This week’s short show covers the latest Halo Infinite Season 2 event, Alpha Pack that’s taking place alongside the campaign co-op network test. Along with the multiplayer event is a bucket of lore around our two Spartans front and center in this season. We’re off next week, but have several guests lined up for next month.
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The time has finally come for our review of the Halo Series on Paramount+. While the story portrayed is a significant departure from the game and book cannon of the Halo franchise, it was surprising to see how much of the structure and mechanics of the universe were utilized in bringing this story to life. Some story beats felt out of place and other parts of the TV show didn’t make sense, but overall, we enjoyed the plot and are excited for what the next season will bring. Also happening this week is the Halo Infinite Co-op Network Test for the Insiders.
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Halo Infinite is finally get co-op campaign in the coming weeks, but before the world gets hand on with this feature that the community has been waiting months for, Halo Insiders will get a chance to play an early build to help finalize several key features. We’ve also got the upcoming HCS qualifiers and the World Championship fast approaching. If you’ve got plans to be at HCS Worlds or Pax West, Dust Storm will be there.
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Not a lot of news for this episode, but we have the honor of having the creator of Halo 3 Sunrise on the podcast, CraftyCodie. Through their efforts, Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 has matchmaking restored through a mod that looks to restore the entire matchmaking experiences. They are working on bringing back original launch playlists, ranks, file shares, working achievements and more. The plans don’t stop there so take a listen to see what the future of Xbox 360 matchmaking mods are from Codie.
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One of the more frequently consistent streamers as of late is XLR8, who streams exclusively Halo, but does what a lot of large streamers don’t do as often: play with their viewers. Just about every night, he’s rocking out Big Team Battle games with viewers and has a positive, uplifting attitude towards the game. Entertaining to watch and fun to play with, XLR8 has grown pretty rapidly on Twitch starting just about two years ago and has participated in some official Halo streams and events. He was also a Pilot for Halo Infinite before it’s launch last year. You can find him streaming Halo Multiplayer on Twitch nearly every night over on his channel.
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Patches made in Season 2 for Halo Infinite left a lot of players frustrated over some quality of life changes 343 implemented. After the community outcry, a few items have been restored to their pre-patch state, namely the Tank Canon in Campaign and some of the skull jumps in multiplayer. Along with changes to the game, there’s some studio changes as well as Jeremy Hook has departed the studio.
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Over the last week, we got plenty of hands on time with Last Spartan Standing introduced in Season 2 and, while it may not be everyone’s favorite game mode, it’s a fresh addition to the matchmaking experience. 343 has heard the feedback from the community and are undoing some of the fixes bringing back some skill jumps and the tank gun in the campaign. Speaking of campaign, we pick up where we left off at Outpost Tremonius and make it through The Tower.
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