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[Homeboyd]

Halo 4 got enough BTB maps, what's the most popular map in the game? Haven. Start implementing those type of maps. Arena style >

Have you come across any good small Forge maps? I've seen very few out there... figured you guys at THC may have some good, competitive maps.

(No we aren't "looking" looking... I'm just curious.)

 

[Gray Man]

Bsangel responded to a question and confirmed it.

EDIT: Beaten.

Patch notes would be very nice.

 

[Genesis Knight]

Don't know how you guys function with all the negativity.

Map Pack looks great!

I agree. I've stopped browsing HaloGAF or this OT with any regularity because I enjoy the game and the complaining is like a wet blanket.

 

[Havok]

Every time I'm on, BTB is the most popular playlist in terms of population.

It and Dominion are the only two playlists with a high player count, and they share maps. If you add up the 4v4/5v5 lists, you'd get a population count similar to or higher than the 6v6/8v8 pool.

 

[Garrett 2U]

Every time I'm on, BTB is the most popular playlist in terms of population.

There are like 8 other playlists that use the smaller Arena-type maps... BTB and Dominion are the only playlists that use the larger maps.

Edit: beaten, awk.

 

[Slightly Live]

The maps look bland and uninspired. Every one of them looks washed out.

So much brown too. What the hell?

 

[Aggrotek]

I think the new CTF settings would be a lot more fun if the timer to return was a little lower and the flag had to be home to score.

 

[Blueblur1]

I miss Bungie.

 

[Arnie]

'Compete on new maps'

It's almost becoming a joke. The one map from the description that might, possibly, potentially, have a sliver of a chance slotting into a Team Slayer, 4v4 playlist and it features a fucking Warthog, a ghost, and a Mongoose. Really glad I didn't buy that season pass.

And why do they all look so similar? Where's the visual identity. Compare these to a map like Assembly.

 

[mhi]

New gametype with the new maps, From GI:

Extraction: Extraction is a 5 vs. 5 objective-based game type where opposing Spartan teams are tasked with extracting assets from various sites around the map. Once a team has found a site and is in position, they must plant their beacon and protect it from the opposing team while the extraction process occurs. If the defending team remains in control of the beacon, they receive one point, however if the opposing team overtakes the site before extraction is complete, the point goes to them. Once a site has been extracted, a new site becomes available. The first team to extract five points wins.

 

[Overdoziz]

Scaled down the screenshots a bit (a lot) for the people who don't want to load 3.6mb pictures.

Harvest:

Shatter:

Wreckage:

Click here for the full gallery.

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

Can you guys stop complaining? I like the game.


Can you guys stop slurping? I dislike the game.

 

[CyReN]

"In addition to the Crimson Map Pack, 343 Industries today unveiled “Extraction,” a new game type that will be introduced to “Halo 4” online matchmaking day and date with the map pack on Dec. 10:"

So they held off a perfectly good gametype for a map pack?

 

[Havok]

Scaled down the screenshots a bit (a lot) for the people who don't want to load 3.6mb pictures.

Harvest:

Shatter:

Wreckage:

Click here for the full gallery.

Harvest looks like Jetpack Heaven. Wonder if there are any soft kill zones on top of those buildings.

Gonna guess no.

Thanks for the resizes!

 

[ncsuDuncan]

Someone here (can't remember now) asked BSAngel on twitter about H2 Anniversary, Maps, Patch notes and Playlist updates.

She said yes to 3 out of the 4, so unless Halo 2 Anniversary is revealed today I think we are good.

Patch Notes:
- Team Snipers removed
- FFA Throwback added
- Exploit on Complex blocked
- JIP Tweaked

I wouldn't go around getting people's hopes up after a vague tweet like that, it's not like someone at 343 proclaimed "Patch notes coming out today!" I'd love to be wrong though.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

I miss Bungie.

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"In addition to the Crimson Map Pack, 343 Industries today unveiled “Extraction,” a new game type that will be introduced to “Halo 4” online matchmaking day and date with the map pack on Dec. 10:"

So they held off a perfectly good gametype for a map pack?

Extraction is in the game now, just not a playlist. I assume they are just announcing that it will have a playlist come the 10th.

 

[u4iX]

Have you come across any good small Forge maps? I've seen very few out there... figured you guys at THC may have some good, competitive maps.

(No we aren't "looking" looking... I'm just curious.)

Station 9, Cella, and Locus are amazing. I'll have to upload my gameplay VOD from a few nights ago.

http://www.twitch.tv/u4ixxx/b/343747597

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Don't know how you guys function with all the negativity.

Map Pack looks great!

Im on of the people here who like this game, but this mappack looks pretty bad. =/

The maps look bland and uninspired. Every one of them looks washed out.

So much brown too. What the hell?

Yup. They all look the same, and bland.

 

[Bregmann Roche]

New gametype with the new maps, From GI:

"In addition to the Crimson Map Pack, 343 Industries today unveiled “Extraction,” a new game type that will be introduced to “Halo 4” online matchmaking day and date with the map pack on Dec. 10:"

So they held off a perfectly good gametype for a map pack?

I was just going to post this. I really hope that's not the case.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

New gametype with the new maps, From GI:

Really? Really? smh

 

[GhaleonEB]

I was just going to post this. I really hope that's not the case.

Check your game type options.

 

[NullPointer]

More interested in details of the title update.

More maps are good I guess, but I haven't tired of many release maps yet - except Ragnarok and maybe Exile to a lesser extent. Love it when I get a match on Abandon or Vortex, and Haven has never stopped being a good time.

 

[Slightly Live]

Let's play!

GUESS THE LEVEL!

Guess the level from the picture clue taken from the a screenshot on that level! Easy!

Hint: It has brown colours!

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Check your game type options.

Ah so this awful sounding gametype is already in the game. Interesting.

 

[u4iX]

Let's play!

GUESS THE LEVEL!

Guess the level from the picture clue taken from the a screenshot on that level! Easy!

Backwash.

Ah so this awful sounding mode is already in the game. Interesting.

It's probably the best gametype in the game.

 

[CyReN]

Ah so this awful sounding mode is already in the game. Interesting.

It's a lot of fun.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

It's a lot of fun.

To each their own I say. Doesn't sound fun to me at all. Course I'm a old fashioned Team Slayer kind of guy.

 

[IHaveIce]

Someone here (can't remember now) asked BSAngel on twitter about H2 Anniversary, Maps, Patch notes and Playlist updates.

She said yes to 3 out of the 4, so unless Halo 2 Anniversary is revealed today I think we are good.

yes that was me. But who knows maybe I nailed it with Halo2 haha.

Yeah also curious to see what is in it, because we were told JIP would be tweaked, but I didn't felt a difference

 

[kylej]

painfully drab. reused assets. earthy aesthetic. big. no flow.

yep, looks like more halo 4 maps.

 

[Blueblur1]

*Reach image*

Everybody makes mistakes.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Let's play!

GUESS THE LEVEL!

Guess the level from the picture clue taken from the a screenshot on that level! Easy!

No offense, but you could do this with every level of any FPS and find the same color somewhere most likely. This picture could be from 90% of Halo levels, or any CoD, BF3, etc level.

I get your point though. I want more color ala Exile and Haven.

 

[TCKaos]

I was just going to post this. I really hope that's not the case.

I fear that that is the case. Watch it be DLC specific. Calling it now.

 

[Rev3rb]

yes that was me. But who knows maybe I nailed it with Halo2 haha.

Yeah also curious to see what is in it, because we were told JIP would be tweaked, but I didn't felt a difference

Can't wait to see the patch notes

 

[Pop]

I was just going to post this. I really hope that's not the case.

You know that's the case. It's been in the game since day 1 but now all of a sudden the day of map pack release, extraction is getting it's on playlist.

 

[m23]

yep. let's hope they address at least some of the issues that have been discussed. hell, I'd be happy even with one or two. eg return of death markers, or JIP toggle, or connection filter, or splitscreen performance improvements , etc

Please make it happen 343. This is one of the most glaring issues I have with the game right now.

 

[Fuchsdh]

I thought it said they were putting them back into bodies because the AIs were fragmented. Then putting them back into bodies made things worse.

It wasn't AIs, it was living people who had been composed.

 

[FyreWulff]

The kind of flat appearance seems to be a Certain Affinity thing. Highlands and Condemned have it in Reach.

One of those maps looks suspiciously Boneyardish but we already have the descendant on-disc, Vortex.

 

[Bregmann Roche]

Check your game type options.

Oh, I'm well aware that the game type is already in the game, I just hope their reason for holding it back was to refine the playlist more instead of to sell a map pack. If the Extraction playlist is only available to people with this map pack I will have my answer.

 

[Digital Limit]

I'm holding out hope that Harvest is a great addition to the CTF roster, since all we had before for that type of experience was Ragnarok. Wreckage is a map I'll probably play exclusively by virtue of King of the Hill and Oddball. And of course I'll see Shatter in the Dominion list, which it looks primed for.

I dunno, this could be good. It really comes down to how Harvest plays. If it's Complex v2, I may have angry words and then start playing other games.

 

[GhaleonEB]

To each their own I say. Doesn't sound fun to me at all. Course I'm a old fashioned Team Slayer kind of guy.

It's actually the game type I'm most interested in. If I understand it right, it's sort of a more dynamic Territories, where teams are fighting over a couple of plots at a time. As each is captured, a new one opens up. So the focus shifts across the map as the game progresses and teams earn points. I was disappointed it wasn't in matchmaking before, so I'm looking forward to it now.

It's the closest thing to Neutral Assault, which I miss dearly; combat will flow around the map in ways it doesn't in say, Dominion.

Oh, I'm well aware that the game type is already in the game, I just hope their reason for holding it back was to refine the playlist more instead of to sell a map pack. If the Extraction playlist is only available to people with this map pack I will have my answer.

I doubt very much that is the case. It was a separate note - it's part of that week's playlist update. We should have details today.

 

[Booties]

I don't see midship. What's going on? Is that a rock? What is this?

 

[Slightly Live]

No offense, but you could do this with every level of any FPS and find the same color somewhere most likely. This picture could be from 90% of Halo levels, or any CoD, BF3, etc level.

I get your point though. I want more color ala Exile and Haven.

I'm not even trying to be serious. But you do get my point. These are the blandest maps I have seen in some time. The variety is there, it should be, but just looking at them, I don't see it in the visuals.

They just look like maps cobbled together using parts of existing maps. I'm not putting them down, but visually, that is how they come across and it's rather lacklustre.

Halo map releases used to get me excited, but I can say I feel nothing for Crimson.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Oh, I'm well aware that the game type is already in the game, I just hope their reason for holding it back was to refine the playlist more instead of to sell a map pack. If the Extraction playlist is only available to people with this map pack I will have my answer.

Hadn't thought of that. Surely they wouldn't be that stupid to limit the playlist to only that map pack would they?

 

[Enter The 36 Chambers]

Station 9, Cella, and Locus are amazing. I'll have to upload my gameplay VOD from a few nights ago.

http://www.twitch.tv/u4ixxx/b/343747597

That station 9 map looks pretty cool. Looking forward to seeing these maps finally come into matchmaking.

 

[TCKaos]

It's actually the game type I'm most interested in. If I understand it right, it's sort of a more dynamic Territories, where teams are fighting over a couple of plots at a time. As each is captured, a new one opens up. So the focus shifts across the map as the game progresses and teams earn points. I was disappointed it wasn't in matchmaking before, so I'm looking forward to it now.

It's the closest thing to Neutral Assault, which I miss dearly; combat will flow around the map in ways it doesn't in say, Dominion.


I doubt very much that is the case. It was a separate note - it's part of that week's playlist update. We should have details today.

That is of course provided that the capture points are placed in sensible locations. After playing it on Meltdown it felt more like Crazy King with buttons, but I can certainly see the potential in it.

 

[kylej]

HaloGAF Exclusive: the February Majestic Map Pack reveal

Landfall

Monolith

Skyline

 

[ElRenoRaven]

It's actually the game type I'm most interested in. If I understand it right, it's sort of a more dynamic Territories, where teams are fighting over a couple of plots at a time. As each is captured, a new one opens up. So the focus shifts across the map as the game progresses and teams earn points. I was disappointed it wasn't in matchmaking before, so I'm looking forward to it now.

It's the closest thing to Neutral Assault, which I miss dearly; combat will flow around the map in ways it doesn't in say, Dominion.


I doubt very much that is the case. It was a separate note - it's part of that week's playlist update. We should have details today.

Ah I see now. Ok. Yea not my thing then though. Out of all the objective gametypes that would be my least favorite. Never even really liked Territories. I was always more of a CTF and assault kind of guy with previous Halos.

 

[Bregmann Roche]

Hadn't thought of that. Surely they wouldn't be that stupid to limit the playlist to only that map pack would they?

Or they could break out this chestnut "players don't have the recommended maps for this playlist", and only include 2 or 3 non-DLC maps in the playlist.

 

[TCKaos]

HaloGAF Exclusive: the February Majestic Map Pack reveal

Landfall

http://www.scienceclarified.com/photos/waste-management-3051.jpg[IMG]

Monolith

[IMG]http://gwri.calpoly.edu/media/default/DSC01988_waste_management_480.jpg[IMG]

Skyline

[IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17nblqmbe23fyjpg/xlarge.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

Fuck you, you made me laugh out loud in a computer lab. Now my chest hurts.

 

[FyreWulff]

Hadn't thought of that. Surely they wouldn't be that stupid to limit the playlist to only that map pack would they?

To this day, the Halo 1 Pistol mode is still behind the Anniversary paywall in Reach, even though we have Blood Gulch on the disc.