Halo Spotlight: ATG (Anniversary Tournament Gaming)

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I recently stumbled by ATG (a great Halo web site for Halo Anniversary tournaments) and I have to say I loved every minute when I was there. ATG provides gamers who love Anniversary to go head to head in tournaments. There website provides videos, info, great forums to talk your little heart out, and even sign your self up for a tournament! . I asked Derek (admin of ATG) to provide a little write up about his site which you can read down below, it provides great info and what you can expect from ATG. I would like to personally thank  the staff at ATG for this great opportunity to share their great website!

“Dear Elders.TV and Community,
First off, it’s an honor to be here today, featured as part of your Halo Spotlight series. We’re glad to be here, so thanks’ for having us.

So what is ATG Halo all about?

ATG Halo is entire website devoted to competitive gaming for players who enjoy the “Anniversary Classic” playlist (recently added on XBL under the gaming title, Halo Reach).

ATG Halo takes the Halo CE Anniversary experience to the next level. We provide gameplays, montages, forums, tournaments, cash and other prizes to the Halo CEA Community.

The Halo CEA Community at ATG has been growing rapidly. We recently concluded our first 1v1 tournament this past Sunday, January 22nd. Tournament footage is now up on the ATG YouTube Channel and at our Facebook page. We’d also like to take a moment for a quick shout-out to our first 1v1 champion, BC Conker! He faced a pretty intense match-up in the Finals against the player Pox EEEEEEEEEEE but managed to pull-through for the win. Overall, great gaming from both of these players!

With an upcoming 2v2 tournament this Sunday, and 4v4 plans on the horizon in February, ATG offers a variety of tournament sizes for players to choose from. On the ATG Forums players meet up for customs or work to develop the game settings and maps used in the tournaments at ATG Halo. Tournament maps include favorites from the Anniversary Classic map-pack as well as forge, user-created maps. For example, we brought back the long time classic and favorite map, Wizard (Warlock) for gameplay in our recent 1v1 tournament.

The ATG Halo website and our tournaments get the entire community involved. Whether it’s developing forge-maps, tournament settings, conducting polls, sharing video, refereeing tournaments, or providing website-feedback. The members of the ATG Community have a voice that is heard. At ATG Halo, we want players to enjoy gaming and tournaments to the fullest extent possible. Every tournament should become a memory and an experience. It’s not always about winning or losing. It’s about learning from every experience and having a chance to share what you’ve learned with others. This is how we all get better together, as a real community. But of course…a cash prize now and then for your work feels good too 😉

Sincerely,

– The Staff at ATG Halo (Frequency, NugZ, Pox, Remix)”

Know your Halo Wars – Captain Cutter

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Captain Cutter is our first lucky leader to be featured on “Know your Halo Wars.”

Captain Cutter Information:

  • Super Unit: ODST’s – You need 3 reactors to upgrade to ODST’s. ODST’s can be dropped 10 at a time, and costs 100 resources to do so.
  • Leader Power: Mac Blast – Costs 600 resources, and can be upgraded to 4 mac blasts in the field armory.
  • Unique Unit: Elephant – Elephant is a barracks on wheels. It can placed down, and pop out Marines, Flamers, or Spartans.
  • Special Bonus: New bases start as Stations and the starting base is a Fortress.

How to start off: 

For me it really depends on what map your playing. But on any map most of the time I start off with 4 supply pads. Then add 2 reactors in the back of the base, and build a barracks. I’ll than train 3 Spartans and begin to get my second base up in running. Once that base is complete I would build a 3rd reactor, or upgrade one on my first base. Remember to SCOUT around 4/5 minutes with your warthog, you want to see what the other opponents are building/training. Once you’ve scouted, make sure you make units that counter the unit they are making. So say they are making tanks for example, then you should start to build cobras as fast as you can. While building those cobras or any other unit you should start to train for ODST’s. If you even want you can start training in the field armory for the second mac blast or adding 10+ units.

Attacking: 

Having a couple of units you should attack (make sure you have ODST’s trained) once attacking start dropping ODST’s.  Begin to take out reactors, vehicle depots, barracks, air pads, and if your even lucky take out there base.

I hope this will help you, and you can start to winning like a beast! Come back next Friday for the Arbiter!

Know your Halo Wars

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I’ve played Halo Wars for a good solid month, and I’ve seen a lot of new recruits up for the challenge of playing against  generals. Well, I’m here to teach you young marines some tips and tricks on how you can start winning! Starting every Friday I’ll take each leader, and show you the best possible way to win. Look down below to see which leader is first and which is last.

January  27:

Captain Cutter

February 3:

Arbiter

February 10: Forge

February  17: Chieftain

February  24: Professor Anders

March 2: Prophet of Regret

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What do you Think: What Year for Halo Wars 2?

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I recently went back to Halo Wars, and I have to say I’m loving every second of it. Halo Wars in my opinion was a huge success.  Frank O’Connor even said that in an article. The article described that Halo Wars 2 could work on Kinect, but 343 said they are not working on Halo Wars 2, yet. Right now Halo Wars still has a huge fan base, but will they get what they want?

343 Not Making Halo Wars 2?

I first read about this in the Waypoint Forums, and this could be true. Right now 343 is busy with Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo 6. So Ensemble/Robot Entertainment developed Halo Wars, and very well come back and create Halo Wars 2, nothing is impossible.

343 Making Halo Wars 2

343 making Halo Wars 2 makes more sense. 343 is busy making the new Halo trilogy, but I feel Halo Wars 2 could be developed by 343. My opinion I feel Halo Wars 2 could be released 2014 or 2015 by 343.

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Halo Spotlight: Idleduck

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Welcome to the first Halo Spotlight. Halo Spotlight gives a look into different Halo community sites, videos, and screenshots.

Our first Halo Spotlight goes to Idleduck. Idleduck provides great web comics, and forge maps. Recently Idleduck announced a new forge series called “Last Forger Standing.” Last Forge Standing is were 7 contestants battle each other, and see who can make a map in forge the best. It will be released sometime this January. Idleduck even produces great web comics that make any Halo fan have a good laugh. While still laughing you can check out great forge projects made by the man him self (petetheduck.) He made the famous map Halo Pinball in which has 1k likes, and 32,229 downloads. All you can say is Idleduck provides any Halo fan with enjoyment, funny, and great Halo content.

Do you want to have your video or website on our next Halo Spotlight? Contact us!

The Halo Bulletin: 1.4.12

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The first Halo Bulletin of 2012!

Last night the Halo Bulletin was posted over at Halo Waypoint. The Bulletin looks at some Halo fans resolutions for the new year, as well, get some information about the new Halo Novel Primordium. Lastly, January comes with a matchmaking update. Read about the matchmaking update, and what you can see when the update hits Reach this January.  Read More