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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/08/10

Bungie > Infinity Ward > Treyarch
(No calculus was used in this expression)

Nice update! As for the advice towards "A monument to all your sins"
-Don't get discouraged if you have to try a section several times.

-Play through on Heroic difficulty first so you can get the feel for a challenging game and learn the basic mechanics.

-As everyone has said before me, the plasma pistol has an overcharge function for a reason. Use it.

-"Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results," Albert Einstein said. If the game is kicking your butt at one strategy, try a different one.

-Plan ahead. If you know you're going to be fighting hunters later, keep the rocket launcher you got in the beginning. That little bit of juggling with your plasma pistol/DMR/Rocket launcher will pay off.

-Explore! If you're low on ammo or thinking "I could really use a <Insert weapon name here>," chances are Bungie's put a present around there somewhere. You just have to find it. Bungie made the game difficult, not impossible.

Good luck! (Because that helps too)

  • 10.08.2010 4:17 PM PDT

Brutes are best taken down by the needle rifle. Unlike in Halo 3, the majority of the hairy beasts no longer have energy shields (Chieftans still do have energy shields). Using the needle rifle, you can wipe most of the Brutes off the map with 3 or 4 simple body shots, resulting in a supercombine and killing the Brute. Some may drop an armor lock on you, but just be persistant and they'll go down. It's far easier that shooting their brain bucket off their head for that headshot.

  • 10.08.2010 4:18 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.

Thanks for the update, ur--Sketch.

  • 10.08.2010 4:20 PM PDT

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"...one to two months..."

Are you kidding me? AT first I liked the idea of having something that the community must do to raise the cap, but that was a while back. We should have had some sort of information before now and already been working on it.

I know that all the credits we earn at the cap will carry over to our next level but lets face it. Not seeing that bar move is a little discouraging. I know for me and a few friends we've actually slowed our gaming because its not as fun without seeing that bar move, even if it seems like forever to level sometimes.

Please remove the cap before the next playlist update. I know the charts show that barely anyone is at the cap but I feel thats not entirely true. You have to account for people that played very few games, people that were banned and made new account, and so on. There are just too many factors to it in my opinion.

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  • 10.08.2010 4:20 PM PDT

The first blame stosh was hilarious.

  • 10.08.2010 4:21 PM PDT

DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.

*Looks at second Blame Stosh Video*
*Looks at video of himself doing it better*

  • 10.08.2010 4:23 PM PDT

Posted by: TMNT4 Jacksta
i love it it is the best map on halo 3 me and my bro we -blam!- every wone we wone by 61 becaues they fill to thier death becuse we wore bitting thim. and if you hate it you mast be bad............

Can you please just tell us when we'll be able to get new ranks. I want my Commando helmet and shoulders already Bungie.

Tips for Legendary: Plasma pistol

  • 10.08.2010 4:23 PM PDT

Bungie > Infinity Ward > Treyarch
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If you want to complain about the cap, PunkPirateAFO, earn your Lt. Col. without repeating the same section of ONI Sword Base to kill 5928 campaign enemies with heavy weapons. I seriously doubt that any of your friends earned their Lt. Col.'s without boosting either.

[Edited on 10.08.2010 4:29 PM PDT]

  • 10.08.2010 4:26 PM PDT

i hate that, all my friends keep on trying to do that and i tell them"bungie knows"! But they never believe me.
Tip for tip of the spear on legendary: whenever you in a vehicle, drive away from the enemies, get out, wait 2 seconds, get back in and youll get a checkpoint.

  • 10.08.2010 4:31 PM PDT

The Upper Echelon

'Hog Gunner and Laser Extraordinaire

<---- legit Lt. Colonel FTW

  • 10.08.2010 4:32 PM PDT

Ferrex: "[...] perhaps to your astonishment, we do have more significant bans prepared for habitual AFK'ers and betrayal inciting. We've thought about this harder than you have."

LOLOLOLOL clearly you are wrong.

Yay, i'm special. Got all the achievements and have reached the rank cap.

Loved the final blame stosh btw.

  • 10.08.2010 4:33 PM PDT

I am still ranking up even though I'm a LCG3? I am SO happy.

  • 10.08.2010 4:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: defnop552
wow, my dick broke so i ain't getting it for a while!

UPDATE: Defnop552 has confirmed he has fixed his dick.

I think this whole "1 Percent are at Lt. Colonel" is BS. Every game I've been in when I hit Lt. Colonel has had atleast 5 others Lt. Colonels in it. The same amount as there were Recon people in Halo 3 when the vidmasters came out...And that was roughly 15% of the Population.

  • 10.08.2010 4:40 PM PDT

J23: Ready 4 Anything
We must move forward. Learn, Improve, Evolve

Awesome update. Really changes perspectives when you see the numbers like that. It's awesome being in the Top percentage for in the ranks and also my achievements. Just need to get to Lt.Colonel to get my last achievement.
My first achievement I got was on the 14th of September and my most recent was on the 26th of September.
Keep up the good work Bungie

  • 10.08.2010 4:41 PM PDT

Stats are cool.

  • 10.08.2010 4:48 PM PDT

Almost a legitimate Lt. Colonel! Just have to make it through Major, and I'm set with 1000GS in Reach! Woo!

  • 10.08.2010 4:48 PM PDT

Good update. Nice to see my achievements are decently rare.

  • 10.08.2010 4:50 PM PDT
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Sweet. Very interested in seeing what comes with the level cap. Will this mean more armor pieces that aren't available to people at the level cap yet?

  • 10.08.2010 4:53 PM PDT

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So stop reading and join already or Get Simmonsized!

On "Nightfall" you'll have to contend with four Hunters instead of two. And so on.

I just played and completed Nightfall on Legendary solo for the first time and only encontered 2 Hunters, not 4.

  • 10.08.2010 4:54 PM PDT

The jetpack video was amazing, bravo.

  • 10.08.2010 4:54 PM PDT

"within the next two months"
I hate you with a passion, Bungie. Leveling up is one of my favorite experiences in Reach. You took this experience away only so I can shoot up to Colonel when the cap is lifted. What a total rip-off.

  • 10.08.2010 4:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: GruntOfAction
I think this whole "1 Percent are at Lt. Colonel" is BS. Every game I've been in when I hit Lt. Colonel has had atleast 5 others Lt. Colonels in it. The same amount as there were Recon people in Halo 3 when the vidmasters came out...And that was roughly 15% of the Population.


If you take into account that matchmaking is TRYING to match you up with people of similar skill, and that people who are at Lt Colonel are probably playing quite often, and the fact that 1% of the population is still a good chunk of people, it doesn't seem that unlikely to me.

  • 10.08.2010 4:55 PM PDT
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I feel special to be in the top 97% and apart of that 5%.

Legendary wasn't hard at all to be honest, You just need to take things slow, think about what you're doing and not rush in like we're all tempted to do.

  • 10.08.2010 4:57 PM PDT

everytime a halo game comes out a CoD game comes out. hmmmm that weird...coinsedence?? or marketing smarts?? ;)

They release a game each year to milk people like you for more money, so yea marketing smarts.

  • 10.08.2010 4:58 PM PDT

/-\Z(\)

i feel awesome and all, but the weird thing is that when i was still a captain grade 3 and like an inch away from becoming a major i turned off my 360. Then came to turn it back on and play, but then it randomly says YOU HAVE RECIEVED 5000 CREDITS! and i was like wtf? Then i look at my campaign and it says i have to start from mission Noble Actual. Can someone please tell me why that happened? Plus i have achievements to prove that i have played through the whole campaign.. But yea im a Major grade 1 ^^

  • 10.08.2010 5:02 PM PDT