Hypertrooper
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I thought through the quote trick a HaliGaffer would snag it.PsychoRaven said:
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Halo: Reach |OT5| A Monument to All Our Sins
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Devin Olsen
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Wait is it a completely new tag or you changed names? If it is a new tag entirely I do not think you can relink old content.OuterWorldVoice said:
Edit:
I posted a bunch this morning, did you see them?Trasher said:
ElRenoRaven
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Hypertrooper said:
Well we don't know who got it so who is to say one didn't? After all it tends to just be Halogaffers that post here.
OuterWorldVoice said:
Where is a confused gif when you need one?
Devolution
Member
OuterWorldVoice said:
You drunk brah?
ElRenoRaven
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wwm0nkey said:
That doesn't transfer it between gamertags though. That just reauthorizes the DLC for the new console.
Devolution
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senador said:Probably posting from Windows Phone 7, cut him some slack!
I was just hoping he was because it'd be funny.
omg.kittens said:Yeah, Evolutions is worth it.
I'm jealous of all you folks who love Cryptum. No matter how hard I try, I can't get into it. I want to read it for the Halo 4 hints + teases, but I'll have to just reading the HBO and Halopedia summaries.
In other news, I totally suck at Halo now. The knowledge of the TU's impending arrival has sapped my current Halo energy a bit. I can't seem to muster the energy to fight bloom for that last elusive headshot anymore. I feel like I'm constantly popping shields, but never getting kills. At least my assist commendation is skyrocketing.
I'll keep on playing, but mostly focusing on other games. I've barely played anything but Halo since getting a 360 again this summer.
I have the paperback version of Cryptum on order for next month. I hope I can get into it. I'm adding Evolutions to my never ending Halo wish list on Amazon.
I saw you sitting in the lobby a few times, I would have invited you but I was with 3 IRL friends in Team Slayer and 2 of them suck so didn't want to subject others to that. LOL
Edit: Damn, meant to edit my last post.
Edit edit: There are 2 volumes of Evolutions?
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
That's exactly what I'm gonna do, hah. And I'll pick up another game or two between now and when CEA hits. That should keep me occupied for a long while.Ken said:
Also, I didn't know you were Chocopolka! I knew you were from GAF, but I had no idea who exactly. Good games!
I ended up teaming up with other HaloGAF folks, so no worries. And yeah, the IRL friend that I play Halo with the most is really bad, too. 0.69 K/D, hah. It's still fun, though.senador said:
So. PAX.
On Friday I parked in the lot connected to the conference center around 8:15 and headed straight to the Sheraton hotel across the street and upstairs for the Halo Anniversary panel. The line queued up in a small room adjacent to the conference room, and I was about 100 people back, in the corner.
As the crowd filled up, Enforcers came by to help pass the time. Beach balls were soon bouncing around the crowd, but there was a purpose to them. After a few minutes, they plucked two teams of 10 from the crowd and set them against one another in a game. They stood in rows and had to pass the ball to the person behind them, one person over their shoulder, the next between the legs, the next over the shoulder, and so on, until the ball reached the back of the line, where that person ran to the front and repeated. The first team to get through all 10 players first got some swag (I didn't see what).
You can see the balls getting knocked around the crowd here. It was a festive atmosphere.
One fine young Enforcer came by with a plush sheep, asking, "Have you hugged a sheep today?" Those answering in the negative got to hug the sheep. I was too far, back, alas.
The panel itself you saw online as well (and perhaps better) than I did. It was great.
Some random cosplay:
After that, it was off to HaloFest:
HaloFest itself was very well put together. Not just in terms of content, but also the layout, which was very smartly done. Rather than one big gaming area, there were many, and they were distributed around the show floor. The line queues were all pointed in different directions, and none dumped out into one another. It was a marked contrast to the very messy main show floor. No lines were more than a few minutes throughout the event, which was impressive since there were a lot of people there at all times. Major props to Microsoft's team for a very well planned show.
The more you looked around, the more you saw. Is that Mr. Chief as Van Gogh missing an ear?
Oh look, there's Kat lurking in the shadows.
There was a Spartan made out of Mega Bloks; you could enter a drawing - guess how many blocks (bloks?) it took to build him, and win...something, I forget what. I guessed since you got a little action figure for entering.
Friday night was the VIP party at HaloFest, where we saw the best cosplay of the entire show:
At the party, Claude (Louis Wu) was given an award and the first of the six limited run duke controllers. Here's the handoff:
Devin posted pics of the epic cake (and no, that's not an abuse of the word 'epic' - the cake was epic). Here's pics of me eating the cake. Or rather, the bit of cake I got with the frosting:
I'd gotten in line when I saw them brining out the knife to cut it, so I got slice #5. Observation and timing FTW.
The layers of fondant around the outside of the cake were thick; it was comprised of two layers, the inner to lend support, then a second layer that was printed with the Halo screenshots.
Fondant is almost pure sugar, so I could only do a few bites. Neat to eat a picture, though.
Here's a douchebag scalper, of which there were tons. I wanted to punch them all in the gut every time I walked by.
Beanbag surround the main floors. Day 1 they are soft and pleasant. Day 3 they are soggy with nerd sweat.
The show floor was absolutely packed; I literally didn't play any games this year due to the crowds, just did lots of watching and soaking up of swag.
The Skyrim booth was fucking awesome:
Hitmonchan and I hit up the Sunday Skyrim panel, which we got in by the skin of our teeth thanks to some lucky positioning and timing. The Friday panel was canceled, which we didn't realized, so 2x the number of planned attendees showed up.
I tried to take a pic of the line to PAX that morning but this guy jumped in front. Jerk.
The line was a madhouse. But it was worth is since on every seat was a plush helmet from the dude in the demos:
Here's some guy trying not to look like a dork wearing one (and failing miserably).
It was surreal and awesome to see them in the crowd, though:
Before I left, I put together two nearly identical swag bags, one for each of my kids. Action figures, whoopie cusions, Master Chief piggy banks, posters, foam chainsaws, t-shirts, the works. I managed to snag two of most things. One swag bag even had a new Reach controller (!!!). My bags alone filled up half the trunk. The kids could barely stay away from the loot when I walked in the door Sunday night (past their bed time, no less):
It was like Christmas on speed, as they tore through the goodie bags, leaving wreckage in their wake:
Lots of good stuff in the mix.
But as I said before, the swag is neat, but the real enjoyment at PAX was the people. HBO, HaloGAF, random folks, the guys and gals of 343 (all of whom were class acts). Long after the swag has disappeared into the ether of my kids toy mixtures, the memories will live on. Good times were had.
Some crappy videos; I haven't even labeled them yet, which I'll do in the morning.
Wandering around HaloFest's VIP party. See if you can spot the part where I drop the camera (wrist strap FTW), it's hard to spot. Not the best filming job but I wanted to show a bit of the layout for those who couldn't make it; it was hard to film and dodge bodies at once.
They had Claude cut the cake.
Wandering around the show floor a bit. I took this video mostly to show the crowds and atmosphere; I had to stop filming because it was hard to walk through the crowd with the camera out.
On Friday I parked in the lot connected to the conference center around 8:15 and headed straight to the Sheraton hotel across the street and upstairs for the Halo Anniversary panel. The line queued up in a small room adjacent to the conference room, and I was about 100 people back, in the corner.
As the crowd filled up, Enforcers came by to help pass the time. Beach balls were soon bouncing around the crowd, but there was a purpose to them. After a few minutes, they plucked two teams of 10 from the crowd and set them against one another in a game. They stood in rows and had to pass the ball to the person behind them, one person over their shoulder, the next between the legs, the next over the shoulder, and so on, until the ball reached the back of the line, where that person ran to the front and repeated. The first team to get through all 10 players first got some swag (I didn't see what).
You can see the balls getting knocked around the crowd here. It was a festive atmosphere.
One fine young Enforcer came by with a plush sheep, asking, "Have you hugged a sheep today?" Those answering in the negative got to hug the sheep. I was too far, back, alas.
The panel itself you saw online as well (and perhaps better) than I did. It was great.
Some random cosplay:
After that, it was off to HaloFest:
HaloFest itself was very well put together. Not just in terms of content, but also the layout, which was very smartly done. Rather than one big gaming area, there were many, and they were distributed around the show floor. The line queues were all pointed in different directions, and none dumped out into one another. It was a marked contrast to the very messy main show floor. No lines were more than a few minutes throughout the event, which was impressive since there were a lot of people there at all times. Major props to Microsoft's team for a very well planned show.
The more you looked around, the more you saw. Is that Mr. Chief as Van Gogh missing an ear?
Oh look, there's Kat lurking in the shadows.
There was a Spartan made out of Mega Bloks; you could enter a drawing - guess how many blocks (bloks?) it took to build him, and win...something, I forget what. I guessed since you got a little action figure for entering.
Friday night was the VIP party at HaloFest, where we saw the best cosplay of the entire show:
At the party, Claude (Louis Wu) was given an award and the first of the six limited run duke controllers. Here's the handoff:
Devin posted pics of the epic cake (and no, that's not an abuse of the word 'epic' - the cake was epic). Here's pics of me eating the cake. Or rather, the bit of cake I got with the frosting:
I'd gotten in line when I saw them brining out the knife to cut it, so I got slice #5. Observation and timing FTW.
The layers of fondant around the outside of the cake were thick; it was comprised of two layers, the inner to lend support, then a second layer that was printed with the Halo screenshots.
Fondant is almost pure sugar, so I could only do a few bites. Neat to eat a picture, though.
Here's a douchebag scalper, of which there were tons. I wanted to punch them all in the gut every time I walked by.
Beanbag surround the main floors. Day 1 they are soft and pleasant. Day 3 they are soggy with nerd sweat.
The show floor was absolutely packed; I literally didn't play any games this year due to the crowds, just did lots of watching and soaking up of swag.
The Skyrim booth was fucking awesome:
Hitmonchan and I hit up the Sunday Skyrim panel, which we got in by the skin of our teeth thanks to some lucky positioning and timing. The Friday panel was canceled, which we didn't realized, so 2x the number of planned attendees showed up.
I tried to take a pic of the line to PAX that morning but this guy jumped in front. Jerk.
The line was a madhouse. But it was worth is since on every seat was a plush helmet from the dude in the demos:
Here's some guy trying not to look like a dork wearing one (and failing miserably).
It was surreal and awesome to see them in the crowd, though:
Before I left, I put together two nearly identical swag bags, one for each of my kids. Action figures, whoopie cusions, Master Chief piggy banks, posters, foam chainsaws, t-shirts, the works. I managed to snag two of most things. One swag bag even had a new Reach controller (!!!). My bags alone filled up half the trunk. The kids could barely stay away from the loot when I walked in the door Sunday night (past their bed time, no less):
It was like Christmas on speed, as they tore through the goodie bags, leaving wreckage in their wake:
Lots of good stuff in the mix.
But as I said before, the swag is neat, but the real enjoyment at PAX was the people. HBO, HaloGAF, random folks, the guys and gals of 343 (all of whom were class acts). Long after the swag has disappeared into the ether of my kids toy mixtures, the memories will live on. Good times were had.
Some crappy videos; I haven't even labeled them yet, which I'll do in the morning.
Wandering around HaloFest's VIP party. See if you can spot the part where I drop the camera (wrist strap FTW), it's hard to spot. Not the best filming job but I wanted to show a bit of the layout for those who couldn't make it; it was hard to film and dodge bodies at once.
They had Claude cut the cake.
Wandering around the show floor a bit. I took this video mostly to show the crowds and atmosphere; I had to stop filming because it was hard to walk through the crowd with the camera out.
ncsuDuncan
Member
Just got back home after spending all day in transit. I'm sooo far behind on the thread.
Sorry I let down the non-PAX contingent of HaloGAF, wish I could have posted more from HaloFest but typing long posts from my touchscreen-only phone is frustrating. Not to mention each day was a struggle to keep my crappy cellphone battery charged. I was so busy running from one panel/event/demo to another I had little time to write up any proper impressions.
Yep. Unfortunately I was trying to think of a question and THEN get in line. It's incredibly frustrating to have a legitimate question and then see:
- Someone asking a Multiplayer question at the Campaign panel (and vice-versa).
- Someone asking a completely obvious or asinine question (Why no Xbox Live support?)
- Someone who refuses to step away from the mic until asking seven different questions. (Thankfully Ellis shut this down in the later panels, even though he was teased for trying to keep the fans in line.)
I don't want to sound like an asshole, but it sometimes gets on my nerves when people waste valuable question time on being the 57th person to say "I just wanted to thank you guys for everything, blah blah blah". Save that for AFTER the panel,
not everyone sitting there enjoys hearing your speech - even if they agree that the panelists are awesome.
At the Halo Universe panel I wanted to ask Jen Taylor how she approached the role of Dr. Halsey differently than Cortana.
At the (somewhat lukewarm) Community panel I wanted to throw them an easy question and ask the Grifball people what they thought of the TU's new option for Sword blocking.
For the CEA Multiplayer panel I got in line with the intention of asking about whether or not vehicle balance was going to be touched by the TU, and if not, how far down the list it was. Then a few of the people ahead of me asked about Elite Armor and something else where the answer was basically "It was on the list but didn't make the cut." I didn't want to bore everyone with another answer like that so I was going to ask about Forge options in the CEA maps. Someone then asked about that (albeit at a lower level than the question I had in mind) so in about 10 seconds I made up the question regarding the visual style of the remake maps.
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I plan on writing a huge post at my site with pictures, impressions, etc. It might take me a day or two, I want to do it right. I will say that one of the highlights for the weekend (of which there are too many to count) was an excellent conversation with Chad/Shishka regarding the TU, the flak he and Jeremiah get for playlist management, and GAF. Very cool guy.
Sorry I let down the non-PAX contingent of HaloGAF, wish I could have posted more from HaloFest but typing long posts from my touchscreen-only phone is frustrating. Not to mention each day was a struggle to keep my crappy cellphone battery charged. I was so busy running from one panel/event/demo to another I had little time to write up any proper impressions.
Hypertrooper said:
Yep. Unfortunately I was trying to think of a question and THEN get in line. It's incredibly frustrating to have a legitimate question and then see:
- Someone asking a Multiplayer question at the Campaign panel (and vice-versa).
- Someone asking a completely obvious or asinine question (Why no Xbox Live support?)
- Someone who refuses to step away from the mic until asking seven different questions. (Thankfully Ellis shut this down in the later panels, even though he was teased for trying to keep the fans in line.)
I don't want to sound like an asshole, but it sometimes gets on my nerves when people waste valuable question time on being the 57th person to say "I just wanted to thank you guys for everything, blah blah blah". Save that for AFTER the panel,
not everyone sitting there enjoys hearing your speech - even if they agree that the panelists are awesome.
At the Halo Universe panel I wanted to ask Jen Taylor how she approached the role of Dr. Halsey differently than Cortana.
At the (somewhat lukewarm) Community panel I wanted to throw them an easy question and ask the Grifball people what they thought of the TU's new option for Sword blocking.
For the CEA Multiplayer panel I got in line with the intention of asking about whether or not vehicle balance was going to be touched by the TU, and if not, how far down the list it was. Then a few of the people ahead of me asked about Elite Armor and something else where the answer was basically "It was on the list but didn't make the cut." I didn't want to bore everyone with another answer like that so I was going to ask about Forge options in the CEA maps. Someone then asked about that (albeit at a lower level than the question I had in mind) so in about 10 seconds I made up the question regarding the visual style of the remake maps.
-------
I plan on writing a huge post at my site with pictures, impressions, etc. It might take me a day or two, I want to do it right. I will say that one of the highlights for the weekend (of which there are too many to count) was an excellent conversation with Chad/Shishka regarding the TU, the flak he and Jeremiah get for playlist management, and GAF. Very cool guy.
ElRenoRaven
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Very freaking cool. That cake looks yummy. And aw doing that for your kids is so sweet. They have such a kickass dad.
ncsuDuncan said:
Oh damn. You had such great questions to ask. See prime example of how to ask questions. I really wish you had gotten to ask them. We had so much hate for the idiots that asked the stupid questions. Enough to power the Death Star forever.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Nice timing. I hit brig yesterday, lol.-Yeti said:
Fixed lolKen said:
Devolution
Member
I haven't cosplayed in years. I don't even think i have the pics anymore either, thank god.
Hypertrooper
Member
Do you want to blame them? It isn't really necessary to do that. The questions are asked and we can't change it now.Ken said:
Hypertrooper said:
No, just curious. I just remembered someone doing it in a previous Halo panel (some girl with a Cortana username on b.net) and I found that to be a little more annoying (and a little humorous) than those who give the thanks speech, so I was wondering if anyone did it again this year.
Hypertrooper
Member
Ah. I know what you meant. Yeah it is some kind of annoying.Ken said:
Btw the face of the XBL-guy was so hilarious after Frankie said that CEA has XBL.
Like my face during the Halo 4 art trailer is that definitely GIF worthy.
GOOD STUFF GHALEON!!!!!!!
Loved all the pics, comments and the couple vids. Thank you.
@nscuDuncan We know that feel bro, well not exactly since you were actually there staring at the back of the heads of those morons but yeah, we were raging hard over here too. I caught a glimpse of you walking to get in a panel Q&A line on the stream, your shirt looked sweet! Looking forward your pictures and comments.
@Devolution Go find those pictures!
Loved all the pics, comments and the couple vids. Thank you.
@nscuDuncan We know that feel bro, well not exactly since you were actually there staring at the back of the heads of those morons but yeah, we were raging hard over here too. I caught a glimpse of you walking to get in a panel Q&A line on the stream, your shirt looked sweet! Looking forward your pictures and comments.
@Devolution Go find those pictures!
Devolution
Member
Letters said:
It was a terrible attempt at a Vanessa from KoF cosplay that I'd rather not relive.
BlindSwordsmanZ
Member
An interesting BTB I played tonight...
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=22999165&player=DMT illuminous
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=22999165&player=DMT illuminous
Speaking of cosplay, one of my sisters friends offered to make me a suit of armor from Halo (he is actually decent at making them), only catch is I have to go to an anime con. Haven't been to one of those since middle school and not sure if armor is worth it because there are a lot of weird people at those things lol
Devolution
Member
wwm0nkey said:
It's worth it. Just stay where there is a lot of air circulating in and out, otherwise it's awful.
I would totally cosplay as Kat if someone wanted to make me armor and all I had to do was go to a Con. The only thing that really gets to me at cons is the stench.
Devolution
Member
wwm0nkey said:
Well yeah the amount of creepers there too is quite off putting as well. Couple of my gal pals cosplayed as DOA characters one year, I swear they got drooled on.
Steelyuhas
Member
wwm0nkey said:
I've wanted to play a couple of times each of the the past couple of days, but before I turn on the Xbox, I think about the TU, and then I lose desire to play lol.
Steelyuhas
Member
Steelyuhas
Member
Guy is playing an Anniversary gametype and drops the pistol and keeps the AR.
EDIT: Magnum and DMR have bloom in Anniversary gametypes...huh?
EDIT: Magnum and DMR have bloom in Anniversary gametypes...huh?
Steelyuhas
Member
wwm0nkey said:
Yeah but the Prisoner video was an "Anniversary" gametype. Why would weapons have bloom in that gametype?
Anniversary video on Damnation as well. Lots of pistol action, appears to have not full bloom, the expansion was really small and the reset was pretty damn quick. Still not sure why the Anniversary gametypes has bloom though.
KidA Seven
Member
Ken said:
Same here brah. Scoutz fo lyfe!
Zeouterlimits
Member
Had a fun bug doing the Nightfall run last night with Xand, ZalinKrow & Gui.
First Xand lagged out just as we went through with the forklift and the second time Zalin went through, it teleported Xand & Gui up to him, but not me. So I was like "well fuck, I guess I have to do the forklift trick too. So I hop into the forklift, and it transports the boys back to me, behind the gate". Thankfully the gate then decides to open, but the remaining area has now filled with Covies.
I managed to sprint it to the end to make up for whatever had happened.
First Xand lagged out just as we went through with the forklift and the second time Zalin went through, it teleported Xand & Gui up to him, but not me. So I was like "well fuck, I guess I have to do the forklift trick too. So I hop into the forklift, and it transports the boys back to me, behind the gate". Thankfully the gate then decides to open, but the remaining area has now filled with Covies.
I managed to sprint it to the end to make up for whatever had happened
.I realise this doesn't help, but seriously, don't play Reach on your own.Eye Drop said: