This week, we are proud to premiere the Team Snipers playlist. This playlist offers two different game modes: Team Snipers and Shotty Snipers. We are excited about this new and improved playlist that will offer two very different variants – while the classic Shotty Snipers offers a wonderfully chaotic harmony of long and close range combat, the new Team Snipers game type offers a pure sniping experience – the stripped down variant features disabled radar, grenades, secondary weapons, and instant respawn. In addition to some of the game’s larger maps, we’ve included modified versions of Abandon, Haven, and Shutout, the Lockout remake that was made popular in the Community Forge Test playlist.
Also premiering for the first time is Team Objective, which combines 4 vs. 4 Team Regicide, Oddball, and King of the Hill. Instant respawn has been disabled in both Oddball and King of the Hill.
Team Doubles has also received some updates. The biggest change to this playlist is the removal of instant respawn from Infinity Doubles. With this change, instant respawn is now disabled across the entire playlist to provide the best game flow. Additionally, we’ve addressed some weapon and respawn issues across a few of the maps in the playlist. As always, we’ll be keeping a close eye on community feedback and updating this (and other playlists) as necessary. If you’d like to leave feedback on any aspect of War Games / Matchmaking, check out our brand new feedback section.
For more information on the above, detailed settings for Team Snipers variants, information about Team Doubles updates, and additional Team Objective details check out The Halo Bulletin, and keep an eye out for Matchmaking updates each week!
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Halo 4 Matchmaking Update: 2.11.13
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Nice Johnson
Flugelmeister let us know that Hedgem0ny kindly donated a picture of Sergeant Avery Johnson sporting ODST armor, which is proudly displayed on the Johnson Memorial page over at The Secrets Within. I miss that Johnson.(mastrbiggy 18:50:40 UTC)
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Breadcrumbs Leading The Way To Awesome
343 Industries and Tor Books just announced that during the leadup to the upcoming novel Halo: Silentium, they will be “sending out encrypted communications via halowaypoint.com bulletins and forums, which will allow Halo fans to unlock additional content. There will also be embedded data in the text of the Halo: Silentium paperback and e-book editions…” Sounds awesome!(GrimBrother One 17:17:48 UTC)
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Halo 4 Forge Tutorial – Kill Volumes and Map Ceiling
From Certain Affinity:This video covers how to use kill boundaries, safe boundaries, and how to create a map ceiling using Trait Zones in Halo 4’s Forge mode.
Discuss
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Key
Spartan Ops Episode 9 went live this morning, as scheduled – you’ve got five new chapters to plow through! We’ve added the cutscene to our Spartan Ops Cutscene Library, in case you want to watch it on the web rather than on Xbox LIVE (or if you need downloadable versions for other purposes).(Louis Wu 14:37:17 UTC)
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BR Guests
ncsuDuncan dropped by last night with a new song parody – I think this is the most I’ve liked Beauty and the Beast… ever! Go give it a read (and listen to that candlestick sing it in your head).(Louis Wu 14:34:57 UTC)
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Toying with excess
More action figure news – the latest Mega Bloks offerings showed up at New York Toyfair 2013, which kicked off yesterday. Some pretty interesting stuff in there! Thanks, Dielectric. (Louis Wu 14:06:44 UTC)
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Info on McFarlane Halo 4 Series 2
Word on the next batch of McFarlane Halo figures came out yesterday (thanks, Grim) – if you swing by Halo Waypoint, you can see pics of the full set. That Didact is amazing!(Louis Wu 14:03:21 UTC)
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New Marathon File Archive Opens
Over at marathon.bungie.org this week comes the announcement of the opening of the newly-renovated archive site for Marathon-related files:
Go check it out!
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Expendable: Lancer (Solo Legendary)
RC Master is back AGAIN with another Spartan Ops run-through – this time, it’s Ep 8, Chapter 3, Lancer. He manages a no-deaths solo run on Legendary – go watch how!(Louis Wu 21:14:19 UTC)
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AotCR Bridge Descents, Revisited
Sligfantry has released a couple of videos showing off some really cool bridge descents. It’s worth struggling through the video quality – because the content is pretty amazing. In one drop, he boards a Pelican – in midair! (Louis Wu 21:11:31 UTC)
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Desktop Prettiness – on multiple levels
We got a couple of new tidbits from Firestream – first off, he redid his site to make it easier to get all of his desktops in one place (works great with mobile devices, even!), and second, he’s released a new desktop focusing on Sarah Palmer. Go check ’em out! (Louis Wu 21:09:28 UTC)
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Podtacular-tacular
Dust Storm let us know that the Podtacular crew has been cranking out shows with abandon this week – swing by to listen to:
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Conan O’Brien Reviews Halo 4
From teamcoco:Conan is less interested in shooting things and more interested in his sexy A.I. guide, Cortana.
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The Harlem Shake Halo Dance
I don’t have much to say about this other than how ridiculous it looks. Thanks, CyReN.(mastrbiggy 10:12:26 UTC)
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Rescuing Majestic on Legendary Solo
RC Master informed of us his no death run (with some help from Scarab) on the Spartan Ops mission “Majestic Rescue’ from Episode 8: Expendable. He was able to finish the mission with 13 kills and in under 8 minutes, wow! Go watch.(mastrbiggy 10:00:57 UTC)
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Two Pelicans, One t00lbox
t00lbox stopped by with a tutorial showing how you can do a Pelican crossover glitch on Shutdown – this trick lets you get out of the map and explore some neat spaces. Oh, you can have two pelicans instead of one!(mastrbiggy 09:40:30 UTC)
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Halo 4 – Fails of the Weak 125
From Rooster Teeth:Jack and Geoff laugh at the misery represented in these clips from Halo 4! Oh mah gosh!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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Radar Glitch on Rail
XyloxHD posted a video video showing off a weird trait zone glitch on the map Rail. One of the player trait zones allows radar to appear for a moment – should be handy for Doubles Pro (no radar.) He also shows off a neat jump that I had no idea about. Go watch! Thanks, VivaciousJazzy.(mastrbiggy 16:08:55 UTC)
