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Halo 4 |OT| Spartans Never Die
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Not sure I understand this at all...
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
That's why I like it. A faster melee with less "auto aim" and lunge on it, but lol little alligator arms
Rickenslacker
Banned
Right, it's making you treat it like an FPS first and foremost, not a beat 'em up where you run in blindly and try to punch your way out of it because the lunge compensates for everything. You play smarter because your strategy doesn't resort to trading melees and hoping that you come out the victor.
Now this is a dumb statement.
FRAGS >> PLASMA >>>>> FORERUNNER
I dont know if it's the netcode taking a step back or the overall movement speed increase, or the magnetism on stickies being dropped, but damn you are much better just rolling with frags.
Forerunner grenades are completely useless in MP.
And while the ordinance system didnt ruin multiplayer, I simply just dont like it.
Map control is frustrating on the wrong side, but its definitely not about weapons anymore.
I can see why the heatmaps had such an even spread now across the map.
I dont know if it's the netcode taking a step back or the overall movement speed increase, or the magnetism on stickies being dropped, but damn you are much better just rolling with frags.
Forerunner grenades are completely useless in MP.
And while the ordinance system didnt ruin multiplayer, I simply just dont like it.
Map control is frustrating on the wrong side, but its definitely not about weapons anymore.
I can see why the heatmaps had such an even spread now across the map.
Randolph Freelander
Member
I think at long last I have stumbled across an actually fun mission. Too little, too late, perhaps, but there's at least something remotely like Halo here.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Agreed and I think the Forerunner 'nades should've been Ordnance Drop only and made extremely powerful. As is, there's absolutely no reason to choose grenades for your Personal Ordnance. For Campaign they could've just made them rare to balance out the strength.
So true, frags all day. The stickes are definitely tougher to hit. They seem to roll off everything and their blast radius seems lower.
ii Stryker
Banned
It may just be what GamerSoul said in his/her post. I may just need to get used to it. In H4 CQB situations melee just feels awkward to me and I've lost sight of my opponent several times when I thought I've had them dead to rights.
In past Halo's(with the exception of H3) this wasn't the case. In H3 it was more the map design though and not so much the melee mechanics.
ii Stryker
Banned
they're only available as downloads for gold members. IIRC you can play them solo if you like though.
doing this and even throwing a grenade is mostly ineffective as well. This may be due to the fact that you can purchase a blast radius upgrade though.
so far I am having a blast with H4's MP and I'll try to remain more objective until I unlock and have a chance to experiment with everything that you can do with your loadout.
Baconsammy
Banned
The beauty of Amazon is that they replace the entire console too, but they send it and ask you to put the broken one in the box the new one came in and send it back. Gives you time to take the best parts from both consoles and then send back what you don't want.
As someone that doesn't read the books, I felt lost as well. Someone recommended a book to me so I downloaded the sample from Amazon and I couldnt make it 10 pages. I just couldnt do it. I like scifi novels from time to time, but this just wasnt working for me. The game definitely needed a lot more exposition.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
I love this shit, so many OG XBC H1 GODS are back on XBL for Halo 4! Thank you 343, please make this last <3
1-50 ranks with great arena maps for 4v4/2v2 need to come lol - dat hype. sooooo hype, mang.
1-50 ranks with great arena maps for 4v4/2v2 need to come lol - dat hype. sooooo hype, mang.
Baconsammy
Banned
I dunno, but I assume there's a lot of people like me that only play games like Halo, Gears, and Resistance but would never go near CoD. I love the one genre and think the other is total garbage. I doubt I'm alone.
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
I'm the same. Halo is my second favorite series (next to Mario), but I can't stand playing CoD unless it's messing around in custom games.
I tell you what, I am not a big multiplayer guy, but Halo is in a class of it's own. I can see how it may have reached the point of being too old school for many, but the gameplay and competitiveness of the multiplayer is still simply amazing. Even getting my ass kicked makes me feel good in this game. Bungie had a baby, but 343 is raising it.
Lostconfused
Member
Because you need to count on your team mates for that. Which is a silly and ridiculous notion.
alt color animals > red vs. blue
Those unlockable in-game?
They're the animals for the other color teams, there is no unlocking.
Squall ASF
Member
Anyone know?
victreeb3l
Member
Can you reset your points in multiplayer? Or can you get all of the weapons and stuff when you reach 50?
You'll eventually have enough to buy everything, yeah.
There are specializations that you enlist in one at a time once you hit 50 that are ten levels apiece as well, so 50 isn't the endgame.
Unity2012
Member
Halo 4 Grenade trick, you want to watch this. http://youtu.be/Dk7Cb7VYSYU
alt color animals > red vs. blue
Why would they reuse a snake and an eagle for different team colors when they were already the red and blue team logos from Halo 1?
Mizzou Gaming
Member
I have played most of the day and its been 95% smooth. I can only recall a couple BTB Matches being bad.
NullPointer
Member
Same. Have had one match with obvious lag, enough to get me killed a few times in duals, and maybe one or two players out of a 20 games has skated across the ground, while I was just fine. Maybe I'm just lucky, but its been smoother sailing than any game I've ever played on Xbox Live.
i grabbed a sniper as it spawned on ragnarok and lol'd as some kid who was waiting for it freaked out and starting shooting me. i shot half the sniper clip into the sky and drove a mongoose into the enemy base on a suicide mission. fuck that kid
ShipTheCheese
Member
Wow, that
sure is underwhelming.
.
Also,
final confrontation with the Didact
I wouldn't be surprised if he pops up again in halo 5
Also,
the Didact never introduces himself when he first appears, so how the hell do Cortana and Chief know its name?
Campaign Spoilers
There's a Covenant broadcast terminal on the level Requiem that you can find and use to hear an Elite saying "Didact" over and over, which Cortana comments on. Also, the Elites bow and say his name when he first poops out of his sphere.
victreeb3l
Member
can you still play split screen online multiplayer? i have a full gold subscription. every time i try to get my brother on as a guest on war games, it says it doesnt have permission to go on xbox live.
ive seen many people online with USERNAME, USERNAME (1), USERNAME (2) in lobbies so im assuming that you still can. what am i doing wrong?
ive seen many people online with USERNAME, USERNAME (1), USERNAME (2) in lobbies so im assuming that you still can. what am i doing wrong?
US players seems to have better experience than the rest of us. No wonder since most of my matches were full of US players. It's a shame this game doesn't have dedicated servers like GOW3. Dat host advantage...
Randolph Freelander
Member
Finished the campaign. I liked one level in the game, as I recall. So I give the game a 1 out of 8. That's the final score, submit it to metacritic.
I only found one Terminal in my first run through, so I'm going again to get the others. I just watched the first three, and it's really cool. I found the story within the game wholly lackluster, but this stuff is kind of interesting. It looks great too, some middle-ground between game cutscenes and animated comic book stuff. Look forward to seeing the others.
Sorry, but your very wrong.
ii Stryker
Banned
I was confused about the campaign for the most part, the terminals do a better job of fleshing out the story.
then prove it.
I feel your pain. Halo 4 is the worst Halo matchmaking experience yet for me.
I guess 343 don't give a fuck about Aus/NZ players, no region filter is absolutely unforgivable.
AlmostMilk
Member
Wow, that is a serious bug that needs to be fixed asap.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Played some IS tonight and I really like haven. On the other note, I can't stand BTB in this game even on Ragnorok. Add the mantis and all the power weapons and its just bullshit. The other thing I never thought of on BTB is all the plasma pistols on the map now from loadouts. Its makes vehicle based combat suck balls.