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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Title Update 2 is nearly upon us. In preperation, Bungie has released their weekly update on a Thursday. It sounds like they’re aniticpating armageddon when TU2 goes live. Here’s some things they’re anticipating when TU2 goes live:

“Title Update 2 will download when you log in to Halo 3 on September 23rd. Smart alecky types guessed it would be either today (the 18th) or the 23rd as we make a habit of doing our updates on pretty particular days. If you poke around you’ll see that some stuff has changed here on Bungie.net, some of that stuff will flick on when TU2 turns on next week, and some of it is Live now. 

When TU2 goes live next week we fully expect a crazy period in Matchmaking. See, there will be a period after TU2 goes live where not everyone will have the Title Update for a number of weird reasons like: You left your box on and the TU came out so folks who turn their boxes on are getting the new patch and you’re playing the previous version of the game; Your Xbox doesn’t recognize a new patch (clear your boxes’ cache - Go to the System blade and select Memory. Press Y on the HD symbol and then press X, X, LB, RB, X, X. If you did this properly a message will appear saying: Do you want to perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage device. Selet the “yes” equivalent and then boot up Halo 3) or any number of other weird issues like the host has TU2 and the client doesn’t or the client has TU2 and the host is on TU1, it’s going to be a bit like the end of Ghostbusters, but we promise, that even though it seems like Matchmaking has fallen into the gaping maw of cement cracks - it will climb out. 

We expect all of these issues to resolve within four or five hours of TU2 going live. We will be watching it closely.”

Tags: Bungie, halo 3, live, matchmaking, news, title update 2

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