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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 02/27/09

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Posted by: urk
Team Mythic in Matchmaking, a mosaic, and more codes to come.


What did you mean by more codes to come?

  • 02.28.2009 3:37 PM PDT

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VERY cool update!

Nice and long (That's what she said)

  • 02.28.2009 5:26 PM PDT

- bloodsnake7

I can't believe this, my gamertag is bloodsnake7, my ODST picture was on the mosaic, and I did not recieve the code for the mythic map pack, I don't know if Bungie forgot to send me one, or if i'm just hated online, but I think that if my picture says I won, I think I should get my prize, I hope Bungie responds to me, Thank-you for reading. Love Bungie.

  • 02.28.2009 5:27 PM PDT
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that ODST picture is amazing!!

  • 02.28.2009 6:17 PM PDT

lol join the PHEONIX 505 group add ricon34 as a friend and ask bout joining

  • 02.28.2009 6:24 PM PDT
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So looks like there is still a chance to get a code. yes! that is awsome, the thing is i have no luck at all but my luck could prove me rong. i just hope i get one or els starting tuesday im gona be alone on halo 3 wile every one els is playin on the mythic map pack. =(

  • 02.28.2009 7:16 PM PDT

i feel the same way all my friends have the new maps and there rubbing it in, just because i'm not rich and carn't get halo wars, please help me i carn't find a code anywhere on bungie.net, buy the time i find out about the codes some americans already got it.

  • 02.28.2009 8:46 PM PDT

Sandbox is just wow i dident know you had it in you bungie :D

  • 02.28.2009 10:48 PM PDT
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Bungie if you are looking at this message i really want recon armor because every one says i suck because i dont have good armor and if u give it to me i will show them that i have the coolest armor in the game so please give me recon armor my gamer tag is destructotron98 so please give me recon armor

  • 02.28.2009 11:13 PM PDT

Omas26 Gamertag: JsXdaddyX0

Wow bungie! nice one with the hidden codes, I was just a little too late!(as the story goes...) I found the one in the url bar and the one that pops up when you hover over the snowman a.k.a Bob but are there anymore? (not found)I don't mind looking, but if they are all found then I guess the search(at least for now)has come to an end.:(
well newayz , thank you for giving us a chance to score those oh so sweet maps!
*****BUNGIE FAN 4 LIFE******

  • 03.01.2009 12:19 AM PDT

I'm awesome, check my personal site.

Posted by: bloodsnake77
I can't believe this, my gamertag is bloodsnake7, my ODST picture was on the mosaic, and I did not recieve the code for the mythic map pack, I don't know if Bungie forgot to send me one, or if i'm just hated online, but I think that if my picture says I won, I think I should get my prize, I hope Bungie responds to me, Th


ank-you for reading. Love Bungie.
good point

  • 03.01.2009 3:23 AM PDT

I'm awesome, check my personal site.

Posted by: destroyer89
Bungie if you are looking at this message i really want recon armor because every one says i suck because i dont have good armor and if u give it to me i will show them that i have the coolest armor in the game so please give me recon armor my gamer tag is destructotron98 so please give me recon armor

haur never gunu get it now work 4 armor like the rest of us

  • 03.01.2009 3:24 AM PDT
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what does being on the list even mean if everyones getting recon anyway doesn't seem very cool trying to get it a few months before everyone else. is there a list for something other than getting recon? we may never know

  • 03.01.2009 7:11 AM PDT

These hands you see before you will end the light of day. Your ashes will be cast into the wind! Your blood's upon the soil, your body fed to wolves, not one of you will be left alive...!

Hand of Doom by Manowar

They're talking about me in the BWU! I'm sad about being on The List :(

  • 03.01.2009 9:26 AM PDT

Posted by: Botolf
Because Bungie didn't want you to unlock them, obviously. Do you expect to rob a bank and have the PD congratulate you for "finding the money"? ;)

So the mosaic picture changed...the mosaic_compressed picture has my screenshot in the bottom left corner, but the one before that doesn't...any reason?

  • 03.01.2009 9:26 AM PDT

Good update bungie! Only got 2 more days! Im still trying t ofigure out what im going t odo first...play HW or the maps....hard choice

  • 03.01.2009 11:46 AM PDT
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Thanks for another update. The Mosaic looked great. ^^

  • 03.01.2009 1:43 PM PDT

Counter Strike FY Map Pack --> in my file share

I am so very happy to hear that Sandbox will go live with multiple default setups. I was beginning to fear that Sandbox would end up like Foundry and turn out to be an untapped resource. With multiple default setups, Sandbox in and of itself becomes an entire map pack.

Bungie, per chance, did this post I made back in April of 2008 help in any way for inspiring Sandbox? I feel like a lot of elements of that post are coming to fruition. I am on the edge of my seat waiting to hear if Hang em High is one of the default sandbox variants.

If you are looking to give me a Mythic Code as thanks, please instead turn your attention to this post and consider it.

  • 03.01.2009 2:32 PM PDT
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still nothing on the vday..? cant they at least tell us when there.. gonna tell us?

  • 03.01.2009 2:41 PM PDT
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Alright, I give up...

So I think there is one more password for the Mythic Map Pack in the mosaic image file, but not on the picture itself. I think it's hidden with a technique called Steganography.

Maybe I'm looking way too into this, but I tried using a steganography detector called Spy Hunter. The image file is over 10mb, so its conceivable that there could be a hidden file or hidden hex message inside the image.

After I ran the file through the program, I got this message:
"Steganography found at marker position 2787374
Hiderman program detected!"

I used a Hex program and checked that location but I couldn't figure anything out from those values. So I tracked down the original program that may have been used to hide the files, called Hiderman, but I was unable to find anything.

Finally I downloaded CryptaPix to try to decrypt the image but there is a password prompt for it. The password would probably be hidden in the hex data.

Anyway maybe I am looking into it way too much, but it would be a pretty neat way for hiding a code and I wouldn't put it past Bungie to hide one using a technique like that.

If this turns out to be true and someone figures it out, let me know.

  • 03.01.2009 3:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: omas26
Wow bungie! nice one with the hidden codes, I was just a little too late!(as the story goes...) I found the one in the url bar and the one that pops up when you hover over the snowman a.k.a Bob but are there anymore? (not found)I don't mind looking, but if they are all found then I guess the search(at least for now)has come to an end.:(
well newayz , thank you for giving us a chance to score those oh so sweet maps!
*****BUNGIE FAN 4 LIFE******
Im stumped. you say you found 2 codes an i cant even find one.=( i dont know were to look. i dont even know what he means by the snowman.

  • 03.01.2009 3:22 PM PDT

that mosaic is amazing...

did jaime jones ever live on the east coast?

  • 03.01.2009 4:00 PM PDT

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games owned: halo 3, gears of war 2, forza motorsports 2, HALO REACH!!! and modern warfare 2 (its embarassing, im sorry bungie)
I no I'm awesome, I try not to brag :)

pretty cool picture. hey im kinda new to the forums can sum1 tell me how to post a message cuz i hit reply on the very last person's message and i dont think thats wat i wanted to do

  • 03.01.2009 4:23 PM PDT

In Memory of the MasterCheif

Is the mythic map pack comming out for x-box live marketplace anytime soon
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  • 03.02.2009 4:10 AM PDT
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Come guys the mythic map pack, as they have been saying, is coming out in a undisclosed amount of time(thinking 3-5 weeks). If your as excited as I am you can get it by buying Halo Wars Limited Edition and get the code from that.

Which is a great/smart idea for generating sales for those hardcore Halo 3 nuts(ME!!!!!). It just really sucks for me because I preordered the game and planned on picking it up at 12:01am tonight but the whole Southeastern US got hit with this stupid snow/ice storm, so the retailer isn't staying open for the midnight release!!!!

I was sooo excited to try the new game and play the new maps now imma have to wait! But I'm gonna try and find a code on bungie.net with a slim chance of finding it. Wish it would just land in lap but I'm not that lucky!!! haha

P.S. Love the Mosaic!!!

  • 03.02.2009 8:11 AM PDT