UserWiki:DavidJCobb/Halo Waypoint

This is my draft of a rewrite of Halo Waypoint.

Halo Waypoint is a currently-unreleased central hub for Halo-related content. The hub, when released, will be provided via Xbox Live and will accessible from the Xbox Dashboard. It will be available for Xbox Live Gold subscribers in the Xbox Fall Update, set to be released November 5th, 2009; Silver members will have a brief trial period in which they can access it.

Content

Halo Waypoint will provide users with various kinds of Halo information, including information on members of the Halo community, various machinima videos, and gameplay strategies and tutorials. It will also allow players to access their own gameplay-related data, tracking "milestones" and progress through multiple games in the series.

Weekly content

Halo Waypoint will consist of new updates and features every day of the week, with each day highlighting a different aspect of the Halo Universe.

• Spotlight: Every Monday, interesting Halo personae (ranging from community site leaders to comic artists and authors) will be featured and interviewed.
• Beyond the Games: On Tuesdays, various kinds of Halo merchandise will be featured, and yet-to-be-released items will be previewed.
• Commuity Day: On Wednesdays, Halo Waypoint will focus entirely on the Halo community, showcasing user-created content and featuring the top Halo fansites.
• Machinima: On Thursdays, Halo machinima will be featured.
• Strategy: On Fridays, various gameplay-related tips and tricks will be featured.
• Halo Legends: On Saturdays, exclusive previews and behind-the-scenes episodes of Halo Legends will be featured.
• Fiction: On Sundays, various aspects of the Halo series' canon will be covered, and questions regarding the various media in the series will be answered.

Career information

Halo Waypoint will display a player's progress through the Halo games using milestones and awards. Milestones are achieved as a player's Halo gamerscore increases. Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo Wars will all support milestones, and future games will support it as well. Currently, there are forty milestones.

Halo Awards are medals that a player can earn by unlocking related achievements in the Halo games; essentially, they are groupings of achievements. As an example, the Vehicle Specialist award is unlocked after completing several vehicle-related achievements. Awards are also given in tiers; the more achievements a player unlocks, the higher the tier of their award will become. (For example, completing "extra" vehicle-related achievements will increase the Vehicle Specialist award's tier.)

Intel

Halo Waypoint will also offer Halo-related news and grant access to exclusive content. Such content will include podcasts, trailers, screenshots, sketchbooks, videos, and, as previously mentioned, exclusive previews of Halo Legends. It has also been confirmed that full episodes of Halo Legends will be available on Halo Waypoint, though it is not known whether they will be free, rental, or purchased with a one-time fee.