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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
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- Modify Ground Pound controls to prevent conflicts w/ crouch jumping
- We’ll be buffing the [Hydra] to make it more effective out of zoom and ensure that it feels like a true power weapon.
- Sniper Rifle: improve scope experience to making it less “clunky” and faster to scope
- Reduce bonuses for automatic weapons in Smart-Link & w/ headshots
- Remove grenade detonation in mid-air based on weapon fire
- Post-death replay: this will become an opt-in feature. After death, players will see a traditional follow-cam and have the option to view a replay of their death from the killer’s perspective (as long as the feature is enabled within the playlist)
- Adding highlights to placed/dropped weapons to make them easier to see
- General tuning for announcer and Spartan chatter to reduce the frequency of events and focus on the information that matters most to players
- Hide CSR ranks until in match to de-incentivize quitting
- Punish quitters with CSR penalties and matchmaking bans
This addresses a good amount of the complaints I had with the beta. Glad to see that they're relatively open with what changes they're gonna make. Wish it'd be a bit less vague, but it's still nice to see. Hopefully they'll talk about starting weapons soon and about how BR+AR starts is easily the best option out there.
Welfare
Member
Just saw the changes. It's really interesting...the competitive community is going to have some hard choices to make. The scene is gonna die on the vine if it goes completely barebones with no sprint/spartan abilities.
I think they just need to ride or die with most of the defaults.
I think they just need to ride or die with most of the defaults.
Computer
Member
The servery would skip questions based on your previous answers. I know this because I was never asked a question on sprint that I saw people posting on the forums. It skipped the question because I was on the fence about a sprint related question before it. So ya the servery was BS.
Computer
Member
The question was asked in such a way it would take various selective responses to get to the core of the issue. You may not see it as skewed, but it was very selective within the survey.
It's so hard to say goodbye, to yesterday.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
You need to get banned from matchmaking for 5 minutes every time you quit, and have it get progressively longer as you go.
MCC is so awful. I get in a big team game and over the game half the team quits, thus I keep losing.
Quit bans need to happen.
MCC is so awful. I get in a big team game and over the game half the team quits, thus I keep losing.
Quit bans need to happen.
Agree. It's the problem with almost all statics gathering when done with multiple choice surveys.
I'm fine with the changes (more than I expected tbh), I honestly didn't think sprint would be removed, just worth a shot in the end.
What is the point in arguing over the question? You all knew that sprint was here to stay. Now they give you the option to disable it in custom games because of feedback and all you do is bitch some more.
It probably wouldn't have mattered if even 99% of the 19k polled said "NO SPRINT".
It probably wouldn't have mattered if even 99% of the 19k polled said "NO SPRINT".
I don't think people understand just how fucked MCC is even if it could get a game going most of the time. Once the MM works, that's only part of the problem. There's still no ranks, no proper settings, hit detection issues, no quitting penalty, etc.
What point are you making? I'm fully aware that the 2 teams aren't sharing development resources.
Community engagement and PR is a completely different kettle of fish.
Soon there won't be anyone left on the game to care.
You only reference polls when they confirm decisions you were already going to make.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Yeah, that's what I mean by sound-based actually, whenever there is gunfire.
Did you receive the survey? I didn't, but saw several questions after digging around since I was interested in seeing what was asked. Would have liked to see the survey in its entirety.
Nah, I didn't sign up for that shit. The only thing that was going to change was obvious stuff, not core mechanics in the game.
GringoSuave89
Banned
YourExWife
Member
I stopped reading after "The developers tells us".
Regret Upon Approval
Member
I find some of the quitting ridiculous.
You'll have people overwhelmingly vote for something and shortly in they drop out like flies. Like it wasn't a case of something shitty being forced on everyone, you all voted for it so why are you all bailing?
nillapuddin
Member
When is the BTB Beta announcement gunna drop?
GringoSuave89
Banned
They seem pretty adamant that there won't be one, but... I mean come on.
AnonomissX
Banned
I believe I read somewhere that if the person who has host quits, it ends the game early. Also, I've got into a match, just to have the game quit me to the main title screen. Perhaps that is happening more than we know.
To be devils advocate here...you guys aren't exactly revealing what this 11% is part of. You guys said 19,000 people have signed up to be part of the HCFP....but not all 19,000 received surveys, so how many did and of those that did...we can see what the 11% made up.
For example, if you only surveyed something like 1,000 of the 19,000, then 11% = 110 people
It would be nice to know where the 11% is coming from...because the way Holmes' wrote it in his blog...it's a blanket statement, no different than CNN posting a traditional poll of theirs on their site saying 11% of people surveyed said they wont vote for president nominee bob, therefore president nominee bob doesn't stand a chance..... (2,000 people were polled in this CNN survey, sample errors is +/- 5 %)
I even got the surveys and I voted against sprint being in Halo, it's not necessary at all in the long run for the Halo franchise to have sprint.
To go further, I keep seeing the Halo competitive community raiding torches and pitchforks that sprint is going to have toggle option....at the end of the day, I couldn't care less honestly if sprint is in the game. During the survey, I voted against sprint because that was my honest opinion about it based on the question being asked to me.
If the final shipped game comes with sprint...it won't kill Halo for me, but what will kill Halo for me is the starting weapons. I'm so drained on the crap weapon-starts that began with Halo 2 and since then, have not changed. One can argue Halo 4 allowed you to spawn with what you wanted...but we all know how that worked out for Halo 4, I'm not even going to explain that.
Sprint isn't some end all be all of Halo, it's what I would say is 1% of what would affect Halo 5's longevity.
The default starting weapons, the weapons on map, the power weapon placement, the powerup placement, these are what will affect Halo's longevity. If the base game isn't fun to play, sprint or not sprint...I'm personally not going to enjoy it. I know there are many gamers out there that share my thoughts about Halo...we simply want a fair and balanced Halo...and us old folks always revert back to Halo CE as the golden ticket of Halo...it was pure, yet all of these Halos since then have had to be tweaked by third-parties in order to achieve some sort of playable balanced Halo game.
Bottom line, sprint, whether it's here to stay or not, doesn't really matter.
The details of Halo 5 are what will make or break the game. Base player movement speed, sprint speed, player gravity, default starting weapons, weapons on map, power weapons on map, powerups on map...etc. All of this will dictate Halo 5's success...not some silly trendy 2015 FPS mechanic called sprint.
For me personally, if Halo 5 spawns me with starting weapons that don't allow me to defend myself legitimately from all ranges...I'm not going to waste my time with the game. I'm most certainly not going to have to depend on custom games or the so-called uber pro Halo Championship Series to give me my Halo fix. I've depended on esports Halo since 2004 to give me a true balanced Halo...I'm done with it.
I just want to fire up Halo 5 and have that same experience I had during the beta with the AR/BR starts....on top of that, I want static timed powerups and static timed power weapons across all the maps, and I want Halo CE-style time to kill (which I believe was pretty damn represented in the Halo 5 beta during the week of AR/BR starts).
/rant/feedback/hope
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
Hey frankie I hope u read this, I really liked the update u guys gave today. I think u are on the right track with halo 5 but plz address these issues
Br/ar starts - this is a must
more control schemes
Toggle for classic zoom, ads is just too much clutter
Br/ar starts - this is a must
more control schemes
Toggle for classic zoom, ads is just too much clutter
Digital Limit
Member
Is Halo 5 releasing in September?
That's my guess to avoid COD launch and the early beta release.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Aside from wishful thinking, what makes you say that?
Poodlestrike
Banned
November, assuming that the TOTALLY NOT A COUNTDOWN clock is correct, IIRC.
Shit, that's deep.
YourExWife
Member
Guys, so this is funny/depressing on its own: http://www.koat.com/news/bachelor-episode-gets-mixed-reviews-from-new-mexicans/31076254
But the important thing to learn is that my state's tourism director is named "Randy Randall"...
We are so fucked.
But the important thing to learn is that my state's tourism director is named "Randy Randall"...
We are so fucked.
Those news anchors should have just come out and said all those girls on the Bachelor were dumb cunts. Their little bullshit laughs and facial expressions practically screamed it.
It's pretty easy to tell when you are in New Mexico. Signs like these start popping up everywhere.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Who the hell is E. M. Citizen?
And is that first sign encouraging you to text and drive?
Prinz Eugn
Member
No, you dial it, silly. Is it illegal to talk on a phone while driving statewide yet?
Anyway, this is my favorite New Mexico billboard (from the ol' hometown):
"We'll kill you with kindness! and/or precision-guided bombs"
Then it will not be popular in the grand scheme of e-sports.
YourExWife
Member
I'm pretty sure that's just Santa Fe and Albuquerque, Prinz. So, for like 70% of the state's population...No, you dial it, silly. Is it illegal to talk on a phone while driving statewide yet?
Anyway, this is my favorite New Mexico billboard (from the ol' hometown):
"We'll kill you with kindness! and/or precision-guided bombs"
This is by far my favorite homegrown, Alamogordo-native billboard:
Fun fact: the "mother" in question lives like 300 ft from my house.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Cannot wait to watch this episode.
Arby 'n' the Chief
Member
YEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!
Sorry I'm a bit late to the party[/b]
#BUTTS
You and me both ha!
I'm extremely happy with the changes
I really liked the beta and now I'll love the game. Right now I'm dying to see how BTB fairs, should be kick-ass
I hope so, would be an awesome Birthday Present
I'm extremely happy with the changes
I really liked the beta and now I'll love the game. Right now I'm dying to see how BTB fairs, should be kick-assI hope so, would be an awesome Birthday Present
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
fuckin randies
FATstronaut
Member
I hope customization gets tweaked a bit.
I hate that changing primary color also changes the color of your rubber suit.
I hate that changing primary color also changes the color of your rubber suit.
These are in MN, though not as obscene. It's just cringe city driving down the highways in certain areas.