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MMaRsu said:
Man I'm loving this game..it's just..im so tired :(
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be on tomorrow then you weenie. :P

Some notes on a totally superficial aspect of the game:
The aliasing has really gotten to me more then it should. The Pit is downright awful looking as a result and it's pretty noticable all the time. It's not as drastic in singleplayer but in multiplayer it feels like the days of playing pc games at 800x600 when my comp began to lag behind the new titles (though i'd gladly sacrifice shadows/effects for the elimination of jaggies). I thought I had moved past this with purchasing a 360, oh well. A lot of bitching going on but people expect as much from such a paramount title.

Also why the hell do you run faster with pods at an angle.. grr. I don't like when games do those things..
 
So I just got stuck on level geometry, and had to restart, losing at least 20 minutes. Sigh. It's not like I was doing anything crazy either. Just playing like normal. You'd think the biggest game ever would have been tested well.
 
L0st Id3ntity said:
What's wrong with the achievements in mp? they don't unlock for me, I did a tripler kill and the one where you board a vehicle within 10 seconds... what's wrong? :(
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Read the Achievement - they must be done in ranked FFA.
 
aswedc said:
So I just got stuck on level geometry, and had to restart, losing at least 20 minutes. Sigh. It's not like I was doing anything crazy either. Just playing like normal. You'd think the biggest game ever would have been tested well.
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:lol
 
L0st Id3ntity said:
What's wrong with the achievements in mp? they don't unlock for me, I did a tripler kill and the one where you board a vehicle within 10 seconds... what's wrong? :(
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Several people have been saying Achievements are not working. It could be that those are down along with the My Xbox and other features.
 
Man i love how the terminal text tries to really mess with the hardcore fiction fans.

Edit: Oh and
"I thought it was a shield installation, i was wrong
 
Finished it a few hours ago! I completed it in one sitting! It's tighter and less frustrating than Halo 2. It shows that they had the time to plan it correctly.

About the ending:

I was getting bummed during the cinematic before the credit that they didn't show what happened to Master Chief but after the credit line, it all came together. Master Chief, going back into cryo-sleep on a ghost ship, waiting for his next adventure, just like the beginning of HALO 1. Brilliant.

Also, I was a bit dissapointed that they talked about a GRAND battle with the Covenant on the ground, which was shown during the MUSEUM ad. I would've loved that after escaping the blast of the Halo ring, you come down to Earth and realised that the Brutes, Grunts and Hunters, even masterless, still have a fight to finish with Earth and THEN the final battle would take place. Bummed a bit, but it was an awesome way of closing this trilogy. Bravo Bungie!
 
I just finished the game on Heroic! It was great, except one thing. I got no achievements for completing the campaign on normal or heroic. :( This is the first time this has every happened to me, and on the game I have anticipated more than any other for my 360. Also, I got a scratched LE. Great news all around for me!

Edit: Figured out my friends set the first level at normal, and not heroic like all the others. Although it should have still given me the Normal campaign completion. Oh well, time to do the first mission on Heroic and see if that fixes things!

Edit 2: Hooray! All I had to do was watch the intro to the first mission and BAM 250 achievement points!
 
I finished the game yesterday morning and it's easily the most epic game I've ever played. So many wow moments, congrats Bungie on blowing me away completely.

One question for Frankie: Is it possible at all to release a patch that allows us to watch the cinematics we've already unlocked? I love love LOVE the cinematics, but don't feel like playing through entire portions of a level to view them all the time.
 
L0st Id3ntity said:
That's like a ranked slayer game right? I've done it multiple times, still nothing.
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FFA = Free For All = a game with no teams.

Edit: I did the same thing, though :(

Why the heck do I get an achievement for a triple kill in rumble pit but not team slater? Makes no sense.
 
Quick question:

How do I get my screenshots to show up on Bungie.net? I took a bunch and it said it was uploading each (auto-name and save), but I don't see anything on my bnet page.
 
L0st Id3ntity said:
That's like a ranked slayer game right? I've done it multiple times, still nothing.
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You need to do the Lone Wolf playlist.

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What is the fastest way to gain exp and how exactly do I get more exp? double kills and stuff?
 
aswedc said:
So I just got stuck on level geometry, and had to restart, losing at least 20 minutes. Sigh. It's not like I was doing anything crazy either. Just playing like normal. You'd think the biggest game ever would have been tested well.
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Similar thing happened to me. Well, sort of. I was driving around in mah hog and I managed to end up with the very middle of it stuck on a sharp edge, balanced precariously so that none of the wheels were touching the ground. There was me in the front, another person in the back, and we were both just holding it there.

I didn't want to get out, coz I thought if I did I'd fall to my death, and if the guy on the back got out the hog would tip forward and it would just be more of the plunging and the dying.

I looked for the "adjust radio so the shifting weight of the radio needle tips the hog backwards" button but I couldn't find it on my xbox controller. Is this a bug?

You'd think the biggest game ever would have been tested well.
 
Xdrive05 said:
Quick question:

How do I get my screenshots to show up on Bungie.net? I took a bunch and it said it was uploading each (auto-name and save), but I don't see anything on my bnet page.
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Same here. I would like to know this too.
 
Cocopjojo said:
It is because of that. You set it so that it won't allow "user-created content." It's a security feature to keep your kids from seeing stuff other people have created.
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What sucks is that my Xbox 360 says that's wide open, and I have no child accounts. =/ Well, shit. Until they fix Xbox.com I'm stuck there then. =/

As to the game, my brief thoughts: better than Halo 2, and in many ways, better than Halo: CE. Pistol sucks purely from a rate of fire perspective (could you have made it fire any slower, Bungie???). Level design is much improved over the previous 2 games. Some weapons just don't feel right (mauler sucked in SP, IMO, for example). There's still the occasional annoying "where the fuck do I need to go now" problem that existed in Halo 2, but not quite as bad. SPOILER!
The Flood have vastly improved. Seems like Bungie spent most of their time reworking the Flood. Watching an infection happen was cool as shit and creepy too.

Graphics were really a mixed bag. Some areas were gorgeous, others....I expect more than semi-distant areas that look slightly worse than the Oblivion's horizon at this point. The AA wasn't bad most of the time, but there were areas of the game that it was...distracting.

Overall I'm happy, and I've yet to dive into multi. (Been banging my head on this saved films issue), and only briefly dallied in Forge.
 
Xdrive05 said:
Quick question:

How do I get my screenshots to show up on Bungie.net? I took a bunch and it said it was uploading each (auto-name and save), but I don't see anything on my bnet page.
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When you are at the main menu, press start, then select file share, then select one of the six open slots, select screenshot, and pick whatever the name is of the shot you want to upload. Then go to Bungie.net, and under my stats select my Halo 3 service record, your screens should be there. It didn't allow me to even see that page before I played one online MP game, so you might want to do that as well.
 
GashPrex said:
The scale of this game is just massive, i know of no next gen engine like this....Its crazy!
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the first time you turn that corner on Sierra 117... overlooking that cliff..
my jaw dropped. And that hardly even stacks up to some of the later stuff.
 
BobFromPikeCreek said:
The people claiming Halo 2.5 must be playing on SDTVs. I just played some at my friend's house and the game looks really bad on SDTV. This game shows probably one of the biggest SD to HD improvements of any game ever. It looks so similar to Halo 2 in SD for some reason.
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I'm playing on SD and think the game looks incredible. Gears or Bioshock incredible? Hmm it's probably somewhere in between.
 
My first MP kill from two different angles!

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Y2Kev said:
I can't believe how many brutes they throw at you sometimes....6, 7, 8, and in waves...
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The worst are the parts when there are like 6 brutes and a chieftain with a gravity hammer waiting in the back.
 
Mojovonio said:
The worst are the parts when there are like 6 brutes and a chieftain with a gravity hammer waiting in the back.
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It's hard, but I think it's quite fun. I'm not sure I like the brutes as much as I like the elites, but it is really satisfying to finally take them all out.

I'm doing coop legendary with one other person. It's really fun so far.
 
So after playing up to
Tsavo Highway's Brute gangbang on the barracade from Voi
, I've been playing alot of Big Team Battle and Last Resort keeps popping up. I'd like to play on Sandtrap please >:O

BTW, Bungie, thank you for fixing VIP. Plays so well now.
 
All right, finished the game on Heroic by myself and I'll add some more of my impressions.

-The game's pacing and progression is PERFECT. PERFECT.
- Nice to see some twists with the Flood there for a while
- I didn't find a single Skull, and found only one Terminal.
- There are a few things that weren't really clear to me in the conclusion of the game that I have to look into online now that I finished. I mean, I think they're clear, but I'm not really sure.
- Definitely the best Halo campaign to date. I loved Bioshock, but Halo 3's single-player is amazing, and on top of it all, it also has extensive multiplayer, saved films, forge, meta-game, online co-op...Hard to not pick Halo 3 for GOTY.

Love it, love it, love it. Going to play some multiplayer matches now and then hopefully start Co-Op with my roommate tomorrow.
 
MaizeRage25 said:
Why doesn't it show up as a Hi-Res screenshot on Bungie.net?
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As far as I know, there are some choking/smoldering MSFT data centers that are preventing some features on Bungie.net, as Tyson posted somewhere earlier, top men are looking into it, and solving it. Volume has been, uh, even greater than anticipated. Autoname and Save will send them to your screenshot gallery [when things are running correctly, it's how all of my screens have been uploaded to the web].
 
Domino Theory said:
So after playing up to
Tsavo Highway's Brute gangbang on the barracade from Voi
, I've been playing alot of Big Team Battle and Last Resort keeps popping up. I'd like to play on Sandtrap please >:O

BTW, Bungie, thank you for fixing VIP. Plays so well now.
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Snowbound and Valhalla are appearing constantly for me. I still havent played on half the maps in matchmaking.
 
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