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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08

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Posted by: mchief111
My deciphering of the Smuggler bit:

2401 Penitent Tangent, at its last known location, was rampant, and in the clutches of the Gravemind. The destruction of Installation 04, as shown from 343 Guilty Spark's survival from Halo 1, would not be enough to destroy an important enough Forerunner artifact as a Monitor;
If you saw the after credits cutscene in Halo 3, Cortana said "Halo's firing did a number on the Ark". So while the large scale effect of a Halo is to kill sentient life, the firing probably affects all types of matter within the immediate vicinity. In the case of 2401 Penitent Tangent, it is probable that it's fate went along the same lines as Mendicant Bias. As Tangent wasn't as advanced as Bias, it didn't even take as long for Gravemind to convince it to join the Flood.Only Mendicant Bias could be convinced. If you read the last Terminal on Legendary, Mendicant said it's greatest weakness was its capacity to choose. The Monitors are non-sapient AI. Even in its imprisonment, Penitent Tangent was still trying to accomplish its task of firing a Halo (watch the Halo 2 cutscenes again).

  • 06.01.2008 5:23 PM PDT

"Oh you -blam!- camping whore!"
"It's a legitimate strategyyyyyyy!"

Wow my guess is you jumped onto the Halo bandwagon at Halo 3...

  • 06.01.2008 5:29 PM PDT
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Weird update?

  • 06.01.2008 7:34 PM PDT
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hmm
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  • 06.01.2008 8:11 PM PDT
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Exlent update, though with the smugler bit... Well heres my decryption of it.. it was talking about the infection of Delta Halo- and by that I mean when Delta Halo first became infected(whenever that was) and Pentinent was [apparently] quickly captured. and was unable to iniciate quarantine procedures.

  • 06.01.2008 8:34 PM PDT
Subject: NEED HELP

i need to know how to get on bungie favorites. I dont know if a lot of people have to rate your maps or just download it or even both, but what i need to know is if bungie already knows about the map once it is created. I need to know if bungie likes any of my maps or game variants so that i get on bungie favorites. I dont care if they give me recon or not, but i just want to get on bungie favorites. So PLEASE BUNGIE LOOK AT MY MAPS AND GAME VARIANTS AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK. PLEASE. PLEASE. I really want to be on bungie favorites.

My account on xboxlive is Bojohn141 and my bungie account is Bojohn141. So please send me a message back for any information. ANY INFORMATION PLEASE!!

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  • 06.01.2008 8:55 PM PDT

I was born in '90, male, and an avid gamer.

just a guess but the last paragraph might indicate a flood enviornment map (like the Cortana mission) in the upcoming Mythic Map Pack.

  • 06.02.2008 1:44 AM PDT
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Or that it's just Not over yet. Of course there's the faith of the Spartans but of course, rest assured there's living flood elsewhere. On Delta Halo, i it's sure then there's the possibility there were covenant ships docked with High Charity that were infected and sent on infection missions...

if you read the Halo 3 special booklet. They say the covenant Society Holds billions of units. We know that there were atleast 2 cities like High Charity and that the covenant still uses planets for the grunts and such...so if this is right, the Elite VS Covenant war has only begun with the demise of one of the million remaining prophets. None of course, as high as Truth Regret and Mercy but All prophets.

  • 06.02.2008 4:27 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08
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Nice update, good to hear about the BR, and as for Smuggler, well that's gonna be exciting! Found this on Penitent Tangent. Oh and Bojohn141, you really need to chill out, dude.

[Edited on 06.02.2008 6:43 AM PDT]

  • 06.02.2008 6:41 AM PDT
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I Think that favorites are fine, because if they made great material, they deserve to be on Favs. It's not that some other material isn't good, but that others are better.

-TNgo

  • 06.02.2008 9:01 AM PDT
Subject: Cool update

Hey, I was just wondering if we could get an explanation of why Bungie wanted to reduce the BR starts on just those maps and not other ones. Or, why Bungie decided to reduce the BR starts at all. Not that I'm gonna go all sepukuu cuz of 0.4%, I just wanted to know. And I appreciated the Penitent Tangent bit at the end.

  • 06.02.2008 11:56 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08

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Exalted is considered "the highest" because you can't get any bans or warnings of any kind for quite a long time, which is harder than just being a member for a long time.

Interesting last few sentences...

I wonder why they would bring back up Penitent Tangent so much later?

  • 06.02.2008 2:20 PM PDT
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Guys look closely, it was almost 287 years from the containment failure to the security breach.

  • 06.02.2008 8:17 PM PDT

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Man, just the slightest sugestion of an ARG and the hype machine building for a new game and people are allready chomping at the bit. I'll go ahead and say it, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to see if there is any more to come, or if it was simply for a new map. I can't wait to see what Bungie is cooking up.

  • 06.02.2008 8:19 PM PDT

if you haven't yet read ascendant justice's piece on shield worlds you absolutely need to. it's rivetting.

  • 06.02.2008 10:35 PM PDT

but make sure you've beaten halo 3 legendary first! solo if you have the cohones..

  • 06.02.2008 10:36 PM PDT

Does anyone even read these?

I'm a little late but great update, I can't wait to find out what Smuggler is.

  • 06.03.2008 3:15 AM PDT

Ooooo, you should put the RvB episodes in the media player as well.

  • 06.03.2008 5:47 AM PDT
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http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=32038377

Check this out - three headshots with the sniper in half of a second!

  • 06.03.2008 10:26 AM PDT

LET IT BE

REPORT: CONTAINMENT FAILURE
Still waiting for maintenance and security detail. [24 hours] elapsed since request.

REPORT: SECURITY BREACH
LF.Xx.3273 research and containment facility; [delta site] has experienced a security breach via emergency [slip stream space] transportation conduits. Emergency [slip stream space] transportation conduits have been placed in recursive mode to contain unauthorized hostile lifeforms. Request emergency security detail. Still waiting for primary maintenance and security detail. 2512332 hours, 14 minutes, 6 secondselapsed since initial request.


that 2,512,332 hours is equal to 290 years, 7 months, 14 minutes, 6 seconds, thats how much time has passed from last report of containment failure to the first report of security breach....im sure that this is important. if you subtract that from the date halo takes place you get 2262, THAT might be the date this takes place.

also, that "3273" number could be the year this happens, or the number of, say, a monitor...if its the year, take note that Halo takes place during 2552-53...i think. or it could just be the number of the facility this takes place at. its been a while since i was into all this back story stuff...

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  • 06.03.2008 1:12 PM PDT
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LF.Xx.3273 is the gravemind.

  • 06.03.2008 4:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Bojohn141
i need to know how to get on bungie favorites. I dont know if a lot of people have to rate your maps or just download it or even both, but what i need to know is if bungie already knows about the map once it is created. I need to know if bungie likes any of my maps or game variants so that i get on bungie favorites. I dont care if they give me recon or not, but i just want to get on bungie favorites. So PLEASE BUNGIE LOOK AT MY MAPS AND GAME VARIANTS AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK. PLEASE. PLEASE. I really want to be on bungie favorites.

My account on xboxlive is Bojohn141 and my bungie account is Bojohn141. So please send me a message back for any information. ANY INFORMATION PLEASE!!


How Bungie Favorites Works - (Lukems)


"There’s been an incredible, nigh, unfathomable amount of tears over the “same people being on Bungie Favorites” each week. So let’s rehash Internet-emo-cut-cut FAQ style what’s going on with Favorites:

Wat the hel1 Bungle, SAME PPL on Favorites AGAIN?

This is the second of Ascendant Justice’s two weeks on Favorites. Then, next week when Bungie Favorites changes again, it will be another group putting their content on Bungie Favorites. And they might put two weeks of Bungie Favorites together. Duuuude, whoa.

Why do u do this? This sux.

Bungie Favorites, in its current form, is tied directly to spotlighting various Community groups that exist either on Bungie.net or somewhere else on the Internet. In case it's not obvious, we're pretty into our Community.

OK, my group wants to be on Favorites, get me on so we can all get Recon!

Group selection wasn’t egalitarian. Months ago I asked for folks (in this very space) to send me a message with their email and a link to their group’s Web site and then I culled through those groups and chose a bunch of groups and sent them emails with the guidelines for submitting Favorites."


Btw, this is off of the very same update you just posted on. A hint of advice for the future:
-Read the updates before consulting them.

  • 06.03.2008 5:50 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08

"He's A Silent Guardian, A Watchfull Protector, A Dark Knight."

what is smuggler is it a new map.

  • 06.04.2008 1:40 PM PDT
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what was the update

  • 06.04.2008 5:05 PM PDT
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If you have good halo 3 videos or screenshots go here to enter them in a top 10 list. http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJkLWXTpvd8

  • 06.04.2008 9:27 PM PDT