Updates for Bungie.net, Halo 3 Matchmaking, DLC on their way

Zombie matches should be permanent; I love to play those for some reason I become unstoppable in anything that is Zombie related.

Yea, they really shouldve kept that zombie playlist

The bug that is keeping the Commando Armor for elites from unlocking will be addressed.

What's the deal with this??

yeah, 2 of the 3 zombie modes were the same, but with shotties vs rockets (rockets are better!)

i preferred cs's zombie mod, they weren't invisible but they had a lot more HP and moved a bit faster


and the constant respawns make it so zombies always win and it's just "who can get the most kills". having it be actual teams where you need to be "infected" by a zombie to become one would be better, without respawns (or have them a lot less frequent)


and wtf is rocket race? all i ever play is team slayer

I agree with all of these tweaks.

I also agree that Zombie should be a permanent game type. Or, at the very least, they should have a selection that just gives you weird game types, like Zombie, Ninjaball, Swords, Hammers, Rockets and Hammers, infinite sticky grenades with super-low gravity, etc. That way, if I get pissed while playing Big Team Battle, or something of that variety, I can just say fuckit and chuckle at the wacky gametypes.

I'm also glad as hell they're reducing VIP. Seriously, that gamemode blows, ESPECIALLY on multiteam with 4 2-person teams. It's just assinine. Now if there were more variations, like Swords VIP, where the VIP gets an infinite sword, or something like that, it might be more tolerable.

If the VIP was harder to kill but took less points to win it would be far more amusing. Oh well, reducing it is a good option too.

As long as Shotty Snipers gets less of a chance to be chosen as a game, I'm down.

I'm not playing halo 3 until they update it with team snipers or team shotty snipers. I don't like playing team slayer. That why i stopped at lvl 35

sweet

such a badass feature.

Is no one else super excited to be able to play Rocker Race (my favorite Halo game type) without having to get more than ten people together? I'm also happy about more flag game types, those are also great becuase I care less about my kills and more about tactical team based game play.

That heatmap is pretty cool and definitely a pretty nice technique for level balancing.

I dunno, it's too confusing for me.

i looked at a friends heat map to know where he got his kills on guardian and promptly snuck behind and got 10 on him in one game

Cool stuff!! ^_^

Is there any specific reason why the incendiary grenades aren't in matchmaking?

I quit halo until the REAL bugs are fixed. Like the fact that I can shoot you in the face for 30 seconds straight, but you panic and hit "B" which causes my death. Or the fact that I can shoot you in the face with a sniper rifle, and you get to live. Or that I can stick you in the face with a Plasma Grenade while you have Overshield... then you walk into a Plasma Container and explode, BUT LIVE and I die because the plasma container exploded. Halo 3 is too dependent on internet connection speed, and not dependant enough on actual skill.

I loved Halo and Halo 2... Even WITH THE MODDERS. Halo 3 is a pathetic disappointment for me. I tried for over a month and a half to fall in love with it, but i can't "Just Accept" the blaring gameplay mistakes, bugs, and shortcomings that Bungie, and those in denial, pass off as evolutionary changes to the game.

Decrease Mele strength, fix latency-based kill priority, and fix the other weird glitchy crap that happens during matchmaking and I'll meet you on LIVE in 10 minutes.

I just wish they would speed up the actual matchmaking process. I regularly have to wait a couple of minutes for Team or Lone Wolf playlists to be matched.

The heatmap only provides useful information for single player. Any information gleaned from multiplayer matches should be obvious (really, lots of people die in the open area with no powerful weapon spawns and minimal cover?) to anyone that has played the game for more than a few minutes.

It's been used by dozens of projects to track progress or the distribution of actions across an environment, but Bungie (and the press) seem to present it as a great idea they came up with.

Bungie's got so many resources, they'll even throw out useless statistics to the gamers, as a distraction from more meaningful information or future plans for content.

The red areas are where the mauler campers attack there helpless victims. Nothing against camping, just when complimented by a no skill overpopulated over spawning weapon, it sucks.
camping + mauler = ruining matchmaking.