jailbird20022
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Why i run Stealth and Camo in 60% of my H4 classes...
PV, Camo, Speed/Damage boost could've just been plain map pick-ups instead of ordinance and loadout abilities
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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
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Why i run Stealth and Camo in 60% of my H4 classes...
PV, Camo, Speed/Damage boost could've just been plain map pick-ups instead of ordinance and loadout abilities
Welfare
Member
I'm actually excited to see what new power ups are in Halo 5.
We already know OS is in. I think Camo and Speed boost are locked. Damage boost and ProVis would be good additions as well. Maybe a little wrench can improve your Spartan abilities for a bit. Springs that can give you a better jump height. Something.
Bring new shit in.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. If it isn't, well, I don't agree with it in the slightest.
Killmanjaro81
Member
New Hunt the Truth is out if anyone is interested!
GringoSuave89
Banned
I originally had a picture of Slowpoke here, but then I realize we hadn't talked about HtT on this particular thread. Carry on. My bad.
Killmanjaro81
Member
You know you skip 3 pages and the world just changes...sry
EDIT: wait I wasn't as slow as I thought?
GringoSuave89
Banned
You know you skip 3 pages and the world just changes...sry
check my edit dude haha you're good. I'm subbed to like 4 Halo threads so it all blends after a while.
It's in addition to matchmaking. The current playlists are hardly representative of what we want to play. Sure customs games browser will impact matchmaking, but no more than party joining, customs impacted it in the past. It can even be separate from matchmaking. But imagine having toggles and/or searching by names, maps, gametypes. If you only want to play CTF on a certain map, or say you're testing out a new map for Forge, you tell your friends to search for #Onyx2 etc. Or if we have people here, we put #HaloGAF as we set up customs, and those of us can search and see that so and so is playing and join in. Obviously with customs having dedicated servers, allowing for region server selection, I'm sure any available customs games would prioritize low ping or closed location etc.
Welfare
Member
Everything after Provis was sarcasm, mostly. I would like to see something new added to the power up selection though,
Also make it so they don't have to look like mutated crab people. They look so stupid lol
SmartWaffles
Member
Oh my god Episode 3 is HAUNTING.
I'm having shivers up on my spine right now.
I'm having shivers up on my spine right now.
NobleGundam
Banned
Okay. I've read Goosebumps novel that are more haunting than this episode lol
He must've gone apeshit
Goosebumps are traumatizing to me as a child. I hated seeing the covers of the novels in my schools library and when the show would play the theme song always made me shit my pants and leave the room immediately.
A friend of mine have asked me if I could post this for him, as he has no account.
" Ideas for alternative options for multiplayer announcers:
There are threads in Halowaypoint forums and also on Reddit
First of all the voice of the multiplayer announcer in all Halo games (Jeff Steitzer) is very unique and it is one of the most recognisable in the industry. I like his work in Halo 5, and that 'Perrrrrfect' medal never gets old.
It will be great though, if 343 find the time and resources to give us the option to choose different announcers in multiplayer.
For example - Master Chief, Sergeant Johnson and others. I would love to hear Cortana or the Arbiter saying 'Double Kill', 'Perfect' or agent Locke and maybe some of the other enemies.
You can make those alternative multiplayer announcers unlockable trough certain means (achievements or rank) or add them via free updates over time. After all they want us to play that game a lot and I think this will be a nice fresh addition to the experience.
I'm even willing to pay for them $1 or $2 which leads me to an idea about monetising the game after launch. Make all future map packs free, and charge only for cosmetic stuff like alternative announcers weapon skins etc. This will not split the community by "who has the maps and who doesn't", and new and fresh stuff could be added without affecting the core gameplay.
If you like or dislike this idea please comment. If you really, really like it you can spam a little bit 343 by tweeting the link to this post to @Halo @franklez @JoshingtonState @PlutonForEver @Brav @XboxP3
Thank you! "
" Ideas for alternative options for multiplayer announcers:
There are threads in Halowaypoint forums and also on Reddit
First of all the voice of the multiplayer announcer in all Halo games (Jeff Steitzer) is very unique and it is one of the most recognisable in the industry. I like his work in Halo 5, and that 'Perrrrrfect' medal never gets old.
It will be great though, if 343 find the time and resources to give us the option to choose different announcers in multiplayer.
For example - Master Chief, Sergeant Johnson and others. I would love to hear Cortana or the Arbiter saying 'Double Kill', 'Perfect' or agent Locke and maybe some of the other enemies.
You can make those alternative multiplayer announcers unlockable trough certain means (achievements or rank) or add them via free updates over time. After all they want us to play that game a lot and I think this will be a nice fresh addition to the experience.
I'm even willing to pay for them $1 or $2 which leads me to an idea about monetising the game after launch. Make all future map packs free, and charge only for cosmetic stuff like alternative announcers weapon skins etc. This will not split the community by "who has the maps and who doesn't", and new and fresh stuff could be added without affecting the core gameplay.
If you like or dislike this idea please comment. If you really, really like it you can spam a little bit 343 by tweeting the link to this post to @Halo @franklez @JoshingtonState @PlutonForEver @Brav @XboxP3
Thank you! "
I'm okay with them monetizing something that wasn't previously monetized, if it meant maps would go free. But this is Microsoft. Rather than make maps free and offset the costs somewhere else, they'd rather keep the map pack situation the same, whilst monetizing something else like weapon skins/sights and dude-bro poses at the end etc.
Yeah - paid DLC for Halo games seems dead now. In 4 it was embarrassing how little the DLC maps ever came up in rotation (and then wouldn't get voted for anyway). I think I saw the Pit remake a total of 2 times in matchmaking.
I played some Halo 4 city map the other day. It was kinda cool. I think it would have worked better in Halo 2/3, but w/e.
jailbird20022
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K
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I'm not entirely sure, but I have a hunch he and Monkey got banned for talking about modding Halo Online. I don't know much about PC gaming / modding, but I know GAF can be pretty zealous with what they consider piracy, and supporting piracy on here is often times bannable. So we should all tread carefully.
Fun minds think alike. It seems like a no-brainer (especially given Reach Firefight voices), but I've never got any response from Stinkles about it.
Looking back at Reach, basically all the customizations they had could be monetized.
Fun minds think alike. It seems like a no-brainer (especially given Reach Firefight voices), but I've never got any response from Stinkles about it.
Looking back at Reach, basically all the customizations they had could be monetized.
I think based on what we saw for Halo 4 DLC it's possible we might see free maps and pay weapon skins, items, armor, et al instead. Neither system bothers me but from a pragmatic standpoint there's no really good way to get people to all have the DLC maps—even if you aggressively bundled and discounted it, which MS is loathe to do... people just don't go for it. Hell they don't go for it *free*.
Special multiplayer or FF voices would be a really cool element of personalization (it was definitely a highlight from Reach FF.)
(Which reminds me–free DLC needs to be forcibly downloaded just like other game updates in the future.)
This was an actual problem with Forge Island. Map submissions had to lean towards Impact because free + HDD required anyway and yet somehow people still wouldn't download a free map.
They should have required Forge Island to enter every single playlist. Same thing they did to H2 when the maps were all free, every playlist required all of the DLC to get people to download the maps.
At this point though, yes, if developers continue to insist on shipping maps as actual content, free maps need to at least just be patched directly into the game. I'm imagining this is how Relic is going to be added to the MCC.
Yep, Forge Island was specifically what I was thinking of. Always was a pain during Customs Nights here and on HBO when people still hadn't downloaded it. Making it mandatory for matchmaking seems like it's treating the problem further down the chain than it needs to be in this age of practically-always-on consoles though.
Well, since H4 had the unlimited patch sizes they could have just patched the map in, but I imagine they were just used to the "maps are content offers" tradition of the 360 at that point in time.
Bungie also implemented tech in Reach that would show you DLC maps in the map list for customs that you didn't own yet to notify people the maps existed, but that didn't seem to do very much.
I fully expect most future games to just patch all DLC into the base game and anything paid is just an unlock key, really.
edit: they sorta did it with the Halo 4 paid armor DLC that came out after Forge Island. They had to do it that way to even have a point to buying DLC armor, though
jailbird20022
Banned
people on waypoint have a massive hard on for the quit ban patch, I'm 80% sure that it's not going to solve any problems, and when that happens everyone is going to go back to flinging shit at 343.
What people should want is accurate skill matchmaking on stable servers, then move on to repeat suicide bans AND then quit bans.
What people should want is accurate skill matchmaking on stable servers, then move on to repeat suicide bans AND then quit bans.
I'll still quit when I see Halo 4 in BTB. Didn't Bravo say there would be matchmaking controls so I would get my favorite games in my favorite lists?
jailbird20022
Banned
beats me, I do remember something similar being said at the xbox one reveal though...
dafuq happened to my personalized matchmaking microsoft :c
They really need to fix the underlying problems that cause so many people to quit with the MCC before they patch in any penalties.
I'll quit when I DON'T get halo 4 in BTB.
I don't actually do that, but I'm very tempted when 3 comes up.
Yep.
Penalized for Qutting btb ar starts/ar start objective/spawn fucked in launch version narrows/winning team hiding in pit attic?
H4 BTB over Halo 3 BTB?
Halo 3 BTB is like the only good BTB tho.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Did they officially announce BR starts for Halo 3 being fixed or did they just quietly roll it out? Played some Halo 3 yesterday and never had AR starts in any of the games I was in.
Played in the H3 playlist and BTB. Both had BR starts.
Played in the H3 playlist and BTB. Both had BR starts.
H4?
fixt
The Jackdog
Member
This new patch is taking way too long
The Lamonster
Member
Halo |OT| This new patch is taking way too long
Well then play through CGB.
What a dumb reason to dismiss options. People who want to play ranked will play ranked
Ya, dat non-hitscan BR, makes BTB SO GUD.
Such movement speed
very running all the time
wow
So.... basically they just need a bunch of filter checkboxes to toggle which gametypes you want/never want to see.
The Jackdog
Member
Youre welcome everybody
Opposed to the off host H2 BR? lol
jailbird20022
Banned
christ, that H4 AR. Why do people still insist on buffing the AR (or are they just saying so just to spite BR purists)
Thing chews people up like gum.
honestly if it wasn't for radar it'd be more than enough to compete with the precision weapons
Thing chews people up like gum.
honestly if it wasn't for radar it'd be more than enough to compete with the precision weapons
Non hitscan br = not getting 5 shotted from across the map
It's btb if you wanna hurry somewhere grab a goose. Otherwise just go at the same speec as everyone else fuck sprint.
How do you prefer spawning with stickies and plasma pistols ew
H2 and h3 btb was the last time I had fun playing btb
That's the point. Automatics should be able to beat precision weapons at close range. The argument is so each weapon has a place in the Halo weapon sandbox. Every weapon is a viable option at some point. The mastering more difficult weapons, however, should benefit the user.
Its the same reason why the needler in Halo 4 is a semi-power weapon or the light rifle in H5 is a viable weapon pickup even in BR starts.