[this feature is now permanently retired*]
Happy day-after-sunset!
After years of research, Bungie engineers are proud to unveil the networking technology of the future, the Sneakernet. Where traditional network technologies can be subject to disconnects and other inconvenient interruptions, the Sneakernet provides a robust new way to get data from your Xbox to your PC -- you walk it over!
I know that many of you are feeling glum that your Reach emblem and armor will no longer update, which is where the Sneakernet comes in. Just write down the avatar code that's been sitting there all along in the game's menu system, and type it in to the box on Bungie.net (described below). A few minutes later, your shiny new avatar images and video will be ready.
Wait, video? Sure, we thought we'd spruce things up a little and let you see your avatar from all sides. The details below will tell you how to get your own 360-degree view of your avatar, after you use the new Sneakernet system.
Here are the details:
- Sign in to Bungie.net with a profile that has an existing Reach service record, and click Profile in the main navigation bar.
- Click the Game Settings tab
- Click the new Player Model link below the tab
- Below the explanatory image, a line of text will remind you of the last Service Tag we have on record for you. Set your Reach service tag back to this value if you've changed it.
- The image on Bungie.net shows where in the Reach main menu you can find your armor code (Start -> Network Status, then wait for about 30 seconds for the code to appear at the top). Your Service Tag on that screen must match the one on Bungie.net for this to work.
- Carefully record the code you see at the top of the screen, and enter it into the box on Bungie.net. It is 64 characters long, consisting only of the digits 0-9 and the letters A-F. Be careful, 0 looks like D, and 6, 8 and B look similar. I recommend typing it first into a different text editor and pasting it into Bungie.net so you can easily try again if you make a mistake.
- Hit the Save Changes button. We will then attempt to render your armor image. We have no way to give immediate feedback if you entered the code correctly, so you'll have to wait about 5 minutes and check your Service Record to see if it updates or not.
- Once you see your armor or emblem change, that means it worked!
- From your service record page, click your armor image to see the full-size version. Now add [b]&vid=1[/b] to the end of the URL in your browser's address bar and hit enter, and you can download a video (AVI) file of your Spartan seen from all angles. (This will only exist after you use the new text-code feature)
Enjoy this final Halo-based Bungie.net feature!
* It's been a fun couple years of Sneakernet, but unfortunately the ongoing cost of maintaining compatibility with our servers systems now outweighs the utility for the couple people who are still using this. We're going to retire this feature now. Did I mention we have a *new* game for you to try? Look up this thing called "Destiny"!
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i cant read the text! i can read the beginning but then i cant read it at all!
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I CANT READ THE CODE EITHER
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i cant even read mine because its so freakin long
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*gets out magnifying glass to read very long random generated string of numbers* EDIT: I can't get mine to work. *sadface* [Edited on 04.05.2012 2:07 PM PDT]
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Then your -blam!-ed
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...Shoot, I hate Standard.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MarkFanous [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] oaklandp8ntbalr Hypothetically, could you change the armor on the avatar if you properly changed that 64 digit code in just the right way? Here's the scenario: One of my friends is an inheritor, and he has haunted helmet. He wears that helmet, and then gets the code. If he told me that code and I then used it, wouldn't my avatar have the Haunted Helmet then?[/quote][/quote]That would work, but your friend would have to be using the service tag specified on the page, at least I assume. [Edited on 04.04.2012 12:10 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] oaklandp8ntbalr Hypothetically, could you change the armor on the avatar if you properly changed that 64 digit code in just the right way? Here's the scenario: One of my friends is an inheritor, and he has haunted helmet. He wears that helmet, and then gets the code. If he told me that code and I then used it, wouldn't my avatar have the Haunted Helmet then?[/quote]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Dj Wolfy2000 i can not see my code,so I do not know how to solve it. :/[/quote] Have you waited long enough? It takes 30+ seconds.
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i can not see my code,so I do not know how to solve it. :/
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Bungie fan no7 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SasukeFKay Epic... But its not working, lol[/quote] Works fine for me. You must entered the code incorrectly.[/quote]Nope, I tried over 12 times. I even checked all possible typos sawnose mentioned too.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SasukeFKay Epic... But its not working, lol[/quote] Works fine for me. You must entered the code incorrectly.
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Epic... But its not working, lol [Edited on 04.03.2012 2:47 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CormactheMC This is pretty cool! Its funny because I never noticed that code before on the network status page! Out of curiosity anyone ever notice people trying to figure out what that code did before this reveal?[/quote] I tried googling it when I first noticed it, no luck, I remember a big topic on it a while back in the Reach forum, but people just gave up.
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This is pretty cool! Its funny because I never noticed that code before on the network status page! Out of curiosity anyone ever notice people trying to figure out what that code did before this reveal?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sawnose - There is no planned cutoff date. We want to keep this as a living link to the game[/quote] Cool. :) [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sawnose - There are no easter eggs or features to be found in fiddling with the URL such as vid=2 or tinkering with the text code, which is encrypted and verified before rendering.[/quote] Kay. That saves me the time I would have spent looking for stuff :p
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- There is no planned cutoff date. We want to keep this as a living link to the game - There are no easter eggs or features to be found in fiddling with the URL such as vid=2 or tinkering with the text code, which is encrypted and verified before rendering.
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Seeing as how it's stickied and still going strong, I'm assuming it's real. Will there be a cutoff date for this, or any related features of it? I can't do any of it, now, so i want to make sure it's not going to only be active for a limited time. Anyways, can somone check to see if the b.net version displays the 4 diamonds correctly? - - Or, try messing around with the urls to see if we can reverse engineer it kinda? Like, has anybody tried messing with the 64 characters code to see if certain didgets corresponding to something, or instead of "&vid=1", trying "&vid=2"? Perhaps we'd see more video angles, unusable in game emblem symbols/colors, or unusable armor/attachment combinations, like with the lone wolf spartans and the helmet/hologram glitch. [b]Note[/b]: While I very much doubt any of that would be against the rules,(seeing as how it would at most just allow us to generate certain emblems/player models by design, or at the least do nothing) if it is, please say so and I will remove that portion of this post. [b]EDIT: Nothing to be found, see post below.[/b] [Edited on 04.02.2012 3:59 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] zoobkillerninja so what was the easter egg?[/quote] What No7 said, and also the meaning of the in-game code that people have been wondering about for a year and a half. @No7: yeah, it seemed fitting to let you show everyone that you're still around by updating the date.
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I just noticed something. When your player model updates, your [url=http://i.imgur.com/slHRU.png]last played[/url] updates as well.
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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LHvhw5hGt0]Sweet![/url]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] zoobkillerninja so what was the easter egg?[/quote] [quote][b]From your service record page, click your armor image to see the full-size version. Now add &vid=1 to the end of the URL in your browser's address bar and hit enter, and you can download a video (AVI) file of your Spartan seen from all angles. (This will only exist after you use the new text-code feature)[/b][/quote]
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so what was the easter egg?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CrazzySnipe55 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Daedalos42 Standard definition TV. D:[/quote]Yeah to do this I'm gonna have to bring my xbox up to my room, connect it to my high-def smaller TV, get the code, then bring it back down to play on Live again. Ugh.[/quote]I don't even have an HDTV. Lol
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Daedalos42 Standard definition TV. D:[/quote]Yeah to do this I'm gonna have to bring my xbox up to my room, connect it to my high-def smaller TV, get the code, then bring it back down to play on Live again. Ugh.
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Standard definition TV. D: