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Posted by: jew man man
You sure as hell can't finish LNoS with no Banshee/Seraph kills.
And finishing with less than 5 Elite kills is also impossible.
Thats not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about someone, for example, saving and qutting at the start of the Sabre section so they don't have to do the beach section again, and just keep reloading from there until they get it.
You might say 'oh, well the beach is the easiest section anyway' but point of Mythic as opposed to LASO is the in one sitting stipulation. No deaths, no saves, no going back to the menu, no loading from part way into the mission. Thats half the difficulty gone right there.
If thats not an actual, enforcable, stipulation anymore (or ever was?), then what is the sodding point?
Whats the practical difference between someone who did it LASO with a death 5 minutes from the beginning, and someone who did it with a death 5 minutes from the end? One can sort of fudge it to make it look like they didn't die?
What I'm trying to say is, there's no way people would put that much effort into completing a fake run to get on the list.
Its less effort, actually. You get to skip part of the mission every time you try it if you pick your checkpoint and strategy right.
Even if they do, the only person they'd be cheating was themselves. If one person cheats to get on the list it calls into question the legitimacy of every single other person on the list. Unless people have films currently in their fileshares, their conquerorship is reduced to merely heresay.
Legendary Smile doesn't have any of his films up any more, but he did at one point, and they were checked while they were up there (I know I checked them).
If people come into this thread now, and realise that all you need to do is post some valid-ish looking stats, suddenly his accomplishment doesn't look so impressive. He might even seem like a cheater. Same for everyone else on the list or hoping to be there. Suddenly we just look like a group of people circularly vouching for one another ("Ooh yes, I saw his stats, they looked alright") to make ourselves look impressive rather than people that actually have completed the whole game on Legendary, with all skulls on and no deaths in any segment and no saves.
Might as well take the list down since, the list of LASO completers would quickly get too long...
Posted by: jew man man
No they didn't. They only gave it to people who finished it before a certain date, like August 27th or something. They also gave it to the people who finished every mission via the SMRC.
This is what I meant. I unfortunately missed out on both counts since I only got into Mythic with the SMRC and missed one of the weeks' missions (which i then did the subsequent week :( )
Again, I'm not saying history will repeat itself in any fashion but if Bungie asks us 'who has completed Mythic and proved it' we won't actually be able to point to the list anymore.
Posted by: Naked Eli
What if someone beats the game on mythic and forgets to save their films? I would say that that person has definitely completed Mythic. Whether they want the recognition from the community is up to them.
Its also about being able to easily prove it, especially if someone does list it as one of their accomplishments (like you do). If the list is compromised, saved films are the fallback, if you ever decided to remove them, then you have no proof at all.
[Edited on 03.15.2011 6:58 AM PDT]