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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO
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User 73706
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WRRRREEEEEEERRRRRRREEEEEERRRRRROOOOOEEEEEEEEE
Jellycrackers
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I haven't touched Halo 4 in a while. I was never a hater. I knew the game had its problems but I still played it a lot after launch, but it fizzled out faster than any of the others definitely. The last couple days, my roommate and I have been playing Reach again. SO much fun. My eyes have been opened.
I made a post about this a while back, that I can't find, but I don't think you will. I'm going to assume the entire game will be on dedis and it'll just seamlessly spin up an Azure instance when you go to a private lobby for everyone to play on.
Delta Unit Hinkle
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Fuck it, why not. Getting in on this page.
long time no post i wanna know that that gif is from ^_^
Yeah no way any Halo game won't have dedicated servers from this point on
I'm also assuming whatever it is they want to do with multiplayer would be built around dedis - it wouldn't make much sense to have a peer-hosted variant of multiplayer if you've built your game around the bandwidth and processing power of being able to move the hosting server off of the client box.
l Zealot l
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I played a few games a week or so ago. First game back JIP even scores, pretty good connection. But I just got bored, I really didn't enjoy it.
Yeah I think I'm due for a reach to 4 play through.
II SHABUTIE II
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I bought that DMR skin, it comes with a free twin stick shooter. Honestly though, the controls in that game are so janky on the consoles. If you're going to buy Spartan Assault and have any intention of playing it, it plays much better on a tablet.
This the longest ass gif I've seen.Fuck it, why not. Getting in on this page.
I think so too. Buy a game for a cosmetic in 4 is probably not a great idea.
I already have it on PC. Never play it though... was largely forgettable.
Well to be fair it is discounted!
I just get bored looking at the same guns over and over. Like in BF4 they have like 100 different camos and I'm constantly changing through them. Makes things interesting
Is it really worth double dipping just to get a weapon skin for a game that you don't really play?
Amazing port BTW.
If the new Nvidia drivers didnt screw up Halo 2 I would be taking 8k screens of that right now with that new tool from Durante.
(Someone with an AMD card should)
Makes me wonder how LAN will be handled. Possible cut?
MrGreencastle
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Hey, I bought Crackdown just to play in the Halo 3 beta, so $5 for a Halo stick shooter isn't terrible.
Yup, looking forward to Heavies. I really like Ninja Assassins, glad it might stick around.
If the game is built around being run on a dedi, then LAN is about dead. You'd have to have a central Xbox One to act as the server for LANs (Some OXbox titles actually let you run one OXbox as a dedi for a LAN)
Someone call a mod and ban this kid. This isn't a community thread. Jeeze.
Gabotron ES
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Does dedis means there's no longer a host per se? no host advantage and all that...
Welfare
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It should. Everything would be done by the servers provided by 343, not an individual player.
Gabotron ES
Member
Uhmm that'd be very nice, specially for Megalo.
There's a Megalo condition check in H4 (I think it's also in Reach) to know if a player just pressed a button, you can check the button pressed and assign a different action to each one.
You could technically make custom triggers to open doors, lift bridges and things like that, even make your own custom armor abilities by temporally manipulating the player traits set of that player...
PROBLEM IS the condition is extremely sloppy due to it only working for the host so itis too bound to failures
Frankie will future halo titles use Megalo or a modified version of it, I just want to kwow already!? I'll take extra cryptic responses if it's needed.
Edit: there are some Megalo special effects which can also only be viewed by the host player, fortunately this can be fixed by running the conditions check locally instead, Rush Slayer suffers from this and is something I'll get to address soon, hopefully.
Star Wars Battlefront was like that. The box that was acting as a dedi couldn't be played on. Which then meant that you had to have an extra box and extra copy of the game.
User 73706
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Uhmm that'd be very nice, specially for Megalo.
There's a Megalo condition check in H4 (I think it's also in Reach) to know if a player just pressed a button, you can check the button pressed and assign a different action to each one.
You could technically make custom triggers to open doors, lift bridges and things like that, even make your own custom armor abilities by temporally manipulating the player traits set of that player...
PROBLEM IS the condition is extremely sloppy due to it only working for the host so itis too bound to failures
Frankie will future halo titles use Megalo or a modified version of it, I just want to kwow already!? I'll take extra cryptic responses if it's needed.
Edit: there are some Megalo special effects which can also only be viewed by the host player, fortunately this can be fixed by running the conditions check locally instead, Rush Slayer suffers from this and is something I'll get to address soon, hopefully.
incoming Delta Halo "if I were a megalomaniac - and I'm not - that's where I'd be" response from frankles.
GTFO NOOB YOU CAME TO THE WRONG NEIGBORHOOD
Kotaku: "343 Dev Tells Noobs 'GTFO' on NeoGAF"
Prolly going to have time to play some H4 come Saturday. Anyone going to be around for customs?
MrGreencastle
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Still, I think it is a perfectly acceptable solution. So long as the capability is there at launch. LAN would matter to a significant amount of people you would think.
NobleGundam
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Kylej alt?GTFO NOOB YOU CAME TO THE WRONG NEIGBORHOOD
The Real Napsta
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Frank, will Halo Xbox One support system link/ LAN?
Does anyone know if any Xbox One games support LAN?
Does anyone know if any Xbox One games support LAN?
It's a little sad that I can imagine this actually happening. Amazing gif though.
joking ?
PM SpeedyBlueDude for all teh infos.
Lol. You're fine. Welcome!
Pls be a good junior and don't get banned. We've been having a lot of that lately and it makes me sad.
One wrong move and poof, you're gone, so be good.
If it doesn't, there will be hell to pay. I said, HELL TO PAY.
No seriously I will be so mad if that isn't supported. I will eat a child.
Um... Why couldn't LAN be different? For online multiplayer have the server be dedicated. For LAN, have one of the boxes be a host. I don't see the problem with that.
Lol. You're fine. Welcome!
Pls be a good junior and don't get banned. We've been having a lot of that lately and it makes me sad.
One wrong move and poof, you're gone, so be good.
Also, before you post something, sit back and ask yourself this; "How can I make this post a little less douche?".
How was my post douche?
Orochinagis
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Wait Storm is underage? what
*throws fajitas to the window*
Halo
*throws fajitas to the window*
Halo
Not enough resources to make two different networking models and test them both.
Hosting the game has CPU overhead for the host in multiplayer games. If you build the game around a neutral server taking care of the processing, then you actually don't have the CPU left to run the server, either on Live or LAN.
For Halo 2 onwards, on LAN you're essentially running the same netcode as Live matches. Someone is the host, everyone else's client boxes use client prediction, etc. Since you have near-zero packet loss and ping though, it runs super smooth.
Welfare
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Lol. You're fine. Welcome!
Pls be a good junior and don't get banned. We've been having a lot of that lately and it makes me sad.
One wrong move and poof, you're gone, so be good.
Oh, I know. I've been lurking Gaf for a while.
Booties post did scare me at first though, then Stinkles basically slayed me from a laughing fit.
But any way, Halo 4. Heavies should just be in Big Team, and I don't like the fact that the stand-alone Heavies playlist will have the Castle maps, and Big Team still doesn't. Change this please Frank
Oh, I know. I've been lurking Gaf for a while.
Booties post did scare me at first though, then Stinkles basically slayed me from a laughing fit.
But any way, Halo 4. Heavies should just be in Big Team, and I don't like the fact that the stand-alone Heavies playlist will have the Castle maps, and Big Team still doesn't. Change this please Frank
I was joking.
Welfare
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I realized after Frankies post it was a joke.