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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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  • 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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