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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights

IHaveIce

Banned
"Kill" should always be red and "Protect" should always be blue. Shit is confusing sometimes.

While we are on it... Does somebody else feel confused in Halo 4 sometimes?

I'm playing Bumper Jumper for years now, but I'm keep trying to jump with A or trying to sprint with X sometimes...

I'm also trying to switch the nades with A and when I throw a nade then, I'm always wondering, why the nade I wanted to throw isn't thrown.

Why is this happening to me? Anyone else, who plays Bumper Jumper, has the same problems?

Yep had the same problems, don't know all the stuff is now cluttered on BJ and is confusing for me.

I switched to Recon, will see if I stay with that or will try Boxer
 

Tawpgun

Member
This a VERY rough draft of what I plan to do with all those little icons I have been making. The final result will feature many more icons as I plan to do more levels from the Halo games. The icons will be smaller and it will make a pretty awesome collage. This will probably be one of my final Halo photoshop pieces. I really like where it's going, and I have alot of work ahead of me. Hope everyone can appreciate the final work when it is complete :)

The requiem one seems a bit off compared to the rest of them. It's a more abstract representation, whereas the other ones seem truer to what they're supposed to be.



And fuck global ordnance good lord why did this even happen.
 
It's tricky because the "Kill" and "Protect" (or whatever it says) icons are red and blue, but they aren't based on which team has the ball. "Kill" is always blue, even if the team holding the ball is red, and vice versa. It's a little annoying.

Edit: Oh, you meant on your team. I dunno then.

Completely agree about the colours and stuff.

What I was initially talking about is seeing their gamertag. You can't see their service tag so often I have to directly see them before I know who to call for the ball.
 

Shadders

Member
That statue does look very different from the Cortana in Halo 4. I have to say, I like the statue more. It looks more like Halo 2 and 3's Cortana.

That's a good point. Is it even real? Where is the image from? It could just be the Halo 3 cortana model rendered out without diffuse and transparency maps. (probably some other maps too, before anyone gets all picky with me)
 

Omni

Member
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I never really noticed Cortana's ass until I saw this... Surprised MC got anything done during the game.

I feel so perverted just saying that 0.o
 

J10

Banned
Sometimes the ordnance waypoints don't display correctly. A couple of times last night all the initial drops were showing as Spartan Lasers, even though the weapons were their normal types. There was also one time where everything was displayed as frag grenades.

There were also a couple of instances where I could still sprint while flag holding.

My loadouts all emptied themselves one time. I had to reassign weapons, grenade types, AA, TP and SU for each one.

Also, the Assault Rifle really crushes on the smaller maps like Haven and Adrift. It might actually be fun trying to earn all the weapons commendations in this game because they all perform really well in the right circumstances.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to use the Railgun. It's optimal range eludes me.
 
I'm having trouble figuring out how to use the Railgun. It's optimal range eludes me.

Optimal range seems to be from Ring 1 to Ring 2 stairs on haven to center map. Anything closer and change up time seems to be a hindrance. Anything further have you have to predict the direction of your opponent to lead your shot.

That's my experience. I think i remember reading tashi was good with it maybe he can help you more.
 
"Kill" should always be red and "Protect" should always be blue. Shit is confusing sometimes.

While we are on it... Does somebody else feel confused in Halo 4 sometimes?

I'm playing Bumper Jumper for years now, but I'm keep trying to jump with A or trying to sprint with X sometimes...

I'm also trying to switch the nades with A and when I throw a nade then, I'm always wondering, why the nade I wanted to throw isn't thrown.

Why is this happening to me? Anyone else, who plays Bumper Jumper, has the same problems?

I keep having these problems too, but I figured it was because I never used Bumper Jumper prior to H4.

I absolutely hate having sprint on stick.
 
Anybody else calling down ordnance and not seeing it anywhere around, only to hear about it getting stolen 30 seconds later?
It's happened to me twice on Haven. Called the drop on the bottom level but it showed up right above me and was stolen before I could get it. Lame.

Dynamic lighting on Forge maps stops being generated after an ambigous amount of complexity is added to a Forge map

It's not a certain amount of budget. If you follow the ForgeHub link in that post, it's the complexity of the objects placed.
My desire to forge grows less and less. :-(

What I noticed tonight doing Spartan ops, is that if you click on yourself or another player after Spartan Ops, it shows your 'biggest kill', and points attached to that.

There are also points per medal.

Why doesn't the game show total points, afterwards, or in game??
Still hoping that scoring will be patched in with the first big update. Or maybe season 2.

Ive also had 2 assassinations begin their animation and come out of it with the guy still around.
My "favorite" has been in SpOps. Assassinated an Elite, which somehow damaged my shields. He gets back up and kills me. :-|

Pretty nice lockout remake

Yeah, I know.. There's probably 390 of them already.
lol, of COURSE it was Ash55. I'm sure it's an excellent remake; his Reach one was spot-on.

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New episode of SpOps was really fun; I'm slowly gaining confidence that this can come around despite the constant reuse of assets. The CGI cutscene was fantastic and the story is finally going somewhere. I still don't understand the need to make the Spartans such dudebro asshats, but whatever. If scoring and medals can be implemented asap, it would be greatly appreciated.
 

kylej

Banned
hrm how will I explain that statue to any female human being who enters my abode. think I'll say I won it at a contest and couldn't say no to a free statue and try to act embarrassed but secretly love it and display it on my coffee table

only me and you halogaf, we're the only ones who know the truth
 
hrm how will I explain that statue to any female human being who enters my abode. think I'll say I won it at a contest and couldn't say no to a free statue and try to act embarrassed but secretly love it and display it on my coffee table

only me and you halogaf, we're the only ones who know the truth
Just hide it in the locker with your fleshlight and you'll be fine.
 
hrm how will I explain that statue to any female human being who enters my abode. think I'll say I won it at a contest and couldn't say no to a free statue and try to act embarrassed but secretly love it and display it on my coffee table

only me and you halogaf, we're the only ones who know the truth

I once had a chick over who saw my MC cat helmet and asked "Do you like wear that when you play.....". I had to mess with her so said "Well yeah what else am I going to do with it?"
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
I once had a chick over who saw my MC cat helmet and asked "Do you like wear that when you play.....". I had to mess with her so said "Well yeah what else am I going to do with it?"

So then she made you wear it while you guys went at it in the bed?


Wut
 
Guys, that Cortana Statue isn't a Statue. It was the original sculpt that the Halo 4 Cortana was based off of. I'd buy the shit out of it too, but it's not a thing that's going to be for sale.
 
Why does the game select the playlist underneath the playlist I was in when I back out? I've played slayer Pro dozens of time instead of KotH because the game does this. Really annoying.
 

Akai__

Member
I keep having these problems too, but I figured it was because I never used Bumper Jumper prior to H4.

I absolutely hate having sprint on stick.

Yep had the same problems, don't know all the stuff is now cluttered on BJ and is confusing for me.

I switched to Recon, will see if I stay with that or will try Boxer

I hope this will change, after I played a lot of games, because I don't want to change my control-sheme. :(

Normally, I need 2-3 days to figure out, how the controls work, but I don't know why it's the case in Halo 4.


I knew it. :p

hrm how will I explain that statue to any female human being who enters my abode. think I'll say I won it at a contest and couldn't say no to a free statue and try to act embarrassed but secretly love it and display it on my coffee table

only me and you halogaf, we're the only ones who know the truth

That's what I'm going to say, too. Even if my GF knows, that I'm lying. Haha. :)

What the status on your car btw? I got a gift card for driving a Nissan GTR for 24 hours, on my last birthday. Still unused. Thats my favourite car and it's going to be fucking awesome. :D
 

IHaveIce

Banned
Why does the game select the playlist underneath the playlist I was in when I back out? I've played slayer Pro dozens of time instead of KotH because the game does this. Really annoying.

Yep, had this happening to me yesterday after playing Snipers, always putting me into Team SWAT :/
 

JaggedSac

Member
Haven't seen jetpack as much. Why? Everyone is using Camo.

Playing a game of CTF on RagnaCrap, 3 of 5 enemies were using camo.

Top Middle has NEVER been so infuriating.

Yes, this blows ding dong. What are the odds of them removing camo from loadouts in a title update?
 

Shadders

Member
Guys, that Cortana Statue isn't a Statue. It was the original sculpt that the Halo 4 Cortana was based off of. I'd buy the shit out of it too, but it's not a thing that's going to be for sale.

Yeah, a few people are confused with the terminology. The artist said he "sculpted" it, by which he means with a 3D modelling package like Zbrush or Mudbox. It's just a 3D render, not a physical thing.
 
Reach's CTF and Assault still blows away anything objective in this game, no matter how awful Headhunter or Stockpile were. Oddball is a bit better, but still shakes out the same way. Dominion and Invasion is a toss-up, though Dominion throws out way more power weapons.

Really? I'm liking Halo 4 quite a bit, and it's almost due entirely to how they handle objective gametypes in matchmaking.

I liked Objective stuff in reach, including headhunter and stockpile. Basic flag settings were fun, but matchmaking always had things like bubble shields or evade shitting up the flag and bomb gametypes. Eventually it just wore out the joy I experienced playing those games.

H4's objective settings for matchmaking are probably my favorite of any halo game, even with some mis-steps (no flag drop, instant respawn on KOTH and Oddball). The objective types are designed around a matchmaking experience, the ability to defend yourself with a flag, but having a marker all the time, passing the ball, the overlapping hills are all great tweaks that help the game work with randoms as well as with a team. But mor than anything, Objectives are playable now without a full squad because of JIP. Now I can go in, and i don't have to sit through 10 more minutes of 2 vs. 5 flag, instead at worst I have to pull black and play defense for a couple minutes till some help arrives. It's just a relief, even if the implementation has some issues (Why would you start a game 6 vs 1? Why not just delay the start till that group that just joined can load the match?)

Dominion is great, even with a ton of power weapons, there are lots of vehicles to soak them up, or you can really use a smart build to help defend against them. Most of the time it comes down to a series of great base assaults and defenses constantly going on. it's a really great mode, and it doesn't suffer from Invasions glacial pacing and poor maps. FWIW, i really hope we see extraction soon, it looks like it will play like dominion, with more movement and fewer power weapons.

I'm really hoping we see asymetric gametypes make a comeback though, IMO, Adrift, complex, and exile could all see some well done 1 flag/ assault gametpes, I really hope that comes back.
 

Booties

Banned
Camo should be a built in load out to certain playlists. Not a permanent power up. Maybe put a default Camo class in flag and some btb objectives game types only?
 
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