Bungie lays out matchmaking map changes

I love the mauler as long as I have it. It sucks and is unbalanced when someone else has it.

@thadwhit

Lol - exactly. In my short Halo3 online career, the Mauler was one of the only weapons where I had a chance to get a kill. Considering how badly I suck at Halo MP, the weapon *has* to be over powered :D

i do find i get killed with it an awful lot. and it's the kinda kills that leave me swearing alone in my living room.

The "Pac-Man" Game variant/Map seems really thougth out, somebody at bungie has a lot of imagination.

I WANT DEPLOYABLE ITEMS!

I liked the radar jammer and the flare :(


and can't we get some of the campaign items? I wouldn't mind the deployable energy shield.

Anyone else notice that they refered to Last Resort as Zanzibar? Old habits die hard.

Where the hell are the firebomb grenades? I add them to all the Forge maps I make for my friends and I to play on and they are a blast.

Thank god the Flare and Radar Jammer are gone. NO ONE benefited from those, both teams are equally crippled by them.

Yeah more campaign items please

As they're adjusting and tweaking (which is a good thing), what happens to skill levels? Have they thought about the impact of this. Now us lower levels after just getting a handle on shotgun camping in Snowbound, have no chance since all the higher ups have exploited that before.

Boo Bungie. Just Boo.

I enjoy the hell out of the Mauler, and feel it DOES bring balanceto certain maps with a certain sword room.

I'm also gonna miss my Flares and Radar Jammers....


they made for sheer mayhem.


It's like Bungie Claus put Coal in my Halo Stocking ;/

Maybe I'm reading something different, but a lot of those changes are for Team Hardcore only.

The other ones listed under "General Map Changes" have already been in play for a week or two.

Lmao, that's my screenshot.

I don't think I have ever seen, or been killed by the Mauler. I haven't played MP much in the last few weeks, but around launch I was playing a butt-load.

What I have noticed is that the only maps I ever get to play on are High-Ground, Isolation, Narrows and Valhalla. I have managed to get a couple on Epitaph, and Construct.

Why do I always get the same maps, didn't they say they mixed them up more in the 1st playlist update.

Removal of the radar jammer and flare is incomprehensible. Why even have them in the game if they're removed so quickly?

I wish they would fix the grenade to warthog damage. When you can stick a warthog with a plasma and not kill any of the people in the hog, something is wrong.

I guess MLG kiddies are driving Halo now...

The radar jammer and the flare were removed because players could use them to reach higher areas and places they weren't supposed to go. Just look down, throw the equipment then jump quickly and your jump height doubled.

"Thank god the Flare and Radar Jammer are gone. NO ONE benefited from those, both teams are equally crippled by them. "

The radar jammer only crippled campers and the flare was a great escape tool. So count me in with the guys that think they should come back and bring some of their single player friends with them.

Taking away the radar jammer and the flare? Another reduction of stealth, stun-and-gun tactics by Bungie. The mauler is annoying as balls, so I don't care about that one. But come on. Swapping BR fire out in the open doesn't cut it anymore.

And they listed Last Resort as Zanzibar in the list.

Call of Duty is a shooter's shooter anyway.

what the hell is the mauler?


and like someone else said, where the fuck are the fire grenades in multiplay?

omg bungie broke xbl it was working fine till this update

its a duel-weld shout gun dur

Ugh...obnoxious "update".

i want more equipment, not just the bubble shield and power drain, the deployable shield, invincibility, flare, radar jammer, over shields, invisibility, gravity lift, trip mine, and the auto turret

To be honest, I think Bungie removed the flare and jammer because the average players were figuring out how to use it finally. Before I abandoned Halo 3 for CoD4, I used the Spiker the most outside of the obvious selection of the BR, I see them removing the spiker next.

I joked around about Halo 3 being Halo 2.5 when it was released, but in a few months when they "balance" the rest of the weapons since all the crybabies will be complaining about the Spiker now. Those people won't stop complaining until the spiker is gone now. Congrats Halo matchmaking players, you will soon have Halo 2 with slightly improved graphics, a giant hammer, a bubble shield, a laser, no clan support and a few extra maps for $60. I won't be surprised if they remove the laser and hammer after the Spiker.