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Sullichin said:
You can't.
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Hmmm that sucks. Anybody want to play coop on legendary? anything from "floodgate" would be fine(I'm assuming the stuff I passed solo will count towards the achievement)
 
Ramirez said:
Melees in 3 are no more random than they were in 2, it's always gonna come down to who has best connection majority of the time, it's not exclusive to this game.
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This has been my only complaint in an otherwise awesome game, and yes it seems to be an independent lag issue. But considering how important melee is to the combat its still frustrating at times when you know you pressed B before the other character started their animation and suddenly your the one dead because of lag.
 
Ok, thanks Luke.

I guess after I ship my $70 disc to them, I'll get it back 5 days after they receive it.

Fun! But I wouldn't have thought that they would be able to replace the Legendary DVD.. They will probably send me back a Halo 3 game disc or something stupid, due to Epic Fail.
 
numbers said:
Ok, thanks Luke.

I guess after I ship my $70 disc to them, I'll get it back 5 days after they receive it.

Fun! But I wouldn't have thought that they would be able to replace the Legendary DVD.. They will probably send me back a Halo 3 game disc or something stupid, due to Epic Fail.
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To be honest, I would just rip the data to my computer just in case. You own the information and as long as you don't share it, there is no reason you can't view it from your PC. I've done this before with movies my computer would read by my DVD player wouldn't.
 
Is warhawk better than this? Skill wise I guess...this is pretty much garbage. Between the melee and I'll kill you while someone kills me from behind the games weaknesses become clear pretty quick.
 
Halvie said:
Is warhawk better than this? Skill wise I guess...this is pretty much garbage. Between the melee and I'll kill you while someone kills me from behind the games weaknesses become clear pretty quick.
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It sounds like you're only playing Lone Wolf. Try playing some more team based game types before you pass judgement.
 
Team slayer gets old when you have dudes going 4 and 17...plus I can't stand shotty snipes and just drop those before the game starts.
 
Halvie said:
Is warhawk better than this? Skill wise I guess...this is pretty much garbage. Between the melee and I'll kill you while someone kills me from behind the games weaknesses become clear pretty quick.
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sounds like you suck. that isn't the games fault

are you playing with friends?
 
Kuroyume said:
I didn't get any notes or music when I did it. I first tried it on my way to Truth, and it didn't work. So, I figured to do it after killing most of the Flood, since there's no need for the first two rings. I didn't hear any music that time either, so I figured to kill all of the flood and then try again. I killed all of them, did the jumping, and heard nothing... No notes... No Halo theme... I walked towards the prophet's area and noticed the skull on the ground. It's weird.

I also had one of the tiny flood spores under the bridge, but you can walk away from it to the other portion of the bridge and it will disappear.
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Personally I got mine "on the way back" to the elevator, killed everything that could pose as a distruption and started jumping. No sound effects or anything indicates that you have jumped through a ring correctly from the looks of it.

But if you have been successful at the end the rings start to pulse brightly 1 through 7, and once you pick up the skull near ring 7 they all go out.
 
Nah there are tons of people complaining about meleeing someone first and dying...shooting dudes in the head 10 times without them dying. That tells me its Bungie and not me. When you have guys bragging about have a 1.5 or > k/d ratio and their highest kill weapon is melee that tells me its the game. At least personally I don't feel like playing a shooter where your best weapon is your firsts. I am not awesome by any means. Only lvl 25 rank 1 captin but the complaints I listed make me want to smash controllers.

oh and your telling me 90% of games you have on Epitaph and Snowbound aren't guys waiting to see someone drop down to the first level and they drop down right after then and kill them after the first dude kills someone? Snowbound its alwasy people fighting underground. if you haven't we must be playing different games. Sure I could run around and be sneaky but there is zero chance of me getting more kills than the guys that do what I just mentioned.
 
Pretty good discussion about melees in here. I was wondering if people having this problem, myself included, are having similar problems with the shotgun. When I'm punished for a successful veto in Team Slayer and are forced to play Shotty Snipers, I've noticed that the shotgun is probably the most random weapon in the game in terms of damage/kills. I've gone behind people, shot them three times in the back in close range, only to be get a melee one shot and die and I've also been shot point blank before by others and died in one hit with overshield on. I just end up using the sniper no scope as I trust that more than I do the nerfed shotgun.
 
I3rand0 said:
Pretty good discussion about melees in here. I was wondering if people having this problem, myself included, are having similar problems with the shotgun. When I'm punished for a successful veto in Team Slayer and are forced to play Shotty Snipers, I've noticed that the shotgun is probably the most random weapon in the game in terms of damage/kills. I've gone behind people, shot them three times in the back in close range, only to be get a melee one shot and die and I've also been shot point blank before by others and died in one hit with overshield on. I just end up using the sniper no scope as I trust that more than I do the nerfed shotgun.
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Shotguns are bad now and then. But they're a lot more consistent than in Halo 2.
 
To me shotguns in shotty snipes do less damage than they do in a regular slayer match. Most of my kills with the shotgun are one hits in regular match, but in a snipes game I hardly every get a one shot kill.
 
Halo3planet.com makes it seem like a note is supposed to sound when you jump through each one. Is that correct?
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The 'notes' are just the humming sounds you hear near the rings, they don't play specifically when you jump through or anything, they're just ambient noise.
 
I bring an end to TGS's fun early. I blame Ohio State Football, and people that are into watching it at my house.

But more importantly I blame Armubaba for not being a team player. He sat at the Custom Games lobby for like 30 minutes and then got offline. We had to have sent like 100 invites.

Fail.

Team Gay Subtext reconvenes at 9:50PM EST.
 
Curse this thread, I hadn't noticed the melee thing until I read about it here.

It is now really, really bugging me everytime I play. :(

Did Halo 2 handle melees differently?
 
Halvie said:
Nah there are tons of people complaining about meleeing someone first and dying...shooting dudes in the head 10 times without them dying. That tells me its Bungie and not me. When you have guys bragging about have a 1.5 or > k/d ratio and their highest kill weapon is melee that tells me its the game. At least personally I don't feel like playing a shooter where your best weapon is your firsts. I am not awesome by any means. Only lvl 25 rank 1 captin but the complaints I listed make me want to smash controllers.

oh and your telling me 90% of games you have on Epitaph and Snowbound aren't guys waiting to see someone drop down to the first level and they drop down right after then and kill them after the first dude kills someone? Snowbound its alwasy people fighting underground. if you haven't we must be playing different games. Sure I could run around and be sneaky but there is zero chance of me getting more kills than the guys that do what I just mentioned.
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what are you talking about buddddy? ive got over a 2 ratio and all my kills come from BR AR sniper.

youre making common matchmaking complaints and they all stem from the fact that youre playing with radar and about 5 or 6 shotguns aka maulers on most maps. the melees in this game are much more difficult than in Halo 2; the motion blur plus the new physics disorient me for the most part after i melee someone and he/she jumps away. theres also limited lunge so i dont know how you can possibly get meleed twice. in fact, i dont think ive gotten beaten down at all since i started playing this game.

theres so many things to this game that have been changed, and theyre all subtle changes to the gameplay mechanic. shooting BRs for example. with Halo 2 you could easily tell if you were hitting someone or not, and how much shield they had left. its nearly impossible to tell either with Halo 3. all my friends agree, we just shoot BRs and have no feel for whether we're making any damage to the opponent, or if we are taking any damage from them. also, this games very jittery when it comes to physics. it just doesnt seem fluid when a guy jumps in the air; the characters animation looks as if he/she has a spasm. these are all small random complaints ive noticed of the game and theyre very accurate.
 
Buttonbasher said:
I bring an end to TGS's fun early. I blame Ohio State Football, and people that are into watching it at my house.

But more importantly I blame Armubaba for not being a team player. He sat at the Custom Games lobby for like 30 minutes and then got offline. We had to have sent like 100 invites.

Fail.

Team Gay Subtext reconvenes at 9:50PM EST.
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I don't need anything, but if you guys need help for some reason I can hop on if you need.
 
cjelly said:
Curse this thread, I hadn't noticed the melee thing until I read about it here.

It is now really, really bugging me everytime I play. :(

Did Halo 2 handle melees differently?
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Aside from letting cheeseheads break the melee animation, no.

Anyone else getting this "Information can't be received from Halo 3 server" BS in matchmaking?
 
Ok got the terminals. Its official you DON'T have to do them in order. I think many have said this already but its just another person confirming. I did 2-8 and then came back and got 1. Apparently I didn't wait until it got red enough on the 1st one the first time around.

2 more things until I'm fully 1000/1000

I have to do the meta on Covenant and Halo.

Just those 2. And I've tried it 3 times on covenant and always 4K away.. *cries*
 
Buttonbasher said:
I don't feel dirty.


EDIT: also, don't call it the internet. It's internet. Just internet. I read it on Internet.

It's part of my scheme.
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I kid because I love Brimley.
 
I've got some odd behaviour in my Service Record Gallery. I have like 6 pics out of 20 that I can't seem to delete from my gallery. It's really annoying because they were really crappy pics I put there on the 26th and now I want them deleted. No option to do so.

Anyone have this problem?
 
vumpler said:
Ok got the terminals. Its official you DON'T have to do them in order. I think many have said this already but its just another person confirming. I did 2-8 and then came back and got 1. Apparently I didn't wait until it got red enough on the 1st one the first time around.

2 more things until I'm fully 1000/1000

I have to do the meta on Covenant and Halo.

Just those 2. And I've tried it 3 times on covenant and always 4K away.. *cries*
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Are you using Skulls?

I scored around what you did on Covenant but time multiplier pushed me over.
 
vumpler said:
Ok got the terminals. Its official you DON'T have to do them in order. I think many have said this already but its just another person confirming. I did 2-8 and then came back and got 1. Apparently I didn't wait until it got red enough on the 1st one the first time around.
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Say what? Two through EIGHT?

You need eight to get the achievement? Where's the 8th one?
 
So ummm...I've never played a Halo game on Heroic before but normal was too easy and so I just tried playing the first level in Heroic solo and it was too hard for me :\

My problem was that there was SNIPER SNIPER SNIPER SNIPER everywhere and while that's ok when you have long-range weapons to take them out one at a time slowly and the move in on the rest of the enemies, I kept running out of ammo and being screwed. I finally got to the last part of the level with almost no ammo remaining and there were like 5 snipers shooting at me from various directions. Oh and the other thing was that in Heroic The Arbiter keeps dying after like 5 secs of battle and then he's asleep the whole time leaving it all up to me.

Any suggestions?
 
Bebpo said:
I finally got to the last part of the level with almost no ammo remaining and there were like 5 snipers shooting at me from various directions.
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Go to the previous area, there is a sniper rifle by the crashed Pelican.
 
Mr. Lemming said:
Go to the previous area, there is a sniper rifle by the crashed Pelican.
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I already got it and fully used up the ammo, as well as the ammo from all the snipers I've killed and their carbine guns.
 
Bebpo said:
So ummm...I've never played a Halo game on Heroic before but normal was too easy and so I just tried playing the first level in Heroic solo and it was too hard for me :\

My problem was that there was SNIPER SNIPER SNIPER SNIPER everywhere and while that's ok when you have long-range weapons to take them out one at a time slowly and the move in on the rest of the enemies, I kept running out of ammo and being screwed. I finally got to the last part of the level with almost no ammo remaining and there were like 5 snipers shooting at me from various directions. Oh and the other thing was that in Heroic The Arbiter keeps dying after like 5 secs of battle and then he's asleep the whole time leaving it all up to me.

Any suggestions?
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I had the exact same problem (and still do, not done with Heroic ;P).

Anyways, if there weren't any good sniper rifles around I settled for less and just used the ordinary plasma weapons I found lying around. The can hit on a distance, but it's not as precise as long distance weapons of course. Or at some points, where the enemies were far, far away, I just tried to sneak by them using walls and houses as cover.

But yeah, you should try to take out as many of them as possible at once, before fighting the rest. Your whole overshield will be gone in a hit from a proper sniper rifle.
 
HOLY FUCK, I JUST PLAYED IT IN A LAN CENTER

HALO 3 IS AMAZING, THE AIMING FEELS LIKE HALO 1 COMBINED WITH HALO 2 PACING,

just talking about MP, maybe SP sucks like H2

BUT DAMN THERE A LOT OF NOOBS THIS WAS MY 1ST TIME PLAYING IT AND I FINISHED IN 1ST IN EVERY SINGLE MATCH

SO LONG ORIGINAL XBOX, AT LEAST IT SHOULD WORTH THE NORMAL EDITION AND A WIRELESS CONTROLLER, IN A WEEK I SHOULD HAVE ENOUGH SAVINGS TO GET A X360 PREMIUN

SEE YA NEXT WEEK

BTW I never found the configuration of the controller, I guess I could have done even better if the sensitivity wasn't so high
 
Bebpo said:
So ummm...I've never played a Halo game on Heroic before but normal was too easy and so I just tried playing the first level in Heroic solo and it was too hard for me :\

My problem was that there was SNIPER SNIPER SNIPER SNIPER everywhere and while that's ok when you have long-range weapons to take them out one at a time slowly and the move in on the rest of the enemies, I kept running out of ammo and being screwed. I finally got to the last part of the level with almost no ammo remaining and there were like 5 snipers shooting at me from various directions. Oh and the other thing was that in Heroic The Arbiter keeps dying after like 5 secs of battle and then he's asleep the whole time leaving it all up to me.

Any suggestions?
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Is this Sierra 117? As I remember there are a total of 6 snipers, 2 of which you will not see until you get to the area with 3 brutes and a chieftan. You can kill each of them from a distance to the head with a sniper rifle so you may have to restart at a checkpoint and conserve sniper bullets. Melee is your best friend in the harder modes and if you learn the brutes' pattern you can effective kill them without a bullet. Sierra 117 is probably the most frustrating in Heroic and Legendary though so don't give up.
 
FiRez said:
HOLY FUCK, I JUST PLAYED IT IN A LAN CENTER

HALO 3 IS AMAZING, THE AIMING FEELS LIKE HALO 1 COMBINED WITH HALO 2 PACING,

just talking about MP, maybe SP sucks like H2

BUT DAMN THERE A LOT OF NOOBS THIS WAS MY 1ST TIME PLAYING IT AND I FINISHED IN 1ST IN EVERY SINGLE MATCH

SO LONG ORIGINAL XBOX, AT LEAST IT SHOULD WORTH THE NORMAL EDITION AND A WIRELESS CONTROLLER, IN A WEEK I SHOULD HAVE ENOUGH SAVINGS TO GET A X360 PREMIUN

SEE YA NEXT WEEK

BTW I never found the configuration of the controller, I guess I could have done even better if the sensitivity wasn't so high
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:lol

Welcome to the club.
 
The people who are moaning that this game isn't like Halo 2 really have to start to realise that this game isn't Halo 2. You have to play it differently. Grabbing a BR and sniper for infinite win just doesn't cut it anymore, the AR will tear you to shreads at close range. Forget what you're used to and adapt to the new gameplay and weapons.

Sorry if that came off a little strong, I have a friend who is a Halo 2 fanatic, and it sickens me to hear him picking at Halo 3 because his favorite weapons don't dominate as they did in Halo 2.

As for melee issues, I haven't played online but it seems fine to me on split screen and system link. I'll have to re-read the specific issues people are having though, I haven't been keeping up to date with the thread.

One thing that does bother me is the MP maps. As people have mentioned, we are lacking a really excellent map. The map set is great, but I'm not yet feeling like I have a 'go to' map such as Lockout.

FiRez said:
HALO 3 IS AMAZING, THE AIMING FEELS LIKE HALO 1 COMBINED WITH HALO 2 PACING,
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Yea, aiming feels great. No longer feels cheap as shit.
 
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