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GrizzNKev

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randomrosso said:
I made a twitter so I could send a tweet[?] to Bungie asking why I can't sign in to their website in the off chance that they might reply if I'm lucky and they know what's going on... I lack patience. :\

...

Plus Halo 4 is sooo laggy today. Eh. Can't wait for Spartan Ops to continue.
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I've never had a reply to any tweet aimed at Bungie. Though I've never said anything useful to them anyway.
 
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PNut

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xxjuicesxx said:
Reach wasnt bad. When I look back... I had a ton of fun playing Squad Slayer with pals. I spent a lot of time relaxing in FF listening to music. The campaign, I didnt hate. Had challenges ocassionally putting me into campaign for a bit. Theater, Fileshare was fine. Active Roster was great. I wish the framerate was better but the netcode was pretty good I dont remember much lag. Tons of donging.
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Yeah I've been playing snipers a lot lately in Reach. It's been refreshing making callouts again. MLG and obj still have decent populations too. Played some TS with Noobs and Co. too but the bloom I can't do, even though they murder teams over and over again.

Also, the new Bungie.net forums are terrible for groups. Giant step back. Seems odd they went that direction.
 
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neoism

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Thermite said:
Halo |OT14|RIP
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lol isn't the original halo 4 thread not even on OT2.. ..... yep. RIP indeed.


So that modding that's been posted its not in MM is it. I haven't played in weeks, everytime I think I should play I come hear and see its a bad idea.
 
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Reagan's BR

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sltPoison said:
Fallaciesssssssssss
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Oh I can suggest many more titles...

343 Didn't Make This Game
Out To Lunch; Be Back Later
Certain Affinity's New Halo Title
Trust Is Not An Easy Thing To Come By
Fourth Game: AA's, Boltshots, Big Maps (Library Reference)
Harvest Is A Small Map
Free DLC; Free Bans
Spartan Ops Was a Waste Of Resources
343 Made Forge Worse
Nobody Likes This Game

...perhaps those became a bit too...direct.


How about this?

Don't Apologize, Fix The Game
 
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Crimson Kopite

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Reagan's BR said:
Oh I can suggest many more titles...

343 Didn't Make This Game
Out To Lunch; Be Back Later
Certain Affinity's New Halo Title
Trust Is Not An Easy Thing To Come By
Fourth Game: AA's, Boltshots, Big Maps (Library Reference)
Harvest Is A Small Map
Free DLC; Free Bans
Spartan Ops Was a Waste Of Resources
343 Made Forge Worse
Nobody Likes This Game

...perhaps those became a bit too...direct.


How about this?

Don't Apologize, Fix The Game
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You sound like a baby.
Other than that, you're a neat fella.
 
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NobleGundam

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Spartan Program: "Clones": All were made to replace the original abducted subjects and eventually die within months.

What if 1 or more clone was purposely created to survive the process?

What if John's Clone maybe still alive?

If so, that would make me sh*t bricks.
 
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blamite

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NobleGundam said:
Spartan Program: "Clones": All were made to replace the original abducted subjects and eventually die within months.

What if 1 or more clone was purposely created to survive the process?

What if John's Clone maybe still alive?

If so, that would make me sh*t bricks.
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I reeeeeeeally doubt that could ever happen. If ghey could create clones that could survive indefinitely, why wouldn't they do that with all the Spartans? Letting the clones die has no advantage over keeping them alive.

Unless...

What if a geas could be cloned? Hmm...
 
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malfcn

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Holy shit, I went 9-28 somehow. When you are instantly killed on spawn, your bullets don't do shit and every breeze kills you. Dust it off..
 
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JB1981

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So what is the best way to deal with Promethean knights on legendary. I am using charged Boltshot plus light rifle and its taking me forever to kill these fuckers.
 
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Omni

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reggie said:
Said no one on this planet. Ever. You are a liar.
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I like Spartan Ops. It has its flaws and in week 5 I certainly found it hard to get the motivation to play through them all again, but I do see its potential. It will be interesting to see what 343i come up with for the second half of the season
 
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Master_JO

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kylej said:
Yeah I mean I feel like every weekly bulletin is the same.

Very proud of the team, we did a lot with a little... no. Every business is hard as shit to build, every product is hard as shit to launch, the difference is most businesses aren't a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. There are no cafes in most businesses. There are no lounges with plasma TVs. There are no trips to NYC to hang out with celebrities. I've never seen a group of people congratulate themselves more on doing their job than 343. I completely understand being proud of the team and what people have accomplished, but don't try to frame it as though the struggle excuses some of the faults.

There are approximately zero people reading this:



that were disappointed with Halo 4, but will now return to the game because of that statement. It means nothing to anyone but the people who already know you made mistakes.

There are approximately zero people reading this:



who then feel better about playing a Halo game with the worst frame-rate drops in the series.

Then I read this



is it the community's fault that we're missing features from Halo 3? Frankie talks about how by all objective measures Halo 4 was a success. Missing core components of your predeccessors is a pretty damn objective failure.

and I read this



What was influenced by the community? Any examples? Was FUD or TTL asking for Complex? If the community is such a direct and democratic extension of the team, which part of the community asked for the first map pack to be big brown maps? Was that ReadyUpLive or r/Halo's fault? Could you guys have democratically put up a vote with the major communities asking if recreating Seattle during crunch time was a good idea? I just find it hilarious that after a year of Trust Us, Feels Like Halo, now suddenly the community is apparently a direct extension of the team and there are just too many gosh darn voices to be heard to make people happy. To extend this makeshift olive branch while simultaneously refusing to outline the next title update is hysterical to me. To this day, we still have no idea who, why, or how 343 makes any of their matchmaking decisions. We open up the weekly bulletin every week and hope there's something interesting. That is literally the only involvement we get with matchmaking updates.

No end user gives a rat's ass about the development process of anything. You don't think about the thousands of man-hours that go into the labeling of every single product in a grocery store, you just buy it. Give us some actual hard definable timelines for when we'll be getting fileshare, when we're getting a ranking system, when we're getting video uploading. Where are these features? Everything is always one or two weeks away. We'll have more details to share in a bit! As someone who hasn't played Halo in over a month, all I took from that update is that video game development is hard and that we'll be getting minor playlist updates in 3 or 4 weeks. Well, no shit. Sometime in the future we'll get missing features added and a title update. Oh and we have more outsourced table-scrap maps to look forward to that we'll have to pay for. Halo 4 is hitting all time low daily peak populations right now, there are 200 people in the playlist of their new DLC pack, and a 4 year old download-only PC game is ahead of it in activity, but who cares, the team is working hard! Puhleaze. I'm sure Frankie will respond to this by calling me a troll and that I hate Halo and hate everything and am moving the goalposts and should leave GAF as I have been told by him before, which is fine, but it doesn't change the fact that all the 9.8's and long hours in the world can't stop this game from falling further on its face if they keep heading down this same path.
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I couldn't have said it better myself( literally speaking because I am a bad writer )
And I applaud you 343i ( Frank) for being honest. It taks guts to admit your mistakes.
While I'm a junior here( Like many of you have stated that Already, Thank you ) I'm a Halo veteran. Bought the first Halo with the first xbox at launch day. From that day Halo became my Favorite game. Supported and Bought every game, And never complained about anything . That being said, I think we all agree why we are here. We are here because we love Halo. I have enjoyd every Halo game. Except for Reach and some of Halo 4 . 343i, I have being bad mouthing you in my last posts here because you really went with the wrong direction. Reach Direction. While I play Halo4 everyday because I love the serie, There is so much that irritates me. I was literally going smash My Xbox and my newly bought Panasonict VT50 tv the other day. No other Halo game gave me these feelings before except for Reach and COD. Becasue everything happends there happends by luck and unbalance gameplay.
Everything was about fun In the past halos, Even when you die it was fun. It didnt matter if somone outskilled you before, It was fun, fun and fun.
Now, Am getting COD feeling all over the place. It literally feels like am on a parallel universe, Half of my deaths are because the game lags. How is that fun? When the games stops to choose another host it takes forever, And when it comes back, Either am dead or at whole another place, Also dead. vehicle Betray over a sniper not fun, neither do get the option to boot. There is also no map flow, Everyone is just sitting, waiting. lack of playlist is not fun. join in porgress is not fun, joining in when the match is almost over and the score is 900-300 is not fun. Loadout and the whole COD system is also not fun. Even the killcams looks like COD. And the lag, I really can not say enough about that. I really love Halo 4, But am dying for halo1-3. Please 343i, Give us what we need. No one asked for Reach 2. I Can understand that you want to be a part of the nowdays shooter, mass appeal COD fans. But you can not get that. Halo is HALO, people play Halo to Play HALO. everything in Halo screams Halo. If you keep doing COD stuff people will go away. How many xbox units was out there when Halo 3 came out? And How much did it sell at that rate versus NOW?
Reach fucked up and so did Halo 4. Please go back to what made Halo Halo. Halogaf and Halo fans out there, Do not stop addressing your problems. 343i will listen because I think they care about us :)

And I apologize for my bad writing :p
 
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The Henery

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AlimNassor said:
Am I the only one plays only BTB in Halo games? I feel as though BTB is what makes Halo so fun. I love the vehicle battles, but, a trend I noticed lately is vehicles are useless in 4. Anytime someone gets in a vehicle they get EMP'd and stuck to death. Get a banshee? 3 EMP blasts hit you and 2 stickies land on you. Tank? EMPed and hijacked. It's the same for everything.

Wouldn't be so bad if EMP didn't lock on. It's just annoying.
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That's because 343 (or MS) prized the lure of a carrot on a stick, gameplay impacting EXP investment system above the sanctity and sense of the critically acclaimed Halo sandbox. If you live outside of the US, to even have access to the ability to reverse the BTB breaking decision to allow players to spawn with an EMP capable weapon you have to pay extra money to MS in the form of the LE. £40 is not considered enough money to have access to all of Halo 4's carefully considered improvements to the series.

Vehicle gameplay is bordering on farcical in Halo 4's Big Team Battle. Still, play enough games and enlist in a paywall specialisation and you could kinda, sort of unbreak Plasma Pistol starts in BTB. <3
 
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Rickenslacker

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I mean the visuals in Halo 4 aren't as saturated but I legitimately enjoyed the decal retention in the game. It's nice to have the effects of battle stick around for longer than 3 seconds! I can't imagine it was enough of a performance drag that it needed to be reduced to that for 3 to Reach.
 
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