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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO
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FUNKNOWN iXi
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Any links to this? I thought the only thing said was H2A would be coming out this year and that Halo 5 would be pushed into 2015 to allow for more dev time, but didn't hear anything about having to start over.
Yeah. Any links? That would be very welcome news.
It always has been really.
The Real Napsta
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So are we waiting till E3 for Halo 2/5 news?
Yeah, Phil Spencer said something (on twitter I think) about how we won't see anything Halo until E3.
Here it is.
The Real Napsta
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FUNKNOWN iXi
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So I could sit in a locked Cobra all match sniping people from deeeeep or dominating the skies with a Hawk.
64 players is too much, but I'd love to see a Halo multiplayer that incorporates all vehicles.
The Real Napsta
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4v4 is were it's at for me. As long as we get small maps for 4v4 it couldn't hurt to have more players.
Halo 3 btb was so choice with the hornet. I think 4v4 is dead now that we have sprint and a DMR.
BR shreds DMR on smaller maps. Map design drives weapon choice.
^ That is easily fixed. Just make sure there are no DMRs on 4v4 maps.
I don't have time to go searching now, but I was sure it was famousmortimer or somebody. Can't remember which thread. I keep feeling like it was the one where ntkrnl spilled, like, all the beans, but that doesn't quite sound right.
Does anybody else remember something like that? Something about Halo 5 restarting production fairly-ish recently?
I honestly think a single playlist for 32 v 32 Giant Team Battle, or whatever you'd call it, with all the vehicles (including falcons and bansees and wraiths and scorpains and everything, could possibly be pretty cool.
But just one playlist because, while it'd have the potential to be fun, it really wouldn't be "Halo." Still the potential to be fun enough to warrant a single playlist, I would think.
I don't have time to go searching now, but I was sure it was famousmortimer or somebody. Can't remember which thread. I keep feeling like it was the one where ntkrnl spilled, like, all the beans, but that doesn't quite sound right.
Does anybody else remember something like that? Something about Halo 5 restarting production fairly-ish recently?
I honestly think a single playlist for 32 v 32 Giant Team Battle, or whatever you'd call it, with all the vehicles (including falcons and bansees and wraiths and scorpains and everything, could possibly be pretty cool.
But just one playlist because, while it'd have the potential to be fun, it really wouldn't be "Halo." Still the potential to be fun enough to warrant a single playlist, I would think.
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Seriously though, if MS really wants to show off the power of the cloud, this would be the perfect place to do it. 64 player multiplayer simply needs to be online, unlike other things, so the cloud, which is online, is perfectly suited. It's not like single player or whatever, where you don't need the cloud necessarily. In multiplayer, you need the internet anyway, so why not?
squidhands
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I still use a VCR and the fast forward button like it was always meant to be.
If anyone can come up with any way to implement this into a clip, I would be very grateful.
Does it work with a passenger too? You could it to launch you as you enter a grav lift maybe? I can't think of any way you could use it reliably.
User 73706
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I don't know much about Star Wars, but it sounds like an abridged version of the main To Galaxy melody to me.
Oddly enough, it also reminds me of one of my own melodies which I just refer to as "Archrival." It kicks up pretty clearly around 0:30 here.
My other guesses would have to be that you were subconsciously basing it on the backing vocals of In Amber Clad around the 35 second mark, albeit they're pretty faint. Note lengths are about the same, just slowed down, though. I'm checking all of the obvious places right now and can't find anything immediate in the Halo soundtracks. The only other place in Halo I'm hearing a source for that melody is that you possibly merged the repeating piano chords and opening, two-note string riff in ODST's Cast Aside, but I think you should be safe on the Halo front. It sounds a little more Star Wars-y to me, but I don't have too much experience with those soundtracks.
That being said, you may want to flip through the Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack, because I figured out that's what I subconsciously used for Archrival as a reference. Demise of the Ceremony's opening melody sounds slightly similar.
Orochinagis
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You should look for the guys who made mongoose splatters montages in Halo 3 with classical music, he even made a christmas special
Just a comment on that. While much of the song seems a little bit "unfocused" you've got some really cool stuff going on with that chromatic stuff. Very nice.
You could also pick a DMR on a small map and abuse sight lines.
32vs32 in Halo? Geez. What semblance of the game would even exist? You'd basically just have small groups of players separate from the rest in each area of the map. How would weapon spawns, player spawns, vehicles even work anymore? Can you imagine driving a ghost and having 15 players each shoot at you?
There was always some charm in grainy videos.
@Madness. I don't think anybody is suggesting making that the norm. A single playlist for it wouldn't be awful.
BTB really isn't as good as 4v4, but it's still pretty fun. And it's relegated to mostly it's own single playlist. GTB (giant team battle), would probably be fine if kept in one single playlist.
Any more than that would be awful. That's not where Halo needs to go.
Oh, they'd certainly be able to. It's really more of a matter of "will they?"
I really, really hope so.
BTB really isn't as good as 4v4, but it's still pretty fun. And it's relegated to mostly it's own single playlist. GTB (giant team battle), would probably be fine if kept in one single playlist.
Any more than that would be awful. That's not where Halo needs to go.
Oh, they'd certainly be able to. It's really more of a matter of "will they?"
I really, really hope so.
Orochinagis
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Like the real game?
Or like Battlefield?
FUNKNOWN iXi
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This was reduced since Halo 2's release, and a single person can hardly make a difference other than distracting/setting up for other teammates in BTB against competent players anyway.
I certainly hope so.. It's crazy how limited the FOV is/was.
A single playlist would be a waste of resources and development time. It would be better served as a spin-off title or fully realized as half of the multiplayer experience. So either half of Halo 5's multiplayer would be 2v2/4v4 while the other half would be 8v8/10v10.
Something like that would make more sense than just a single playlist. As far as total map count, nothing less than 15-20 IMO. They need to make that a priority and not waste time overthinking a single map's artistic/gameplay design. Just throw some shit together and call it a day; I doubt the 2 people who worked on CE's multiplayer took months/years to figure this out.
Abinash117
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I don't imagine it would work because it would be so convoluted, a lot of BTB maps that have weapons on maps have about over dozen weapons that aren't power weapons , so you have to provided weapons and a great variety of weapons to 64 players or even 32 players , and power weapons would need to be plentiful , but that in itself would mean dying by rockets and being sniped from longer ranges a lot more than usually. Player spawns would be pretty terrible . I can see it being like Heavies but way worse .
The only way I can see it work would be having a squad based spawn system like invasion mixed with a spawn system from Section 8 and a in game currency system so you can drop in vehicles ( having them at set spawns could be annoying unless the players would always spawn at a base) , and possibly able to spawn with weaker versions of power weapons like a single shot RL that does less damage to players and vehicles than a normal RL would.
How much is currently dedicated to BTB? Just do that, but make it 64 (or maybe only 32) and call it GTB.
I was under the impression that BTB only gets a few playlists.
To the bolded, why? I mean, you said "they'd have to do this" and then just explained why it was a bad thing. Why would they do it in the first place?
I was under the impression that BTB only gets a few playlists.
To the bolded, why? I mean, you said "they'd have to do this" and then just explained why it was a bad thing. Why would they do it in the first place?
Abinash117
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I saying if they do it like a normal halo game like placing weapons on maps they will need to be enough power weapons for increased number of vehicles there's about 4 warthogs a few mongoose and some other vehicles for a normal BTB map , but with 64 or 32 players it will have to increase the number of vehicles for a number of reasons. But because of the increased number of power weapons a infantry player would die a lot by them like in heavies but more then usual that's why I gave reasons that it could work, but it would play much different and add concepts that isn't familiar to halo .
Hey guys, did you see Halo Spartan Assault will be available on Steam 5th Arpil?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/277430/?linkId=7819994
Maybe we should wait for Halo 3 haha. I wonder if other Halo titles will be available on Steam, like the first trilogy, but also Halo 4.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/277430/?linkId=7819994
Maybe we should wait for Halo 3 haha. I wonder if other Halo titles will be available on Steam, like the first trilogy, but also Halo 4.
Question: Guys, I'm doing the Goat Simulator OT (lol why not). OTs go up a week before the actual game release at most right? (So in other words I'm good to go right now, correct?)
Right, but they wouldn't do it without thinking. You don't raise power weapons at the same rate as others. There definitely would need to be more, but you don't need to add just as many power weapons as players. Not even close to that.
Shhhhhh.
Right, but they wouldn't do it without thinking. You don't raise power weapons at the same rate as others. There definitely would need to be more, but you don't need to add just as many power weapons as players. Not even close to that.
Shhhhhh.
You don't actually play big team do you? That just sounds like a horrid nightmare that should never happen considering the nature of the beast.
Abinash117
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I never thought or said it should , but there needs to be a lot of power weapons way more then what most people are use to dealing with.
I'm saying, yes you should increase them, but not significantly. I don't see why you couldn't still keep the number only slightly hire than normal.
The big emphasis would be on vehicles and things.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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This just in, Halo CE never had multiplayer in the truest sense.
I guess I can put that behind me.
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Zeouterlimits
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I know it's hard to say everything exactly on message, but " Halo 1 never had multiplayer in the truest sense, so it always was going to be something different", he knows how to wound unintentionally.
There are people for whom Halo 1 multiplayer to them as Halo 2's is to most.
Would love to see what he'd have said if pressed on 2's Campaign.
There are people for whom Halo 1 multiplayer to them as Halo 2's is to most.
Would love to see what he'd have said if pressed on 2's Campaign.
I think he ment MP systems like Matchmaking and ect.
Zeouterlimits
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Yes, of course, I do assume he was referring to that.
That means his definition of multiplayer is a bit slim [or more likely he spoke without fully clarifying / pausing].
Again not cruxifying him, but you can't have been through the ringer here on the Anniversary multiplayer discussions and Big Show's broken heart without looking at that comment ruefully.
Gabotron ES
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Just imagine the shitstorm if H2A turns out to not be a thing at all.