We are very excited to see the community rallying behind the promise of Halo Infinite; and while there’s still room for healthy speculation, the flighting program described by 343 is sure to help the community feel at ease when helping 343 make small, yet impactful changes to the game. We asked the community what they would like to see in Infinite’s flighting program and the response was outstanding with almost 20 replies on Twitter. 343 has returned from their holiday slumber, which means we’re back into covering official and community news again as well.
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2018 has been a wonderful year for us here at Podtacular and for Halo fans alike. We saw the announcement of Halo Infinite and the reveal of the new Slipspace Engine, the Halo World Championship taking place in Seattle earlier this year, MCC receiving some TLC, and a few of our own accomplishments here. We would like to thank all our fans who continue to support our little community and listen to the show. We can’t wait to keep fraggin’ trucks with you all next year.
We’ve been in the dark about Halo: Infinite since E3’s tech demo of the Slipspace engine, but that all changed with the past week’s 343 social stream. While there’s still a lot left in the shadows, we received official confirmation on a few community desires, like 4-player split-screen and PC play and a few more hints like Reach-style customization and playable Elites. We’ll undoubtedly hear more about Infinite in 2019, but based on the flighting program they described, this game will not see store shelves until 2020 at the earliest. A lot of buzz has been generated around Infinite now and now it’s time to take a look back at 2018. On next week’s show, we’re asking listeners of the show what their most memorable or favorite moments of 2018 are for Halo. We’d love to year from you on social media, our Discord or via email at podtacular@gmail.com.
Apologies for the delay in the release of this episode. Between technical difficulties during the stream and the business of the holidays, it took a bit longer to get this one out. With that said, we have a couple of special guests with us this episode behind the community project Downfall. We learn about what the game is, the goals of its development and what’s been done thus far.
As if we didn’t have enough news to cover from the community already, this week we get a double portion with updates from projects, HCS Grassroots events/streams, matchmaking updates and a late posting of the Halo Spotlight from Unyshek. We really thought we were out of the dark ages of having to worry about covering Thursday postings, but alas, here we are mid-show with the latest Waypoint update. This week, being the first full week of December, Uny was joined by James Monosmith to review the latest Halo Gear to pick up for your Halo fanatic this holiday season. Did you know you can actually buy Halo: Fireteam Raven? Just pull out $67K and you’re set! Despite the length of this podcast, it’s a packed one. Podcast artwork provided by 
A new season calls for a few changes to our normal Halo content. Unyshek has taken over for community updates and social streams as we enter the winter season (for those of us in the northern part of the world). There’s a December update poised for MCC, some upcoming holiday playlists for Halo 5, digital goods and a few highlights from the Grassroots program partners.
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