Late last night, Bungie rolled out what it’s calling "Title Update 2", including multiple new achievements and a new ranking system for all playlists. Dubbed "Playlist Rankings", the system adds new military ranks for each playlist, on top of your global ranking and your "Trueskill" rank (That number next to your name in each playlist). This basically removes the Trueskill rank from your experience ranking, which only matters because it gives you more stats to prove that you’re better than your friends at a playlist.

Hit the jump for the 10 new achievements and why there’s more to this update.

Here’s the new achievements so far:

• 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.

According to bungie, the Vidmaster Challenges will not grant any Gamerpoints. However, they will eventually reward you in another way. In typical Bungie fashion, they’re not saying anything. You can start getting Annual tomorrow, on the 1-year anniversary of Halo 3. You can already start working on Lightswitch, and your first opportunity to get 7 on 7 is on October 7th. (In case you haven’t figured this out yet, Bungie has some obsession with the number seven.)

Now, here’s the fun part: There’s a boatload more of these achievements. However, according to Bungie, we can’t see them yet. Well, why not?

"Yes, there are a lot more achievements that are now visible as a result of TU2. However, only the ten listed above are ones you should be concerned with for the time being. The other achievements are tied to things we have yet to reveal and there’s really not much we can say on the matter right now.  It’s no mystery we have more maps in the works though and once we have a release plan finalized with our publisher we’ll share that news immediately. In the meantime, rest assured that the other achievements aren’t going anywhere, they will still be there when the time comes for them to finally be earned.  As soon as we know, you will know."

We’ll be sure to let you know when we find out what Bungie’s up to this time. Whatever it is, it’ll be awesome.

[From Bungie]