Too many power weapons has been proven to be an issue in maps in the past. Ivory Tower was a mess back in the day with Sniper, Shotty, Rockets and Sword. WTF and then radar on top of that. That map used to be my favorite but as I got better in Halo 2, I realized just how bad it was and the power weapons were a large factor.
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I love the Boardwalk-style middle of nowhere grenade field bomb plant spot.
The shotgun was such a nonfactor in Halo 2, I wouldn't put it up with the rest of those. Ivory Tower was a great map for Single Flag and Bomb since the power weapons were pretty well separated per team, but never really shined in Slayer.Tashi0106 said:
Devolution
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He can't afford them =(.
If only they had a donate creds feature. :/
HAHAHAHAH! WHAT A POOR-ASS!
I think today is the last day. Also, I got the $50k jackpot but it only showed up in the corner of my screen at the end of the game, not in the post-game credits screen. So, if you happen to look away for 2 seconds, you'll miss it and think you never got it.Is the big Team Slayer jackpot over? I've been playing TS all weekend with no luck
ElzarTheBam
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Hey Elzar I just beat your score in SSX
What did you get? Damn.
Team Rifles on any map was awesome (except for Ascension with Banshee lol). BR was so OP with glitches so it was all you really needed, and lead to really fun competitive games.
Hypertrooper
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I heard if you are nice, Santa Frankie can make dreams come true. Unfortnuately not in my case.
Yep. Weapon balance is an important thing. But on the other side, I can understand that a group likes the overplaced heavy weapon on a map. When I play with my brother, he loved that he has easy access to a Rocket Launcher or a sniper. He would only be able to pick one up if he was lucky in a "competitive match". I would not have a problem if the maps with such a problematic weapon layout showed up in a Social playlist. But in competitive, it has to be fixed.
We should definitely plan a dinner for PAX East.We tried.
Only me, Sean P, and Devin Olsen showed up.
Hypertrooper tried, but got lost and only found us as we were leaving. Moments later we ran into Tim Dadabo on the street (he recognized us from the day before) so all was not lost.
Next time we'll have to plan a GAF meetup for dinner - The Athenian had an excellent breakfast, but it was too far from the hotels for everyone to get there early enough. (Of course, the HBO breakfast the next day was even earlier but that was much closer to PAX.)
I'd disagree, if I didn't know how many European Halo communities would come to Germany, if there was an Halo-event.
About 500,000 more, some guy on the gaming side got 16 mil though
you guys don't make me want to download this game, you know.
This is probably something that goes through a lot of Forgers' heads. It can really mess with a map designer, but they have to learn with the criticism. Highlands definitely needs a power weapon overhaul, but what playstyles do you set that to? I'm a sniping kind of person, so I want a sniper on there. Some people are big with rockets, and there should be a proper way to take down vehicles as well. And yet again, the Reach sandbox messes with any way of using the center for movement. It's too touchy for Reach. It would have been a pretty brilliant map in Halo 3's time, with a pair of snipers, a pair of shotties, and a pair of rockets.
Hypertrooper
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You are probably right but still the weapon shouldn't be placed that near to the start respawn.
Edit.: Maybe a question for the survey: With which sites are you cheating HaloGAF rigth now?/Do you post at other (Halo) communities?
You call them crappy forge maps, but I don't know if the majority is thinking it. Why not making a voting round like the TU settings? People can vote for "Gametype XY on Map XA", "Gametype XY on Map XB", "Gametype XY on Map XC" or veto. The less voted maps get checked again if there are still multiplayer suitable.
I post on Forgehub, HBO and the MLG forums occasionally.
Edit: Played through the SSX demo. It was fun but not something I'd enjoy much unless I'm racing against a friend or something.
Downloading the SHIT out of this SONNNNNN!
Man.. I haven't played a Snowboarding game since Cool Boarders! (Game fuckin rocked, btw)
StalkerUKCG
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downloading atm
thezerofire
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I hear you can't actually do that
Coolboarders 3 was my shit when I had a PS1. Game was super rad.
in the demo no, you only see ghosts (still cool) the full game will work like Dark Souls where you will see EVERYONE on the server playing, you can create custom challenges with friends too and time your jumps.
thezerofire
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can't you not just race down a mountain in real time with your friends though? That's all I really want to do.
ElzarTheBam
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Yes, in the retail version, it's called global events.
Gabotron ES
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Needs moar H4 teases!
Earlier Frankie practically confirmed good old responsive movement to be back in Halo 4 in the other thread. I'm good for the day.
I fully agree and the sniper shouldn't spawn in its most optimal position either.
Gabotron ES
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I suppose you mean the weird inertia thing, that's nice!
Hoping we actually get some real audio content tomorrow.
Edit: ONE WEEK LEFT!
But is that H3 responsive or CE/H2 responsive? I want my strafe back.
Oh god, I hate Condemned so much... But Tempest is, surely, the best map ever made on a Halo game. The last gift from Bungie.
And you should start to use Waypoint links. =P
That's one hell of a joke gift.
It's like a parent that gives their kid a shitty rock as a joke present except that usually a gift that doesn't suck comes after. Guess this is an exception.
Zeouterlimits
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That's a big change (kind of what was tried with the TU [to mixed success], don't you think?), but hypothetically, I'd imagine it would be largely the same.
Bad maps & AAs would still exist, so yes.
HigherLevel
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Just wondering, what would the reaction to Reach have been if everything was the same except that guns were designed to play without bloom and player movement was similar to Halo 2/3? Would loadouts/AAs/Forge World all be as big of a deal with the changes I mentioned? Or would it still be the worst Halo game to most of you?
Steelyuhas
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No one is going to link to Waypoint until we have to because bnet is better in every possible way. Also, linking to something on Waypoint doesn't even take you to the correct place half the time.
You mean people weren't purposely linking to the Windows Live ID error page?
HigherLevel
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I mean the TU did speed the game up with bleedthrough and reduced bloom but there player speed is still slow, inertia is still there, you still have leg weights on, so it's not what it could have been.
That's a big change (kind of what was tried with the TU [to mixed success], don't you think?), but hypothetically, I'd imagine it would be largely the same.
Bad maps & AAs would still exist, so yes.
Steelyuhas
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Yeah I find it odd that people seem to have forgotten how slow you were in Halo 3. The base movement speed was faster in 3, but not by that much, and given sprint, you move around the map in Reach significantly faster than 3.
ElzarTheBam
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Okay, wwm0nkey, my hands are cramped, my eyes are bloody, but you still win for now, for tomorrow I will try again and I will beat you!
Awesome, awesome game.
The jump was higher and there wasn't inertia holding you back, but you were still a dang turtle. No more of that, please.
ElzarTheBam
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Some guy on the gaming side got over 16 million.
On halogaf, Monkey got me beat, I think he's just shy off 13 million, I was just over 12.1 million but...
I'm gonna push for 14 million tomorrow, promise.
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