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Halo |OT 21| Battle is the Great Redeemer | LIVE. DIE. RESPAWN.
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Definitely isn't in btb. Would have to do some customs testing to see if it elsewhere.
We did a custom game and it seemed like the turbo ... Need to test again to be sure.
I thought it was a TU that changed everything, but it could be game type /playlist hooks instead.
Bungie did a lot of great stuff with Halo. However like you said a lot of the problems started with them and 343 is doing a hell of a job to rectify it and win back the crowd. Yeah they've made mistakes. They've also shown that they can learn from them and really do care about Halo and everyone who loves it. I get why people are angry and disappointed but I can't believe some of the bullshit I've seen people say.
The MCC started at 343 is what I mean though. Yeah they outsourced it but ultimately it was their call if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully the new movement system allows 343 to make some really cool maps in Halo 5 though. I'd love to see trick jumps that involve the thruster pack and even the ground pound or wall climb.
Sweeeeeeeet. I loved Ricochet.
Good games with Rev3rb. Awesome clip from tonight. My blood was pumping. This is why i love Halo.
Son of Sam
Banned
That horrible BR spread lol.
Jesus christ, I miss Halo.
I've worked like 70 hours this week in preparation for Black Friday, so I haven't even touched my Xbox since like last Tuesday.
TheOhrenberger.
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Can't wait to get off this campus for thanksgiving break so I can have a NAT type that isn't strict. Hopefully I'll be able to play some customs with GAFers.
Der Flatulator
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Kibbles
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Fuck this. How in the world could they release it like this and still not have it working. I can't even play with my friend. We get a game in then it seperates us and it won't work again and keeps having issues so we have to reboot the game just to get the chance we can search for a game again and still have issues. So fucking done.
Awesome, just awesome. Love how my one spotlight in that was me getting splattered by the ghost. XD
I know it was technically Post-Throwdown, but Clique, I feel like my clip of me preventing that enemy flag return with literally 0:01 seconds remaining needs to be shown to the world, haha.
biosnake20
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I'm surprised they haven't talked more about the H5 beta yet. There are still 4 maps and another gametype to reveal.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Got to trickle release the goodness. There was plenty of that with MCC
Probably because the game they launched doesn't work yet?
GringoSuave89
Banned
Forgot how much fun I had with Halo 3's skull /terminal hunt. Especially IWHBYD
I love that GIF. The baby is just losing it.
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Just saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Holy shit.
Wasn't that in the campaign too? I could've sworn there was a part where you had to control and detonate a drone missile or something.
Not surprised though. They completely tried to take as much as they could from Call of Duty for Halo 4. At least they were smart enough to not introduce killstreaks. Halo 5, it seems like they listened enough to remove the random elements, make it a more equal and fair game, but it's shaping up to be a new style of multi-player. Going to see how the beta plays out before I either accept it or move on from the series.
Going through and unlocking these terminals.
Man H2 is pretty. I love the colour pallet. And the lighting is absolutely gorgeous (that part on Quarantine Zone where there are three Wraiths and their plasma mortars light up the sky... amazing)
I'm still not convinced that every other non-arena mode in H5 won't have this kind of stuff.
Man H2 is pretty. I love the colour pallet. And the lighting is absolutely gorgeous (that part on Quarantine Zone where there are three Wraiths and their plasma mortars light up the sky... amazing)
Haha, 343i.
I'm still not convinced that every other non-arena mode in H5 won't have this kind of stuff.
That is proobably in the game cause of the campaign section
I know they modded that target designator into multiplayer that was similar to the Reach one. I'm just glad 343 had the sense to not do kill streaks. That would be awful. Though I can see the Target Designator being fun for party game types.
It was the mission where you fire a nuke at the Didacts ship thing. I forget what you were firing at. It was the Mammoth level though and at the very end of the level you go to a little computer thing, start the missile and "guide" it. I'm pretty sure you could have no input on it though and it would still hit.
NobleGundam
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Close but there's no computer.
It's the level "Reclaimer" where former captain andrew del rio wanted a team to a shoot down the giant turrets guarding the artificial gravity-well near the end using a target designator at the edge of the cliff.
Oh yeah. Thanks.
For some reason I remember there being a little set up on the cliff. Weird.
A bit OT.
So, just watching Nightfall all over again, and one of the ONI agents notes that the surface area of the Alpha Halo shard is 96 km2 - but that's got me puzzled.
The stated width of the Halo is 318km, assuming that the surface area refers to the facing side of the ring only, the fragment would only be 300 meters long (to note, at that length the iconic Halo horizon would be imperceptible, then again the fragment would be so tiny that it could be crossed at an amble pace in minutes, let alone requiring Horses or dropships). However here's the ring as seen from a close flyby:
The fragment is easily a thousand kilometers in length, so the total surface area would be closer to 318,000 km^2. Am I going mad here? Or is the ONI agent off by four orders of magnitude in his estimation?
So, just watching Nightfall all over again, and one of the ONI agents notes that the surface area of the Alpha Halo shard is 96 km2 - but that's got me puzzled.
The stated width of the Halo is 318km, assuming that the surface area refers to the facing side of the ring only, the fragment would only be 300 meters long (to note, at that length the iconic Halo horizon would be imperceptible, then again the fragment would be so tiny that it could be crossed at an amble pace in minutes, let alone requiring Horses or dropships). However here's the ring as seen from a close flyby:
The fragment is easily a thousand kilometers in length, so the total surface area would be closer to 318,000 km^2. Am I going mad here? Or is the ONI agent off by four orders of magnitude in his estimation?
Whoa I did miss this
Son of Sam
Banned
it's about time they realized the HUD can't be blue.
Okay, I got all the terminals in Halo CEA, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4
but I didn't get the achievement for the last one in Halo 4 because the Halo Channel glitched and it wouldn't play. I also don't have the nameplate for unlocking all the terminals. Even though in the Halo MCC menu it says I've unlocked the achievement.
And for some reason you can't activate terminals more than once in Halo 4. So I'm stuck
;_;
but I didn't get the achievement for the last one in Halo 4 because the Halo Channel glitched and it wouldn't play. I also don't have the nameplate for unlocking all the terminals. Even though in the Halo MCC menu it says I've unlocked the achievement.
And for some reason you can't activate terminals more than once in Halo 4. So I'm stuck
;_;
Gabotron ES
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Looks like it. We've seen the modes Slayer, Breakout and now Strongholds. That's it folks.Territories is the secret gametype?
Where's my BTB on steroids...
Has it been confirmed that Breakout modifies weapon damage to make kill times quicker?
Greenskull told me that the shields are multi-layered and in Breakout the top layer is completely removed making kill times faster.
He's got a couple videos up where you can see the visual difference in how the shield is presented on the UI versus regular multiplayer.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
I wonder what the design rationale is behind making different gametypes have different kill times
other than making Breakout play more like esports COD modes
Deadly Cyclone
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If this is a mode like Destiny or Battlefield where you capture bases and get points for the capture that's awesome. Kind of have it in plots/territories now, but not quite the same.
User 73706
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I think it's funny that Destiny played around with the idea of making a capture-point gametype where the capture points double as trait zones, modifying points per kill, player traits, etc. I had actually suggested something similar to spice up Three Plots a while back where each Plot would have its own specialty - speed, damage, and defense - where the "contributors" for each capture (those directly involved in staying in the zone during the point of successful seizure) would receive a boost to their movement speed / dexterity, weapon / melee damage and shielding, respectively.
I do actually like the idea of introducing variables that modify point-per-kill rates, but I think those should stick to Slayer, honestly.
I do actually like the idea of introducing variables that modify point-per-kill rates, but I think those should stick to Slayer, honestly.
Captain Friendo
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My guess is that they looked at modes like Swat, Griffball, and Zombies for inspiration in creating new modes. None of those modes hold themselves too much to the core Halo arena principles, and with that idea they can experiment and add something new to the game. Those modes are often stuff they show to journalist to show them the new innovative modes that are coming to new Halo.
While I understand your point, I think there's a difference between Reach, where guns acted differently, and this, which is much more akin to different gametypes having no shields, etc. Your gun is behaving the same, there are just different parameters around it, and it's a lot easier to say "oh this is Breakout with the crazy Paintball maps, I die quicker" than to look at a choice of "Slayer DMRs, TU Slayer, TU Elite Slayer" and figure out what the hell is supposed to be different.
NobleGundam
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Beat ya to it before halo 4 was out. Just ask frank.
User 73706
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I'm with you on this one, honestly. It's not like they're even modifying damage parameters or bleedthrough or anything - clarifying that you only have one life and less health seems like an extremely reasonable set of conditions to get across to players. Reach / 4 were getting out of hand with the TU / TU BETA / DMRs / CEAMP / Legendary / Infinity / Standard rulesets.
By the way, how would you guys feel about more "golden snitch" conditions in gametypes, like dropping off ten skulls in Headhunter to insta-win the match? My line of thinking is that the Headhunter example would have to be the minimum requirement in terms of difficulty, and obviously wouldn't work with multi-phase / "procedural" gametypes like Invasion. For example getting a Killionaire in FFA Slayer, Unfrigginbelievable in Big Team, etc.
We also really need a "Point of No Return" qualifier that instantly ends the match in Objectives once it's impossible for the enemy team to recover.
DontBeThatGuy
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man, I've had nothing but a miserable experience on Lockout, nostalgia be damned. H2:A needs a remastered Midship something serious.
Cross-Posting from "1th Patch" Thread:
So sad, but so true. :-(
I think Halo AND 343's reputation is already damaged from this, but the question really is how much PERMANENT damage has been done and to what extent is that affected every WEEK the MCC is still broken?
So sad, but so true. :-(
I think Halo AND 343's reputation is already damaged from this, but the question really is how much PERMANENT damage has been done and to what extent is that affected every WEEK the MCC is still broken?
The spawns on some of the remastered maps are just terrible, Stonetown or what Zanzibar is now called has the same problem
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