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

Halo 5 Guardians will run on dedicated servers.

According to a reply by Josh Holmes, inside studio head for Halo 5 Guardians, on NeoGaf, who goes by the name Salient One all aspects of Halo 5 GUardians will run on dedicated servers.

This means not only matchmaking but campaign and custom games will also run on dedicated servers.

Below is a screenshot submitted by HFFL reader, Clem, showing Josh’s reply. Continue reading

Halo: Hunters in the Dark: A free preview of some of the book!

Want to read some of Hunters in the Dark right now? Well you can, courtesy of Simon and Shuster’s preview. You can read the Prologue as well as the first 19 pages of the book, to whet your appetite. The book will be available on June 16. Since thats right around the corner, why not start with this free preview?
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HFFL: Below is the official blurb about the story. Followed by the link to the preview pages.

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Unmasking The Fireteam Hunting Master Chief

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During last year’s Halo: Nightfall five-part digital series, fans were introduced to Jameson Locke, a capable soldier and ONI Acquisitions Specialist sent to investigate Covenant activity on the planet Sedra. For Halo 5: Guardians, Locke has been promoted to Spartan and tasked with hunting down the fallen hero, Master Chief. Fortunately, Locke isn’t alone; he has handpicked a team of specialists at the top of their field. If anyone stands a chance against Master Chief and the rest of Blue Team (read about them here), it’s this new team of Spartans. Meet Fireteam Osiris. Continue reading

The Spartans Tough Enough To Work With Master Chief

This is a reblog from gameinformer:

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Master Chief has become one of the most iconic characters in gaming, but for Halo 5: Guardians he won’t be riding solo. This time around, the Chief is joined by three of his fellow schoolmates that help make up Blue Team. In spite of Halo’s wealth of transmedia, 343 Industries has stated that Blue Team probably has more lines of dialogue in Halo 5 than they have in all the books, comics, and videos released to date, so it will give fans a better look into the personas of some of Halo’s oldest warriors. With that in mind, here is a quick introduction to the members of Blue Team.  Continue reading

How is Cortana back? (In Halo 5 Guardians) My three theories

I have threetheories that I think makes some sense of how Cortana could be in Halo 5. AND… two of them do not involve Cortana being alive.

Frank O’Conner has expressly stated that she is gone. We saw that in the game.

So how is it she’s in Halo 5 Guardians? Glad you asked. Let’s look at my theories on this, shall we?

Some spoilers for the Halo 5 Campaign are below. You’ve been warned! Continue reading

Halo 5 Guardians reveals from gameinformer’s July issue SPOILERS!!!

I can’t post any images, but I will pass along the info that I read in the article. You’ll just have to trust me that this is legit. I most definitely would NOT deliberately steer you wrong. If any of this were to change, between now and when the printed edition comes out, I’d be HIGHLY surprised.

There is much discussed about the campaign. I do not want to spoil that part for you. So I’m not putting it in the article. If you reply either here or to my e-mail: sal@halofanforlife.com, that you want to know, I will post it.

The following contains MANY spoilers. Do NOT continue reading, unless you don’t mind knowing. You have been warned!! Continue reading