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November 22, 2004 Link to this post
Da Funnies
Online comics - there are a few.
- Ross Mills pointed out Blue Screen of Life, a five-page comic based loosely on the lives of the Uni students he lives with. (He didn't draw it, but he IS in it.) The first two pages are pretty devoid of Halo content.
- w00tness has put up 3 new strips since we last checked in (first is here) - looks like the Covenant might have met its match.
- VG Cats has a new Halo-related strip up today - it's a quick guide to Halo 2, and... well, go read it. (Thanks, Trunks.)
November 22, 2004 Link to this post
Clan HBO
Wow, I've been really remiss at dealing with this; sorry. We started up a Clan HBO on Xbox Live a bit before Halo 2 was available... but I've had no time to think about actually getting the whole membership thing off the ground. Maybe this huge delay will actually work out; many of the people who MIGHT have been interested in being clan members have probably gone out and joined other clans now in disgust. In any case, it's time; if you're interested in being a member of the HBO clan, shoot an email to clanrequest@bungie.org and I'll add you to the list. First come, first served, I guess; there are currently about 80 spots left. (Think of this as a mini-test; if you mail your request to a DIFFERENT email address, I'm going to assume you have trouble with simple reading comprehension, and I'm likely not going to bother adding you.) One thing to keep in mind; HBO has ALWAYS been about the fun of the game. If you're looking for a hyper-competitive clan... this ain't for you. I'm sure we're gonna have some decent players, and win games, and all... but the idea is to have a place to go to find like-minded people you enjoy playing with - that's always going to trump rank-h00ring for us. Update: Please - if you're going to send a request, do me two favors: remember to include your gamertag... and spell it right. Thanks. Update 2: Gah, the requests are pouring in WAY faster than they can be accomodated. We're currently at 100 members (the limit), though Bungie.net says 98, because two of the gamertags are having trouble. I'd love to accept everyone... but it won't let me. :( I haven't even figured out how we're going to organize matches - but maybe if we get something set up, we can build a second HBO team. (There were certainly enough people to fill a second 100-member clan...) Thanks, everyone - now get to playing! (Louis Wu 10:16:16 UTC)
November 22, 2004 Link to this post
Turning a gamertag into an online pariah
Hehe - if you're going to try and manipulate game outcomes in Bungie's Optimatch system, you should be careful who you're playing before you start dropping. There are times when taking the loss would be preferable to making the wrong people angry. (Thanks, KP.) (Louis Wu 09:16:39 UTC)
November 21, 2004 Link to this post
Sunday Net News
A few articles that have popped up in the last day or so:
- Computer and Video Games - review, 10/10, plus 83 smallish screenshots (thanks, 3Suns)
- Springfield (MO) News-Leader - Halo's pretty good (I'm gonna stop posting links to these stories)
- South Bend (IN) Tribune - general interest Halo 2 story
- Carzorthade (net comic - Friday's strip was Halo 2-related - thanks, Cameron Hassler)
The press seems to be slowing down a bit. (Louis Wu 19:49:18 UTC)
November 20, 2004 Link to this post
RvB set pieces Part VI
Hawaiian Pig has posted what he says is the last collection of RvB set pieces - posed hi-res screenshots to match scenes from RvB movies. There are four new shots in this collection - really nicely done. We're gonna miss these! Check 'em out. (Louis Wu 11:44:01 UTC)
November 19, 2004 Link to this post
Stats tools look to ROCK - soon.
Whoa. Remember that Flash/Coldfusion contest we mentioned yesterday? The deadline had been today... but it's now extended two weeks, to December 3. One person taking advantage of the extra time is another Macromedia employee (not eligible for any prizes, but dang, I'm looking forward to the final product anyway) - Kevin Hoyt released a screenshot and a featurelist for Halo Reader 1.0, which looks AWESOME. Check it out! (Thanks, Mike.) (Louis Wu 20:19:31 UTC)
November 19, 2004 Link to this post
Maybe he needed a ruby.
MereCatfish decided to write up his OWN Halo 2-buying experience. See how many times you ask the screen "what... are you an idiot?" (I think I got to 6.) (All in fun, Mere - but man, you DID do some silly things.) (Louis Wu 03:22:20 UTC)
November 19, 2004 Link to this post
More Strategy Guide Freebies
Last week, we pointed out a 12-page sampler of the Piggyback/Prima Strategy Guide (it's the same book, on both sides of the Atlantic - the Piggyback team wrote this, Prima is marketing it in the US). Tonight, Frankie put up a note that includes direct download links for another few pages from Bungie, and a link to still MORE pages at Prima's site. Go get 'em! (Nothing's the same as actually HAVING the book... but it's a great start; you can download 22 of the 226 pages right now!) (Louis Wu 03:13:21 UTC)
November 18, 2004 Link to this post
Of Halo 2, and Halo
Some folks have noticed I haven't written a Halo 2 review yet. Some folks have wondered why. Part of the reason is that my only complete experience with the game was a marathon run-through in October - I had been given a single day to finish the campaign mode, and I wasn't sure how long that was going to take; I didn't 'stop to smell the roses', so when all was said and done, I didn't feel comfortable writing an entire review based on this experience. I've been slowly making my way through the game again on Heroic - I don't have that much time for doing this, so I'm only about halfway through. When I'm finished, THEN I'll write a review. In the meantime, though, there are some interesting thoughts from pretty respected community members - Ducain started a thread this morning discussing his unhappiness with his own feelings toward the game. There's some thought-provoking stuff in there. (Please - do NOT turn this into a flamefest. You're welcome to disagree, agree, whatever... but keep the discussion civil. Thanks!) (Louis Wu 17:11:44 UTC)
November 18, 2004 Link to this post
Learning to Fly
We've said, over and over again, that we're in the process of building a rather feature-complete Halo 2 Tricks site, as a joint project with High Impact Halo. Because of that, until it's actually finished, we're generally sending folks to HIH with their tricks (anything collected there will be added to the new site once it's finished)... but Dark Helmet posted a trick so cool recently I COULDN'T pass it up. Many folks have been playing around with the Energy Sword glitch; it's been known for almost a week that if you start a lunge attack you can't finish, your sword will allow you to 'fly' to the target - WHEREVER that target is, whenever you get the chance to attack. There are a bunch of multiplayer movies showing this already (a nice one was made by Ducain and crew yesterday)... but Dark Helmet has gone them one better - he's done it in Campaign mode, solo. The first vid was a teaser; it was 3:12 long, 13.7 mb large, and didn't explain ANYTHING. Yesterday, he released a how-to vid, showing exactly how to do this at home. The video is 8:38 long, 41.1 mb, and pretty amazing to watch. Because it's WMP9 format, I've gone ahead and whipped out a QuickTime version for folks who need it - this one needs to be seen. (QT is 27.9 mb.) People complained that destructible vehicles would lessen the jumping you could do in Halo 2... Dark Helmet proves they're all full of hot air. (Louis Wu 15:51:57 UTC)
November 18, 2004 Link to this post
Pwned.
Clan HBO (well, a ragtag collection of us, anyway) just played Bungie in the second weekly Halo Humpday Challenge... and got toasted. We were doing okay, actually, after a rocky start, on our favorite gametype (Beaver Creek Shotties-only CTF), but Sketch decided it had been running too long, and ended the game. Our second and third attempts were dismal failures, and we'll be headed home with our tails between our legs. I'm sure there'll be some suitably humiliating writeup by morning over on B.net. I'm going to bed now, to avoid thinking about it. (Louis Wu 03:34:21 UTC)
November 17, 2004 Link to this post
A Grand Don't Come For Free
Interesting - Mike Scott found a suit of Halo armor on eBay - starting bid is $1000 (considerably cheaper than Nightmare Armor's offerings). There's a bunch of info about how it was made on the page, as well. Auction ends in a bit under a week... take a look! (Louis Wu 18:36:06 UTC)
November 16, 2004 Link to this post
Sentinel Released
We don't normally post submitted press stuff as-is, but after looking over Grenadiac's summary of Sentinel, there wasn't anything I wanted to pull, so here's the announcement in his words:
After several months in development, Kaptain Kommie and Grenadiac have released Sentinel, an advanced server browser/manager for HaloPC and HaloCE. Some of its advanced features include: mapfile and bitmap verfication to prevent cheating, mod registration, automated downloading/installation of new maps, server hammering for full servers, buddy list, player search, easier dedicated server setup, support for mIRC commands when joining/quitting or while playing on a server.(Louis Wu 16:55:42 UTC)
November 16, 2004 Link to this post
Life on the Edge
Shadow, of Sector 7 Halo, wrote up his Midnight Halo 2 experience - go read. Thanks, Wolfy. (Louis Wu 14:42:14 UTC)
November 16, 2004 Link to this post
Games that Should Have Been
Team Overkill sent in a forum thread from a Nintendo forum - you really gotta wonder about the people who take this stuff at face value. (This is being posted for its humor value, not to incite people to start a platform war - go look, laugh, leave. Try not to be annoying.) (Louis Wu 14:39:14 UTC)
November 15, 2004 Link to this post
February 9?
Whoa. This is FIRMLY in the rumor category, until I see some evidence, but Slashdot is reporting that there's a note at the very end of the credits screen that states 'Coming February 9th' - if you finish on Legendary. Utopian Gamers, where /. got their info, suggests that it's a heads-up for Halo 3 in 3 months... I have trouble believing that. What it DOES mean (if it's even really there), though, is anybody's guess at this point. More if and when we learn something. (Louis Wu 18:50:16 UTC)
November 15, 2004 Link to this post
Halo/XBL egg
Hehe - we're holding off on most tricks/glitches/eggs until the joint HIH/HBO site is up and running (in the meantime, remember to submit your stuff to High Impact Halo!), but this one was too good to let go. Mike Basus was looking at his HDTV screen, waiting for matches to start in Live, and noticed that one of the lines of what looks like alien text is actually the lower half of text in the Halo font. He's decoded this much so far:
"DAVID CANDLAND IS THE GREATEST UI DESIGNER EVER"
[then there are 13 characters he doesn't understand:] "LIVEINTREEISI"
"HIS WORK IS ASTOUNDING AND HE IS VERY HUMBLE"
I gotta wonder - did Dave put this in, or was someone yanking his chain? Nice find, Mike! Update: Confirmation from a close relative of Dave's clears up that this was, in fact, added by Dave, and as late as October, had not been noticed by the majority of Bungie employees. The best kind of egg! (Louis Wu 10:25:55 UTC)
November 15, 2004 Link to this post
Glitching for fun and profit
Halo GT has put together another film - GT #11 starts out with some tank launching off shields, and gets to the top of the world. There are also a bunch of funny glitches on the second half of the film. Some stuff I haven't read about yet. 30 mb, QuickTime format, available from HaloGT.com. (Louis Wu 10:04:40 UTC)
November 13, 2004 Link to this post
Spoilers, and cookies.
Man... you guys are hardcore. I had a small problem with the spoiler system today - took me about 15 minutes to fix it. In that time, I received 10 notes - a couple were just confused, 3 were angry, the rest were giving me a heads-up... our spoiler system was broken, and was showing weird stuff. Remember, this is a low-budget operation; I don't have a development server, so fixes happen on the live server, in real time; sometimes, I have to put some debugging code in to see what's going wrong. If you see odd stuff, how about you wait 10 minutes and then look again, before you start mailing me that it's broken? Thanks.
While we're on the spoiler system - there are a number of you that continue to have trouble setting a spoiler cookie on your computer. With one exception, every single problem that I've heard about involves Windows XP with SP2 installed. I've done as much testing as I possibly can without an actual SP2 machine (I've had more than a dozen people with this combination playing with settings to see what works and what doesn't) - without exception, all of my testers were able to set cookies successfully. If you can't, it's more than likely that you have something blocking cookies - something in your privacy settings, or a software firewall (like Norton Internet Security), or something similar. There's nothing at all I can do about that. That's your computer. You need to accept first-party cookies, and (I think) accept session cookies. Beyond that, any blockage is on your computer; I can't tell you what's wrong, because I'm not there. Sorry. (Louis Wu 19:36:38 UTC)
November 12, 2004 Link to this post
Problems... and their fixes
Bungie has acknowledged a few of the outstanding problems with Halo 2 - widescreen HUD display, long wait times for matchmade games on live, and "dirty disc" problems - and has said they're working on solutions. More when we know about it! (Louis Wu 16:40:55 UTC)
November 11, 2004 Link to this post
Small delay on forum opening
Apologies. The plan was to reopen the HBO forum this evening - but I can't be around to supervise it, and I'm a little afraid of the starting explosion. We're going to hold off until tomorrow morning (Eastern time). You should spend the interim period playing Halo 2, soldier! (Louis Wu 23:19:48 UTC)
November 11, 2004 Link to this post
Gamers - a demographic to be reckoned with
We got a note from William Vitka - who's started a new column about gaming at CBSNews.com. His choice for topic for his first column? Guess. Feel the love. Gamers are on the move! [Note - CBSNews.com seems to have moved this article - the original URL points to a piece on LEGO Star Wars. You can find the original Halo piece here. -lwu] (Louis Wu 02:32:39 UTC)
November 10, 2004 Link to this post
Eggs, Tricks, and Spoilers (oh my!)
We've already received more than half-a-dozen egg reports, or Halo 2 tricks - here's the policy on those. I haven't figured out how we're going to handle Halo 2 tricks yet - but we WILL start posting news about them beginning on Friday. (This way, the European contingent won't be TEMPTED to look before they at least have a chance to buy Halo 2.) Spoiler-laden material will not be posted before Friday, either; yes, there's a new spoiler system in place to block it if you don't want to see it... but sometimes the simple presence is enough for folks to give in. Speaking of the spoiler system - there seems to be an issue with machines that use Windows XP with SP2 installed - something in this configuration is blocking the acceptance of the cookies. I don't have an SP2-equipped machine here, so I can't test it (the cookie system works fine on my XP/SP1 box), so if anyone has any suggestions about WHY SP2 might be keeping the system from working, I'm all ears. Thanks! (Louis Wu 15:15:31 UTC)
November 10, 2004 Link to this post
Halo 2 Widescreen problems?
A large number of threads over at the Bungie.net and TeamXbox forums have sprung up in complaint at the way Widescreen mode works in Halo 2. Apparently, multiplayer,
vertical-splitscreen mode is great... but in regular campaign mode, many parts of the HUD are offscreen to some degree. I don't have time to check all the threads, but if you're interested in this subject, you can find them here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (thanks, Joseph Bat). If we get any official word on this, we'll be sure to pass it along. (Louis Wu 14:54:59 UTC)
November 10, 2004 Link to this post
Halo Tribute vid
Btcc22, of TouringNet.co.uk, wrote to tell us that a Halo Tribute Video is online at his site. 61 mb, WMP9 format. 1:30 of screenshots, followed by 10+ minutes of single and multiplay footage. (Louis Wu 14:50:14 UTC)
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