This week, Regicide and Grifball have been updated with optimized settings and maps. To create a more consistent gameplay experience, the king’s bounty in Regicide has been adjusted to always be a static 20 points, regardless of length of reign, kills acquired, etc. Also, Complex has been removed from the map rotation, and the following maps have been added:

    Landfall
    Dispatch
    Simplex
    Scythe

Grifballers will be happy to hear that the Grifball playlist has been updated to reflect the most current community settings used by the GrifballHub community. Those of you who get hammered on a regular basis will notice that the game type has been tweaked to create better balance between the weapons, and that Grifball and Grifball Pro now have identical shield, damage, damage resistance and radar settings. Grifball will continue to have one continuous round with auto-pickup turned on, while Grifball Pro will have five individual rounds with auto-pickup turned off. Also, four of the Grifball courts have received repairs and tweaks to create the most balanced playing experience. These tweaks includes repairs, removal of exploitable areas, kill zone fixes and more.

The score limit for Multi-Team has also been bumped up from 300 points (30 kills) to 500 points, to provide the most optimal game length and experience.

We hope you enjoy these updated Halo 4 War Games experiences, and we encourage you to leave your feedback in the War Games Feedback section.

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From Beyond Entertainment:

Muggsy is back with his fourth Halo 4 montage, featuring gameplay and clips as sick as the editing that you’ve come to expect from Muggsy. Check it out!

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Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a rather unusual weapon. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!

“The UNSC’s first attempt at recreating the Scarab Gun got a little out of hand.” –F1SHNC1PPARONES
“It also makes coffee!” –crazybydefault
“Say hello to ‘OUCH’, the Original Unified Concussive Hammerer. Batteries not included.” –Xenoblade013
“Yeah, it came in my personal ordnance drop.” –redneckhockey21
“343 decided that Frankie needs the best kill/death ratio. Here is the solution.” –SaintMartyrG1rl
“So this is what the internal testing for weapon tweaks looks like! ” –The Little Moa
“Red immediately regretted throwing all that duct tape and super glue at him the day before.” –F1r3br4nd22
“My other gun’s a Plasma Pistol.” –Nessfull
“And it was that day Jimmy beat all the Halo games…..with one shot.” –The Jazzy Frog
“I hope he doesn’t realize I don’t have any ammo for this.” –Joseph Tyler

Now that we’ve wrapped up that picture, let’s start a new one. Up for your captioning pleasure this week is an image featuring a displaced Warthog. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!

Author: Durins Beard

From Rooster Teeth:

Jack and Geoff make fun of how bad people are at Halo, to make themselves feel better.

Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.

From Teh Spearhead:

I decided to do this since I’ve never tried it before and for the 10th Anniversary of Rooster Teeth. What you see here is a shot-for-shot remake of all the clips in the first episode. Whenever the camera moves or changes angles, that’s reflected here. I just thought it was something I might enjoy doing, and I did. Very much.

Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.

From firestream:

I’m having a blast getting back into 3D! It’s been a few years. Feel free to download and enjoy this desktop.

From BarkchipOfDoom:

I made a Covenant version of the Expendables poster for Halo 4. Hope you like it!

From Rooster Teeth:

In this week’s episode of Achievement PIG, Jack squares off against last year’s RTX contest winner Kevin. Geoff sits in on the commentary.

Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.

From Pete the Duck:

I’ve been playing Halo since the first game was released in 2001, so I experimented with Forge when it was first featured in Halo 3. I’ve never been a very competitive player, so the ability to finely tune spawn placement and weapon balance—the original reason Forge was created—wasn’t something I found myself being interested in.

You can read the rest of the interview here.

From DirtyHobgoblins:

We were practicing cinematic shots and this was the result. Made in Halo 4, this video shows off the skyboxes of each map including new ones from the Crimson, Majestic, and Castle map packs. Enjoy!

Halo is a fictional universe. However, sometimes we catch sight of things in real life that remind us of our favorite science fiction video game franchise. This particular series, titled Halo in Real Life, showcases those very moments. Enjoy the subtle Halo references sometimes spotted when out and about in the real world, and if you have a picture you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!

From Indirect:

The third installment of my new Halo 4 top ten series is now live. I hope you all enjoy!

From AgentPaperCraft:

Hello, Waypoint goers! With the addition of community-made content into Matchmaking, custom maps and game types have become an integral part of Halo’s Multiplayer. Forgers and game type creators often work hours, days and even months on their content before it’s considered for Matchmaking, and it’s usually the lack of having a ready player-base to test their maps that it takes so long. So I offer an option to our Forgers, a place to bring your maps and game types to have them tested and reviewed by a group of the top Forgers around. You’ll receive top-notch forging tips and tricks to wow your players, improve map spawn and flow, provide a better map experience and get your name out there. You’ll also get to work directly with the Community Cartographers, a select group of community Forge enthusiasts who work with 343 Industries in the search of top-quality content for Matchmaking consideration. Every Wednesday night at 6PM ET, get an invite by sending “AgentPaperCraft” a message over Xbox LIVE, or leave a comment in the Test Night Thread.

Hope to see you there!

From omgitskazer:

Awkward Moments in Halo” is a series about the strange moments we witness when playing Halo 4. This episode focuses on camping. Enjoy!

Some people show their love for Halo by playing the games. Others get a relevant image permanently placed upon their body. Enjoy this particular example of a Halo-related body modification, and if you have a picture you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!

From ducain23:

Come and check out my new Halo 4 custom map called Snipe-A-Mole Star Wars Edition! Be sure to download the Snipe-A-Mole game type, along with the map.  

Map Name: Snipe-A-Mole Star Wars Edition – Download here
Game type: Snipe-A-Mole – Download here

From Dust Storm:

We continue our Halo 4 Spartan Ops coverage as we start to dive into the secrets that Requiem holds. A strange Forerunner artifact has been recovered and brought aboard Infinity, which soon wreaks havoc across the entire ship. Systems begin to malfunction and the Infinity is being pulled towards Requiem. Luckily, Commander Palmer is fast on her feet and manages to save the ship by giving the artifact a firm kick. Dr. Glassman’s curiosity gets the better of him and gets absorbed by the artifact. While you and the rest of your Spartan team can’t do much about it at the time, there are still things to do on Requiem to keep the Covenant and the Prometheans at bay while scientists dive further into the depths of the planet. Again, we are joined by our resident Spartan Ops expert HaloFanForLife. Enjoy!

From Mator:

Deadpoint: The point when you’re neither rising nor falling. The apex of vertical movement.

Deadpoint is my first trick jumping montage. The video shows a variety jumps in Halo PC, a game which hasn’t seen much serious trick jumping, though all the other games in the Halo series have. The video was edited by me (Mator). Enjoy!

Every Monday, we feature a community member who does one or more of the following things: routinely goes above and beyond for their fellow forum members, is a positive and active member of the community, and/or sends me mass amounts of cat pictures. This week our Community Member of the Week is SepheusIX. Read a little more about this particular fan below, then hit their profile to learn even more!

Gamertag: SepheusIX.

Origin of Gamertag: I liked the mythological name Cepheus and IX is because I was the ninth in my ‘group’.

Current clan/community: Proud to be a leading member of the Section 3 team!

Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo 4.

Favorite map, game type and playlist: Lately I’ve been enjoying Adrift, as it fits my play style. As for game type, I really only play Team Slayer/Infinity Slayer. My favourite playlist was the Majestic DLC playlist when it was around!

Least favorite map, game type and playlist: I’d have to say Complex, within the Infinity Slayer rotation, because it doesn’t really fit my expectations of a Team Slayer/Infinity Slayer map. FFA game types and playlists aren’t really my thing.

Preferred control scheme: Recon, sensitivity 8.

Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): Reflexive. I will approach each match with an overall strategy; I always have an opening gambit.

Favorite Halo character: hydrAi.

Favorite Halo book: I will get around to them… eventually.

Favorite Halo quote: /I SHOULD PROBABLY NOT BE USING 500 YEAR OLD ‘INCLUDED’ SOFTWARE FOR FLIPPING BYTES, AFTER ALL FLIPPING USUALLY MEANS AND MODIFY @#%#@%^#$

Anything else we should know? I’ve created a few ‘things’ since becoming a member of Section 3, such as some puzzles for the community!