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Halo |OT10| The Calm Before The Storm

Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
7 days from now would be a Sunday. Which just so happens to be NFL day here in the land of Halo's biggest market. And a lot of people watch the NFL on TV. I wouldn't be surprised if Dani is teasing the start of Halo 4's TV marketing.

I'm not.

Crap, that's a direct answer.

I mean, maybe... who knows? oooooh.
 

Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
Then I'll go with my second guess: Halo brand toiletries. We'll finally get Reach brand toothbrushes featuring the characters of Halo: Reach.

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Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
Damn man, my MLG controller is on the fritz right now. It's like all choppy and shit when I turn. As if the framerate was dropping. Ughhhh
 

Omni

Member
It's true.

Don't read unless you've finished the book:

I honestly feel like Thursday War was pointless. Nothing really happened. Kilo 5, on Venezia, leaves right away, rescues Phillips...and does nothing. They return to Venezia and they're in the same spot they were in before, just with a slightly different lineup. Then you've got Phillips himself, who finds glyphs? If they can somehow incorporate him finding those into finding the Chief, okay, that's cool with me. But if that doesn't happen, I'm going to laugh so hard because all of his chapters were literally pointless.

Jul's little journey was meaningful, especially if he forms the splinter Covenant faction we encounter in Halo 4 like its eluded to. The civil war stuff didn't mean much because as soon as it started to actually happen, Hood comes in and stops them with the infinity. That's cool, I guess.

I'm a defender of Glasslands, a defender of Traviss(loved her star wars and gears of war books), but this one just sucked. Meh.
Mmm. I'm not going to lie, I actually enjoyed the book... but yeah, all it did was answer a few questions from the first. It didn't really give us anything new... (Though it was explained that Naomi's MK VII looks like MJOLNIR MK V which I thought was interesting).

Jul's story now is quite transparent. It's so obvious that he's going to be creating the Storm faction. Once he gets enough ships, he'll head off towards the Didact and the beginning of Halo 4 will start.

The Phillips thing could've played out to have been so awesome... but it was just meh. Definitely a weak point and I was just skipping of those chapters. For a Brute uprising it was unbelievably dull.
 
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Obviously a space whale helped launch the Infinity back home while Chief and Didact begin their life anew on Requiem to have a million babies. Also a space shrimp and pac-man are fighting but I don't know how it ties in to the story.
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
If it turns out that Requiem somehow turns into a Halo or something I will lose my shit.

But I don't know how Slightly Live would have acquired a picture of this, haha.
 

willow ve

Member
Damn man, my MLG controller is on the fritz right now. It's like all choppy and shit when I turn. As if the framerate was dropping. Ughhhh

I get around 6 months of play out of any controller before I have noticeable degradation in feel of components, movement on sticks, and responsiveness of buttons (all or one of the above). If I could afford it I would get a new controller every 3-4 months. Black Friday maybe?
 

Fuchsdh

Member
So if I were to change my avatar right now...

There's a plenary indulgence in it for you if you go back to Littlefoot.

And damn guys, your CSI stuff is awesome.

The real thing's awesome too, but there's nothing like seeing that thing resolve into Frankie's head. It's beautiful.
 

dmg04

#DEADWRONG
best guess; Forward unto Dawn crashing into the 'planet'. structure in background is some random forerunner floaty.


worse guess; image from forward unto dawn, showing a covvie ship in the background and the main character watching as the base (and space elevator) are being overtaken
 
Made an avatar for Tashi.

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Just speculation, but: we know the first level of Halo 4 has some obvious parallels to the first level of CE. What if we have to go though the crashed Infinity in the final level just like The Maw?

-actual spoilers-
Maybe the vent core "boss battle" will even get replaced by a Didact fight.
 

Fuchsdh

Member
-actual spoilers-
Maybe the vent core "boss battle" will even get replaced by a Didact fight.

Lol. I never had thought about blowing up the Autumn that way. I remember when I first played it I could never blow them up, it took tons of tries and I often fell to the bottom floor. Now, it's so effortless I'm not sure why it was an issue. With a co-op partner staying up top to toggle the switches, it takes less than three minutes.
 

DopeyFish

Not bitter, just unsweetened
That's Mixcraft's acoustic piano, isn't it? My man.

Give TruePianos a shot. You get a free 40-day trial for some pretty decent-sounding VSTs.

lol it's whatever is built into FL studio

(I have my NI piano software somewhere but i lost the dongle... wooooo)
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
I warned you<3

lol did you? Well, it still works like 98% of the time. I'd be even more bummed if I paid for it lol

Made an avatar for Tashi.

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Just speculation, but: we know the first level of Halo 4 has some obvious parallels to the first level of CE. What if we have to go though the crashed Infinity in the final level just like The Maw?

-actual spoilers-
Maybe the vent core "boss battle" will even get replaced by a Didact fight.

I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOUL HUMAN
 
K

kittens

Unconfirmed Member
I want to play with the Halo 4 BR sooooooo baaaaaad

Edit : Oh, and sorry to the people I was playing Halo 3 with. I lagged out of another game. :-(
 
That's Mixcraft's acoustic piano, isn't it? My man.

Give TruePianos a shot. You get a free 40-day trial for some pretty decent-sounding VSTs.

Hey man, thanks for the comments. I'm away from my good headphones right now, so I haven't listened to what you posted yet. I will when I get back to my gear though!

Do you use Mixcraft? I do. I actually used Mixcraft's default piano for my piano in my remix (lol). I have some other ones, but I knew my piano would be drenched in reverb and you wouldn't be able to hear details.

Other than that, it was a lot of Kontakt 5, NI Retro Machines, and Impulse and Messiah (freebies packaged with Mixcraft).

And thanks to everyone else who listened to my remix! Very encouraging =)
 
Hey man, thanks for the comments. I'm away from my good headphones right now, so I haven't listened to what you posted yet. I will when I get back to my gear though!

Do you use Mixcraft? I do. I actually used Mixcraft's default piano for my piano in my remix (lol). I have some other ones, but I knew my piano would be drenched in reverb and you wouldn't be able to hear details.

Other than that, it was a lot of Kontakt 5, NI Retro Machines, and Impulse and Messiah (freebies packaged with Mixcraft).

And thanks to everyone else who listened to my remix! Very encouraging =)

Yeah, Mixcraft is my go-to DAW with a buttload of VST plug-ins. What did you use for your cellos/brass? I noticed a few were just pitch-shifted versions of the original samples (which is a very clever trick, might I add), but the ones in the beginning of the song definitely did not sound like the stems.
 
Why did Bungie stop making interactive maps? Why hasn't 343i tried to implement a couple of them. I miss terminal. also miss opening the gate for Zanzibar. It really created a different dimension to the maps.
 
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