I know the topics a little dead, but the article wasn't talking about Brutes being in multiplayer, it was talking about the Invincibility power up being a rare find in multiplayer matches. Brutes could be a potentially neat option, but if they were planning on putting them in multiplayer, Bungie would've said something by now. They wouldn't take the risk of adding them in and not telling anyone because Bungie knows that fan feedback is what has driven alot of the improvements and add ons to Halo 3 Multiplayer. Besides, if enough people got the game and decided they wanted to be a Brute in multiplayer, Bungie could(possibly) make a patch that you could download to add them in.