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Turn That Leak Upside Down
Polygon posted an article about how Bungie handled the recent leak on their upcoming project – instead of staying quiet and letting speculation run wild, the studio managed to turn the leak into something beneficial for both Bungie and the fans. The article also details a recent Polygon trip to Bungie’s studio to interview some of the team. The article will be released on January 24th. Thanks, miladesn. (mastrbiggy 08:32:49 UTC)
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Halo 4 Concept Art by Albert Ng
Concept artist Albert Ng released some Halo 4 concept art – he worked on in-game touchscreen interfaces/consoles, props and Spartan armor designs. Pretty cool stuff! Thanks, Hypertrooper.(mastrbiggy 08:07:24 UTC)
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Classic Map Remakes For Halo 4 Forge
TCKaos pointed out a list of classic map remakes for Halo 4 as well as the fileshare names you’ll need to download them. Wow, it seems like almost every map has been remade, even the Halo 2 PC exclusive maps. Oddball Sword Base anyone?(mastrbiggy 07:53:38 UTC)
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Spartan Ops Episode 7 Trailer
Waypoint released a trailer for Spartan Ops Episode 7 – someone gets slapped silly and some unwelcome guests board the Infinity. Looks like things are starting to heat up! Thanks, TheOddOne.(mastrbiggy 07:45:40 UTC)
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Podtacular 339: Bulletin Update
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This week marks the beginning of the second half of Spartan Ops Season 1 and the introduction to the Community Forge Test matchmaking playlist. Every week for the next five weeks, we will continue our Spartan IV career on Requiem as we partake in missions on new battlefields and environments. In the Forge playlist, try out six community made maps and provide feedback in the Waypoint forums to get your favorites included in the mainstream matchmaking playlists.
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Halo 4 on Amazon Gold Box
It looks like Halo 4, or something related, is the next lightning deal on the Amazon Gold Box. The offer begins at 2PM PT, 5PM ET or 2200 UTC if you’re into that kind of thing. It’s unclear exactly what the offer will be and I’m also unclear on regional availability. We spotted this on the twitters. Details to follow when available.
Update: This deal is for the UNSC GAEMS system. $70 off for the next two hours.(KP 21:30:35 UTC)
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Tattoo Tuesday: Halo Sleeve
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 sleeve, as seen on Darren
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How Halo 4 is using Windows Azure Service Bus
From Channel 9:
On the way driving from my hotel to work this morning, I swung by 343 Industries’ super-secret hidden space command facility to meet Angus, Caitie, and Hoop from Section 3, the team that creates the services backbone for the Halo game series including Halo Waypoint.
We talk about how the Halo 4 game uses Windows Azure Service Bus in various ways, including the flow of all multiplayer game statistics from the console game into Waypoint, and how Service Bus helped the Halo team dealing with the massive traffic peak occurring on and within a few days of the game title’s release.
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Arena Gaming – Chicago Duel 2013
From The Halo Council:Arena Gaming & Bonafide Boarding recently announced their 3rd event for January 25-27th, 2013 in Chicago, IL. The league will feature Halo 4 for the first time, and this will be the first major event to have practice teams ready to fight it out for 1st and $7,000+ in prizes.
The event will be set up with a six pool play, each with eight teams. You will play each team best of three in your pool. The top four from each pool based on record will advance to Saturday. If there is a tie, the tie breaker will be a five minute Slayer game. Saturday will then be a 24-team double elimination bracket. We are still figuring out if it will be best of five or three. We will have a veto system so game one can be either Oddball, KotH, or Extraction. Game two will be CTF. Game three will be Team Slayer. For the five game series, it will be CTF, Team Slayer, Extraction, Oddball, and Team Slayer.
Hope to see you there!
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Come Play with Us – A Halo 4 Community Montage
From HC SLIK:This is a Halo 4 montage produced by HaloCommunity.com, using clips provided by our members. Enjoy!
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A fan needs your help
flugelmeister, from The Secrets Within, has posted a request for help – his son missed the window for the Halo 4 Remix contest, but still wants to create something fun. Unfortunately, the official contest site has taken down the stems they’d offered during the contest – so they’re looking for anyone who still has copies. (We’d be happy to archive these for the community – so if you’ve got ’em, let us know, and we’ll hook you up with an upload location, and then make them available to whoever needs them.) Thanks! Update: Thanks to the speedy response of RC Master, these files are now available for download from our servers.(Louis Wu 10:56:08 UTC)
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A Halo 4 Chiptune
Wahrer Machine shared his 8-bit rendition of ‘Nemesis’ from the Halo 4 soundtrack. Now all you need is an 8-bit version of the game :). Neat!(mastrbiggy 10:28:20 UTC)
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Mythic Grand Masters
AuraSoldier313 and MichaelWSmith have completed Halo 4 on Mythic difficulty (solo, all skulls and no deaths) – they are the only two people in the world to have accomplished this! Having also completed Halo CEA, Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST and Halo Reach on Mythic, they have become Mythic Grand Masters! You can watch their Halo 4 Mythic runs on their Youtube channels – AuraSoldier313 and MichaelWSmith. Awesome job guys!(mastrbiggy 10:18:53 UTC)
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Forge Playlist Maps and Tips
xClicked from The Halo Council posted a rundown of the new maps in the Forge playlist. He goes over weapon placement, spawn times as well as some other neat details. Thanks, CyReN(mastrbiggy 09:56:39 UTC)
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Community Member of the Week: Dtape467
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 Dtape467. Read a little more about this particular fan below, then hit their profile to see why they love duct tape almost as much as Halo!
Gamertag: Dtape467.
Origin of Gamertag: I like duct tape. A lot.
Current clan/community: Halo 4 ARG.
Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo 4.
Favorite map, game type and playlist: Adrift, Valhalla, the island map from Halo: CE, SWAT, BTB.
Least favorite map, game type and playlist: Abandon, Solace.
Preferred control scheme: Default.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): All!
Favorite Halo character: Kurt, John, Kelly, Osmin.
Favorite Halo book: The Ghosts of Onyx, First Stike, Glasslands, The Thursday War.
Favorite Halo quote: Too many to list.
Anything else we should know? This is my favorite non-Halo quote: “Duct tape is like the force, there’s a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.”
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Snapshot – A Halo 4 Montage
From IINobleBatmanII:These clips were captured in 48 hours. Special thanks to 343i for making Halo 4 and IINobleNinjaII for great footage. Enjoy!
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Halo 4 Forge Tutorial – Game Type Labels
From Certain Affinity:This video covers some of the more complex Game Type Labels in Halo 4 Forge Mode. We also highlight how to use the label “EXT_Target” to spawn in objects when an Extraction site is extracted.
Game Type Label definitions: http://www.certainaffinity.com/buzz/forge-game-type-labels/
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