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[–] ShadowCat 1 points 3 months ago

Well they didn't go through with all 900 punches, that's good.

But wow Spica staying in the Empire. I'm sure we'll see her again and this is just so they don't have another OP character in the Emilia camp for the moment.

And back to the Pleiades watchtower for Priscilla's book of the dead, what could Al be after specifically.

But with that, we have officially left Vollachia and arc 9 can truly begin!

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sounds like a very good chapter with a lot of great character interactions

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 3 months ago

Al may know Clind hmmm this isn't the first Emilia camp member he seems to be aware of.

This man is too sussy

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 3 months ago

Todd still alive?!

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 3 months ago

Oh wow, Spica staying behind in Vollachia. Al wanting to read Priscilla's book of the dead and Subaru might be going with him.

With that side story of Pandora(?) having visited the tower since they left, I'm very interested in how arc 9 will go from here

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 3 months ago

Also just going to note here, for the next few months I may be a few hours late to posting new chapters/translations so apologies for that

[–] ShadowCat 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, it has probably been the most popular of the Star Wars shows with a lot of casual audiences getting Disney+ just for it.

Also based on the ending of S3, it might be a bit of a fresh start, as long as they do a minor bit of explanation on who Mando is and that Gorgu survived order 66 there's nothing too important they'll be missing

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 3 months ago

Really good chapter. Emilia and Madelyn's conversation was great. Schult accepting Priscilla's death and striving to move on and Heinkel being his usual pathetic self, just wanting to immediately move on to the next camp that might accept him

[–] ShadowCat 12 points 3 months ago

Glad to see we'll actually get a graduation with a proper send off, the last few members to leave haven't been given a proper chance

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 4 months ago

Didn't think Flop and Taritta was going to be a thing, maybe I didn't pay enough attention to their interactions in arc 7 and 8. Was nice seeing Ram and Mizelda's talks though.

I was thinking during arc 7(?) if Rem would go with Priscilla after finishing up in Vollachia but with her now gone, the options were either back with Ram and the others or Katya. Ram being her sister and Subaru being the only person with memory of who she was makes the most sense for her going back with them but I wouldn't have been shocked if she decided to stay with Katya

[–] ShadowCat 1 points 4 months ago

Apparently the Pleiades battalion all gave Subaru a punch each for his lie, seems a bit overkill as without him they'd all be dead. Yes he did lie to them about who he was but how else was he meant to make them assist with getting to the capital and then dealing with the great disaster.

[–] ShadowCat 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Armour looks good, but that helmet not so much

Also man, I remember grinding out the last headshots with my Spartan company in swat. Then in our group chat saying we'll team up again for Halo 6. Then they went and abandoned the idea of spartan companies :/

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[WCT Translation] Arc 9, Chapter 1 (witchculttranslation.com)
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Arc 9, Chapter 2 discussion (ncode.syosetu.com)
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Arc 9, Chapter 1 discussion (ncode.syosetu.com)
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It's real... (lemmy.world)
 
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This is a summary of the long thread from Bathrobe Spartan which you can find here: https://x.com/BathrobeCast/status/1812578845108625769

343 kept losing people in 2023 & 2024. Lead to more outsourcing content. Contracts not being renewed. 50-60 people let go on top of the >100 laid off.

Some roles transferred to MS/Xbox Team instead of being internalized at 343.

343 still relying on contractors, staff are not pleased to see leadership has not learned from the production of Infinite.

Less than 280 employees as of May 2024, with 30% of them related to Game-Content-Production, the rest are business oriented roles & producers.

Not enough positions have been opened to fill the gap from what it was before 2023. ~32 permanent positions opened in 2023 & 2024. Not enough staff to be "Production Ready".

343's budget has been severely impacted and controlled. This is why recruiting took longer and pushed people to leave. Key roles couldn't be replaced in time to finish content left.

Halo Infinite didn't meet its commercial goals but made enough to justify finishing the content already contracted with external studios, but not enough to justify doing more than was started. Quote from an ex employee "No we made money, we made a lot of money. But when I walked into the test bay to test the latest build EVERY FUCKING DAY the guy running it said "why bother, they are gonna hate it anyway" that's demoralizing. I would love to tell you what we worked on, but I can't and won't, not just because of the NDA but because I'm being loyal to the company. I still want to work there. It does bother me people praise Pierre, like, who do you think mandated Forge Maps going forward..."

Partnered forge maps not being high quality is due to to 343 being tied to legal obligations to fulfil the contracts but not enough time left to polish.

As the product did not reach its commercial goal, projection implied it wasn't worth contracting new content outside cosmetics. Meaning no new sandbox additions.

During 2023 & 2024, many employees helped other Xbox studios on their products as most Infinite content was handled by contracted studios.

343 shifting to a new production method, separating "Leading development" and Production. Hiring lead positions to do the concept and pre-production in-house & handing off the production work to other studios, similar to Halo Wars 2. Recruiting less content-creating roles and more lead profiles to test, iterate and validate content and gameplay before working with external studios to go full production. 2 studios are currently partnered to work on 2 separate projects this way. Both still in pre-production. One is a bigger scale PvP oriented project. At least 2 years before any release.

Aim of this new production method is to help produce content for games at a reliable pace and more cost effective. Hopefully won't lead to reproducing what happened with Infinite.

Remaining 343 staff have echoed they feel like 343 Industries isn't as much "The Home of Halo" as it was promised to them. They hope this new method of production will be the best for the franchise.

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This is a translation of the summary posted here

 

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[WCT Translation] Arc 8, Chapter 74 (witchculttranslation.com)
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[WCT Translation] Arc 8, Chapter 73 (witchculttranslation.com)
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[WCT Translation] Arc 8, Chapter 72 (witchculttranslation.com)
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