Bravo writes this week’s bulletin and it shows. It’s concise, to the point and chock full of Halo without the added fluffery.

He starts off with an article about the conceptualization to completion of the Halo 4 Global Championship event stage design.

Bravo then segues nicely to the announcement of Spartan Assault on both XBOX 360 and XBOX One.

Halo Spartan Assault

 

Three key points of interest in this article are:
• A brand new online Co-op mode with new missions featuring the Flood (Very cool. I’ll be looking for folks to game with me in this!!!)
• The Operation Hydra DLC expansion pack (Looks like this will come with the game immediately without further purchase)
• An expanded arsenal that brings you more weapons, armor abilities, and upgrades (In the Win8 device version you had to pay real money to upgrade to the rocket launcher. Looks like you may not have to in the console version. YEAH!)

Bravo added these two graphics to use as wallpapers if you’d like. Click to make MUCH BIGGER! Right click to save.

He mentions again about the “Smashin Punkins” playlist only available until the end of today. I played it a few times yesterday. It’s okay. Worth play a few games for the fun of it.

Guilty Spark Emblem Unlock

Okay, now THIS is pretty cool. 343 will be unlocking the Guilty Spark emblem for FREE on Nov 6th ONLY. So long as you complete just ONE game in either War Games of Spartan Ops matchmaking, you’ll get this emblem!

So will you tell your friends who haven’t played Halo in awhile about this? Or keep it to yourself so you can brag when they come to game with you in Halo 4 from time to time?

Also, on Halo 4’s anniversary there will also be a 24 hour special playlist. No further details on that at the moment.

Team Slayer Update

Text taken directly from the bulletin:

As I mentioned earlier, I sometimes have the pleasure of working on projects from beginning to end. Since the conclusion of the Halo 4 Global Championship, one of the things that we’ve been working on is the Team Slayer CSR program that I’ve been detailing over the past few weeks. In conjunction with designers such as Josh Menke and Quinn DelHoyo, we’ve been developing a program that highlights and showcases the top-ranked players in the Team Slayer playlist. We’re planning on launching this program within the next month or so, and we’ve got some new details about the update:

• Team Slayer will be moved to a team-based CSR rather than individual when the program launches (Hmm, I like this idea. Promotes TEAM playing instead of solo play within a team based playlist)
• Top players will be able to regularly see where they stand against other players on Halo Waypoint
• Team Slayer will see a CSR reset when the program launches in order to have all players start on a level playing field, and also to accommodate the update to the CSR format (Oh? Well darn, I was hoping for ALL playlists to have a reset. But I’ll take this over nothing)
• Moving forward, the Team Slayer playlist will see predictable CSR resets as we start new periods

We’ll also be evaluating other playlist details (voting options, map / game type offerings, and more) as we look to optimize this playlist and program. We’re really excited to discover which players will step up and prove themselves in the Team Slayer playlist. Be on the lookout for more details and the launch date in upcoming Bulletins.

Community CHoice: Multi-Team Game Types

Okay before I report further, I have to say Multi-team is one of my FAVORITE playlists. So I was bummed when 343 took it away only to have it come back in the rotational playlist.

The good thing is we get to have a vote in which additional gametype will be included for those two weeks when it’s the playlist of choice in the rotational playlist.

Folks, I’m going to ask, no BEG that you vote for Multi-Regicide. Regicide is barely found now except in BTB or Rumble Pit. Snipers is already it’s own playlist. And Rock and Rail can easily already be found in Action Sack. Besides, imagine 12 people having rockets and railguns? Okay at first that may sound fun, but imagine 10 rockets coming at YOU… Not so fun.

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, vote for Multi-Regicide! Additionally, this will help me with getting the webseries “MaC Rounds” moving along as it will allow me the opportunity to unlock that Kinglsayer emblem faster. So you’ll be helping ME out by swinging a vote in that direction. Thanks to all of you that do vote for Multi-Regicide.

You can go HERE to vote for Mutli-Regicide. I have already voted. And yes, for Multi-Regicide!

Instead of a Screenshot Spotlight, Bravo shows some pics of Halo Halloween related pics. Some they’ve posted over the course of the week. But for those that haven’t seen them, there’s a nice selection. Here are some the ones I liked from the gallery.

That’s it for the bulletin. A good one this week, I have to say. To read the full bulletin, go here.

-Sal