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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 9/05/08

For every action, there is an equal and opposite airstrike.

Yay! Worthless achivements!

Still going to try for the 4 Iron Ghosts though.

  • 09.06.2008 4:30 AM PDT
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Title Update 2 will also introduce a brand new type of ban. This is one Shishka and I are super excited for. It’s harsh, it’s metered fairly and most of all, when it hits you, it hurts so bad. This new spike on the banhammer will soon drip wet with the blood of jerks and the innards of sinners.
An unnecessary statement that reflects small minds...power corrupts. Microsoft owns, so it's safe to assume cooperate OKs?
Advise to be careful of blatant statement that belittle persons.

Another thing we’d file under the “peace of mind” changes portion of TU2 is that we’ll be taking a much closer look at habitual quitters and their contribution to the Halo 3 population. It’s no secret that players quitting out of a game makes a suboptimal experience for those left behind, from black screen host migrations, to the general sour-taste losing while down-a-man actually leaves. For the purposes of this week’s update, this isn’t a “don’t quit or you’ll be banned” threat – but instead, a courteous notification that this is something we’re investigating and intend to continue investigating in the coming months.
...if I'm by myself, and hit the same game type and board together more than twice in a row, I'll jump.

Mythic gamers since '98, BOE

  • 09.06.2008 4:51 AM PDT

Another thing we’d file under the “peace of mind” changes portion of TU2 is that we’ll be taking a much closer look at habitual quitters and their contribution to the Halo 3 population. It’s no secret that players quitting out of a game makes a suboptimal experience for those left behind, from black screen host migrations, to the general sour-taste losing while down-a-man actually leaves. For the purposes of this week’s update, this isn’t a “don’t quit or you’ll be banned” threat – but instead, a courteous notification that this is something we’re investigating and intend to continue investigating in the coming months
I'm worried that i'll be banned unfairly...
I live a fair distance from my telephone exchange and when i play Halo,i get booted from at least 1 match per night.My router flashes black yet i haven't lost connection with live.There's something in the Halo code that decides to disconnect me from the game.
I have an open NAT and i don't have any incidents on any other game.I am aware that security measures are in place following the lessons learned in Halo 2,but i can't help but feel i'm going to suffer because of these counter measures.
I never quit intentionally...

  • 09.06.2008 5:04 AM PDT

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Will the get 1000 pointa to get security armor still work or will we have to get the original achievments?

  • 09.06.2008 5:11 AM PDT

Nice job, Bungie. Keep putting MLG players in their place. I don't like MLG. I think it has made gaming too competitive and in hindsight made casual gameplay not enjoyable. Another effect I've seen is they grow an ego. Annoying. At least it gives me a goal to crush it when I met one in matchmaking. Anyhow.... Thanks for a juicy weekly update.

  • 09.06.2008 5:13 AM PDT

I was going to post something about the achievements, I started and realised I was doing exactly what lukems wrote in the first sentence!
Posted by: lukems
Inevitably, this will be blown out of context, misread and misunderstood, but let’s do it anyway.


Its a shame you can't do the teasing mystery posts, they get people all worked up but it is fun the read all the theories and come up with your own.

  • 09.06.2008 5:27 AM PDT
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wow lets add achievements so people will finally buy the legendary maps (low but if it works and we can finally but them in more playlists then that will be great)

Will anything be unlocked with the achievements? (like why bother if you don't get katana, right?)


I hope something gets done about quitters and cheaters

  • 09.06.2008 5:37 AM PDT

It's not coincedence that Santa and Satan are spelled with the same letters.

ASUM!
new achievabl3s!
i like it, as long as the total number of achievements or gamerpoints has something to do with the numder 7! like 7×7=49, wich is the current number of total achievements.

PS:
I just bought Halo 2
, i know a bit late, but it's part of being raised, and i missed it <.<

  • 09.06.2008 5:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: lukems
New Achievements in Halo 3? Say it ain't so!


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I've always wondered if Halo 3 would be getting any new achievements . And I actually thought it would never happen . But it's true now they have new achievements . OMG can't wait to go for them it's going to be so fun .

7hank you to all Bungie staff .

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  • 09.06.2008 5:47 AM PDT

a pretty good update.

However Im kindof sceptical about the new achievements. It feels like a sore excuse for people to buy the legendary pack instead of adding real hard achievement value. Its kinda like Avatar;tba...easy achievements...but a bit pricey compared to what you get for the GS. Dont get me wrong, I own the legendary pack and love it...but this feels like milking...and thats not classy.

Im quite excited about taking on quitters...but temp-banning would seem harsh. Sometimes you just have to quit if there are other obligations.

  • 09.06.2008 6:00 AM PDT

Yay new achievements

Just one thing - "Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts." ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • 09.06.2008 6:03 AM PDT
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I think bungie is taking this whole ''we're the boss dont mess with us'' thing a little too far. banning those that mod content is fine, and punishing those that put modded stuff on thier file share is even ok. but Bungie cant predict the circumstances by which people quit. It's not always thier fault, and I would be annoyed if I had to quit because, say, my dog has died and coming back to find that my account's been banned!!

also, I hope that these new achievments dont erase my security helmet!

  • 09.06.2008 6:10 AM PDT

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This is just downright crazy. There are 250G worth of gamerscore already accounted for by the ones posted in this WWU.

But thats the usual limit on extra achievements! 750Gs (if the "leaked" screens are still correct) of extra achievements is absolutely unheard of.

  • 09.06.2008 6:15 AM PDT

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Cool can't wait for new achievements.

  • 09.06.2008 6:23 AM PDT

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Will there be awards for getting every achievement then? Bleep-Bloop!

  • 09.06.2008 6:42 AM PDT

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Wow. 27 people who got to actually GO to PAX got Recon Armor. How fair.


27 teams = 54 people
And then massive numbers of folks were rebuffed by the pure, unadulterated skill on display.


Oh, 27 TEAMS. Sorry about that! I mis-read! That's a mistake on my part! ^_^'

  • 09.06.2008 6:47 AM PDT

They gave achievements for two reasons so people would actually buy the maps and so we would forget about them taking our exp (3000+ games that I won an now nothing to show). How stupid there no reason for that , im a DIE HARD halo 3 fan and you know what im starting to get pissed, one more stupid thing that drive me closer to buying a ps3. Wow its only took them a whole year to figure out that true skill is absolute bull-blam!- just like this update, too little too late maybe you should have done this when there was 2,000,000 people playing when the game first came out. Now there's 90,000 that's a big big big drop in numbers for a few reasons, you f'ed the BR up, the assault rife sucks BIG ass. When you get matched with randoms on your team they give you the -blam!-iest guys, you kinda f'ed the sniper up, horrible waiting times if your in social. The chopper a too FN powerful and WTF is up with 2 lasers on sandtrap how FN stupid. hopefully your doing something about recent flow of stand byers. BTW the only reason people hated 1v1 is because you put rockets on 1v1 are you FN stupid, thats like putting 8 people in FFA oh wait your already gonna do that for some stupid reason. Why do you guys olny get the flaming helmet i think that would be an awesome reward to have if you got your general, and the katana should make a slashing noise when you use it.
What's up with all the death barriers on cold storage that's stupid alot of good maps have been helped out buy the extra room from death barriers not being there, a good example is sandtrap.

  • 09.06.2008 6:48 AM PDT

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being one of those 54 is such a pleasure


Dude, don't rub it in. I wanted to go and get Recon too, but I Physically couldn't. You would feel the same way if you were in my position. Plus, Bungie can take that away from you if you brag to much.
I really wish it were a pleasure for me to go, meet these awesome people, PLAY them, and get something for the best game ever. It really hurt me to find out from my doctor that I couldn't go for health reasons. Thanks a lot.

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  • 09.06.2008 6:51 AM PDT

People should still give Halo 2 a chance if they haven't played it yet.

I want to cry for joy and anger. I can't wait and I can. I wanted to go to pax so bad. I go to all the convention events in Florida and My finance is going to Comic con because she made a Jessica Chobit statue. Me, I went to MLG Orlando and wanted to go to PAX. I am going to shoot myself now. I hate being a poor, sad, sap.

I hope some of you have seen Luke Smiths 1up video on youtube or such. It is a very awesome clip I now send to people in chat rooms when they dis Halo. XD

  • 09.06.2008 6:52 AM PDT

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All the questions that have accumilated in head over the last week and a half have been answered.

Sweet Update

  • 09.06.2008 6:56 AM PDT

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Thats means we loose our katanas right? :(((((

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how do we get invited to said invitational? do u have to b in the industry? or just kinda important enuf?

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Posted by: Crazyman217
Nice job, Bungie. Keep putting MLG players in their place. I don't like MLG. I think it has made gaming too competitive and in hindsight made casual gameplay not enjoyable. Another effect I've seen is they grow an ego. Annoying. At least it gives me a goal to crush it when I met one in matchmaking. Anyhow.... Thanks for a juicy weekly update.



Do u have any clue how much MLG has done for Halo and putting its name out there?
MLG has been the forerunner for the competitive gaming business since Halo: CE came out, and the only thing that MLG has done for Bungie is help advertise a -blam!- load.
Bungie Kids like u make me laugh, yes there are casual games and yes i do like to play them. But when i talk to anybody about halo, they immediately think competitive gaming. (and on a side note, Master Chief)


edit:sorry for double post

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I was just wondering, for the people with a katana after the new acheivements are released will they get to keep it???

  • 09.06.2008 7:15 AM PDT