Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of "This Week in Halo" where I'll be going over some of the things I found interesting or noteworthy over the past 7 days.
We'll start with our usual recap of the Halo Bulletin. If you noticed that last week's was missing, well it's because I didn't really think there was much news to report on. Just a description of what weapon classes they'll be tweaking. This week we get a nice steaming pile of new info for us to dive into.
AGL
If you are into pro gaming, Arena Gaming League had a tournament this past weekend in Nashville. You can catch a recap of the games on Their Twitch.tv channel
Weapon Tweaks
The big news this week is on the front of weapon tweaks. BS Angel makes it clear that these are not final, or as not final as a final change could be. Or something. Anyways here is a breakdown of what we might tentatively be seeing in terms of weapon changes.
Precision:
Battle Rifle: Four shot kill (was five) and a reduced rate of fire. Overall a reduction in kill time.
Light Rifle: Range that reticle turns red (Auto-aim enables when the reticle is red) now matches DMR range
Carbine: Seven shots to kill (was eight). More rewarding for players who master the Carbine
DMR: No nerfs!
Automatic:
AR, Suppressor, and Storm Rifle are receiving damage boosts, but a reduction in auto-aim. Up close they'll be more deadly, but requiring more accuracy to use effectively.
Vehicles:
Warthog and Mantis chain guns are tentatively receiving a damage boost.
Power Weapons:
Beam Rifle is slated to have a reduction in Auto-aim assist. Which should hopefully bring it on scale with the Human Sniper Rifle.
Matchmaking Updates:
This week's matchmaking updates brings us changes to Team Regicide and Grifball. Team Regicide will stay its own unique playlist and not merge into the Rumble Pit list. It will apparently also have different game types to make the playlist more varied. Map changes include the removal of Complex, and the addition of Landfall, Dispatch, Simplex, and Scythe.
Grfiball game types will be more properly aligned so Grifball and Grifball pro have the same player trait settings (except ball pickup). They're also doing some tweaks to the maps to remove bugs and glitches, as well as some new visual aesthetics.
Multi-team slayer gets a slight change from 30 kills to win, to 50.
That just about wraps it up for the Halo Bulletin from this week. As always please give it a read
This Week in Halo
Scouring our friends Halo.Bungie.Org and HaloCouncil.com I've come up with this selection of videos, articles, and new websites below:
Oakley brings us some forge news, how to forge underwater! Great atmosphere for infection maps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUhjsL2tOkA
Jack and Geoff from AchievementHunter.com are back with another edition of HORSE:
Halo 4 - Achievement PIG #122 (Jack vs. Geoff) - YouTube
They also drop another Five Facts, which I didn't know there was a first five. So check out the ten below:
Five Facts - Halo: Combat Evolved - YouTube
Five Facts - Halo: Combat Evolved (pt 2) - YouTube
Apparently they just churn out videos, here's their Fails of the Weak Volume 13
Halo 4 - Fails of the Weak Volume 134 (Funny Halo Bloopers and Screw Ups!) - YouTube
Anoj with Top 10 series comes with a Betrayal and Suicide episode, I don't know about you but Number 2 is my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8ayBsw0a8
Pete The Duck gets interviewed by XBL Gamers:
XBLG TALKS WITH PETE THE DUCK - XBLGAMERHUB.COM
Community Cartographers have launched their own unique website, check it out:
aPK has some clips from Halo 4 and BlOps2 if you're into that sort of thing:
Halo 4, Black Ops 2 | Clips of the Week - Ep. 4 - YouTube
If you like podcasts, dust storm brings us a new podtacular:
Podtacular 360: Drop Shock | Podtacular
and with forge news with Pete The Duck:
Podtacular 361: Forgetacular | Podtacular
If you're into Flood maps check out this collection:
Flood Map Collection 01
A reach tidbit here, but some crafter modders managed to get a Longsword on a modified version of Forge World. Pretty cool stuff:
Halo: Reach ? Longsword on Forge World - The Halo Council
We also get a look into the making of Spartan Ops:
Halo 4: Spartan Ops Extended Behind the Scenes // That Xbox Show - YouTube
I think that's about all the news for this week. If you have any comments or suggestions please let me know on how to improve these or what articles you'd find interesting.
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Have a good week!
-Vincent