Podtacular 302: Halo 4 Special Editions

August 2th, 2012

Hosts: Dust Storm, DaftLink, Farmer Elmo & KALEL089


Bulletin Recaps and Halo 4 Special Editions


E-mails

ReedemedSpartan05

Hey guys since the brutes dont appear to be making an appearance in halo 4, do you think their will still be a gravity hammer, or do you think their will be the promethean equivaleout? Because i dont see 343i taking out griffball. As always keep fraggin those trucks.

Unnamed Soldier 217

Hey guys! Any idea why the super slayer playlist went from 5v5 to 4v4? What's the point of keeping it when you can do regular team slayer? I loved the 5v5 matches and even though it's only 1 extra player, it was a good change of pace from 4v4 slayer. I thought it was a great choice if you didn't want to play big team battle or normal team slayer. I hope they update it to 5 players again. High hopes. Keep up the good work!

capawesome9870

I do agree that the Tax/penitaly Debate is just a con-game to get people to like the health care, even if it destroys the health care system we currently have. But comparing that to the 8GB install is a little off.
First this is the natural evolution of games, as they get better graphics they get bigger in file size thus the 8GB size.
Second this is a natural evolution of speed, DVD drives are slow at transferring especially when it comes to random accesses of the disk or even accessing more so when it is randomly accessing multiple file from multiple places. the DVD Drive is designed for playing movies and not so much for games. Hard Drive and little flash drives on the other hand have faster access times and especially random access, this making maps load a lot faster and will not have to wait for the DVD Drive to find a file.

I would not call this a penalty or tax for the console, I would consider this more of a, “I want to put something big in the back of my truck and I need to good rope to do it.” If it was like when Halo 4 hits every one must have a 8GB HDD or the console will shutdown, then that would be a penalty/tax.

E103Beta1

Hey Podtacular!
Congrats on the 300th episode! (Well, as you officially put it.) I don't know if I'll be aroundto listen to the Live episode, so please record that, even though I know you probably will. Unless you decide to not do so now just to spite me. I know how your sick jokes go.

Well, anyway, I have no clue what you guys will be talking about during the show, but I'll just make this quick...
I just want to tell you all that you're doing a good job with the show. Some of the guests you guys get are fantastic, and your hosts, who should all be gathered around the "Round Table", are some of the best. You should all be proud of what you do. When I need my Halo Fanboy high, I go to you guys for a hit. Thanks for that.

Well, in any case, go on with your show. Thanks for your time.
Keep on fraggin doubters and haters.
And possibly that one group of people who light fireworks on days that aren't holidays. But that might be just me.
See you around the forums, and quite hopefully the Halo Universe!
-Beta

Bioman998

First, thanks for reading my first submission. Second, a quick discussion if you will. Vehicles you wished were in a Halo game (Halo 4-6 or a modded version (Halo CE Custom Edition, or Halo 2 Vista seem likely) of an older Halo game). If I could pick one, I would say The Needler-Ghost. 15 shots to break shields, 9 to super-combine. Rate of fire slightly faster than the Halo: Reach Plasma Rifle. The needles move about twice as fast than the Halo: CE needler. They track about the same as Halo CE. After about 150 shots it "reloads" and the needles around the Nose/front pop back up. It takes around as long as the cool-down for the Warthog turret. When it is destroyed and explodes its more pink like the Revenant, than blue like the Ghost, and has an area of effect slightly less than half that of a frag grenade. The Boost is slightly slower than the normal Ghost, and takes a little longer to recharge.
Its not necessarily cannon, but considering the Covenant have used the same design for quite some time, maybe the Huragok had a new idea :P

cody

hey guys. really enjoyed the 300th episode. the original podtacular guys were awesome. i like the rant about modern video game companies being evil. also onlive is great, thanks for mentioning that. There was a lot of humor and off topic stuff, which is great. On to the question. Do you think 343 will put any non-forge remakes in halo 4? i"m hoping for a last resort remake.