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This week continues a line of Halo news that just keeps rolling in. Halo: Spartan Assault is now available on the Windows 8 App store following the career of Sarah Palmer as a Spartan IV. The Halo 4 Championship Bundle is also being showcased at the Xbox One lounge at San Diego Comic Con in a couple of tournaments throughout the weekend detailed in this week’s Halo Bulletin. In light of Halo being at SDCC, a seven page preview of the Halo Initiation comic from Dark Horse Comics is also available for your reading pleasure. Finally, the topping on this podcast this week is a visit from our affiliates Kritzkast. Both Agro and Ruckeydoo join us to tell us what TF2 is and to show off their knowledge (or lack thereof) of Halo. Enjoy
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Podtacular 383: Mann vs. Demon
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Anoj’s Top Ten #34: Unusual Kills
There’s another Top 10 from Anoj – this one focuses on unusual kills. This one is especially fun to watch – lots of good stuff. Check it out! Thanks, Jordan Bell.(Louis Wu 21:28:34 UTC)
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Spartan Assault code falls to Section 3
GunRunner48 let us know that Section 3 (the fans devoted to finding all of the hidden codes in Halo 4) have solved another one – this code requires that you unlock the ‘Recruit’ achievement in Spartan Assault. Once you do, you’ll get 10,000 XP and begin the process of unlocking a new empblem in Halo 4. Details can be found here – and the code can be found here. (Louis Wu 21:20:34 UTC)
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If I were making Halo 5 – Part 2
CruelLEGACEY has released Part 2 of his ‘If I were making Halo 5’ thought project – this one focuses on campaign and encounter design, along with enemy AI and level design. Go look!(Louis Wu 21:17:52 UTC)
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Building the Ultimate Halo Game Redux
Gravemind has revisited his ‘Building the Ultimate Halo Game’ essay – you can find a list of the changes he made in his forum post. (Or you could just read the tome on his website.) (Louis Wu 21:17:26 UTC)
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HALOcapped – CTF in 5 minutes or less
MixMaker1 told us about the newest HALOcapped episode – the challenge they set for themselves this time out was to win a CTF match in under 5 minutes – without letting the enemy team score. Go see how they did! (Louis Wu 21:15:11 UTC)
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A Gamers World
AytonHunter stopped in with a new cinematic project called ‘A Gamers World‘ – Live action with a bit of Halo machinima tossed in. Go take a look!(Louis Wu 21:14:57 UTC)
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‘Adorable’? Not sure I’d use that word…
NBC News enjoyed Spartan Assault – go read why! (Louis Wu 21:14:35 UTC)
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Initiation Preview, plus Escalation
Grizzlei told us about a recently-released preview for Initiation #1, the Dark Horse comic focusing on the pre-Halo4 life of Sarah Palmer. (She also mentioned Escalation, yet ANOTHER series coming later this year, as detailed by Wired – but she was beaten to the punch by TDSpiral.)(Louis Wu 21:11:54 UTC)
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AGL 8 Knoxville
This weekend, July 19-21, the Arena Gaming League is holding a Halo 4 Tournament in Knoxville, TN using Gh057ayame’s BR-start settings that can be found in Halo 4’s Team Throwdown playlist. The stream will feature top teams facing off against one another in the fight for a $5,500 first place prize. The tournament consists of both Free-For-All and 4v4 play, with matches being streamed on Twitch.tv all weekend long. Be sure to tune in today and catch the finals on Sunday evening as some of the best players in the world go head-to-head against each other!
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Forum not really down
Apologies to anyone who tried to use the front-page link (or a bookmark that uses that same link) to access our forum in the past few hours. The forum changed servers, and an odd combination of circumstances made that link stop working. (The forum was fine – it’s just that that link no longer reached it.) Everything should be working again – come say hi!(Louis Wu 11:28:09 UTC)
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Nominated for Emmy
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn was our first venture in the live-action web series world. It was an intimidating step to take but one that we enjoyed immensely. The cast and crew were some of the most talented and amazing that we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, and we learned many things that we plan on applying in the future. That being said, we’re honored and excited to announce that Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn has been nominated for an Emmy, specifically for Outstanding Main Title Design. To be in the company of American Horror Story: Asylum, Da Vinci’s Demons, Elementary, The Newsroom and Vikings is a humbling experience. More than anything, we’d like to thank you, the people that have supported us, for doing just that.
Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to go check our mail again. Frank still hasn’t received his Lead Actor in a Miniseries nomination yet, but we’re sure it’s coming. At least he is, anyway…
Much love, 343
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Halo 4 – Fails of the Weak 148
From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Geoff are back with this week’s Halo 4 Fails of the Weak!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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In Halo They Trust
Some new friends over at .bitblastnetwork let us know that Episode 8 of their podcast is something Halo fans might enjoy taking a listen at. It’s a monster coming in at close to 3 hours in length, but if you’ve got some time, definitely go and give it a chance! Some very interesting viewpoints and overall looms at the Halo franchise and its evolutionary path. Go listen!(GrimBrother One 15:17:09 UTC)
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Tyrant’s Halo 4 Mythic Walkthrough – Requiem
From MythicTyrant:
Greetings! This video covers the second mission in Halo 4 on Mythic Difficulty (also known as true LASO). Legendary All Skulls On with no deaths or saves. Also, be sure to lookout for the written portion of the walkthrough which is now available on halo.bungie.org!
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ASE Ep. 40: Shake Before Using M1 lvl 12
Leela is being assimilated, and Durandal is a big fat liar. Who is going to help us defend the Marathon now?
Also, starting this episode, chase cam footage!
This podcast uses:
Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org
Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com
Subscribe to the YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
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Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“Freedom” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/11.shtml
For complete Terminal texts, visit the excellent Marathon Story Page:
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
There you can read faithful and complete reproductions of all of terminals in Marathon and its sequels, plus Facts and Puzzling Things About all sorts of characters, places, and concepts in the Marathon universe, as well as a forum where stalwart fans continue to argue the finer points of interpreting Marathon’s story nearly twenty years after the game’s release!
