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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/12/07

So does that mean we can all stop talking about the Recon armour? Please?

  • 10.12.2007 7:27 PM PDT
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any, sort of release dates, or estimate times, that the new maps will be released?

  • 10.12.2007 7:27 PM PDT
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So no Recon huh? Well that sucks. But maybe Bungie will release it after a year of Halo 3 as somesort of an aniversity gift.

  • 10.12.2007 7:32 PM PDT
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Having recon helmets would be kool as well as flaming heads. Also Halo 3 is awesome. You guys over at Bungie, did an excellent job. Love the campaign. Graphics are amazing during gameplay as well as cut scenes. I loved how you threw in the river on sierra 117, felt like a Navy Seal. Secondly the scarab demolition graphics. Amazing, I loved throwing down a bubble shield right under it and being protected from the shockwave ( not so much the falling parts though ). Campaign scoring was fun too. Still working on it but I'll get there. Halo 3 set a very high record for other games to compare to. I think you have a long time for you to worry about a game being better then yours. I mean you sold like over like 2 or 3 million pre-orders! Wait till Christmas! I am so happy my Xbox 360 got to me right when Halo 3 came out. " Odd coincidence or more Bungie magic? Who could say." But all in all guys you did an amazing job.

  • 10.12.2007 7:40 PM PDT
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haha, i think i was that dude telling to turn down the "retardation" no offense man, but you do lame up with that flame upon thy head lol...

  • 10.12.2007 7:49 PM PDT

Awesome update. Now maybe we can get some unique threads in the Halo 3 forum. Way to keep the armor set cool, even though Hayabusa didn't work out the way you had hoped. Hopefully someday I'll get a chance to take on one of the guys responsible for years of entertainment in a flaming recon helmet.

  • 10.12.2007 7:53 PM PDT

I was hopefull for that helmet *cries* maybe there will be more armor permutations in an update or in some new dlc.

  • 10.12.2007 7:55 PM PDT

Would you kindly?

Haha, I remember reading a tiny segment of that 1000+ post topic about getting recon helmet. I bet those guys are pissed for wasting their time. :)

  • 10.12.2007 8:00 PM PDT

tbh thats funny as hell about the nba guy. you should read his blog, he has like a 300 word story about "how hes a beast and exp boosting isnt wrong"

lol its funny hes like freaking out and -Blam!- giving away free jerseys to let him when. <- thats cheating.

Also, he says he ranked in the top 30. yep didnt find him on the link he posted saying you hes rank in the world.

He's a 42, I'm a 40. Im a captain, Hes a 3Star+grade 2. ive won 128 games legitly by myself and/or group. hes won like 500 in double team social. its pathatic.

and for some reason he brought final boss into his blog bc he sponsers them.

  • 10.12.2007 8:05 PM PDT
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Hey bungie I have another good idea for you guys to scam us!
Why don't you say that the end of the campaign wasn't really the end and that the only way we can get the true ending is by paying you $20 for the last level.

  • 10.12.2007 8:18 PM PDT

so bungie is going comando now nice
i would suggest going comando on sandtrap though
cause there are someplaces you just don't want sand

  • 10.12.2007 8:19 PM PDT

Posted by: XxDerf0293xX
Well bungie call me an annoying fan or call me a dedicated player, call me what you like, but I would like to say this.
I think that its fine that you use your own custom armor, i think its fine that you can use a flame on your helmet or whatever you want for that matter, but for the love of god you could have put it in a nicer way then "The short answer to those inquiries is, “No, you can’t have it.” The people you see with the Recon helmet are Bungie employees, and they did nothing in-game to unlock it. There is nothing you can do to unlock it." I found this extremely rude and really made my view of bungie as a good company that is for the fans change, I'm sure that in 1991 when Jason Jones and Alex Seropian created bungie they had no intention on EVER being so rude to fans you can keep your armor, your flaming heads and whatever else you have for you employees, but you have to expect with a fan base over 20,000 people that people are going to whine and you brought it upon yourself so you have absolutely no right to be so rude.

I may be just one annoying fan that doesn't really matter, feel free to ignore me as well as all your other fans and just see what happens to you company, remember though its the customer that makes the company, not the other way around.


I also found the manner and way lukems handed this post to be rude, offensive, unprofessional and disrespectful. I understand many bungie personal might be frustraited by some of the rants of the halo gaming community, but this was uncalled for and no way to represent yourself as a company with such a large following of believers whose hard earned cash are what keep you in buisness.

  • 10.12.2007 8:24 PM PDT

-KOS-

Good update.

  • 10.12.2007 8:43 PM PDT
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Finally it's over. I was so God damn sick of seeing all those topics about Recon. Who cares if they made a Bungie only armor. They are more then welcome to do so, it's their game. Be grateful they didn't make it look so stupidly badass that your head exploded from looking at it. I for one couldn't care that we don't get it, ODST is the clear winner anyway, much more badass then Recon :D.

Well done Bungie for laying the rumor to rest.

  • 10.12.2007 8:50 PM PDT

the wafflenator

you i have 800+ achievement score on Halo3 but security shoulder keeps glitching on and off and now t doesn't even work
any explanation

  • 10.12.2007 8:56 PM PDT
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Well, I hope you idiots know you just pissed off like half of the community, that have been loosing sleep over the armor. Garbage a55 update you FAIL!

  • 10.12.2007 8:58 PM PDT

The only thing that could make this better would be if the Spartan on the front page were wearing the Recon armor instead. Great update, as usual.

  • 10.12.2007 9:04 PM PDT
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mega fail =( no wahhhhmbulance =( podcast > weekly update

  • 10.12.2007 9:05 PM PDT
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Exactly. His rant on the Recon F@g armour and the flaming heads (for flaming-homose><ual Bungie employees!) to be extremely rude and condescending. Drill this into your heads, you MORONS at Bungie: We're the reason for your paychecks. Smarten the hell up and quit thinking you're better than any of us. Even the worst whiner here is PROBABLY a better human being than you pieces of trash at Bungie.

This will be the last Bungie game I purchase - not only because I think any non-Halo game you've made us utter trash, but also because of rants like this one. Bungie employees have a sickening superiority complex.

The Recon armour doesn't even look cool, so this hardly matters to me regardless. The nest time I see a flaming head, or a Recon-wearer, I'll be sure to tell them how much the company they work for sucks balls.


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Please get bombed in a terrorist attack.

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  • 10.12.2007 9:10 PM PDT
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When will we get the direct answers from our questions on the big "Q & A" a couple of weeks ago? And BTW, despite any and all complaints about y'alls game, rest assured it's still the best one out there, hands down!
Posted by: lukems
A few tidbits regarding famous Ballers and armor permutations as we head into the weekend.

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  • 10.12.2007 9:17 PM PDT

good update.

  • 10.12.2007 9:33 PM PDT
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Guns don't kill people, physics kills people!
They're not gey, they're Hobbits!
Moo...

Wow, okay. So, apparently, every week, an update comes out, a bunch of people read it, and then they spend the weekend endlessly flaming it until it's old news. That's just weak.

Anyway, I was happy to see many things addressed in this week's update, especially since the matchmaking update already took place in the middle of the week. I do agree with lukems that players exploiting the system to boost their rank is a problem. There are people who play for fun on Halo 3, and then there are people who play for competition with others. Now, who's to say if these people are really "strutting their stuff" if their rank icon is really just a fake because they set their controllers down and walked away for 12 hours, just letting their own game get them an extra 50 EXP? How's that fair to the rest of us who work on getting those 50 wins?

On another note, I'd like to talk about maps for a minute. Yes, everyone complains that Bungie makes us pay "so much money" for Halo 3 (an excellent game), and then only includes 10 multi-player maps. First off, most other FPS games don't even have 10 maps. Secondly, they're already hard in the works of making more maps so that we can quickly get more maps to play. Also, with the Forge feature, Bungie's hoping that players will begin to develop their own maps (much like with CS, Portal, etc.) which they may be able to tweak and then incorporate into the game so to release more maps faster. And who says they're going to charge an arm and a leg for it? In Halo 2, all the map packs were free unless you chose to play them right away. After a certain amount of time, they became free and were programmed right into matchmaking itself. These maps might even skip the "paying" part, who knows?

Back to my original point: Lukems talks about the maps that are currently being developed in this update. Of what I'm afraid, however, is that he talks about one of these maps being really big. Now, if anyone here, especially lukems, himself, has been on the Optimatch forums lately, all you ever hear is how the maps are just too big and how we need smaller maps. My question to Bungie is: are you also creating some smaller, close-combat maps along with these huge maps of yours?

Thanks!
~Tym

  • 10.12.2007 9:35 PM PDT
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Nice update guys but no info on the bigteam battle matchmaking problems?People shouldnt be allowed to have more than 8 people in their party for bigteam matchmaking.Some players ended up on my teams side and teamed up in a warthog and killed my teammates for the entire match of territories,We won anyway.Another game i had a party of just 6 friends and the matchmaking split us up and put 3 of my party members on the other team.Whats with this?

[Edited on 10.12.2007 9:47 PM PDT]

  • 10.12.2007 9:37 PM PDT
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Guns don't kill people, physics kills people!
They're not gey, they're Hobbits!
Moo...

Posted by: GrifterCJN
When will we get the direct answers from our questions on the big "Q & A" a couple of weeks ago? And BTW, despite any and all complaints about y'alls game, rest assured it's still the best one out there, hands down!
Posted by: lukems
A few tidbits regarding famous Ballers and armor permutations as we head into the weekend.

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Grifter:

The Q&A session turned into the 2007.10.05 weekly update (last Friday), in which most of the answers to questions can be found. The update can be found here: http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid= 12834

You're welcome.
~Tym

  • 10.12.2007 9:41 PM PDT