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BakedPigeon said:
I personally think the melee works perfect right now.If you know the timing on the melee and make sure you damage your opponent before melee'ing for the kill then you should have no problem.
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It's not quite that simple.

If you dont play Halo 3 solely for the melee complaint then perhaps you should not play the game at all.
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Melee is a big part of the game. So it's understandable that people could find it having an adverse impact on their experience.

I did a touch of Halo 3 MP and then stayed away from it for a long time, hoping the patch would come out soon. I just found melee to be too frustrating. However, I've found that I can enjoy BTB because of the larger emphasis on ranged combat and vehicles, which is more my style of play anyways. Probably 2/3 of my games have been in BTB. But I seldom drift into the smaller playlists, and likely won't until melee is repaired. But that should be soon now. :D

Podcast time.
 
DopeyFish said:
how about fixing the overshield bullshit? why the fuck are they invulnerable for the overshield charge up?!

i hate sticking a guy, him walking into an overshield and then crushing me because for 5-7 seconds he is completely invincible!!!!
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5-7 seconds? It's about one or two seconds of literal invincibility, designed to be used strategically.

After that you're fair game and I have killed plenty of overshield guys with nothing but an AR.
 
Stinkles said:
5-7 seconds? It's about one or two seconds of literal invincibility, designed to be used strategically.

After that you're fair game and I have killed plenty of overshield guys with nothing but an AR.
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2 seconds is all you need to drop a guy, half a second of AR spray and a melee is all you need

it's an unfair advantage

remember, i'm like a level 46 and people that I get matched up against are usually not RETARDED. the game might work fine at a casual level but at a high level it falls apart in many areas.

you have no idea the amount of sheer frustration something stupid like that brings to a game. just like the "whoever has the most health wins" melees

or the absolute terrible delay on deployables (specifically the regenerator and bubble shield) or how about the deployables over-ruling weapons on the RB button? i have to swap out my deployables to move them out of the way to get the weapon that i want

seriously dude, you can try washing over some things but some things were not thoroughly thought over properly.
 
MaX_PL said:
and theyve made hundreds of thousands making money is what.
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That's excellent. I just don't want to seeling people on here calling everybody nerds because when you look directly at the top MLG players, that's exactly what you see.
 
Sandman42 said:
I just avoid the melee situation all-together by playing BTB. I can't remember the last time I killed a guy using melee in BTB.
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Occasional Flag/Bomb stealth knockouts are all i remember from recent games
 
urk said:
Fun games tonight, d00ds.
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Anybody getting excessive amounts of Covie games in BTB?

What happened to plain Multi-Bomb or Multi-flag in BTB? Want more Rat's Nest! :(
 
Striker said:
Anybody getting excessive amounts of Covie games in BTB?

What happened to plain Multi-Bomb or Multi-flag in BTB? Want more Rat's Nest! :(
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I think it's just the effects of random...randominity. I got a ton of Covies games yesterday, but I haven't had a single one today.
 
DopeyFish said:
2 seconds is all you need to drop a guy, half a second of AR spray and a melee is all you need

it's an unfair advantage

remember, i'm like a level 46 and people that I get matched up against are usually not RETARDED. the game might work fine at a casual level but at a high level it falls apart in many areas.

you have no idea the amount of sheer frustration something stupid like that brings to a game. just like the "whoever has the most health wins" melees

or the absolute terrible delay on deployables (specifically the regenerator and bubble shield) or how about the deployables over-ruling weapons on the RB button? i have to swap out my deployables to move them out of the way to get the weapon that i want

seriously dude, you can try washing over some things but some things were not thoroughly thought over properly.
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I actually have more of a problem with frag grenade spamming than I do anything else. I'm Lvl 42 in TS and all I notice is jump up + crouch, spam frag grenades while jumping + crouching again, rinse and repeat.
 
It is day 2 without my TV, and thus no 360. And also, no Halo 3.

The company is sending a replacement TV in a reusable shipping box, and I'm hopeful it will be here by the weekend. I miss BTB. And also, Boogie Bunnies. The Beach zone is a killer.
 
I wonder what the chances are of Bungie including a "press X to save film" option (like the Beta had) with the AU. It's frustrating because when you're in a party you can't save the film until later; I know I've missed out on a lot of films because I've forgotten about them by the time the party disbands at the end of the night.
 
Cocopjojo said:
I wonder what the chances are of Bungie including a "press X to save film" option (like the Beta had) with the AU. It's frustrating because when you're in a party you can't save the film until later; I know I've missed out on a lot of films because I've forgotten about them by the time the party disbands at the end of the night.
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Yeah, I have a tendency to forget to save my films at the end of an evening. After I shut down, I just figure I'll go back and watch them the next day. And then my daughter calls while I'm at work to give me a status update about Blue Dragon and I realize I just lost all those games. :(

Saving from the post-game lobby was great in the beta. Should be brought back.
 
Cocopjojo said:
I wonder what the chances are of Bungie including a "press X to save film" option (like the Beta had) with the AU. It's frustrating because when you're in a party you can't save the film until later; I know I've missed out on a lot of films because I've forgotten about them by the time the party disbands at the end of the night.
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Please do this Bungie. Why did they even change it from the beta? It was perfect.
 
spermatic cord said:
Please do this Bungie. Why did they even change it from the beta? It was perfect.
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Beta was also about 300 times simpler and had a smaller memory footprint, no DVD disc access, one HDD install - among other things.
 
Stinkles said:
Beta was also about 300 times simpler and had a smaller memory footprint, no DVD disc access, one HDD install - among other things.
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what about loading the map only after the veto period. i hate that the game loads a map, then gets veto'd and has to load a new map. any shortcuts?
 
Stinkles said:
Beta was also about 300 times simpler and had a smaller memory footprint, no DVD disc access, one HDD install - among other things.
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Can you explain the change in the MM lobby? What happened to this sexiness:
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op_ivy said:
what about loading the map only after the veto period. i hate that the game loads a map, then gets veto'd and has to load a new map. any shortcuts?
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The game has to load the map first, to make sure that it works.

You may have noticed that sometimes you'll get Team Slayer on Last Resort, everyone will go "no! veto this shit", but it'll disappear before you get a chance. This is because (I think) the map didn't load on someone's machine, due to a scratched disc or whatever. You then get the real first choice loading, and you can veto that instead.
 
Domino Theory said:
Can you explain the change in the MM lobby? What happened to this sexiness:
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God I didnt remember how beautiful it was. WTF Bungie downgrade totale!
 
Has anyone managed to get a 6v6 game of ranked BTB? I read this post from Luke on the Bungie forums which points out that matching times are slow because they're trying to keep party sizes equal. That is, a party of 6 should be matched up with a party of 6, not 5 or 7.

It's not clear if that means that the minimum team size is 6, like the minimum Team Slayer size is 3. I've had plenty of 3v3 Team Slayer games, and they've all been great. I would love 6v6 or 7v7 BTB with no pick-up players if that's possible.

So is it possible? Has it happened to you?
 
roosters93 said:
Hey Stinkles, I was just wondering...

You give away the Recon armour from time to time, but has anyone ever been given the Flaming Helmet?
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It's actually the chest piece that is on fire.
ferrex said:
I'll let you in on a secret here: It's actually a Bungie chest piece, and the chest piece has the fire on the collar, so we're free to use any helmet that we like.
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1up Halo 3 After Thoughts Article

Good podcast with Christian Allen. I'm curious to know what Bungie's next original project is. The studio has worked on shooters for nine years now (Oni aside), and Christian's experience is also with shooters, albeit a different type. I'd love to see Bungie do something really different.

The Lamonster said:
yeah I don't see a big difference. What are you guys talking about?
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Yeah I don't see the huge difference either.
 
If I was that guy with all the guests, I'd stop playing that one guy over and over again. He never loses!
 
Ramirez said:
The lights on the globe being brighter is like the only difference between now and the beta...?
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It's in the background instead of being on the side, and the lights are more flashy, which gives the entire MM lobby a glossy look. And the picture shown for what map is played looked a lot better. :P
 
Domino Theory said:
It's in the background instead of being on the side, and the lights are more flashy, which gives the entire MM lobby a glossy look. And the picture shown for what map is played looked a lot better. :P
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And the melee was perfect.
 
The booster above is already detected by the automated process. The autoupdate will improve that process even more. There will be a full list of detailed changes coming sooooon.
 
And then you get banned -all that time for nothing. Why even do it, dude?
 
Cocopjojo said:
And then you get banned -all that time for nothing. Why even do it, dude?
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That's the thing. he doesn't even get matched against 50s to play them - because he only matches with his idiot setup. He may as well write fanfic about the process for all the tangible benefit it gives him.

Why not just write "50" on a post it note and affix it to your screen during matchmaking? It will give you the exact same achievement.
 
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