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Weekends and webcomics go hand in hand, and there’s no better day to celebrate that relaxing ritual than on Sunday. Today’s
Halo-themed Weekend Webcomic, which will undoubtedly quack you up, is brought to you by petetheduck. Enjoy this particular strip, and if you have a comic you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
by: petetheduck
You’re a busy person, and we have a thing for releasing as much Halo-related content our multi-fingered appendages can handle. That means—assuming you aren’t a speed reading super-soldier—you probably missed a few stories along the way. Not only do we forgive you, but we’ll also happily provide a convenient weekly wrap-up of absolutely everything we covered during the last seven days. Don’t worry about saying thank you. We’d rather you spend that time soaking in the goodness that is this entertaining collection of articles. Off you go!
News
The Halo Bulletin: 9.12.12
Super Jackpot Weekend: September 14-16
Reach Weekly Challenge – 9.10.12
Videos
The Adventures of Koko Bear Chapter 6 – A Halo Machinima
Master Chief Speed Painting – A Halo Fan Art Video
The Unknown – A Halo: Reach Screenshot Tutorial
Kri77ical’s Creations 2 – A Halo: Reach Rube Goldberg Machine
Forge Quacks 5 – A Halo: Reach Video
Ready Up Live Interviews Frank O’Connor – A PAX Prime 2012 Interview
Prometheans Day Off – A Halo 4 Video
A Look Back at Grifball – A Halo 3/Reach Montage
Fails of the Weak 104
Fun Stuff
Weekend Webcomic: Halo 1-3, by Maria Masuimi
Fan-made Halo 4 Wallpapers for PC, iPhone, and iPad
Plasma Grenade Cake Pops
Friday Caption Fun 65
Community Happenings
Waypoint Community Modcast – Episode 25
Halo Community Tournament: Paintball
Community Member of the Week: JSA343
Sign-ups Now Open for the Grifball World Cup!
Community Customs Night: 9.14.12
Waypoint Community Modcast – Episode 27
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a never-before-seen UNSC vehicle. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“Oh, you wanted a giant lawn Moa, my bad.” –thy ReaperMC
“Well, someone has clean up after all the slayer matches…” –AnalogPh33r
“The loot from the UNSC raid on the Hunters was slightly bigger than what was expected.” –IkeBlues13
“Spartans ala mowed.” –guilded hotdog
“Early prototypes for the Chopper left much to be desired.” –Undead Ace X
“Forge World’s great, sure. Unless you’re responsible for landscaping.” –SeannyBoy32
“Plants win! Better put down a new peashooter.” –HOO5IER122
“As seen on the level, “Lawn Night of Solace.” –Slyd Fox 15
“…and suddenly the Slice ‘N Dice medal seemed a little more available.” –Gods x Life
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 Spartan that appears to have something in their eye. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
Author: S crow DEDLY
From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Geoff continue the long standing tradition of making fun of a series of clips in Halo: Reach. Laugh along with them!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
Have a thing for the long barrel? Then hop into Team Snipers this weekend because starting today and ending on Sunday, games played and completed within that playlist will present you with the chance to receive a 28,500-credit bonus.
Happy Super Jackpot Weekend!
From Ethan:
Longtime Grifball community member Mikinater put together a video showcasing what we’ve seen in Grifball so far. A great mix of Halo 3 and Reach clips will bring you back to the good old days and remind you why we love this game!
From CruelLEGACEY:
The Waypoint Community Modcast and Podtacular join forces once more! Join Dust Storm, CruelLEGACEY, Gooschecka, and GrimBrother One for this special Modtacular edition. Lots of in-depth Halo 4 talk, including our thoughts and impressions on the new Grifball and CTF game types revealed at PAX Prime 2012.
As always, feel free to jump into the Waypoint Modcast discussion thread over at Halo Waypoint, and let us know what you think!
From KingSangos:
What do the antagonists of Halo 4 do when they’ve finally got a free day? I can imagine their reaction would be something like this.
Every Friday night at 9pm EST, we get together on Halo: Reach and run some custom games. We play everything from Team Slayer to Knockin’ Zombs, and you can even bring your own custom maps to play! Just make sure to upload them on your File Share and let us know either in a comment or in the lobby which map and what game type to run with it. Hope to see you tonight!
The boyfriend is out of town. That means I have to find ways to keep myself busy, other than sitting my ass down in front of the Xbox for a week-long binge (which I am probably overdue for/saving for Halo 4). I polled Twitter with the idea of making cake pops…but stickier.
Bowchikawowow.
From minolta1034:
During PAX Prime 2012, we had the chance to talk with Frank O’Connor, Franchise Director at 343 Industries. He shares some great information with us about many aspects of Halo 4. He gave us some general information about the Campaign, his thoughts on the new music in the game, vehicles controls, and lots of other stuff! At the end. he even shares a special message for some of the more skeptical Halo fans.
Ready Up Live Interviews Frank O’Connor – A PAX Prime 2012 Interview
From Smyf:
Hey guys, Smyf here (from RingWorldBlog) with some new Halo 4 wallpapers, based on some of the new cool stuff in Halo 4. As always, wallpapers are made for PC, tablet, and smartphone!
From petetehduck:
Forge Quacks are bite-size videos that demonstrate some of the quirks that exist in Halo: Reach’s Forge editor. If you have a suggestion for a Forge Quack video, use the form on this page to submit it.
From Kalbelgarion:
Before the launch of Halo 4, GrifballHub is running one final event in Halo: Reach – The Grifball World Cup! The World Cup is a six-week event where we will play Vanilla Grifball, Grifball Dash, and Blargball. All teams are welcome to join! Sign-ups will be open until September 14th.
From Kri77ical:
This is the second episode in my Rube Goldberg series. HUGE thanks to Draco9409 for throwing the grenade and helping out with some ideas!
Kri77ical’s Creations 2 – A Halo: Reach Rube Goldberg Machine
From this week’s Breaking In interviewing Rachel Swavely it seems like motion capture is going to play a big role in what Bungie is doing with Destiny.
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 JSA343. Read a little more about him below, then hit his profile to learn why he does it all for the nook(ie)!
Gamertag: JSA343.
Origin of Gamertag: My initials, and the number symbolizing one of my favorite characters and the new developers of Halo.
Current clan/community: Halo Waypoint.
Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo: Anniversary and Halo: Reach.
Favorite game type and map: SWAT and tough one…I’ll say Ridgeline at the moment.
Preferred control scheme: Default.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): I try to be offensive and sometimes end up going Lone Wolf, but I go defense when losing bad.
Favorite character: I’ll say 343 Guilty Spark. He and the other Monitors always appealed to me.
Favorite book: Hmm…I’ll say Evolutions because it has a lot of smaller stories I enjoyed. Second up, probably Halo: Cryptum.
Favorite Halo quote: “When I joined the Corps, we didn’t have any fancy-shmanzy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for the whole platoon—and we had to share the rock! Buck up, boy, you are one very lucky Marine!” -Johnson
Anything else we should know? I have my own little Halo fanfiction expanding in my head. I really need to start writing it down. I think I’m going to call it Halo: Defiant Until The End.
From The Halo Community:
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to do an awesome effect called “The Unknown”. This effect was found by RoyalBoss ross. Enjoy!
http://halocommunity.com is unleashing the next amazing Halo: Reach tournament for you in the form of PAINTBALL! That’s right, we have tweaked some amazing maps that will be perfect for a paintball tournament. Charge up your pistol, and get ready to have a blast!
The tournament will play host to a best-of-three game series, where each game is a five-round (one life per round) Speedflag paintball game. Each round is a one-minute lightning round, with 30 second sudden death if the flag is being held. Flag does not have to be home to score. The carrier is fast but cannot jump high, and is weaker than all other players.
Halo: Reach paintball is all about the Plasma Pistol! A normal kill is one overcharged plasma, or two pellet shots. With only one life, teammates will re-spawn in a host-box of sorts, with the ability to see the field and call out for any living teammates. There’s no time to camp, so you better make your shots count! Game type and map settings will be downloadable from HC Deja’s File Share, no later than a week before the tournament.
Our winning team of four will be taking home 1600 MS Points EACH, and other prizes may be scattered about throughout the tournament crowd! This tournament will take place on September 15, 2012. It is FREE to enter, so sign up now!
From FBWalshyFTW:
This is a speed painting video that pichdesign made for Halo’s iconic hero and protagonist, the Master Chief, taking you through the entirety of a roughly eight-hour artistic process. Enjoy!
