Track Your Halo: Reach Commendation And Challenge Progress With The Official Bungie Mobile App
June 14, 2011
Bungie, the development house best known for creating the massively popular Halo franchise, has released an official mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch that allows all of you Spartan wannabes to easily track your personal Halo: Reach commendation and challenge progress while on the go.
The Bungie Mobile app requires you to first sign into your personal Windows Live account which, if you are any kind of a Halo fan, you probably created years ago in order to access all of the Bungie.net online stats. After you are all signed in, you will be greeted with a couple of treats.
First off, Bungie is providing all app users with a blue flaming helmet for their Spartans to wear proudly, something that was previously only available to Bungie staff members. You will also receive a special all-star nameplate that can be displayed behind your gamertag while online. The nameplate can also be shared with up to seven of your other Halo-playing friends.
As for the actual meat of the app, Bungie Mobile allows you to track a fair amount of your Halo: Reach stats without ever having to enter Mobile Safari. The app displays your last time online, games played, Covenant enemies killed in action and, most importantly, your current K/D ratio.
You can also dig a little deeper and view today's four daily challenges and the current weekly challenge along with your progress. Commendations for multiplayer games, Firefight games, and campaign missions can be glanced over as well. Feel like showing off that shiny new Spartan armor you worked so hard to obtain? Well, you can do that too, and even save the image to your library. If you want to view more specific stats, say, how often you killed your opponents with the DMR, you'll have to exit the app and enter Mobile Safari.
This brand new and completely free Bungie Mobile app is a small part of the company's big Halo sendoff, as the team will no longer be a part of the franchise's future but will continue to host your all-important Halo: Reach stats. Back in 2000 when Microsoft acquired Bungie, they gave up intellectual rights to their beloved franchise. Now that they have split, Microsoft's Halo-specific development studio, 343 Industries, will be guiding Halo into the future.
But don't worry, Bungie is on to new and (possibly) better things, which they will most likely reveal on July 7th, a day best known as Bungie Day.