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Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories Thread (Look Toward The Skies)

it is definately not bungie only cuz otherwise what would be the
point in putting hints in for something you cant find
it does not make sense maybe more will be released
for bungie day

  • 06.02.2011 12:34 AM PDT
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"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness... A father's sins, pass to his son."

Remember the marathon vidmaster though. Al of those attempting it must not run, not shoot but grenades and punches are allowed, play on laso,
kill all bobs, hit all switches. Not actual text. If you attempt you must do this or all we will be doing is finding the bobs and unlocking anything is impossible. Just a reminder.

  • 06.02.2011 1:55 PM PDT

All Missions or 1 ???

  • 06.02.2011 1:59 PM PDT
Subject: Regarding BOBS. (Long Post)
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I am an orange mist amongst a sea of blue, so my flames may stand out and represent all those who trully believe in this great sacriment of Bungie history, let my story be told as the only legendary still standing even after I fall Just as my comrades did so graciously to fight for the true loyal.
If you have legendary, would you stand by my side and go forth into a sea blue and demise as my brothers fighting for those who are trully loyal to Bungie?


Posted by: Boffcheese
I like this idea.

Also, "IGN does not fake screenshots for the "public""

Just want to point that out :D

You forgot your l there and it looks a little embarasing.

  • 06.02.2011 1:59 PM PDT
Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories Thread (The #1 Search Topic)

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.

Posted by: Calliber
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ][
Y to e for s b t b g io ll is le ifor is lb lt lb ig ll

granted they won't line up correctly, but you get the idea.

Not seeing a pattern myself and I don't know of anywhere in the game where we could input a code or something such as with the .fortune easter egg of Halo: CE.

Don't forget this, maybe we can spell something out of all the letters?

  • 06.02.2011 2:04 PM PDT
Subject: Regarding BOBS. (Long Post)
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.

i want teh BOB helmet

  • 06.02.2011 2:10 PM PDT

YAW TRICK YAW!!!

I've Personally gone and killed a bob on ever level on legendary. At this point I feel bungie has this stuff locked and on bungie day this yr it will be unlocked.

  • 06.02.2011 2:19 PM PDT

Posted by: SubtitledAbyss
I've Personally gone and killed a bob on ever level on legendary. At this point I feel bungie has this stuff locked and on bungie day this yr it will be unlocked.


Nicely done, with the exception of Lone Wolf. Let's all hope LASO Lone Wolf has nothing to do with BoB.
Where is the third on PoA? I know of the two in the Boneyard level area, what of the third?

  • 06.02.2011 5:05 PM PDT

When the moon rises high, my strength grows.

Wasn't the original number of BOBs to be killed 77? Maybe its the same for Reach. Start posting how many BOB medals you have. I am sitting at 40.

To the reply above about the numbers in the data pads, there are also some strange things in the first sentences in the pads as well. Two entries have words that had capitalized letters and one spells H-A-L-O. Another mentions the bnet, and I was wondering if it could be code for Bungie.net?

  • 06.02.2011 5:48 PM PDT
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I wanted to point out in the Developer commentary:

The Banshee flying across the screen.

  • 06.02.2011 6:06 PM PDT
Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories Thread (Look Toward The Skies)

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


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because I like pen­is.

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Posted by: DDom23
Remember the marathon vidmaster though. Al of those attempting it must not run, not shoot but grenades and punches are allowed, play on laso,
kill all bobs, hit all switches. Not actual text. If you attempt you must do this or all we will be doing is finding the bobs and unlocking anything is impossible. Just a reminder.


You do realize how close to impossible that is right?


Posted by: x M00N KNIGHT x
Wasn't the original number of BOBs to be killed 77? Maybe its the same for Reach. Start posting how many BOB medals you have. I am sitting at 40.


Old and in the "did nothing pile".

  • 06.02.2011 8:13 PM PDT
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"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness... A father's sins, pass to his son."

It be easiest on nightfall on quick run but I dont know where the bobs are or any switches.

  • 06.03.2011 7:00 AM PDT

Posted by: DDom23
It be easiest on nightfall on quick run but I dont know where the bobs are or any switches.


Just the one switch that we know of and that's the one that Jun pushes to open the gate after the pair of hunters. As for the BoB's, this is the easiest map to assassinate a BoB on and I'm pretty sure if not positive that someone has LASO assassinated a BoB on this map (namely the first BoB that appears at the first settlement).

As for the Package, I did a play through yesterday and one today on Heroic, IWHBYD skull on. Both times the last BOB spawned with the last wave of phantoms. Both times a Banshee showed up at the beginning of the last wave but stayed well beyond the invisible wall and out of range of banshee-bomb lock ons.

Yesterday I was not able to kill the Banshee, but did kill BoB. The Banshee did not "warp" out of existence as seen in the video on the OP, so I cannot confirm if it was the BoBanshee... in fact I wasn't able to see it leave as it stayed about the ice ceiling most of the time. This encounter is on my file share, I reverted part way through not knowing I hit a check-point, so sorry for the abruptness of it.

Today I managed to land my Banshee and destroy the possible BoBanshee with the Spartan Laser and then splatter BOB with my Banshee, nothing special happened. I'll try to get a video onto my file share tonight, there will be several reverts in it as it took me about 7 tries to kill the Banshee at that distance. As before, I cannot confirm that it was the BoBanshee because I managed to kill it.

I'll be doing another run-through tomorrow I think and this time around only watch the Banshee during the last wave. Today the Banshee took alternate routes here and there and was not consistent, hence my multiple reverts.

  • 06.04.2011 8:15 PM PDT

I have a theory for where the third bob in the pillar of autmn might be. I think he might appear somewhere where the scarabs are coming down on a drop pod with grunts.

  • 06.04.2011 9:46 PM PDT
Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories (Bungie, give us a hint please!)


The answer is to hijack all BOB banshee's.

  • 06.04.2011 9:48 PM PDT

You are epic fail. And Chuck Norris is fail.

I didn't read all 79 pages of the thread, but has anyone thought of how you spawned the IWHBYD skull in Halo 2? Could it be something like that to spawn the BOB's?

  • 06.04.2011 11:12 PM PDT
Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories Thread (Look Toward The Skies)

k..it took them 3years of production to make this game..wouldent the campaign be longer...they must of spent alot of time codeing a really intense puzzle so i doubt that there isent something...we are going to find something epic in the next month..i feel it.

  • 06.05.2011 12:13 AM PDT

When the moon rises high, my strength grows.

So....the white, duel wielding Elites count as BOB's. I just played a normal game on ONI and the one that is in the courtyard when you return (to fight the Hunters) counts as one.

  • 06.05.2011 5:56 PM PDT
Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories (Bungie, give us a hint please!)


Posted by: Alt Deletion

The answer is to hijack all BOB banshee's.


*shakes head* it's amazing how often someone posts this in the thread. You can't hijack the Banshee cause it's in a permanent boost. a boosted Banshee cant be hijacked in the campaign.

  • 06.05.2011 6:06 PM PDT

Posted by: Big Boy1229

Posted by: Alt Deletion

The answer is to hijack all BOB banshee's.


*shakes head* it's amazing how often someone posts this in the thread. You can't hijack the Banshee cause it's in a permanent boost. a boosted Banshee cant be hijacked in the campaign.


Over charged plasma pistol?

I'll be waiting for my pizza bagels and orange kool-aid when it's all over.

  • 06.05.2011 6:26 PM PDT

Video of my playthrough of the Package the other day is now in my file share, it's of my kill of the possible BOB-Banshee and BOB in one game.

The playthrough today was unremarkable. BOB failed to spawn in any of the 3 spots. I did watch the Banshees on the last wave, same banshee spawned, flew around and disappeared above the ceiling. I have a new theory regarding the Package BOB-Banshee, it may not be a BOBanshee, during the final wave all remaining banshee's leave. Normally they fly beyond the ice but it may be that in some cases they don't and what we think we see is a BoBanshee warping out is simply a normal Banshee De-spawning. Thoughts on this?

  • 06.05.2011 11:12 PM PDT
Subject: The "BOB" Helmet Theories Thread (Look Toward The Skies)

spiral out

Have you tried hijacking the banshees with the BOBs in them? Maybe you have to kill them when they are out of the banshee. Idk, this is very interesting though, and I've never seen anyone with the BOB helmet.

  • 06.06.2011 12:01 AM PDT

Let's say there are a number of BoBs undiscovered. Maybe they have to be spawned by OUR actions? Ex. must be in a wraith/transport hog/all militia must survive on Nightfall

Speaking of the last one, there's nothing you get fore keeping them all alive, other than Kat says they could have intel. So what then?

Random thought.

  • 06.06.2011 12:49 AM PDT

ok random thing but on the level were you fly in the falcons i forget its name but if you get the pelican what if you go all the way to the ground useing the pelican or just some were out of the map looking for the BOB on that level just a thought

  • 06.06.2011 8:02 AM PDT

---------------IMPORTANT-----------------------

You may remember a while back I scripted a letter on behalf of all us B.o.B. Hunters and sent it to Urk.

I recently sent the letter to Evil Otto and received a response.

Here is what he said:

The helmet I believe you are referring to is the one that showed up in some of the defiant map pack screenshots, yes?

Here is the honest-to-god truth. I am not yanking your chain. Nobody here at Bungie knew anything about that until we saw the screenshots as well. The screenshots came from Microsoft based on the maps Certain Affinity created for the defiant pack. That helmet did not ship on our game disk. You've hit the end of the line here, time to redirect your investigation elsewhere.

  • 06.06.2011 3:30 PM PDT