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Halo |OT 24| In Before the Locke
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NobleGundam
Banned
Idk what's more terrifying. The launch of MCC or Frankie grunt hybrid.
Forerunner
Member
I say stop and you guys make more. ;_;
User 73706
Banned
I just realized, with all the possible factions in-game, I wonder if we're going to get a whole spectrum of diverse enemy types where one faction doesn't dominate the entire campaign and the enemies are mixed and matched for multi-way battles instead. Think the latter half of CE meets Reach Firefight.
The Sum of Zero
Member
Who needs sleep? I sure don't.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'm playing Halo 4 MCC if anyone wants to party up.
ZeezbruhTV
Member
How long have you been a member of NeoGAF? How long have you lurked?
Today, Since the end of halo 3.
How old are you? What country or state are you posting from?
22, Iowa
How long have you been a Halo fan? Have you played all the games?
Started playing CE when I was 10, yes all the mainline ones.
What mode do you spend most of your time in?
Multi
What is your favourite playlist?
Team slayer/hardcore, loved fiesta from h3 double exp weekends
Help us get to know you better.
H4 sucked, ready for some haloooo, this shit was my childhood.
Today, Since the end of halo 3.
How old are you? What country or state are you posting from?
22, Iowa
How long have you been a Halo fan? Have you played all the games?
Started playing CE when I was 10, yes all the mainline ones.
What mode do you spend most of your time in?
Multi
What is your favourite playlist?
Team slayer/hardcore, loved fiesta from h3 double exp weekends
Help us get to know you better.
H4 sucked, ready for some haloooo, this shit was my childhood.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Welcome, new guy!
You came at a weird time, don't worry we're generally not this bad.
Most of the time, we're much worse.
jesus
Emperor Bohe
Member
For real, did the approval take that long?
ZeezbruhTV
Member
Nah. I just didn't have a email gaf would take, until I moved out and by then I didn't have much interest in halo (reach+4+life).
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
For weeks now I've been able to hear opponents' mics in Halo 4 MCC. This has to be a known issue, right?
SmartWaffles
Member
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-conventional-warfare
Wait so Blue Team all got the Gen 2 armor? When? I know Fred was wearing the Gen 2 prototype armor and Kelly and Linda probably got them some time when they are on earth but when did Chief get it?
Wait so Blue Team all got the Gen 2 armor? When? I know Fred was wearing the Gen 2 prototype armor and Kelly and Linda probably got them some time when they are on earth but when did Chief get it?
xxANTIMONITORxx
Member
Nanobots?
H5 takes place 8 months after H4.
The Henery
Member
I think that happens in all modes, even big team.
There's a setting to broadcast to all players and to hear all players. You should turn that to My Team.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Ohhhhh, whoops. I figured the "hear all players" option was for Rumble Pit or something. Thanks for the solution, lol.
Twin Tails
Member
Nanomachines is always the answer.
User 73706
Banned
just want to warn everyone i actually trademarked the term "Precusor Nanite Locusts" back in 2012, so, uh, there are royalties involved with that
OdysseusVA
Banned
And you tweeted for the whole world to see
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
xxANTIMONITORxx
Member
"HAHA, Jem! That's right! Nanobots… man, I feel dumb sometimes. LOL lots of the times, actually. Jem's right everybody! JEM'S RIGHT. Anyway Halohalohalo, amirite?"
**The smile slides off my face as I draw back into my darkened home, The Cave of Rarely-Posting, the racous din and danger of GAF pre-E3 reduced to a wasp-nest buzz as the GAFdoor logged out. Another lame attempt at engaging.
"Nanobots. Fuckin nanobots!" Even my hissing sounds loud in the dank emptiness of my mostly solitary lair. The soft scrabbling escape of my companions are a sympathetic echo. Lurkers. I'm not sure what they are exactly, though I was one of them once. Most of us were, but some small mercy doesn't allow us recall of those times. Who would want to remember that anyway? Some say that one could exist as a Lurker on GAF for… Well, long enough to have seen so much but no mouth with which to complain and be salty. Hell.
A shiver at the thought and suddenly the dark feels so close, so hungry, "Xbox on!" Nothing. "XBOX. ON." Same. "Ecks-bawks awwn." The blasted machine finally accepts my painfully enunciated plea, but it's too late: I've sprained my tongue. Later, I'll have to turn it off manually like a goddamn animal.
My gamerpic, (the best one (and a quietly fucked up one)), a cartoon hamburger with a face eating a smaller, regular, faceless hamburger greets me.
Television light makes everything visible. Too visible. Some things I'd rather not see. AR starts. Flagnum. QTE boss battles...
#butts.
I start sifting around through the junk, not frantic, but sweating all the same. Urgent. I toss aside a pretentious #NoMotionTracker but I can still see it in my lower periphery. An eternally ignored 'Frankie pls', still in it's wrapper, skids across the floor and drops further back up the thread as the conversation moves on. An MCC wrapped with duct tape that no repairman seems to be able to totally fix. Messaging issues peek out from under a rug. An empty box of old hype.
"Where is it?!" Aching, panting…
A moldy bag I carelessly cast aside turns out to contain a lot of fragile old Halo Traditionalists' Opinion and Entitlement Posts. Halo 4 era. Some Reach, even. The strong shit. The bad old shit. It flies and shatters musically against the Wall of Progress, same as any other philosophy. I've worked up a grunty thirst, but no time for the nipple. I find what I was looking for.
Getting comfortable with the small box on the floor, I want to share this suddenly. I whistle, and my Junior tag comes limping in. A small pathetic thing, it got struck by a Bad Opinion Train and while it lived it was never the same. Three months old and sixty-seven posts long; it's good I'm fond of it, because we're going to be together for a long long time.
I scratch it's J, and it's affectionate attempt to burrow into my side makes me smile, "Look what I got, buddy boy, yes! Look!" It doesn't, of course, but I don't care. I'm happy to share my excitement. After all, E3 hasn't even started, and yet I already know everything there is to know.
I reverently lift the lid off the box, rubbing my thumb over the waxy crayon-scrawl of the label as I read it aloud, "Halo 5: Gorditas - 2013 Pre-Order Advance Edition." God, I had to go to some deep places of the web to get my hads on this. My brow pops anew with cold sweat. The words "HaloFollower" flash searing and lurid in my memory. Nevermind. That's over now.
Beneath the box-top, are a number of icons carved of ore and gem. This is a concrete Assumption in the shape of a human female. This, a crystalline HypeTrain. Here's a pyrite Insider carved as a grotesque ear and lips gestalt. And here, the obsidian sphere of Unrealistic Expectations worked into a mirror polish and perched on a wobbly Confirmation Bias display, roughly hewn from limestone. So many others of such debatable value. And yet so precious.
My shoulder's jerk, I almost rise, almost scamper to the GAFdoor, log it open and post… But why? I'm not really adding to the conversation and even if I was I don't really have time to constantly refresh the page, just to see if anyone replied. Just to feel oddly depressed when they don't. Hell, it's been two hours since my last post anyway! No, I'll keep this for myself.
I arrange all the icons in front of me. Touch them. Savor their texture and certainty. Smear them with Taco Bell Fire Sauce.
I hug my Junior tag close. He whimpers when I hear one of his underdeveloped opinions crack. I lift him in front of my sickly TV-lit face, look him in his stupid eyes, and I whisper, "Halo 5 is gonna be fucking awesome."**
Poodlestrike
Banned
What in the actual fuck.
xxANTIMONITORxx
Member
(welcome, iZeezBruh!!)
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
#NoMotionTracker
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Twin Tails
Member
Poodlestrike
Banned
This place is getting fucking weird. E3 is doing something to people.
xxANTIMONITORxx
Member
Guys, it's a cruel world. I am bored as hell today so you got
that. But Monday! I'll be at work so I probably won't be able to enjoy the reveal with HaloGaf.
So!
You got
That.
So!
You got
That.
User 73706
Banned
At least this time when halogaf gets banned till E3 it'll be a shorter wait
Poodlestrike
Banned
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
My transformation is complete. I'm ready for E3.
orichalcos
Member
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Ok dudes, its up.
The Pit v1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ox4N4olsk
Guide to downloading maps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Yr_fQesRI
Feedback in comments please!
The Pit v1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ox4N4olsk
Guide to downloading maps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Yr_fQesRI
Feedback in comments please!
BreakawayMetal
Banned
This REALLY doesn't help my tripophobia
Twin Tails
Member
I laughed out loud.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
E3 hype is making us check GAF more than usual but we've already discussed the recent news inside and out. The result: grunt emojis and Wahrer-esque HaloGAF fan fiction.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
xxANTIMONITORxx
Member
I blame myself.
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