I found it very easy to get outside of the map and snapped off a few shots. Feel free to use them for wallpapers if you wish. (Click to make bigger)

Coming soon, pics from outside of Vertigo!

-Sal

Impatiently awaiting the release of the Champions Bundle Pack while away form your XBOX? Be that at work, school, or other situation that keeps you away from your XBOX when the Champions Bundle becomes available? Go to HERE to purchase! You can buy it straight from there and it will be start to download once you turn your XBOX on.

Just a small way of getting yourself into the game with Champions that much faster!

I’m just trying to look out for you folks!
-Sal

Here’s another video preview of the Champions Bundle pack:

With the Champions Bundle pack dropping tomorrow, Halo Waypoint released the following images today.

Here are the new weapons skins with the ‘Steel Skin Pack’ portion (available for $3 separately) of the Champions Bundle Pack (click to make bigger!):

I absolutely LOVE the skins for these weapons. Here I thought they were only going to be gold/wood colors. I didn’t think they’d have the wood grain, gears and other minute details. A BIG Kudos to 343 for this. FANTASTIC!!!

Here is a look at the 3 armors that are included in the ‘Infinity Armor Pack’ portion (available for $3 separately) of the Champions Bundle pack, also included in the pic is the Ricochet Armor which is part of the Bullseye Map pack (available for $6 separately). Click to make BIGGER!

Also, don’t forget with the Bullseye pack you also get the maps Pitfall and Vertigo, and two-week advanced gameplay of Ricochet. For pics of the maps go here for Pitfall and here for Vertigo.

Now if you buy each part separately you’ll pay $12. So why not just get the WHOLE Champions Bundle pack and save yourself $2!

Personally I think this is SO worth it. Some really great graphics for the weapons skins, 4 sets of armor, 2 maps, early access to the Ricochet gametype, oh and don’t forget there are also several new stances and extras weapons skins as a BONUS if you purchase the Champions Bundle as a whole….

Champions drops tomorrow!

-Sal

That’s right folks, in preparation for the Champions BUndle pack that drops tomorrow, you will have a small update when you launch Halo 4 today.

This update includes two new Support Upgrades.

The first is Recharge. Recharge decreases your shield recharge rate slightly. This may be just enough to get out of a tight situation, recharge and take out that enemy who is fixated on end your day!

The second is Survivor. Survivor works when a vehicle has taken damage and is going to explode. Just before that, you are ejected. This support upgrade is great for those who like to drive or gun Warthogs. I know I’ll be changing one of my loadouts today!!!

-Sal

First up is the progress of the third week of the Halo 4 Global Championship.

As of the bulletin’s writing, here are the top ten so far this week:

This week is Rumble Pro, BTW. In the meantime, 343 is still working to verify the winners from the first two weeks of competition.

As expected (not even a secret) the finals will take place at PAX this year.

Next up is the Matchmaking Playlist Update

Here’s a look at week 4 of the Halo 4 Global Championship gameplay, which is aptly titled “Rumble Grab Bag.”

Here are the loadouts for the slayer variants of the above games:

UNSC Slayer

Covenant Slayer

Forerunner Slayer

Here are the settings for the Objective based games of the Halo 4 Global Championship:

FFA Oddball

FFA KOTH

Since week for of the competition has objective based games, I may finally throw my hat into the ring here. Do I expect to do well? Hell no. But it’s the week that I would mostly likely have my best showing.

Next is the part that is likely to upset some of you. It does me…

Global Championship Invites

(Text directly copied form Halo Waypoint)

When we announced the Halo 4 Global Championship, we stated that some competitors would be invited to compete in the finals event. We had to jump through some additional legal hoops to announce the specifics, and are now able to share the details of the first invites.

The goal of the first group of invites is to reward top Halo 4 competitors who have performed well over the past few months at regional tournaments. We’ve teamed up with Arena Gaming League (AGL) to invite the following players to compete in a semi-finals bracket against other invited players. The players who emerge from the semi-finals bracket will face-off against the winners from RTX, Gamescom, and the online qualifier in the final bracket of the Halo 4 Global Championship. The winner will take home $200,000.

The players will be contacted directly in the near future. Here is the current list of players that will be receiving invites:

After RSVP’ing, players who receive an invite will be given admission to the Halo 4 Global Championships and a spot in the semi-finals bracket. Invited players are responsible for providing their own travel and lodging, but will be given a PAX badge so that they may compete in the invite bracket. Also, we’ll be keeping a very close eye on the AGL 9 tournament on August 9-11 in Atlanta, GA, so best of luck to all of the 4v4 and FFA players!

HFFL: So you few non-pro players who snuck in through RTX and who might get lucky through the weekly competition…forget it. The cards ARE being stacked against you. Personally, I feel that only those people who have actually played in the official Halo 4 Global Championship and placed in the convention events and online competition should be allowed to compete for the big money in Seattle at PAX. With respect to whomever made this decision, those gamers you’re inviting into this competition already have AMPLE opportunity to play and win for money. Let them fend for themselves like the rest of us in the official contest. It really is a slap in the face to those who put in a crap ton of time online now seeing that they will have to face pros, even more so than those who qualified at RTX. My comment above about playing next week. NIX that. This competition has not been worth my time, especially given the special treatment to pros, who again have and continue to have their chances to win money playing Halo otherwise.

Lastly, the screenshot spotlight shines on the Majestic Map pack. I can’t wait until Castle comes back. I still need just ONE achievement for Halo 4 and it’s specific to that playlist/maps.

Want to read the whole bulletin? Go here.

First, I’d like to thank fellow Halo fan, Deltagenesis, for e-mailing me this news.

Just a few hours ago, BS Angel replied via Halo Waypoint to a question regarding the Bonus Armor skins coming with the Champions Bundle Pack. We knew the names, IIRC, not the shortened nomenclature.

Source Link

Here is a reminder of the base armor for which the skins can be applied:

Wow, I can’t wait to see what the skins look like!!!

-Sal 

I’ve actually done the Mantis stomp one using that very same grav lift!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gupmggBT__Q