A request to 343i

Games Other Halo
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I have made threads about this before, but this time I would like to make it clear I am not raging or hating on anybody, nor am I trying to be a troll or a spammer.

Since Bungie had excluded a practical cease-fire command in Halo 3 and kept it away from online play, machinimators like myself have wanted to convince Bungie to patch the game to allow players to ‘put the guns down’ over Xbox live. If anybody recalls the ‘Lower the Guns movement’, you will know who I mean.

Halo: Reach brought the hope of allowing this otherwise forbidden feature to prevail. It was made more practical, but at the same time it was still barred from Xbox Live. With more tools to make videos with, yet restricting access to fellow machinima ‘puppeteers’.

And then Halo 4- where we had been told that it would be allowed online, but then it was pulled from right beneath our fingertips.

I understand fear of exploits, I understand the difficulty of patching, but I feel that Halo, the very thing that machinima was springboarded (whether that is a word or not is beyond me) into popularity by, has been used as a bait and switch for machinima fans.

I am asking 343i to put up a patch to allow this, if nothing more than to disprove radical claims about the reasoning behind it, as Halo 2 had shown that the BXR was not even a guns down animation glitch (Which was actually able to be used in Halo:Reach with the DMR- myself being a victim to a melee then insta-headshot [not even a second after the melee when I was at full health and full shield (before being meleed).

If a BXR combo was possible regardless,there should be no reason NOT to allow ‘Guns Down’ over Xbox Live.

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Sorry for the double-post/bump, but I really don’t want this to be a drowned thread.

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Why would you put down on your gun in multiplayer game, where your main duty is to make your enemy watch the respawn screen?

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> Why would you put down on your gun in multiplayer game, where your main duty is to make your enemy watch the respawn screen?

Sure, it has no practical use in multiplayer matchmaking, but for machinima (as in, making a movie), putting the guns down is a way to make the soldiers look less aggressive, especially in a out-of-combat situation.

I am aware Rooster Teeth does it all the time, but they are all in the same building and record on local lobbies. Plenty of machinimators (such as myself) don’t have multiple xboxs and controllers to make movies with.

That is why I try to turn to the LIVE community, where I can get help much more easily.