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He would if he could, but he can not connect to the servers.

I play Snipes and Squad in Reach as well. BTB and Living Dead are not my thing. In Halo 3 it's Doubles, Slayer and Social Slayer if I am with friends. Sometimes the occasional Skirmish if the population is there. Maybe I will see you through the scope sometime! Enjoy the forums.

All you had to do was read Jester's play list update OP here.

From here on out when a member comes in here with this type of complaint there is a geed chance they are having what Twin referred to as a wrong value in an "IP Range" setting on the Live incoming and outgoing server. Please refer them to Twin tech thread and let these players know we will support them in there efforts to play on Reach or Halo 3 just as we do. What if this was happening to you?

When first reading some of the OP's in this forum about XBOX Live being unavailable to some people on occasion or for a period of time, I figured like many it was a connection issue related to signal strength, router set up or too many systems in a household online at one time. I recently was made aware that there appears to be a systemic issue for those players who have an IP address that begins with the prefix 101. This is a post in Twinreaper's Technology thread in the Reach forum posted by DBUK: Hi there everyone, but mainly, my friendly 343 representatives. Myself, and countless other people, as I am sure you are aware, are having problems connection to halo reach and halo 3 matchmaking games. For me, I havne't been able to connect since early November. Now, I have done some research and testing etc, and it turns out that the issue is with IP addresses starting with 101. (Australia and NZ) All we get when we go to play is: 'the halo reach server is unavailable at this time, please try again later.' I would like to know if/.when we can expect an update, or fix to this problem, as there are 1000's of people, like me, unable to play! This, stated DBUK, is only happening on the Reach and Halo 3 servers and on no other game platform on XBL. I have heard of this before second hand, but after chatting with him in our chat box and noting his positive demeanor, I think that we as a forum should rally behind our fellow players that have been left out of MM due to some "value in the IP range" as Twin suggested it might possibly be. What if it was you who could not play......wouldn't you want our support? I am asking all members to post here and show support, to contact XBOX Live and give them some "junk" on this matter. I will be PMing our senior staff for them to attempt any effort they can with their contacts. This post has been promoted to an article

You kids today! Ohhhh it touched the floor that's sooo icky! lol Man I used to eat hand fulls of dirt, ate all manner of insects, bark and leaves to survive in the service, have eaten year old Twinkies (probably the most dangerous thing I ever ate) and pizza that laid on the couch all night in college. C'mon, you think the Chief cares is it hit the floor and stayed there for more than five seconds and was sticky or wet? Shucks no! If he got hungry he would eat whatever it took to survive. 5 second rule......I'll s-n-a-t-c-h a hot dog back from an army of ants that stole my picnic food. And another thing, when I was 10 yrs old I.........................

Psssfffft! What would a girl know? lol! Good to see that you are jumping right into the trenches! AL is for ninnies, I agree, but the TU does offer some better flow to the game in my opinion. It was a response to players desires and seems to be well received. Just curious Ash, what game type do you play?

Hey Master......"Welcome to the friendliest, rootinest-tootinest forum this side of the galaxy!

I can remember when Sony used to run the market on gaming. The Play Stations first generation console was a nice system and I had endless hours with friends play Madden, NBA, Baseball, Gran Turismo and countless FRS's! I only came to the XBOX for Halo in the beginning and stayed because of there online match making system. I am very interested to see what Sony brings forward this time. I have had all of their systems and may buy the nest one as well.

Welcome to the forums Ashlynn. I read some where that you were concerned about not having a better member name. Seems fine to me, and besides, look at the one I have. Some members actually think I am a Dog and walk on all fours and eat from a bowl. Truth be known......I do, but that's besides the point, "Welcome to the forums Ash!".

- Eric Dodge

There is a more formal invite to the clan made by PH4ntom here in this forum. My apologies, but one clan invite is sufficient for now.

RC Plane control: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkagVnuaClo&feature=feedu

I understand Insane. I am a team player, always have been. I have never been a big fan of Reach either and still have much more fun playing Halo 3 MM over Reach's. I believe, as you do, that Halo can get back to the roots of what made the game so good, so fun and truly competitive. The reason you see many topics about AA's, Reach weapons, etc. is because there has been no information offered to the community that sheds any light on what Halo 4 will be like. There are only some vague references to the engine, getting back to what made Halo good and some talk about John's character development. 343i. feels they have there reasons for not releasing any information which only leads to more speculation by the community. Time will tell whether we will end up with something that can provide hour upon hour of quality campaign play and a MM that allows for the competitive to compete away from the social player in some type of ranked environment. By the way, nice member pic! lol

It is even worse in Snipers. Granted it i the best map offered for long range sniping, but we could use some fresh ones from the forge map offerings.

I have been hearing of some isolated occurrences here and there. I have no answer, but do honestly sympathize with your pain on that issue. I wish I could push a button and fix the problem for you.

I agree with you Insane. It would appear that Frank O'Conner does too. He has clearly stated the will be a return to that old Halo feel. The game play will be advanced as you could imagine. They are also going to delve deeper into the Master Chief's mind, so to speak. John 117 will have more of his inner self revealed in the campaign and it appears Cortana will begin to show the effects of her longer than expected life span. If you have not seen this 30 minute interview yet with Kiki Wolfkill, Halo 4 Executive Producer, and Josh Holmes, 343 Studio Creative Director, it is definitely worth the watch. Interview.

You know what PIG, I was all for you getting some attention in SWAT, especially in CEA's list. Then I see a comment like this. Fact is, according to your H3 record, you never excelled at H3. The only way you have been able to rank up, finally, is with a pure EXP system. The fact is I go back to H3 because I enjoy the game a lot more than Reach. If you were only in Reach to chase credits for some cheesy rank, maybe you should do as Jester suggested early in this thread and play for fun. Strike a "POSE" baby! lol

The FAIL is a member mocking someone coming here for some advice! Next time keep your smart comments to yourself.

Like grenades actually even hit you! lol

Vitamin you have no idea how much I really want some of the old guard back! Welcome back old friend.

Cool....Jester is in the mix! lol As I welcome you back to the trenches that I know you missed so much, I understand your intent for offering this post. The point still does remain that it was not part of the original experience of CE and Halo 2 online. The fan base was built on what we had at that time. There is no telling what would have happened to the game had the "Reach" attributes been part of the original experience. The REAL Halo experience is just as it has been for all those years. Any ways, Halo 4 is around the corner, a big long corner, and I know we are all chopping at the bit to play it. Party on 343i.!