TriStateTryHard
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Is Reach Infection considered the greatest Zombies iteration in Halo thus far?
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Halo |OT 21| Battle is the Great Redeemer | LIVE. DIE. RESPAWN.
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It was pretty great but I remember there being something in it that bugged a lot of people.. Can't seem to remember what though...
#noflinch
https://aegisfate.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/halo-5-guardians-early-access-thoughts/
tl;dr
-UI in the early access was janky
-I didn't feel comfortable with any controller setting
-I wasn't sure about how networking killcams worked
-I was unsure of how the ranks worked
-Automatics feel way OP
-Precisions felt underpowered
-Prophet's Bane needs to aim down ya sword
-Sniper needs some work
-Abilities are pretty good, but there may be too many of them
tl;dr
-UI in the early access was janky
-I didn't feel comfortable with any controller setting
-I wasn't sure about how networking killcams worked
-I was unsure of how the ranks worked
-Automatics feel way OP
-Precisions felt underpowered
-Prophet's Bane needs to aim down ya sword
-Sniper needs some work
-Abilities are pretty good, but there may be too many of them
VisceralBowl
Member
As a Bumper Jumper user, I like sprint on A.
I'm probably in the minority.
both are shit maps
Poodlestrike
Banned
Munch Poke
Member
Hey man if I took the time to get in an out of bounds crevice that everyone else can't figure out how to get to that's their problem. I loved the little nook on boardwalk.
User 73706
Banned
Man, to get Reclaimer in on par time (20 minutes) you actively have to use all the exploits you have available. I haven't had a level actually require an exploit outright save for Uprising and Regret. Regret was just a matter of timing your encounters and restarting until you managed to get onto the first Gondola within the first minute, but I had to do a whole bunch of shit to get Reclaimer in on time.
1. as soon as the Mammoth starts moving, use the momentum to jetpack forward and keep on running until you trigger as many loading zones as possible and then jetpack back on top of the Mammoth once it catches up to you
2. Take your first Warthog to the designator, blow up the particle cannon
3. As soon as the Mammoth is over the first river of acid, take the second Warthog and drive all the way up to the first shield wall
4. Rather than target the generators, it's actually as simple as parking up against the shield and clipping through to avoid that encounter
5. Sprint all the way over to the Gauss Hog / Ghost spawn, use the premature Lich kill exploit
6. As soon as you've killed the Lich, take whatever vehicle you can and start driving towards the next series of acid rivers
7. Don't wait on the Mammoth - use the rock formations to your right to jetpack over the acid and then sprint / jetpack all the way to the Sniper Alley segment
8. Cheese this by hugging the rock formations to the left, don't bother with the encounter at all
9. Even at the Promethean Knight spawning platform, you can just straight-up run into the tunnel without fighting anyone and it'll load the next area
10. Go through the motions with the Librarian, run through the halls, teleport to the outdoor area, etc.
11. At the Tank segment, steal a Warthog, Ghost, or Mongoose and drive all the way up to the shield wall
12. Just to the left of it, a small rock formation is jutting out of the canyon walls. By jetpacking onto it, you can use a combination grenade jump / jetpack pulse to get all the way on top of the rock formation
13. Make sure you drop down right in front of the shield wall to trigger the loading zone that spawns the Gravity Well, otherwise you'll end up making the mission impossible to complete, even if you come back to said loading zone
14. Run over to the Designator and blow up the well.
I can't believe how much shit I had to outright run through to so much as get close to par time.
1. as soon as the Mammoth starts moving, use the momentum to jetpack forward and keep on running until you trigger as many loading zones as possible and then jetpack back on top of the Mammoth once it catches up to you
2. Take your first Warthog to the designator, blow up the particle cannon
3. As soon as the Mammoth is over the first river of acid, take the second Warthog and drive all the way up to the first shield wall
4. Rather than target the generators, it's actually as simple as parking up against the shield and clipping through to avoid that encounter
5. Sprint all the way over to the Gauss Hog / Ghost spawn, use the premature Lich kill exploit
6. As soon as you've killed the Lich, take whatever vehicle you can and start driving towards the next series of acid rivers
7. Don't wait on the Mammoth - use the rock formations to your right to jetpack over the acid and then sprint / jetpack all the way to the Sniper Alley segment
8. Cheese this by hugging the rock formations to the left, don't bother with the encounter at all
9. Even at the Promethean Knight spawning platform, you can just straight-up run into the tunnel without fighting anyone and it'll load the next area
10. Go through the motions with the Librarian, run through the halls, teleport to the outdoor area, etc.
11. At the Tank segment, steal a Warthog, Ghost, or Mongoose and drive all the way up to the shield wall
12. Just to the left of it, a small rock formation is jutting out of the canyon walls. By jetpacking onto it, you can use a combination grenade jump / jetpack pulse to get all the way on top of the rock formation
13. Make sure you drop down right in front of the shield wall to trigger the loading zone that spawns the Gravity Well, otherwise you'll end up making the mission impossible to complete, even if you come back to said loading zone
14. Run over to the Designator and blow up the well.
I can't believe how much shit I had to outright run through to so much as get close to par time.
I liked Boardwalk
I was a fan of camping on top of the flagpole.
Moa
Member
New nameplates coming soon...
Safe to assume the 1th nameplate is the compensation one.
http://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/2q8n8q/the_new_avatars_and_titles_are_uppotato_quality/
Safe to assume the 1th nameplate is the compensation one.
http://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/2q8n8q/the_new_avatars_and_titles_are_uppotato_quality/
FATstronaut
Member
Oh. My. God.
Those are great lol
Those are great lol
Gnome Scat
Member
Wait, are those real?
Regret Upon Approval
Member
So what the hell is exactly up with H4 in the collection.
You've got loadout customization as an option. And since launch I've played variants with/without: AAs, perks, preset loadouts, and customized loadouts.
You've got loadout customization as an option. And since launch I've played variants with/without: AAs, perks, preset loadouts, and customized loadouts.
User 73706
Banned
I'd love to spawn into BTB matches in a drop pod. Something like that one game where you picked a location and then controlled your decent from orbit to land. It was wicked cool.
I addressed that in my post. Having a bunch of maps doesn't mean much when there's not much variety in the actual gameplay. It's why I used Destiny as a comparison. Solid maps. Solid gameplay. Extremely lacking in variety and content.
How would you feel about either of these?
Ohhh yeah... Boardwalk was nice. Just really lacking in color.
FATstronaut
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Yup Firth and Beamish fo lyfe!
Kind of off topic but I went to Sam's Club today and picked up a case of mini brownies! GAWD DAYUM they're good! Got my mouth all watery n shit yo!
You got some milk to go with that yo?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I don't think that's kind of off-topic
that's pretty directly off-topic
but watch this friend
you're welcome
Parties are completely, totally 100% broken. I have managed to play one MM game with a party in the last hour and fifteen minutes and it started 5v3.
I'm in complete disbelief that this patch was rolled out three days before Christmas.
FATstronaut
Member
Alright. I just want to make sure my internet isn't to blame.
Papasmurf531
Member
It is somehow worse. They really fucked it up, sadly.
Syphon Filter
Member
How the hell does a spartan flinch anyways?
Poodlestrike
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aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Beamish avatar? Automatic GOTY.
Syphon Filter
Member
I know, but ultimately you're still talking about making the SSR "better" by not taking as much advantage of its possibilities as you might like. I mostly like Second Son's SSR, but it's fairly subtle and often isn't accomplishing much.
Increasing the prominence of diffuse detail could get iffy in terms of your material properties; "ideally" you replace specular with specular.
Where SSR is particularly fantastic is in stuff like racing games; if you go into free-cam in Driveclub it's immediately obvious that its SSR is tacky as hell, but it's mostly solid when you're using a driving camera.
They made a brief showing in Halo 1, appearing in the two glass-floored objective rooms in Silent Cartographer, and gloriously on the Control Room catwalk (such good geometric design, damn).
As long as your polys don't get absurdly small you probably don't slow down the rendering of the surface much.
What's really cool is that this technique was even usable in the old portal-based engines like those used by Doom and Marathon, although in those cases you couldn't use it for diagonal shadows on walls.
It's actually the suit detecting bullets just before impact and then redirecting them with extremely precise bursts from your suit thrusters. Nanobots form at lightning speeds to create reinforced barrier behind the shields which breaks down any parts of the bullet that make it past the shield.
#noflinch
I was originally going to ask why you don't just test this out in a custom game, but then I wondered - is it possible to download matchmaking gametypes from your history? I literally haven't used that part of the UI yet, so I don't know. But with all of the other stuff that didn't make the cut it certainly wouldn't surprise me.
Since the game is all digital don't the updates overwrite original data? So you wouldn't need matchmaking downloads post game?
DontBeThatGuy
Member
Ascension sucks. Why was that remade?
User 73706
Banned
needs an "HGS PRO" nameplate imo
If there's enough demand for it then maybe.
Syphon Filter
Member
wat, that map rocks.
VisceralBowl
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Welfare
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Come on. A much better map could've been remade.
Stop.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Yeah man the episodes are highly entertaining. They have better character development and a richer plot than Nightfall.
#noflinch
Well said man.
#noflinch
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