From Certain Affinity:
This video covers how to place Ordnance Drops in Forge mode on Halo 4. Descriptions are given for Initial Drops, Random Drops, and Objective Drops.
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Halo 4 Secret LK Code – Raider DSTT Helmet
Nak3d Eli posted a video showing how you can unlock the Raider DSTT Helmet as well as some other cool stuff. Just make sure you play 1,000 games of War Games matchmaking. Go watch the video for all the details. Thanks, CyReN.(mastrbiggy 10:00:59 UTC)
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Moar Eye Candy
Kotaku posted 26 more pieces of Halo 4 concept and promotional art by artist John Liberto. Some of it new and some of it old. Still, it is worth checking out!(mastrbiggy 08:18:06 UTC)
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Anoj’s Top 10 WTF Moments: Episode 6
Anoj released another top 10 video – focused on those Halo moments that make us scratch our heads. Thanks, Jordan Bell.(mastrbiggy 08:11:49 UTC)
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FUDcast Episode 10
From Kete:Podcasters look out, you’re being watched. The first episode of our Spectator Mode is incoming this Saturday night, featuring the Forward Unto Dawn Podcast. We will be recording their Episode 10 live and discussing the first season of Spartan Ops. We will go live at 9pm ET and start the recording shortly after that. Come join us and witness a podcast recording within another podcast recording. What does that even mean? Let’s find out ’cause we don’t know either!
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PGCR 141
Robowski sent word of Post Game Carnage Report 141 – more perspectives on Halo 4’s campaign. Go listen! (Louis Wu 18:32:39 UTC)
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Halo HORSE 105
Ray and Michael try out three new maps in this week’s Halo HORSE (er… PIG) from AchievementHunter. Watch it at AH.com or on YouTube. Simple is good sometimes. Thanks, Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 18:17:53 UTC)
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Halo 4 Mythbusters – Episode 2
From DefendTheHouse:DefendTheHouse is proud to present the second installment of our Halo 4 Mythbusters series! In this episode, we put some of our most asked questions to the test.
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Closing out the year, Bulletin-Style
The last Halo Bulletin for 2012 dropped last night, as well – there’s a little info about new playlists (say goodbye to Slayer Pro for a bit), an interview with Josh Holmes, an update about Fileshares (not going to be operational for a while) and the Crimson Map Pack (they’re sticking to the ’14 Day Buy and Play’ story they came up with to explain the confusion earlier this week), and some other tidbits. Go read! (It’s local, as well, if you’d rather a lighter experience.)(Louis Wu 17:37:00 UTC)
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A thousand words, times six
Hedge dropped off his last batch of Halo 4 panoramas for 2012. Beautiful.(Louis Wu 17:31:46 UTC)
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4-player System Link Coop… for Halo CE
Whoa. Some folks at Modacity have managed to get 4-player Coop working for Halo CE, in System Link. (The original game supported only two-player splitscreen.) Awesome! Thanks, orznge.(Louis Wu 17:30:24 UTC)
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Bringing back Halo 2, one map at a time
nillapuddin stopped by with a bunch of remakes of his own, after reading our ‘Forgotten Treasures’ post from yesterday. Check out Astroturf (another Turf remake), Keystone (a reimagining of Foundation), and Forsaken (a rebuild of Desolation, itself a rebuild of the first game’s Derelict). Nice!(Louis Wu 17:28:43 UTC)
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Maturity test
Can you watch this Things to do in: Halo 4 film from the Achievement Hunter crew and NOT laugh? (If you can, you’re more adult than I am. You don’t need to tell me about it.)(Louis Wu 17:24:51 UTC)
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Crimson gameplay commentary
Skywalker DSP stopped in with a link to a CTF game on Harvest, commentated by him and his buddy. I wish I faced more teams like they were facing… it’s a fun film.(Louis Wu 17:23:33 UTC)
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Spartan-117 – Halo 4 Fan Art
From HaloFanForLife:
Here is another great fan-made piece of Halo art. Felipe Couto, the artist of this piece, says he created it in Photoshop, freehand, using his Wacom Intuos. VERY COOL piece of art here!
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Forge Quacks 3 – A Halo 4 Video
From petetehduck:Forge Quacks are bite-size videos that demonstrate some of the quirks that exist in Halo 4’s Forge editor. If you have a suggestion for a Forge Quack video, use the form on this page to submit it.
Today’s Forge tip: Extraction Targets are solid objects that will vanish when shot and then respawn per their respawn settings.
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Grifball Hubcast Episode 135 – Kal Trolls the Hubcast
From Goosechecka:Join Rally, Goose, Tex and Kal as they talk about the latest in GGL, GRL, WNG and many other acronyms. This Hubcast also features the 12 Days of Grifmas, as sung by DoG Allikat and written by H2O Camper.
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New Play Arts Figures
Barrow Roll pointed out painted versions of two new figures coming from Play Arts Kai – a Spartan Soldier and Spartan Ops Commander Sarah Palmer. (We saw unpainted versions of these figures in September – nice to see them finished!) They’ll be available in March.(Louis Wu 18:40:34 UTC)
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The underpinnings of Halo maps
Still more concept art from 343 employees – Kotaku’s got a gallery of Michael Pedro’s Halo work. Awesome stuff! Thanks, Demoncarnotaur.(Louis Wu 18:37:51 UTC)
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New Teaser for The Fallen
The crew of the fan-made live-action film The Fallen have released a new teaser – that’s a pretty awesome Jackal! Go watch. Thanks, SonGoharotto.(Louis Wu 18:35:54 UTC)