Master Yoshi
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Quoting myself from the Fantastic 4 thread.
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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
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Quoting myself from the Fantastic 4 thread.
It's probably 343 making the decisions on art style and aesthetic. I think Adrift and Haven were two maps 343 did, look at the color palette used. Adrift is orange and brown and cloudy while Haven is a beige/gray map.
Looking at Halo 5, where CA hasn't done anything, one look at Eden, Truth, Orion should tell you this is something they definitely need to work on. Weird lighting filters, tints, just several shades of the same color in maps, too dark, cloudy.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Oh yeah, I was just having a similar thought earlier ("nothing would surprise me"), and then remembered that I thought the MCC would basically be a slam-dunk and there's no way they would fuck it up.Wouldn't I be able to sue the crap out of 343i if that happens? Pretty sure my insurance would cover that, as well.
Joking aside, "nothing" is obviously an exeggeration.
Similarly, I'd like to think it can't get worse from here, but things can always get worse.
GringoSuave89
Banned
So bummed MCC isn't working that I bought... sniff... Titanfall.
Is it November yet? I want that Halo 5 goodness.
It was $12.50 with the season pass though, so whatever.
To be fair, the "light coming from between pillars!" look is kind of used all the time.
OMG Bungie ripped off Sha-Ka-Ree!
PROh1bited
Banned
I dunno what's so bad about getting Titanfall. It's better then anything 343 has put out.
GringoSuave89
Banned
I disagree, but hey, opinions.
I actually quite like Titanfall as a time waster. The lack of a real campaign and a dwindling player base are the only things keeping it from being great.
AnonomissX
Banned
Yeah, Bloodline is one butt-ugly map. And the literal scrubbyness (is that a word?) makes it so hard to navigate. I'm serious. I have been temporarily turned around after spawning on Blood Gultch, Coag and Hemorrage. But to struggle to find my bearings on the fourth iteration of a legendary map? One I practically lived on in Halo 2 and Reach?
Anyone else experience this?
(I like all the maps they did for Halo Reach and the other H2A remakes.)
PROh1bited
Banned
Sounds just like Halo 4. Jks. But yeah I had more fun playing Titanfall on the 360 then the H5 beta. I was able to pick up Titanfall on the Xbone last month with all the dlc for 17 bucks. Maybe I should have waited till the price it's at now. Fack.
AnonomissX
Banned
So...
Did anyone here play Cat & Mouse on Halo 2 back in the day?
Did anyone here play Cat & Mouse on Halo 2 back in the day?
because that's crazy. If people are that obsessed then screw them. And Twitch is pretty instant and people broadcast that. Plus the game moves so fast as it is that call outs are almost pointless anymore. Sprint + thruster + clamber make calling out moot much of the time, at least in a precise manor.
It's not even just a delay - the spectate mode starts at the beginning and you have to fast forward forever just to get close to current. The fun of spectating is if you just jumped on and a friend is playing - you can check their game and comment in chat. If you are a minute late, then it's just pointless.
They could make it so you can only spectate people who are on your friends list.
"-If you quit you can only can't go into matchmaking until the match you quit is over."
does Twitch start me at the beginning of a person's game session every time I start watching them?
You're trying to justify spectator being sycned w/ live video, I'm explaining to you that Twitch is not a good example as it can not also be used to screw people over (it's 30 seconds behind).
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that
Prinz Eugn
Member
How can Twitch be real if our eyes aren't real?
I stand corrected on that.
However, I do think that it's a non-starter for me if I can't watch a friend play live.
Bloodline was the most disappointing aesthetically to me. Especially after the concept art. It's just... meh.
I have played it yet but I don't doubt you can get turned around easily.
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The universe is a hologram made of dreams
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aHebrewMenagerie
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The Hail Rocket medal in Halo 5 should be renamed to "Hail Fire" imo
Star Trek V is an underrated movie tbh
To be fair, the "light coming from between pillars!" look is kind of used all the time.
OMG Bungie ripped off Sha-Ka-Ree!
Star Trek V is an underrated movie tbh
RowdyReverb
Member
I hope they send the survey out again to select beta participants for the CU. It doesn't seem right that I shouldn't be able to participate because I wasn't available between 6 and 9pm last Friday.
I can't really say why I want to participate though. I guess I just really want MCC to get fixed, if only for the sake of posterity at this point, and I feel that being a guinea pig helps in some small way.
I can't really say why I want to participate though. I guess I just really want MCC to get fixed, if only for the sake of posterity at this point, and I feel that being a guinea pig helps in some small way.
Welfare
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Youtube that shit.
i think it's a bad movie but would have made a great episode of the series. It has some good ideas and an interesting concept.
I like it
Nope that is true blue bullshit
Ram was able to get a refund just the other day
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
I like Sybok, but his sidekick was fucking creepy. The Nimbus stuff was a cool idea but felt executed poorly. It also had the GOAT Jerry Goldsmith score and that's say least 40% of the reason i like it so much. Campfire scenes were also GOAT.
Marshmelons >>>>
Nah I got mine with no fuss 2 days ago.
YourExWife
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I present "Guys, this game totally runs on dedis. Trust us" - http://xboxclips.com/YourExWife+ohhh/2745f4c0-2f7f-43ef-a0c7-dda9759c8077
Bonus clip: "Ohhhhhhh..." - http://xboxclips.com/YourExWife+ohhh/383ebc1c-74ea-4046-81f6-f5e70abda045
Bonus clip: "Ohhhhhhh..." - http://xboxclips.com/YourExWife+ohhh/383ebc1c-74ea-4046-81f6-f5e70abda045
Remember the Nintendo Seal of Quality?
It'd be nice if that kind of stuff was around still.
Microsoft Seal of Approval
"We promise it won't brick your Xbox"
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Mmm squirt hahah
Yeah. I was planning to re-live all those memories, but..
PROh1bited
Banned
Forerunner
Member
This fucking game...
Decided to play my first H2A in awhile. Other team had a 50, like a legit 50, had 21k kills. How you can have that much in this broken game is beyond me. Anyways that wasn't the problem, it was the teams.
50, 3, 15, 18, 9 vs. 1, 1, 15, 7, 23(me)
How thought this would be a good idea? It was 50-9.
OMG this game is unreal, I had to edit for this. Next match everything is going fine, up 18-6 and the game just randomly ends, like seriously 343 fix this. This game is beyond a joke.
Decided to play my first H2A in awhile. Other team had a 50, like a legit 50, had 21k kills. How you can have that much in this broken game is beyond me. Anyways that wasn't the problem, it was the teams.
50, 3, 15, 18, 9 vs. 1, 1, 15, 7, 23(me)
How thought this would be a good idea? It was 50-9.
OMG this game is unreal, I had to edit for this. Next match everything is going fine, up 18-6 and the game just randomly ends, like seriously 343 fix this. This game is beyond a joke.
"Exactly like you remember it"
The Real Napsta
Member
Why is the only ranked playlist still 5v5?
Why are maps still day 1 launch vanilla settings?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
We tried the Halo 4 and team slayer playlists in a party of 4 tonight. No luck, not one player found. Customs were the only thing happening.
I also had to hard restart my xbox to join the game lobby.
The slow motion coop of playing Halo 3 legendary playlist wore very thin indeed. Dedis can't come to coop and multi soon enough.
I also had to hard restart my xbox to join the game lobby.
The slow motion coop of playing Halo 3 legendary playlist wore very thin indeed. Dedis can't come to coop and multi soon enough.
I think you're kidding yourself thinking that will ever happen.
I don't think we wouldn't get a toggle, but to be honest, it wouldn't surprise me if we didn't get a toggle for sprint. That being said, I do think there will be one, but the big question is...what will become the default mode of play?
One of the things that I think has plagued Halo for so long in regards to competitive online multiplayer is the default settings. Since Halo 2, competitive players have had to seek out out-side sources such as MLG to come up with a competitive standard rule set. This means starting weapons, weapons on map, player damage, all that stuff.
Halo has never been out of the box competitive (except for Halo CE), and that is one of the sole reasons we have this constant split in the overall community. Day one of Halo 5 will determine what the masses enjoy. If the game is AR/pistols, then this is going to hurt Halo 5, and automatically split the community, right off the bat.
Same thing will apply for sprint. I think regardless of the starting weapons discussion, sprint will already split the community as well.
One thing I hope for in Halo 5 is that we have out of the box competitive player vs player. I'm so tired of having to either wait for a specific playlist to fit my competitive wants, and this usually takes months, and ends up being only one playlist, which means all the other playlists in Halo become boring as snails due to the fact that they cater to one audience, which is casuals. StarCraft II doesn't do this. Nor does Street Fighter. When you boot up those games and play a multiplayer match, you're playing the same damn settings that the grand master pros are playing, plus or minus the maps.
On launch week of Halo 5, I want to see default Slayer both team and free for all have the same rules, same starting weapons, etc. In my opinion, it should be AR/BR starts across the board on all default game modes. This caters to both those who enjoy full-auto weapons and those who want a precision-based utility weapon to spawn with. During my time with the Halo 5 beta, that starting set provided the most fun and the most balance in my opinion. The game became less about trying to scavenge for a better weapon as soon as you spawn, and more about fragging the opposition and seeking out situational weapons such as DMR, SMG, or power weapons.
When it's AR/Pistol, the game becomes no different than Halo 2 SMG starts and Halo 3 AR starts. It's a race for one team to control the rifles or precision-based weapons and continually spawn kill the opposition until they get a lucky spawn to pick up a rifle and have a fair fight. This isn't fun for casuals nor the veteran players. Anyone who actually calls that fun is outright lying to themselves and won't admit that the bottom line is they actually suck at Halo and NEED that type of gameplay in order to feel good about themselves and fabricate their skill.
I don't doubt 343 will give a robust set of custom game options, but again, I'll repeat myself, I don't want to have to seek out custom games to enjoy competitive pvp of Halo 5.
If I have to go create a custom game to get competitive pvp enjoyment that's balanced, fair, competitive, skill-demanding, challenging, etc...then Halo 5 isn't doing its job correctly.
On top of this, the whole voting for maps thing in Slayer at least, should be solely on voting for a map...not weapon sets. Leave various weapon sets to separate playlists, for example, team rockets, team snipers, shotty/snipers, phantom swords, etc...all of that should NEVER be in the default team slayer playlist.
Halo 5's team slayer playlist and its rumble slayer playlist should be one single starting set of weapons across all the maps, period. If anyone disagrees with that statement, I'd love to hear your reasoning behind why it shouldn't be that way.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Surely they'll build H5 around their Azure dedis...I know MCC is stuck in P2P hell.
Edit: regarding coop.
Wasn't MCC multiplayer built around Azure dedis? And that doesn't work.
Wasn't H5 Beta multiplayer built around Azure dedis? And that didn't work (for me).
What issues were you having with the beta? It worked really well for me.
Yep.. That's my experience too.
And I have to say, I'd be shocked if Halo 5 coop runs on dedicated servers.
Matchmaking was simply incapable of selecting the correct data center.
Which meant that players from around the world would constantly play games on North American servers with a 200+ms ping against players with a 20ms ping.
That resulted not only made it impossible to be competitive, it made the game not fun.
This is the reason why so many have been pushing for the option to select and lock the data center (just like Titanfall does). But it's 343i we're talking about here. There's almost zero faith that they'll do the right thing.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I honestly have no idea at this point.
Multiplayer was marketed with dedis so one can only take the developers word here. The end result to date is more P2P fallback than dedis IMO.
As for coop a straight up "the netcode and engine was not recoded for Azure".
Right now I'd guess the unified UI and matchmaking run Azure but the in game netcode is still P2P based. If it's using dedis then the player and region matching isn't functioning and may as we'll be P2P anyhow.
It would be great for a forum post, tech article, bulletin or sprint to delve into specifics to clarify.