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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 03.26.10

"I just looked at a 7-day forecast. Furnace. Ugly. Cooking. Killer. Yowtch! Overcooked. Unbearable. I've never had it spell out "-blam!- you" on me before." -Facetious Sage

The intelligence of my questions shall be directly proportional to the intelligence of your thread, and you will like it! -Jesusismyhomey

I figured they'd do armor attachments this time. I think I even made a post concerning it a few weeks ago in the Reach forum. I'm glad they're putting it in though.

As for the credit system, I'll have to see how easy/hard it is to unlock things before I pass judgement on it.

  • 03.27.2010 7:06 AM PDT

Feels like that last month before the Halo 3 Beta all over again...

At any rate, I can't say that I'm not a little disapointed in the lack of info on split-screen. It's stuff we NEED to know. If I have to hear that Halo Reach is only 2 player split online I think I'll cry. If it's only 1 player like *cough*mw2*cough* I'll chuck my xbox out the freaking window.

  • 03.27.2010 7:34 AM PDT

this is going to be awesome, i wounder if you cab upgrade amour abilities with the credits you earn?

  • 03.27.2010 8:18 AM PDT
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Yea man I used to think Halo was dumb but since Halo 3:ODST I love it! Not i can't wait until Halo Reach

  • 03.27.2010 8:52 AM PDT
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Don't be a slowpoke Mr. Bubbles!

Oh cool. You guys found another way to copy Call of Duty... and stop trying to pretend you're not. Commendations and all that are just like challenges and this global rank system is just like leveling in CoD. And guess what! As you progess levels, you get unlocks. CoD is great and so is Halo, but in their own ways. Bungie, i beg of you to throw all this in the garbage and stick to what you know.

  • 03.27.2010 9:04 AM PDT

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Exalted is considered "the highest" because you can't get any bans or warnings of any kind for quite a long time, which is harder than just being a member for a long time.

Cool stuff. Thanks for clarifying.

  • 03.27.2010 9:33 AM PDT

your so retarted. you make it seem like cod invented all those things but it didnt. cod is just a game that copies other games features like battlefield, halo, rainbow six, etc. the only thing cod invented are perks, and do you see reach with them? no so stop saying reach is copying cod

  • 03.27.2010 9:47 AM PDT

if it makes a game better then i really dnt care what game they steal it from.

  • 03.27.2010 10:16 AM PDT

Way to not learn from your mistakes in Halo 3. I have every Halo game, but if Elites get short-stacked again, I (and thousands of other Sangheili) will not buy Reach. I refuse to play as a Spartan.

  • 03.27.2010 11:30 AM PDT

NOBLE SIX

We should be able to know how long the Beta will be up so its fair if you have something to do you should know what time the beta is on on May 3.

  • 03.27.2010 11:43 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.

lol!!! actualy reach does have perks, the abilites (i no, i cant spell) are the things like the jetpacks and sprint and invisibility!!!

  • 03.27.2010 2:08 PM PDT

You look unto me now through the profile screen found at http://www.bungie.net/Account/Profile.aspx. Here we are, mutually faceless, both ones in the Seventh.

I'm getting tired of the second class treatment Elites are getting.

  • 03.27.2010 2:16 PM PDT

OK, now we are getting some idea about how this is going to work. We are going to be playing game with people who like playing the way we play, with campaign being an option,to rank up not our "rank" per-say, unless we play arena, but our little treats, armor, and we are being given a choice as to what treats we receive and because we play as a Spartan in campaign, the customization for Spartans hold some sort of significance over the elite customization. Cool. Go Bungie,they just made the mute feature less likely to be needed and made game play more enjoyable!

edit: I'm really getting tired of people complaining about how elites aren't being given press. You know what? they said elites will have the customization thing, just that it would be different, they didn't say that they were just going to ignore them.

[Edited on 03.27.2010 2:30 PM PDT]

  • 03.27.2010 2:23 PM PDT

I personally can't wait for Call of Reach.

  • 03.27.2010 2:37 PM PDT

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

Posted by: MADG33k

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

Posted by: lukems

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

EPILOGUE

"Yes sir! O' Captain, My Captain", The brave warriors shouted with forced confidence, glad that their helmets cover the grief breaking out on their faces at the all too expected answer from high command. For they did not come just to question why, but to learn, to do and perhaps to die.

While the plunder they may not keep, and their work may receive no credit, they know they will still have each other, this band of brothers. With only the glory of defeating an enemy and defending each other they boldly mount up on Mongooses and Warthogs and ready themselves for the drive into the valley of death.

Plasma Cannons to the right of them,
Plasma Cannons to the left of them,
Plasma Cannons in front of them
Volley'd & thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they drove and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell



And when the Beta is over and upon Reach silence falls, the stories of how these brave warriors fought will be all that is left to tell.


For at least a few more months until Reach comes out.
;D

(With apologies to Walt Whitman and Alfred, Lord Tennyson)


[Edited on 03.27.2010 2:44 PM PDT]

  • 03.27.2010 2:39 PM PDT

Why not stop by my File Share while you're here?

~Long Live Halo 2
Only regret is I didn't play more of it.

If you haven't noticed by now, I'm sort of a jerk.

Where is the Blame Stosh? Anyway good update. My mind is racing with "Reach, Reach, Reach".

  • 03.27.2010 2:44 PM PDT

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

Why?

  • 03.27.2010 3:59 PM PDT

Life to lifeless, to eternity.
Life to lifeless, the cycle repeats.
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Trophy shot 'Focus' has been featured on the Bungie.net home page! Thanks, Bungie!

Can we customize the colors of our visors?

  • 03.27.2010 6:05 PM PDT

I don't want random messages (ie, Join my group, etc). I have begun blocking solicitations.

I dont like the line "Your Spartan will be your Identity in Reach". I have always been, and always will be an Elite Player. There better be a ton of ways, and cool ways, not mostly crappy as it was in H3, to customize Elites in Reach.

  • 03.27.2010 6:56 PM PDT

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I'm just wondering about the theater and forge the most right now. There has been lots on matchmaking but I really loved the forge and theater in H3. I hope that they are going to be back and better than ever and fix that stupid ten minute load times when you're with a friend trying to watch film clips.

  • 03.27.2010 7:16 PM PDT

its log! log!
its big, its heavy, its wood!
its log! log!
its better than bad, its good!

HOLY BLAMWAFFLES! This... shall... PWN!!! I cannot WAIT for the beta!

  • 03.27.2010 7:20 PM PDT

its log! log!
its big, its heavy, its wood!
its log! log!
its better than bad, its good!

lol!!! actualy reach does have perks, the abilites (i no, i cant spell) are the things like the jetpacks and sprint and invisibility!!!

INCORRECT! Those are the new equiptment! Instead of bubble shields and trip mines, we get jetpacks and invisibility.

  • 03.27.2010 7:28 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.

AWESOME update.

In the Q and A, Bungie made all the right answers. It's like they read minds or something, every single thing from major to minor that was a problem in Halo 3; they are fixing.
It's almost too good to be true?....

Though still crossing my fingers for the thing that will never come: 4-player splitscreen campaign coop.

  • 03.27.2010 7:32 PM PDT

um... is the only point of these to make armour look good, or do they serve some other purpose like nightvision (from the weird visor) or 1st person perspective in theatre (from head-side camera)? because i noticed a significant difference in the shoulder-pads price but they looked pretty much the same. any thoughts?

  • 03.27.2010 11:03 PM PDT

I don't like the fact of no 50 race...I wonder what there will be for veteran players to achieve that noobs can't...I liked the fact that bad kids could only get to a certain lvl...bungie is mad cuz they can't get 50s

  • 03.28.2010 12:02 AM PDT