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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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Deputy Moonman
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When does fast track unlock? I haven't noticed it in the menu. I haven't been looking hard enough though.Awww yeah level 61
Fast Track gives you an extra 500 or so XP a match.
I dont even know how this is possible. I have no shields before people even start shooting
That's how it feels anyway. Like 2 shots, dead. Maybe Steely is onto something with the lag. I was thinking the same thing about X's. If they keep instant respawn, you know exactly where to go to finish off whoever killed you.X's are worthless unless they implement respawn timers, which they should, but they won't.
This game sounds amazing on my A40's, I've been missing out.
Awesome. I did the last section the exact same way, but flying underneath the pillars.
VivaciousJazzy
Member
I just finished laying out a remake of a map I made in reach.
For comparison this is what it used to look like:
I'm not sure if its just cause its a new game but man that looks better.
For comparison this is what it used to look like:
I'm not sure if its just cause its a new game but man that looks better.
User 73706
Banned
I just finished laying out a remake of a map I made in reach.
For comparison this is what it used to look like:
I'm not sure if its just cause its a new game but man that looks better.
Damn, it might just be because you put it out in the warmer light but that looks leaps and bounds better. It's even got a little color! How are you guys getting your screenshots, though? Is that component working on Waypoint yet?
VivaciousJazzy
Member
I'm just using my capture card, its faster than waiting for them to show up online anyway. As far as I know files still aren't on their website.
squidhands
Member
I had this problem too, and had it last week.
That is spectacular. Gongrats on the massive weight loss, David.
Damn you and your time difference!
I'm treating them like mini-campaigns at the moment, and hope they shift more toward "scratching the itch" that we still have for Firefight. I enjoyed this episode a lot more than the last one, and holy shit does the Needler destroy PromKnights before a Watcher can even get over to help. I'll be using that tactic on my Legendary campaign run when I can.
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rawr, imma dragon
So these may have been posted already (I'm dozens and dozens of pages behind on all the Halo threads here - no time to keep up these days), but Captain Spark just recorded a bunch of Marine chatter from Shutdown's vehicle bay, and 3 of 'em were specific GAF shoutouts.
PFC Dongblain
AR or BR?
Dark Planetoid (listen to the end)
I was amused.
PFC Dongblain
AR or BR?
Dark Planetoid (listen to the end)
I was amused.
I actually got matched up with him in dominion a couple days ago.
Also, is the spartan ops heroic challenge working yet?
Hydranockz
Member
Can Spartan Ops be played offline after you download the episodes? Say if I lose internet in the morning, could I still play it?
squidhands
Member
So far, you don't seem to "download" anything. I tried to do that yesterday when I got home from work and the episodes were just there. Locked content, I guess. Everyone's favorite.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Friendly fire is one of the things that I think needs to return. Makes the game feel more consequential in some way or another. Booting someone for betraying shouldn't hurt the game as much now with JIP.
ElRenoRaven
Member
So these may have been posted already (I'm dozens and dozens of pages behind on all the Halo threads here - no time to keep up these days), but Captain Spark just recorded a bunch of Marine chatter from Shutdown's vehicle bay, and 3 of 'em were specific GAF shoutouts.
PFC Dongblain
AR or BR?
Dark Planetoid (listen to the end)
I was amused.
HOLYSHIT!!!!
I love those.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
So these may have been posted already (I'm dozens and dozens of pages behind on all the Halo threads here - no time to keep up these days), but Captain Spark just recorded a bunch of Marine chatter from Shutdown's vehicle bay, and 3 of 'em were specific GAF shoutouts.
PFC Dongblain
AR or BR?
Dark Planetoid (listen to the end)
I was amused.
Hah, that's awesome.
Fuck no, I do not miss being betrayed by assholes or dying to friendly grenades while the enemy I just killed gets credited with a kill.
FF is still in, in a lot of modes, it's just not in infinity slayer.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I would guess the first few episodes are on disc, the ones they got done. They don't cost us anything though, so it's nothing like the locked DLC necessarily. More content scheduling. I'd guess we'll start having to download them soon.
Jellycrackers
Member
So today is the last day of panel judging for the remix contest. Has anyone heard when and how they're announcing winners? Today? Tomorrow? Email? Waypoint?
UI problems?
Let's start with the most obvious one.
Everything is too big and unnecessarily "squished" From the player "cards" to the menu options. Honestly, when I first saw images of the lobbies, I thought the game would have some minimal kinect functionality. The menu's look like they're built for a touch screen or kinect interface. You can only look at one player at a time in the lobby. Turning names sideways is terrible.
I haven't delved into the custom game options so I don't know what that is like.
Let's start with the most obvious one.
Everything is too big and unnecessarily "squished" From the player "cards" to the menu options. Honestly, when I first saw images of the lobbies, I thought the game would have some minimal kinect functionality. The menu's look like they're built for a touch screen or kinect interface. You can only look at one player at a time in the lobby. Turning names sideways is terrible.
I haven't delved into the custom game options so I don't know what that is like.
Pop
Member
Roster-Click on Name-Fileshare
Reminds me I need to go get Blops2, just waiting on some reviews from buddies.
Der Flatulator
Member
I like the new menu UI. Takes a bit of getting used to, and having the Roster as a aside is bad at times, but generally you can get the information you want very quickly, which is great.
I just have to go back to the COD discussion a page before, the argument that its gameplay is rehashed is soo funny coming from the Halo community, most of us also want that Halo 4 is more like the old the games and doesn't need many of the new things.
I personally dislike COD's gameplay but the stuff (features) they added in BO2 are dreamlike for us.
Back to Halo.
So there is now also a glitch for the Boltshot? Perfect, one of my most used weapons.
And it seems Trueskill finally got me, the first matches I was incredibly good for my standards and now I'm getting pooped on lol.
But SWAT.. no it just doesn't work in Halo 4 :/
And I say it again, I want Forge maps in the playlists.. at least Relay.
I personally dislike COD's gameplay but the stuff (features) they added in BO2 are dreamlike for us.
Back to Halo.
So there is now also a glitch for the Boltshot? Perfect, one of my most used weapons.
And it seems Trueskill finally got me, the first matches I was incredibly good for my standards and now I'm getting pooped on lol.
But SWAT.. no it just doesn't work in Halo 4 :/
And I say it again, I want Forge maps in the playlists.. at least Relay.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Pop
Member
And H4 had those 2/10 reviews against it. Also H4 has more reviews.
Anyways, Metacritic doesn't mean that much to me.
Der Flatulator
Member
*sigh*
Erry day!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Halo 4 the superior CoD confirmed
Ha! Blops 2 only got 9.3 by IGN:
http://uk.ign.com/games/call-of-duty-black-ops-ii/xbox-360-126311
http://uk.ign.com/games/call-of-duty-black-ops-ii/xbox-360-126311
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I should have put a disclaimer that I don't think Halo 4 is like CoD at all (aside from a few systems) and that I am buying CoD as well.
Pop
Member
Whatcha trying to play?
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I loled.
Viewtiful pls.
I really like both Davidge and Marty. I really like what Davidge has added to the music, but I still really wish for more monks.
-It just feels off. I'm sorry that I can't really be specific on it. Maybe in a bit when I can articulate it better.
-SAW has too large of a clip. Incineration Cannon bounces target nearby players. Binary Rifle drops too frequently. Furthermore, Prom Vision creates standoffs where no one does anything. Jetpack breaks map flow. Active Camo is awfully overpowered.
-People camp the top of Abandon and Jetpack back up when they die. Complex and that center structure. Complex also has major framerate lag when playing split screen. Exile and Ragnarok need most of their vehicles removed. Dominion has framerate lag whenever a vehicle is destroyed.
-Haven't checked it out yet, but Instant Respawn, ability to turn sprint off, drop the flag, waypoint over flag carrier, changing certain zombie settings. There's probably more, but I haven't had the time to tinker with that yet.
-There's no importance placed on life. It reuses the campaign playspaces. It reuses Sartan Ops playspaces. There are many times where I don't feel like it is a war of intelligent combat against the AI, but more of a war of attrition. Watcher-Crawler-Knight pattern is uninteresting. AI feels like a step back. It also feels like it just devolves into throwing bad guys with one hit kill weapons at the player.
-Generally the same as SpOps. To comment on the story, I dislike that the main story is so dependent on the books. My roommate had no clue what was going on throughout the story. Maybe I was an ass, but I said I wouldn't explain anything about the characters or plot until he was done. He's still confused as fuck.
-The rate at which very heavy weapons show up in Personal Ordnance. I've seen multiple ICs and BiRis drop in a game on Haven.
-A lot. Many of the pieces aren't an even size. The hole in the 4 way large room on Impact is 6.1 units wide. The ColiWall isn't an even number. The outsides of the Impact buildings aren't flat, so you can't create a playspace involving the exterior of them. Most importantly, I believe they forgot to bind the actions to the sticks in monitor mode, so there's no zooming in or precision adjustments.
Pop
Member
Ya I hear ya man, I play solo 95% of the time. Friends usually don't play that often. Send me an invite-Pop 2Da TastiC
PA Report: Halo 4s Spartan Ops is caught between a story expansion and Firefight, and loses our interest
I'm 3/5 missions through Episode 2, and this is largely where I'm at as well. The narrative and mission objectives are not as compelling as Campaign, and the combat and structure of the missions echo Firefight without any of the subsystems or cadences that made Firefight what it was.
We're in the second episode of a ten-part series, I've seen plenty of series start off slow and find their footing after a few episodes. So I'm by no means judging the whole thing. I'm looking forward to next week's content a great deal. But I hope thing get shaken up a bit along the way, and soon.
I'm 3/5 missions through Episode 2, and this is largely where I'm at as well. The narrative and mission objectives are not as compelling as Campaign, and the combat and structure of the missions echo Firefight without any of the subsystems or cadences that made Firefight what it was.
We're in the second episode of a ten-part series, I've seen plenty of series start off slow and find their footing after a few episodes. So I'm by no means judging the whole thing. I'm looking forward to next week's content a great deal. But I hope thing get shaken up a bit along the way, and soon.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
16GB flash drives are like $10 on Amazon.
I don't have a 4GB slim, but I did connect an old iPod to the back of my 360 and use it solely for storage. It works well enough if you have a useless mp3 player laying around.
Haha you can store your game data on an ipod like that? Wow that's crazy.
As far as flash drives go, then the top option is good to go on this page:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=16gb+flash+drive
It feels to me like if you try and buy into the fiction of SpOps you're left disappointed because it doesn't deliver on the setup.
- Clear the Covenant so we can drop this shield door!
- "Ok, cool what's behind the door?"
- Fades to black before we get to see.
On mission 3 this week, am I right in thinking all the marines disappear? I'm sure a load were left alive and then the final wave of Phantoms comes in and the marines we'd gone there to save all disappear. Great.
And PA are totally right about Palmer, she's as annoying as Del Rio as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully she'll see a similar fate soon enough.
- Clear the Covenant so we can drop this shield door!
- "Ok, cool what's behind the door?"
- Fades to black before we get to see.
On mission 3 this week, am I right in thinking all the marines disappear? I'm sure a load were left alive and then the final wave of Phantoms comes in and the marines we'd gone there to save all disappear. Great.
And PA are totally right about Palmer, she's as annoying as Del Rio as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully she'll see a similar fate soon enough.
It feels like the game was made by two different teams. Out in the outer layers of the menu, you have the classic Halo style menu, which layers down into other options. Once you go into multiplayer, it suddenly switches to a awkwardly big tile based system. And the tiles don't make much sense. Player names are vertical but also on their side, so you have to tilt your head to read it. It feels like a decision made just so you could have spartan poses and have them visible. Then they went and layered them over each other in the lobby, so you STILL have to cycle through everyone to see their armor like Reach.
And the traffic flow (I don't know what other devs call it) is all wonky. When you press start and go down to the options, for some reason the least trafficed option (video settings) is the first one, and the File Browser is the last one, when I need to access my files much faster. In Reach, you were only two steps away from saving recent films. You have to go digging with a shovel to do this in Halo 4. Also, the file browser doesn't even work and you can't see recommendations if you have too many friends, so I can't remark on that because the feature is basically absent at the moment.
I'll look around later today and actually take notes, but the big word here is digging. It feels like you have to dig to get anything done in Halo 4's UI. Reach's UI was brutalist but it knew it had to give you access to your files in a straightforward manner. It feels like Halo 4 is trying to be pretty and not functional.
Haven't played enough to judge. Incineration cannon feels overly beefy. Counting vehicles, someone needs to realize Scorpions don't belong in regular matchmaking.
There's tons of dead space on certain maps. Complex. Vortex (I think it was Vortex, anyway). In smaller games you see people hiding in corners and waiting for kills, especially in SWAT.
Gametypes: So many custom game options are broken or forced in the Megalo script I wonder why they bothered exposing them to us. In Reach, they said they didn't have the time to change the UI to expose more Megalo options to us. Then 4 is a new game, and those options are still only accessible to 343's scripters.
see above
No precision editing, the objects shift around after saving about as badly as Halo 3, Magnets don't actually make certain objects meld together (there's a gap that you can shoot between/throw grenades through), the Impact space station pieces don't all perfectly match up if you're trying to make a map out of them. The Forerunner lawnmower sound. The fact that there's hardcoded softkills in the map's playable space at all ( Ravine , Erosion ) or the fact that the building on Impact is not aligned on the grid or at an ortho angle (it's not at 90 or 45 degrees, I think Pete figured out to be something like 38). The map overwrite bug from Reach is still there. Pieces now force your Monitor to look at them from a distance, and you can no longer zoom. Pieces push themselves out of the ground (especially on Ravine) even when set to Phased. The Forge lights aren't included in the lightmaps when generated. Loadout cams are still there but pointless as they coat the entire screen in vaseline when the map starts. The fact that you have to wait about 15-20 seconds for a Forge session to actually end because someone though Forgers cared about the scoreboard at the end. The Forerunner lawnmower sound, again. Also, pieces before that fit into even WUs (1.0, 2.0, 2.5 and such) are now weird sizes (3.2, 4.3, etc). So we have no precise editing, and the pieces are unevenly sized, so you have a hell of time even fixing all the z-fighting this creates.
Also, the same damn rocks from Forge World, including Rock Seastack, the most useless of Rocks. Tempest had the Spire, 3 piece that was MUCH better and more usable, and I don't understand why that piece didn't come back.
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