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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08

"Fate had us meet as fools; but this ring will make us brothers."

There will be no new campaign downloads. Mark my words! The story is finished in Halo 3

  • 05.31.2008 6:08 AM PDT

No I don't want to join your group/clan/cult.

Smuggler sounds like Isolation. But good.

  • 05.31.2008 6:10 AM PDT

"Fate had us meet as fools; but this ring will make us brothers."

He is correct... I meant 290 years - not days... I suck

  • 05.31.2008 6:12 AM PDT

What's a HumBoy?

I think that smuggler is a city or facility over run by flood, and will have a good bit of openable/closeable doors because it says that it locked down security features and the likes.

  • 05.31.2008 6:33 AM PDT
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Well Enough Alone...

~"The people who play Bungie games tend to sense that there's something behind the games that's attractive to them. Then they become fans of the games. And then they become rabid fans. And then they become employees of Bungie."(Life story) -Marty

sooo...flood escaped on delta halo because of a space rift (like those ships create when they go into slipspace) and 2401 Penitant Tangent sucks at controling them?

I miss delta halo. Ima gunna go play it.

  • 05.31.2008 7:09 AM PDT
Subject: Still no fix...
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I have been fairly vocal about this issue in the past, and for some time thought that the most recent update would do something for me, but then it came out, didn't do anything, and so for a time I resigned to the idea that I would never have helmet that I want.

Now I have re-committed myself to the... commitment... that I made this one time. Anyway, I have no achievement for "Basic training" despite the fact that I have the "Graduate" pin (which doesn't mean that I had an affair with a married woman, or that I had a fantastic DP). The helmet associated with this is also not available to me, and OMG it's totally my favorite helmet. I'm still open to doing a bunch of work to make this happen, because I'm a huge Halo fanboy (which is okay, because I don't sound crazy, like PS3 fanboys), and ICanHazWhutEvrThuNameUvThuHelmutIzThatIeDiduntGetUnlocked. Please? End my suffering (by not killing me)?

Ohh and BTW, thank god that Frankie guy is gone, he was a bag of skuhdoosh. Luke, I know that you will be everything he wasn't, like help me fix my helmet. Right... ?

  • 05.31.2008 7:10 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08
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What is the smuggler???

And yes I understand that it is some sort of flood outbreak. This a clue to your next game Bungie?

[Edited on 05.31.2008 7:27 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 7:24 AM PDT

the best group of players with skill alone, cannot defeat a team of mediocre players. 9 times out of 10.

i did the math on the number of hours something was waiting on that last entry. that would be 286 years. its apparently not human.

  • 05.31.2008 7:45 AM PDT

Better than average.

I'm liking it.

The Smuggler sounds like an overseeing AI on Installation 05, i.e. it does not interfere with anything 2401 does, but can override its decisions if necessary.

And if this is supposed to be an ARG, the Smuggler somehow got propelled back in time to 2008.

Wonder what'd be on the other end of this...

PS: is this proof that the Gravemind had taken over Delta Halo way before the events of Halo 2, or even the Human-Covenant war?

[Edited on 05.31.2008 7:50 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 7:48 AM PDT
Subject: Still no fix...

the best group of players with skill alone, cannot defeat a team of mediocre players. 9 times out of 10.

Posted by: YKantBobReed
I have been fairly vocal about this issue in the past, and for some time thought that the most recent update would do something for me, but then it came out, didn't do anything, and so for a time I resigned to the idea that I would never have helmet that I want.

Now I have re-committed myself to the... commitment... that I made this one time. Anyway, I have no achievement for "Basic training" despite the fact that I have the "Graduate" pin (which doesn't mean that I had an affair with a married woman, or that I had a fantastic DP). The helmet associated with this is also not available to me, and OMG it's totally my favorite helmet. I'm still open to doing a bunch of work to make this happen, because I'm a huge Halo fanboy (which is okay, because I don't sound crazy, like PS3 fanboys), and ICanHazWhutEvrThuNameUvThuHelmutIzThatIeDiduntGetUnlocked. Please? End my suffering (by not killing me)?

Ohh and BTW, thank god that Frankie guy is gone, he was a bag of skuhdoosh. Luke, I know that you will be everything he wasn't, like help me fix my helmet. Right... ?


theres a special cornor of hell reserved just for you.

  • 05.31.2008 7:49 AM PDT
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the pink one is correct, i've seen the place he-who-hates-frankie (you must not speak his name, or his demons will find you!!) will go, and it needs some redecorating.

Smuggler is the third map in the new map pack bungie is cooking up. see last week's update.

btw that message on the bottom of the newest update says Penitent Tangent hasn't been on active duty for almost 300 years since the message was given:

"Still waiting for primary maintenance and security detail. [2512332 hours, 14 minutes, 6 seconds]elapsed since initial request."

2512332 hours / 24 hours = 104680.5 days / 365.25 days = 286.6 years!!!


[Edited on 05.31.2008 8:03 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 7:55 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08

Sugar in water

Sweet!!!

  • 05.31.2008 8:10 AM PDT
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Alex Pfeiffer we'll be looking forward to what you can do as Mission Designer. I have faith in you, dont let me or anyone else down. :D

LOL .4% Decrease in BR starts in Ghost town, Standoff, and Foundry. I knew it wasnt going to be drastic like everyone else was thinking. Thanks again.

Took me awhile to fine "Discuss." You guys knew it would too. We had to look for it. :)
I feel like it'll show you serious comments than bull-blam- comments people post. Such as being "Fisrt!" or something similar like that.

Anyways good update.


One more thing, The Smuggler. Is this a hint to a new video game your brewing up ;)?

  • 05.31.2008 8:42 AM PDT

In ages past the hand of time
Has hindered our migration,
But it cannot slow the will of faith
In times of confrontation.
Let all those worthy walk the path
Where we shall all soon meet.
For what once was lost, now is found
And our journey is complete.

Just the thought of actually being able to play on a multiplayer map wtih *some* kind of flood activity going on...that was my hope for uhh...Isolation, but didn't quite pan out.

Ehh...it's probably just hype to get us excited about the new map. Still kinda cool though :)

  • 05.31.2008 8:56 AM PDT

TaCo FLavORed KiSsEs

so let me get this straight, Bungie Favorites isn't made by bungie anymore. ok wow that makes perfect sense, doesnt come off as lazy or anything

  • 05.31.2008 9:11 AM PDT

New Marathon? Thanks Bungie!

welcome new hire and who is superintendent????

  • 05.31.2008 10:18 AM PDT

People's words can only effect you if you let them do so.

[)~

So... I'm confused.

Oh well.

People seriously whined about the drop of 0.4%? What the hell? It seems people look for things to complain about...

And seriously guys, the Bungie Favorites really suck now that you allowed other groups to take over. They are putting their worthless crap up there in hopes of getting alot of downloads. It's really lame.

That Smuggler thing simply looks like the report of the flood breach in installation 05. And 2401 Penitent Tangent is being too lazy to fix it all these years. He's probably rampant. Hell, I don't blame him. Stuck on a ring with nobody to talk to for countless years. That's sure to drive anyone mad.

But I wonder if it's from the first flood breach. When the first reclaimer tried to take care of business, but failed.

Edit: Maybe it is? The hourly report states that the unidentified lifeforms entered via slip-space only 300 years after the Flood breach. Now I'm sure that the Forerunners where gone for alot more then 300 years before the Humans decided to screw around on any of the Installations.

Hell if I know. You fellas at Bungie love to screw with us.

[Edited on 05.31.2008 10:26 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 10:21 AM PDT

Loose talk is noose talk.

Smuggler: I don't think it means what we think it means.

  • 05.31.2008 10:38 AM PDT

"Seems to me you should spend less time on that article and more time working on that novel you've been working on!!!"

Interesting update. Mildly confused member is mildly confused. Is Smuggler bit code for me to decipher? What does it mean? What's going on here? Aaahhhhhhhh...

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Posted by: YKantBobReed
I have been fairly vocal about this issue in the past, and for some time thought that the most recent update would do something for me, but then it came out, didn't do anything, and so for a time I resigned to the idea that I would never have helmet that I want.

Now I have re-committed myself to the... commitment... that I made this one time. Anyway, I have no achievement for "Basic training" despite the fact that I have the "Graduate" pin (which doesn't mean that I had an affair with a married woman, or that I had a fantastic DP). The helmet associated with this is also not available to me, and OMG it's totally my favorite helmet. I'm still open to doing a bunch of work to make this happen, because I'm a huge Halo fanboy (which is okay, because I don't sound crazy, like PS3 fanboys), and ICanHazWhutEvrThuNameUvThuHelmutIzThatIeDiduntGetUnlocked. Please? End my suffering (by not killing me)?

Ohh and BTW, thank god that Frankie guy is gone, he was a bag of skuhdoosh. Luke, I know that you will be everything he wasn't, like help me fix my helmet. Right... ?



theres a special cornor of hell reserved just for you.


Ya there really is though. And skudoosh? What are you 10, and you just got to see that panda kung foo movie? Cuz thats the only time I've ever heard that childish word, and I heard it in the trailer for that movie, which was a waste of 5 minutes of my life. Skudoosh, sounds like a childs attempt to make the other word that's close to that, their own.


[Edited on 05.31.2008 11:09 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 10:59 AM PDT

Patrick... remember the name.

harsh man, harsh

  • 05.31.2008 11:12 AM PDT

Bungie Favorites was files that Bungie thought was worth sharing. They are doing that still, just by letting groups choose stuff they like. It still goes through Bungie. What the hell is wrong with that?

  • 05.31.2008 11:59 AM PDT
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Smuggler is probably relevant to one of the new maps, takes place on installation 04, with a little bit of flood and forerunner sprinkled in for aesthetic value.

[Edited on 05.31.2008 12:37 PM PDT]

  • 05.31.2008 12:21 PM PDT

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  • 05.31.2008 12:41 PM PDT

"The only good Elite is a dead Elite."
-=-=Chernobyl Recon Squad=-=-

Most of the forum users don't bother to read the updates, just like they don't bother to read things like "forum rules". If any of them read this week's update and see "Purple Reign" and "Midship" in the same sentence, you already know what is going to happen, regardless of the phrase that followed it.

Chilluns is stoopid.

All Hail Bungie.

  • 05.31.2008 2:48 PM PDT
Subject: Still no fix...
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Posted by: YKantBobReed

thank god that Frankie guy is gone, he was a bag of skuhdoosh


HERESY

  • 05.31.2008 2:59 PM PDT