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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 7/25/08
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Why did lukems draw Midship?

  • 07.25.2008 4:51 PM PDT

Purple Reign is going to be so sweet. I thought I saw a pelican in there.

  • 07.25.2008 4:52 PM PDT
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Pleas STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! making maps hc theres a playlist for that already.

  • 07.25.2008 5:04 PM PDT
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Lets hope the map is a little better than the drawing. No offense Luke, I'm sure you worked hard on it.

  • 07.25.2008 5:08 PM PDT
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OMG my brain cannot translate anything that I am seeing in that drawing there is almost no decent perspective did you do that on purpose?! and will you guys be announcing the names of the people that won recon on that Recon roadtrip contest?

  • 07.25.2008 5:10 PM PDT

Fac Fortia Et Patere

Nice long update this week, and it actually answers the questions, somewhat.

Oh and it looks like Purple Reign might look like it is on High Charity, or it could just be a Scarab that is increased by 500%.

  • 07.25.2008 5:10 PM PDT

Posted by: stooz3r
Lets hope the map is a little better than the drawing. No offense Luke, I'm sure you worked hard on it.


Nope, it took about 40 minutes freehand and another half hour in photoshop, but that's because I didn't know what I was doing with the filters. Any future drawings will take even less time.

Sorry about the questions whose answered were cut off, I called Sketch from the Golf Course to give him endings when I was informed of the whoops.

  • 07.25.2008 5:14 PM PDT

When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of toast is strapped to a cat's back, buttered side up, and the animal is then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system.

Hmmm......I'd like to see some sort of in depth analysis of that picture. Nice update.

  • 07.25.2008 5:17 PM PDT

Does anyone even read these?

Many questions answered, thanks for this.

Edit ~ Also I'm really sad that the BR wont be changed because I strongly want it changed, but I guess I have to accept it.

[Edited on 07.25.2008 5:33 PM PDT]

  • 07.25.2008 5:33 PM PDT

Greatest update recently!

Microsoft is the publisher, that place is going to be hard to riot. D:

Another Foundry-like map! Epic.

Word to describe the Dark Knight: Even better than Joker Nurse.

Replace Rocket Race with Social SWAT? Worse idea ever.

Auto Update 2! What mysterious mysteries will be revealed?

No way to increase the custom items limit! D:

Pet winners: Asher the Banpuppy and Recon.

I hope that drawing is actually a screenshot!

Banadu? That is the ultimate form of destruction.

  • 07.25.2008 5:40 PM PDT
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Great, another empty map full of crates that people will have to spend money on

and next week is when you reveal the next month of double exp right? *Crosses fingers for 16 player rumble pit and 4v4v4v4 slayer*

  • 07.25.2008 5:55 PM PDT
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Great update.


Can't wait to see whats happening for auto update 2.

  • 07.25.2008 5:56 PM PDT

lol i was actually thinking about re-wording my Dark Knight question.

Pencil-tricktastic?

  • 07.25.2008 6:10 PM PDT
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4v4v4v4 please.

Nice drawing Luke. Cant make out anything but its nice.
PAX winners against, Luke and Shishka, GL!

Lucky S.O.B's =]



  • 07.25.2008 6:11 PM PDT

Another *poop* update.....

  • 07.25.2008 6:14 PM PDT

Posted by: DaRealHagfish502
Posted by: Trentesis12a
lol i was actually thinking about re-wording my Dark Knight question.

Pencil-tricktastic?
I would have hated the movie if the movie didn't include the joker..


I don't even like superhero movies, but when I first saw one of the first images of Heath Ledger as the Joker, I was hooked with the hype.

Honestly, one of the greatest movies I have ever watched.

  • 07.25.2008 6:17 PM PDT

New Marathon? Thanks Bungie!

nice update Purple Reign looks... different? kinda Covenant but I can tell

PS I just thought of something can we has a filter that makes levels look like that?

[Edited on 07.25.2008 6:44 PM PDT]

  • 07.25.2008 6:42 PM PDT

I don't want random messages (ie, Join my group, etc). I have begun blocking solicitations.

Posted by: Levitikus
YES! I can continue to play with a br that has bullets that randomly return to it's clip when I'm shooting at someone. I have no idea why that's not a big enough issue to be fixed. I also love the random spread. The H2 br wasn't even that annoying. Sure it had the massive amount of auto-aim, but EVERYONE had that auto-aim. I'm not even saying that bungie should've made the br like it was in H2. It just really obviously needs to be fixed in H3. Anyone who says it doesn't is either lying or in denial. I'm not an MLG fanatic and I didn't want the br to be the almighty power weapon. I just wanted it to be consistent and less random. Why doesn't everyone want their br spread to be consistent? In H3, during a br battle, whoever gets the better spread wins. Why do most of you like luck to be the deciding factor in who wins a br battle? I will never understand it. And yes, I do play H3 still. It's just a shame that the br is never going to be fixed. That's all I'm saying.

Anyway....I can't wait for Purple Reign!
As for bullets returning to the clip, that's a fault with lag. Its most noticeable on weapons that fire actual projectiles (like the rocket launcher or brute shot). Perhaps you should upgrade your connection?

As for the spread, I've never had a problem with it. Within a hundred yards or so, the spread isn't great enough to make bullets miss, and whoever fires first, even by one bullet faster in the 3 round burst, wins. Beyond that range, the spread starts affecting your shots a lot. As Bungie explained a few weeks ago, this is to make it so the BR user can save himself from snipers (by pinging them) but not able to kill the sniper.

  • 07.25.2008 6:48 PM PDT

Play hard, have fun.

I really, really, really want to go to PAX. I haven't made up my mind yet, but ball park it looks like it would cost me $1G just to go for the day Saturday (~$650-850 flight and hotel, ~$50-100 food, ~$20 entrance to PAX + any taxi fares).
These expenditures leave me with little drinking money for college - tuition + loans suck. xD

I wish Bungie would visit their fans chilling on the East Coast more often. =D

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  • 07.25.2008 6:48 PM PDT

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good drawin lol

  • 07.25.2008 7:01 PM PDT

Wow...that looks like something M.C. Escher drew when he was a toddler.

  • 07.25.2008 7:12 PM PDT

Play hard, have fun.

To comment on the drawing: Looks like an illustration from Dr. Seuss.

  • 07.25.2008 7:19 PM PDT
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***Aberrant Designs***

Finished the fight on September 26,2007, 10:49pm EST
Remembered Reach on September 15th, 2010 9:30pm EST

Nice update. Two times in a row my question got answered. And I KNEW you were gonna answer the batman question! :D
I just knew it lol. I'm like so psychic now.

And the drawing, meh. Still I can't bash it because I only draw stick figures; wiggly ones too :(

  • 07.25.2008 7:26 PM PDT