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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08
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Haha. Smuggler, another way to hook fans.......but it works though.....must learn more...

  • 05.30.2008 10:02 PM PDT
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Smuggler... seems to be a bit much just to anounce a new MP map. My moneys on a new Campain Mission. Mabe the planet the Chief landed on at the end of Halo 3? Who knows... But the guy with the link to Halo-pedia might be on to something.

  • 05.30.2008 10:10 PM PDT
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im new to halo online. i am just starting to get to know the bungie website as well. i have a question and wonder if someone could answer this for me. i got a few messages from people i dont know, it said that if i send enough of this screen shot to all friends and recent players for 2 and 1/2 weeks i will get recon. first of all is this true or just some sort of spam? second what is recon is it an armor? please reply my email if that is easier is blindblaze@hotmail.com

  • 05.30.2008 10:15 PM PDT
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  • 05.30.2008 10:16 PM PDT

So if you don't get recon for those reasons, how do you get recon?

  • 05.30.2008 10:19 PM PDT
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Hey, I liked the new Indy film (although, then again, I loved the story in Halo 2, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about).
Is Backwash coming back? 2401 Penitent Tangent was the monitor featured on that MP map from Halo 2. I hope so, because it was underutilized in Matchmaking, thanks to some people taking advantage of some glitches on it, or something.

  • 05.30.2008 10:19 PM PDT
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All Your Base Are Belong To Me...

Posted by: tahbig L
Campaign Expansion


Nope. Never gonna' happen (Period)

  • 05.30.2008 10:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: GeraldTheShoe
Posted by: tahbig L
Campaign Expansion


Nope. Never gonna' happen (Period)


Why not?

  • 05.30.2008 10:25 PM PDT

So if I'm right:
-Moonbase Alpha = Human
-Purple Reign = Covie
-Smuggler = Forerunner

  • 05.30.2008 11:06 PM PDT

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Future generations will benefit from the work begun here today.
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Posted by: Tsuchikage
Is Backwash coming back? 2401 Penitent Tangent was the monitor featured on that MP map from Halo 2. I hope so, because it was underutilized in Matchmaking, thanks to some people taking advantage of some glitches on it, or something.


Backwash, eh?
While I don't know that this is necessarily a suggestion for a new map we're looking at in this update, the look and feel of that map seem to eerily match the "Smuggler's" tone.
The whole thing almost reeks of Backwash now that I think about it.(no pun intended, if it might be taken) Almost as if the scene observed in Backwash took place at almost the same time as the Smuggler events.
Perhaps somewhere within the approx 286.79589 years between the final report of Containment Failure and the report of a Security Breach?
Ah, but I'm speculating wildly. I must say I like your line of thinking.
Then again, given the relatively low amount of info at this point isn't everyone?

An extension to H3 campaign?
I would think it highly unlikely. Firstly, because if it's too much for Bungie to add armor perm. DLC, I highly doubt they'd add an entire polished shiny new campaign scenario for one game.
Just too much data probably.
If I had to guess, I'd say it may be sequel related if anything but expansion to the storyline outside of the game.
But then again, it's not completely impossible....is it?(an addition)
Get ready to dust off your seven times tables?

  • 05.30.2008 11:19 PM PDT
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Well....Last week..Luke did say that Smuggler was the third new map coming with Purple Reign and Moon Base Alpha...But this is just ridiculous....

I have a feeling we are getting a taste of Bungie's next game and the map Smuggler is the key.

PLEASE BUNGIE! REVEAL you next Halo-esqe successful FPS in E3 this year! Please!

  • 05.30.2008 11:33 PM PDT
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Cool update,I didn't read the whole meet the team part,but welcome,Alex P.!

  • 05.30.2008 11:34 PM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/socialinfection/Group/GroupHome .aspx

A wild Group appeared! You used Join! It's Super Effective!

what is delta halo's monitor doing at the bottom of the news?
is this going to be like with adjutant reflex?
if so i think there will be another game in the halo universe...
yay!
nope.
aww.
i got loled.

  • 05.30.2008 11:36 PM PDT

Worst update I've ever read.... booooorrrrriiiinnnnggggg. *head smacks keyboard* zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • 05.31.2008 12:16 AM PDT

cool update!

  • 05.31.2008 12:55 AM PDT

Halo never gets old.

At first, like I'm sure a lot of other people did, I thought that Smuggler was some more cannon in the Halo universe. Then I realized that, it is in fact, nothing that should be drawing so much talk.

Smuggler is another map, with a forerunner/?flood? theme. That entry was about the map's background/history.

  • 05.31.2008 1:04 AM PDT
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Ok here is what I took from it after some background checks:

LF.Xx.3723 is the codename for the Flood Cell type
Delta site is Installation 5 (from Halo 2)
2401 Penitent Tangent is the AI (Oracle) of Installation 5

However, here's the catch:
Based on records found in the Halo 3 terminals, the flood broke free from containment on Installation 5 in the year 2273
Halo 3 took place in the year 2552
The time reported in the log is roughtly 286.79 years

Therefore, the containment log reported another breach in the year 2559.79, roughly 7 years after the Arc was destroyed.

This leaves open one of two possibilities:
1.) The Smuggler (codename for the new Halo 3 Map) is simply just a map based on Installation 5 in a flood-ruined Forerunner structure or on a bigger stretch...

2.) The foundation for the next game. The Halo installations remaining after the destruction of the Arc lay completely barren and forgotten. When Halo 2 ended, Installation 5 was overrun with the Flood, but it was believed that with the death of the Gravemind in Halo 3, the Sentinels on Installation 5 would then be able to take care of the contamination. However, this was never addressed. Maybe the Flood were forced back into containment, until someone else came and released them again. This would also fit the whole "It could be a while before anyone finds us, years even" quote by Cortana in the closing scene of Halo 3, and it does fit the magic "7" number Bungie loves so much. The planet in the end looks like it is Forerunner, possibly Onyx, and now the flood could be back again, 7 years in the future, trying to save themselves from the remaining 6 rings that could possibly still be individually activated, and therefore look towards Onyx for shelter.

  • 05.31.2008 1:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: Cracula420
im new to halo online. i am just starting to get to know the bungie website as well. i have a question and wonder if someone could answer this for me. i got a few messages from people i dont know, it said that if i send enough of this screen shot to all friends and recent players for 2 and 1/2 weeks i will get recon. first of all is this true or just some sort of spam? second what is recon is it an armor? please reply my email if that is easier is [censored]
Whoa, dude. Firstly, don't give your email out in public - people spam it all the time.
No, it's fake. I've got those messages too. Don't buy it.
Yes, Recon is an armor. It looks like this.

  • 05.31.2008 1:56 AM PDT

"I aim to misbehave" - Captain Malcom Reynolds.

lots of really cool stuff this week, Bungie :)
Although I'd still really love there to be the option of placing the Elephant on Avalance, I think that would be cool, after all it is a vehicle map :)

  • 05.31.2008 2:47 AM PDT

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That bit about the containment breach on Installation 05 at the end caught me completely off guard.

I always like it when Bungie just throws something like that in there. :)

What we can gather, it seems, is that the gravemind was active for over 250 years before we ever got there. But who let them out?

  • 05.31.2008 3:09 AM PDT

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An off-world humanoid has smuggled in Ja Ja Binks from his filthy planetworld to the Earth port New Mombasa. Soldiers are armed and ready to shoot its voice box before further disturbances are made.

  • 05.31.2008 3:31 AM PDT

Owners of the Katana: A place for those who have a Katana or over 1000GS in Halo 3.

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Somewhere out there... in an alternate reality... Marty decided to stay in the ad jingle business, bringing about an age of amazingly orchestrated Pampers commercials.

Oh, that "Smuggler" part is just sneakily talking about a new map. Nevermind.
Posted by: AdumD
First.

lol :P

[Edited on 05.31.2008 4:06 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 4:04 AM PDT
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I though Bungie had detached itself from Microsoft, yet now you want us to install Silverlight.

What was wrong with Flash, the software that everyone else uses? Getting us to install Silverlight will only fuel Microsofts fantasy that it can control everything.

Or did a large amount of money mysteriously change hands when Silverlight was decided upon?

I'm slowly losing faith in you, Bungie, and this doesn't help your case one bit.

  • 05.31.2008 4:46 AM PDT

I Hate Randoms , I Hate Team Splits.

im glad bungie will try to communcaite these changes more, would of stoped a lot of problems. also if it was "just" .4 percent why even change it and cause a problem? was it that needed? if it was such a small percentage leave it alone.

[Edited on 05.31.2008 5:16 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 5:15 AM PDT