Rampancy

Title	Date
Marathon: Spatial Outpouring	11.01.25
Retro Console Games	06.28.25
Pathways Into Darkness Part 6	05.24.25
Pathways Into Darkness Part 5	05.03.25
Pathways into Darkness: Part 4	04.05.25
Rampancy Returns - Halo 2 E3 Earth City De...	12.28.24
Pathways Into Darkness Part 3	08.10.24

Title	Transcriber	Date
Halo 5: Advent (String...	cwhiterun	06.07.16
Halo 5: Blue Team (Str...	cwhiterun	10.22.15
Halo 5: Light is Green...	cwhiterun	10.20.15
Halo 5: The Trials (St...	cwhiterun	10.12.15
Roll Call - Price Paid	pimpnmonk	06.02.14
Behold A Pale Horse Fo...	pimpnmonk	01.24.14
Farthest Outpost/Mercy...	pimpnmonk	12.30.13

Episode	Date
Sony Acquires Bungie (mp3)	02.02.22
Let's Play Mass Effect 3 #27 Final...	06.02.17
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 27: Craig Ha...	05.08.13
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 25: Destiny...	03.05.13
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 24: Halo Ann...	04.21.12
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 23: Halo Ann...	06.26.11
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 21: The Wint...	04.18.11

Halo On Mythic Difficulty Walkthrough

Okay, first of all, I know, there's no such thing as official Mythic difficulty in Halo 3. That's what people call playing solo, legendary, all skulls on (HSH calls them SLASO to create more acronyms).

Daniel "Tyrant" Morris has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it's fantastic. If you haven't read it and you're a campaign junkie, it's an absolute must.

UPDATE: Author corrected from Asmodeus to Daniel "Tyrant" Morris.

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Microsoft Forms New Halo Studio

According to the intertubes, Microsoft is forging ahead with Halo using a new internal studio. Forming the team are Ryan Payton, formerly of Kojima Productions and the producer of Metal Gear Solid 4; Corinne Yu, former technician at Gearbox; and at least two former Bungie employees: writer Frank "Frankie" O'Connor and animator Nathan "bentllama" Walpole.

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Keeping It Clean, Frame By Frame

So the teaser that Bungie wanted to tease us with this past E3 is now out for download on Bungie.net in the usual flavors of QuickTime and Windows Media.

Luke Smith's post on Bungie.net calls this a "CG-teaser" and the front page refers to it as being for "one of our current projects".

My general impression is that this teaser is for a campaign expansion to Halo 3 that takes place sometime between the departure of Regret's ship from the Mombasa area and the Master Chief's return to Earth at the start of Halo 3. As such the main character or characters may be other human forces, perhaps marines or ODSTs, and the plot may focus on improvising city guerilla warfare against the Covenant forces in the city.

The most noticeable point of this trailer is that unlike nearly every Bungie game trailer produced to date, it is completely without music.

Without further ado, let's peruse the details the trailer offers.

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Soon You Will Be... Clean

Bungie restarted the delayed countdown from this year's E3 with the Superintendent urging everyone to stay calm and keep clean-- at least until about seven minutes from now. Images on the intertubes (thanks Veegie) suggest perhaps something as dramatic as a trailer for a brand-new Bungie game.

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Stubbs Now Five Bucks From Steam

Wideload's Halo-engine zombie game, Stubbs the Zombie, is available for the PC for only five bucks now from Steam. Thanks GameFocus for the heads-up.

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Please Remain Calm

Looks like the Superintendent is back. Perhaps one (or more) of the Bungie announcements that were indefinitely postponed at this year's E3 are about to be made public.

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Halo AI: You're Doing It Wrong

EDGE has a feature up here: http://rampancy.net/weblink/bungie/Edge_Interviews_Isla about the AI in the Halo series. They interview AI programmer Damian Isla, where he brings up an interesting concept I'd love to see in a Halo game-- or any Bungie game, really:

There was the well-known example in Halo 2 where your 'hog full of marines would just drive off if you got out. That's actually not that easy a problem to solve because how does the game know you intend to come back?

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New Version Of Aleph One Posted

From source.bungie.org:

This is a minor feature release of Aleph One, which includes Windows improvements and support for the Unimap 2 format. It is network compatible with Aleph One 0.20.x

Go get it.

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Microsoft Closing Ensemble Studios After Halo Wars

What started as another one of those rumors within the span of a day became a confirmed truth: following the release of the upcoming Halo Wars RTS game for the Xbox 360 console, Ensemble Studios, known for the Age of Empires RTS series of games for Windows, will be shuttered. A new studio, like Ensemble part of Microsoft Games Studios, will be formed to support Halo Wars. Employees releated to Halo Wars will be offered spots in the new studio; those currently working on the project have been offered extra incentives to continue working on it through release.