Daily Archives: 02/20/2014

Finally have a proper forum set up for HFFL!

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I’m done with the basics of the foam finally. After working with one forum website, I found it to be a bit clunky to deal with, so I searched around for another and believe I found one that will work for HFFL.

The forum will be open starting Tuesday, 25, February. If you’re already a subscriber, yes, you’ll have to register for that forum. Sorry, I can’t transfer subscribers over there. It should only take a minute or two though to sign up.

Now a few things to say about the forums.

• Stay positive. This is a forums to have fun with and talk about all things Halo!

• I will NOT stand for any flaming. If you feel you need to argue with someone, take it to PMs or out of the forums entirely. This will be strictly enforced. Once you get a warning. Second time you will be permanently banned. If you have an issue with someone, send me a PM. I will try to deal with it. However, it will ultimately be up to you and the other person to make amends.

• You may NOT post “placeholder” threads for upcoming Halo stuff. If you do not have any VERIFIABLE information (with links to back it up), then your thread WILL be deleted.

• The forum will be rated PG-13. If you post anything worse than that you are subject to banning without warning. Let’s keep it as family friendly as possible folks. Please respect me, your fellow forumites and yourself by behaving nicely.

Okay, now that that’s said, what topics/sections would you like to see in the forums? I’ve already got a bit set up, but in case there is something I might have forgot, it’s always good to get ideas from you folks.

-Sal

The Halo Bulletin 2-19-14

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Bravo writes this week’s bulletin. A little talk about cupcakes then on to the Halo stuff.

Community Playdate
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This coming Monday, the 343 team will be hopping into Matchmaking. Normally, we enter as a team, and this results in a mix of wins, losses, and good times. This month’s community playdate, however, will be slightly different. We’ll be heading into the Big Rumble playlist, which means we’ll be split up and playing against each other as well as many of you on Monday night from 6-8pm PST. This will likely result in interoffice arguments, bragging, and emailing one another screenshots of Post Game Carnage Reports on Tuesday, which means it’ll really just be like any other Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, bs angel is already telling me how badly she’ll be beating everyone come Monday.

We hope you’ll join us in Matchmaking on Monday evening! Look for the following gamertags:

HaloWaypoint
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B is for Bravo
TTL L askan

Matchmaking Playlist Update
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On Monday, Big Rumble premiered in Matchmaking, with the Community Choice Poll-winning Quick Draw available in the voting options. The playlist features 12-player Free-for-All for the first time in Halo 4 Matchmaking, and will be around until March 3rd. Next week, we’ll have some details about Medal Madness (coming 3/3) but today, we’ve got another opportunity for you to vote on which game type you’d like to see added to Halo 4 Matchmaking in our next update.

Community Choice: Rumble Pit Game Types 

For this week’s Community Choice Poll, we’re asking which throwback Rumble Pit game type you’d like to see added to Halo 4’s playlist. We’ve got three options that may take you down Matchmaking memory lane, so let the nostalgia kick in and vote for your favorite in the forums.

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Rumble Snipers 
Players are equipped with UNSC Sniper Rifles, Magnums, and dreams of headshots and Snapshots.

Rumble Swords
Be quick, nimble, and for goodness sake, watch your back.

Rumble Rockets
Explosions. Explosions everywhere.

Head here to vote on the Waypoint forums where voting will be open for approximately four days. Next week we’ll announce the Community Choice winner along with the Matchmaking Update!

HFFL: I’m torn here. I’m not one for sniping. Rockets are too powerful, yet might be fun. There’s already an all sword game in Action Sack called “Clang of the Hill.” So I think I’m going to pick Rockets just for the ‘SPLOSIONS!

Spartan Assault Xbox One Content Update
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The next time you log into Halo: Spartan Assault on Xbox One, you will be prompted to download a content update. This update improves general stability and also fixes several reported bugs. We’d like to thank you for your feedback, which led to many of the fixes in this update. The full breakdown of what is included is below:

  • Fixed assorted game crashes.
  • Fixed an issue where the player would automatically fire when exiting a turret.
  • Fixed an issue where the player would occasionally be unable to exit a turret.
  • Fixed an issue where the player would stay in a slow walking, aiming, or shooting stance.
  • Fixed an issue where players who have completed or made progress with challenges on another device did not show progress, despite challenges being complete.
  • Fixed an issue where Kinect voice chat would play through speaker, even when a headset was plugged in.
  • Fixed an issue where upon hijacking a Wraith, players sometimes became stuck.
  • Fixed assorted grenade indicator issues.
  • Fixed assorted audio issues.
  • Fixed an issue where Campaign medals would pop up while playing Co-op.

Screenshot Spotlight: Magnum
HFFL: There are some nice screenshots in this week’s spotlight. I liked the following two:
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Next week’s Spotlight subject is “Purple“. Tag your screenshot with “Purple” and “Halo Waypoint” and you much just see your screenshot in next week’s bulletin.

-Sal

Halo Toy Review: Mega Bloks Rapid Attack Ghost

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Mega Bloks Rapid Attack Ghost: Set #97213

Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 10 minutes or less (includes sort time)
Set Piece Count: 104
Minifigs: White Elite Zealot (Halo 4 style), Steel/Blue Recruit (This is Spartan Thorne from Fireteam Majestic of Spartan Ops in Halo 4)
Weapons: Olive green Spartan Laser, Pink Energy Sword
Accessories: N/A
Price: $11.99
Special Features: Swivel gun mounts and wings on Ghost
And on with the pics! (Click pics to make BIGGER)

Rapid Attack Ghost BOXThis set some is a small box, yet manages to show the set quite nicely. 

Rapid Attack Ghost contentsHere are the contents of the box. I’m not sure why there dis a red “1” on the bag in the top left corner. The instructions do not refer to it as such. Meh, no biggie, just curious is all.

Rapid Attack Ghost sortedHere are all the pieces sorted out. Everything was account for and I even sorted them as they appear in the instruction manual. It didn’t take long at all to sort these pieces, just a few minutes.

Rapid Attack Ghost stepsAs you can see from the above pic, the ghost comes together easily and pretty quick too.

Rapid Attack Ghost FINThis by far is my absolute favorite of any of Mega Bloks Ghost designs to date.

Rapid Attack Ghost weaponsHere are the two weapons included. I’d have liked a painted Spartan Laser and a blue sword instead of pink. Those are minor points though. It’s not enough to detract me from having wanted this set. Oh on that note, I need to thank my wife for buying this set for me.

Rapid Attack Ghost orthoOrthogonal views of the ghost.

Rapid Attack Ghost Elite orthoHere’s the white Elite Zealot. It’s a good figure. I hope Mega Makes this in Black eventually as it would be Jul M’Dama. Well that and he’d need a little hard light symbol above the helmet. Anyway, here’s hoping!

Rapid Attack Ghost Recruit orthoI’ve said before that I love this color for Spartan Armor. I call it “Shark Skin” though in the collecting community it’s referred to as Covert Ops. Regardless of what you call it, it’s a sweet looking figure. The fact that it’s Spartan Gabriel Thorne from Halo 4’s Fireteam Majestic of Spartan Ops, makes this a HIGHLY desirable mini-fig. The only Spartan from Majestic that needs to be made now is Madsen, the sniper. We got Hoya and Grant in the new electronic Pelican (which I reviewed HERE) and DeMarco is the ultra rare mini fig in Series 8 of the blind pack minifigs.

Rapid Attack Ghost leftoversThese were the parts left over. Not much could be built from that, so they went into my spare parts drawer.

Rapid Attack Ghost Action sceneThe ghost is rapidly attacking! (See what I did there?)

Rapid Attack Ghost Hello thereHello there!

 

Here’s the video review:

Summary: This is a very good small set. Quick and easy to build. You can be playing and/or displaying it in about 10 minutes. The ghost is the best design Mega has ever made for the ship.

Overall Rating: I give this set 9.5 out for 10 medals. Ever so minor is that pink energy sword. I’m just not a fan of that color. Otherwise, everything else in the set is great!

You can see this set and more at Mega Bloks Halo product page HERE.

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think of the review. If you have this set yourself, please give me your thoughts on it too!

-Sal