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[MrDaravon]

Exactly! It doesn't matter at all that the game is stolen, at least we get to see the game we all want to play at the expense of the company that made it.

That analogy only really works if people are going to not buy the game because of footage they're watching. It must be very hard to see everyone down here from the high moral horse you're riding on.

 

[Conor 419]

This is so wrong. You cannot have one game with two different systems and NOT have them interfere with each other in any way. Every player that is using the CGB is a player that could help satisy the population for a Matchmaking system. To say there is literally zero negative effect tells me you have no idea what literally means or what a single negative effect even is.

Matchmaking would just take you into a game that's in the custom browser anyway? They're only different systems in the sense that they determine how you find your game. That's it.

Maybe custom game browsing is the wrong term, think simple 'server browsing'.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Hydra has to defend his employers, it's in his nature

and I'm pretty sure this IS the beta, BigShow

 

[Abdozer]

What actual game servers? lol

I mean from I'm reading in the chat, he's playing through xlink, basically like XBC I guess.

 

[JackHerer]

lol he just walked over a SAW, Concussion Rifle, and a splaser within 10 feet of each other.

dat ordinance

 

[feel]

Classic backsmack looked great there.

I thought the whole uproar was over the fact that the game is stolen.

I mean, you guys did post the tweet from Holmes about the thieves ruining the experience. *shrug*

We don't care about the game being stolen, it will be stolen on launch day by thousands of assholes anyways because pirate's gonna pirate. What we care about is the story details being out there so early.

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I'm soooo glad they removed teabagging spectating and rotating the camera around for this halfassed killcam.

 

[Gabotron ES]

LOLCAMS

 

[Hydranockz]

That analogy only really works if people are going to not buy the game because of footage they're watching. It must be very hard to see everyone down here from the high moral horse you're riding on.

No, I think myself and Ram are calling ot your bs double standards. Fuck those guys who want to tell people how the story ends but let's praise those who are stealing the game and playing the MP.

Yeah, no.

 

[op_ivy]

I smell a day one patch coming.



Reticules are wrong colour
Forge pieces don't show
Vehicles vanish

The list goes on...

for a game that appears to be so fucking polished, that is... weird

 

[blamite]

not watching the stream, whats the issue? does it show crazy lag or something?

Like others have said, they're just really off, the view you're looking at doesn't show any of their shots connecting for example. I haven't seen any forge map footage, but it sounds pretty bad there, too.

No beta needed. Trust Us.

This is the beta.

 

[Rickenslacker]

No, I think myself and Ram are calling ot your bs double standards. Fuck those guys who want to tell people how the story ends but let's praise those who are stealing the game and playing the MP.

Yeah, no.

Who's praising?

 

[Ramirez]

Killcams are wonky in CoD as well, practically every death in that game shows you not firing a single shot regardless of what you did in your game, so it was expected. They should have just had a final kill cam, it's the only one people actually watch anyways.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Does that stop the content being pirated or stolen? Serious question.

Explain to me how I am in any way complicit in piracy here. I have not pirated the game. I am not helping anyone else pirate the game. And my watching the stream doesn't reward the pirates for their piracy, except in the very vaguest sense that they might feel cooler if their stream has 384 viewers instead of 383.

I fully appreciate it sucks for the developers of Halo 4 -- and even the marketers of Halo 4 who have a timetable for how content is revealed -- to have their game shown in this way, but it is not going to influence my already definite purchase of the game, and it's not spoiling anything for anyone, just clarifying details that likely would have long been clarified by now, were Bungie still running the show.

 

[Bornstellar]

There's no matchmaking, only a quick match option. For the first 6 (?) months it only had DICE servers, though. They introduced player owned servers alongside the DICE ones longer after launch. Personally I think it works fine, the occasional banhappy admin aside.

Yes, but it seems that shadows from the actual map still don't seem to work well with Forge objects. If an object is half in the shadow and half in the open it will show up as either lit up or completely dark, not half-half.

Then it's just sloppy forgework. Got it. Still doesn't excuse no shadows in the Griffball arena.

 

[Moa]

for a game that appears to be so fucking polished, that is... weird

I just feel sorry for the players who'll never play on Xbox LIVE with the game, and deal with the kill cam issues all the time.

 

[S1kkZ]

so, people here moan about the game because they watch a guy playing a stolen copy online, 3 weeks before the game is out?

ok.

 

[MrDaravon]

No, I think myself and Ram are calling ot your bs double standards. Fuck those guys who want to tell people how the story ends but let's praise those who are stealing the game and playing the MP.

Yeah, no.

Please direct me to a single post I made where I said anything like that.

You know what happens when you make assumptions right?

 

[bobs...onGaf]

No, I think myself and Ram are calling ot your bs double standards. Fuck those guys who want to tell people how the story ends but let's praise those who are stealing the game and playing the MP.

Yeah, no.

Wait...

No one is praising them.

Also - I think as far as streaming multiplayer goes - they are showing no more than we already know. Multiplayer is a known quantity, we have seen all the maps and weapons (except for one) - watching people play Grifball is hardly going to hurt 343 or ruin the work they put in. Watching people play and spoil campaign is though.

Also - streaming the footage... campaign or otherwise is not illegal I think people want to keep campaign footage out of here because of spoilers. Not because of non-existent legal reasons. If im wrong then fair enough - I stopped watching the stream a while back due to the player sucking so much.

 

[Tha Robbertster]

This match looks like an enormous clusterfuck. So many power weapons.

 

[MrDaravon]

SPEED BOOST

 

[ViewtifulJC]

dat is a long ass speed-up duration

 

[Overdoziz]

Killcams are wonky in CoD as well, practically every death in that game shows you not firing a single shot regardless of what you did in your game, so it was expected. They should have just had a final kill cam, it's the only one people actually watch anyways.

At least it's better than what MoH: Warfighter has where you have to watch your body fall down to the ground in slowmotion for 8 seconds while you can't do anything else. That game. :lol

 

[JackHerer]

Was that a dud grenade? Guy threw it at him and after he killed him it just kept bouncing and never blew up.

 

[blamite]

This match looks like an enormous clusterfuck. So many power weapons.

To be fair I doubt FFA Infinity Slayer will happen in matchmaking, especially with this many players.

 

[Ramirez]

I just feel sorry for the players who'll never play on Xbox LIVE with the game, and deal with the kill cam issues all the time.

People play Halo MP offline exclusively in 2012?

 

[wwm0nkey]

This match looks like an enormous clusterfuck. So many power weapons.

FFA with this many players + Personal Ordinance....yeah I would expect a clusterfuck lol

 

[Conor 419]

Not sure I like the ordinance system, it really detracts from what Halo was.

 

[Moa]

People play Halo MP offline exclusively in 2012?

I was shocked to find out some people I know play Halo offline, quite rare indeed.

EDIT: Did anyone see that body just randomly jerk?

 

[OdysseusVA]

So how will Speed Boost and Dexterity work? Is the reload animation capped? Or is it sped up more?

 

[Gabotron ES]

lol at that ragdoll

 

[feel]

Some of these ragdolls are pre-patch Halo 3 levels of hilarious.

Not sure I like the ordinance system, it really detracts from what Halo was.

Cue laughter from 20 people in a 343i meeting room.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

This must be the bootleg Mexican version of Halo 4, too buggy

 

[Shake Appeal]

lol at that ragdoll

Nearly a bailout.gif.

 

[wwm0nkey]

DAT LAG!

 

[blamite]

I was shocked to find out some people I know play Halo offline, quite rare indeed.

EDIT: Did anyone see that body just randomly jerk?

You mean when he killed the guy who was standing still, and his body flew up in the air? That was weird.

 

[Tha Robbertster]

To be fair I doubt FFA Infinity Slayer will happen in matchmaking, especially with this many players.

That's true, but you still have BTB with 16 players, each able to get an ordnance drop and weapons from global weapon drops. I thought the matches we saw on Ragnorok for example looked really, really chaotic.

 

[Moa]

You mean when he killed the guy who was standing still, and his body flew up in the air? That was weird.

Yup, I'm curious to find out what will be in the day one patch, if any, because there are so many problems.

 

[MrDaravon]

I honestly find ridiculous random ragdoll effects like that charming.

 

[timetokill]

I love hilarious ragdoll effects Keep 'em

 

[Shake Appeal]

So how will Speed Boost and Dexterity work? Is the reload animation capped? Or is it sped up more?

I think Speed Boost only affects your movement speed... right?

 

[Gui_PT]

I can't believe Hydra isn't working for 343 yet

You do such a great job!

 

[feel]

Sprint Double melee spam tactics are alive and well.

I honestly find ridiculous random ragdoll effects like that charming.

I love hilarious ragdoll effects Keep 'em

Agreed.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

So BTB is all Infinity Slayer all the time, right? So we got 16 people, all with their own personal ordnance system and perks and packages and weapon loadouts and vehicles and God knows what else

I think Speed Boost only affects your movement speed... right?

his reloading was clearly faster

look see?

 

[Gabotron ES]

I love hilarious ragdoll effects Keep 'em

It looked like he broke the space quantum.

 

[Moa]

The guy spawned with the speed boost effects still on his screen, holy lols.

 

[JackHerer]

Wow at these kill cams.

 

[blamite]

Dat final kill cam. :lol

the ambient noise in the lobby is pretty annoying.

 

[Shake Appeal]

his reloading was clearly faster

look see?

Yeah, mother of God.

 

[Woorloog]

So BTB is all Infinity Slayer all the time, right?

What? No BTB Dominion or CTF?

 

[Summary Man]

I honestly find ridiculous random ragdoll effects like that charming.

The first time I played Halo 2, when I killed the game's first Hunter's (was it "Outskirts"? It's in the courtyard of the second level, I believe), a dead Hunters body flew up into the air and did a backflip before landing. It never happened again, but it's something I always remembered when replaying the level.

Heck, I still remember it to this day! It was charming in its own weird way.