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Monday, December 17, 2012 |  |
Crimson DLC Woes Continue
In the last couple of days, there have been a rash of reports of people being permabanned from Halo 4 Matchmaking after playing the Crimson DLC. (Originally, it looked like it was people who'd downloaded the maps as part of the 'Pay and Play' promotion... but I've seen a number of reports of folks with the Limited Edition having this happen, too.) A post last night by the MM Systems Team on the Halo Waypoint forums says that if it's happening, it's a mistake - and they're investigating. Don't panic - if you were banned, and you don't think you did anything wrong, hold tight, they're working on it. Update: according to this post by 'Forum Team' at Halo Waypoint, the situation affected "less than 200 Halo 4 users" and has been rectified. (If the numbers are right, every single one of them posted about it on the internet - some more than once.) If we hear about similar issues, we'll let you know. (Louis Wu 12:25:08 UTC) (permalink)
Mapping out gun ranges
Over on the Halo Council forums, K2Five posted some useful pics - they show the 'red reticule' range on various maps, for DMR and BR. (This is the range at which you can see the reticule color change to red, to indicate a headshot.) To be clear: these maps do NOT show the range of the weapon - they show the range of your ability to see whether you're targeting your enemy's head or not. Thanks to CyReN for the heads-up.
(Louis Wu 12:21:57 UTC) (permalink)
Happy Birthday Grifball!
Grifball is now five years old - and the folks at GrifballHub are celebrating with a birthday vid! They did some awesome planning to bring this off. Also, they'll be running four one-night tournaments this week, in honor of its old-age status! (Five is, like, 93 in Internet minigame years.) Go play! (Louis Wu 12:17:23 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Theme on eight floppy drives
Sometimes, cool stuff makes it to us way late. MrSolidSnake745 creates music by feeding MIDI tracks to an Arduino controller that manages the stepper motors of 8 floppy drives. (Are you old enough to remember what a floppy drive is?) If this concept makes no sense to you... go watch the video. (It was released in August, but we didn't hear about it until Tashi mentioned it at NeoGAF.) The beginning is pretty wild, but the true wonder kicks in around 40 seconds in.
(Louis Wu 12:11:58 UTC) (permalink)
Ops-Cast Episode 5.5: Half-Season Shazbot
MoltenSlowa stopped in to announce Episode 5.5 of his crew's Spartan Ops-themed podcast, Ops-Cast. This is a collection of outtakes that didn't make it into earlier shows. They'll be back in January, when Spartan Ops is back - in the meantime, you've got silliness!
(Louis Wu 12:04:04 UTC) (permalink)
Once More, With Feeling - Halo 3 Mythbusters
For their 117th video, defendthehouse decided to revisit Halo 3 and bust some myths. I had no idea that the Arbiter could pick up skulls - wow! Thanks, mattroe.
(colindosaj 08:45:29 UTC) (permalink)
Episphere
What happens when you combine an enclosed spherical map with tweaked gravity settings, plenty of weapons and thruster packs? You get the Episphere! Looks fun, but be sure to bring your motion sickness pills! Thanks, Gabotron ES. (colindosaj 08:43:36 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 4 Tricking and Glitch Collection
t00lbox posted a video showing off some really cool tricking. Plenty of neat spaces to check out as well as some funny glitches. Go watch!
(colindosaj 08:40:46 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Frozen Sleep - A Halo 4/Cortana Tribute Song A glorious look back His loss is our gain Team HBO Christmas Minitage |
Saturday's news in brief:
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Halotracker's Halo 4 Weekly Montage #5 Cinematic Spartan Ops Top 5 Jumps on Abandon, Adrift, and Solace |
