Halo 4 Map pack release dates revealed?

Somehow the release dates were leaked onto the German dashboard of XBOX and someone snapped up this pic of it. Now, take this with a grain of salt as it hasn’t been officially stated by XBOX or 343. Here is the pic:

What’s funny is, IIRC, I’ve already heard this info somewhere. Not the exact days, but certainly the months. Oh yeah that’s right….it was right here on my site more than a month ago, LOL: Halo 4 Map Packs: Details, Release Dates 

Well, it’s good to know I was on the mark there. The original source was from IGN.

Now we have the days they are going to be released.
Crimson: December 12 (a nice Christmas present for the Halo fan in your life)
Majestic: February 25
Castle: April 1 (hmm, April Fool’s day? so I wonder if this is a joke or what…)

One thing I do like is the name for the map packs. Each is derived from a Spartan Fireteam from Spartan Ops. There are three others mentioned in the episodes, so I wonder if we may be lucky enough to get though later? We can only hope.

-Sal

Halo 4 War Games weekly challenges: 11-26/12-2-12

Campaign ones are good this week. Anyone else notice that each week we’ve been getting in order or missions the levels of the campaign? Great way to go for the Legendary Solo achievement without stressing over getting it quickly, AND getting credits for it. This is how I’ve been playing it. Yeah, it’ll take me two months from launch date to complete Legendary Solo, but I’m in no rush.

Spartan Ops challenges are EASY! Whew. And I LOVE Spartan Ops!!!

War Games challenges are SUPER easy too. Swat for the first for sure. More Swat or regular gameplay for the second one.

All told for the weekly challenges you can get yourself 20,000 XP. Not to shabby at all!

-Sal

McFarlane “The Package” 3-pack from Halo Legends

Coming soon, this set sees Master Chief, Fred and Kelly in action. The Master Chief is the same as we’ve had on the single card. The Kelly and Fred Spartans are new/partially new. Some of Fred’s armor is reused, but it does have the cool metallic blue paint and that awesome helmet. Kelly looks to be mostly new and of course comes in white with a new helmet.

This will be one set I’ll be sure to pick up when I see it! If you loved the Halo Legends episode this set was based from, then I highly recommend you getting it too.

-Sal

Coming up on HaloFanForLife.com…

Here are some of the articles I have planned for HFFL for the rest of November and December:

• Mega Bloks Forward Unto Dawn set: This continuing article shows the progressive build of the large Mega Bloks model with over 2800 pieces.
• McFarlane Series 2 Halo 4 figures: I’ve got my hands on Cortana, a Watcher, and the Blue Soldier figure. I’ll be reviewing those, then as soon as I get the Crawler, that will follow.
• War Games map reviews: Here I’ll take a more in depth look at the 10 multiplayer maps as well as the 3 Forge maps. I’ll discuss what tactics I’ve seen develop, loadouts that may help you on the specific map and so more.
• Spartan Ops mission reviews: As of this writing there are 15 missions. This will be an ongoing article detailing each mission, what you need to do to complete them, as well as tactics to be used, what enemies there are in the mission (to help in your commendations) and so on.
• Armor of Halo 4: A look at the different armor in Halo 4, when and how you unlock them and a look at some of the armor permutations I’ve used so far in Halo 4 with some reasoning behind them.
• The Science of Halo, Fact Vs. Fiction: I haven’t done one of these articles in a bit and I really do love doing them. So I’m going to start getting these out on a more regular basis. Previous SoHFvF articles have included topics such as Slipspace Technology; the Spartan Laser; and Plasma Weapons. If you haven’t read these articles before, please check them out here: The Science of Halo, Fact Vs. Fiction
In these articles I take a technology from Halo and explore it’s real life counterpart of today if it exists or tech that is developing to allow in the future for a Halo-like tech to exist. I’m no scientist as I say in the articles, so I may get stuff wrong, however it’s the fun in exploring the topic that I enjoy and maybe it will inspire you to read up on the subjects as well. I provide plenty of links with in the articles for reference.
I think the next topic will be shields. Personal as well as ship related.
• Forge discussions: How to forge, gametypes to forge and so on. This will also showcase more of the 3 Forge maps in Halo 4: Impact, Ravine, and Erosion
• My comprehensive review of Halo 4: This will include some of the discussions from above but in finer detail. I’ll give what I consider pros and cons of Halo 4 and what I’d suggest as fixes for the cons. (It’s not cool to say something needs fixing if you don’t at least have a possible solution to the fix.) I will be fair in my assessment of each facet of Halo 4. For those things I see that need fixing, I will endeavor to understand why 343 made them the way they were, then offer my two cents… I might even be able to get some answers from the folks at 343 directly. That is to be determined though….(Crosses fingers)
• Spartan Ops Episodic comic book: This ongoing series of articles that brings you the Spartan Ops episodes in comic book format.

So as you can see it’s going to be a VERY busy month with all of that, not to mention:
* the daily, weekly, and monthly challenges listed
* Other toy/merchandise reviews
* posting links to other great Halo fan related stuff
* the Halo Bulletin
* My own general ramblings on all things Halo
* and anything else I may stumble upon that is Halo related!

So stay tuned folks. If you’ve been a subscriber for a long time, thanks. If you’re new to the blog, then you’ve got plenty to look forward to, to keep your interest piqued.

-Sal

 

Halo 4 War Games daily challenges: 11-23-12

A little late with this one today. (Feeling sick)

First one no problem. Swat would be great for that.
Second one…9 KOTH wins? Again, I get that they want us to play different playlists, but 9 wins? Play 9 games in that playlist should be enough….

Again though, half the challenges in Halo 4  are harder than Reach ever were. So I guess the norm is one easy, one hard.

Halo Mega Bloks Forward Unto Dawn…

is coming along. I just completed part 2. However, due to it being Thanksgiving, I’m going to give myself the night off and post the pics and write up of part two tomorrow. I will say this, the set is FANTASTIC! I HIGHLY recommend buying it if you don’t mind the price tag. It’s TOTALLY worth it! (And I’ve only got half the ship built…)

 

Halo Silentium Cover!

While the book isn’t due to hit retailers until next year, I found this pic of the cover of Halo Silentium on Amazon (with a little help from Cowboy over at littleenglishhaloblog.com). It shows the Didact and the Librarian. MMMM, good stuff here!