It’s been a whirlwind of a week and we did two episodes this week to cover everything going on. We’ve had three extensions of the Halo 3 PC flight, Mixer shutting its doors and our first official teaser for Infinite confirming the Banished will be in the game. With the closure of Mixer, DJ is absent this week as he’s trying to figure out how to maintain his streaming career, so if you have the opportunity, go follow him on https://twitch.tv/DJBluePDX.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a solo-recording of the podcast, but with the delightful conversation with Tim Dadabo last week and with a lot of things to cover this week, I decided to break things up. Most of the content in this episode is what we were going to cover last week and we still have our podcast recording live tonight. We’ve got our usual run-of-the-mill playlist, HCS and community updates.
It’s Machinima Monday time! As always on a Monday, Podtacular features a Machinima made by the community. This week is a relatively short stand alone Machinima named ‘What We Left Behind‘.
If you couldn’t tell by the title, ‘What We Left Behind‘ has quite an emotional and serious theme to it. The 11 minute long Machinima is absolutely incredible. The use of camera angles, subtle but powerful ambient sounds and the overall silence really helps set the tone for the video.
The description of ‘What We Left Behind‘ trailer is as follows:
A man becomes isolated years after a global collapse with nothing but his thoughts.
The description, like the Machinima, has very few words. This really is important though for the feeling of the video. The words that are spoken really have great voice acting too. The emotion captured by the actor is intense and realistic.
Overall ‘What We Left Behind‘ is a masterpiece. The way it sets up the story, the way it handles emotional storytelling, the voice acting, everything. Digital Virus, the creator of this Machinima really did an outstanding job.
Another month goes by… again. Maybe one of these days we’ll get regular with this article. (Blame it on Dust’s not so secret machinima project.) Our featured streamer this week is no stranger to the Halo community and as one of the original HCS Grassroots Partners, needs very little introduction, but let’s show him some love.
No stranger to the competitive side of Halo, Vetoed is probably one of the most level-headed and chill players when on stage as seen when he streams and when he has competed in HCS. He started streaming Halo 3 competitively back in 2014 grinding out Lone Wolves and hunting rank 50s. With numerous 24-hour streams and an aggressive streaming schedule, Vetoed quickly rose to the top of the Halo directory and became partnered in June 2016. When Halo 5: Guardians launched, he created the team Overdrive and completed in the Halo Championship Series. Given his competitive edge and streaming accolades, he also was in the first wave of HCS Grassroots partners. Although he doesn’t stream as frequently as he used to, Vetoed rocks an impressive 33K followers and just under 500 subscribers and regularly streams Halo with a few other games mixed in..
Vetoed does not currently have a streaming schedule. You can subscribe to him on Twitch and follow him on Twitter and YouTube.
We have a very special guest on this week taking up our whole two hours to share stories and provide answers to the community’s questions for Tim Dadabo, voice of 343 Guilty Spark. Recounting tales from Halo: Outpost Discovery, to discussing Tim’s entry into voice acting, we hope you’ll find this interview with our first voice actor on the show an enticing one.
Huge thanks to Archangel470 for creating this week’s podcast artwork. Full version can be seen here.
The last two Machinima Mondays have shown some series that did things a little different than the ordinary Halo Machinima. This week though it’s back to tradition with a good old fashion Halo Machinima called ‘The Running Dead’. More specifically, the second season.
Whilst technically not yet released, ‘The Running Dead’ has received a brand new launch trailer for the second season of the Machinima. The description of this launch trailer goes into a bit more detail about the first season too, so I’ll let the description do the talking.
The description of the ‘The Running Dead’ season 2 launch trailer is as follows:
The Running Dead was first released almost 7 years ago… Season 2 will finally release a week from today.
The entire cast, team, and myself have poured our whole hearts into this project. Hundreds of hours have been spent making this season the biggest love letter I could ever give back to you all. I hope you’ll join us on June 20th at 8:00pm CDT for the premiere of Episode 1!
*Filmed on MCC Halo: Reach and Source Filmmaker, The Running Dead Season 2 will introduce new characters as well as returning season 1 elements and characters.
As mentioned above, the first season of ‘The Running Dead’ started 7 years ago. Oh how time flies. Whilst this is just a short launch trailer, it does give us a taste of the theme of the Machinima.
The studio making the Machinima is also called KnightmareFilmz, so that at least should slightly hint as to why this launch trailer is knightmare inducing. Get it? Anyways, if you want to watch the first season of ‘The Running Dead’ be sure to check out the YouTube channel.
The world is certainly in a state of chaos, but while we continue to social distance and fight for social justice, thankfully Halo is still here and we have a couple of great announcements this week. First was the unexpected announcement of Halo 3: ODST’s Firefight mode coming to MCC and second was the start of Halo 3 flighting on PC to include Forge and Theater! All of the hosts and most of the staff will be playing and streaming over the next week or however long the flight lasts, so make sure you check out their personal stream channels. And as always, we cover the latest community news and playlist updates.
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