Halo 3: New Achievements, Playlist Ratings And Trueskill

I was so happy the other day, I finally managed to complete all the achievements in Halo 3, so now I can run around XBOX Live gloating with my cool Katana and Security Armor… HAH! Eat me you pansies. My celebration was short lived though, cause I just found out Bungie is releasing a whole host of new achievements later this month when “Title Update 2″ is sent out.

What is Title Update 2? Some freakishly weird XBOX 360-version way of saying “Auto Update” or “Patch”. lol. Anyway, here’s a look at the known achievements that are coming:

[*]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.
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Bungie noted that these weren’t the only achievements being added but without “proper context” they were the only ones they were talking about. Sweet, so now I got something to look forward too besides just killing you meatheads… Grrrrrrr!!!!!

[b]Other changes coming:[/b]
Anti-cheating updates. As Bungie puts it, there’s a new spike on the banhammer that will soon drip wet with the blood of jerks and the innards of sinners. Yeah baby!!!!! I hate you guys.

Quitting is also being scrutinized. I’m guilty of quitting on a few games, mostly because I was having off days and getting my ass kicked by the slugs of the Halo world but hey.. I didn’t feel good. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking too it.
The biggest thing changing is the addition of in-game Playlist Ratings. Basically these amount to:

[*]Playlist Ratings are the playlist-level decoupling of Trueskill values (the in-game number next to your name) from Experience (the icon next to your name).
[*]You will now have a separate military rating (based purely on EXP) in each playlist. When TU2 goes live, everyone will begin at 0 EXP. This means that being a General in a Playlist is based on how many games you’ve won in the Playlist, not based on the Trueskill number next to your name.
[*]Your Trueskill values have not been reset. If someone checks your Service Record they will still see your Highest Skill.
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That’s cool, I think I like that idea. Gives people a reason to play the other levels and evens out the social matches somewhat I think.

New map is coming, we’ve already posted about the Assembly map that should come with the update.

So that’s it boys and girls. It all looks pretty cool and interesting. If you’re online, feel free to shoot me a note, my gamer tag is “RustedBucket“. I’ll be sure to wave as I splat your insides all over the wall….

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