The first expansion pack to Halo Wars 2 after the season pass brings the flood back to the Halo franchise through the Awakening the Nightmare DLC. We’re introduced to two new Banished leaders who are charged with collecting resources from around the crash site of High Charity, which has been quarantined by the Ark. Voridus has other plans and puts Pavium at risk of completing the salvaging operation. For this show, we discuss the campaign specifically and our impressions after playing.
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We ran into a lot of technical issues setting up this recording and because of how late we started, we kept this one short and just talked about the little bit of news from the week and our latest escapades in Halo 5 and Halo Wars 2. The Halo 3 Throwback playlist has been a lot of fun and we’ve begun our play through of the Awakening the Nightmare campaign. The augmented reality Halo Recruit experience was announced by 343 and Microsoft, which will be available at Microsoft Stores and for download on October 17th. The fall season of the North American HCS is heading to DreamHack Denver October 20th as well.
It’s been ten years since Halo 3 released and it’s been one heck of a ride since then. In similar fashion to 343 Industries’ live stream taking a look back at some classic Halo moments, Dust Storm and Godzilla T talk about their experiences with the game and involvement with the Halo community around the time of Halo 3’s popularity. There’s a lot about the game and the community at the time to possibly mark this time as the pinnacle of the Halo experience and fan base. When it comes down to it, Halo 3 has a special place in many fans hearts and we’re happy to be celebrating its 10-year anniversary.
We’re finally getting back into the novels of the Halo franchise. Jumping in with a light read, today we take a look at the Joseph Staten novel, Shadow of Intent. The book takes place after the events of Halo 3 telling the story of a Prelate’s search for revenge against 
Halo 5: Guardians has been out for almost two years now and it’s had a few major and minor tweaks over its lifespan. 343 is now testing a few other changes in the wild to make some weapons and power-ups more effective and adjust to their desired role in the game to create a better sandbox experience. For this show, we try to interpret some of the vague descriptions and our opinions on the coming changes. The changes seem to be more of a nerf in performance to withhold some of the undesired effectiveness of the weapons being tested, but they’re giving us a chance to test out the changes and gather valuable community feedback via matchmaking. Through October 2nd, the Weapon Tuning Test playlist will feature these weapons before they are pulled for final review and pushed later this November with the 4K update.
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