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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/12/07

bungie should make a special emblem, armor, color for beta testers that would be cool

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  • 10.12.2007 5:05 PM PDT
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ok i dont know if this has anything to with the topic but i just want to point out that the ranks on halo 3 are skrewed up. i won 4 games in a row (Team Slayer) and never ranked up (was a 33) but than loss one and went down and all half to say is WTF. Its a great game dont get wrong but you guys need to do an update on the ranks its a little (alot) off scale.

  • 10.12.2007 5:06 PM PDT
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oh man, isnt it enough that you guys get cool flaming helmets (no matter how much of a target they may make you its still sick) you have to take what is definately the coolest armour too?

  • 10.12.2007 5:06 PM PDT
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I wish that maps won't be just maps weren't the only DLC. I want to see more perms. Maybe not recon but other types like more elites and maybe that helmet those marines driving pelicans and hornets. they look cool. but I wonder how big is this so new map? I want to see like the the same size as sandtrap or bigger.

  • 10.12.2007 5:07 PM PDT
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Wow Tighclops...you a bungie employee or do you blow them for free?

My gamerscore is 930. I fail to see how I'm "doing it wrong" when the Security shoulders should be available at 750 or so GS.

Not to mention that they spent three years on 10 maps and are somehow putting the final touches on brand new maps barely a month after release seems a bit fishy to anyone with a working knowledge of time/space/reality. I'm ecstatic about the prospect of new maps. Not so happy that they're bleeding their fan base dry with add ons that they "mysteriously" had in development before the game was released.

  • 10.12.2007 5:08 PM PDT
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Well, I just can say " WHAT THE -blam!- ?" first we pay 60$ or like me 60€ (some people more) and cant get everything ? Bungie made 300 Million Dollars !
and the they keept the coolest "Armor Permutations" for them. I Just can say Halo 3 suxxx. You can still cheat like, Standbying, Bridgin and well in a Month maybe Modding. The Multiplayer sucks dicks and the story sucks too. Yeah the Master Chief suvives and the ? Open END WTF. Bungie you are retardes maybe bann me for this but this IS the Truth. We pay for the Game ! Maybe you made the Game but without US you wouldn´t have get money and then you´re laugthing in the Potcast over us because we like the Recon Helmet. And then Three Years 10 Maps that Sucks and a Bad Story with Bad ending sorry bungie but Halo 3 isn´t good at all. Well now i "have" to play because i paid for it. *sacastic* and btw. 750 Points for Bungie Poo is like 10 Dollars for a piece of Toiletpaper.

  • 10.12.2007 5:10 PM PDT

Posted by: Audon Tomn
After reading and re-reading your post. Carefully examining every point you made, I have come to the conclusion that you left out evidence to substantiate your claim. Congratulations, you are an idiot.

awesome, I'm actually glad we can't get the armour, it'll stop everyone wasting their time now.

3rd page pb!

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  • 10.12.2007 5:10 PM PDT

You might as well call Recon armor a Fancy Fedora, because that's all it is really.

origional creator of 0000000

OK, so I have to be given the armor by someone. Hence I must have LIVE. Hence I cannot get it. That's cool, at least It prevents me from searching for it :)

  • 10.12.2007 5:12 PM PDT
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"Let me summarize this update
1) Cheating is okay as long as it doesn't affect others"


The impression I got is that it's not worth doing anything about stupid people who want EXP that badly. This isn't like those button glitches in Halo 2 that gave players a distinct advantage over other, honest gamers. Ideally I'd still like to see losers like that banned on principal, but Bungie's got more important things to do.


Agreed

"2) We let you guys think the recon armor exists for 2 weeks just so we can laugh at you"

I never heard any indication that the recon armour was ever unlockable. Besides, Bungie is well within their rights to -blam!- with our puny little minds if they so wish. I don't mind, since my puny little mind is engulfed in the awesome that is Halo 3.
There was no indication, but nor was it said by lukems that it WASN'T, in fact, he came into the Recon hunting thread around page 100 or something and laughed at someone for lying about having beaten the game with all skulls on legendary ( this was a theory of ours) and yet he never said it wasn't unlockable, which (now) makes us all pissed

"3) We aren't talking about the custom games list because we don't care what you guys want"

Correction: Bungie doesn't care about what whiney little -blam!-es want. The Custom Games playlist was probably cut from the game due to technical reasons or time constraints. Such is the nature of the industry.

Correction to your correction: Achronos posted in one of the "We want a custom games search" a while back said that it wasn't put in because it would screw up matchmaking, that no one would use matchmaking and then their precious system would be favored over by Custom Games search, he even said it could be put in, but they just don't want to

"4) Security shoulders and other armor permutations aren't unlocking you say? We'll ignore that and just talk about some less prevalent glitches."

I think it's pretty clear that such things aren't unlocking because you're doing it wrong. If there were a glitch involved instead of simple human error, Bungie would have mentioned it.

Actually, this is a very well known error and has been addressed by fan sites and other sites

"5) We spent 3 years making a multiplayer game with only 10 maps, now we will get to charge you $10 more for something that should have been included with the game."

They spent a year making a game with an expansive single player on-top of the multiplayer aspect. Pro Tip: They charged for extra maps in Halo 2 as well. You have a 360. If you can't afford 10 dollars for those maps down the line, tough. It'll be easier to buy them this time around anyway, due to the Marketplace and the MS points system.

This doesn't justify only releasing the game with only 10 maps, they have disc space, (and it obviously wasn't used on the graphics, I like em, but it's DEFINATELY not Xbox's top) they can put some maps on it

Stop taking things you don't like personally, people. All of you who are AGAIN whining and complaining, leave. Get out. Put down your keyboards and your controls and go cry in your backyard or something. This is how you react? None of you deserve the singular consideration Bungie gives for it's fanbase.


We react because we spent 130 bucks for a game with false promises. Re-cut and re-mastered my ass, the scenes from H1 and H2 are WORSE than in the actual game itself. Limited edition? Something is not Limited if there's like 100,000,000 of them. They lied, and we're pissed

  • 10.12.2007 5:18 PM PDT

"Eyes from Death's dream kingdom appear as sunlight on a broken column. There, in Death's other kingdom, walking alone, trembling lips form prayers to broken stone."

well its nice to finnally know the truth about the recon. and to think i spent like 2 hours trying to get one scarab to kill another and to get the marine to committ suicide lol. oh well, perhaps there will be future purmutations in future updates and mabye then we can get the recon

  • 10.12.2007 5:18 PM PDT

So Bungie is saying that the entire game of Halo 3 is not able to be beaten unless you are a Bungie employee/VIP. That sucks, I was looking forward to totally beating every part of the best game ever made. I won't say anything cruel towards Bungie because I respect their decision to have recognition for their hard work. It was a fun hunt while it lasted and now theres nothing else to do but get 50 in all matchtypes. At least it's easier than trying to find the Recon Armor, right? Anyways thanks Bungie for a good update and a good laugh. Sorry about the IWHBYD Skull. No hard feelings. Keep up the good work. Have a great week. See you next time.

- Kyle
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  • 10.12.2007 5:22 PM PDT

"The debts of meat will live on in eternia." -lukems

cool. I played with a Recon today and I complained about the Terminals too. super coincidence!

edit: here he is

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  • 10.12.2007 5:34 PM PDT

Where is the update to let us know when proximity talk is going to be fixed?

  • 10.12.2007 5:37 PM PDT

hmmm...no recon armor....
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid= 12502
TripleTerror: Is there any possibility that beta testers will get a special gamerpic or a background on our name bar in the game, like bungie.net was in Halo 2. A few people including myself would really like to see this.
A: Anything is possible. There will certainly be benefits to players who sign up for a Bnet account and link their Gamertag.

no "benefits".....yet

and a benefit isnt adding that little icon in you gamertag...if it is that sucks

other than that the game is freaking amazing

running out of ideas of what the benfits (plural) could be

  • 10.12.2007 5:39 PM PDT
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wow a lot of you dudes cry about every little detail...its a game get over it that you can't run around with your head on fire and some armor that you can't unlock...whats the big deal. You can have thousands of different armor permutations by being ORIGINAL or be like me and most normal people and don't give a -blam!- and just play the game...seriously stop crying or go play monopoly.

  • 10.12.2007 5:39 PM PDT

"And I'll Form the Head!"
~Keith from Voltron

Is it the Recon helmet that is Bungie only or the whole shebang?

I got all the Metagame achievements and when I looked at my armor choices it let me have new shoulders options for a second(I think it was the recon but it was so quick I may be wrong) If I can't have em whatever I'm just wondering.

*EDIT*No it was the security shoulders that I should have gotten (for 750 gamerpoints) but they then relocked.

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  • 10.12.2007 5:40 PM PDT
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"Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative"

eh? last time i checked i didn't work for bungie... I have the recon helmet... Is there something "wrong" with my copy of the game then or what? :p

  • 10.12.2007 5:43 PM PDT

Don't bother PMing me about rating your screen shot.

Go ahead and ban me, I don't care.
This is what I have to say to you Lukems, about your taking out your anger over the Hayabusa on the wrong set of folks:

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I don't give a damn what anyone says, any sort of respect (used to be a lot) is now dimished. The least you -blam!-s could have done was let us know before we spent 4 days looking for it. Got to hell all of you, go ahead and ban me from the forums, because that was the only reason I was here. I'm not taking this out on the entire Bungie crew, but the -blam!-s that saw how hard people looked, and still said "I don't know", you can go shove a stick up your asses.


And before some Bungie admin comes in here to quell the uprising, because that's what the -blam!-s do when someone talks down to their company, I have this to say: I don't care about the armor. I use what I have and nothing else. I simply hate wasting time, and anyone who lets another person waste time is a -blam!- -blam!-. You guys probably just sat there laughing your asses off at the people of this thread trying to find out how to get it. You deserve any bad reputation you get from this.


just adding this in: If you really cared about your fans, you would have just told us we couldn't have it in a douche way, that wouldn't have made me half as mad as I am, but instead you made it sound like some kind of special hint, you're a jackass lukems. I used to think you were the coolest person at bungie too.

Ahh another thing I jsut thought of great for this post: those "literal thousands" of people who sent you questions about the armor, how do you think they think of you and Bungie now? I'm sure at least 80% of them don't even like this game anymore.

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  • 10.12.2007 5:44 PM PDT
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I'd rather have E.O.D armor or Hayabusa then a flaming head.

  • 10.12.2007 5:52 PM PDT

Posted by: Kagebutsu
Seriously who cares about the recon helmet, it looks like ass anyway.


Says the hayabusa -blam!-. Go back to your over used armor k?

  • 10.12.2007 5:52 PM PDT

I appreciate the answer on some of the issues reguard some questions and concerns about Unlockable armor pieces and what is required to unlock them, but having said that I was dissapointed the issue of the Elite Commando Shoulders was not addressed. I've unlock all 49 known achievements and have 1000 gamer score for this title, but my commando shoulders are still locked. I have read the forums and visited other websites searching for the answer on how to unlock them and each time the search ends in "it's bugged." For whatever reason these are not unlocking for people I would appreciate a responce from Bungie on this issue. Weither it be it's not bugged and nobody has discovered the true way to unlock them yet, or at least for bungie to confirm it is bugged and is a isssue Bungie will address A.S.A.P. We each payed hard earned cash for this title ( wich I love and thank Bungie for) and deserve to know if the product we have recieved in return is indeed bugged or not. I'm not asking Bungie to give any secrets away. Just please clear up some of the concerns on this issue.

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  • 10.12.2007 5:53 PM PDT

Yeah I'm a Lieutenant now and it said I was a Lieutenant on my service record on bungie.net but now for the past 2 days it says i am a Gunnery Sergeant grade 1 again on my service record on bungie.net for some reason.

What is the problem?

  • 10.12.2007 5:55 PM PDT
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I'm sorry to say this, but bungie is starting to turn into Sony with their attitude towards complaints about their game. bungie needs to stop acting so full of themselves and see that multiple glitches that is in their game. Like what they said about the hit detection with the sniper. It's there, I've seen penty of people on here conplain about it, yet they tell us to "sack it up". Wow, talk about a good business model. Why wait two weeks to tell us that the Recon armor is not unlockable? Even worse that you laugh at us in your podcast about that topic. So much for caring about your fans. Glitches on the armor and terminals cannot be blame on Human error 100% when you're dealing with computer systems. You're pretty much everyone who have these problem that they're idiots. Another example is the abstinence of a rank Big Team Battle. Instead, you have a unproven playlist of Team Tactical? You also have no Team SWAT, Snipers, or Hardcore. Can somebody explained the logic behind that move? To the fanboys who act like bungie can't do no wrong and that if we conplain about the game that we quit playing. We conplain because we actually care about the game. We want the bad things about the game to inprove, these are not just mindless rants 24/7. Halo 3 is not perfect, nor will it ever will be, but we can get it pretty damn close if we find the problems and fix them. This is why bungie has me pissed at them right now. To me and the rest of the community, it seems like bungie is not listening to us, and if you are, then you're not doing a very good job of it. Bungie, get off your throne and open you eyes and ears, don't let success blind you like it did Sony

  • 10.12.2007 6:01 PM PDT
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OK to all you whiners out there, Zip It! Bungie made the game, they can do whatever they like to it. The have complete control over everything that is and ever will be HALO. Do you go to GM or Ford and whine that they didn't make a car in your favourite colour? As for Recon and Flaming helmets, once again they made the game! They released it with the maps they wanted to and if they deliver more and charge for it then so be it. I'll gladly pay for it, after all this is a business and they are in it to make money. Do you get paid at your job? Thought so, once again, Zip It! If you don't like it, trade it in and go buy Barbie Horse Adventures.

Thank you Bungie for all the hard work and the entertaining product you have made available for me to purchase with money that I made at a job that I have because people pay for things that my company provides.

  • 10.12.2007 6:07 PM PDT