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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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EdibleExplosives
Member
Why teabag when you can do this?
Dude, that's under NDA. MS lawyers aint nothin to fuck with.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
I can't recall, did the Halo 2 documentary show some of the new Flood character models, or am I imagining it?
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I missed this, I think. What happened?
Yeah -- why wouldn't I be? Is Over just making stuff up and I'm missing the joke? And while we're asking questions, why do you always put three extra line breaks between your paragraphs?
Der Flatulator
Member
Am I doing it right?
FUBAR McDangles
Member
The new Halo book shipped out from Barnes and Noble on Friday. But they still haven't updated the shipping tracker so I don't know when it will be here. Cool beans.
ArchedThunder
Banned
You can't save films in Halo 3's campaign and you can't mix and match armor in Halo 3 and 4, you are stuck with predefined armor sets.
Yup.
And I'm not really sure... I just always have done. I don't when writing essays or letters, it's only on forum posts. It's not always 3 though, sometimes it's 2. But it's almost never 1...
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Huh, that's weird that theater mode won't work for Halo 3's campaign. I wouldn't use it much, if ever, honestly, but it sucks for people who would. As long as theater works in MP, I'm happy. The armor sets thing is a bummer, but I don't really care about that either.
Yay, hype train going full steam.
lol, well I'm gonna give you shit for it for forever.
But really, was Overdoziz's post a joke? I took it at face value.
The Henery
Member
And you can't file share film clips in the game full stop if I understood it correctly. All pretty disappointing stuff.
lol, well I'm gonna give you shit for it for forever.
But really, was Overdoziz's post a joke? I took it at face value.
Yeah, it was a parody of this post:
I think the "play this new exciting thing while 343 employees rubbed our feet and fed us cupcakes" kinda gave it away
Also I think it's because I like having lots of spacing, I tend to write about a lot of different points, or reply to lots of different things in one post (like I am right now). So I tend to space the different replies out to make it more readable. I also use it as a kinda extended ellipsis. It's an extra pause for effect
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Oh :-(
I thought he was just adding some humor in. I didn't know the whole thing was a joke. This is what happens when you don't keep up with every page of the thread, lol.I think the "play this new exciting thing while 343 employees rubbed our feet and fed us cupcakes" kinda gave it away
Campaign theater is cut and only multi-player matches have theater, and even then you can't record or save them using the internal theater, but you have to use the Xbox record/game DVR stuff. So file share of clips is out, ie. A wicked killtacular.
I haven't used the Xbox DVR stuff, but I said it last year I think that MS would try and force it on us instead of having it in game. It's the Google approach of strong arming consumers into using the services or products.
The game DVR stuff is definitely perfectly capable for the needs of most people. It's also much, much easier to share clips from the DVR on the internet.
Those who are seriously into recording stuff and making montages etc. are going to be using proper recording equipment anyway.
So the lack of sharing films isn't too big of an issue, IMO.
The "Xbox; Record That" feature is going to be amazing for the MCC as well. There have been so many times when something awesome happened and I just couldn't be bothered to sit through an entire 15 minute match to find a 10 second clip.
Is recording via Xbox inferior to theater mode aside from not being in-game? I got my Xbox One a few days ago and it was fairly easy for me to view gameplay clips via my Friend Feed. I noticed people can comment too. I'd imagine the Halo Channel will make things even more convenient.
The only real negatives are that you obviously can't move the camera angle and you won't be able to save entire games.
However it sounds like theatre still temporarily saves MP matches, so most of the problems are kinda moot.
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FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Halo needs a Grappling Hook. It would be a map pickup and would take up one of your weapon slots, trading offense for maneuverability around the map. Maybe something like 5 grapples before depletion.
Halo 3 multiplayer is the first thing you're going to play? Who are you?
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lmfao funny shit man.. CliQ's piQ has me rolling. Color me excited ;]
Bro! It's gonna be an adventure!!
Wink if we have a formidable Pistol this time around.
NobleGundam
Banned
Should there be a halo game without forge in future installments?
Bought the Sunset Overdrive bundle and CoD came with it too, so I'm gonna trade that in, get about £35, use my £20-off voucher on Amazon and buy the Collection for just over £19 so I'm pretty happy with that.
As for those supposed H5 alpha/beta impressions ... I'm trying not to get excited.
As for those supposed H5 alpha/beta impressions ... I'm trying not to get excited.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'm actually thinking about doing the same just because I think it'll be the best game for me to gauge all the new improvements -- especially dedicated servers. I know the game well and have played it online a ton, so it should be easy for me to notice differences.
Then I'll probably play a ton of CE and H2A.
Only if something better is there to replace it.
Except for the millions of people who will have bought new Xbox One's these past few months without Kinect, so I doubt Xbox, Record That would be amazing for them.
Also, damn man, it's not about being capable for most people, it's being worse than what was before. I don't want whole matches automatically recorded. I want to quickly go into theater, record a simple 15 triple kill headshot snipe with a different angle all while in game, rename it, and then upload that to file share to show friends. It's a million times better doing that all in game as opposed to the overarching Xbox Game DVR. We're literally going backwards from the past games here.
Plus there is no campaign theater or file share for them. Think about that.
FYI, XboxClips has a "Search by Gamertag" feature, and it pulls new videos almost instantly.
Great way to link to your DVR vids outside of the Xbox site.
They have a filter for "Auto-Generated" and "User-Generated" videos as well. So you don't have to dredge through all those 30-second bullshit clips.
Great way to link to your DVR vids outside of the Xbox site.
They have a filter for "Auto-Generated" and "User-Generated" videos as well. So you don't have to dredge through all those 30-second bullshit clips.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Stuff like this is gonna be sadly important to Halo fans in the coming years, I think. With how much we're getting with the MCC I'm not too upset about some things getting cut, but I hope full theater / file share functionality returns with Halo 5.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Indeed. MMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIXXXXXX, this link should probably be in the OT.
DVR wise though, maybe they will have some improvements for the MCC version. After looking up my tag's videos I just noticed that Forza Horizon 2 actually names the clips it auto records, and after ~10 hours of gameplay it's only auto-recorded two clips.
So maybe there is some hope!
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Ironically enough, I always found Halo 3 as a good warmup game when I would go back to CE or Halo 2 after. Now that all games are instantly at our fingertips, I might do the same sometimes.
Halo 3 is essentially the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
You can now double tap the guide button and press X to "Record That" without a Kinect.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
I wonder if Halo 2A will ship with some premade Forge maps, perhaps other Halo 2 maps that didn't make the remake cut.
Give me a day and you'll have Halo: Facing Worlds. If that's your thing.
Hopefully 343 increases community involvement though and releases community map playlists like Bungie did for Reach. That led to some really great maps.
The Vidmasters were great achievements. They all got the player to play differently without it affecting other people's games. The only one I didn't like was Endure, simply because of the netcode. It would have been great if we could get it for an offline game, but they needed a way to verify it for Recon.
Double tap Xbox button and press X, same functionality without Kinect. Takes about 1 second.
In some ways it's better though. Like I said earlier, it's far, far easier to share over the internet than before. You can save a clip without slogging through a 15 minute match in theatre. You can also still use theatre to grab a different angle for your triple headshot snipe. Except this time you record it by using "Xbox, Record that" (or as above) rather than the built in record.
It would be better if both options were available though.
However I do agree the lack of campaign theatre sucks.
343 Pro team confirmed competing at Halofest?
I thought that had already been confirmed... Or am I making things up?
Because people enjoy complaining.
5 frames is srs bizness m8
Prolly console wars innit.
Yeah because being promised 60FPS and then finding out many of the games stutter, have dropped frames is complaining right? I hate complaining as much as the next guy, but people have valid points. The frame rate issues is something almost every reviewer brought up, and now we know it's not how the videos have been encoded or uploaded.