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News & Updates

05/01 | HBO's Louis Wu has posted his hands-on impressions of Halo 4 from an event last week. Read here, and be encouraged.

04/17 | Tonight's Conan show featured an extended segment on Halo 4, featuring Frankie and Kiki Wolfkill.

04/17 | New 343 Sparkcast! Direct download here. For a quick bullet point summary, head here. A round up of the clarifications posted to GAF is here (thanks TheOddOne).

04/17 | The Halo 4 release date has been announced - November 6th. Red vs Blue has a Halo 4 skit on the date announcement, here.

04/13 | MTV has some behind the scenes clips with Niel Davidge.

04/12 | Another 20,000 posts, another OT. Post moar!

04/11 | More videos from Game Informer's ongoing coverage: their "Halo coverage trailer", and an interview with Audio Director Sotaro Tojima.

04/11 | Halo 4's composer, Neil Davidge, has been announced. Click here for a video about the soundtrack, and here for an extended sample. Better yet, direct download here. (Thanks, David!)

04/07 | Halo 4 information is flowing fast now, with the Game Informer reveal. Head to this thread for a summary of the contents, and to the GI hub for what they've released so far.

03/13 | Has thou Halo Honor?

03/05 | Plywood put together some great GIFs from the video, and Devolution has her write up from her visit to see Halo 4 in person.

03/05 | Halo 4 has finally been revealed. Hit this link for the youtube behind the scenes video, which has the first-in game footage, and here for Forward Unto Dawn's reveal roundup of media links.

03/03 | Come work at 343 Industries, bros.



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Halo Data Drops

343 has been dribbling a series of cryptic 'data drops' each Friday, graduall building out some backstory. Is it leading up to Glasslands? Primordium? CEA? Halo 4? The answer is probably, yes.

Data Drop 1 | Data Drop 2 | Data Drop 3 | Data Drop 4 | Data Drop 5 | Data Drop 6

Halo Community Sites | The Halo community is vast. Here are a few highlights.

HaloGAF! Yes, we're our own webzone now. Thread archives, .gifs, and more. Duncan goes above and beyond.

HBO
The oldest and biggest Halo fan site on the web, run by one of the nicest (and oldest) people on the internet. If there's news about Halo, HBO will cover it.

Bungie.net forums
A vast community of upstanding and thoughtful commentators.

Tied The Leader
A community, clan and site dedicated to fair play and thoughtful commentary on Halo.

rampancy.net
Another long time Halo fan site, dedicated to unusually in-depth commentary and analysis of the series, as well as news and community creations.

Forward Unto Dawn
In the spirit of Ascendant Justice, FUD is devoted to analysis and commentary on various aspects of the Halo games and universe.

Major League Gaming
An organized league of professional gamers, in which Halo plays a starring role. Forums, league schedules, rules and live streams are available from their site.

Forge Hub
A large community devoted to creating custom maps in Forge. Tutorials, guides and an active forum to provide feedback and testing, as well as an excellent resource for well crafted maps.

Special Thanks to Louis Wu for web hosting.

[Louis Wu]

I REMEMBER REACH

(I still play it almost daily. :) )

[monsterfracas]

New thread smell!

[Letters]

Hello

[Franklinator]

hey guys

[Rickenslacker]

Welcome to Reach.

[Hypertrooper]

OMG YES! MY NEW HOME!

[Corran Horn]

You were reaching for that one.

[Homeboyd]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Obligatory:

[heckfu]

hahaha this title

[GhaleonEB]

I REMEMBER REACH (I still play it almost daily. :) )

Likewise. I just thought it was a funny title, since most of the discussion has moved on even though it's what we still play.

[Louis Wu]

Likewise. I just thought it was a funny title, since most of the discussion has moved on even though it's what we still play.

Moved on to ponies. Makes me shake my head.

[Bornstellar]

New OT get!

[Overdoziz]

343 clearly remembers Reach!
Setting the tone for my posts in this thread.

[GhaleonEB]

Moved on to ponies. Makes me shake my head.

I think it's best that we leave that episode behind us.

[MrBig]

Halo still lives.

[Hypertrooper]

Likewise. I just thought it was a funny title, since most of the discussion has moved on even though it's what we still play.

The title reminds me of the second Reach OT where some freaked out because they could not find it via search. (Or they claimed it was not findable via search)

[HiredN00bs]

Man, remember when Halo was still Halo, like in Reach? None of this new 4 shit...

[CyReN]

Sooo fast.

[Bregmann Roche]

Likewise. I just thought it was a funny title, since most of the discussion has moved on even though it's what we still play.

A poignant reminder that the game has basically been a waiting room for this community. I still play it a bunch but not as much as I should be playing a Halo game.

[Hydranockz]

Can we post the pictures now?!?!?! :p

[NullPointer]

Locked and loaded. Lets do this.

Bring on the vidocs!

[Letters]

20k posts until we get rid of that stupid game's name from the title, again

let's get to work

:p

[Homeboyd]

Man, remember when Halo was still Halo, like in Reach? None of this new 4 shit...

[ncsuDuncan]

New thread?

[789shadow]

Ah, new OT smell. lol I was banned for the last one.

[thezerofire]

tried to think up something witty to say about remembering reach, and failed. oh well

[Plywood]

And this is why you should all have faith.

[Barrow Roll]

Not gonna lie, there are some pretty hot pony cosplayers.

[Nub]

OT4 by May?

[Letters]

And this is why you should all have faith.

for customs

[Bregmann Roche]

I think it's best that we leave that episode behind us.

HaloGAF has its own "ancient evil" to fight...

[NullPointer]

And this is why you should all have faith.

Needs to be on top of every page until we get a better gif.

And Remember Reach? More like Remember Firefight? (sob)

Any scheduled info dumps to come? Or are we waiting on e3?

[Hypertrooper]

Not gonna lie, there are some pretty hot pony cosplayers.

I have to agree with this. Still it is strange to look at.

[789shadow]

Needs to be on top of every page until we get a better gif. And Remember Reach? More like Remember Firefight? (sob)

Remember Armor Lock. OH I'M SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO DREDGE UP THOSE HORRIBLE MEMORIES.

[higherARC05]

Yay I'm on page 1.

[Plywood]

Not gonna lie, there are some pretty hot pony cosplayers.

Yo,



Rainbow Dash could get it.

[GrimBrother One]

Don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...

[Steelyuhas]

A couple replies from that old OT.

I think there was a 5 plots variant, called "Landgrab". I think it just depends on the map, cuz I thought 3 plots worked pretty fine on Terminal. Headlong/Containment had Land Grab, I remember.

Gah, this was the shit in Halo 3 BTB. 3 plots is fine as it was a bit like Battlefield Conquest. Need Conquest Territories!

Yeah I think territories should always be the Conquest style one, much better than the round based, can't reclaim a captured territory one. There should be 3 Plots, and 5 Plots for some of the large BTB maps.

I know it may be bit premature to speculate about e3, but I really hope we'll be hearing about Halo Wars 2. It's hard to believe they haven't talked about sequel, I thought the first sold pretty well. I got into the game pretty late, but man that game is fun.

The studio that made the game was closed right after they finished Halo Wars. I don't think we'll get a sequel.

[NullPointer]

Remember Armor Lock. OH I'M SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO DREDGE UP THOSE HORRIBLE MEMORIES.

[Hypertrooper]

Yo, Rainbow Dash could get it.

Is the second thing from the right a MAN?!

[Letters]

[ncsuDuncan]

Don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig...don't include a sig... - Grim

Fixed.

[Stinkles]

What should we bitch about for the next 300 pages? Should I put more robots in MP maps?

[heckfu]

Is the second thing from the right a MAN?!

haha YUP
(edit: wow, duncan and i made the same joke seconds apart.)

-Grim

[Tashi]

I love Reach

[higherARC05]

What should we bitch about for the next 300 pages? Should I put more robots in MP maps?

Robot ponies?!

[Metroidvania]

What should we bitch about for the next 300 pages? Should I put more robots in MP maps?

Add lit plasma grenade drop on death with a 1 second timer.

I don't know what could cause more bitching than that.

[Rickenslacker]

What should we bitch about for the next 300 pages? Should I put more robots in MP maps?

Once there's a source for Halo 4 images I can legally use in GAF I am going to keep pointing out how Chief's shoulder pad is floating and not attached to anything.

[Bregmann Roche]

A couple replies from that old OT. Yeah I think territories should always be the Conquest style one, much better than the round based, can't reclaim a captured territory one. There should be 3 Plots, and 5 Plots for some of the large BTB maps. The studio that made the game was closed right after they finished Halo Wars. I don't think we'll get a sequel.

1. I've played very little 3 Plots and no 5 Plots, but what I have played I have enjoyed quite a bit. I don't understand why Plots isn't in Multi Team but Crazy King is. 3 Plots makes way more sense in that list.

2. I always thought Halo Wars 2 would play more like a DotA game rather than a true RTS. Does that make any sense?