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Sunday, October 12, 2003 |  |
Hack me, baby.
As usual, BOLL rocks. HHHT, the Helpful Halo Hacking Tool, provides an easy way to apply ppf files to modify maps (and lets you backup your originals, in case you forget!). Screenshot here, to show you the interface. Hacking was never easier. (Louis Wu 19:34:28 UTC) (permalink)
Poetry for Prizes
Hmm. Shadow Claw sends word that his 7th Column chapter, Born to Frag, is hosting a contest; send in a funny, eight-lined Halo and Halloween-related poem by October 31, and you could win some schwag. First prize is a pair of speakers, second prize is The Sims Livin' Large, 3rd is $20, and fourth is a secret prize. Sounds easy enough... (Louis Wu 15:46:00 UTC) (permalink)
Flamethrower... in Campaign
Wraith has discovered that the flamethrower IS available on a couple of Campaign levels in Halo PC; he's taken a few screenshots on the Library, and created ppfs for both the Library and Keyes, the two levels he found it on. You can see the screens in this forum post, or download a zip file containing all 6 screens, the two ppfs, and a readme from THIS post. Try it out on the covenant! (Louis Wu 15:08:09 UTC) (permalink)
Hunt or Die
Chelsea's beginning to make grunting noises... (Louis Wu 14:43:37 UTC) (permalink)
Master Chef
Today's Guest One One Se7en comes from Spooky Donkey, and looks at potential jobs for the MC. And while we're discussing One One Se7en, congratulations to IXIGhandiIXI, who found the One One Se7en easter egg which has been hidden in the section (in plain sight) for over a month now. The rest of you are slacking... (Louis Wu 14:40:43 UTC) (permalink)
Enemy Down adds Halo ladders
Enemy Down, a UK-based ladder site for Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, has added Halo to their list of supported games. There are new CTF and Slayer ladders. If you're a UK Halo player, stop by and sign up, and climb the multiplayer ranks! (Louis Wu 14:01:30 UTC) (permalink)
Progress on Home Front continues
BGT writes to point out the Home Front mod for Battlefield 1942. (We've mentioned it a couple of times in the past few months.) Front and center on their website is a new map of the city of Côte d'Azur on Sigma Octanus IV. (It features prominently in the Fall of Reach book.) Nice looking city, with plenty of places for fighting! Check it out. (Louis Wu 13:57:13 UTC) (permalink)
A home for your modded map
disturbedroach, from Halo Center, wrote to say that they've set up their site to allow user-uploaded maps to be added to the database; if you have a modded map that you want available to the community, visit Halo Center and upload it! (Louis Wu 13:45:49 UTC) (permalink)
Halo reviews for Saturday
Couple of new Halo reviews for you; Tom's Hardware (thanks, Mondo-77 and JP) and Eurogamer (thanks, Blues News, via ash) both looked at the game. Tom's LOVED It. "I would mention major drawbacks of this game, but there's one problem: I haven't been able to find any." It's an interesting review, because it focuses on many points I haven't seen brought up before (or thought much about myself). Eurogamer's is actually a pair of reviews; the first editor was pretty unhappy with what DIDN'T get improved between the Xbox and PC versions, the second acknowledges some of the weaknesses that other reviewers have noted, but ends with this comment:
With Doom III and Half-Life 2 now delayed to 2004, there's only one other real contender for the crown of being the top multiplayer FPS this Christmas; and unless Unreal Tournament 2004 can pull something fairly amazing out of the hat, we're pretty confident that Halo PC is that game.
Pretty much sums it up for me, too. (Louis Wu 13:40:27 UTC) (permalink)
Blood Gulch modding tool
Clan AKA has created a tool that can modify the Blood Gulch map to change projectiles (tank shells can be replaced with needles, for example, or vice versa). At the moment, it doesn't do anything else, but they're coming out with new versions every day, and they should have a final with in a week (one which will let you change ANYTHING). It's only 11k, so its a much easier solution than downloading a 5+ mb modified mapfile; just grab this, and add the effects you want yourself! (Louis Wu 12:53:22 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
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Another Halo tourney in upstate NY A thought about PC mods Potential Spoilers Gephyro... What?? FiringSquad looks at Halo |
Friday's news in brief:
