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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10.09.09

"Be Prepared and Semper Fi do or die"

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  • 10.09.2009 5:05 PM PDT

I was hoping to hear even a little bit about Halo:Reach or hear Bungie recognizing some amazing ideas in the Reach forum this past week. However, the statistics for ODST were somewhat entertaining and the image at the very bottom of the announcement was nicely done.

  • 10.09.2009 5:06 PM PDT

"Be Prepared and Semper Fi do or die"

The Viral Marketing is likely for the Forunner Trilogy!

  • 10.09.2009 5:09 PM PDT

I wish I was a pro athlete and could get a tour of Bungie. Hell, I'd settle for simply being a pro athlete.

  • 10.09.2009 5:10 PM PDT

Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien.
Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar.
tenn' Ambar-metta!

Lol! those cars look so epic.

  • 10.09.2009 5:14 PM PDT

so... why is the screen in the background blurred? (REACH!!)

nice update

  • 10.09.2009 5:15 PM PDT

....whut?

No firefight highscores? That makes me sad. Very, very sad.

  • 10.09.2009 5:17 PM PDT

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I doubt that blurred screen is Reach.
They ain't gonna be showing that shizz to anybody!

  • 10.09.2009 5:41 PM PDT

Hey, good collection of stuff this week Urk.

Maybe when the superstars stop visiting and announcements of other studio's developments are out of the way, we can have some real Reach info to satiate our palates?

  • 10.09.2009 5:45 PM PDT

i like me...

As a long time fan of your games, i am really pumped for halo reach bungie. dont worry i kept it clean, see you all when it falls 2010! BR sold separately?! god i hope it not even an accessory! :)

peace

[Edited on 10.09.2009 5:54 PM PDT]

  • 10.09.2009 5:53 PM PDT

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Halo 2 Stats

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Posted by: TheOtherJesus
I doubt that blurred screen is Reach.
They ain't gonna be showing that shizz to anybody!

Ummm... They said they showed it to them. So yea, it is Reach.

  • 10.09.2009 5:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: Zolner MD
Hey, good collection of stuff this week Urk.

Maybe when the superstars stop visiting and announcements of other studio's developments are out of the way, we can have some real Reach info to satiate our palates?


Maybe. :)

  • 10.09.2009 5:55 PM PDT
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You're all clear kid.

I like it too.

Posted by: hunkyandrich
Your new avatar is very touching Urk.

  • 10.09.2009 6:03 PM PDT

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  • 10.09.2009 6:07 PM PDT

Posted by: Struvee
Well, I was making tacos so, I'm not sure about the other guys.

That's hawt.
Posted by: runningturtle
I like it too.

Posted by: hunkyandrich
Your new avatar is very touching Urk.

  • 10.09.2009 6:12 PM PDT

Sasquatch Says Hi

Dude i fully agree with you. even though i have alot of hair on my head, and i mean alot, i still agree.

oh and stosh love the picture, to funny

  • 10.09.2009 6:24 PM PDT

Sweet update!

This clears a lot of thing about about latency, and lag.

And I liked the shameless Forza Motorsport 3 plug you guys had in there.
;D

Have a great weekend, everyone!

  • 10.09.2009 6:30 PM PDT
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There are plenty of things to say, but which one is right?

This made my day. I crawled out of bed after a week of flu-like symptoms. I really needed this. Good bye for now, till the next time I feel better. *leaves computer, walks to bed passes out on concact with the pillow.

  • 10.09.2009 6:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Marty the Elder
$9.99

That's pretty good for 2 hours of music without explosions and people yelling. I don't care if you steal it, but God does...

three hit gold combo, with a double score multiplier for the combo pic (kinda) Too bad you're doing it on easy. You get 343 points.

Needa work harder for the high scores.

  • 10.09.2009 6:51 PM PDT

Epic update Urk, your definately getting better at these things lol ;D
keep up the great work!!

  • 10.09.2009 6:58 PM PDT

01010000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01010010 01100101 01101101 01100001 01101001 01101110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101100 01101101

Somewhat disappointing, I was hoping they would address the game history bug(large games not uploading to B.Net).

Can only hope for next week.

  • 10.09.2009 7:11 PM PDT

My Best Bungie moment: finally beating all the Halo games on solo legendary.
My Worst Bungie moment: not seeing giant stuffie grunts in the Bungie store.

Good update, I always like reading into some of the development process (networking stuff). Pretty sweet, keep up the good work, can't wait for Reach.

  • 10.09.2009 7:24 PM PDT

Posted by: runningturtle
I like it too.

Posted by: hunkyandrich
Your new avatar is very touching Urk.


Wow, runningturtle and urk have the ET hand thing. Awesome. And weird.

  • 10.09.2009 7:44 PM PDT

Vi veri veriversum vivus vici.

Nice update. Those Forza 3 car designs are amazing.

  • 10.09.2009 8:00 PM PDT

Yo Urk, I'm really happy for you and ima let you finish, but I have some questions too!

Around how long does it take for an average Firefight game to upload and display properly on B.net? If it's >10 hours or so, could there be a problem?

Also, I noticed in Firefight that the total score changes to red, green, and gold intermittently. What's up with that?


That networking stuff was really interesting too! I love learning.

Question!

Does Multiplayer not use the lockstep model because it is technologically infeasible? Like, is there a threshold on the amount of clients it can support before conditions become noticeably 'bad'?

Another one.

Posted by: some really smart guy
A synchronous model works by clients sending controller inputs to the host, who waits for inputs from all players in the game, packages them up into a single message, and sends the message back out to all the machines in the game.
So then, could we say that if the packets from a client that contained the controller input got lost en transit, the player would appear motionless? What if only particular packets got lost? ie. Let's say that I'm about to shoot a Grunt with my magnum and the packet that says, "Hey, I shot this Grunt here with this gun", gets lost. Would it appear on my screen, when I receive more data from the host, that:
(a) The shot didn't take effect at the Host's end and the Grunt would be left standing.
(b) The shot didn't take effect at the Host's end and the Grunt would be dead.

I'm thinking B, but then, that would mean that if I were playing campaign with some friends and the connection became lossy while in a fight, I could be shooting at an enemy, seeing the shot hit, yet it does nothing? Is that right?

Or am I way off the mark and it's something more like, "When I pull the trigger, no bullet will be fired until that packet is sent to the host, then I receive updated data including something that says 'hey, this guy shot. Make the his gun fire', and the bullet is fired (ie. the animation takes place)"?


Wow, that was a lot. I think I think too much.

: )

  • 10.09.2009 8:02 PM PDT