MrGreencastle
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Forerunner internet. Contains all their memories and shit. They were supposed to have blown it up when they activated Halo way back. Guess again: Halo 5.
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Halo |OT 24| In Before the Locke
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Forerunner internet. Contains all their memories and shit. They were supposed to have blown it up when they activated Halo way back. Guess again: Halo 5.
wesleyshark
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Slightly Live
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They got a ton of flak for the story in Halo 4, so let's hope they learned.
Keep the surface story simple and then give us nerds all the lovely stuff under just below the surface.
Master Chief and his Spartan II buddies go "rogue", so ONI sends Locke and a Spartan IV team to capture the Chief and company. At the same time, various colonies that survived the Covenant-Human war suddenly go dark. Locke meets up with Arby and discovers the Chief is hunting down these huge Guardians, both to stop a threat from the Didact and with the intention of discovering a way to bring back Cortana.
I imagine that would be straightforward enough.
link1201
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I would expect there will be. The req system, if it's going to be a viable revenue stream, will need a lot of content to get people to bite. I haven't seen anything official yet though.
I suppose you might analogize it as wikipedia because of all the errant possibilities.
MrGreencastle
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Also guess again: Halo: Human Weakness
AKA What's the deal with Cortana between Halo 2 and 3?
343i sneakily slipped that short story into Evolutions' re-release. It's real good.
User 73706
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lol, we specifically refer to the Domain as the Force in RR7. I don't think she's necessarily going to be merged, but since it's been over a hundred thousand years since the original firing of the Array, I have a feeling the large amounts of locally-stored information (stuff not in "the cloud" of the Domain or whatever) has slowly began to rebuild itself, and with intelligent instances of the Flood beginning to form, I don't doubt they were helping spur it along - especially since Gravemind was borderline Key Mind status when he took over High Charity. Considering how many times Cortana's tapped into Forerunner installations exchanging data (saving all the info from Alpha Halo's control room before eventually offloading it at Cairo Station, jumping from place to place in the Mantle's Approach, etc.) she's probably left a handful of "imprints" in the same way the Composer leaves behind data for "souls." Now that I'm thinking about it, I have a feeling whatever the Librarian did to the Chief involved some kind of latent connection to the reforming Domain, which would let him see these occasional flickers of Cortana, rather than him receiving patchy transmissions like the Cortana Moments in 3.
Being given "admin privileges" for the Domain could also explain why he wasn't killed by the Composer; depending on how heavily that cloud storage is used for the handling of all that soul data, Chief may have already been "logged in," and as a result didn't need to be forcibly added to the server to retrieve his information or whatever.
This is also why I partially think the new Promethean Soldier forms are so humanoid: they're either composed humans that have developed a physical form more familiar to work with, or the Soldiers have been made by the modicum of "imprinting" Chief has made in the Domain, meaning they're basically super-soldiers squared.
wesleyshark
Banned
Easily one of my favorites. There's so much in there.
Warzone variant:
Quarantine Zone
RvB Warthog and Sheila the Tank CONFIRMED.
User 73706
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(q)war(antine)zone
Madness you and I both know that we have no clue what the playlists will be. I'm guessing here completely but there will probably be a 5v5 or maybe even a 6v6 playlist.
As far as the whole supporting HCS goes, I have always found watching competitive Halo really boring. It's my opinion of course but I would rather see HCS support a BTB tournament then the same old small 4v4 stuff that they think people want to see.
This is why I generally stay silent on HaloGAF. I am not the popular opinion so therefore what I say will generally get shutdown rather quick.
No no, please keep posting. These discussions are good. We're all varied. I come off as strong and a bit arrogant. But I love reading what people post.
I'm almost certain Arena won't be more than 4v4, only because of how they've said it so many times. They might do a Warzone variant that is like Arena with 12v12 but on map weapons, no REQ system, but we don't know.
I think BTB HCS is just too tough. Already players struggle getting teams together for 4v4, having 8 or 12 player teams would be intense to manage and train.
Gabotron ES
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Apparently Warzone is using /multi/ scenarios so it might not be using Campaign/SpOps netcode. I'm hoping for some kind of custom options but probably nothing too big
Why wouldn't they make it forgeable :'(
MrGreencastle
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Halo 6 is where Master Chief wakes up and realizes he's just a lonely sysadmin playing computer games.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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I appreciate how tight-lipped 343 has been about the campaign. People are excited and are looking forward to it, so I hope 343 doesn't spoil any big surprises. They could show off a more open section to reassure some people, but I think they'll be alright either way.
It would get me to talk outside of Skype and party chats more often, that's for sure. Maybe that's how you get people to talk on XBL again.
It's Microsoft and Halo, expect the full game to be leaked or street date to be broken weeks in advance of the launch. Every single time leaks have happened and you just know trolls will spoil it everywhere.
For Halo 4, I believe some people in Mexico literally took discs off the production line and the whole game was leaked several weeks before no? Was a chore to avoid any mention of the campaign.
For Halo 4, I believe some people in Mexico literally took discs off the production line and the whole game was leaked several weeks before no? Was a chore to avoid any mention of the campaign.
Ragnarok Flames
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I cant wait for the disc to be datamined.
BreakawayMetal
Banned
Campaign is gonna be fantabulous.
Yes, I just made that word up.
Yes, I just made that word up.
Well I mean team objective could be 5v5 and they might put in squad battle which was 6v6.
RowdyReverb
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I loved proximity chat. Even when it was super toxic, it at least made the game feel more online and alive.
What if they gave an xp bonus to people who spoke into their mic in a game? Even if some people just shit into their mics, you could always mute the worst ones and talk/listen to the strangers on the other side of the internet.
wesleyshark
Banned
The campaign is their baby. It's not ready to come out yet and fill us with feels.
Gahhhh I can't wait to be a grown ass crying man once more.
Did you cry when she touched Chief's nipple and said welcome home John?
RowdyReverb
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The Future Of Halo's Universe: Video Interview With 343's Bonnie Ross
I guess this is the source of her quotes from GI on the MCC. As rough as MCC was for those several months, I'm kind of glad that we have the unified package now rather than the 4 separate remasters, even if it meant they would have worked right from day one.
Also, I remain skeptical but optimistic for the mysterious Spielberg produced show. Don't want to get my hopes up until I actually see footage, or at least set photos.
I guess this is the source of her quotes from GI on the MCC. As rough as MCC was for those several months, I'm kind of glad that we have the unified package now rather than the 4 separate remasters, even if it meant they would have worked right from day one.
Also, I remain skeptical but optimistic for the mysterious Spielberg produced show. Don't want to get my hopes up until I actually see footage, or at least set photos.
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kittens
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ugh is Halo 5 out yet
I propose we move October to be immediately after June. Force 343's hand.
I propose we move October to be immediately after June. Force 343's hand.
Fata1moose
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Halo 5 to miss promised October release date? Fans OUTRAGED! - NeoGAF probably.
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kittens
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Jem, dude. why even bother posting
MrGreencastle
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Calling it: Fall of Reach cartoon to coincide/lead up to relaunch of Halo Reach within MCC.
Take a break man. Go outside. Or have a cold shower.
Probably a bad idea to he honest. I'll stop.
It's like 2am green. Outside would be a bad idea.
Watching Lord of the Rings instead.
Alcohol = truth.
I'm debating this as well. Sending an email to the professor tonight to verify that I can get my money back if I drop before the start.
Highly doubt I'd be able to manage that class and this project at work at the same time. :/
#calcshouldsuckmyleftnut
edit: Is jem wasted? This is hilarious. Jem, fuck the hates. Keep on spitting the truth.
Roll a Horde character so we can run some raids.
wesleyshark
Banned
Yep. Half of that campaign man... The feels, dammit.
aHebrewMenagerie
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I wish cortana touched my waif-nip
wesleyshark
Banned
It is time. So stoked for this one.
wesleyshark
Banned
I'm only page 3 and they already freaking hooked me. Loose end from Silentium was just mentioned.......
wesleyshark
Banned
I just spilt half of mine on the floor
wesleyshark
Banned
I just spilt half of mine on the floor
Bonuser points for spilt beer pics
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I just spilt half of mine on the floor
I want pics of spilt beer.
Also, you should probably have another if that one spilled.
World record applause.
wesleyshark
Banned
And he should take a pic of New Replacement Beer.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Drunk HaloGAF is best HaloGAF, no lie.
I still need to get caught up on Broken Circle and Hunters in the Dark. Discworld is eating all my reading time right now, tho.
Sadly, I will never join.
I still need to get caught up on Broken Circle and Hunters in the Dark. Discworld is eating all my reading time right now, tho.
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