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- hokeywebb22, on 10/11/2007, -1/+37From the source
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topne ... - knodi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29How about Ranked Big Team Battle...
- kete00, on 10/15/2007, -1/+30Human seeking Arbiter for "experimentation". I enjoy fighting the Covenant and long walks on the beach.
- justice7, on 10/19/2007, -0/+27 * Big Team Battle matches are now 16-player affairs.
* In the Team Slayer playlist, the appearance of Shotty Snipers has been greatly reduced.
* Now, when players veto Shotty Snipers, the game that results from the veto will not be Shotty Snipers.
* In one-sided VIP matches, the attacking team will now see a waypoint for the VIP they are hunting.
* In Lone Wolves, Slayer gametypes will appear more frequently. - CapitolK, on 10/13/2007, -7/+33Why the hell can't we just select the game-type we want to play?
- EXreaction, on 10/15/2007, -1/+25I wish they would fix it so all teabagging, trash talking little kids were automatically banned for life.
- shelbygt33, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24I can't stand shotty snipers. Not fun for me at all, mainly because I suck at it. If it weren't for the fact that my EXP would go down, I'd drop off every time I had that game type come up.
- Koolice, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24please don't call it a patch, cause it isn't.
- tmaiden, on 10/14/2007, -2/+20SAVE THE CLICK
Halo 3: Matchmaking Playlist Update 1
Posted by lukems at 10/9/2007 11:07 AM PDT
Halo 3's Matchmaking Playlists, just like Halo 2's, are dynamic and ever-changing entities. Even now in the perilous Bungie towers, we're looking at new hoppers, gametypes and modes to test for future iterations and changes of these playlists. Multiplayer Lead Tyson Green and test wunderkind David Gasca sent the following list of changes to us -- and these changes are live now:
* Big Team Battle matches are now 16-player affairs.
* In the Team Slayer playlist, the appearance of Shotty Snipers has been greatly reduced.
* Now, when players veto Shotty Snipers, the game that results from the veto will not be Shotty Snipers.
* In one-sided VIP matches, the attacking team will now see a waypoint for the VIP they are hunting.
* In Lone Wolves, Slayer gametypes will appear more frequently. - m3mn0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14"In Lone Wolves, Slayer gametypes will appear more frequently."
Brilliant! I'm so sick of Oddball and Crazy King. It seems those were on par with Slayer. The change is much appreciated. - Sairynn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Basically, L2P.
Methinks you're just not very good at the game. Dual spikers owns face (assuming you aren't terrible and can actually hit them in the face... though the chest or back works almost as well). Even single spiker isn't bad, the melee on it is quite nice. It's really not that hard to get headshots with the BR either, I think it's alright to be honest. Maulers are fine, QQ. - ApokalypseNow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15Now if only I could make it so people stop vetoing Sandtrap every time it comes up - I really like that map! Oh, and maybe release more maps for Big Team Battle? Those same three become boring fast.
- whatthefu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15I don't know why people hate shotty-snipers so much. Obviously it shouldn't show up so often, but I still enjoy it depending on the level it's in.
- mymidgetfriend, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Can't view at work.... what are the changes?
- unjustend, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10FIne, I won't veto sandtrap next time.
:( - f0rr3st, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Whoa there little fella, easy on the reply button. Did you miss your Ritalin today?
- kmattso, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11In one-sided VIP, the VIP needs more overshield and/or ninja speed. With the waypoint it's too easy to find and kill the VIP.
They need to open the big maps occasionally to smaller team battles. - Sornos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10At least the mute button is very easily accessed. They usually get to "Get raped fa-" before they're muted.
- revenge7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I have never even played that map. At least it comes up for you.
- Sairynn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I feel sorry for you, Sandtrap is one of my favorite maps (if only for the Brute Chopper). I have almost as many kills with the Chopper as I do with the Assault Rifle.
- supremesonic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The problem to me with shotty snipers is this... Normally you get a great mix of players - Some love vehicles, some kamikaze, some toss grenades constantly and so on and so forth. It makes games interesting, unpredictable, and leads to the best moments / kills / laughs.
Shotty snipers? Either everyone is going to hide and you'll die all of a sudden (Which gets boring fast) or everyone just legs it at each other and hopes to get lucky (Which also gets boring fast). It removes most of the fun of it.
That, and if you suck with one of the two weapons (Like me with the sniper) you're stuck practically doing one thing over and over over and zzzzzzzzz... - deadnoob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8meh, nothing that great here except 16 players. that should be more fun at least.
- daridave, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Good thing you mentioned "for Xbox360", cuz I was about to try it with my Wii...
- EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8If you play it for "speed" and "in your face combat" you are playing the wrong game. Go play UT.
- Sornos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I know it's a joke, but burried.
- incognit0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I second that. Have played over 300 matches, sandtrap hasn't come up once...
- Zgouki, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Shotty sniper needed to be tamed down. There were nights when out of 10 matches it would be 8 Shotty sniper matches. That is just crazy dumb. The worst is when you would veto it and it would come up again on a different board. I'm happy they changed that.
Also they need to give us some new maps quickly. From putting my 150 or so ranked games so far I am getting very tired of the boards we currently have. They don't have the same magic or feel to them as some of Halo 2's maps... Maybe that is just me but I think Isolation, Construct, Epitaph, and Narrows are pretty average maps at best.... - goliath553, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Halo 3 - shotty snipers = greater fun, Yah!
- BobsYourUncle, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5Sucking with a sniper rifle and playing shotty snipers is an exercise in futility...
- NecroSexy, on 10/16/2007, -1/+6Matchmaking is a euphemism for play-dates.
- ravage386, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7I prefer it this way. Custom games would promote the whole "DUST PLX!!111!" Counter-Strike mentality.
I prefer forced variety in my games over commonly accepted sameness.
Team Actionsack was my favorite :( - EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Shotty snipers rocks...I'd play it all the time if I could. I guess it would suck if you do suck at it...but maybe if you played with a sniper once in a while you would get better.
- Jomwilli, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Exactly, but those of us who are average at it, and really don't enjoy it, hate the one's that own each map simply because they get the sniper rifle EVERY time. no fun
- logicalnoise, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4it already happened you don;t have to accept an update they just show up.
- thonnie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"They don't have the same magic or feel to them as some of Halo 2's maps..."
That's what was said when Halo 2 was released except it was about the same magic or feel as Halo 1's maps... =) - xxenclavexx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+42 things I really don't understand is why bungie will not let you choose your game variant, and why their are barely any levels to play from. From a development standpoint, I would imagine that map making is the easiest part of making a game.
- LucasKane, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5It comes out 9 times out of 10, the game is called Halo 3, not Shotty Snipers
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5They need a patch that makes 90% of the Halo players not idiots.
Every single game there's always some obnoxious ***** teenagers yelling some dumb ass ***** over the mic. I'd give anything to have some type of verification system so I wouldn't have to play with anyone under 21. Or maybe XBL should have "obnoxious factor" into ratings, so I can filter out the annoying *****.
Makes it impossible to play team games if your teammates are complete ***** tools. "OMG WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP ME WHEN I ASKED FOR IT, FAG?!" ... it's like, "..shut the ***** up. Now you're getting muted and I'm not helping you with *****." - gr0ss, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5How is the mauler over powered? You have to be basically right in their face to do anything useful with it, an assault rifle will own mauler users everytime if you aren't a retard.
- LimeParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Slayer mode more frequent in Lone Wolves... Great change.
- gr0ss, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I think they should make it so you can veto either Gametype Map, so if you like a map that comes up and the gametype is something the group doesn't like you can veto it and it will keep the map but change the gametype.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Lack of communication on team games. Almost always a guaranteed loss simply because someone was an ass.
- SSCrow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Well once you hit the Mute button, whats the problem?
- onlynameicanget, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This isn't really a "patch" per se, but it is cool. 16-player Big Team Battle is great fun.
- Sairgem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And this isn't a link to Bungie.net why? I don't want to look at some ***** site that didn't add any info from the original source. Buried for spam.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topne ... - ericrous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you like Senators and Idaho, I'm your man!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They said they are already working on new maps. It won't be long.
From Bungie.net:
Frogwart asks,
How many new maps are under construction?
Will we see these released by the end of the year?
Thanks for the fantastic game!
We reply,
Plenty.
No announcements have been made yet.
I played the greatest game of Infection yesterday on one of them – a map big enough for crazy vehicle antics, but also unexpected. - ahoyhoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Make the Flamethrower not useless, either by A) increasing its range or B) Making it less heavy)
Seriously, once a person realzies you've picked up the flamethrower, all they have to do is take a few steps back and they can take their sweet ass time killing you. - hollismb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Your starting weapons are shotguns and sniper rifles. It was coming up way too much in Team Slayer, so they fixed it.
- Frostman3D, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3This really isn't all that special. They said 16 player matches on the box. and that's pretty much the only real improvement I've seen.
How about a way to find other gametypes like infection online? And WHEN DO WE GET NEW MAPS? -
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