....btw f you think im talking a complete load go look at my hit percentage and such and youll no im not a nub....seriously there should be like a minimum level requirement on halo 3 to be able to even post anything on this website...it would seriously get rid of 90% of all the complaining and nubish comments...I hate having to explain things to people who would know whats going on if they would just READ WHAT BUNGIE IS SAYING...dont let the big words scare you people grab a damn dictionary seriously...also i would like to say one last thing...if anyone decides that they think theyre intelligent and would like to comment on my lack of punctuation and such dont waste your breath i happen to purposefully not punctuate as it save me from having to worry about it and it also saves space...i know a question mark here and there may not seem like much but they can add upp...also people PLEASE START USING THE RIGHT (THERES,THEY'RES,THEIRS) i mean seriously its like 2nd grade english[/quote] Odin1156, your previous post has been pretty good but the one above is mostly wrong The reason there is not team snipers now isnt because there wasnt enough people playing it in halo 2. Snipers was probally one of the most played playlist other than team slayer. The reason it isnt its own playlist is because it has been included in team slayer and tactical. Also about team swat the reason it isnt ranked anymore is because of the problems with block host, stanby, and spawn killing. In a game where it takes one hit to kill someone connection is very important. Also If you were smart you could set up your team so when ever the opponent spawned it was infornt one of your teamates. Meaning instant death for them. But because so many people loved swat the decided to make it unranked and not just get rid of it. I am really hoping for a team snipes soon. MY opinion on swat I have made a custom setup for swat in halo 3 and it doesnt feel the same. With the BR being so different team swat might not work well as a playlist. But i do think its worth trying You are right about the noob combo tho [Edited on 12.09.2007 10:41 AM PST]

im seeing a lot of things i like leaving but hey alot more of the thing i wanted are coming, so its a win. cant wait . [Edited on 12.09.2007 9:52 AM PST]

i see why team swat is kinda wanted back but.....i really hope they dont, because as someone pointed out to me, it made people think they were better then they really were, and it started to become the only thing they ever played as a result...... on another note, its kinda sad that the commando shoulders armor perm still cant be used, cause the elites are just -blam!- out of luck when it comes to armor perms. it would be interesting if they snuck the shoulders in on the december 18th update, but i think they would have said something if they were gonna do that.

ranked btb thank you bungie thats going to be 10 times better than team slayer. woo-hoo. I do have a question for anyone that can answer it iam sure its the case but the herioc map pack will be avaible at 12:01 A.M. on tuesday the 11th, right? bungie if you could or someone with a definite answer please reply ASAP. I gotta gather everyone i can off my friends list to learn these levels with me. I would love to see some more armor selecions in general i would even fork over microsoft points for the it. Thank you and bungie keep on improving halo3 it just gets all that more addictive. [Edited on 12.09.2007 9:47 AM PST]