"Halo Waypoint - 5th November"

They've got us by the short and curlies. Really looking forward to the anime stuff.

I quite like Waypoint as a stat program, and the videos and ranking thing are quite nice - I'll even probably go for a couple of rank ups, so it is a nice motivator.

A chunk of my friends list use the ODST armour now though. Looks like a bunch of clones, shame there's no armour only option so I could see the seperate faces.

I'm 175 off Rank 40, so I need to wrap up ODST, get the new DLC ones for Halo 3, and then...

Gah, I really do need to play Halo Wars again. *Facepalm*

I felt quite pathetic when I turned this on and it instantly propelled me to the highest rank.

It was like... "Oh."

Level 31 Haloscore. Better than expected!

Do like the idea of series hubs that reward players across a series of games, give behind-the-scenes info and expand storylines.

Not sure why but Waypoint reminds me of the Metroid Prime 3 pre-release hub. Very neat :o)

Yossarian wrote:
I felt quite pathetic when I turned this on and it instantly propelled me to the highest rank.

It was like... "Oh."

I have to be top rank now, or else I shall be mortified :(

So is this any good? I dont have access to my xbox for awhile and I completely forgot about this.

mcmonkeyplc wrote:
So is this any good? I dont have access to my xbox for awhile and I completely forgot about this.

Not much on there at the moment other than a few avatar awards, stats and trailer for the Legends anime.

Does have some nice little Halo touches.

The friends section is pretty poor, I couldn't even see a breakdown of what awards and medals they'd achieved, just their rank and combined Halo Gamerscore.

The avatar unlockables were a very welcome bonus though

Halo Waypoint is better than I expected. Avatar awards are indeed realy, realy cool. I hope more games do it.

I'm at career milestone 39...Apparently I need 55G more to reach level 40 which is, I assume, the highest level.

/Woah! Quite like the avatar awards. I've gotten a monitor (just for downloading waypoint), two crappy shirts (for the tourist and dark times achievements) and an ODST helmet and armour (for the good samaritan and campaign achievements)

Edited by Inquisitor at 12:47:39 06-11-2009

Yeah, I insta-unlocked all of the awards. Hopefully, they'll add some for H3/HW later, and obviously for Reach next year.

I R LVL 40

HOW MEANINGLESS

\o/

I like the monitor though.

Two questions then:
1) Where do I find this in the dash?
and
2) Avatar awards are unlocked automatically, if you have the right achievements unlocked and such?

Thanks, and sorry!

1) Games on Demand on the Games Marketplace

2) Yep, all automatic with achievement style notifications.

This is actually better than I thought. Also... it might encourage me to get off my arse and finally put some time into getting some of the trickier achievements. :)

DFawkes wrote:
1) Games on Demand on the Games Marketplace

2) Yep, all automatic with achievement style notifications.

Thank you, kind sir!

And, yeah, now I want to play more Halo so I can go look at my updated stats. :p

Inquisitor wrote:
...an ODST helmet and armour (for the good samaritan and campaign achievements)

Is the armour awarded for the legendary campaign achievement or the Good Samaritan one?

I have none of those and lack the skills for legendary :( but I wouldn't mind putting the hours for the Good Samaritan one...

EDIT: I checked the avatar awards (wasn't at home at the time) and found the answer. The helmet is for completing the ODST campaign (on any difficulty ?) and the armour for the Samaritan achievement.

Edited by JonFE at 10:49:50 07-11-2009

TBH, Legendary's the easiest of any of the games. Done co-op, waaaaaaaaay easier.

When I tried Legendary on H3 single player, it handed my arse back on a silver plate.

I didn't dare try it on ODST. Should I?

JonFE wrote:
When I tried Legendary on H3 single player, it handed my arse back on a silver plate.

I didn't dare try it on ODST. Should I?

I've only played ODST on heroic and I didn't struggle at all. If I was you I'd do it on legendary and see how you get on. You can always put it down to heroic (unless you've already completed on/up to heroic and are after the legendary achievement...

MaxHughes wrote:

JonFE wrote:
When I tried Legendary on H3 single player, it handed my arse back on a silver plate.

I didn't dare try it on ODST. Should I?

I've only played ODST on heroic and I didn't struggle at all. If I was you I'd do it on legendary and see how you get on. You can always put it down to heroic (unless you've already completed on/up to heroic and are after the legendary achievement...

I've already done both on Heroic and to be honest it felt like a real achievement :)

Anyone tried watching Halo Legends this morning?

It's buffering all the time for me (my shitty connection/configuration or too many viewers I guess), breaking the immersion. I wish there was a way to download it first and watch it later.

I watched it earlier and it seemed to be going fine.

I'm not a big anime fan, but it was enjoyable enough. Definitely a little cheesy and the voice acting is very ropey but it's nice that it pays close attention to the Halo universe. I'm at least interested in seeing more of it.

Just watched Babysitter - loved it.

I've finished all Halos solo Heroic, Halo 1 and ODST solo Legendary, 2+3 co-op Legendary. ODST is by far the easiest Legendary, akin to H3's Heroic. Just go slow, snipe a lot and remember the rules (plasma for shields, bullets for flesh).

Going to rent Halo Wars, re-do campaign on Legendary, then try get the 5G mission specifics. Should get me my rank 40...

the Halo cartoon was pretty good..

Yeah, I enjoyed babysitter, was better than I expected it to be.

Jesus what a bullshit way to do this. I noticed it online yesterday but didn't have time to watch it, so I waited until these evening and... it's not there anymore. For some reason it's only up for 24 hours, which is complete bollocks really. Idiots. Now I'm looking for a torrent.

I'd be tempted to check Youtube, quality should matter too much for this. It was a limited time taster, but I'd have had that first one up longer. I do want the Blu-ray now though, I quite enjoyed that and would like more.

I only just realised one of those ODSTs is from ODST! Stupid me...

Edited by DFawkes at 21:33:34 08-11-2009

Cheers! Was it just 20 minutes long?