Bungie Announces New Halo 3 Achievements!

Bungie Studios has been up to some great stuff lately, and finally they’re pulling back the curtains on part of it.  On Friday, with their weekly update, Bungie announced a new set of Halo 3 achievements, worth a total of 250 GS. These achievements can be picked up in the Halo 3 campaign and the Legendary Map Pack.  The achievements will show up in Halo 3 through the form of a Title Update, the second one for Halo 3, sometime around the one year anniversary of the release of the game; which happens to be only a couple weeks away.  Oddly enough, 3 of the achievements are valued at 0 GS, while the rest have points values.

Here’s the list straight from Bungie.net:

• 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.

These look really interesting and really fun. What we’d really want to know is if you’ve already done this, will you be awarded the achievement right after the title update?

There’s additional information regarding TU2 (Title Update 2) including a new ban type.  Finally, Bungie also said that there would be more new achievements coming.