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Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories (Bungie, give us a hint please!)

Bastards.

  • 05.01.2011 1:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: a casual banana
FOUND SOMETHING!

On the level Exodus, when you are in Falcons, there is a Banshee that flies around the big rock, then disappears into the water.

Possible BOB. We found it 4 times, but we couldn't quite kill it.
Anyone think this is...strange?

  • 05.01.2011 1:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: The Game1415
Good luck LC.

Bungie, please, we need at least confirmation (I know the helmet is real) that the helmet exists, because some people on this forum, dispite all the evidence, still think it's fake.


If there was actual and physical evidence then bungie wouldn't need to respond. You know it is real and i'd like to see your hard unquestionable proof that it exists. Without evidence of the existance of this "BoB" helmet then i'd be aswell searching new alexandria for the tooth fairy.

Help me out, as I said before I am watching in interest and have saved the thread. I'd love nothing more than for you guys to prove me wrong but i'm sceptical about new armour or whatnot.

Don't take this as trolling, I don't need to believe in order to take an interest in what others are doing with the game. You're clearly having a lot of fun doing this hunt so all the more power to you. :)


So from a non-believer I wish you well in your quest. :)

  • 05.01.2011 1:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: StallionR
LOL

This thread is entertaining stuff, first the defiant pack gave armour and then the bobs. What's next, Moas?


Kira is correct, your theory is good but without even the slightest shred of proof you cannot expect anyone with common sense to believe it.

39 pages going on 40 and now the topic is titled with a plea to bungie. I bet they are laughing as hard as the rest of us. :)


Sorry Game but I think you are clutching at straws and ultimately just wasting your own time. Still tho, it is your time and I wish you luck in this fruitless search. :)

I will now sit back and observe with barely contained amusement.


You don't know Bungie very well.

Also, as someone who never got into Marathon, could you explain what the vidmaster run was?

ALSO, from what I hear about it, everything from the BOBS to the switches seem to be complete references, and that Helmet looks suspiciously like the one from Marathon.

The thing is, everything links up so well for a reason. Only an idiot would think there's nothing to be found. An idiot, or someone who doesn't know Bungie very well at all.


Bungie don't tend to put HUGE extravagantic challenges into their games and when they do they sign post them like nobodies business (See the pelican egg and the road to recon).
The biggest eggs in Halo games have usually turned out to be false (see Delta Halo switch, Secret of Sandtrap, and the Reach Legendary Ending (possibly)) the community has a bad habit of coming up with ridiculous theories and pushing them as fact.
Only an idiot would think that Bungie put in easter eggs on the crazy scales that are often suggested by the community. What I'm basically saying is, don't think too big, because there is so very often nothing to be found.


I would have been your daddy is a perfect example.

And you're missing my point. The whole "You don't know Bungie very well" was a reference to the fact that Bungie love references. Now judging by the BOBs, the switches and the helmet, this seems more than familiar. Marathon Vidmaster run much?

It's almost definitely a Huge easter egg that's a reference to the marathon one. It couldn't not be.

  • 05.01.2011 1:53 PM PDT

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don't ya think that "classified intel" is a little strange?

[Edited on 05.01.2011 1:55 PM PDT]

  • 05.01.2011 1:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: xSpartan X7x
don't ya think that "classified intel" is a little strange?
....Yeah, that is a little strange.

  • 05.01.2011 1:57 PM PDT
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I have been following this thread for roughly two weeks and have contemplated the following theory:

1. The reason why the BOB's on EXODUS and NEW ALEXANDRIA don't count towards the progression of BOB kills is because Bungie is not allowing those two levels to receive the medal.

Allow me to explain, there are 10 levels where you can kill BOB's and the two that dont give out medals both feature BOBSHEE's.

According to the unlocking method stated by someone else on this forum if you get 9 out of 10 BOB medals you get a chest piece, and 10 out of 10 you get the Helmet; this would leave players with only 8 out of 10 levels to earn the medals meaning you will never unlock it until Bungie flips a certain switch.

Granted BS Angel probably has the armor pieces because of her status and her employment at "343i" and Bungie more than likely clued her in on how normal players would have to go about to get these armor pieces, but also told her that it would not be unlockable until they say so.

So in short i think Bungie is telling the games servers to not grant players any BOB medals for the two levels in question until they see fit. As far as when this date occurs, i believe with Bungie's acknowledgment of the communities interest in the BOB helmet (as stated in the most recent BWU) that the date they flip this "switch" will more than likely be on 7/7/11 or to many of the community members "BUNGIE DAY", because by then most of the community will be clued in on BOB's and what their true function is.

TL/DR: Bungie Day is when we will see the medals for Exodus and New Alexandria "count"/"appear" in our online profile, and as a result will be when players can start unlocking these two armor pieces.

  • 05.01.2011 1:58 PM PDT

Yea that is strange. I have seen that banshee disappear into the water. It might be a glitch tho. But in all this is very cool and interesting. I am gonna play through it again.

  • 05.01.2011 2:03 PM PDT
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In a vidmaster achievement it says "punched all switches played on total carnage and never ever left a single bob alive". I just felt like throwing that out there.
That is what it said about the game Marathon Durandal

[Edited on 05.01.2011 2:05 PM PDT]

  • 05.01.2011 2:04 PM PDT

Are we assuming Total Carnage means Legendary/Mythic?

  • 05.01.2011 2:08 PM PDT

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If you look at the similarities between this and Marathon, it's ridiculous.

They call the Golden Ranger Elites BOBS. BOBS were the NPC's that you had to kill as one of the objectives of the Vidmaster.
Secondly, you had to PUNCH all the switches.
Lastly, the helmet we see in the pictures is identical to the one seen worn by the BOBS in Marathon.

  • 05.01.2011 2:09 PM PDT

Yes well there were all sorts of vidmaster challenges for Marathon including ones that didn't allow saving, anything but punching, etc. I don't think that path is going to get us anywhere.

  • 05.01.2011 2:11 PM PDT

Something key:

the "Classified Intel" on this page has a URL location ending in "cp_spoiler"

  • 05.01.2011 2:17 PM PDT

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OK- Big Idea here!

Every single Map pack has achievements has add up to 250 SG, the latest map pack only has 150.

BS Angel from the Waypoint forums told us that "She can't tell us how to get the helmet, that would take the fun away from finding out how to get it."

The new helmet has got to be a vidmaster challenge that will be released soon. And unlock-able in Waypoint maybe?

  • 05.01.2011 2:17 PM PDT

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My evidence, somebody needs to render it though

  • 05.01.2011 2:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: Kowpow Sundust
Something key:

the "Classified Intel" on this page has a URL location ending in "cp_spoiler"


maybe somebody made it, and bungie shut him up?

  • 05.01.2011 2:23 PM PDT

Something Witty.

Posted by: LC o MagiikZ
My evidence, somebody needs to render it though


rendering

  • 05.01.2011 2:24 PM PDT


Posted by: xSpartan X7x

Posted by: Kowpow Sundust
Something key:

the "Classified Intel" on this page has a URL location ending in "cp_spoiler"


maybe somebody made it, and bungie shut him up?


Why wouldn't they just remove it completely?

Any idea was CP stands for?

  • 05.01.2011 2:26 PM PDT

As I lay in bed, staring at the stars I thought: "Where the hell is the ceiling"

Posted by: Wolfrog
Yes well there were all sorts of vidmaster challenges for Marathon including ones that didn't allow saving, anything but punching, etc. I don't think that path is going to get us anywhere.


You're missing it.

It's almost definitely a reference to The Vidmaster achievement from Marathon. If you look at it, everything fits with the unexplainable secret stuff in Reach.
The helmet looks almost exactly like the Bob helmet in Marathon.

  • 05.01.2011 2:26 PM PDT

As I lay in bed, staring at the stars I thought: "Where the hell is the ceiling"

Posted by: Kowpow Sundust

Posted by: xSpartan X7x

Posted by: Kowpow Sundust
Something key:

the "Classified Intel" on this page has a URL location ending in "cp_spoiler"


maybe somebody made it, and bungie shut him up?


Why wouldn't they just remove it completely?

Any idea was CP stands for?


Exactly. Why not remove it? Speculation. Those classified intel images are always unlocked once the intel doesn't matter anymore.

Legendary ending perhaps?

Who knows.

  • 05.01.2011 2:28 PM PDT

Something Witty.

CamPain?

  • 05.01.2011 2:28 PM PDT


Posted by: lazy king k1tty
CamPain?


Good catch.

"Campaign Spoiler"

  • 05.01.2011 2:30 PM PDT

My Screenshots / My Group / Remember to follow the rules or you will get trapped in a box.

Click all switches and leave no BOB alive?

  • 05.01.2011 2:32 PM PDT

Linky.

Good ideas on Exodus BoB.

  • 05.01.2011 2:37 PM PDT
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Thanx 4 stopping by good sir or lady :)

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Its your lucky day I have a BTB map just for you whenever you want it, just click this link. and you will be taken to my file share where you can download my map to your Xbox. :)


Posted by: Kowpow Sundust

Posted by: xSpartan X7x

Posted by: Kowpow Sundust
Something key:

the "Classified Intel" on this page has a URL location ending in "cp_spoiler"


maybe somebody made it, and bungie shut him up?


Why wouldn't they just remove it completely?

Any idea was CP stands for?


It stands for "Classified Page" because the link to the page in question is showing what the classified icon looks like.

Just clam down on the Over Analyzing

[Edited on 05.01.2011 2:39 PM PDT]

  • 05.01.2011 2:39 PM PDT