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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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I don't think it does.
On the topic of it, dexterity is WAY OP. I hope 343 is willing to remove certain guns from loadouts (DMR, PV, camo, etc).
If you're going in by yourself or with only one or two other people sure. With 5+ people it's pretty good though. Honestly we still have such crazy problems with team balance in the smaller playlists though (matches consistently start 5v4, and it never fills out the 5th slot which often costs us the match) that we usually just stick to BTB to avoid it.
HigherLevel
Member
Being able to throw the Oddball makes it 10x better than before.
Nah I think he means this:
Left stick to move
Right stick to aim
Right trigger to shoot.
Back to basics baby
Steelyuhas
Member
BTB needs to be nerfed or removed.
BTB makes BTB unplayable.
BTB was always bad, except for H2's stellar BTB maps. Reach Heavies was by far the worst.
babbys first fps
I don't know... Reach's BTB was actually okay.
I mean... I too enjoyed playing Hemmorhage for the 50th time in a row while players betrayed each other for the only sniper on THAT side of the map.
User 73706
Banned
Does anyone else miss having BTB maps that were actually open? I feel like Halo 4's BTB maps are just claustrophobic clusterfucks expanded over a larger area. It's because of the DMR and everything sure, but I wish there was a way to balance it and get some big open maps back (like Sandtrap or Avalanche) without having to worry about getting pinged across the map like in Reach.
Steelyuhas
Member
Apparently.
Somehow the skills from every other FPS in history simply do not translate to this game for me. I lose every fucking firefight, I get frustrated immediately. Just not fun.
^ lol, yes.
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Here are some 1080p pics of my Halo 2 Foundation remake fresh from the theater mode.
The maps is called Groundwork and I would like some help setting up spawns/weapons/gametypes.
(I haven't bothered to brush off the old manual)
I still need to flesh out the corner rooms too.
If your interested, catch me anytime I am online on my GamerTag: Vlad356
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Here are some 1080p pics of my Halo 2 Foundation remake fresh from the theater mode.
The maps is called Groundwork and I would like some help setting up spawns/weapons/gametypes.
(I haven't bothered to brush off the old manual)
I still need to flesh out the corner rooms too.
If your interested, catch me anytime I am online on my GamerTag: Vlad356
Click and hold image to expand up to 1080p:
Rickenslacker
Banned
Considering the aesthetic of Foundation/Thunderdome that's really damn faithful. Good work.
Can't help you with that man. Just got to practice until it clicks.
User 73932
Banned
you still testing?
Bregmann Roche
Member
After watching Bravo's Abandon video I like it more. I wouldn't say I love it, but I certainly like it more than things like Sword Base, Epitaph, Snowbound and The Map That Shall Not Be Named.
I was abysmal at this game for the first 10 days. At this point I feel like I've graduated to "mediocre'. Some things I have learned that may or may not help you:
1. When coming out of sprint in Halo 4 there is a brief moment during which you cannot shoot. I was aware of this while it was happening, but would somehow forget it while I was sprinting. So I would sprint into an encounter, try to shoot, realize my mistake, then get 3 or 4 shots off before realizing I was once again going to lose an easy 1v1 because I allowed myself to forfeit the first shot or two. Be smarter about sprinting.
2. In Infinity modes you are better off sitting back and letting points pile up. It's stupid and awful, but that's the best way to play the game. If you get aggressive at all you end up giving opponents personal ordnance which just puts your team deeper into the hole.
3. For whatever reason, there are many more games in Halo 4 (vs. Reach or Halo3) during which my bullets don't have any effect on the guy that I am shooting. This may be imagined, it may be a result of no longer having bloom to blame for missed shots (very doubtful in certain cases), or it may be because Halo 4's hit detection isn't as good as Reach's. Whatever the case, when I notice this happening I switch to the BR and try to stay as close to a teammate as possible so that I am always team-shooting with someone who has bullets that work. It doesn't help the K/D but you will rack up a shit ton of assists.
4. If you are feeling particularly bad about your performance, go into King of the Hill with a full team and just use Grenadier and Explosives. Spawn, throw 3 x Frags into the enemy team's hill, get some hill time, die, rinse, and repeat. After a few 20-10-10 games you'll feel much better.
Forge maps look so much better now. Damn.
Steelyuhas
Member
I definitely suffer from 2 and 3.
Thanks, but I don't know how much more I can play this game. I get on, play mediocre, and get frustrated/want to get off almost immediately.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
What's the post length limit on here?
Bregmann Roche
Member
In the case of #2, I would just not play Infinity anymore. The game became a lot more fun when I switched to a diet of mostly Oddball, King, CTF, and Dominion.
As for #3, most of my games are ok now, but when I start to see things like not even getting an assist after putting 2 or 3 shots into a guy that a teammate kills, I know it's time to switch to Grenadier-Explosives.
fuck this. seems like nearly every match prioritizes skill rather than good connection. don't mind a skill based match but holy shit, nearly every swat game I play, my headshot kill comes almost a second after I shoot them, therefore no matter how insanely accurate and quick i am i unusually end up being killed during that brief window where i shoot and the headshot registers. had a LOT less laggy games with reach and i have a decent connection by Australian standards. on top of that in general halo 4s hit detection seems pretty shit anyway.
Oh boy
He's about to lay out the finer points of Halo MP, so that you may understand why 4 is so bad.
Devolution
Member
Halo 4 gave me cancer strep
Happy Thanksgiving!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxn3RoqTOQ
Sale on the Waypoint store!
http://halowaypointstore.com/
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Actually no, I figured instead of doing drive by short posts about what I don't like, I'd just let it all out and be done with it. People asked for no more RIP Halo posts, so they are going to get what they want. 2,800 words about to be dropped on HaloGAF.
Franklinator
Member
Tempted on the blue UNSC shirt, but shipping kinda kills the deal. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the heads-up!
Well thanks for the warning I guess
Yea I really like those. I might just get both red and blue. Hmmmmmmmmmm
Well, not even that, the breathing cues to let you know you were almost out of sprint and depleted are gone too. And you can't hear people sprinting because that's gone.
There's a lot of things in Halo 4 that don't have a sound attached to them for some reason. Like the SPOPS drop pods.
Also, finally got hit by a loadout wipe. That was annoying.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I always found that breathing audio an interesting mechanic in Reach. Sprint and loose stealth, walk or crouch and get some stealth drop on your enemies. It was also hella useful for hearing rapidly approaching enemies or teams that travel in packs too. Even further it was useful against objective rushers.
HigherLevel
Member
When are we going to be able to get our screens on Waypoint?
You'll be given more opportunities to get awful maps like Complex and Abandon, neither of which are suited for CTF at all, and are both messes in other team objective based games.
People select Ragnarok because one, they know its layout, and two, it's littered with tons of vehicles and power weapons. Easy kills.
TheSchwab_7
Member
The banshee is completely useless 
It was. Bungie had neat little "tells" like throughout their last Halo games like that. So I'd avoid using sprint while in a base so they wouldn't hear me.
Another tell that was neat was how the OS/Camo would go BWOP if you respawned near them to tell you they were there.
Not sure if u4iX posted it, but here's Social Skirmish from last night.Yes it's a bit "long" but it's basically a breakdown of what we would like fixed with the game.
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being shot at by a ghost in mp I've noticed is almost silent. god damn, 343. changed so many of the sounds just for the sake of change and even didn't do it properly
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