SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
So because there is no medal for it it totally doesn't have a massive bonus to shots hitting the head? Okay, flawless logic.
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So because there is no medal for it it totally doesn't have a massive bonus to shots hitting the head? Okay, flawless logic.
I was wondering. Seemed like it wasn't doing anything extra. Thank you
so because there is no headshot awarded for it in game and the devs themselves claim it doesnt exist and because only a vocal minority think it does, i'm wrong? flawless logic. gtfo.
BuggeryBugz
Member
Hilarious that people are complaining that they shouldn't be getting killed by the AR if someone sees them first. If you're a half decent player and you see another player first, you generally kill them with whatever gun you have.
Cross posting from the community thread. The images are Zealot from Reach, Heretic from Halo 3 and Midship Halo 2.
I hope one thing they improve for launch is to work on the visual "clarity" in the game itself. I have no doubt it'll be a "looker" and the Sprint showed us they are working their asses off on each small detail of the maps. But maybe it's me and my eyes going bad or something. But I find the maps dark, there is too much random light and glare, too much haze and "cloudiness" and tint and a washed out look. In the past, the games were much sharper, clearer, with more saturated colors allowing for easy spotting. Coupled with crushed Xbox One blacks, things like ADS/Scopes/digital stuff, it just makes it tough to see enemies clearly sometimes on Truth. Forget about it if you also get Prophets Bane and the solar flare type effect it gives off. Anyone else feel the same way? I wonder if I should get some Gunnar glasses or something. Maybe that'll help.
I hope one thing they improve for launch is to work on the visual "clarity" in the game itself. I have no doubt it'll be a "looker" and the Sprint showed us they are working their asses off on each small detail of the maps. But maybe it's me and my eyes going bad or something. But I find the maps dark, there is too much random light and glare, too much haze and "cloudiness" and tint and a washed out look. In the past, the games were much sharper, clearer, with more saturated colors allowing for easy spotting. Coupled with crushed Xbox One blacks, things like ADS/Scopes/digital stuff, it just makes it tough to see enemies clearly sometimes on Truth. Forget about it if you also get Prophets Bane and the solar flare type effect it gives off. Anyone else feel the same way? I wonder if I should get some Gunnar glasses or something. Maybe that'll help.
Can't tell if he's srs
absolutely, but i'm not counting on it being totally overworked and the problem eliminated. map visibility was one of halo 4's flaws and it doesnt seem like the art direction has changed much since then.
Regret Upon Approval
Member
I can't make heads or tails of wtf happened here.
http://xboxclips.com/finalknight92/223b7fc2-0d0f-45e4-9689-8083ae63bed6
http://xboxclips.com/finalknight92/223b7fc2-0d0f-45e4-9689-8083ae63bed6
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
How is everyone using their stabilizers? Do you have it on auto or manual? I spent the first two days with auto off, and I forgot they were even in the game. I tried manual but with bamper jamper it just seemed a little awkward to press a to stabilize. I currently have it set to auto with ADS.
gotta be lag induced, but yeah, that would piss me the fuck off. lol, sorry
They should make it an option to make the opponent team always red colored online to make it fair. From your point of view, you are always blue.
ShadowsFell
Member
Prescientwolf, I got disconnected, sorry.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
I wonder how many times a developer has claimed black and blue that a problem doesn't exist.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Except it's a completely valid argument because longer kill times has always been one of Halo's signatures. Especially with sprint where you can pop out of nowhere, shields should prevent split second assaults with low skill weapons, at least in the sense that the higher skilled player should usually come out on top if he reacts quickly enough.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
On another note, the whole idea of placement matches is a fucking joke.
It's entirely a coin toss. Do you get the potatoes on your team? Or is the enemy team the one with the potatoes...
It's entirely a coin toss. Do you get the potatoes on your team? Or is the enemy team the one with the potatoes...
Rockondevil
Member
And that skilled play still can. I'm far from good and the amount of times I've shot first and still been killed is crazy.
It doesn't matter how good you are though, if somebody gets the jump on you, you are probably going to die.
Not sure how people aren't grasping that. Sure the AR kills quicker now, that just means the better people will have to react quicker once getting shot or die because they got caught by surprise.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Oh God, the noise I made when I did this was inhuman.
http://xboxclips.com/GringoSuave89/dd69b668-b83a-4877-aa3f-549706b5e095
http://xboxclips.com/GringoSuave89/dd69b668-b83a-4877-aa3f-549706b5e095
Diablohead
Member
Just make everyone a bright green skin like in high level quake 3 lol.
before you insult my logic provide evidence to the contrary. i provided some. it may not be bullet proof, but its infinitely more than you have provided. thanks.
Twilight Gap
Member
H2A sniper looked and felt so good. They should just use that instead of whatever this thing is supposed to be.
ShadowsFell
Member
50-6. Oh, the slaughter...
Both teams can blend in way too easily to the backgrounds, but quit? Hide in corners and win? lol
Might be different if it were devs talking PR to a website, but it's not.
Bad hit detection aside, Halo 3's sniper is the one they should look to for balancing inspiration.
Bornstellar
Member
Yeah, those hurt. And btw, I figured out my muting issue, so I can actually hear other people now.
Poodlestrike
Banned
The higher skilled player generally does come out on top if they react quickly enough. The difference is, positioning plays a much larger part now due to the increased movement options. If you get surprised by an AR user and try to just turn around and 4shot them, yeah, you're gonna have a bad time. If, however, you use your thruster pack properly (to disengage or disorient), then you'll generally come out on top.
ShadowsFell
Member
Well, I was on the team doing the slaughtering. The desperate attempts of our opponents to shoot us from far across the map with an AR, while standing still...
Yup they went with a more horizontal view which makes it feel clunky. It doesn't help that most of the screen is blacked out on the sides.
Auto users have an advantage over semi and burst users. They can hold down the trigger and mostly just worry about the aiming. Semis and burst users have to aim and time their shots and have to consider the consequences of the pause in rate of fire especially if they miss.
Much easier to use an auto.
That being said, BR starts next week so its all good in my book. I dont mind devs testing AR starts.
Edit: the above is range dependent, short to mid I think the autos are easier to get kills with than the burst or semi.
BuggeryBugz
Member
Nice kills but it looks like the speed when you have the sword is way too quick.
Bornstellar
Member
GringoSuave89
Banned
Oh no doubt. I guess that's the point of the legendary weapon, but it is crazy OP.
Curious as to what benefits other legendary weapons will have.
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
Random matches are going to give me an aneurysm. How do you go 1 and 22. How is that possible.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Positioning has never been LESS important...
In a terrible position and get caught out? Meh, just thrust and sprint to safety.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I've seen a guy go 0-3-24.
Except, any sort of actually "terrible" position will make that basically impossible. Knowing your routes, possibilities, and options is part of the game. Just like in previous games, standing still and trying to trade shots means you'd do worse, now it's all about figuring out where and when to use your thrusters. Do you use it to try and disengage? Or do you know (for instance) that going from Turbine to Pit on Empire is a weak option at best, and instead you try and pull a reversal by jumping and thrusting over their head?
Dynasty8
Member
Awesome.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Man, you got soooo lucky on that 3rd guy, lol. Was sure you were about to die when you whiffed that first hit
ShadowsFell
Member
Eek. I know the feeling. It hasn't gotten quite that bad for me, but man this game has a lot of games that end in slaughters it seems.I was thinking of the game I ended on.
I agree 100%. They've gone overboard with the art, in my opinion. Too many effects, light sources, and the intensity of it all makes it difficult to see players and weapons on the map. The crushed blacks hurt the visual clarity as well which I hadn't realized until recently. You can't see well into some corners and halls because of it. Coupled with things like the intense light sources (like the blue sparks in blue base on Empire) and you have areas that are dark then they're slightly bright which draws your eyes to a specific spot when instead you rather everything be clear so you can spot teammates, opponents, and weapons on the ground. I mentioned Empire above; another example of that are Blue Two and Red Two on Truth. The holograms and the lights cast by them and surrounding light sources are very distracting. They were surely created to be jaw-dropping (which they are) but in my opinion they don't really have a place in MP where the goal is to always focus on players and not vistas & effects. I think both maps could easily be improved by dialing back the intensity of light sources and brightening the darker corridors and halls. And weapons would be more visible if they were cast in some kind of outline or glow and/or had an icon appear above them as the player approached.
Found this on reddit
No wonder it felt so weird when I used it
Hey, this is pretty cool.
The Halo 2: Anniversary sniper is perfect. Great design, the sound is amazing and the sights work very well.
Josh Holmes said that he also feels that the Halo 5 sniper feels clunky and are looking to make changes in the coming months. Let's hope they can nail it.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Munki
Member
I thought the same thing. Not sure what it is, but movement feels sluggish to me.
i would agree. aside from that, it feels nice IMO
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Yea, no, just no... You must be terrible with thrust and sprint...
Thanks for supporting me... lol...
Poodlestrike
Banned
Uh.
What?
If you get stuck out in (say) the middle of Red Base on Truth, you're probably dead, thrusters or no thrusters. Trying to drop down into the Pit can sometimes save you, but a lot of the time they'll just follow you and gun you down before you can complete your escape.
What do you think about the rate of fire? I haven't used the H5 sniper a ton but the H2A version I could shoot twice very quickly. The H5 version it takes me much longer to shoot twice. It could just be me and not the gun though.
i actually like that.
Rockondevil
Member
Probably no point arguing. Some people just want only BR starts and only have the BR and power weapons in the game.
I'm with you but some people can't be reasoned with.
I wish people could just keep playing their favourite Halo and stop trying to make the new Halo like their preferred Halo.
Halo 2 and CE are by far my favourite, but I am loving Halo 5 so far and wouldn't want to make 5 just like those two.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Rate of fire is low, but I'm not sure how much of a problem that is (if at all), since Empire is sort of an unconventional sniping map. It's got these very long, very narrow lines of fire, so you really need to be making headshots anyway (since odds are good they'll just thrust behind a piece of geometry after the first shot). It may prove to be a big liability on more open maps, but like I said, too soon to call.
Good points. Thanks for the reply.
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