Daily Archives: 08/27/2013

Halo Spartan Assault gets a title update, achievements, 5 new missions and more!

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Halo Spartan Assault Logo

Text from Halo Waypoint:
Exploration turns to explosive combat in Operation Hydra, a new Title Update for Halo: Spartan Assault which adds five all-new missions, Xbox 360 controller support, new achievements, and more. Operation Hydra will be available on August 29th.

Here are 8 screenshots of the upcoming missions!

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UPDATE: the 5 achievements:

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Archeology Complete Operation F – 10 Gamerscore

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Silvertip Destroy all Mega Turrets with the Grizzly tank in Operation F, Mission 2 – 10 Gamerscore

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Tour of Duty Earn all Gold starts in Operation F – 10 Gamerscore

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Vidmaster Challenge 2.0 Complete Operation F, Mission 4 with the Blind and Thunderstorm Skulls active – 15 Gamerscore

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A for Effort Complete all Operation F mission challenges – 5 Gamerscore

Okay, now someone tell me why the hell this game isn’t on XBOX Live Arcade? Or rather give me a good reason why it shouldn’t be? I know this is supposed to be for Windows 8 devices, but come on…there are thousands of Halo fans that can’t afford or don’t want a Win8 device/upgrade, but would GLADLY pay for this on XBLA. I’m one of them. The app is only $7. Heck, I’d pay double that for it on XBLA!!! 343???

This is such a beautiful looking game and looks fun to play. I watched Dust Storm from Podtacular play this for a couple of hours on his Twitch stream. Was jealous and excited to watch and play at the same time!

Come on 343/Microsoft, do right by the whole Halo community and bring this to XBLA!!!!

-Sal

 

Halo 4 to come in a “Game of the Year” edition?

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If you are to believe the IGN article, Halo 4 is about to have a “Game of the Year” edition hitting stores soon.

A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed the Game of the Year Edition and provided the following statement to IGN:

“A Game of the Year Edition of Halo 4 will be offered this October, offering tremendous value for fans who want to enjoy one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2012, and additional DLC all in one place. We will have more details to share during the live stream of the Halo Global Championship Finals this Sunday.”

The price is $49.99 and is to include all of the DLC to date. In the IGN article they state that even all pre-order bonuses will be included. So if you wanted those armor pre-orders and haven’t got them yet, here’s your chance. This does however make me curious if those will be put on the XBOX Live marketplace also for those of us who already have the game and DLC. To date I only need the Deadeye helmet and Best Buy’s Armor skin. I’m sure not going to buy a $50 version of the game just for those two…This also begs the question, will the FOTUS armor be included? That is the ONLY one I think that should NOT be included with this. Afterall, that was only available when you purchased the limited edition Halo 4 XBOX. Unlike the other pre-order armors that you got free from specific retailers.

Additionally, Twitch has also reported a new Halo DLC to be announced at PAX at 10:20 am Sun Sept 1. It is believed the leaked Halo 4 GOTY edition is this “new” DLC and is not yet another new map or content pack.

Populate HFFL! A Special Daily Challenge!!!

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hffl for sal On Sept 24, 2013, HFFL will turn 2 years old. To celebrate this, I invite you to a special daily challenge.

From 7-8pm Eastern time HFFL will be looking to start a new record. Most gamers to play in one specific Halo game in one hour. To do this gamers will only be allowed to game for a maximum of ONE MINUTE during the whole of the hour.

Please do not come back into the game so we can allow for more gamers to participate. The potential for this is 960 gamers in the same one-hour game of Halo if each gamer plays only one minute’s worth of time. To account for players dropping in and out of the game, the variance of time you will be allowed to play is 50-65 seconds. Any less time and you will not be counted as having participated. Anything more and you risk hurting the potential total number of gamers playing in this event. So please adhere to the time limit.

Now given this dropping out of the game, it’s likely we’re going to experience LAG. How that will affect the time, I’m not sure. So the game will be ended at 9pm regardless of actual playing time. To do this, I will be handicapping the potential amount of gamers by being the ONLY one to stay in this game the whole time. This is to also facilitate booting people out of the game if they are staying longer than they should be…

So with all that said, PLEASE get the word out! Message your friends on XBOX, text, tweet, facebook, e-mail, call, skype and whatever other method reasonable you can to tell them about this event!

I’ll have the party open during this game, so you can join in freely.
Search for gamertag: HaloFanForLife1 at that time and put yourself into the queue to join.

Let’s see what kind of record we can set!

-Sal