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Tuesday, February 5, 2002 |  |
Fly me to the moon...
The list of mirrors for the Warthog Jump video has been getting hard to follow, so we've made it a little easier to figure out what's where. Here's a full list, broken down by which version is mirrored and what protocol is needed to get it. For all those having trouble seeing it - this movie uses Sorenson 3 compression, and requires QuickTime 5 to view - QuickTime 4 won't cut it, nor will WMP's QT decoder. A link to Apple's download page is provided (QT 5 is free). Thanks again to all those providing bandwidth for this puppy - and if you haven't seen it yet, go download it now! (Louis Wu 22:39:25 UTC) (permalink)
FoR sequel coming... soon
TeamXbox has an article about the cooperative agreement between Microsoft and Del Rey books - based on the success of 'Halo: The Fall of Reach', Del Rey plans to put out 2-3 more books this fall, and 6 titles in 2003. Most interesting to readers of THIS site:
Three new novels are tentatively planned for release beginning in Fall 2002. [...] Finally, a new Halo novel will feature a storyline that follows-up and significantly expands upon events in HALO: THE FALL OF REACH.
No word yet on who's writing it. Nice pickup by Eric Salzman! (Louis Wu 19:45:12 UTC) (permalink)
Tom's Hardware Guide looks at Halo
Tom's Hardware Guide has put up an article on the Xbox, and includes a 2-page overview of Halo, among other games. It's not really a review... but it's a nice read, written from a hardware junkie's perspective. They liked it. (Thanks to XNOR for pointing it out, and DeAdLy_cOoKiE (whoa, twice in a week) for pinpointing it.) (Louis Wu 19:23:05 UTC) (permalink)
Got enough mirrors yet?
Even more mirrors! First, for Cal's Blood Gulch Tower movie:
- Unsys.com (thanks, Doum)
- Mythica.org (thanks again, Brian)
One more Warthog Jump mirror has surfaced, as well - Rampancy.net is serving up the hi-res version. (Thanks!) We'll compile full mirror lists for both movies later today. (Louis Wu 19:03:50 UTC) (permalink)
Warthog on the bridge!
Heh - very cool. Deimos™, of Subnova, has managed to get the Warthog back to the very start of the level Halo - follow this link, then head to the bottom of his 'Halo fun page' for a pic. (We'll be adding this to the One-Shots page in the near future.) (Louis Wu 14:49:15 UTC) (permalink)
The Warthog finds another Garage
Another mirror for the Warthog Jump movies just surfaced - thanks to Steve Campbell, who put them both (hi and low-res) up via Hotline at hl.forerunners.org. Mmm... resumable downloads... (Louis Wu 10:43:53 UTC) (permalink)
New fan fiction, and a request
MaxThndr drops off Chapter 1 of his new 'Halo II: The Ardan Landings' series. (Warning - there ARE story spoilers in this one.) We'd like to make a request of Fan Fiction writers - we'd like to ask that if you decide to write chaptered stories (as a huge percentage of you do), that you wait until you have a reasonably-sized chunk before you submit it to the archive. Lately, there have been a large number of very short submissions - we received a chunk of unpleasant mail the last time this happened (we were posting 2 or 3 250-word chapters per day at one point), and we'd like to avoid this. Writing very short chapters is fine - but hold on to them until you've got 2 or three to submit, if you choose to write this way. (MaxThndr's submission is right on the edge of what we'd consider long enough, which is why we've taken this opportunity to make this request now.) The Fan Fiction collection lives and breathes because the fans show the authors that their work is worth reading - let's keep it that way. (Louis Wu 09:53:20 UTC) (permalink)
Beating the scripts
Hmm... this is interesting. If you've ever headed back to the start of Silent Cartographer after activating the Cartographer (that is, rather than getting into the dropship that would end the level), you'll find that all the Marines you'd left near the start were dead. (Presumably, they were slaughtered by random Covs you managed to miss along the way.) Apparently, though, this is a scripted outcome, one you have no control over; Chez Wiz reports that
I've loaded six into the three warthogs and driven them out deep in the ocean, but I still find them dead after coming out of the map room and bypass getting in the dropship.
That's sort of disappointing... don't you wish you could save the poor buggers? I wonder what would happen if you forced them down into the interior of SC, then got them out of the jeep and blocked their return with the jeep itself? Would they STILL die? Will anyone find out? (Louis Wu 09:32:14 UTC) (permalink)
Still more movie mirrors
More movie mirrors... Tim writes that he's got the hi-res warthog jump movie up on maserati.ca, and Vector40 has put up a copy of Cal's 'Climbing Blood Gulch in a Ghost' (in .rm format, same as Psyjnir's mirror) at The Junkyard. (Cal has also - temporarily - put up a copy on his own server.) Have I mentioned how wonderful this community is for picking up the bandwidth slack? (Louis Wu 09:17:04 UTC) (permalink)
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