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Welcome all to the 32nd 343i Weekly Community Poll! Look at that pretty new banner made by our Art Department's very own Austintacious! (aka Gryffin) Thanks Austin! Last week's community poll question asked about your thoughts regarding a Halo 5 beta, here are those results! This week Dominion has returned to Halo 4's Wargames in it's very own dedicated playlist! I've already hopped on for a few matches myself (2-0 baby ;D) and plan to hurry up and get my commendation up before the playlist is pulled on May 26, but I'm getting off topic-This week's Community Poll is: Do You Think Dominion Should to Return to Halo 5 Matchmaking? Leave your thoughts along with your vote here! Voting ends May 19 @ 6:00 AM EST Thanks for taking time to partake in the Weekly Community Poll, be sure to tell Austin the banner looks great, and See y'all next week! Have a question, complaint, or suggestion pertaining to the poll? Message BZ1. View full article

Welcome all to the 32nd 343i Weekly Community Poll! Look at that pretty new banner made by our Art Department's very own Austintacious! (aka Gryffin) Thanks Austin! Last week's community poll question asked about your thoughts regarding a Halo 5 beta, here are those results! This week Dominion has returned to Halo 4's Wargames in it's very own dedicated playlist! I've already hopped on for a few matches myself (2-0 baby ;D) and plan to hurry up and get my commendation up before the playlist is pulled on May 26, but I'm getting off topic-This week's Community Poll is: Do You Think Dominion Should to Return to Halo 5 Matchmaking? Leave your thoughts along with your vote below. Voting ends May 19 @ 6:00 AM EST Thanks for taking time to partake in the Weekly Community Poll, be sure to tell Austin the banner looks great, and See y'all next week! Have a question, complaint, or suggestion pertaining to the poll? Message BZ1.

Here are some facts about one of my favorite Halo 4 weapons, the Splaser! The Spartan Laser takes 2.5 seconds to charge, has a maximum capacity of 4 (unless you have the Ammo perk, then it's 6) and is one of the most powerful weapons in the game having the ability to destroy every vehicle with one direct hit, with the exception of the Scorpion and the Wraith. (Note: The Mantis is only destroyed in one hit if its shields are down) The Splaser in Halo 4 also has a sticker on the front and on its sides that reads, "Big, Scary Laser. Do not look into beam with remaining eye."

The Dominion playlist (listed now as Dominion Light because of the smaller maps and team sizes) has actually returned to Halo 4 War Games, and is available until May 26.

I'm taking this with a grain of salt, I feel like the Halo 2 Anniversary rumors are true, due to the enormous amount of speculation behind it. I'm excited about this, but I'm not getting hyped until June gets here. Great article P34nut!

I once thought that Twam ran the site...then I met The Director.

Great interview! #LilSwiftGrunt I can't wait to see who else you've got lined up for the coming months Bnus. I absolutely love being able to learn more about the people who are responsible for the community's best YouTube channels. Great Work!

I'd have to disagree with almost all of these points. Halo 2 was a great game, the game mechanics, storyline, emblems, etc. should all be the same thing they were back in 2004. We don't need an alternate canon or a multiplayer update for a game that was released ten years ago. Rather than getting innovative and rethinking what Halo 2 should've and could've been, 343 industries should focus their attention on the next new installment, Halo 5. Something I do think that would be very interesting, and I didn't think about it until you mentioned it, would be if Halo 2: Anniversary featured Flood Firefight mode. It wouldn't have to be overly complicated, just allow various Flood to attack like they do in campaign, and provide a scoring system. That would be a fun game mode and good way to add something that wouldn't really change the multiplayer or campaign.

I'll be honest, this game is looking really awesome. A lot of players have been complaining about how repetitive the past Call of Duty installments have been, with this being SledgeHammer's first Call of Duty title, I'm sure we can expect something exciting, new, and innovative.

Name: Get Tossed Primary Weapon: Storm Rifle Secondary Weapon: Plasma Pistol Grenade: Pulse Armor Ability: Jetpack Tactical Package: AA Efficiency Support Upgrade: Ammo Recommended Gametypes: Rumble pit Conditions: Use controller layout: Boxer, Sensitivity: 10, Only fire your weapons while in the air.

I want Halo 2 Anniversary this year. I want to see Halo 2 in HD along with the introduction of the online multiplayer that made the Halo franchise so great. I'm really not thinking about if this will force 343i to make a Halo 3 Anniversary, because that wouldn't be for another three years if I'm not mistaken, and we've all seen how much things can change in 3 years. (Halo 2 to Halo 3) Plus, we just got Spartan Assault, I want a FPS Halo before we get another innovative type of Halo game.

I personally never really played many games on the gameboy other than Namco Museum and Super Mario Bros. but that's not to say I wouldn't want to see an anniversary re-release. I think Nintendo could definitely make some sells off of an anniversary edition, maybe do like Atari did for their anniversary and take a handful of the best games in the gameboy's run and bundle it with the handheld. Nice article, Mr. Stiltskin

Shane has some incredible videos, he's a new YouTuber, but has some incredibly high quality videos. He doesn't have very many subscribers yet, so I'd like to encourage each and everyone of you to take a look at his channel, and subscribe. I'm sure he'll appreciate the support, plus who doesn't want to see more awesome videos like this?

Well now, if we're talking Power Weapons, I'd have to say it depends on the map and gametype. If we're playing Team Slayer on Haven, give me the Saw all day. The Saw absolutely devastates players in close quarters. If we're playing Big Team on Ragnarok, I'm going to go with the Spartan Laser. The Spartan Laser is highly effective against vehicles, taking only one shot to destroy most. Also, if in a steady hand, it can really tear through players too.

The helmet actually looks very similar to the ones used by Generals in the Empire except this helmet seems to provide slightly more protection than those. Perhaps it's a helmet specifically designated to the General in the images above, or he just applied some special modifications to it.

When you say "I feel that this may be CoD doing what Halo 4 tried to do, except doing it right." I can only think you're saying that when Halo 4 implemented Jump pack things, Promethean Vision, Futuristic Hover Bike Thing, and Mechs, they did so unsuccessfully- To which, I'd have to disagree. Halo 4, for all it's shortcomings at launch, implemented some very innovative and unique features into the Halo franchise. The Mantis is an incredibly powerful vehicle balanced by it's Spartan-like shields that can easily be taken down and it's relatively low health for a vehicle. Promethean Vision was and still is criticized by many fans in the Halo community, and I can understand some of that criticism to an extent. It's an armor ability that's primary purpose is squashing campers out of the game. For those that don't camp, Promethean Vision is just a bit of an upgrade over your radar. I'm going to assume you're referring to the ghost, well the ghost has been around since Halo CE and still functions pretty much the same way it did in the original game. I can't imagine how this was in any way unbalanced in Halo 4. The Jet Pack has been around since Reach, and has a big difference on the way a game is played and the way an objective is handled. The Jet Pack was highly overpowered in Halo: Reach with a very large amount of possible usage before it drained out. I think if anything, 343i managed to refine the Jet Pack very well when they brought it over to Halo 4. For all the similarities, they're still very different titles. I think Call of Duty will make good use of these features, and will once again top the charts in sales, but they won't be used in the same manner as was capable in Halo 4. Halo =/= CoD

Absolutely amazing aesthetics Bacon, very nice commentary as well. This map would make for an awesome machinima! I started to get a little excited when I saw your driving in the wharthog, as I just imagined the battle going on as the Covenant storm the beach head.

Well, when I first started playing Halo 4, I really, really liked the DMR. It was dangerously precise in virtually any situation you could find yourself in. Then we got the first weapon tuning update which really changed things for me. The battle rifle became a 4 shot kill weapon and presented a 2 shot pummel ability. This, in my opinion, made the Battle Rifle the most versatile load out weapon in the game. The addition of sprint only furthers the effectiveness of this weapon and give the the player a higher chance and greater opportunity to limit his encounters strictly to medium and short range, making my choice by a long shot (no pun intended) the Battle Rifle.