weekly post 3-20-11

halo sphere is a interactive halo game here is link http://halocharts.com/sphere.php?go=headtohead

some stuff from bungie XD

Defy the Covenant

Though it seems crass to don the salesman’s cap right after talking up our collective charitable endeavors, we’d be remiss to not note that 343 Industries launched the Defiant Map Pack this past Tuesday. Besides, they’re not even our maps. We’re shilling on another studio’s behalf!

If you’re looking to add some sweet maps to your Halo: Reach portfolio, Defiant adds two new multiplayer maps and a Firefight mission to the fray. Early buzz is that they are totally awesome. You should definitely check them out.

They’re available right now for 800 Space Allards. Click here to queue them for download.

Optimizations

Speaking of Defiant, Jeremiah and our support crew recently corrected a matchmaking setting that was making it more difficult than it should have been to play Unearthed in Firefight. If you were so mad at Bungie because you couldn’t get a match in on your hot new Firefight mission outside of Custom Games, you should be good to go now. Forgive us?

We’re also fielding feedback for the two multiplayer maps in Optimatch, but though we are using your polite suggestions to arm 343 Industries with subjective data and our own personal recommendations, we are not making the final design calls for iterative changes to Condemned and Highlands. We’ll certainly collect your feedback and present it writ large, but any changes to these particular spaces will need to come directly from the source.

If there are any revisions planned in the future, we’ll make sure to keep you in the loop. Because we love and respect you and want you to know stuff.