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[GhaleonEB]

An observation from my ongoing crunching of the Challenges from launch until now. One of the things I was curious about was whether Luke was ramping up the riches as time went on. We know the Game Complete bonus grows as we level. I wanted to see if he was increasing the cR the Challenges paid out; that would make sense, given what happens to the per-game reward.

Yup.

Average value of a Daily Challenge, for each month (through today):

Sep | 852
Oct | 1,312
Nov | 1,363
Dec | 1,669

It's another one of the ways the gaps between levels go by quicker than they might seem given the raw cR they take.

 

[Major Williams]

An observation from my ongoing crunching of the Challenges from launch until now. One of the things I was curious about was whether Luke was ramping up the riches as time went on. We know the Game Complete bonus grows as we level. I wanted to see if he was increasing the cR the Challenges paid out; that would make sense, given what happens to the per-game reward.

Yup.

Average value of a Daily Challenge, for each month (through today):

Sep | 852
Oct | 1,312
Nov | 1,363
Dec | 1,669

It's another one of the ways the gaps between levels go by quicker than they might seem given the raw cR they take.

Yup I can definitely attest to this too.

The gap between Warrant Officer 3 and Captain felt arduously long, but it was only 66,000 cR. The gap between my current ranks is ~110,000 cR and it feels like only a few days worth of games.

 

[Barrow Roll]

More than a Handful - 1250cR
Kill 125 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking.

Secondary Fire - 4000cR
Earn 25 assists today in multiplayer Matchmaking.

Iron With Friends - 1750cR
Complete a Campaign mission co-op on Heroic or harder with the Iron Skull on.

Above the Neckline - 1250cR
Kill 5 enemies with headshots in a multiplayer Matchmaking game.

 

[pakkit]

More than a Handful - 1250cR
Kill 125 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking.

Secondary Fire - 4000cR
Earn 25 assists today in multiplayer Matchmaking.

Above the Neckline - 1250cR
Kill 5 enemies with headshots in a multiplayer Matchmaking game.

...Nice.

 

[Magni]

Anyone up for the Iron challenge this afternoon (EU time) ? =)

 

[Gui_PT]

25 Assists?

Come on Bungle, drop those Assist Challenges, please =\

Or at least fix the assists.

Anyone up for the Iron challenge this afternoon (EU time) ? =)

I'm about to go eat lunch. Want to have a go at the challenge in about an hour?

 

[Magni]

25 Assists?

Come on Bungle, drop those Assist Challenges, please =\

Or at least fix the assists.





I'm about to go eat lunch. Want to have a go at the challenge in about an hour?

Sure.

And yeah, down with the five second limit for assists.

 

[GhaleonEB]

I'd like to see a "earn X assists in any game mode" version, if assists are going to be this frequent. We have it for kills, so...

 

[Gui_PT]

Sure.
And yeah, down with the five second limit for assists.

I'm getting on now. Anyone else interested?

I'd like to see a "earn X assists in any game mode" version, if assists are going to be this frequent. We have it for kills, so...

That would actually be nicer than what we have at the moment.

 

[MrBig]

I'll be on after breakfast.

eh, kinda quick.

 

[xxjuicesxx]

At least the assist challenge is worth a lot this time, nothing really to get upset about.

Also I just remembered I got 777 slot machine twice last night in MLG, heres to not quitting. PENALIZE THOSE DOUCHEBAGS.

 

[Magni]

Woopie, got a Gold MM and a Silver FF to rank up to Commander, finally. How many more months till I get my Gold Visor Mk VI? :lol

 

[Devin Olsen]

Would anyone like to play some matchmaking with me?

 

[xxjuicesxx]

Would anyone like to play some matchmaking with me?

Raises Hand.

 

[zumphry]

Sorry for holding you up for about 5 minutes last night, Juices and Devo. Remind me to not try to play Halo (and force my Xbox to have a CoD disc in it) during a party because I'm a goddamned nerd.

 

[Devin Olsen]

Raises Hand.

Ok I'm getting on shortly.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Requisite game of SWAT: played.

Then got Rocketfight. Again.

I'm starting to dislike that enough that I'm going to take a break from Firefight for a while, hopefully until the playlist is configured such that I don't have to play it. Alan Wake came with the new slim 360, so I think it's time to give that a spin.

I really hope there's a December or early January playlist refresh.

 

[Merguson]

Requisite game of SWAT: played.

Then got Rocketfight. Again.

I'm starting to dislike that enough that I'm going to take a break from Firefight for a while, hopefully until the playlist is configured such that I don't have to play it. Alan Wake came with the new slim 360, so I think it's time to give that a spin.

I really hope there's a December or early January playlist refresh.

If you want, I would be willing to play some firefight after 5pm eastern if you are available. I sure other people would be welcome so we can make sure we get some.. vanilla offerings..

 

[Tashi]

WOWOWOW These are both fuckin awesome. Holy shit. I can't decide which I'm going to use so I'll let HaloGAF do that. So guys if you could either PM or just post which one you like best that'd be great. Whichever you guys like the most. PM/post a 1 for the Red and Blue banner by MrBig or PM/post a 2 for the grey MLG banner by Letters. I'll close the voting in a few hours I guess. (If you PM, I won't disclose who voted for which in case anyone was worried about that)

or...

Thanks again Letters and MrBig for making these. They are fucking sexy! I wish I could use both :lol

 

[The Librarian]

Use the top one. And it's not because the second banner has to do with MLG.

Spoiler

Okay, MLG may have something to do with it, but overall I like the top one more. No offense to Letters, he did a good job.

Both are very good, as Tashi said.

 

[feel]

Yeah, I like MrBig's more too. Charming and funny. If you really like them both, you can just start with that one and then switch to mine from time to time to keep things fresh.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Another vote for MrBig's. It's charming.

 

[RdN]

Mr Big's banner is awesome.

 

[Domino Theory]

WOWOWOW These are both fuckin awesome. Holy shit. I can't decide which I'm going to use so I'll let HaloGAF do that. So guys if you could either PM or just post which one you like best that'd be great. Whichever you guys like the most. PM/post a 1 for the Red and Blue banner by MrBig or PM/post a 2 for the grey MLG banner by Letters. I'll close the voting in a few hours I guess. (If you PM, I won't disclose who voted for which in case anyone was worried about that)



or...



Thanks again Letters and MrBig for making these. They are fucking sexy! I wish I could use both :lol

Just admit you like Letters's more.

Also, one of the challenges that popped up the past two days was weird:

20 supercombine kills = 1650 cR
70 supercombine kills = 1000 cR

 

[Bregmann Roche]

Obviously they want more people playing elite slayer.

 

[zumphry]

It might be tedious, but how about Mr. Big's for everything but when you play MLG/Gamebattles matches, you switch to Letters'?

Spoiler

I do like Mr. Big's a bit more due to the colors..

 

[xxjuicesxx]

Loving MLG playlist where you can't just armor lock when you start losing a battle. No excuses ya know, man the fuck up and be better.

Had this game http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=366155680&player=SometimesImEpic I was just dialed in 5 shotting everythin.

 

[kylej]

MLG is fun. I need to learn the strats, weapon placements etc but it's definitely better than vanilla Reach.

Can't fucking wait for finals to be over so I can poopsock the hell out of that playlist.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Loving MLG playlist where you can't just armor lock when you start losing a battle. No excuses ya know, man the fuck up and be better.

Had this game http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=366155680&player=SometimesImEpic I was just dialed in 5 shotting everythin.

Holy shit dude, I thought I might be "on par" with you the other day when we were playing, but looking at that you were simply completely distracted.

I should be on later today after some studying for finals, after this week I'm free for 3 weeks straight. I'll be doing nothing but sleeping, eating, working out and Halo, when I'm not obligated for family time.

WOWOWOW These are both fuckin awesome. Holy shit. I can't decide which I'm going to use so I'll let HaloGAF do that. So guys if you could either PM or just post which one you like best that'd be great. Whichever you guys like the most. PM/post a 1 for the Red and Blue banner by MrBig or PM/post a 2 for the grey MLG banner by Letters. I'll close the voting in a few hours I guess. (If you PM, I won't disclose who voted for which in case anyone was worried about that)



or...



Thanks again Letters and MrBig for making these. They are fucking sexy! I wish I could use both :lol

I like letters', I have no clue what that non spartan is doing up in the air on MrBigs, and I like the professional clean look of letters', but much respect to both of them, they both look good.

So my vote is 2.

MLG is fun. I need to learn the strats, weapon placements etc but it's definitely better than vanilla Reach.

Can't fucking wait for finals to be over so I can poopsock the hell out of that playlist.

:lol

 

[pakkit]

Add me, bros: anodyne90

I like you all, I really do.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Add me, bros: anodyne90

I like you all, I really do.

Edit:

Would like to add, perhaps it's just now that I'm seeing it, but Reach numbers appear to be on the rise again.

24 hour user number is up to 750k

http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/online.aspx

 

[Tashi]

K, so it looks like 5-1 for MrBig's banner. Thanks guys!

Stream is up now btw. Playing some MLG

Thanks for watching!

 

[Smokey]

I cheated on my main squeeze with that ho BLOPS, but now i'm back and it feels.so.good.

 

[MrBig]

I have no clue what that non spartan is doing up in the air

He's jetpacking :lol

Do the banners have to be uploaded to Justin.tv's server or can they be hosted offsite? If you can have them offsite I can have it set up to switch between the two randomly.

 

[FourDoor]

I vote for Big's banner too. Only thing that would have made it absolutely perfect is a spartan hologram. :lol

 

[GhaleonEB]

MLG Neutral Assault FTMFW.

 

[Smokey]

watching tashi's feed it's apparent i need to work on mah bloom control on the dmr

 

[Tashi]

He's jetpacking :lol

Do the banners have to be uploaded to Justin.tv's server or can they be hosted offsite? If you can have them offsite I can have it set up to switch between the two randomly.

No you gotta upload them to JTV.

 

[kylej]

MLG Neutral Assault FTMFW.

 

[vatstep]

My 360 locking up and requiring a hard power-down because of a failed host migration is really, really not cool. It's only happened twice in 400+ games, but still... not cool.

 

[Hydranockz]

My 360 locking up and requiring a hard power-down because of a failed host migration is really, really not cool. It's only happened twice in 400+ games, but still... not cool.

That happened me once. It was rather odd indeed.

 

[Plywood]

Thanks again Letters and MrBig for making these. They are fucking sexy! I wish I could use both :lol

Do you have to upload a banner or can you link to it? Cause if you can link to it use: http://signavatar.com to rotate between the two.

 

[pakkit]

MLG Neutral Assault FTMFW.

Whenever the gametype isn't MLG Team Slayer, I get quitters.

And I had my first bad spawn experience on Sanctuary. It was not fun.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

MLG Neutral Assault FTMFW.

Yeah, by far my favorite gametype.

 

[Kuroyume]

My 360 locking up and requiring a hard power-down because of a failed host migration is really, really not cool. It's only happened twice in 400+ games, but still... not cool.

I think I just got one of those right now. Host migration screen and I press the dash button to pull it up but all I hear is the sound. Still stuck on the host screen. So weird to get that just as I read your post.

Oh nice... Now I'm banned for 10 mins becuase I had to power down.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

I think I just got one of those right now. Host migration screen and I press the dash button to pull it up but all I hear is the sound. Still stuck on the host screen. So weird to get that just as I read your post.

Oh nice... Now I'm banned for 10 mins becuase I had to power down.

You're probably banned for 10 minutes for all the quitting that took place before the powerdown.

 

[Devolution]

Sorry for holding you up for about 5 minutes last night, Juices and Devo. Remind me to not try to play Halo (and force my Xbox to have a CoD disc in it) during a party because I'm a goddamned nerd.

lol.

It's ok. I wouldn't even trust my pals around my 360 during a party, especially if drinking is involved.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Sorry for holding you up for about 5 minutes last night, Juices and Devo. Remind me to not try to play Halo (and force my Xbox to have a CoD disc in it) during a party because I'm a goddamned nerd.

Wait, COD is ok, but Halo is suddenly "nerd" territory? Where the hell is the logic in that?


WTF is wrong with kids these days.

 

[zumphry]

It's ok. I wouldn't even trust my pals around my 360 during a party, especially if drinking is involved.

Oh, no. I just didn't want Call of Duty to be put in my Xbox.

 

[Hypertrooper]

I'm finally a colonel. Damn I can't buy the Gungir helmet yet? Damn...