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[Ramirez]

Trueskill is still really bad at weighing different levels of skill on the same team. I told TD i should play as his guest for a while so that he could play people not at my level instead of just getting shat on. It's really hard for newer people to acclimate to this game.

No system will ever be able to accommodate varying levels of skill...

 

[Der Flatulator]

In the future the Halo novels will be seen as prophetic religious texts that foresaw the coming of our saviour.

SPACE JESUS!

 

[Gazzawa]

Holy shit. Ragnarok is broken. So many exploits.
Nooooooooiiii!!!

 

[Omni]

I've had more lag in the last two days than I have in two years with Reach.

Reaaaaaaally annoying tonight. Doesn't help that a bunch of complete dickheads in BTB kept blowing our own vehicles up.

 

[Shadders]

Holy shit. Ragnarok is broken. So many exploits.
Nooooooooiiii!!!

For me, it's the best and worst of Halo 4 rolled into one map. If one team gets on top in terms of power weapons and vehicles, they will annihilate you, but if it stays fairly even then it can be great.

And because the game still tracks your k/d in flag and objective games as part of your k/d on your main profile page, people are all too happy to sit back and just mop up kills without bothering with the flag. This will continue to happen until k/d in objective isn't tracked/displayed prominently.

 

[Shake Appeal]

I think I've fired rockets in this game about 10 times total out of 200 games or so, lame.

You're not missing much. They're trumped only by the Incineration Cannon in terms of "point in general direction of enemy and pull trigger to win". Your only hope when encountering someone with rockets is that they're far away and/or incompetent.

 

[kylej]

Again I am sure they will re-add the classic options in since it was the base for pretty much all mini-games.

I'm sure they'll add Squad Slayer back too

 

[Shadders]

Skyjacking a Banshee from a Banshee.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

The Waypoint Bulletin "How to use our Stats" info & picture dump was an odd choice.
Would a separate article (weeks ago) have not been better?

 

[TheOddOne]

Is something being done to the result screen coming much later? Sometimes I think the game just crashed or something.

 

[BlueScrote]

Skyjacking a Banshee from a Banshee.

That was a pretty slick execution of the loop.

 

[Der Flatulator]

I hate these types of games...

 

[Omni]

Lol. You actually get points for using the man cannon in Valhalla (or whatever it's called these days) if you use a vehicle and a passenger is with you.

 

[Der Flatulator]

Lol. You actually get points for using the man cannon in Valhalla (or whatever it's called these days) if you use a vehicle and a passenger is with you.

Flying High +5?
Did that with a guy with the flag as passenger on my mongoose on Complex. Shortcut over the tallest building

 

[TheOddOne]

GWJ Conference Call Episode 318: Special Guest 343 Industries' David Ellis.

Really awesome section with Ellis, listen to it.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

Wondering if the lag is mostly related to JIP. Don't both GoW and CoD have dedicated servers to handle that as opposed to P2P?

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Wondering if the lag is mostly related to JIP. Don't both GoW and CoD have dedicated servers to handle that as opposed to P2P?

? Well GoW 3 had dedi's but I'm not sure what you mean.

Clearly 343 have servers which catalogue and choose which *hosts/games* you're going to join.

 

[squidhands]

re: map design challenge from last night.

I can't make any of these ideas in Forge.

Searching for a game of Spartan Ops... lol. 15 minutes and nothing. Glad you can go through them solo.

Never had this problem. I'd kill for a match that had less people in it like what happened in Firefight or Reach's co-op campaign, but that hasn't happened yet. I'm consistently getting matches within 30 seconds, easy.

I already played it lol. I don't think map size will be that big of an issue

No, the issue will be the one team with camo and the other with PV, or some horrible variation of that. 343 needs to start restricting AA's on a playlist level, like they said they would.

Just played Hacksaw with Barrow. That was the worst encounter design I've ever seen in any Halo game.

Same map, but the one from last week with the Crawlers was far worse, imo.

Spawns in SpOps really leave a lot to be desired so far; I either spawn right in the middle of already-firing enemies, or way back at a spot where some random is doing nothing but collecting xp.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

? Well GoW 3 had dedi's but I'm not sure what you mean.

Clearly 343 have servers which catalogue and choose which servers you're going to join.

I see. I'm wasn't familiar with hot that even works. Thanks.

 

[Arnie]

The instant respawn system, amongst other things, makes this game really tiresome to play for an extended period of time, for me. It just all feels a bit pointless when opponents are spawning immediately after they're killed.

 

[Omni]

Flying High +5?
Did that with a guy with the flag as passenger on my mongoose on Complex. Shortcut over the tallest building

Haha, nice. When we got it on Valhalla I actually laughed out loud.. wasn't expecting it at all.

...

Just made SR-40. If I can rank up 10 ranks in less than a week (before all the specialisations are unlocked for everyone) then maybe the limited edition will be worth something after all.

 

[kylej]

Snipedown 25-0 Solace Gameplay

lol at people on YouTube who don't know who they're watching. That gameplay is from a dude who had so many overkills in his Halo 3 montage that he had to run them through the credits. Snipedown is so damn good at Halo.

The level pros play at is amazing, too bad there's even less money in it these days.

 

[VivaciousJazzy]

I was just recording some footage of spartan ops for a video and a knight teleported inside a wall.

 

[IHaveIce]

Man I really want to have fun with this game, but it is very hard :/

 

[willow ve]

Snipedown 25-0 Solace Gameplay

Damn jetpackers.

 

[Arnie]

Man I really want to have fun with this game, but it is very hard :/

I know, every day I come back to it with a fresh perspective, and everyday I turn it off after one or two frustration filled matches.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Man I really want to have fun with this game, but it is very hard :/

I know, every day I come back to it with a fresh perspective, and everyday I turn it off after one or two frustration filled matches.

Sucks.

I'm still having a blast with it. Actually played some Slayer Pro yesterday and really liked it. Started trying out the BR more on maps like Adrift and found it works great. After some tweaks here and there I can see myself playing this a lot more than Reach.

 

[Pop]

I know, every day I come back to it with a fresh perspective, and everyday I turn it off after one or two frustration filled matches.

I just go into Halo 4 with the mindset of playing CoD. Halo is just another casual experience for me now(until ranks are released). But Blops2 ranks are phenomenal as of right now.

 

[feel]

Man I really want to have fun with this game, but it is very hard :/

Got on to play with some close online friends last night and after a couple of games we ended up all admitting to each other that we were bored out of our minds but didn't say anything before because noone wanted to be a buzzkiller. Then we proceeded to go look at and comment about funny pictures on the internet.

Making Halo 4 this empty and soulless COD-like experience was the biggest mistake.

 

[Booties]

That snipedown video was gross. Do kids still claw?

 

[IHaveIce]

I know, every day I come back to it with a fresh perspective, and everyday I turn it off after one or two frustration filled matches.

Exactly.

Got on to play with some close online friends last night and after a couple of games we ended up all admitting to each other that we were bored out of our minds but didn't say anything before because noone wanted to be a buzzkiller. Then we proceeded to go look at and comment about funny pictures on the internet.

Making Halo 4 this empty and soulless COD-like experience was the biggest mistake.

Also this.

I also played the last days with some friends and right after 3 games we said that it is a better Halo than Reach, but we have no fun and are bored or annoyed about some of the stuff.

 

[Conor 419]

Why on Earth did they remove the Banshee from Ragnarok CTF?

 

[willow ve]

Why on Earth did they remove the Banshee from Ragnarok CTF?

Maybe they meant to remove it from Ragnarok KOTH and it's a typo or mistake?

Spoiler

Benefit of the doubt...

 

[JHall]

That snipedown video was gross. Do kids still claw?

I do.

 

[m23]

I was going through the artbook and came upon a sketch of Jul 'Mdama. Thursday War/Halo 4 minor spoilers I guess.

Spoiler

I didn't see him in the game at all, unless I missed it. Considering the early terminal, I thought he would have a somewhat large presence on the covenant side.

Any help?

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

I was going through the artbook and came upon a sketch of Jul 'Mdama. Thursday War/Halo 4 minor spoilers I guess.

Spoiler

I didn't see him in the game at all, unless I missed it. Considering the early terminal, I thought he would have a somewhat large presence on the covenant side.

Any help?

First Halo 4 terminal.

 

[Aggrotek]

Maybe they meant to remove it from Ragnarok KOTH and it's a typo or mistake?

Spoiler

Benefit of the doubt...

Went 20-1 with the banshee in a Ragnarok Koth game. The game I got my green visor.

 

[squidhands]

Do kids still claw?

Baby goats have hooves, not claws.

Why on Earth did they remove the Banshee from Ragnarok CTF?

The real question is why Exile wasn't altered.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Went 20-1 with the banshee in a Ragnarok Koth game. The game I got my green visor.

You're doing it wrong.

 

[WJD]

fucking laggggg

I've had more in Halo 4 than I ever had in Reach.

 

[m23]

First Halo 4 terminal.

Oh ok, thanks. I've unlocked almost all, just need to watch them still. Hopefully they are as great as the ones from Anniversary.

 

[Shadders]

I've played Exile once since Halo 4 launched. Why does no-one ever vote in that map?

Ragnarok, Ragnarok, Ragnarok, Meltdown, Ragnarok..

fucking laggggg

I was saying that last night for about half an hour, then I realised I'd been playing with my TV in cinema mode. What a noob.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

I've played Exile once since Halo 4 launched. Why does no-one ever vote in that map?

Ragnarok, Ragnarok, Ragnarok, Meltdown, Ragnarok..

Exile might be my favorite map.

 

[WJD]

Exile might be my favorite map.

Yeah, I like Exile sans Gauss Hog.

 

[Karl2177]

Read the bulletin. I'm getting drops with Binary Rifle and Incineration Cannon on Haven. Their list of personal ordnance is broken. Also, would the stats article have been better before launch? To top it, it didn't even cover how to compare players from the web experience. I don't want to be kylej, but Good Enough™.

 

[m23]

The tank and gauss warthog ruin exile for me. I don't enjoy playing on that map when each match is being dominated by those two vehicles. It looks like an otherwise fun map though.

 

[IHaveIce]

I'm one of those Gauss Hog users.
The only thing I like about BTB so far

EDIT: also I think the vehicles already have a hard time against PP loudouts with probably plasma nades.
A Hog is killed very fast.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

The tank and gauss warthog ruin exile for me. I don't enjoy playing on that map when each match is being dominated by those two vehicles. It looks like an otherwise fun map though.

I agree on the Gauss hog, but the tank is fine by me and fairly easy to take out, as it's slow and there isn't much space to maneuver in that map.

 

[Der Flatulator]

GWJ Conference Call Episode 318: Special Guest 343 Industries' David Ellis.

Really awesome section with Ellis, listen to it.

Love how Ellis brings up this:

 

[Hydranockz]

There's no excuse to go into BTB without at least one loadout with a PP. Seriously makes vehicles useless.