After laying dormant for a while (not unlike Master Chief) here are the four episodes of Halo Forward Unto Dawn live action series from Machinima for you to watch. Each episode has come out every Friday for the last four weeks. And just like clockwork the latest one will be released this Friday, 2nd November.
So if you haven't heard yet, there has been a sweet leak about halo 4's railgun. In short its a sort of mini spartan laser with a shorter warm up time. In it's current iteration it boast deadly accuracy and can kill instantly, therefore it is considered a power weapon. But don't expect to be destroying warthogs and blowing up tanks, as the effects on vehicles are reduced, being more of a kinetic energy smack akin to the brute shot or concussion rifle, than the destructive shock of a Spartan Laser when hitting an enemy vehicle.
This is a link to the forum discussion on the flood section of the official halo site.
also check out some cool new videos like this one:
This second video gives you a rough idea of what the railgun will operate like, using Halo 3's spartan laser, although it will 'feel' pretty different in the final game :)
Expect to see quite a lot of these images flying around the ether now the first ViDoc has been released. If, however, you have been absent and have you missed the First Look Video Documentary from 343 Industries watch the video now Click here, it kicks-ass!
Now onto some of the latest images...just a few simple ones to get you ready for what lays ahead.
I'm not too sure how much of this is official stuff, I'm not the judge of that, you can be if you want. But I came across this last image on my searches and well it was one that made me smile a bit and I'm sure will bring a smile to your face as well.
Enjoy
So there we have it until next time. Once more stuff comes in, tune back in here to get up to speed with the latest updates of any new art, news, ViDocs and other juicy tidbits of Halo 4 info that you know you want.
Ok so you must have seen the new first look ViDoc for Halo 4 which is totally awesome. Personally not having enough time to analyse all aspects of the video fully check out some of the ViDoc breakdown videos like to see things that you may have overlooked when watching originally.
List of changes:
Battle Rifle is back - and its been given a new scope.
Overhauled sounds - all the new sounds have been recorded from scratch to get the exact perfect sounds in-game.
Hud Changes
3 different grenade types - currently there are three 0's for grenade slots. Each one able to hold three grenades, 9 in total? will have to see if that changes.
Halo 3-style Radar - radar seems to have the up an down elevation arrows, and what looks like an arrow at the edge of the radar to reveal distant enemies beyond the nearby range. Team mates appear GREEN, enemies appear RED.
Damage Direction Arrows - looking pretty interesting.
Secondary Weapon - displayed on left hand side.
Armour ability - (Jetpack) displayed on left hand side.
Lighter Kill Text - much more transparent and not solid blue as Halo 3 was. So no more ridiculous text blocking up half the screen.
Misc
NO beta - halo 4 won't have a public beta. As confirmed by 343industries. So beware of beta key fraudsters.
New items to spend Credits on - which won't be limited to just armour. Maybe a perk system? although this is not in-keeping with Halo.
Additional medals scoring system (game type?) - notice (in the Vidoc) that next to the medals earned are a number and the score of a BR slayer game was upward of 300 which is way too high. This appears to be an additional variant of team score. Obviously this will not replace traditional kill-scoring paradigm but rather introduce a new feature for certain game types.
Halo 4 is still in development, so some of these items may change or not happen at all, please bear that in mind when considering this post.
Well that's all we have so far, look out for more details soon.
So finally we have some info related to Halo 4! Oh Yes! I hear you say...
If you haven't already done so, check out the new FIRST LOOK video below:
Among improving on the graphics and model style of the armour that we will see in the campaign and multi player, a big choice has been to bring back the original halo 3 battle rifle with the triple-shot burst fire functionality. This will probably cause lots of dynamic change to the game like experienced back on halo 3.
Personally I'm pretty pleased that things will be picking up from where we left off in terms of the battle rifle, the new model specification etc...
Two maps are featured on the video, they are Wraparound and Warhouse. Both look aesthetically pleasing and have lended some features from previous maps from halo3 and Reach, in terms of style and design. Is it me or does warhouse appear to be a mix of Halo Reach countdown and the downloaded map Anchor 9? But don't get me wrong it looks incredibly awesome, keeping the same feel and texture we are already familiar with.
Purely judging from the video footage we can tell that the character models appear nicely trimmed and moving around fluidly in keep with Halo tradition.
And 343 are clear they want the whole experience to be much more cinematic, again keeping true to and expanding on the main story and emotional journey of previous games.
All very promising so far. And we cant wait for more....
This video shows just how powerful JetPack can be if used correctly. Near the beginning he flew into the air and used the range of his pistol to get the kill. Stole the rockets. Flying up over the building is a shortcut to where he was able to view the whole map. Although he missed with the rocket launcher, you can see how effective it can be when shot from the air to the ground.
Now I know this has broken away from the Halo Reach advance tips sections that is on going. But I want to make this place also about all kinds of Halo related things. So, seeing as Halo 4 is due out near the end of next year I want to keep you up to date with the latest info and hot details that Halo 4 will offer you.
These videos are some of the coolest info about Halo 4. And if you haven't seem them yet there always worth a look:
[Be warned spoilers for previous titles follow this video, read at own discretion]
This first one is the E3 Teaser Trailer from 2011:
So in this video we see the Chief being re-awakened from his cryo sleep chamber after the events of Halo 3, where the Chief and Cortana are stranded after the ark explosion at the end of the game, in what was left of their derelict ship.
Supposedly the game will pick up what happens next, and may even introduce to the gamer the forerunners themselves, who have been alluded to throughout the series. The forerunners of course are the ancient and intelligent race that built the Halo array, the ark and other technology in the halo universe.
It will be interesting to see if they will be unveiled within the game directly. But we will have to wait and see about that.
