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8/14/2004 12:06:47 AM
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HALO 2 WEEKLY UPDATE! August 13th

[color="yellow"][i]Note: Frankie is out of town this week and the Bungie Princess is our special guest author.. (I'm just posting it). Now brace yourselves for the most fact-filled top-secret-spoiling update EVER!...[/i][/color] [b]BUNGIE WEEKLY UPDATE[/b] - August 13th Frankie’s in Mexico and I’m in charge! So, listen up…we are taking a break from all that blah-blah about Halo 2 and we are discussing a truly important topic…HAIR! I will be devoting several hours of my Saturday to some serious “diva-time” along side my best friend at Joel’s salon. There will be lots of girly-girl talk and wine to be had for all. The only dilemma is what color should I do my hair? Anyone who has known me longer than about a month knows I absolutely love to change my hair color. It is a running joke around here. I am currently blonde, but am thinking it is time for a change. In the spirit of by-passing all that typical video game talk I think we should devote a forum to helping me choose my new hair color. But seriously, I am supposed to be giving you some weekly information about our big project over here in Bungieland. Biggest news of the week involves the rancid Bungie refrigerator. We are bursting at the seams over here and need to find some space to sit some more people helping out on the game. So, I figured what the heck why not the fridge…that is some prime real estate. But seriously, the dev team doesn’t know it yet but they have lost the battle of the fridge and it’s pungent odor will soon be seeping onto their side of the room. I ate dinner with the boys tonight (frightening). Have you ever had the pleasure of attacking a taco bar with 70 hungry men…hhhmmmm, let me be the one to tell you this is not a pretty site. Amanda has quickly learned that food is the precious commodity in this office. The way to a man’s heart is most certainly through his stomach. We will be making the ever dreaded Costco trip next week to stock up on goodies. The people at Costco, employees and customers alike, hate me. When I roll up to the check out lane with two industrial size carts stacked to the point of towering over my head and a flat bed stock piled with beer in tow…let’s just say I am not typically greeted with a warm “How are you?” but rather an overwhelmed look of panic. So, my week has not solely revolved around food and nasty refrigerators. In addition to feeding the masses, Amanda has been hard at work helping Harold keep a running inventory of about a thousand computers…man, these guys are expensive. She has also called all over the world in search of elusive Xboxes from other countries…so if you have one that you don’t need, feel free to send it in…kidding. I just got the 2nd pass of the art book back…looking very cool guys...keep your eyes open come November 9th (oh yeah and Halo 2 will be on shelves as well). The rest of my time this week was spent modeling Dunn’s ever-growing collection of crazy hats. I have been a cowgirl, a gardener and Frank Sinatra so far. Okay, okay enough my drivel, here are some updates straight from me to you on this game everyone keeps talking about (stage whisper…”Hey Brian, what’s the name of that video game we’re working on again….oh yeah…Halo 2…thanks!) So Butchie put the beta out on a branch this week and really wants the code to stay jolly and happy until he goes to RTM…wherever that is…and what is he doing taking a vacation anyway?! All of the levels are undergoing performance reviews (are they even eligible for a raise?) and things are shaping up nicely. Even though Jaime's running around his level with ¾ of his screen filled with debug info, we still have trouble getting him to stop playing so Butchie can run his analysis tools. He's evidently having a blast, and that's a good thing. Luke has been integrating our aiming code withhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, huh!?!? Ooops sorry drifted off there where was I…something about sniping and intending to shoot …I don’t know sounds, pretty cool and I guess the Counter-Strike and Quake people will really like the fact that you can’t snipe through walls. Which seems kinda lame to me, I think Master Chief should have x-ray vision and be able to snipe through walls, because then he could really wail on those damn Elite bastards. Ryan, a very verbose gentleman, a man of many words has this to say regarding test: Testing next beta update Emblem Pass (it failed but no bugs encountered) Working on test cases for release Thanks for that lovely, in-depth update Ryan, it was truly moving. Apparently, Adrian has some serious termite problems at his house because he is fixing bugs like a machine and patching all the holes in the drywall. He is having a really hard time determining if his house has too many holes or too many walls, but says it is gonna be so cool, so he must be having fun! Keep us posted Adrian and let me know if you need some help selecting new paint color and curtains when you’re done patching those walls. Last, but certainly not least, Nathan would like to take a jab at "Pistol Pete" -- Pete apparently did some dorky thing when he introduced himself to someone last week and made pistols out of both hands and pointed and said "Pete Parsons"…I personally did get to witness a later revival of the pistol gesture and it is pretty lame. Nathan also mentioned something brief about "his first man hug with Chris (butcher).” Aaahhhhh. Well, boys and girls, that’s it for me this week. I am sure you are sitting on the edge of you seat waiting for the next installment of the Weekly Update with special guest writer Bungie Princess…So far we haven't heard a peep out of ole Frankie and it's highly likely that he's in a small village in Mexico lying in a bathtub filled with ice minus a few internal organs. Don't worry, I'll keep bringing you the best updates ever until he surfaces again! Ciao! Yours truly, [i]Bungie Princess[/i] [img]/images/games/halo2/weeklyupdate/mschief.jpg[/img]
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  • hmm... Good job. must have been hard to post something for like... lets say... 200.000 kids gone crazy for Halo 2 (that has not to mean its bad...). Your style of typing really let people get the feeling your really talking to the "Princess", instead of a message with no feeling your listening to someone, making this update very nice. 9 november is the halo 2 release date, but not only a day for Halo 2. its gonna be a really important day for everyone. 24 august, must be the start of a great Halo 2 Advertise Campaigne or oxm article, But if the case isnt halo 2 related, then that countdown is some serious stuff. Again, Good Update. The Less Spoilers, The More Surprises. Guys, if you wanna know more about Halo 2, I might suggest you gonna search it and try to get a job there. Why complain, when Halo 2 is one of the only games to have weekly updates? Again, ONE OF THE ONLY GAMES... :D Okay, im going offline again, until next time. :D

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  • Lamest update ever. There I said it. cause its true. The updates were supposed to be a way for them to convey to us the progress that had been made. If there's no more progress to make then... maybe an 8/24 release holds some truth after all :D

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  • Your video was incredible except for the part that you added.

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  • You know after reading most of the replies, I am disgusted by the lack of respect and vile distaste that my fellow Bungie fans have given this week to Bungie Princess. She obviously posted her post as a way to poke fun at herself, and to put everyone in a light hearted mood. But unfortunately we apparently have some ignoramus fools who lash out at her for what they deem is NOT worthy. She is more worthy than all of us, or I do not believe she would have at job at Bungie. Bungie gives us weekly updates as way showing their fans that they care about us. And what do their fans do, but throw it in there faces. After reading the posts I feel as if I had talked to some of other game fans, like Everquest and Counterstrike fans. These forums used to be filled with light-hearted commentary and, at one-time, fans appreciated that. After reading all these posts, I feel something has been lost, and unfortunately I feel almost compelled to ignore the Bungie forums from now on. To SketchFactor, Alta, and all those who took this as light-hearted commentary, and defended the Princess, I salute you. To the rest of you immature prigs, I hope that Bungie expels you from these forums. One more thing…Oh Bungie Princess, I think you should go with either a fiery red color like Molly Ringwald’s color, or maybe like a midnight blue kind of like Oni’s Konoko. And dear Princess, I loved your post by the way, and would like to see more written by you.

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  • Whoa. I just realised that most people on this board are 12.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Corwan I know I'm posting this after the fact, but I just decided to read the posts after the weekend. After every post I read, I felt the need to shower myself...frequently. Not to sound like a suck-up, but I really appreciate that the staff does this for us hardcore fans. If you've read all the Halo 1 updates, they had far less info and were much shorter in some cases. I for one find it interesting reading about how all the staff of Bungie is interacting with each other and pressing on so all of us can enjoy their games. Myself, and I know many of the other community members would like to apologize on behalf of all the less than mature and greedy attitudes around here of late. Keep up the good work guys (and gals), and thank you for the effort each week. That includes Alta, Sketch', and anyone else dumping their 2 cents in.[/quote] We've already heard every decent fans version of this. It's not like you're telling us anything new.

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  • I know I'm posting this after the fact, but I just decided to read the posts after the weekend. After every post I read, I felt the need to shower myself...frequently. Not to sound like a suck-up, but I really appreciate that the staff does this for us hardcore fans. If you've read all the Halo 1 updates, they had far less info and were much shorter in some cases. I for one find it interesting reading about how all the staff of Bungie is interacting with each other and pressing on so all of us can enjoy their games. Myself, and I know many of the other community members would like to apologize on behalf of all the less than mature and greedy attitudes around here of late. Keep up the good work guys (and gals), and thank you for the effort each week. That includes Alta, Sketch', and anyone else dumping their 2 cents in.

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    Sounds like things are coming to an end. Stress relief is a good thing.

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  • Thank you. I feel...completed.

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  • FLAME!!!

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  • Well whoever that girl was that called all the people losers with no lives, you apparently had the time and care in this subject to write more than any other member here. Once again, just calm down everyone! Flaming the flamers makes you A FLAMER! That sounded off...but anyways yeah the weekly updates are an extra we get. Some people are ungrateful, you think yelling (typing rather) at them is gonna help? This is looking like the Penny Arcade boards even though I only read 1 page of their replies I got the general idea of what kinda people they are. Princess' update sucked, so what. She was kidding around a little and no, I don't think there was much more to the update than what we see and know. Players are customizable, that has been released info for months and weeks. But why flip at her and cry about? calm down guys, it was bad so what, we got no more info from Frankie's updates. And stop this damned 'True Halo fan! I think not! I am a true Halo fan!" You sound like the "punks" who a year ago are gladded to be called punk and now get mad if you call them that and prefer to be "EMO". Jeez, people like the game, I love it! So what? Why should someone have to play marathon or ONI or Myst to know Bungie? that is just stupid. I have 5 college classes this year and I'm only 16, so obviously, no I don't have much of a life. So what? I'm happy, why should someone come down on me and criticize me? Look the point of this post is to say stop flaming each other, it's pointless and annoying. Let people live their lives and say what they want. They aren't hurting anyone, Princess probably could care less. Go ahead and flame me, I guess this is kinda asking for it :-\

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  • Can someone tell me if you can walk in 3th person in halo, so yes plz tell me how Can you make videos while your haloing?

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  • i dont really care about the updates i just like the funny pictures.. I was victimized by the rest of the community! Edit: 1st of page 29 grrRRrrrr [Edited on 8/16/2004 1:23:22 AM]

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  • For all your pretentious talk of being the real Halo fans, and constant whinging that you are 'victimized' by the rest of the Halo community, you boys really are a bunch of low-life jerks. Seriously, what are you, nine years old? Actually, scratch that. I know that most of you must be around that age, or possibly younger. Anyone older than that would be aware of a few small basic human traits such as politeness, and courtesy, and keeping your own head from disappearing entirely up your sphincter. As a girl who also happens to be an avid fan of the Halo universe, I thoroughly enjoyed Alta's update. It was funny, it was different, and she wasn't afraid to poke fun at herself at the expense of a few laughs for us. Unfortunately, it appears to be wasted on the likes of those who populate this forum. Having trouble figuring out the difference between 'deadly seriousness' and a 'joke', are we? Well, don't strain yourself. We don't want you sitting in front of the computer and drooling all over your keyboard for a week. God, you lot really are quite amazingly pathetic. As I can now see that little boys such as yourself have trouble discerning reality from your own self-centered universes, I'll point out the blinding obvious to you. Are you ready? Perhaps you should grab hold of something. BUNGIE DOES NOT HAVE TO DO THIS. The weekly updates are a PRIVILEGE, you pack of losers, not a right. Bungie could easily have left us completely in the dark until Nov 9th, as so many other game developers have done. But because they have a touching degree of respect and contact with their fans, - and you know what? We clearly don't deserve it - they have kept our appetites whetted with these weekly updates. The time spent writing these lengthy summaries, not forgetting redrafts and editing, is certainly considerable. Time that could be spent, oh, I don't know, making the game for ungrateful little turds such as yourselves. But no. Apparently, this level of mutual respect is beyond the ability of the average Halo fan So when for one week - one -blam!- week, retards - the content of the update is less and the fun side of it is more, you start running around panicked like the bunch of big, fat, unwashed, brain-dead chimps that you quite clearly are. This leads, of course, to the outpouring of your righteous rage onto the Bungie forum, which makes every intelligent person who reads your posts hate God for ever inventing a keybaord simple enough to be used by sub-40 IQ's. Such as this exquisite piece of literary criticism - [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ihatebeesdotcom heartless? how bout a date on halo 2 then it being moved, and we find out moved to a year later, then we get no information, this i love bees crap (wich most got our hopes up with i know itll be out on aug 24... but thats fake) that no one will talk about from bungie, and we have some princess talking about hair? whats more heartless?[/quote] I really have no response for such condensed stupidity. Aside from a fervent hope that this type of person is never allowed to reproduce, and further inflict the menace of their gene pool upon the human race. And thank you, to those few staunch souls who have more than five neutrons at their disposal for immediately stamping on this idiocy, and countless other posts like it. I hate to play the cliched gender card here, but I'm sure there were those who responded to Alta's post in mighty monkey anger because they felt it was too 'female' for an update on Halo 2. Oh no, retards! It's a female gamer, intruding upon our sacred domain! Talking about female things! I hope your testicles haven't fallen off from all the oestrogen flying around. Honestly, I wouldn't put it past some of those wastes of life thinking that it was crap because it was 'girly'. So the next time you're scratching and farting on your computer chair, wishing you weren't fat or ugly or girlfriendless, spare a moment to perhaps consider the feelings of others before you inflict your baseless 'sthupidity' on the rest of us. Just because Bungie's update is not packed to the brim with content, for ONE MISERABLE WEEK is not an excuse for such disgusting rudeness, and a pitiful lack of gratitude for all Bungie has given us.

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  • wow...just wow

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SilentHunter [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ihatebeesdotcom heartless? how bout a date on halo 2 then it being moved, and we find out moved to a year later, then we get no information, this i love bees crap (wich most got our hopes up with i know itll be out on aug 24... but thats fake) that no one will talk about from bungie, and we have some princess talking about hair? whats more heartless?[/quote] *inhales very deeply* OK, jackass. First of all, what the -blam!- is all this -blam!- about a the release date being moved back? I could swear that the only date I've ever seen on any Official Bungie site was November 9th, 2004. But that's just me. Now about the ILB site. Try ignoring it. Or if you're a true Bungie fan, try looking into it. Ever hear of a little thing called the [url=http://halosm.bungie.org/story/cortanaletters.html]Cortana letters[/url]? Doubt it. When those came out, fans went digging into them. JUST like the ILB site. So, quite frankly, you can go to hell. Now, about the Update. You can't take a joke? Or have you've become such a glutton for the updates, that you view them as your right? Well, if it's the latter, I think you should get some fresh air, and make some friends. Bungie doesn't owe you -blam!-. I laugh if Frankie would cut the updates from now on. Because I know you would all get scream for no reason, and everyone at Bungie would be laughing their ass off at all the "OMG u suk y n oupdat?" and "Yopu better giv an updat or els" threads". Because they know you are retarded, and will buy the game anyway, no matter what they do.[/rant] EDIT: OK, I saw your edit, so I guess the final part of my post should be disregarded. Anyway, I think you should still learn to take a joke.[/quote] I am all with you on this one man.

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  • i cant believe the way some of you people acted, it was childish and rude. I feel the need to apologize for something i didnt do, because it was wrong. Im sorry for some of those people that have no sense of rumor. If you take your head out of your ass and open your eyes, people have feelings.

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  • First up, as many have already stated, there is much more in the update if you just THINK about what your reading, its called comprehension,the update is more than meets the eye! No i'm not going to just tell you about the halo2 info in there, you should learn to feed yourselves. I'm not going to go into ILB but some of us actually enjoy it. Lastly I thought this thread had redeemed itself, but it looks like I was wrong, it's quite sad to see the continual slide of bungie fannage, ahhh for the days of Marathon. Please Bungie, no update next week, "we're not worthy" Thats me, I'm out on this issue.

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  • Haha, that was a pretty good one. Come on guys, lighten up a little. It's just a filler till Frankie gets back. Besides, her lack of *CENSORED*s covering the post probably puts her about on par with how much information we get out of an update anyway. Good update, Princess!

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  • Still sticking to my previous question, and hoping to get an answer... I don't mind Alta giving the update...more power to her. Afterall, the Bungie High Lords cannot be wrong. ;) But seriously...Was Frankie simply unable to post an update because he was in the middle of 28.8k ville? or is he out of contact? Was he robbed by a mexican? Was he abducted by a South American Drug Lord? (In which case, tell us, so we can start funding for the ransom) Or is it simply because he wasn't able to gather any information about current updates and issues since Parsons keeps sending him on these trips?

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  • Concisely put bro, glad to see some more dudes standing up for the fight! :)

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ihatebeesdotcom heartless? how bout a date on halo 2 then it being moved, and we find out moved to a year later, then we get no information, this i love bees crap (wich most got our hopes up with i know itll be out on aug 24... but thats fake) that no one will talk about from bungie, and we have some princess talking about hair? whats more heartless?[/quote] *inhales very deeply* OK, jackass. First of all, what the -blam!- is all this -blam!- about a the release date being moved back? I could swear that the only date I've ever seen on any Official Bungie site was November 9th, 2004. But that's just me. Now about the ILB site. Try ignoring it. Or if you're a true Bungie fan, try looking into it. Ever hear of a little thing called the [url=http://halosm.bungie.org/story/cortanaletters.html]Cortana letters[/url]? Doubt it. When those came out, fans went digging into them. JUST like the ILB site. So, quite frankly, you can go to hell. Now, about the Update. You can't take a joke? Or have you've become such a glutton for the updates, that you view them as your right? Well, if it's the latter, I think you should get some fresh air, and make some friends. Bungie doesn't owe you -blam!-. I laugh if Frankie would cut the updates from now on. Because I know you would all get scream for no reason, and everyone at Bungie would be laughing their ass off at all the "OMG u suk y n oupdat?" and "Yopu better giv an updat or els" threads". Because they know you are retarded, and will buy the game anyway, no matter what they do.[/rant] EDIT: OK, I saw your edit, so I guess the final part of my post should be disregarded. Anyway, I think you should still learn to take a joke. [Edited on 8/15/2004 8:43:28 PM]

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  • When is Frankie coming back??? that update was horrible, there was no real update, just details on how much their refrigerator smells...

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] OblivionLegacy Thanks for the update Princess, ---- first of all. Now I have a -blam!- life and don't wait around the computer all day to check an update. I didn't get to read it until now and I thought that it was a nice change and I enjoyed reading it. Some of you who were agains it are a bunch of F|_|CKING idiots who DON'T have a life. "Waiting all week for an update" thats sad. You guys are just -blam!- greedy for more information which you know you won't get. Get a life.You b!tches are just heartless.[/quote] greedy for an update? are you -blam- kidding me? im a blood and brain thirsty zombie willing to rip your eyes out just to get a little taste of something new! heartless? how bout a date on halo 2 then it being moved, and we find out moved to a year later, then we get no information, this i love bees crap (wich most got our hopes up with i know itll be out on aug 24... but thats fake) that no one will talk about from bungie, and we have some princess talking about hair? whats more heartless? AND bungie doesnt owe us anything. except a -blam- explenation for ilovebees. oh yea and princess was paid to do that. she didnt take time out of her hard work at bungie. and if she did, talking about hair wasnt that hard. [Edited on 8/15/2004 8:24:48 PM]

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  • lol....your right sorry man.....

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Jon 93 O WTF WAS THAT! i sware frankie! Where ever you are PLEASE!!! come BACK!!!! sorry princess It had A-lot of secrets hidden inside but you better be a god damn geinus to figer them out -BLAM- owned lol j/k[/quote] yet another retarted loser who waited all week and expected bungie to reveal every single secret of halo 2........sad [quote] [i] Bungie doesen't owe you a god-damned thing [/i] [/quote] i guess people like that will just have to learn the hard way when Bungie doesen't release an update [Edited on 8/15/2004 7:20:40 PM]

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