Daily Archives: 03/29/2013

The Halo Bulletin 3.28.13

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halobulletinheader_3-28-13This week’s Halo Bulletin brings us a recap of PAX East, Q&A regarding what was shown at PAX East, and a bevy of RED Screenshots.

By now you’ve read about or seen the vids coming out of PAX East regarding Halo 4. Arguably the biggest announcement was that of Forge Island. (Which btw is free to download RIGHT NOW!) It was slated to be released April 11. For whatever reason though, it’s been released early. I’m thinking with many having an extended weekend for Easter, 343 wanted to give people an early shot at forging on this wonderful, flat and FREE map.

Multi-team is back! Q&A regarding CSR, how it’s applied via wins/losses players played against, your own performance, etc.

Sadly no Season Two of Spartan Ops is planned at the moment. However….If you’ve been reading my blog you know that that means I’m free to explore my new web series “MaC Rounds” without worrying about steeping on 343’s toes and having to hold back production of episodes to watch what 343 does. So my series is a go full steam ahead! (On that note, I’ll be posting something in the next few days about that which is extremely important to me and how the production moves ahead.)

Talk of Forge Island takes place in the Bulletin, but again, since it’s available NOW, why not check it out for yourself? The “X” is back. No doubt if you played yesterday, you saw the “X” in matchmaking. Yes it’s white, not red. Yes, it despawns quick, depending on the player’s respawning. However, I for one am HAPPY that it’s back at all. Better than NOT having it. Are MEGA Bloks Reap-X vehicles canon to the story? Hmm, I’ll let you read that in the bulletin…

Go check out the link to see the gallery of red screenshots from Halo 4.
http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2013/03/28/The-Halo-Bulletin-32813.aspx

Peace out, I’m going to go play with Forge Island!!!
-Sal

Forge Island is LIVE!!!

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I found out from a tweet by Pete_the_Duck that Forge Island is on the marketplace and available for download!

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So of course I checked this out on XBOX.com:Forge Island on MarketplaceSure enough after downloading it from the net to my XBOX, I was able to start forging right away!

Welcome to Forge Island!!Welcome to Forge IslandAbove are the new rocks. Just look at that amazing rock wall and immense spire. Not to mention a GREEN SCREEN!!!! OMG, this is going to help my new Halo web series “MaC Rounds” out so much!

As you can see I rotated one of the rock walls and placed it on top of a coliseum wall. As well, I placed a 1×1 block roughly in the middle of those two to show size: Coliseum Wall-Rock Wall-1x1 blockThe rock wall is HUGE!

Here’s that beautiful green screen!GreenScreenAnd look trees! (There are actually only 3 versions, however the tallest has a truck so tall that it enables you to have great variance in height of trees) The shortest below is also the tallest, just with it’s truck mostly submerged into the ground.TreesAnd last but not least a worm’s eye view of the above (really it’s Spartan height, but you feel like a worm…)Trees Worms Eye ViewHave at it folks! It’s FREE!!!!!!!

-Sal