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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/01/10

"They want to have their personal look of the master chief in their own way or they want to get all the armors to get the pilot skull helmet. "....Dude, Master Chief? What Halo: Reach did you play?

  • 10.01.2010 6:41 PM PDT
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Wow completely take away all the credits that we earned. Bungie the reason why the community boost... its because your condemnation points suck!! I'm telling you it takes forever to rank up. You guys want us to spend countless hours on your game just to feel good about yourselves. I'm glad you strip are credits away. Now we can all play some other game besides yours.

and another thing. If you guys were so smart you should of patched this before were started doing it. Thanks for wasting my time Bungie.

(and btw this isn't daddy its i spy 007 and yes i hate you guys now -_-) and no mater what you guys say i'll still hate u

[Edited on 10.01.2010 6:48 PM PDT]

  • 10.01.2010 6:46 PM PDT

Follow the Don @Don_Gino you know where
Don't mistake my kindness for something else




You call this an update. Kind of lacking but it will do. My armor isn't showing up correctly and I still have undetected on both upstream and packet loss. I don't think I have had host yet either so maybe that's why. Could someone please look into this? The Don would appriciate it greatly. My NAT is open and I have 20 megs down and about 10 up.

Thanks
Take care.

[Edited on 10.02.2010 1:22 AM PDT]

  • 10.01.2010 6:50 PM PDT

Corporal Sultan - Squad Assistant of 2nd Squad [A122] - Spartan Corps

Love that 'No escape' photo. So want it on my file share. But, can't find it. :(

  • 10.01.2010 6:53 PM PDT

Rebellion in small things to let the world know I haven't surrendered.

Is the Grunt audio test the same one that was in Halo: CE? (I think that's where it was, maybe Halo 2) I loved that thing. I'm downloading now to try on my speakers, but I'm already pretty sure they're wrong.

Anyway, also glad to hear there is a SWAT playlist coming. Looking forward to it!

  • 10.01.2010 7:03 PM PDT

Needed some matchmaking updates, I think it would be nice to have the quickmatch options that they had in Halo 2, where you could just choose which kind of match you wanted "snipers, slayer, swat etc." instead of having to vote and hope you get into a game type you enjoy.

Daily and weekly challenges should be worth a little bit more too I think, it seems to take forever to level up unless you want to have no life but Halo.

  • 10.01.2010 7:10 PM PDT

I love you guys.

  • 10.01.2010 7:17 PM PDT

We need more team SWATT. Last time I was on I couldn't find it.

  • 10.01.2010 7:19 PM PDT

I can't wait for all of the October updates to go into place. Great update, Urk.

  • 10.01.2010 7:41 PM PDT

I achieved my Recon armor through the screenshot contest Team Control, not Bungie Day or ODST. 5/29/09
No, Luke! Noo!
64th last player to play Halo 2 online.

Can't wait for the play-list update, urk! Thanks for the BWU. :D

  • 10.01.2010 7:48 PM PDT

Nice pics in the update, You guys rock

  • 10.01.2010 7:55 PM PDT
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Nice update. The picture link under the "Targets, Located" section is broken for me though.

  • 10.01.2010 8:00 PM PDT

Reborn Insanity

Can't wait for the Team Swat playlist.

  • 10.01.2010 8:03 PM PDT

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

Thank You! bye bye SWAT! No one's gonna miss ya!

  • 10.01.2010 8:11 PM PDT

any plans to fix the campaign resets? Having to start the whole campaign all over again if I want to play POA is not acceptable after I already beat the entire campaign on Legendary and my service record and bungie.net can back that up.

  • 10.01.2010 8:16 PM PDT
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I'm also curious why they didn't mention when they may or may not unlock the other ranks... Earning credits for no reason is quickly losing it's appeal.

  • 10.01.2010 8:24 PM PDT
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swat owns. its just that you prob suck at it

  • 10.01.2010 8:30 PM PDT

I will beat you.

Anyone hear anything other than "Boo hoo hoo"?

  • 10.01.2010 8:36 PM PDT

Great update bungie. But When is the level Cap going to be raised?

  • 10.01.2010 9:04 PM PDT


Posted by: PunkPirateAFO
I was hoping for some info regarding the level cap since it seems like a lot of people are now reaching it.

Was hoping October 1st would be the day it was lifted but apparently not. Is there no new info?


I never thought it was in oct., no one ever said that, but some acknowledgment or idea of when or how this thing will get resolved would have been nice. please tell me that a million threads saying "plezzz bungeee can I haz meh cap razed" isn't going to be the way it gets done. We have alot of credits to get to the top, some 20,000,000 to be exact, and I fear alot of folks won't make it that long. I would gladly play this game for 5 yrs and have a hellava time without any level raise, but I would love to start the run to the top and see what sweet armor is in store for us all. Please address this soon.

Other than that, sweet update as always. Already fixing things. Bungie is great! Epic could learn a few things from these guys.

[Edited on 10.01.2010 9:36 PM PDT]

  • 10.01.2010 9:06 PM PDT

Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death. -Psalm 22:12-15

PLEASE take infection out of rumble pit. Like swat, it is a significant departure from the basic Halo formula and should be put in it's own playlist. It is very frustrating when I log on for a few games, but every game is infection. It would be nice to have a free for all playlist where one can count on actually playing slayer, oddball, or KOTH. (most importantly slayer). Also, thank you for Reach, I like it a lot.

  • 10.01.2010 9:18 PM PDT

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Great update urk. But are you going somewhere? Taking a little vacay? I guess Sketch will have to do for one week.

  • 10.01.2010 9:23 PM PDT

Im probably the calmest person you will ever find.......EVER

The banhammer on the credit boosting was a little overboard, instead of resetting the ranks and credits, havent you guys ever considered removing the ability to gain credits in campaign and challenges involving campaign rather than insta banning anyone who farms without the knowledge that the hammer may be dropped at any point in time?

To Bungie: Here's your main two methods of farming credits:
-Lets say you have to kill 50 grunts, you stop 1 kill short and save/quit (ONI: Sword Base), restart the campaign in progress and get the last kill and while it says challenge completed unplug the ethernet cord from the xbox and pause the current game, that way the credits are earned but the challenge resets (eliminating the challenges or fixing that issue involving the registration of the challenge actually being completed will eliminate this method)
-Running right past all the enemies and obtaining the Target Locater, using it to obliterate the enemies you ran past (there's alot of them), earning a substantial amount of credits. (Why ban someone for something that you implemented to be used? Extremely hypocritical to ban people for using the Locater how it was intended to be used.)

This ban system is terribly flawed because there are other options to consider rather than just banning the person. And where's the exploitation of the game via a code coming from? Basically you guys are saying that almost anyone can exploit the code; therefore, manipulating the game? If thats true then you are to blame.

Going back to my point on campaign. Its easy credits because it allows for players to use the design of the campaign to manipulate its pattern of enemies and use that to their advantage, allowing people to rank up without having to play a matchmaking game, which is wrong but if there were no credits to be earned in campaign or any workarounds that you guys were to lazy to patch up, there wouldn't be such a problem.

And havent you guys ever consider that maybe the reason why people farm is because the ACTUAL legit way to earn good credits (Gruntpocalypse) takes up alot of time and MP doesnt supply enough credits and now you're LIMITING GRUNTPOCALYPSE? C'mon Bungie stop thinking with your heads far down the toilet.

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  • 10.01.2010 9:23 PM PDT

~pie

i dont understand why there changing score attack. thats just stupid.it takes over 30 games with equals to like 17 hours of non stop play to rank like twice. while everything else is 44-200 credits in matchmaking multiplayer. score attack isnt credit fasrming, its playing the game, and there going to get rid of the only thing that seemed to be fun? stupid..

  • 10.01.2010 9:28 PM PDT

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

Great update, I like all the changes except one, why are you nerfing Gruntpocalypse? The credits are fine, the problem is that all the OTHER game modes are not giving enough credits. Come on and raise the bar on Multiplayer Matchmaking so I can actually play it and climb the Warrant Officer grade 3 mountain and have a good time. Gruntpocalypse gets boring after a few matches, but I keep playing cause MP is not putting enough of a dent in the mountain.

  • 10.01.2010 9:29 PM PDT