It's Friday, and that means I didn't have time to read this yesterday. But it's Friday, so that's reason enough to celebrate.
Once again the lovable BS Angel from 343i drops another Site Update with more chocolatey nuggets of goodness
BS Angel wastes no time dropping a big update on us:
Title Update
Were you underwhelmed by the last title update? Well be assured it wasn't just you. 343i has been behind the scenes tweaking our precious Halo 4 to live up to our unrealistic expectations.
What are we in store for? This part is unclear. We know they're looking to balance out some weapons, but judging by the fact that they just posted the call for ideas, it's unlikely to be this TU. There was a little teaser forge news in the update
When will we find out? News for the TU will be rolling out at PAX East, March 22nd
If you notice in the list, you see there's a Certain Affinity member on the panel, and BS Angel dropped this hint
We have a special announcement planned for the panel (which may or may not involve Great Anvils)
Keep your fingers and toe's crossed that we get some massive improvements *coughprecisioneditingcough* Or at least a fix to trait zones (wouldn't that be nice?)
Either way I'm excited to hear what we're in for, and I'm betting you are too!
Castles Coming Down
Castle Map pack was announced this week, read about it here!
343i has a lot more in the works for this release than the previous ones. We got to hear about it so early because they're be previewing the new maps at PAX for everyone there to get their hands on.
Their lineup of work before the Castle release is such:
3/18: Press Review for them to get gameplay and fly through videos in the works.
3/22-3/24: Castle will be featured at the PAX Panel, and they'll have playable demo's up.
4/1: Strategy videos. Plus a listing of all the new achievements. I hurd u liek achievements? They'll also be running another stream of them playing on the new maps. Feels like just yesterday this happened...
Keeping the Game in War Games
Bravo drops some news about matchmaking changes on us.
With Action Sack dropping this past monday, we find out that Matchmaking updates are now on a two week cycle. Bravo promises us some brand spanking new game types *crosses fingers one of mine is in there*
Besides changes to Action Sack he drops some clues of future changes these include:
Playlist updates to include the new CSR in April
FFA Playlist update
BTB Objective ideas
Various tweeks to existing playlists
343i is listening to us as the community, and now is your best chance to get your voices heard: Post all feedback in the War Games feedback forum
While you're there, they're also taking ideas for weapon tweaks Weapon Feedback thread Think the DMR is overpowered? Storm Rifle too weak? Make you voice heard now!
On my X!
Those of us who screamed that in the previous halo games are well aware of it's lack of existence in Halo 4... so far...
More information will be announced at the PAX Panel, but the X death marker will once again be returning to your HUD. No longer will you need friendly radar on to see where your bro's died. Though really aren't you watching their back to begin with? This isn't lone wolves after all!
Question/Speculation for this week:
What will the forge fix be? Person to most accurately guess I'll reward with a one month code for xbox live. All results due before the 22nd.