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Look at all those clouds.
Capt Spanish took some GORGEOUS shots way, way, WAY outside of the Ark; they’re linked in his forum post.(Louis Wu 20:56:34 UTC)
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Dated Eggs
RVideo let us know about a thread over at Halo3Forum which has pictures of other date-related goodies to be found on Valhalla. If you liked the Halloween tombstones, go see what they’ve found! Update: looks like they missed some; Grunts R Us found 2 more (Earth Day and Cinco de Mayo). Thanks, oriol.(Louis Wu 19:40:43 UTC)
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Forge Hub – Getting Better All the Time
TrueDarkFusion let us know that Forge Hub has expanded dramatically, and now contains a tutorial section along with new high-quality creations. Swing by and see what you can find! (Louis Wu 19:39:08 UTC)
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Medal Search
It seems that a bunch of groups are using the recently-filled-out Infection medals to narrow down what’s still missing from the medal chest. Herr Zrbo pointed out this thread at the Bungie.net forums – they’re only missing one. And PEZ told us that halowiki.net is hunting down just a single medal – check the page for details. (It’s the same one, for what it’s worth.) Can you help?(Louis Wu 19:36:58 UTC)
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Lego Rifle
GryphonOsiris found (at TechEBlog) a Halo battle rifle made of Legos – and man, it’s pretty impressive-looking!(Louis Wu 19:33:10 UTC)
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Halo Repair
1UP has revisited an article from 2005 which discussed the ways in which Halo 2 ‘was broken’. They looked at the charges leveled in that piece against Halo 2, to see whether they were addressed in Halo 3. The upshot? According to 1UP, Bungie fixed most of what was supposedly wrong in 2005 – but broke a bunch of new stuff. Interesting sidenote – when that article was first published, I was significantly less dispassionate about it than I usually am about news bits; it seems that it actually offended me. (I actually lost respect for 1UP when they published it, because I didn’t think it deserved the space it got.) Unfortunately… some of the new complaints are just as silly as the old ones. I’ll agree with them on the spawn point issues, but the rest of the second page seemed like filler material. Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for finding this.(Louis Wu 19:30:38 UTC)
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Back from the Inside
Kornman00 has written up his tour of Bungie Studios, won in a charity auction back in March, and realized a couple of days ago. It’s a five-page long PDF, downloadable from Halo 2 Vista Forums (follow the first link), and it’s a great read, even if he WAS required to heavily censor himself. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:54:45 UTC)
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The Storm, cleaned up
Morpheus managed to record the Storm’s closing cutscene with no musical overlay; we’ll likely do this again ourselves, at some point, just to keep formats consistent, but in the meantime, you can see/hear it with just the input from the scene itself if you follow links in his forum post.(Louis Wu 18:28:10 UTC)
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Haloween, revisited
One of those days – sorry for the lack of news. Yesterday a couple of people stopped by our forum with pictures of Halo-related Halloween costumes – Brandon found some pics online at a Predator forum – check the second picture down for a foam master chief and a purple Cortana. And HookMeUpImLocal posted a whole passel of pics of himself in a Mister Chief costume, meeting all sorts of other celebrities. I bet Frankie’d love one of those!(Louis Wu 18:25:50 UTC)
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Send in stuff for this week’s show: Callins and Tales from the Foxhole!
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Aw yeah, we’re getting locked and loaded for another action-packed episode. But this one’s all about you!
If Barbara Streisand sang a song about Halo, it’d go something like this
This is the show where we play back the coolest and funniest voice mails sent in by you. This is a super-easy way to get on the show: just call 206-888-HALO and leave a Halo-related message. Whether it’s a gameplay tip, tale from the foxhole, custom game or a ridiculous song, it’s all fair game! Stop reading and pick up your phone.
This one game my friend and i threw stickies at eachother and the stickies stuck eachother!
Got a cool story from Halo gameplay? Let us know! Just click the big green button on the right and send it in with your gamertag so we can give you credit. If you have a link to an image, clip, or custom on your fileshare, send that too!
Deadline is Tuesday night at about 6pm EST, so get your stuff in early. The earlier it gets in, the more likely we’ll read it on the show.
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Episode 133: Crow’s Nest Campaign Show
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This week we have some cool tips, tricks, and strategies on how to get the highest metagame score on Crow’s Nest, the second mission in Halo 3. We also talk about how to get the hidden skulls in this level. We also cover more crucial matters like handlebar mustaches, third nipples and the infamous Barbara Streisand video game. Our guest this week is the notorious Lord Gideon from Praetoria Guard, one of the longest running Halo clans out there. Pod art this week comes from spoofmaniac and is available in it’s full glory here. Strap on your earphones and buckle up!
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Halo 3 Cutscene Library: Halo
The four cutscenes from the level ‘Halo’ are now online in our Halo 3 Cutscene Library. All that remains are the ending scenes of the game and the credits! (And, of course, the coop variations.) Enjoy. More news coming later today…(Louis Wu 13:53:47 UTC)
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Halloween Week Wrapup
The Bungie Weekly Update went up last night, as usual for a Friday – it contains info about some Bungie Favorites (including the recently-used Infection types that were played on Halloween), an update about the upcoming downloadable content, some advice about network connections, and some goodies they’ve found on the web. Go check it out! (It is, of course, in our Weekly Update Archive, as well.)(Louis Wu 13:18:23 UTC)
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News Roundup For November 3, 2007
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So during the Week Without Internet here are a few things that went on:
Joe Staten‘s new Halo book, Contact Harvest, came out. It covers the first Human-Covenant engagements from the perspective of Avery Johnson. Bungie.net has the prologue online. GameTap has a two part interview with Staten about the novel. G4TV also has an interview with Staten about the novel.
Now that Luke Smith, formerly of 1Up, is now at Bungie LLC, 1Up has followed up on his Broken Halo article with a Halo Repair article about Halo 3.
Information from HBO and other sources contributed to this summary.
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Bungie Weekly Update: 11/2/07
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Recovering from the infection, downloadable content and no Frankie! It’s a perfect storm!
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Thunderstorm
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The Thunderstorm skull is found the the level, The Covenant . It turns all grunts into spec-op grunts (I forget if it increases the rank of brutes and jackals but I doubt it does).
EDITOR’S NOTE: It gives a promotion to any unit that has ranks and can receive one, including Brutes.
You better be good at getting headshots because these grunts just won’t die! I have to put a whole assault rifle clip into them if I don’t aim for the head! Anyways, onto how to get it.
Step 1
After you deactivate the 1st tower, get into a hornet.Step 2
Fly over to the 2nd tower that the Arbiter and the elites deactivated.Step 3
Land on the 2nd tower.Step 4
Climb up to the top of the big ramp.Step 5
Pick up the skull.Now you have the Thunderstorm skull. Hope you enjoy wasting your ammo on one grunt and the 10g.
P.S. Congrats on the podcast!
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