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New and Improved
Episode 14 of Red vs Blue Season 10 went live last night – South and Tex face off, while Carolina goes under the knife. Go watch! Thanks, Lurono.(Louis Wu 13:25:28 UTC)
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2012 Golden Joystick Awards – Voting Open
The 2012 Golden Joystick Awards are up for voting – and Halo’s got a couple of chances to win. Halo Anniversary is up for Best Shooter, while Halo 4 is in the One to Watch category. Go vote for your favorites! Thanks, Morpheus.(Louis Wu 13:23:17 UTC)
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Kick ’em and they don’t stay down
Nak3d Eli got the scoop on Promethean Knight revivals from Kynan Pearson at PAX – you might have seen the video, but now you have the details on what’s going on. Thanks again, NobleGundam.(Louis Wu 13:20:42 UTC)
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Fan trailer from A Hero Awakens
Tridyrium spliced together scenes from A Hero Awakens to put together a new music trailer. Pretty nice work! (Well, the music could use a little tweaking.) Thanks, NobleGundam.(Louis Wu 13:17:37 UTC)
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GAPT 2
Motherstooth continues his revival of Grunts are People Too, with Episode 2. Have you ever heard a grunt channeling Al Pacino? (Louis Wu 13:14:42 UTC)
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Frank holds forth on pros, maps, and music
Gamespot’s got an interview with Frank O’Connor, discussing everything from Halo’s involvement in e-sports to the music in the game. Go give it a read! Thanks, Munish23. (Louis Wu 13:13:17 UTC)
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Too Drunk To Tube Winners – and more!
Congrats to Blissful Rage and Black 5ix – they’re the two winners of our Too Drunk To Tube contest! Tubes full of 343-provided swag should be on the way to both of them later today! And if you’re sad you didn’t win… hey, mastrbiggy’s got your back! He’s got still more PAX schwag to give away – just drop your name into the hat, and who knows what you’ll end up with! (Louis Wu 13:02:44 UTC)
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Community Member of the Week: JSA343
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 JSA343. Read a little more about him below, then hit his profile to learn why he does it all for the nook(ie)!
Gamertag: JSA343.
Origin of Gamertag: My initials, and the number symbolizing one of my favorite characters and the new developers of Halo.
Current clan/community: Halo Waypoint.
Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo: Anniversary and Halo: Reach.
Favorite game type and map: SWAT and tough one…I’ll say Ridgeline at the moment.
Preferred control scheme: Default.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): I try to be offensive and sometimes end up going Lone Wolf, but I go defense when losing bad.
Favorite character: I’ll say 343 Guilty Spark. He and the other Monitors always appealed to me.
Favorite book: Hmm…I’ll say Evolutions because it has a lot of smaller stories I enjoyed. Second up, probably Halo: Cryptum.
Favorite Halo quote: “When I joined the Corps, we didn’t have any fancy-shmanzy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for the whole platoon—and we had to share the rock! Buck up, boy, you are one very lucky Marine!” -Johnson
Anything else we should know? I have my own little Halo fanfiction expanding in my head. I really need to start writing it down. I think I’m going to call it Halo: Defiant Until The End.
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Were It On Easy
The Tyrant let us know that he’s now released the next chapter in his Legendary Walkthrough of Halo 2, this time tacking The Arbiter. Go and see how the man does it, and then try to outdo him yourself! Good luck!(GrimBrother One 19:07:39 UTC)
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The Unknown – A Halo: Reach Screenshot Tutorial
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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