vincent vega
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it's a shame we can't play it online..
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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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it's a shame we can't play it online..
Yeah, Arena Zealot in particular I think is head and shoulders over Abandon and Complex, which I'd place in the Epitaph-and-Isolation-thanks-but-no-thanks-tier.
Multi Flag was never shoved on Epitaph that I can remember though, so maybe I think it's better than those two.
thezerofire
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countdown sucked. a poor man's construct but worse
I liked Countdown, but I tend to like any small symmetrical maps.
Except the sword.
Why is the sword still in this game.
Shake Appeal
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Just read the last five or six pages of this thread. Kinda depressing, guys.
Shake Appeal
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I sometimes forget this game has medals at all because they're so many of them, they're so small, they pop so fast, and browsing them in the postgame lobby is not as intuitive as it was.
Zeouterlimits
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Yup, since I've gotten the game I've paid attention to them twice, one glance during a match and another where I flick through the post game menu which I've stopped doing because it's so ... awkward. Now I barely look at the post game stats.
15 second ad for a 14 second video. Wat.
On an unrelated note, what's the best mission to kill Hunters on in Spartan Ops Episode 2? I remember there being a mission with a couple Hunters on them, but I can't remember which one it was. Definitely not mission one or five.
Doesn't help that the game gives you about 8 seconds to actually look at it before the next voting lobby shows up if you don't back out, then if you back out of that voting lobby you can't view your carnage report because it thinks you got a DNF. I've taken to closing the thing as quick as I can so I don't miss the vote.
i nerini del buio
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you forgot powerhouse which, not considering the stupid flag/bomb position, is a beautiful map
bobs...onGaf
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I feel like a lot of the more casual fans are enjoying it because it's just a casual FFA party game whereas the competitive guys with high k/d's dislike it because even though they are doing well when they try - the game is not a competitive game and is not fun in the way older halo games where.
So the correlation Karl brings up can make sense. I know a lot of none halo fans are loving the game and telling halogaf long timers they should love it too lol in the other thread.
Or maybe, both casual & competitive players are enjoying the game...maybe.
It's just a straight up commendation now.
Impossible! That's like saying a single Xbox can accept both CoD and Halo games.
killer rin
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I don't know why, but I feel much different when I get killed by an active camo guy now than I did back during the Halo 1/2/3 days. Back in the old games, I would feel like I did something wrong and felt the need to improve if I got killed by one. Now, I just sigh, shake my head and feel frustrated.
Anyone else feel the same?
Anyone else feel the same?
In past Halo games if I died to a camo guy I would think about what I did wrong.
Now I just mash X and go die again.
At least we didn't have THIS problem with Halo 4:
http://www.armedgamer.com/2012/11/black-ops-2-pc-gamers-find-unfortunate-surprise.html
http://www.armedgamer.com/2012/11/black-ops-2-pc-gamers-find-unfortunate-surprise.html
bobs...onGaf
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I would imagine netcode - I feel like they didn't stress test the game internationally much at all. The beta was internal right? How many employees outside of America played the beta? Feels like they really skimped out on international netcode.
User 73706
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Space Jesus returns.
Not sure about Countdown, but Arena Zealot is one of the best 4v4 maps we've gotten in a good while. Yeah, the lifts were crummy, but it wasn't littered with lots of power weapons which made the combat primarily revolve around the rifles. If they had a grenade launcher on there at launch rather than a Sword, it would've been even better. I liked that about the MLG variant.
It was Derelict done right.
bobs...onGaf
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Well seeing as though there are multiple people who fit into both categories that wouldn't be very far fetched...
You did just ignore the context of my post though.
GET DAT BIG GULP DOUBLE GULP.
Devolution
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Timedog in Regicide on Complex.
"Why can't I find anyone?"
>_>
"Why can't I find anyone?"
>_>
ncsuDuncan
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Okay, here's another poll:
How many times have you used the grav lift on Solace?
How many times have you used the grav lift on Solace?
User 73706
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Plenty! It is my favorite map after all. Comes in handy on Flood and hologram shenanigans with it are hilarious.
I've seen some folks use it to great effect in CTF during flag runs, but personally, it has never been consistently useful (half the time it'll throw me too low and I'll bounce off the ledge, once to my death). If the core wasn't solid and it was more like the Colossus lift than the shitty Highlands base lifts, I'd use it more. Bouncing backwards is disorienting, being lifted in the direction you step into it and having good awareness and air control (again, like Colossus) is definitely preferable.
It also looks like something that'll instakill you at first glance, rather than sharing the visual elements that every single gravity lift in the entire series has. My roommate, who plays Halo regularly and has done so since 2002, first thought it would kill him if he jumped into it.
Considering I can use the grav lift to get on top of the Jungle base, a decent amount.
bobs...onGaf
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Wait? How?
Sprint jump into it. It will launch pretty deep into the balcony if you get a good jump.
I thought the same thing. I didn't even gather that it was a lift until I saw someone use it for a flag run - the runner died and the flag went up the lift. I also noticed that you can't shoot directly across the thickest part of the beam.
@Duncan - I've used it maybe once. Truth be told, I never find myself on the bottom part of the map after the initial run to grab the Incineration Cannon.
Der Flatulator
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Loadouts just got reset. :/
Raitosaito
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I haven't been in the community so I'm not sure if this is prevalent. But this is happening to me too.
Things that should be looked at;
1. Vehicles in BTB are a joke when the enemy team spawns with stickies and PP's, not to mention DMRs can just rip things apart.
2. Ordinance rewarding someone with Rockets, ANY Sniper, Splazer, or Incineration Cannon is pretty lame. Someone Always seems to have a sniper on Valhalla.
3. Static Global Ordinance should be implemented, or the spawns should at least be looked at. Rockets above a base in a CTF game? Thanks 343. Now i'll just camp, no effort at all.
1. Vehicles in BTB are a joke when the enemy team spawns with stickies and PP's, not to mention DMRs can just rip things apart.
2. Ordinance rewarding someone with Rockets, ANY Sniper, Splazer, or Incineration Cannon is pretty lame. Someone Always seems to have a sniper on Valhalla.
3. Static Global Ordinance should be implemented, or the spawns should at least be looked at. Rockets above a base in a CTF game? Thanks 343. Now i'll just camp, no effort at all.
1. Hey man you can have the same loadout as them too.
2. Random ordnance makes it balanceddddddd.
3. Random global ordnance makes it balanced so one team can't just camp a power weapon spawn every time duhhh.
Steelyuhas
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Digital Limit
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Abandon's on your list of "bad" maps? Abandon's one of the best maps in Halo 4. Don't let it's poor application in Multi Flag tarnish what is otherwise a classic. As for Zealot, that always felt like a 2v2 map trying to pose as a 4v4. Is Arena Zealot the version that boards up the silly zero-G section of the map? Such a poor design choice.
Had a game of CTF on Adrift. So much fun, but the enemy team were using cheap tactics all the way through (active camo objective camping, hiding in corners with boltshots and scattershots). Kinda annoying after a while.
Score was 3 - 3 until the last 15 seconds where they scored again. Oh well
Score was 3 - 3 until the last 15 seconds where they scored again. Oh well
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