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I want my, I want my, I want my Splitscreen Play
Forbes has an opinion piece on why Halo 5 can’t pass over split-screen… it’s more of a plea than a solid argument, but a lot of fans feel this way. Go give it a read! (Louis Wu 21:35:54 UTC)
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Podtacular 492: The End of the Road?
The finale of Hunt the Truth finds Ben Giraud with a treasure trove of information on the attacks at the embassy on Bliss involving the Master Chief. He’s going all out with his story, taking everything he’s discovered and going full distribution on prime time. As he’s done in the past, he transfers all the data he just mined to Ray for safe keeping and gets a hold of Anthony Petrovsky to give him the time and place things will go down. Petra Janecek checks up on what he found only to learn of his last ditch effort to bring down ONI bit he also takes a moment to thank her for everything she’s done for him. Now the only question that remains is will it be enough this time. We would like to thank Toa Freak again for being with us to the end of this extraordinary series.
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It’s Bonekin’s Funeral
Tex let us know that after a semi-successful night of Halo gaming last week, they’re organizing another adventure for this Thursday. If you’re looking to play some MCC customs with an ‘interesting’ group of people, check out Tex’s post!(MacGyver10 20:18:40 UTC)
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No Split Screen or LAN for Halo 5: Guardians
I believe we might have seen some hints at this before, but ArsTechnica has confirmed there will be no split-screen of any kind in our new Halo adventure. There’s also the talk of no LAN support which is a downer for the communities (including our own) that get together to play Halo in person at times. Thanks for the heads up uberfoop!(MacGyver10 20:15:10 UTC)
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Prepare to SSD
munky-058 wants you to Forge a cool play-space in H2A based on ODST… and he’s hosting a contest to see what you can do. Go read the details!(Louis Wu 22:54:14 UTC)
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Reinventing Halo
Polygon sat down with Kevin Franklin to talk about Halo 5 Warzone (and a bunch of other stuff) – it’s a pretty interesting interview! Swing by and read it.(Louis Wu 22:48:43 UTC)
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Halo The Musical
We missed this when it came out – but Vic M. made sure we heard about it. lhugueny posted Halo The Musical… a musical animated version (sort of) of the first game. The autotuning adds a nice touch.(Louis Wu 22:44:17 UTC)
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Breaking The Habit
AssaultGodzilla once again celebrates his birthday with a Halo music video – it’s quite short, but as always, timing is great.(Louis Wu 21:45:56 UTC)
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In The Zone
This week’s Canon Fodder is pretty solid – Grim discusses the context of Bosses in Halo 5’s Warzone, he reminds you of a great interview with Game Informer, he answers a couple of fan questions about mysteries old and new, he updates you on Halo: Escalation, and he unveils Chatternet. Go read!(Louis Wu 21:43:27 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 162 Marathon Tempus Irae 26: Game of Death
We backtrack to a lava-surrounded secret level full of ammo and near-unkillable Pfhor.
We’re doing a new Marathon adventure– this time fighting the Pfhor in Italy of the past in third party scenario Tempus Irae!
Tempus Irae can be played, like the other Marathon games, using the open source Aleph One engine which you can get here for Windows, Mac and Linux:
Tempus Irae and other third party scenarios for the Aleph One engine can be downloaded here:
http://source.bungie.org/scenarios.php#more
We use irons’ Co-Op script, which gives weapons and ammo to both players if either picks any up, and prevents weapon loss on death (so items can’t be destroyed in lava or slime). The script also allows one player to teleport to a destination set by themselves or their partner, in case co-op players run into a problem a solo player would have to restart for.
http://simplici7y.com/items/co-op
Tempus Irae has its own spoiler guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/tempus/
Subscribe to the Narcogen’s YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
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Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)
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Long Story Short
Layne Thomas let us know that his group just released the 100th episode of Marlin the Elite. (We’ve looked in on Marlin from time to time in the past few years.) Go watch this episode- Marlin has decided to write an autobiography, but he’s underestimated the power of the past.(Louis Wu 22:53:18 UTC)
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Ripa Bust – Finished
Last year, we mentioned an unmarketed Ripa ‘Moramee bust that superfan PFG was able to get his hands on… it’s finally finished. The end result is stunning. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:43:04 UTC)
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Tim Longo talks Halo 5
During E3, YouTuber h0lmb0m got a chance to talk to Tim Longo about Halo 5: Guardians – it’s worth your time!(Louis Wu 22:37:34 UTC)
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No plans for a Reach Remake
Phil Spencer was a guest on IGN’s Podcast Unlocked during E3, and one of the things he said was that it’s unlikely that a remastered version of Halo: Reach will be made before Xbox One backward compatibility makes it available.“It doesn’t keep us from doing a remaster or something, but clearly letting people play Halo: Reach and any of the first-party 360 games that they want to play is part of what backward compatibility is about. We don’t have a plan right now for a remake of Halo: Reach. I suspect it’ll be a backward compatibility game before we ever even think about doing a remake.”
Worth knowing, if you were hoping for its future addition to the Master Chief Collection…(Louis Wu 22:30:44 UTC)
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A Reminder: All content available to all players
Scooting back over some news in the past week we’ve overlooked – we’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but it bears repeating: according to Josh Holmes, all unlockable content in the game can be earned by anyone, by playing. Preorder bonuses just mean you’re GUARANTEED that content, without having to unlock it – but the rest of us aren’t shut out. Thanks, Destructoid.(Louis Wu 22:26:10 UTC)
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Halo 5 Req Packs, Explained
Greenskull has done a good job of explaining Req cards in Halo 5’s Warzone – if you’re confused about these, this will help a lot. Go watch! Thanks, Bounce-A-Gon.(Louis Wu 22:21:57 UTC)
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Lumberjackals Hate Trees
Rockslider is back with some more H1 goodies. The video starts out with a bang and has plenty more fun and freaky gameplay pulled from the Halo game that started it all!(MacGyver10 19:02:19 UTC)
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I Regret Everything, Especially Wednesdays
This past Wednesday, a group of our HBO forum denizens merged there bodies with metal, dirt and corgis on the battlefields of Halo. There was much rejoicing, and a montage video happened to get left on our forum. Here’s padraig08’s post so you can see the carnage and fallout from their custom games night!(MacGyver10 15:03:15 UTC)
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Podtacular 491: PrE3 Halo Hype
With the lead up to E3, Game Informer delivers a dump truck load of Halo information revealing more about the campaign we’ll be playing in October and hinting at an all new multiplayer experience that we’ll get to see at the expo. We get full details confirming the members of Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris unveiling the identify of the red Spartan as Olympia Vale. A new multiplayer map, Fathom was revealed being underwater inside a glass dome. There’s a lot of other campaign and multiplayer related info that will hopefully be expanded upon at E3 including the new Artemus Tracking System equipped by Osiris.
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft