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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 10/29/2010

Not sure why you say we are taking too long to get the cap release. Last week you said estimates were in November sometime but you suspected early November.

Right now it looks like we are due to hit the total this weekend or in the first two days of November, which is earlier than your previous update. this is assuming that the top of the thermometer is evenly paced like the rest of the neck.

I am excited at the prospect of releasing the cap. I have even saved 200k CR (about) by trying to resist the temptation of buying stuff, so I can afford some of the items I want when I am suddenly Colonel.

Been doing my part, and have been doing as many daily challenges as I can. Personally i think those of us who have been getting 90+% of the challenges should get a reward! This has been a lot of work, and a heck of a long time playing in firefight mode, especially those handgun challenges!

  • 10.30.2010 12:26 AM PDT

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I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

1,4 million dailies a day? Damn, we sure are an active community!

  • 10.30.2010 1:09 AM PDT

Can we get more clues for the pelican ?

My fly through on New Alexandria, there are pelicans that hover over buildings but they aren't pilot-able D;

And check out my forged pelican version 2(version 2 as version 1 got overwritten by accident D;) titled EP Defence

It was made for Machinima purposes ;D

  • 10.30.2010 1:20 AM PDT

Hmmmmm...Gotta find this pelican!

  • 10.30.2010 2:03 AM PDT
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I won't be unlocking any challenges if I am going to be busy looking for that pelican...

  • 10.30.2010 2:30 AM PDT

-Blam!- Still no mention of a Custom Game update, that was the main reason I played Halo 3 :(

  • 10.30.2010 3:15 AM PDT

Bungie hasn't done anything good since 2004

OMG, THANK YOU FOR ENDING THIS NIGHTMARE OF A SEASON!!! If the playlist update didn't say exactly what it just did, I was gonna sell my Reach disc to pay for the new CoD out of shear anger and disapointment. But seriously, get rid of the childish AA's in ranked play... There's no MULLIGANS in a playlist designed to rank skill. And by mulligan, I mean "Hold X/RB to undo your suckness."
Invis and Armor Lock sound cool on paper but are a hypocrisy to skilled play. A great FPS is two things; Balanced & Fun... AA's make this game unbalanced and frustrating. And so is the way-less-accurate-than-in-the-Beta Pistol.

Also, seriously...fix the frame rate drops in an update soon, please. What made Halo 1 and 2 so amazing wasn't texture quality, it was frame rate.

  • 10.30.2010 3:44 AM PDT

LLLOOLOLOLOLLLLOOOLOLOOL!!!!!111!111ONE
-mastar ceef

I'm sad about the customs as well :( No more alpha zombies for me

  • 10.30.2010 3:49 AM PDT

Bungie hasn't done anything good since 2004


Posted by: kacummings511
Slayer DMRs replaced by Arena Slayer Pro

Speaking in regards to 2v2, I really hope this change just lasts for season 3. Otherwise, 2v2 must also get a competitive playlist for people like me that want to play Reach with all of it's fun Armor Abilities and radar.


I bet you are twelve just like anyone else that loves the AA's.

  • 10.30.2010 3:52 AM PDT
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Hello! I'm a male!

Well looking at the achievements for the DLC I can now stay I know this will be a total waste of my money to purchase. Thanks Bungie! :)

  • 10.30.2010 4:53 AM PDT

"Don't mistake your rank and number for superiority.
The oldest child may learn from the youngest."

Sweet update Urk! I love all the content, especially the pelican easter egg hint.

  • 10.30.2010 5:21 AM PDT

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

-Adam Savage -MythBusters

That vid was awsome!!! I wish that happened to my team.

Anyone know what helemt Urks talking about??

  • 10.30.2010 5:38 AM PDT

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

Great update!

I'm a little angered that I sat here for 30 minutes typing a detailed summery of exploits and other factors I found that allow people to ruin other players fun in this great game to submit it and to have it just disappear AGAIN!! That is twice now. WTH?! Fix how often elite slayer comes up in multiteam or at least put it on bigger maps! Give it it's own damn playlist already and take it out of team slayer and multiteam. I hate that gametype. It's really bad when you are on a small map too. Give elites run, you gave spartans evade.

Rocket race is awful too, notice how little it gets voted for? And you are going to have a rocket race related achievement? Can't you just realize it's an awful gametype just like elite slayer and invasion. I love this game but not all aspects of it are fun. And that's the bottom line right? For us who play it to have fun? Well let's make it fun then!

Thanks for reading and take care,
The Don

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  • 10.30.2010 5:41 AM PDT
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Kyle Cummings


Slayer DMRs replaced by Arena Slayer Pro


Speaking in regards to 2v2, I really hope this change just lasts for season 3. Otherwise, 2v2 must also get a competitive playlist for people like me that want to play Reach with all of it's fun Armor Abilities and radar.



Posted by d0nkeyknutz:

I bet you are twelve just like anyone else that loves the AA's.


I'd say the name "d0nkeyknutz" advertises your age a little more than my opinion of armor abilities.

  • 10.30.2010 6:07 AM PDT

yo homes to bel-air!

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Hint... PLease?

And on another note, not that the idea of a flyable pelican isn't totally amazing; but I'd rather hear about that Legendary ending... is it myth? or just a super duper secret?

at the end of pillar of autumn on legendary click in the right thumbstick and look left. master chief will be in chrio sleep


That's not the legendary ending...
well it's an ending only found on legendary so that's as close as we are going to get

  • 10.30.2010 6:24 AM PDT

Sweet Update! Can't wait to find how to fly the pelican!

  • 10.30.2010 7:04 AM PDT
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Finished the fight on September 26,2007, 10:49pm EST
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Any Halloween specials this week?

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  • 10.30.2010 7:11 AM PDT

Sweetness!

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In an attempt to speed of the removal of the rank cap it would have been conducive if the challenges had catered to a wider audience. They're currently way too specific in the sense that some can only be unlocked in a specific gametype. This means that I personally never will be able to unlock some of them due to the fact that I'm not playing MP MM.

You got the right idea with challenges such as "X number of kills in any gametype" but more could be done. How about 50 vehicle kills or sticky kills in any gametype?

  • 10.30.2010 7:20 AM PDT
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I agree with Batzter. My Gold expired, and too many of the challenges are for Gold members only. Now, I don't plan on getting Gold anytime soon, but I still want to help get challenges. I paid $150 for this, I want to be able to play it more.

  • 10.30.2010 7:59 AM PDT

I am NOT feeling those achievements at all. Encouraging MORE people to use armor lock? A DOUBLE KILL from the grave? Thats the most luck based bull-blam!- I have ever heard.

  • 10.30.2010 8:20 AM PDT

-Delta0Medusa-

Sweet upodate.

  • 10.30.2010 8:22 AM PDT

Posted by: tk93
I agree with Batzter. My Gold expired, and too many of the challenges are for Gold members only. Now, I don't plan on getting Gold anytime soon, but I still want to help get challenges. I paid $150 for this, I want to be able to play it more.

You paid $150 for one game but you can't pay the cost of a gold membership? Sounds like your priorities are a bit skewed

I'm just waiting for a word on when the DMR's bloom will be fixed, we have 1,000's of votes for having it patched but still no word from them.

  • 10.30.2010 8:31 AM 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.

Awesome update. Yay pelican, the best thing about the internet is I can save 100 hours of my time by simply waiting for someone else to find out how to do it...

  • 10.30.2010 8:38 AM PDT

s3x on the flag

Just remember, not only will boosted Challenges NOT count toward the overall tally, they'll likely earn you a Credit reset and some face time in the no Credit corner.

Q: Isn't the 'easiest challenge evar' that is being released on Monday morning a form of 'boosting'?

A: The difference is that it is Bungie sanctioned boosting.

PS Double kill deth from the grave is a dum achieve

  • 10.30.2010 8:58 AM PDT