vincent vega
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I never really post here, but they sent me a code and I already sold my copy so if anyone wants it let me know
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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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I'll take it brotha.
vincent vega
Member
I post in the other Halo thread and I'm in the boat with the others who have to wait til they somehow get unlocked for everyone. My brother and I are stuck on 70 lol** since we got it day one and we share his account for online gaming. The problem is we can't access his account because the Egghead forgot everything. Damn eggheads.** it's not really funny :/
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
The BTB guys are shitting on the Suds, and the Suds are getting mad. This shit is hilarious.
How in the hell is your reticle shaking randomly a consistent mechanic? There's no adaptation, it's a terrible idea that has no place in a competitive shooter.
Descoping is consistent. Every time you get shot while scoped in, you get scoped out. No matter what the situation is, the same result occurs. By definition, the flinching mechanic is wildly inconsistent.
MrGreencastle
Member
Agreed. I find flinching twice as jarring as de-scoping.
Stripper13
Member
Matchmaking is as close to broken as I can imagine without it actually not working at all. I am constantly put in matches against United States players. The games are unplayably laggy on my Australian Internet. Has there been any word from 343i regarding updates or changes coming? I essentially have to wait until 7pm every night to play with some friends and even then, it's a toss up whether we get an Australian game. Frustrating.
vincent vega
Member
agreed. I've been a long time halo fan, but 2 bad games in a row is enough for me. I'll probably end up switching over to ps4 next gen seeing as how bungies game is multiplatform
That's surprising to you?
vincent vega
Member
anti used games maybe? i hope all games arent like this in the future
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Huh? Did I express surprise? Watching these two idiots lose their shit and blame everything but themselves for losing is hilarious.
I'm not even surprised at blunders like this.
I wouldn't be shocked to see War Games pass owners get emailed a code for each map pack instead of just letting them download it.
They need a reality check.
With most decisions on this game I can think, hey, I can see why they did this. But excluding the Euro population from dewxp and the early specializations pass seems like they're metaphorically shitting on a huge portion of their player population.
If I were Hydra and was so amped about this game, defended it tooth and nail, and then was shafted like this twice I think I would just have to look around and at least have an answer. I still wouldn't be happy, but at least the answer would give me a jumping off point to understanding.
Fuck, I should have bolded "adapt" to get my sarcasm fully across. Calling it jarring was my attempt at a callback to a 343 dev referring to descoping as such when explaining the choice to add flinch.
There was actual skill involved in being able to re-scope.
Has 343 mentioned the possibility of extending the extra specializations into Europe and abroad?
Because seriously, blocking significant endgame content from non US players is downright unethical. I feel like there's got to be something we don't know here.
I'll take my sarcasm meter to the shop first thing Monday morning.
You mean his shill check isn't enough?!
I actually had a ton of fun playing this game tonight. Played Regicide and just stayed out of first place, went for non-king kills, got totally destroyed in terms of regicide points, but KD was high and it was fun.
Bring back FFA slayer, 343, what the fuck. i have to actually stop playing and hide so I dont become king.
Bring back FFA slayer, 343, what the fuck. i have to actually stop playing and hide so I dont become king.
I found de-scoping preferable because it was more consistent. I would scope, get tagged, and then be back out looking where I was previously. It reversed an action I myself initiated. With flinch, it's a game of, I wonder if my reticule will stay put? No? Okay, I wonder where it will bounce to next! And because I play mostly BTB and use the DMR, that means a large proportion of the combat revolves around wrestling with a bobbing targeting reticule. I just find that mechanic incredibly frustrating.
Everyone has their own lines for when a game goes from being flawed but fun enough to be worth it, and when the frustration dwarfs the fun. I think flinch is what will ultimately put me over that line. It's not the only thing, not by far. But I think I could stick with the game and have some mindless fun without it if flinch were not in place.
Shake Appeal
Member
Ghal, you just need to grind to level 60, then you can turn it off!
Ghal, you just need to grind to level 60, then you can turn it off!
I've had that thought. And honestly it's part of the reason I haven't returned it yet. :lol
I'm level 26 now, probably about half on the basis of War Games and half from Spartan Ops. I think I'll probably play mostly Spartan Ops, every couple weeks, and see where I end up at the end of the season. If it really looks like a grind from there to get Stability, I'll weigh what to do from there.
thezerofire
Banned
enjoying and raging at a game aren't mutually exclusive. See: Gears 3
Halo CEA
ODST
Skyrim
FC3 (recent release, I admit)
ACII
Geometry Wars 2 (was that out 5 years ago? I can't remember)
Ghost Recon FS
GTA IV
Mass Effect 2,3
Blops 1
Probably more. Can't remember at the moment
Shake Appeal
Member
The thing about getting knocked out of scope it was binary: it was on-off, and utterly predictable. Flinch is analogue, and much less predictable. It's amazing to me that after the kerfuffle over bloom, 343 added an all-new mechanic for making aiming more random.
SKYWARD SWORD, Trials (rage not due to mechanics), FIFA 13...all from the past 365 days.
I'm just going to let you know that playing with DMRs as pickups is actually pretty good. I have modified versions of Ragnarok and Haven that I've been working on, both with DMR pickups. Just in the 2v2 that I've played on Haven, it works pretty well. Although I can't fix Flinch(because you can't use specialization mods in customs for no apparent reason), I can fix the scope and range issue.
Assassin's Creed 2/Brotherhood
Mass Effect 2/3
Fez
Skyrim
Limbo
Skyward Sowrd
Kid Icarus Uprising
New Super Mario Bros. 2
there are just off the top of my head, if I looked in my Steam library I could come up with like 10 more.
Halo 4 is getting pretty obnoxious to me right about now. I'm taking a break for a week or two.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
At the very least, Spartan Ops MM has high credit payouts, so should you choose to grind towards stability thats probably the way to do it. I have had decent netcode with Spartan Ops in MM also, so its not half bad. The missions usually aren't anything special, but they can be fun to run around with three other players and cause chaos. I honestly rarely notice flinch, except at long range DMR battles, but I do understand the complaint..it is a bit like bloom where it can come out of nowhere and frustratingly screw you over. Still, I feel it isn't as bad..or I have just been more lucky. One way or another, I prefer it over descoping.. that seemed to screw me over more than flinch, but on the flip side I suppose it was more predictable.
Stripper13
Member
I can understand that at 9am Monday morning, but it's the weekend. I was able to play Reach at the same time a year after it came out, and as long as I selected good connection I was able to play against Aussies all day. It's this bull shit matchmaking system. I understand the skill element of the matching system... Maybe there isn't any games with Aussies with the same approximate skill level... But I'd rather wait, for minutes, as opposed to being thrown into a JIP USA game in 10 seconds. The silence on he issue makes it even more annoying.
Don't find flinch frustrating at all, it just makes it easier to ping people from great distances. And you have to make very minor adjustments to the "bobbing" reticle. The only time it pisses me off is when I put 3 bullets in the head of a sniper and he's still able to headshot me. Descope should apply to Snipers
Pop
Member
Bioshock 2 multiplayer.
The most fun and enjoyment I have ever had with a multiplayer game.
Thanks for this, I hadn't seen it in action before.
This is a very good way of describing it.
I had an encounter tonight where I stripped shields off someone, and before I could land the last shot, got team fired by BR's, and while getting shot by one guy is frustrating taking 12-15 little shots pelting me at once made landing the last shot totally impossible, I had no control over the reticule.
lol, that game was fun in a silly, can't take it serious kind of way.
^ I mean that scenario sounds perfectly fine to me, if you have 3-4 guys shooting you, having a stable zoomed in shot shouldn't be possible. You more than likely wouldn't have killed him with a de-scope mechanic either. I'm different though, I loved the suppress fire feature in BF3 where it blurred your screen if someone was shooting in your direction.
YourExWife
Member
So Goofy is at some LAN in TX and they're having a glitch where he got some ordnance and all three choices were empty and he couldn't call down any of them to restart it...
Eh, that mechanic in BF3 is worse than bloom. One bullet flies a meter above your head and suddenly your weapon shoots in every direction othe than straight
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Flinch makes snipers terribly overpowered. You've got no hope in hell getting close to anyone that's even remotely competent
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