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This interview I was very pleased with because it gives the view of the site through the eyes of one of the members of our site's affiliates: The Halo Forge Epidemic. It also gives the background on THFE and why they decided to be a part of the 343i Community Forums. So please enjoy this one like I did: DD: "Where does your name Psychoduck originate from? How'd you think of it?" PD: "I came up with the moniker "Psychoduck" in sixth grade when I got my first game platform (the original Xbox) and needed a cool name to play Star Wars Battlefront under. It has no relation to the Pokemon." DD: "So this name is a long time running name, that's cool! What does your title, 'The Competitive Host', mean in The Halo Forge Epidemic." PD: "Well, at The Halo Forge Epidemic (THFE for short), we try to cover the full spectrum of Halo's forge mode. This means covering all types of maps, from Flood to Dominion. The group of maps I cover are competitive ones. This includes any map designed to play standard game modes like Slayer, CTF, etc. I am in charge of selecting high quality competitive maps to feature, as well as creating forge tutorials that relate to competitive maps." DD: "Ah very cool, you have a really important job then . Had you ever heard of the site before THFE became a major group on it?" PD: "I hadn't actually heard of 343i Community Forum until we began negotiating our partnership. I'm not quite sure how I missed it." DD: "We were about 2.5 times smaller when you guys had joined than what we are now and a lot of members stumbled upon this site when joining so it's understandable that you missed it. What influenced the partnership between THFE and 343iCF?" PD: "The partnership was brought about due to several factors. Mainly, we needed a place to send our fans for discussion and to organize map submissions to make them easier to sift through. This site not only provided us with those functions, but also acts as a friendly forum base to work with. After Oakley started sleeping with AD, everything just fell into place. " DD: "Finally after 4 questions you show a sense of humor! Well we're really dishing out the hot gossip here now aren't we? Oakley and AD, who would've known! . Well we were all very excited when we heard about joining of The Halo Forge Epidemic. So about Forge in general, what do you think of Halo 4's Forge? Do you have a wishlist for it? (For all the Forgers and artists out there who want to know from a professional's point of view .)" PD: "Well, I think that one-price Shmeefs is pretty much all Forge needs... But, in all seriousness, I am pretty happy with Halo 4's forge. The omission of precision editting and zoom are saddening, and the camera controls in general as well as the rotation snap and magnets could certainly all function a bit better. Overall, though, I think it's great. The dynamic lighting system is awesome, the canvas maps provide a lot of variety, and object textures are pretty nifty this time around. I do wish that the rumored jumbo coliseum wall was included, but other than that my only qualm is performance issues which should be a thing of the past on next generation hardware. It couldn't hurt to have a few more large pieces to use for flooring on BTB maps, but the current limitations keep us on our toes." DD: "That's good to hear, so Forge is still getting better then! Alright, how long has THFE been together? Are you an original member?" PD: "THFE has been around since April of 2011, back when it was just Darth Human and Bevans Law working out of Darth's bedroom. It wasn't long before Oakley was brought on, but I didn't join until a bit later on in January of 2012. My first video was feature number 44 back in Reach." DD: "Very interesting stuff! So how big is your team?" PD: "Well, we have sort of a core team of a few of us with a few dingleberry people hanging around on occasion. The core group is Oakley HiDef and myself backed by Mr. Pokephile, Able SirThomas, RLD HotTamale, and A J Yusi." DD: "That's quite a team you got there on THFE. So you're now listed as an official affiliate of 343i Community Forums, do you ever think about becoming more active on the site like posting outside of The Halo Forge Epidemic forums, using the shoutbox, maybe even attending playdates or competing in community Forge contests?" PD: "I've been fairly active in the chatbox here, but frankly I don't have a ton of time to look around the forums here. I appreciate the services we get out of the site, but I just don't always have time to fully explore everything this place has to offer. I host my own customs quite regularly, so I don't really like being constrained by the schedule of official playdates. Of course, it's always a possibility." DD: "The Halo 4 Playdate went really well and we'd all love to see you and other members of THFE at our playdates. Are there any members outside of your group that you are pretty good friends with on the site?" PD: "Oh I've made a few friends on the site like Cooltest Rap, Robius, Archy, etc. I'm sure some of us will make it to a game night some time." DD: "That'd be excellent! So Psychoduck, it's been great. Do you have any tips, tricks, or advice for the up and coming Forgers out there that want to reach your status in Forgery?" PD: "My only advice is to spend time to learn about forge. Look at tried and true maps and learn from them. Be open to criticism, and spend the time needed to fix issues brought to your attention. Of course watching THFE videos can always be helpful too!" And that's your fix of insight from THFE's Psychoduck! Thank you Psychoduck for taking the time out to do one of these with me. Make sure this man is awarded! Thank you 343i Community Forums for being awesome and supporting these I'm grateful to you all.

Forerunners?

Edited and thank you Spades it was the heart of the forum that influenced this idea: AD.

Credit goes to the big dog Thank you for editing

Hello everyone this is Drizzy_Dan and I'm going to be starting a new site news thread that recaps all the latest within the site over the past week. Alright let's do this alphabetically then shall we? First off let's introduce the new Affiliates tab. Hover over the Other tab and you'll see the list of other things we have there and at the bottom you'll find a tab of all of 343iCF's AFFILIATES: 10 year Bungie veterans, Certain Affinity is a group of game developers that have worked on titles such as Halo 2, Halo 2 Vista, Halo: Reach, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and Call of Duty: Black Ops The Halo Forge Epidemic is a group of dedicated Forgers dating back to April of 2011. They make maps for all gametypes. Their group consists mainly of hosts for every gametype: Oakley Hi-Def, Psychoduck, Darth Human, Mr. Pokephile, Able SirThomas, RLD HotTamale, and A J Yusi. "Halo Customs is a hub for finding and creating custom games in the Halo series, downloading and sharing maps, and sharing Forge tips and tricks." Ducain23. Famous for his YouTube Channel and great Forge skills with race maps and his most famous Star Wars Space Battle map. In Ducain23 Submissions you can submit your maps to potentially be featured on his famous YouTube Channel! He looks at them all! Last but certainly not least is GameOverStudios. Known for their machinima and Forge work, GameOverStudios is one of our newest and coolest affiliates. CUSTOM GAMES NIGHT Spades N AZ's Custom Games Night - The Golden Spade Award gained by attending Custom Games Night hosted by our very own Spades N AZ. So far 92 people have already been awarded with Spades N AZ's Golden Spade Award . This is a popular event and it occurs every Friday. It's a great way to meet a lot of members so to the newer members who might want to make a name for themself or to the members who just wanna have fun playing with a community, join these customs guys. DGL Next up we're going to talk about Doc's Gaming League Season 2 or the DGL. Originally thought up by DoctorB77, it is a singles tournament. The DGL is a hard thing for one man to maintain and the Legendary Member Choot 'em saw this and volunteered his help backing the tournament from the start. This is the gaming league's second season and it is more official than ever. The DGL Forge Submission Contest has already come to a close and maps have already been chosen for the tournament's 15 weeks. The last week is the showdown between the remaining competitors. 33 members signed up for the DGL this season. Here I'll provide you with the Weekly Match List, Rules and Info, Gametype and Scoring Info, and the Match Results. The tournament is split into two brackets appropriately named after the 2 DLC map packs: Crimson and Majestic. Participants: Crimson A71William, Ryboss96, Skys, Drizzy_Dan, asdf_wrex, Gazzy Mill Mill, Neurotic Kasper, Vinceee, Real Talk, Vaulting♥Frog, The208Hunter, Kalaphite250, IKSSE2113 Majestic da monsterchief, Hater, GermanShepherdD, Oni, Sarge, SikSlik7, M4L1C1OU5, EpicEthan97, Lil Dog, Badass_Sniper, Choot 'em, Liam Simmons Sheeran, Forum Dinosaur Info on the DGL can be found at these links: DGL Signups Rules_and_Info Weekly_Match_List Match_Results/Leaderboard Gametype_and_Scoring_Info So far 3 matches have been played: 1/25 - SikSlik7 faced off against Epic Ethan97 and won 13 to 8 on DGL Entirety, the DGL's featured map for the first week of the season. 1/26 - Moderator GSD went up against member da monsterchief and destroyed his competition winning 20 kills to 1. Feedback from ShepherdD about the match: "Needs more bacon." 1/27 - Vaulting♥Frog versed Real Talk and did not get the upper hand losing 18 to 7. FEATURED INTERVIEWS Smokin Shadowz - Former News Group Staff member with a good story to tell . Psychoduck - THFE's Competitive Host. Get his viewpoint of the site! QUILT QUALIFYING PLAY DATE Halo 4 Monthly Playdate: Quilt Qualifier Initially hosted by Absolute Dog, I was at the Halo 4 Monthly Playdate for 4 hours or so and it was great. Good old fashion fun. We started with about 8 people which quickly jumped to 10 and then before we knew it we were at 14 and then a full party of 16. We were doing matchmaking games until the party got too big and then we were playing customs. Slayer and Flood and then an awesome Halo version of the classic board game Clue. People came and went and here's who I saw there: Absolute Dog, imakequilts, Drizzy_Dan, EliteIsnip3r, Shaudy430, Red Death, Bobo Magroto, Barack Obama, Azaxx, DocSpartan007, skummgummigubbe, D-38 Boss, Caboose The Ace, Kalaphite250, Reptile, Spark918, Elite, Yoshi1176, Osama Bin Bungie, Lil Dog, Church, SPARTN-104, Vaulting♥Frog, adamj004, SikSlik7, and SweatyBagels This playdate was a Quilt Qualifying Playdate which means everyone who participated entered a chance to win a quilt made by the one and only imakequilts! Info on the Quilt Qualifying Contest can be found here! Everyone who participated is also getting the Gamer Award: That's the main squeeze on what's happened this week! Thank you all and keep up to date with the Weekly Site Wrapup each week Now scroll to the top and read it all over again.

I think it's ok for you to get a vote, it's not like you rig it just because you make the thread. You deserve a vote too

A March 3rd Halo Wars Playdate? I love Halo Wars so this sounds totally cool to me. Want to make this official?

Carpet Bomb from the Spirit of Fire?

MAC round from the Spirit of Fire?

Chief jumping from Truth's ship and falling to Earth?

I am not a Sangheili but I strongly support the Sangheili movement Dosa. I'm like the Phillips from Glasslands of the Sangheili fans in real life haha. I personally think it'd be a great idea for 343 to release DLC for players to play as Elites I just can't think of any ideas of how it'd tie in. As for Halo 5 I agree with everyone else and believe there's a much better chance of them being playable then especially after the huge uproar from Sangheili fleets and fans and clans over Halo 4 since before it even came out.

Hey Magiixz welcome back!

Very nice find SpartanKIL!

I nominate The Director

NO! I nominate Barack Obama!!

Back on schedule I have another interview here for us all. This was one I was wanting to do for some time and I felt he would have a good story to tell. I was right! So everyone please read what went on in my interview with Smokin Shadowz: DD: "Ok where does the name Smokin Shadowz come from?" SS: "Me and my friend were both playing gears sitting in the dark and somebody else was lighting incense in the room and I could see the shadow of the smoke from the tv light, then it just came to me." DD: "I could imagine that now, that's pretty cool haha. Are Gears and Halo part of your favorite game franchises? What are your favorites?" SS: "Gears and Halo are definitely some of my favorites. But my favorite by far would have to be the Elder Scrolls franchise. Everything about the world just pulls me in, every game I've played to the books I've read, they really immerse me into their story. After that it would probably be GTA series...love the open world realism in those game." DD: "Two excellent game series . I love GTA. So Smokin Shadowz you've been here a while and in the forum's new era, not many people know you used to be a member of the Staff here. Could you inform the readers of what position you served while you were here and how you gained that position?" SS: "Well, I was in the news group when it was just a thread section on the page before it was the front page of the site. I got the position by posting articles I found interesting in the some of the forums. By then Archangel Tyrael noticed this and showed me a more proper way of doing such, and said I could get on the news team if I continued, so he was a big help of doing so. Reason's for leaving was I couldn't dedicate a enough time until I came back. But it was well enjoyed." DD: "Saw right through to my next question! We all love to see that kind of good spirit in our past and present Staff members here on the forums . So do you ever think about being back on Staff if given the chance Smokin?" SS: "That I have. I would love to be back on the staff if given the chance, now that I have time to dedicate to it. But if not, I'm just happy being a member of this community and I'll continue to enjoy my time here as well." DD: "Again showing good sport and I love it . So what is it you like to do when you're not on the site enjoying being a member?" SS: "Well other then playing games a lot I usually spend most of my time with friends or out fishing, just being outdoors is nice. But during football season I'm usually watching every single game I can find. Beside that I may read a book or watch a few episodes of whatever series is on tv at the moment that I'm into." DD: "You live very laid back, I think that's very cool. What influenced your custom member title, 'Forum Ninja'?" SS: "Thanks. Good question as well. No real story behind this one. I just wanted a unique identity for the community, so after thinking for a while that's what I came up with. And every time I introduced myself in the shoutbox I always used when I came in so I figured it was a good fit, plus who hasn't wanted to be a ninja at one point in their life time ." DD: "That's very true. I think everyone, guy or girl, wants to be a ninja secretly if ever given the chance . So do you have any goals you'd like to achieve here on the site at some point?" SS: "It would be nice to get a legendary member title over time, or even become a moderator to help the site more. But I'm fine with just being here honestly. Having my very own award to give out with be kinda cool to, maybe give people a reason to be better on the site or have a goal of their own." DD: "Top notch answer Smokin Shadowz, very modest and charismatic . What were your impressions of the site when you first joined? Did you ever think you'd get a Staff job?" SS: "I actually thought I had a chance at becoming a Staff member after the first week of being on here. If I did well enough and took my time and earned it of course. My honest first impression on here was "Sweet! They have chatbox for you to talk on." But the thing that I really noticed about the site was the play dates and how active the members were. I remember my first play date on this site was the first week I had joined!" DD: "And were there any members you really looked up to or still do look up to?" SS: "GSD was probably the member that I looked up to the most, just because he did everything well and usually was quiet and stayed out of trouble. He would play with anybody that would add him. Just seemed like a generally nice person and a good moderator. Always would let me join his games or join mine when I invited him." DD: "I've always been a big fan of GSD , he is a great Moderator with a great sense of humor. So Smokin Shadowz it's been great but we have to conclude our interview. Do you have any words of wisdom for our newer members on the site?" SS: "Been a good interview. And to any newer members just try and enjoy it to the best of your ability and stay within the rules and you should enjoy this community just as much as I have. :ninja:" That's all folks! Thank you Smokin Shadowz for complying, it really was a fun interview and we all got to know a little more about you after reading this. Guys, Smokin Shadowz: get to know him. Fun loving gamer who's also very dedicated to the site. Thank you 343i.org and watch out for the next one!

I'd like to thank the entire 343i Community Forum for just being amazing. Everyone is so nice and close knit, any time someone tries to ruin our niceness the Mods are there to shut it down fairly. It's like a home away from home at your home. I've met people on here that I've become close friends with off the site. Thank you all for making this place what it is and that's nothing short of amazing.

That looks like the Covenant Locust

Rushes are fair, not all of them but pretty much all of them. The only one I don't really like is the Arbiter and the Suicide Grunts. If you know a rush is coming then you can counter it, that's the beauty in Halo Wars: there's always a fighting chance. If you see warthogs coming at you then turtle up: Build Railgun Turrets in the back of the base while locked up and pump out your leader's Unique Unit and use their leader power (If you're a human). Or lock up, build Fuel Rods in the back and build your supply and leader power them while making grunts (As Covenant of course).

Kind of a misleading title I thought you had some news here haha but honestly I'm expecting Halo 5 late next year granted the next Xbox console is out