Podtacular 350: Dat Tarp

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Dust Storm

Half way to 700 episode and we’re still rockin’ the mic with Halo news, and this week is not lack-luster. We had the Majestic Map pack drop this week giving us the chance to review the maps for ourselves and we really like what we see. By far it seems like the favorite is Skyline. Extraction is getting it’s own playlist next week as well as Spartan Ops recycling the second half of the season next week. The question of the podcast is a little more free form and open to hilarious responses: What has dat tarp done for you? Enjoy

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Doing It Live

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Dust Storm

We’ve been toying around with the idea of doing a live show when we record our podcasts and for those who follow us on social media, you’ve already gotten a taste recently of what it’s like. We’ve done a few live shows in the past as well, but we’re changing that structure to be more permanent. From here on out, all of our shows will be recorded live, with a few exceptions where the shows will have to be pre-screened, recorded at conventions, etc. Every Thursday at 8:00PM Eastern, come join us on Twitch.tv when we record our regular update shows and follow us to catch all those in-between. We will also be dual-broadcasting on Ustream.tv and see where the bulk of our audience ends up, but our main video feed will be on Twitch. We’ve also been live streaming our Monday Night Matchmaking games on Twitch, so if you haven’t caught those, definitely tune in on Mondays if you can’t make it. We will be live streaming our Wacky Wednesdays that we announced on our last show.

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Podtacular 349: The Wacky Halo World

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Dust Storm

At it’s heart, Halo has always been a game about custom settings from day one. Being able to customize your experience was the cornerstone to how we play Halo today in the multiplayer space. Since the advent of Forge in Halo 3, customs have skyrocketed to some of the most fun, competitive, crazy and just plain odd combinations of map variants and game types. On the podcast today is founder Insane54 and staff member Vincent Torre from Halo Customs to talk about their efforts to highlight the creative customs community and talk about the current standing of custom games in Halo 4. With the announcement of the just released web-based file share, they have their work cut out for them. Enjoy

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Halo 4 File Share Fully Operational

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Dust Storm

Halo 4 Fileshare

The Halo 4 Fileshare was up and running a few weeks ago on the console, but today, it has been released on the web. Head on over to Halo Waypoint today and you’ll find a new item under your Career: File Share. Here you can look through your own files as well as the files of your friends on the web and add them to your file share to be later downloaded to your console. You can also download those pesky little screenshots you’ve been wanting to get on your desktop. Here’s some tips on how to navigate the site:

  • Access your file share directly using this link and replacing “gamertag” with your own gamertag: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/players/gamertag/halo4/fileshare
  • Find the public file browser here: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo4/filebrowser
  • Screenshots, Game Types, Films and Map Variants are available to view
  • You can download screenshots to your desktop by clicking on any screenshot and clicking download.
  • “Add file” adds the file to your personal file share.
  • You can remove files from your file share.
  • You can like files.
  • You cannot download things directly to your console from the web version.

Now go download to your hearts content.

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Podtacular 348: Monolithic Skyfall

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Dust Storm

Next week features the release of the second Halo 4 DLC Map Pack featuring three brand new multiplayer spaces: Skyline, Monolith and Landfall. These maps are of the smaller variety catering more to FFA and 4v4 gameplay. You’ll see a lot of Slayer, CTF, KOTH and Regicide on these maps with a few extras thrown in here and there. Ten achievements accompany this map pack as well for a total of 250 Gamerscore. If you have the War Games pass or have bought the limited edition, these maps are free to you, but 800M$ for everyone else. Enjoy

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Podtacular 347: Maps of Majesty

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Dust Storm

Expanding on last week’s title update news and the upcoming release of the latest map pack, this week’s Halo Bulletin is packed full of into regarding the Majestic Map pack and spills out the guts of the update coming out at the end of this week. We’ll be covering more map pack details in our next podcast weekend, but we do cover the playlist information that you’ll want to know when the maps drop on the 25th. The title update, while still missing a few things addresses many issues that people have been looking to be fixed. Question of the week is, “What is your favorite DLC map?” Enjoy

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Halo 4 Majestic Map Pack

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Dust Storm


The latest on the next map pack hit the streets from a video released by Waypoint yesterday. We have three new maps: Skyline, Monolith and Landfall hitting consoles February 25th catering to a more classic Halo multiplayer map style and accommodating more small, core based team play. Learn why 343i made these maps the way they are and get ready to play in less than a week.

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