Podtacular 362: Tuning 4ork

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Dust Storm

Before diving into this week’s bulletin, CruelLEGACEY tells us about Playtime Season 4 premiering on Halo Waypoint on Monday, April 22nd. Playtime is a light-hearted, comedic Halo Machinima series started by our good friend and has grown considerably since its inception. Back on bulletin news, AGL Nashville happened this last weekend with the crowned champions of Pulse eSports. This sparked a discussion among the hosts on the attractiveness of competitive to the greater community, leading also into the discussion of Halo’s longevity. They take up a good chunk of the show, but great points are brought up. Some insights into the weapon tuning are given along with next week’s matchmaking update. Enjoy

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Podtacular 361: Forgetacular

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Dust Storm

Bungie introduces Forge into the Halo Franchise back in 2007, and in its successive iterations, we’ve gained new tools and features to extend the Halo sandbox. This has lead to the creation of awesome custom maps, competitive play spaces, Forge art and much more. With the recent release of Forge Island, map makers have a blank canvas to do just about anything. On this episode, we take a look back at how Forge started out for Halo and how it has grown since. We have the honor of having Pete the Duck, CruelLEGACEY and iTheGM on to discuss its history and where Forge stands today. Enjoy

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Podtacular 360: Drop Shock

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Dust Storm

This week, 343 Industries is celebrating “Halo Week” with the release of the Castle Map Pack, Halo 4 OST Vol. 2, giveaways and more. The latest Halo Bulletin gives us a nice overview of what’s happened over the week in addition to some tips for achieving your CSR challenge on the Castle DLC playlist and a little more insight into the weapon balancing coming soon. We take a step off the beaten path to talk about the Microsoft rumors floating around about the “always-on” functionality giving you our takes and opinions on the situation. Question of the week: Which map is your favorite and why? Feel free to add your own experiences and opinions to your response in email or voicemail form. Enjoy

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Podtacular 359: Castle, Soundtrack, Ranks

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Dust Storm

The Castle Map pack is just around the corner meaning quite a big matchmaking update is due. Coinciding with the map pack release is also the Competitive Skill Rank system, showing your true skill to the whole world. This week’s bulletin covers the release schedule for Castle content including the Achievements dropped Tuesday along with the upcoming introductory map videos and Sunday’s live stream. I can tell you from my experience at PAX East these maps will not disappoint those ready for some bigger team gameplay. Enjoy

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Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Exodus

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Dust Storm

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The final chapter in the first saga of Spartan Ops is upon us. Jul ‘Mdama has retrieved what he came for at Requiem ready to be done with the place, putting in motion a deadly plan. Unbeknownst to the Infinity crew, Jul is about to send Requiem on a crash course for its star. The only way Dr. Glassman and Roland have discovered to free Infinity from Requiem’s grasp is to disable two artifacts. Fireteams Crimson and Majestic are deployed to disable these artifacts, but is there enough time for them to complete their task and make it off Requiem alive? Find out for our last episodic coverage of Spartan Ops, joined of course by HaloFanForLife. Enjoy

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Podtacular 358: Sparkast Postmortem

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Dust Storm

On today’s show, we break away from the norm of bulletin updates and talk about the latest Sparkast talking about Silentium and the Halo 4 Postmortem panel given my Josh Holmes at the Games Developer Conference. David Ellis sits down with Author/Writer of the Forerunner trilogy Greg Bear, Senior Writer Chris Schlerf, and Franchise Writer Jeremy Patenaude to talk about the recently released book in the Forerunner saga. In his GDC panel, Josh Holmes talks about the story integration and implementation in Halo 4 helping us understand all the elements that built the Halo experience from deep ties to Halo fiction, to integration of multiplayer into the story side of Halo. We talk about both presentations offering our opinions of the topics discussed. Enjoy

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Podtacular 357: Post-PAX Update

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Dust Storm

We wrap up our PAX East 2013 coverage with one last episode to cover this week’s bulletin where the community asks 343i questions about what was revealed at their multiplayer panel. There are many good questions the community asked, but since there were so many, we did not cover them all. On top of that, we get Brent’s view of what he saw come out of the expo and read off a couple of submissions. Enjoy

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