My Halo 3

The beginning of every new month brings about some changed in Halo 3. Sometimes it’s big, and sometimes it isn’t. Then again most of the time, the size of the change is all dependent on the individual.

Either way, here are some of the changes you can expect to see in the month of November for matchmaking.

General Matchmaking – Instances of September update maps (Boundless, Pit Stop, Sand Tarp and Epilogue) and their default counterparts are shuffled around and removed in some instances to remove some of the redundancies.

Social -Social Slayer – Team Snipers and Team Shotty Snipers removed.

Ranked

Team Slayer – Team Snipers and Team Shotty Snipers removed.

Team Objective – Weighting for Multi Flag BR’s increased.

Team Doubles – Anvil removed. The Pit replaced by Pit Stop in all variants.

Squad Battle – Weighting on Heavy Sandtrap and Heavy Valhalla slightly reduced. Heavy Standoff removed.

DLC

DLC FFA – Haunted Manor replaced with Infected Manor.

Hardcore

Added Team Snipers – Ranked 4v4 playlist. Sniper Rifle spawns (no secondary weapons) on maps forged with Beam Rifles. Shotty Snipers present with a lower weighting.

Double EXP Weekends (Listed in order)

Team Flag (Formerly known as 4th of July)

Grifball

Legendary Brawl

Turkey Day*

7 on the 7th

November’s 7 on the 7th will feature FFA gametypes on Blackout.

*Turkey Day

Four days of tenuously Thanksgiving-themed FFA gametypes for 9 players

Wishbone Brawl: Score points by beating down other players with the oddball. 10 points to win.

Black Friday: More slugs than hugs. Players spawn with Plasma Pistols and score points by beating down or assassinating other players. 25 points to win.

Turkey Carvers: Those turkeys won’t slice themselves. Team Swords, point leader moves slowly (‘cause he ate too much). 25 points to win.

Turkey Fiesta: It’s a party! Random primary and secondary weapons. Point leader is fat and slow, but we still love him. 25 points to win.

Tryptophan: The day the turkeys… Returned. Infection. Turkeys move quickly. Last Pilgrim Standing can run pretty fast. Most kills after 4 rounds wins.

Tags: DLC, halo 3, hardcore, matchmaking, November, objectives, Team battles

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We’ve all downloaded the Title Updated 2 and have had time to put it through the paces. There were a couple of additions, but nothing as big as the achievement list update. Here is the list of added achievements in case you missed it:

Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch (0 points) – Get to the rank of Lieutenant in any playlist in the new EXP progression system.

Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month.

Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts.

Double Double (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get two Double Kills during any ranked or social match.

Poor Yorick (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 Oddball melee kills during any ranked or social match.

Came…From…Behind (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 assassinations during any ranked or social match.

Defend This (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a flag melee kill during any ranked or social match.

Flag Dropped (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 2 flag carrier kills during any ranked or social match.

Road Rage (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 5 Warthog chaingun kills during any ranked or social match.

Look Both Ways (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a Splatter Spree during any ranked or social match.

Tags: achievements, downloads, halo 3, new, patch, title update, update

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You’ll find this game type on Social Team slayer. Team Rockets is quite honestly my favorite game type. And thats pretty much because it’s the one that I win on all the time. And hopefully, I’ll be able to share most of my winning strategy here, so the next time your on Xbox Live with your friends you can come top of your team every time!

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Tags: medals, narrows, rockets, social team slayer, team rockets

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Like most people, I was pretty curious to know the definite list of what maps and game types were served by Bungie for the different playlists. We all know now that they don’t give us ‘Hammerzeit’ on Big Team Battles, or ‘Team Hammmers’ on Social Slayer.

So, after many hours of testing by me and my housemates, and plenty of checking of other peoples gamertags (last games played and what they played) I’ve come up with this list. Please feel free to point out any corrections in the comments.

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