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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

All of the Achievements for the Halo Master Chief Collection

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The Achievments are broken up into sections. First will be Overall Achievments. These aren’t specific to any of the games and can be earned throughout the games. In certain ones, they have to be earn for each game. For instance playing each campaign 1-4 on Legendary.

After that list are lists respective to each game, Halo: CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo4.

There are some returning achievements with lots of new ones as well. There is a heavy emphasis on campaign achievements. This makes sense as it’s the story of Master Chief so far in the four games. I LOVE it! Some are quite clever…

So let’s get started first with the Overall Achievements. Continue reading →

Halo Master Chief Collection multiplayer day one playlists

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Revelead today, here are the multiplayer playlists starting day one of the Halo Master Chief Collection.

Team Halo 2: Anniversary
Play a mix of Team Slayer and objective game types on re-mastered maps. 4v4.

Halo 2: Anniversary Rumble
Challenge seven other opponents on re-mastered maps. This is your fight and yours alone. 8-player Free-For-All.

Team Halo 2: Anniversary Social
Play with a team in unranked Team Slayer and objective game types on re-mastered maps. 5v5.

Team Slayer
Eliminate the enemy team across four Halo games: Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 2: Anniversary. Nothing but Team Slayer, 24/7. 4v4. Continue reading →

The Halo Bulletin

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Outside of the studio, the Pacific Northwest days have begun to get shorter and colder. Within the studio, our days have instead gotten much longer as we push towards the release of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a major website update, the Halo Channel, and more. As each piece of the puzzle comes together, we’re beginning to not only see the light at the end of the tunnel, but also the full picture of Halo experiences that await, including the new Halo Waypoint, which will actually be here quite soon. Let’s get into it. Continue reading →

New York Comicon starts today!

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I am not in attendance this year, so I’ll be scouring the web for any Halo info coming from the convention. If you any Halo info from NYCC on the web, please let me know. Shoot me an e-mail at sal@halofanforlife.com.

I know I’ll have some Halo Mega Bloks news to post.

Halo Toy Review: Mega Bloks UNSC Elephant Troop Carrier

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Mega Bloks UNSC Elephant Troop Carrier: Set #97381

Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 1 hours sorting, 5 hours building. You time will likely vary from mine as my time includes added time for taking pics for the review
Set Piece Count: 1311
Minifigs: Spartans Carter and Jun from Halo Reach’s Noble Team, Halo 4 UNSC Medic, 2 Halo 4 UNSC Marines-one pale skin, one brown skin, Halo 4 UNSC Marine Officer
Weapons: 2x Sniper Rifles, 2x Rocket Launchers, 3x Assault Rifles, 2x DMR, 3x Magnum, 2x Saw, 3x mounted machine gun turrets
Accessories: 3x Marine back pack (sand color), radioman back pack, Jet pack, micro Serina holographic A.I.
Special Features: Drivers hatch opens/closes, front main hatch open/closes, 4 top hatches open/close, rear hatch opens/closes, crane rotates and pulley moves up and down, large turret rotates 360° when display, also fits inside of Elephant
Cost: $100

And on with the pics! (Click pics to make BIGGER) Continue reading →

Halo Waypoint getting a NEW look!

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This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint.

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Hello friends!

There’s a strong likelihood that many of you reading this update have called Waypoint home for many years, and it is with great pleasure that we share details with you about something new that is on the way. Our web team has been hard at work on a secret project that, until now, had not been discussed outside of the studio walls. This endeavor just happens to be a hefty website update, and the first major redesign for Halo Waypoint.

HFFL: I figured this would happen, what with the Halo Channel and all. I think it’s a good move. Continue reading →

Halo 4 Matchmaking Update: Team Objective!!!

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This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint:

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HFFL: Before I paste the info, let me say that I for one am EXCITED that Objective is back! I think that 343 should have NEVER gotten rid of the playlist to begin with. It’s one playlist I lived in for much of my matchmaking career in both Halo 3 and Halo Reach. Okay, now for the info.

Team Objective is back and more objective-y than ever! Replacing Squad DLC, Team Objective will contain 4v4 ball holding, hill capturing and goal scoring action on a wide variety of maps. Staples such as Haven, Adrift and Ragnarok will be available including some Forge fan favorites. Voting for Team Objective has been simplified and is as follows: Continue reading →

Good Monday evening folks.

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The Mega Bloks Troop Elephant build is done. I’ve got some pics to take of the figures and the final build of the vehicle itself. Before those shots are taken, I already have over 50 pics of the build.

I’m taking a break from it tonight though. I’ve been having some muscle and joint pain issues the last few weeks. That is another part of why I haven’t posted as much. The pain has been affecting my right elbow, shoulder and right side of my neck. So I can’t type for long without being in pain. I’m on meds for it now, so hopefully this will get better soon.

I just wanted you all to know that while I haven’t posted a lot lately, I’m still very much a Halo Fan For Life. It’s just health issues that have been a large part of what’s kept me from posting.

Tomorrow I will have the Halo Mega Bloks UNSC Troop Elephant Toy Review as well as an article of recent Halo Art I’ve found, via Pinterest.

This is a good time if any of you have something you’d like to write or have me write about that is directly Halo related. Please feel free to send me your ideas, thoughts, articles, etc. You can send those to sal@halofanforlife.com. If you are getting your info from another source, please be sure to include links to that source as well in your e-mail. I like to give credit to the source as much as possible.

See you back here tomorrow!
-Sal