YourExWife
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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO
- Thread starter Tashi
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l Zealot l
Member
Is there anything else to do until E3?
Does anyone know how many people formerly from bungie are still at 343?
The Real Napsta
Member
He's talking about this:
You can buy them for 8-10 bucks.
Looks complicated.
Jelly. I had to cut short last night
. I still can't believe I actually got some of those achievements. When does DLC go away?Jelly. I had to cut short last night
Think it ends on the 14th, replaced by Ninja Assassins.
Think it ends on the 14th, replaced by Ninja Assassins.
o.....k....
sounds dumb. Why not just keep DLC if you want people to purchase it? I still think a small discount will create more revenue than advertising a limited time only play list featuring the content. That shit should be common by now anyway, jerks.
The Real Napsta
Member
He said it was easy.
Eh, I have an xbone and digital games on 360. I don't need to buy and do console surgery
But sometimes I wish I could go to play some halo with peeps
Orochinagis
Member
So melee only gametype. whaaa?
Sounds weird. Can anyone summarize the bulletin for those of us at work?
Gabotron ES
Member
I'm still baffled at the lack of forgeable spaces on Ravine, Impact and the other terrible looking one... they should have give them the same treatment as Forge Island but with some actual map geometry instead of a flat surface.
Just give us some cliffs/hill objects to fill in there... it makes me sad because I like Impact's look and you'd make some cool BTB maps if there were some space to actually forge.
You can pretty much tell the ones who made forge in H4 (I think it was CA) had little to no experience with Reach's forge.
Just give us some cliffs/hill objects to fill in there... it makes me sad because I like Impact's look and you'd make some cool BTB maps if there were some space to actually forge.
You can pretty much tell the ones who made forge in H4 (I think it was CA) had little to no experience with Reach's forge.
A mysterious new gametype.
Gabotron ES
Member
Forge World's palette, while being an ugly grey shitfest also worked better than H4's overdesigned pieces. Reach's forge maps are much easier to the eyes.
They already reskinned some pieces for Forge Island which is a pretty good thing but most of them were kept the same.
I sort of go back and forth on it. A lot of 4's pieces are a bit too busy texture-wise, but so were Reach's--they were just more monotonously grey. The cleaned-up textures on the Forge Island pieces were very welcome. Hopefully with Halo 5 Forge they can give us some very simple textured pieces to mix in with the walls and floor block pieces--it's more an issue of variety than anything else.
And I have a hard time saying that Reach forge maps are much better looking than Halo 4 ones. If they can address the issues with crafting interior spaces (adding your own dynamic lights, etc.) to avoid Shadows: The Game, I'll be immensely happy.
Gabotron ES
Member
Maybe add an option to make a piece unlit, you could use these pieces for roof pieces and the like...
As for 4 looking better than Reach, I think we atleast can agree on Erosion being the most terrific looking pile of crap ever.
A forge trick you can do to light indoor spaces in Halo 4 is to delay-spawn your roof pieces. 1 second is enough, they just need to not exist when the map actually loads, and they'll be skipped in the lighting pass. And nobody will notice them spawning in.
Gabotron ES
Member
That's actually pretty clever.
I also experimented with scaling big objects like colliseum walls and Forge Island's rocks to 300% or similar to create bigger, cleaner looking flat surfaces, using green screens or grids placed below them since the collision model is kept the same.
Also, I have a test ready variant of Sabotage so maybe we could get a lobby going this weekend, I just have to get a couple maps ready to support it.
I should have time to participate. I do want to try it out.
The Real Napsta
Member
Did anyone end up using that green screen for actual machinema?
I'm sure some people did, but honestly machinima is pretty much dead insofar as a very busy medium in general. I think I can count the number of good machinima series on one hand since RvB/Codex/Fire Team Charlie. It just didn't take off like I guess everyone thought. Still awesome that they included it and I hope it remains standard in the next iteration.
I've actually used the greenscreen more for compositing and things like player graphics.
II SHABUTIE II
Neo Member
It's really hard for me to get a good color selection from the H4 green screen. The way the lighting works in the game, it's almost like it cast's a green highlight around the player/vehicle, making it impossible to pull a clean selection. It's next to impossible to pull a clean selection for video. Maybe I'm just bad/doing it wrong?
Machinima skyrocketed in Halo 2, mainly because community machinima groups flourished.
Then in Halo 3 they wouldn't let people lower their weapons online, and things weren't filmed in real time anymore. Just made making machinima a lot less fun. But theater did make things easier so machinima did pretty good in Halo 3 also, but more professional groups flourished.
By reach most people were burned out on halo machinima. Wasn't fun to make still, community dwindled,
Now its meh.
But its cool they added a green screen.
I remember in Halo 2 we tried using green screen by blasting a wall with explosives to turn it black. Or we got out of Containment for the glowing pure white background.
Good times.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Just another example of the fans crying out to Bungie for areas they wanted to see improvement, things they wanted to add, etc., yet we received AA's, a removal of in-game ranks, progression systems, perks, lower quality maps, no improvements to additions before 2007 (Matchmaking), no improvements to additions on or after 2007 (Forge, Theater, Campaign scoring).... I mean, this list can go pretty frikkin far for both Bungie and 343.
The fruit of Tashi's labor.
Is it impossible to get anything above a double kill then?
Orochinagis
Member
Is it impossible to get anything above a double kill then?
6 melee killstreak here in team swat
Killtalcular's for me I can never seem to get them even when I try.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Bulletin's up: https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/the-halo-bulletin-4-9-14
Ninja Assassins explained plus two new forge maps in BTB (plus the addition of Neutral Flag).
Ninja Assassins explained plus two new forge maps in BTB (plus the addition of Neutral Flag).
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Got to give credit to 343 for staying on top of these Bulletins and updating MM with gametypes that feel different from what's been in before. Ninja Assassins sounds fun.
Devolution
Member
They should bring 1 flag back for most of the big team maps since they're quite lopsided.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I miss 1 flag and 1 bomb the most of anything Halo.
Orochinagis
Member
Thats how I play every match.
Devolution
Member
It really should be the default flag gametype for most of the big team maps I play on. The current structure of the maps lends to one team having quite the advantage either on defense or offense. Even neutral flag can be a pain in the ass on these maps.
The lighting in Halo 4 isn't exactly favorable to getting a pure green key but it sounds like your issue is green spill on the subjects. Just back up the green screen so it's not right against your actors. You might also want to boost the saturation to pull the key in post, then apply the matte to an unadjusted layer. Dunno what program you're using but After Effects and Motion both have excellent keying software with spill suppressors.
Ninja assassins sounds fun--I like the leveling up approach for certain gametypes like these.
The explanation for community meld isn't helping me as someone who doesn't play KI though. Is this essentially Waypoint-like functionality but in the game without having to launch something else? If it is I'm hopeful this will translate to Halo 5 and whatever else they push out.
-- Aye, what does it actually mean? "Community Meld" makes it sound like a cross-platform interface?
II SHABUTIE II
Neo Member
I'm not really worried about doing video stuff with it. Vegas Pro 11 is all I have for video editing. I basically never use it, because I'm terrible with it. I specifically use shop and it's really difficult for me to pull things from the green screen with color selection. I'm usually better off just laso/pen selecting things.
YourExWife
Member
you don't say...
Orochinagis
Member
Prinz Eugn
Member
Hola! Un Gato!
Deputy Moonman
Member
While not quite the same topic, I was devastated when ranked BTB was removed from Halo 2. I loved 1 flag and 1 bomb games. Even team objective 1 flag and 1 bomb games were great. There's a certain high you get when everyone rushes the base or when you are anticipating the rush on defense. Armor abilities, instant respawns, and random ordnance really take away from the suspenseful build up in games.
Devolution
Member
Halo 4: players still getting up to spots that are map breaking.
NobleGundam
Banned
"Standby for Mantisfall!"
Ya'll want this to happen in a new playlist update, right guys?
More Eject perks and AAs.
Ya'll want this to happen in a new playlist update, right guys?
More Eject perks and AAs.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Protip there has already been a gametype for Mantisfall made, ages ago...It was actually pretty fun.