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[The Real Napsta]

In the beta it was 3 headshot kills in a row.

In retail it was changed to 3 headshot SNIPER kills in a row.

So it's much less common to see

Great change imo.

 

[Fuchsdh]

I don't think k I've had a single perfection this game. Not that I ever had that many in past games but, it definitely feels harder to stay alive in this one.

It definitely is, and I think the map layout also feeds into that.

But then again I only have gotten one perfection in Reach BTB ever. So I'm not a great standard. Probably only two or three times I've come close in H5 Arena.

 

[Karl2177]

One day I'll get an Unfrigginbelievable and my journey will be over. Probably not though. The only time I got one was in Reach and all I did was stay in the Scorpion on Hemorrhage. lol

I can't even get a Perfection in H5 and my highest have only been Killtrocitys and Running Riots.

I watched my roommate get an Unfrigginbelievable and a Perfection. Both games were up against people that still looked like they were learning how to use both sticks. The only thing I had to say was that had it been me in that match, I would have been on the other team.

Yes, Patrick is still in the game.

I am? News to me. ;P

 

[SmartWaffles]

I picked up a Nornfang, and holy shit this thing is brutal: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Digmouse/video/17222509

I didn't even try.

Also, nice spawn 343.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Gotta work on those beam rifle skills. I get hat tricks all the time.

Thanks for confirming.

Okay i looked it up on waypoint - I guess i have gotten it a few times lol.

I was thinking the requirements to get it would have been the same as it were in the beta and not having to get 3 headshot kills with the sniper in a row.

I'm guessing it was just three headshot kills in a row during the beta.

 

[sir_dany12]

I die a lot, i will never get a Perfection

 

[Fata1moose]

I die a lot, i will never get a Perfection

You also need to get kills.

 

[Forerunner]

You also need to get kills.

savage

 

[Trup1aya]

I die a lot, i will never get a Perfection

Maybe they'll make a special medal for getting all of your teams deaths

 

[Samurai G0SU]

So it looks like i'm set at a .88 K/D overall.

 

[BraXzy]

I die a lot, i will never get a Perfection

Idk why but I read that as Pelican and wondered if I'd missed some news on the REQ reveals

So it looks like i'm set at a .88 K/D overall.

RIP be glad the Spartan Company doesn't have a job spec list of requirements like 1.2 K/D or fired lmao.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

RIP be glad the Spartan Company doesn't have a job spec list of requirements like 1.2 K/D or fired lmao.

Ramm might just make one up to kick me specifically

Spoiler

 

[Poodlestrike]

HaloGAFCOM After Action Report #0: "Full Party Wipe, New Game?"

I don't know how to delete anything in an album, so I titled anything I wanted to remove but couldn't "Misc."

Here are some shots and descriptions:



As I continue to struggle through XCOM 2 I'm open to suggestions for mods and such and, if you'd like to volunteer for service, I'd be appreciative. Some of you have been drafted (such as ExWife and Eugn) and I've taken the liberty of snooping through your Reach shit so that I could copy your likeness as much as possible. I have almost no Halo 4 armor, and in this particular instance only opted to use it because I couldn't find Akai's Reach service record.

The mod affords me pretty much as much customization as there was in Reach with a few quirks here and there and the lack of visor colors.

Volunteering for duty!

Love XCOM AARs

 

[sir_dany12]

Maybe they'll make a special medal for getting all of your teams deaths

Jeez, an army against my lack of skills

 

[Prinz Eugn]

HaloGAFCOM After Action Report #0: "Full Party Wipe, New Game?"

I don't know how to delete anything in an album, so I titled anything I wanted to remove but couldn't "Misc."

Here are some shots and descriptions:



As I continue to struggle through XCOM 2 I'm open to suggestions for mods and such and, if you'd like to volunteer for service, I'd be appreciative. Some of you have been drafted (such as ExWife and Eugn) and I've taken the liberty of snooping through your Reach shit so that I could copy your likeness as much as possible. I have almost no Halo 4 armor, and in this particular instance only opted to use it because I couldn't find Akai's Reach service record.

The mod affords me pretty much as much customization as there was in Reach with a few quirks here and there and the lack of visor colors.

Should we record voice clips?

"Hey buddy!"
"Fuckin' Randies!"
"Do the math!"

I dunno, what else do we say?

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Jeez, an army against my lack of skills

They just got tired of typing G0SU and instead just harped on you for a little while.

Don't worry. they'll come back and say something about my skeeeelz.

Especially about my 0.0 KDA with 2900 dmg that one game. How pleb is that?

 

[BraXzy]

HaloGAFCOM After Action Report #0: "Full Party Wipe, New Game?"

I don't know how to delete anything in an album, so I titled anything I wanted to remove but couldn't "Misc."

That's awesome! Genuinely does make me want to try the game out, never really played turn based tactical games.

 

[wwm0nkey]

So when infection games come out we are going to do customs again right?

 

[Reagan's BR]

Best bet is to use the Spartan Company tab if you're in it?

I was in the main one with all of the old people but I got kicked from it (probably because I was too busy playing Destiny).

 

[tootsi666]

7-0 in placements thus far. Time to choke the last 3

 

[Tawpgun]

So when infection games come out we are going to do customs again right?

As soon as cool ones are made. Vanilla infection is kinda boring

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Yeah so.... basing off history.

Friday - Weekly Blog Update from Bravo - Req reveal.
Tuesday - Live Stream to show off Infection and other content
Wednesday - Content update goes live.

Emille's helmet

Spoiler

will never be mine cause the grind in the gold Req pool is defeating....

 

[-Ryn]

I wonder if we'll ever see custom games on the level of Halo 3 again. Or even Reach.

Good times they were.

Had some great games the other day in Team Arena. Feels incredible when you manage to survive an assault from 3 people and come back. If only I could actually pull that off more often...

 

[Strider]

Can't connect to Halo 5 lobby service

Servers are great though right Phil?!?

Spoiler

Never gonna let that quote go lol

 

[sir_dany12]

Can't connect to Halo 5 lobby service

Servers are great though right Phil?!?

Spoiler

Never gonna let that quote go lol

Servers are awesome!!

Spoiler

For titanfall

 

[-Ryn]

Can't connect to Halo 5 lobby service

Servers are great though right Phil?!?

Spoiler

Never gonna let that quote go lol

Love the servers

But damn do I hope they don't make everything connected to them. Allow me to forge and use theater without an internet connection please.

 

[Strider]

Rank "resets" basically mean whatever you were the month before we're gonna knock you down a tier and have you grind it back up again lol

Regardless of how my placement matches go my rank to begin the season is basically always the same.

 

[GringoSuave89]

Overwatch is so damn good holy shit.

Is the junior from a few pages back here to stay? Cause ain't nobody got time for that.

I miss Halo. Wish servers weren't shit and content wasn't so sparce.

I love you all. Miss Firefight with all you bros.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Who is going to PREPARE the Warzone Saturday!?

 

[BraXzy]

So when infection games come out we are going to do customs again right?

As soon as cool ones are made. Vanilla infection is kinda boring

FAT KIDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

I don't need any fancy effects, I just need me a bunch of shit to smash through while some slow ass dude is comin' with a gravity hammer.

 

[sir_dany12]

I need a overwatch code. I don't want to wait till tomorrow

 

[blue_phazon]

I need a overwatch code. I don't want to wait till tomorrow

It starts today 4PM Pacific

The all access portion of the Open Beta will begin on all supported platforms May 4 at 4:00 p.m. PDT (11:00 p.m.UTC). All players will be able to play for FREE during this period; no sign-up or code required.

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20100169/

 

[Fuchsdh]

I'm basically not going to bother with Overwatch, they put me off by not offering it for Mac and I've got enough entertaining multiplayer games in Halo and Dota to keep me satisfied.

Not going to be able to play much Halo though in the next month, though. I am sad

 

[BraXzy]

I need a overwatch code. I don't want to wait till tomorrow

It's awesome, feel free to add me if you want a fellow pleb on your team: BraXzy#2765.

It starts today 4PM Pacific

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20100169/

Blue is indeed correct. Bunch of folks don't realise that the May 5th date is a catch all to include Euro's and the like who technically are in the next day.

It goes live in 3 hours.

 

[Strider]

Overwatch is dope as fuck... Nothing like Halo though so both have their place for me. As far as MP goes I will be good with just these 2 games for a looooong time.

Spoiler

prolly will still buy other games like a scrub tho and just come back to these 2 :/

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Will attempt to try some OW tonight on the xbox. Played onthe PC weeks ago and it felt fun. Wish this was a cross buy game

 

[blue_phazon]

I'm basically not going to bother with Overwatch, they put me off by not offering it for Mac and I've got enough entertaining multiplayer games in Halo and Dota to keep me satisfied.

Not going to be able to play much Halo though in the next month, though. I am sad

But you can get it for PS4 and Xbone too!

 

[sir_dany12]

It starts today 4PM Pacific



https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20100169/

It will be May 5th for me by then

 

[VincentMatts]

It starts today 4PM Pacific



https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20100169/

Its actually pretty fun. Didnt play much but what i did, i enjoyed. wont replace halo but its fun.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Its actually pretty fun. Didnt play much but what i did, i enjoyed. wont replace halo but its fun.

How's the aiming?

/Kappa

 

[VincentMatts]

How's the aiming?

/Kappa

Surprisingly good. Its a bit overly sensitive by default compared to halo but i got used to it pretty fast. Didnt play around in the settings.

 

[Trup1aya]

Surprisingly good. Its a bit overly sensitive by default compared to halo but i got used to it pretty fast. Didnt play around in the settings.

But is there any aim acceleration?

 

[VincentMatts]

But is there any aim acceleration?

Hmm im not sure. I played 3 games then the servers went down. All i know is i was over-aiming a lot at first and i dont usually have that problem.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

One thing I don't quite understand with the changes made to the aiming is that 343 said it was due to more verticality in Halo 5, but then why would they make the axes different? Would that not be more problematic than having them equal if there's now more verticality?

The previous Halo games had equal values for both the X and Y axes, yet now we have a higher value for the Y axis compared to the X axis - by half, to be exact (ie: 3 for Y, 1.5 for X IIRC). So it doesn't make sense to me why making any of those slower while keeping the other the same would improve the aiming. If there was going to be more verticality in Halo 5, which there is, wouldn't it make more sense to keep those values the same since you'll be looking in all directions more as opposed to the previous games that had less verticality?

I don't know if I'm explaining myself well, but it just seems like the opposite of what they actually did was the better option after all, which was not adjusting the values to be different in the first place lol.

 

[BraXzy]

One thing I don't quite understand with the changes made to the aiming is that 343 said it was due to more verticality in Halo 5, but then why would they make the axes different? Would that not be more problematic than having them equal if there's now more verticality?

I think the idea of it is, rather than your typical left to right sweep, there's now a big possibility your target is also at a different elevation. So the difference is to allow for you to quickly adjust your vertical position on the fly while maintaining your horizontal accuracy.

Think about it like this, someone moving left to right is a lot slower then someone who jumps up from high and ground pounds next to you. That'll be the logic anyhow I assume?

 

[tootsi666]

One thing I don't quite understand with the changes made to the aiming is that 343 said it was due to more verticality in Halo 5, but then why would they make the axes different? Would that not be more problematic than having them equal if there's now more verticality?

The previous Halo games had equal values for both the X and Y axes, yet now we have a higher value for the Y axis compared to the X axis - by half, to be exact (ie: 3 for Y, 1.5 for X IIRC). So it doesn't make sense to me why making any of those slower while keeping the other the same would improve the aiming. If there was going to be more verticality in Halo 5, which there is, wouldn't it make more sense to keep those values the same since you'll be looking in all directions more as opposed to the previous games that had less verticality?

I don't know if I'm explaining myself well, but it just seems like the opposite of what they actually did was the better option after all, which was not adjusting the values to be different in the first place lol.

It makes sense and it works really well when you are used to it but it's really hard for me to just play few games a week due to how different it is. Halo 5 is the only shooter I play on console but years of muscle memory don't disappear instantly.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

I think the idea of it is, rather than your typical left to right sweep, there's now a big possibility your target is also at a different elevation. So the difference is to allow for you to quickly adjust your vertical position on the fly while maintaining your horizontal accuracy.

Think about it like this, someone moving left to right is a lot slower then someone who jumps up from high and ground pounds next to you. That'll be the logic anyhow I assume?

Yeah I get that, but taking into account thrusters would mean that making the X axis slower would result in the overcompensation we've seen people complaining about. So while yeah, there is more verticality in Halo 5 compared to previous games, there is also more horizontal movement in play as well. I should have mentioned this in my original post.

Perhaps that's where my confusion is, 343 underestimated the horizontal movement being much different from previous games with thrusters being a default ability. Couple that with differing values for the X and Y axes, and it makes sense why many are having issues with the aiming.

It makes sense and it works really well when you are used to it but it's really hard for me to just play few games a week due to how different it is. Halo 5 is the only shooter I play on console but years of muscle memory don't disappear instantly.

This is a problem with their design in my opinion, how difficult it can be to just pick up and play. Glad they're allowing us to change that though, and I hope with Halo 6 the values are the same by default.

 

[BraXzy]

Yeah I get that, but taking into account thrusters would mean that making the X axis slower would result in the overcompensation we've seen people complaining about. So while yeah, there is more verticality in Halo 5 compared to previous games, there is also more horizontal movement in play as well. I should have mentioned this in my original post.

By no means do I think it's perfect, or done right, I was just saying that's probably the logic.

It's certainly a flawed but respectable attempt at solving a gameplay issue brought about by the new abilities and vertical level design.

 

[Strider]

Yea brax nailed why they did it.... Its just one of those "better in theory" changes.

Consistency is too important in aiming. It needs to feel the same regardless of the direction you're aiming. I expect when the update goes live I'll bump my horizontal sensitivity to match my vertical but lower my acceleration from 3 to 2 to compensate for that increase in speed

 

[pieface]

Have to say I don't notice any aiming issues anymore. Sometimes I still think the turning is too slow (I have sens 3 and accell 2), but that's all.

I've tried increasing the sensitivity but I can't aim with a high sensitivity.