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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 8/15/08

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Posted by: SketchFactor
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I think the name should be changed to the "Weekly Bungie Blog"


How about "Weekly Fan -blam!--Fest" ?


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  • 08.15.2008 5:41 PM PDT

Posted by: pmur42
Bungie has already announced that they're not revealing anything at PAX or Liepzig. So keep guessing...

I believe they said there would be multiplayer stuff unveiled at PAX, which is what I was referring to.

[Edited on 08.15.2008 5:43 PM PDT]

  • 08.15.2008 5:42 PM PDT

-blam!-. YOU. bungie.



except ayrizonabay's right. next month is the 1-year anniversary. so there obviously has to be something.....waiting.....to devour our hours of life.....and eat our money..

  • 08.15.2008 5:42 PM PDT
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I got an iPhone :D

High Five ;p

  • 08.15.2008 5:42 PM PDT

Update was worth it for Carney's comment alone. That part of the Podcast had me in stitches on 7/7.

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  • 08.15.2008 5:42 PM PDT

"Fair warning: Users who have modified content on their File Share - regardless of who created said content - will be subjected to the full power of the Banhammer’s thrust. This includes some never-before-unleashed technology
that will effectively terminate your Halo multiplayer experience online in every imaginable facet. In fact, the ban is so thorough that simply calling it the Banhammer is a complete understatement."

i would rather just be surprised when you guys deliver something new then try and figure it out and loose sleep over it, which i believe a lot of these kids do from time to time... so till then cant wait and i wanna get in on this play bungie experience. guys sound fun to team up with or agianst

  • 08.15.2008 5:43 PM PDT
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Well, it was another update. Nothing much to be excited for, but we'll just have to relax and wait till something good comes along.

  • 08.15.2008 5:45 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

that bit about pathfinding...that means we're going to see more AI soon. so the map editor with AI actually might be real and not just a source code.

  • 08.15.2008 5:46 PM PDT
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this is for the bungie net works i was wondering when the AU2 will be coming out, and will i beable to be a genral if lets say i was a lvl 1 and just started playing, and i won 500 rumble pit games and i was still a lvl 1 would i be a genral in rumble pit?????????????

p.s. you guys should put some double experence games online that don't need dlc maps so they could get double exp like you could arrange it like ( dlc maps (next week - /) / standard maps/dlcmaps/standard maps) like switch it like that so people who are poor and can not afford harddrives able to play double exp too thank you for reading my message

  • 08.15.2008 5:47 PM PDT

>>KEEP IT CLEAN<<

"For the record, we have no plans to make any big announcements or huge reveals at PAX this year. While we will have some Halo 3 multiplayer stuff for you to check out, this is not going to be the "big announcement" many of our fans are clamoring for. Rest assured that when the time is right, we will be making announcements and talking about the stuff we're currently working on. At the moment we do have three distinct projects underway within Bungie - some familiar, some not. Some on a closer horizon, some quite far off."

posted by SketchFactor in "Bungie @ PAX" at 7/24/2008 10:10 AM PDT

So maybe they'll show some new maps but I doubt they're gonna reveal the "major change" to the halo 3 online experience.

Here's to hoping though...

  • 08.15.2008 5:50 PM PDT

Posted by: pmur42
"For the record, we have no plans to make any big announcements or huge reveals at PAX this year. While we will have some Halo 3 multiplayer stuff for you to check out, this is not going to be the "big announcement" many of our fans are clamoring for. Rest assured that when the time is right, we will be making announcements and talking about the stuff we're currently working on. At the moment we do have three distinct projects underway within Bungie - some familiar, some not. Some on a closer horizon, some quite far off."

posted by SketchFactor in "Bungie @ PAX" at 7/24/2008 10:10 AM PDT

So maybe they'll show some new maps but I doubt they're gonna reveal the "major change" to the halo 3 online experience.

Here's to hoping though...

Maps should help get people at least a little bit excited again instead of all the the stuff as of late.

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  • 08.15.2008 5:53 PM PDT

damn i wish september would hurry the -blam!- up.

  • 08.15.2008 5:53 PM PDT

Reach. Reach. Reach.

ok update

  • 08.15.2008 5:54 PM PDT

Halo: CE Anniversary Achievement Idea
C-C-C-CANNON BREAKER!
Let Sgt. Johnson die on Halo.

Pretty good update as far as I can tell. I wonder if there's secret messages hidden in there. ;)

  • 08.15.2008 5:54 PM PDT

I can feel the community trying to get secret messages out of that update now.

  • 08.15.2008 5:55 PM PDT

>>KEEP IT CLEAN<<

hope so. bungie fans seem harder and harder to please since the E3 fiasco. you have to remember that bungie didn't have much choice in that, that all came down to bad leadership and organisation with Microsoft or more specifically Don Mattrick. Maybe that's what they get for trading the GREAT Peter Moore for an EA Sports guy.

  • 08.15.2008 5:55 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

also, being nice to the goose (marty)....this could mean some new mongoose sounds, which in turn means some new form of mongoose...


'Making rough calls about how pouncy they should be.
Chris Opdahl, Lead Mission Designer'

how pouncy....this could mean how aggressive, which leads me to think AI that revel in close combat...tank forms, anyone?

'Taking a drive on the beach.
Alex Pfeiffer, Mission Designer'

this would seem like nothing, but he probably means in halo...there may be a new map with a beach side like LR.

'Player hands
Scott.S, threeee-deeee.'

speaks for itself...new player models at some point.

'Making sure she’s got balls.
Pat Jandro, Cinematic Animator'

there is every possibility, after reading this, that they may be doing an Oni remake with cinematics. 'got balls' can mean tough and brave as well, and Oni....

'I am scouring a landscape of network data awesomeness, and looking for pebbles of suckage for some mighty smart engineers… and contemplating my bagel-related future.
Nick Gerrone, Network Test Ninjaneer'

'bagel-related future' could well be a thinly veiled reference to the future of halo.

'Dropping metal donuts from the sky.
John Gronquist, Effects Artist'

yet again, sounds like a halo. but falling from the sky? burial mounds, much?

'Mangling crunchy trees
Chris Tchou, Optical Orgasmist'

destructible foliage, finally?

'My left hand is banning some people who should know better by now, and my right hand is working on something that will be as cool as the Party system was.
Tyson Green, multipurpose designer'

note the word 'was'...either they're replacing it with something new, or adding something that will be as cool as it was...clan support?

these are my ideas at the moment.




  • 08.15.2008 5:59 PM PDT

Posted by: geneva

p.s. you guys should put some double experence games online that don't need dlc maps so they could get double exp like you could arrange it like ( dlc maps (next week - /) / standard maps/dlcmaps/standard maps) like switch it like that so people who are poor and can not afford harddrives able to play double exp too thank you for reading my message


20GB HDD's are pretty cheap on Ebay these days.

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was expecting this kind of update... Bungie will release the storm after PAX

  • 08.15.2008 5:59 PM PDT

Wow, what a bag of balls. Why do I read these things anymore, they've had almost no content for months. I'm hardly even disappointed.

Why do you hate us, Bungie? We're demanding sure, but when you don't give a -blam!- about our demands why do you feel the need to bore the hell out of us while flipping us off with hints and promises?

  • 08.15.2008 6:01 PM PDT

Mmmmm I loved this weekly update personally,its kind of like you cut off a chickens head and he/she is running around...all in all I love a little teaser here and there.

You gotta keep people waiting sometimes,but yeah.


On a side note,I had an ipod touch a while back,the wifi went in it...kind of stupid when I opened it trying to diagnose the problem myself (*WOO I void warranties!*)..but I'm getting off track.


nice update.

  • 08.15.2008 6:02 PM PDT
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All you whiners need to get over it. Would you not also complain if they said nothing on any random Friday. Instead, they take time to make a post when they could be rushing home for the weekend. If there is nothing new that they can report on for whatever reasons, be satisfied that they put anything up ... or better yet just stop posting after you have read it. This weeks post of seemingly random info obviously took a little time to put together and I would guess it was done so to add some entertainment value to an update that might have otherwise had nothing more than a sentence or two explaining the lack of information they can currently release. Appreciate what you get and shut up about what you want.

  • 08.15.2008 6:09 PM PDT

Mistah Yoshi!!!

I'm gonna go play Gears now and wait till next week for an actual update...

oh wait! there's Grifball going on!

::fires up halo::

  • 08.15.2008 6:09 PM PDT

Running Riot

Yo, Bungie!
I am a Penny-Arcade Expo Enforcer.
Last year I worked in the console freeplay area and was granted time during my shift to run a Halo 2 freeplay session. Four consoles were dedicated to the session, so we had consistant 16 player mayhem.

This year I will be running a Halo 3 Freeplay session in the console freeplay area, and because "special requests" were being mentioned in the weekly updates, I thought it a decent idea to invite any bungie members to the freeplay area.
Benefits are obviously obvious, so I hope you take this into consideration.

No schedule has been organized as of yet, but if it is possible, a message to me would allow me to later relate a time and date.

Thanks!

  • 08.15.2008 6:09 PM PDT