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A :lol moment just occurred. SPud, Deepblue and I went into Squad battle and got this European sounding guy on our team. Afterwards he messages us and says, "you guys are fellow gaffers." What a tiny world.
 
Welp, I figured this update would be a good chance to get back into Halo 3, bought the Legendary pack after all this time and fired it up.

Looks like I'm right back out again for a week or so until the reset matchmaking doesnt pair me off against Lvl 50 sociopaths who've memorised all the spawn points on the map. Then during one of my only wins of the morning the whole opposing team quit but 1. Online Gaming!!

Interested by Annual though, is it simply just doing the last stage with Ghosts? That could be a hoot. But yeah, MP wise I'll let the fucking crazies cool before I give it one last chance.
 
Wurm said:
Welp, I figured this update would be a good chance to get back into Halo 3, bought the Legendary pack after all this time and fired it up.

Looks like I'm right back out again for a week or so until the reset matchmaking doesnt pair me off against Lvl 50 sociopaths who've memorised all the spawn points on the map. Then during one of my only wins of the morning the whole opposing team quit but 1. Online Gaming!!

Interested by Annual though, is it simply just doing the last stage with Ghosts? That could be a hoot. But yeah, MP wise I'll let the fucking crazies cool before I give it one last chance.
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On Legendary
With Ghosts
and Iron [Which resets everyone to the checkpoint if one person dies]

:)
 
What gametypes are everyone getting Legendary maps with? So far I have tried DLC FFA, DLC Big Team and squad battle. Each time it starts with Heroic maps or Valhalla. I want a real crack at the new achievments but by god are Bungie making it hard to access them. Also when the update went live, me and my friend were experiencing horrible lag in the few games we played afterwards.

Is it the consensus that Bungie will announce something on the 25th to mark H3's anniversary. The achievements for the 6 maps we currentlly have no access to seem to suggest that soon there will be something announced on the Mythic pack. Could SI be linked with the Mythic pack or would that cause to much of a stir for the Bungie faithful. I could see real anarchy if the SI was just a promotional tool for the final map pack. We will see.
 
Ugh I wish they'd take the heroic maps out of DLC Big Team for now. As soon as people see the game is on a map they can't get achievements on, half the people quit and you're stuck with a 5 on 4 CTF game on Rat's Nest.
 
Mooreberg said:
Ugh I wish they'd take the heroic maps out of DLC Big Team for now. As soon as people see the game is on a map they can't get achievements on, half the people quit and you're stuck with a 5 on 4 CTF game on Rat's Nest.
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People give that much of a shit about achievements that they'll quit out of a game that they cant get them in?? Thats so lame....
 
Blueblur1 said:
A :lol moment just occurred. SPud, Deepblue and I went into Squad battle and got this European sounding guy on our team. Afterwards he messages us and says, "you guys are fellow gaffers." What a tiny world.
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Well who was it?

My most random was getting teamed randomly with Frankie. We partied up and played a few rounds. Tiny world indeed.
 
BladedExpert said:
People give that much of a shit about achievements that they'll quit out of a game that they cant get them in?? Thats so lame....
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Well they thought when they screamed "VETO!" at the top of their lungs one heroic map wouldn't get replaced with another.
 
BladedExpert said:
People give that much of a shit about achievements that they'll quit out of a game that they cant get them in?? Thats so lame....
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It's sad really. Especially when this particular wave of achievements are going to be easy to achieve.
 
Can you get 4 ghosts on Halo before the ring starts to fall apart? Or does it not matter when you get the ghosts as long as you make the last jump with all four of them?
 
deftangel said:
Can you get 4 ghosts on Halo before the ring starts to fall apart? Or does it not matter when you get the ghosts as long as you make the last jump with all four of them?
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The only place for you to get them is as soon as you exit the Control Room.
 
BladedExpert said:
People give that much of a shit about achievements that they'll quit out of a game that they cant get them in?? Thats so lame....
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There are probably tons of people coming back to Halo 3 for the sole purpose of getting achievements, then never playing again.
 
Super Johnson said:
It's sad really. Especially when this particular wave of achievements are going to be easy to achieve.
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Easy is an overstatement. Two double kills in a BTB game on Avalanche is gonna be a cakewalk. I cant see any that woul be hard to get outside of normal play.
 
Have the spawns...gotten worse?

I've never encountered a lot of spawn issues, but today, i've spawned in among the enemy plenty, and had the enemy just pop in on me too. I'm maybe just imagining it - for all I know, no changes to spawns have been made.
 
Blueblur1 said:
A :lol moment just occurred. SPud, Deepblue and I went into Squad battle and got this European sounding guy on our team. Afterwards he messages us and says, "you guys are fellow gaffers." What a tiny world.
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:D Guess who that was, eh. :lol
 
Shafto said:
Have the spawns...gotten worse?

I've never encountered a lot of spawn issues, but today, i've spawned in among the enemy plenty, and had the enemy just pop in on me too. I'm maybe just imagining it - for all I know, no changes to spawns have been made.
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On the one game on Blackout that I played, the spawns have not been fixed at all. Considering that the game is now spawning 8 different people on 8 different teams in all sections of the map, it's understandable how spawns are still really bad.

I haven't played anything else really (except infection on Cold Storage which sucked).
 
backflip10019 said:
On the one game on Blackout that I played, the spawns have not been fixed at all. Considering that the game is now spawning 8 different people on 8 different teams in all sections of the map, it's understandable how spawns are still really bad.

I haven't played anything else really (except infection on Cold Storage which sucked).
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I've been playing mainly Team games (where good Spawns are at their most important i'd say), and i'm definitely noticing some problems here and there. These may not be new problems however, and the spawn system hasn't changed in the slightest.
 
Mooreberg said:
Ugh I wish they'd take the heroic maps out of DLC Big Team for now. As soon as people see the game is on a map they can't get achievements on, half the people quit and you're stuck with a 5 on 4 CTF game on Rat's Nest.
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Online Achievements are never a good thing. I'm surprised Bungie went back to them.
 
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=243260

Bungie will be rolling out the second title update for Halo 3 today.

This introduces 10 new Achievements totalling 250 Gamerpoints, plus a new playlist rating that shows how good you are in individual playlists, rather than your global Trueskill rating. Don't panic; nothing is being taken away, only added.

Accidentally, the official Xbox site has also uncovered an additional 20 Achievements for what seem to be the additional maps planned for later this year.

That takes the Halo 3 Gamerpoint total up to 1750, which we're sure the 49/49'ers will appreciate - you know who you are.

Bungie's not ready to talk about any of the upcoming content just yet. But a spokesperson did tell Eurogamer that a date for the Assembly map was being discussed with Microsoft, and that hopefully something will be announced within the "next month or so".
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Didn't think we'd be waiting anywhere near a month for these maps myself. I thought they'd be a surprise release by end of September. Perhaps that's what they mean by next month or so (end of this month)?

I hope they at least start dishing out the info - having the achievements sitting there for a Mythic map pack, all 'locked' is the ultimate cock tease.
 
Shafto said:
Didn't think we'd be waiting anywhere near a month for these maps myself. I thought they'd be a surprise release by end of September. Perhaps that's what they mean by next month or so (end of this month)?

I hope they at least start dishing out the info - having the achievements sitting there for a Mythic map pack, all 'locked' is the ultimate cock tease.
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They're hardly going to come out and say 'Yeah, we're going to release a new map pack at a big Microsoft announcement event on the 25th.'
 
soldat7 said:
Online Achievements are never a good thing. I'm surprised Bungie went back to them.
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Well this game at least has good host migration. Thank God there are no online achievements in COD4, the games would end in five seconds from host quitting. :lol
 
Mooreberg said:
Ugh I wish they'd take the heroic maps out of DLC Big Team for now. As soon as people see the game is on a map they can't get achievements on, half the people quit and you're stuck with a 5 on 4 CTF game on Rat's Nest.
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All the Generals i've seen are the worst for it. These guys are obviously super-kean on getting everything they can for Halo, and are just quitting as soon as Legendary doesn't come up. Played a fair amount of attrocius team games today.

Guess it's to be expected, with online achievements. And your right, is pretty bizarre after the TF2 mess after achievements exactly what would happen. Here's hoping things quiten down a little soon. Although, I have to say, there's been a strange excited fever about Halo today because of them, and I like it.
 
cjelly said:
They're hardly going to come out and say 'Yeah, we're going to release a new map pack at a big Microsoft announcement event on the 25th.'
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Right. And yeah, it is odd to have achievements that you just cannot get - and no date on when you'll be able to get them. But, somehow, I have a feeling that it is out of Bungie's hands.
 
cjelly said:
They're hardly going to come out and say 'Yeah, we're going to release a new map pack at a big Microsoft announcement event on the 25th.'
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Obviously - but until now I don't think we've heard anything at all to potentially contradict that belief. This quote just planted the first serious seed of doubt in my head that these aren't coming this month.
 
Insaniac said:
So what's the deal regarding acquiring Katana and Security Helmet now that there are a lot more achievements / gamer points?
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You still have to get the original 1000 points to get those armor perms.
 
Insaniac said:
So what's the deal regarding acquiring Katana and Security Helmet now that there are a lot more achievements / gamer points?
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Not sure. Bungie didn't specifically talk about that. Maybe someone here that never got all of them can try getting some of the new ones and see if going over 1k unlocks them or not.
Bluebur1 said:
You still have to get the original 1000 points to get those armor perms.
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Did Bungie state that somewhere and I missed it?
 
GM Bullfrog said:
Not sure. Bungie didn't specifically talk about that. Maybe someone here that never got all of them can try getting some of the new ones and see if going over 1k unlocks them or not.


Did Bungie state that somewhere and I missed it?
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I'm missing one of the original achievements and have some of the new ones. No Security or Katana. :(
 
Blueblur1 said:
I'm missing one of the original achievements and have some of the new ones. No Security or Katana. :(
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I've got over a 1000 now (without only mongoose mowdown missing from the original set) and I've got hte marathon armour.
 
Chinner said:
I've got over a 1000 now (without only mongoose mowdown missing from the original set) and I've got hte marathon armour.
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Yeah, Security is "unlock 1000 gamerpoints in Halo 3," but Katana is "unlock all achievements in Halo 3," which I'd assume now translates to "unlock the 49 original achievements in Halo 3."
 
The Lamonster said:
There are plenty conservatives in the PoliGAF thread; but Obamaniacs will only pile on you if you say something dumb.

*goes to the PoliGAF thread*

Good job! You succeeded!
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Anyway, is it confirmed that some new info will be announced today?
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You pretty much say one thing and boom, its like a his personal army tries to attack, oh well, I have my views, they have theirs.

Anyways, title update 2 is ok for now, I need to give it a couple of more games, it felt like I was getting heavily grenade spammed today for some reason though.

edit: just realized there still going on about it in poligaf :lol
 
kylej said:
So once again Bungie completely underwhelms with the patch.

New maps please.
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Before you know it, you will be complaining about the next maps.

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Wait, Coco, where do you find the ghosts? I've looked in the driving section, most thoroughly near and around the place where you get Johnson's warthog, and can only find the mongoose. Are there even four ghosts? I thought you could only drive one warthog, one mongoose, one chopper, and one ghost?
 
soldat7 said:
Blame MS.
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I guess. There's a silver lining to the patch

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Bungie is slowwwwly starting to treat its fans with a little bit of respect instead of dragging them around for weeks with vague weekly updates. More of this!
 
kylej said:
I guess. There's a silver lining to the patch

72695WOW.jpg


Bungie is slowwwwly starting to treat its fans with a little bit of respect instead of dragging them around for weeks with vague weekly updates. More of this!
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ur donged on
 
Chinner said:
1 flag on lost resort was veoted and now we have big team slayer on construct. i dont know what to think.
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Big Team on Construct? Do you mean Squad? 6v6 is really pushing it on that map IMO.

Shake Appeal said:
I would say Bungie treats its 'fans' with more respect than almost any other developer you care to name.

But what do I know.
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Agreed.
 
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