Halo |OT13|

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Enfinit said:
Which, what it boils down to, is mostly within the campaign. I'm sure they oversaw the majority of everything in Halo 4, however they just weren't the ones to implement it.
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Oh they implemented a fair bit of it. There's only so much you can take from engines, middle-ware, prior games and contractors. They did use a lot of middle-ware and APIs, but that's understandable, considering the scope of the project.
 
squidhands said:
Just wanted to remind people who haven't finished the campaign on Legendary, you can get the achievements/armor by just doing the last rally point of each mission. Did it Sunday with the last two missions and I don't even feel guilty, especially considering that the PromKnight encounters on Midnight are among the select few terrible gaming experiences I've ever had. Three pointblank Scattershot blasts to the face? Nope, here's your shitty checkpoint again.
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I guess I'll suffer through this at some point. Mark IV. :(
 
Plywood said:
Well for one, you can't win a truck in Infinity Slayer.
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Is that seriously the only difference? You guys are doing all this complaining just because you don't want to support marketing shit? Do you realize you're playing games with folks who are a higher rank than you because they bought Doritos and Mountain Dew? If you're going to boycott a playlist for this reason you should have already boycotted the entire game.
 
The Lamonster said:
Is that seriously the only difference? You guys are doing all this complaining just because you don't want to support marketing shit? Do you realize you're playing games with folks who are a higher rank than you because they bought Doritos and Mountain Dew? If you're going to boycott a playlist for this reason you should have already boycotted the entire game.
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bro

do you even lift?
 
Enfinit said:
Which, what it boils down to, is mostly within the campaign. I'm sure they oversaw the majority of everything in Halo 4, however they just weren't the ones to implement it.
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Shared your image of the Headless modder within my FB page about the awareness you're wanting to spread. Then, a member posted this image that he'd came across one of them very recently.
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Mindwipe said:
I've been moving house this weekend and not had any internet.

So wait, have they actually been banning people who bought the LE for playing on the maps that they paid for? And nobody's been around on a weekend to fix it again? And this is almost certainly the result of them messing around with configurations being pushed beyond specifications, trying to get this stupid idea of expiring the Crimson pack that marketing invented last week and nobody believes to actually work?

Blimey.
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This guy lays it down pretty well.
 
I've been seeing all sorts of modders in matchmaking. No headless ones yet, but things like people wearing FOTUS and using a shade of gold unavailable in the armory, service tags uncensored, people using team icons (like the bobcat) as emblems. Is it really worth going out of my way to report ALL of them?
 
Just updated in the Waypoint official Ban Thread
There was a situation yesterday (Sunday) in which less than 200 Halo 4 users were being incorrectly banned from accessing certain parts of the game (not banned from Xbox LIVE as a whole), and we have since resolved the issue. All players accounts impacted are working as normal.
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monsterfracas said:
There is no way it affected less than 200 people.
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I agreee - but when has any PR spin ever been accurate?
At least it's fixed.
 
Tunavi said:
I don't know if I should keep this game. Every game on my backlog aside from Halo 4 is super appealing to me right now
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You may as well keep it. But yeah, I know what you mean; there are much better games to be playing right now.

Wrapped up ACIII last week, then finished Spec Ops: The Line and Bastion a couple days ago.
Deadly Cyclone said:
I'm gonna win me that truck and drive it to Kyle's place with the hula hoop girl in the back.
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You need to stock up on socks and doritos.
willow ve said:
Just updated in the Waypoint official Ban Thread
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There is no way it affected less than 200 people.
 
squidhands said:
Just wanted to remind people who haven't finished the campaign on Legendary, you can get the achievements/armor by just doing the last rally point of each mission.
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I will be able to confirm this does indeed work later today. Not saying you're lying though, Squid. :P

I finished the campaign solo on Heroic last week, and I've been doing co-op Legendary with a couple buds since then......only had the last 3 missions to finish. So I've loaded the last checkpoint for the remaining chapters, and I'm now on the very last segment of the Midnight mission. If this "glitch" works, then I'll have the Legendardy cheevo today, and I'll go for the solo Legendary cheevo later this week.

I'll update this thread today if it works.


squidhands said:
Did it Sunday with the last two missions and I don't even feel guilty, especially considering that the PromKnight encounters on Midnight are among the select few terrible gaming experiences I've ever had. Three pointblank Scattershot blasts to the face? Nope, here's your shitty checkpoint again.
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heh, I worked on that part this morning (to get to another checkpoint), and it was tough. The scattershot is definitely effective, though. If you line it up right, then the KNights do go down in 2 or 3 shots.
 
Would it kill 343 to post something about the bans on Twitter or their "blog"? God, I've never seen such terrible care for the players.
 
Had a bizarre game of Spartan Ops earlier where people kept spawning inside a rock. 3 of us were in there but thankfully I suicided with nades and spawned on my friend. Our two randoms weren't so lucky. They apparently failed to kill themselves and were stuck there for a while before quitting out. Although just before they quit me and my friend died and both spawned in the rock again. But we suicided at the same time and spawned out of it. GG.

It was on Sniper Alley, just as a heads up lol
 
darthbob said:
Dude, it's only 930am over here, on a Monday...
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No excuses.

Their job now is to keep the game playable to people who bought (PAID) for it. They should (and I believe they do) have teams that are on 24h notice to investigate and fix this kind of situation, but while it's not fixed, it is imperative that there's some kind of communication to those affected, and this is where 343 fails, so much.
 
ZalinKrow said:
Had a bizarre game of Spartan Ops earlier where people kept spawning inside a rock. 3 of us were in there but thankfully I suicided with nades and spawned on my friend. Our two randoms weren't so lucky. They apparently failed to kill themselves and were stuck there for a while before quitting out. Although just before they quit me and my friend died and both spawned in the rock again. But we suicided at the same time and spawned out of it. GG.

It was on Sniper Alley, just as a heads up lol
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King chameleon?

ZalinKrow said:
Haha no, I wish! He quit straight out after joining us. I think he just wanted to chill with you man ;)
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He wants to destroy us from the inside.
 
The Lamonster said:
Is that seriously the only difference? You guys are doing all this complaining just because you don't want to support marketing shit? Do you realize you're playing games with folks who are a higher rank than you because they bought Doritos and Mountain Dew? If you're going to boycott a playlist for this reason you should have already boycotted the entire game.
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The key difference for me is that if I don't want to see any of that Doritos marketing nonsense, I can safely ignore it because the game mentions it zero times ever. Meanwhile, there's a fat Virgin logo in the playlist preview picture for Infinity Slayer 2.0 Powered by Virgin Gaming and Ford, and there are Virgin logos plastering Waypoint, even going so far as to sponsor challenges.

In 2005, Bungie's April Fool's joke was that Mountain Dew was going to be featured as product placement in the DLC - there was a Mountain Dew emblem and a Chiron remake with Dew logos on some of the walls. It was a funny joke because it was ridiculous, look how shameless that is! This isn't as bad as that would have been, but it's a step closer. Though even that would have been tied to some actual content, and not a reskin of the most popular playlist in the game.

I dunno what to tell you. No matter how small it may be or how irrational the feeling is, marketing crap grosses me out and just looks totally sleazy. Putting more information about the F-150 you could win in the Infinity Challenge powered by Virgin Gaming in last week's bulletin than say, any of the matchmaking updates or other information just reminds me of The Truman Show, where Truman's wife desperately tries to shove product placement ads into every conversation, at the detriment of any actual discussion. To be clear, I'm not laying the blame on 343. I don't think any of them could stop the money train at this point, not as a fully-owned studio.
 
Let's not pretend that 343 releases any news about their game, they auction it off to the highest paying press companies.
First there are leaks and rumors.
Then we get several different perspectives of the news, and are left arguing amongst ourselves over our own takes of this second hand news.
Only weeks later is it cleared up by 343 Industries after their embargo is up and they are free to talk about their own game.
 
The Halo 4 Infinity Challenge on Xbox LIVE brings gamers the biggest and most accessible Halo tournament in the world! This free-to-enter tournament will track your personal score in War Games and the number of Spartan Ops chapters you complete on global leaderboards, giving all players regardless of preferences or skill level a shot at more than 2,800 prizes.
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http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headl...ty-Challenge-powered-by-VirginGamingcom!.aspx

They truly are afraid to tell some people they're horrible at the game. Everyone is a winner!
 
Tunavi said:
The reason I stopped playing this game is because HaloGAF stopped playing this game.
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The reason I stopped playing this game is because I didn't like this game.
Halo 3 is pretty cool though. When will 343 update the playlists as promised? Please stop not doing anything for Halo 4 and work on the amount of playlists in Halo 3, please.
 
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