wesleyshark
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Mine as well! I love the noir feel as you're slipping about in the dark.
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Halo |OT 24| In Before the Locke
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Mine as well! I love the noir feel as you're slipping about in the dark.
Hopefully at e3!
Tha Robbertster
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Halo 3 ODST did have an awesome campaign, but I can't help but feel that it could have been more. It was promoted as this stealthy single player experience where you wouldn't be able to tackle the amount of enemies you could in the regular Halo games, and where you'd had to rely on clever tactics to survive encounters.
What kinda ruined this, was that the stealth weapons (silenced SMG, en the pistol), were purely cosmetic in their function. If you'd kill one enemy, even without the rest of the group seeing you, they'd still know where you are, and come after you. Another thing I disliked, was that even though you played as ODSTs, you were still pretty much as strong as a spartan. The only real difference was that you had non recharging health. Stamina functioned as a shield that was maybe a little weaker than that of a Spartan.
I get that real stealth weapons and gameplay were perhaps too difficult to pull of on a modified Halo 3 engine, and that playing as a ''real'' ODST perhaps would have been too difficult for players, but I really hope that, if 343 ever considers to make a similar game, they take things like these into consideration. That and all the things Halo 3 ODST really nailed. Things like the film noir film (music and graphics), and Sadie's story really did bring the empty city to life.
What kinda ruined this, was that the stealth weapons (silenced SMG, en the pistol), were purely cosmetic in their function. If you'd kill one enemy, even without the rest of the group seeing you, they'd still know where you are, and come after you. Another thing I disliked, was that even though you played as ODSTs, you were still pretty much as strong as a spartan. The only real difference was that you had non recharging health. Stamina functioned as a shield that was maybe a little weaker than that of a Spartan.
I get that real stealth weapons and gameplay were perhaps too difficult to pull of on a modified Halo 3 engine, and that playing as a ''real'' ODST perhaps would have been too difficult for players, but I really hope that, if 343 ever considers to make a similar game, they take things like these into consideration. That and all the things Halo 3 ODST really nailed. Things like the film noir film (music and graphics), and Sadie's story really did bring the empty city to life.
Splitting hairs no? The beta was most likely finalized before December seeing as how the early beta for Preview program members had commenced on the 19th of December and 343 friends and employees were also playing it before that. Also, the game comes out October 27th, which is basically November. Gold status means what these days in the era of day one patches? It's still ALMOST a year since beta then. Plenty of time to iron out any issues. There should be no way they can bungle this launch.
Not really relevant to how well the game will actually work at launch (I personally think it'll be fine). However Neighbor (a member of the 343 pro team) was saying the changes made after the beta have massively improved the game.
Obviously he's not going to say anything bad about the game but it still got me quite excited to see the changes in action.
Obviously he's not going to say anything bad about the game but it still got me quite excited to see the changes in action.
FUBAR McDangles
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So Halo Channel still isn't fixed?
Why on earth would I click on the "Watch Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes" on MCC to watch the first Locke introduction, then go immediately into the epilogue with Locke, and then watch some HCS video?
If I bring up a playlist I expect it to play that list in order. I shouldn't have to navigate to the "more episodes" every time and manually select the next video in the sequence.
343 can't even get playlists right come on
Why on earth would I click on the "Watch Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes" on MCC to watch the first Locke introduction, then go immediately into the epilogue with Locke, and then watch some HCS video?
If I bring up a playlist I expect it to play that list in order. I shouldn't have to navigate to the "more episodes" every time and manually select the next video in the sequence.
343 can't even get playlists right come on
lol the cutscenes aren't even in English for me. Well some of them.
I THULSA DOOM I
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Any new info on Halo 5 rumble pit or btb?
Fata1moose
Banned
For MCC is there a way to see what medals you've earned on Halo waypoint? The stats page there seems pretty bare bones.
Computer
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The Halo channel is nothing but fail. The UI is terrible in every way.
Fahzgoolin
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A lack of Firefight pretty much makes the ODST inclusion worthless to me.
JumPeRJumPzZ
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There sadly wont be new info until E3. Maybe a leak is going to happen.
In regards to FireFight, i hope H5 has that again. No Spartan ops trash please.
I THULSA DOOM I
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God I hope so. Last year's leaks were amazing.
Twin Tails
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Soony
On Waypoint, no. In the MCC, yes but it's a toss up on whether the games actually register it. From what I can tell, Halo 2 Anniversary games are almost a gauarantee to register and Halo 3 doesn't register very often.
JumPeRJumPzZ
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343 always aims for the end of a month. So maybe May 26 is my guess.
jailbird20022
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For the love of B.O.B Rumble Pit needs to be six or seven people.
eight is going to drive me insane with all the new stuff going on.
Well prepare for it to be 10, because 343 really seems to have zero idea what they're doing when it comes to playlist.
I THULSA DOOM I
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Any speculation on what direction btb might be headed in?
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Large experience
Twin Tails
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32 v 32
Their playlist management is truly awful, it wouldn't surprise me if they up the player count without countering issues with game types.
ElzarTheBam
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Battlefield Halo
More tuned to the specifics of Halo, a bit like DICE's take on battlefront is my dream Halo game.
I've already mastered arena halo, I'm practically the best here. Need a new challenge.
Pls ask Ram, Henery and Oddone for references.
More tuned to the specifics of Halo, a bit like DICE's take on battlefront is my dream Halo game.
I've already mastered arena halo, I'm practically the best here. Need a new challenge.
Pls ask Ram, Henery and Oddone for references.
They'd have to seriously rebalance the sandbox for large scale BTB to work. If you were to run out into the open and have 32 battle rifle bursts roll down on you, you wouldn't survive. It'd just be absolute carnage.
I'm very interested to see if they do have this big new BTB experience or maybe its all just BS.
I'm very interested to see if they do have this big new BTB experience or maybe its all just BS.
jailbird20022
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Hope they take another look at truth.
Just played Heretic on Halo 3 and thinking back, while they did make the map bigger to accommodate sprint; the cover proportions were VERY off (hopefully it has plasma nade starts too) Truth was waaay too open.
Just played Heretic on Halo 3 and thinking back, while they did make the map bigger to accommodate sprint; the cover proportions were VERY off (hopefully it has plasma nade starts too) Truth was waaay too open.
Forerunner
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I think 16v16 for BTB would be reasonable.
I THULSA DOOM I
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This sounds great
A few days ago, Rockslider posted this teaser on HBO.
He just posted the method on his website. Apparently it's possible to use the spawn in the hallway behind you just after you leave the T&R boarding room to build up a mob of over 100 grunts and jackals.
He just posted the method on his website. Apparently it's possible to use the spawn in the hallway behind you just after you leave the T&R boarding room to build up a mob of over 100 grunts and jackals.
Fahzgoolin
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I have mastered Halo. Let's move on to a more relevant franchise.
A game with only you is my dream, BB.
Not Destiny, Impala.
A game with only you is my dream, BB.
Are you talking about all medals? Because Halo 3 is restricted to only Halo 3 medals. So no assist medals, etc.
All medals. There was a patch that supposedly addressed the issue of Halo 3 medals not registering in the career medal chest, but it didn't appear to work. I should have at least 3 sharpshooter medals in my chest(1 from H2A, 2 from Halo 3) but it only shows 1. I also should have many more Triple Doubles and Steaktaculars, which all say they work in Halo 3 but I haven't had a single one register yet.
What we don't need is medals (and announcements) for everything, but 343i is even adding more unneccessary ones. Wished there was a setting to reduce them for Halo 5.
Twin Tails
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I too want Battlefield Halo.
Like this https://youtu.be/Sn84-U_6jE8?t=34, just a clashing of vehicles.
Whilst working in a cutscene that wouldn't work in a game type least well, it'd be heavies on steroids with even more issues.
Poodlestrike
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I honestly think it's down to balancing the systems around it properly. It probably wouldn't work for Slayer, but for the right kind of objectives, something that pulls your team around and makes you split up, it could work.
Also, they'd finally have to fix vehicles.
Poodlestrike
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Maps, definitely. Traditional BTB maps wouldn't cut it, you'd need larger infantry-only spaces. Something like Crazy King with 3 hills could work, and maybe CTF.
CTF could definitely work.
Make it an objective that requires you to take down certain defenses to get to, get out before the defenses are brought up again, and then high tail through the map to base with multiple ways to do it like through the air with a Falcon, on the ground with a Warthog, or on foot by using tunnel systems or buildings with coordinated defense from your team.
Balancing large scale BTB wouldn't be too hard I'd imagine. First you'd need a variety of vehicles to keep things from being stale. Then you might have to revamp the spawn system a bit. Maybe make it an ODST drop or something. Maps would need to be designed with it in mind.
Funnily enough I think Dominion could work pretty well with a super BTB model.
Make it an objective that requires you to take down certain defenses to get to, get out before the defenses are brought up again, and then high tail through the map to base with multiple ways to do it like through the air with a Falcon, on the ground with a Warthog, or on foot by using tunnel systems or buildings with coordinated defense from your team.
Balancing large scale BTB wouldn't be too hard I'd imagine. First you'd need a variety of vehicles to keep things from being stale. Then you might have to revamp the spawn system a bit. Maybe make it an ODST drop or something. Maps would need to be designed with it in mind.
Funnily enough I think Dominion could work pretty well with a super BTB model.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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So 16v16 Invasion.
Killmanjaro81
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New Hunt the Truth is up!
Poodlestrike
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