Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Episode 192: Customs and Creations
for the week of June 7th, 2009

(Hosts: Dust Storm & GLewis)


Opening Discussions

Random Questions (optional)

i actually think you guys should get steve downes in here. he voiced masterchief in all three halo games. i think he would be an interesting person to interview and you could get a better idea of masterchiefs overall character.

Hey Podtacular. Its NiteRhino and I just wanted to let you guys know that Podtacular is awesome. I am sure that this is just another piece of annoying fan mail you guys get ,but I just wanted to tell you I try and submit every podcast.

The Halo News was so FUNNY and it gave me and idea. It would be cool if DustStorm and GLewis could Do the Halo news Once a week or two. I am sure I am not the only one who enjoyed it.

Keep on Fragging Dumb Noobs who did not think the Halo news was completely HILARIOUS!

NiteRhino OUT.

P.S Nice Armor GLewis.

OK just to explain why i refer myself as your favourite ads. Because a few shows back i said you can call me adswell. Yet Glewis decided he is going 2 shorten it right down to ads. As far as i know I’m the 1st to have my name shortened on the show. So that’s why i see my self as favourite lol. Whether its true or not is irrelevant i like it.

So if you dont like it i will stop let me know.

Keep on Trucking Frags.

dear podtac my friend hemansue (HE-MON-SUE)were playing mission halo on legendary again and we beat it however the special ending didnt come up :( this time anyway my Question is do you have to beat the entire campaign on legendary again to see the ending P.S

Man,Cannons AnD Fusion coils


E3 Review


Customs and Creations

Dragon635

Hey Podtacular,

It’s Dragon635. This is my 2nd submission. Also, please my GT like Dragon six-three-five, each number individually. The last guest host really abused my name.

Anyway, on to the submission. I made a new map called Hide n’ Seek 7, a zombie map I made on Sandbox.
It’s pretty much a maze full of weapons. Zombies have 2x overshields, normal speed, normal gravity. However, ALLOW ZOMBIES AND ALPHA ZOMBIES TO USE VEHICLES. THE MONGOOSE IS ESSENTIAL TO GET TO THE TELEPORTER TO GET UP TO THE MAZE!

Humans have unlimited ammo and normal shields, and regular speed and gravity. Make humans start with pistols.

Also, watch out for my teleporters. Go to the wrong one, you’ll be sent to the guardians. Go to the right ones, you’ll be thankful.

I uploaded it up to my file share. Unfortunately, it’s the only thing in my file share. =(

My Gamer Tag is: Dragon635
(OBVIOUSLY…)

Thanks for reading my submission!

Keep on fragging trucks and Foo Mo’s folding bikes.

BlackHeli007

Hey guys, its BlackHeli here with a couple customs for ya.

Ok, first one is a map off of forgehub.com called Co-op puzzle. As you can guess from the name it’s a cooperative puzzle game. It’s a very challenging puzzle map and will require both people to constantly be working to figure out what’s going on. It took one of my buddies and I about 2 hours to figure the entire thing out.

The second map is one that I’m currently working on is a zombie map called Hunker Down on Foundry. It’s basically a mix between the mini game Purple Monsters, and the Fat Kid Omega Journey game types. In the game the Humans start in a bunker with random weapons and there are needlers on the ground. The Zombies spawn in an area in front of the base. Just like purple Monsters you have to use your needlers to keep the zombies away from your base. You must fend them off for 90 seconds until a gravity lift spawns so that you can proceed through the small maze, trying to go as fast as you can to avoid the zombies slowly limping towards you. I haven’t had much of a chance to test it out yet, but once I do ill have it in my file share if I get some positive feedback.

And that’s all I got. Keep on fraggin: the epic easy bake ovens that are used to distract the witches in Left 4 Dead, hairy dumplings, Folding bikes, watch thieves, midget haters, and trucks.

I’m out.

obsidianchao

Hey podtacular people, what’s up? it’s obsidianchao, that’s obsidian-c-h-a-o. (Spell out chao, pronounced CHA-o)I just wanted to send in my tips for the mythic maps and some customs for my first submission. For Sandbox, when you forge, make sure to interlock. If you don’t know what interlocking is, look it up on a halo forum. It allows you to merge items to makes them smoother. There was also a recent article on Bungie.net about not using wall pieces as floors; I forget what it was, but it’s a physics issue.

For Assembly, always go straight for rocket spawn and hide on the little black “ramps.” Don’t fall, though; there’s no backing. Some people don’t see those there because you have to jump to them, and you can camp the rocket spawn. It’s not spawn camping, so it’s legal.

On Orbital, for the Post Mortem achievement, try sticking a guy just as you jump in the pit o’ doom. I haven’t tried this yet, but I bet it’ll work. You could also fire your last rocket into the enemy base and jump in the pit, then pray for a double kill. Also, use your plasmas to smoke the enemies out. this is a general rule, but it is extremely helpful in team games. In any objective-based gametype, always open your gate after your guys have the flag. Then, enemies can’t destroy you until your guys have the flag, and by then it’s too late. I once played a game where the opponents opened their gate immediately. Needless to say, we won.

Now for my customs. my Fileshare has some neat stuff in it, as far as I can tell, with a great use of levitation, interlocking, and possibly geomerging, which is using a technique to put items in the level’s premade geometry. Personally, I don’t think I have anything great, except for my screenshots, which I think are pretty good.

Keep on traggin’ fu—er, fragging trucks! Oops. I swear, I meant fragging trucks.

Shoutouts to sci7Zo (pronounced SKIT-zo) and the podtacular crew.

Sorry for the wall of text, I hope the punctuation and spelling helped you guys read. Especially crypto, with his funny accent. Naw, I kid the UK. uh, he’s UK, right? Anyways, thanks for reading this, I just started listening, love the podcast. Obsidianchao signing out.

Little dude1337/fear master1337

Hello Dust storm and fellow guest host got two new maps i wanted to share with you. The first is called ‘Zombie Apocalyp’(Tried to name it ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ but ran out of name space) and the other is called ‘Behind the line’. Zombie Apocalypse is stationed in the Crypt. There are 2 bases, one that has a blue light and one that has a red light. There are considerable amount of weapons on both bases. The blue base has human vehicles and the red base has covenant vehicles. It great for slayer, infection, and CTF games. ‘Behind the line is in ‘Rat’s nest’ and is basically for Slayer games. There will be tanks, Gauss warthogs, ghost, and choppers. There is also a grav lift on one side so you could fly onto the pipes. Both have been made recently. ‘Behind the Line’ is in my file share but ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ is not because I’m making it perfect. Keep on fragging mexicanswho are hunting ne ne.

fungus oz

Hey podtacular this is Fungus oz with 2 more customs.
My first custom is motorcross V4, a race track in the sky bubble of Sandbox. It is played with either the game 1 lap elim, a race gametype where there are 10 rounds and a finish of the circuit will end the round. If you die, you have to wait fr the next round to win. Then there is racetracks, with standard respawn times and 3 laps to win.
For the map:
You start in a grid of 8 mongii with walls preventing you from getting onto the track. In 10 seconds a ramp spawns to let you onto the track. There are a number of large motocross style ramps and small humps designed to both make the track interesting, but also to throw you off the track, as it has no walls. In some cases full speed is not as good as steady 3/4 pace, as you will die and restart. It is a figure-8 circuit with both wide and tight turns, and at the end there is an EPIC man-cannon assisted jump to the destination. I recall Dust Storm playing the beta form of this map, Motocross V2 with me on the one lap elim gametype, and promptly quitting after my idiot freinds assassinated him at the start of each round(Failboat TOOT TOOT Roflcopter SOI SOI SOI SOI). Note this bug has been fixed in V4 with altered spawns.

My next map is called drive or die and is a recarnate of the classic sandtrap zombie game. The tower’s guns have been blocked off with objects from forge and effects have been placed to ensure that you can see absolutely nothing besides blue and red guidance lights, the middle of the map and your vehicle’s headlights. You spawn on the very edge of Sandtrap’s guardian PWN ZONE with 8 mongii and a blue light but do not die thanks to blocked towers. You must board the mongii and drive either to the centre of the map , where there is a house with many weapons, but don’t camp there or BAD THINGS ARE GONNA HAPPEN TO YOU! You can avoid zombies whilst searching for the fabled warthog on the other side of the map, or just drive.
The alpha zombies are your standard Left 4 Dead/28 days later deal with grav hammers, energy swords, 300% speed, 50% gravity, 50% damage resistance and poor camo. The other zombies are the same, minus camo, grav hammers and health bumped down to 10%(Basically instant kill). All people who have played this have loved it, and so far there are no bugs.

Both maps are available on my file share (gamertag:Fungus Oz).

Keep of fragging roflcopters so they go SOI SOI SOI BOOM and explode on trucks full of fusion coils and those evil fart juice monkeys, killing them and entitling all passers-by to free eyeballs as souveniers-but OH NOES! They monkeys are super mutant and grow into full monkeys from those eyeballs and melt the faces of their owners, then run off to reproduce and cover all of America. So let this be a warning to all American residents:
STOCK UP ON SUPPLIES, LOCK YOUR HOUSE DOWN AND WAIT TO RECEIVE FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS VIA RADIO! OR YOU WILL DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL FACE-MELTING DEATH.
This is the Fungus from Oz, Signing off.

AssaultRhino

Hey Podtac. Its AssaultRhino here to tell you about my Sandtrap map. All of the weapons such as brute shots are on the highest tomb or whatever you call them and plasma pistols are the only weapon you start with. There is no way to get up except with the one banshee that is on the map. It is a slayer game and whoever controls the banshee bascically wins.

This submission is already long enough so I am not going to do a really long keep on fragging like those other noobs who just now realized that noobs spelled backwards is spoons to eat soup and icecream and then masterchief comes only to to shove mashed potatoes into the noobs fartjuice.

Forget keep on fragging keep on plasma grenading.

stallmeplease

Hey guys it is stallmeplease. I am here with a custom creation. It is on a map called sandtrap. It is called dead meat. I made a midair obsticle course in the crypt. If you fall, the zombie is waiting with a chopper to splatter you. I am not going to give much away, but there are some areas where you have to sacrifice AKA backstab one of your teammates to move on. By the end only one can live, there is alot of double crossing and friend losing that goes on in this game. The mode and map are on my fileshare, both called dead meat. Keep on fraggin glewis. He said he would never read my posts again if I stole his watch. Well I still did, he isn’t man enough to not read my posts. He is all talk! stallme out.

razza 119

was up podtac its the 1 and only razza 119 here with a map on sandbox it is called sky box track it is a small tight technecal race track on the sky box if u want 2 download it will b in my fileshare soon my gamertag is razza 119
shouts outs to my fellow clan members JPK theartre and xxfletcherxx
lancelot, chuckiej
AND the 1 and only best pod tac host dust storm
AND krytos half brother glewis

keep on fragin glewis who is driving a truck which is splatering midgets while trying 2 read this post while trying 2 avoid bein sniped by dust strom who is tryin 2 protect the midgets while eatin hot pockets and protecting his watch
razza out

Domaku

Well its me again, Domaku
I’ve got a few creations, not customs but Screenshots that you guys on podtac should check out.
The first one is a picture called Ghost Patrol, Yes I’ve got the acheivment Dust Storm, it is a picture of me running two of the three kills I need on the shores of Longshore, I left the description as Slayer on Longshore to prove it.
Another is of Dust Storm doing what he does, Team killing with a Spartan Laser. He kills everyone except one guy because that spartan is special. The two files showing that are called Team Kill and Capture the Fla. ODST is another which is a photo of Three ODST’s hopping out of a pelican. Its an awesome shot.
uhh, shoutouts to Lil Waffles, STR Raxus Reaper, Perlyman, Bigbird856, White Lite, Uzimaki15, Dust Storm… and Last Soldier.

Might I add everyone should check out 1 vs. 100 its extremely fun and has a very addicting taste to it.

Keep on Fraggin Trucks that kill you while you and your friends are playing Big Team Battle while you are trying to get Perlyman to stop eating because his Uncle pre chews his food and Caresses his fat Handles while playing World of Warcraft with Tekuno Logan during an episode of Dora the Explorer which Bigbird cannot stop watching. While a criminal breaks down your backdoor and asks you if you want to buy a box of cookies.

Acheivment unlocked-

Funniest Fragging Trucks Ever- 1000G

NiteRhino

Hey Podtac. Its NiteRhino or former AssaultRhino here to tell you about my awesome gametype called Shoot Em’ Down.
It is a Halo 1 oddball gametype where there is only one banshee and the person with the oddball can get into it and stay in the air until he has had the oddball for 2 miniutes to win the game. Also there is only short ranged weapons in the game so the only way to shoot the banshee down is to use the shade turrets.

Keep on Fraggin Mashed Potatoes.
Keep on Truckin Frags

Maximo Notts

Hi guys, I listened from episode 129 to episode 146 but recently found the new episodes. Anyway, I have created a map on Foundary which I have called Open Storage. The basis has probably already been made but nevermind. It envolves 4 man cannons, 2 on either side, a wall placed in the middle to seperate each side and each side has been created to hold only human or Covie weapons, the area designated ‘A’ has only human weapons and ‘B’ Covie. This map can be played with many different game types and the Covie side is made to be the defencive side as it is over looked by a human turret on ‘A’s side. Next to the turret is a sniper so ‘B’ has to be careful but there is plenty of cover. To defend themselves, ‘B’ has a turret beside an energy shield on the walkway outisde the corridor which would link the 2 bases togehter but is blocked. I that corridor there is beam rifle to pick off the turret guner. For more fun, use the handly placed Mongeese and if your on ‘B’s side, pick up a Grav Hammer.
Sorry if it is too lenghty but its my first time.
Keep on fragging dudes who think England was helpless in World War II (No offence but we weren’t)and pink Nissans.

oANTWONo

Hi guys, how’s it going? Recently my friends and I were on Sandtrap messing around with the filters and found a combination to make it really dark. So I used that combination to make an infection map called Death Pyramid.

My map is based in the crypt and the zombies fall down the hole onto a small pyramid and try to kill the humans. The catch is they are black in a very dark room so they’re pretty hard to find. The humans are equipped with pistols and the zombies have swords. It isn’t on my fileshare yet because I’m not fully finished with it yet but I will get it up there soon.

Keep on fraggin’ the little annoying people who go into matchmaking to drive around like a maniac just to cause the team to lose, and when betrayed boots the person actually playing the game. (Yes this has happened to me multiple times)

Tactical Leader

Hey Podtac crew. It’s me Tactical Leader!

I was forging with my brother and friend on sandtrap and we came up with a zombie variant similar to the children’s game of British bulldog ( Which is also what the Variant is called) There are two mongooses in which the non infected drive. the zombies have both types of pistols and try to infect more humans. Humans have shotties and rockets. The game type is fun but I dont have live, hence you cannot find it on my file-share.

Keep on fragging midgets owned by Foo-Mo-Jive and folding bikes.

Thanks for reading my sub!

Quatch

Hey podtacular its Quatch again. I’ve got a map for ya. its called helljumpers. it takes place on sandtrap. Its called helljumpers because… you fall from the sky!
I had my brother hold a crate while i placed respawn and starting points on top. there is 16 different places you can fall from. i randomly threw human weapons all over the map. there is mongeese everywhere along with some warthogs. No matter what you think you CANNOT snipe people out of the air. they just move too fast. We played system-link with 8 people and never did anyone get sniped from the air.

I still dont have x-box live yet so you will have to make your own verson.

Shout-out to Timmy Turntrout,Kitty,Cryatt,and Turd

oh and keep Fragg’n VCR’s that you cant seem to set the clock on so they keep blinking 12:00.

EDJERSEYS SON

Dont read this part: i want Duststorm to read this.
Hey Podtac, it’s your one and only EMO, EDJERSEYS SON! First off, I’d like to say: WHY THE HELL DID YOU SKIP MY SUBMISSION LAST EPISODE? supar durper >:( tis is my 3rd submission!!! Anyway, on with my submission. I have a new map on Sandbox (duh) called MEXICANS! (jk) actually, its called ROF, and its so simple to da max. you just run full speed on a MEGA ULTRA SURPER DUPAR RAMPZ DAT PWN NAY NAYY, and you jump through a ring of kill balls and a ring that looks like its on fiah. (FIAH!) My second one is calle Temple, and its a 1 v 1 map that looks like a temple. My gamertagz is EDERSEYS SON and check out my file share- I think it’s there. Keep on fraggin’ monkeys that spew fart juice all over Nay Nay while midgets on folding bikes shouting VETO!!!!!!! steal all your watches. Emo Ed out.
ps: If you are reading this, thanks for not skipping my submission.

exacta

Hey podtac it’s Exacta here with his first submission. I am a new forger and do not have any of the DLC maps. However I did manage to get a little fun game on The Pit. Almost everything is the same except the lawnchair. It’s gone. gasp!, now that there is no lawnchair, where will the players sit? Fear not! On one side of the map there is a gravity lift that will take you too another lift. Once you take the second lift, ninja hop across stacks of crates to get to a teleporter. That teleporter will take you to an identical room on the other side where there is… whoever reads this please make a drum roll noise a camping stool! Now the players can sit down.

Well that’s all I have keep on fragging trucks that try to run over Dusty but fail because Glewis shoots his lazer at the midget driving.

Naepa34

hey podtacular, my map is on sandbox, and is called pyramid. I made it with 1 sided CTF in mind, but it would probably work for 2 sided, or really any objective gametype. It is in my fileshare as pyramid v1.1. This was my first attempt to make a serious map, and I’d like to see how it does under play testing.

Play3rslay3rx

Hi this is my second submission and this time some customs and creations. my first is the best use of orbital on forge so far called THE DARKNESS. it is on orbital with a gloomy effect,n the gamemode is an infection variant where the zombie is a scary dude completely in black. the humans need to get to the end of the defined path without getting killed by the scary guy. the scary guy camofages in great and can hide and kill u as u go by. its really scary and will make you crap your anus armour.works 2 to eight players. i have other maps such as my limitless supply of zombie defence maps such as….Lighthouse(001) ie last stand from l4d, cottage of doom, church(002), which is ma best and my first one zombiz(002 or somin)ie a bit like nacht der untoten (night of the undead).also there is my assassins creed gamemode and map. My gamertag is Play3rslay3rx, also my gamertag is Play3rslay3rx. Keep on fraggin truck with something in it to do with anus armour, fart juice and/or stealing watches and kids who scream veto. P.S my gamertag is Play3rslay3rx PPS Action Sack FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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