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  • The Continuing Evolution Of Halo Multiplayer

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    The newest installment of 1Up’s Three Weeks of Halo 3 looks at player complaints about Halo 2’s online play and how those are being addressed in Halo 3, including weapon spawns, dual-wielding, player icons and more.


    In particular, Ferrex mentions how the weapon spawn system in Halo 1 was made, and how in Halo 3, it’ll be a revolution, not an evolution, since “weapon spawns have been rebuilt from the ground up.”


    Can’t wait.




  • The Continuing Evolution Of Halo Multiplayer

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    The newest installment of 1Up’s Three Weeks of Halo 3 looks at player complaints about Halo 2’s online play and how those are being addressed in Halo 3, including weapon spawns, dual-wielding, player icons and more.

    In particular, Ferrex mentions how the weapon spawn system in Halo 1 was made, and how in Halo 3, it’ll be a revolution, not an evolution, since “weapon spawns have been rebuilt from the ground up.”

    Can’t wait.

  • Making the good better

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    The second half of EGM’s Monday content is now up at 1Up.com – Combat Evolving, a discussion of multiplayer aspects as they stand in Halo 2, and ways that Bungie is working to make them better (or more fun) in Halo 3. Great info – lots to look forward to! Go read. Update: Looks like Esteban Lagarde started a thread on our forum about this, if you’d like to discuss it.(Louis Wu 01:40:02 UTC)

  • An Appropriate Number

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    1Up continues their “three weeks of Halo 3” online series to accompany their chocked-with-Halo 3-goodness December issue. The latest addition is a Humpday Challenge writeup where Bungie cheats and multiplayer lead Tyson “Ferrex” Green graciously stops at the appropriate number of 7 kills to leave 1Up with some self-esteem. Just not much.



  • An Appropriate Number

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    1Up continues their “three weeks of Halo 3” online series to accompany their chocked-with-Halo 3-goodness December issue. The latest addition is a Humpday Challenge writeup where Bungie cheats and multiplayer lead Tyson “Ferrex” Green graciously stops at the appropriate number of 7 kills to leave 1Up with some self-esteem. Just not much.

  • NBA Player Wants To Cheat At Halo?

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    Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards spends a lot of time online playing Halo 2. He brings an Xbox 360 to the hotel with him on the road and connects to Xbox Live through their Internet connection.


    What does he want to do next? According to Xbox.com, he wants to be a modder.



    “First it was just a lot of team play, then I got into sniping,” said Arenas. “Now I’m into modding. I want to mod. I’ve been modded against so many times it’s messing up my ranking. As soon as I’m about to get up to a higher ranking, I get modded three times in a row. I’m getting my mod box.”


    Here’s hoping Arenas is joking, or that Bungie and Microsoft won’t be treating celebrity cheaters any differently than the garden variety.



  • NBA Player Wants To Cheat At Halo?

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    Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards spends a lot of time online playing Halo 2. He brings an Xbox 360 to the hotel with him on the road and connects to Xbox Live through their Internet connection.

    What does he want to do next? According to Xbox.com, he wants to be a modder.

    “First it was just a lot of team play, then I got into sniping,” said Arenas. “Now I’m into modding. I want to mod. I’ve been modded against so many times it’s messing up my ranking. As soon as I’m about to get up to a higher ranking, I get modded three times in a row. I’m getting my mod box.”

    Here’s hoping Arenas is joking, or that Bungie and Microsoft won’t be treating celebrity cheaters any differently than the garden variety.

  • Life-changing.

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    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote up an article on women gamers; they focused on Kari ‘The Don Wan’ Toyama, and how gaming pulls her together with friends and supporters. It’s a great read. Look for her online, but don’t get mad if she beats you…(Louis Wu 21:48:53 UTC)

  • H1 LAN 2007 @ rapture’s

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    Save the date. I’ve met with Midnight and on Saturday, January 6th, 2007th I will host a HALO 1 LAN at my place starting at noon. You can play until noon on Sunday at which time I’ll begin chainsawing you with my Lancer.

    This LAN will be like the others. No H2 allowed. No Guitar Hero 2 allowed. No laser pointers anywhere near my cat. Gears of Wars. What to do? I say we’ll experiment with a little GoW LAN action. However like H2, since we can play GoW MP online at any time, we’ll be making the most of Hang ‘Em High and Damnation.

    Bring TV’s and XBOXEN. Bring fold up chairs. Bring snacks and drinks. Chaos will be bringing cookies.

    Regular local attendees are expected plus these special guests:

    Midnight and BattleBitch are flying in from California. jayWHY is flying down from Philly. D4RE B34R and D1ESEL are driving up from Auburn. A few others have mentioned driving a few hours to attend the LAN but are still unconfirmed.

    For those coming out of town, you are welcome to crash at my place as long as you’ve made arrangements with me.

    Thoughts?

    I’ve created an “event” post for this LAN at: http://hushedcasket.com/node/1551. But, let’s keep all communication in this thread for now. Equipment list started below. Reply to this thread and let me know what you are bringing.


    Equipment

    (remember that with XBOX 360’s, we MAY be short on controllers, so bring all you have)

    XBOX 360’s (5)
    rapture x 1
    FoulBreed x 1
    Oculus x 1
    Hubcap x 1
    Pheonix x 1

    360 controllers (13)
    rapture x 3
    Oculus x 2
    FoulBreed x 2
    Hubcap x 3
    Pheonix x 3

    HALO software
    Assuming everyone that brings a box will bring a disc. Need to have a couple of extra discs also. Perhaps some of you could bring an extra H1 just in case.

    Gears of War
    rapture x 1
    FoulBreed x 1
    Midnight x 1
    jayWHY x 1
    SHYZZA x 1
    Oculus x 1
    Pheonix x 1

    XBOX (6)
    Midnight x 1
    SHYZZA x 1
    Mintz x 1
    Oculus x 1
    FoulBreed x 2 via 123 & killa D
    Brick x 1 via Reverend
    D1ESEL x 1 (possibly KK D1ESEL??? ZOMG!)

    TV’s: (4 HDTV, 4 CRT, 3 LCD flatpanel [VGA], 1 projector)
    55″ RPTV HDTV
    32″ LCD HDTV x 1 FoulBreed
    32″ LCD HDTV x 1 Hubcap
    32″ LCD HDTV x 1 JDOGG
    24″ CRT s-vid JDOGG x 1
    32″ LCD HDTV x 1 Mintz
    22″ LCD flatpanel x 2 (need someone to bring VGA cables)
    27″ CRT (RF)
    30″ CRT (s-video)
    20″ CRT x 1 Oculus
    24″ LCD flatpanel x 1 Oculus
    1 LCD projector x 1 rapture

    3-shot
    KK DIESEL x 500

    8-shot + death ‘nade
    jayWHY x 500

    Deaths
    FoulBreed x 0

    Can of WhoopAss
    Oculus x 1

    Magic BS Shotty
    Hubcap x 1 borrowed from Slayer

    Networking equipment:
    PLEASE BRING CAT5 cables at least 25′ if you can. Need at least 1 more 50’er.
    “I just bring like a 100 or so feet of cabling” – jayWHY
    8-port switch x 1
    4-port router x 2
    802.11a,b,g WiFi x1

    Comfort:
    PLEASE BRING FOLD UP CHAIRS so you’ll have a place to sit.

    Food/Drink:
    PLEASE BRING your bevs and some cash for PIZZA.

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  • H1 LAN 2007 @ rapture’s

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    Save the date. I’ve met with Midnight and on Saturday, January 6th, 2007th I will host a HALO 1 LAN at my place starting at noon. You can play until noon on Sunday at which time I’ll begin chainsawing you with my Lancer.

    This LAN will be like the others. No H2 allowed. No Guitar Hero 2 allowed. No laser pointers anywhere near my cat. Gears of Wars. What to do? I say we’ll experiment with a little GoW LAN action. However like H2, since we can play GoW MP online at any time, we’ll be making the most of Hang ‘Em High and Damnation.

    Bring TV’s and XBOXEN. Bring fold up chairs. Bring snacks and drinks. Chaos will be bringing cookies.

    Regular local attendees are expected plus these special guests:

    Midnight and BattleBitch are flying in from California. jayWHY is flying down from Philly. D4RE B34R and D1ESEL are driving up from Auburn. A few others have mentioned driving a few hours to attend the LAN but are still unconfirmed.

    For those coming out of town, you are welcome to crash at my place as long as you’ve made arrangements with me.

    Thoughts?

    I’ve created an “event” post for this LAN at: http://hushedcasket.com/node/1551. But, let’s keep all communication in this thread for now.

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  • In Accordance with Halo 3’s Darker Tone…

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    Over at Hot Topic they’ve got some new Halo 3 merchandise available. There’s a Halo 3 t-shirt featuring one of the H3 backgrounds you’re already familiar with as well as a Halo 3 hoodie featuring the Halo 3 logo. You can find them online or at their retail locations.

  • Press X To Post at HBO.

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    Over at 1Up.com, part of their Monday Halo 3 content – a writeup of the Halo 3 Humpday Challenge between Bungie and the EGM staff – is now online. Written in the style of the Bungie.net humpday writeups, this chronicles the blatant cheating and general poor sportsmanship of the Bungie team… and reissues the ‘X-button’ tease that’s got fans in such a tizzy. Go read. Thanks to Drakai for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 18:54:04 UTC)

  • Bow Chikka Ow Ow.

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    Bungie asked recently for community feedback about an idea to add a female spartan death scream to Halo 3 multiplayer. Stuntmutt looks at one of the possibly unforeseen consequences in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:46:55 UTC)

  • Killtacular

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    I finally got a chance to go through our uploads directory – and buried amongst all the movies that people keep uploading (even though it says REALLY CLEARLY at the top of the page not to upload movies), I found a song submitted by StitchLips, called Killtacular. It’s pretty hard rock; he says it’s inspired by playing Halo 2 online. You’ll find a download link and the lyrics on this page.(Louis Wu 15:36:23 UTC)

  • Guilt O’ Lantern 06 – Results Are In

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    Voting ran for a week on the 2006 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and while a significantly smaller group of people voted this year than last (under 2,000, compared to last year’s nearly 6,000), there still emerged a clear winner – congratulations to Lacie O.! Michael Coffing, who won the last two years, and was actually forbidden from winning one of the top three prizes this year, had the second-highest total of votes. Second Prize, with just a few fewer than Michael went to Adam Beeman, and Third Prize belongs to Ryan Heiner. We’d had some lofty goals for prizes – they didn’t work out, so we’ve fallen back to gift certificates. All four prizewinners will get their choice of store – The Bungie Store or Gamestop/EB Games; first prize will get a $150 certificate, Second Prize $100, Third Prize $75 – and Michael Coffing will get a $25 certificate. (Don’t feel too bad for him; his haul in the past two years includes a pair of Xboxes, a copy of Halo, a gift card, a bunch of small stuff, and two custom recordings from 343 Guilty Spark on his answering machine.) Check out the voting… and start thinking about designs for next year!(Louis Wu 14:08:15 UTC)

  • Halo CE 2v2 Tournament

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    MereCatfish writes to point out that the Halo CE 2v2 Tournament is now accepting team registrations. As the title might suggest, this will be a league of 2-player teams for Halo: Custom Edition on the PC. This is the successor to the Halo CE League; there are no prizes, this is for fun. If you’ve got a copy of Halo: Custom Edition, and a teammate… sign up!(Louis Wu 13:54:27 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Countdown Timer

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    Cody Brigan has created a Halo 3 Countdown Timer – it currently counts down to Christmas 2006, because he doesn’t have a release date for Halo 3, but it’s pretty nonetheless!(Louis Wu 23:35:51 UTC)

  • New stuff at MLG

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    3Suns points out a couple of interesting things at MLGPro.com right now – a preview of FBI GamerGraffix, and a newly launched online tournament. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 23:34:29 UTC)

  • WikiRiot 24

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    Sigafoos writes to point out WikiRiot 24, which discusses the December issue of EGM, the new MLG TV stuff, the Podtacular league, and lots of clan/wiki stuff. 35 minutes, 14 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 20:28:40 UTC)

  • Onyx

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    We’ve got one more from Bryn Casey – it’s a scene from the Ghosts of Onyx, and if you haven’t read the book, this could be classified as ‘spoilers’. Fantastic piece, though – check it out if you can!(Louis Wu 17:41:02 UTC)