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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 03.26.10

Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).

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Man, missed this in my feed earlier. Now I'm to it!

Edit: Sounds like its pretty much what I expected. Pretty cool.

But the 'collective gating' thing seems a bit weird.

[Edited on 03.26.2010 8:01 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2010 7:38 PM PDT

Posted by: KeiserInc
Awesome, i can't wait for Reach

  • 03.26.2010 7:40 PM PDT
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"Dear Bungie.net, we regret being stubborn bastards, we regret coming to this forum, and we most definitely regret that Darth Kooky blew up our raggedy-ass opinion!"

Please don't stick Annual/Deja vu/Endure achievements and challenges in there. They take too long and quickly lose their fun factor. Deja vu is the most annoying achievement ever.

Analysis:
- Yes, I know ODSTs have less damage resistance.
- The one tiny section full of Ghosts and Banshees took us over an hour to get through.
- Checkpoints were far too few.
- I'd suggest the NMPD take away Vergil's license for driving way too fast, but they were pretty crooked cops. Seriously though, Vergil gives the Olifant a huge speed boost on Legendary. In 30 seconds, the truck is on the other side of the small area you're in and is currently taking massive damage. Something you can't do anything about.

Rant over.

- Thanks for 1000 rockets :D
- Thanks again for those rockets. Those Phantom-loads of Covies are absolutely easy to kill with 1000 rockets. (Well, 900 or less by that time.)

Annual wasn't so bad after those 4 guys figured out the 15 minute route. If you lessened the toughness of those kind of achievements just a tiny bit, it would be a lot more fun. Brainpan easy is too easy though. Oh and tell Lars he's mean. The Skull on Citadel is an absolute pain to get.

Endure...meh. Endure took too long but was fine. Deja vu was just a prick.

  • 03.26.2010 7:45 PM PDT

Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).

Staff Writer and speedrun record holder at highspeedhalo.net

Ignorance is the true enemy of all things.

Rocking Bungie.net for over 8 years!

Posted by: Darth Kooky
Please don't stick Annual/Deja vu/Endure achievements and challenges in there. They take too long and quickly lose their fun factor. Deja vu is the most annoying achievement ever.

Thats because the mission was designed badly. Nothing more. Its even more frustrating on Mythic.

Annual wasn't so bad after those 4 guys figured out the 15 minute route.
I assure you they didn't find it. Speedrunners/trickers did.

  • 03.26.2010 8:03 PM PDT

My Other Hogs A Mongoose!
So Kiss My Bow Chicka Bow Wow!

Cheers for the update, i've digested it all and want March to hurry up and finish cause frankly its been dragging its feet and Aprils only on my radar cause of the wifes birthday and to be honest that whole month really just sucks Gonads! I want May!

  • 03.26.2010 8:10 PM PDT

This looks fantastic. It's taking a CoD inspired reward system and making it easy to get along with, and realistically not affect the game play. Fantastic.

  • 03.26.2010 8:45 PM PDT
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-Blam!-


Awesome updates.

Now to continue squatting until May...

[Edited on 03.26.2010 9:09 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2010 9:09 PM PDT
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Oh man, this game is going to be sick!!

  • 03.26.2010 9:33 PM PDT
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Now this is a damn fine update.

  • 03.26.2010 9:38 PM PDT

Get WorkPLaced!!

It's hard reading updates like this. Much like a good book, I get excited nearing the end of the vast information, but also a little sad that it has to end.

Then to really rub things in I get to sit here and think about how it will be another month before I can mess with all of these new items, UI's, customization etc.

Thanks for a great update, and more fuel to my Halo Reach fire.

  • 03.26.2010 9:51 PM PDT

Posted by: MADG33k

...For this, all we ask is that you let us keep the plunder we acquire, the credits that are earned...


We won't be carrying your Credits over from the Beta to the retail game. End of story.

  • 03.26.2010 10:56 PM PDT

Cool update. Seems to good to be true.

  • 03.26.2010 11:51 PM PDT

Awesome update!

  • 03.26.2010 11:59 PM PDT

Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Dammit I want my blame Stosh =(
They are like the red line in all the updates, and now they gone missin'.

Nevertheless, nice update, can't wait for the vids and surely like the fact that there will be customization options for elites as well :)

  • 03.27.2010 12:54 AM PDT

Madgeek, you're amazing.

I think I almost enjoyed your post more than I enjoyed the whole update!!! ^_^ I was a lil disappointed by Lukems response but... He's a busy guy. I'll forgive him this once.

So excited for Reach!!! I love how these tantalizing tidbits keep getting dangled in front of us... Omigosh is it May yet?!?

  • 03.27.2010 2:30 AM PDT

Just got 1 more question:

Do we buy pieces of armor, or do the credits not act as money but as some kind of rank (IE: you won't lose them, but every piece of armor requires you to have earned a specific amount of creds)?

Just curious. At first I thought you would just stack creds, and then earn the right to pick pieces of armour, but it wouldn't cost you creds. But right now it looks like you actually have to spend creds.

  • 03.27.2010 2:49 AM PDT

Halo: Reach the broken game!!!

lets hope they continue to add armor upgrades through out the life of the game. I know I'm not the only one who plays tons of Halo so there will come a point, how long I'm not sure, that I'll have all the armor unlocked that can be unlocked with the player investment credits. Will bungie add new armor to Halo: Reach, will it be like a forza 3 deal where you buy the car pack in this case armor pack then have to unlock what you've bought off the market place with in game credits???? I really hope so!!! I'll spend the extra cash to have a peice of armor someone else is to cheap to spend the money on. Give me armor lots and lots

[Edited on 03.27.2010 3:15 PM PDT]

  • 03.27.2010 4:32 AM PDT

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I wanna be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Niiiiccceee

  • 03.27.2010 5:37 AM PDT

We are Orbital Drop Kamikazi Troopers, dropping feet first into hell with a grenade in each hand and a charge of C4 strapped to our back, ready to blow the devil to heaven with no thought of comeing back, except for cookies.

ima wonderin, will we be able to earn credits ofline, like in campaign or custom games, or whatever else there will be for people without gold, mine runs out soon????

  • 03.27.2010 6:08 AM PDT

XBL: Badjoe7.

/ Booting A.I. 89-120,6...
/ Ready...
/ Initiating world domination plan E-75...

with every update that i read i get more exited for this game. and i reach is really starting to look like GOTY stuff.

  • 03.27.2010 6:09 AM PDT

We are Orbital Drop Kamikazi Troopers, dropping feet first into hell with a grenade in each hand and a charge of C4 strapped to our back, ready to blow the devil to heaven with no thought of comeing back, except for cookies.

ouch, that hurt, alot
plz say we get some recognition for what we done tho, i cant belive youd leave us with nothing...

  • 03.27.2010 6:25 AM PDT

Stay out of the warthog! Don't have three to a warthog!!!! lol.

After reading the weekly update, this does seem to be an awesome game. I do have a few questions that you may or may not be able to answer. On multiplayer, how exactly would the credits work for people who can only play offline? Would it be too bad sucks to be you thing? or is there some special way for people who just play offline or can only play offline, to get credits?

  • 03.27.2010 6:39 AM PDT

Spartans are cool or w.e but im waiting on elite armor, and i hope they but and even amount of armor for both because in halo 3, elites had like 5 garbage armor and spartans had a million cool ones

  • 03.27.2010 6:49 AM PDT

money

  • 03.27.2010 6:52 AM PDT

in the retail game, it's a pretty safe bet that there will be other things on your Spartan to customize

CODPIECES! I know we're gonna be able to customise the Spartan codpiece. My plan is to go for a spectacularly huge one ala Blackadder.

:D

  • 03.27.2010 6:56 AM PDT