Samurai G0SU
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I'm thinking this - post about the patch today, stream tomorrow. tuesday/wednesday the patch drops and becomes live.
or like you said, a stream monday/tuesday and the patch drops tues/wed
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I'm thinking this - post about the patch today, stream tomorrow. tuesday/wednesday the patch drops and becomes live.
or like you said, a stream monday/tuesday and the patch drops tues/wed
I also may do this as well
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Sold a ton of stuff, but I have a ton of unlocks to go through before silvers are done.
Yikes.
Yikes.
Fata1moose
Banned
I have ~100,000 RP should be given of for the update, but I want a bigger pool for one time packs.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Ugh at this:
"'For Skirmish at Darkstar we have a new intro experience where players are dropped into the middle of the action. Both teams have a clear objective that creates confrontation from the beginning,' Holmes said."
Sounds suspiciously like another March on Stormbreak, where whichever team gets Commander Lochagos at the very beginning gets a huge lead early on that's hard to pull back.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Can't wait for someone to pop up from a drop-pod and get run over instantly from an enemy AI who is driving a warthog - mad max style.
hehehehehe
Fata1moose
Banned
It also looks like it has a Fortress, which is the worst designed capture point in Warzone.
"March on Stormbreak is by far the worst Warzone map, so let's take queues from that!"
Hopefully it'll play better. It doesn't look like there's a choke point that requires walking miles around, so at least there's that.
Fata1moose
Banned
16+ DLC maps so that 3 WZ, 3 WZ Assault and 10 Arena, which means 6 more Arena maps. And that was the initial plan they could go beyond that.
Still need the rig remix we saw in the Sprint episode. Wonder if memories of reach will have a remake of a reach map. And if it does which would you guys like?
In other words: answer those surveys with "more maps" and keep buying REQ packs
6 more maps with four more content updates seems reasonable, although I'm not sure if Warzone Firefight throws any wrenches into the works on that regard.
blue_phazon
Member
It actually looks like a Halo map Kreygasm
Also my avatar changed so if you don't recognize me, I had a pokeball avatar before
Also my avatar changed so if you don't recognize me, I had a pokeball avatar before
Forerunner
Member
Pretty fun morning of games:
Yesterday, I lost a 4v3 and today I won a 3v4. Funny how things work out.
Thats a pretty diverse team you have!
Why are all my games so close!
And a clip, this is why you dont chase lol.
Yesterday, I lost a 4v3 and today I won a 3v4. Funny how things work out.
Thats a pretty diverse team you have!
Why are all my games so close!
And a clip, this is why you dont chase lol.
Deputy Moonman
Member
I don't know about that. It's my favorite map, so it must be doing something right. My least favorite warzone maps are escape from the arc and the battle of notcus.
Stormbreak>Apex>Noctus>A.R.C.
Fata1moose
Banned
A Rig and Coliseum remix, plus a remix of Torque and Tyrant. That leaves 1 new map + its remix.
Wow, while opinions can't technically be wrong you went and did it!
Stormbreak has awful map flow, even if you own the fortress + 1 armory you're still forced into a bottleneck where the other team will be. All paths converge into the same area. Then there's the possible 150 deficit at the beginning of the game from Lochagos. The Fortress almost never gets captured once it's taken initially. It's far too easy to defend, by the time you clear the fortress + kill the marines the other team can either respawn and run to contest or just spawn a vehicle and contest. The only time you ever see it captured is when the Warden spawns and by then the game is all but over. It has no redeeming factors.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Would be awesome if the update dropped Tomorrow.
RedSparrows
Member
Stormbreak grows on me, actually.
The early spawn of a legendary does not, in my experience, sway games that weren't going to be swayed by other factors anyway. A good team is a good team.
The early spawn of a legendary does not, in my experience, sway games that weren't going to be swayed by other factors anyway. A good team is a good team.
backflip10019
Member
Oh shit, really? That's insane. This could either be awesome or awful. Kind of wish they did Warzone Fiesta instead so you didn't need to waste REQs.
link1201
Member
Well that is April, lol.
Ugh, req don't work I'm stuck in a game with no req while everyone is level 9 :'(
sir_dany12
Member
Guess we'll play Wazone REQ9 this Saturday
Samurai G0SU
Member
I wouldn't mind if it was somehow tied in to how many REQs you called in during the match. Not sure if it's possible, but it may help combat AFK farmers
backflip10019
Member
Assault is almost unplayable because of how often people go AFK or just quit. I can't believe it's still in ranked. It also shows up way more frequently than any other gametype.
sir_dany12
Member
What's the problem with assault? :/
Forerunner
Member
Twin Tails
Member
Excited to play war zone turbo later.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Your K/D ratio.
backflip10019
Member
The problem is that it's not oddball.
Fata1moose
Banned
I wish they had a skull for Oddball.
backflip10019
Member
They should just use a disembodied spartan helmet. The helmet armor should change by map type.
Prinz Eugn
Member
https://youtu.be/TsQFYceNZS8?t=71
Yes. The frozen cave is not an adequate alternate path for infantry from Armory to Armory. And not only is Fortress super hard to capture but Wamik spawns right outside, so they don't even need to leave to get the second major boss. Vehicle contesting just makes it all worse.
Yeah, you can recover if you don't get Lochagos, but it puts you in a severe point deficit way too early. Lochagos is also extra extra dumb because he's the easiest 150 point boss to kill, making it less of an actual fight and more of a race with splinter nades. If he were as challenging as the Hunters on spire, it would probably be less of a problem, since it would require some strategy to get him and fight off the other team.
ZeezbruhTV
Member
Different intro? DYNAMIC BOSSES?!?! No UNSC arena map? Symmetrical? Oh my lordy.
blue_phazon
Member
Where are you getting this info from?
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
The weapons should all be holograms that adopt the skin you have set for it once picked up. That way they could add skins for power weapons.
That's exactly what I was thinking, I loved Monolith as well.
Edit: heh, first game of Warzone Turbo and the Req system is down.
Deputy Moonman
Member
I don't disagree that having the boss at the beginning is a bad idea, but I enjoy the flow on stormbreak overall. A team can't monopolize multiple bases from one point on the map, which is probably what I like the most about it. It's fairly linear , which means it's a give-and-take or tug-of-war style map. It's not Noctus or Arc where you can technically hold down 2 to 3 bases at the same time from a single point. And honestly, I couldn't care less about winning in warzone. It's always a crap shoot anyway.
I play almost entirely solo. So i'm more interested in whether or not a map affords me enjoyment by running around and trying to do different things during the game. Stormbreak offers several routes with lots of cover. And since it's spread out so well, I'm not getting pinged everywhere I go and not constantly encountering vehicles. So i don't think i'm wrong in saying it's a good map. It is hard to take back the middle base on stormbreak, but the middle base isn't needed to win, and by holding the middle base, a team allows their other base or bases to be quite vulnerable. I love stormbreak, bad opinion or not. I also feel like the middle bases on noctus and arc are equally hard to take back once lost.
ZeezbruhTV
Member
I love when the REQ system is down. 95% AR/Pistol only is fun. Except the 2 people that have REQs for some reason.
Really thought the new arena map was going to be the Rig remix, these maps look really nice and different. The thirst is real.
And forge ridiculousness reaches new levels, spotted on Reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX3y6zU9Wg
And forge ridiculousness reaches new levels, spotted on Reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX3y6zU9Wg
Eh, I think Escape from ARC is worse than March on Stormbreak, but not by much. Most of Stormbreak's problems lay in the design of the Fortress itself and relative to the rest of the map. The Lochagos encounter is different--which is good that it is different-- but having him be worth 150 VP isn't good. To me the biggest problem with March on Stormbreak is that all the entrances to the Fortress are on one half of the structure. This is somewhat of a two edged sword, though. On the positive side, it means players have to leave the Fortress if they want to get Warden. On the down side, it means that players attacking the Fortress are walking into a hell of a bottleneck.
ARC has the problem of not having enough routes for players to take. There's only 2 ways for a player to approach an Armory from their own base. There's only 1 path from Armory to Armory. There's only 1 path from Home Base to Garage. The vehicle paths on the map force players into pinch points, instead of allowing for a stealth route. All of the Legendary bosses are under the sphere of influence of the Garage. The team that controls the Garage can prevent the other team from even getting to the Legendary bosses by holding these two sightlines.
ARC has the problem of not having enough routes for players to take. There's only 2 ways for a player to approach an Armory from their own base. There's only 1 path from Armory to Armory. There's only 1 path from Home Base to Garage. The vehicle paths on the map force players into pinch points, instead of allowing for a stealth route. All of the Legendary bosses are under the sphere of influence of the Garage. The team that controls the Garage can prevent the other team from even getting to the Legendary bosses by holding these two sightlines.
sir_dany12
Member
aHebrewMenagerie
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GOT MY A50's FAM