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Why do the "remastered" Halo 1 & 2 cutscenes look like absolute garbage?

They're not even running in pro scan for some reason.

What's going on here?
 
KeithFranklin said:
How do skulls work, why would I pickup skulls if they are just going to make things more difficult. What am I missing?


If you guys want to play something that's even more difficult than legendary

That's what you're missing...
 
Smidget said:
Now I have a question: I beat the game really quick on normal, if I play campaign meta-scoring + legendary, do I get both achievements if I beat all the levels on legendary with campaign meta-scoring on? Or does it have to be off?

Anyone have an answer for that? Would hurt to try to beat the whole game again with these options and not get double the achievements heh
 
We should get a Halo 3 Gallery thread going - there's some amazing screens in here. Can't wait to play around with this some more later. I'm reposting mine since I think they got buried back a few pages, and they're awesome:

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Did anyone else have their matchmaking EXP reset this morning? I have no badges. It's weird, if I look on the Enlisted Rating page (Rating History), it shows them as unlocked, but my EXP is 0 and I don't have one next to my name. It wasn't a lot of games or EXP, so it's no biggie. Might be B.net growing pains or something.
 
robot said:
We should get a Halo 3 Gallery thread going - there's some amazing screens in here. Can't wait to play around with this some more later. I'm reposting mine since I think they got buried back a few pages, and they're awesome:

That's SO Rock Of Love With Bret Michaels.
 
I will probably get hanged for this, but I've played for a good 10 or 15 hours and haven't even touched single player for more then 5 minutes.
 
Cornballer said:
Did anyone else have their matchmaking EXP reset this morning? I have no badges. It's weird, if I look on the Enlisted Rating page (Rating History), it shows them as unlocked, but my EXP is 0 and I don't have one next to my name. It wasn't a lot of games or EXP, so it's no biggie. Might be B.net growing pains or something.

I...don't think so. Did you accidentally leave a game before it ended? That docks you an EXP point.
 
Cornballer said:
Did anyone else have their matchmaking EXP reset this morning? I have no badges. It's weird, if I look on the Enlisted Rating page (Rating History), it shows them as unlocked, but my EXP is 0 and I don't have one next to my name. It wasn't a lot of games or EXP, so it's no biggie. Might be B.net growing pains or something.

According to b.net I still have all my EXP.
 
Ok I just reached the fourth level and stopped for now. Love the first level. It's really beautiful but I found level 2 and 3 rather dull. Are the best levels yet to come? I can see myself playing the first level many times on harder settings but I wouldn't miss two and three if I never played them again.
 
Bungie NEEDS to update photo download to give an option of smaller screen.

I would like to keep photos in same thread so I don't have to visit each thread separately.
 
Officer rankings you jump from stripes to bars and stars, also, that's when it starts checking your Matchmaking skills before you advance.

BTw, people doing MP, how do the maps play so far? I'm really excited for the pit and construct, but I cannot get online :(
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Oh hey, so
http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo3/RankHistory.aspx?player=KidInsomnia

What's the difference between Enlisted and Officer Ratings? How's that work?
Officer are the higher ratings, and you also need "skill" to unlock them. I believe the skill ratings are the same as matchmaking playlists ranks. So to make Lieutenant, you need the requisite EXP along with a level 10 on at least one playlist. I think that's how it works.

EDIT: Or you can be cool like me and apparently not need any EXP to advance ratings. ;)
 
electricpirate said:
Officer rankings you jump from stripes to bars and stars, also, that's when it starts checking your Matchmaking skills before you advance.

BTw, people doing MP, how do the maps play so far? I'm really excited for the pit and construct, but I cannot get online :(

OH I get it. So if your matchmaking skill is 19 or lower, you can only progress through the Lieutenant path, 20 and up, the Captain path, and so on. I can have 2000 XP but if my highest skill level is only 15, I can only ever be Grade 4 Lieutenant. Did I get that right?
 
Cornballer said:
Did anyone else have their matchmaking EXP reset this morning? I have no badges. It's weird, if I look on the Enlisted Rating page (Rating History), it shows them as unlocked, but my EXP is 0 and I don't have one next to my name. It wasn't a lot of games or EXP, so it's no biggie. Might be B.net growing pains or something.

I had this problem last night when all of live was brought to its knees by the halo community. When I looked at my service record in the game it said I had no experience and was level one, but when I went to B.net I hadn't lost anything. Eventually, my stats showed up in game and I didn't lose anything, it just took quite awhile.

So, just wait it out.
 
So, after replaying most of the game, Ive decided on a level which is probably greater than anything else in the Halo series.

The Level where you are trying to stop the prophet from setting off all the Halo instalations..

The beginning part of the level has a very silent cartographer vibe to it with the storming of the beach.. then once you get into the shield arrays you have some really great level layouts in the large open areas.. then you hit the elevator and have the long cooridoor filled with brutes including a chieftan.. just a ton of fun.

THEN the flood hits the map, but not in an altogether annoying way... you can just blast through the flood and keep moving (unlike a certain other, very stupid level).

Once you have managed to deactivate the shield.. then you get some more vehicle based action breaking out the hornets.. including the oh so awesome 2 fucking scarabs, a huge ariel fight ensues while you are being shot at by scarabs and who knows what else, a ground battle raging below you..

It just has so much concentraded win.

I also really thought the part where the flood was helping you reach the deactivation switch and get through the brutes was pretty awesome... then as soon as you deactivate it, you have to turn around and fight your way back out against the flood who was just helping you.

Such a good level (maybe its two levels, I dont know, but its awesome).
 
I've been meaning to post this but, I haven't had the time.I bought the CE Halo 3, and I heard about the whole cd messing up thing and all. So the game works great loved it, beat it on normal and legendary then I went to bed. But when I tired the other disc it seem that one is messed up,because it freezes up my 360. :(

What can I do?
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
OH I get it. So if your matchmaking skill is 19 or lower, you can only progress through the Lieutenant path, 20 and up, the Captain path, and so on. I can have 2000 XP but if my highest skill level is only 15, I can only ever be Grade 4 Lieutenant. Did I get that right?
Yup, I think that's it.

ALeperMessiah said:
So, just wait it out.
Yeah, that's what I figured. Just being irrationally impatient here, that's all. :lol
 
RiskyChris said:
Hm, I'm missing about 12 or 13 EXP I got yesterday. =(

It's still out there, it's just not loading up in the game. This was happening last night too, at least for me it was. The live team must have underestimated the power of halo. They've been having some issues.
 
Is Bungie.Net having problems again? My record says I have 7 Hi-res shots uploaded, but when you click the link, it then says I have none. Bungie, a victim of their own success, I guess.
 
RavenHawk said:
Catch!

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Oh, yeah, something's still wrong:

Playing Xbox Dashboard
Matchmaking In Team Doubles

Playing Xbox Dashboard
Matchmaking- searching in Social Slayer

Joinable - Playing Xbox Dashboard
Custom Games Waiting in Lobby

Playing Xbox Dashboard
Campaign on Heroic

Playing Xbox Dashboard
Co-op on Heroic

Playing Xbox Dashboard
Campaign on Normal

Joinable - Playing Xbox Dashboard
Theater Waiting in Lobby

:lol
 
electricpirate said:
A) with halo, more challenge = more fun.

B) Campaign scoring multipliers.

I agree.

OK I havent researched the skulls much at all and was to busy to play any campaign yesterday. Dont you have to pickup a skull for it's effect to start and dont you need to find the skull and they are well hidden.
 
Just finished the campaign on Heroic. Great ending after the credits. It doesn't topple Halo 1's magic, but it sure did pack a punch. It was pretty frustrating at times, when I constantly died over and over but the storyline was pretty good. My only complaint is with the music. I wish it was better in parts. I'm sure after I heard the soundtrack in its entirety that will change.
 
So I played around with everything a little bit yesterday, but ran in to some problems. I played a basic training match and then went back through the film and took a screenshot, then uploaded it to bnet. I went back later to my gallery in the game to look at my shot, but there was a red X through it and it said the shot was corrupted or might be from another version of Halo 3. Guess I'll try some more tonight.

Also I was playing split screen multiplayer and I wanted to go in and take a screen shot, but it wouldn't let me. Can you not take screenshots in split screen? Kind of a drag since I'll be playing like this a lot.

Also the films are a little harder to use than I thought they would be. You can fast forward pretty easily, but you have to rewind by jumping back 10 seconds at a time? On the Bungie podcast they were talking about being able to go frame by frame (in either direction I assumed), but I didn't see how to do that anywhere. Though being able to take the camera and fly it around is awesome.
 
KeithFranklin said:
I agree.

OK I havent researched the skulls much at all and was to busy to play any campaign yesterday. Dont you have to pickup a skull for it's effect to start and dont you need to find the skull and they are well hidden.

How do Skulls physically work when you get them? Do you have to carry it to the end of the level and then it's available forever? Can you just pull a menu up when you get it and then save it so you can switch out to another weapon? Do its effects start the moment you pick it up upon first finding it?
 
After the first six missions I can see myself playing the campaign lots of times. It's just great fun, even on normal. Next up will be herioc, sp or co-op. Haven't even touched mp or filesharing. I'm gonna waste so many hours on this game
 
SonnyBoy said:
Incorrect. I have conversed with RSTEIN, Xekrn and a few others and actually met a happy median between their opinions and mine. Thanks anyway.



1st. I didn't call you a dumbass.



It's that same lack of reading comprehension that makes you think I'm flaming when the game when I'm only expressing some of my disappointment in it.

lack of reading comprehension? you expressed your opinion and then i expressed mine. i dont agree with your comments, thats my opinion.

secondly yes you called me a dumbass by saying i make dumbass comments.
 
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