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Saturday, August 20, 2005 |  |
NSCS - Updated
Overswarm is back from summer break, with a bunch of new goodies for you in the Not So Common Sense Strategy Guide; if you head to the Articles and Extras section, you'll find two new pieces - one points out some of the LESS-desirable playstyles out there (try not to fall into one of these categories), the other looks at specific gametypes, and the strategies that might help you improve your game at them. In the Movies and Commentary section, there's a new Advanced Vehicle Guide, this one covering Scorpions and Wraiths - watch it to glean tips for better offensive (and defensive) use of these monsters. Go read! (Louis Wu 21:47:40 UTC) (permalink)
Coordinating a matchmade team
Another piece of Halowiki news... LegendaryMark has written up a useful article discussing how to make the most of a matchmade team, especially bigger ones. Sometimes the most frustrating thing is getting people to pay attention to you... this might help. Go read it! (Louis Wu 13:29:03 UTC) (permalink)
Perpetuating Stereotypes
Many people wrote in with news of Halo references in the movie 40 Year Old Virgin... I'm not sure that's a good thing or a bad one. I think Reinhard Mazariegos might have been first. (Louis Wu 13:20:49 UTC) (permalink)
Greasemonkey Web Linker
Wow. PEZ has adapted an existing script for Firefox that, when installed in your browser, will add links to any bungie.org or bungie.net page that contains keywords with corresponding pages on the Halowiki.net website. If this doesn't make a lot of sense, go read the page he's put up about it. I just installed the Greasemonkey plugin and his web linker script... and both Bungie.net and bungie.org just got a whole lot more linked for me. (The new links to halowiki content are differentiated from existing links by a dotted red underline - so you'll know which ones are ones we put there, and which ones are supplementary info.) Cool! (If you don't use Firefox - any platform - this is useless to you.) (Louis Wu 13:18:12 UTC) (permalink)
I'm not sure if 'snow' is the right modifier...
There's a writeup of a custom gametype called 'Snowball' over at Geezer Gamers; it's a little like Zombies, but not really. The thing that makes it... well, odd is the requirement of teabagging your opponent. (You have to.) It's a funny writeup for a somewhat unique gametype - go check it out! (Thanks again, 3Suns.) (Louis Wu 00:39:22 UTC) (permalink)
It's money I just haven't won back yet.
Dyslexia has written up a post-mortem of the MLG Las Vegas event - it's a fun read. Oh, the mixing of gambling and pro Halo... thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 00:32:11 UTC) (permalink)
OMG MISTERCHIEF IS A HOUSE OMG
The Weekly What's Update has been posted; there's info about the upcoming free release of all maps that are currently not free (and you should definitely download them soon after August 30, because they WILL be integrated into all playlists; if you don't have 'em, you don't play), and info about Kirkland, where the Bungie team is moving to (apparently, the other game developers complained about the smell so much that Microsoft moved them several miles away). And there's a link to Aaron Walpole's Canadian Idol page - he's in the top 5 now (this was mentioned by D-Man earlier today, but I passed on it because it's not really Halo news... but since it's in the WWU...). And there's a mister chief picture that just creeps me out. Go read. (Louis Wu 00:28:57 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Bballplaya12's Montage 2 Baby Boom Boom. Homertage Friday's Fan Fic Voice Acting Needed Barney Just Wants a Hug Temp bans for modders' friends Keeping his lady in a bottle Pecking Order |
Thursday's news in brief:
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The beginning of something grand Logo-fied. He is smitten. Fall of Reach looking for cast members |
