He's talking about light bloom
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He's talking about light bloom
Gnome Scat
Member
Let's do this!
So like Halo 4 DMR bloom. Eh, could still do without it, I really don't see the point.
Twin Tails
Member
Poodlestrike
Banned
This. It's a fantastic pistol. If I didn't suck so hard, I'd easily prefer it over the AR (I have trouble landing that last headshot after the shields pop
). It works great, on a mechanical, visual, and auditory basis.Yeah, love the pistol. So easy to pull off headshots against AR users. Easily the best pistol iteration since CE.
Thursday War
Banned
Appropriate analogies :lol
WonkyPanda
Member
If someone sets me up with an invite I will repay them with a Ryse XB1 download code.
PM me your GT
If someone sets me up with an invite I will repay them with a Ryse XB1 download code.
What's your GT?
Love the game so far! It help that we kick some gaffers butt tonight
Y'all won by like 2, and I was not running with my regular team. wink wink ;p
mr teaspoon
Member
Well, respectfully, you're yanking that feeling out of your ass or mistakenly conflating what somebody else said with my words.
It's all subtext. Implications will be drawn out of your text regardless of your actual intent.
Also, I don't believe anyone else said anything remotely close to what I said in my first response.
Sent to Wonky Panda since he quoted first.
If I'm in beta tonight/tomorrow I will cream my pants. :O
Poodlestrike
Banned
Needs some fine-tuning. Base move speed could use a boost, since frankly neither Truth nor Empire are large enough to make the risk of being caught sprinting worth it, but at the same time they're too large for the move speed as it stands.
Hah! Nah, just impatient and want to play more
Honestly though, I'm really surprised how well all the new stuff works together. They've done a great job, IMO.
OverHeat
« generous god »
Light bloom* it's a lighting effect, not weapon bloom.
So is base movement speed really the only problem flow-wise?
That seems like an easy fix.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Agreed. I get that they're showing off their fancy new lighting engine, but it's honestly a little hard to see what's going on in places, and the Prophet's Bane is like mounting a flood light just in front of the camera. Can't see shit
Not the only one, but the only one I feel qualified to comment on. It's gonna require a good deal more testing to see if there's other problems.
WonkyPanda
Member
I only have preview invites and that may not be enough. If you have a direct beta invite, pass it his way.
It's incredibly smooth and fast purely because of how agile you can be once you get going. You may feel slow and clunky at first but it's not long before you can get around the map pretty quickly. At it's core the combat is still very much Halo with a few tweaks and killing people still feels good.
Also the booster pack when used correctly can be a game changer, it's great to lessen the impact of nades in situations where in past Halo's you would be guaranteed to die, you know the old nade at the feet right before death trick. It's also great for popping out on enemies.
Vestal
Junior Member
Hah! Nah, just impatient and want to play more
Honestly though, I'm really surprised how well all the new stuff works together. They've done a great job, IMO.
Completely agree with this. I was skeptical even after watching the videos as to how well it would work. But they have setup the maps in a way that all of these extra abilities come naturally when traversing the maps.
Ground pound while cool looking, is exactly as they described it, basically a for show thing with a lot of fucking risk, although you can use the hover in other ways which adds another dimension to movement.
Gnome Scat
Member
Oh, my bad. I only know it in terms of the reticule.
http://youtu.be/NgGMNWFe6rg
http://youtu.be/i-y5wejaCsk
If someone is saying that pistol is shit, he have to see this video.
The Player often use his pistol in very smart ways.
And he says that he will choose pistol, rather than AR.
Pistol can cover both mid and long range. And fire rates are also good.
http://youtu.be/i-y5wejaCsk
If someone is saying that pistol is shit, he have to see this video.
The Player often use his pistol in very smart ways.
And he says that he will choose pistol, rather than AR.
Pistol can cover both mid and long range. And fire rates are also good.
Agreed. I get that they're showing off their fancy new lighting engine, but it's honestly a little hard to see what's going on in places, and the Prophet's Bane is like mounting a flood light just in front of the camera. Can't see shit
Not the only one, but the only one I feel qualified to comment on. It's gonna require a good deal more testing to see if there's other problems.
Me after picking up Prophet's Bane.
Vestal
Junior Member
Me after picking up Prophet's Bane.
Yeah its a bit overwhelming but I think its partially intentional. The Prophets Bane is fucking OP without being able to see 100%, imagine if the screen was crystal clear.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Still, man. Losing literally the entire half of the screen the thing is on (plus some more) seems a bit much.
Game is amazing but I suck
Going to try and use the pistol more and not sprint around the map as much...
Any other tips?
git gud scrub
too much eslim
Member
Honestly learning the controls or remembering the options available to you takes time. My gun skills are off. Been way to long since Ive played
Vestal
Junior Member
Still too fucking OP even with loosing all of that. I mean I went on a Killing Frenzy to start the match cause of it, I could have kept going but the sword ran out.
Poodlestrike
Banned
The only way to get kills is for enemies to continue feeding themselves into the 1/3 of the screen you have left, which is largely luck based
Maybe have them tone down the bonuses along with the brightness?
Garrett 2U
Member
I enjoyed the 10 games I played today.
Weapons are all pretty good at their appropriate roles.
BR/DMR actually felt like they had different purposes.
AR/pistol felt like a viable loadout.
The abilities were fine IMO.
Thruster is great, clamber is fine, butt slam+charge don't seem OP.
Sprint and sword is still good, but having thruster makes outplays more possible.
I thought scoping seemed pretty similar to past Halos, so far.
Got placed into Onyx, so close to semi pro >.<
I'm sure it'll be more difficult to place higher once a full population is playing.
Had a lot of fun and was very pleased!
Weapons are all pretty good at their appropriate roles.
BR/DMR actually felt like they had different purposes.
AR/pistol felt like a viable loadout.
The abilities were fine IMO.
Thruster is great, clamber is fine, butt slam+charge don't seem OP.
Sprint and sword is still good, but having thruster makes outplays more possible.
I thought scoping seemed pretty similar to past Halos, so far.
Got placed into Onyx, so close to semi pro >.<
I'm sure it'll be more difficult to place higher once a full population is playing.
Had a lot of fun and was very pleased!
Poodlestrike
Banned
Huh, got the Air Assault unlocks to work. Seems like the in-matchmaking Spartan Hub is bugged.
DeadlyParasite
Member
The wait until the 29th is gonna be pretty rough, game seems like it looks and plays good.
Anyone know the process for inviting someone into the preview program?
Panda is trying to invite me, but is having issues for some reason? I gave the GT, and he sent, but nothing is coming up on my XB1 for activities/notifications/messages. Same on Xbox Live website.
Vestal
Junior Member
The only way to get kills is for enemies to continue feeding themselves into the 1/3 of the screen you have left, which is largely luck based
Maybe have them tone down the bonuses along with the brightness?
Nah sprint + thruster+clamber+Sword = God.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Quit out and open the Spartan Hub (or whatever it's called) form the main menu. The matchmaking one seems to be buggy.
It took a day for me to get a message for the invite.
It does take time to process things you know.