Fifth Element fan? Nice. Welcome. Was the Xbox One and MCC purchased before the issues and waiting for Christmas, or were you promised it and now it's just waiting till Christmas?
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Halo |OT 21| Battle is the Great Redeemer | LIVE. DIE. RESPAWN.
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Fifth Element fan? Nice. Welcome. Was the Xbox One and MCC purchased before the issues and waiting for Christmas, or were you promised it and now it's just waiting till Christmas?
Agreed. I wish they'd at least make it an option to toggle off the visual of the scope.
I hadn't heard that automatics are better with smart scope. Didn't they say zooming wouldn't increase accuracy? Hopefully not.
Welcome.
It's definitely improving so hopefully in the next few weeks, it'll be even more stable.
ADS in this isn't like ADS in CoD. This seems to be a hybrid. It's like the old ones but with animation and without blacking out the surrounding area.
H2's checkpoints don't let you resume.
You mean this?
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Torvus Bog Submerged Temple from MP2 is the superior underwater track, imo.
It's ADS but without slowdown in movement, and hip firing remains accurate. And I get that. It's nothing like classic zoom in Halo at all. It's almost identical to ADS in CoD/Destiny.
Let me ask you something, what benefit does it give you over the old one?
Thank you for the welcomes. I purchased the game and console for me and the other half during Black Friday here in the UK, so I guess whilst MCC was still knee deep in issues, semi confident it would be working in time. After reading the threads here and over on reddit for a month, I'm genuinely intrigued to see what my own experience will be like.
Welcome to the madness that is HaloGAF. Considering that you just got verified we should expect to see more new faces popping up.
User 73706
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That's just an arrangement of Brinstar Red Soil in the style of Metroid Prime 2's themes, though. Torvus Bog's main theme is the best underwater track.
Halo isn't ready for a Torvus Bog, though. 343 Guilty Spark (level) is probably the closest we're going to get, but fighting through a space bog with some Precursor artifacts / working your way to a Harvester would be fun.
Same, I truly think it can be a great game. I'm sure it'll have its awkward/rough patches but hopefully the Halo community can work in tandem to get them ironed out for the full game.
Haven't touched MCC since last patch, played a solid game of Swat, now I'm diving deep into my backlog and waiting for the patch that re-adds ranks/all playlists.
Can't wait for the Beta now.
Does anybody else think they're going to have a second beta for Arena or BTB in the summer?
RSB
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Didn't you get the memo? Having half of your screen obstructed when you zoom is awesome! So modern, much inmersion, wow.
LOL, but seriously, 343 better include classic scope as an option.
ViewtifulJC
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Nightfall is so bad, lol
The games, the comics, the live-action show...nothing is good about this franchise right now. Shit is sad, brehs.
The games, the comics, the live-action show...nothing is good about this franchise right now. Shit is sad, brehs.
RSB
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I asked Frankie directly about having the option to use classic scopes and he said:
It seems a classic scope option is not out of the question yet, so I'll keep asking for it.
So hyped for it! The only thing that bothers me is the feel "going back" after that three weeks.
Welcome.
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Did Josh say we should be getting some Halo 5 stuff this week? I would like to know more about the "7 maps" and whether or not daytime Midship = it's own map.
The architecture and geometry on the map obviously is different, so it's definitely an own map.
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[Halo is dad] ?
ViewtifulJC
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[#WeBlack]
I think it's like you said - to make it more like people are used to with other games. I'm not saying a like it, but I don't think it's that different than the old way. My issue is it'll be distracting, but then again it'll also give you more peripheral vision.
Actually didn't know that. I knew the Magmoor Caverns track from MP1 was a new arrangement of a Super Metroid track, but not Submerged Temple (I can hear that being a 32-bit track though). Submerged Temple is simply one of the best ambient video game tracks to do work to though.
I love how the main Torvus bog track sounds, based in the year 2014, like some weird downtempo proto-dubstep track. The folks at Retro were REALLY ahead of the curve there weren't they?
I thought the jungle section of H4's Infinity level was the cloest Halo came to a Metroid experience. Hate Promethean Vision all you want, but I couldn't help but smile that they introduced in a very Metroid-like way (to help you see enemies in the dense, foggy jungle). Halo could use more things like different visor modes (obviously ones that aren't as over-powered as PV though).
Eeeeyup, same here.
In the middle, sure, but it's still Midship at heart. Although it's cool that there will be variants, it's an obnoxious way of padding your map count.
What if they are making us vote on which of these Midship versions will actually be in the final game? Somebody mentioned we will get to vote each week for something and I'm starting to believe it's a map vote.
I don't think all of these map versions will be in the final game. :/
I don't think all of these map versions will be in the final game. :/
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I'm not a big fan of halo 3, but I do love the map, Standoff. Been in matchmaking for over an hour now and have yet to get a CE game... Several tied votes between between CE and 2 and 3. Of course the CE map option is stuck on the far right... Having some good games today though.
Welfare
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[the struggle] seems appropriate.
I find it hard to believe they would waste money on maps that will be thrown away.
Well, I think people will always find something to complain about.
The map has a completely different art direction. It looks like that Midship dropped down on a planet or something. If we will have 7 maps (even with similarities) 10 months before release already I expect the map count to be totally fine.
Did you play the Reach beta?
Deputy Moonman
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I've been using Halogaf, but I'm robably an embarrassment to the name
Oh look more tie votes not going to CE... Big surprise
I hate to be negative, but it just seems like they're trying to give us stuff that we feel comfortable with (Midship is a favorite map, 4v4 arena based, etc) while still injecting the new stuff that we've been vocally complaining and arguing against. Kind of like, "well you might not like this.....but here's Midship" kind of thing.
I've been using Halogaf, but I'm robably an embarrassment to the name
Oh look more tie votes not going to CE... Big surprise
They really need to add a CE playlist. It's the most fun I've had so far when it runs properly without lag.
Maybe with the Night/Daytime map, but noway this would be the case with the Midship version, there are other textures and stuff.
I doubt they would waste time and resources on maps variants/ finalize them and then scrap them.
I also would have no problem with 2 similiar maps like we saw, benefits competive play
Maybe, but why have the same map several times with slight changes? That's going to be boring and confusing in MP, I think.
I don't know, just seems odd to me.
I'm saying they did change the final version(s) of maps. Sword Base was very different visually in the beta.
It was...?
I played the Beta and the final build. I don't remember notable visual differences, but I'd love to see if someone could dig up comparison shots. The main thing I remember about the Reach Beta was that Armor Lock was HILARIOUSLY OP--like tactical-nuke level OP.
Fata1moose
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It was...?
I played the Beta and the final build. I don't remember notable visual differences, but I'd love to see if someone could dig up comparison shots. The main thing I remember about the Reach Beta was that Armor Lock was HILARIOUSLY OP--like tactical-nuke level OP.
The final version was battle hardened with blast holes in the walls and whatnot. The one in the beta was clean and pristine.
Deputy Moonman
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Yep. Just done 3 games in a row where CE tied with something else and now im going on 2 hours with no CE match. seriously?
Yay?
Microsoft Wants Halo to Last Another 30 Years
Edit: Somebody make a thread and lets count the "milking the franchise" comments. lol
Microsoft Wants Halo to Last Another 30 Years
Edit: Somebody make a thread and lets count the "milking the franchise" comments. lol
User 73706
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343's poor higher-ups that stay with the company are going to look more weathered than US presidents by the end of this.
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