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The Code Solving Pace Increases
Another map pack, another glyph code – GunRunner48 informed us that the Section 3 crowd has already decrypted the code buried in the Majestic Map Pack. Swing by the Section 3 Completed Glyph Sequences page for the solution, or the Halo Waypoint forums for a blow-by-blow breakdown. (We found the resulting concept art gallery a bit difficult to see, so we put up a local copy.)(Louis Wu 22:05:34 UTC)
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Providing Majestic Context
DayandKnightly wrote up a quick summary of the story underpinnings of the new maps – give it a read! (Louis Wu 22:03:42 UTC)
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Halo 4 Matchmaking Update: 2.25.13
Spartan Ops this week features a selection of “Designer’s Choice” missions, selected by our very own David Ellis and Greg Murphy. Here is the layout:
Episode 3 Mission 4 – Shootout in Valhalla
Episode 10 Mission 3 – Seize the Power
Episode 10 Mission 5 – One Last Time
Episode 4 Mission 3 – Random Transport
Episode 5 Mission 4 – The Cauldron Base
The Majestic Map Pack is now live and available for download! Be sure to pick it up for a chance to play on Monolith, Skyline, and Landfall, as well as two brand new playlists: Majestic Team and Majestic FFA DLC. While Majestic Team DLC will contain a selection of Slayer and objective-based variants in a 4 vs. 4 format, Majestic FFA DLC will contain two brand new game types: Infinity Rumble and Rumble Pro. For the details of these settings, please check out the latest Halo Bulletin. Once you have played these playlists, we encourage you to leave your feedback in the War Games Feedback section.As always, these maps will also appear throughout your favorite Halo 4 playlists. We hope you enjoy this week of Matchmaking, and we’ll be back next Monday with another update!
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Bungie’s Parsons Talks Halo, Destiny With VentureBeat
VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi has interviewed Bungie COO Pete Parsons about his role with the Halo and Destiny franchises originated by Bungie. Quite a few interesting tidbits in there, but perhaps the most interesting one reaffirms the origins of the idea behind the new IP:
Destiny is very much a product of everybody at Bungie, but its inception comes from Jason [Jones, co-founder of Bungie]. This is very much a vision that Jason has. Then, he gathers a small group of really talented people who have been here a long time, and they begin hammering on it. It’s had multiple incarnations until it finally landed into what it is today. That’s fun to watch. Not just on technology, but art and story. […] As naive as this may sound, if Jason believes in something and he’s ready to go for it, I’m in.
Be sure to read the full story at VentureBeat.
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Play it like you mean it
Nevin ‘CruelLEGACEY’ Douglas was given early access to the Majestic Map Pack last week, and discovered that Halo 4 became more fun when he was playing with people who actually wanted to play the game. Go read his thoughts on the dangers of popularity.(Louis Wu 16:00:04 UTC)
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Halo 4 Forge Tutorial – Flood Setup
From Certain Affinity:This video covers how to set up Flood in Halo 4’s Forge mode. In addition to basic setup, we explain how to place weapons on maps with Ordnance and how to set up Dominion automated turrets.
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Majestic is here
As a reminder, Majestic Map Pack dropped this morning – the 438 MB download is available now for folks who bought the Season Pass (or received it as part of their Limited purchase of Halo 4), or for folks with 800 MS Points to spare. Don’t miss out! (Louis Wu 13:49:59 UTC)
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Spartan Ops… like a bawss
uberfoop posted a writeup filled with lots of images and video clips from a group run last week through Spartan Ops Episode 10 – pretty fun stuff! Go check it out.(Louis Wu 13:45:05 UTC)
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Not too big to fail
Arithmomaniac pointed out that an outage of the Azure cloud service on Friday affected not only Windows users… but also Halo 4 players. Ouch!(Louis Wu 13:44:14 UTC)
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Destiny Concept Artists Posts Images
Freelance artist Kekai Kotaki has posted some of the concept art done for Bungie’s Destiny on tumblr. Be sure to watch their tumblr for future imagery.
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Majestic Map Pack Live Stream Archive
Yesterday morning, 343 Industries live streamed gameplay of the new Majestic maps and showed off some new game types, including Infinity Rumble and Rumble Pro. You can watch the archived version here. (mastrbiggy 09:19:04 UTC)
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Go Beyond Entertainment’s Majestic Map Pack Review
Clicked shares his thoughts on the three maps included in the upcoming Majestic map pack DLC for Halo 4 – he goes over what game types are best suited for each map. Overall, he thinks the pack is worth your money. While your watching Clicked’s review on Go Beyond Entertainment’s YouTube channel be sure to also check out Clicked’s exclusive 2v2 gameplay on Skyline (I’m a little late posting this one.) Thanks, CyReN.(mastrbiggy 08:57:23 UTC)
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Destiny News from Ready Up Live
Ready Up Live is another gaming site that follows Bungie games, including Halo (and 343’s Halo 4) and Destiny (as well as a little Minecraft thrown in, if you’re into that sort of thing). Check out their site or their YouTube page for updates.
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MoreConsole Looks At Destiny
MoreConsole also has some video news and analysis pieces up about Destiny. There’s one about the player classes and concept art, and then a frame-by-frame analysis of the PS4 reveal trailer. Both have been added to Destiny movies.
For more videos, check out their site or their YouTube channel.
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Forging Majestic
pete_the_duck shared some videos showing off the Forge options on the new maps included in the Majestic map pack for Halo 4. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 09:14:38 UTC)
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You Got Some Halo 3 In My Halo 4
TheIncomeTaxes and Insane Alpha Beta found what I think is the coolest Halo 4 easter egg so far – they found images of Tsavo Highway from Halo 3 cleverly hidden in some of the Forge piece reflections. You can see the giant storm cloud and even the broken bridge where the giant Covenant cruiser flies overhead. Go check it out! Thanks, wwm0nkey.(mastrbiggy 09:05:58 UTC)
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Pathways Out Of A Dark Hole
Dark Jedi from Dark Hole Games has put up a breakdown of the Destiny ViDoc. I’ve added it to the Destiny section of the movies page.
Dark Hole Games has a series of walkthroughs and let’s play videos on their YouTube channel.
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As Constant As The Morning Star
Last week we saw that Bungie alums Alexander Seropian (Marathon, Halo, Stubbs the Zombie) and Brent Pease (Oni) had formed a new group, Industrial Toys, working on a mobile shooter, Morning Star, bearing more than a passing resemblance to everyone’s favorite green cyborg and purple AI girl game. Now there’s an HD trailer, a two part documentary (one, two) up on their YouTube channel.
All have been added to our movies section tagged “industrialtoys“.
Unsurprisingly, the documentary is planned to have 7 parts.
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Welcome to Majestic
A couple of days ago, we mentioned ‘Welcome to Landfall’ – and then yesterday, Halo Waypoint released ‘Welcome to Monolith‘. Today, they finish up the series with ‘Welcome to Skyline‘ – if you haven’t checked these out, they’re a great way to get familiar with the maps before you get your hands on them! (The video footage was already seen in the BTS released in last Wednesday’s Bulletin, but the loadout/weapon spawn/overhead content in the articles is great.)(Louis Wu 23:53:03 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
