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January 21, 2003 Link to this post
Playing with Fire
Yesterday, Bowser posted a note to our forum explaining how a slow run through the Maw seemed to gain extra time at Foe Hammer's pickup site. Some experimentation showed the limits of this feature. Here's a short film (23 seconds, 1.4 mb, QT format) showing a gain of almost a minute. The situation is this: when you pass into the area where you're supposed to wait for Foe Hammer, the timer drops off the screen. It doesn't come back until AFTER she is shot down, and when it DOES come back, it comes back with the amount of time that was on it when it disappeared... with an exception. The rule is this: If you enter that area with LESS than one minute on the clock, your timer will be reset to (2 minutes - your time on the clock). Go in with 59 seconds, you'll come out with 61. Go in with one second... you'll come out with 1:59. This suggests that if something happens to you on this run, and you get to this area with less than a minute on the clock, you should run it down to nearly zero before crossing into the 'pickup zone'; the longer you're willing to wait, the more time you end up with. (Of course, if you misjudge, and the timer runs out before you get in, you're dead.) Interesting find... even more interesting, in context; the game has been on the shelves for more than 14 months, and nobody noticed this before! (Louis Wu 14:44:43 UTC)
January 17, 2003 Link to this post
Keyes Screens Added
The screenshots that were posted along with Bungie's recent addition to their Legendary Walkthrough (Keyes) have been added to our Screenshots database. This is especially timely, since bungie.net seems to be down this morning. (Louis Wu 14:33:59 UTC)
January 16, 2003 Link to this post
Stories for a Thursday
Clearing out the Fan Fiction:
- Stolen UNSC Technical Documents, by Neile Pederson
- A Fresh Start, part 3, by Simon James
- When Worlds Collide 2.5, Halo Songs, and Elite Interview, by Gasmask
- Force 81 Part IV, by NobleWard
There are still some artwork pieces undealt with... but most of them don't make the cut under the new guidelines. :( Guess I have to get the rules up pretty soon... (Louis Wu 21:23:07 UTC)
January 16, 2003 Link to this post
50 States, 50 Chapters - redux
In early December, emildux posted some information about an effort to pick the top 50 chapters in the US (one per state). Today, he points out that this list has been overhauled... he's keeping up on activity (the HBO Junkies lost our spot in Connecticut because we haven't been doing anything), so if you're looking for active chapters in your state, this is a great place to start. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:23:15 UTC)
January 15, 2003 Link to this post
Hey! Don't step on that, it... uh oh...
Well, you can't say they don't have spirit. Heliocentric has started up a forum with one purpose in mind: to find a new easter egg in Halo before Halo 2 is released. While I can't say I understand how they plan to accomplish this with a forum, I can't fault them for their passion... go on by and visit if you want to help! (Louis Wu 00:43:42 UTC)
January 14, 2003 Link to this post
Hide and Sleep
Warbow's Hide and Seek game, Round 3, is finally over. (It started on January 8.) Watch the short movie referenced in his announcement, and you'll understand why it took so long to solve the last image... (He's tired, it'll be a while before round 4.) Congrats, c0ld vengeance - a clean sweep of all five images! (Louis Wu 21:00:53 UTC)
January 14, 2003 Link to this post
Lots o' Wallpaper... and a heads-up.
We've got six new desktops for you (some in multiple sizes), which finally clears out the artwork backlog. Go visit the Wallpaper section! It's not posted yet, but in the next day or so, there'll be a new Artwork Posting Guidelines page up to address the currently growing issue of flooding. There are lots and lots of you who are snagging a screenshot off of Bungie.net, slapping some text on it, and sending it in as a Wallpaper or Miscellaneous Art submission. In the past, we've been really lenient in our rules... but the collections are getting too big. We're going to start turning away more artwork, in an effort to keep the overall quality of displayed pieces higher. Hopefully, the guidelines will help you decide if that cartoon you've made, with a thought balloon pasted onto a stock image of Cortana, is worth mailing in or not. (If you'd uploaded art in the last few days, and it hasn't been posted yet, chances are it fell under the new rules... you're welcome to send a followup message, but please don't resend the piece. Thanks!) (Louis Wu 00:23:04 UTC)
January 13, 2003 Link to this post
He's just a boy.
Gah - sometimes, the updates get away from you. While you're all waiting for me to clear out the art queues, the fiction queues, the screenshot queue... go watch this movie. Figh7erbo1 is a short (1:39) piece set to Avril Lavigne's Sk8ter Boi... nice timing. 6 mb, in QT format, from chris_roc. (Louis Wu 20:08:39 UTC)
January 12, 2003 Link to this post
Halo World adds content
Roland Scarlett writes to say that Halo World (which we mentioned about a week ago) has been adding content at a rapid clip. Most sections are fleshed out now. There are a couple of games on the site - one is a variant of Bungie's Extreme Closeups, and the other is called 'Guess The Spot', where you're given a screenshot with a number of blanked-out areas, and you need to choose the correct one to answer the question. (No fair cheating by looking at the originals!) Watch for a few broken links in the top nav bar. (Barring some MAJOR changes, this will be the last post we make about this site with a progress update.) (Louis Wu 21:50:52 UTC)
January 12, 2003 Link to this post
Spartan II dogtags - up for grabs
Ever wish you could get your hands on a set of those Spartan II dogtags that were being distributed in Japan? Well, thanks to Nekomusume, now you can. She's got one extra set she's auctioning off on eBay... starting bid is just under $36, and you've got almost a week to decide. (Louis Wu 01:18:14 UTC)
January 11, 2003 Link to this post
The Keyes to it all
Bungie's Tru7h and Reconciliation website has put up Chapter 9—Keyes—of its Legendary Walkthrough - spoiler goodness and 26 new screenshots! Go check it out... NOW! (The inclusion of shot 19 also means our Easter Egg page is going to be updated in the near future...) (Louis Wu 01:48:10 UTC)
January 9, 2003 Link to this post
A tale of many images...
Okay, this is a long story. Bear with me. It all started when Dulaman87 sent us a note pointing out that the Random House entry for the next Halo novel (Halo: The Flood) now has a picture to go along with the cover. The thing is... that picture's been around for a while. It first showed up as a cover for the Portuguese magazine, BGamer, sent to us by Razorback over a year ago. Three weeks after that, we put up scans from the January 2002 Official Xbox Magazine... and the same image (sort of) was included as a 2-page mural. (DT_Spike combined the two halves to make it easier to see.) What's interesting about that image is that OXM seems to have airbrushed out the Master Chief in the foreground (though they left his leg shadows on the rock he was standing on). Two months later, we received a Miscellaneous Art entry from Draikin that seemed to show the same image as the original BGamer scan... and though we didn't notice it at the time, it's NOT the same image as the OXM mural. (Look at the right side of the images, for example; Draikin's version has a pair of Jackals that are replaced by Grunts in the OXM version. There are other differences, as well.) Upon close consideration, it's clear that this image (these images, rather) are composites... they pull in pieces from many, many released screenshots. This is not a standard thing for Bungie to do... but the picture has shown up in a huge variety of places, which suggests that there must be SOME official-type source for it. We have three questions:
- Who created the original image?
- What screenshots were used to composite the images (there will be at least two lists, since the images are different)
- Is this really the final cover for the Halo Novel, or was Random House simply putting up a picture to have one up?
Feel free to answer as many of these questions as you think you can in this forum thread. Thanks to Dulaman for instigating this investigation! (Louis Wu 15:45:05 UTC)
January 9, 2003 Link to this post
What the heck is THAT?
Started almost 12 hours ago, but incomplete as of right now - check out Round 3 of Warbow's Halo Hide and Seek. New rules this time out, so read that first post carefully. Good luck! (Louis Wu 00:17:43 UTC)
January 8, 2003 Link to this post
New Halo content (for some) at xbox.com
Thanks to both Simon Hill, via email, and Brandon Tyler, on our forum, for the heads-up on Xbox.com's newest Halo Picture Story. It's not viewable on a mac, or on some PC configurations, it seems... but the audio works fine. If anyone can get screen captures, we'd be most appreciative... (Louis Wu 09:45:00 UTC)
December 31, 2002 Link to this post
HBO XBL Gamertag list gets an upgrade
Two months ago, forum regular Tarrsk set up a list of HBO forumgoers and their Xbox Live gamertags, so that people could find friends to play with. Recently, that list moved here, to HBO. Now, it's become quite a bit more automated. The list keeps track of which XBL games you play, and you have full access to your own entry, so that you can add and remove games as you buy new ones or get tired of old ones. All existing entries have been moved to the new system, and assigned random passwords. None of these, of course, have games associated with them, because that information wasn't collected the first time around. If you'd like to edit your existing entry, simply visit the list, and follow the 'Edit your existing entry' link at the top of the page. We found email addresses for most existing entries, so you can have your password mailed to you - once you're in, you can change the password to something you can remember. There were about a dozen entries for which we have no email addresses - if you're one of these, you'll need to mail Tarrsk again with your address. (Follow the instructions on the page for details.) You're welcome to set up a new entry, as well - but be advised that these will be screened; spam will be deleted, and spammers will be banned from the system. Hopefully, this new setup will give people more control over who they play games with! If you have any questions about the list itself, please contact Tarrsk. If you have a PROBLEM with the list (something isn't working properly) contact me - I coded it, and any errors are certainly my fault. (Louis Wu 16:23:09 UTC)
December 31, 2002 Link to this post
Someone at MS is smokin' funny stuff...
Whoa. Nice find by mnemesis. After seeing all those hardcover copies of The Fall of Reach on the Bungie Webcam, he went looking at Del Rey's online catalog... and the latest iteration of the entry for the next Halo novel is rather intriguing. It's now listed in 3 categories, instead of just two. The older two ('Fiction - Science Fiction' and 'Fiction - Science Fiction - Adventure') have been there for months... but now it's listed in 'Fiction - Movie/TV Tie-In' as well. After all those times Matt's said that there's no Halo movie in the works, it looks like SOMEONE thinks Halo's gonna get SOME screen-time... I'm curious to see how this unfolds. (Louis Wu 02:24:40 UTC)
December 23, 2002 Link to this post
Game of the Year poll
Dang... managed to format this, start posting it, and forget to finish, about 4 hours ago. The BBC has an article on the change in video gaming ('it's not just for breakfast any more' - wait, that's orange juice), and while Halo isn't mentioned in the article itself, it is one of the 5 options for best game of 2002 in the poll included with the article. There doesn't seem to be any way of seeing the results now... but go vote! (Thanks to Andrew Czereyski for the heads-up.) Update: Andrew Katz points out that you can see poll results... but they're not very promising right now. Halo has 22.6% of 6200 votes... trailing Medal of Honour: Frontline and GTA: Vice City. Have YOU voted? Update 2: Deimosœ, of Subnova, noticed that it's a Mac/PC thing... if you vote from a PC, your vote is counted, and you're shown the results. If you vote from a Macintosh, your vote is ignored, and you can't see the results (without following the explicit URL above). I SMELL A FIX! Update 3: hehe - maybe I should actually do some testing first. Turns out it's a browser issue, not a platform one. IE can vote - Mozilla (and its variants) cannot. Still fishy... Update 4: lol - should have kept my mouth shut. Works for all browsers, all platforms. Deimos™ suggests that a Vice City fanboi was cheating, and the BBC page maintainers went overboard on the lockdown at first. Seems quite possible. In any case, go vote, and only vote once. (Louis Wu 16:50:13 UTC)
December 23, 2002 Link to this post
I can fly...
Rory Hartley has put together a short (2:03, 7.2 mb) movie called Superman. The techniques aren't new... but the presentation is pretty fun. (Check out the sequence that starts about 38 seconds in...) It's not very big - so we've put a copy up at Mythica, and mirrored it on Pez's FTP server. Take a look! (Louis Wu 14:37:54 UTC)
December 20, 2002 Link to this post
Christmas on Halo
In honor of the upcoming holiday, mnemesis has tipped the proverbial hat to the Battle Cat, a longtime Bungie fan who, once upon a time, wrote a heartwarming Christmas tale. tBC has never made the transition from Marathon to Halo, so mnemesis took it upon himself to update the tradition. Many thanks to Evil Otto, supplier of cool screenshots to desperate fans everywhere. Don't forget the razzleberry dressing! (Louis Wu 06:37:05 UTC)
December 20, 2002 Link to this post
Chronicle Profusion
Lots and lots and lots of new Fan Fiction:
- A Fresh Start, part 2, by Simon James
- Taking Tritus, part Two and Stranded at Home, part 1, by Dispraiser
- The Sheol Project, by Blindside
- Wings of Death, part 17, by el_halo_diablo
- After the Fall, part 1, by Glenny
- Fallen Angel, part 1, by Gruntkiller/Covert
- Force 81, part II, by NobleWard
Whew! That's a lotta words. (Louis Wu 06:23:40 UTC)
December 16, 2002 Link to this post
Another version of the Movie trailer
Nukedude has re-encoded Brian Josselyn's Halo Movie trailer in DivX5.01 format; it's as big, screen-wise, as the original, but 10 megs smaller. (You'll need DivX Doctor II to play this on a Mac.) You can download this from Nukedude's server, but if demand is great enough (and I'm sure Nukedude will let us know ;) ), we'll mirror this one, too. (He's also added a mirror for the original Halo 2 trailer, in WMP9 format... we've added it to the mirrors list.) (Louis Wu 17:43:37 UTC)
December 14, 2002 Link to this post
Bungie HALO comes online
Chris Solomon writes that he's started up a new Halo site, called Bungie HALO - content is growing. Take a look! (Louis Wu 10:12:53 UTC)
December 13, 2002 Link to this post
Yes, it's odd.
Apologies for the downtime (both physical, and in terms of updates). Blame life. To start off with, here are a couple of desktops for you - the Wallpaper section gets bigger and bigger... (Louis Wu 18:47:32 UTC)
December 10, 2002 Link to this post
Rate your gameplay
Glen Sanford has created a small program (unfinished at the moment) to rate yourself as a Halo player. Simply plug in the stats from the final screen of a multiplayer game, and it'll rate your skill (from 'Too bad to calculate' to 'Level 10 Spartan II'). Currently it only works for Slayer games... but at 28K for the download, what do you have to lose? (Requires Windows - not sure what flavors; I tried it on XP, and it worked fine.) Glen's looking for feedback; he wants to know if it's worth finishing. (Louis Wu 18:56:38 UTC)
December 9, 2002 Link to this post
Lots and lots of ff
The entire weekend's Fan Fiction in one fell swoop:
- Halo Christmas Carols, by Gasmask
- Revolution 2 Return of the Forerunner, part 7, by Gruntkiller
- Wilkins, part 2, by Phat Bob
- A New Year's Day, part 1, by Guilty Spark
- A Fresh Start, part 1, by Simon James
- This is Suicide, part 5, by Neile Pederson
- In The Beginning (dn), part 1, by Dan Nadler
- Shadows of Archon II, part 31, by Wado
Lots of new writers... (Louis Wu 07:07:21 UTC)
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