We had some guests lined up for this week’s show, but life happens and schedules change, so it’s up to the three hosts to hold down the show this week as Halo 2 Anniversary comes to Halo: The Master Chief Collection on PC, and not without it’s own set of problems. The MCC Pro Series was also announced with weekly online PC tournaments happening starting next weekend. As usual, we have our normal round of community updates.
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As fate would have it, we’re looking at July until we get our first big showcase of Halo Infinite news but there’s still the Xbox Series X Gameplay Event… where not a lot of gameplay was actually shown. Alas, we do have the pleasure of having UberNick as a guest on this episode to talk about why he loves Halo so much and what’s the cost of a dab. We brought the community survey back asking you what your favorite game mode in Halo is and as always, our look into the community happenings.
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Welcome back to another Machinima Monday everyone! We’ve really been enjoying the nostalgia trip and there will be plenty more of that to come, but for now, we take a break and turn to something akin to a PSA.
Simply titled, The Script, this video gives an example of, what happens “when the script is poorly written”. The machinima itself is satirical in nature, but aims to bring to light some less than desirable personalities when making machinima. We won’t spoil the details, but it’s an entertaining watch.
Video published by: 51TD0wN
We’re still in a bit of a news drought, but we did get work of an Xbox Series X press event happening net week showcasing some of the games on the console being developed by 3rd party developers, so it’s not likely we’ll see any Halo Infinite new, but one can hope. In addition to a Twitter community update, conclusion to the Halo 2 PC flight for MCC, and our normal community update, we are pleased to introduce to the co-hosting cohort of Dust Storm and Godzilla T, a community veteran and life-long Grifballer: DJBluePDX! In addition to finding him on Mixer, you’ll now be able to find him on the podcast here every week! We’re happy to welcome him and we hope you will too!
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Monday can of course mean one thing, Machinima Monday. Every Machinima Monday a Halo Machinima is featured, whether it be a full series or a one off video. This week is no different, with the feature being a series called ‘Outpost: Coagulation’.
‘Outpost: Coagulation’ was created by TreeskunkProductions. With the first episode being uploaded in 2008, the series would then continue up until episode 10. Each episode is anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes in length, so finishing the series doesn’t take too long at all.
As noted in the title of each episode, ‘Outpost: Coagulation’ is a Halo 2 Machinima, which of course brings that extra retro feeling that old Machinima series are known for. It also includes some of that classic edgy humour that early series are known for, so if you don’t mind laughing at sometimes offensive jokes, you’ll likely enjoy this series.
The description for the first episode of ‘Outpost: Coagulation’ is as follows:
“Attack of the Moron”
Rico, the human commander, assaults the elite base and steals their flag and forces their un-experienced cook Shadow to help him beat back the counter attacking elites. An episode filled with action suspense and…lemonade?
Each description for every episode gives us a little slice of what’s going on, without spoiling the overall episode. Something that many series may forget to do. The joking and playful nature of these descriptions for ‘Outpost: Coagulation’ certainly helps add to the charm of the series as a whole.
As mentioned earlier, there are 10 episode for this series, but each is relatively short. I’d recommend starting and maybe even finishing the series, as it takes no time at all and provides a ton of laughs along the way.
If you’re in a Machinima mood you could also check out TreeskunkProductions other Halo series for more laughs and fun.
Video Published by: TreeskunkProductions
We have a double feature this week as we just released our interview with Installation 00 yesterday, which was pre-recorded before this episode. Both together would have resulted in over three hours of content, so we decided to keep them separate for this week. We cover the latest community spotlight, have a new poll to discuss, and some unconfirmed “leaks” that we chime in on going around the community.
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We had a strong start this year with guests on the podcast and we’re happy to bring on more guests. On this episode, we have our interview with Installation 00, a YouTuber who has been making waves in the lore community with his detailed breakdowns of multiple different subjects. Although he’s one of the more recent YouTubers in the scene, he’s really taken off just crossing 50,000 subscribers and posts multiple videos every week. You can find him on YouTube and Twitter.
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