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...

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.