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Snyde Remarks
Recently, 343 Industries’ Lead Campaign Designer, Jesse Snyder, took some time to take some questions from the community over Twitter. Fortunately, he decided to forgo the 140-character limitation of the little bird network and post the answers on his blog. It’s a really great read, and it might answer some questions you have yourself. Go and check it out! Thanks to Vire for pointing it out.(GrimBrother One 20:22:17 UTC)
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Community Member of the Week: A 3 Legged Goat
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 A 3 Legged Goat. Read a little more about him below, then hit his profile to learn more about ma-a-a-a-a!
Gamertag: A 3 Legged Goat.
Origin of Gamertag: It’s a long story, but the short version is that I had several encounters with the animals a while ago before I made this tag. I wanted it to be something funny in the kill feed, so when I was thinking of funny things that had happened to me, the goat occurrences came to mind. Some people think it’s innuendo, though…
Current clan/community: I spent most of my Reach days with Reaching Perfection after my own group, The Guardianz, had dispersed. I also spent time with the Halo Wheelmen, Blueprint, Satyros (rip), and Forge Hub. I’ll be revisiting some of these communities in the coming months, but my main focus for Halo 4 will be Halo Haven.
Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Mostly Halo 2 and Halo 3 these days.
Favorite map, game type and playlist: CE – Rat Race, Ice Fields, and Danger Canyon. H2 – Sanctuary and Relic CTF; Snipers on Lockout. H3 – Standoff or Rat’s Nest CTF. Reach – Battle Canyon Slayer and Ridgeline CTF.
Least favorite map, game type and playlist: CE – I didn’t like Chiron. H2 – Anything on Coagulation. H3 – Heavies on any map. Reach – AR starts on Uncaged.
Preferred control scheme: Bumper Jumper in H3 and ODST; Default in Reach. As long as it’s easy to crouch and use abilities, I’m okay with it. Usually on 3-4 sensitivity, and I stopped playing with vibration because it used to throw off my aim. I can also only play on a controller that is broken in.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): I’m the jack of all trades, master of none. I don’t really excel in any field but if I had to restrict myself to a role, it would be support. I’m usually the guy watching the sniper’s back, running with the objective carrier, or defending a teammate as he runs back to base with the laser.
Favorite character: Both the Master Chief and Cortana. There’s something about the Chief that just makes me feel heroic and important, and I really like how calm and identifiable he is. Cortana is the witty brainy chick who’s stuck in his head, and hearing her yell at me for most of the first two games was something I really missed in Halo 3.
Favorite Halo quote: “Get in line.” – Heretic Leader in Halo 2 on Elites wanting to kill him. “Take my advice, Rookie – you ever fall for a woman, make sure she’s got balls.” Buck in ODST. “If they came to hear me beg, they will be disappointed.” Thel in Halo 2.
Anything else we should know? I’m not really a goat!
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Halo 4 Preview Event Recap, by Haloathon
From Dan:On Wednesday, we traveled south through various puddles and eventually made it to London in time for the Halo 4 Preview event taking place at Covent Garden. We jumped straight in and started playing War Games. This was a newer build from the one we played at Manchester, and all the player content was unlocked so we could literally try out all the weapon loadouts, abilities, and armour styles. We also had access to a lot more maps and game types, Flood being my new favourite.
Click the link below to read the full write-up!
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Top 10 Halo: Reach Lucky Kills
From Anoj:Anoj counts down his favorite 10 community-submitted Halo: Reach lucky kill clips. Enjoy!
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Unlock and Load – Live!
The DewXP.com website is now live – visit for prizes, rules, and more. (Everything goes active on October 15 – there’s a handy-dandy countdown on the page to let you know when you can start entering codes.)(Louis Wu 16:58:04 UTC)
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Gold – A Fan-made Halo 4 Wallpaper
From minolta1034:To celebrate Halo 4 being certified gold, I made this desktop background. It’s nothing too fancy, but I figured you guys might be into it. Enjoy!
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Forge Cafe Halo: Reach Map Spotlight 8 – Sanctum
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RC’s VGS: Assassinating Sword Elites
RC Master has kicked off a new YouTube channel – RC’s Video Game School. The first video, as he showed on our forum, will teach you how to assassinate Sword Elites in Halo: Reach’s campaign. (Yeah… this probably isn’t as easy as he makes it look.) (Louis Wu 16:09:22 UTC)
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Valhalla and the Mantis – Part 2
More Ragnarok/Mantis stuff – Paul B. put up a 9-minute game showing a couple of runs in the Mantis (thanks, CyReN), while Shadders wrote up his thoughts on his blog. HaloForum put together a compilation vid showing offscreen Mantis video (thanks, ElzarTheBam). Frank added a couple of comments to assure folks that the Mantis isn’t going to be TOO overwhelming. Update: MixMaker1 let us know he’s put up impressions, as well.(Louis Wu 15:55:28 UTC)
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High-level Haven gameplay
We’ve seen a lot of off-screen Halo 4 footage, but not a huge amount of high-level gameplay. CyReN pointed out links to some gameplay by BilzozANinja – this video shows a 5-minute game that includes a Sticky Detonator Extermination (it happens right at the end of the game, but there’s quite a bit of decent DMR/Carbine gameplay before that), while this one shows a seriously impressive 29-0 run. (This one might worry some of you a little; we had word after E3 that ordinance drops would get harder and harder as the game goes along, to counteract the ‘rich get richer’ effect… but this guy gets drops after 6, 8, 6, 8 kills, due to huge bonuses for things like a Running Riot, Untouchable, etc.) This last one also gives you a great view of the destructive power of the SAW. (Louis Wu 15:49:20 UTC)
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HBO vs The World vs The Mongoose
NartFOpc and some friends were playing in Matchmaking, and most of the other team quit. Sometimes… you gotta make your own fun!(Louis Wu 15:46:02 UTC)
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CHa0s’ Pet Promethean
AddiCt3d 2CHa0s put together a small progression vid showing his work on a ‘pet Promethean’ – pretty cool! (Louis Wu 15:45:42 UTC)
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Visualizing the Halo Universe: Week 1 Winner and Feedback
Postmortem announced the winner of the first week’s entries for his Visualizing the Halo Universe contest – congrats, TDSpiral! Check out the post for comments on all entries!(Louis Wu 15:44:16 UTC)
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Reach Weekly Challenge – 10.1.12
Like scoring a lot of kills in not a lot of time? Then check out the newest Halo: Reach Weekly Challenge!
Multiplicative – 25,000cR
Earn 200 Multikills in multiplayer Matchmaking this week.
Need some friends to watch your back while you rack up kills? Then use the following forum thread to fill out your team:
Weekly Challenge Thread
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Ragnarok – and the Mantis
The big news this morning is a double-punch – it’s information that came out last week, unofficially, but the embargo has been raised, and 343 wants you to get an eyeful. Halo 3’s Valhalla is back… in Halo 4, it’s called Ragnarok. (The remake, at least what we can see of it in the new trailer on Halo Waypoint, or the new image gallery of scenery shots, looks to be pretty faithful to the original.) The second punch? The Mantis, a multiplayer vehicle we saw in renders last week, is playable on this map (and the video has footage). Greenskull already has an impressions video up – go see what he thinks of the map, and the mech! On our own forum, uberfoop kicked off a discussion thread – go add your two cents! Update: looks like I should have held off just a little – nomis78 announced a CommunityCustoms writeup, and CyReN let us know about a HaloCouncil breakdown from xClicked. Folks have been chomping at the bit to talk about this! Update 2: Until Halo Waypoint gets it up onto their own channel, there’s a HD version of the Mantis vid on YouTube, posted by GoombaStompShow – nice for folks who can’t get Silverlight to work.(Louis Wu 11:02:33 UTC)
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SeFu2006 nails the anticipation
Dogiojoe pointed out a fan-made Halo 4 trailer that will do a nice job of pumping you up! (Louis Wu 19:50:32 UTC)
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CC’s Halo 4 UK Preview
nomis78 stopped by to announce a writeup of the UK Preview event he attended last week – swing by Community Customs to read the details!(Louis Wu 19:48:50 UTC)
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A Fan View of the Didact
TDSpiral continues to impress – this time, it’s his envisioning of the Didact’s face. (Check the rest of the thread – there’s tons of new artwork in there!) (Louis Wu 19:47:25 UTC)
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Little English Halo Blog Talks to Big Bald Scottish Man
Shadders interviewed Frank O’Connor in London recently – the first half (non-embargoed questions/answers) is online now. Go read it! Thanks, TheOddOne.(Louis Wu 19:45:52 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
