From The Halo Community:
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to do an awesome effect called “The Unknown”. This effect was found by RoyalBoss ross. Enjoy!
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HBO’s Legacy Gameplay Tricks – Back Online!
A long, long time ago, we let our Tricks section die – erm… go into hibernation. (We moved servers, and more importantly platforms, and there simply wasn’t anyone with the time to rewrite the code to work in the new environment.) A much shorter time ago, JDQuackers contacted me and asked what would be involved in bringing this section back to life. And today, his work is revealed – the tricks section (whose newest entry will turn 10 years old next month) is now back online! My hat goes off to Mr. Quackers (no relation to pete_the_duck) – this collection was truly representative of the soul of HBO for quite a long time, and it’s been hard to see it offline for so long. Go reminisce!(Louis Wu 17:53:14 UTC)
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Halo Community Tournament: Paintball
From HC SLIK:
http://halocommunity.com is unleashing the next amazing Halo: Reach tournament for you in the form of PAINTBALL! That’s right, we have tweaked some amazing maps that will be perfect for a paintball tournament. Charge up your pistol, and get ready to have a blast!
The tournament will play host to a best-of-three game series, where each game is a five-round (one life per round) Speedflag paintball game. Each round is a one-minute lightning round, with 30 second sudden death if the flag is being held. Flag does not have to be home to score. The carrier is fast but cannot jump high, and is weaker than all other players.
Halo: Reach paintball is all about the Plasma Pistol! A normal kill is one overcharged plasma, or two pellet shots. With only one life, teammates will re-spawn in a host-box of sorts, with the ability to see the field and call out for any living teammates. There’s no time to camp, so you better make your shots count! Game type and map settings will be downloadable from HC Deja’s File Share, no later than a week before the tournament.
Our winning team of four will be taking home 1600 MS Points EACH, and other prizes may be scattered about throughout the tournament crowd! This tournament will take place on September 15, 2012. It is FREE to enter, so sign up now!
Halo Community Tournament: Paintball
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Master Chief Speed Painting – A Halo Fan Art Video
From FBWalshyFTW:This is a speed painting video that pichdesign made for Halo’s iconic hero and protagonist, the Master Chief, taking you through the entirety of a roughly eight-hour artistic process. Enjoy!
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Waypoint Community Modcast – Episode 25
From CruelLEGACEY:CruelLEGACEY and Das Kalk get some hands-on time with Halo 4 at Fan Expo in Toronto. What did they think of it? Listen and find out!
As always, feel free to jump into the Waypoint Modcast discussion thread over at Halo Waypoint, and let us know what you think!
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The Adventures of Koko Bear Chapter 6 – A Halo Machinima
From Jamie:Koko Bear and Price return to the city to find it up in flames.
I hope you enjoy the final episode in The Adventures of Koko Bear series!
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Cortana Wallpaper: Monday Morning Ordnance Drop
Beorn came by to show off some seriously gorgeous artwork – he took inspiration from the design elements on Cortana’s skin in the latest BTS video from 343, and created Wallpaper for your desktop at a huge variety of sizes. Check his post, and grab the size that works for you! Update: Beorn has added a dark variant – beautiful for folks who don’t want bright desktops!(Louis Wu 15:10:18 UTC)
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Reach Weekly Challenge – 9.10.12
If you’re a beast in matchmaking, you are going to have no problem whatsoever with this week’s 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 Multikill after Multikill? Then use the following forum thread to fill out your team:
Weekly Challenge Thread
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Montage Monday
We don’t get a whole lot of montages submitted any more – but today, we’ve got three. And amazingly, they all have something interesting going for them.- Chappified stopped in with word of Episode One – The Adventure Continues. It’s a Halo 3 montage showing off trick jumping… but what makes it unique is that it’s all in standard matchmaking. It’s pretty amazing to see someone climb the outside of the Pit’s Snipe Tower while being shot! Check this out.
- CyReN posted word of a new Halo 3 Dualtage from Lethul and Formal on GAF. Fantastic gameplay (as you’d expect from these two), heavy but interesting editing… and it’s all Halo 3!
- RVideo dropped us a line about Fragtage, with gameplay by AfterFraG and editing by ATB and Barker – It’s Reach footage, and what it has going for it is some REALLY tightly-synched gameplay. If you’re not a fan of heavy editing, this one might be too much for you.
All in all, good stuff. Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:03:05 UTC)
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Grunts are People Too – Returns!
If you’ve been reading HBO for a long time, you might just remember Grunts Are People Too – it was a machinima project from MOTHERSTOOTH involving your favorite mini-Covenant. Most, or all, are offline at this point… but we just heard from MOTHERSTOOTH that they’re coming back! Check out Episode 1. (Louis Wu 14:51:39 UTC)
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Murder Miners
Daedalos42 pointed out Murder Miners (it’s making quite a splash at HaloGAF, as well) – it’s a new indie game from JForceGames that takes a lot of inspiration from Halo. In fact, it’s been described as “Halo meets Minecraft” – you can see a video of it in action on The Halo Council. It’s in beta right now, and costs only 240 MSPoints ($3!) – it’s cheaper than a latte! Go try it out.(Louis Wu 14:47:27 UTC)
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GI Replay: Stubbs the Zombie
Stubbs the Zombie came out in 2005 – it was the first product of Wideload Games, the spinoff studio founded by Alex Seropian when he left Bungie… and the only game to be released that uses the Halo engine but is not Halo. GameInformer has gone back and played it again for their Replay series – it’s not the best look at the game, because they don’t take the playthrough particularly seriously… but if you missed it (or just miss it now!), this is a chance to see it in action. Thanks, nillapuddin. (Louis Wu 14:43:00 UTC)
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Knock-Off Alpha – Delineated
Rockslider stopped by yesterday with a fleshed-out gametype for his new Reach Firefight gametype (we mentioned it last week) – go give the new post a read, and set up a game of Knock-Off Alpha yourself!(Louis Wu 14:35:25 UTC)
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Grifball World Cup – Signups Open
GrifballHub’s Kal sent word about the Grifball World Cup – their final major event in Halo: Reach. Signups are now open for this six-week event – you’ve got until September 14 (Friday) to get on the list! Go read the details at their site. (Louis Wu 20:28:06 UTC)
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ReadyUpLive talks to Frankie
RUL’s Greenskull grabbed Frankie at PAX, and asked a lot of questions. Go hear the answers! (There’s a reason this man does lots of 343 interviews…) (Louis Wu 20:25:57 UTC)
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Jaw-dropping concept art for Venerance
TDSpiral stopped in with some concept art he created for the Venerance project (a Crysis 2 total mod). It shows Côte d’Azur… on fire. It’s amazing! If you sign up for the Venerance forums (free, of course), you can see a couple of other versions (day and night, not on fire) – all came from a sketch originally done by Leviathan, but made into something beautiful by TDSpiral. (Links are in his forum post.) It’s amazing what this group can do!(Louis Wu 20:23:43 UTC)
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Halo 2: Recap Revolved
Spec ops Grunt let us know about a Halo 2 recap that… made me laugh. It ain’t Downton Abbey… it’s closer to South Park. But it’s funny. (I’m pretty sure I’ve NEVER heard someone sing a medley of Titanic and The Little Mermaid before…) (Louis Wu 20:04:27 UTC)
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Dropping More Pod
Also from the Podtacular crew, don’t miss Podtac 308, which has the crew discussing non-Halo stuff from the show floor. It’s a cool look at the “rest of the world” from Halo-focused minds. Go listen!(Louis Wu 19:58:54 UTC)
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High Council-Approved
Join CruelLEGACEY, Duststorm, Goosechecka, and yours truly for a new “Modtacular”; a combining of forces from the Waypoint Modcast and Podtacular crews where we talk PAX, Halo 4, and gender battles. You can find the audio (same either way) at both the Waypoint Modcast site (Episode 26) or the Podtacular site (Episode 309). Go listen!(GrimBrother One 19:54:36 UTC)
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X-BA Marduk
Shuya Takaoka created a very cool Promethean concept on Tumblr – thanks, TheOddOne. (Louis Wu 19:53:19 UTC)