Saturday, November 15, 2008

Ahem...

I know I haven't posted in quite a while, but here is my excuse. I've been... Umm... Doing other things...

Anyway. Bungie announced some great stuff. We've learned quite a bit about Halo 3: Recon. Yesterday, however, we learned what many already knew. You get the Vidmaster Achievements, and you acquire recon armor. This is fairly difficult, as you will have to buy H3R to get the armor. Many of us already have three of the four vidmasters, and we only need those skulls.

It was also clarified that the Mythic Map Pack only has three maps. Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel will be released with H3R.

For all you who love recon, you will finally be able to get it. Many of us have tried. I've even gotten myself splattered by a forklift a few times to try to get it. My friends get random kills and splatters, some of them have gotten the armor for such things. Many have passed on useless videos, pictures, and maps in attempts to get the armor. Some of us modded it in. Now everyone can have it. Just that easy.

When the MMP is released in January, I'll post a skull guide as soon as I find them. I'll be posting to the blog more often.

Now, I'm simply interested to see how many people actually wear their recon after they get it. Everyone is obsessed with the armor now, but in the next few months, hardly anyone will wear it because it's not that special.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

Another friday update

Bungie told us about this month's playlists! We have quite a few awesome things in store this month. Be ready!

They didn't tell much else. Read into it on Bungie.net

Bungie Loves Fable

Last night at 10:30 PM pacific, About 6 Bungie employees were playing Fable II. Bungie loves Fable.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Meet a Bungie employee!

You have a chance to fight 2v2 against a Bungie employee in a donation tournament. Minimum donation $10. This is completely legit, Bungie announced it. So donate and pwn.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

NeoGAF

This online group of gamers gets to control Bungie favorites for the next few weeks. Read the post.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Yet another weekly update

Well, they gave us a pretty long one today.

They told us more about the new file share system. They also told us that bnet has CoolIris now for screenshots... The next few paragraphs were useless. They announced a book titled The Art of Halo 3 and showed the concept cover.

They got a new employee: his name is Eric "The Urkstore called and their all out of you" Elton. He seems pretty awesome. This month we are in for some great Double EXP weekends... Griffball, Team Flag, Legendary Brawl, Experimental Gametypes, and Icy Treats on Blackout.

You can find an entire Q/A section as well...

Here is a copy of the theme from the H3R preview.

Oh, and if Bungie were in StarTrek.



Read the post on Bnet.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Citadel

Upon news and speculation, Citadel will most likely be based on the mission "The Covenant"

Saturday, October 11, 2008

An image from Orbital


Well, deep space images are always great, this one is the best.

This almost looks like the aurora from Blackout, but this is the sky in Orbital, so I've been told.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Update! Woot!


Well, today we got some things cleared up about Halo 3: Recon. It is the same as "KEEP IT CLEAN." It is going to be a separate disk. It will ship with the Mythic Map Pack, but the pack will be released early this January. (Remember the 1/6/08 in the first video.) Bungie is working on other projects. Recon has its own set of achievements.

Read the post on Bnet.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Halo 3: Recon


I was playing a matchmade game of Rockets on Foundry just minutes ago when I went to my home menu and saw a notice titled: Halo 3: Recon. This is the new game Bungie is working on. It is similar but NOT THE SAME as Halo 3: Keep It Clean. Halo 3: Recon will be released with the Mythic Map pack. We know Halo 3: Keep It Clean will be released on 1/6/09, and now it's time to watch the video. You can download it for Windows Media Player Here and for Quicktime Here.

You can download it on the XBL Marketplace and, of course, and I'll be posting it on YouTube soon.

Now, about the trailer. It is an extenuation of the last one.It shows an ODST with a weapons, and he sees a Brute pack. The graphics are freaking awesome. "New Hero, New Campaign, Prepare to Drop: Fall 2009." Now, this really makes you think it is the same, and it could be, but it is not in my opinion since a Bungie employee has confirmed that Keep it Clean would be released on the date inside the title. This seems strange since Bungie loves confusing people, but, unless I have been ripped off by a mapmaker, or Microsoft changed the release date, something good will be released on the sixth. In any case, Fall 2009 sounds great. One year's wait for Mythic Map Pack...

Read the post on Bungie.net.

YouTube video.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Bungie Weekly Update

Well, it was another useless update this week... I'm sorry I didn't get to it sooner. Anyway they just showed more improvements to your file share :)

Read the post on Bungie.net.

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!"