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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Halo Wars: Definitive Edition Standalone Lands April 20th

On April 20th, Halo Wars: Definitive Edition will become a standalone title aside from requiring to be bundled with Halo Wars 2: Ultimate Edition. HW:DE has been available since December 2016 for those who pre-ordered the ultimate edition on Windows 10 and Xbox One, but the standalone version will include Steam availability also supporting Windows 7. Players who purchase the Steam version will not be able to play with Windows 10 version owners of the game. Price is still unknown at this time, but we assume it will be between $20-30.

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Podtacular 577: Who’s on First

We find ourselves yet again in another week gone by with not much franchise news, but there’s plenty happening in the community, changes to the eSports arena and, perhaps the biggest news this week is the reveal of Xbox Scorpio’s specs and analysis by Digital Foundry. Halo: Envoy hits store shelves and digital platforms in less than two weeks, weapons are being changed in the HCS summer season, this month’s Legendary Crate is available until the end of this week, and we have some amazing community creations featured in a variety of places.

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New Leader “Colony” Coming to Halo Wars 2

A recent vidoc published reveals a brand new leader for Halo Wars 2, along with plenty of new units and powers. Teased during Morgan Kinsano’s panel at PAX East, the new leader is a Hunter colony, known as just that, Colony. Colony will come with a plethora of new units, including a massive Hunter unit known as a Goliath, and a super-unit that can draw enemy fire and soak damage known as a Captain. New powers including a living barrier, which is as the name says, a set of barriers made up of Hunter worms, as well as a vehicle buff which embeds them with Hunter worms. The Colony leader will be releasing this month, and is available through the Season Pass if you own the deluxe edition, but can be bought normally.

There is a lot more information on Colony that can be found in the official vidoc on Halo’s YouTube.com.

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Podtacular 576: Unforginbelievable

What do you do on a week that is filled with little news? Have a short show, and a short description. There are some cool forge bits in here though and a bit of German too!

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