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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO
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Steelyuhas
Member
Killed it deader!
xxjuicesxx
Member
If Reach killed it, Halo 4 double killed it.
xxjuicesxx
Member
I feel it is though. The population is just awful. HaloGAF is no longer getting on every night and playing, the activity in these threads is almost nothing. Lucky if half a page gets posted in a day.
Theres hardly ever any news from 343 besides 'keep waiting!'.
Its just doldrums for Halo fans atm.
Theres hardly ever any news from 343 besides 'keep waiting!'.
Its just doldrums for Halo fans atm.
Count me in.
link1201
Member
Dedis can't come soon enough.
This is embarrassing. So much shit lag.
link1201
Member
Yeah, after playing BF3 for a few weeks it was hard coming back to Halo...Black screens that lead to your death are infuriating.
the lag is so terrible. Can't even suffer through this. It's like 2005 DSL shit
Steelyuhas
Member
It may be for people that don't like the direction of the franchise in the last few years.
Confidence hasn't exactly been instilled for those people (myself included).
Barrow Roll
Member
You type like a lovable dumbass, but speak a lot of truth.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Thanks. Words be like whatever to me, they bend, but my points still there.
Naked Lunch
Member
BTB CTF is the best thing about Halo 4. Its about damn time they added it. The weapon tweaks def gave the game a bit of a different feel. Its at least more playable now. Not sure why you can still see the flag carrier at all times thru walls and everything though. I guess they are never going to change that. 1 Flag CTF cant be that hard to add - can it?
Regicide should not be in this playlist. Its voted for nearly 90% of the time. Its basically just another slayer gamemode anyways. Get that shit out of BTB objective - people voting for that should just stick to BTB slayer.
343 is close to having a good multiplayer. They should seriously make a classic playlist or 2 with no sprint and no Armor abilities.
Regicide should not be in this playlist. Its voted for nearly 90% of the time. Its basically just another slayer gamemode anyways. Get that shit out of BTB objective - people voting for that should just stick to BTB slayer.
343 is close to having a good multiplayer. They should seriously make a classic playlist or 2 with no sprint and no Armor abilities.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Now imagine they release a launch Halo Xbox One title with in game ranks, all the Halo 4 progress, Azure dedicated multipler, Azure assisted campaign/SPOPS, social vs. ranked split and tournament support for various playlist styles, plus the new XBL/X1 features for recording, streaming, snapchat...
I see it coming and I see corporate motives for Halo 4 being what it was and to move Xbox One sales with such practices in the future.
Possible? Hell yes. Probable? Maybe.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Halo reach and halo 4 both suck
Reach has bloom though so fuck reach
Reach has bloom though so fuck reach
Does anyone really want SPOPS over Firefight?
I'm sure some people do, for some sad sad reason. Just let SpOps die and implement whatever story would come in the next season into Halo 5.
And bring back Firefight.
Halo 4 is the Best Selling* Microsoft Studios Game of all Time**
*In the US
**In a specific time period
*In the US
**In a specific time period
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I think a mash up of Firefight and SPOPS would be great. Perhaps play through for story initially and have to complete normal to then unlock a configurable/replayable version.
The CGI being released each week and being more content than just the campaign was highly appreciated. I'd also imagine a PC editor or next gen forge could potentially unlock community content for mini campaign/story missions too.
To me SPOPS potential was more than what was delivered but it's definitely worth a revisit or redesign.
Please understand.
HiredN00bs
Member
Man, remember when Halo 2 was the worst Halo game?
Compared to 4 it's like a fine aged wine.
I want in. Just hope it runs on my Windows 8 laptop.
For some reason I can't get it to run on windows 7, I would love to play
squidhands
Member
Besides grinding away for weapon unlocks, Spartan Ops has relatively 0 replay value compared to Firefight. It might have been a different story if scoring, theater, and mild gametype customization were in the mode, but what we got were bite-sized campaign pieces that held little of my interest in terms of story and even less in terms of quality enemy encounters. Not what I wanted at all.
I'd rather have Reach's Firefight back, with less Big Ass Gun and more survival style ODST gametypes. Bring back Generator Defense while you're at it, plop it all on these fancy new servers and take my money, 343.
User 73706
Banned
It's that bandwidth for interactive cinematic vignettes.
Nah. It's the fact most of the studio had moved on to the next game already. I bet that's why so much was cut from 4.
Orochinagis
Member
No, Unlimited lives, linear paths and over reused maps was tiring until the second half of season 1. Make it right and transforms SPOPs intro real Operations Ops, Stealth missions, snipers only weapons,split the team to do different objetives at the same time,Air combat missions, Race missions, remember that mission where you dont have any weapons and had to grab the enemies weapons to survive? It was unexpected but still the unlimited lives make it very easy.
BlueScrote
Member
I haven't played much of the more recent CODs, but I expected Spartan Ops to be more like Spec Ops.
I enjoyed Spec Ops in MW2(?) more than anything else in that game.
Maybe if it had been a more fleshed out mode. It had a few bright spots, like the Valhalla Mantis mission, and the big green level that i just forgot the name for.
It recycled too much, and wasn't really interesting to play again unless it was one of the few interesting missions, because the choice was to play the same map but either in forward or reverse or from side to side. And while the Valhalla Mantis mission was fun, it took me out that we were trying to play a story mission on a multiplayer map, so you immediately know once you start that your goal is either going to be in one base or the other base. It kind of feels like you're playing someone's mod.
They can certainly try it again, but players need the option to play it like Firefight with scoring and lives. They can continue to improve the mode, ie being able to build turrets and stuff, but they need the option to play it and create their own stories instead of playing it the way 343 wants you to play it.
At this point, a more interesting take on Spartan Ops to me would be to actually have Counter Ops. Reuse the campaign, one team is the Spartans, the other team plays as Elites/Grunts/Brutes/Forerunners and tries to prevent them from completing the mission. Remix the content and encounters slightly ala Zelda's second quest. Bring back campaign matchmaking and give players the option of searching as Spartans, Enemies, or Both.
Remember to include my DSfix post for people who want custom resolutions and better mouse control (still recommend a controller though)
Only mission I had found fun was Land Grab. I couldn't see much replay value in shooting a bunch of Elites and Banshees with the Mantis after two or three times. Using a Warthog is a bit more enjoyable, but it still doesn't help. Overall there's too many issues: you can just play Arcadefight in Reach but have worse spawns and fight against inferior enemies and you get Spartan Ops.
Definitely. I wanna make sure it's nice on my monitor
Just checked the tracking, it will be in my hands tonight. Fuck yes!
User 73706
Banned
I bet Halo 5 will be good considering they're performing a...
virgin sacrifice.
virgin sacrifice.
No. Endless customization, proper AI difficulty scaling, actual consequences for playing poorly, theater mode integration, and a total absence of bad characterizations, shitty writing, and switch flipping would be preferable. SpOps was inferior to Firefight in every way.
Seriously though, FFA? New gametypes every week?
I can't be assed to read the rules, are we dealing with another situation where players are going to be starving themselves and depriving themselves of sleep to near lethal levels to win a window cling?
Steelyuhas
Member
lol do you never learn about making Halo threads gaming side?
New news, new threads. It's a big reason our shit got locked and split in the first place.
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah cause that worked out, there is now 3 Halo threads when very few people are actively play a Halo game at all.
I'll ask this here, cause it will just get buried there: prize deposited into "Virgin Gaming Account"? What is this?
You gotta register for an account on Virgin Gaming. If you win the money get deposited there. After that you transfer it to a real account.
Steelyuhas
Member
What's the catch?
Virgin gaming takes 90% of transfers from their account.
just kidding, I have no idea lol
Didn't you say the split was a good thing though?