Het is weer weekend, dus hebben de mannen van Bungie weer in een mailtje gezet wat ze de afgelopen week hebben uitgespookt.

Deze week hebben ze veel aandacht besteed aan het multiplayerstuk van Halo. Verder hebben ze levels zitten nakijken op grafische fouten, hebben ze geprobeerd de framerate wat omhoog te krikken en zijn ze met tanks aan het spelen geweest in multiplayer.- We're doing a second and in some cases third pa on multiplayer levels and textures, trying to make things look and play better. Multiplayer-specific sounds ("Red Team has your flag" and so forth) are now hooked up.

- This update was delayed for the better part of an hour while Chris Carney and Mat Noguchi handed my a to me over and over again on the Boarding Action map. Deep space, two huge ships floating beside each other, teleporters and sniper rifles. The map should really come into its own once the rocket launchers are enabled.

- Tons of little graphical fixes...explosions look better, the pistol zoom now has the same nifty blurring effect as the sniper zoom, skies on many mi ions were improved and there's a slew of geometry fixes just about everywhere you look. Other artists are adding detail to the levels with decals and objects...look for the bulletin board.

- Chris Butcher continued to solidify the framerate and also taught the Jackals to use the overcharger on their plasma pistols. The Bear made vehicle-on-vehicle collisions work nicely. Jason insisted that I refrain from naming the CD he was listening to.

- We're testing and tweaking the tank's behavior in multiplayer. And there's at least one mi ion in the single-player campaign where several of your Marine cohorts will hop a ride on the tank when you climb in to drive.

- Tyson claims to have "subjected a voice actor to a horrible fiery death." Unfortunately I can't talk about the details until the statute of limitations runs out.