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The Halo 3 Beta Thread

Tieno said:
I might get that then. My controller's headset port doesn't work anymore, I can buy another controller just for a new headset port but it has the chance of breaking too.
Just be aware of the wireless headset problems. You'll probably get a lot of people telling you to reset your mic in the game.
 
the disgruntled gamer said:
Man, nobody is online. I went into Team Skirmish and were 6 people online. 6.

I almost called into work, but then I remembered that I like money.
 
Resident Guru said:
Get a job that is salaried so when you miss work you still get paid. :D

I get paid when I miss, but the network won't run itself. And if the network don't run, I don't have a job.
 
the chew said:
From what i've sen in videos, I don't like the way the plasma grenade/pistol trail looks, Looks sorta weak and non-existant.

Yes but that 9mb gif that someone posted a few pages back showed the effect when it stuck someone, the explosion is a nice.
 
Ramirez said:
I've played close to a 100 games now and I've yet to encounter a douche, everyone even says GG after every match, I haven't encountered that in years! :lol
OT, but the last game I played online regularly was Trackmania Unlimited - really nice people and community there.
 
Karg said:
Yes but that 9mb gif that someone posted a few pages back showed the effect when it stuck someone, the explosion is a nice.

The sound effect is awesome. It's a sort of whistle that increases in frequency until it pops.
 
I'm looking forward to playing some more tonight. It's almost criminal that they started the friends and family thing on Mother's Day weekend. I felt kinda bad that the whole day yesterday while I'm being the good husband and father I was wishing that I was playing Halo3 instead. :)
 
Who does a junior have to pay (or suck) get in the beta today?

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seriously
 
Karg said:
Yes but that 9mb gif that someone posted a few pages back showed the effect when it stuck someone, the explosion is a nice.


Ya I noticed that, it looks amazing! Just the trails and the grenade itself inflight looks sorta odd, and not nice and bright like halo 2.
 
Wow. The impatience is at an all-time high. You'd think it would go down as we get closer to Wednesday, but nooooooo.
 
the disgruntled gamer said:
Wow. The impatience is at an all-time high. You'd think it would go down as we get closer to Wednesday, but nooooooo.

My thing is that I want to have it before Wed. Not to play it before Wed, but to avoid having it take 2 days to download.
 
the chew said:
Ya I noticed that, it looks amazing! Just the trails and the grenade itself inflight looks sorta odd, and not nice and bright like halo 2.

I also noticed the lack of ground effects for the ghost like in h2, but then I remembered that it's just the Beta.
 
cool_dude_2049 said:
I also noticed the lack of ground effects for the ghost like in h2, but then I remembered that it's just the Beta.

Still, the beta seems pretty close to being the finished product. If you use that excuse for everything, you may end up being disappointed, or not, what do I know.
 
Apologies for nearly derailing the thread the other day folks, you can kill me in the beta if you happen to see my nickname in your crosshair in the next days :)
 
Mojovonio said:
My thing is that I want to have it before Wed. Not to play it before Wed, but to avoid having it take 2 days to download.

I too am concerned about the scale of XBL meltdown on Wednesday.

Hopefully I'm the only sucker in the UK that booked work off the end of this week and our servers are nice and fast!

In reality I think I've got two hopes, and one's called Bob... :/
 
VASPER said:
so does this work because i have friends that have it. so do i just have to get a DL code or something has anyone here done it!

The instructions in the link are pretty straight forward. You recover your friends GT, DL the demo, and voila.
 
Mr. Lemming said:
So now that there are some assholes online how do the new muting and whatever other tools there are around work?
The back button brings up the player list so you can mute who you feel the need to.

Everything else is still the normal 360 feedback system. Player avoidance etc.
 
I don't see the point in trying to scam your way into the beta. It's two days away, and there's quite a backlog to play through before then anyways. For me, it's a perfect opportunity to get good at racing games before losing all the skills again when the beta begins.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but couldn't someone go on a buying spree with the recovered gamertag if they really wanted to screw someone over with the "workaround" for getting into the beta early?
 
Wolffen said:
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but couldn't someone go on a buying spree with the recovered gamertag if they really wanted to screw someone over with the "workaround" for getting into the beta early?
They could...but that's why they have the honor system.
 
raYne said:
The back button brings up the player list so you can mute who you feel the need to.

Everything else is still the normal 360 feedback system. Player avoidance etc.

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Mojovonio said:
Still, the beta seems pretty close to being the finished product. If you use that excuse for everything, you may end up being disappointed, or not, what do I know.
 
I just had someone PM me asking if they could borrow my Live account for 20 mins so they could download the beta. :lol

I wonder if that person will be happy that I just posted this. I wonder if they can get banned for that?
 
Truelize said:
I just had someone PM me asking if they could borrow my Live account for 20 mins so they could download the beta. :lol

I wonder if that person will be happy that I just posted this. I wonder if they can get banned for that?

why would they get banned?
 
Truelize said:
I just had someone PM me asking if they could borrow my Live account for 20 mins so they could download the beta. :lol

I wonder if that person will be happy that I just posted this. I wonder if they can get banned for that?
I got a PM about that too. Isn't that against the XBL Code of Conduct?
 
* Tieno360
* SPARTAN - T01
* Sergeant - Grade 2

Combat Stats
Games: 85
Last Played: 14-5-2007 9:47:35

* Total Kills: 442
* Total Deaths: 908
* Kill/Death Ratio: 0,4868
* Total Assists: 304


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edit: assist/kill ratio: 0,6878
 
Truelize said:
I just had someone PM me asking if they could borrow my Live account for 20 mins so they could download the beta. :lol

I wonder if that person will be happy that I just posted this. I wonder if they can get banned for that?

Nobody's going to get banned.

I'm not doing the cheat because it's a) lame and b) simply not worth it.

But, seriously. Nobody will get banned for this.

As I posted elsewhere in this thread (somewhat revised):

Everyone who is getting into the Beta early is going to spend 60, 70 or 130 bucks in September for the full game, anyway. And most of them probably already had their copy of Crackdown ready and waiting to go. It's not like they were planning for this. I don't know how Bungie can really be mad about it. And even if they are, they aren't going to piss off paying customers for playing a Beta three days earlier than they were supposed to.

Besides, as Shane Kim said in the interview on Gamespot, they want as many people as possible to play this.
 
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