Arby 'n' the Chief
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the live outage isn't affecting me anymore fuck yes I can finally play
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Halo 5: Guardians |OT2| All Hail The Conquering Hero
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A couple things come to mind that help "ground" Reach:
1. Halo 5's visuals look somewhat less stable, particularly where light and shadow are concerned, and especially due to the dynamic shadow cascading.
2. Halo's 4 and 5 have a serious problem with unsourced rim lighting. My guess would be that 343i got rid of Bungie's environmental area specular but didn't want to compromise on the Fresnel, resulting in objects often looking like their peripheries are covered in some kind of luminescent grime. I personally find it puzzling that they're using such an expressive lighting model in Halo 5 when this effect destroys it so badly.
CreateNowSleepLater
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I personally do not hate the game but I hate a lot of the maps. I like coliseum and truth. I don't think narrow corridors fit this game well with sprint and easy charge attacks. It needs more open arena maps, not everything needs dark corridors. I'd love to see a new version of Beaver Creek for example.
Lol in this thread Nutter makes baseless assumptions. I can post my opinions if I want. And I like parts of Halo 5.
Samurai G0SU
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Dont ask him what parts. Might get rated r up in here!!
More [good] maps are always needed.
As much as we have 'played' the shit out of Sanctuary and Lockout, we need those maps in rotation because they represent good maps. There is a reason why Nuketown keeps getting remade for COD.
Thankfully they can be remade in Forge. So hopefully someone does.
They need proper remakes, not forge. Though, headlong brought tons of nostalgia.
TheCanisDirus
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Exactly. Fully fleshed out, developer made remakes.
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REQ server acting wonky today. And I dominated Breakout and it put me in Silver. Those poor players I'm destroying in Silver matches. God have mercy on their non power weapon controlling souls.
With H2A available on the bone, I don't think they will remake Sanctuary and Lockout again.
The game kept on forcing me to play the other warzone maps yersterday until I got the noctus map like after playing the other warzone maps like crazy.
CreateNowSleepLater
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I remade the Pit in H2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ox4N4olsk
I might try a reimagining in H5, something to accommodate the sprint and clamber without being obnoxious. It would need to be higher like Pitfall was. Clamber would break that map.
BTB I at least got Entombed and Antifreeze a few times already. Maybe I'll get Noctus when I start up again. Just saying, should heavily weight the new maps for at least the first week.
Now this is hyperbole at its finest.
It's fixed. When you first save, you have to use Save As. Saving like you normally would works just fine after that.
Ironic.
Did I kill your dog? Or you just salty because of reasons?
CreateNowSleepLater
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Yes.
You said "hyperbole at its finest" which is itself a hyperbole.
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Come clean. He MAY have killed your dog. J/K
blue_phazon
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Is it just me or is the walking speed on Overgrowth way faster than normal?
I can't be the only one noticing this
I can't be the only one noticing this
Welfare
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Oh shit yeah it was.
Might have to relive some memories
85% Bloom >>>>>>>>>> 100% Bloom
Walled map, it makes you feel faster.
I played Reach today, and yikes, it is very unplayable with sub 20 fps and the motion blur Bungie used is not very good.
I don't get how the SPNKr can come back as a Warzone REQ, be put into a BTB Forge map, but we can't do the same for the other REQ's and vehicles? Or is that possible now? I'd love to see some of the crazier REQ's for the heavies variants, maybe create a custom variant where everyone starts with classic BR or later when the CE pistol comes back etc.
Also, I love that the SPNKr is back. Used it few times on Entombed already. Should've been there from the start. It's nostalgic and iconic look is instantly noticeable, it's outline, on the field, in the killfeed etc.
Also, I love that the SPNKr is back. Used it few times on Entombed already. Should've been there from the start. It's nostalgic and iconic look is instantly noticeable, it's outline, on the field, in the killfeed etc.
Welfare
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SPNKR is a new weapon, and not a variant of a weapon. Variants are not in Forge.
Kibbles
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Yeah, this is why I'd rather see a port added to MCC or something at some point because I literally can not go back, it feels completely unplayable. :S
Samurai G0SU
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What happened to the happy we got an update train?
But is there a reason for this? Technical reason? I mean if Prophet's Bane existed in beta on Arena maps, surely now that it's a mythic warzone REQ it should still be there? All the legendary weapons exist in campaign, they exist in warzone, why not arena/custom as well, no?
Imagine how insane you could make some gametypes if you had Legendary Snipers and everyone got Nornfang. Or Infection/Flood, and everyone has prophet's bane and oathsworn.
Just keep trying to play Halo. I had to keep joining and eventually when I got to menu, it stopped booting me and I could join games. But it probably booted me like 10-15 times before it stopped.
Yeah I had this problem too, even with disc single player games.
Hard resetting every so often helped!
Digital copy so I can't start the game unless its connected to Live. I am seeing my friends through the Xbox app on windows 10. My Xbox gets connection the second it boots up but then loses it before I can even start a game/app.
Does this indicate that the M6D will be in Forge too!?
Welfare
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I think it is entirely because of the REQ system. Why give us the option to use these cool weapons whenever we want in customs when we could grind/buy packs in order to possibly get them or not and funnel them into 2 game types that are online only?
As long as they don't classify it as a "Halo 5 magnum" variant, I don't see why not.
BrightLightLava
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BTB helped me remember how much fun driving is. No one in Warzone ever jumps in my cars.
natethegreat409
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Antifreeze is a hectic blast. Ground pounds all day too. Loving it. Had a 39 kill match earlier.
cmon son
H5 Forge looks poor, but you'd rather go back to sub 720p, sub 30 horse shit?
Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but I feel Forge's controls are counter intuitive and clumsy. Why isn't A/B select and deselect? It seems like that change was for no reason. A big part of why Forge was so popular was because it was easy to use and powerful as well. I feel like they lost the ease of use part of that equation.
I'm still happy. The aiming update has washed away all my Halo 5 angst. Sure other aspects of the update or lack thereof aren't perfect but because I can actually feel good aiming my gun now I'm having more fun than ever with the game.
Perrrrfect. So goooood.
I kinda wonder how difficult it would be to port the H2A maps to Halo 5. Like, obviously it wouldn't be too easy, but probably easier than making all new art assets from scratch.
Am I really the only one still blown away by how much better the game feels with 0% inner deadzone and 2 acceleration?
343 earns a gold star.
Edit: Or whatever your preferred acceleration is, the zero deadzone is the bigger factor for me I think. I can see some people sticking with 3 acceleration if they're used to it but definitely change the deadzone to as low as your controller can handle.
343 earns a gold star.
Edit: Or whatever your preferred acceleration is, the zero deadzone is the bigger factor for me I think. I can see some people sticking with 3 acceleration if they're used to it but definitely change the deadzone to as low as your controller can handle.
Fata1moose
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Snowy blood gulch is cool, Sidewinder is still a better designed map, especially for modern Halo. But I want a developer made Sidewinder-remake, that being non-forge.
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