Podtacular 583: I’m a Miner

We’re welcomed with another week of only a tad bit of Halo news, but E3 is coming in just a couple of weeks. With no announcement of Halo 6 in sight, we speculate on what we could see at the Xbox Press Brief regarding Halo. Project Contingency released a Q&A video regarding their project to bring traditional Halo multiplayer to the PC. In the latest community update, Grim’s Canon Fodder gives us a little history behind the new mech units in the Johnson leader update.

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Podtacular 582: Knowing What Ladies Like

One of Halo’s iconic characters, Sgt. Avery Johnson returns to the fray in Halo Wars 2 multiplayer bringing powerful mech units to the battlefield and providing some classic Johnson wit along with him. The fan project, Installation 01, also released a cinematic trailer showing off some of their latest work bringing Bungie-style Halo to PC with the Unity engine.

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Podtacular 581: Turbo Time

The last week has been a pretty good week for Halo 5: Guardians. Warzone Turbo is back, Team EnVyUs took first place at UMG Daytona, defeating the world champions Optic Gaming and Dan Ayoub left 343 Industries. The community is quite a buzz too with Forge Hub looking for Forgers to remake High Grounds for a ‘classic’ playlist coming to matchmaking, Halo Customs is putting on a Battle Golf Forging contest in partnership with 343 Industries, someone made a holographic Cortana appliance integrated with the Windows 10 assistant, and there’s a fan Kickstarter project called S-117.

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Podtacular 580: Worms

Colony has made its entrance into Halo Wars 2 after a delay to fix a game-breaking bug. Big Team Battle also gets a much-needed matchmaking refresh with new maps and the Assault mode included. The HCS Summer 2017 Season enters its second week with the final changes and settings locked in.

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Halo: Community Update – Big Team Bonanza

The Halo Community Update returns with a heaping of news for both Halo Wars 2 and Halo 5 fans alike. On the Halo Wars 2 front, the hunter leader Colony has been released for public consumption, and with it comes a ton of fixes on the bug front for the RTS. It has been again confirmed that five more leaders will be delivered as part of the season pass plan, with two new Campaign missions as well. On the Halo 5 front, Big Team Battle has seen another refresh, this time bringing with it the Assault game-mode and five brand new Forge-made maps. The full list of changes on the map front can be seen following the link below. On some of the smaller, but still extensively important news, comments made recently by Frank O’Connor and Kiki Wolfkill assure fans that the focus of the next Halo will be on the Master Chief, a reassurance to many. Halo Wars: DE is also now available on Steam for $19.99, a mark of Halo’s return to the platform.

Of course, this is just some of the news to follow for Halo’s current state, and there’s plenty more to read in the article on HaloWaypoint.com.

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Podtacular 579: Reset Erickyboo

This week in Halo, we find ourselves still without the latest Halo Wars 2 leader, Colony, but for a very good reason that would otherwise break even the Lekgolo themselves. More news on the summer season of the Halo Championship Series, Halo: Envoy is released, and someone found out a way to get Warzone to load in Forge or Custom Games (we really don’t know since there’s some ONI wizardry going on to get it working)!

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Podtacular 578: Colonizing Ideas

News for Halo Wars this week is good as Halo Wars: Definitive Edition becomes a standalone title for Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam, and the next leader for Halo Wars 2, Colony, is announced and slated for release. Colony brings the prowess of the Lekgolo to a whole new level with new Hunter-like tanking units and defensive capabilities. More summer 2017 HCS details are announced regarding weapon changes and map layouts along with the full schedule. We even had enough time to squeeze in some discussions and details for changes coming to the podcast and our community in the coming months.

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