About Sal

I’ve got tons of experience with Halo gaming and collecting. I feel I have something to offer to the greater Halo fan community. Posts along the way will be about tips and tricks in the games as well as collecting and many more Halo related things. I’ll also repost interesting articles from the official site, Halowaypoint.com, or from fellow Halo fan sites. As I continue this blog, I hope to help gamers who want advice on the games, as well as any collectors with regards to where to find collectibles as well as deals, coupons and so on. You can also follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/HaloFanForLife or Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/halofanforlife11. Welcome to my blog and I hope you’ll come back again and again. -Sal

HMCC Forge Tutorial: Scripting from Certain Affinity.

Scott Maclean form Certain Affinity walks us through how to use scripting in the Halo 2 Anniversary Forge of the Halo Master Chief Collection. I have to say after watching this that there is an endless amount of potential for maps with this new scripting service that Certain Affinity has given to us.

The video below is 22 minutes and worth every second of it! Continue reading

McFarlane Halo 2 and E3 Master Chief figures quick review

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It’s been some time since I’ve done a review for a McFarlane Halo action figure. This year McFarlane has only brought out the following two figures. It’s the Halo 2 Master Chief and the Master Chief form the 2013 E3 trailer.

I didn’t take either of these out of the package. It’s a rare instance when I do that. So these reviews won’t be all encompassing as I usually do, hence “quick” review. Continue reading

HMCC/H2A Forge Map Awash: Detailed forge/playable space (It’s HUGE!)

I was curious just how big the foregable/playable space was in Awash. Awash is a new Forge map in the Halo 2 Anniversary Forge portion of the Halo Master Chief Collection.

First things first, I went to the four corners of the map and placed a 1×1 block. BTW, the 1×1 blocks at 10ft square. Next I placed the large green grass tiles at the corners. Then to get the size of that, placed enough 1×1 blocks side by side on one of the sides of the grass tiles to get that measurement. It’s 30×30 (which is 300ft on one side). Continue reading

Halo Toy Review: Mega Bloks Ultimate Battle Pack

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Mega Bloks Ultimate Battle Pack: Set #97390

Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 1 minute sorting, 2 minutes building
Set Piece Count: 138
Minifigs: 3X Purple Elite Minor, 1X Translucent Purple Elite Minor, 2X Purple Grunt Minor, 2X Purple Grunt Spec Ops. 1 each of the following UNSC figures: EVA Spartan, Security Spartan, Scout Spartan, Recon Spartan, CQB Spartan, EOD Spartan, ODST, Translucent EOD Spartan
Weapons: Energy Sword, 2X translucent purple plasma grenades, translucent Needle Rifle, Focus Rifle, Carbine, Needler, Plasma Rifle, Plasma Pistol, 2X Frag grenade, 2X Magnum, Spartan Laser (Olive green), Spartan Laser (Translucent steel), Battle Rifle, Sniper Rifle, SMG, Shotgun, Assault Rifle
Accessories: Backpack
Special Features: N/A
Cost: $25 Target Exclusive

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Halo The Master Chief Collection Content Update Patch Notes

The following is a reblog from Waypoint about the patch for Thursday 11/20/2014:

Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday, Nov. 20), our latest content update will become available. This particular content update addresses matchmaking performance, UI, gameplay, and title-specific issues. We are on track for a release of mid-late afternoon Pacific Time for this content update, and will immediately let you know when it is available. For now, here is a change list of what will be included. As a note, many of the below issues are sub issues that were caused by larger umbrella problems that we have addressed with this update.

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Halo Master Chief Collection Achievement background pictures: Part 10 From “TLDR” to “Zombie Repeller”

This is the tenth (and finale) in a 10-part series of articles that gives you between 40-50 of the Achievement pics from the Halo Master Chief Collection. These are the very same ones you unlock through the game and can set as your background on the XBOX One.

This series is in alphabetical order for easy of looking up. Part 10 starts from “TLDR” and goes to the last in alphabetical order, “Zombie Repeller”.

Now that all 10 articles have been posted, you’ll find a handy list of links to all ten at the end of each article in this series.

The gallery below again is in alphabetical order, left to right then down to the next line, and so on. Click pics to make bigger of course. Feel free to download any/all of them as you wish. ENJOY! Continue reading

Halo Master Chief Collection Achievement background pictures: Part 9 From “So You Don’t Want the Tank?” to “Tipping Point”

This is the ninth in a 10-part series of articles that will give you between 40-50 of the Achievement pics from the Halo Master Chief Collection. These are the very same ones you unlock through the game and can set as your background on the XBOX One.

This series is in alphabetical order for easy of looking up. Part 9 starts from “So You Don’t Want the Tank?” and goes to “Tipping Point”.

When all 10 articles are complete, I’ll post a list of links at the end of each article for you to easily find the others in this series.

The gallery below again is in alphabetical order, left to right then down to the next line, and so on. Click pics to make bigger of course. Feel free to download any/all of them as you wish. ENJOY! Continue reading