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Apparently 343 just announced a Forge Island dlc at PAX.

- All new Forge pallet
- similar aesthetics to Ravine's pallet
- comprises of three islands; small, medium and large
- the islands are very flat
- the islands are grassy and bare
- Launches April 11th
- Free!



It's not April Fools day yet so it must be legit.

Two whole months without an update? That Head Journalist sure is lazy.

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Featured Tracks

Regular featured tracks shall be making a return. Approximately once per month a stand out track will be chosen for feature by the HaloTracks staff. If lots of tracks are posted, tracks will be featured more often. We have decided not to bring back community voting at this point in time as we believe it will not receive the desired amount of votes. Be active on the forums and we shall bring back the voting.

Only tracks that are posted in the HaloTracks map gallery will be eligible for feature so make sure all your tracks are posted there. If you need screenshots of your tracks then make a request in the Screenshot Request Thread.

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Elite Map Makers

WhiskeyWarm and Lord FluffBall have been promoted as our first Halo 4 +Elite Map Makers. They have proven that they are currently the best map makers on HaloTracks by making lots of high quality tracks and posting them in our map gallery.

If you are interested in trying to become an elite map maker then read the elite map maker requirements.

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Monkey Business

EoE Oh SNAP has been promoted as our newest Code Monkey. EoE will assist the other code monkeys with the coding for the site as he develops his coding skills.

The code monkeys are currently hard at work revamping the tournament system that was initially created by Killer200O and other unmentioned contributors. This system will include exciting features such as semi-automated tournament hosting, racing leaderboards, map leaderboards, betting, true skill & experience ranking (similar to the ranking in Halo 3), and much more. This unique system will be unmatched by any other Halo site. We will be releasing an ALPHA of the tournament system soon. Stay tuned for more information.

Mad Hatter, Zerker24 and EoE Oh SNAP have had many sleepless nights coding this tournament system. They have truly done an amazing job so far and been mostly unnoticed for it. Please thank and support them for their hard work and dedication to the site.

If you would like to help then please start hosting and entering tournaments to increase the amount of tournament activity for when the system gets released.

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File browsing

343 Industries have finally activated the in game file browser. The new features that are now available are custom search filters, most downloaded files and most recommended files. Maps can still be downloaded using the same method of searching for the map maker's file share. The complete file browser that includes direct links to maps will be released at the end of February.

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Squads

HT Supercross is currently hosting races for their fifth season. To sign up for HT Supercross and join their races, visit the HT Supercross forums.

The Dirty Racing League is now hosting four tournaments per week and giving sign up priority to those that have not yet raced in a DRL tournament on any given week. This will ensure that everyone has a chance to race. To sign up for the DRL squad and join their tournaments, visit the Dirty Racing League forums.

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HaloTracks YouTube

The HaloTracks YouTube channel is soon going to be revived. Make sure you subscribe now so that you do not miss any of the future videos. The best video editors on HaloTracks shall be making videos for this channel and only the highest quality videos will be featured. If you consider yourself to be a good video editor and want to make Halo racing related videos for the channel then keep an eye out for information about how to submit videos to the channel.

One of the videos that will be uploaded to the channel is a monthly top 10 track countdown. This series is hosted by Masta Hippie and Purple Dinosaur and only includes tracks that are posted in the HaloTracks map gallery. Post your tracks in the gallery for your chance to get in the countdown.

Some HaloTracks members also run their own YouTube channels that feature Halo racing videos. Subscribe to their channels to stay up to date with all the latest race tracks.
ProForgeRacing run by CoookkieMonster
transforgers run by Tripmine413, JDOG0604, ORACLE BALL, xUnknownGamingx, and KSI Milk Man
DemolitionTurtle run by llehctim4
MinimumWageGamers run by Lord Fluffball
YouxxGotxxOwned run by YouxxGotxxOwned

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Use your freedom

This is just a reminder that anyone can host any form of event such as challenges, contests or tournaments on HaloTracks provided you use an acceptable format and follow through with hosting responsibilities. We would also like to encourage everyone to be active on the forums by entering events, posting your tracks in the gallery and commenting on other people’s maps. Commenting on maps is currently one of the only ways to earn you HT points and will increment your post count.

Submit your own challenges in the submit a challenge forum.
Submit your own tournaments in the submit a tournament forum.
Enter tournaments in the open tournaments forum.

January Top 10 Tournament

Last minute tournament but it is important and I am away next week. Purpledinosaur and I are going to make a monthly top 10 video for the tracks posted in the map gallery during each month. This tournament is to get some good clips for each track. The video will be put onto the HaloTracks Youtube channel if it is good.


Date & Time
Tuesday 5 February
Eastern: 7:00 pm
Central: 6:00 pm
Mountain: 5:00 pm
Pacific: 4:00 pm
New Zealand: Wednesday 1:00 pm


Rules

• No moaning about your position unless you are in last place.
  
• All races will be 5 laps unless otherwise stated.
  
• At the start of the race everyone will get on their mongooses and NOT MOVE. The race will start on initial hill move (when the announcer says “new hill” about 20 seconds into the race) unless otherwise stated or someone is not ready. Maps with starting gates will start on the starting gate unless it doesn’t activate for everybody.
  
• At the end of the race line up at the side of the track in the order that you finished.
  
• No continual/repeated annoying sounds through the mic.
  
• No cheating, or attempting to cheat the track in any way.
  
• Wrecking is allowed and encouraged.
  
• If you die you will need to restart the lap. Sky tracks don't have bordering so dying will be common.
  
• Race properly. You're being filmed.
  
• Everyone must change teams between every race. That way we're not one color for all the clips.

Scoring
1st – 16
2nd – 15
3rd – 14
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etc
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15th – 2
16th – 1


Prizes
1st – 50 HT points
2nd – 30 HT points
3rd – 15 HT points
Participation – 5 HT points


Tracks
10 tracks. Since the tracks have not yet been finalized they shall be a surprise. Expect a wide variety of the best tracks that were posted in the map gallery throughout January.


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Masta Mayhem Tournament #1 Results

Great tournament. The things I wanted to test such as the alternative starting method and the hardcore gametype seemed to work well. Fluffy Mayhem was not a good track for tournaments so we skipped it. Next time I will not include unsuitable tracks. Bean was winning for most of the tournament but the double points on Ho Ho HC allowed Nuked to take the win. Purple and Hatter both had to leave so got last place for every race they did not participate in. Purple did so well in the first few races that he still finished 8th.


Race results:




Final standings:

1. NukedlceCream - 100
2. Bean05 - 97
3. Possante - 95
4. Masta Hippie - 87
4. Jeffh3692 - 87
6. Eoe Oh Snap - 75
7. Kiddioo - 72
8. PurpleDinousaur0 - 68
9. Xion Thunder - 62
10. IRmrCOOKIE - 61
11. Hatter is Mad - 56

Masta Mayhem Tournament #1

I am going to start hosting tournaments. Other people should do the same.


Date & Time
Saturday 26 January
Eastern: 7:00 pm
Central: 6:00 pm
Mountain: 5:00 pm
Pacific: 4:00 pm
New Zealand: Sunday 1:00 pm


Rules

• No moaning about your position unless you are in last place.
  
• All races will be 8 laps unless otherwise stated or it is a hardcore race.
  
• At the start of the race everyone will get on their mongooses and NOT MOVE. The race will start on initial hill move (when the announcer says “hill moved” about 15 seconds into the race) unless otherwise stated or someone is not ready. Maps with starting gates will start on the starting gate unless it doesn’t activate for everybody.
  
• At the end of the race line up at the side of the track in the order that you finished.
  
• No continual/repeated annoying sounds through the mic.
  
• No cheating, or attempting to cheat the track in any way.
  
• Wrecking is allowed and encouraged.
  
• If you die you will need to restart the lap. Sky tracks don't have bordering so dying will be common.

Hardcore rules

• Hardcore tracks contain forms of obstacles and traps to hinder racers that. These obstacles vary from stop pillars to drop holes and beyond.
  
• You can do almost anything while you drive to wreck other racers. For example; intentional wrecking, break checking, shield door checking, etc but you absolutely cannot drive backwards during a race.
  
• There are 3 rounds and 3,4 or 5 laps per round (depending on track size).
  
• During the first round the race starts on initial hill move (when the announcer says "hill moved" about 15 seconds into the race). The second round, the race starts on initial hill move as well. On the third round however, the race starts instantly!
  
• Everyone has 1 life per round.
  
• The person with the most laps completed gets first, second most gets second, etc. Deaths count as -1 laps.

Scoring
1st – 16 points
2nd – 15 points
3rd – 14 points
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etc
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15th – 2 points
16th – 1 point


Prizes
1st – 50 HT points
2nd – 30 HT points
3rd – 15 HT points
Participation – 5 HT points

If enough people participate I will host more tournaments with a leaderboard. There will be a MS point prize for the winner of this leaderboard.


Tracks

• Dirt Roads by CoookkieMonster
  
• Fluffy Mayhem by Lord Fluffball
  
• Snowy Trails by CoookkieMonster
  
• Journey by NukedlceCream
  
• Generator by AYMxFaMaSiitY
  
• Rocky Mountain by Lord Fluffball

Bonus race to test hardcore racing. Double points for this race!

• Ho Ho HC by Masta Hippie

How are the tracks decided?
Random numbers between 1 and the amount of tracks in the database are generated using random.org. Each track in the database is assigned a number. The newest track in General tracks is 1, the second newest track in General tracks is 2, the newest track in Terrain is 29 (changes depending on amount of general tracks), etc. The tracks that match the random numbers are then found. General tracks, Terrain tracks, Tournament tracks, Motocross tracks, Mayhem tracks and Roller Coaster tracks are all used for these tournaments.

Make sure you post all your tracks in the database so that they can be used for my tournaments.

There will be a poll in this topic to veto any tracks that would potentially be bad for tournaments. This is to ensure everyone is happy with the map choices. If a track gets enough votes, a new track will be chosen using the random number method. Tracks can only be vetoed once so you are stuck with whatever is chosen after a veto.


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