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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 07.23.10

Thanks for the Q&A!

One thing that I still want to solidly understand is if bonuses from the new Limited Edition Halo: Reach Slim Xbox 360 console are similar to some of the bonuses found in the Legendary Halo: Reach game packaging. I noticed an Elite armor permutation and some Waypoint goodies were included in both cases. Thanks!

  • 07.23.2010 5:54 PM PDT

I am a very pestamistic person. I see the glass half empty, even when it's full. Dont expect much from me.

WOW. that was disturbing

Posted by: El Roboto
Does the Ballad of Forky go a little something like this?

  • 07.23.2010 5:54 PM PDT

So the three (reveled) FW maps will be implemented into MM? Sweet.

  • 07.23.2010 5:57 PM PDT

Wow, awesome update! So full of more information on Forge World. Even if I can't make a map worth while in it, it will be awesome to just mess around in even.
I wasn't sure about Firefight versus when I heard about it, but after reading that section about in the update; my mind has changed and I cannot wait to play it now also.

  • 07.23.2010 5:58 PM PDT

IIIIIII

Sweet! We get Behind the Scenes! I thought be wouldn't but Bungie never stops amazing me. But, ugh, I can't wait any longer! Those 53 days aren't going to fly by for me.

  • 07.23.2010 5:59 PM PDT

- Dragon Ball/Z/GT and it's merchandise are awesome.
- All "abriged" parodies are hilarious.
- Humanity, as a whole, is stupid.
- I have asperger's syndrome
- This is the best used 20 seconds of your life
- Official helper to the Halo: Reach - The Armor You'll Be Wearing This Fall! Thread

I was like:

NO FORKIE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

That was cruel and uncalled for...
I like it.

I am a bit upset that there is legendary only behind the secenes, I would have gotten legendary had I known that.

[Edited on 07.23.2010 6:02 PM PDT]

  • 07.23.2010 6:01 PM PDT

Great read.

  • 07.23.2010 6:02 PM PDT

Omnomnom.

Wow, that was so long.

Just wondering about the spoilers, should we avoid the Weekly Update too?

  • 07.23.2010 6:02 PM PDT

~Beauty of Simplicity~

Damn - now that's what I call an update!

Also: Please give props for all the campaign answers! Great read.

  • 07.23.2010 6:05 PM PDT

Bungie, you make the greatest games out there.

And for that, I thank you.

  • 07.23.2010 6:10 PM PDT

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

~Maurice Freehill

I can't lie to you urk. You almost got me with that "cutting the forklift" gag... almost.

I need a tissue.

Oh, and thanks for letting us know about the incoming spoilers. It helps a lot!

[Edited on 07.23.2010 6:17 PM PDT]

  • 07.23.2010 6:12 PM PDT

best wall of text i have ever read

  • 07.23.2010 6:14 PM PDT

I want her...

holy crap it took me some time to get through that update


awesome!

  • 07.23.2010 6:15 PM PDT

urk ain't a minute man.

  • 07.23.2010 6:16 PM PDT

Hdawger, the wizard of the mountains.

Awesome update! It took forever to read top to bottom, which is a good thing. You should make more updates this long. The only thing I have to ask is.....no achievement reveals....really....

  • 07.23.2010 6:16 PM PDT

if i pre-order the legendary edition will i still get recon armor?

  • 07.23.2010 6:20 PM PDT

1 elite = 3 brutes.
Wow, I would have thought that they would have been a bit more even, but I guess that it shows you the role of brutes in Reach. Awesome update Urk, and thanks Butcher for the time you invested into answering questions.

  • 07.23.2010 6:20 PM PDT

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

Information Overload. Too... much... to.. take.. in. That was one of the best updates I've ever read.

  • 07.23.2010 6:21 PM PDT

I have a question, an important one, one that many would like to know, a question that hasn't been answered before...

Is Halo Reach on two disks, as that's a lot of content just for Multi-player? I hope so because it means more content for the player(s).

[Edited on 07.23.2010 6:23 PM PDT]

  • 07.23.2010 6:22 PM PDT

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

So Jaime moved to that vantage point and shot and Elite in the head with a Sniper Rifle.

Typo, in the Q&A with Copdahl.

Also, will the Weekly Updates be spoiler free?

[Edited on 07.23.2010 6:26 PM PDT]

  • 07.23.2010 6:25 PM PDT

Hi.

That... was... AWESOME!

  • 07.23.2010 6:26 PM PDT
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Destiny awaits. And it will be great.

This ranks up there with one of the most incredible BWUs I've read since I first started visiting this site back in '04.

Excellent job, guys! Everyone involved in this update seems to have done quite a bit of work putting it together. It's appreciated, trust me!

Thanks for being the one game developer that listens to its fans, yet is also down-to-earth enough to threaten launching its enemies into the sun with a gigantic slingshot. <3

Yes, I know that sounds oxymoronic.

  • 07.23.2010 6:27 PM PDT

Ferrex, you are now the 3rd proest guy at Bungie for making that Megaman reference an answer to a question (sorry, Marty, you just didn't provide the nostalgia that Megaman has, but at least you have 4th).

  • 07.23.2010 6:28 PM PDT

RC Master asks,"How are Brutes differentiated from Elites from a gameplay perspective?"

Chris: Fictionally we view Elites as the main antagonists of the player in Reach, and are viewed as the primary forces for the Covenant. Brutes are the shock troops of the Covenant, and are sent in to do the jobs that the Elites view as beneath them.

Gameplay wise, Elites are definitely the more challenging of the two. Elites are faster, more likely to melee a player, avoid shots well, and are the equal to a Spartan. Elites are also solitary and don't generally make decisions in relation to what other Covenant are doing near them. Brutes are meant to fight in packs. A Brute is very dependent on the other members in his pack, and their behaviors are often triggered when members of their pack are killed or in trouble. We view three Brutes with Spike Rifles to be a similar threat level to the player as one Elite (who is given a lot of flexibility where he can go). The three Brutes can definitely put a lot more shots on the player than one Elite, and they would take a lot more damage together than the one Elite, but because the Elite can recharge his shields and is so mobile the challenge ends up being comparable.


Thank Chris for that, I've been wondering about the differences between the Brutes and the Elites for a while.

Now if we could get more information about the Spiker, Concussion Rifle, and the Fuel Rod Gun, and how prevalent they are in Default Multiplayer...

Also-

Buy Legendary and you get Recon, the Elite, and the Flaming Helmet Armor Effect for use in multiplayer, plus Behind the Scenes Bonus Content to download and drool over
This will be epic.

[Edited on 07.23.2010 6:39 PM PDT]

  • 07.23.2010 6:29 PM PDT