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Halo |OT 24| In Before the Locke
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Agree. The BR in H5 sounds awful. It sounds so sterile and empty,
What makes the BR is the round burst sound but 343 are lost when it comes to Halo.
User 73706
Banned
Metroid Prime: Hunters did a surprisingly good job at combining multiplayer spaces with story mode areas.
MrGreencastle
Member
<3
Loved that game.
Amazing that it came out 18 months after Halo 2, on the original DS, with a full online multiplayer suite, including custom lobbies, matchmaking and voice chat.
edit: even had map voting, different classes, bots, and there was something like 20 maps, too. Oh AND you could do download play so you could play local multiplayer with someone who didn't own the game (but they could only play samus, and certain modes only, but still)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxuH96CbYsI
NobleGundam
Banned
Can you still access a REQ station to purchase a weapon or vehicle even if the base it is in has been captured by the opposing team?
Just curious how balanced Warzone is if all bases are taken and your teammates have to push for a base but cannot access a REQ station. Thus leaving you and your team at a bigger disadvantage.
I'm assuming they're all accessible at all times.
Just curious how balanced Warzone is if all bases are taken and your teammates have to push for a base but cannot access a REQ station. Thus leaving you and your team at a bigger disadvantage.
I'm assuming they're all accessible at all times.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Flash forward to now with Splatoon's small map count (and "free DLC", lol), lacking modes, and no voice chat. Oh, and that hourly map rotation nonsense. And no friend lobbies at launch.
Come on Nintendo. T_T
Edit: It's a shame the lack of a proper account system and no ability to patch games meant Hunters' matchmaking pretty much went to hell after like a week though. :\ Soooo much hacking and glitching.
Bregmann Roche
Member
You can sit this one out Josh and Frankie, I've got you covered:
If your opponent controls the base, the REQ station appears to you as a GET REQT station and is unusable. If you attempt to access it, it will grow legs, kick you to the ground, and start tea-bagging you mercilessly.
If your opponent controls the base, the REQ station appears to you as a GET REQT station and is unusable. If you attempt to access it, it will grow legs, kick you to the ground, and start tea-bagging you mercilessly.
MrGreencastle
Member
Dammit Wahrer! Now I have a hand cramp from playing just one match in this game. I used to be able to play dozens of matches. I blame you.
Times have changed. At least you can still play against bots.
Probably one of the earliest forms of streetpass too. You could set it up in a streetpass-like mode and if you passed someone who also had that set up they'd register on your "rivals roster". Of course, not a single person I knew had that, and it never happened being in a remote Canadian town growing up so I had no rivals.
Times have changed. At least you can still play against bots.
Probably one of the earliest forms of streetpass too. You could set it up in a streetpass-like mode and if you passed someone who also had that set up they'd register on your "rivals roster". Of course, not a single person I knew had that, and it never happened being in a remote Canadian town growing up so I had no rivals.
NobleGundam
Banned
I'm totally okay with this
TOP DEQT AND REQT
User 73706
Banned
Dammit Wahrer! Now I have a hand cramp from playing just one match in this game. I used to be able to play dozens of matches. I blame you.
Times have changed. At least you can still play against bots.
Probably one of the earliest forms of streetpass too. You could set it up in a streetpass-like mode and if you passed someone who also had that set up they'd register on your "rivals roster". Of course, not a single person I knew had that, and it never happened being in a remote Canadian town growing up so I had no rivals.
Some of the darker synth CEA / H2A tracks sound Prime Hunters as hell, too.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
MCC experience tonight:
-Dedicated servers are so efficient that they designate who hosts the match every time.
-Bullet registration is so consistent that I see every bullet of mine spray blood when it doesn't connect.
-All my spawns are so ideal, the enemy never even has to look for me.
-Starting weapons are so good that I can kill anyone in 6 seconds within 4 feet of me.
-Matchmaking is so fast that it creates a game and ends it within 5 seconds.
Sorry for SLRPING so much in this post, but I just can't get over how well 343 has delivered on the "Halo as you remember" promise.
-Dedicated servers are so efficient that they designate who hosts the match every time.
-Bullet registration is so consistent that I see every bullet of mine spray blood when it doesn't connect.
-All my spawns are so ideal, the enemy never even has to look for me.
-Starting weapons are so good that I can kill anyone in 6 seconds within 4 feet of me.
-Matchmaking is so fast that it creates a game and ends it within 5 seconds.
Sorry for SLRPING so much in this post, but I just can't get over how well 343 has delivered on the "Halo as you remember" promise.
Gravemind IV
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https://youtu.be/NI7p8ue7Mu0?t=16m33s
I still haven't figured out what's going on with these explosions textures.
I still haven't figured out what's going on with these explosions textures.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Up until a week a go this was my, and friends, experience down under on and off. The last week or so has been sooo much better solo and in a party.
Jumped on Sunday for a quick sneaky game in the early evening and got an objective match right away with no quitters. Damned if it didn't remind me what I love about 1 flag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p8znSjSz2o
All this week it's been great in a variety of playlists solo and in parties of 4 or 5 as well.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Frankie, you know what I miss?
Your water graphics updates, so how is the water in H5?
@Heytred Congrats my man!
Your water graphics updates, so how is the water in H5?
@Heytred Congrats my man!
wesleyshark
Banned
Shit.. You're right! We haven't gotten one for h5 yet....
...which can only lead to some conclusions:
1) There is no water in Halo 5
preorder canceled
343pls
4) You can shoot yourself in the foot whilst standing in the water and kill yourself
Oh wait that's destiny...
What in the world...
User 73706
Banned
Lagrange? And it's a pale blue energy weapon used for melee combat? That has to be a Gravity Gauntlet reference.
wesleyshark
Banned
Forerunner
Member
ayy lmao
nillapuddin
Member
Yeah, feels good
I'd imagine the former
Readit, love that app.
Yeah news to me also, believe it or not, I expected it to be the case, but I'm glad to see confirmation
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
These ARs with add-ons are weirdly difficult to process.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Seriously why does it say Roadout?
You know this fuels my racist passions
You know this fuels my racist passions
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
This weapon designs look awful
Goldfishking
Member
That AR looks awful. Although the idea of an energy bayonet is awesome.
How is that AR not a joke?
I'll be traveling like mad so let me know!
Forerunner
Member
I think the energy bayonet would look much better on a DMR and it would be more practical. DMRs are weak at close range, so the bayonet would be beneficial.
orichalcos
Member
DMR with silencer? Hm...
Thank you!
I'm glad someone else noticed.
I will say, whilst that bayonet and the silencer are just... ugh, the DMR's skin is pretty nice.
And suddenly I imagine a Halo spin-off game, where you can fully customize your weapons in campaign and they affect the way you play. Want to go completely stealth? Put a silencer on your weapons. Want to go guns blazing? Put .50 cal rounds into your weapons.
Halo spin-off games have so much potential.
Halo spin-off games have so much potential.
wesleyshark
Banned
YesplsYespls. I'd love some stealth mechanics in Halo.
Halo-ysis: Maximum Evolved?
Goldfishking
Member
IDK, i think it suits the AR. With a DMR you kill by shooting 4 times. But when fighting with an AR i normally shoot their shields and finish off with a melee.
User 73706
Banned
ftfy
Dammit, that's what I originally wrote but then I thought people might not get it...
I'm loving the skins but most of the attachments just look out of place.
I'd be fine with them if they looked a bit better but stuff like the ARs bayonet just looks a bit dumb...
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Skins look good, but I'm glad the game-altering items and add-ons are only for Warzone. Arena is pure, as it should be.
I miss Japan >.< Often times the strangest place you'll visit, yet at the same time the most awesome place you'll visit.
I'm literally getting deja vu here. Seems almost exactly the thinking pre-Halo 4. 'Eh I'm glad this is Warzone only, if you don't want this you have Arena'. 'If you don't like Infinity, you always have Team Slayer to fall back on' etc.
Warzone is just shaping up to be ridiculously unbalanced even if people can unlock things eventually. I get that it's a new mode, let people go wild. But what's wrong with PvP/PvE but with regular weapons? I mean some people are gonna have silenced DMR's, AR's that can instantly melee kill like a sword, BR's that have much greater accuracy etc. Especially doesn't help that for who knows how long, Warzone is pretty much all you have if you don't want 4v4 Arena and even then, Arena is forced to have ADS, Sprint and the Spartan Abilities. I don't know, I don't think I'll enjoy Warzone beyond the first two weeks, and I'm almost certain going forward, Warzone gameplay, the REQ system will be standard going forward. It really is Infinity 2.0, more streamlined. /end rant
Warzone is just shaping up to be ridiculously unbalanced even if people can unlock things eventually. I get that it's a new mode, let people go wild. But what's wrong with PvP/PvE but with regular weapons? I mean some people are gonna have silenced DMR's, AR's that can instantly melee kill like a sword, BR's that have much greater accuracy etc. Especially doesn't help that for who knows how long, Warzone is pretty much all you have if you don't want 4v4 Arena and even then, Arena is forced to have ADS, Sprint and the Spartan Abilities. I don't know, I don't think I'll enjoy Warzone beyond the first two weeks, and I'm almost certain going forward, Warzone gameplay, the REQ system will be standard going forward. It really is Infinity 2.0, more streamlined. /end rant
RedSparrows
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I would love Warzone to spin off a PVE only mode. I would feel much more comfortable with the gun mods there.
That said, I don't see why Arena won't stand up on its own. They are also two distinct modes, as opposed to game variations. Be very interesting to see how Warzone ends up.
Does that AR actually melee one shot, or is that speculation?
That said, I don't see why Arena won't stand up on its own. They are also two distinct modes, as opposed to game variations. Be very interesting to see how Warzone ends up.
Does that AR actually melee one shot, or is that speculation?
Zeouterlimits
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JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
I am the only one that thinks that there are going to be more modes that will have this different weapon variants in it?
Maybe even some 4v4 or 6v6 modes?
There are maybe some people that would prefer the Arena Style combat with all this new Variants etc
Maybe even some 4v4 or 6v6 modes?
There are maybe some people that would prefer the Arena Style combat with all this new Variants etc
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