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Thursday, August 7, 2003 |  |
More oddness - gravity gun this time
fireburner, bryn, and gravityman played with the flamethrower/gravity gun hack, and captured this footage of the gravity gun killing a player on Mount Wanker (their name). DivX-encoded AVI, 549K, and there seems to be a problem with the sound (though it's not really necessary to see the action). Interesting... Update: Tons of pics of the Gravity Rifle (not visible in the first vid), plus extra video footage, from BOLL and company on our forum. Check it out! (Read the whole thread. There's much more info about the killing possibilities...) (Louis Wu 22:10:33 UTC) (permalink)
Team Ice is Back in Business
Team Ice, Blade's programming/gaming site that was doing some movie mirroring for the Halo community before it went offline for bandwidth overage, is back up and running. Downloads are now handled by a separate server, so the chances are good that the overage will not occur again. Blade is still in the process of uploading popular movies, so check back in the next day or so if there's something you need that isn't available elsewhere. (For example, XboxOttawa.ca, home of Fire Team Charlie and some very popular vids, went offline recently, also for bandwidth overages; Team Ice has the .AVI versions of the FTC films up now, with the QuickTime versions coming soon.) When one falls, another rises! This community rocks. (Louis Wu 20:08:06 UTC) (permalink)
Words - put together in coherent ways
Seven pieces of Fan Fiction for you today. (There were 8, but one was unreadable.)
- Halo: Mercy Ch: 2, by ssj9000chilango
- Earth, A Place for Death. Part 5: Attack on the Gods Hands., by FuManChu
- Halo 2, an Elites version, Part III, by FOrunnER
- Four Plagues [2]: A New Enemy, by Kancer
- Marines: Rise from the Fall/ Section 1, by Delta117
- The Tragedy of Red vs Blue, by Puma109
- Halo: The MCconto Chronicles(©) Part 5, by JCDenton
Go to it! (Louis Wu 20:06:55 UTC) (permalink)
Fer the luv o' Pete...
A long time ago, some screenshots of the Halo Flamethrower (in the Xbox version) floated around the net - speculation from Bungie employees at the time revolved around someone with access to an XDK (Xbox Development Kit), and the willingness to break their Non-Disclosure Agreements. When pushed, the producer of the shots in question backed off - and the matter was dropped. Well, this morning, PfhorSlayer (programmer behind Aquaduct, the Macintosh tunneling app) popped into our forum with some surprising pictures. A couple of hours later, Nick posted more of his own. Nobody in the thread was willing to answer HOW this all happened... and speculation raged about whether this was a hoax or not. This afternoon, BOLL got some info from Phforslayer, and recorded a movie that would be very, very hard to fake. You can't hurt anyone with this (since the code was yanked, there's no damage information), and it looks... unfinished (as well it might be), but it's certainly real. And it was accomplished with just a modded off-the-shelf Xbox (NOT a Dev Kit), and a bit of ingenuity. Wow. (If you have a modded Xbox, Macegac has written up a short tutorial on how to get this for yourself. If you don't have a modded Xbox... please don't ask us how you get one.) Update: BOLL points out that you CAN kill people with the flamethrower... but only if they're in a ghost. (Well, other vehicles might be possible, as well; he and Macegac only tested a ghost.) Oddness continues... (Louis Wu 19:44:05 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Vehicles in a North African desert...
Ross Mills pointed out some new screenshots over at the Home Front website (a Halo total conversion for Battlefield 1942 - we mentioned this about a month and a half ago). Models look a bit flat in their desert environments... but that's probably gonna change. Check 'em out! (Louis Wu 18:48:11 UTC) (permalink)
Digital puppetry, you say?
And their fame grows... BBC News has done a full piece on Red vs Blue, and its use of the Halo engine to tell a story. It's well-written, but more than that... it's mainstream. Thanks to Ulf for the heads-up on our forum. (Louis Wu 12:55:53 UTC) (permalink)
A prize worthy of Bungie Fan Envy
Adam Vehige, the Grand Prize winner of our Pillar of Art contest, received the final piece of his winnings today - so we finally feel comfortable showing you what he got. (Be a bit unfair if you got to see it before he did, wouldn't it?) Lorraine McLees outdid herself on this one - it wasn't created for the Pillar of Art contest, but it suits the task of Grand Prize admirably, especially with more than 4 dozen Bungie signatures adorning the matte... (Louis Wu 02:17:12 UTC) (permalink)
In Demand.
Wow - is it tomorrow already? This one was gonna be on time! Wednesday's One One Se7en looks at the inevitable outcome of a successful run... (Louis Wu 01:57:48 UTC) (permalink)
The parade of new sites continues
Jason Mad writes to tell us that The Halo 2 Site is now up and running, with more updates coming soon. (Louis Wu 01:47:54 UTC) (permalink)
I bet the Pelican's gettin' a fan now...
Whoa. It's been a little while, but SketchFactor notes that a new Bungie Soapbox article has gone live! CJ Cowan, a member of the Halo 2 Cinematics team, discusses...air conditioning? Man, those Bungie guys are wimps. (It's a pretty funny read, all in all...) (Louis Wu 00:15:57 UTC) (permalink)
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