For those cursed with lag-- or those looking to create havok with the rankings, annoy their fellow players, and risk the ire of Bungie by performing the standby cheat-- the Head to Head playlist is for you.
Frankie is back at Bungie now with a brand-new Weekly What's Update. This one covers the teleporter glitch on Relic (it's "being taken care of"), demos for Halo and Halo 2, and what Sketch would look like if he ate all the pies.
Xbox Live users in #hbo have begun reporting that the second set of Halo 2 downloadable maps, Terminal, Backwash, Elongation, Relic, and Gemini, are now available for download for $11.99. Thanks Tex.
Hey guys i checked up on TalkXbox.com, and Eisen Feuer has posted the second installment to Halo 2: the Art of War, The Art of Deception. Includes an awsome vid showcasing all the skills that can be obtained from the editorial that are explained through and through on the written guide provided. I highly recommend that you give this a look if your into improving your halo 2 skills.
A lot of goings-on in the Halo 2 Map world recently. Of course, the Killtacular Pack which was released as a split between two free maps and two premium maps is now available in its entirety for free from Xbox Live; Containment, Warlock, Turf and Sanctuary.
The next set of five maps is due out soon; Red vs Blue has video previews of Elongation and Backwash, and SketchFactor has returned from gallivanting long enough to put up Bungie's preview of Relic, following up on last week's preview of Terminal. And if you missed them earlier, before that Bungie.net previewed Backwash and Elongation themselves as well.
Relic is an island map set on Delta Halo, with its original design origins reaching back to Halo's ancient history as a PC/Macintosh game prior to Microsoft's buyout of Bungie Software.
With both SketchFactor and Frankie off gallivanting (no doubt accelerating at 32 feet per second per second, naturally) Shishka was left alone at the switch this week, and submitted three QuickTime 3d screenshots of Terminal in lieu of the What's What Update for last week.
Torlough of the Geezer Gamers has put up a story and a video on cheating in Containment; XBL players with modded Xboxes are apparently modifying the downloaded map files to produce various effects such as flying Warthogs and an incredibly fast Master Chief, and using them to cheat in matchmaking. Thanks HBO. (Here's hoping that Microsoft's boasts about being able to detect modified Xboxes on Xbox Live is true and that the players on the cheating team are banned--Ed.) Thanks HBO.
The latest featured article at Bungie.net is all about the upcoming expansion map, Terminal. The map is based on the New Mombassa area from the campaign and features a runaway maglev train designed to complicate matters on a regular basis. But hey, at least the trains run on time. The story has many new screenshots, and others have been added to the Halo 2 screenshot gallery, as well as shots of other upcoming maps, like Elongation and Backwash.