From The End, A New Beginning
Welcome back hubbers. Is that a new haircut? Perhaps you're styling your voluminous facial hair in a different way. Got yourself some fancy new threads? No? Well, there's obviously something different about you, a morning glow of general happiness and new-found purpose, juxtaposed alongside that faint blue tinge hours of TV light has given you. Something is obviously different...
Oh, Halo 4 came out!
That's right, that one thing we've all been excited about for months now, and the game that I've personally devoted hours upon hours to. Must have slipped my mind. But, in any event, aren't we all just extraordinarily excited with this new game? I know I am. Keep an eye out for subtle little changes rolling out into the forums in the future, just to keep up with the impressiveness that is our newest Halo title.
Halo 4 File Shares
Something is clearly missing from our illustrious forums, I'm quite sorry to say. So far we don't have an official way for all of you fine citizens of FH to share your maps! But rest assured friends, it isn't directly our fault, nor is it a decision we had anything to do with. 343i has announced that a file sharing service, akin to the one in Halo 3 and Halo: Reach, will be released in the months proceeding the launch of Halo 4. So, hopefully we'll gain access to a 343i run file-sharing system within the next month. As soon as the file-sharing system is set in place we will follow suit, giving you all the opportunity to share your creations as soon as we possibly can.
Though, if you're in the mood for a healthy alternative, several people have taken to posting their Halo 4 maps as "Map Previews" and telling people to search for their maps through the in-game search engine. While this isn't a perfect solution, it's certainly better than nothing.
Another option I would like to point out the Completed Halo 4 Maps Thread, set in place by everyone's favorite journalist, Organite. The map is for members to post their finished Halo 4 works, with pictures, a short description, and their gamertag so that people can search for their map. Definitely try this thread out if you've finished a map and need a way to share it.
Colors Of The Rainbow!!!!
So, as you may not have noticed, we've had a shift in rank recently. Forum Beard Champion, and all-around-sexy-guy LD has moved on up to become a full moderator. Gaining his new color of... well, uh, dropping the prefix of "Jr." he has gained even more power on the site, so evil-doers beware the might of his hammer. And by that I meant ban-hammer. Mostly.
Congrats on your promotion, LD!
Forgotten Treasures III
"Did I hear the word, treasure?" you may be asking yourself. Well yes, you, you certainly did. But it's not what you think. Forgotten Treasures is the long running contest we have where forgers remake their favorite classic Halo maps in the newest Halo game. For this contest, every on-disc or DLC map from Halo Ce, 2, 3, or Reach is up for the remaking. Exciting, no?
This contest is going to be running two months, longer than our contests usually do. This is partially to account for the lack of an online file service, which should hopefully be set in place before the contest is even close to over.
If you have any questions about the contest, or just want to chit-chat about what maps you want to see in the contest, head on over the announcement thread . And if you have any questions they can be aimed squarely at Shad0w Viper, our resident pretty cool guy.
The Guild:
[l-col]The Tester’s Guild: among the piles of armor and glistening weapon racks you’ll find a large number of Hubbers march into the digital battlefields and test the crap out of your newly crafted map. The guys in the Tester’s Guild may have personalized opinions, but each is capable of giving you input both on things they enjoyed and disliked about your map, helping you achieve a perfect gameplay balance before you post your newly polished battlefield here in our map database. Should you want them to give your map a run through, redirect your browser to this forum here, read the posting guidelines, and set yourself up for success through the men at work behind the scenes in the Tester’s Guild. Enjoy playing Halo? Enjoy giving map creators input? Work for the Guild![/l-col][r-col]Every so often (every other Friday to be exact) a selection of refined and scholarly individuals from our forums host an evening full of custom games and shenanigans. Depending on what those individuals choose to host, whether it be competitive, casual, infection, invasion, mini-game oriented or a mix of them all is up to these bastions of fun, but it's up to you which of these lobbies you join. Sit back, put your feet up, throw back that shot-glass full of Jack Daniels, and enjoy a night with cool dudes from all around the world. If you'd like to host your own official lobby for our next TGIF, send a private message to me, RightSideTheory.[/r-col]
Question of the Site Update:
Last time around we asked you a pretty straight forward question, "What part of Halo 4 are you looking forward to the most?", to which we received a wonderfully diverse menagerie of colorfully twisted answers.
This time I'm going to give you guys a sort-of follow up question:
What parts of Halo 4 are you enjoying the most?
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