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Halo Reach MLG Weapon Timer App
Frank Mackey and a friend are building a Halo Reach MLG Weapon Timer App, for learning the timing of weapon spawns on various maps. It's Android-only right now, and free. (Louis Wu 23:30:25 UTC) (permalink)
Waypoint highlights Community Goodies
bs angel pointed out a few new features on Halo Waypoint's website:
- Halo: Reach - Perspective II is a scenery montage (gorgeous)
- Halo: Reach Assassination Compilation is what it sounds like
- Sounds of Halo Reach is weapon noises used to a rhythmic effect
Go watch 'em all - good stuff! (Louis Wu 23:29:41 UTC) (permalink)
Launch Night Writeup from GRU
Asian Inferno apologizes for it being a little late - but his writeup of the Seattle EMP/Gamestop Launch Night events is now live on Grunts R Us. Go read. (Louis Wu 23:26:33 UTC) (permalink)
Black Ink
halosavior wanted to announce that he's hosting a short story fanfiction contest over at Abyss Studios. Your job is to expand the history of Noble Six prior to joining Noble Team. You have until October 31, 2010 at 11:59pm CST, with submission rules outlined in that post. Prizes include 1600 MS points and Bungie Pro subscriptions. Go read about it - then write up your own redacted entry! (Louis Wu 23:24:54 UTC) (permalink)
Reach Vehicle Statistics
Maximum Fear let us know that he's compiled the top speeds of all vehicles in Halo: Reach (along with calculations such as acceleration). Swing by Bungie.net to read all the details! (Louis Wu 23:24:11 UTC) (permalink)
PGCR: Reach Special
SK1LL4XED sent word that Postgame Carnage Report has released their Halo Reach Special podcast - they review and discuss the game. (Of course there are spoilers.) If you've spent any time on our forum recently, the story change discussions will be familiar to you... (Louis Wu 23:23:33 UTC) (permalink)
Marty Can Be Loquacious
Greg O'Connor-Read sent word of a couple of articles about Marty O'Donnell - MSN Entertainment has an interview where Marty looks back over Halo, and remembers the good parts, and G4TV has an interview with him where he discusses Reach's Soundtrack. Both great reads! Annnnd... that's all the time there is this morning; there's still more news, but it'll have to wait a bit. We're getting there, though!
(Louis Wu 16:24:52 UTC) (permalink)
Honoring Reach
Spartan-270 sent us a few shots of his made-from-scratch Reach suit - looking pretty good! (He also sends a shout-out to his buds at the 405th.)
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Halo Reach: How to Use Jetpacks
Brian Gilmore wanted you all to know that the latest Teabag Prevention article at Geekscape is called 'How to Use Jetpacks' - and it gives you the dos (and don'ts!) you need to be a master of the air. Firebird, yo!
(Louis Wu 16:23:41 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Reach Rap
Bryan Simon let us know about a Halo Reach Rap he wrote - takes a pretty nasty shot at Black Ops near the end, but otherwise is pretty lighthearted. (Louis Wu 16:23:22 UTC) (permalink)
'Super' is right
Bry wanted to know just how big a Covenant 'Super Carrier' really is - so he took some pictures, and did some math. Them babies are HUGE. (A direct comparison with an Assault Carrier is in this post.) (Louis Wu 16:23:04 UTC) (permalink)
LEGO Elite
retinence has returned to the LEGO Halo world, with a new version of his Elite. He's also taking commissions... go see! (Louis Wu 16:22:46 UTC) (permalink)
Reach: Grifball Evolved
DHalo wanted to make sure people saw a pretty cool promotional video put together by GrifballHub - it's called "Reach: Grifball Evolved", and it might just pump you up. (We also heard about it from GrifballHub's Goosechecka, who wanted you to know that signups for the very first Reach Grifball league are now open. Go get hammered! (Louis Wu 16:22:24 UTC) (permalink)
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