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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 02/18/2011

Good update! The new avatars look nice.

  • 02.19.2011 6:57 AM PDT

Any info on the new "Competitive Double Team"? Why, oh why, did you have to kill Doubles Arena? :(

  • 02.19.2011 7:07 AM PDT
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Rank based on winning? Yay! Arena just improved greatly!

EDIT: ^ You're right. I love Arena Doubles... now I'm sad again.

[Edited on 02.19.2011 7:21 AM PST]

  • 02.19.2011 7:21 AM PDT

I DO IT

more ranked playlists other than slayer. (objective, BTB, dont take out dubs).

bring back 1-50 rankings.

  • 02.19.2011 7:37 AM PDT

I can't believe I missed out on that All Stars contest! I just totally forgot to check!

  • 02.19.2011 8:09 AM PDT

needs moar animal icons. We have panda, tiger, now we need platypus

  • 02.19.2011 8:35 AM PDT

Ex-HaloTracks Admin
Star Nameplate winner and aspiring Graphic Artist.

Bungie Birthday Card Grand Prize Winner.


Posted by: BlindFireSniper

This may not be the reason but its an issue, yours has way too many frames. I thought doing more then 50 frames was too much. On a slow internet connection even 90x90 animations would take a while to load 180 frames.

I thought yours would have definitely gotten a star, but that's the reason I can come up with. There is no way you could have spelt your gamertag and your Bungie.net Profile name wrong. They received yours, and its in the weekly update, that's a big deal.

Or it may have been the fact yours looks like sprites. I googled "Halo Sprites" and the first image that shows up has a hog that looks exactly like the hog you used.

SUGGESTION:
I think anyone that gets their avatar used in the forum should receive the Theme Master rank. That way even if the image didn't get a star there is some reward for ones Bungie can use.


As per the google images thing I used the "Halo CTF" flash game as a basis for my warthog. I did in fact draw it from scratch, because I was worried I wouldn't get the star because I stole someone elses images, and I've got a psd to prove it.

For the 180 frames issue, that's probably true, but I'm not sure if that was a factor in the voting. I wasnt going to cut out one of the landscapes I had spent drawing pixel per pixel, but if that's all the had to be done, that's even more upsetting. I once again appreciate another feature, but it still sucks to not have a star when I honestly think I deserved it.

I do think there are much better entries than the heart armor lock one, and I would like to know how these were selected. This seems like less of a contest and more of Urk giving stars to who he feels like, which discourages me from entering more cool stuff, even though I sort of like making it.

[Edited on 02.19.2011 8:49 AM PST]

  • 02.19.2011 8:44 AM PDT

As a gold division arena player I can safely say that after these updates go into effect I will leave arena forever. Im fairly positive the rest of the higher ranked players will agree with me. What is the point of making the only ranked playlist noob friendly. The point of getting ranked is to show your skill and team slayer settings do not show skill. Why not just add more arena playlists like an mlg arena and a regular slayer arena so you can attract everyone, why would you only want to please one demographic of player rather than all of them? Your other halo games had a wide variety of ranked playlists and reach will only have one? Ok then.

  • 02.19.2011 9:03 AM PDT

are there going to be new achievements for the new maps ?

  • 02.19.2011 9:12 AM PDT

Dont be shy...
Im sorry for my coup changes but Im new at this.

my favorite one is the grunt with two granades in the hands

  • 02.19.2011 9:57 AM PDT

Don't hate the Scorpion for stinging you, it's in it's nature. Plus - Eggs are nature's hand grenades.

Gonna be kinda sad that we are getting the motion trackers back on Arena. I liked the "Slayer Pro" feel of Arena... kinda made it feel SERIOUS.

  • 02.19.2011 10:26 AM PDT

We Need More Senarey for! Forge! Plz BUNGIE!!
Posted by: urk
All present and accounted for.

click for full story

  • 02.19.2011 11:09 AM PDT

We Need More Secnery for Forge! PLZ BUNGIE!!

  • 02.19.2011 11:15 AM PDT

Posted by: KATANCIK1
As per the google images thing I used the "Halo CTF" flash game as a basis for my warthog. I did in fact draw it from scratch, because I was worried I wouldn't get the star because I stole someone elses images, and I've got a psd to prove it.

For the 180 frames issue, that's probably true, but I'm not sure if that was a factor in the voting. I wasnt going to cut out one of the landscapes I had spent drawing pixel per pixel, but if that's all the had to be done, that's even more upsetting. I once again appreciate another feature, but it still sucks to not have a star when I honestly think I deserved it.

I do think there are much better entries than the heart armor lock one, and I would like to know how these were selected. This seems like less of a contest and more of Urk giving stars to who he feels like, which discourages me from entering more cool stuff, even though I sort of like making it.


I understand. You are technically right, the amount of effort put into yours was probably a lot more than a lot of the people who got the stars.
I believe that the reason the people that didn't have nearly as much skill got the star is for multiple reasons.

For one, they want to encourage people that even people without a lot of skill can do it.

For two, they don't want all their good artists to be gone :)

This was mine.

  • 02.19.2011 11:30 AM PDT

New Marathon? Thanks Bungie!

Bungies treatment of employees is exemplary and admirable

  • 02.19.2011 11:39 AM PDT

why don't bungie put drivable pelicans in custom games/forge

  • 02.19.2011 11:41 AM PDT

Ex-HaloTracks Admin
Star Nameplate winner and aspiring Graphic Artist.

Bungie Birthday Card Grand Prize Winner.


Posted by: Negimas117

I understand. You are technically right, the amount of effort put into yours was probably a lot more than a lot of the people who got the stars.
I believe that the reason the people that didn't have nearly as much skill got the star is for multiple reasons.

For one, they want to encourage people that even people without a lot of skill can do it.

For two, they don't want all their good artists to be gone :)

This was mine.


Thanks, it means a lot. I guess next week I'll have to make one that leaves no doubt mine was the best :)

  • 02.19.2011 11:43 AM PDT

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
-Sun Tzu

During the last weeks I never doubt about Bungie's Philosophy!

Bungie Keep Treating everyone in the office like Kings and Queens, no need to remind you, but they're all a part that makes the Bungie Secret Sauce so Awesome!

Excellent Update, however I'm really worried about the new Arena Gametype:

The gametype used will have the following basic settings: DMR/AR/1Frag/Sprint, Evade, Jetpack, and Hologram with Motion Tracker ON.

As someone said earlier, many people will never hop on The Arena playlist again, due to the fact it will indeed become very friendly to casual players.

Let's see how this comes out....

  • 02.19.2011 12:02 PM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

New avatars made the update pretty damn sweet.


Sage beard entries were especially lulzy, and I'm damn near tempted to ditch my 4-year-old Not Quite an Octagon for the Hola one.

  • 02.19.2011 4:28 PM PDT

I apologize for being negative, because in general I feel the game is fantastic. That said, I'm very disappointed with the inclusion of Evade and the upcoming death of Doubles Arena (the best playlist in the game).

It's frustrating that it can take +10 minutes to find a game in the Arena playlists due to the lack of players, and I suspect these changes will not help. The addition of transparency and real-time tracking of division placement (and percentiles) is the change that is needed as it would go great lengths in bringing back the "1-50" crowd.

What a bummer, though. I'm not sure what I'm going to play without Doubles.

  • 02.20.2011 5:33 AM PDT

Lewis Belding: I got 18 people in my hotel! Where are they gonna go?
The Stranger: Out.

Yay! Mine was picked....No star though....

And I misread the instructions and thought it had to be taken from in-game somehow...Doh! Oh well.....

Some good entries all round though chaps and chappesses.....and congrats to those who got star status!

  • 02.20.2011 9:48 AM PDT

love that there changing the arena all though i think they should get rid of seasons completley and try and make it as much like the old tdm format as possible. thats what made halo...halo i also think if you play alot and you get into a league they shouldint be able to knock you out of it if your not playing alot. that there makes me not want to invest time in it. i miss the old tdm format this reach garbage is getting old real old. i find myself going back to H3 more and more trying to re-capture the real magic that took me into the halo universe in the first place. not this load of crap called arena.

  • 02.20.2011 9:52 AM PDT

So apparently Bungie's enormous egos cant let go of Arena, The Arena, and its next incarnation THE Arena. Just frag this absolute failure of an idea (1-3% of total online Reach players is quite the achievement). Go back to the traditional numerical ranked playlists and gain back at least an ounce of the massive respect you've lost.

PS: all you little fan boys who applaud everything Bungie says or does in their reports need to remove the hand from @ss that works your responses like a puppeteer.

  • 02.20.2011 10:33 AM PDT

Man, a lot of those are excellent. That Warthog looks cash.

I sent in this one.

  • 02.20.2011 11:41 AM PDT