- darkeSoft
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I've been lurking on here for a while, and I think it's time to make a post. Maybe there is a helmet. Maybe there isn't. If there was, it's obvious Bungie would have wanted to keep it a secret. After the IWHBYD skull was discovered so quickly, it makes perfect sense that they would lock it away better. But how? As a programmer, I can say that there is no possible way to keep hackers out of a system they have physical access to. You can slow them down. You can distract them and try to divert them to the wrong path, but there is no way to keep them out. Unless they didn't give the hackers physical access. It's the same with online games. None of the stats and scores are stored client-side. They could be hacked in seconds by a script-kiddie with CheatEngine. No, everything is stored on the server. The modders and dataminers have stated that there is no helmet on the disk. If it exists, it is hidden on the servers.
Kira has said several times that there is no way to make Armoury DLC. I trust this, but would like a citation if possible. Unless the game was coded really, really badly, it is always possible to release an update that would make the Armoury modular (thus allowing for DLC). Any statements that say that DLC is impossible could still be true, but that doesn't mean DLC will never be possible. The helmet could be granted after the player completes a series of challenges, or when the community gets to a certain point; assuming the helmet exists at all.
But in the end, does it really matter? Does anyone care? The game tells us to find all the BOBs. It makes more sense than not that there would be a reason for it. There are ground-walking BOBs on 7 levels, the first of which has 7 spawn locations. Someone posted without citation that ONI had 5. Unless I'm wrong (which is perfectly possible as I'm speculating here), there will always be a pattern. If ONI has 7, and we're missing two, it would lead to say that each level has 7. If it is just 5, there is a chance that the levels decrement (there'd be levels with 6,4,3,2, and 1). Of course, due to the lack of proof, it could have just as easily been a troll comment and thus there still are only 3. One seven, and six threes. Because Bungie is like that, I'm willing to bet there would be another level with three BOBs on it, which leaves Exodus, New Alexandria, and Lone Wolf. The former two have been scoured for a long time to no avail, leading to the conclusion that the seventh map is Lone Wolf. I don't know if it is possible to confirm this conclusively (if there are an infinite number of waves, there is no way to say it isn't possible) but a team could be assembled to try and figure this out.
I want to find them all. For no reason other than to do it. It would be cool. Maybe there is a helmet, maybe there isn't. I wouldn't wear it if I got it. But the BOBs were placed in this game for a reason. Whether it was to unlock a secret challenge, or as a marketing scheme to keep players playing, it really doesn't matter. All that matters is that there are secrets to be found. Or maybe there aren't. Sometimes those are the best secrets. The ones that can't possibly be found. You can say there is no reason to look, or that I'm wasting my time, but a Mexican once told me life is far more about the present than the future. If I'm enjoying my life now, all is good. There are hidden BOBs. We haven't found them all yet. Bungie told us to find them all.
Challenge -Blam!-ing Accepted.