FatMarshall
Neo Member
Speaking of cynicism, can these dumb, unnecessary kill cams be disabled in Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer?
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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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I just don't like the oversized nose and the wider mouth. Eyes look fine though.
They're off by default in matchmaking, and optional in custom games.
Loving the Terminals, half expecting a
The trailer gave me the impression that it focused primarily on the Arbiter; but this seems to being focusing on each Terminal dealing with the backstory of the specific environment involved.
Edit: The Bulletin says otherwise. Nevermind!
Ancient Humanity or Mendicant Bias related terminal in the game.
The trailer gave me the impression that it focused primarily on the Arbiter; but this seems to being focusing on each Terminal dealing with the backstory of the specific environment involved.
Edit: The Bulletin says otherwise. Nevermind!
LinkToTheFuture
Member
My face.
And I thought my hype was over agonizing (°ロ°)
Agreed. Compared to the old one this one packs way more of what they were trying to get across in terms of.. whatever emotion the moon is conveying x.x
Glad I wasn't the only one who was thinking of that. I am also expecting some wild curve ball to appear in the terminals somewhere >.> Trying to brace for it early.
It's... beautiful
Still betting on 85 Metascore. Remakes generally get lower scores and AAA games have generally been receiving the shaft in the last few years. I remember when 8/10 was a low score for a good game, now Sunset Overdrive gets plenty of 8s and 9s and it is suddenly very good. (I haven't played it and I'm not doubting its quality, I'll probably end up getting it soon.)
Stuff like the 20GB patch, framerate issues, minor bugs etc might pull it down.
This is probably a low end estimate but I'm keeping my expectations low.
Stuff like the 20GB patch, framerate issues, minor bugs etc might pull it down.
This is probably a low end estimate but I'm keeping my expectations low.
Just got back from watching Interstellar....... Stil no patch
how was it?
BeekleMatter
Member
wait...what?!
EroticSushi
Member
Yeah, only ranked and visible playlist is Team Halo 2 Anniversary. The rest remain unranked until post launch. How long this will be we don't know. But knowing 343 and how long they took with Slayer Pro revamp, I'd expect January after the Halo 5 beta or maybe in December with the Spartan Ops update.
Supposedly there will be internal skill matching, but no ranks.
Why..?
They want to discover problems with it before they roll out to other games to make sure it's working correctly
nillapuddin
Member
I was under the impression there would be a ranked/social set up, wasnt that confirmed during IGN first?
YourExWife
Member
Yeah... Not like 3 of the games in the collection have had ranking systems already. It's like we said, this game is being developed and released with too much crunch and some stuff just didn't make the deadline so they prioritized certain stuff.
I surely hope we're not going to have a repeat of the Halo 4 launch with a bunch of stuff just not in the game (H4 file share for example) or half finished and/or half functioning.
Kinda sounds like whats gonna happen. They already have a ranked H2A playlist and a social one. My guess is they'll just add a ranked playlist for the others later and leave the existing ones as the social playlist.
NobleGundam
Banned
I'm referring to the terminals only.
ArchedThunder
Banned
How did you see the epilogue when the terminals aren't on disc and are on the Halo Channel?
lifeexpectancy
Member
*Possibly* in Halo CE, but 2 3 and 4 all had solid enough net code so they should be fine. I played Halo 3 and 4 over live co-op and never had any issues, and that was on 360 so it should be even better now, unless the faster framerate throws a hitch in it and makes what used to be imperceptible input lag now noticeable, albeit minor.
tl ; dr I'm not worried.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Halo 2 never had online co-op and Halo 3 was well known for its bad net code in co-op.
This image is fucking beautiful. The ranks, the game types, (all 3 please) the normal player cards and not the ridiculous baseball card-layout of Halo 4...
Damn straight 343. All 59.1GB ready to go.
lifeexpectancy
Member
I didn't say Halo 2 had online co op. Re-read my post. I said it had solid enough net code (it had online multiplayer that ran reasonably well).
And as far as Halo 3 goes, I never had any issues playing online co-op. It was perfectly acceptable for me performance wise.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
Terminals worked for me in H2A.
Strangest thing just happened. I booted up Halo 4 to check on a forge map after not playing the game since June of 2013. Right as Halo 4 logged into my account, I got a system notification that 16 achievements unlocked.
The achievements that unlocked are from DLC map packs and I have definitely not met the criteria for them. I'll take the free gamerscore.... just thought it was strange. Anybody else experienced this?
The achievements that unlocked are from DLC map packs and I have definitely not met the criteria for them. I'll take the free gamerscore.... just thought it was strange. Anybody else experienced this?
Part of a recent Halo 4 TU.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Ok watching alfredo plays stream and gungoose ctf looks hilariously awesome.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
New Forge is ridiculous.
YourExWife
Member
And that netcode isn't the same nor does it meet the needs and sync requirements of co-op netcode.
Also, despite your poor memory, Halo 3's netcode, both co-op and multiplayer, was total garbage.
New Forge is ridiculous.
oh man, I can't wait to play with it
New Forge is ridiculous.
Niiiiice. Streaming?
Let me grill you about forge while you're streaming plz
nillapuddin
Member
Demoncarnotaur
Member
New Forge is ridiculous.
I can't wait to see what people make.
I'm still surprised there isn't a hammer which stops new griffball maps from happening.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
Could they?
nillapuddin
Member
no hammer, but what about the children, what about nokyard :'(
y u do dis CA?
y u do dis CA?
Yep.
Well, not only because you can have unlimited patch sizes these days, but the Halo engine stores the weapon data in the map files
Halo 3 actually added the Golf Club as a new gun in Sandbox, for example, and the Transport Hornet was for all intents a completely new vehicle as far as the engine was concerned.
The golf ball and soccer balls in the Halo 3 DLC are actually new vehicles, you just can't get in them. You can 'flip' them with RB, though.
Reach added the Covenant Bomb for Invasion Breakpoint.
etc
SHIFTYkiwi
Member
Everyone knows that halo 3 grifball was the best grifball.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
There's a version of Bloodline that has classic teleporters instead of Mancannnons. Thank god.
If someone has the MCC and can load up the Forge canvas:
Start a Forge session and go to the north of the map until you get stopped by an invisible wall or soft kill. Spawn a small static object as close to that wall as you can, edit it's coordinates, and write down those coordinates.
Do that for the opposite side, and the other direction (east/west). Write all those coordinates down.
then spawn an object in the water and write down the Z value of it's Edit Coordinates. Go as high as you can and write down that Z.
That would tell you how big the H2A canvas is compared to other maps or Forge canvases across Halo games.
Start a Forge session and go to the north of the map until you get stopped by an invisible wall or soft kill. Spawn a small static object as close to that wall as you can, edit it's coordinates, and write down those coordinates.
Do that for the opposite side, and the other direction (east/west). Write all those coordinates down.
then spawn an object in the water and write down the Z value of it's Edit Coordinates. Go as high as you can and write down that Z.
That would tell you how big the H2A canvas is compared to other maps or Forge canvases across Halo games.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
Did you know there were birds in standoff? I never noticed. If there were, they'd have to be two to three pixels large on the original version of the game.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Does the 59.1GB include the 20GB patch or does that still need to be downloaded?
also note the location of the origin, since some of the halo 4 maps where weird about that. also, many of them weren't cubic, if I recall...
yeah. This is Forge Island, the biggest canvas so far
Guaranteed the map can't be bigger than a certain size due to file format limitations of Forge variants, but I'm wondering how the H2A canvases compare to Forge Island.