nRGmusicproduction recreated the Destiny track “Be Brave” by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, used in the PS4 reveal video, completely by ear. Go have a listen!
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Tidbits From The Edge Magazine
Kapowaz over in the DBO forum summarized the feature on Destiny from Edge Magazine. It seems the game will feature named weapon drops, like Borderlands, as well as weapon models generated procedurally from ingredients, perhaps like the weapon mod system from Mass Effect.
The article seems to soft pedal the possibility for solo play, kapowaz says, even though it has been recently confirmed that players will not be forced to play coop if they don’t want to.
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A Walk In The Woods
Dean Takahashi over at VentureBeat has posted a walkthrough essay and some photos of Bungie’s studio where Destiny is now being made. Not a lot of new material, but until Bungie speaks at GDC there might not be too much more.
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Tattoo Tuesday: Boom, Headshot!
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!
As seen on Garrett
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The Romerantino Video – A Halo 4 Machinima
From Wangtim3:
This is a short Halo 4 machinima I submitted as my final piece for Film Studies coursework. I got full marks for it (A*)! One of the criteria was to have our film on something that heavily influences us. Halo was mine!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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Spartan-IV – Halo 4 Cosplay
From DaFrontlineTrooper:
This is my new Halo 4 Spartan build. It is finally nearing completion!
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HH Gaming Grifball Community Highlights, Episode 1
From FranticJ3:
A long title for a great series! They’re back and better than ever. Frantic and Corky are going to give you their first Halo 4 Grifball Community Highlight reel. Tag your clips “HHGrifball” if you want to be a part of it!
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Community Member of the Week: OompaMyLoompaa
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 OompaMyLoompaa. Read a little more about him below, then hit his profile to learn the story behind the extra “A”!
Gamertag: OompaMyLoompaa.
Origin of Gamertag: My friend was a big gamer. Since I’m tall and I share similar interests and a close birthday to great British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter Roald Dahl, my friend and I discussed a new Gamertag for me to change to since the one before this was incredibly lame. At that time there was also a new kid at our school named Charlie, and so my friend and I looked into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for some inspiration. We laughed at the thought and idea of oompa loompas, and so we settled on “OompaMyLoompaa”. I had to add in the extra “A” at the end because at the time somebody already had it. I’m not sure if I should spend another few hundred Microsoft Points to take off the extra “A” now that the spot is available.
Current clan/community: Pinnacle clan and Halo Waypoint (of course!).
Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo 4, Halo: Reach, Halo 3 and Halo: CEA.
Favorite map, game type and playlist: Love most of the maps but Skyline and Landfall have to be some of my favorite maps. Ever. I’m loving FFA and Regicide, Grifball, SWAT, Dominion and Grifball. Yes, I said Grifball twice.
Least favorite map, game type and playlist: Abandon and BTI Slayer.
Preferred control scheme: Default; sensitivity: 3-10 (always changing, but right now I’m using 4); non-inverted.
Halo weapon specialty/preference: Mostly an all-around guy, but I think close-range battles have always been my specialty.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): My playing style is hard to explain, as I love to do everything! Although the vehicles in Halo 4 are significantly weaker than in past titles, vehicle play is still so much fun! I’m the type of guy that will adapt to any combat situation and drive you around in a Warthog.
Favorite Halo character: Buck, Thomas Lasky (Forward Unto Dawn version), Gabriel Thorne and The Rookie. I have a personality similar to theirs’.
Favorite Halo book: The Fall of Reach, Ghosts of Onyx and Cryptum. I’m not the biggest Halo universe junkie, but I applaud the writers for doing such an amazing job and contributing to such an awesome fictional universe.
Favorite Halo quote: “She said that to me once… about being a machine.” – John-117
Anything else we should know? I’m a kid who devotes his time to writing stories and music, as well as eating tacos and honey-roasted peanuts while playing Halo with friends and a pizza. I love to meet new people so come holla at me some time!
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Halo 4 Matchmaking Update: 3.11.13
This week in Spartan Ops, we are featuring an encore of Episode 7. In War Games, the Team Action Sack playlist is now available, so you can get your fill of crazy and fun non-traditional game modes. We’ve seen a lot of great feedback regarding this playlist’s return, and we’ll admit that we’re pretty excited about it, too. Here are the game types you’ll see this week, and the maps they are available on:
Team Fiesta
Rocket Slayer
Binary Slayer
Haven
Complex
Haven
Adrift
Abandon
Monolith
Abandon
Harvest
Harvest
Solace
Landfall
Skyline
Landfall
Monolith
Complex
Monolith
Skyline
Ragnarok
Skyline
Adrift
Landfall
For more details on each of these game types, check out last week’s Halo Bulletin. We’re currently building additional Action Sack game modes, and look forward to bringing them to you. For now, head on over to the Team Action Sack Feedback thread in the War Games Feedback section and let us know what you think of the current game modes. Also, feel free to suggest your own wacky, crazy game types.
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What Halo’s Ancient History Can Tell Us About Destiny
You can never truly know a game until you play it.
Seraph, from Matrix ReloadedOkay, so I’m paraphrasing, but the point stands. Right now we don’t know much about Destiny, but it might be pretty difficult to say we know anything at all. I’m starting to get a sort of pleasant feeling of deja vu, and wondering what it was we thought we knew about Halo when it was first revealed. Our first glance at the game back then was more substantial back in the summer of 1999, when Steve Jobs welcomed Jason Jones on stage to show Halo running live, in real time, using OpenGL, on a Macintosh. He then said it was coming out on PCs and Macs next year.
The rest is history.
Perhaps Bungie showed more of Halo back then than of Destiny now because they honestly thought they were closer to releasing Halo than they really were. Possibly they felt they had to generate some hype for the game. Despite being an award-winning cross-platform developer, it’s hard to say that Bungie commanded the kind of attention before that game’s release in the Macintosh gaming market that they have occupied in the console world ever since. Now, independent from Microsoft, without the need to serve the well being of the Xbox platform over and above all else, the players on Sony’s platform may now be their thrall as well, and after that, who knows, perhaps those on Macs, Windows, and even Linux, iOS and Android. Bungie would appear to have big plans for Destiny.
It’s not the first time Bungie’s had big plans, though, and things have a way of taking on a life of their own. In particular, some of Bungie’s plans for Destiny remind me of what I always guessed were Bungie’s original plans for Halo…
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Destiny FAQ Updated
The Destiny FAQ has been updated with information revealed by Deej, Urk and others during the past couple of editions of the Bungie Mail Sack.
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Halo 4 – Fails of the Weak 129
From Rooster Teeth:Jack and Geoff are here with yet another pulse pounding and heart stopping edition of Halo 4 Fails of the Weak! Not for the faint of heart!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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Volition – A Halo 4 Trick Jumping Montage
From Elvish:Check out this Halo 4 trick jumping video from ReiKo, which has been featured on HBO, Joystiq, Kotaku and EGM. Volition features some extremely unique and creative techniques which set the standard for Halo 4 trick jumping. The editing and cinematography are top notch as well and they fit the content perfectly.
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Podcast Page Revamped
In response to some problems people were having with the in-browser podcast player, I’ve made some changes to the individual podcast entries as well as to the podcast page.
The new player is HTML5 and Flash hybrid that should work on desktop browsers as well as mobile devices. The podcast page has all podcast episodes, newest to oldest, both audio and video, and all should play in the browser. If anyone is still having a problem, send me a PM and let me know what OS, browser, and device you’re using.
UPDATE: Also, for info on all of the contributors to the Anger, Sadness and Envy podcast, check our Podcast Contributors page.
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Best of the Community – A Halo 4 Montage
From HT Edge:Although it may not seem like it at first, I spent a lot of time on this project. I’m not a big editor of any kind but I thought I would spend more time on producing montages instead of creating weekly montages for fun. Enjoy!
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Halo 4 – Achievement HORSE #117
From Rooster Teeth:Jack and Geoff compete in HORSE this week to celebrate Halo HORSE #117! Also, check out the new Halo HORSE Map tool over on Achievement Hunter. This will be how you will get your maps noticed and played by the boys!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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Podtacular – Halo 4 Campaign, Forerunner
From Dust Storm:You’re continuing your pursuit of the mysterious signal that appears to be coming from the core of Requiem. When you get there, rather than finding the Infinity, you find what seems to be a broadcast satellite that is re-transmitting Infinity’s signal and being distorted by the shield generators. In order to make contact, you need to disable the shields and get to the satellite before it’s too late and Infinity gets trapped. Joining us on our quest is CruelLEGACEY from CruelLEGACEY Productions. Enjoy!
