Podtacular 678: Kilo-Five

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Dust Storm

Our first book club podcast of the year finds us in the exploits of ONI fueling the Sangheili civil war and the formation of Kilo-5 comprised of a mixed bag of individuals and personalities. Over the events of this trilogy, we see the continuation of the Ghosts of Onyx novel, the setup of the Halo 4 campaign story and threats rekindled in the Outer Colonies and what would become the Servants of Abiding Truth. Unlike a complete summary of the books done by other podcasts like Podcast Evolved and Halo Conversationalists, we hit some of our favorites and most impactful moments of the novels with the help from Toa Freak, Masterz and Aaron from Podcast Evolved.

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Podtacular 677: Unpopular Opinions

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Dust Storm

We have decided to traverse the murky waters of the community in lieu of substantial news and asked listeners what unpopular opinions they have about the Halo FPS games. We got a lot of responses with some pretty obvious ones and some discussion worthy opinions.

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Podtacular 676: Yapyap Strikes Again

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Dust Storm

Yapyap has made his return to making a muck of things, this time in MCC. Postums was quick to confirm that Halo 2 Classic on MCC now has a Social Matchmaking option with a Yappening setting that includes some crazy, insane game modes. There is some good news among the Yappening with some much needed changes to loading screens and a new idle indicator. The latest community update covers some new Halo Insider info, playlist rotations for Halo 5 in April, and more!

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Podtacular 675: MCC Pathfinder’s Council

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Dust Storm

MCC on PC has generated quite the nostalgic hype amongst Halo fans and we’re no exception! While there’s still no firm release date on Halo: Reach coming to the Microsoft Store or Steam, we do know that 343 is taking their time to make the PC experience right for those players. We’ve already heard about FoV sliders, updated textures, keyboard and mouse controls and that’s about it, leaving open a lot to be discussed on what other changes should be considered before a release comes to PC. With help from the community, we tackle this topic in this week’s episode pulling in some muscle to give us an expert look into the subject at hand.

This week’s guest list features community members from around the PC fan game and modding scene: Unikraken (Sins of the Prophets), Masterz (SPV3), GameCheat (ElDewrito), AssaultCommand (ElDewrito & Project Contingency), R93_Sniper (Project Contingency), SuperSniper & General_101 (Project Cartographer), N0rthM0nk (Downfall), TheChunkierBean & Tosh (Installation 01) & JeBobs (Coral).

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Podtacular 674: Ask Sketch Anything

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Dust Storm

We’re kicking it back this week and taking things a bit easy as we gear up for what is expected to be a packed topic next week. After the announcement of Reach coming to MCC and MCC on PC, our beloved CM Ske7ch took to Reddit to let Halo fans ask him anything. We discuss his answers and talk about the latest community update.

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Podtacular 673: Halo MCC: Pizza Edition

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Dust Storm

As big announcements go, this week we talk about the biggest one for Halo fans who are PC players and MCC is coming to the Windows Store and Steam. In addition, Halo: Reach is being added to the collection, but multiplayer and Forge for free, where campaign and Firefight will be an additional premium. Along with this wonderful news, we have on Andrew from Team Respawn to discuss the latest Halo Wars 2 content and where we thing the game is going over the next couple years.

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Podtacular 672: Downfall Too Soon

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Dust Storm

First of all, we want to formally congratulate Bonnie Ross for being inducted to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame for her work in promoting STEM and diversity efforts across the gaming industry amongst women, under-represented minorities and children. It’s an incredible accomplishment and we appreciate all she does for the industry. With that out of the way, it’s time for more juicy Infinite news that she discussed on the latest installment of IGN’s Unfiltered. We’re also pleased to welcome back folks from the fan game Halo: Downfall as they discuss their renewed direction for the project. There’s a big reason behind this episode’s title too, so make sure you listen through until the end.

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