From 0IAH:
This Halo 4 montage is entitled “Shotgun” and features community-submitted ninja clips. Enjoy!
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Spartan Assault OST
Missed this last week – but on the same day that Spartan Assault was released, the Official Soundtrack was released, as well. 27 tracks of music from composer Tom Salta are available on Amazon, iTunes, Xbox Music, and elsewhere. More details in the official press release (I found it at Gamasutra).(Louis Wu 19:48:19 UTC)
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Fingerstyle Halo
JDQuackers pointed out a pretty amazing acoustic guitar rendition of the Halo theme a friend found on YouTube – I can’t stop listening to it. I wish I could play like that!(Louis Wu 19:26:11 UTC)
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Halo: Desolation
MixMaker1 put together a mashup of Halo and The Hobbit – and it works amazingly well. Go watch.(Louis Wu 19:12:14 UTC)
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Visualizing the Halo Universe: Round 14
Postmortem announced that Round 14 of his Visualizing the Halo Universe challenge has kicked off – your task, should you choose to accept it, is to envision an ancient human pet described in Greg Bear’s fiction. As always, HBO will deny knowledge if you turn out to be right.(Louis Wu 19:10:55 UTC)
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Visualizing the Halo Universe: Round 14
Postmortem announced that Round 14 of his Visualizing the Halo Universe challenge has kicked off – your task, should you choose to accept it, is to envision an ancient human pet described in Greg Bear’s fiction. As always, HBO will deny knowledge if you turn out to be right.(Louis Wu 19:10:55 UTC)
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Halo 4 Matchmaking Update: 7.22.13
Welcome to week 2 of the Halo 4 Global Championship! This week’s game type is Rumble SWAT. To compete, simply register and then hop into the Global Championship playlist in Halo 4 Matchmaking.
Included game types are as follows:
Rumble SWAT
Rumble SWAT BRs
Rumble SWAT Rifles
While the settings of these game types vary slightly, here are the overall settings across all three game types.
Game Settings Score to Win 250 Time Limit 12 minutes Kill Points 10 Respawn Settings Respawn Time 5 Seconds Personal Ordnance Disabled Equipment Motion Tracker Disabled Next, here are the Loadouts and maps for each game type:
(all Loadouts have grenades, Armor Abilities, Tactical Packages, and Support Upgrades disabled)
Rumble SWAT
(played on Haven, Adrift, Abandon, Landfall, Monolith and Skyline)Loadout Alpha SWAT DMR Primary Weapon DMR Secondary Weapon Magnum Loadout Beta SWAT BR Primary Weapon Battle Rifle Secondary Weapon Magnum Rumble SWAT BRs
(played on Haven, Abandon, Monolith and Skyline)Loadout Alpha SWAT BR Primary Weapon Battle Rifle Secondary Weapon Magnum Rumble SWAT Rifles
(played on Haven, Solace and Landfall)Loadout Alpha SWAT DMR Primary Weapon DMR Secondary Weapon Magnum Loadout Bravo SWAT BR Primary Weapon Battle Rifle Secondary Weapon Magnum Loadout Gamma SWAT Carbine Primary Weapon Carbine Secondary Weapon Magnum Loadout Delta SWAT LightRifle (Scout) Primary Weapon LightRifle Secondary Weapon Magnum Week 2 will provide the Halo 4 Global Championship with new winners and prizes (and headshots!). Be sure to swing on over to the Global Championship feedback thread to let us know about your experiences with the playlist each week.
In Spartan Ops, we’ll be continuing the “vehicular mayhem” theme, and offering the following missions in Matchmaking:
• Episode 6, Mission 3: Need to Know
• Episode 8, Mission 3: Lancer
• Episode 9, Mission 4: Revenge
• Episode 10, Mission 3: Seize the Power
• Episode 10, Mission 4: Out the Other
Best of luck to all Halo 4 Global Championship competitors! To view the leaderboard, schedule or prizes for the tournament, head here.
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Community Member of the Week: deluca34
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 Deluca34. Read a little more about this particular fan below, then hit their profile to learn even more!
Gamertag: Deluca34.
Origin of Gamertag: It’s part of my name.
Current clan/community: Section 3/Xbox Ambassador.
Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo 4 and Halo: Reach.
Favorite map, game type and playlist: I long to play Firefight again! Map: The Pit.
Least favorite map, game type and playlist: MLG, I haz no business being there, nor do I pretend to.
Preferred control scheme: Recon.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): Whatever suits the situation; a Spartan should be able to adapt.
Favorite Halo character: Buck, he says the most funny things, well aside from Caboose.
Favorite Halo book: Ghosts Of Onyx.
Favorite Halo quote: Faber to the Didact – “If not for your family’s power, I would strip you down to a haze of burning brain cells and spread you out upon this field.”
Halo Creations: I enjoy building maps and taking screenshots!
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Top 10 Halo 4 Unusual Kills
From Anoj:
Anoj counts down his favorite 10 community-submitted Halo 4 unusual kill clips. Upload your clips to your File Share and submit at Top10Series.com to be featured in future episodes!
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Halo: Reach Cutscenes – Now in Surround Sound
Cody Miller has been upgrading our Halo Cutscene Library with surround-sound versions of each game’s cutscenes since 2011 – and yesterday, the newest additions went live. The Reach cutscenes are now available in full surround sound, in either QuickTime or WMV variants. Superb!(Louis Wu 16:44:17 UTC)
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Halo Custom Edition: Takedown – Project Lawson
MatthewDratt has released Takedown: Project Lawson, a single-player map for Halo: Custom Edition. You can find a trailer here (it’s a year old), a ViDoc showing off some of the characters you’ll interact with (fun!), the actual download from the HaloCE3 website, or more info (screens, videos, discussion, etc) from HaloMaps.org. Again, you’ll need Halo Custom Edition (free, though you need a Halo PC license to use it) – go get started!(Louis Wu 16:38:45 UTC)
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Halo Monk Chant at VGL
Last night, the live-streamed Video Games Live concert took place at San Diego Comic Con – and Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori were there. (Their segment starts around 3:16:30 or so in the Twitch.TV archived video.) It’s focused on Destiny… but at the start of the segment, Marty and Mike perform an impromptu version of the monk chant from the original Halo theme. Fantastic! Go watch.(Louis Wu 16:24:23 UTC)
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Halo 4 Global Championship Playlist Gameplay
ReadyUpLive’s Greenskull livestreamed a play event in the Global Championship Playlist recently – and put together a highlight reel of the evening. Looks like he had a pretty good time!(Louis Wu 16:18:28 UTC)
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Podtacular 383: Mann vs. Demon
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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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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)
