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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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Tha Robbertster
Member
Oh shit, I didn't even do that on purpose :lol
scar tissue
Banned
INcreased?? Oh lawd
FriedCalamari
Member
Brand new or MP maps/SP locations they haven't yet used? ;p
For a game in which "the vast majority only play the campaign" and "most players never venture into the multiplayer side" they sure seem to have largely ignored throwing this majority a bone.
1. No scoring
2. No commendations
3. No unlocks
4. No matchmaking
5. No theater
6. No leader boards
It's baffling how they continually say that most players get Halo for the campaign and yet this campaign has almost zero incentive to play it more than twice.
1. No scoring
2. No commendations
3. No unlocks
4. No matchmaking
5. No theater
6. No leader boards
It's baffling how they continually say that most players get Halo for the campaign and yet this campaign has almost zero incentive to play it more than twice.
Poker Face
Member
I am pretty excited about the tourney. It will feel more competitive, I hope.
Fileshares aren't coming until next year, I'm 100 percent sure now since it wasnt mentioned this week
I don't know about the tourney.. I'm kind of scared the prizes are US only again :/
damn they were? just read the summary by deadly cyclone since the waypoint page on my mobile doesn't work.
Poker Face
Member
Thought it said worldwide, and I meant "wasn't" shitty mobile typing sorry
Most/all of HaloGAF will have zero shot at any of the prizes. There will be kids who play 20 hours a day to boost the leaderboard ranking. Then there will be griefers who find a way to beat the system and boost their account even more. It will be fun to watch in the same way some men just want to watch the world burn.
squidhands
Member
Thank you again for hosting these on your site, Wu. As usual, Waypoint won't fucking work and can't even find the home page no matter how many times I try. I've never had such horrible issues with a website in my life, ever. For it to be regularly inaccessible for the official face of an enormous company is just absurd.
Anyway, on to the Update.
- Tourney. meh.
- KOTH is gone. FUCK. We'll see how long this 'temporary' will last, but it was one of my only havens for quality games in matchmaking.
- No mention whatsoever on how this 'best of SpOps' matchmaking will work, will assume that it's the same poorly designed one mission at a time then boot you to the lobby as it was before.
- I pray that the delay of SpOps is due to feature additions apart from new locales, though I'm ready to be disappointed.
- Good to hear that DLC is heavily weighted in regular playlists.
- yay TU
Ah no problem, have the same problem most of the time lol.
And again on the prizes, yes it says worldwide(thanks Wu for your Update version) but how do they do that if someone from EU wins the car.. they gonna ship it? lol.
Also the trailer at the VGAs only being for the second part of season one :/ meh
It's worldwide. Turns out this was possible, and Bungie really did just have crappy lawyers!
BlueScrote
Member
Yeah, damn these lazy developers for wanting to take time off to spend with their families after crunch time. They should be chained to their cubicles day and night.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Glad they're trying a tourney, interested to see how well it's managed and publicised.
I'd love to know why we don't get patch notes, it kind of makes the weekly patches a bit of a mess.
I'd love to know why we don't get patch notes, it kind of makes the weekly patches a bit of a mess.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
SpOps is free, That means it can't use environments from the 3 new map packs.
So basically.
SpOps S2 is going to be a big patch that adds in new environments (Likely the new MP maps) or its just going to re purpose Vanilla MP maps and SP environments. Neither of which I'm very interested in.
It don't know why i was under the illusion before launch that we would get new locations on a weekly basis because that's a lot of design work but so far the only NEW locations we have had are Cauldron, The snow version of the Campaign Tower and Forerunner/Jungle environment from "sacred".
So basically.
SpOps S2 is going to be a big patch that adds in new environments (Likely the new MP maps) or its just going to re purpose Vanilla MP maps and SP environments. Neither of which I'm very interested in.
It don't know why i was under the illusion before launch that we would get new locations on a weekly basis because that's a lot of design work but so far the only NEW locations we have had are Cauldron, The snow version of the Campaign Tower and Forerunner/Jungle environment from "sacred".
Why? I'm pretty sure it can if they want it to.
There's no way the F150 is a worldwide prize. Right? They're not shipping that over oceans.
I would bet season 1 of Sparty Ops will be all on disc shipped maps and play areas. Season 2 (if they make a season 2) will require DLC to play.
Gabotron ES
Member
VIRGIN GAMING
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Well unless they give those environments to everybody for free it cant
Silly.Mikey
Banned
I'm not convinced. Remember the whole "Requires 8GB" thing? Well, we're only at 4GB, right? And Frank did say on here that the 8GB would include Spartan Ops. I think there's more Season One Spartan Ops download content to come.
End of Jan when people without the Map Pack go to play Episode 6 it says "You need to download content for Spartan Ops" and then it downloads the relevant data to put those spaces into Spartan Ops. I think this is totally feasible and indeed probable.
It can still lock that content away from you to use in multiplayer until you've bought the relevant unlock key, that'd be no different than locking away on-disc content (which Halo4 already does).
Well, yeah, that'd be the ideal, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's DLC spaces.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Hopefully that's 4gb of new environments.
squidhands
Member
Is your friend in America? There's a 7-11 app that awards you the helmet for playing their KOTH game.Hey guys. A friend of mine asked me for a favor, so here it is:
If anyone of you has the Locus helmet code, which you won't use and want to sell, then pls PM me.
Otherwise, he would have to spent too much money on e-bay etc.
Thanks.
Shipping a car by sea doesn't cost as much as the airfare for a human to get the other parts of the prize, which are explicitly included.
Poker Face
Member
haven't people gotten the TU already? why would they wait to discuss it?
HiredN00bs
Member
I don't know why everyone is bitching about SITRECs. They are accurately replaying (with some extrapolation for smoothing purposes) the absolute fucking bullshit lag that occurs in every match of Halo 4.
Nope, he is german. Is this app US exclusive?
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And I just found out, that the DLC "Nightmare in North Point" for Sleeping Dogs is on the index here in germany, therefore, it doesn't show up on the marketplace and therefore I can't play it. Could download it, with a VPN tunnel, but that's just too much effort for DLC. No fun allowed
achievements neither
I hope they will add it later, even if it's a cut version.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Why can't season 2 be all new Ops-only locations? We'll have to download each new episode anyways.
HiredN00bs
Member
Nope, US and Canada. Still leaves your friend out to dry, though. Check your PMs.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yup. That's how I see them. They are just showing the truth.
I don't want anything else. They provided a product and I paid for it. Not happy with it, and I've seen nothing that specifically suggests my issues with the game will be sufficiently addressed on their end, so I'm moving on.
The Lamonster
Member
Someone in the Halo 4 thread said he just saw a final killcam...
Awesome. Thanks again. <3
- King of the Hill removed from matchmaking.
Called it as soon as we saw the leaked playlist screen. Expecting Oddball to go out the door soon, too. Both of those playlists were scraping by at like 2% of the population. Shocking, I know, gametypes that served as filler in grab bag objective playlists can't maintain a dedicated playlist population.
The Spartan Ops break is funny. It's reasonable to need a break when you're cranking out content like that, but they couldn't have said something before the week leading up to the break, really? I guess I should have bought the Official Strategy Guide To Playing Halo: Shoot the Aliens in the Head to get that information.
Called it as soon as we saw the leaked playlist screen. Expecting Oddball to go out the door soon, too. Both of those playlists were scraping by at like 2% of the population. Shocking, I know, gametypes that served as filler in grab bag objective playlists can't maintain a dedicated playlist population.
The Spartan Ops break is funny. It's reasonable to need a break when you're cranking out content like that, but they couldn't have said something before the week leading up to the break, really? I guess I should have bought the Official Strategy Guide To Playing Halo: Shoot the Aliens in the Head to get that information.
Franklinator
Member
Dang it, KotH was probably my favorite playlist.
HiredN00bs
Member
A completely reasonable position. I too feel my interest waning, and I wouldn't hold out hope that a TU is going to re-energize my enthusiasm for the game, or resolve every issue I have with the design/execution, but I still like playing Halo 4 and I am still curious about what they will add/remove/change with Title Updates and DLC.
Word. It was my preferred objective mode because it didn't have game-impacting stupid glitches and lag like CTF and Oddball, respectively. The Flagnum drops fire input, and ball throwing is shit with sizeable latencies and host authorization.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Doesn't surprise me one bit.
Yeah, but the Spartan Ops bit kind of made me laugh. Sorry Ellis.
Reagan's BR
Banned
No! KOTH was one of the few gametypes that isn't broken.
Can't they remove and fix CTF or Oddball instead?
Can't they remove and fix CTF or Oddball instead?
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