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[Syphon Filter]

I wonder how people would take it if Halo 2 Anniversary multi on dedicated servers was the purported "Halo Arena Live" concept that's been thrown around a few times. In a perfect world it would be a companion to a remastered Campaign and run on a completely new engine (or at least one independent of Halo 2's dated, disembodied physics, jankiness, and propensity for glitching without proper oversight) with Halo 2 post-patch as a starting point for content, with them progressively rolling out more new toys for it like Megalo editing, Halo 3 content come the 10 year anniversary, etc. while still providing up to 8v8, more classically oriented arena gameplay. On the flip side, Halo 5 and the "Guardians" mantra would have more modern, cinematic gameplay.

Nah then the future of halo is dead.

 

[wwm0nkey]

I really want Halo Arena to just be a thing, the MP would never die, can be constantly updated, free maps, older play options always available, constant stream of cosmetic items that can be bought with EXP or money (no money only stuff plz) and it could support tournaments like what DoTA is doing if done right.

Also have it so you need the new released Halo game for the new content, 3 months after sell access to that MP content and 9 months later make it free.

 

[User 73706]

Nah then the future of halo is dead.

Halo 2's physics felt janky when it came out, dude.

I really want Halo Arena to just be a thing, the MP would never die, can be constantly updated, older play options always available, constant stream of cosmetic items that can be bought with EXP or money (no money only stuff plz) and it could support tournaments like what DoTA is doing if done right.

That's what I'm saying - Halo 2 Annie multiplayer would be that, it'd just start as H2A multi.

 

[FyreWulff]

The vendor tie in bonus for Halo 2: Anniversary will be Mt Dew Chiron and Mt Dew Emblem. Get a download code inside every 12 pack of Gamer Fuel!

 

[wwm0nkey]

That's what I'm saying - Halo 2 Annie multiplayer would be that, it'd just start as H2A multi.

Which I am for

 

[User 73706]

The vendor tie in bonus for Halo 2: Anniversary will be Mt Dew Chiron and Mt Dew Emblem. Get a download code inside every 12 pack of Gamer Fuel!

Are those chiron pics shopped or did they legitimately port it over for a visual gag? What teases.

We need a Chiron remake unless they decide to actually give us enough teleporters to do it ourselves.

 

[FyreWulff]

Are those chiron pics shopped or did they legitimately port it over for a visual gag? What teases.

We need a Chiron remake unless they decide to actually give us enough teleporters to do it ourselves.

http://halo.bungie.org/misc/putputstory/

 

[Omni]

Not happening, bruh.

Haha, you never know.
...

After kinda thinking about it... If Halo 2 doesn't happen I'll be quite disappointed, no matter how much I try to convince myself otherwise. But if it does happen - and uses Halo 4 assets - then I'll still be disappointed. Likewise, if it comes along with no multiplayer, well then... you get the point.

There's so much that can go wrong with this thing. I don't particularly trust 343i to make the right decisions. But we'll see, I guess

 

[belushy]

30 FPS

 

[User 73706]

http://halo.bungie.org/misc/putputstory/

That entire story is unreal, down to it ending with an italicized "soon." A company could post that in 2014 with people writing off the Chiron gags as tongue-in-cheek and nobody would think anything was wrong.

 

[Poker Face]

didn't 343 say our Halo Xbox One journey would start with 60FPS and dedicated servers?

 

[StalkerUKCG]

didn't 343 say our Halo Xbox One journey would start with 60FPS and dedicated servers?

1080p 60fps Halo experience I believe. Halo 2 likely won't be 60fps, 1080p is pretty believable.

I can see 900p 60fps dedis for Halo 5 .

 

[User 73706]

1080p 60fps Halo experience I believe. Halo 2 likely won't be 60fps, 1080p is pretty believable.

I can see 900p 60fps dedis for Halo 5 .

Following in the drunken footsteps of CEA, Halo 2 will run at a "buttery smooth" 60FPS.

 

[Orochinagis]

Following in the drunken footsteps of CEA, Halo 2 will run at a "buttery smooth" 60FPS.

locked 30 fps for the lolz.

 

[Sofa King]

Who all here is going to PAX?

Yessir

 

[The Real Napsta]

I'd be happy with 720p 60fps for Halo 2A.

 

[II SHABUTIE II]

We proudly announce HALO 2 A .....Lego version.

Halo Mega Bloks: The Video Game.

 

[gAg CruSh3r]

Are those chiron pics shopped or did they legitimately port it over for a visual gag? What teases.

We need a Chiron remake unless they decide to actually give us enough teleporters to do it ourselves.

Did someone say my name?

I hope they can give us infinite amount of teleporters so we can have 2 Chiron inside of one map. Linking the two maps together!

Spoiler

I kid... Kinda

 

[NobleGundam]

Someone call aPK

The way he ran with it and then the guy said thanks for all the views was glorious.

 

[Kibbles]

1080p 60fps Halo experience I believe. Halo 2 likely won't be 60fps, 1080p is pretty believable.

I can see 900p 60fps dedis for Halo 5 .

Is there any 900p/60fps title on Xbox One besides games like Forza? I mean I don't doubt 343s potential, and the fact it's coming out later in the life cycle... but idk I'm expecting it to be shy of 900p, if it isn't then great.

 

[User 73706]

I know they're too above it to ever actually remake Chiron, but since mancannons are the spiritual successors to teleporters, I'd love to see a take on a Chiron spiritual successor that relied on mancannons to navigate some chambers.

 

[RandyROFLSTOMP]

Rather than every match on a symmetric map beginning the same way, Variable Initial Spawns could allow for multiple opening rush strategies. On Sanctuary, for example, both teams could spawn in their respective Rocks, or on their respective Flag, or in their respective Cut. Both teams spawn in the same location, relative to their side of the map, but Variable Initial Spawns allow for differing opening rush strategies. Because Red and Blue’s initial spawns are always equal and opposite, it allows for variability from match to match while still being fair and balanced for both teams.

 

[User 73706]

Rather than every match on a symmetric map beginning the same way, Variable Initial Spawns could allow for multiple opening rush strategies. On Sanctuary, for example, both teams could spawn in their respective Rocks, or on their respective Flag, or in their respective Cut. Both teams spawn in the same location, relative to their side of the map, but Variable Initial Spawns allow for differing opening rush strategies. Because Red and Blue’s initial spawns are always equal and opposite, it allows for variability from match to match while still being fair and balanced for both teams.

I'm starting to think you aren't name-dropping the Gravity Gauntlet specifically so I don't realize you're my doppelganger in time for you to kill me.

 

[Woorloog]

I know they're too above it to ever actually remake Chiron, but since mancannons are the spiritual successors to teleporters, I'd love to see a take on a Chiron spiritual successor that relied on mancannons to navigate some chambers.

Asteroid map in space, you move around by jumping from one asteroid to another via mancannons?

 

[Tawpgun]

I hope our community can be as fun as it was during these times, despite the sub par Halo game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V27NUP-pdZU

Nostalgia-ing a bit now.

Spoiler

inb4 H3HaloGAF tells me how wrong I have it

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

As long as the community is listened to and serious resources are invested in the "proper" (for a lack of a better word) places, the community itself will live on. We're all like rabid hyenas that haven't eaten meat in years.

And LMFAO (squidhands clip)

 

[User 73706]

Asteroid map in space, you move around by jumping from one asteroid to another via mancannons?

I was thinking a hydroponics chamber aboard Unyielding Heirophant where horizontal and vertical aqueducts grav-manipulating water currents throughout a few rooms in addition to the occasional teleporter or airlift would get you around. Damnation meets Chiron meets Elongation, basically.

 

[Woorloog]

I was thinking a hydroponics chamber aboard Unyielding Heirophant where horizontal and vertical aqueducts grav-manipulating water currents throughout a few rooms in addition to the occasional teleporter or airlift would get you around. Damnation meets Chiron meets Elongation, basically.

I was thinking Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament and their mancannons. And now i realized Bungie didn't invent mancannon.

Also: you managed to name 3 maps that i really, really don't like in one sentence (on the account of the maps being either confusing or ugly or both, not due to how they play). That's... i don't know, kind of a hat trick?

 

[Mistel]

LMFAO

Speaking of montages was the most recent one finished?

 

[gAg CruSh3r]

As long as the community is listened to and serious resources are invested in the "proper" (for a lack of a better word) places, the community itself will live on. We're all like rabid hyenas that haven't eaten meat in years.

And LMFAO (squidhands clip)

That was pretty dang awesome!

Spoiler

and funny as some points.

I hope I can get on with the next montage next time. H2A?

 

[User 73706]

I was thinking Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament and their mancannons. And now i realized Bungie didn't invent mancannon.

Also: you managed to name 3 maps that i really, really don't like in one sentence (on the account of the maps being either confusing or ugly or both, not due to how they play). That's... i don't know, kind of a hat trick?

Three rights make a left!

 

[The Real Napsta]

We should have the Quake 4 teleporters in Halo 5

 

[RandyROFLSTOMP]

Oddball, Assault, and Ricochet should be combined into one gametype that utilizes custom game options to change scoring from “time carried” to “times planted” or “times thrown in”. This approach allows each of the individual gametypes to be created in addition to hybrid gametypes that, for example, may choose to use Oddball’s “time carried” scoring as well as place goals that the ball can be thrown into for some quick, Ricochet style, points. Give an option to enable/disable throwing. Give an option to assign different aesthetic skins to the Objective so it could be anything like a ball, a bomb, a skull, a Monitor, a Promethean skull, or Wheatley from Portal 2, so different gametypes would have their own unique Objective Model. There could even be a skin for a Rampant Monitor that would talk to the player holding him. If the Rampant Monitor was used for Hot Potato it could Face Laser the carrier instead of exploding.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

4/4

 

[squidhands]

And LMFAO (squidhands clip)

that may be my crowning achievement.

 

[gAg CruSh3r]

Ryse is great. Try Max and Forza too.

I will do my part to make it worth your while. ;-)

I have a feeling you just made a good decision.

Frank teases about the up coming E3 in someone's thread. I can not wait! 4 sleeps

 

[Booshka]

that may be my crowning achievement.

My clip right after it was great too, that was a great Montage overall.

Back when most of HaloGAF still played enough Halo to warrant a Montage.

 

[l Zealot l]

4/4

Consistency is the key here.

 

[User 73706]

Oddball, Assault, and Ricochet should be combined into one gametype that utilizes custom game options to change scoring from “time carried” to “times planted” or “times thrown in”. This approach allows each of the individual gametypes to be created in addition to hybrid gametypes that, for example, may choose to use Oddball’s “time carried” scoring as well as place goals that the ball can be thrown into for some quick, Ricochet style, points. Give an option to enable/disable throwing. Give an option to assign different aesthetic skins to the Objective so it could be anything like a ball, a bomb, a skull, a Monitor, a Promethean skull, or Wheatley from Portal 2, so different gametypes would have their own unique Objective Model. There could even be a skin for a Rampant Monitor that would talk to the player holding him. If the Rampant Monitor was used for Hot Potato it could Face Laser the carrier instead of exploding.

Shot Pocket pls

What if they balanced the Scorpion by making it manual transmission?

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

My clip right after it was great too, that was a great Montage overall.

Back when most of HaloGAF still played enough Halo to warrant a Montage.

That was you who made that clip of everyone falling?? If so, bravo hahahah -- I rewatched those two clips back to back several times.

i cry evertim

 

[Stinkles]

That was you who made that clip of everyone falling?? If so, bravo hahahah -- I rewatched those two clips back to back several times.

i cry evertim

I think that was just my twitch stream

 

[Poker Face]

Frank teases about the up coming E3 in someone's thread. I can not wait! 4 sleeps

stinkles doesn't even mention the best xbox one game smh

 

[Booshka]

That was you who made that clip of everyone falling?? If so, bravo hahahah -- I rewatched those two clips back to back several times.

i cry evertim

Yep. Here's the youtube link

I think that was just my twitch stream

Lies, you would have grabbed rockets, then jumped off the map like a noob.

 

[Computron]

-nvm, probably was a 4:3 or other non 16:9 AR stretched out.-

 

[gAg CruSh3r]

stinkles doesn't even mention the best xbox one game smh

I know right !? It's obviously Ryse

Spoiler

if H2A is not real.

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Edit:

Recording this for posterity.

I hope to god it is real o.o.....

 

[Caladrius]

Spoiler

if H2A is not real.

.

Recording this for posterity.

 

[Poker Face]

I know right !? It's obviously Ryse

Spoiler

if H2A is not real.

.


Edit:

I hope to god it is real o.o.....

 

[gAg CruSh3r]

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I would have pick KI for the example if it was a choice lol

 

[Silky]

What the fuck you can't drop flag in Halo 4

 

[YourExWife]

What the fuck you can't drop flag in Halo 4