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[magik]

I dunno about that. Me and my buddy spent an hour on one checkpoint playing the Library on Co-op Halo 1. It's the part where you're locked between two giant doors in a small-ish space for a bit of time while 343GS goes to open one of them. We definitely spent about an hour dying over and over and it never took us back to the previous checkpoint.

Oh, and you're a jerk :p

-Spenser

Ah, well I'm 100% sure it was in Halo 2. I can't remember if it was in Halo 1, but I'm fairly sure it was. The key is, you have to die almost immediately, because if you keep moving forward and start killing things then eventually you'll 'restart' the checkpoint rollback countdown and the game thinks you just suck. :p

[Veedems Veteran]

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.

Good to see BTB at 16 players, though I'd love to see it ranked again

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Woot 16 player BTB :D

Halo 360 Bundle For Christmas?

by Rob Purchese

Microsoft could be preparing a special Halo 3 Premium 360 (HDMI) bundle in time for Christmas.

Rumours emerged from Game Portugal (pointed out by Kotaku), who produced a listing stating it would cost 409.96 (GBP 283.68).

This was followed by Spanish forum elotrolado.net publishing pictures of a purchased bundle, flaunting Master Chief on the packaging and a special "bundle" copy of the game.

The photographs also showed the HMDI port, Hitachi DVD drive, general contents and pictures of the receipt, showing EUR 384.90 (266.38) as the price.

Microsoft was unavailable to comment at the time of writing.

Yesterday the platform holder confirmed it would be bundling copies of Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance in with Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Elite units as part of a special Christmas deal in the US, adding up to a saving of around USD 90 if you were to buy the games separately.

Source: EG

[magik]

Yay for decrease in Shotty Snipers and increase in Slayer for Lone Wolves! :D

[stanley porkchop]

There are gametypes besides Slayer in Love Wolves? :blink:

[spenser.d]

There are gametypes besides Slayer in Love Wolves? :blink:

Yes, but they don't appear as often. There's Oddball, which almost always gets veto'd (I think because it generally ends up being whoever gets the luckiest wins), and Crazy King (which is decently fun because the hill moves quite often). If there's any more, that'd be news to me. I've only seen Shotty Snipers once in the last week and a half, and it was in Social Teams. I just assumed they had released an update that fixed that already.

Since I can still just edit this post, I have to say I agree with PL below me. I like KotH games a lot.

-Spenser

Edited October 9, 2007 by stifler6478

[PL_ Veteran]

Yes, but they don't appear as often. There's Oddball, which almost always gets veto'd (I think because it generally ends up being whoever gets the luckiest wins), and Crazy King (which is decently fun because the hill moves quite often). If there's any more, that'd be news to me.

-Spenser

I love Crazy King :D it's much better than simple run-and-gun.

[magik]

Good news for those with the Bungie.net Stats troubles...

OMG MY Stats are Borked!

Over the past few days, some players (including myself) have noticed that their stats from games of Halo 3 have not been uploading to Bungie.net. The issue involved corrupted data that, in the simplest of terms, wasn't connecting players to their game data. The data still existed, the games just had to be relinked to the profiles.

Because of the way our database works, the most recently uploaded games affect the Player Bar at the top of your page. So, while the reprocessing is underway (it should conclude in the next 24-36 hours), things like your Rank and EXP may appear differently than they appear in game, specifically, they may appear how they were on say, last Friday. The good news is that the in-game display is correct and will be reflected on the website either after you play another game and it uploads, or one all of the processing is complete and you play another game -- that's because of the "most recently updated game history" bit I was talking about above.

So if your displayed rank, EXP or anything weird is showing up on your stats page, we're aware of it and it's the result of maintenance we are doing to keep everything current. Don't freak out, top men are on it.

Bungie

[gigapixels Veteran]

Well, my Limited Edition slightly scratched disc has just now started acting up on me. The game won't even start. I even tried using my trusty Disc Doctor that has done very well in the past and it's still not working. And no, it's not my system because any other disc works fine.

So I just have to go get that taken care of at Circuit City. Hopefully I'll be back on it later tonight.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Well, my Limited Edition slightly scratched disc has just now started acting up on me. The game won't even start. I even tried using my trusty Disc Doctor that has done very well in the past and it's still not working. And no, it's not my system because any other disc works fine.

So I just have to go get that taken care of at Circuit City. Hopefully I'll be back on it later tonight.

That sucks dude, hope its replaced without fuss!

[gigapixels Veteran]

That sucks dude, hope its replaced without fuss!

It should be. Besides, it's where I used to work so I know people who work there and they'll definitely help me out.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

It should be. Besides, it's where I used to work so I know people who work there and they'll definitely help me out.

Ah well in that case no problem eh :)

[gigapixels Veteran]

Well, long story short, I can't get it taken care of tonight, but the game IS working for now at least. I'll exchange it tomorrow, but I'm going to be doing campaign with a friend tonight so hopefully I'll see you all on tomorrow.

[neoadorable]

thanks for clarifying the checkpoint system, you're right and i only started noticing that after you posted. it seems to be quite dynamic. nice touch.

[magik]

thanks for clarifying the checkpoint system, you're right and i only started noticing that after you posted. it seems to be quite dynamic. nice touch.

No problemo, dude. :D

[neoadorable]

just keep your distance on the leaderboard and we're cool :cat:

[BajiRav]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :no: :cry: :no: :cry: :no: :cry: :no: :cry:

I almost finished the Ark level on Legendary while playing co-op with a friend on XBL. My FiOS crapped out for just 5mins and the game dropped itself!!1 :no: almost finished it!

:no: :cry: :no: :cry: :no: :cry: :no: :cry:

Now have to do it all over again. :rofl: Non-stop Halo !

[neoadorable]

that's a bit of a pain but you'll make it.

[goji]

The Ark's a blast on Legendary. Have fun. Its the levels afterward that get a lil... ahm... "crazy"

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

I've been playing Solo-Legendary, currently on "The Covenant". The game gets so much easier the more you play it. :D

[AimLXJ]

I just completed the whole game :), 49/49 achievements!

[magik]

Congrats man, I have a few things to do yet, but I'll get there eventually. Definitely. :)

[AimLXJ]

Thanks, plus Halo 3 is my first completed Xbox 360 game ever :D

[Green_Eye]

How'd ya get the 15,000 metascores? :s Those are hard :(

[GNRambo]

How'd ya get the 15,000 metascores? :s Those are hard :(

Turn a few skulls on, you get multipliers. Pretty much the easiest way to get them.

I put 2 Gold [thunderstorm and another (forget the name)] and then 3 silver on (for fun) while playing on heroic.