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Club Errera – Now With More Multiplay
Gamecheat13 has turned Club Errera (and, indeed, almost all of New Alexandria) into multiplayer space, by modding. What a fantastic choice of venues for getting together with your friends for some friendly fragging! Happy Happy Carnage Carnage!(Louis Wu 23:42:42 UTC)
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Want to throw eggs at Palmer? Now you can.
Feeling like you don’t have enough action figures? McFarlane has you covered – they’ve announced their Series 3 for Halo 4 figures. Jul ‘Mdama, Spartan Thorne, and Commander Palmer are all on deck. Check ’em out! Thanks, Action Figure Fury.(Louis Wu 23:38:41 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 130 Marathon EVIL 8: Magrathea
We’ve finished with the canonical Marathon Trilogy and are moving on to third party scenarios, starting with EVIL. In this scenario, a UESC ship from Tau Ceti runs into a spatial anomaly that sends them far away where we encounter something dark and evil.
Emerging from cryo, we’re sent down in a small shuttle to the marine resort, apparently called Magrathea (although this name is never mentioned aside from the level title, and no other overt references are made to Douglas Adams’ luxury planet-building factory).
Our job here is to destroy the facility (built inside a volcano) by causing it to fill with lava. Aren’t volcanoes already filled with lava?
In any case, some more technical issues with this level. During playback, two camera angles consistently went out of sync at the same point, making them unplayable, so after an early point there’s only my chase camera and Blackstar’s first person camera. Sorry about that.
EVIL 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:
EVIL 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
EVIL has its own spoiler guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/evil/
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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)Marathon,Marathon Infinity (Video Game),Bungie,Bungie Studios (Organization),Cooperative Gameplay (Gameplay Mode),Cooperative Game (Game Genre),Let’s Play
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RvB Season 12 – almost over!
Whoa. Yesterday, we mentioned the latest PSA from Rooster Teeth – looks like we missed two whole episodes! Episode 15 (‘Accentuate the Interrogative’) and Episode 16 (‘Out of the Frying Pan’) reveal some intriguing twists… and leave the crew wondering what’s coming next. Go watch!(Louis Wu 22:06:47 UTC)
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PSA: Getting Away From it All
Rooster Teeth has posted a new PSA – it’s called ‘Getting Away From it All’, and it extolls the benefits of camping. Go enjoy the vacation! (Louis Wu 22:20:56 UTC)
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Fire Team Zulu – Challenges for all Halos
FyreWulff has reopened Fire Team Zulu – swing by for new challenges. Cool stuff!(Louis Wu 22:19:57 UTC)
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Podcast, Podcast
We heard about a couple of podcasts today on our forum – Mixmasterchief stopped in with word of Reclaimer Radio Episode 2, recapping RTX this year, while davidfuchs let us know about FUDcast Adjunct 2, the PAX 2014 Debrief. Get your pod on!(Louis Wu 20:23:00 UTC)
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A Wild Week, Wrapped Up
Did you miss this week’s Halo Bulletin? (It wasn’t posted until Friday night, so maybe it got by you.) There’s a recap of PAX, and all the Halo goodness that was found there, as well as a summary of what’s coming in Halo 2 Anniversary Forge Mode. (There are some cool screenshots, too.) Read it at Halo Waypoint, or here in our Halo Bulletin Archive.(Louis Wu 01:47:13 UTC)
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A eulogy for Epitaph
Eurogamer has an interesting article about how Halo 3’s story was ultimately forgettable… but its multiplayer geometry was not. Go read! (Louis Wu 01:44:19 UTC)
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Escalation issue 10 preview
Wanna quick preview of Escalation #10? Laird found one at Comic Book Resources.(Louis Wu 01:41:44 UTC)
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Montage Mania
AfroRyan stopped by with two separate montages (well, three if you count his repost of his Reach Beta montage) – one by his buddy RYZ3R, covering Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Reach, and Halo 4, and one by himself, covering Halo 3, Reach, and 4. Go watch – there’s almost an hour’s worth of footage here!(Louis Wu 01:39:19 UTC)
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Lovely Hi-Res Models from Halo 3
Arnold ‘Dogma5150’ Ayala was a Bungie artist during the Halo 3 days – and The Lionheart just discovered some hi-res models he posted on his blog. Fantastic work! (Louis Wu 01:36:34 UTC)
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Splash
uberfoop took a very close look at raindrops in Halo: Reach… and discovered something pretty cool. Go watch! (Louis Wu 01:34:23 UTC)
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It’s all about the Dance
Oh, my goodness – we did it again! This has been a crazy week; here’s hoping it’s unique. Catch-up time: let’s start with a really fantastic article which delineates just what’s so cool about Silent Cartographer, and how that applies to the rest of Halo. Andre Dunn was the first to tell us about it, and Kermit kicked off a forum thread which spawned a few great comments. Go read! (Louis Wu 01:33:14 UTC)
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The Halo Bulletin: 9.5.14
This past weekend, we brought a few things we’ve been working on to this massive gaming expo called PAX Prime. It happens every year right down the road, so we usually walk over and check it out. Luckily for us, thousands of you came too, and even eagerly waited in line to play Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the first time in North America. With help from our friends at Xbox, ASTRO Gaming, Skullcandy Gaming, and ESL, we set up several 4v4 stations all around the expo with multiplayer gameplay on the recently announced re-mastered version of Lockout, set the game timer, and let you play to your heart’s content (or until you hit the score limit) (or the time limit).
Halo: The Master Chief Collection at PAX Prime 2014. (photo credit: Tom Matthews)
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A new look at a classic
Marty O’Donnell posted a copy of the original 1999 MacWorld New York Halo trailer last night – and beyond the powerful nostalgia of this iconic video, this is worth watching because you haven’t really seen it before. It’s a slightly different cut than the official Apple/Bungie trailer we’ve all pored over – there are different edits, and a couple of additional clips that weren’t in the released version. Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen has posted a side-by-side comparison of the two videos, making it easier to pick out some of these differences – upon watching both, it’s clear that the released version is more polished, but it’s wonderful to see this early cut!(Louis Wu 16:30:36 UTC)
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PAX Vids For All
343 Industries has released web versions of the two Halo Channel pieces revealed during the MCC Panel at PAX last week – go watch the Behind-the-Scenes look at Nightfall and the Halo 2 Anniversary Gun Audio Demo (thanks, Grizzlei). If you have comments, there are threads for both in our forum (Nightfall | Audio Demo).(Louis Wu 16:19:02 UTC)
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