Author Archives: Sal

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

Canon Fodder – Lore of the Rings

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This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint: 

By GrimBrother One

ISSUE 35

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Welcome back, folks! Last week we dove fleet first into the brand new Halo tabletop game from our partners at Spartan Games. For fans of the stellar ship experience, Halo: Fleet Battles will be making an appearance this weekend at GenCon in Indianapolis. If you’re in the neighborhood, more info can be found here. Meanwhile around these parts, the Seattle skies and Lake Washington waters will be filled with a different fleeting demonstration, as Seafair brings its annual abundance of high-speed hydro racing and epic aerobatic action to a myriad of excited and awaiting eyes and ears. At 343 Industries specifically, we’re all heads down on a variety of different ways we hope to bring the eyes and ears of Halo fans just as much excitement and joy, whether it’s pouring into the production and polish of Halo 5: Guardians, or getting ready to share more news at next week’s Gamescom conference in Germany. Needless to say, we hope you enjoy what we have in store on all fronts. In this week’s issue of Canon Fodder, we’ve got a smattering of topics to touch on, starting off with a few of your very own burning questions from the Halo Waypoint Universe forum.

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Incoming Halo Mega Bloks toy reviews!

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My wife surprised me with a nice bit of Halo Mega Bloks on Friday. At first it was the new Ghost and Gungoose set. But then, she further surprised me with the Phaeton and…. the UNSC Vulture!!!

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I spent the whole weekend building. This explains some of why I haven’t posted join the blog for a little bit.

Unfortunately, the Vulture set had a few missing pieces and two malformed pieces rather critical to the build. I’ve already called Mega for replacement parts.

In the meantime, I’ll be editing the photos I took of the first three and will be posting those reviews within a day or two.

I’ll have the Vulture’s review up once I get the replacement parts in form Mega. Though, I’ll give you a tease of it, in the Phaeton review, just so you know I do indeed have the set…

So please STAY TUNED!

-Sal

Halo Community Update (7-25)

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Yes, I’m a bit late with this one…

This is a partial reblog from Halo Waypoint: 

By Bravo

Playlist Update

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Over the past few weeks, the playlist team has been reviewing playlist feedback, adjusting experiences, and building new playlists for your enjoyment. Team Action Sack is the newest of these playlists, and it’s available in matchmaking now. But we’ll get to that in a moment. First, what happens to Team Snipers?

A few weeks ago, we let you know that with the introduction of Team Snipers, we were putting rotational playlists on hold while we continued not only build new playlists, but also evaluate the current lineup and review player data to determine what was next for matchmaking playlists. Over the past few weeks, Team Snipers has unsurprisingly performed quite well. You like it, and we do too. In fact, it’s been one of the most popular playlists – here’s a quick look at how the playlists stack up against one another in terms of total unique players last weekend: Continue reading →

Canon Fodder: Ship Happens

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By Grimbrother One

ISSUE 34

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Welcome back, fiction fans! Last week, we celebrated science and marveled at the human achievement of sending a 21st century spacecraft to Pluto. This week, with the release of the highly anticipated Halo: Fleet Battles, The Fall of Reach tabletop game, we celebrate the opportunity for fans to be able to command 26th century spacecraft in the throes of the human-Covenant War. In order to bring you the latest and the lore-iest news from the front lines of Fleet Battles, I caught up with a couple of the folks instrumental in bringing the epic ship-to-ship engagements of the halo universe from the depths of space to your awaiting tabletop. Let’s start with Creative Director for the UK-based Spartan Games, Neil Fawcett…

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Halo 5 Guardians: Your team is your weapon!

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By Josh Holmes

This marks the first in a series of developer blogs that we’ll be publishing here on Waypoint. These blogs will feature contributions from members of the Halo 5: Guardians Development Team and will cover a wide variety of different topics. Similar to The Sprint, our goal is to provide more insight into the development process for Halo 5 and the creative and technical decisions that are a part of it.

Co-op Campaign in Halo 5: Guardians

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Co-operative play has always been a big part of Halo, allowing two or more friends to play through the campaign together. Over the years I’ve spent countless hours playing Halo co-op, as have the majority of us here at 343 Industries. It’s a source of endless fun, particularly because of the emergent play that stems from having a group of players interacting with the Halo sandbox. Yet at its core, Halo’s campaign was originally built to be a single-player experience, first and foremost. So when you joined a friend in their campaign session, you were coming along for the ride and helping to lighten the load. Mechanically, the game was designed with the single-player experience in mind and so the narrative perspective of campaign also remained focused on telling the story of a lone hero.

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ESL, the Future for Competitive Halo?

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ESL has now been a part of the Halo community for two seasons and a lot has changed since they joined, but have all of the changes been good?

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Right when ESL partnered with 343, they didn’t hesitate to promote their weekly cup system. This was something that the Halo community didn’t have before and were really excited to compete in. The cups gave amateur players a place to compete in when there were no events and gave the professional players a bit of competition every week. The cups were also free and had money on the line so it allowed the cups to be very exciting to watch on stream. Continue reading →

eSports making PED rules! (Performance Enhancing Drugs)

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It’s about time this happened. I’ve suspected for sometime that pro-players have found ways to ‘cheat’ the system. When it was recently said by a pro-player that he and his team took Adderal to help with their performance, some in the industry were shocked. I wasn’t. As with physical sports, it seems competitors of all types will do whatever they can to gain an edge until the rules change.

Below is a paraphrase from an article on eslgaming.com.

Now those rules are changing. ESL is leading the charge to create rules against PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs). They have partnered with NADA (the Nationale Anti Doping Agentur, HQ’d in Germany) to create an anti-PED policy. They are also meeting with WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) to help with enforcing these new rules and policies in the U.S. Asia and Australia.

Source: http://www.eslgaming.com/news/esl-leads-anti-ped-initiative-esports-support-nada-2170