Poker Face
Member
It's supposedly medium-large. We've only scene the menu screenshot of it.
edit: top of the page...yikes...uh...never forget!
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Halo |OT10| The Calm Before The Storm
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It's supposedly medium-large. We've only scene the menu screenshot of it.
edit: top of the page...yikes...uh...never forget!
I have never agreed with you more.
Calm down. You make it sound like I punched your mom in the fucking kidneys. Jesus.
My basis is, before, if you die with the flag, and team mates were near you, then odds are a lot of them would NOT go to pick it up, and instead would camp around it till someone else does. Well now if they are near it when you die holding it, there is a chance it goes to someone else and forces them to keep on moving it forward.
Really though I don't play CTF, because it is nothing more than a camping fest of dudes trying to spike their k/d instead of going for the objective.
Haha it really doesn't.
But that argument is silly, because they are forced to pick it up, would they not just move further away from the flag? If you could still drop the flag, you could get a touch to stop it returning before someone else comes to pick it up?
You are right here.
Again, correct. Though the new system has cons, which is important I think. Whether it turns out to be balanced or not will be seen at launch.
Going into Halo 4 I'm only concerned about Promethean Vision and Hardlight Shield. It seems like my acceptance level is lower than a lot of people in here -- not a dig, just my feelings -- though that doesn't mean I'll accept unbalanced gameplay. My philosophy is always, as long as systems are balanced, I'm good.
If my mom's name was "logic," you definitely did punch her in the kidneys.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Serious question, if you manage to obtain something early, but legally, is it ok to say you did on here? Or do we need to keep that stuff to ourselves? Just wondering.
Got it. For me it's far easier to share moments via rendered clips than to get people together first to play then to watch films.
But I'm also the guy who is secretly dying on the inside when someone is sharing all their vacation pics, so the idea of sitting around while someone says "wait, I'm almost there, no, that's not it, hang on hang on" is like a nightmare.
Blue Ninja
Member
Depends if you had to sign an NDA, I guess. But then you wouldn't be able to say you liked the song, either.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
So as a regular consumer, who obviously is not bound by NDAs, I would free to discuss it?
Blue Ninja
Member
If you got your hands on it legally, then I suppose, yeah. But I may be wrong.
This is a genuine question, honest to god no ulterior motives I'm just curious if you're planning on playing only a week or so and then selling it why do you keep posting your displeasure with the changes?
My personality, if in your position, would default to saying fuck it and just not bothering.
(And for the record, I have literally nothing against you. Our opinions clearly differ and we both have the same fervor for expressing them so that's why it probably appears that we clash)
ViewtifulJC
Banned
No VIP in matchmaking can only be reason for celebration, but that is blocked out by the removal of Assault. Ghaleon am cry
The exact same theatre from Halo Reach is expected, but still kinda lame nonetheless.
Barrow Roll
Member
Something something sports team losing for 10 seasons but gonna hang in there anyways.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
This actually makes me sad. Uncharted 2 (2009) had a theater mode that put Halo's to shame. It is sad that 343 couldn't even match it.
It had
-adjustable depth of field
-field of view
-shaky cam
-slow motion
-color grading
-color saturation
-ability to add fog and change its color
-green screen
There's more, here's a vid of it.
http://youtu.be/gq02X8knYug
The Librarian
Banned
No. First impressions Carbine equals gud
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
It really puts things into perspective when you realize they decided to keep Infection and Grifball over Assault..
Same goes for the armor and Mk.V..
Same goes for the weapons and Grenade Launcher..
I'm just hoping the gameplay is fast enough (everything ranging from fast animations (thank you Dexterity) to fast encounters (fastest since Halo 1) to fast traversal speed (universal Sprint/Mobility)) to keep me active - which seems to be the case anyway so that's why I'm not too worried about the gameplay at the end of the day.
I'm a Halo fan. I played the crap out of Goldeneye and PD, but I wasn't a "gamer" until Halo CE came along. Halo has the potential to be the greatest console FPS like it once was. I'm passionate about it and I hate to see it's potential ruined by shoddy logic and poor design decisions. I enjoy talking about it and interacting with Halo fans. I think message boards are hilarious and a good way to vent and get my opinions out there.
I normally do just say "fuck it" and forget about Halo for long stretches of time. I'm just in one of my phases where I long for the game Halo used to be and like to take some jabs at what I see as misguided design. A few weeks after Halo 4, you'll probably never hear from me again.
Why is anyone here other than to waste time and talk about Halo? It's all irrelevant and meaningless in the end.
Reach? Blessing in disguise.
scar tissue
Banned
Played a game of Infinity Slayer on Haven today at a local gaming expo.
Pretty sure the build was old, but anyway:
+ graphics are the shit
+ still feels like halo
+ always having sprint speeds things up
- controls are weird as hell, something just feels off
- sound is horrible, BR sounds like an airsoft rifle (probably fixed by now, judging from newer videos)
- BR spread is horrible
- promethean vision is ridiculously overpowered
Not sold on the MP, to be quite honest.
Pretty sure the build was old, but anyway:
+ graphics are the shit
+ still feels like halo
+ always having sprint speeds things up
- controls are weird as hell, something just feels off
- sound is horrible, BR sounds like an airsoft rifle (probably fixed by now, judging from newer videos)
- BR spread is horrible
- promethean vision is ridiculously overpowered
Not sold on the MP, to be quite honest.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Well 343 accidentally put it on soundcloud yesterday. Would not surprise me if someone grabbed the tracks.
ElzarTheBam
Member
He is here for you.
Barrow Roll
Member
Don't make a girl a promise if you know you can't keep it.
Nooo, Bish c'mon bro I know I'm annoying but I will behave. Elzar and me have a thing going, it's romantic. Dax and Robbert are both jealous.
Blue Ninja
Member
Hydranockz
Member
So this is like that band who only had one good album (it's nearly always the first) and you hope and pray that they would do a proper sucessor to that album but they never do. They release things other people love, but you're stuck listening to that album on repeat. You go to their concerts and get annoyed at how they don't play songs from that first album nearly as often anymore. You call yourself a fan because you were there when the band started. Shit was dope back then. In your mind you still are a fan but you look around at concerts and see peeps who just started digging the later albums and, while you can accept that, you glance back at the stage and wonder what there is for you anymore.
You always love that one album though.
bobs...onGaf
Member
There are no other bands who are able to put an album together like that one album which was magical, but for some reason the band has sold out and is throwing together the same crap every other band is putting out - even though they can do better.
I might not agree with Bigshow, but the people who are constantly jumping on him because they are unable to understand his simple posts are just as bad. (Not just talking about you Hydra, but I am getting pretty sick of watching some people throw salt over everything, and then other people feign stupidity in order to argue semantics to tell those people not to throw salt.)
ElzarTheBam
Member
Wise words from an insane wife.
On serious note: I get that they have to streamline the game, but cutting stuff is never the option. Leave the option open, even if it might be less polished.
Hydranockz
Member
ViewtifulJC
Banned
And I can't listen to the old album because radio wasn't invented back then.
I thought you loved me. You humped me in the spoiler thread, TheOddOne.
I feel so used.
I have a plan, listen carefully to me guys.
We will be creating 10 or more spinoff forum/sites.
These sites will be named something like skillrankshub.com, theaterhub.com, 60fpshalohub.com, classicflaghub, assaulthub, markVhub, nofuckingjetpackshub, etc, etc.
We will relocate 15 halogaffers to each and call them successful thriving halo communities.
It's the one way to get the developers to pay attention to decent features or not cut stuff, we must do this.
We will be creating 10 or more spinoff forum/sites.
These sites will be named something like skillrankshub.com, theaterhub.com, 60fpshalohub.com, classicflaghub, assaulthub, markVhub, nofuckingjetpackshub, etc, etc.
We will relocate 15 halogaffers to each and call them successful thriving halo communities.
It's the one way to get the developers to pay attention to decent features or not cut stuff, we must do this.
Amazing Mic
Neo Member
I typically can buy into of your critiques- but when you bring this up I don't get it. In general I feel COD makes every player feel like a superstar. MW1 was pretty awesome- but I've felt every version since has been a sniper in the weeds, call in the nuke festival. The skill gaps you talk about are practically nil.
So I'm not quite sure why you are so concerned H4 is supposedly moving in this direction, or, in other words, why BLOPS2 is a preferable option.
HiredN00bs
Member
Band analogy is amusing, only because when you extend it, the band grew into a full orchestra, and now has been replaced with an almost completely different orchestra releasing said band's latest album.