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Halo Team Assemble Official Thread of Events and Activities Types of Events and Activities: Games that occur at HTA Events: Rules: Links of streams: Links of HTA Accounts: All HTA Events and Activities will be posted HERE, and here ONLY. This is to remove clutters and to keep members and guests up to date on Halo Team Assemble. For those of you who wish to contact us, you can find us on Twitter or Xbox Live: LL Kool D L Fishy L VinWarrior Yoshi1176 We'd like to take this time to thank all of you for the continued support and for being apart of HTA, and continue to keep up to date with us. Thank You.

Starts: May End: August HTA's Summer of No-Outside-Contact Events consists of us reaching out to users and getting them involved in their favorite games or games they just enjoy to play. Our list is currently consisted of just a few games we are considering, and some of them we have considered. Our list is not complete, but this is what it currently consists of so far: 7 Days 2 Die Aegis Wing Gears of War 4 (INSANE) Halo 2 (LEGENDARY) Halo 3 (LEGENDARY) Halo 4 (LEGENDARY) Halo: Reach (LEGENDARY) Left 4 Dead 2 *Green = Not Yet Started *Yellow = Finished/Started These are just a few things we have mind, however let me go over a few things first. These games are just the ones currently already planned. We are still considering more, and are open to options via the Community. However, keep these few things in mind before you RSVP: You will be on a live-stream, your actions are recorded and the community will see what you did. Your voice will be included, this includes your reactions and what you say. Now with that's that, let's get a few other things out there for the Community... HTA is currently working on a Minecraft "Server", for the Xbox One. We will be open to the public for the Summer for everyone to join us! Progress we've done so far: (Please note, this was all done in Survival none of it was done in Creative) Well, now to wrap-up the topic, and to get BACK on topic... We are open to options for upcoming game streams and what-not. So if anyone has a suggestion they would be willing to help, we'll take your idea and consider. Just post below your game you'd like to see get featured and (If you want) featured with! Thank you for your time! ~The HTA Team: Drizzy (343iCF) Fishy (343iCF) VinWarrior (Podtacular) Adv Jones (Halo Archive) SD (343iCF) Ardent Prayer (343iCF) BatedSuperior (343iCF) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T25Caofr7WY

Hello everyone, as most of you know. We over at HTA are working on making UNSC Warlord a Machinima. Well, I'm here today to let you all know that we are moving in a fast progress! We already have a few scripts wrote for the first few Episodes. And we have gone over them, just to make sure they follow as close to canon as all three of the books have! Anyways, it's time to dive even deeper on where we're going with this. So far, we have confirmed these characters will be making a return in this short film: Ash Dexter Junior Moth Archangel Runner & Sarge A few of those names should at least ring a bell. As these were all created by well known forum members! Ash = Ash Dexter = Kakashi Junior = Peanut Moth = Moth Archangel = Halo6 Follower Runner = BATMAN Sarge = Yoshi With those out of the way first, we can move on to the next fun stuff! Currently, this Machinima takes place after Book 1-3... Of course, if you read the ending of Book 3... It sorta makes sense, as well as angers some people. You can read that here: http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/42242-unsc-warlord-book-3-chapter-23/ This Machinima takes place during War of The Created, and quickly takes turn of events as our beloved ship Warlord interprets a message, saying that they're needed to send a small army along with a ship to deal with an Insurrectionist threat. Which is wear we find out about our new Villain: Tespan. Who replaces the well known previous antagonist: Lan Chorus. Tespan is unknown at first, but is quickly discovered to have two siblings. Agnes and Sisk. Both whom are a threat as well. Tespan's plans are unknown for the first bit, but as the team dives deeper; they find out the truth as to why they were sent on this mission and it's only a matter of time before time runs out. During this Machinima, we will be having our own personal soundtrack of music we picked out as well as music we have played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-jiINmrec4&list=PLs-vuNcKcf7WR-If0SLQsqxpakQWTi3Mn All of our music is licensed for use, which greatly helps with our process of making it happen. As well as we have one of our following members, @ helping us with video editing and what not. Making sure this video gives you the full effect of what's going on. H6WBC has also mentioned to us about how he found a way to make some visor effects and what not for this Machinima. Which will be great, and soon revealed in time! Continuing on with this subject, we would also like to copy and pasta our latest announcement on the Machinima: -We will be beginning around the middle of July. -We need about 10 voice actors for major roles and anything for side roles. -There is 15 Episodes, 2 of them already have been wrote. The next three are currently be worked on. -If anybody could help body act that would be amazing. Especially since we're planning on most episodes consisting 12+ players. -Preferably at least one female voice actors for our one lead female role. We also encourage anyone to get anyone to help. We have confidence in the Machinima, If anyone is interested, get a hold of me on here, Twitter, or via Xbox at "Fyshy Fishy" Thank You! ~HTA Board~ Of course, we understand for those who do not wish too. It's highly understood. But the point of this is to inform you fellers back at home that care! We're pushing hard for this, and hoping it works out fantastically. We don't care about how bad a voice actor you are, as long as you can adjust the emotion in the voice for the part! Continiuing on... We will be publicly announcing recording sessions and such and what not. As well as throwing out a few more videos to tease users with as well as give insight on what to expect. Thank you everyone for reading this, ~HTA Board: Drizzy_Dan, Yoshi1176, VinWarrior, Halo6WillBeCool, Fishy, Halo6 Follower, Adv Jones, HaruspexOfHell, Self Destruct, Sparky, and Ardent Prayer~ P.S. Here's some of our latest trailers https://twitter.com/HTeamAssemble/status/846526558223450112 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGLPjy7vP1w Join the HTA Discord!!!

Hello everyone. A couple of weeks ago, some great minds (not the greatest) in the Halo Community that are well versed in the extended universe came together to talk about said universe in general and sort of provide a podcast for listeners to catch up on the current timeline of the Halo franchise. In attendance were myself on behalf of our lovely site 343iCF, VinWarrior of Halo Team Assemble, Adv Jones with the Halo Archive, HaruspexOfHell from Progressive Halo, and Toa_Freak AKA Halo Canon. We talk about the current extended universe entries along with the games' main story lines and bring anyone who hasn't read or played up to speed. There is a link dump in the description but I'll throw one here because our site uses an embedded player. We start with the latest anthology of short stories, Fractures, at 1:48. Talk about the graphic novel Tales From Slipspace at 9:15. Discuss Cortana at 18:00. Review some great pieces of art from the masterpiece Halo: Mythos at 38:40. Answer the questions we received on Twitter at 43:30. Spoil Halo Wars 2 for people who haven't and aren't going to play it at 56:50. And conclude with the current state of the Haloverse at 1:11:40. Hope you enjoy!

Alright... So I'm back at it with the remakes/improvements to my old maps. (Because I don't know why, I like rehashing my stuff like 343 does, okay? They get feedback, and that makes me strive to improve.) Anyways, you've seen the previous version of Salient. So I'm just going to post some pictures and some details. Here are the before pictures of Salient 2.0: (Salient 2.0, was a rehash/remix of the original whereas Salient 2.1 is almost an exact copy, with a few minor tweaks for better competitive gameplay performance.) And here are the After Pictures: Anyways, here's the deets: Gametypes: Slayer Strongholds CTF Assault Breakout Oddball Lobby Size Recommendation: 2v2 3v3 4v4 Map does support 8v8, but I highly suggest you don't do it unless you're a madman. Or just dgaf. Also, here's a video of me exploring the map and the new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJ7FkNgtf0&feature=youtu.be kthx

Upcoming this weekend! Please watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlM0XfrMPU&feature=youtu.be See you there! (No signups necessary!)

Hello 343i Community Forum and other readers. Thanks for clicking this link to the latest interview. This time, I did my second collective interview with a rising Halo-oriented (among many other games) group whose members many of you may already know. Enjoy the latest chat I've had with Halo Team Assemble comprised of Yoshi1176, Fishy and VinWarrior DD: "Hey guys, how did Halo Team Assemble come to be?" YASH: "Well what started off as a bunch of summer time customs lobbies on MCC, became what you see today. In fact it was a joke that started at this time that we would assemble like the avengers, in the shoutbox at 343i.org. So we sort of just adopted it after a while and named our group Halo Team Assemble and expanded from there." DD: "Some of the best things start from small lobbies of players getting together like that. What are each of your roles in the group? FISH: "I like to take the events and get our lobbies set up in advance so we have a basic understanding of who's going to be coming to the events. I am also the main-streamer. And by streaming I mean... I'll do anything" VIN: "I don't really like to define myself by one simple "role", I like to do a lot of things. If I had to go with a term, I suppose it would be Creative Outreach? I write a lot for HTA as well as Podtacular, and hold a pretty prevalent position on Reddit, so I get news pretty fast. Besides that, I consider myself good with community outreach and organize some stuff on the Twitter, as well as Halo related projects for our YouTube. Of course, I'm not just limited to Halo." YASH: "My role in the HTA universe is more on the side of the social sphere I feel. Vin uses the Twitter often and Fishy has a multitude of series on our Youtube channel, but I focus on the Twitter as much as possible, as well as intersite, and inter community relations, I talk to community leaders trying to spread the idea of HTA to sites like Halo Archive, and even still to 343i.org, I find myself talking to "HaloTubers" as well. So I suppose I deal with community relations the most." DD: "It's great that you guys all seem to not limit yourselves to just one role when it comes to the group. For Vin: you say you write Podtacular as well as HTA. Can you tell us about that more?" VIN: "Sure. I was recently hired to work alongside DustStorm and the Podtacular team as a news writer. I've just recently settled into the role, so I don't have a lot yet on that front. All I can say is that the Podtacular team are a wonderful bunch and I look forward to writing more for them. As for those links to HTA, I'm still setting up some cross-article promotion and trying to balance both jobs, as well as integrate them. I certainly couldn't imagine running HTA on my own with this job." DD: "Really cool stuff. DustStorm is well known throughout the Halo Community for the Podtacular podcasts among other works. Good thing you have a team to rely on so you don't have to run things alone; I could imagine how stressful that may be. Where do most of HTA's interactions with the Halo Community occur?" VIN: "I'd like to believe that we are most seen on Twitter typically. Twitter is where we have seen the most support and communication from the community. We recently posted the first episode of our new project, Lost: A Halo Machinima to YouTube and we felt the results were great, but without the help of the community, we couldn't have done it. Twitter works well for us to because we can communicate with the community as well, like Ultimate Halo (specifically Wangtime) who actually helped voice act in the Machinima." YASH: "Whether it be talking about the state of the community with Greenskull or planning some customs with our followers, we love interacting with anyone and everyone." DD: "Twitter is a great platform for reaching audiences. I find that we have the most interaction on the 343iCommunity Twitter as well. Some pretty big name drops so far- DustStorm, Greenskull, Ultimate Halo's Wangtime. Do you guys have any dream collaborations for any projects?" VIN: "Dream collaborations? Well, speaking from probably my deepest desires, I'd absolutely adore to interview Joseph Staten. My longtime goal has been a writing position at 343 Industries, but even meeting and engaging with their team would be a dream come true. As far as community interaction, I'd love to be part of a Halo Canon video. Toa and I interact on Twitter occasionally via my private account, and he seems like an awesome person that shares a lot of my interests." YASH: "Dreams of any future collaborations? We have a few, but the one that seems most possible, and in my opinion the one that would be more fun for everyone involved is a group podcast that was brought up about a week ago. Kenny from Ultimate Halo had been alking about one of Podtaculars recent podcasts and Greenskull, HTA and Ian (Halo Canon) joined in. There was a mention of a group podcast and being able to talk to rather than type to these pillars of the community would be a blessing. Being just under a year old (Our one year anniversary is actually tomorrow [August 11]) and being identified up near those guys is just incredible. Being able to participate in such a podcast would definitely be a dream come true." DD: "Those would be some amazing opportunities I really do hope HTA gets the chance to say they work with people of such high caliber names in the Halo Community. It's definitely not impossible, we are all just people. Does the Halo Team have any upcoming projects that they may be able to talk about?" VIN: "Well, we certainly have a lot of stuff in the back-burner. What we can wholly talk about right now is Lost Episode 2, which will pick up after Episode 1 left off. There will be plenty of new characters, and the story is going in a direction I think everyone will be intrigued by. Speaking of Machinima, we may or may not have a little tease in the works for a project that you're going to love... That's all I'll say on that." YASH: "Less in the way of projects in the way that Vin described we also have some projects that will help us be easier identified in the community as well as achieving our final goals which are bringing the community as a whole closer together. One of those is making ourselves stand out, in this case a fancy new logo that will represent HTA's ideals and values which is being made for us by one of HTA's members and should be ready to roll out soon. Another project is more focused on actually bringing the community together, and that's actually through working side by side with Halo Archive and setting up a possible affiliation in the coming weeks. One of our first members, Adv Jones is a huge supporter of HTA and is helping us achieve this goal since he is a high standing member on the site." FISH: "With the return of the #Throwback's were hoping to bring in the audience of all those who enjoyed the OG systems. Whether they were just born and couldn't experience it or those who currently no longer have the system or the game. With Season #1 being a start of testing the bandwidths and pushing the systems to their maximum quality, I would like to say it was a success. We do know where we stand and what we can and can't do, as demonstrated. However, with the return of #Throwback and the upcoming Season #2. Which is (rumored) to be in September sometime. We are hoping to give the experience for everyone to enjoy. We already have equipment en route for webcams and audio. That way you aren't just watching a boring stream that's pretty much just a walkthrough with trial and error. We're pushing towards sorta what Game Grumps has done, but with success. I have people already setup ready to help out, everything we need is already here. We're just hoping not to reach to the audience in Halo, but to (hopefully) reach out to all of those who have a hobby in gaming, as well as provide as much entertainment to keep those drawn. We've done our research, and we've talked to the critics. I think we're ready" DD: "All these different things in the works is really exciting. I know there have been some asking for episode 2 of Lost already and I am one of those people. #Throwbacks Season #2 sounds like a blast and I've known Jones a while now and can vouch for how good a guy he is. A real supporter of the Halo Community and someone who is willing to meet people and hear them out. To clarify though, you insinuated earlier that there are more members in HTA than currently present but you guys are the founders. About how many are in Halo Team Assemble and how can one join?" YASH: "Yes there are more than just us, but there are just too many to count to be completely honest, everyone that we played with that showed up to our lobbies last summer which were packed to give you an idea, to the people we encounter in Twitter, everyone is in HTA, whether you play with us, participate in our machinimas, or just play Halo, you are part of HTA. The reason being is that we just want to help better the community, and community isn't built by making exclusive groups, it's by including everyone, from game developers to your average gamer." VIN: DD: "Very well said. Universal inclusion is pretty much the idea I think of when I think of Halo Team Assemble at its core. So you love Halo and gaming in general. What are each of your favorite games and franchises other than Halo?" VIN: "Oh, that is a very long list. I suppose counting my favorite games here, Mass Effect is certainly one I could never leave out. It's my favorite science-fiction universe behind Halo, and I cannot wait for Andromeda. I'm also a big fan of Gears of War, simply due to the grittiness of its campaigns as well as the really diverse character personalities. Bioshock was an amazing ride with a lot of interesting gameplay elements and anything from Naughty Dog catches my eye. Finally, I have to give a nod to Destiny as my really guilty pleasure. I know it has a lot of problems but I deeply enjoy it and have already pre-ordered Rise of Iron." YASH: "Other than Halo my favorite game would probably be Jak 2. Yes I know it isn't even a relevant game anymore, but it is a symbol of how I first began playing video games. Through my cousins and their visits to my house, which is actually how I was introduced to Halo. The game's chaos was something a very young me found hilarious and entertaining. Franchise wise I think I'm tied between Star Wars and Pokemon both had a big role in my childhood but Star Wars interests me a little more than Pokemon now, even though Pokemon Go is ridiculously fun. Star Wars is so big that it's hard not to find something you love within." FISH: "I'm going to have to say, I don't necessarily have a favorite franchise or games. I'll pretty much play anything and everything. Rarely ever will you hear me say "I think that games trash" or anything along those lines. The only thing I DO have is a weight-ratio. I will play some games over others if asked. For example, if you asked me right now if I wanted to play GTA Online with you and someone asked me if I wanted to play Rainbow Six: Siege. I would be playing with the other person. But, if you asked me if I wanted to play Gears of War: Judgement and nobody else asked anything. I would play Gears of War: Judgement. Simply because I'll play whatever. Even Kinect Sports." DD: "Solid games in these lists. Gears is also a personal favorite of mine along with Pokemon. Back onto Halo, I want to speak more about the general community specifically since this ambitious group's ultimate goal is to unite it and other gamers. What do you think of the current state the Halo Community is in and what do you think attributed to this?" VIN: "Honestly, I think the Halo Community has really worked hard to pull itself from the disgusting cesspool it was around the late Halo Reach to late Halo 4 days. This community still has plenty of problems in terms of size and accessibility, but 343 has the perfect game on their hands here, and they need to utilize it. I frequently see Halo 5's Forge and customs on Reddit's front page, and people have responded to the multiplayer as a whole with near complete happiness. 343 needs to implement a custom games browser and more social playlists so that these people have a way to play all of this fun stuff. But what do I think attributed to this? Plain and simple, Halo: Reach's multiplayer was way too poorly balanced and Halo 4 didn't have enough sustained content to hold over an audience. Halo 5 does both of these with flying colors." YASH: "Well, the large majority of the Halo Community I believe are genuine fans of the series and that's great but we can't go and pretend that the community hasn't been hurting the last few years because it has. The hurt, I feel comes from those who constantly talk down the community and put down those within it probably because they no longer enjoy Halo. There is the issue right there, they stay in the community and complain, and talk bad about everything that 343 does with Halo instead of just going to a game community that they like better. It creates a toxic environment for the fans of the series and those trying to do something with it. In fact something that I've seen become more of an issue in the last few months is the fact that people are beginning to blame the YouTubers themselves, who have no ability to change Halo in anyway. While this is all happening though the good people of the Halo Community (and there really are some) keep trying to maintain the greatest gaming community to ever exist in my opinion. The cause of all this is most likely attributed to the hand-over of Halo from Bungie to 343. Personally I love 343 and think they are doing fantastic, but their first game was a little rough, and that soured the community. MCC which was hopefully going to renew that launched with horrible bugs and made the issue worse, so here we are today with Halo 5. The game is terrific, but some have been too upset to want to come back or accept the changes to Halo which we have seen over the last few years. When it comes down to it, the problem is people accepting the change that happens in a franchise when it lasts as long as Halo has." DD: "Long, but insightful nonetheless guys and I hope readers can figure out what to do with those words and how it relates to the general community and not just one or two sites. Thanks for keeping the answers coming but we're gonna have to close out soon. Do you have anyone you want to shoutout or anything you wanna say/address?" VIN: "I'd like to thank my mom, my dad, and BoJack Horseman... Kidding aside, the 343i Community Forums got me where I was, and I do want to thank everyone on there for all of the support they gave me. Thank you to Podtacular for granting me an amazing job. Thank you to every single person on HTA that supports us day in and day out. You guys are what keep me going." YASH: "I'd like to shout out our friends on 343i.org and on Halo Archive, love playing games with y'all! I'd just like to say, that if you love your community get out there and do something. Whether it be playing in lobbies, supporting YouTubers or even making videos yourself. Try to make the community itself better and better yourself along the way. Thanks for having us." FISH: "And one last thing, make sure to stop by our YouTube and Twitch Streams and give us a like and/or follow. I really appreciate that sort of stuff and I do pay attention to it. I'll just leave this here: " Thanks readers for reading and thank you to the HTA founders and members for being around. This was really fun and I hope you guys check them out! Follow HTA on Twitter for gaming news, streams, and other fun stuff. Peace out 343iCommunity.

What started as a small group of friends who would get online at the same time to play Halo, turned into a group of Halo and gaming enthusiasts looking to make a name for themselves in the larger community. Halo Team Assemble is a rising group of gamers that's main goal is to band the Halo Community together again through playing and interaction as it once was. Fishy, Yoshi, and VinWarrior are three of the founders of HTA and each do their own part in achieving their ambitious dream. 343iCF HTA's stomping grounds. We're all aware of our home forum but did you know that Halo Team Assemble started here in our Shoutbox? You can find threads related to HTA in the Contests & Events and Game Invitations forums where you can chat about HTA and see information about upcoming game nights and streams. Twitter HTA has grown by almost 200 followers just this summer on Twitter where it does most of its interactions. Their most popular tweet got 273 likes and 106 retweets as seen above. They have interactions with HaloTubers like ToaFreak and Greenskull and higher presences like GrimBrother One from 343 Industries occasionally. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUO2fBddcs0 Lost: A Halo Machinima is Halo Team Assemble's latest project on their YouTube channel. So far it's received 700+ views and pretty good feedback just from the first episode (which features Wangtime from Ultimate Halo!). Episode 2 is currently in progress and they've been recruiting voice actors and editors (including our own D-38 Boss) to make this episode even better than the first. "There will be plenty of new characters, and the story is going in a direction I think everyone will be intrigued by," says Halo Team Assemble's VinWarrior. Check out the latest interview this week starring these 3 to see more about what they have to say about upcoming projects, current works, and their goals in the community. Follow the Halo Team Assemble guys on Twitter, tune in to their streams, and subscribe to their YouTube channel. Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for another Community Spotlight next week. This post has been promoted to an article

Summer Additions For those of you haven't noticed our Summer events, you can check them out here: http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/44115-htas-summer-no-outside-contact-events/?do=findComment&comment=384003 As the founder, and lead of events of HTA, I'd like to announce that we are doing more events this summer than just those few games. However, this is strictly one game and one game only. Can you guess? Of course you can, we're Halo Team Assemble. Halo's in our name! So for those of you willing to want to participate and get in on some of the action, or even watch some of the action! You should definitely stop by this summer and join in! *This summer, we will be hosting Game Nights. Which will be featured on Friday or Saturday. One of these night's will serve as our #WeeklyWarzone *Monday-Thursday will serve as open days. Which will be open lobbies. Lower player count, but anyone is welcome. In short terms... This summer will feature all of the following: Streams Inter-Community Collabarotion Custom Games Arena Warzone Big Team Battle Driving a Warthog with Yoshi in the passenger seat with a Hydra Launcher *Events for Warzone will be notified beforehand. *If someone is online that is, if not there will not be an open lobby. There is no need to signup, as this is an open invitation for pretty much everyday. Except Sunday's and either Friday or Saturday. So let's get ready for a Summer Long-Term of events!

So many of you may know, HTA has a #Throwback category on our YouTube. However, not many people watch it. But we're willing to keep doing it in hopes that we will get more viewers, which seem to becoming to the #Throwback stream more much rather than the YouTube, which is all fine and dandy. However, we're wanting to try new ways of approaching this category in hopes to see more people supporting us in the future. That being said, our question for this month is... Which game should we do next? Jak 2 was already shown and teased for next month, May, but my question for you all... Is what should we do for June? We've got a poll up, and we're giving this a try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXaoM6_zsuA Thanks! Credit to @@Halo6 Follower for the suggestion!

Join myself and other stars of the community for an action packed evening of customs. You will be pitted against the very best of the forum in this adrenaline filled night in only the best customs maps and game types currently at our disposal. If you are planning on joining just send me a message for an invite to the lobby at the start time. GT: L Fishy L Bring your own customs and maps because they may be played! Date: Friday July 3rd 2015 Time: 9pm EST (6pm PST) Place: The Master Chief Collection Any questions message me! If you know for sure you can attend sign up below. If not do not post here as it promotes spam. If you want to come but cannot guarantee your attendance message me the day of the event and if there is room you can join then. Take note that EK's Heretic Event takes place the same day at 3pm EST, so this event will happen later and his event would hopefully be done by then. If not, this one will be pushed back. Attendees: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ...