I highly doubt it, what with all the aleins he kills and all.

HOPE YOU GUYS LIKE ACHIEVEMINTS

http://www.bungie.net/images/News/In...hievements.jpg

1. Completed the Campaign on Normal difficulty.
2. Completed the Campaign on Heroic difficulty.
3. Completed the Campaign on Legendary difficulty.
4. Completed every mission in Halo: Reach alone, on Legendary.
5. Completed the 2nd mission on Normal or harder.
6. Completed the 3rd mission on Normal or harder.
7. Completed the 4th mission on Normal or harder.
8. Completed the 5th mission on Normal or harder.
9. Completed the 6th mission on Normal or harder.
10. Completed the 7th mission on Normal or harder.
11. Completed the 8th mission on Normal or harder.
12. Completed the 9th mission on Normal or harder.
13. Completed the 10th mission on Normal or harder.
14. Cleared the 2nd mission without setting foot in a drivable vehicle.
15. Killed 2 vehicles at once with the Target Locator in the 3rd mission.
16. Hijacked a Banshee during the Reach Campaign.
17. Killed the Elite Zealot before he escaped during the 5th mission.
18. Performed an Assassination against an Elite to survive a fall that would've been fatal.
19. Destroyed the Corvette's engines & escort in under 3 minutes in the 6th mission on Heroic or harder.
20. Finished the 9th mission on Legendary with the Scorpion intact.
21. Earned a Triple Kill while Jetpacking in Campaign, Firefight or Matchmaking.
22. Killed 7 Moa during the 2nd mission of the Campaign.
23. Killed 3 of the anti-aircraft batteries during the 8th mission.
24. Used a Health Pack to replenish life after taking body damage.
25. Performed an Assassination on an enemy.
26. Killed 10 enemies in a Firefight or Campaign session with the M6G pistol.
27. Killed 10 enemies in a Firefight or Campaign session with the DMR.
28. Traded weapons with an AI ally in Campaign.
29. Killed 10 enemies in Firefight or Campaign with a supercombine explosion.
30. Let a teammate spawn on you 5 times in an Invasion Matchmaking game.
31. Earned a First Strike Medal in a Matchmaking game.
32. Won a game of Invasion in the 1st phase.
33. Earned a Killing Spree in multiplayer Matchmaking.
34. Earned a Killionaire medal in Firefight.
35. As an Elite, killed 5 Spartan players in Matchmaking.
36. Scored 15,000 points in Score Attack Firefight Matchmaking.
37. Scored 50,000 points in a Firefight game.
38. Scored 200,000 points in a Firefight game.
39. Scored 1,000,000 points in a Firefight game.
40. Completed a Firefight set on Legendary without dying.
41. Purchased an item from the Armory that required the rank of Lt. Colonel.
42. Reached the rank of Corporal in the UNSC.
43. Reached the rank of Captain in the UNSC.
44. Used the File Browser to upload a file to your File Share.
45. Completed all of the Daily Challenges in a given day.
46. Purchased an item from the Armory.
47. Recommended a file to someone.
48. Advanced a Commendation to a Silver state.
49. Completed a Weekly Challenge.

Blimey, there's a lot more in that list that look like I might get them than I expected. Surprisingly few multiplayer ones this time out, looks like they're expecting Firefight to be the popular option in this game. I'm guessing already most people will get the triple-kill from a jetpack one playing all-rockets Gruntocalypse.

I'm betting Skills will have them all within four days.

glad the multiplayer achivements are so few, less people trying to get shit like that and hopefully actually play the game

FUCK YES LET'S DO THIS SKILLS AHHH YEAH SON

HEY DARAVON DON'T CUT ME NO SLACK

Why did Tails edit Skills' post? Anyway, Reach has been submitted for Certification:

So barring any problems, discs will likely start being printed soon. Looking forward to France leaking it 3 weeks before release yet again.

Lol.
Also i had no idea that this was Bungies goodbye to Halo, kinda sad :(. Somehow the next Master Chief game wont have the same... appeal (I think).

Because he wants to be king of his negro fiefdom

The casual audience that makes up the vast, vast majority of the Halo-buying audience probably could barely tell you who makes the Halo games, if that. It's like the CoD/Infinity Ward thing; average Joe doesn't give a fuck who is making the games unless they're noticeably worse or different. The fact that Black Ops pre-orders are already past where MW2 pre-orders were at the same point in time is a pretty big indication of that.

From a fan perspective though, yeah it'll be different, but they actually have a lot of super talented people at 343 Studios, and Microsoft knows that this is their biggest seller. So you would guess that they'll go balls out on it, it'll just be interesting to see how it turns out. Even if it's up to par with the quality of past Halo games, it will still "feel" different no matter what.

Game will be playable but it's those little details that might not be there. Or the new developers try TOO hard and put in too much bungie-esque stuff. Now, I dont really know what those would be but the risk is there when the directors change.
More then anything I want the story to be good (Cortana going crazy is given but I dont want that cliché fight against her and then in the end they hug and kiss again). Guess time will tell =)

FUCK EVERYONE

Also good on them re: the Multi achievements. The initial set for Halo 3 were gay. Gay gay gay.

If anyone is interested, IGN just dropped two new articles on Halo: Reach yesterday, as well as a plethora of new pictures. One actually detailing what looks like a Helmet that has not been previously shown.

The map pack ones they put out until the end continued to be gay. Get a shotgun spree on a specific level? Really?

YouTube Video

Some new footage in that video and it's looks fucking gorgeous.

Also:
http://i33.tinypic.com/29dyddz.jpg

Unfortunately, I won't be able to confirm this for awhile, if at all, but this may actually be a pretty cool spoiler.

I'll be putting this within a spoiler box, since it does seem pretty big, at least to me.

That sounds pretty awesome I am not going to lie! I would love to pick up Halo Reach. I have to get a Halo game. I currently don't own any. I want to because I have a relatively new 360 and very few games for it. I loved playing Halo back in the day and would really like to check out the newer games.

I'm confused; why couldn't that image just be from the single-player level they've shown? Or am I missing something obvious?

Because you're flying a frigate and not just a little fighter.

But urk said it was fake, so.

Ah, I just woke up and wasn't awake yet. I thought the frigate was just on the screen and it was just showing you it's status or something, completely missed that it was (apparently) indicating you were controlling it.

Also I don't think I posted this yet, but the game has gone officially gold. Also this weeks BWU has some details on the 3 new maps (that I already posted), as well as screens of the complete Elite armory, all found here.

I haven't been super proactive on updating this thread since I've had a pretty rough couple of weeks, as well as I'm kinda on hold until the game is closer to release. PAX is about a week and a half before release IIRC, and I figure I'll hold off until doing any huge updates until then to trying to capture everything at once and do a massive overhaul on the OP then. I'm pretty sure we should be getting map/playlist details before launch as well, etc.

Yeah, it could just be from a Single Player map, the Multiplayer mention was just simply because there was some "Alleged" information that was supposedly "Leaked" that one of the new gamemodes could be something like that. Though that information is most likely false, just hopes and dreams.

EDIT:

Found this on the Bungie.net Forums. It's a nice compilation of all the currently known(Possibly all) Helmets available within Halo: Reach. Going to put it within a Spoiler tag just so it'll keep everything uniform if not opened.

Bungie Weekly Update is up a day early this week, since they're doing the last of the office moves tomorrow apparently.

Bungie.net : Bungie Weekly Update: 08.13.10 : 8/12/2010 2:26 PM PDT

There's a ton of Forge stuff that I won't bother posting details of since I don't think anybody here is really inclined. However urk shows apparently a bunch of the building block options, and does also show off a ton of the visual filters you can place (like the B&W one used for some Zombie gametypes in Halo 3, etc) and some of them are actually pretty sweet. There's a green one that he implies will be used in zombie games for Reach.

Probably the only other interesting piece of news for people here is that urk says there are over 40 custom assassination animations, some specific to Campaign, most multiplayer.

Oh, also apparently there'll be some Reach news out of GamesCom next week, which I believe it Tuesday-ish US time.

Halo Waypoint just put up a full (well, five minute) game of Slayer on Reflection:

YouTube Video

Nice. I also really appreciate how for once it's gameplay footage where the player actually knows what the hell he's doing. I wonder if this got put up because of all the people in the GAF thread saying that they should just put up a full freaking match video on Waypoint; that would actually be kind of cool if that's what happened.

The Halo Waypoint folks have put up videos for Pinnacle (the Acension remake) and Zealot (the Midship inspired-type level).

YouTube Video

YouTube Video

The animation when you first pick up or switch to the DMR (you can see it at the start of the Pinnacle video) is total sex.

I had every Halo novel/comic/encyclopedia in my cart from Amazon for $100 and actually ordered, but went back and canceled it. My original plan was to consume all Halo media prior to Reach, in particular the encyclopedia and the last few books that I hadn't read (that deal specifically around or before Reach), but I can't really afford to. Also motherfucking Amazon had the gall to put the Reach controller in my Goldbox, god damn it :(

Bitching aside, I'll probably start working on the "final" OP sometime this coming week; was going to do it later on, but I had set aside a couple weeks for reading novels and other stuff that I'm not doing now. I think we'll have all pre-launch info after whatever they show Tuesday at Gamescom aside from probably the launch playlist specifics, but I can account for that.