{"id":5936,"date":"2013-01-17T00:57:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T05:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2013-01-17T00:57:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T05:57:26","slug":"halo-bulletin-for-1-16-13-spartan-ops-heavy-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=5936","title":{"rendered":"Halo Bulletin for 1-16-13 (Spartan Ops heavy, YEAH!!!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.halowaypoint.com\/Headlines\/post\/2013\/01\/16\/The-Halo-Bulletin-11613.aspx\">The Halo Bulletin 11\/6\/13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It first starts out with some needless explanation about some press junket stuff. (Nothing really to note here.)<\/p>\n<p>THEN&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Spartan Ops frenzy!<\/p>\n<p>First we&#8217;re treated to a Spartan Ops recap:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spartan Ops Episodes 1-5 Recap\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTa8FJKbIIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course if you&#8217;ve been following my blog, then you already know all this through my <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=5594\">comic book<\/a> renditions of the videos.<\/p>\n<p>The bulletin shows the stats below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats summary of the first half of Spartan Ops Season 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>8,125,908 games<\/strong>\u00a0were played in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<br \/>\n<strong>4,696,752 hours<\/strong>\u00a0were spent playing Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<br \/>\n<strong>901,258,308 kills<\/strong>\u00a0were earned in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<br \/>\n<strong>262,150,257 assists<\/strong>\u00a0were earned in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<br \/>\n<strong>167,101,619 deaths<\/strong>\u00a0were recorded in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cShootout In Valhalla\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was the most played Mission in the first half of Spartan Ops Season 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you stack up against the following averages?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>49.77<\/strong>\u00a0was the average number of kills earned per game in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<br \/>\n<strong>6.77<\/strong>\u00a0was the average number of assists earned per game in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<br \/>\n<strong>7.15<\/strong>\u00a0was the average number of deaths recorded per game in Spartan Ops Matchmaking in the first two months.<\/p>\n<p>From here, BS Angel goes into some explanation about the previous 5 episodes. Then there&#8217;s this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Episode 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 \u2013 I\u2019m not going to spoil it for you, but let\u2019s 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\u2019s really moving? Well, you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet.<\/p>\n<p>Hints of what\u2019s to come: Death, disfigurement, betrayal and\u2026 oh, I\u2019ve said too much already (and that\u2019s just the humans I\u2019m talking about)!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also shown is a teaser pic from Episode 6. Hmm, who is that Green and White Spartan. Or is it really green?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/episode6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5937\" title=\"episode6\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/episode6-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/episode6-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/episode6-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/episode6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there the bulletin moves on to Matchmaking Playlist updates.<\/p>\n<p>Community Forge Test playlist goes active as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.halowaypoint.com\/yaf_postst179422_Community-Forge-Test-Bug-Reporting-Thread.aspx\">Waypoint forum threads<\/a> for your feedback on those maps.<br \/>\nTwo specializations are unlocked for those who didn&#8217;t get the game at release. Pioneer (Fast track-xp boost) and Pathfinder (gunner mod).<br \/>\nInfinity Challenge comes to a close (thank gawd!).<br \/>\nAnd finally sad news for Halo 2 PC players (of which there is apparently only 20 or so left) that as of Feb 15, it&#8217;s being shut off for good from servers.<\/p>\n<p>This was a good bulletin for those who love Spartan Ops (raises hand). Not to bad for everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Though I would have liked to have heard something of the Title Update and maybe addressing some persistent complaints from Halo 4 gamers.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the link at the beginning of the article for the full bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>-Sal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; Spartan Ops frenzy! First we&#8217;re treated to a Spartan Ops recap: Of course if you&#8217;ve been following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=5936\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halo-waypoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}