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Halo 5: Guardians |OT4| You picked a helluva week to join up
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I mean all I see is heavy use of lens flare and low draw distance and blur and single use of colors. Even the snow looks purple as if a tint filter is applied on the whole image. Something the environment artists at 343 do a lot of where the entire area or level looks like 5 shades of the same color. Most often it is a graphical compromise.
Compare and contrast with a game like Battlefront, which sure are almost apples and oranges in a sense. But you can get a crystal blue lake under a yellow sun, surrounded by dark brown rocks and steel grey buildings etc.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Just wait till 343i reveals their magical dial and patch it to support HDR
I believe in the SPRINTS, they had like a dozen different TVs to adjust coloring so it looks 'decent' between all of them.
But i do agree, the graphics are nice in the cutscenes, but there seems to be a weird filter applied that gives it a bit more yellow-dark-brown-poop color.
All hail the yellow-dark-brown-poop color of the Halo Engine.
Fata1moose
Banned
People would be detoured from smurf accounts if:
1: We had a permanent social slayer/arena playlist where we could warm up.
2: We had a permanent ranked solo queue team based playlist.
Samurai G0SU
Member
A US Holiday weekend. Should do some good numbers over the weekend and into Monday the 4th.
Wonder how many people will buy it with that 50% off deal. Good timing though imo.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Is smurfing that big of an issue with Halo 5 though? I mean, I played CSGO for a hot minute, and THAT was bad in terms of smurfs.
Fata1moose
Banned
I wouldn't say it's a huge problem, though we have ran into people with Smurf in their GT in MM. Those two things would be an improvement for playlists regardless though.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Or an achievement reward for completing your first game in the new lone wolf queue
Jokes dripping with sarcasm aside, the update does look pretty delicious. Very interested in seeing how Molten plays. And Attack on Sanctum has the outdoor feel that I've been wanting in the arena maps, but I'll take it in warzone assault at the very least. So what are we going to do with 3 new beam rifles??? I was only 5 to 6 reqs away from being done with weapon certs, but nevermind... Ugh
Deputy Moonman
Member
Yeah I'm ready to see the Optic weapon skins.
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Or an achievement reward for completing your first game in the new lone wolf queue
Jokes dripping with sarcasm aside, the update does look pretty delicious. Very interested in seeing how Molten plays. And Attack on Sanctum has the outdoor feel that I've been wanting in the arena maps, but I'll take it in warzone assault at the very least. So what are we going to do with 3 new beam rifles??? I was only 5 to 6 reqs away from being done with weapon certs, but nevermind... Ugh
I've already accepted that I'll never get all the REQs.
GringoSuave89
Banned
I've already accepted that I'll never get all the REQs.
Yup. Every new req update brings me further from the end. It's killing me.
One day I might just go full whale and buy the rest with real money
YourExWife
Member
I post quite literally every Saturday evening (Mountain Time) and invite folks to join up.
Samurai G0SU
Member
I guess i miss the WZ bus each weekend then. T_T
I just liked how Akai had pre-meet up posts n such. . i think? i dont know anything anymore.
GringoSuave89
Banned
On that note I'm actually off work this weekend, so I'm totally game for Warzone Saturday.
Deputy Moonman
Member
They mentioned a few more surprises next week, either leading up to the release or perhaps during the live stream on the 28th. Think there will be any bomb shells announced or will it be something more tame? A new Frankie themed onesie with a mister chief butt flap? Who is in??
It is sad indeed.I've already accepted that I'll never get all the REQs.
Yup! This is what separates good shooters from bad ones and it's made Halo's campaign a mixed bag imo.
The way a gun feels when you shoot it/when your bullets hit their mark, is so important.
Fata1moose
Banned
SCHUEY plays with no respek, just like that no good hot doggin' Subban.
link1201
Member
Hope, they have a few surprises to share. Are they having a panel?
Awwww yiss
orichalcos
Member
Halo Wars 2 info, maybe the future of Halo 5 DLC's.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Yeah I don't see them revealing anything else game wise.
Can't open their website. Gives me an error all the time, so I don't know. Somebody should check.
Otter than that, I'd assume Halo 5 and Halo Wars 2 news. And if we get lucky maybe even Forge PC news, but not expecting it.
VincentMatts
Member
Man i think im officially done with warzone. I get matched with the shittiest teams every single fucking game. How is that even fucking possible?? This game mode really needs some fucking work.
What's your Warzone win %
VincentMatts
Member
43%, although recently i dont think i won a game all night yesterday. Get in a game, its 800 to 200 and theres 4-5 quitters. Thats my luck.
Deputy Moonman
Member
I don't mind losing, but it stinks to lose more than 4 to 5 in a row, especially if I'm just trying to get a daily win. The worst is when you get decimated by a full team though. That's just not fun at all.Do people actually care about winning in Warzone?
It's one of those modes where I just don't care.
On that note I have a win percentage of 58 in both Warzone and Arena over 194 and 695 games respectively. Not sure if I've just been very lucky or if I'm just amazing
VincentMatts
Member
Couldnt even manage to get my daily win. Never seen so many blow outs in my life. In any game.
FATstronaut
Member
Bummed I can't go to RTX this year :'(
ZeezbruhTV
Member
So all these new players are going to get smashed in Warzone because everyone has REQs or smashed in Arena by teams (if they are high enough) not to mention 50% off of 59.99....not the f2p announcement I wanted.
Fata1moose
Banned
I lost all respect for Rooster Teeth after they sat there criticizing Gerstmann about his Fallout 4 review all while they were wearing Pip Boys from Bethesda. Their content was going down hill before that too.
FATstronaut
Member
That tumblr post by Jeff was pretty great lol
I pretty much only ever use BRs in Warzone and I'm usually in the top 2 or 3 on my team if I'm not just fucking around.
Arena will be fine with the big influx of players this will bring.
Day 5 seems pretty decent based off of the first episode.
Weirdly high budget after stuff like Red vs Blue.
Munch Poke
Member
Well with the amount of games in Arena that I get players from onyx to unranked they're gonna get smashed no matter what they pick. But any shooter is generally gonna be an uphill battle for any new players.
Feel the Swift
Member
Hopefully by the 1 year anniversary they'll go that route. I never expected them to so soon.
Deputy Moonman
Member
343 really needs to have a bunch of the laid back playlists going during the free to play duration. Super Fiesta, Action Sack, and
the surprise announcement of the all new solo queue!
The Know has pretty much always been bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of video game coverage. RT as a whole has still been putting out pretty decent content in general, but when it comes to informed opinions or news or anything of that sort, that kind of stuff from them is best avoided for exactly the same reason as the incident you mentioned.
If enough people play it should be fine, Warzone Matchmaking takes into account REQ progress too (at least theoretically it does).
That was kind of my last straw in terms of watching them regularly. I still occasionally watch RvB but that's it.
My warzone win percentage hovers around their usually.