The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
Author: xDrummerWorldx
From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Geoff continue to look at another large pile of failure in this week’s Fails of the Weak!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a confused Spartan. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“When Jimmy was told, “The enemy is us,” he took drastic measures.” –Mutiny N648
“Hey, this multiplayer map is TINY!” –PWKWSFI
“During the Fall of Reach, ONI didn’t bother listing Tom as MIA because everyone expected him to die fairly easily.” –Varmah52
“I paid 300,000 cR for this helmet, and now I can’t see a thing! I demand a refund!” –Ch1ck3nFr1kaS33
“The UNSC’s prime candidate for Operation: Human Shield.” –darediablo199
“The pinnacle of reverse engineering for the UNSC.” –TD Appocolapse
“He shouldn’t have worn a GUNGNIR helmet to a scoping battle.” –STARS1AY3R
“Mind if I, uh, butt in?” –MCOTIB
“Nuf rof si siht gnithgif rof si siht nug ym si siht elfir ym si siht.” –cryptickidd
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 has apparently confused a Warthog for a bull. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
Author: Firehead222
Community Customs continues by running our popular Proving Ground again this week, where we’ll test maps and game types that aren’t quite ready for Primetime. Bring the maps and game types you’ve been working on, and we’ll help you get them polished and ready to be played by the masses. Sign up at the link below!
From Troy:
Drew and his newly formed squad have been joined by two special operatives, tasked to keep him safe. The squad is being debriefed on their first recovery operation with the Commander looking on, every step of the way…
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
If you don’t like shields but you do like headshots, hop into Team SWAT 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 27,000-credit bonus.
Happy Super Jackpot Weekend!
From MythicTyrant:
Welcome to the second installment of my Anniversary Mythic Difficulty Guide! Yes, that means Legendary ALL skulls on, including Grunt Funeral. This is definitely a different flavor of Mythic than most of us are used to and brings a whole new pallet of challenges to the table.
GAME: Halo: Anniversary
MISSION: Halo
DIFFICULTY: Mythic
SKULLS: Iron, Mythic, Black Eye, Famine, Foreign, Recession, Fog, Eye Patch, Bandanna, Pinata, Malfunction, Boom, Grunt Birthday Party, Grunt Funeral
HaloChallenges has been designing and implementing player challenges in Halo games for a very long time. The work this site has put into finding new and exciting ways to take Halo games goes beyond what the game creators set out for us and has been inspiring many players, other community sites, and even the games’ creators. Here are our three newest challenges, should you choose to accept them.
Mobile Mayhem
The objectives in this challenge are specific to vehicle kills you earn playing Halo: Reach Multiplayer Matchmaking. For each objective, players are to earn the required kill count for a vehicle in a single game. YOU DO NOT need (nor are you expected) to earn all objectives in a single game; you are allowed to play and submit multiple games to acquire all challenge awards.
Mobile Mayhem Challenge Homepage
Multiplayer Medley
The objectives in this challenge are a bit more mixed in requirements. Some are medal-specific, while others have to do with weapons and individual performance. Pay close attention because Multiplayer Medley has a wide array of awarding you for your efforts. YOU DO NOT need (nor are you expected) to earn all objectives in a single game; you are allowed to play and submit multiple games to acquire all challenge awards.
Multiplayer Medley Challenge Homepage
Objectified
Objectified is designed to offer players an opportunity to show they can hold their own in a slightly different multiplayer environment. This challenge is not at all about the players who sit back in objectives games, slaying for K/D or other selfish reasons. No, this time around players who apply the appropriate level of skill, luck, and strategy will be rewarded for diving into the fray and working to help secure a victory for their team. You CANNOT earn all objective awards in a single game; therefore, you are obviously allowed to play and submit multiple games to acquire all challenge awards.
Objectified Challenge Homepage
I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is there will not be a Bulletin today. The bad news is that there will be one tomorrow.
See you then. 😉
<3,
bs angel
From 7erminalVeloci7y:
The second iteration of our Campaign tricking video series features various tricks and glitches from the Halo: Reach Campaign, specifically, A.I. Enjoy!
Meta Stability 2.0 – A Halo: Reach Campaign Tricking Montage
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 Jamie:
Koko Bear and Price Duckworth travel to the western kingdom to ask King Farnham for help to defeat the evil that has been spreading through the land. They encounter the root of the evil, Lolo bear, and have an interesting conversation in the haunted graveyard with a demented scientist.
From Zachery:
I built this cool looking Minecraft creation, inspired by the Halo 4 E3 trailer. It’s that big Promethean ball/ship/whatever-the-hell-it-is, seen shortly after the Infinity crashes. It took about two hours to build. The hardest part was figuring out what angle to build it from. It was a little annoying at first because I had to undo everything and move it up a block. Anyway, enjoy!
From TheFrenchfryjordan:
I made an easy-to-understand video summarizing the extended fiction in the Halo Universe, from Precursors to the activation of the Halo rings. Hope you like it!
Author: Captian Kipp
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!
Halo tattoo, as seen on Adam
From TenaciousTricking:
This is Episode 1 of our Project Phase series, which showcases various tricks on every level of the Halo: Reach Campaign. Up first is the mission “Winter Contingency.”
From Kalbelgarion:
Sign-ups are now open for GrifballHub’s Summer Grifball League! The league will run through July and August, and teams can play either Classic Grifball or Grifball Dash. All teams of all levels of experience are welcome!
More details are available here. For a taste of the action, check out this highlight reel from our Winter season.
See you on the court!
From The Little Moa:
This is a dualtage for MLG pros Lethul and Formal, edited by Muggsy and CJnew. It has got to be one of the greatest montages on Halo: Reach for a long time, so I thought it was worth sharing. Enjoy!
From Community Customs:
It’s begun. They dropped in just under an hour ago. Swarms of them. Hundreds more than our outpost around Jupiter lead us to believe. At first, we thought it was an all-out invasion. That we were doomed. But now… Now it’s as if they’re searching for something. Something that could only be provided on a slow, tedious, Monday morning. The Questions are streaking overhead again right now. The loudspeakers blasting the population below demanding the truth. The truth? Are those Questions sure they can handle the truth? It’s time to find out. Suit up, Spartan. Winter Contingency has been declared. All Answers are mobilized and ready. It’s time to launch the Spotlight.
Pete isn’t an active member of Community Customs. In fact, if you ask him, he’ll say he’s not a member at all, and that’s alright, because we don’t consider ourselves some sort of exclusive club or clan. To us, “member” merely means, “registered on the site,” or perhaps, “regular player.” What Pete is, however, is a well-respected and outstanding member of the greater Halo Community at large, and that makes him more than worthy of some time in our modest little Spotlight. If you’ve played in any of our Customs Nights, you’re guaranteed to have been subjected to a minimum of five rounds on Knockin’ Zombs, which is, by far, our favorite creation of his. But that’s not all he’s known for… Pete is the author of the Flaming Ninja Challenges, Last Forger Standing, daily (for a time) single panel Halo-related webcomics, and so much more. His most recent claim to greatness, however, is his “Forge with Pete” series on Halo Waypoint. It’s a series where Pete showcases a simple minigame before explaining how it works and how to build it. The results are often, as expected, ingenious in their re-purposing and twisting of Halo’s mechanics. But enough of my glowing comments, let’s see what he has to say for himself.