Pop
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Took me about 5 matches of the Reach beta to really dislike the game. It was a good way for me to test the game before I bought it, wish the same thing could be said about Halo 4.
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Halo |OT10| The Calm Before The Storm
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Took me about 5 matches of the Reach beta to really dislike the game. It was a good way for me to test the game before I bought it, wish the same thing could be said about Halo 4.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Any word on whether Scarabs (if they're in the game) are the shitty automated Reach kind or whether they've returned to the glory of HALO 3's intelligent and interactive Scarabs?
Pretty sure that kinda shit would constitute as a spoiler.
KidA Seven
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Shake Appeal
Member
Well yeah, you wouldn't want to be punished for dying or anything!
User 73932
Banned
Sorry Hyper.
User 73706
Banned
Maybe some of this shit's just one big red herring since they anticipated leaks and a day one patch implements a shitload of megatons that they'll cover within the next few weeks.
If they anticipated leaks they should have released a day -24 patch that caused your Spartan to be forced to look down and any shots fired would reflect back into your face.
Shake Appeal
Member
Denial's a helluva a drug?
If I had to guess, I would say there is absolutely no visible ranking system of any kind in game, but Waypoint stats will be more comprehensive and give you some indication of where you stand.
And I honestly believe 343 are shoehorning this in late on because they suddenly realized an awful lot of people care about this, and it's within their power to make changes to Waypoint and how it crunches numbers from the game at this point, even if it's not within their power to still change the game.
HMMMM
This! Human rifles sound fantastic here and get me all giddy (and make sense that they sound wildly different because they're different models), but Tojima shouldn't have been allowed to change the super iconic Covie weapons sound style in this radical way. Not only they sound totally different, they sound human like you say. Am disappoint.
It's most jarring on the plasma pistol...makes no sense.
I also really hate grenade indicators.
Hyper creeping on Tashi's account?
Shake Appeal
Member
No, it implies that any reaction based on a few hours' playtime in an exceptional context (donging on noobs via LAN with the sainted developers whispering in your ear) is likely to be less accurate than one formed over months of play across Live.
On Oddball:
"Let's implement ball throwing! Think of all the teamwork possibilities it would open up!"
On CTF:
"Let's glue the flag to the player's hands when they touch it."
"We should also give them the bloomiest weapon in the sandbox to try and make clutch kills with when no one is supporting them, instead of letting them momentarily drop the flag to use a power weapon in their pocket."
My doctor says my diet is too high in sodium.
"Let's implement ball throwing! Think of all the teamwork possibilities it would open up!"
On CTF:
"Let's glue the flag to the player's hands when they touch it."
"We should also give them the bloomiest weapon in the sandbox to try and make clutch kills with when no one is supporting them, instead of letting them momentarily drop the flag to use a power weapon in their pocket."
My doctor says my diet is too high in sodium.
Shake Appeal
Member
The guy on this latest stream is at SR21 already. Seems, uh, quick. Does this mean the later ranks are billions of XP apart again, to keep players 'invested'?
Edit: he'd also just unlocked an achievement for winning 20 War Games, so... win 20 War Games, blaze through half the pre-specialization levels?
Edit: he'd also just unlocked an achievement for winning 20 War Games, so... win 20 War Games, blaze through half the pre-specialization levels?
Pop
Member
Probably Right.
Hell I have a 100 BPR rating or whatever it's called. It's just too easy to obtain and if that's H4 *skill placement* then I will be severely disappointed. Halo 4 has got to match appropriately to skill level. I hope guest aren't allowed in the majority of playlist.
Edit:^^^Most likely
Even for instant respawn, it's a little too instant. Death animation barely starts and you're already back in the game. ><
Why's that? I guess they would have been more appropriate in Reach..
Why's that? I guess they would have been more appropriate in Reach..
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
when the game comes out i want to find a Go8 to boost commendations. since armor is tied to them
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Solace looks frickin sweet.
Wait what...commendations like the do this 5 billion times in online MP?
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
guy playing isnt too bad either
Shake Appeal
Member
Yeah, this is a good advertisement for Halo 4 right here.
Man, the game looks like a ton of fun, 3 weeks.
Just my personal opinion, but knowing where a grenade is in relation to you is a part of situational awareness in Halo. Reach was the exception, there was no escaping those, even if an indicator had of been in.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Stream is down.
The funny thing is the core gameplay is very good.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
i really want another stream now
Pop
Member
Man, the game looks like a ton of fun, 3 weeks.
It really does look great. Gives me back my Halo 3 vibes.
I'm just super disappointed in the no skill ranks. I'll play Halo 4 if it's super fun but ranks gave me an incentive to try my hardest to win. I loved gaining ranks and absolutely hated losing them but that just kept me trying harder to achieve 50. Let me say though Halo 4 looks awesome and I'm sure it will be a blast. However after that honeymoon feeling disappears my incentive to play will most likely drop just like Reach. Ranks were a blast to achieve.
NullPointer
Member
So no MP ViDoc I take it? Didn't see any new Halo threads.
Shake Appeal
Member
Playlists aren't hard coded on the disk, nor require a title update to refresh. Every time you log in to 3, Reach, and (most assuredly) 4, your Xbox redownloads the playlist data once changes go out.
Every map variant and gametype you'll ever play in matchmaking actually reside on your hard drive. The host in a session is actually what chooses the gametype, not a central server.
No visible TS is learning from other dev's mistakes.
KidA Seven
Member
So I take it it's the thrill to go higher in levels with the possibility of losing them that is what people want versus Reach ranks where you could only go up?
You've been on a roll with quality posts for a good while, I can almost forgive Jetpackgate.
It doesn't look like it. I asked twice but everyone was too consumed in advocating piracy
So I would assume we get to see it in about 7 hours when the rest of the stream goes live or they cut it from that and post it next bulletin.
I say, I say, why not run for presidency?