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Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories Thread (The #1 Search Topic)

Road To Recon Unlocked on : 28th of march 2010

What if the BOB's are a refference to Bungie's future products?

  • 05.22.2011 4:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: GEOFORM 187
These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along.


How would you know? Are you 100% sure that it has nothing to do with it ?

No? Shut up then!

  • 05.22.2011 4:48 AM PDT


Posted by: Calliber
Does someone have a link to a picture of the apparent new chest armor I've read about?


It's in the picture of the helmet, look at the black collar, there's no chest piece like that.


Posted by: Imgoingtogetyou

Posted by: GEOFORM 187
These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along.


How would you know? Are you 100% sure that it has nothing to do with it ?

No? Shut up then!


Well I think it has been established beyond all reasonable doubt that BoBshees do not reward the medal.

  • 05.22.2011 5:45 AM PDT

Posted by: Imgoingtogetyou
Does anyone know how to make this one spawn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FieFUo7-HrM ?

It's on Exodus but I have been trying to make it spawn with no luck.


That is one of the 3 Bob-Banshee's in Exodus, there isn't any sure fire way to make it spawn, pretty much random like the real Bobs.

  • 05.22.2011 8:19 AM PDT

Posted by: Shadow 13th
Video games stopped even being remotely about skill after the SNES. Recharging health, checkpoints, unlimited lives.

I'll take you back to Battletoads and TMNT and you'll beg to return to the cushy cake walk that is modern gaming. Actually, let's not call it modern gaming, let's call it interactive cut-scenes that occasionally require you to shoot at enemies to provide the illusion that you are using skill to get further in the game.


Posted by: GEOFORM 187

I've run into those Banshees before, they totally caught me by surprise, too. I've only ever been harassed by them when playing co-op Campaign, though. I don't really think these guys are BOBshees, though.

And regardless, it's been established that BOBshees do us little good because they don't give you the 'Seek and Destroy' BOB medal. Focus your efforts elsewhere, fellas.


Even if they don't give a medal, Bobshees are in the game for a reason and may play a part if there is something to unlock.

  • 05.22.2011 10:37 AM 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.


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Posted by: GEOFORM 187

I've run into those Banshees before, they totally caught me by surprise, too. I've only ever been harassed by them when playing co-op Campaign, though. I don't really think these guys are BOBshees, though.

And regardless, it's been established that BOBshees do us little good because they don't give you the 'Seek and Destroy' BOB medal. Focus your efforts elsewhere, fellas.


Even if they don't give a medal, Bobshees are in the game for a reason and may play a part if there is something to unlock.

Well as the guy with the stalker name so crudely established, I could certainly be wrong here, but yeah, it's a known fact that BOBshees don't get you the medal, therefore I am very DOUBTFUL that they have anything to do with the BOB helmet, assuming the OP's theory is correct.

As to why they are in the game... As I understand it there was a daily/weekly challenge to kill a BOB on NA, and I think the BOBshee was Bungie's way of making it so people could actually win that challenge, since no one knows where an Elite BOB is on NA, if one exists at all. Then you DO have a point that they must be in the game for a reason, so if I'm wrong, it MUST be something else, that much is true....

  • 05.22.2011 12:32 PM PDT

Posted by: Tom T
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Posted by: aBIueBooksheIf
because I like pen­is.

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Just poiting out, again, that some medals are "broken".

  • 05.22.2011 2:40 PM PDT

Wow, this is the first thread in a while with a theory that doesn't look like a crazy idea that came out of nowhere with some mysticism and imagination added to it. **Thread saved**

Posted by: Calliber
Not sure if this any relevance, but I just got done playing TotS a little bit ago, normal Heroic run with IWHBYD skull on...no biggy. Got to the mining facility...or refinery....half way through the level at what I'll call "Pipeworld" and decided to take the Rocket Hog through the building. So I start out and get to the area with the two Skirmishers at the first part. No big deal, I try a couple times to splatter them and finally just jump out and melee them to death. SUDDENLY I'm being pelted with plasma fire from a Banshee. I look over into the open area between the cliffs and there are 3 banshees flying around. One suicided by hitting invisible walls twice, the second I shot with a charged plasma pistol, and the third took me out with a Bomb right afterwards. Now, keep in mind Bungie's records show that I have played this level at least 15 times and this is the FIRST time I have encountered these Banshees at this spot. So I revert to the last save and go up to the skirmishers again and kill them, nothing. Revert again, nothing...and again nothing. The Banshee's didn't spawn again for me despite reverting to a point before they spawned on the map.

Took a 2 min 50 sec film (in my file share) of it where they spawn, fly around, and fight with me then it continues through the first revert I did where they didn't spawn. SO.... googled stuff, haven't seen any hint of these banshee's appearing before with the exception of a small screen shot of one flying away from the complex. I'm gonna post this in a new thread but wanted to throw it in here. Thoughts?


I actually know how to make those spawn. You have to take the rocket hog with you up the stairs and to the place those 2 skirmishers come from. They appear behind the right cliff and fly at you and attack. I discovered that when I was playing that level for the LASO weekly challenge :P Those banshees were a pain in the ass >.<

  • 05.22.2011 3:27 PM PDT

Posted by: Inqui117
Wow, this is the first thread in a while with a theory that doesn't look like a crazy idea that came out of nowhere with some mysticism and imagination added to it. **Thread saved**

Posted by: Calliber
Not sure if this any relevance, but I just got done playing TotS a little bit ago, normal Heroic run with IWHBYD skull on...no biggy. Got to the mining facility...or refinery....half way through the level at what I'll call "Pipeworld" and decided to take the Rocket Hog through the building. So I start out and get to the area with the two Skirmishers at the first part. No big deal, I try a couple times to splatter them and finally just jump out and melee them to death. SUDDENLY I'm being pelted with plasma fire from a Banshee. I look over into the open area between the cliffs and there are 3 banshees flying around. One suicided by hitting invisible walls twice, the second I shot with a charged plasma pistol, and the third took me out with a Bomb right afterwards. Now, keep in mind Bungie's records show that I have played this level at least 15 times and this is the FIRST time I have encountered these Banshees at this spot. So I revert to the last save and go up to the skirmishers again and kill them, nothing. Revert again, nothing...and again nothing. The Banshee's didn't spawn again for me despite reverting to a point before they spawned on the map.

Took a 2 min 50 sec film (in my file share) of it where they spawn, fly around, and fight with me then it continues through the first revert I did where they didn't spawn. SO.... googled stuff, haven't seen any hint of these banshee's appearing before with the exception of a small screen shot of one flying away from the complex. I'm gonna post this in a new thread but wanted to throw it in here. Thoughts?


I actually know how to make those spawn. You have to take the rocket hog with you up the stairs and to the place those 2 skirmishers come from. They appear behind the right cliff and fly at you and attack. I discovered that when I was playing that level for the LASO weekly challenge :P Those banshees were a pain in the ass >.<


I hear ya. In that case you must have to do it before you kill the Skirmishers cause I tried it a few more times but instead went up myself and killed them and then brought the Hog with and they didn't spawn. Interesting..... are there any other spots in the game where the spawning of enemies is dependent on whether or not you have the right gear, vehicle, weapon, or allies with you?

  • 05.22.2011 3:49 PM PDT

I played the same level in legendary but I walked that same direction without a rockethog and they still appear but I was playing with another player

I dont know why this happens but when I play alone I see batltle markings like blood,bullet holes,energy sword slashes and emiles skull through out campaign but when I play with another player all those markings are not there maybe it might be the same thing with bobs if you play alone or with some one else a specific bob appears

  • 05.22.2011 7:16 PM PDT

Maybe you have to be 100% finished with the game. (all armor, commendations, full rank, campaign beat on legendary alone & w/t people, and kill all the BOBs from each mission and don't forget all the achievements.

  • 05.22.2011 7:20 PM PDT
Subject: Regarding BOBS. (Long Post)

Yeah...i do farm credits....but at least i have a job!

are there any bobs in the lone wolf mission, i haven't survived long enough in it to know

  • 05.22.2011 8:18 PM PDT

Posted by: Tom T
Prolonged exposure to this forum is bad for your health.


Posted by: aBIueBooksheIf
because I like pen­is.

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Posted by: TAY TMW
are there any bobs in the lone wolf mission, i haven't survived long enough in it to know


Yes

  • 05.22.2011 8:27 PM PDT
Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories Thread (The #1 Search Topic)


Posted by: Kira Onime
Just poiting out, again, that some medals are "broken".


Can you post another link to that thread you posted earlier with lists off all the unattainable medals?

  • 05.23.2011 12:40 AM PDT

Hey this is to everyone. I just saw the video where 343 gets nervous at the new armor question when being interviewed about the defiant map pack.

Now he begins to say *not built in...* so im thinking that maybe there is no more new armor built into the disk. (sounds like what he was gonna say)

He then goes and and says *they just have to play it*

now im thinking maybe...just MAYBE there is something hidden in the defiant map pack. I mean the helmet showed up with this map pack, it has a new firefight map, and if it was about killing the BOB's wouldn't that mean that its something you are trying to unlock? When there isn't suppose to be anything left on the disc to unlock?

Im just saying the Bob's may just be a kinda funny thing to totally throw us off from the truth.

Thoughts? and don't be rude if you think im wrong either ignore it or say why in a kindly manner.

  • 05.23.2011 3:43 AM PDT

Posted by: Tom T
Prolonged exposure to this forum is bad for your health.


Posted by: aBIueBooksheIf
because I like pen­is.

source

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Posted by: Kira Onime
Just poiting out, again, that some medals are "broken".


Can you post another link to that thread you posted earlier with lists off all the unattainable medals?


Here ya go

  • 05.23.2011 5:56 AM PDT

I just noticed that in the Bob helmet picture there is what looks like a utility on the opposite side.

  • 05.23.2011 6:01 AM PDT


Posted by: Ind1g01337
I just noticed that in the Bob helmet picture there is what looks like a utility on the opposite side.


that's a magnum sir.

  • 05.23.2011 8:15 PM PDT
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There are elites in New Alexandria, specifically when you turn off the jammer near the jetpacks.

Has anyone tried finding elites in that segment? There are a ton of silver Ranger-class elites with jetpacks. I know that all of them aren't BoB, but there's got to be one that's hidden somehwere.

  • 05.23.2011 8:19 PM PDT
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Can anyone tell me how to get past this location?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IspUeRHZ34&feature=channe l_video_title

  • 05.23.2011 8:20 PM PDT

Well. . .

Have you tried doing Exodus and NA on Mythic, and then searching?

Have you tried grabbing a falling data pad from the BOB banshee in NA? That is my only guess. The banshee you blow up must have a data pad with it. Question is, how do you get it?

  • 05.23.2011 8:29 PM PDT

Another question: WHO WAS IT WHO WAS WEARING THE HELMET?

  • 05.23.2011 8:38 PM PDT

on unearthed during the last wave four plasma repeaters show up out of nowhere. unlocking the helmet could have something to do with them.

  • 05.23.2011 8:56 PM PDT
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Did I miss anything important?

  • 05.23.2011 10:00 PM PDT


Posted by: dan2234
on unearthed during the last wave four plasma repeaters show up out of nowhere. unlocking the helmet could have something to do with them.


Is there a video of this? Where do they spawn at exactly?

  • 05.23.2011 10:21 PM PDT