I take a look at the new forge space and what it has to offer.
Archive for March, 2013
The guys finally make good progress making houses. Jamie finishes the main part of his house and begins building an jetty, while Owen starts on the roof of his new house. Stay tuned next week when we’ll see what the Island of Toes looks like now!
After finding Truths position, all UNSC and Elite forces head to the Arks control room, where Truth has locked himself inside using shields. To get in, Chief, The Arbiter and Sgt Johnson must lead squads into three towers to disable the shield and stop Truth from firing all the Halo rings.
“Facilities like these supplied the Navys starships with fuel. But now technology has progressed, they have been abandoned.”
In this episode I take a look at the map, Perigon
A disgraced Covenant commander is given a second chance and becomes the Arbiter, the Hand of the Prophets and for his first mission he is sent, with a group of Covenant to a gas mine where he must track down and kill a Heretic leader.
Hello Everyone!
Time for another update to the previous week and the next.
At the start of the week I continued my play through of Halo 2’s campaign. This week it was with the mission Metropolis, where, after reaching the bridge to New Mombasa, Master Chief must try to get to Regrets carrier. However there is still hundreds of Covenant soldiers in his way. Chief and a select group of Marines must head across the bridge using Tanks and Warthogs facing Wraiths, Ghosts and a large number of infantry. After regrouping with some other marines, a Covenant Scarab emerges and Chief must take it out before he can board the carrier. However just after the Scarab is destroyed, the carrier starts to open a slip-space portal and Chief and the marines head back to In Amber Clad and chase the ship through its portal. The resulting shock wave from such a low jump causes huge damage to the city.
Next, VPMaps Episode 15 was uploaded where I looked at a remake of the Halo CE map Wizard and the Halo 2 map Warlock, called Mage. It is very similar to its predecessors, in terms of structure, however weapons are different and obviously some bits of the map are different due to Halo 4’s forge pieces. Although, it was a pleasure to build and I thought it turned out well.
Towards the end of the week, I continued my other campaign play through. For Halo 3, I continued the play through with the mission The Ark. Master Chief, the UNSC and the Elites have gone through the portal on Earth to discover a massive Forerunner installation. Chief must go down to the surface to clear a space for the frigate, Forward Unto Dawn, so reinforcements can be delivered. Chief and UNSC forces must then battle through lines of Wraiths, Ghosts and even a Scarab to get to the Installations Cartographer to find truths location so he can be put to justice.
And finally at the end of the week, Minecraft edged into frame with The Legend of Toes Episode 7. In this episode I continue making good progress with my new house, unlike Jamie how tries to make glass and moans about the dirt under his house. Also someone dies on the Island, watch the episode to find out!
Other than videos, on Tuesday, I put up a special preview of Operation: Coastline Episode 3. This episode, called Interrogation, is a work in progress and I am working on it in between my other videos. Last week I put a preview of the script with some dialogue between a Colonel and an ONI Operative. Check it out here!
Speaking of Operation: Coastline, I said last week that I would begin filming and I am a man of my word. On the weekend I filmed a scene with 2Â characters who may or may not be ODST’s, but more news nearer its release.
Next week there will be the usual flurry of videos. At the beginning of the week the Halo 2’s will resume with the level The Arbiter, where we jump into the shoes of the Arbiter for the first time and he must travel to a gas mine and neutralize a heretic. Also VPMaps episode 16 will be out and I will be looking at a small symmetrical map called Perigon, stay tuned for it. Also Halo 3’s campaign will continue with the level, The Covenant where the UNSC and the Elites have found the Prophet of Truth and he has locked himself inside the Arks control room. Master Chief, Sgt. Johnson and the Arbiter must take squads to 3 towers to deactivate the shield and get to the Prophet, however, not all goes to plan… As usual the duo return for the penultimate episode of Toe will be out, stay tuned!
So that’s it for the recap!
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Owen
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In this episode Owen continues to make good progress on his house, while Jamie makes windows and moans about dirt. There is also a fatality on the Island!
Master Chief, the UNSC and the Elites have gone through the portal on Earth to discover a massive Forerunner installation. Chief must go down to the surface to clear a space for the frigate, Forward Unto Dawn, so reinforcements can be delivered. Chief and UNSC forces must then battle through lines of Wraiths, Ghosts and even a Scarab to get to the Installations Cartographer to find truths location so he can be put to justice.
“Despite evidence to suggest otherwise, some believe that this structure was once an arena for an ancient race”
This week, I look at a remake of Halo’s, Wizard and Halo 2’s, Warlock.
Hello all!
Like I said in the recent weekly update, I will be doing a video or something similar to this.
I have recently started developing the 3rd episode of my machinima Operation: Coastline. The last episode left the 2 main characters with a dangerous Covenant prisoner in their hands, who destroyed a UNSC outpost and the spartans within it. In this episode they bring him back to their base for questioning but you will hear more about that sequence nearer the time of release.
I want to share a section of the script where Colonel Shore is visited by an ONI Major who updates Shore about the situation in New Mombasa;
“November 1st 2552
Col shore, on aegis fate, is approached my his LT
LT: Sir there is an ONI Officer here to see you
S: Ah send him through
Officer approaches shore on the command centre
O: Sir, Major Ortega, I would begin with pleasantries but I must discuss a more pressing matter. I assume you are aware of the situation in Mombasa?
S: Yes a carrier performed and in atmosphere jump and caused extensive damage.
O: That’s not all sir, our recon suggest that the covenant ships are using their beam weapons they use to glass planets to blow away large portions of land and, from what we can tell, they are excavating, like they have done on our colony worlds.
S: Do you have an idea of what they are digging for?
O: Not exactly but we can tell that the covenant ships are digging in a huge diameter which covers most of Mombasa, the majority of the digging has yet to start but we calculate it is only a matter of time.
S: So what would you advise?
O: Well there is not a lot we can do. Their ships are too many and too powerful for us to launch a successful counter attack, the best thing we can do is get as many of our forces out of the city before it is too late.
S: I’ll get our pelicans in the air to airlift them out, hopefully they will be small enough to sneak under their radar.
O: Alright then sir, good luck, I will be in contact.
O leaves and S looks back at the screens”
This sequence is near the end of the episode and leaves a good place to round the episode off.  I have begun filming the episode and will begin voice-work shortly after, along with putting the whole thing to music.
Stay tuned for more updates and episode 3’s release!
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Owen
Vezuvius
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