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The Halo 3 Beta Thread

Ramirez said:
People never cease to amaze me, just played a game of team slayer, our 3rd teammate had like 3 kills all game, neither of us say a single word about his performance. Then at the end he has 5 and he's like "So do you morons know anything about team work or are you just going to be stupid and not talk", to which we both replied with don't blame us (20 kills and 15 respectively) for your piss poor performance. Love the Halo community...
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There are some assholes out there...

Two of our teammates disconnected and I stayed on (this was ctf) with one other guy, who was afk most of the game haha, and we pretty much got slaughtered (even though we almost got a cap!) and the other team was like OMG YOU GUYS SO OWNED LOL YOU GUYS SUCK WE'RE SO AWESOME! and tried sending me a bunch of messages on live

The only reason I even stayed on was because I might be the host and I didn't want to screw everyone over with those long reconnect things. The thanks I get.... :\
 
Anyone know why when I click on a friends who's played the beta/playing the beta, I cannot see his file share and stas..
Like I click on it and then an eror comes up saying something about "this player has never played a game of halo 3" But I know that they definately have.
Happened to anyone else?
 
ice cream said:
Anyone know why when I click on a friends who's played the beta/playing the beta, I cannot see his file share and stas..
Like I click on it and then an eror comes up saying something about "this player has never played a game of halo 3" But I know that they definately have.
Happened to anyone else?
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Happened to me too; don't know if there's a fix.
 
what is up with the melee attack? I always hit the guy first, there is contact, I hear the sound of me smashing his face, yet he get the kill and walks away ailve while im there dead
 
brokenwatch said:
I'm really happy that they included Kills - Deaths. I'm so sick of people bragging about getting 15 kills in Halo 2 and having like 25 deaths. WTF!
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nothing pisses me off more. you arent good at halo 3? ok, stay back or buddy up and follow around a better player. pick up what kills you can. do not run into 4 enemies and pray for a kill over and over and over again :P
 
Linkzg said:
what is up with the melee attack? I always hit the guy first, there is contact, I hear the sound of me smashing his face, yet he get the kill and walks away ailve while im there dead
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I don't know, but it happens to me quite a bit. Maybe my melee skills are lacking. Although, I did crack someone in their legs, and they went flying sky high.
 
Stinkles said:
It's a server problem that has been largely fixed. Was this a recent occurence?
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It is happening to me right now. Every time I click on someone's file share it says this:

NO RECORD

This player has not played a game in Halo 3. The UNSC Service Record is maintained only for those on active duty.
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Stinkles said:
It's a server problem that has been largely fixed. Was this a recent occurence?
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I was getting it just a little while ago; no one on my friends list has supposedly played Halo 3, even though they're in matchmaking and some of them already have 100+ games.
 
purgeface said:
I don't know, but it happens to me quite a bit. Maybe my melee skills are lacking. Although, I did crack someone in their legs, and they went flying sky high.
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Me as well. I melee somebody and he just walks right through it and melees me and I go down.
 
Some great games today, Vyse, raYne, n' Phobo.

We went on a 4 man riot spree, broken up by a few games in which us getting mopped occured.

Still plenty of great games and moments, though. :D
 
Territories is pretty lame, it's just not a whole lot of fun. If they ditched the Offensive / Defensive idea of it, and just made it for everyone to get [I assume it's in there, but not in the Beta? I haven't played Halo 2 all that much], it's be better.
 
QVT said:
Me as well. I melee somebody and he just walks right through it and melees me and I go down.
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You need to soften them up with a gun before you melee. If you're already doing that, you're not softening enough
 
My GAWD there were some great games tonight.

Territories on Snowbound in intense - that last territory - always the one right out in the open - decided by a last second Bubble Shield deployment by me.

A rolicking game of Assault on Valhalla. It's the first Saved Film I've gone back and re-watched (it's uploaded for viewing). The first and last full rounds are filled with so much awesome it's almost painful. I killed a half dozen people with the Missle Pod, inside the base. And a grenade stick of the bomb carrier from 50 feet away that I am now calling the Stick of Glory (quiet, you naughty boy you). Watching that over again made me so happy. :D
 
Rlan said:
Territories is pretty lame, it's just not a whole lot of fun. If they ditched the Offensive / Defensive idea of it, and just made it for everyone to get [I assume it's in there, but not in the Beta? I haven't played Halo 2 all that much], it's be better.
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Yeah, Land Grab was like that in H2. I think it depends on the map and number of players. Right now, I'm not a big fan of it on Valhalla. I've never gotten Territories on Snowbound...it's always high ground and Valhalla.
 
GhaleonEB said:
A rolicking game of Assault on Valhalla. It's the first Saved Film I've gone back and re-watched (it's uploaded for viewing). The first and last full rounds are filled with so much awesome it's almost painful. I must have killed over a dozen people with the Missle Pod, inside the base. And a grenade stick of the bomb carrier from 50 feet away that I am now calling the Stick of Glory (quiet, you naughty boy you). Watching that over again made me so happy. :D
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Sweet I'll have to check that out. On a related note, can you save as many films as you want, but just only upload 25 megs worth? I remember people saying there was a 25 meg limit, but it seems to only apply to shared films, as I have like 40 megs worth saved.
 
GhaleonEB said:
My GAWD there were some great games tonight.

Territories on Snowbound in intense - that last territory - always the one right out in the open - decided by a last second Bubble Shield deployment by me.

A rolicking game of Assault on Valhalla. It's the first Saved Film I've gone back and re-watched (it's uploaded for viewing). The first and last full rounds are filled with so much awesome it's almost painful. I must have killed over a dozen people with the Missle Pod, inside the base. And a grenade stick of the bomb carrier from 50 feet away that I am now calling the Stick of Glory (quiet, you naughty boy you). Watching that over again made me so happy. :D
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K, I wanna ****ing see that. How I does this? :lol
 
Linkzg said:
yeah, but when I do it, their shield is gone, I have shield left, they still get it.
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They have a better melee weapon maybe?

Things like the Brute Shot, Needler and Spikers tend to do more melee damage.
 
SailorDaravon said:
Sweet I'll have to check that out. On a related note, can you save as many films as you want, but just only upload 25 megs worth? I remember people saying there was a 25 meg limit, but it seems to only apply to shared films, as I have like 40 megs worth saved.
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The online space is only 25mb and 6 different files. On your console you can save as many videos as you can.
 
The weapon balance in this game seems perfect. If you're good, you can go on a nice spree with the rocket launcher or laser, but the power weapons don't completely dominate the map like they used to. It also mixes it up a bit since you're not always just immediately rushing to the same weapons. In Ivory Tower in H2, for example, would be ruled by whoever was on top with the Sword, Sniper, and RL. There's not really a comparable map in the beta, but still. And now there's weapons everywhere! You really don't have to go very far to pick up a good weapon, and you start with the very respectable AR.

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that Valhalla will be the most vetoed map. I'm sure it'd be great for big team battle, but in the tiny games we're playing it seems gigantic. I actually like the territories mode on that map, though.
 
Odd things I noticed with the Beta:

1.) I got team-killed by the assualt rifle and the game has declared it both a betrayal and suicide simultaneously.

2.) When you press up or down on the d-pad right after you die you can cycle through the different player's perspectives, but if you press up or down on the analog stick all it does is cycle through the names and make the camera jitter.

3.) What is with the texturing on the cliff by Valhalla's waterfall?
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Completely mismatched and out of place, no attempt at blending, it looks like a piece of Crackdown somehow broke off and fell into Valhalla during my download...
 
a Master Ninja said:
Odd things I noticed with the Beta:

Completely mismatched and out of place, no attempt at blending, it looks like a piece of Crackdown somehow broke off and fell into Valhalla during my download...
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:lol I have no idea why I found that so funny.
 
The only real problem I've had so far is if the host leaves, that's it. Everyone just gets stuck in the uploading black screen forever, and has to sign off / quit to dash.
 
OK something weird just happened. Was playing Territories on Valhalla (yuck, remove that crap) and then all of a sudden the screen went black (with the scoreboard and Uploading text).

And it kept repeating that screen over and over constantly. People on the blue team were getting dropped one by one in that screen, and when I was finally able to get back in the game only one person was left on the blue team (and then he quit). I tried to save a film of the game, but it wouldn't let me.

Are people standbying/bridging?

Here is the game: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=904544&player=Shadow540
 
Total Kills - 107
Total Deaths - 103
Kill/Death Ratio - 1.0388
Total Assists - 42

Not too good but I am enjoying the beta much more than I ever did Halo 2. Then again, I barely played halo 2 although I loved halo: ce. If anyone wants to add me, GT: KonkeyDong
 
I was thinking that maybe we can help Bungie a little by stickying a Halo 3 Beta Bugs and Glitches thread with a compilation of all the bugs and glitches we've found so far. This thread may be getting too big to sift through.
 
SnakeXs said:
They have a better melee weapon maybe?

Things like the Brute Shot, Needler and Spikers tend to do more melee damage.
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Why doesn't anyone mention that ever? I just assumed melee was even, just like headshots. Thanks for helping me out here.
 
Sean said:
OK something weird just happened. Was playing Territories on Valhalla (yuck, remove that crap) and then all of a sudden the screen went black (with the scoreboard and Uploading text).

And it kept repeating that screen over and over constantly. People on the blue team were getting dropped one by one in that screen, and when I was finally able to get back in the game only one person was left on the blue team (and then he quit). I tried to save a film of the game, but it wouldn't let me.

Are people standbying/bridging?

Here is the game: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=904544&player=Shadow540
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Happened to me before too.

Only suspicious time was on High Ground CTF -- we all were sent to that black screen, and when we got back into the game, our flag was stolen and captured. I don't know if it was intentional standbying or if the guy on the other team just got lucky and got out of the black screen before everyone else, but it was annoying. Someone on my team got disconnected, though, which might have caused the interruption. But I don't know how they got the flag... it was literally captured as soon as we got back into the game (and they didn't have it previously).

Here's a link to the game:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=878732&player=Sullichin
 
QVT said:
Why doesn't anyone mention that ever? I just assumed melee was even, just like headshots. Thanks for helping me out here.
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Things with impailing spikes on them tend to do more melee damage :P

I also find it pretty funny that they've had to resort to over-the-shoulder camera for the giant guns, purely because I remember Luke Smith saying "If Master Chief goes over the shoulder, I'm done with Halo" :lol
 
Trax416 said:
Did you try the Bungie forums? because there was an entire thread on how to fix the problem and it seemed damn easy.
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Yeah I did, I tried it and unfortunately I'm experiencing something a minbority over there are, the fixes don't work for me.. :/

At least nothing posted last night did..
 
Games: 8
# Total Kills: 124
# Total Deaths: 81
# Kill/Death Ratio: 1.5309
# Total Assists: 36

Eh, not too bad considering I haven't played a Halo game online since New Years Eve of 2004. Now I just need to stop using my alternate account (x ThrownAway) and start using my main one, because it looks like I'm not as bad as I thought I would be.
 
tahrikmili said:
Yeah I did, I tried it and unfortunately I'm experiencing something a minbority over there are, the fixes don't work for me.. :/

At least nothing posted last night did..
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When I had that all I did was let it sit in the main menu until the "View Movies" (or whatever) option showed up, then it started working. So, you know, good luck with that technique.
 
Is the match making not suppose to pit players of equal skill against one another?

Why is every game a team of newbs (one being me) and a team of people who eat sleep and shit Halo.

Every game is a rape and not alot of fun. :(
 
I have played almost 30 games now, and I have seen this glitch 2 times. The screen goes black or really dark and it doesnt get fixed until your next respawn.
 
zedge said:
Is the match making not suppose to pit players of equal skill against one another?

Why is every game a team of newbs (one being me) and a team of people who eat sleep and shit Halo.

Every game is a rape and not alot of fun. :(
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Dont know, playing ranked match or training?
 
got2bekidding said:
I suck at team rockets. :/ Anyone have any pointers on the secrets of the rocket launcher?
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Always jump around and aim at the ground where you think the person will end their jump
 
zedge said:
I had a guest so we were playing training.. but it seems to happen when I play alone in ranked too.
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It always take a couple of week for grade and rank to be effective. Player with low rank at the moment might have been god a H2 or total noobs.
 
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