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Also in halo 3 there where hidden messages that only appeared at certain dates in the year.

  • 04.19.2011 3:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: David Dunn

...and perhaps a total of 77 dead bobs...



I wondered this too. I tried killing 77 of them a couple days ago and nothing happened. I was thinking of maybe a bigger number like 343 or 777. Maybe 7 on each mission...something like that. I'll try when I have more time.

Did anyone kill all the known BOBs on Legendary?

I was also thinking about Recon and how we needed ODST to finish the Vidmasters. I wonder if this puzzle will be in two parts making us buy something before it can be solved.

  • 04.19.2011 4:33 PM PDT

GT: DASniperPenguin

Just pointing this out, as well as lots of Kill bob dailys, theres been a lot of challenges for LASO complete each mission.

perhaps you have to LASO each mission, solo and co-op and kill the bob each time on both solo and co-op LASO run throughs to unlock the 'bob' helmet as you called it.
might not need to be solo and co-op but just one or the other

  • 04.19.2011 4:52 PM PDT


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Posted by: David Dunn

...and perhaps a total of 77 dead bobs...



I wondered this too. I tried killing 77 of them a couple days ago and nothing happened. I was thinking of maybe a bigger number like 343 or 777. Maybe 7 on each mission...something like that. I'll try when I have more time.

Did anyone kill all the known BOBs on Legendary?

I was also thinking about Recon and how we needed ODST to finish the Vidmasters. I wonder if this puzzle will be in two parts making us buy something before it can be solved.



youre definitely going to have to buy a map pack, to unlock the required achievements. Well, thats what I think.

  • 04.19.2011 4:53 PM PDT

Maybe you are right CasualBanana, since the levels are packed with Brutes, maybe one of the Brutes acts as the BOB for the mission. It could be possible.

I'm open to anything guys, I've been testing everything and trying to get this to work.

  • 04.19.2011 5:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: The Game1415
Maybe you are right CasualBanana, since the levels are packed with Brutes, maybe one of the Brutes acts as the BOB for the mission. It could be possible.

I'm open to anything guys, I've been testing everything and trying to get this to work.
I would try, but I'm about to get in a car and drive to Arizona, so I can't really be playing Reach.

And look around the ending part of Exodus with the Wraith.

There will be a Brute Chieftan with a Needle Rifle (or another gun, I'm not sure) and he will shoot you and then get behind cover.

By the time you get there, he will be gone.

  • 04.19.2011 5:07 PM PDT


Posted by: The Game1415
Objective: One BOB Medal per mission

Winter Contingency: [Yes]
ONI: [Yes]
Nightfall: [Yes]
Tip of the Spear: [Yes]
Long Night of Solace: [Yes]
Exodus: [No]
New Alexandria: [No]
The Package: [Yes]
The Pillar of Autumn: [Yes]
Lone Wolf: [Yes]



there are definitely two different bobs on tip of the spear.

Edit: Because the one at the beginning has a concussion rifle and the one near spire has a fuel rod gun.




Also I noticed that bobs have a tendency to have two to three initial spawns each

for example the first winter contingency can spawn on either side of the upper house (after getting spade truck)

Then theres the one at the lower house (at waterfall) and just outside the middle house (under bridge) But maybe they are two spawns for an individual bob.

Also the bob at the spire will spawn near either of the two main spartan fire-team spawns (in invasion), but not on both. Or where the Alpha generator would be.

If you want mess around with this, remember that if you kill one bob, another cannot appear on that level. One bob (found and/or killed) per level.

[Edited on 04.19.2011 5:51 PM PDT]

  • 04.19.2011 5:16 PM PDT

Here is a video of a guy who kills all the silver-bobs!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqLON4AMal4&feature=relate d


Also watch his other videos.

  • 04.19.2011 5:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

The Brutes on Exodus are nothing. Why?

There are three of them, and it turns out they DON'T always talk. There are three on the Spirit that rises up. Until those three Brutes despawn, the three Brutes on the Spirit won't spawn. My theory is that they are the same Brutes, and it is just Bungie being lazy again.

  • 04.19.2011 6:13 PM PDT

Don't be silly. You're not wrong because nobody is agreeing with you, you're wrong because your points are weak and poorly supported. The fact that people disagree with you is a symptom of being wrong, not the cause or the proof of it. Canary in the coal mine, so to speak.

Something ocurred to me...

I wonder if it could be the case that killing one BOB on each Campaign level is not enough to trigger the new armor, assuming (again) that the OP's theory is correct... It might be the case that you have to kill a BOB at each one of its different spawns throughout the level! :0 Just a thought.

  • 04.19.2011 6:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: GEOFORM 187
Something ocurred to me...

I wonder if it could be the case that killing one BOB on each Campaign level is not enough to trigger the new armor, assuming (again) that the OP's theory is correct... It might be the case that you have to kill a BOB at each one of its different spawns throughout the level! :0 Just a thought.


Get it out of your head, there is no new armor in halo reach.

  • 04.19.2011 9:15 PM PDT

Okay Kira, we understand, you believe there is no new armor, yet we have seen new armor. You are constantly posting in here, just stop.

Oh and guys, along with a medal on each mission, try just killing each BOB (Including the Banshee ones) on Legendary.

For the final level of the game, BOB spawns at around 35 kills in the mission. Good luck. :P

  • 04.19.2011 10:20 PM PDT
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ARMOR LOCK FTW!!

I love your theory. If only I had XBL. I would help you guys out and stuff. I've only found one BOB. On the first level. I hope you find that BOB on Exodus. I am DYING to find that one.

  • 04.19.2011 10:30 PM PDT

if knowledge is power and power corrupts, isn't knowledge therefore dangerous?
Black Tower

I get the feeling you need to hijack the New Alexandria one (good luck), maybe have the Exodus one fly with the falcons to the beach, PP him down, hijack him there?


Like, either the BOB is IN the banshee, or the BOB is the banshee...
In other words, become the BOB.

Maybe steal BOB's banshee, turn it into a phantom? OR get that easter egg going, hope he flies into the giant portal building?

[Edited on 04.19.2011 11:49 PM PDT]

  • 04.19.2011 11:45 PM PDT

Don't be silly. You're not wrong because nobody is agreeing with you, you're wrong because your points are weak and poorly supported. The fact that people disagree with you is a symptom of being wrong, not the cause or the proof of it. Canary in the coal mine, so to speak.

^ The BOB Banshees aren't hijackable. This has been discussed already.
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Posted by: GEOFORM 187
Something ocurred to me...

I wonder if it could be the case that killing one BOB on each Campaign level is not enough to trigger the new armor, assuming (again) that the OP's theory is correct... It might be the case that you have to kill a BOB at each one of its different spawns throughout the level! :0 Just a thought.


Get it out of your head, there is no new armor in halo reach.

Dude, you're still here? Don't you have anything better to do? :/

[Edited on 04.20.2011 1:37 AM PDT]

  • 04.20.2011 1:35 AM PDT

Do you think they'll be 2/3 bobs on lone wolf? We could get a team of 4 together to go as far into that mission as possible. Also, I am willing to help the bob hunt. Add me: Ben TNG


...And there's so many possibilities, lets just work together to try them all. Just ignore kiras posts, don't know what they are trying to accomplish and besides; Nothing ventured nothing gained...

[Edited on 04.20.2011 2:42 AM PDT]

  • 04.20.2011 2:36 AM PDT

Now this is a shot in the dark but I figured I might as well pitch it... now the data pads that you find have a number, that isn't exactly the number of the level you find it on (i.e. tip of the spear being level 4, or 5 if you count noble actual)but just a number that replaces a letter in the message on the pad. maybe the numbers on the data pads is the order you need to kill the Bobs in...?

  • 04.20.2011 3:00 AM PDT

Right. Ok. I was reading through this, and I noticed that a Bungie.net moderator posted this in relation to the BOBs:

Before proceeding any further, you must take the oath of the vidmaster:

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use Caps Lock as my "run" key and to never, ever leave a single Bob alive."


Although it's from Marathon, it also seems to apply equally well to Reach. This seems to me quite obvious that these are instructions for what you have to do to potentially unlock this helmet. You have to make your way through the Campaign

"punch[ing] all switches" (collecting all data pads or switches or both)
"never shoot[ing] where I could use grenades" (never firing a single shot, or at least not until all your grenades have been used - looking up what it meant in Marathon will probably make this clearer),
on "Total Carnage" difficulty (this one is a bit ambiguous - it could be Legendary, LASO or LAASO),
"never use[ing] Caps Lock as my run key" (possibly never using Sprint, or never using a certain control scheme? Again, reference to the original Marathon will make this clearer)
and "never, ever leav[ing] a single Bob alive" (self-explanatory).

Also, it seems like Bungie keeps trying to bump our interest in this. We were convinced that there was no Bob on New Alexandria - bam, Golden Tree City. We thought there were no more easter eggs - pretty convincing pics of the Defiant helmet come out, NOT to say "this is coming with Defiant" but just to show that there were still things to discover. And finally, when interest in the Bobs seems to be flagging, we get a bunch of "Find the Bob" challenges at the same time. The Bobs aren't there for the challenges; the challenges are there for the Bobs. They are trying to raise awareness of their existence in the community. BUNGIE WANTS THIS TO BE FOUND.

On a side note, I think I saw a thread claiming that showing that pic on the XBL marketplace was false advertising, but Bungie know what they're doing. It's not false advertising because getting that helmet is and always has been possible.

*thread saved*

  • 04.20.2011 3:46 AM PDT

Nice post, I agree. I am currently looking for the Exodus BOB, if anyone wants to help my gt is WPooney.

-thread saved

  • 04.20.2011 8:05 AM PDT

The Song Of Nephilim

Xenoblade <3

Is that it's official name?

  • 04.20.2011 8:12 AM PDT

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Thread save´d.
Your theory is as far the best I have seen.
Bump for possible justice!

  • 04.20.2011 8:25 AM PDT

SHE'LL BE THE TWO GIRLS, YOU'LL BE THE CUP!

This is all very exciting! MUST KEEP THREAD ALIVE. The BOB style helmet sure is sexy, it might actually give me the incentive to take off the old Operator helmet.

  • 04.20.2011 8:33 AM PDT