Orochinagis
Member
It was a bot? I was in a match with 7 bots because mostly everyone left the game, didnt know the game have bot names when it cant load the player name.
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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO
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It was a bot? I was in a match with 7 bots because mostly everyone left the game, didnt know the game have bot names when it cant load the player name.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Wait, since when does Halo 4 have bots?
Silly.Mikey
Banned
It doesnt.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
I'm confused.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Me too
Because he's at the bottom of the totem pole.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
The problem with the franchise right now is its lack of one vision. They're trying to blow everyone away and are ultimately not blowing anyone away. They're in too many places all at once. They wanna satisfy the core, and yet also want to be at that COD level (where Halo previously was).
The problem with Halo gameplay is that times have changed. What Halo did well years ago isn't good enough anymore to be at the top spot. The younger gamers now are all ADDs it seems. They want everything now, fast, constant and only for a few minutes. COD does that very well. In a way, it kinda emulated the MMO idea where you can quickly go in and out, and there's always something to unlock, a rank you want to achieve or a weapon or add-on you want etc... Halo in that sense hasn't evolved. Its just copied that COD formula and tried to put its own spin on it.
I would not want to be them tbh. Id honestly would have rather seen Halo go in the Destiny direction than see it stuck in the middle of trying to please the past or copy the current.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Mah boys from Lexington!
Thug Waffle
Member
Couldn't they just enlarge Midship to handle sprint?
Wat.
bobs...onGaf
Member
No the problem is not that the halo formulae is stale. The problem is that halo has deviated from its own formulae.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Ding ding dingggggg.
User 73706
Banned
Couldn't they just shrink the dinosaurs when they revive them to handle the lower amount of oxygen in the atmosphere?
Thug Waffle
Member
I see...
I completely agree with this sentiment. I've always preferred the idea of having a close-range auto combined with a powerful sidearm; I think largely Halo 4 has the best combination of a lethal but more finesse-driven auto and a powerful but not dominating pistol. I also like that it prevents madcap engagements right off the start and instead orients the opening moments of the matches to securing positions and power weapons. In Halo 4 unlike any time in Halo 2, 3, or Reach, I don't feel gimped starting with AR + Pistol (and with dexterity on, I feel more capable in some scenarios.)
I don't see the issue with offering BR and AR starts as options in voting, though.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
You make me sick
Thug Waffle
Member
You make me laugh.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
You make me am cry.
Midship should not be enlarged to accommodate such an awful mechanic like sprint.
If anything, Sprint should be removed to accommodate Midship.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
Nah make Midship the same size of Opus and it will do amazing!
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Just have Midship with vote variants without sprint, were it so easy.
Also agree with your comment, sprint/Halo4 seem to always have the volume up to 9 or 10 constantly. I think playlist or variants of both are required e.g. sprint with custom loadouts + AA's + mods vs. no sprint with fixed loadouts + restricted AA's + fixed/no mods.
Seems like a perfect base setup that provides scope for game types, casual, competitive, customs etc all while enabling pacing nuances to shift the volume levels.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I agree with this too. I feel for the most part Halo 4 in its current form offers the best and most varied sandbox. The maps could be more varied in terms of size or roles in relation to the weapons though e.g. Maps like turf or elongation.
Thug Waffle
Member
I agree but I don't think there's any getting around sprint as far as 343 is concerned.
They should make a map in the spirit of Midship, but not Midship. Midship is just way too damn small, even if you tried to scale it up, for the current engine.
Much like I'd prefer a successor to The Pit, not the Pit. Although they did enlarge the Pit to accomodate sprint. Take the lessons from The Pit and Anchor 9, identify what went wrong, and build a map better than both of them to accomodate your game.
Much like I'd prefer a successor to The Pit, not the Pit. Although they did enlarge the Pit to accomodate sprint. Take the lessons from The Pit and Anchor 9, identify what went wrong, and build a map better than both of them to accomodate your game.
User 73706
Banned
To that first one: Opus?
How about we change the game setting to Halo 3. Change nothing of Midship. First week free, after that it costs 3.99.
Too small to work in the existing spawn engine. Look at the troubles Skyline has, and I haven't done any WU measurements but I believe it's bigger than Midship.
I got my fill of it back in the Halo 2 days, but I will recognize that it's probably one of the last Halo maps that was actually playable in local 4-split in terms of gameplay. Since 2 the maps have all gotten so big that IMO 4-player local just wasn't as fun as Halo 1.
Skyline would benifit from Halo 3/2 base settings.
The Real Napsta
Member
It's no Midship.
I know, but its very, very good.
But as close as it gets in Halo 4
It's okay. With sprint though, you can definitely tell that the map maker designed specific sprint to cover routes(which generally aren't great in an organic game). It also doesn't help that the map is quite wide open and makes spawning outside of the base tedious and not a ton of fun.
Orochinagis
Member
I dont explained myself correctly then I was in a very laggy BTB match, so bad that we were aganist two enemy players (the ones who were lagging the match I think) so the match went so much black screens and then the game filled the players names with the same initial letters and some variations like a bot name or dev name in the final score table when the match was over.
I don't think that's what happened to me but that is one amazing tale.
Nah man, it'll be Super Cragmire
Settler isn't THAT bad.
Heckfu's opinions are starting to spread. #Hirejuices #HGS
lol
User 73706
Banned
Call it Squatter and add a heavies variant for Halo 5 multi. Ship it
The Henery
Member
Midship is so good. SO good. I almost can't believe it's a part of Halo considering the quality of maps in Reach and 4. Sprint kills Halo.
Diablohead
Member
Power House or whatever it's called > Sword Base
I dislike sword base mostly because it was designed around jet packs and the yellow lift choke point is so dumb and seems to be the focus of the map.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Power House > Zealot > Swordbase > Reach Shit > Dog Shit > Cragmire
The Henery
Member
Multi-team headhunter swordbase against scubs with the propipesnipe combo was uproarious fun though. Other than that, agreed that swordbase was dark green poop.
Diablohead
Member
What the hell, first game of the night, get thrown into a BTB in progress (don't mind) but there has been about 9 re-hosts in the last 10 minutes of play, and no one is leaving by the looks of it just the game doing it's thing and changing host.
annoying the shit out of me.
*edit* it won't stop! but I dislike quitting :/
annoying the shit out of me.
*edit* it won't stop! but I dislike quitting :/
Power of the Cloud, Dedicated Servers are only possible with new hardware, clearly.
Halo should have had Dedi's since at least Halo 3, and Halo 2 in my opinion. It's fucking Microsoft's mainline game, they should have afforded some server infrastructure to make it the best online experience on consoles. But hey, what do I know, I just stare at blue/black screen a couple times every game and wonder why the hell I am paying 60 bucks a year for Gold.