RowdyReverb
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But YouTube is limited to 30fps. You're literally only watching half the video.
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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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But YouTube is limited to 30fps. You're literally only watching half the video.
Who has said it looks bad? Plenty of people complaining about how crappy the IGN video player is, but I see no one complaining about the game.
RowdyReverb
Member
Did the medals really pop up like that in CE multiplayer? Is it a PC thing? I don't recall seeing them on Xbox
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Okay...I'm mesmerized. Gonna watch it about 10 more times. I can only get the IGN player to play it in 720p compressed, but seeing it on the TV...
DAYUM.
They were added in with the universal medal scheme across all games. =)
DAYUM.
They were added in with the universal medal scheme across all games. =)
Latvian Hitman
Member
No. I believe there is a unified medal system across games that can be toggled on/off. If toggled off, you'll see the original medals/icons for that game as you remember them.
ElzarTheBam
Member
The Librarian
Banned
Well, it's on dedicated servers, so it would have to be changed, right?
22 days, 4,181 matches, and 39,467 kills. But, there was about two years when we lived out in the middle of nowhere Texas and had no internet so that's why my stats are a little low.
You could run a dedicated server on the PC version. It might just be emulating that functionality.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Medals can be turned off; you'll still earn them, but you can prevent them from showing up in-game.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Added in with medal system for MCC.
I thought only the hosting would change. So instead of finding a player to host, it just always has a server to host. I wouldn't think much more than that would be required to change?
ElRenoRaven
Member
Finally got it watched. God I'm in heaven. Just give me halo 1,2,3 all online with controller support and voice chat and I'm in heaven. That's what I'm getting with this and I am in heaven.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Stinkles..anyone...
Is proximity chat re-implemented? Meaning you can hear and talk to your enemy within a certain proximity to you?
cuz it's DUH BEST.
Is proximity chat re-implemented? Meaning you can hear and talk to your enemy within a certain proximity to you?
cuz it's DUH BEST.
Not really my point. It's a minor thing, but I just vastly prefer the big, unique medals to 30 small ones that look similar. Cut the fat, you don't need to be rewarded for every weapon type, etc.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Halo CE never had any visible medals, and you can(and will) turn on classic medals for Halo 2/3 instead of a hundred generic ones
The Henery
Member
Game looks fantastic. The medals do not. Happily they're toggleable.
Also, the radar will be on judging by those clips.
Also, the radar will be on judging by those clips.
ding ding
I'm also worried about the netcode, have they addressed that yet? It was so shitty in Halo PC that anyone who played Halo PC online competitively equated being able to look at your ping and know how much to lead players to skill.
It wasn't Halo 3 leading shots either it was like a full spartan or two width lead. Most of our clan matches when I played Halo PC were snipers on Blood Gulch lol. Sometimes Snipers No Shields.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I like what I saw and it built up a lot of excitement, but the critical part of me must respond.
An added quirk about the Halo 3(and beyond) medals was that they were all on a single row and that the maximum amount of medals was equal to the width of the kill feed. This was to show you the most recent, relevant medals. The image below completely counters that. It looks like it will keep adding medals below older ones instead of pushing them out. I hope there is a test case where someone lines up 15 people and snipes through all of them to show that this will more than likely break the medal feed.
In addition to that, the medals aren't descriptive enough to tell me what is what. I can tell the first medal is a grenade kill. Second one, I don't know. Third, I don't know. Fourth is a double kill. Fifth is the same as the third. Sixth is a Killing Spree. Seven is Triple Kill. Eight is Extermination(I think). And I have no idea what the last three are. In addition to the medal feed, is it possible to get a Medal text feed? This would alleviate a bit of that issue.
An added quirk about the Halo 3(and beyond) medals was that they were all on a single row and that the maximum amount of medals was equal to the width of the kill feed. This was to show you the most recent, relevant medals. The image below completely counters that. It looks like it will keep adding medals below older ones instead of pushing them out. I hope there is a test case where someone lines up 15 people and snipes through all of them to show that this will more than likely break the medal feed.
In addition to that, the medals aren't descriptive enough to tell me what is what. I can tell the first medal is a grenade kill. Second one, I don't know. Third, I don't know. Fourth is a double kill. Fifth is the same as the third. Sixth is a Killing Spree. Seven is Triple Kill. Eight is Extermination(I think). And I have no idea what the last three are. In addition to the medal feed, is it possible to get a Medal text feed? This would alleviate a bit of that issue.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, I'm with you, I love weapons like that. The SAW was WAYYYYY too effective at range, though.
It's glorious. :'-)
Also, notice how there aren't hitmarkers and grenade indicators. Yay!!!!
it was never even a question. Had anyone at 343 even mentioned adding something like that to the game, they would've been booted.
Then again, they did add the bland medals. Thank god they're togglable. It's one thing to have the medals and a description next to them like Halo 2A multi, but to just show the images of medals that all look far too similar? It's a shame 343 won't just revert back to the original good medals we all loved so much.
Digital Limit
Member
Given the main premise of this game is ALL DA MULTIPLAYER I think it's safe to say that the netcode has been streamlined across the titles.
ArchedThunder
Banned
I thought the Halo CE animations were all 30fps, did they go back and add new frames of animation?
In addition to that, the medals aren't descriptive enough to tell me what is what. I can tell the first medal is a grenade kill. Second one, I don't know. Third, I don't know. Fourth is a double kill. Fifth is the same as the third. Sixth is a Killing Spree. Seven is Triple Kill. Eight is Extermination(I think). And I have no idea what the last three are. In addition to the medal feed, is it possible to get a Medal text feed? This would alleviate a bit of that issue.
Wow, look at that screen real estate! Wish the medals were closer together (heck you could tighten them up and make them bigger even). I likely won't play with medals on, but if I do I also back your claim of not knowing what they mean. Time will tell.
I wonder if you can also turn off on screen text.
User 73706
Banned
Increase the actual blast radius / splash, but not the splash damage. The current amount of splash damage (let's say x damage over an area of y) would be evenly distributed across the increased blast radius, meaning the average splash damage taken would be reduced, direct hits notwithstanding. However, the knockback (the outright movement / push effect, not the hit-point damage infliction itself) would be increased over the blast radius, meaning it'd be good for tossing around Warthogs or other light reconnaissance vehicles without outright destroying them, as well. Direct hits would still be instakills, allowing the Railgun to serve a dual-purpose role as an infantry killer and a vehicle harassment or movement infringement device without getting into an outright vehicle-destroyer role. Keep in mind that in this minimalist sandbox setup, there's no Halo 3 Brute Shot / Reach or 4 Concussion Rifle weapon in the sandbox, and the Railgun is intended to adopt that role, with the "self-blasting" elements of trick-jumping, etc. given to the Vector Grenades.
I went back to rewatch this preview that IGN did for the Collection, and there are these lines on either side of the screen in Halo 4 that scroll when you look up or down.
Edit: Nope, they weren't. Why was this added?
Has anyone noticed this before? It wasn't in the 360 version of the game, was it?
Edit: Nope, they weren't. Why was this added?
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I know it wasn't a question, but they decided to add it in H2A. Not starting a flame war, just think it's interesting (in my book, annoying) how well these 3 games work without it and they add it to H2A.
In regards to medals, I do like how they don't take so much of the screen and are more discrete. I don't mind that. To me the announcer is what made things interesting, not the look of the medal. I don't have time to stare at the medal and admire it during the heat of battle.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
RowdyReverb
Member
Yes. That's why it took a whole studio to port the game and probably why it's taken so long to see anything. Not a trivial amount of work in making that port.
ArchedThunder
Banned
We'll good on them for making the extra effort instead of not trying at all like Capcom with RE4.
The Henery
Member
I like what I saw and it built up a lot of excitement, but the critical part of me must respond.
An added quirk about the Halo 3(and beyond) medals was that they were all on a single row and that the maximum amount of medals was equal to the width of the kill feed. This was to show you the most recent, relevant medals. The image below completely counters that. It looks like it will keep adding medals below older ones instead of pushing them out. I hope there is a test case where someone lines up 15 people and snipes through all of them to show that this will more than likely break the medal feed.
Great catch. I understand this is a minor thing and customisable but how can one look at that image and think it superior to the medal perimeter from 2/3/Reach?
That part of the UI looks as though it's been plucked from a Red Faction offshoot tier game and slapped all over CE's taut functionality like a cheap dollop of mayo on a fillet steak.
The Librarian
Banned
CE footage looked great overall. Very excited to play it.
Will the medals be on or off in the CE playlist?
Will the medals be on or off in the CE playlist?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
those 30fps rifle animations hurt in a 60fps world man
How'd you get your playtime for H2 and H3? I didn't see a way on the Waypoint site for H2, and that was the one thing I was interested in. I remember trying to do an estimate back in the day and it came out to something like 90 days of playtime in Halo 2 across all my accounts.
I like what I saw and it built up a lot of excitement, but the critical part of me must respond.
An added quirk about the Halo 3(and beyond) medals was that they were all on a single row and that the maximum amount of medals was equal to the width of the kill feed. This was to show you the most recent, relevant medals. The image below completely counters that. It looks like it will keep adding medals below older ones instead of pushing them out. I hope there is a test case where someone lines up 15 people and snipes through all of them to show that this will more than likely break the medal feed.
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There's definitely a major signal-to-noise ratio issue there with the medals. They're distracting and take up a ton of screen real estate without really offering much.
I don't see why they didn't just go with Halo 2's method of incorporating small medals into the kill feed, I thought that was pretty unobtrusive and got the message across:
S0cc3rpunk
Unconfirmed Member
Maybe it'll be player preference? I feel like this would make everyone happy.
I don't see why they didn't just go with Halo 2's method of incorporating small medals into the kill feed, I thought that was pretty unobtrusive and got the message across:
Agreed. Halo 2's medal displays were best
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
He used the the word disappointing. He didn't say bad. I didnt say bad.
Ce looks so dope
