Slightly Live
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A PvE remix of Warzone would be OUTSTANDING.
I would play the shit out of that.
I would play the shit out of that.
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Halo |OT 24| In Before the Locke
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Please? There's gotta be a way to shoehorn Firefight into there...
heh. been asking for it since it was revealed. I'll only have to guess it just doesn't fit well if 12 spartans are suddenly missing, and it just wouldn't be anywhere near fair (or interesting enough) if there were 24 spartans actively nailing the A.I. a.k.a. they never designed Warzone for pure PvE.
Slightly Live
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Quick, post videos to youtube with obnoxious watermarks and beat Greenskull to ruining the game ending and all the easter eggs and milk dem views.
NobleGundam
Banned
Somebody contact Kotaku!
User 73706
Banned
I was trying to find some examples of LGBT characters in the Haloverse and so far I've only come across two openly gay ones, but man, Waypoint's got some serious manbabies that are trying to keep traditional family values in a game about blowing aliens' heads off:
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boo-wop
Also found this gem of a page from halogaf:
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Also found this gem of a page from halogaf:
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wesleyshark
Banned
Ditto. I'm already ignoring Facebook today. Don't want to ignore here too haha.
MrGreencastle
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gamerguy2002
Member
Well, they were just hanging on to that little nugget until Warzone was announced weren't they?
Fucking hell what does 343 have against elites being playable?
Ew, no why? I don't want Palmer being my medal announcer!!
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
For Arena a la H2 and H3: Probably not wanting to deal with model/hitbox issues.
For special gametypes like Reach: Probably just not a feature that easily fits in with their primary multiplayer suite design objectives, and was too much work as a secondary feature.
gamerguy2002
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There were model and hitbox issues? never noticed.
Doesn't matter, theirs a demand for Elites being playable again and I thought since they did make a big deal out of it when H2A's multiplayer was being shown it made them reconsider. if those are their reasons then it just sounds like they are just looking for excuses at this point.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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There's a demand for a lot of things. It's impossible to include them all however, so you're never, ever going to have a product that has everything everyone wants. Certain things are prioritized over others, and that's pretty much all I can say. That said, I honestly don't think playable Elites are as hugely demanded as you may think, and I say this as a person who played a lot of Covy Slayer, Invasion, and even Dino Blasters.
User 73706
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iirc near the end of Halo 3's lifespan, Bungie revealed about 1 in 10 people were Elites.
RedSparrows
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And they were the cowardly anti-sniper trolls. *shakes fist*
Warzone PvE. LET'S MAKE SOME NOISE PLZ, DO WANT.
Also, I have a lack of Halo players on my FL. Add me for (UK) Halo idiocy: RedSparrows.
Warzone PvE. LET'S MAKE SOME NOISE PLZ, DO WANT.
Also, I have a lack of Halo players on my FL. Add me for (UK) Halo idiocy: RedSparrows.
Even though I loved playing as an Elite (unique, and their animations had a lot more character to them), a strange fact is the only reason we can play as Elites in Halo 2, 3, and Reach is because Bungie kept trying to do Invasion and not being able to get it in, and Elites were just simply left over from that.
They finally ship Invasion in Reach and no Halo game afterwards has let you play as an Elite, likely because 343 never tried Invasion again.
Playing as an Elite in Reach was super nerfed as it was. Pretty much only in customs since all the matchmaking gametypes forced your player model to Spartan and that disappeared once people started playing TU gametypes (which also forced everyone to Spartan)
only 1/10th of Halo 3 users awesome confirmed
User 73706
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I was one of them. Rocked the Flight Harness unironically, too
Tried this several times now, still stuck on same screen. My network settings and the rest of that stuff is perfectly fine.
Nah, playable Elites are shit, denied!
NobleGundam
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I think 343 will get it about right for medal call outs.
Probably won't be as good as Steitzer's iconic voice but I can imagine they'll pull it off.
Her tones are a but too serious in the games and cgi cutscenes. I honestly didn't care much about what she had to say majority of the time.
Although I think they'll play around with it towards where the voice actress can be a bit more creative in expressing medals and sprees (perhaps not too H4-ish). Maybe announce a satire line in a rare occasion when your team has pushed for a base or boss and won she'll say for ex. "Heh, I thought they'd be taller.." OR "Good job, Eggheads! I mean, Spartans!" "PRESS THAT REQ BUTTON, CRIMSON!"
Probably won't be as good as Steitzer's iconic voice but I can imagine they'll pull it off.
Her tones are a but too serious in the games and cgi cutscenes. I honestly didn't care much about what she had to say majority of the time.
Although I think they'll play around with it towards where the voice actress can be a bit more creative in expressing medals and sprees (perhaps not too H4-ish). Maybe announce a satire line in a rare occasion when your team has pushed for a base or boss and won she'll say for ex. "Heh, I thought they'd be taller.." OR "Good job, Eggheads! I mean, Spartans!" "PRESS THAT REQ BUTTON, CRIMSON!"
jailbird20022
Banned
Halo #Butts strike again
Also day 2 of hanging at my buds and I brought my bone this time since he's been whining for the past month of how he never gets to play MCC.
I watched him for several games straight swap to the SMG/AR on halo 2 and 3 on BR starts...almost sure he was trying to mess with me.
Another one of my friends commented that halo 4 looked like hell to play and asked why adrift was nothing but corridors. (he'd never seen Halo 4 gameplay)
and the last in our group kept cracking up when ever Rob kept getting sniped on anniversary and the spartan would twirl in the air like handsome squidward.
Also day 2 of hanging at my buds and I brought my bone this time since he's been whining for the past month of how he never gets to play MCC.
I watched him for several games straight swap to the SMG/AR on halo 2 and 3 on BR starts...almost sure he was trying to mess with me.
Another one of my friends commented that halo 4 looked like hell to play and asked why adrift was nothing but corridors. (he'd never seen Halo 4 gameplay)
and the last in our group kept cracking up when ever Rob kept getting sniped on anniversary and the spartan would twirl in the air like handsome squidward.
JumPeRJumPzZ
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You should play Halo 3. Elite models there have big issues with hit detection and hitbox... Its for the better.
1 in 10 people is still a huge number on such a large playerbase.
Totally sad we can't play as elites.
Looks like there is no UNSC aircraft either? Pretty disappointed.
JumPeRJumPzZ
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WhiteRabbitEXE
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I imagine far less than those 10% are actually deeply upset by the exclusion however.
Honestly, it's really just not worth the effort if they're functionally identical, and it's a hell of a lot of work to make them completely unique, which involves building all kinds of unique systems and game modes. I'd love to see them come back, but I don't think it's unreasonable that 343i aren't invested in that feature.
And they said no UNSC aircraft in Warzone at launch. Who knows about Arena, Campaign, or DLC/updates.
Ape Gone Insane
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Anybody want an ODST code? Logged in for the first time in months to see a redeem code and I have no interest in it.
The Henery
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Haha lmao.
But btw, was that you that i met in H3 matchmaking two days ago?
I think so, I thought I recognised that name from somewhere. Small world, MCC.
Yes please!
Ape Gone Insane
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Check your PMs. I don't think it's tied to accounts so it should work.
Yep, worked perfectly. Guess I have another story to play while I am unable to get onto the multiplayer!
- GR: Halo 5 preserves the series' spirit of freedom, despite that misleading E3 demo.
I didn't see any of that.
Forerunner
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wort wort wort
When they split up, I guess?
Wonder if you can just have all four spartans go one path too. #buttfource
Will be just like Halo: Reach... 'Hey six leave that lone wolf shit behind, now go on a suicide mission yourself, you'll see Jorge or Kat or Emile for a few seconds during your missions but they'll be all but useless'.
I hope we actually get to keep the team with you for a lot of the missions. Not just, Chief you take that dangerous route while us three scout ahead elsewhere etc.
I hope we actually get to keep the team with you for a lot of the missions. Not just, Chief you take that dangerous route while us three scout ahead elsewhere etc.
NobleGundam
Banned
Well that would be kinda redundant. With the squad commands and all. Would just defeat the purpose of the concept and the Artemis system.
Are we getting theater modes?
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I read all of it. What I think he was saying is that the small snippet was supposed to give you a quick look at what should be expected in the campaign. In fact he said, "you really didn't get to see that." things like scanning for important items, different paths to take, and issuing orders etc.
Since the E3 demo was extremely controlled for demoing purposes, what was shown is indicative of their actual design philosophy, not indicative of the final product.
That's what I got out if it anyways.
mm... I wonder if folks would be ok with just an extended montage of snippets from around the campaign & cinematics ala the Halo 3 E3 2007 trailer.
#TeamMarty
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loads of gameplay segments - FPS, vehicles, turrets, butts, synchronized music, blowing up phantom, scarab...
I honestly don't like those trailers. They reveal far too much. That montage linked shows snippets of almost every location and event in the game. Much rather experience those things first hand.
Questions I'd have loved to be answered in the Q&A:
- What's the total map split gonna be like? So far, we have 7 Arena maps (counting Forge maps), 2 Breakout maps and 1 known Warzone map + 5 other confirmed ones. 15 in total, which means there are 5 left for Arena and Breakout.
- Do Forge/Breakout maps count towards the map count?
- How (and in which time period) will the free maps be released?
- Do we really need an other 6 Warzone maps after launch?
Exactly 4 months until release, so there's plenty of time to clarify these things.
- What's the total map split gonna be like? So far, we have 7 Arena maps (counting Forge maps), 2 Breakout maps and 1 known Warzone map + 5 other confirmed ones. 15 in total, which means there are 5 left for Arena and Breakout.
- Do Forge/Breakout maps count towards the map count?
- How (and in which time period) will the free maps be released?
- Do we really need an other 6 Warzone maps after launch?
Exactly 4 months until release, so there's plenty of time to clarify these things.
Would be nice to avoid what happened with Reach (Invasion), IMHO. Even moreso considering Firefight is gone compared to having it across all maps in Reach.
Well, I think they'd want to support Warzone as much as possible since they will be making money off of that mode. Not really a negative, and I think it's understandable since we are getting free maps because of it. Although I will primarily play Arena, I will try out Warzone and play it for fun. I probably won't get into buying battle packs but could be fun when I have a bunch of friends online.
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