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Halo |OT 21| Battle is the Great Redeemer | LIVE. DIE. RESPAWN.
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ShyGuy0504
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Got into a 4v4 AR starts on Snowbound earlier.
My team lost.
I'd like to thank my teammate that went 1 and 17. :/
My team lost.
I'd like to thank my teammate that went 1 and 17. :/
VisceralBowl
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shudders...
ShyGuy0504
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And co-op actually makes it harder because if one player dies you revert to the last checkpoint.
So all you're doing is giving them another target.
Welfare
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Oh how fucking stupid. Managed to get in a game of Halo 2 Anniversary. But the game only has 6 people. So logically you'd think it would make two teams of 3, right?
No. 2v4 because who even knows. Everything about the matchmaking part of this game is so frustrating.
No. 2v4 because who even knows. Everything about the matchmaking part of this game is so frustrating.
I never really had a problem with these guys. I mean they're a pain. But their spawns are static throughout, right? Brutes are far worse
Bornstellar
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Did outskirts legendary today.
Almost threw the controller against the wall too many times.
Halo 3 had grown on me a lot over the years but playing Halo CE and Halo 2 Legendary right before Halo 3 Legendary made me realize how boring it is compared to the first two. Brutes aren't as interesting to fight as Elites, the Flood enemies fall apart if you sneeze on them and the overall gunplay is just not up to par compared to pretty much any of the other Halo games. It probably has the best encounters and vehicle gameplay but the moment to moment combat just isn't that great.
Welfare
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Use the rooftops. Never deal with Jackal snipers again.
GringoSuave89
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H2 Brutes > H3 Brutes, in terms of difficulty. Idk how they could change so drastically a game later.
Halo 3 is the most fun out of all of them in my opinion. CE is the worst. I find it fun, but I'd usually rather choose Halo 2 or halo 3 missions over CE any day.
Halo 3 has that mix and choice of how you want to take on battles, and its pretty enjoyable. CE I find you basically need to do the same thing each time you play.
Halo 2 Brutes are like 3 shots to the head to kill even on legendary. Really not that hard to deal with.
Halo CE definitely doesn't have the variety or flexibility of Halo 3, but again the core gunplay is the still the most fun in my opinion. Even running through the same grey corridor over and over again stays fun.
Bornstellar
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Sorry, I meant metropolis. I did skip the snipers on outskirts.
This. Even the shitty Halo 2 Needler is useful against Brutes. (I actually quite like the fact that in Halo 4's Campaign the Needler is a power weapon. The weapon deserves some respect.)
Ah, the infamous 17 pairs of Jackal Snipers when you leave the tunnel... having to defeat them to get the Catch skull was interesting.
Edit: Oh, double post. Oops.
Grab the 'hog and just drive past them. The best part of Halo 2 is that can skip most of the worst parts.
That's not just Halo 2; that's every game post CE because of the way the load zones work, as well as the ability to break out of the map more frequently.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
It's not like they spawn in the same places and have slow reaction times or miss quite often...
Metanade. Sounds like lemonade. Only instead of delicously quenching your thirst, it delightfully ruins your enemies framerate.
"Oh no, red team shot the metanade! Watch out, it'll cap your framerate at 15!"
"Oh god my screen looks like stop motion and terrible optimization had a baby!!"
It's a choppy massacre!!!
ODST is good as well with Black Eye + Legendary as well; instead of blindly charging into enemies, avoiding firefights in New Mombasa is worth it.
That's how the game should have been, imo.
What the hell. I just released the Captain in the Truth and Reconciliation and watched the cutscene. Next thing I know, my team mates are shooting me. And I've got a checkpoint so I'm stuck
This is on legendary so I don't want to do it all again. Is there a way to make allies friendly again?
edit. Keyes is a piece of shit and is lobbing grenades at me
This is on legendary so I don't want to do it all again. Is there a way to make allies friendly again?
edit. Keyes is a piece of shit and is lobbing grenades at me
Der Flatulator
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So, I had some friends over for a couple of days to run through co-op campaigns.
Some feedback:
Does CE do the thing where if you die quickly repeatedly after a checkpoint it'll jump back another checkpoint?
Some feedback:
+ H2A and H3 run really well in split-screen. HCEA was ok/good.
+ Games feel as they did, but 60fps is fantastic.
+ Everyone loved the Blur cinematics and the H2A campaign gameplay.
+ Playing from CE to Halo 2 makes you appreciate the BR more.
- Had issues joining the consoles' lobbies. Same as playing online.
- Game kicked us out of a game once, towards the end of T&R.
- Game didn't register co-op completion from Cairo through Metropolis.
- Arbiter missions still suck
- Library is still terrible
+ Games feel as they did, but 60fps is fantastic.
+ Everyone loved the Blur cinematics and the H2A campaign gameplay.
+ Playing from CE to Halo 2 makes you appreciate the BR more.
- Had issues joining the consoles' lobbies. Same as playing online.
- Game kicked us out of a game once, towards the end of T&R.
- Game didn't register co-op completion from Cairo through Metropolis.
- Arbiter missions still suck
- Library is still terrible
Does CE do the thing where if you die quickly repeatedly after a checkpoint it'll jump back another checkpoint?
Nope, that was introduced in Halo 2 IIRC.
I remember this because once Captain Keyes got killed and his mini-cutscene was playing when I got a checkpoint. Lost a Legendary run in TaR because of that.
The only other time I've seen an entire level's progress lost (without doing anything out of the ordinary) was in Monopoli's stream where his Mantis got stuck between two rocks on a checkpoint; if he jumped out he'd fall to his death.
#neverforget
You mean when they swarm you like a wave of annoying plasma?
Yes.
I'm going through Gravemind atm on Heroic and holy shit are they annoying. They all spread out and rain death upon you. They also don't seem to have a headshot so they all take like 3 shots from a carbine to kill. So fucking annoying.
Play through Gravemind and tell me they don't piss you off.
There's one part that stands out a bit which is the the big empty chamber with some grav lifts that go horizontal but you can just snipe them from a distance there.
I'm playing through Gravemind right now and there are a bunch of moments with them. The worst is after you save the Marines and go back up the grav lift. When you get up a bunch fly into the room. In the next corridor you get ambushed by a swarm. Then when you clear that corridor and move up to the door another swarm flies through just as it opens up.
Yeah they just love to spam PP. I feel bad for the janitor.
TriStateTryHard
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I didn't like Halo 3 when it was released on 360 but now it feels butter smooth with a higher frame rate and dedicated servers. I can't believe I'm saying this but I think H3 is better than H2A. I guess I'm a H3 kid now.
Halo 3 would be so good if every match was on dedis and aiming sensitivity acceleration was as good as it is in H2C/A.
Now's a good time to do it since Microsoft is doing the $350 deal. You could probably find other good offers online as well.
Once the MCC is fixed then it will be one of the best collections around so I would definitely recommend an Xbone. The beta is looking pretty sweet as well.
As far as other games are concerned the One does have a bunch of Indie titles lined up that are looking good and the AAA games aren't looking to shabby either.
Nirvana
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Most of the time on Legendary (or I guess Heroic if you're struggling lelscrub) it is best to back up and take cover from them, since they actually shit out damage because of their numbers. The tight corridor sections on Gravemind can be a pain. One thing to note is that in the section where the 3 Elites come out of the door in front of you (after you free the marines from the prison block) if you let the Elites win that section, you fight more Elites, but if the drones win, you get more drones. Good thing to keep in mind.
In the big open area where the Brutes and Elites are fighting near the end the best thing to do is just trigger the enemy spawns and then back up, let them fight, pick off the stragglers, rinse and repeat. All the drone parts in that level are fairly easy.
The worst drone part in the game is probably Delta Halo on Legendary, in the sniper area, but there are some easy ways to get into solid cover there which I discovered more recently which make the part much easier.
You're thinking of High Chairty, not Gravemind I'm pretty sure.
Same thing.
Ashes2Bashers
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Welcome to the club where aiming requires skill..
For anyone who ever claims CE's spawns aren't awful
http://xboxclips.com/Il MeanBean lI/42f59e37-1ee5-400a-8dc8-99c0255e0f11
That said, got into the match within a minute, full teams and very smooth, so that was great. Game broke after that and I've given up now though.
http://xboxclips.com/Il MeanBean lI/42f59e37-1ee5-400a-8dc8-99c0255e0f11
That said, got into the match within a minute, full teams and very smooth, so that was great. Game broke after that and I've given up now though.
TriStateTryHard
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A projectile based utility weapon, ie not a hitscan utility weapon, solves many aiming issues Halo currently has. You can't have the auto aim or bullet magnetism so high when players are always aiming in front of their target instead of directly at him. Leading shots is not just inherently more skillful, it also makes aiming crutches like auto aim or bullet magnetism much less viable.
AIMING SKILLGAP FTW!
80% of my H2A matchmade games look like this:
http://xboxclips.com/Pups x Reloaded/73890f14-cd35-4435-869a-b2297623ebfd
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http://xboxclips.com/Pups x Reloaded/73890f14-cd35-4435-869a-b2297623ebfd
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Slightly Live
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Never figured you as a Forger. The maps looks pretty good and looks well thought out.
The Real Napsta
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After the lastest update I don't get medals in Halo CE or Halo 2 anymore.
Also I kinda miss the Halo CE audio hit markers.
That has never happened to me. All of my MM games I've managed to play were lag free.
Also I kinda miss the Halo CE audio hit markers.
That has never happened to me. All of my MM games I've managed to play were lag free.
The Real Napsta
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sorry double post.
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