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Author: SORRY BACKPACK
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From CMNeir:
The team that brought you Halo 2 Tricks, Halo 3 Tricks, and Halo: Reach Tricks present you with Halo: Anniversary Tricks with a new crew of trickers ready to please.
In this episode, Farmerscott21 and JTPri123 show you the classic Warthog launch on the campaign level Silent Cartographer.
Warthog Launch on Silent Cartographer – A Halo: Anniversary Trick
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 BLOOD 0F GANON. Read a little more about him below, then hit his profile to learn why he has a reputation for being an epic finisher!
Gamertag: BLOOD 0F GANON.
Origin of gamertag: I was a competitive Ganondorf player in Super Smash Bros Melee MLG in 2005-2007! Got nicknamed BLOOD 0F GANON for using his Wizard’s Foot move as an epic finisher.
Previous or current clan/community: Bungie, HBO, Gamerkrib, Halo Topic! Now 343’s Halo Waypoint.
Favorite map, game type and playlist: MLG, Slayer/Pro, Objectives, BTB, Snipers.
Least favorite map, game type and playlist: Living Dead, Sword Base.
Preferred control scheme: Bumper Jumper/Default.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): Sniper/Defense, foot soldier offense, Warthog and Revy sniper!
Favorite Halo character: This is a toss up between Jun and Linda. I <3 snipers!
Favorite Halo book: Ghost of Onyx/The Flood.
Favorite Halo quote: “BADA** Unlocked.” -Sgt. Johnson.
Halo creations: http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=34473.
Anything else we should know? I’m going to school for Advanced Networking and earning my Bachelors. It’s pretty tough. I hope to work in the gaming industry full-time. I have done contract game/software testing work with Microsoft Volt VMC, Areotek Nintendo, and a few others. I love to skateboard, surf, swim, yoga and hit the gym.
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From Axilo:
Here’s a Halo 3/Reach montage I made showing some good times in Halo. I hope that it makes everyone who watches this smile, hence why it is called “Smile.” Enjoy!
Today, upon starting the Halo Waypoint app on your Xbox 360, you will be prompted to download a required update. Along with various performance, polish, and localization optimizations, this update includes a new option allowing you to press Y to play Halo. This feature works for all Halo Xbox 360 games—Halo 3, Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo: Anniversary. Your disc must be in the tray or you need to own the Games on Demand version in order to launch the game directly from the Halo Waypoint app.
Download Halo Waypoint now!
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From petetheduck:
Last Forger Standing is a multi-week Forge competition following a TV reality show elimination format. These are real contestants in a real contest with a real prize for the winner: 4,000 Microsoft Points!
Just like in your favorite Choose Your Own Adventure book, this week you can craft exactly the kind of weekly challenge experience you want by completing any ten dailies that strike your fancy. Will it be all Multiplayer? Or perhaps Campaign is more up your alley? No matter which page you to turn to, there is a plethora of daily challenges you can take on to complete the requirement for the week. Good luck, Spartans!
Dedication/Time – 25,000cR
Complete 10 Daily Challenges this week.
Don’t forget to check out the forums for other folks looking to group up:
Weekly Challenge Thread
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 you may or may not relate to, is brought to you by Haloside. Enjoy this green-Spartans-can’t-jump-themed strip, and if you have a comic you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
by: Haloside
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: 2.23.12
Office of Halo Intelligence: Part 5
Reach Weekly Challenge – 2.20.12
Videos
Mini Spartans – A Halo: Reach Illusion
Oboe Scores 5 – A Musical Halo: Reach Gameplay Clip
Game Fails: One Too Many Passengers
petetheduck’s Forge Puzzle Results
Bottom of the Elevator – A Halo 3 Trick
tranQ and Friends 5 – A Halo Community Montage
Top 10 Halo: Reach Betrayals and Suicides
Game Fails: Viva Piñata
Halotracker February 2012 – A Halo: Anniversary Communitytage
Out of the Pillar of Autumn – A Halo: Anniversary Trick
Damnation Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video
Fails of the Weak 75
Fun Stuff
Fan-made Heroes Never Die Wallpaper
Tattoo Tuesday: Guilty Spark
Master Chief vs. AT-AT Walker
Halo IRL: Spartan Powered
Haunted Ganon – Halo Fan Art
Triple the Huragok – A Fan-made Plushy
Friday Caption Fun 41
Community Happenings
Community Member of the Week: AgentPaperCraft
Halotracker’s Games for Troops 2v2 Tournament
Test Night with a Cartographer: 2.22.12
Forward Unto Dawn Podcast Episode Four
Halo: Reach Screenshots
Apocalyptus – Simply Amazing
Tank Beats Everything! – Fun with Forge
Master Chief Ticks Off the Empire – Fun with Forge
Freezing Air – Simply Amazing
Author: goyonaruto
Office of Halo Intelligence, or OHI for short, is a semi-regular diary-type feature brought to you by various members of the Halo 4 development team. Sotaro Tojima, the Audio Director for Halo 4, kindly agreed to write the fifth entry. We hope you enjoy an inside look at the making of our next title!
From the 2.23.12 edition of the Halo Bulletin:
I’m honored to have an opportunity to talk here! I just came back from a weekly music review, and especially this week, I was so excited about one piece of music. This emotional, digitized piece became the second favorite piece of Halo 4 music which we’ve made so far. I can’t wait to share this with you!
Producing the Halo 4 music is very difficult, but such a fun job for me. I know many people, including me, love the previous Halos’ music. Halo 4 will be a story for Master Chief and Cortana. Therefore, we are driving our music production respecting the previous music tone.
At the same time, we are working to establish some freshness in the music because this is a new trilogy and we are a new team.
I love creating game audio because it is a direct communication between fans and the team. I want to communicate with our “own” language of sound and music. Even if having a new language on Halo is very challenging…
My goal for making audio is always very simple. How much can we make people excited and immersed in the story and gameplay experience with our audio? There are three key ways I like to do that:
• Provide a sense of reality with sophisticated sound design to bring you into a believable world.
• Achieve a memorable, dramatic experience with great music and sounds well synced with the story beat and your gameplay.
• Share a delightful memory with all fans providing an iconic melody.
Actually, my real goal is to make you cry!
When I hired the people that make up the Halo 4 audio team, one of the criteria I had was that if you want to work it had to be “for fans more than anything.” And now I have a great team. Everyone is so happy to work hard to surprise you.
Again, it is very hard to achieve a great audio for the Halo universe, but I believe we can do this as long as we don’t forget you are waiting patiently for us. Stay tuned for next update from me, and for more exciting topics in OHI!
-Sotaro Tojima
Postmortem (Isaac) joins Slightly Live (Dani) and DangerousDave (Dave) to talk about Halo: Primordium. Dani espouses bigotry towards cavemen, we talk about CEA, and wish for the good old days when the Flood really were space zombies.
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From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Geoff watch people playing Halo: Reach make oopsies and uh-ohs!
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 rather infectious Spartan. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“Spartan Blue soon realized that cleaning your visor with an Energy Sword wasn’t the best of ideas.” –AJakway
“Citizens of Earth and her colonies! We need YOU to camp in the vent shaft on Sword Base! Enroll TODAY!” –That Gunslinger
“Well, at least now we know what happened to Jun….” –ArchedParasite
“Humans never die, they’re just infected in action.” –AlfaSirius
“After getting a splinter in his ear, Jim asked Bill to help get it out. Unfortunately, tweezers were unavailable. –xDeAdlYxGh057xx
“When he said laser eye surgery, this was NOT what he had in mind.” –Omza
“Bet you can’t stick it.” –THOMSY Aus
“Are you sure this is how you clean your ears?” –Windwalker Rangel
“I used to be a Spartan like you, but then I took an Energy Sword to the face….” –Skylar Stewart
Now that we’ve wrapped up that picture, let’s start a new one. Up for your captioning pleasure this week is a picture featuring a rather fishy scene. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
Author: SILENCOM
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From Paul B:
This is Episode 2 of my Map Walkthrough Guide series covering all the maps that launched with the Anniversary Map Pack. This week the focus is Damnation. Enjoy!
Damnation Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video
Author: Larry Tanng
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From CMNeir:
The team that brought you Halo 2 Tricks, Halo 3 Tricks, and Halo: Reach Tricks present you with Halo: Anniversary Tricks with a new crew of trickers ready to please.
In this first episode, we introduce Farmerscott21 and JTPri123 as they show you how to get out of the campaign level Pillar of Autumn. This level sure does bring back memories….
From LegendofVelotron:
A friend of mine and I had been role-playing on my Halo fansite. Basically, Legend was a human civilian captured by the Covenant. She’d learned how to hack, and they began using her for her abilities. At that time, a Huragok became her only companion, helper, and friend. Later, Legend was ‘rescued’ by Spartans, and the Huragok ended up going with them. She came up with the name Triple, for the three pairs of eyes he had.
And so, my own journey began in a fabric store, searching for material that matched the colors of an image of the Huragok Vergil. After several days of sewing that caused my right thumb and index finger to be VERY sore, I present my finished work, and new friend, Triple.
In case you were wondering, his back makes a really comfy pillow!
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From HT Edge:
This is a Halo: Anniversary communitytage, which features gameplay from the Halotracker community. Enjoy!
Halotracker February 2012 – A Halo: Anniversary Communitytage
From AirForceHero:
This is a design I painted for my friend, Blood of Ganon. He came to me with the idea of Ganon with a Haunted helmet. So I did just that!