Podtacular 831: The Man Behind The Forged Helmet

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Dust Storm

Halo Infinite is into week four of Fracture: Entrenched featuring Land Grab and another Community Spotlight has been spotted for this month. While we have a lull in new stuff going on with Halo Infinite, we take this opportunity to have Installation00 on the podcast to discuss the latest progress on Project Mjolnir. He’s released a couple videos with the helmet prototype, the brains of the operation (literally). There’s still plenty of time to help out with the project through his Go Fund Me campaign and several open calls he will be posting soon looking for help with the next parts of the project.

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Podtacular 830: Dropping Books

Posted on August 13, 2022 by Dust Storm

The latest Halo Infinite drop pod has landed bringing the first cross-core customization to multiplayer along with laying the groundwork for a whole lot more improvements to the game overall. The under-the-hood changes should help address things like generating new playlists, match XP and quicker content delivery in the future. Also dropping this week was the latest Halo novel, Rubicon Protocol.

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Podtacular 829: A Most Critical Achievement

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Dust Storm

It’s done; what most though impossible has crowned a champion as JerValiN has stepped up to Moistcr1tikal’s challenge and claimed a much deserved $20K and recognition throughout the community. This challenge brought together the Halo community together in brand new ways and it is truly an amazing accomplishment. On the tails of this accomplishment, we have the next Halo Infinite drop pod, new Halo novel, and next HCS event coming up all in the next week.

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Podtacular 828: Alpha Pack

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Dust Storm

This week’s short show covers the latest Halo Infinite Season 2 event, Alpha Pack that’s taking place alongside the campaign co-op network test. Along with the multiplayer event is a bucket of lore around our two Spartans front and center in this season. We’re off next week, but have several guests lined up for next month.

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Podtacular 827: The Silver in the Rough

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Dust Storm

The time has finally come for our review of the Halo Series on Paramount+. While the story portrayed is a significant departure from the game and book cannon of the Halo franchise, it was surprising to see how much of the structure and mechanics of the universe were utilized in bringing this story to life. Some story beats felt out of place and other parts of the TV show didn’t make sense, but overall, we enjoyed the plot and are excited for what the next season will bring. Also happening this week is the Halo Infinite Co-op Network Test for the Insiders.

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Podtacular 826: Campaign Multi-Chief

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Dust Storm

Halo Infinite is finally get co-op campaign in the coming weeks, but before the world gets hand on with this feature that the community has been waiting months for, Halo Insiders will get a chance to play an early build to help finalize several key features. We’ve also got the upcoming HCS qualifiers and the World Championship fast approaching. If you’ve got plans to be at HCS Worlds or Pax West, Dust Storm will be there.

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Podtacular 825: A New Dawn

Posted on June 25, 2022 by Dust Storm

Not a lot of news for this episode, but we have the honor of having the creator of Halo 3 Sunrise on the podcast, CraftyCodie. Through their efforts, Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 has matchmaking restored through a mod that looks to restore the entire matchmaking experiences. They are working on bringing back original launch playlists, ranks, file shares, working achievements and more. The plans don’t stop there so take a listen to see what the future of Xbox 360 matchmaking mods are from Codie.

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