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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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I am really enjoying this game. There are just so many little things that need to be fixed and they baffle me how they make it past quality control. I might be slightly obsessive compulsive, but here's a glimpse into my insanity.
Haven - Regicide - A global ordnance for a sticky detonator spawns buried into a platform. You cannot pick this weapon up and the indicator remains on the HUD for the entire match.
Longbow - Red and Blue have asymmetrical global ordnance initial spawns. Off spawn red team gets a rocket launcher at the base of the ramp leading up to the central base, their sniper is toward the low red side base by group of rocks. The blue spawn has these two items reversed. This makes a difference off initial spawn as red team will 90% of the time gain "top mid" because they push with rockets while blue team can't make that route.
It's just little things like this that show the lack of polish or quality control at the end of the day.
Haven - Regicide - A global ordnance for a sticky detonator spawns buried into a platform. You cannot pick this weapon up and the indicator remains on the HUD for the entire match.
Longbow - Red and Blue have asymmetrical global ordnance initial spawns. Off spawn red team gets a rocket launcher at the base of the ramp leading up to the central base, their sniper is toward the low red side base by group of rocks. The blue spawn has these two items reversed. This makes a difference off initial spawn as red team will 90% of the time gain "top mid" because they push with rockets while blue team can't make that route.
It's just little things like this that show the lack of polish or quality control at the end of the day.
If you quit out do you still lose points?
Vire
Member
xxxstylzxxx
Member
Team Regicide >>>>> Regicide and maybe even IS. Seems to place a bit more emphasis and map control/movement. It even plays pretty well on Complex.
Harvest actually looks like a pretty damned solid objective map, especially for CTF. Which reminds me, why again are asymmetrical maps still in heavy rotation in this playlist?
Some interesting Specialization discussion a few pages back...................
Harvest actually looks like a pretty damned solid objective map, especially for CTF. Which reminds me, why again are asymmetrical maps still in heavy rotation in this playlist?
Some interesting Specialization discussion a few pages back...................
*sigh* 
Demoncarnotaur
Member
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Glad Im not the only one who really liked that map.
Hah, thats really interesting. It kinda makes sense, it certainly does share some familiar design aspects. Goes to show that spiritual successors can usually end up being great maps.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
xxjuicesxx
Member
Did they finally do an Instagib? I would sign on to play that.
Poker Face
Member
Orientation cues
Reagan's BR
Banned
So I just found this:
http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-4-forge-discussion/142545-unbound.html#post1562028
http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-4-forge-discussion/142545-unbound.html#post1562028
We had Harvest concept art months before the game came out!
NullPointer
Member
Gonna guess variety. Solace has two sweet looking side vistas.
Hydranockz
Member
Binary Slayer looks like an awful lot of fun.
Vire
Member
Yeah I get that, just make the canyons different looking enough where it's easily identifiable. Either through colors or structures.
Seems pretty hard to get lost on a symmetrical map.
Indeed.
Sounds counter intuitive but symmetrical maps are the ones people get "lost" on a lot more, because they get turned around and forget which side is "theirs".
Other maps that use the High Wall/Open side orientation trick:
Tempest
Asylum
Longshore
Hemorrhage
Settler/Ravine
High Noon
Highlands
Meltdown
The Pit
Also a nice excuse to have a lot of light coming into the map
http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/post/2012/12/01/Halo-4-Specializations-Offer-Update.aspx
Update about the Halo 4 Specialisations.
Such a lame reason.
Update about the Halo 4 Specialisations.
Such a lame reason.
Vire
Member
Sounds counter intuitive but symmetrical maps are the ones people get "lost" on a lot more, because they get turned around and forget which side is "theirs".
Other maps that use the High Wall/Open side orientation trick:
Tempest
Asylum
Longshore
Hemorrhage
Settler/Ravine
High Noon
Highlands
Meltdown
The Pit
Also a nice excuse to have a lot of light coming into the map
Yeah but many symmetrical small maps don't do that. (Midship, Haven, Warlock) etc.
Anywho, not the end of the world.
I'd like to see an Action Sack playlist with Binary Slayer in it. Looks like a blast.
Hydranockz
Member
Because you already had your chance to get them by pre-ordering from specific retailers!
I wish i was joking
You'd think so... but remember Squad Slayer.
I still wonder when they're going to unlock them in the future. They can't always keep people capped forever.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Wish I didn't accidentally redeem mine.
xxjuicesxx
Member
I still have my code, really they go for 30 bucks on ebay!?
Hydranockz
Member
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
They should just unlock the specializations for everyone. They never should have been paywalled/region restricted in the first place. And I say this as a LE owner.
FunkyMunkey
Banned
Because there aren't any missions that take place on a covenant cruiser in single player, of course! Create new material for spartan ops? No way!
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
:-(
"Hey Spartans, we need someone to take out the trash and do the Infinity's laundry.
CRIMSON!
...looks like your closest. GET TO IT."
xxjuicesxx
Member
Yea, shouldn't have been a lot of the shenanigans they pulled before release.
And they said they didn't want people buying and selling accounts...
FUCK i should have sold mine
NullPointer
Member
There should have been. You hang on to the outside of a Covenant ship in the campaign before inexplicably taking it over and letting Cortana crash it into that research base. I would've loved to play out that scenario. Some skirmishing outside of the ship in zero G before busting in and fighting your way to the command center.
Makes me wonder whether it was cut.
I shouldvt gotten one in the first place to sell.
Ive checked 3 different emails but none of them got it. I have no idea which email my xbox content is being sent to.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Hmm
User 73706
Banned
They really didn't learn shit from ODST, did they? That's what Spartan Ops should be. Not even in the hub world aspect, just the fact that it presented some human humans doing human stuff in human situations. So far we've gotten dudebros and people not giving a shit about the fact that they're in the middle of a war. Are they being ironic? Deconstructing the genre? Waiting to kill people off and let things get serious and have them develop over the last few episodes? NOPE I know it wasn't perfect, but they could learn something from doing a Rashomon-style cut between squads.
Would it be difficult to tell the story with? Possibly. But not if they had an easy way of conveying it, for example, they could have had an introductory cinematic detailing all five squads - Castle, Crimson, Majestic, Cool Ranch, Nacho Cheese, Blazin' Buffalo Wing, whatever the fuck you want to call them. Detail the specifics on their four team members, distinguish them with color or emblems or armor if you have to. For the loading screen, replace the UNSC emblem with a simple splash page showing the squad on something like "YOU ARE TEAM ..." with them in action-style poses, putting names over each soldier similar to Left 4 Dead's loading screen. Maybe even make it specific, by panning to individual squadmates showing something like "[gamertag] is THE SNIPER," even if it wouldn't affect gameplay. Even have squads meet up and intermingle for chapters if you feel like it. I mean hell, I've been playing all these episodes and I still have no fucking idea what squad I'm a part of. I'm guessing Crimson, but still.
Would it be difficult to tell the story with? Possibly. But not if they had an easy way of conveying it, for example, they could have had an introductory cinematic detailing all five squads - Castle, Crimson, Majestic, Cool Ranch, Nacho Cheese, Blazin' Buffalo Wing, whatever the fuck you want to call them. Detail the specifics on their four team members, distinguish them with color or emblems or armor if you have to. For the loading screen, replace the UNSC emblem with a simple splash page showing the squad on something like "YOU ARE TEAM ..." with them in action-style poses, putting names over each soldier similar to Left 4 Dead's loading screen. Maybe even make it specific, by panning to individual squadmates showing something like "[gamertag] is THE SNIPER," even if it wouldn't affect gameplay. Even have squads meet up and intermingle for chapters if you feel like it. I mean hell, I've been playing all these episodes and I still have no fucking idea what squad I'm a part of. I'm guessing Crimson, but still.
It's version 1.01.00
Just tried playing Mission 1 Ep 5 on Spops solo.
I think i got through 5 waves of enemies before failing a SpOps mission for the first time.
Literally impossible solo on legendary. No matchmaking option for Legendary 4 player.
Don't take that as a complaint, take it as constructive criticism. Let us search by difficulty, please. <3
Pleased with the first missions shake up. Displeased with repetition of environments every single week. Not to mention, the cutscene intro made me realize Galileos air defenses have failed 3 times now? 4? Lols!
I think i got through 5 waves of enemies before failing a SpOps mission for the first time.
Literally impossible solo on legendary. No matchmaking option for Legendary 4 player.
Don't take that as a complaint, take it as constructive criticism. Let us search by difficulty, please. <3
Pleased with the first missions shake up. Displeased with repetition of environments every single week. Not to mention, the cutscene intro made me realize Galileos air defenses have failed 3 times now? 4? Lols!
YourExWife
Member
So, kinda disappointed that the Ep 5 Ch4 achievement wasn't more of a challenge. Did it solo Heroic and never even lost all my shields on the mantis
Was still sort of fun though. First mission is stupid hard on solo. Had to drop it down to normal because there are just so many waves and so many enemies.
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Was still sort of fun though. First mission is stupid hard on solo. Had to drop it down to normal because there are just so many waves and so many enemies.
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Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Devin Olsen
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yF3zAUwm2jc#t=84s
"This looks like a pretty good sized map, is this more of a big team..."
NOPE! Just 343s idea of a small to medium sized map.
Edit: God dammit it makes me upset going to Forgehub and seeing pictures of the maps that people have spent countless hours on, being taken with CELL PHONES.
Why oh why are such simple features missing from Halo 4, it blows me away that there hasn't been more of an explanation for this.
"This looks like a pretty good sized map, is this more of a big team..."
NOPE! Just 343s idea of a small to medium sized map.
Edit: God dammit it makes me upset going to Forgehub and seeing pictures of the maps that people have spent countless hours on, being taken with CELL PHONES.
Why oh why are such simple features missing from Halo 4, it blows me away that there hasn't been more of an explanation for this.
Im_So_Pringles
Member
I'm too lazy to check; Is today's SO episode the same recycled levels and multiplayer maps?
Yeah, I'm pissed about that bullshit too
Yeah, I'm pissed about that bullshit too
Yeah I could barely get it done on Normal.So, kinda disappointed that the Ep 5 Ch4 achievement wasn't more of a challenge. Did it solo Heroic and never even lost all my shields on the mantis
Was still sort of fun though. First mission is stupid hard on solo. Had to drop it down to normal because there are just so many waves and so many enemies.
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I think that mission is the culmination of everything wrong with Spartan Ops. Lack of scaling, one dimensional objectives, shameless waves upon waves of enemies in the same combat scenarios/encounters making them monotonous, poor spawns, having to fight the mechanics instead of the enemies, reuse of locations, the list goes on.
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