HBO Launches New HomeLAN Servers
HBO has two new PC Halo servers running at HomeLAN: HBO East and HBO West. In fact, Rampancy is so far east that we actually get a better ping from HBO West.
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Banshee Handling II: Crash and Flow
[Please note: This is intended as a companion piece to the previous article, with more advanced concepts that build on those already established. If you have not already read the previous piece, please do so now.]
The two central yet opposing forces at work when piloting a Banshee are “crashing” and “flowing.”
Click "link" below from the front page to see the entire article.Read Early, Read Often
Mr Smiley sends word that the new Halo Babies comic this week is out a bit early, since he's off to the Halo Luminaries LANfest at Louis Wu's this weekend.
Myth III Gets New Patch; MythDev Goes Poof
Two pieces of news in the world of what used to be Bungie's series of RTS games, Myth. The third game in the series, developed by Mumbo Jumbo after the rights to the franchise were sold to Take Two Interactive, has been updated to version 1.2b2 according to VersionTracker. What's more, this update has been created by Contraband Entertainment, who are taking over responsibility for future development from the MythDev group, which according to PMABloo over at PlayMyth, has gone poof (his words). At any rate, the domain mythdev.com is now in registrar lock, and the site can't be reached anymore.
Another Step In The Retail Release Date Dance
Rumors of further delay in Halo 2's release are being fueled by changes in the expected dates published by EBGames and GameStop. Remember again, though, none of these are official, and it very likely means nothing at all. Nothing, we tell you, NOTHING. Thanks XboxSolution.
1000 Kill Barrier Broken
Rapture posted a screenshot over in the HBO forum that we believe is the first documented instance of more than 1000 kills in a single game; it took over four hours to reach the mark. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Don't Get Caught In The Crossfire
We had some feedback on the Weapons section of the High Ping Bastard's Guide to Halo, in particular, defending the Needler and the Sniper Rifle. Don't get us wrong; we like the sniper rifle, and the Needler definitely has its uses. One reader pointed out that if a target isn't looking towards you, a whole clip of Needler rounds can take them out before they know what hit them, which is true.
However, the guide was designed not to be a guide to the weapons, per se, but to discuss the effects of lag on them. From what I've seen, a lagged player has much less of a chance of being competetive in, say, a snipers-only slayer FFA game on Boarding Action, than in t Blood Gulch CTF match, and part of that disadvantage is in the split second you lose when squaring off against another sniper. It's not that the sniper is a bad gun, it's that having severe lag (and by this we mean 250 ms or even higher) affects it in such a way that, if one is available, you're probably going to be better off with a different gun.
Mac Halo Demo Coming
For those who are justifying themselves by saying they're warezing Halo because there's no demo: those days are coming to an end. In the MacCentral article on piracy, Peter Tamte mentions that MacSoft is now working on a demo version of Halo for the Mac.
Tamte, Mac Gaming Brass Debunk Piracy Myths
MacCentral's editor Peter Cohen has put up an article at MacCentral on piracy in the Mac games market, drawing on give-and-take from MacSoft's Peter Tamte, Aspyr Media's Michael Rogers and MacPlay's Mark Cottam.
The thrust of the article is poking holes in the arguments that pirates use to explain why they steal software, and explaining why all future MacSoft titles will have copy protection.
Perhaps the most potent debunking, though, is of the myth that by pirating Halo, Mac fans are striking a blow against Microsoft, who wooed Bungie with the offer of becoming the premier Xbox developer, effectively delaying the release of Halo on the Mac by more than two years:
"Microsoft only sees a small amount of the revenue generated by Halo," Tamte countered. "What you're doing instead of 'stealing from the man' is robbing the Mac community of future games. And someone, somewhere, did not get paid for the work they did to bring that game to you."
Which is not to say that if pirating Mac Halo did hurt Microsoft it would be right, but people at least should not be stealing and lying to themselves at the same time.
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