Sep 23
For those of you who popped Halo 3 into your 360 today, you might have noticed some changes. Namely, the game’s second title update. It has upgraded you’re copy to a few changes we’ve talked about in the past (achievements) and other Halo 3 tinkering.
Bungie has givens us the full rundown on their site’s blog. Most interesting from the bunch are the “Vidmaster” achievements which will NOT give you achievement points, but Bungie hints that unlocking them should be a worthy investment of your time. Might they finally grant regular folk the flaming Hayabusa helmet (seen above) that only developers — and “special” people — have been privy to?
New achievements after the break…
Via Bungie Blog
- 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.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
So far, I’m not really happy with the update. I am happy about the addition of Gauss Hogs on some maps. The heavy weapon maps are also nice. Some of the achievements are interesting, but I am still anti-achievements.. I feel like it makes people play differently and they are willing to lose a game to make sure they pull achievements. After playing about a dozen games, I can tel you there was a ton of lag tonight also. I assume that will work itself out by the end of the week.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Lag-Lag-Lag
Oh, and a boat-load of people playing for achievements. Last night bigteam had 980 or so players and lo and behold, 19 800 or so players tonight. Surprise surprise !
September 24th, 2008 at 12:44 am
yeah LOL.. damn achievement whores
September 24th, 2008 at 4:28 am
People gotta catch ‘em all.
I jumped on earlier and didn’t notice many differences,
except maybe a new, third ranking system.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I can’t wait for mythic. you can actually get the legendary acheivment before 9/25 my friend has it already. If you want to see some hot girls who play halo check out gamernook.com