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[Rand0m TAG]

As long as they leave the zb playlist alone, I'm happy. Maybe have more dlc maps show up.

 

[Overdoziz]

Random thought: What if Team Objective was at the top of playlists list?

 

[ElzarTheBam]

The Lionhead Studio countdown ends on Monday at 1pm GMT+1 (8am EST). I do think that the embargo ends at the same time. Or I hope.

Generally speaking almost all prior halo videos were released 2pm GMT.

 

[Havok]

Random thought: What if Team Objective was at the top of playlists list?

It would probably help, but I'm not sure that the kind of players it would bring in would be good for the playlist. That and a constant Super Jackpot could bring up the population significantly if they were really worried about its performance.

 

[zap]

Random thought: What if Team Objective was at the top of playlists list?

The theory is that a lot people don't choose for any specific playlist, but whatever comes up when they mash "A".

I'd love to see if the population is affected, it wouldn't take much and wouldn't change anything substantial. I'd love 343 to give it a try.

 

[Tunavi]

343 axed squad slayer.


I really have no words.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

The theory is that a lot people don't choose for any specific playlist, but whatever comes up when they mash "A".

I'd love to see if the population is affected, it wouldn't take much and wouldn't change anything substantial. I'd love 343 to give it a try.

People tend to play less objective type games because they require less team work. Also, most people play alone, so this makes the most sense.

 

[HiredN00bs]

Thank you, 343 Industries. Most impressive and pleasing MM update yet. No evade, no damage bleed...time to return to Team Objective!

 

[Homeboyd]

Random thought: What if Team Objective was at the top of playlists list?

I like the way you think.

343 axed squad slayer.

I really have no words.

What if we axed it by not playing it enough?

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Flying to Caracas tomorrow to take care of some business

Sounds ominous.

 

[TheOddOne]

Sounds ominous.

Letters is a drug kingpin, he deals in crack cocaine, they call him El Negro Pedro.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Letters is a drug kingpin, he deals in crack cocaine, they call him El Negro Pedro.

Hire Letters.

 

[Rand0m TAG]

They should update arena. Remove bloom from it

 

[zap]

They should update arena. Remove bloom from it

Is Arena 85%? I haven't played it in a long time.

 

[Rand0m TAG]

Is Arena 85%? I haven't played it in a long time.

85% is 85% too much

And fuck why did they remove bleedthrough

 

[Homeboyd]

I'm scared of Arena.



Truth

 

[Booshka]

They should update arena. Remove bloom from it

Or just give MLG Arena ranks.

 

[Overdoziz]

They should update Arena by removing it and adding ranks to MLG.

Edit: Screw you Booshka

 

[Rand0m TAG]

I'm scared of Arena.



Truth

Only playlist where there is a sense of trueskill and competitiveness

Wouldn't object to mlg as the arena playlist

 

[Homeboyd]

Only playlist where there is a sense of trueskill and competitiveness

That's why I'm scared. I don't want an automated system to tell me how bad I am.

I'll stick to destroying kids in "social" playlists and live in my bubble.

 

[CyReN]

Or just give MLG Arena ranks.

Or just have booth, I like Arena but hate the bloom in it.

Ranks aren't happening, rather have 343i work on H4 either way.

 

[Garrett 2U]

Only playlist where there is a sense of trueskill and competitiveness

Wouldn't object to mlg as the arena playlist

Arena is still hardly competitive at all, since all the truly good people play MLG.
When I play with my buddies we only get 1 hard game outa like 25, and we're only above average in MLG playlist.

 

[feel]

Letters is a drug kingpin, he deals in crack cocaine, they call him El Negro Pedro.

Ya estás muerto

 

[Striker]

Or just give MLG Arena ranks.

If MLG wants it, they should tell bs angel.

5v5 Objective is garbage. Should have kept it 4v4, removed the hilarious fringe gametypes, and TO would've been 100x better than it was a month ago. Evade being gone is great, but it's just a step forward and a partial step back. Like when they removed Drop Shields, they added in more junk later for no reason.

 

[Havok]

Since the possibility of double melee sprinters has returned to the game, any chance of getting a melee power reduction to 75%?

Arena ranks are garbage. They need a massive overhaul. I would rather they tighten the matchmaking restrictions

Spoiler

on level 3

They're more accurate and useful than the linear numerical progression (aka grind through bad players until you hit your level) everybody keeps claiming they want.

 

[Tashi]

Arena ranks are garbage. They need a massive overhaul. I would rather they tighten the matchmaking restrictions

Spoiler

on level 3

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Ya estás muerto

LOL

 

[TheOddOne]

Ya estás muerto

Bahahhahahahahha well played.

 

[VivaciousJazzy]

I'm surprised. I didn't think that many people disliked bleedthrough. :/

Especially when the Savannah exploded. That shit was brutal.

Pretty much the only part of the campaign where I felt anything.

Or just give MLG Arena ranks.

They ever explain why they haven't dont that yet? I thought I remember KC saying he requested it before.

 

[zap]

Arena ranks are garbage. They need a massive overhaul. I would rather they tighten the matchmaking restrictions

Spoiler

on level 3

What makes you say that? It seemed to provide a good matching system, it always gave close matches once I was ranked...

 

[Plywood]

85% is 85% too much

 

[Tashi]

What makes you say that? It seemed to provide a good matching system, it always gave close matches once I was ranked...

Because there's no way to accurately measure, in Halo Reach, a players skill/role/importance in an objective game.

edit: Or wait, did they make it so it's just wins and losses?

 

[Havok]

Because there's no way to accurately measure, in Halo Reach, a players skill/role/importance in an objective game.

edit: Or wait, did they make it so it's just wins and losses?

It has been Win/Loss for a long time now.

Arena ranks always seem to get a lot of hate, but the linear numerical progression from 2 and 3 were not good systems. You grind through bad players until you start losing. This skips the grind and places you as well as it can with the 20 or whatever games you play to place and then you start from there. Their isolation and implementation has marred the idea, though.

 

[VivaciousJazzy]

Because there's no way to accurately measure, in Halo Reach, a players skill/role/importance in an objective game.

edit: Or wait, did they make it so it's just wins and losses?

It's win loss now. Its in all honesty better than 1-50 now if it was only more widespread.

 

[Ramirez]

It's not like Halo playlist management has ever been really good. AR/SMG starts on big maps three games in a row is quite something.

Yea, it's always been terrible, so why even want it to improve?

smh

 

[Booshka]

Because there's no way to accurately measure, in Halo Reach, a players skill/role/importance in an objective game.

edit: Or wait, did they make it so it's just wins and losses?

Yes, they did that a long time ago.

 

[Barrow Roll]

So I guess you hated getting killed in 2/3 when your shields came back up, but you were still weak?

Wasn't this because each bullet in a BR burst did individual damage? 11th bullet popped shields, 12th for the headshot?

That kinda stuff just feels janky for single shot weapons. No comment on the CE Pistol since I never really played CE MP.

Kill me with a BR by hitting 11 shots to my head. The 12th shot kills me only because my shields are gone. Only with power weapons do bleedthrough kills happen.

My thoughts exactly. That's how the BR worked right? Fyrewulff, come drop some fancy technobabble.



My enthusiasm for Evade being removed encompasses some of the other questionable choices in the update. And while I too enjoyed melee bleedthrough, I hated it's effect on guns so I'm not too sad to see it go. Hopefully this will make it easier for Vanilla players to embrace the TU and soon 343 can just make it game wide. Now they should make melee 75% damage and it would be perfect.

Squad Slayer removed sucks. Duplicate Team Slayer playlists is meh. Objective being 5v5 is wtf. Who gives a shit about Heavies.

 

[Hitmonchan107]

Probably fake and old. (Just bored and browsing the interwebs for a few minutes.)

And what is this?

 

[feel]

Probably fake and old.

First image appears to be from one of the Metro games.

The menu ones look fugly.

Seems legit.

 

[Redford]

The Auntie Dot logos definitely make it look fake as hell.

 

[Tunavi]

And what is this?

its a vidoc.

lol

 

[Hitmonchan107]

its a vidoc.

lol

How in the world did I miss this? :lol (Also, no audio at work, so I couldn't hear if there was a voiceover or not.)

 

[Redford]

It's cool that they'll use that level of realism(?), but not only is it pre-rendered, I can't really see the utility except for trippy scenes with Chief's psyche or something.

 

[Blinding]

How in the world did I miss this? :lol (Also, no audio at work, so I couldn't hear if there was a voiceover or not.)

No, he wasn't being serious, I originally posted it a few pages back from the channel it was originally put on which had the title "Halo 4 Cinematic ViDoc." It was later confirmed to be fake.

 

[Hitmonchan107]

No, he wasn't being serious, I originally posted it a few pages back from the channel it was originally put on which had the title "Halo 4 Cinematic ViDoc." It was later confirmed to be fake.

Serves me right for not catching up on the thread. :^)

 

[Domino Theory]

Uh, why are people happy that bleedthrough is gone? It was one of the fundamental changes in the TU to make gun/melee combat more like previous Halos and now we're going back to the inconsistent method.

I'm happy Evade is gone, but why the bleedthrough, too?

 

[VivaciousJazzy]

The Lan Network Live is on right now for those with a membership.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Uh, why are people happy that bleedthrough is gone? It was one of the fundamental changes in the TU to make gun/melee combat more like previous Halos and now we're going back to the inconsistent method.

I'm happy Evade is gone, but why the bleedthrough, too?

Because it was frustrating getting killed instantly with no warning when you had full health and some shields. The Reach sandbox and UI were not designed for bleedthrough; it was a nice idea but it just didn't work without larger (out of scope) changes.

 

[Overdoziz]

Uh, why are people happy that bleedthrough is gone? It was one of the fundamental changes in the TU to make gun/melee combat more like previous Halos and now we're going back to the inconsistent method.

I'm happy Evade is gone, but why the bleedthrough, too?

How is Reach's system inconsistent?

 

[Kibbles]

Uh, why are people happy that bleedthrough is gone? It was one of the fundamental changes in the TU to make gun/melee combat more like previous Halos and now we're going back to the inconsistent method.

I'm happy Evade is gone, but why the bleedthrough, too?

I'm with Domino, I don't get the cheering for no bleedthrough.


Typical BTB Start (I don't know, I'm bored. Pretty map 343)