Either way the map could've definitely done with some halfway decent cover outside of the bases. Maybe some more structures where the silos are or something.
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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
EDIT: GUI, man be safe. Don't do something stupid, please.
Yeah, every edit I've made has been to protect the spawns much more, give them more cover and options.
Yeah, every edit I've made has been to protect the spawns much more, give them more cover and options.
Tried brightening it up a bit, but that shit is dark.
inb4 crushed blacks comment.
HaloGAF, I'm worried about Gui
Gui reach out to us.
yeah I'm worried about him damn :/
squidhands
Member
we love you, brother Gui.HaloGAF, I'm worried about Gui
Gui reach out to us.
Blue Ninja
Member
Send him a tweet too, if you can. I hope he gets the help he needs. Feeling depressed can be fucking awful, but there's always hope.
Probably want to see the H4 hopper get a sizable population so they won't trash talk. That being said Monolith isn't that bad.
Diablohead
Member
MP streams tomorrow, yesssssssss
Can't wait to see tons of missed headshots from reviewers
Can't wait to see tons of missed headshots from reviewers
Very much true. Hell, Breakpoint was a better map than Boneyard.
I'm just really bummed the handling of DLC maps in matchmaking for Reach and Halo 4 was pretty much botched in comparison to 2 and 3. The "this DLC costs X dollars until a year from now when it'll be free to everyone" model worked gloriously in Halo 2 and resulted in EVERYONE playing on the DLC maps (many of which were better than the original 10/11? maps it shipped with. Halo 3 was almost in good in this regard too.
VisceralBowl
Member
Tried brightening it up a bit, but that shit is dark.
The colors really pop. Don't understand why anybody would want that washed out look.
Skyline and Monolith were my favorite H4 DLC maps (didn't buy the last one with Pitfall though as I had the season pass) because they handled more like the classic arena H2/H3 maps of old.
Harvest ultimately ended up being being pretty good as well, but that was almost solely due to SWAT matches on that map however...
I don't think the problem was with cover. The Warthog gun was a little too strong. For how much power it had it should have had an overheat mechanic to it.
The fight for the laser was the real deciding factor to winning that map. If you didn't have the laser then you couldn't control the hogs very well.
FUBAR McDangles
Member
Poodlestrike
Banned
Tried brightening it up a bit, but that shit is dark.
Actually, this looks pretty damn good. Absolute blackness of space and all that.
343 in a nutshell.
HaloGAF, I'm worried about Gui
Gui reach out to us.
I'm really worried. Like "contact the authorities" worried.
Same. "Will try tomorrow" doesn''t sound good, man
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Blueblur in a nutshell.
I'm assuming the original post was commenting on quotes from Kynan.
Kynan, who I adore, is no longer at 343. He joined Blue Point in Austin, TX. I have no idea if Kynan would have negative comments about those maps, but developers aren't in the habit of saying bad things publicly about content created by another studio. In this case, a lot of those maps were creating by our development partner, Certain Affinity, also based in Austin, TX. Personally, I think several of the maps created by CA are my personal favorites from Halo 4 and would defend their design to anyone. However, I don't think anyone thinks any creative work is perfect.
It's far easier to criticize your own work, which any developer will tell you, we do on a daily basis. Developers are usually their own worst critic by a large margin, but often it's not always productive to air those criticisms in public, as it's far too easy for them to be used out of context by folks posting on forums with an axe to grind. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to insinuate with your drive-by vague post, but, based on your posting history, it's par for the course.
Sweet! Didn't think this was true... so cool
It's probably easier to say "we made mistakes" in public if those mistakes were made over 10 years ago.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Got an xbox one today.
What's the easiest way to sell a digital game code?
What's the easiest way to sell a digital game code?
This is probably old but apparently the patch for mcc is out tomorrow.
Raise your dongers b o y s
if it's Sunset then I really recommend keeping it. best XB1 game by a wide margin.
Raise your dongers b o y s
if it's Sunset then I really recommend keeping it. best XB1 game by a wide margin.
Blue Ninja
Member
Giving it to me. For free.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
What code, how much you want?
"I have a game code to sell. Give me money and I give you digits."
edit: If it's Sunset I'll buy it from ya. PM me.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Nice to see 343 folks jump in with support for Gui.
Gui's a good guy, and more handsome than he realises, I'm lucky enough to have played with him a lot and got to have a lovely meal with him a few years ago.
Hoping the best for my buddy.
Gui's a good guy, and more handsome than he realises
, I'm lucky enough to have played with him a lot and got to have a lovely meal with him a few years ago.Hoping the best for my buddy.
Adverts.ie? Or something similar.
Unrelated, but congrats on the engagement.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Got a Fifa 15 code. But we already have it for PS4 at a friends house.
Doubt anyone here wants it, but I'm looking for around the cost of the MCC.
Cheapest I can get that is off the US MS store for around 50 euros right?
On the UK/Irl store it costs 70, fuck that noise
Doubt anyone here wants it, but I'm looking for around the cost of the MCC.
Cheapest I can get that is off the US MS store for around 50 euros right?
On the UK/Irl store it costs 70, fuck that noise
Poodlestrike
Banned
This.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
That's certainly true. And just so no one misunderstands, I know we made mistakes on Halo 4. Everyone who worked on the project knows that. That is the nature of game development. There's no such thing as a perfect game.
All I can say, is that at our studio we're dedicated to learning from those mistakes and taking them into account for our future work. But of course, our takeaways and learnings from past mistakes might not be the same as every player out there. That's also the nature of game development. We're people with viewpoints and those many diverse viewpoints don't always align on every single element. That creative friction drives us every day to do our very best work. It won't be perfect, but please don't think that we sit back on a daily basis thinking everything we do is perfect. It's not, but it is certainly created with passion and a drive to do the very best work on every single day.
squidhands
Member
GAF always brings me the scoops. Congratulations, Mr. Ellis. Nearly 10 years of a wonderful marriage right here, I hope you two have an equally wonderful life together.
So David, all in all it boils down to this, did you learn and remove sprint or not
<3How are you stacking up against the new pros and hires on the team now? I know you played a shit ton of Halo 2 in the past, but it was ten years ago. I'd imagine guys like Ghost, Strongside, Neighbor, Bravo all pretty much dong on the rest of the team.
Blue Ninja
Member
Respectable words from a respectable man.
Keep doing what you're doing. Admitting that we make mistakes and striving to do better next time is all any of us can do. And honestly, Halo 4 wasn't that bad. I'm looking forward to playing it again in the MCC.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
The latest Podcast Unlocked with Max was very interesting. He was critical of past maps like Damnation, Waterworks, Colossus, but loved some later maps Daybreak. I gotta say, I'm inclined to agree with what he says about Daybreak being an extremely fun map that would've played better in a different sandbox/settings. I could go on forever about why Max is a great figure for fans, but I think most of that is apparent to us by now. You guys have some great people to head the franchise.
For anyone that hasn't listened/watched, I highly recommend it.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
I'm clearly outclassed by the pros, but I will say that I can at least perform respectably against them. Of course, my definition of respectable might not be the same as yours. As long as my k/d is at least 1, I'm usually pretty happy.
Oh, thanks to everyone else who mentioned my engagement. It's a very exciting time.
Lol, I was noticing this too. Hilarious....
You might be. Message support and see what happens. I bought it on ps4 then my console bricked lol. Sony support refunded me
If I can only get a refund of one Xbox One game, that means I can get a refund for the Digital Guardian Edition!? I'm done with Destiny.
I think it's too difficult to objectively analyze the quality of maps simply because the quality of the maps is entirely dependent on the quality of the sandbox...
For example... i thought halo 4 maps were pretty darn good, but the mechanics really damaged the quality of gameplay expected on those maps. This is why i was really hopeful halo 4 maps would be playable in H2A...
Reach maps deserve a lot of shit, though. Same with many maps that came out for H3 starting with cold storage onwards. They used bad philosophy which wouldn't work in any of the halo environments... clutter on walls, using stairs instead of ramps, really noisy texture work that blended players in with the environment. Difficult positional awareness on spawn (lack of set pieces or unique geometry/texturing)
Halo 4 mostly fixed those issues, but the gameplay... particularly with the ordnance and things like AA just made things a clusterfuck.
Some of the maps in H4 with H2 combat and set weapon spawns would probably be fan favorites.
IMO i would really like haven, solace, longbow, exile, vertigo in H2 engine
For example... i thought halo 4 maps were pretty darn good, but the mechanics really damaged the quality of gameplay expected on those maps. This is why i was really hopeful halo 4 maps would be playable in H2A...
Reach maps deserve a lot of shit, though. Same with many maps that came out for H3 starting with cold storage onwards. They used bad philosophy which wouldn't work in any of the halo environments... clutter on walls, using stairs instead of ramps, really noisy texture work that blended players in with the environment. Difficult positional awareness on spawn (lack of set pieces or unique geometry/texturing)
Halo 4 mostly fixed those issues, but the gameplay... particularly with the ordnance and things like AA just made things a clusterfuck.
Some of the maps in H4 with H2 combat and set weapon spawns would probably be fan favorites.
IMO i would really like haven, solace, longbow, exile, vertigo in H2 engine
ViewtifulJC
Banned
So David, all in all it boils down to this, did you learn and remove sprint or not
Nope, as many as you like, as long as you cancel before release date.
Ein Bear
Member
Damn, this trailer still gets me hyped every time I see it. Between this and the 'diorama' adverts, Halo 3 probably had the best marketing campaign in gaming history.
Diablohead
Member
It sucks that Call of Duty, Titanfall and Destiny all go for the die quick respawn quick approach, I enjoy titanfall for it's robots and running around on walls but the shooting is boring.
I love halo because it takes more then a second to kill someone with full shields unless you plan a grenade hit first or have a power weapon, you can react to being shot at in halo more often then not.