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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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Enter The 36 Chambers
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We played 3 matches, all on Haven. For whatever reason the global ordinance didnt work (mostly). Was a nice change of pace.
Another point, started using the Carbine, gun is fantastic... On Haven and the other small maps. Playing anything other then the small maps the gun is pathetic against the DMR. It sucks because i love using it.
Cant wait for more small maps so i can keep using the Carbine.
Deputy Moonman
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I'll be on a lot tonight. Send me an invite if interested. Still trying to choose between wetworks and rogue.
Sure, when I get the chance.
I wonder if there is some way to unlock it from 60 fps with some kind of hack?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Use a screen capture at a higher fps then playback at a lower fps?
That is how I got the 2x slow-mo, but it won't go any slower unless I also interpolate the frames in-between with some plugin like Twixtor.
This is because H2v will not render more than 60 fps for whatever reason.
I believe there might be some way to overcome this with some special DLLs or other hacks.
The original idea was to capture at 120 or 240 fps and then blend that down into a super smooth 30fps .GIF with 4x/8x motion blur samples.
I did add in some motion blur into the video, although its not really noticable in the .GIF's clip.
What I want:
I'm ready.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I doubt you'll do any better than the source fps. Sure you can crank it up as you did through some simple "hacks" but if you try to stretch out to 200+ fps you're not going to get workable results. More than likely the resulting 30 fps you want will have garbage frames, quite a lot I'd imagine.
Perhaps a resolution change could alter the upper limit of the fps?
Steelyuhas
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Why does this mainly involve everyone coming back to life? Dead characters should stay dead, period.
Example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKMuAMLM8vY
With game clips now they don't play the game announcer voices, thanks to SillyGoose we got them in for videos to edit. Jazzy does the editing for us and it's a REAL pain in the ass. It's not the worse thing ever but for something that's been out for 5 years now and hasn't had any feedback from their team makes me
I know you posted that for the lack of the announcer, but damn that clip was sick nasty.
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Watched the Harvest walkthrough/gameplay. I think it looks like a good map. An unquestionable BTB map. In what universe does a map of that size and three different vehicles types get passed off as 4v4, and that's the "smallest" map in the pack?
9 of the 11 playlists are 8 or 10 players, how does it make any sense that all the maps are designed for well more than that? I fear for Halo 4's longevity because the game simply won't get the proper DLC support when 343 thinks that is a "small-medium" 4v4 map.
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kittens
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That Halo 2 gif. Man. All my feels.
No, I have an SSD and the recording speed is not a problem. I can easily record 720p 120fps without any frame drop in game, and I don't get any garbage frames. When I do it in Halo 2 vista though, I get every second pair of frames duplicated. But all 60 frames that H2v renders are accounted for, I made sure of that.
Great list. However, I believe the lack of a Grifball and Doubles playlist is because they don't have adequate maps to support those yet. I know the cartographers over at GrifballHub are working to create more Grifball maps and variants to allow for a more versatile experience, so it's only a matter of time before the Grifball playlist rolls out.
As far as Doubles goes, I'd assume 343i's waiting on some decent forge maps or a future map pack to throw in to make a playlist viable. Realistically, Haven and Adrift (possibly Solace or Abandon) are the only maps that would support 2v2, so I'm sure they're hesitant to pull the trigger on only two maps just yet.
I'd also assume the Team Hardcore playlist will most likely be the MLG playlist, which I would guess is coming soon with the latest MLG competitive settings released. I'd also like to see in the future (when the right gametypes are created) an Action Sack playlist, but that's just me. Binary Slayer could be a ton of fun.
Amazing Mic
Neo Member
List looks spot on to me. I also like the "Mercenaries" suggestion that gets tossed around.
I'm certainly ready now. I'm certainly getting better games in H4 compared to Reach, teams seem more balanced, but it still feels like the skill range you can get matched up with is pretty large. One of the reasons I loved Doubles was because you often avoided this mess. I'd be perfectly happy w/ Haven/Adrift/Abandon/Relay and maybe Solace.
Heck, I got stuck in a 2v2 IS match on Complex and the size was fine. Played no bigger than Powerhouse in Reach.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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The universe just has these sorts of "coming back to life" mechanisms. See below
1. Didact Returning, not dead obviously due to Frankie and others saying a true nemesis has been provided in the Didact.
2. Cortana Returning,
again there are multiple ways for Cortana to return...she even sets it up with her own dialogue that you may be paired with another Cortana but it won't be me...Also the composer could have easily "backed up Cortana" and all the other Cortana's moving forward were just the "dead or lost" ones left with the Chief etc.
3. Flood returning, I'd be happy for the Flood to not return but having them extragalactic and their true original not revealed as yet as well as Gravemind's etc there is plenty of room for them to come back.
4. Precursor reveal.
5. ONI mutany.
6. Librarian back to life, we see the librarian AI in Halo 4 campaign then we see "Didact's Gift" and are told it's a living Forerunner in there. Sets things up and I personally think this one is the "SPOPS ace in the hole to give it real depth".
7. Halsey reverses the composed humans back to life, again the universe just sets this up.
8. Gifts from Prometheans discovered.
9. Chakas/Guilty Spark returning, there are multiple GS so easily can come back once again.
Not even entering into Gea either.
That's my point, the source only has 60fps as the upper limit so your capture basically gets duplicated frames due to a PC monitor using progressive frames as opposed to old CRT TV's using interlaced. If you had an NTSC source you could get interlaced frames which would be garbage but you're on a PC so it's one frame at a time. Basically you're doing double the recording so that same frame is duplicated. In essence you're filling in duplicate frames so you can then slow motion the playback.
My point is if you move that up to say 240 fps for example you going to end up with sort of long pauses and then the compressed video will not be moving in all frames so you'll start to get garbage artefacts due to compression, even with very low compressed video for higher quality. The more "filler frames" you add the more these things will become apparent and the more your action will seem to stand still and jump instead of smoothly playback when in slow mo.
Monocle
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Congrats to 343 for giving me the worst Halo experience in years. Here's a rough timeline of my fight through the first mission of the new Spartan Ops chapter: pick up rockets -> get killed by Watchers -> pick up saw -> get sniped by binary rifle -> pick up scattershot -> get killed by teleporting Knight -> pick up sniper -> get killed by Watchers -> pick up binary rifle -> get sniped by binary rifle -> spawn -> get sniped by binary rifle -> spawn -> get sniped by binary rifle -> spawn -> get sniped by binary rifle -> spawn -> get sniped by binary rifle -> spawn -> get sniped by binary rifle -> spawn -> get sniped by binary rifle -> spawn -> mission complete.
TACTICS! STRATEGY! I can't wait until the Covenant are removed from Halo completely so I canfight get dick-stomped by Prometheans over and over again. I think my favorite thing is how it takes almost an entire DMR clip to kill a Knight after its shields have popped. No headshots for me! Prometheans are so much fun! ^________________^
Also, why is everyone on the Infinity still acting like an asshole toward Dr. Halsey? I thought Frankie said that people who object to all the Halsey bashing in recent Halo fiction will appreciate her portrayal in Halo 4. Or something. Let me just say that appreciation is not how I'd describe my current view of her treatment. 343 still seem intent on burying one of their most (OK, one of their only) interesting characters. They should probably kill off Halsey before they completely soil Eric Nylund's nuanced picture of a brilliant, ruthless, tormented woman.
Lastly, why are all the Spartan Ops missions taking place in the same pitiful collection of recycled areas? 343 shouldn't market this mode as an extra campaign if it's basically a stripped down version of Firefight. The main difference being the total absence of customization options (aside from loadouts).
TACTICS! STRATEGY! I can't wait until the Covenant are removed from Halo completely so I can
Also, why is everyone on the Infinity still acting like an asshole toward Dr. Halsey? I thought Frankie said that people who object to all the Halsey bashing in recent Halo fiction will appreciate her portrayal in Halo 4. Or something. Let me just say that appreciation is not how I'd describe my current view of her treatment. 343 still seem intent on burying one of their most (OK, one of their only) interesting characters. They should probably kill off Halsey before they completely soil Eric Nylund's nuanced picture of a brilliant, ruthless, tormented woman.
Lastly, why are all the Spartan Ops missions taking place in the same pitiful collection of recycled areas? 343 shouldn't market this mode as an extra campaign if it's basically a stripped down version of Firefight. The main difference being the total absence of customization options (aside from loadouts).
I doubt it. Having a purely visual animated train outside the map boundaries, doesn't give me enough reason to believe that they will remake Terminal with a fully working train as in Halo 2. It seems like ever since Halo 3's remake of midship, Bungie/343 have backpedaled and decided it's not worth the trouble networking animated physicalized set pieces. They mentioned something along these lines in a BWU.
Personally I rarely had issues with it, so I regret their decision. I think it would awesome to have more interactive maps. Especially ones with gates and big windmills and shit.
Steelyuhas
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I know it is, I'm not blaming you for that, your list is pretty realistic given the universe. I'm saying I hate that aspect of the Halo universe. If you are going to kill a character, kill them, they're dead, not coming back, cause they're dead.
Deputy Moonman
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Someone join senador and me.
If you wanna see a silky smooth 60fps Halo 2 clip with some decent motion blur added in post, I uploaded a compressed version of the clip here, since Youtube only goes to 30fps.
YourExWife
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Fairly off-topic, but those of you who thought that the Zelda speedrun was entertaining should take a gander at Mike89's Sonic runs. There's a couple ( Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles ) from AGDQ2012 where he commentates a fair bit. Some of the glitches are just nuts.
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kittens
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Hopping on.
May I? GT = Cabbie D
Be happy the game doesn't troll fans like Gears 3 did. Imagine, "Become master in Everything - 100G"
Still can't believe the nonsensical shit Epic pulled on their fans. May have also been "Leave your Xbox on continuously for 3 months - 100G"
So as bad as Halo 3/Reach may have had with achievements, Gears is king with the worst.
Still can't believe the nonsensical shit Epic pulled on their fans. May have also been "Leave your Xbox on continuously for 3 months - 100G"
So as bad as Halo 3/Reach may have had with achievements, Gears is king with the worst.
Deputy Moonman
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yeah sure. i wasn't paying attention. let finish this match we're in real quick
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kittens
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Has 343 confirmed that we'll be stuck with the name of our final specialization on our player card? It's a pretty trivial detail, but I don't see why they can't just let us know how it works.
Hah, you think thats impressive, wait till you hear this.
Theres a great forum post from a pokemon enthusiast that was making the rounds recently
Using memory corruption to freely write and execute code in the RAM of Pokemon
It involves a guy exploting a glitch in the game's inventory that allowed him to write values into a section of the gameboy's memory. This glitch is pretty common for giving yourself extra items, all you have to do is write the value 99 in the section of memory that holds the number of rare candies and masterballs you currently have and your set.
But the poster decided to go the extra mile and write enough bytes into memory to program an entirely new program inside of the pokemon game and then run that program. So he could, for example, write the code for the game of Pacman into memory by pressing a very specific sequence of keys inside the pokemon game and then execute/run that newly created game.
He even created a separate program that would automatically convert any code he writes in, say, notepad, and it would convert that into the necesary sequence of keys on the gameboy that would that would write these into memory.
So he essentially made it so that you could write any gameboy code on your PC, click a button and have your computer spit it out as a list of the sequence of actions/keys you would need to press on the gameboy pokemon game to write that game into memory and execute that code. no physical mods required, just patience.
He has a video of some of this in the link.
YourExWife
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Ya - didn't a similar method get used to set the newest any% where you essentially visit one of the vendors in the game then use a series of button presses after you leave to immediately arrive at the "endgame" memory state? Crazy things can happen when you essentially rely on bit flags to do everything
I find both types of exploits (still-in-game vs memory leaks/rewrites) highly entertaining for their own reasons. Mike's speedruns (of which he has a new world record on Sonic 2 I think) are impressive not only because of the glitches, but because of the pure skill required since you still have to expertly play a good chunk of game.
User 73706
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I've been messing with the steitzer audio clips to try and do sentence mixing. Go and have a listen, maybe it'll come in handy some day.
Glad you're enjoying it. One of my most favorite games this gen, sometimes you just need to sit back, laugh, and blow crap up. I put over 100 hrs in and then my game disc stopped working...
I think it would have been an amazing FPS/TPS hybrid
I'm thinking of picking it up. How is the co-op?
Yeah, that's pretty great too. Plus it's pretty great that that there's a medal unironically called "First Touch" for being the first person to grab the ball.
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kittens
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Whoa, yeah, that looks awesome.So can we all agree that King Joust is pretty much the coolest new medal ever?
Steelyuhas
Member
So can we all agree that King Joust is pretty much the coolest new medal ever?
That's pretty sweet.
I've been messing with the steitzer audio clips to try and do sentence mixing. Go and have a listen, maybe it'll come in handy some day.
I fucking spit my drink. Was NOT expecting "CUMSHOTkill".
I feel like Team Regicide is VIP done right.
I really do suggest everyone try it out. No IS weapon drop BS.
Good maps for it:
1. Adrift
2. Haven
3. Complex
Bad (Terrible, Honestly) maps for it:
1. Solace
2. Abandon
I see myself playing this a lot in the future, if they decide to REPLACE FFA REGICIDE AND KEEP TEAM, AS IT'S INFINITELY BETTER AND THE SCORING ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE))
I really do suggest everyone try it out. No IS weapon drop BS.
Good maps for it:
1. Adrift
2. Haven
3. Complex
Bad (Terrible, Honestly) maps for it:
1. Solace
2. Abandon
I see myself playing this a lot in the future, if they decide to REPLACE FFA REGICIDE AND KEEP TEAM, AS IT'S INFINITELY BETTER AND THE SCORING ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE
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