Welfare
Member
OMG thank you. That management was shit tier IMO.
Ascension was the bee's knees. ToP was good, and I remember Zombies playing well on it as well.
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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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OMG thank you. That management was shit tier IMO.
Ascension was the bee's knees. ToP was good, and I remember Zombies playing well on it as well.
Pretty sure this is the only thing you and I have ever really disagreed on tbh. I love that map.
Right? I can't believe they picked Ascension over Ivory Tower, or Terminal.
When I heard that Terminal and Relic were in the running and didn't make it I got legit mad.
Good post.
I think sprint can (and does) work in Halo and would be fine with it in 5.
Congrats on the job btw.
It is fun though, it creates more options for trick jumps, it has a great sense of speed. It's fun to just sprint across the battlefield.
As for other benefits, as I said above, better and more options for trick jumps. It's a great tool for flanking and surprise attacks. It's means less downtime when stuck in the middle of nowhere or if you've just respawned. Which I think is a good thing. It may mean there's less of a punishment for death. However wandering around looking for people is boring.
I'd happily give them a read.
However I really can't see me agreeing with it. I really enjoyed my time with 4 so I certainly wouldn't agree that it had failed on nearly every level.
I haven't been following and am super drunk right now, but how many days out are we? So excited for this. I can't wait to try all of the MP and see how they compare. This feels like it is going to be a collection that is going to be awesome to play with others. I hope it has some legs going forward, but it is hard to imagine it not having a healthy population for a long time.
Welfare
Member
16 days! We need one of those countdown clocks in the OP.
As of Sunday, we are 15 days away depending of course on how you count it out. I count to the Monday of because of Midnight launch and the fact I'll be working the launch for the GameStop I work at that night.
orichalcos
Member
Well they said they would show Forge this month. So it has to be it
For as much as BF4 did (and still sometimes does) wrong their server browser/search is awesome on console.
It can be done.
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In other news seems like a lot of big retailers are doing deals on Xbox One the week of MCC launch. Most everyone has a $50 discount, some have more than that. Feels like another "build your own bundle" type of thing.
And I'm unbanned. Was gonna leave this thread untl release anyway but I'm impatient and grow bored easily.
But how else am I gonna be able to sell my accounts for 1500 ms points
I watched that video you linked me. Haha I don't even know where to begin. Haven't ran into anyone like that in a Halo game for a while :3
343i just hates purple, don't they? I really don't understand it. Why is Cortana bright blue? Halo 3 I can understand. But she was always purple in Halo 2.It's been said 1000 times, but damn the Blur CG Halo 2A cutscenes look nice:
I wonder what High Charity looks like now. That was essentially pink and grey in the original
There is a glimpse of High Charity, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOm9ZOnz2_E&list=UUjBp_7RuDBUYbd1LegWEJ8g#t=45
Looks purple I guess. Darker than what it was before but nothing that bothers me. If it were blue or something I'd probably complain haha.
Can't wait for this collection. I haven't played a Halo campaign in months. (Haven't touched Halo 2's campaign since 2013 either IIRC). Need my fix
Don't have a ONE (yet) but this is indeed the case then? How the hell does this work with matchmaking in games online?
Specifically, I mean like how do usernames appear, i.e. offensive names, duplicate names to other users?
Captain Friendo
Neo Member
Canonical consistency mate. She's got her halo 3 appearance in CEA, only makes sense she has a single incarnation for the original trilogy.
Yeah, but this time people might go for a 50 in everything. I sure as hell am gonna be busy doing that goal while getting all those achievements so boosting is not going to happen for a while, hell it might not even happen before halo 5 is out
I mean you know they've changed Master Chief's armour, heavily and fundamentally redesigned enemies, weapons and ships without explanation, right? 343i doesn't give a crap about "canonical consistency" :lol
So, I have a few questions that hopefully HaloGAF can answer.
1. Do we know if you can switch the CEA game sounds back to the original for MP? I would really like to have the original sounds.
2. Do we know if we can switch the HUD back to the original XBOX hud? If you look at any clips from IGN's coverage you'll see that the HUD is different from the original and I want to point out that they changed the Sniper reticle for some reason.
I don't have any pictures of the original HUD because it's hard to find but if anyone knows I would really appreciate it.
This is a very minor issue I have with the game and am just glad I will get to play the MP online but wanted to know if we could truly have an original experience.
1. Do we know if you can switch the CEA game sounds back to the original for MP? I would really like to have the original sounds.
2. Do we know if we can switch the HUD back to the original XBOX hud? If you look at any clips from IGN's coverage you'll see that the HUD is different from the original and I want to point out that they changed the Sniper reticle for some reason.
I don't have any pictures of the original HUD because it's hard to find but if anyone knows I would really appreciate it.
This is a very minor issue I have with the game and am just glad I will get to play the MP online but wanted to know if we could truly have an original experience.
That's what I assumed but had to ask if anything could be switch back to the original.
Thanks
FatMarshall
Neo Member
It might actually significantly affect ranked, considering all the competitive players will keep making new accounts to get that 50. XB360 required Gold on an account to play ranked, even on Gold-free weekends or whatever, and it still made Halo 3's ranked playlists unbearable when new-accounters would hop in and throw people off completely. Now it'll be much worse.
BeamImpact
Member
not much a ranked fan anyhow, having to face the likes of yourself in each game can be sort of exausting, more social playlists therefore would be a nice thing to get some relaxing rounds once in a while
i think only a H2A social playlist is available on launch, not a lot tbh
then again the matchmaking system traditionally had its flaws, so lets see how itll turn out with the next weeks IGN article
i think only a H2A social playlist is available on launch, not a lot tbh
then again the matchmaking system traditionally had its flaws, so lets see how itll turn out with the next weeks IGN article
Well, based on the Arbiter in the E3 trailer that introduced him and Locke, I'd say they're kinda going back to basics a bit with him and possibly other elites as well.
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Aren't new elites just wearing Hesduros armor and old elites used Sanghelios armor? Arbiter's troops might still use H3 style of armor.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, it was a definite "wait, what!" moment for me. Oh well.
hnnnggggg
So excited for the MCC and the Beta footage.
Your thoughts on sprint are good as well.
Thanks man.
Your thoughts on sprint are good as well.
You are a gentleman and a scholar
Solid deals in there.
I miss this game :'(
Sigh
I might go pick this up today :/
I got it when it first came out and got the mission where the Scarab is stuck and keeps blasting you and blasting you and blasting you until I finally gave up and played like 3 matches of MP and traded it in for $40.
FatMarshall
Neo Member
I miss this game :'(
I want a sequel. One that's ported to both Xbox One and PC so it actually behaves like a proper, full-fledged RTS game.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I want a sequel too, but putting it on PC would kind of defeat the point. The reason it worked as well as it did on the 360 is that it was built exclusively for the controller. Put it on PC and it's gonna feel overly limited/simplistic, build it for both platforms at once and you'll just run into the typical PC RTS on console issues. Unless they enable M+KB for the X1, anyway.
Actually, now that I think about it...
Halo 4 soundtrack is pretty decent now that I can actually hear it besides only remembering 117 in the game which is a great track and the multiplayer lobby one. The rest must have been mixed terribly. Doesn't feel as unique as Marty's work but still some good stuff in there, feels more fitting to a modern game or film and lacks punch, just kinda overflows into any sort of dramatic music.
Some of those remixes on the Halo 2 soundtrack, no just no. Love the build up in Peril, always want it to keep going. Impend is also a favourite.
Some of those remixes on the Halo 2 soundtrack, no just no. Love the build up in Peril, always want it to keep going. Impend is also a favourite.
Nothing can be worse than Halo CEA. Maybe a result of applying it over the old models but they looked like kid cosplayers.
Welfare
Member
I miss this game :'(
No, not like this.
Halo Wars 2 has to be a thing this generation.
That's actually one of the easiest missions; if you upgrade your marines to ODSTs and then garrison them in one of the watchtowers the Scarab gets "stuck" trying to kill him and mostly stops moving his head. Makes it a fairly easy mission, even on Legendary.
Missions 4-5, however, are absolutely brutal. The difficulty curve is a bit messed up on that campaign.
I never finished it because it was my first RTS and it was too hard.
I'm terrible at strategy games.
If you've waited this long might as well wait for Black Friday.
Poodlestrike
Banned
There's always hope
Even without the easter egg, Phantom Dust basically made everything fair game. If they're brining that back, nothing is off the table, IMO.
Syphon Filter
Member
Syphon Filter
Member
Oh yeah