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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo

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Omni

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I was checking in custom games to see if the others were okay. Tried Halo CE first

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Sidewinder, everybody.

dat black crush. Literally unplayable. There must be something wrong here.
 
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Booties

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I watched a stupid video saying that the master chief is basically the didact by way of imprinting of bornstellar-didacts geno........zzzzzzzzzzzz

Halo 5's story is going to be so bad. At least there is a new badass black dude coming. Hopefulyl he kills the chief and is just a dick in general.
 
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Omoshai

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-Ryn said:
I've met plenty of people who like sprint in Halo. Most people I talked to about it in Halo Reach and 4 liked it or didn't mind it. A lot of them had been friends I had played with since Halo 3 too. While I don't think sprint belongs in smaller maps (2v2 or 4v4), I think that in the case of BTB it adds to the gameplay and works well. BTB is still Halo yes but it's not small arena shootouts anymore. There's vehicles, more weapons, and travel time which majorly affect the way it plays. While sprint does affect gameplay yes, it doesn't make it something entirely different nor does it have to affect it negatively.

To say that 343 haven't changed ignores a lot of things they've done as well. They've been improving Halo 4 since its release, are releasing a massive collection for the next generation, have hired major pros, are showing great support for competetive gaming and have done a much better job at communicating. I don't think ADS belongs in Halo either (hell it contradicts an established reason in the story for why Spartans don't use sights), however they have implemented it in a way that won't affect gameplay so I can live with it. I'm not saying that it makes it any less arbitrary of a change or that I think it justifies having it however it at least shows they understand how scope works is a fundamental part of Halo.

If you see a feature in another game (popular or not) and think that it could work well in your own game, I think it's fine to do it. Just because it "originated" in a different game doesn't mean it can't be a nice addition to your own.


If you ever need someone to game with on the 360 just send me message dude. I know your pain.
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I can see where your coming from and appreciate the reply, your definitely right, where the idea originated from does not necessarily mean it can't be a nice addition and agree fully that 343 has done some things as good if not better then when Bungie was in control, hiring pros being a great example. For me though, sprint crosses the line and breaks key functions of what made Halo appealing.

I would be up for some games! I managed to get MCC a little early so if you have a One add my gamertag, its Keys Open Doors.

willow ve said:

You can only stray so far from what Halo was originally before your new game is really just an amalgamation of ideas cribbed from other popular games.

Edit - limiting game mechanics to certain playlists is a bad idea in my opinion.
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100% agreed
 
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dwells

Member
randomrosso said:
Got the game. eeeeeeh. It's 2014, 343i. Why can't I adjust safe zones? Even CoD gives you the damn option. Now I have to put up with this

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it's just annoying. Text is hard as fuck to read as well.
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Fantastic. I'll get to put up with this too, since the TV I'm using has some undefeatable overscan.

Again, it's little details like this which are really disappointing to see. It makes the game look rushed or otherwise haphazard. It's really disheartening how bad news keeps on rolling in for this collection.
 
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danwarb

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Booties said:
I watched a stupid video saying that the master chief is basically the didact by way of imprinting of bornstellar-didacts geno........zzzzzzzzzzzz

Halo 5's story is going to be so bad. At least there is a new badass black dude coming. Hopefulyl he kills the chief and is just a dick in general.
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Bollocks I reckon. It seems all human are imprinted, and other human characters can activate Forerunner junk in the games.
 
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Trey

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danwarb said:
Bollocks I reckon. It seems all human are imprinted, and other human characters can activate Forerunner junk in the games.
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Chief has that special anti didact geass that the librarian unlocked which makes the chief immune to didact's bullshit. It's in the Halo 4 terminals.
 
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Omni

Member
Deadly Cyclone said:
Taking "screenshots" with a camera makes it a bit hard for us to see anything.
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I know. I don't have any other way to do it. I could try the game DVR to see if it's rendering like that or if it's my TV that's screwing up on this one game, I guess.

Strangely enough H2:Anniversary is fine so I don't think it's my set in particular

Booties said:
How are you playing?
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I'm Australian. Had the game predownloaded. :)
 
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Omni

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Well, I can't seem to upload any clips from the MCC to youtube. I suppose MS disabled that to stop leaks and the alike for the time being.

Might as well try and go through this campaign now. But man. It took me 10 seconds to notice these things and now my hype is severely deflated. Safe zones and black crush. Eh.
 
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wwm0nkey

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randomrosso said:
Well, I can't seem to upload any clips from the MCC to youtube. I suppose MS disabled that to stop leaks and the alike for the time being.

Might as well try and go through this campaign now. But man. It took me 10 seconds to notice these things and now my hype is severely deflated. Safe zones and black crush. Eh.
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Did you disable over scan on your TV like others said?
 
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TTUVAPOR

Banned
So i see that tsquared and his str8 rippin team couldn't pull out the win, believe the hype won the tournament yesterday. Man, t2 cant catch a break eh?
 
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klodeckel

Banned
Halo Channel app is now available.

We will get a new Halo Bulletin (video) every Friday with updates directly from 343 Industries. Pretty neat!
 
Sikamikanico

Sikamikanico

#1 Dad
randomrosso said:
I was checking in custom games to see if the others were okay. Tried Halo CE first

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Sidewinder, everybody.

dat black crush. Literally unplayable. There must be something wrong here.
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I've had the game for ages, and it doesn't look like that. There isn't any black crush.

What are you playing on, screen wise?

:/
 
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willow ve

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EdibleExplosives said:
God, the Xbox One download times are insanely fucking slow for me. The preload is downloading at a crawl.
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For all their "power of the cloud" and "Azure this and azure that" their available bandwidth is so limited. On a 50Mbps download at my house I routinely find that Xbox downloads are limited to 0.7-2Mbps. Everything else in the house on multiple different services can saturate the bandwidth comfortably. It must be on Microsoft's side that the bandwidth is limited.
 
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danwarb

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I got a consistent 4MB/s for the pre-load. It seemed like that was the limit here.

Trey said:
Chief has that special anti didact geass that the librarian unlocked which makes the chief immune to didact's bullshit. It's in the Halo 4 terminals.
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Yeah, that's a bit in Halo 4 I'd forgotten. It'd be better, weirder, if the Librarian brought up some Forthencho(?) instead, to oppose the Didact.
 
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dwells

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willow ve said:
For all their "power of the cloud" and "Azure this and azure that" their available bandwidth is so limited. On a 50Mbps download at my house I routinely find that Xbox downloads are limited to 0.7-2Mbps. Everything else in the house on multiple different services can saturate the bandwidth comfortably. It must be on Microsoft's side that the bandwidth is limited.
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It is a matter of their server/bandwidth allocation not being able to keep up with demand. I've run into the same thing many a time on my connection where my paid Xbox Live subscription can't saturate a 100 Mbps pipe. Meanwhile, a free connection to an NNTP server in another continent has no problem pulling it off...

As for Azure, I've had some experiences at work that have been worrying to say the least.
 
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Omni

Member
wwm0nkey said:
Did you disable over scan on your TV like others said?
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I can't seem to do it enough to fix it.

It's only Halo 2 though. Halo CE, 3 and 4 are fine (Slight tangent. Halo 3 and 4 are gorgeous. Wow)
Sikamikanico said:
I've had the game for ages, and it doesn't look like that. There isn't any black crush.

What are you playing on, screen wise?

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It's a 720p plasma. So nothing terribly new. But I've never had any problems with any other games regarding black crush.
 
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EdibleExplosives

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TTUVAPOR said:
Msft throttles the downloads, i dont know why. My isp is 25mb/s and i was downloading at snail speed, my friend has 50mb/s and same thing was happening to him.
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willow ve said:
For all their "power of the cloud" and "Azure this and azure that" their available bandwidth is so limited. On a 50Mbps download at my house I routinely find that Xbox downloads are limited to 0.7-2Mbps. Everything else in the house on multiple different services can saturate the bandwidth comfortably. It must be on Microsoft's side that the bandwidth is limited.
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Ah, well that's fucking shitty. I should be getting 50Mbps+ and I'm getting nowhere near that.
At this rate, it won't be ready before midnight.
 
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The Henery

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Ramirez said:
A lot of people complain about crackling/popping while talking, I dunno.
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Late to this but I drastically reduced the whistling noise by plugging the headset usb into an external power source. I used the plug adapter from my phone charger.

ultimota said:
I have on multiple occasions defended the design decisions of halo but this is beyond defending .

with the addition of ADS these people have now taken the franchise i love away from me.
EVERY game now has ads it makes them all play the same destiny, cod, battlefield they all play fundamentally the same and now Halo 5 is just another game THIS IS NOT HALO.

this isn't fair what could possibly have compelled them to completely change how the game plays. sprint, armor abilities and loadouts those things mean nothing because the game still at a base level played like halo but ads changes everything.

i can't handle this, i'm freaking 25 years old and i'm sitting here typing this at the brink of tears because THEY HAVE STOLEN HALO FROM ME.
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klodeckel

Banned
Stats are up on Halowaypoint.com for The Master Chief Collection.

Even includes stats for Skill Ranks in comparison with friends etc.

Really awesome! And very clean.
 
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Poodlestrike

Banned
I don't think it's so bad, but then again I've got this thing where none of my downloads on my 10 mbps connection ever go above 1 or so, so that might just be in comparison lol2

EDIT: And yeah, Axl seems to be a new species. Interesting.
 
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Fahzgoolin

Banned
randomrosso said:
I can't seem to do it enough to fix it.

It's only Halo 2 though. Halo CE, 3 and 4 are fine (Slight tangent. Halo 3 and 4 are gorgeous. Wow)


It's a 720p plasma. So nothing terribly new. But I've never had any problems with any other games regarding black crush.
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I have a plasma as well. Can you adjust the black levels? I have a Panasonic 1080p and I can adjust the scaling as well as the black levels. I have seen sidewinder and the Cairo station intro without any of those issues. Also, I would check the RGB settings and aspect ratio settings in the Xbox One settings dashboard. I have read that some people have default settings that aren't good for their TV, worth a shot maybe.

It really does seem like a TV issue. =P

ViewtifulJC said:
RIP Ragnarok Flames

May he perhaps learn how to communicate with people above kindergarten children level
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If kindergarten children talked like him, he would probably be under strict supervision of a social worker.
 
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Poodlestrike

Banned
Jesus, Halo Channel has a long ass load time.

FAKE EDIT: Wait, here we are! Seems to start with a video overview in barn80p. Can't read a damn thing :lol
 
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Poodlestrike

Banned
VisceralBowl said:
I've never seen that thing before. I haven't read any of the new books so I don't know if it's in any of those.
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The premise of the backstory (that there's actually a ton of other species in the Covenant that we never see because they were too small to make serious military contributions) is an interesting one. Though I suspect that the only reason he's not a Jackal is because they don't have the budget for that much CGI :p
 
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Deception

Member
willow ve said:
For all their "power of the cloud" and "Azure this and azure that" their available bandwidth is so limited. On a 50Mbps download at my house I routinely find that Xbox downloads are limited to 0.7-2Mbps. Everything else in the house on multiple different services can saturate the bandwidth comfortably. It must be on Microsoft's side that the bandwidth is limited.
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Yeah it must be your ISP then because I average anywhere from 50-70 mbps on my downloads with 70 mbps Xfinity internet.
 
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Omni

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Few minor complaints aside. This is absolutely fantastic. I'm just sitting here playing the first level of Halo 2 with a big ol' smile on my face

I'm playing and I just want to play more. I can see myself putting so much time into this.
 
nillapuddin

nillapuddin

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Tbh guys, preload has been up for like 2 weeks. Yall shoulda known better than to wait this long, dl'ing 60 GB in a day is cutting it too close.

Hope yall are running Wired atleast. May your download speeds beat the clock to midnight.
 
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