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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 4/18/08

I am flatterd that you botherd to look at my signature.

I have question about the list of things not to do to get recon...when it say compliment my figure...does that mean being a suck up???sorry Im just a little confused

  • 04.23.2008 11:45 PM PDT
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Here's something I don't get. I was curious about MLG so I looked up their rules. One of their rules is as follows:

Illegal Controllers

1. Any controller with Turbo or wireless capabilities.

Umm...aren't ALL Xbox360 controllers wireless? Sure some sell with a wired LOOK, but that is just for electricity. They all connect to the console wirelessly for the purposes of input. Perhaps the interpretation of the rule is that you have to have a controller that is wired for power.

For some reason, I feel I'll get heat for a dumb question, but it will remain as written.

  • 04.24.2008 8:24 AM PDT
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I think AVALANCE Was the best map.

OWN N' PWN Bungie!

  • 04.24.2008 9:04 AM PDT
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It's sick what some people have tried to get Recon... What must people that have actually had family members killed think?

  • 04.24.2008 10:06 AM PDT
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Vos

who cares about recon? SECURITY HELMETS FOR PRESIDENT!!!



they'd be better then your country's current one...

  • 04.24.2008 1:33 PM PDT
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It's inappropriate to fight someone else's battle, when yours is not going well.

Aww, complementing your figure doesn't get you Reconz? You're looking much thinner, too.

But seriously, sometimes the things people do are despicable. Faking a story that just to get a cool-looking armor in a game? Hate to break it to you guys, but all it is, is just code, animations, graphics, models, and whatever goes into those lovely suits of armor.

Face it. It may be awesome now, but just watch: It'll be totally worthless and useless in ten years.

Glad to see there's at least some control in what does out and what doesn't.


P.S. Where did you get your inspiration for your armor? Looks so effing cool.

  • 04.24.2008 3:03 PM PDT
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I think someone finally wanted to end the "Will asking for Recon armor really NOT work" debate..... debate ended.... don't ask.... heck, i'm a little nervous for asking for a new update.... they may come to my house and beat me about the head and neck..... dang......

  • 04.24.2008 3:50 PM PDT

If one man can make a difference, his team can change the world. --John A51--

that invisible wraith bug happened to me but 2 people on my team could see it. we did get it blown up after a bit (some one ran behind it and say the "board" option ) but we were soo far behind it didn't matter

  • 04.24.2008 4:36 PM PDT

If one man can make a difference, his team can change the world. --John A51--

agreed, he sucks.

  • 04.24.2008 4:38 PM PDT

I am not my brother's profile The Elites yell my name in FEAR

Reacon is cool but u have to earn it

  • 04.24.2008 5:09 PM PDT

know what woula been a great april fools joke???

if bungie had unlock recon for EVERYONE making us think Recon was available then at 12:01 april second - down the servers... at take recon away.

SOOOOOO SICK!

  • 04.24.2008 7:18 PM PDT

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Final Boss is sick...


No, No Str8 Rippin is the best. ive been rootin for em ever since they began.


Score board

  • 04.24.2008 7:36 PM PDT
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Okay, the main reason i have sympathy for the people who ask is for Recon that videos do not get sent around the whole community..... atleast MINE don't >.<.... if you would be so kind to watch some maybe tell some one i would appritiate i have some good stuff like.....
An Amazing Snipe
and
Popping Master Chief
I know the second one is in forge and it is a suicide but what happens during it is where i got it's name!! Enjoy and please watch them!! Thank You.

  • 04.25.2008 2:25 PM PDT

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Sketch, I would like to compliment you on your attractive and manly physique.

When you walk by the full moon, the jealous creature pales, if only to deny others the sight of you. Yet your silhouette is still as breathtaking as any creature descended from the heavens. You radiant being, you dazzling archon of lore. you light the path for my soul.

  • 04.25.2008 3:40 PM PDT
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Hey mah lil bro was brutally r8pt and murdered in Darfur. CAN I AS RECONZ?????? plllzzzzzzzzz????

Yes, kids: only kewl kids make genocide jokes.

  • 04.25.2008 4:29 PM PDT
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Vos

great, so now all you recon wanters have to do is find something realy creative and original in Halo 3 that you can spread round every single forum and see if bungie notices it.

Also, is it just the helmet that you can get, or do you get the body armour and shoulder armour thrown in as a compliment?

  • 04.25.2008 4:47 PM PDT
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only that y want is to have the recon armour i have good images in my file share

  • 04.25.2008 6:31 PM PDT
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Shishka is funny :D (im also a retard dee dea de)

  • 04.26.2008 3:30 AM PDT

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Zombie Spartan, My list was not meant to show that I had earned recon, only that I had contributed to the community.

I acknowledge that recon is reserved for a higher level of contribution. I was merely responding to the folks who were saying that I didn't contribute. That's simply not true. If you say I didn't contribute enough for recon, as you have, that's fine. I never claimed that I did deserve recon. In fact, I never claimed that I even knew which armor was recon. Nor that I cared about the armor selection at all. I believe I've spent a total of 5 minutes in the armor selection screen in all my time in Halo 3.

Also, you may not have been in the NPC Line Contest, or any of the others. But several members of Bungie and/or MS were. It was a fun contest. It did contribute.

My list, if anything, should have been encouraging to others that it wasn't them who were being excluded from recon. But rather that it just isn't so easy to get recon.

What can I say. I do not want recon. But...

If I had to say who is right: 14 year old kids who want a helmet in their favorite video game or 30 year old men who won't give it to them and write weekly articles bragging about it, I think I have to go with the kids.



Am I alone in thinking it weird that so many people want a funny helmet variant that you can't even see when you are playing the game, because you are looking out through it?

Sure, you can film yourself and look at your exploits from many dramatic angles in Theatre, you may even create montages of your "madskillz" and upload them to YouTube where they will most likely be ignored by a community who regard your self-promotion as narcissism.

I suppose you might wear Recon to impress others on your team, or 'strike fear into the hearts of your enemy' - but that is kind of a false inference as it has already been shown that people have got the armor variant for silly exploits, like committing suicide with a traffic cone, which is (let's face it) hardly something that points to you being a "dangerous guy to know..."

Actually, Bungie have messed-up this whole Recon armor thing. For what they award it for, they should have made it a discretionary achievement, or an extremely rare medal-thing that you only get to add o your service record if they remotely unlock it. Obviously, there are going to be weird circumstances arising from the gameplay and the Havoc physics system that amuse Bungie and are not strictly rewarded by the rank/experience system that exists. They anticipated situations like 'Skyjacker' and that thing where you just racked-up kills with the Brute Spike Grenade (because there was someone working at Bungie who was poor with weapons, but uncannily good with 'Spikes'... hence the provision for the award), but there will be super-unusual situations that they may not have thought would even arise, hence review of films of such 'achievements' by Bungie and their award of Recon...

For example, I have a friend (and this is not a pitch for Recon, as I don't want it, and he hasn't asked for it either... just an example of what I mean, ok?) who sent me a film of a Warthog on Sandtrap doing a wheelie for a good three seconds.

I have to admit, it did look cool.

I wasn't so much impressed with what was a random event in a matchmaking game, but that the Havoc physics engine supported this behavior. I thought it was a pity you couldn't get a badge for that. Well, maybe you can, I don't know, but I assumed not.

My (flawed) point is that one can imagine or know of some game event not covered by an award or achievement and Bungie should have created a badge for 'extra-ordinary whatever' and used the film-review system to award it on a case by case basis.

The Recon helmet business is the wrong approach, it just seems to be divisive and it is rather paradoxical that Bungie maintain that you have the best chances of getting it if you help the Halo community. How can something that stirs up and splits the community, creates abuse and pestering for those that wear it, be good for the community or an appropriate reward for actions by individuals deemed by Bungie to be good for the community?

  • 04.26.2008 6:47 AM PDT
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Well its a good thing you guys remembered that message he sent months before. Its a a bit messed up lying about death for recon. Actually more than a bit, its really messed up.

  • 04.26.2008 10:30 AM PDT
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like i think i have a good picture that the bungie ppl will rlly enjoy but how do they see it???


I LOVE halo 3
thanks to who to the team who made it <3

  • 04.26.2008 4:58 PM PDT

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Eh I've never seen someone on matchmaking with RECON and probably never will :[ I'm happy with rogue and the helmets i can unlock. i would be happy if bungie could make a "RECON" for the Elites. I wish i could think of a way to get RECON but unfortunately I never will. Like most of the Halo 3 players who are reading this. I'll just think of a good idea hopefully. Happy Hunting!!

  • 04.26.2008 6:38 PM PDT
Subject: I figured out an idea to get RECON and help Bungie prosper.

Ne1 KaNbL0 M3



I would be amazed if Bungie could make 13 more separate campaigns. I say 13 because you can already play campaign as Master Chief, Spartan 117. Or the Arbiter,(in multi-player). Still you could be wondering what has 13 have to due with anything. Alright, so we all know you can unlock 8 different Spartan Helmets, Bodies, and lastly Shoulders. Although, you do not unlock C.Q.B., you obtain it on default. Possibly instead of just pushing your way through the levels of campaign using the original (not "attractive")armor. You think: 'I wish I could wear the armor I unlocked. Shouldn't I be able to? Since i spent so much time on it?!' I say you should be able to since you did rightfully obtain it. Now, you can put your armor on. You scroll through and put on E.V.A.. Out of curiosity, you read the descriptions on E.V.A Permutations. "The Mjolnir/V variant was developed and tested at UNSC facilities in Lister, Aigburth on Ganymede, integrating feedback gathered from the Summa Deep Space incident" Now you're wondering what the "Deep Space incident"was. Now instead of wondering, you can play it and find out. Although the [b] NEW [/i] campaign levels to explain what really happened to create a new permutation would not be as long as wished, they will shed light on the events in Halo's history and beyond. I myself have no recollection on how even the most common helmets and body permutations were put into service but possibly, bungie may. I would love to relive and actually play the scene where Spartan 117 encounters the very first Elite in with Sam and Kelly. I believe Sam had E.V.A and so did John. That could possibly be part of a future level in the Halo trilogy. Bungie could order the levels of explanation into one entire campaign or players could discover the truth about a certain armor instead of playing all the way through. I really hope the Bungie staff will read this and it will be passed through because I am convinced that Millions of players are suspicious of the permutation "HAYBUSA" The trilogy will continue with this add-on. It would be an excellent chance to try BETA play some more and to test the new version to see if it is worthwhile. THANKS FOR READING and Happy Hunting.

Tell me if I have any obvious mistakes. Thanks!

  • 04.26.2008 7:48 PM PDT