Saturday, September 27, 2008

Weekly Update

Well, its another Friday. The week's news talks about improved file share, new "Bungie Cards," some extra info about the update, and of course an entire page and a half of memories from Bungie staff about the release of Halo 3. And so I repeat my famous words:

Read the post on Bungie.net.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Mythic Skulls

Everyone knows about the "Mythic Skull" on Cortana, but now everyone knows about the hidden skulls on each map in the Mythic Map Pack. These skulls have achievements, these achievements have icons which tell us something about the map.


Here we see the Assembly Skull icon. Its like a circle with some snakes on it. This, of course, relates to the map, Assembly, itself. That is the snakes in the center refers to the large tower in the center of Assembly (Any ideas about the hidden skull being on that tower?) and the circle refers to the fact that Assembly is circular.


Here we see the Citadel Skull icon. I'm not exactly sure how to comprehend the thing, but it does mean something. Possibly two hills and a cactus? Otherwise it is just two curves and a line...

As for the rest, I don't understand exactly, but I'll post their images.


Heretic Skull



Longshore Skull - we can see a camping tent and perhaps a fish jumping out of the water. Examine closely - you may be surprised.



Orbital Skull


Sandbox Skull - You can clearly see a monitor making me think competitive forge games will be in matchmaking soon. Notice the "Tank Dropper" achievement where you kill an opponent in forge.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

NEW GAME

Finally, after a 12 hour wait, Bungie releases the teaser trailer for their newest game.

Well, it is sort of a Halo 3 add on... It seems to be a new version of campaign.

It takes place in a city, and you can see thousands of drop pods. I'm not sure of any more, but you can examine the video yourself.

Read the post on Bungie.net.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

TU2 is here!

Midnight last night an historic thing in Halo history happened. The Title Update 2 was indeed released.

They released a number of new achievements bringing the number of achievements to get up to 73!

According to Bungie, the Vidmaster Challenges are very valuable, and if you get them all, there is a great surprise.

The rest are worth quite a bit. And yet, Bungie has more in store. The TU2 only allows you to get 10 of the other achievements. They do have quite a few maps coming. Two of which are "Assembly" and "Heritic" There are, of course, more than that, but you can turn on your 360s and take a look.

Read the post on Bungie.net

List of Achievements - how to get them...

Vidmaster Challenge: Annual
After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts.

Double Double
On a Legendary map, get two Double Kills during any ranked or social match.

Alas, Poor Yorick
On a Legendary map, get 3 Oddball melee kills during any ranked or social match.

Came... From... Behind
On a Legendary map, get 3 assassinations during any ranked or social match.

Defend This
On a Legendary map, get a flag melee kill during any ranked or social match.

Flag Dropped
On a Legendary map, get 2 flag carrier kills during any ranked or social match.

Road Rage
On a Legendary map, get 5 Warthog chaingun kills during any ranked or social match.

Look Both Ways
On a Legendary map, get a Splatter Spree during any ranked or social match.

Here is where it gets fun - New maps!

Hammer Time
On Assembly, get 5 Hammer kills during any ranked or social match.

Pull
On Citadel, get a Shotgun Spree during any ranked or social match.

Blades of Fury
On Heretic, get a Sword Spree during any ranked or social match.

Ghost Patrol
On Longshore, get 3 kills with a Ghost during any ranked or social match.

Post Mortem
On Orbital, get 2 Death From the Grave medals during any ranked or social match.

... Get the Horns
On a Mythic map, get a Bulltrue medal during any ranked or social match.

Awww, Too Bad
On a Mythic map, get a Killjoy medal during any ranked or social match.

Killtacular
On a Mythic map, get a Killtacular during any ranked or social match.

Have Fun Respawning
On a Mythic map, get an Extermination during any ranked or social match.

Save This Film
On a Mythic map, get a Perfection medal during any ranked or social match.

Delicious Brains
On a Mythic map, infect 2 humans during any ranked or social match.

Zombie Repeller
On a Mythic map, kill 2 Zombies during any ranked or social match.

Tank Dropper
On any Mythic map, get a kill on another player while in monitor mode.

Assembly Skull
On Assembly, find the hidden skull.

Citadel Skull
On Citadel, find the hidden skull.

Heretic Skull
On Heretic, find the hidden skull.

Longshore Skull
On Longshore, find the hidden skull.

Orbital Skull
On Orbital, find the hidden skull.

Sandbox Skull
On Sandbox, find the hidden skull

Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan
Find all the hidden skulls on the Mythic maps.

Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch
Get to the rank of Lieutenant in any playlist in the new EXP progression system.

Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7
Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month.

So the list of Mythic maps in the Mythic Map Pack are:
Assembly
Citadel
Heritic
Longshore
Orbital
Sandbox

And perhaps even more. As to how much it costs, no one know just yet. Bungie is still working with Microsoft on releasing them...

PARDON OUR DUST

Bungie posted the following just before the release of TU2.

\\> UNSC OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
<\\> TAC-OPS LOGISTICS DATABASE [ONI.SEC.PRTCL-1A]

<\ * PRIORITY! * RESOURCE RE-ALLOCATION REQUEST

>> SENT: [DARE.V.500341(S1)]
>> RECEIVED: HEAVY CRUISER “SAY MY NAME” [SMN.ACTUAL]

\ PARTIAL VTT TRANSCRIPT AS FOLLOWS...

[SMN.ACTUAL]: “The situation on the ground isn’t my concern.”
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “I understand, Admiral. But I need --”
[EXPLOSION (4.0098s)]
[SMN.UNKNOWN]:[UNINTELLIGIBLE > PANIC(?)]
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “Empty archer pods six through twelve!”
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “Ready the MAC, and come about!”
[SMN.UNKNOWN]:[UNINTELLIGIBLE > INSUBORDINATION(?)]
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “It may have passed us, Lieutenant, but it’s still in range.”
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “Come about. And shoot it in the ass.”
[EXPLOSION (2.3482s)]
[STATIC (3.8761s)]
[SMN.UNKNOWN]:[UNINTELLIGIBLE > COMPLIANCE(?)]
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “Admiral, about my squad?”
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “I’ve forwarded their NCO’s name to your --”
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “Enough, Captain!”
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “If I survive this attack..."
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “I will deploy per my orders from Fleet HQ!”
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “Sir. I don’t report to Fleet.”
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “And the men I want? Now they don’t either.”
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “Please. Read my request.”
[STATIC (2.8179s)]
[EXPLOSION (3.0194s)]
[STATIC (7.4501s)]
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “Didn’t think you S1 types ever left your cave.”
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “Desperate times...”
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “Alright, Captain. You’ve got your squad.”
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “If I survive the attack."
[EXPLOSION (2.9016s)]
[SMN.ACTUAL]: “And right now? That’ll take a genuine act of God.”
[DARE.V.500341(S1)]: “I’ll see what I can do.”

\ ~ REQUEST COMPLETE
\ DATABASE CLOSED \>



Read on Bungie.net

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Two posts! I missed em!

Unfortunately I was unable to post thursday or friday when two of the most epic posts made by bungie were released.

TU2 - September 23! Be ready, this will be awesome. Bungie has already changed some things on Halo 3 XBox Live and Bungie.net.

Playlists - Gonna be new, I have covered these in a previous post.

Read the post on Bungie.net.

"KEEP IT CLEAN"

You all remember the ads on Bungie.net the week of E3. When Bungie almost got to reveal their newest project. Well, I hope you are ready for this. Bungie leaked only a bit of information. You can gather what you must, to me it means Halo 4, well concealed by a fictitious separation of Bungie and Microsoft.

Read the following.

<\\> UNSC OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

<\\> CLASSIFIED SIGNALS ARCHIVE [ONI.SEC.PRTCL-1A]

<\ OPENED PER OFFICIAL REQUEST [DARE.V.500341(S1)]

\ SOURCE: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE A.I. [SUPERINTENDENT]

\ RECEPIENT: PROWLER “TOKYO RULES” [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]
>> NOTATION KEYWORD SEARCH: “EMERGENCY” “DATA” “CORRUPTION”
>> (...) ~ QUERY RUNNING
>> (..)
>> (.) \ VTT TRANSCRIPT AS FOLOWS...

[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMER--!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “We know. Personnel are en route. Can you--”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “DETOUR! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “--put Kinsler on the line?”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: [UNITELLIGIBLE > DOG GROWLING(?)]
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Sorry, what?”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “BE A HERO! REPORT VIOLATORS!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Oh, come on... ”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMER--!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Listen. We have a report of core data corruption.”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “I need you to upload your--”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “PARDON OUR DUST!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER] “--logs for the last twenty-four hours!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: [UNINTELLIGIBLE > PROFANITY (?)]
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “We're sending a team, alright?”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Until they arrive, all additional comm needs to route through me.”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Repeat and acknowledge.”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “OBEY POSTED LIMITS!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “YIELD TO UPHILL TRAFFIC!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “I'll take that as a ‘yes’...”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “PLEASE REMAIN CALM!”

\ ~ QUERY COMPLETE

\ ARCHIVE CLOSED \>


Read the post on Bungie.net.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

How to see yourself with Recon armor.

Well since there was nothing better to post I thought I would show you how you look with recon.

Go to bungie.net, log in, and go to your service record.

Select your photo. Mine looks like this.



The address is as follows.

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/PlayerModel.ashx?p1=0&p2=7&p3=6&p4=6&p5=5&p6=2&p7=9&p8=0

p1=0 - This means I am a spartan. 0 = spartan, 1 = elite.

p2=7 - my helmet. We can change this to 3 and boom, I haz recon!



p3=6 - left shoulder. p3 and p4 are both shoulders. I will now change both my shoulders to 3, recon.



p5=5 - my chest. change to 3 for recon, 7 for hayabusa w/ katana, and 8 for flaming helmet.







p6, p7, and p8 are your colors, primary, secondary, and detail.

Enjoy looking at yourself with recon...

I will repeat - p1 is model. p2 is helmet. p3 is left shoulder. p4 is right shoulder. p5 is chest. p6 is primary color. p7 is secondary color. p8 is detail.

full recon address (red color)

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/PlayerModel.ashx?p1=0&p2=3&p3=3&p4=3&p5=3&p6=3&p7=3&p8=3

Friday, September 12, 2008

Keep them plasma pistols glowing!

Now that the podcast is out, I would like to post some of the headlines.

Sandtarp! I told you about this before, but there are some changes. There will, of course, be no elephants. Instead of elephants, there will be Hornets and Banshees. There will be no more "Rapid fire capping."

Totally confirmed - ASSEMBLY IS NOT A REMAKE OF MIDSHIP OR ANY OTHER MAP! IT IS COMPLETELY NEW!

Poor senior programmer, has too many bugs too fast... I FOUND ONE! XD

Mat Noguchi is indeed on the show...

Bungie talks about their troubles trying to get a game to run off of nothing but a DVD...

Bungie talks a bit about how to get hired at Bungie, and how to be a good programmer.

According to them, if making a game, do not start with graphics.

Bungie hasn't talked about much more... Quite a bit of off-topic non-Bungie talk...

If you don't have time to listen to the whole thing, listen to the last ten minutes. Bungie starts talking about future projects, sorta...

Closing comments: Mat loves his dad for paying for his programming projects as a child. "...I wanna give a shout-out to my mom for making me a game before I was even born..."

Final words of the podcast: "We're just gonna go 'pbhbhbbhbhbhhbhpbhpbbhpbphpbphpb' and we'll be back soon!"

Assembly! Video!

Take a look - here you can see the whole map - every part of it.















So now you have seen it. It is Purple Reign. It is Assembly. This is awesome.

Finally the Bungie weekly update!

Well we have been waiting all day, and finally, Bungie posts.

Here is what they have to say.

TU2 is delayed. It will be released sometime this month, but not on the 16th.

The ban discussed in the last update is the awesome and horrifying no online multiplayer ban. The only type of live playable on Halo 3 would be a co-op campaign... Don't cheat, and you will be fine...

Bungie thanks the people for thanking them... This video should explain.

Be sure to download the new Bungie podcast (w007!)

I will post again after I listen to the podcast. I have posted what Bungie has posted. Time to listen to the podcast ;)

Saturday, September 6, 2008

New Achievements! W00T!

Yes, the rumors are true, Bungie is giving us a harder game to beat by giving us even more achievements. Legendary MP is now required if you want your katana.

Bungie only told us a few of them, they say there will be others besides this, but these are what they told us.


Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch (0 points) – Get to the rank of Lieutenant in any playlist in the new EXP progression system.
Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 (0 points) – Enter into any ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month.
Vidmaster Challenge: Annual (0 points) – After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts.
Double Double (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get two Double Kills during any ranked or social match.
Poor Yorick (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 Oddball melee kills during any ranked or social match.
Came…From…Behind (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get 3 assassinations during any ranked or social match.
Defend This (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a flag melee kill during any ranked or social match.
Flag Dropped (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 2 flag carrier kills during any ranked or social match.
Road Rage (25 points) – On a Legendary map, get 5 Warthog chaingun kills during any ranked or social match.
Look Both Ways (50 points) – On a Legendary map, get a Splatter Spree during any ranked or social match.


Also, watch out, your EXP will be set to 0!
Bungie is resetting everyone's EXP to 0, you will still have your same level, but all will have a fresh start.

Playlist Ratings are the playlist-level decoupling of Trueskill values (the in-game number next to your name) from Experience (the icon next to your name).
You will now have a separate military rating (based purely on EXP) in each playlist. When TU2 goes live, everyone will begin at 0 EXP. This means that being a General in a Playlist is based on how many games you’ve won in the Playlist, not based on the Trueskill number next to your name.
Your Trueskill values have not been reset. If someone checks your Service Record they will still see your Highest Skill.


Bungie is changing everything now, there will be so much work to be done. I see no point in trying to get your ranks up now, so don't go for a higher trueskill unless you want people to know you were a general... The level system is still there, however.

Bungie said these changes are both coming with the TU2 around the Halo 3 one year anniversary.

27 teams now have recon because of Bungie's recon challenge, this means about 108 players with the amazing armor we all lust after. Don't worry, just go next year...

Bungie also announced the following:

We have not been informed of any plans to make the Legendary Map pack free. Scoop it up.


Rocket Race had a great run. Plenty of folks enjoyed it throughout its lifespan, but the declining population and number of folks who weren’t playing the game properly moves this playlist off into the sunset. That said, it will receive a fond farewell via a Double EXP weekend and is sure to pop up again from time to time.

No, you cannot stop this retirement from occurring.


Read the post on Bungie.net


Bungie should have posted more about this, we just have to wait.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Killthembrutes Podcast!

Yes, from the makers of killthembrutes.blogspot.com, comes an all new, epic podcast: The KillThemBrutes Podcast! You can now take the blog with you on your iPod. We cover the latest posts on the blog and some other news you may not read here. We will try to have some special guests later on. The first podcast will be released soon, and I hope you are all ready.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

What is Bungie doing?

Well we all know about the new maps, but don't we all want to know about the next Halo game? Bungie has confirmed (I'd source it but I don't have time to search my browser's history) that they are in fact making a Halo game that is unrelated to Halo Wars or Halo: Chronicles. This could mean only one thing: Halo 4. So in the Halo 4 spirit, lets take a look at some fan-created Halo 4 fun.















zomg that one looked freaky...















You will laugh at this one.



Well, I might as well search for that lost link... But just for any help it was on G4TV.com/thefeed if you want to search for it yourself.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Halo 3 Wins Edge!

Halo 3 won the Edge Award and they posted this movie!