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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/15/2010

Average Joe

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What they're doing is genius. This is just a way to keep us on Halo Reach instead of Black Ops.

No need to fear Bungie, Black Ops doesn't even look as good as COD4 so lift the cap early.

Btw "Early November" means November 11th. I called it here first.

  • 10.15.2010 5:03 PM PDT

Well then, we can't miss anymore challenges!

P.S. I'm guessing November 7th.

[Edited on 10.15.2010 5:04 PM PDT]

  • 10.15.2010 5:03 PM PDT
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Bungie Day '11 Community Mosaic Thread

Posted by: Malloy05
everybody listen to mac2po he is 100% right

117 million? Easy enough >.>

Can't wait for more word on the map pack, as well as the update to the play lists.

  • 10.15.2010 5:04 PM PDT

Really, thats the update. I didn't believe it when everyone was saying that bungie bailed on the competitive community. I guess it's true. This is really the game we are stuck with.

  • 10.15.2010 5:05 PM PDT

awesome update thanks for the info, my only sad face was about the softkill on top of the sniper buildings in asylum, oh well adapt and overcome right? new maps look great, even the forged ones. lets get them challeges people

by the by Bungie thanks for a great game

  • 10.15.2010 5:07 PM PDT

Great to hear of the much improved DLC implementation!

  • 10.15.2010 5:07 PM PDT

A. Please do bring back Crashsite soon! That's really fun! I love fuel rod and feeling invincible. Hell, increase it to a set, give us another layer of overshields, and it'd be the best fun I've ever had in Halo just about!
2. Thanks for expanding the Invasion Map criteria fellas! See, I have this BUNGLE Invasion map I've been dying to submit, but spawns for Invasion Slayer have been killing me! Not to mention my map is so much bigger than any official ones, it was near impossible to decide where to focus combat!
So... we'll see if I can get lucky.
;)

  • 10.15.2010 5:08 PM PDT


Posted by: Psyco Tyco63
great communal effort idea


No it's not. This isn't an MMORPG. In a popular MMORPG, people feel they have a vested interest in communal goals because they're paying some monthly fee or they goals unlock a new tear of game modifying content. To-wit: Warcraft and the Ahn'Qiraj Gate event in classic or the Argent Tournament in WotLK.

Communal challenges in a console game to unlock existing content that doesn't even affect gameplay is the stupidest design idea I've witnessed in a long, long time. On consoles, this design puts you at the whim of release dates and renters.

Many of my friends have already started selectively doing challenges because they've become boring and repetitious. Many of us are biding our time until other games we're anticipating and then we'll be splitting our play time. This effect is already happening with MOH, and will only get worse with the massive list of AAA-titles coming out in the next two months. When Fallout: New Vegas comes out, there will be days I may not even do a single challenge in Reach.

Ergo, communal challenges on a console FPS like this to unlock existing content that offline profiles can already access does nothing but penalize the active community by tying their fate to the fate of everyone else.

There was never, has never been, never will be, any reason to put a rank cap in place over flavor items. Bungie wants you to believe they did it to prevent cheaters. Take a hard look at the three credit reset/ban threads over the last two weeks and ask yourself if they were successful at preventing cheaters.

  • 10.15.2010 5:09 PM PDT

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awesome

  • 10.15.2010 5:11 PM PDT

I can't believe we haven't reached 117 Million already?

  • 10.15.2010 5:14 PM PDT

Congrats to Evan! That's super awesome news.


Also grats to Joeski! Good work d00d. now get back to suckinit.

[Edited on 10.15.2010 5:15 PM PDT]

  • 10.15.2010 5:15 PM PDT
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  • 10.15.2010 5:17 PM PDT

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Awesome update Urk!
Posted by: urk
Well, I do know that when you do cross the 117 Million mark, we will celebrate by blowing the lid off the level cap! In the immediate aftermath, new ranks and armor will be made magically available for you inside The Armory, provided you have the rank and credits required. Time to get to work!

Time to get to work!

  • 10.15.2010 5:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: Qbix89
My shirt is awesome.
Cool?
Anyways, is there some way where we can see the progress on the 117 mil mark?

  • 10.15.2010 5:20 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.

Pretty good update, though I'm still disappointed people outside US can't enter the forge contest. I guess Bungie wanted to make Americans feel better by eliminating the real competition :P

  • 10.15.2010 5:20 PM PDT

Oh lord that was a great Blame Stosh.

I'll try and pick up the pace on my daily challenges, but no promises made!

  • 10.15.2010 5:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: Alec9224
Indeed. I haven't had XBL for a long time, but I still come on her everyday.

We'll do it live!Bill O'Reilly reference? Hehe.

  • 10.15.2010 5:27 PM PDT

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Thanks for the update, urk.

  • 10.15.2010 5:28 PM PDT

Awesome update. Can't wait for the level cap to be removed, those new playlists to be implemented, and for those DLC packs to come out.

Posted by: Serious Suicide
Pretty good update, though I'm still disappointed people outside US can't enter the forge contest. I guess Bungie wanted to make Americans feel better by eliminating the real competition :P

Uh...no. Legal issues prevent the international scene from joining in.

  • 10.15.2010 5:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: In SorteDiaboIi
OP is mad he cannot spawn trap and play like a douche to boost his K/D...

Best Post Ever.

when will we get any news about player model updates?


Mine hasn't updated in a long time... :/

  • 10.15.2010 5:28 PM PDT

No more race? :(

  • 10.15.2010 5:31 PM PDT

can we get a challenge counter somewhere so we can see ourselves inch towards the goal

  • 10.15.2010 5:31 PM PDT
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First of all, that picture on the front page looks awesome!

And finally, we get a solution to this DLC problem, where those who didn't buy the content were forced to buy it or stop playing matchmaking, or those that did buy it never got a chance to play it in matchmaking. I'll wait to see how this works out.

Double or nothing is great, and the Reach forum is indeed hilarious. Maybe next you can just ban these idiots altogether, so we can have some more laugh-worthy material in the forums.

Was the "We'll Do it Live" part supposed to be some sort of reference to a certain talk show host? Anyways, campaign matchmaking is precisely the sort of feature I have been wanting since Halo 2.

Nice to see some community maps and well needed changes to the matchmaking system. I think that 2-Flag should be removed from Blood Gulch altogether though, as I've ended up waiting over 7 minutes crouching in my base a few times, waiting for the our flag to return to the base before I could score the enemy flag.

Congratulations on the Make-A-Wish thing. Nice update.

  • 10.15.2010 5:32 PM PDT

Cool update, can't wait for the Noble map pack to drop on the marketplace. Maybe with Infection getting its own playlist now, I'll actually play it more. Can't wait to try Mythic Score Attack as well.

  • 10.15.2010 5:33 PM PDT

Hi.

Very great update!

Also, can I haz Cliffhanger DL link plz?

  • 10.15.2010 5:34 PM PDT