Podtacular 693: Hunters in the Dark

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Dust Storm

The latest addition to Dust Storm’s novel-spree is Hunters in the Dark, taking us back to the Ark after the events of Halo 3. We get to meet up with the two co-op Elites from the Halo 3 campaign, introduced to Olympia Vale and a few other connections that we’re just discovering he (Dust Storm) doesn’t know. Also, don’t miss the one-time chance to get your files converted from the Xbox 360 Halo games into The Master Chief Collection. Details provided by Postums on the Waypoint Forums.

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Podtacular 692: The Outpost Discovery Report

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Dust Storm

Dust Storm is back after visiting Orlando to experience Halo Outpost Discovery. With the overwhelming feedback that the experience has received, both positive and negative, Outpost is definitely a unique experience and one that is worth exploring if you’re able. Despite the first Outpost feeling very much like a trial run, 343 Industries and Herschend Family Entertainment have taken feedback critically and have publicly committed to making changes downstream, which we’re excited to see! We also helped bring together four panels for Outpost Discovery programming and look to bring even more to Philadelphia! The normal roundup of community updates and spotlights also graces us this show.

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Podtacular 691: PC Play

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Dust Storm

This week brings us more news about MCC on PC with a whole lot of community questions answered by project leads and what’s next for flighting and developments. In the same vein of PC discussion, we also had Masterz on the podcast to talk about the latest update to Halo SPV3, which includes a lot of updates, bug fixes, the inclusion of Lumoria and a couple of new missions for SPV3.

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Podtacular 690: Art Doodles

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Dust Storm

We had a change up in this week’s scheduled guest so we swapped with our community update. Given everything that’s happened with the hype around Halo Infinite, it’s no surprised that there’s not much as far as community updates in the last month. We did see a new Community Spotlight post on Waypoint along with a new Discovery Dispatch and new Husky Raid playlist.

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Podtacular 689: E3 2019 Discussion

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Dust Storm

The Xbox E3 Brief this year had more than just the tantalizing trailer we poured hours over last week discussing, but we were introduced to some new services and hardware coming in the next several months. The highly anticipated Project Scarlett Xbox aims to take Xbox One X’s achievement of native 4K to the max along with being able to play games from the cloud with Project xCloud. Xbox is bringing all their services together in an all new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription including the brand new Xbox Game Pass for PC. A new Elite controller aims to improve on the first edition and address the issues and recommendations from the community. We also got a look at the most amount of games and Microsoft Game Studios represented in one brief, plus Keanu Reeves.

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Podtacular 688: Next Stop Outpost Discovery

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Dust Storm

In just a little over two weeks, Halo: Outpost Discovery will be landing in Orlando, Florida bringing the Halo universe to life like never before! A couple of months ago, we had DJBlue, Event Programming Coordinator for H:OD at Herschend Family Entertainment on the show to discuss some of the things attendees will get to experience. On this special episode, we dive deeper into more information that has been revealed over the past weeks and at E3 and maybe a couple of new details along the way. Join DJBlue and Dust Storm at all H:OD locations this summer. https://halooutpostdiscovery.com

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Podtacular 687: Infinite Trailer Discussion

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Dust Storm

The Xbox media brief this year had its handful of surprises and arguably saved the best for last, wrapping up the brief with the trailer for Halo Infinite that turned out to be the opening cut-scene from the game. What threw most people off was the different tone presented in the trailer that is a welcomed change to the franchise and what may be 343’s truly unique touch to the Halo narrative in the games. Of course we do a detailed breakdown of the trailer with help from Fuchs from Forward Unto Dawn and Unikraken from Sins of the Prophets. Grab your popcorn, cause this is a lengthy one!

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