Monthly Archives: January 2013

Spartan Ops Episodes 6-10 info! (possible small spoilers)

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SPARTAN OPS EPS 6-10 TRAILER

In case you need a reminder, here is the official trailer for episodes 6-10!

IGN has this regarding Spartan Ops:
First look at Halo 4’s Spartan Ops episode 6

Gametrailers has two videos of the forthcoming Spartan Ops second half of the season.
Briefing with Chris Haluke of 343
Halo 4 Spartan Ops season 2 briefing
Listening to Chris, he seems genuinely excited about what Spartan Ops is and will become.

Walkthrough with David Ellis of 343
Halo 4 Spartan Ops season 2 walkthrough
It’s cool to see that we’ll have a few different ways we can play the same mission. That definitely helps give the feeling like YOU are in charge of the action instead of scripted events. Glad to see 343 is listening to us!

Polygon.com gives us several screenshots from the episode 6:

Halo 4 Concept Broadsword.

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Following on the heels of yesterday’s Mega Bloks Broadsword comes these official concept sketches from “Sparth” of 343 of the Broadsword.

I love concept art if you folks haven’t noticed, LOL.

-Sal

Halo Bulletin for 1-16-13 (Spartan Ops heavy, YEAH!!!)

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The Halo Bulletin 11/6/13

It first starts out with some needless explanation about some press junket stuff. (Nothing really to note here.)

THEN…

Spartan Ops frenzy!

First we’re treated to a Spartan Ops recap:

Of course if you’ve been following my blog, then you already know all this through my comic book renditions of the videos.

The bulletin shows the stats below:

Stats summary of the first half of Spartan Ops Season 1
8,125,908 games were played in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.
4,696,752 hours were spent playing Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.
901,258,308 kills were earned in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.
262,150,257 assists were earned in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.
167,101,619 deaths were recorded in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.
“Shootout In Valhalla” was the most played Mission in the first half of Spartan Ops Season 1.

How do you stack up against the following averages?
49.77 was the average number of kills earned per game in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.
6.77 was the average number of assists earned per game in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.
7.15 was the average number of deaths recorded per game in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.

From here, BS Angel goes into some explanation about the previous 5 episodes. Then there’s this…

“Episode 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 – I’m not going to spoil it for you, but let’s just say that the first half of the season was a warm up. As I mentioned in the Episode 1 notes, we had a lot of set up to do to get this corner of the Halo universe up to speed. And now that it’s really moving? Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Hints of what’s to come: Death, disfigurement, betrayal and… oh, I’ve said too much already (and that’s just the humans I’m talking about)!”

Also shown is a teaser pic from Episode 6. Hmm, who is that Green and White Spartan. Or is it really green?

From there the bulletin moves on to Matchmaking Playlist updates.

Community Forge Test playlist goes active as well as Waypoint forum threads for your feedback on those maps.
Two specializations are unlocked for those who didn’t get the game at release. Pioneer (Fast track-xp boost) and Pathfinder (gunner mod).
Infinity Challenge comes to a close (thank gawd!).
And finally sad news for Halo 2 PC players (of which there is apparently only 20 or so left) that as of Feb 15, it’s being shut off for good from servers.

This was a good bulletin for those who love Spartan Ops (raises hand). Not to bad for everything else.

Though I would have liked to have heard something of the Title Update and maybe addressing some persistent complaints from Halo 4 gamers.

Go to the link at the beginning of the article for the full bulletin.

-Sal