AU2 news, achievements incoming, new game announcement imminent

[Terin]

New weekly update. (http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=15422) And boy, was it a doozy.

After PAX, lots of pictures leaked of some new Halo 3 achievements, and Bungie confirmed that the incoming Auto Update 2 would bring them. There will most likely be 30 new achievements, totaling around 750 gamerscore. Bungie said that there were more as well, which are the ones leaked around the internet.

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.Those are 10 of the new ones. The other twenty are out there on the internet. +awesomeness for those who get the vidmaster reference. :awesome:

Auto Update 2 is said by them to come out around September 25th. Mostly, it's back-end code work. The biggest thing are new features to the ranking system. Apparently, you get another rank based on your experience, for each playlist. This will go hand-in-hand with the trueskill ranks, which are remaining the same.

There was a mini what's update, as well. Two big points were that the tripmine is not going back to it's beta-power, and there will be no Blood Gulch remake, which is fine by me. It probably would not work well anyways.

And finally, at the bottom of the update, a picture was posted, with a wonderful little caption.

A small, private Bungie Invitational looms on the horizon.For those following the E3 Bungie fiasco, Microsoft said that they wouldn't want their announcement to detract from all the other stuff, and they would hold a separate event to show it. Well, this sounds like that very event. Bungie will most likely announce their new game title here. Hopefully, this is coming soon.

[flibitijibibo]

Oh, joy... more achievements with 0 points! That's always real nice...

Now I have to to back and play Halo 3 to keep my 100% completion... =[

[PlasbianX]

1. Heretic Skull 25pt
2. Citadel Skull 25pt
3. Assembly Skull 25pt
4. Sandbox Skull 25pt
5. Orbital Skull 25pt
6. Longshore Skull 25pt
7. Tank Dropper 25pt
8. Zombie Repeller 25pt
9. Delicious Brains 25pt
10. Save This Film 25pt
11. Have Fun Respawning 25pt
12. Killtacular 25pt
13. Awww, Too Bad 25pt
14. ... Get the Horns 25pt
15. Post Mortem 25pt
16. Ghost Patrol 25pt
17. Blades of Fury 25pt
18. Pull 25pt
19. Hammer Time 25pt
20. Look Both Ways 50pt
21. Road Rage 25pt
22. Flag Dropped 25pt
23. Defend This 50pt
24. Came... From... Behind... 50pt
25. Alas, Poor Yorick 25pt
26. Double Double 25pt
27. Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan 25pt
28. Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 0pt
29. Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch 0pt
30. Vidmaster Challenge: Annual 0pt




Are there... new skulls in the new maps? And uh.. heretic, sandbox, citadel, assembly, longshore, and orbital. All new maps? :O

Also vidmaster is from marathon. +rep me nao.

[Bastinka]

tl; dr.

I hope this comes with new unlockables?

[Darqeness]

What type of unlockables? Bungie's said multiple times that they're not going to add new armour. I can't think what else they could add as unlockables.

And six new maps? I hope so. Sandbox is probably the "map" we saw from the Edge acceptance video.

[Con]

more new maps? skullz? :haw:

[Bastinka]

Most of the skulls are kind of.. meh. I've found way better places to hide them than were bungie actually put them.

Should add more armor colors, for all I see theres atleast 20 different shades of pink :|

No real colors that I see, and my non-colorblind friend agrees.

[flibitijibibo]

SWPL: You have to admit, IWHBYD was awesome. I mean, making a b minor scale out of the rings? Genius.

The zombie achievements will probably be fun to get. Now if only a: there were more of them and b: they MADE A FUCKING ZOMBIE PLAYLIST.

[Longshot]

I know everybody here hates MLG fags and all, but damnit I want an option to lower the auto-aim, even though the game has a lot of other problems, it'd still be nice.

[Hotrod]

Let me guess, the achivements that weren't mentioned on Bungie.net were found in the patch thingy, just like the names of the other maps?

It'd be cool if in one of the new maps, they made the armor look a bit different, like camo, or different colour placement. You know, play around with it a bit.

[Terin]

No, someone at PAX was able to take pictures of all of them. Because of that, Bungie confirmed them.

[Limited]

Lets see the leaked pictures!

[Saggy]

These pics were taken from a player at PAX who explored thir xbox's dashboard so I consider this to offically out in the wild.
Achievements:

-Heretic Skull. 25 GS
-Assembly Skull. 25 GS
-Citadel Skull. 25 GS
-Sandbox Skull. 25 GS
-Orbital Skull. 25 GS
-Longshore skull. 25 GS; Pic for last 6 were too blurry to make out except for the regular skull

-Tank Dropper. 25 GS; I can't tell the pic
-Zombie Repeller. 25 GS; Pic looks like the Zombie Killing spree skull, with 2 stars behind.
-Delicious Brains. 25 GS; Pic's same as ZR, except with infection spree skull.
-Save this Film. 25 GS; Pic is Perfection medal.
-Have Fun Respawning. 25 GS; Extermination medal
-Killtacular. 25 GS; Killtacular medal
-Aww, too bad. 25 GS; Killjoy medal
-...Get the Horns. 25 GS; Bulltrue medal
-Post mortem. 25 GS; Kill from the grave medal
-Ghost Patrol. 25 GS; Pic is a ghost splattering someone with 3 stars behind it
-Blades of Fury. 25 GS; Sword spree medal
-Pull. 25 GS; Shotgun spree medal
-Hammer Time. 25 GS; Pic is same as Steppin Razor except with a Grav hammer and 5 skulls instead of 3.
-Look Both Ways. On a Legendary Map, got a splatter spree during a ranked or social match. 50 GS; Splatter spree medal
-Road Rage. 25 GS; Pic is Warthog splattering someone with 5 stars behind it
-Flag dropped. 25 GS; Pic is two 'Killed Flag Carrier' medals, one partially covering the other
-Defend this. On a Legendary Map, got a flag melee kill during a ranked or social match. 50 GS; Flag Kill medal
-Came...From...Behind. On a Legendary map, got 3 assassinations on a ranked or social map. 50 GS; Assassination medal along with 3 ninja stars
-Alas, Poor Yorek. 25 GS; Oddball kill medal along with 3 stars above it
-Double Double. On a Legendary Map, get two double kills during a ranked or social match. 25 GS; Two double kill medals, one partially covering the other

-Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 -- Entered into a ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month. 0GS
-Vidmaster Challenge: Annual. After 9/25/08, Completed Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE Co-op with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts. 0GS; Pic is the the skull with a hammer on the forehead in front is a green marathon symbol with 4 white stars on it
-Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch. 0 GS; Pic is a Lieutenant symbol in front of a green marathon symbol.
-Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan. 25 GS; Pic is 6 skulls stacked into a triangle in front of green marathon symbol.

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79 Total Achievements which means 30 new ones. All 30 are listed above. If I counted right, the above accounts for 750 GS, which means Microsoft raised the cap for is star pupil.

Notably, all the ones where the description lists the legendary requirement are 50 GS. Hmm...

-Heretic Skull. 25 GS
-Assembly Skull. 25 GS -Already Revealed at PAX
-Citadel Skull. 25 GS
-Sandbox Skull. 25 GS -Blue Grided map shown in Acceptance video?
-Orbital Skull. 25 GS -Moon Base Alpha?
-Longshore skull. 25 GS
These sound like the names of the new muliplayer maps with skulls hidden on them!

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Source: http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-discussion/32743-30-new-achievements-leaked-pax-pics.html

If those are true, who wants to join me in completeing the Vidmaster Challenge: Annual achievement? PM me or add my Gamertag SaggDog7.

[DEElekgolo]

Tried to see if I can get the achievements from the last autoupdate we had. Until I reminded myself that achievements are server sided.

[Bastinka]

Gotta wait till next year :/

[DEElekgolo]

I'd expect the achievements to come out on September 25th.

[Hotrod]

Wait, Longshore, possible remake of Headlong? Headlong was kind of a shore, right? And Longshore, Headlong?

[HDoan]

Or maybe Longshore could be a new map called Longshore

[itszutak]

Defend THIS :v:

That was the first marathon level I truly got stuck on

[Ki11a_FTW]

1. Heretic Skull 25pt



Now THAT will be very interesting to see in halo3 (If it is a new map)

[Terin]

Bungie Weekly Update said auto-update 2 will be out Tuesday, with 10 new achievements, not the entire set of 30. Also, new stats are on Bungie.net, with bars and graphs and shitz. There will be all that new matchmaking stuff on Tuesday, as well, like Team Doubles using the Legendary Map Pack, and the magnum being a starting weapon alongside the AR. Fun.

Also, oh, hai. It's a-me, the superintendent! (http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=15526)

We're getting something big, soon.

[Heathen]

Headlong assumption seems pretty neat.

[Terin]

Achievements pretty much confirmed, which means, also, SIX new maps. Assembly, Longshore, Orbital (space station one), Heretic, Citadel, and Sandbox, all with Skulls to be found. Dunno when they'll be released. Soon, hopefully!

To see them, go to xbox.com, log in, go here (http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/Achievements/ViewAchievementSummary.aspx), and click on Halo 3.

:awesome:

[Heathen]

I lol'd when some speculated that since they have skulls they are SP.


Lurl no.

[Con]

Heathen, that would be pretty cool though. I bet Bungie could could release extra campaign maps, a series of "untold stories" following the elites or marines on their endeavors.

[Hotrod]

No, they already confirmed that there wouldn't be any new SP maps, sadly. I agree that it would be awesome though.

[jngrow]

No, they already confirmed that there wouldn't be any new SP maps, sadly. I agree that it would be awesome though.
LOL GUESS NOT.

:P :P :P

[Hotrod]

Meh, I had a feeling that I was going to be proved wrong...

[Terin]

Thought I add this here, seeing as it's hilarious.

Bungie just activated their anti-boosting banhammer. And the internet has been enraged. Take a look. (http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=26550460) Then take a look at the forum itself.

WTF BUNGLE Y WUZ I BANED IT UR FAULT U MAED A FFA PLAYLEST THAT I CULD BRING MAH FRIENDS INTO

Ah, the internet.