-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Halo 4 |OT| Spartans Never Die
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
- Start date
The only difference is that now you don't have to be in the territory to capture it. You just have to initiate the capture. Also, only two territories active at a time will make it play differently for sure.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
I can understand those not being in MM for now, but why they aren't even in customs blows my mind. Hopefully 343 left some hooks in the game to add new gametypes, maybe they were working on those but couldn't finish their own take on them in time.
I still wish 343 would have allowed to alter the settings to emulate the classic experience more, its just a Halo staple to give the user that control. Still, I'm pumped.
Finally found some Game Fuel after checking a few different stores for a couple of weeks. I'm sure by the end of the bottle I'll be perfectly fine with not having it again for a few more years.
Based on the review embargo going up tonight, as well as the splash screen people were getting when connecting online (that stated that servers were going to be up and down until 11/1, and to contact your PR rep with any questions) my guess is that they'll probably turn off the whitelisting tomorrow to coincide with all that. If nothing else they have to disable it at some point prior to launch; with millions of copies hitting distribution you're going to start seeing people getting copies "legitimately" at least 2-3 days prior to launch.
Based on the review embargo going up tonight, as well as the splash screen people were getting when connecting online (that stated that servers were going to be up and down until 11/1, and to contact your PR rep with any questions) my guess is that they'll probably turn off the whitelisting tomorrow to coincide with all that. If nothing else they have to disable it at some point prior to launch; with millions of copies hitting distribution you're going to start seeing people getting copies "legitimately" at least 2-3 days prior to launch.
BuggyDClown
Member
Any good comprehensive guide to what all the pre-order bonuses are listing/showing the armor as well as exactly what comes with the LE game/console. I'm still foggy on this.
NullPointer
Member
Just had a meeting and now have to lose my Halo days - too much work to do. Best I can get now is an extended weekend.Amazing that people can get time off for this stuff
But at least we get Tuesday off here at work to vote. So there's that.
*looks back at the cat helmet on the table behind my desk, next to the emergency box of mountain dew.*
soulassssns
Banned
I was wondering that as well. I have a regular version preordered from Newegg for my son. Wonder which 1 will get here 1st.Wondering how long it will take for my LE to get here from Amazon. Not really concerned... I can wait a week, I've waited this long (and I'm going to be crushed at work prolly.)
Amazing that people can get time off for this stuff
It would be awesome if a bunch of those were consolidated into 4-5 lists. Would be excellent for skill-matching.
In effect, it's no worse than having universal sprint if you're talking about being "cheated" out of kills. It's slow to deploy, meaning the person is probably going to use it to move away, not interrupt a rifle 1v1. It also doesn't stop the game, vulnerable to nades etc.
Overall seems like it grants false security more than anything.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
So wait, 1 flag can't even be created with the custom options????
Theyve done such a great job so far and now they fuck up the things you usually cant fuck up......
GodlyPerfection
Member
I think it will be fine. Most of the gametypes in Reach were played to a minimum except maybe infection and BTB variants like territories. I think the re-vamped and new gametypes will bring a lot more interesting gameplay to the table to make up for it.
Blue Ninja
Member
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Wow, 20 pages already. It's cool to see so many gaming side people joining in the whinefest cesspool that is HaloGAF discussion.
Kibbles
Member
Well hopefully legit copies can go online then once the embargo lifts.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
I do agree what the other guy said tho that the extraction one and dominion kinda do the same fucking thing.
That was my original view of it, but in the stream there were several cases where he missed a kill cos the enemy deployed a hard light shield at the last minute to save themselves and with instant repsawn, tema mates were there to clean up. :/
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Flag and Assault are basically inverts of each-other too, so it's not a new phenomena.
@Silly.Mikey, it's the old "he won because he picked x in the loadout screen." Which is the unfortunate reality of this custom class system, but I don't think HLS will be nearly as bad as AR or even Jetpack.
squidhands
Member
Tha Robbertster
Member
Maybe. We haven't heard a comment about it from 343, nor have we heard about it being doable from anyone who has the game.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Thats true, but i had a lot more gametype options to choose from back then. Now theres less and some play practically the same.
What?
NullPointer
Member
Is the hard light shield indestructible for a time period? Or does it have its own hit points? Will it absorb a rocket or a fuel rod shot? Does the wearer still get splash damage from those kind of direct hits?
EdibleExplosives
Member
Is this just an email for paying for the pre-order? I haven't had any emails from them but I paid for mine a while ago.
Tha Robbertster
Member
It's indestructible, but I do think large explosive weapons will kill the hard light shield user anyway.
By picking an Armour Ability that the other player has NO idea that it has been chosen, until too late to do anything about it.
That's hardly 'outsmarting his opponent' - it's a crutch.
Either way, I'll now be watching my e-mails all night.
No I paid for it a month ago. This is the real deal by the looks of it.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Was yours the standard or LE?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
and due to 343's reluctance to completely get rid of a bad idea, it will continue for years to come
Uhm, grenades are still a threat and shooting at it also reduces the usage of it.
Oh and right on fucking cue, gmail goes down. Fuck sake.
EdibleExplosives
Member
That's good then, hopefully I get my email soon.
Although, gmail seems to be down right now.
Indeed.
NullPointer
Member
Sounds good. Thanks for the replies.Well, it does not stop vehicles.
I can see that being of use in objective games to protect the carrier - and maybe in some Spartan Ops missions.
Waitasec, that sounds like it has defacto hit points.
Yeah, it's not worth arguing about IMO, aside from PV they all look pretty evened out.
Personally I'll probably use Thruster, I can't think of any other that I like except Hologram.
Tha Robbertster
Member
Grenades are effective, yes but I'm pretty sure shooting it doesn't actually drain the meter faster.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Holy shit. We just got handed notices that they are brining in the national guard in my area. No power forat least 10 more days. My local store is in the same zone. Fuck me.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Well see how bad it is after the sales numbers come in.
It's really weird seeing people who haven't been following the game closely or are part of HaloGAF come in and have these horrible realizations about certain things in (or not in) the game.
Is anyone having a problem viewing the twitch archive? It won't allow me to skip around, if I try it just takes me back to the beginning :/
Is anyone having a problem viewing the twitch archive? It won't allow me to skip around, if I try it just takes me back to the beginning :/
AuthenticM
Member
I don't think I've been excited for Halo like this since the wait for Halo 2.