Nah, the Fall of Reach series that came with Halo 5. They jigger with the canon a bit so it serves as a better introduction to Blue Team in the games.
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Nah, the Fall of Reach series that came with Halo 5. They jigger with the canon a bit so it serves as a better introduction to Blue Team in the games.
rip the covenant dance number after
they kill Noble 6
it's the temporal motion blur, I think at this point i'd rather they would have been able to ship with no AA rather than the blur. It's the one thing that annoys me when I go back. One of the reasons that despite it's warts that I prefer Perfect Dark XBLA over Perfect Dark N64, they both fixed the motion blur death bug and toned down the daze blur overall.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I really want to understand the reasons behind Halo 4's climax in Cortana's death and then going full speed ahead into her being alive and villainous in 5. I have a hard time believing they thought that was a good idea. Perhaps it was a reaction to negative feedback similar to the reaction to Halo 5's lack of chief missions?
Stinkles, I know your a plot/lore man, so any insight would be great. Perhaps Halo 6 will clear some of this up...
Stinkles, I know your a plot/lore man, so any insight would be great. Perhaps Halo 6 will clear some of this up...
SmartWaffles
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Halo 5 still crashing and requiring a dashboard quit:
http://xboxclips.com/Ozzy+Onya+A2Z/d714b601-c1b3-4382-8049-9687c0467bfb
http://xboxclips.com/Ozzy+Onya+A2Z/d714b601-c1b3-4382-8049-9687c0467bfb
ATOMICJORGE
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That's what I always say give Blur the money and they will make something unbelievable
The temporal AA and the motion blur are two different things.
The TAA basically turns off when the camera is moving, and shouldn't really have much impact on control feel; it mostly just causes some animations to ghost when you're sitting still.
The blending on the motion blur isn't as good as Halo 3's, though, which can make the blur trails look like semi-solid chop. I think a lot of people confuse it for TAA ghosting.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were originally going to have the Didact be the villain.
Samurai G0SU
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i just end up report and blocking them. idgaf attitude nowadays for me. block them so i dont match with them again (thinking MM works with that parameter)
I was one of those weirdos that didn't mind the reticle bloom.
I see. Thank you.
Is this something that would be easier on the eyes with a higher framerate? Or would the temporal motion blur have to be tweaked or removed entirely if the game were ever to be remastered in some way?
Huh. Knew the drag was there, didn't know all the technical details of it. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Yeah, I ended up reporting and blocking him.
We have from the horse's mouth he was at one point.
YourExWife
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Pretty sure they said that's not a thing in ranked lists
Deputy Moonman
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Unrelated but just wanted to say I think it's pretty cool the reason you decided to switch from Bungie to 343. Thats not a knock on Bungie but the fact that you knew you would have trouble getting excited to make a game like Destiny and that you were still really interested in the halo universe. And that's not a knock on Destiny either, but it does have a different play style/feel. On the flip side, I can understand why so many people would be completely burned out on Halo too. That article posted the other day was really really interesting just to see perspectives from so many different devs. Behind the scenes stuff is so fascintating. Wish you guys could convince Marty to make music for halo again.
Samurai G0SU
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boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i thought wrong then.
Deputy Moonman
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I tried a few games this morning after downloading the update. Swat definitely felt more responsive. I was still getting my butt kicked but I noticed a difference.
Haha I feel your pain.boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Deputy Moonman
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Bloom ruined Reach's campaign for me. Although overall I just didn't enjoy it. Reach's environments were far too earthy and not enough alien imo. The colors were meh too. Some people may have like watching all of noble team die but it more annoyed me than anything. Its like the movies who unnecessarily kill off a main character or two just to be artsy for the critics or to have some big dramatic effect. Granted everyone on Reach was supposed to die, but I just didn't enjoy it. Didnt like the music either. Man I'm just railing on Reach lol.
VincentMatts
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Yeah loved how it came full circle. Reach was great. I enjoyed it a lot. Its the MP i wasnt crazy about.
Just to clarify, I thought the rest was a bit shit.
ATOMICJORGE
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The campaign of Reach was good, the multiplayer for me it was the bad part of the game
I loved everything about Reach's campaign (except the retcon, which I didn't know about until years later).
The bloom didn't bother me during the campain. It just fucked to the MP balance by essentially rewarding players who spam precision weapons at close range. But the balance was already fucked my armor abilities so I just stopped playing.
The deaths of noble team were handled well, I don't see how anyone could take exception. The whole point of the story was to show how hopeless the fight against the Covenant.
The bloom didn't bother me during the campain. It just fucked to the MP balance by essentially rewarding players who spam precision weapons at close range. But the balance was already fucked my armor abilities so I just stopped playing.
The deaths of noble team were handled well, I don't see how anyone could take exception. The whole point of the story was to show how hopeless the fight against the Covenant.
Fahzgoolin
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Huh...It wasn't my favorite, but it had a good handful of memorable combat scenarios for me. Surprised to hear that you describe it that way.
curiouscharles
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has anyone had their xbox one pack-in mic just stop working?
i spent a whole night yelling call-outs into my mic until someone in my party messaged me to say "where's your mic?".
do these things just die or some shit?
i spent a whole night yelling call-outs into my mic until someone in my party messaged me to say "where's your mic?".
do these things just die or some shit?
Yeah, mine's mostly dead.
I never knew or would have ever guessed Joe Staten and Marcus Lehto argured and didn't want to work with each other. Was one of the biggest surprises to me.
Both are my favorite game developers so I always just assumed they got along and were friends.
Fata1moose
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If I'm not mistaken Jem liked Halo 4 and 5's campaign so take what he says with grain of salt. Long Night of Solace is great. The rest is kind of mediocre, not bad though.
Samurai G0SU
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I became a quitter tonight.
Okay so I don't like Snowbound, but this is a very impressive remake in terms of keeping the original look
Easily better than H4 and H5 for me. The music, variety in locales, the story and characters and then that ending.
'There'll be another time...'
I don't even remember what Cortana said to Chief at end of H4 but I remember what Jorge said, Carter said, what exactly Kat was saying before... and what Emile said etc. Still remember the music cues and cinematics as well. Don't know why. I would love a 1080p/60 or even 4K/60fps remaster of the Reach campaign. And I only really played through it once like 7 years ago, my legendary playthrough was erased by Bungie somehow and I didn't want to slog through it again so I never did.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Dunno if I noticed much with the aiming. Maybe "heavy aim" is fixed, but there is still something fundementally wrong with how it feels. Notably, I do not like how diagonal movement is still slower. I still have to use the elite controller right stick modifier to get the diagonal movement less slow/heavy.
The aim is either way too slow or way too fast for me. It is getting kinda ridiculous.
Also getting awful servers.
curiouscharles
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Deputy Moonman
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Yeah that surprised me too. I've always liked Jason Jones. Its been rumored, or said in a vidoc i think, at some point he tinkered with the strength of combat evolved's pistol right before the game released. Instant hero lol.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Bad servers are constant. That's why when I do play this game I play fiesta or Team Doubles HLG lol.
The Henery
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Molten
I always got the feeling he is incredibly smart at what he does most of the time, but that he is hard to work. And then that article basically showed he wasn't a good leader and coordinator and disappeared for 5 years.
Deputy Moonman
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Haha he apparently doesn't pace himself or do a good job of delegating. He tries takes on an incredible amount of work by himself, so at some point he completely exhausts himself to the point he has to take a serious break. Or at least that is the impression I got while he worked on halo. But that's probably not uncommon for most devs and usually not a choice they can make. They just have to get the work done.
It would be nice to see some games get a "Director's Cut" treatment.
VincentMatts
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I Liked 4. I thought the story was good in 4 but the gameplay was ok. 5 i thought the gameplay was very good but story sucked.
2 to me is easily the worst campaign. Good story but terrible fucking gameplay. Plays nothing like CE. How Bungie thought this felt like halo is baffling to me. Hate that campaign. Its the one i despise replaying the most.
This is how all MS titles (including halo) should handle ranked crossplay going forward.
I still think a ranking system will inherently separate people who dominate DUE to their hardware, from those limited by their hardware (as we already see on PC), having a toggle, would be the best of both worlds.
Personally, I'll keep my profile open to playing anyone. If I rank up so high that I start matching good pc players using Mice- I'll welcome the additional challenge- it would only help me get even better against other controller users.
Gears 4 said:
I still think a ranking system will inherently separate people who dominate DUE to their hardware, from those limited by their hardware (as we already see on PC), having a toggle, would be the best of both worlds.
Personally, I'll keep my profile open to playing anyone. If I rank up so high that I start matching good pc players using Mice- I'll welcome the additional challenge- it would only help me get even better against other controller users.
I'd love to see a Halo collection director's cut. "Play" stuff like the E3 demo that supposedly crashes all the time or go through a very rough version of cut levels from Halo 1, 2, 3.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Still my favorite from Noble, but then I've always liked the edgelord characters.