This week's edition of the nomadic Halo update has been posted on haloplayers.com, where a sleepy Matt Soell offers the latest from Bungie on progress on their upcoming shooter. Topics included are some of the nastier characteristics of Covenant grenades, the addition of a gun to the Covenant drop ship, the addition of sniper marines, load optimizations that are being performed on the game's multiplayer maps (for all those 'Halo will drop multiplayer' nay sayers) that will then be performed on the solo maps, the fact that surround sound is now working, and more.