Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Episode 210: Halo Waypoint
for the week of December 5th, 2009

Hosts: Dust Storm, GLewis, Brent Gamer & obsidianchao


Random Frags

Tbird007

Hello people on this glorious show and i want to try something fun today. I am going to write this random frag out as if you were saying it on the show.
Here we got Tbird007 submitting for the 5th or 6th time but he is not counting. And he writes in Hey podtac i was thinking about something yesterday and i have no idea how it came to mind but it did. i figured i would write game reviews in the other games section of the forums. (Now you guys say if that is a good idea or not). I thought it would be cool and i wanted my first time to be perfect. (“now Glewis says that’s what she said”) I had a test run in the open discussion and it failed. my first game will be COD MW 2 so check it out. And anthour thing is i started a pole that asked who was your favorite host and the results are in. FMJ won with 11 votes with a tie between Glewis and Duststorm both with 6 votes and then JVB with 3 votes. Keep on fraggin everyone who forgot about poor old spleecheeks and Lancelot.

razza 119

waz up podtac just wanted to ask why don’t you do a show for call of duty modern warfare 2?

Snipermaster

Hey podtac,

I am doing this on my iPod again so it is hard for me!

I would just just like to say that I love the show even tho I have only listened to episodes 204-209 and the live mlg intermission. I would also like to say that not only this is my time submittening but I dedeacetaded a killacular to you guys! Keep on fraggen noobs that don’t know how use a rocket luncher and kill themselves all day so I could win the game!!!

all yor Hope

hey podtac, meaning Glewis,jk, its hopes here wishing the best of luck i think your show is great only listening for about 30 episodes but overall they are great. i’d like to just give a bunch of shoutouts to some peeps, 1st is Glewis (what a surprise) 2nd dusty (he is just boss) 3rd lance (sexy voice) 4th ricesnak, 5th,fungus oz, 6th, fungus oz

keep on fragging my cannon,mans so that they shoot a dusty’s watch every time stall me plz tries to steal them

this is all your hopes burning up and dieing

UmChurch

Forum Update:
hey guys its Um……Church here and some of you have noticed that i have been absent from the forums for quite some time now. well my mac has crashed(Hooray!) and shall be replacing it with a windows computer optimizing my forum time. Just thought id let you guys know.

Shout outs: Dusty, GLewis, obsidianchao, domaku, Guest host, ChuckieJ, Lance, TheSlayorMayor, and Samus117!

Thanks guys! this has been um……Church and im signing of for now!

JonaPandaLord

Hey podtacular this is Jona Panda Lord, just here to ensure you that not every one who listens to podtacular can`t spell.Shout outs to Andersenator,Kirk Rehfeld, Deadshot 3z & & my hero Glewis.keep on fraging trucks.


Submissions

tylerthet3

Hello, fellow members of Podtacular. This is tylerthet3 writing in once again to discuss Halo: Waypoint.

Halo: Waypoint is an interesting, new element in the Halo series. It gives players insight into various events, community members, and developers. I think it is awesome that it is showing an episode of Halo: Legends each Saturday, and it continually updates its service with a new video each day. It is now going to show old, enhanced episodes of Red vs. Blue each week.

It also gives you free avatar awards (based on completion of ODST) and scans your achievements and gamerscore throughout all of the Halo games. I just hope that it updates its levels as new games come out and also gives us more avatar awards in the future.

Shout-outs to Dust Storm and GLewis and keep on truckin’ frags!

Spartan QXZ93

Hey! It’s Spartan QXZ93 here with my thoughts concerning recently released Halo portal on XBL.

I like how it tracks your Halo gamerscore and unlocks various awards and milestones as the amount of Halo G’s you have increases. What makes it even better for me, is that they included several awards for you avatar.

The inclusion of the Intel section was, in my opinion, one of the best decisions to be included in WayPoint.

There is honestly nothing that I believe they could have added to WayPoint that would have it any better.

Shout-out’s to: Dust Storm, GLewis, Lancelot, this episode’s Guest hosts, ODST EJY, Stallmeplease, mmmoonkey, Zylio, Old Regime, and, LlongJjohnKiller!

Keep on truckin’ frags that run on the blood of Dust Storms enemies that were splattered by a mongeese driven by bears wearing jackets made by underpaid midgets riding folding bikes that are being chased by Foomo with a shotgun who in turn is being chased by a angry drug-crazed mob of fire obsessed 12 year olds who are constantly shouting “VETO! VETO!” into their mic’s in matchmaking while trying to simultaneously consume 7 XXL cans of Monster which were poisoned by a bunch of Grunts wearing Chuck Norris anus Armour who were killed shortly afterward by a roundhouse kick to the face that was delivered by none other than the almighty Sgt. Maj. A.J. Johnson who was then killed by a floating light bulb that had a laser for an eye.

odstspartan55x

Hey guys it’s ODST, this is my first submission so bear with me. I have therally enjoyed Halo Waypoint, and it’s content. I admire the constant updates to the Career Stats, and Intel. I (so far) have had no problems with the Halo Legends anime, although I can see why people complained about, with the Spartans hair, and the Covenant/Chinese culture. Hopefully the next one will be even better,with little to no complaints, but only time will tell. I also like the fact that they are revisiting RVB’s original episodes, and the constant Tips, Tricks, and Montages for the fans and Achievement Junkies. My only question is when do the podcasts show up,( if they will at all).
Shoutouts to: Moose0030, Mives 7, JVB, Foo Mo Jive, Dust Storm 051, Funnyboy 78, Old Regime, Giffyboy 92, Chuckie J, Obsidianchao, and Captain Planet. Keep on fraggin Uwe Boll, and his horrible movies!
Game Over man, Game Over!

ODST EJY

Hey fellow Podtacular fellows! Halo Waypoint is good, but has a few leaps and bounds to go before I really appericate it.
First, the career milestones. I think these are completley pointless. I ranked all the way up to level 40 right when I loaded it. I don’t get the point of grouping the achievements together like heavy weapons and things like that. It just seems kind of pointless.
Now, for what I really like, the intel menu. It is the shit. I love how they are loading up the old “Red vs. Blue” episodes in HD with commentary. The articles and everyting is very accessible and useful. Somethings I don’t like about it is that thing with the top 5 beat downs and things where two guys are talking (sorry for being so vague, if it helps, a guy is wearing red ODST helmet and a guy is wearing full EOD and is silver). They are completkey stupid and not funny at all. I also hate the Prima strategies. They basically give you some of the most nooby things to do ever.
Now, anime. I hate it. Hate it with a passion. This is Halo, not Final Fantasy XXIXIIXIXIXLLL (roman numerals suck). Brutes where not giants, thirteen year olds where not in the military, girls could not grow out hair to their waist, and no major porphet was ever assassinated, thus, ruining the halo ficition. I know that most of the stuff I said above is common in anime, but I think this just proves that anime is not right for the halo genre.
Alright guys, keep on fraggin stuffz. I don’t really feel like coming up with a keep on fragging. =P

greg

Its me again and I luckly saw the submit to episode 210 so I thought I’d give my thoughts. As you know this episode is about halo waypoint. I thought Waypoint was a good idea in general for what it does. I like how it has videos on how to get achevements, get avatar awards(which are linked to achevements) Blue vs. Red videos, Halo Legonds videos and other things.It also tracks your achevements, which gives you avitar awards, and says how little of a life you acttually have. Thats all I have for now and shoutouts to SlayerMayor for helping me get Costal Highway done on legondary which got me the Legondary achevement for ODST and a 40 on Halo Waypoint.I do have 2 KOFs(keep on fraging for short).
Keep on Fragging Glewis for cutting off Lance to waste the little air to say that he has no air.
and…
Keep on fragging Dusty for getting the most deaths on Heroic (8) on Last Exit and playing while he was tired.

giffyboy92

Hey Podtacular its giffyboy92 sendin in my submission for the Halo waypoint episode. It’s been a while since I’ve sent anything in, (there are alot of topics that i couldn’t even talk about cause i don’t really play L4D or Halo wars). Anyway I only just checked out Waypoint a couple of days ago and so far it looks pretty sweet. As cheesy as it is I’m actually liking all the avatar awards. The achievement tracking and “Waypoint” markers for achievements are pretty cool and give incentive for more achievement hunting. I havn’t really checked out all the other stuff and I probably will within the next couple of weeks, but it all looks good. Overall, Waypoint seems like something microsoft created to keep people in Halo until Reach, but I don’t blame ’em, Halo 3 is a great game and few games bring big groups of gamers together for system links and such like Halo 3. Well thats all I have for Waypoint, so thats my submission. Shoutouts to Dust Storm, GLewis, Brent, Chuckiej, Captain Planet, Moose0030, Funnyboy78, Arby, Fungus Ozzie, and all my other podtac buddies. Keep up the good work guys, and Keep on Fraggin people who rub in the fact that they have Modern Warfare 2 while I only have the awesomeness that is Borderlands!

stallmeplease

Hey guys it’s stallmeplease the official watch stealer of the unofficial halo universe community! I am here to share my epic stuff about Halo Waypoint!!!!!I<3DUSTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Halo Waypoint was a great idea with a lot of potential. When I first got in, it was a lot less than I thought it was going to be. But, for what HW is, it works well. The whole halo challenges and Halo levels(IM 37!!!) is really cool. Now to keep this short and sweet, I have cut out the last 3 paragraphs about my opinions, and skipped to what I would have wanted to see. I really wanted to see a community section ,if you will, similar to BNET or forgehub. It would have been really cool to be able to access file shares from around the world or something along those lines. Thats all I got, I hope my college grammar ain’t got no grammar or spalllen arrerz in it. Keep of fraggin Glewis for attempting to steal his watch back, or counter-steal, his watch from me. Too bad I have guard dogs greg, SO SUCK IT.
shoutout to ODSTejy for being a peasant and not getting MW2.
Stallme out.

ijlk147

Heey guyes it’s ijlk147 heree too telll u guyes aboutt haloo waypoint. first its coool soo if u don’t havee itt geat itt
I lovee the recons healmet for the avetars
and ODST. I odntt think the anamay is going to be that goood thoiugh. keep on fragging people who like Heratic and dont like modern warfare 2!!!!!!.
PS I tryed to make all these mastakes
pss heratic is the worst map eveer

thatlolguy

My initial thoughts on Halo Waypoint is that it is a cool organized way to keep track of your Halo stats. I like the idea of the milestone and those special class… things where you had to have a certain amount of achievements relating to specific specialties to achieve a tier in that class. So my thoughts on the anime was that it was great but at the same time it peeved me off how those haircuts were totally against military regulation! I liked the deeper insight and the cool twist at the end. And as for awards… Let’s just say I quote pimped unquote my avatar out with some swazzy new gear. Keep fraggin Nay Nay and his magical anus armor… Espescially when he starts eating lumpy hairy pineapples while logging into yourfaceisabook.com. Shout outs to Dat Jamacian, UNSC Sniper117 and Duststorm for helping me get Naughty Naughty (ooh dirty) and Audiophile.

Tbird007

Yeah halo way point is finally out but unfortunately i have not seen it yet. i was wondering if podtac made it on there like you said in the halo news show. (199). Anyways i think it is a great idea and i hope it is actually useful. anyways keep on fraggin MLG wannabs “cough” “cough” Duststorm and anyone who doesn’t believe that. P.S. This will have an obvious answer but how many people will continue to play halo 3 while everyone else is playing COD MW 2 which i just finshed reviewing in the other games forum.

ODST Leader

Hey Podtacular this is ODST Leader here to talk about Halo waypoint. Since this is my first submission please tell me if I am doing good at this or not. there are many things I like about Waypoint and the number one thing is the collectables you can unlock!! Another thing is that you can be able to look at your states without going all the way to your closest computer. Also the cool thing is when I finially got live it was avalable to me right away. Well that is all I have got for right now so keep on fraging trucks with trailers full of epic failing folding bikes.
(P.S. I am also a long time listener too.)
(P.S.S. Yes I know that was random.)

Wakashi

What up! I had my doubts about Halo Waypoint before because I it seemed like Micro$oft was about to go too far with this franchise. But now, I think it’s a pretty cool place to go to when I’m not looking for info about the games on the computer. I’m also glad to see Frank back on his “PR chair” of awesomeness. I was  when he left Bungie because I missed the Mister Chief drawings that made me ROFL and ROFL! I definitely wasn’t into the idea of there being a Halo anime series since Halo (like Paul Russell from Bungie said) is the reason why the Xbox isn’t as popular in Japan. By the way, I don’t see any resemblance between the Elites and cats, so whatever. Anyway, the series is good so far but I still wonder why the Covenant had built pagodas on that planet they were on (unless it used to be a human-controlled planet but then got taken over by the Covenant). I hope that the rest of the series gets better after each episode. The career stats are a good way to get people back on the games and finish up the achievements that they still need to get. I need to borrow Halo Wars from my friend soon. The rewards are alright. The Intel section of Halo Waypoint is pretty cool as far as the amount of information it gives about the content from the games, the history, the inventory, etc. And Red vs. Blue is on there too. RvB FTW! It’s a really portal for Halo fans. One thing I’ve been thinking about is “When are the halo-related podcasts going to be available for listening on Halo Waypoint?” Well, see ya or “sayoonara” さようなら!

Big gooba fish

Hi podtacular it’s the big gooba fish, sending in my first submission by iPhone!
I just have to say that halo waypoint is cool and better than I expected. When the Spartan turned out to be a chick in the babysitter I was all like ZOMG HAX!!!! But it was really cool anyway. I guess that’s why they called it the babysitter :0!
it was nice to know my full halo gamerscore however it would be nice if they included halo 2 vista as I have all the achievements for that and want them counted.
I haven’t actually played halo extensively for a while because I have been rocking out some modern warfare 2, but I will be sure to play halo once my angry russian killing spree is partly over.
Remember! Don’t go swimming in last resort… You might get attacked by a big gooba fish!
BGF out.

razza 119

WAZ UP PODTAC ITS THE ! AND ONLY RAZZA 119 and i just wanted to say i am a level 40 on halo waypoint

shout outs to lancelot dust storm and glewis and any else i have forgot and my clan on halo 3 and MW2

keep on fragging the noobs on MW2 who use the noob tube