: I feel like there's been a couple of conflicting reports, and haven't been
: satisfactorily reconciled. There's the balance "we needed a weapon to
: fight Elites" story, where multiplayer was considered but since that
: portion of the game came in so hot it wasn't a big deal; there's the
: "Jason Jones snuck in and changed the values himself" story,
: this Trenches one... it's become legend and myth more than story :P

: As to this account, sounds to me like the tester places himself into the
: story a bit more centrally than he might've been involved :P