BlueScrote
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Splatters in halo 4 are a much riskier proposition than in previous games. The slog to unlock the green visor is going to be rough
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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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Vehicles are a much riskier proposition. They feel like deathtraps to me now.
Congratulations, you've proved that I've proved that I can have an informed opinion on Halo 4 without relying on game journalism by playing the game myself.
I'm having fun with Halo 4. But it's not polished or well balanced.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Who was it saying that they get betrayed by vehicles all the time? I ask, because that has been happening in almost every single BTB game i've been in. It may just be bad luck, but good grief it's annoying.
There is one positive thing that I got out of playing last night which was rather surprising. The pistol is actually really, really useful at close range. I was getting kills left and right with it. Still not a good replacement for the BR,DMR,and Light rifle since they have more range, but it has exceeded my ultra low expectations at close range. Call me shocked. It's unfortunate though that it sounds like a paper toy when shooting it.
30,915 people are playing infinity slayer right now. During halo 3's last year or so (before reach) I remember the team slayer population, not to be confused with social slayer sitting around 12,000 to 20,000 players. I had no trouble finding games. I played more team snipers in halo 3 and that population hovered around 4,000, again I had no trouble finding games.
Remember this is 2 years after when Cod4 had picked up steam and had already taken a LOT of halo players away from halo.
I played halo 3 about two months before halo 4 came out and was STILL finding games in RANKED MATCHMAKING. Playlists counts (however inaccurate) were about 2,000 players for team slayer and 400 to 500 in snipers. If you can't find a game with a full party you just split up and played with one friend in those playlists. I prefer that inconvenience over playing games against teams of 4 after searching alone ANY DAY.
30,915>20,000.
Black ops 2 is out currently and has taken a large part of the halo population. Infinity slayer STILL has 30,000+ players.
Safe to say I disagree with the bolded.
ViewtifulJC
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oddone pls
View pls.
Force people to at least watch a 5 second sitrep, and then have the option to sit for 5 more seconds? (Pick a soft and hard time). It is really sad to lose a match of Infinity, either destroyed or a close match and see your team score. Having kids go 3-23 and knowing they mashed that respawn button sucks.
Tha Robbertster
Member
Is the zwarte pieten discussion so hard on you?
Deputy Moonman
Member
The bolded have nothing to do with a game being polished regardless of how nice those features were to have in previous games. Also, I'm not convinced that the grenade throwing is a bug. It makes sense that you can throw a grenade much harder while sprinting. The boltshot glitch is so minor it's not even worth bringing up.
I actually think that the AA's are balanced fairly well. That doesn't mean that I like them. I think they turn matches into ridiculous fiesta mode games. But that doesn't mean they're unbalanced.
So it comes down to uneven/lackluster sound design (which i disagree with you) multiplayer maps with geometry exploits, large mutiplayer maps with poor framerates. Frequent networking issues in matches with more than eight players (this could take some time while networking data gets a better grasp on who has good hosting ability and who doesn't). I'm not excusing 343 for these, but I think you went overboard.
Man, you don't want to open that can of worms.
neoism
Member
u have to be up it there grill to even hit them... I miss the magnetism in Reach...
neoism
Member
lol most un-polished halo game ever... maybe besides halo 2... but most of the glitches in that game made it funner.
customs was strong for aleast a month in Reach... what time are they today...my not make it though have my grandpaws funeral at 5 today...
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
We were discussing that last night. This game really is a fucking bug fest. Almost feels like I'm playing skyrim or oblivion on release day.
I don't have a hard time believing you can find a game with several thousand in a playlist and I don't know why you have 30k is greater than 20k on its own line as if that's hard to understand.
Anyway, I quoted:
This is the context of my post and is one of the reasons why I'm against more variables that could negatively affect the mainline playlists. I would not mind any of that nonsense if we were provided with a server list that will bypass the downtime in between matches.
Running on like 2 hours of sleep but I'm ready for this FLAG Tournament. Should be fun. Live stream will go up in a few minutes
edit now according to Lars lol
http://www.twitch.tv/tashiii
edit now according to Lars lol
http://www.twitch.tv/tashiii
Well at least it's not as bad as Two Worlds, that game is terrible for glitches/bugs.
Blue Ninja
Member
It's blowing my mind for some reason. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.
Got a question. I want to take my profile with me when I go and play some LAN at a friends house tonight. Will I get my loadouts and weapons when I just take the profile, or do I need another savefile as well?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Didn't anyone feel like the combat was uninteresting in campaign and you essentially go from pressing one yellow button to the next? At one point I remember walking through blue hallways for 3 minutes not seeing anyone. What the hell was that? Who designed this garbage? Just make the building smaller and less hallways...so you can get to the point you want to go right away...
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Bruh, that's for ambiance.
Also, the most fun to be had last night was betraying Devo.
It depends if loadouts are saved server side or if the hosts unlocks affect what's available to you. I don't know for sure, but it can't hurt to bring your Halo data along. It's only several megabytes, IIRC.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Anyone know if fast track will work in slayer pro? Would be nice. Most specializations have no place in Slayer Pro since that playlist doesn't have AA's and personal ordnance, but extra exp should be free to use in everything. I'm gaining exp through playing slayer pro, but if none of the specializations are usable in slayer pro, then that whole venture is kind of pointless.
Tha Robbertster
Member
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Blue Ninja
Member
Looks like they're stored server-side. I just took my HDD out and loaded up the game with only my MU inserted, and I still had access to everything.
It's just hex editing. I'm going to make a predator gametype with prom vision and maybe binary rifle.
It's stupid how you can't even change the load outs of the zombies in the options. Dat damn "super kewl" flood skin >.>
Someone already made that exact game type lol
Also its just the fact that modders can edit this info but we are locked out of options that SHOULD be there.
I want to know, Robbert.
Tha Robbertster
Member
The first sounds like a hexedit (changing the loadouts), the second sounds like it'd actually require reverse-engineering and suddenly being able to make full Megalo scripts which I don't recall anyone doing yet.
The Real Napsta
Member
The state of gaming is so bad that we are forced to play bad Halo games because its the only console FPS worth playing.
Why do you think we all played Reach so long?
Atmosphere, dude. Admire it. Soak it up.
Plus they'll probably fill those hallways with enemies in Spartan Ops next week. Two birds.
Orochinagis
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That metal gear custom game was amazing, the KOTH warthog was hilarious.
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