xxjuicesxx
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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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work, contemplating dropping out and going pro.
That happened in Reach too, you could do it manually in Forge by hologramming as you switched to Monitor.
The hologram's armor will also be random, and have random armor effects. So sometimes when you do it, it'll have Blue Flames or Legendary flames (1:05 in this video)
FUBAR McDangles
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FUNKNOWN iXi
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What confuses me about this is that 343 knows how broken the voting system was in Reach, yet they implement the same exact thing.
Am I being naive in thinking that Gears of War's voting system is the best way any game's done it? Vote for one of two maps, if a tie it goes to a veto and a random 3rd map is chosen. You know.. a mix between Halo 3 and Reach/4 ;[
Holy shit. Camo. Way too good in this game. You really cannot see them at all when they are still.
Also, I really hope fileshares will be fixed soon. I want to play more custom games. I'm already getting bored of matchmaking because there are only a few decent maps. I played on a Sanctuary remake the other day which was fairly decent. Instant respawn kinda messes the flow up though.
Also, I really hope fileshares will be fixed soon. I want to play more custom games. I'm already getting bored of matchmaking because there are only a few decent maps. I played on a Sanctuary remake the other day which was fairly decent. Instant respawn kinda messes the flow up though.
I want a preference in the lobby to either join a game in progress or wait until a game is at the lobby.
Maybe it's just the honeymoon phase, but I don't really have any major qualms with multiplayer. Gun play feels so good and every weapon is fun to use. Ordnance is fun and doesn't bother me, especially if you watch and see what was dropped. I haven't found weapon drops to be dominant yet.
DMRs haven't bothered me on large maps at all. Flanking and sprint makes it easy to get around to fight from different positions. I'm even BRing DMR users at long range, though better players will win that fight.
So far my biggest issues are: camo is absolute bullshit, Complex sucks for slayer, Abandon CTF is extremely biased towards blue team. I have no idea how that got through play tests.
Based on some of the feedback here, many if you don't seem to know what you actually want. I'm convinced some will never be satisfied with Halo again.
DMRs haven't bothered me on large maps at all. Flanking and sprint makes it easy to get around to fight from different positions. I'm even BRing DMR users at long range, though better players will win that fight.
So far my biggest issues are: camo is absolute bullshit, Complex sucks for slayer, Abandon CTF is extremely biased towards blue team. I have no idea how that got through play tests.
Based on some of the feedback here, many if you don't seem to know what you actually want. I'm convinced some will never be satisfied with Halo again.
How about just no voting, let the system pick the map. Yeah, kind of drastic but more maps would get played this way.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
I had some connection stuff happen last night for two or three games but that was my first problem since launch night for only a single game.
Netcode has held up well with me, also anyone going to be on late tonight? I won't be on till 12PM EST, have to watch HBO and showtime shows tonight but will be on for a couple hours afterwards.
Netcode has held up well with me, also anyone going to be on late tonight? I won't be on till 12PM EST, have to watch HBO and showtime shows tonight but will be on for a couple hours afterwards.
So far my experience with join in progress as been largely negative. Maybe I'm just unlucky but I frequently get put in matches where we are down 30 kills. I got put in one in BTB that was 360-960. There is an inherent problem with JIP in that 90% of the time people quit, it is because they are getting destroyed and the other team has all the advantageous weapons, vehicles, etc. It is never fun to spawn into a game like that on the losing side.
And it doesn't seem to work when I really need it to. I've had numerous games were we start down a player or two and it does not give us a teammate the entire match. Why does this game start matches when the teams are uneven? I'm not even talking about people quitting out. It starts games with uneven sides. This never happened in previous Halos.
And it doesn't seem to work when I really need it to. I've had numerous games were we start down a player or two and it does not give us a teammate the entire match. Why does this game start matches when the teams are uneven? I'm not even talking about people quitting out. It starts games with uneven sides. This never happened in previous Halos.
It's a shame really. I don't even see the medals at all when I'm playing now because they are all pretty much the same unless I look at them carefully. In Reach the differentiation between the medals was really good. Headshot was purple, double kill was yellow, overkill orange, etc. They may as well not even appear on the screen in game the way they are now.
FUBAR McDangles
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Thanks man. Got it.
Do you want anything in return? I can get you a double XP code later or give you my 14 day trial code that came with the game, if you'd like.
K
kittens
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One of my biggest gameplay frustrations with the game so far. And the new radar jammer effect makes it even more difficult to triangulate and locate them. It's terrible. People weren't using it much the first few days after launch, but I'm seeing it more and more...
Nope, I gave out for anyone to freely take. Enjoy!
I really like the map. I think it plays great. I don't want to play it every match though. Let me play some of the new ones! At this point I've only played Exile, Meltdown, and Longbow about twice each.
Same. It really really really should have been a power up. I'm pretty disappointed its still an AA.
Why would the game think it's okay to put me into a King match where my team is losing 147-29? The score limit is 150.
C'mon.
Some of the commendations seem to be really strangely structured. I have the Extermination commendation maxed out already after just a few days, which is for killing every player on the team in a match. Then you've got the Perfection commendation, which requires so many instances of such a rare event that I'm not convinced more than 1% of the population will ever max it out. Why? To even reach rank 1 of the Perfection commendation, you need 5 perfections. For perspective, as a good-not-great Halo player, bungie.net shows me having 6 Perfections in Reach ever. I know guys like Plywood go after them purposely and have a bunch, but that's a distinct outlier.
C'mon.
Some of the commendations seem to be really strangely structured. I have the Extermination commendation maxed out already after just a few days, which is for killing every player on the team in a match. Then you've got the Perfection commendation, which requires so many instances of such a rare event that I'm not convinced more than 1% of the population will ever max it out. Why? To even reach rank 1 of the Perfection commendation, you need 5 perfections. For perspective, as a good-not-great Halo player, bungie.net shows me having 6 Perfections in Reach ever. I know guys like Plywood go after them purposely and have a bunch, but that's a distinct outlier.
ViewtifulJC
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"Join-in-Progress has been designed so it stops players from joining right near the end of the game" -343i employee
I'm pretty sure the game only looks at how close the game is to reaching the time limit, not the score limit.
xxjuicesxx
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This I'll never know. Once either team achieves 50% of the score required to win the game should be considered closed.
JIP should be fixing early quitters and uneven matchmaking's, not evening out stale games.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
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Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Most of the people that have an issue with it are the purists and/or the people that are uber competitive.
I don't know, what I have noticed is the person using it is A LOT easier to spot.
JIP makes win/loss ratio absolutely meaningless. When they come out with CSR they need have specific playlists for it that don't allow JIP.
When they are moving this is absolutely the case. When they aren't moving though they are pretty much completely invisible even if you are looking right at them from two feet away.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
FUNKNOWN iXi
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I'd normally agree with this, but there should always be a way to vote against Adrift CTF. A better system than that would just be Halo 3's veto then, see the map and if you don't like it take your chances with another possibly worse one (lol when Isolation used to pop up after a veto in H3).
Zeouterlimits
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Kind of an awkward time to post this considering the other posts but I thought I'd start my legendary playthrough and see if it changes my opinion on the first 2/3s and Campaign as a whole,
First level, blow through easily.
Second level, fight through that big open area with the 3/4 Covenant settlements, finally kill them and go through the tunnel behind to the next area to where the fuel rod grunt kills me.
And the checkpoint takes me back to before I fought the last big group in the open area, about 10 minutes previously.
*controller down* If that's the kind of experience the designers said they're happy to ship with.. then I'm surprised. How is check pointing such an issue for them?
First level, blow through easily.
Second level, fight through that big open area with the 3/4 Covenant settlements, finally kill them and go through the tunnel behind to the next area to where the fuel rod grunt kills me.
And the checkpoint takes me back to before I fought the last big group in the open area, about 10 minutes previously.
*controller down* If that's the kind of experience the designers said they're happy to ship with.. then I'm surprised. How is check pointing such an issue for them?
Digital Limit
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I love the voting system.
Play a smaller playlist where you have more of a say. Play with friends so you control half of the vote. Instead of being a victim, you'll be able to choose the next map every time. That's been my experience. We even voted in Ragnarok twice because it's a classic CTF map that's a blast to play. And also because we hate most gaffers, apparently.
If I had to guess, many of people complaining about both the voting system and netcode have been playing too much Big Team. I think it's unfortunately the worst mode in Halo 4. Most of the maps are just too small for that player count, and the game can't seem to handle that many people at once. As well, if you go into Big Team alone, you might as well not have a vote.
Play a smaller playlist where you have more of a say. Play with friends so you control half of the vote. Instead of being a victim, you'll be able to choose the next map every time. That's been my experience. We even voted in Ragnarok twice because it's a classic CTF map that's a blast to play. And also because we hate most gaffers, apparently.
If I had to guess, many of people complaining about both the voting system and netcode have been playing too much Big Team. I think it's unfortunately the worst mode in Halo 4. Most of the maps are just too small for that player count, and the game can't seem to handle that many people at once. As well, if you go into Big Team alone, you might as well not have a vote.
FUBAR McDangles
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lol
People who are against voting should just be told about this every time they bring it up. Those situations suuuuuuuuuuucked
EdibleExplosives
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I like the multiplayer a lot more than I thought I would, even with its flaws.
I'm gonna kill someone if I have to play another match on Ragnarok though, 90% of my BTB matches have been on that map.
I'm gonna kill someone if I have to play another match on Ragnarok though, 90% of my BTB matches have been on that map.
Pop
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Ok what the fuck, what can I do against these stupid server issues, everybody can play, except me, I just read the bulletin part about this again, what is this shit how do I get this away
Servers were down for me 10 mins ago. All I did was backed out to the dashboard and started H4 back up. Did the trick.
xxjuicesxx
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Stats are weird. I'm getting different win/loss stats based on where I look.
Discrepancies in In-game, Overall, and Individual gametypes section...Not sure my Win/Loss because of it.
Also can you just mirror image bungie stats. This new things is cool and all but it worked before so you dont really need to fix it.
Discrepancies in In-game, Overall, and Individual gametypes section...Not sure my Win/Loss because of it.
Also can you just mirror image bungie stats. This new things is cool and all but it worked before so you dont really need to fix it.
Faster than Reach for me.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Search times increase the larger your party is. I've had the same issues in COD. If you go solo or with 1 or 2 friends it's still quick as hell.
Plus, it looks like the servers are still taking a shit.
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