Me - I'd like to order a cheeseburger.
Waiter - what would like on it?
Me - just a plain cheeseburger, no veggies please.
Waiter - I'll see what we can do.
*10 minutes pass
Waiter - here's your cheeseburger.
Me - umm, there's veggies on here?
Waiter - oh, well it's still a cheeseburger.
Me - well I didn't want any veggies.
Waiter - you can just try removing them.
Me - I can't, it looks like someone fused them to the burger.
Waiter - if you don't mind waiting, I'll see if my chefs can get a fix worked out.
Me - I am kinda in a hurry, not to mention the fact that the last restaurant ruined my cheeseburger as well.
Waiter - well if you just trust us and stick around we will cook another one up for you.
Custom games without the option to disable sprint and instant respawn is like gluing the gerkhin to the patty.
Another one bites the dust.
Still really enjoying Team Regicide a lot, it really focuses each team (even randoms sometimes!). Although I feel like I fail my team as the King most of the time.
Team Regicide is unexpectedly decent. In terms of 4v4 I definitely prefer it to Infinity Slayer.
Out of yesterday's long article, we get 165 words about the changes to matchmaking and nearly nine times that much detailing one of the softest developer interviews I've ever read.
Yeah, that interview wasn't particularly informative or helpful in terms of giving us an insight into the MM playlist management. A lot of repetition featuring the words 'experience', 'most popular', 'bugs' and 'exploits'. They used a lot of words in the interview to impart not very much at all. I regularly feel that way when reading 343 employee interviews. However, I think that may be because
You can tell how much closer MS holds 343.
Agreed and I think the blizzard of confusion surrounding so many issues in the lead up to launch and beyond can be attributed to MS rather than 343. Bungie kicked out a lot and parted on sour terms with MS and I don't think 343 has anywhere near the levels of autonomy that Bungie possessed. Sometimes it seems like MS would prefer Halo decision makers to be as faceless and bland as possible.
It [predictable ordnance] would still be too much carnage and heavy ordnance for my preferences, but it would be an improvement and reduce the element of chance in the game.
Fixed weapon spawns would really go a long ways in other modes. That, some BTB objectives and flinch dying a painful death would probably get me back into the game.
It's probably annoying for those I'm playing with but am I the only one who feels the need to read aloud their ordnance options as they're displayed on screen? The classic:
"Promethean nades, Needler or Overshield" Fucking bullshit"
The exultant (and exceedingly rare):
"Beam Rifle!"
I think personal ordnance is so contentious in this game because it is both unfair and outside of the players control. Not particularly great traits to base a game mode around. Your suggestion would certainly be an improvement. Mario Kart style power weapon distribution in the core Team Slayer playlist for Halo is unbelievable really. Good job I enjoy the game despite these extremely questionable decisions. Generally stay away from Infinity stuff though. I cannot understand why BTB is so popular (must be because the majority of the maps are designed for BTB) as I find it to be the most rage inducing playlist.
