Podtacular 773: Interview with Matty McDee

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Dust Storm

In lieu of no live podcast last week, we are please to have another interview, this time featuring Matty McDee, one of the head moderators of the Halo subreddit. With over 600k members and at least 2000 online at any given moment, it’s certainly one of the larger Halo communities. While the Halo subreddit may be a well-known entity, it wasn’t always that way and really didn’t “exist” until the Halo: Reach era of the franchise. In our interview with Matty, we learn a bit behind the history of the subreddit, what it’s main content is, and discuss some of our hopes for Halo Infinite later this year.

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Podtacular 772: Down with the Dinos

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Dust Storm

It’s been a couple weeks since we were last behind the microphones, which gives us a chance to dive into quite a bit of Halo news and community updates. A new Community Update, Spotlight, Canon Fodder and Ask 343 was certainly enough for us to dig our teeth into. The community has been doing well also. We won’t have a live show this next week, but we will have another episode with our next guest. Tune in next week to see who that is.

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Podtacular 771: A Familiar View

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Dust Storm

As promised, 343 delivers another monthly Halo Infinite update and this issue delights us with breathtaking views and vistas of Zeta Halo. Right out the gate, it’s evident that the visual state of the game has changed drastically since the campaign game play demo last summer. To learn more about how the world of Zeta Halo is being brought to life, we get to hear from the art and world teams working on the project with some final thoughts from Joe Staten to round out a shorter, but certainly impactful update.

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Podtacular 770: New Map, Who Dis?

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Dust Storm

Last week while we were learning about the wonderful world of LASO difficulty, we got a new community update bringing some exciting news for the next season of content for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Not only are we getting our first look at some of the community’s most requested features, but we’re also getting our first map from Halo Online being introduced into the Halo 3 engine in MCC. While customizations are a nice addition, a whole new play-space is something new and will hopefully be a fresh addition to the collection.

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Podtacular 769: Putting the LASO in Halo

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Dust Storm

In the world of playing Halo competitively, there’s one challenge that’s often not thought of. It’s not even multiplayer, but rather the Halo campaign on legendary with all skulls on: LASO. It is no small task to complete to as it’s the most difficult campaign experience in Halo. To get the rundown on what LASO is and all the intricacies on how it’s played and the origins of the difficulty, we have some veterans in developing the strategies and exploring the game with the enhance difficulty: ProAceJOKER, Silver and Mythic Tyrant. If you’re interested in learning more about how to get involved with the LASO and speed running communities, give them a follow.

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Podtacular 768: Because We Begged

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Dust Storm

Another month closer to Halo Infinite, another podcast. Not a lot to cover this week, but it’s been a while since we took a look at the latest updates from fan projects. Not unexpectedly, there’s not a lot of updates from the games and mods over the past few months, but we’ve got Season 5 in MCC and the latest community spotlight to hold us over.

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Podtacular 767: Playing in the Sandbox

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Dust Storm

Our first Infinite update of the year has dropped on Halo Waypoint, and while it doesn’t contain any groundbreaking revelations, the Sandbox team dove into the pillars that drive their work to make the next Halo experience. With the game coming out later this year, we’re lined up for monthly updates from the studio with the next one about bringing the world of Zeta Halo to life. If you haven’t had a chance to read the update, we highly recommend you do. Also, DJ has been given an incredible opportunity that unfortunately conflicts with our normal recording day and time. For the foreseeable future, his presence will be sporadic or absent until his schedule frees up again. In the meantime, give him some love on Twitter and Twitch at DJBluePDX.

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