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Subject: The BOB Search Topic (GRD Helmet Mysteries)

Winter Contingency - this is a great vid for an easy BOB kill for todays challenge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6F6YeFF5xs

[Edited on 08.01.2011 12:39 AM PDT]

  • 08.01.2011 12:35 AM PDT
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Mess with the best, die like the rest!

Hey guys. I just used today's Golden Ranger challenge to see if this was a Banshee BoB in the level Exodus, and I have confirmed that it is indeed. Please note that this is not my video, I just did a quick search on YouTube and posted it as reference.

I believe that Bungie had some other purpose (other than to unlock the GRD/BoB helmet - which they didn't know about in the first place until 343i came along) for putting BoBs in the campaign... From the discussion going on in this thread, I would suggest that people stop trying to search for the helmet (which we have established isn't on the disk etc. etc.) and take another long, hard look at the BoBs themselves. As Kira has said many times, killing them doesn't (seem to) give you anything except a medal on Bungie.net, but I suggest that if we want some mystery to solve rather than wildly speculating about a helmet that is overwhelmingly unlikely to be available to us at this time, we should change the objective to:

What is the ultimate purpose (if any other than a trivial reference to Marathon) for the BoBs' existence in the Halo: Reach campaign?

rather than, "How do we unlock the GRD/BoB helmet?"

In killing BoBs and BoBshees, we are provided with an opportunity to experiment with a mystery, rather than theorise about a mystery.

  • 08.01.2011 2:49 AM PDT

w00t!

Good work, NyithZ. And I agree. I've killed every known BOB and BOBshee on Legendary, solo, read every datapad on Legendary, solo, and pressed every button on Legendary, solo where possible. All online. It's looking really unlikely that there is any secret unlockable.

There have been "mysteries" in every Halo game. E.g. the H2 skulls and gondola buttons, or the secret of Sandtrap. It can be fun to speculate, but let's be honest, most of the time all they turn out to be are remnants of cut features or Easter Egg type inclusions that are nothing more than what have at face-value; a bit of fun.

I read that the BOBs are referred to in a strategy guide somewhere as "Daily Challenge Elites". This gives as a good clue because those guides are usually written a while before the game is finished.

I think this is all the BOBs are. A hard-to-find and hard-to-kill enemy, to add a bit of variety to challenge matrix.

So why do we hardly ever see BOB-related challenges?

Because the support for the challenge matrix has been dreadful! The credit payouts are a joke (the per-action cR varies wildy, and they were supposed to increase in line with our average rank progression but never have done). Aside from the LASO weeklies, we haven't seen anything fresh and interesting despite many complaints and good suggestions.

Evil Otto has stated very clearly on these forums that Bungie know nothing about the "GRD" helmet. Whereas 343i obviously do. The Defiant map pack screenshot and the interview where Frankie stutters over the additional armor question tell us so.

I think once 343i are properly in charge of Reach, we will see the helmet awarded to people for doing something in-game. Maybe it will be BOB-related, or maybe it will be something new. But until 343i take over, we're not gonna see that helmet in game, and the BOBs are just for fun.

tl;dr
BOB were intended to be for Daily Challenges but have been seriously under-used.
The "GRD" helmet is 343's. We ain't finding it until they're fully in charge.

  • 08.01.2011 3:55 AM PDT
Subject: The Ultimate BOB Search Topic (Look Toward The Skies)


Posted by: Samurai JM360
Has anyone tried leading a BOB Banshee through the portal that transforms banshees into Phantoms? :O


That's impossible. The Bobshee shows up after 5 minutes and the portal can only be used after you've done all three of the main missions, also I don't even know if it's possible to influence the things flight path.

  • 08.01.2011 4:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: Sage 20
Here we go, all bobs killed, all data pads found and read. All Skulls On. LASO.

And this is what you get.

link



Fixed and made me lol.

  • 08.01.2011 9:11 AM PDT
Subject: The BOB Search Topic (GRD Helmet Mysteries)


Posted by: Kira Onime

Posted by: Sage 20
Here we go, all bobs killed, all data pads found and read. All Skulls On. LASO.

And this is what you get.

link




Fixed and made me lol.


EDIT: Fail post.

And the worst part of it all is I don't have the time or the ability to go through the campaign and experience it myself.

Also, I don't know if this was found out already, but last night I was helping my friend get through legendary on the first mission, and I found a BoB with a Concussion Rifle as I went to the distress signal at the broken bridge. Unfortunately, I couldn't kill it, and I died several times. It ran away to the other side of the hill, and it disappeared. I hope to see another one again.

Also during that, I finally spotted the Elite with camo on, running away. I could see the data pad on his back, and I managed to hit it, but it went out of my sight for 3 seconds or so and disappeared. Can't wait to find out/experience these easter eggs for myself.

[Edited on 08.01.2011 3:02 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2011 3:01 PM PDT

If some of you have collected all data pads, killed all BOBs/ BOBshees...

Have you tried completing every mission on Mythic difficulty (Legendary, ALL skulls on, no deaths/ resets)?

  • 08.01.2011 3:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: B3NJ4M1Z4L
If some of you have collected all data pads, killed all BOBs/ BOBshees...

Have you tried completing every mission on Mythic difficulty (Legendary, ALL skulls on, no deaths/ resets)?

wouldn't LASO also include no deaths or resets. well i guess if you don't do it solo then... Ok nevermind...

  • 08.01.2011 3:14 PM PDT

@Duo Oratar: I have confirmed that actually the banshee will not only spawn in exactly 5 minutes into the game, because, if you go to complete Errera/Sinoviet/Hospital before it has been 5 minutes, all objects out side freeze, and when you go out side for more objectives, the 5 minutes timer starts again, so the banshee will anyways spawn on any of the spawnpoints we know.

I dont have XBL, so i cannot proves thi myself, but it is very easy to try, you can do it and check the vid.

BTW, about the taking the BOB banshees trought the oval building, its inpossible, because they cannot be skyjacked.

[Edited on 08.01.2011 5:23 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2011 5:22 PM PDT

guys i dont know if this has been said already but i couldnt really be bothered to read all of the 163 pages, but you can kill an ocupant of an banshee by shooting just above the wing but also just below the top of the banshee similar to what you could do in the previous halo's, this could be possible to kill the BOB without killing the banshee possibly resulting in the medal and maybe, just maybe the BOB/grd helmet/armour.

  • 08.02.2011 10:36 AM PDT

Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

GRD translates to the numbers 4-7-3. Possibly related to campaign missions Tip of the Spear, New Alexandria, and ONI Sword Base.

  • 08.02.2011 10:50 AM PDT

Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

The numbers/letters on my cell phone.

  • 08.02.2011 12:03 PM PDT
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Did anyone ever figure out what those radios were for in the Campaing/Multi player maps/Fire Fight Maps?

Are the radios on all the DLC maps?

  • 08.02.2011 1:57 PM PDT

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


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Posted by: cj1b4u
Did anyone ever figure out what those radios were for in the Campaing/Multi player maps/Fire Fight Maps?

Are the radios on all the DLC maps?


Radio conversations

  • 08.02.2011 2:08 PM PDT

dude 4-7-3! 4+3 = 7 and 7! conincidence i think so but 7 is bungies lucky number (for those that dont know) if im wrong, at least it proves i can add

  • 08.02.2011 2:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kira Onime

Posted by: cj1b4u
Did anyone ever figure out what those radios were for in the Campaing/Multi player maps/Fire Fight Maps?

Are the radios on all the DLC maps?


Radio conversations


Thanks.

But did you know that there are also radios in Campaign. There are like Four in the first part of ONI sword base. They can't be destroyed by enemy fire so i guess there supposed to be listened to too.

  • 08.02.2011 2:20 PM PDT

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


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Posted by: Kira Onime

Posted by: cj1b4u
Did anyone ever figure out what those radios were for in the Campaing/Multi player maps/Fire Fight Maps?

Are the radios on all the DLC maps?


Radio conversations


Thanks.

But did you know that there are also radios in Campaign. There are like Four in the first part of ONI sword base. They can't be destroyed by enemy fire so i guess there supposed to be listened to too.


Never really paid any attention to minor details in campaing, or Reach in general lol.

  • 08.02.2011 2:24 PM PDT
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*sigh* :D

well thanks anyway. but from the link that you gave me it just seems like they're just easter eggs for the fiction(books, comic, ect)
never mind then.

  • 08.02.2011 2:34 PM PDT

Just to remind everyone, we actually have NO proof it's called the GRD helmet at all, that's a rumor and will remain so till we see a picture or video of it in livestream.

  • 08.02.2011 2:43 PM PDT

there is a picture of a BOB looking guy in this Link next to s splatter sign just fyi. its new today

  • 08.02.2011 2:46 PM PDT
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Inheritor #156 :p

lol 163 pages of useless searching because the "helmet" isn't even in the game to be found :p

  • 08.02.2011 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: tsujen
lol 163 pages of useless searching because the "helmet" isn't even in the game to be found :p

Your actually wrong. and i guess this would be a good time to point out that the thread was originally for finding BoBs. But the name/title was frequently changed. the most recent alteration was "The BOB Search Topic (GRD Helmet Mysteries)".

So to say that there is
Posted by: tsujen
lol 163 pages of useless searching because the "helmet" isn't even in the game to be found :p


is actually wrong. while there are a decent amount of pages(that i would not call useless) that are not all looking for the "GRD helmet".

I stand firmly behind my opinion that these pages are not useless because despite whether you believe the "helmet" is on the disk or not, you cannot not deny that these pages serves as a database for theories that have been busted. Now others can have an idea of what has and has not been tried. While others like yourself can further reinforce your notion of the "helmets" information being released later. So this collection of "useless pages" is removing doubt and quelling theories and ideas. Granted some spawn from the thread, but they too will be concluded eventually.

[Edited on 08.02.2011 4:14 PM PDT]

  • 08.02.2011 4:11 PM PDT