Rickenslacker
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If you have the Anniversary map pack for Reach then yes. Those are the only maps on the Anniversary disk.TurtleSnatcher said:
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Halo Anniversary |OT| It All Comes Full Circle
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GodfatherX
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so im up to Keyes, the last 4 levels have been much better as far as updated artstyle/graphics. Library is much better then before with the added lighting. I did get lost escaping from 343...for like 30 minutes, never remembered being stuck that long before.
I apparently missed the skull at the end od the Library so ill have to replay that again
also... guessing the terminal locations/content changing based on difficulty was cut?
I apparently missed the skull at the end od the Library so ill have to replay that again
also... guessing the terminal locations/content changing based on difficulty was cut?
ElRenoRaven
Member
GodfatherX said:so im up to Keyes, the last 4 levels have been much better as far as updated artstyle/graphics. Library is much better then before with the added lighting. I did get lost escaping from 343...for like 30 minutes, never remembered being stuck that long before.
I apparently missed the skull at the end od the Library so ill have to replay that again
also... guessing the terminal locations/content changing based on difficulty was cut?
Yup. It was cut.
TacticalFox88
Banned
Reading these Terminals makes me feel sorry for the Forerunners as a whole. Jesus, what a depressing state the civilization must've been in
Goddamn.
through the bitter end.
ElRenoRaven
Member
TheOddOne said:
I'd say these are creating plenty of rampant speculation judging by the discussion of them.
FateBreaker
Member
God some people in matchmaking are so stupid. I was playing with this Inheritor, and he's all screaming at me while I'm trying to snipe saying "DO SOMETHING!" The irony is that I had a higher K/D spread than him. What an idiot.
FateBreaker
Member
The Xtortionist said:
Dude, chill out. It's their first project, and it's obviously a side project; almost their entire internal team is on Halo 4, not Halo: Anniversary.
ElRenoRaven
Member
TheOddOne said:You got me there
Guess I'm in the minority, but I love the crytic stuff in the text terminals.
Nah you're not. I think you could have something in there like that but have that on top of the terminals. Something kind of like the data pads in Reach here. Maybe have a couple of those spread around through the game along with terminals and skulls.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Finally got around to beating it, watching the credits roll now. Im impressed, I actually found all of the terminals and 3-4 skulls. It was a blast replaying this game, and things like terminals, skulls and the Kinect analyze feature added some awesome newness, particularly the terminals.
Anyways, my impressions are overall very positive, with a few complaints about certain re-imagining of visuals. I may write out something more detailed later, but I think one thing that bugged me was the re-using of so many Reach assets when I would have rather had the original look but modernized, such as helmeted Jackals, CE marines, etc. Also, the flood could have looked better, I was a little let down with them.
But yeah, this game is beautiful, while it has its awkward looking, almost retro moments, other times it looks amazing. Sometimes the lighting and shadows reacting with the enemies and environments made me say wow.
Time to go for the achievements I missed..
Anyways, my impressions are overall very positive, with a few complaints about certain re-imagining of visuals. I may write out something more detailed later, but I think one thing that bugged me was the re-using of so many Reach assets when I would have rather had the original look but modernized, such as helmeted Jackals, CE marines, etc. Also, the flood could have looked better, I was a little let down with them.
But yeah, this game is beautiful, while it has its awkward looking, almost retro moments, other times it looks amazing. Sometimes the lighting and shadows reacting with the enemies and environments made me say wow.
Time to go for the achievements I missed..
Has Frankie or anyone from 343 acknowledged the atrocious bugs and issues that arise from live co-op yet? A good few pages ago I described me and my friends issues when we started playing this over live co-op (hidious controller lag, game lag etc)
Well, we have kept at it and are currently on the Assault on the Control room level and it's frustrating as hell. Our first attempt had the
game lag so bad it crashed just in the room which comes after the first elevator you go down (after the first bridge). We rebooted our boxes and tried again. Annoingly, we couldn't start from our last checkpoint and had to start the level all over again.
We managed to get all the way where you need to abandon the scorpion tank and head back into the tunnels and it fucking crashed AGAIN, only this time it was my friends xbox that frooze this time.
There where also instances of very bad lag during some stages of the game. Even a few times where halo was struggling to hold our connections together.
Surely a patch or SOMETHING is going to come out and sort this as its almost getting to the point where our patience is running out.
For info: both our NATS are open, we live
Six miles apart abd we are playing on Legendary live co-op.
Well, we have kept at it and are currently on the Assault on the Control room level and it's frustrating as hell. Our first attempt had the
game lag so bad it crashed just in the room which comes after the first elevator you go down (after the first bridge). We rebooted our boxes and tried again. Annoingly, we couldn't start from our last checkpoint and had to start the level all over again.
We managed to get all the way where you need to abandon the scorpion tank and head back into the tunnels and it fucking crashed AGAIN, only this time it was my friends xbox that frooze this time.
There where also instances of very bad lag during some stages of the game. Even a few times where halo was struggling to hold our connections together.
Surely a patch or SOMETHING is going to come out and sort this as its almost getting to the point where our patience is running out.
For info: both our NATS are open, we live
Six miles apart abd we are playing on Legendary live co-op.
The Xtortionist
Member
Ubersnug said:
giancarlo123x
Banned
Me and my friend were playing some campaign on legendary and a fucking update decides to come out of nowhere and just sign us out and throw us to the menu. If that were to happen 10 mins prior during truth and reconciliation my legendary run wouldve ended right there.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Had a pretty epic run through of the co op yesterday with Gui, that guy is Master Chief, he literally carried me through that campaign! Was a hell of a lot of fun, doing the final Maw run in the passenger seat of the hog was new to me, and pretty cool.
Heads up though, through sheer luck we managed to spawn extra Elites on 'Keyes', by walking around the tunnels and through the shield door of the hanger bay before getting into those banshees. That achievement is probably going to elude some people who don't realise how many elites can be spawned in.
Out of interest, anyone have any idea what the I.P. address looking things at the beginning of terminals do? I doubt they do anything, but you never know I guess.
We did have issues with the game disconnecting us, and oddly we also lost the ability to voice chat through party chat at the same time.
Heads up though, through sheer luck we managed to spawn extra Elites on 'Keyes', by walking around the tunnels and through the shield door of the hanger bay before getting into those banshees. That achievement is probably going to elude some people who don't realise how many elites can be spawned in.
Out of interest, anyone have any idea what the I.P. address looking things at the beginning of terminals do? I doubt they do anything, but you never know I guess.
We did have issues with the game disconnecting us, and oddly we also lost the ability to voice chat through party chat at the same time.
A27_StarWolf
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giancarlo123x said:
I guess you had something the others didn't have... luck.
The Librarian
Banned
What was the latest update for?
Like the symbols, they are in every video. They must mean or do something.bobs99 ... said:Out of interest, anyone have any idea what the I.P. address looking things at the beginning of terminals do? I doubt they do anything, but you never know I guess.
*Goes into Sherlock Holmes mode*
Zeouterlimits
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Modern Sherlock? If so I'm in.TheOddOne said:
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
What did those Waypoint codes do in the end?
Zeouterlimits
Member
The ones at the end of the terminals?cjelly said:
Unlocks an extra terminal and a new theme I believe.
Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock? Hell no Watson.Zeouterlimits said:
I'm straight up Basil Rathbone's Sherlock.
A27_StarWolf
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DoctorWho said:
How on earth did you get that name?
DoctorWho? so good.
Zeouterlimits
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squidhands
Member
Well, I managed to fix the audio problem I was having. Audio was set to 'source' for all of the other games I play, but setting CEA to emulate a 5.1 surround setting has done wonders. Weird that I have to do this for remastered audio, but whatever. It's only a button push away and with minor exceptions it's miles better than it was (there's still Cortana dialog that's low, but I remember it being barely audible in the original as well). Not a big fan of the new plasma rifle sound, though. Sounds like a cheap toy. But dat sniper rifle, hnnnnnnnnnnng.
Only found two of the terminals so far (one per level, right?), and holy shit are they spectacular. THIS is how you do terminals and get me interested in the lore; that cryptic text shit from H3 can just go away forever.
Only found two of the terminals so far (one per level, right?), and holy shit are they spectacular. THIS is how you do terminals and get me interested in the lore; that cryptic text shit from H3 can just go away forever.
The Henery
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Digital-Hero said:
I've had the game crash on me twice and I've only had time to play two levels. Duncan (I think) posted in the other thread that his game crashed too.
Starting to think it's an issue with the game and not my disc.
PooBone
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I wouldn't go that far. Halo 2 is so cheap, so frustrating. At least in CE when you die in Legendary you don't feel cheated. After playing Anniversary through on Legendary, I went back to the Library on Heroic and beat it on my first try without dying. About 2/3 of the way through I was worried I had actually put it on Normal. Then on Heroic I beat PoA and Halo without a warthog without losing a single bar of health, and did the achievement for escaping from SC without firing a bullet no problem.DoctorWho said:
Yeah, the drop off from Legendary to Heroic was pretty damn noticeable.
I spent some time with this yesterday and, jesus, the engine created for single player feels awful. Scratch that, it FEELS like Halo, but it runs terribly. I can't believe how unpolished the experience is here. The game almost never holds a solid framerate. You have the full selection of performance problems here from hitching and stuttering to framerate dips. Is it playable? Absolutely, but it feels poorly optimized at all times.
If this was due to the "classic visuals" then I'd say they made a huge mistake.
As a game designed as a tribute I'd say the ball was dropped pretty hard. The general performance is worse than some sandbox games this gen.
This is post installation, by the way. Running off of the disc is even worse.
I still kind of enjoyed what I played, but the poor performance compromised the experience.
If this was due to the "classic visuals" then I'd say they made a huge mistake.
As a game designed as a tribute I'd say the ball was dropped pretty hard. The general performance is worse than some sandbox games this gen.
This is post installation, by the way. Running off of the disc is even worse.
I still kind of enjoyed what I played, but the poor performance compromised the experience.
I am really not digging the framerate. I would have rather not have had real time engine switching and instead gotten a rock solid 30 frames per second in at least the original graphics mode. It's not an exaggeration at all to say that the original had a better framerate. Seriously, take a look, it was much better. Well, at least on the original Xbox it was, the framerate sucks on 360 emulation.
ElzarTheBam
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dark10x said:
I'm the complete opposite, my framerate has been quite smooth, I got a few stuttering problems during 343 GS, but that's been about it, how weird.
Apharmd Battler
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squidhands said:
Thanks for the tip!
The Librarian
Banned
Framerate is rock solid aside from occasional dips. Don't understand how anyone can say it's terrible.
Diablohead
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I never really had a problem with that stage 10 years ago, you can sort of follow the sound of that robot whose name I forget at the moment around.Choc said:i am amazed a library spoilerarrow on the ground fixes most of the libraries problems. wow bungie, just wow. Why not do that at first
i nerini del buio
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about framerate: the worst thing is that (at least so it seems to me) it affects negatively aiming and controls responsiveness