Podtacular 824: Interview with XLR8

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Dust Storm

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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Podtacular 823: The Only Thing Constant Is Change

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Dust Storm

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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Podtacular 822: Last Tower Standing

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Dust Storm

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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Podtacular 821: Speed Crawling

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Dust Storm

Season 2 of Halo Infinite’s multiplayer is out and with it, new narrative beats, battle pass, maps, modes and controversial updates to the campaign. This one’s short so we could play the new maps and modes, which we’ll have more to talk about next week.

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Podtacular 820: Always More Space Among The Wolves

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Dust Storm

Season 2 of Halo Infinite is just around the corner with two new maps, three new modes a full 100-tier battle pass, Campaign Co-op and Forge Beta. Many of these things have been demanded by the community since the release of the game and while it’s a but of a disappointment things weren’t there at launch, 343’s commitment to keep pushing towards these features is noteworthy. Along the lines of customization, there’s a lot of changes planned for how things are earned or purchasable along with an overhaul to the armor core system. Hopefully time will tell if these changes are what we’re all hoping for.

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Podtacular 819: Floods of Change

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Dust Storm

Halo Infinite isn’t the only game getting some major content love. MCC is also getting some attention as the introduction of FloodFight is already available in Halo 3: ODST along with several other lifecycle improvements and additions to the experience. A major shift will also see changes to the challenge system and future customization unlock paths as the traditional season releases are being retired for a new 4-week cadence at some point in the near future. Modding tools, cross-platform campaign, addition of skulls and more are all part of the new roadmap of content for this year and MCC.

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Podtacular 818: Silver Outcomes

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Dust Storm

Rounding out the last month of Halo Infinite‘s first Battle Pass season, 343 has been hard at work processing through all of the community feedback that has been received from social media, forums, Discord and the support site. It’s been a tumultuous start to the latest installment in the franchise, but the outcomes has made it very apparent that we are being heard and changes are coming! We are incredibly impressed with the sheer amount of feedback and the list of actionable results we’ll see starting season 2. Paramount also released the first episode for free on their YouTube channel for about a week and we’ give our unanticipated glowing review of the silver timeline in the Halo universe.

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