Halo 3 - General Discussion & Info

[quote name='LinkinPrime']fuck no...I'll take the bars any day vs. having to change my resolution to 480p stretched like I did when I played Halo 2.[/QUOTE]

True. But with their budget you'd think they could do extra programming to get the 2 player split screen to run using the whole screen for both players (i.e. display in a different aspect ratio).
 
I recently got a 360 and I love it. Anyone who wants to co-op on legendary with me friend me (ep2011) or message me on CAG. I'm also up for some multiplayer :)
 
[quote name='TahoeMax']Finally cracked lvl 40...but then I had to send the game away. Drat. Guess I'll have to wait for my Goozex copy to arrive now.[/quote]

40 is a big hump, now you just have to surmount 9 more mountains.
 
[quote name='help1']40 is a big hump, now you just have to surmount 9 more mountains.[/quote]

Heh, ain't gonna happen. I played system-link with a 47 a couple weeks ago and he absolutely destroyed me...25-4. I think those last few levels are going to be exponentially harder, and I think I'd probably break my controller :bomb: I'm happy playing social for a few weeks so I can actually get the experience I need to get colonel...then we'll see if I can't find my way up to brigadier.
 
[quote name='TahoeMax']Finally cracked lvl 40...but then I had to send the game away. Drat. Guess I'll have to wait for my Goozex copy to arrive now.[/quote]
Congrats.

I know that I'll be stuck in the low 30's, noticed that the game definataly got harder at this level, everyone seems to know exactly what needs to be done to win. Atleast its a little better than when I played Halo 2, I couldn't get past LVL 25.
 
[quote name='TahoeMax']Heh, ain't gonna happen. I played system-link with a 47 a couple weeks ago and he absolutely destroyed me...25-4. I think those last few levels are going to be exponentially harder, and I think I'd probably break my controller :bomb: I'm happy playing social for a few weeks so I can actually get the experience I need to get colonel...then we'll see if I can't find my way up to brigadier.[/quote]

It does. I had to win 6 straight games at level 46 to get to a 47. Those were the hardest games I have ever played.
 
What a lame ass playlist update we have coming next week. It's almost like they're trying to make people mad. As soon as I get my 360 back, I'm giving CoD 4 a try.
 
what update is that. after tonight i will be down to 10 more achievement points, gonna finish legendary and the meta games tonight, then its just the damn steppin razor and two-for-one
 
I don't know what you're talking about a "lame ass update" to the hoppers. Rocket Race in full circulation just about made my week right there.
 
There's a litany of things people want changed or added to matchmaking, too many to list here - and bungie all but ignored them. People are going nuts on the bungie.net forums about it, and for good reason. This update is vastly underwheleming.
 
[quote name='kaptinmorgan']what update is that. after tonight i will be down to 10 more achievement points, gonna finish legendary and the meta games tonight, then its just the damn steppin razor and two-for-one[/QUOTE]
this update taken from the weekly whats update from Bungie:

Social Doubles has been removed from matchmaking (since people just used it to be rank whores)

Rocket Race Hopper has been added to the Social hopper – 8 players, join in parties of up to 8 players.

Multi-team:

* Hammerzeit game variant has been added
* The frequency of VIP gametypes has been reduced
* Swords gametypes will now be to 25 kills, rather than 50

Lone Wolves:

* Player count has been increased to 6 players
* Swords gametype has been added
* Oddball games on Snowbound and Epitaph have been reduced considerably

Team Slayer:

* Guardian has been added to the playlist
* Valhalla has been added to Team Slayer

Social Skirmish

* Flag gametypes will now appear more regularly

Rumble Pit

* Added both Construct and Isolation to several gametypes
 
I'd like them to enable the ability to choose maps and gametypes in social matchmaking. Too many limitations as it stands.
 
[quote name='aerotive']I'd like them to enable the ability to choose maps and gametypes in social matchmaking. Too many limitations as it stands.[/QUOTE]

Agreed.

Ranked should remain random, to force people to play everything etc. But in social you should be able to pick gametypes at the least.

I could see game types and maps causing problems with finding a match though, especially at lower rank levels as time goes on as you'd probably have too few people selecting a certain game/map combo.
 
[quote name='nikelecious91']I swore I played 4v4 ranked on Guardian a few times already..[/quote]

You have. We don't need Valhalla in Team Slayer! Add Epitaph to Team Slayer.
 
[quote name='csalzman']There's a litany of things people want changed or added to matchmaking, too many to list here - and bungie all but ignored them. People are going nuts on the bungie.net forums about it, and for good reason. This update is vastly underwheleming.[/quote]

Ah ok. I don't browse the bungie forums due to the "gamefaqs/age" syndrome they face too. It's crazy to think that even for a community oriented company as Bungie that they'd include EVERYTHING that is wanted tho. Things will come and go - it's great enough that they put all the optional support with the website and constant tweaks that are applied, even years after release.
 
Unless the DLC is free, I'm getting rid of this game as soon as possible.

It simply didn't hold my interest for very long. The maps suck, the gameplay feels really disconnected (not real and visceral like Halo 1 and Halo 2 after update).
 
I have a question: I want to learn to play online but dont have any friends that play, so how can I get into games? I guess I go to matchmaking and then try to find a social slayer game but in that screen it says "Information could not be received from Xbox live" Even when it does work it just says "Looking for Players" and nothing ever happens.


The Network option says open party but i dont have any friends or recent players to play with so nobody can join right?

What gives?
 
[quote name='life.exe']Who in there right minds would add Swords to Lonewolfs? [/QUOTE]


Bungie. I do somewhat well at swords, and its still not terribly enjoyable. If i want to use swords and hammers ill play Soul Calibur.
 
[quote name='help1']You have. We don't need Valhalla in Team Slayer! Add Epitaph to Team Slayer.[/quote]

I agree. Valhalla is a little big for team slayer, Epitaph is perfect.
 
[quote name='PyroGamer']Unless the DLC is free, I'm getting rid of this game as soon as possible.

It simply didn't hold my interest for very long. The maps suck, the gameplay feels really disconnected (not real and visceral like Halo 1 and Halo 2 after update).[/QUOTE]

I'll disagree with most of your points. But I will agree that this game is losing interest much faster than H1 or H2. The competitive nature of the game seems a bit off. No more pistol fights, no BR battles...just big AR clusterfucks a lot of the times. Even at my 41 rank, this seems to be the case, but with slightly more emphasis on the BR and power weapons at the higher levels.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']I'll disagree with most of your points. But I will agree that this game is losing interest much faster than H1 or H2. The competitive nature of the game seems a bit off. No more pistol fights, no BR battles...just big AR clusterfucks a lot of the times. Even at my 41 rank, this seems to be the case, but with slightly more emphasis on the BR and power weapons at the higher levels.[/quote]

At 48 its about the AR for about the first 3 minutes, then snipers for the rest of the game, and all those dieing to the snipers looking for BR's. Some maps have horrible BR spawns, others have amazing ones. The grenade arc is messed up also.
 
If it's the same gametype I played a lot of custom matches in. You start with 2-man teams. One regular, one VIP both with Rockets by default. The VIP can't drive, but is the only way to get points - by driving/running through capture points. Players/Mongeese are indestructible, unless you get assassinated. There were two Race variants out for the gametype, one on Valhalla, and the other on Sandtrap. The game is incredibly fun, and insane with the indestructible Mongeese. All kinds of yelling was had from rediculous spins, and flinging teams
across the map.
 
For the people hating on Halo 3... did you guys forget how Halo 2 started out?

Wow! SMGs?! This is terrible! This game takes NO SKILL whatsoever! Oh wow, they have all the battle rifles and sniper... this game is over!

Months later, they release an update where the BR practically has no spread, stronger melees, grenades blow up faster and more maps and the release of Team Hardcore.

Halo 3 hasn't even had a single update yet(except for the matchmaking) and we don't know whether the DLC will greatly improve our experience online... and oh yeah, there isn't a Team Hardcore gametype out yet...
 
Update on the guy that got killed by a traffic cone:
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Bungie is up to their silly antics once again, this time highlighting one of Halo 3's most awkward deaths with it's own Bungie.net recognition.

If you don't recall, one un-lucky gamer found himself looking straight into death's orange eye when a traffic cone struck his head in a game of Halo 3 resulting in instant death. He has since been rewarded for his death by Bungie with ultra-sexy Recon armor and now the Bungie gods have officially listed the classified traffic cone as one of Halo 3's Tools of Destruction. Check it out for yourself by making the jump and looking at the very last Tool of Destruction. It's kind of silly and kind of construction-esque.
Click to expand...
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/11/12/halo-3s-latest-tool-of-destruction-a-traffic-cone/
That's pretty cool of them to do this. I woder if he's the only one with this recognition or if there's others.
 
Anyone have anything weird happen to them today when the got on Xbox Live to play Halo 3? I was going to work on my last Meta game achievement and when I signed on I had this screen pop up that said congratulations you have been promoted to Spartan Officer and the gamer icon wasn’t mine it was an 8 with a light green background and the Legendary Campaign Icon wasn’t in my service record. I changed menus and my profile reverted back to its normal layout.
 
^^happens all the time.

i'm a CPT Grade 2 and sometimes when i sign on it'll come up you've been promoted to LT Grade 2.
back out and it'll fix itself.
 
i do enjoy this game greatly, if i get bored with one playlist, i jump on another, it could use more maps, but garaunteed it will add many more, until then i just have fun and party up (which for me is the funnest way to play) with my friends and just go out and kill junk, the assault rifle seems a bit too powerful, but other than that i don't think its that bad.
 
I played this today, first time in a week or two and after Call of Duty 4 its not near as fun. I would try this game in but I will keep it just for more maps at least.
 
i can see why they made a couple of the changes to lone wolves, i played the sword game type and within a couple minutes, i finally go the steppin razor achievement, (only have 2 for 1 left now) and i think they upped it to 6 players to make it easier for people to get the overkill achievement, haven't tried the rocket race yet, sounds cool though.
 
One thing I like a lot about Halo 3 over Halo 2 is the movie feature. I don't think I have had any teammates purposely killing me at all. It's nice to be able to record that if it happens, then report or post it.
 
DLC has been "coming soon" for the last few weeks....

This DLC better be free. The Halo 3 map selection is pretty lame at the moment.
 
It won't be free, it will be overpirced and become free in 6-10 months, just like what happened with Halo 2. MS or Bungie knows everyone will buy it just so they are not locked out of games. When wasthe last time you saw free maps out of the gate? MAYBE in a few months. I still need to download the Gears maps because I think those are free now.
 
[quote name='soccerstud652']It won't be free, it will be overpirced and become free in 6-10 months, just like what happened with Halo 2. MS or Bungie knows everyone will buy it just so they are not locked out of games. When wasthe last time you saw free maps out of the gate? MAYBE in a few months. I still need to download the Gears maps because I think those are free now.[/quote]

The last free ones were the Gears Emergence day ones.
 
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