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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I don't either, how random.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Why doesn't bs angel write the bulletins any more?
At least the Global Championship playlist will be decent this time around.
Didn't add Pistol Secondary to Legendary when the Playlist bombed hard makes no sense.
Don't think a lot of people liked her bulletins, would veer into blog territory as opposed to what's coming up in terms of modes/playlists. Then again, she does handle most of the issues the community has on waypoint, twitter and does post a lot of news. I guess they just feel Bravo is better suited for the bulletin.
#JustMyOpinionThoughIThoughtSheWasAlrightIdeallyIWantFrankToWriteThem
xxjuicesxx
Member
GREAT UPDATE.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I don't have an official answer for you but I'd speculate the bulletins of late are very playlist and setting focused. bs Angel does heaps with community events, charity, PM's, press, official channels like Twitter etc. I have no issue with Bravo getting knee deep into his expert zone, I think the more they give him the more he will shine.
Diablohead
Member
I'm only playing the championship to get the 20 double xp tokens but waypoint is saying I am not registered even though I am and was for the first week, I hope what they say is true and they do know how many games I have played, not going over 20 FFA swat again.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Is it okay if I say I don't like this? I think it's ugly and out of place, much like a lot of the crazy Halo 4 armour.Everything is too sharp.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
You don't have to ask if your opinion is okay. its not like D. Ellis is here and everyone is slrping him or Frankie.
you should assert your opinion even if it doesn't seem to be popular.
It might have to do with her recent promotion to "Senior Community Manager". She doesn't have time for plebeian bulletin writing, that's for Bravo. Who's better at it anyways.
#BringBackFrankie2013
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Frank and David should tag-team a bulletin once a month. Or get a new podcast out soon. I miss Ellis' sultry tones.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
I just miss the podcast in general. I like that idea with Frank and David doing a bulletin together.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I initially also reacted poorly to the Halo 4 armour, didn't like much of it all. More recently friends and enemies have created or unlocked some cool combos. I do really like the one in this shot though, each to their own mate.
Sort of miss everyone with the same Halo 2/3 Spartan model though.
SLRPfest inbound, Frankie wordsmith for life
I would love a campaign centric Sparkast. Just to hear how they made stuff or how specific things were done. Would not mind if it was even for Spartan Ops (Second half of the season specifically).
The Real Napsta
Member
I miss Luke Smith
start playing dota
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Me too. That Reach Beta footage on Boneyard was so fucking funny. He's at Bungie still, right? What's he up to?
Yeah I really like podcasts. It's a shame Bungie gave up on doing them, too. They are certainly a pain to edit though, so I understand why they don't do them often.
How do you get the double XP tokens dude?
Diablohead
Member
Register on waypoint and then play 20 or more matches in the champ playlist you get them the following week. Unless they change it I got mine from last week the other day.
Steam announcement on day before it goes down.
We should set a date. That revival thread died almost instantly.
I thought that it was going down in June.
Probably
Yeah I saw that, if there was a end date for the servers we would probably get more people so they can play in time and get achievements.
Nope got extended to July and still no word!
User 73706
Banned
Dead on Revival?
Spoilers: the first letter in every Halo 5 campaign mission are initials. They spell "HALO IS DAD."
Too many of the armors are just really busy or entirely nonsensical. There are too many helmets without visors or with weird shit on the visors. Too many helmets are angular or have strange angular protrusions or have concave shapes as opposed to convex shapes. Even the EVA helmet, which is supposed to be entirely rounded, has a small concave angled dent around the chin. Every helmet has some weird shit that serves no purpose other than to make the helmet busier, and they end up looking worse for it.
xxjuicesxx
Member
I was thinking about this late last night when I was watching some Global Championship on streams. I was looking at Haven and the work that went into the map, while it was nice and if you dont really think about it looks OK. Then I started to think about it...
1. What is Haven made of? Is that some sort of steel?
2. Why is there so many lips and edges built like into the wall? Especially when its just one big piece of steel? how was it made that its all one piece?
3. What is it. The map doesnt actually go anywhere. Its a circle of steel but theres no entrance or exit to other places. It just stops with walls all around. There would be no real way to get there and to move out from there sans jetpacks/teleporters.
Like Midship I think had a door at P2 so if you think about it in this regard you could essentially get to and leave the playspace we know as Midship.
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And I honestly dont think this level of thought went into this map while it was being made.
Artists need to stop modeling for a second and ask themselves why they are creating things looking like they are...I dunno maybe I need to read some Halo books or go to Waypoint videos to learn about Haven and maybe I'm the one who doesnt understand but I feel you should be able to figure it out if you just look and walk around the map and see whats happening.
Its like nothing makes sense if you put the map in the real world. Which it isn't... But in the Halo Universe it is a real world.
This is a bizarre thought application for Halo maps, most of which never had actual exits. Lockout doesn't lead anywhere, there are no doors out of Hang 'em High, etc.
xxjuicesxx
Member
True, its very weird I was thinking this and seeing if maps fit it, those maps should have thought of this though no matter how irrelevant it is. Wasnt lockout a secret research facility so it makes sense you could only get to it by a flying vehicile of sorts and it makes sense why its up in the sky. ? I dunno lol I dont pay attention to this stuff the artists and writers should be.
I'm all for exploring the in-universe context for multiplayer maps, but that way lies madness. Maps always have a "ship in a bottle" element to them, even Reach's campaign-placed ones. We've come a little ways since CE's "IT'S A BOX AND I PUT STUFF IN IT" mode, but in terms of situating yourself that's not always in the interest of the gamers--better to avoid putting in doors that players can't open or go through, for example.
That said there's plenty of little fictional touches that are fun to explore in the maps. My point is that the practicality is an argument better ignored--I file it in the "why aren't Spartans punching through each other with their super strength"-type issues.
xxjuicesxx
Member
I like the doors that dont open I think they make the most sense.
I mean what if they remade midship for Halo 4, then five months after release the doors opened to more map! MIND BLOWN.
N if they never opened so be it.
I mean what if they remade midship for Halo 4, then five months after release the doors opened to more map! MIND BLOWN.
N if they never opened so be it.
It opens up to Meltdown
Well, that's kind of the approach Spartan Ops took, which was cool, but I dunno if that would work in multiplayer.
I've thought about how they could make multi-role maps which were cordoned off to be a smaller map within the larger one so that you could easily create variants to cater to a smaller arena, but I'm not sure if that would compromise the design for both sizes in the process or not.
xxjuicesxx
Member
You're fired!
Yeah... That's just what future Halo maps need... More style over substance. Is that really you juices? Someone hack your account?
lol yo Juices is high or something. No doubt!
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
#HighJuices
fixed
xxjuicesxx
Member
I think reality might ground these maps to have less style.
I'm looking at my walls and they are straight flat nades would bounce off them real nice.
I look at Haven and WHY ARE THE WALLS JUKING IN AND OUT AND ALL FUCKED UP!?
WHO MADE THIS!?
That was good.
That's more like it. Welcome back.
Computer
Member
I think it is best to keep cannon out of MP. I mean 343 thought it was a good idea to bring cannon to MP and look at what we have. The whole you are in a training hologram idea is so stupid and I doubt half of the players even know the back story. All they show is a picture of the infinity and where things are located. Also the video they play with Sara Palmer when you first load up MP makes me want to puke due to the cheese. Cannon just limits MP.
Need more caves.
squidhands
Member
I think the person running the holodeck program for War Games has some bizarre rock fetish and a bad memory of what Valhalla looked like.