I'd love to, but my Internet is soo temperamental tonight. One moment it'll load everything fast, the next I'm waiting several minutes just to load Facebook.
Probably couldn't even download the map pack even if it were out
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I'd love to, but my Internet is soo temperamental tonight. One moment it'll load everything fast, the next I'm waiting several minutes just to load Facebook.
Probably couldn't even download the map pack even if it were out
Haha you're funny
BTB has unbalanced vehicles which are far more problematic than anything like PV or grenades.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Ya dun goofed.
This happens to other games as well. Last dlc for bf3 had the same problem. The issue here 343i never comments on anything.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
How do I download the maps if I have the season pass?
Is there supposed to be a title update or something?
Is there supposed to be a title update or something?
Zeouterlimits
Member
We don't know.
first time i hear of it and never encountered this myself, neither on PS3 nor XBL. really didn't see this coming.
lol
r_c_takedown
Neo Member
"Hey, lets take extra money from these people, then screw them over!"
Jesus H Christ 343. What is this? I gotta say, they make a half decent game, but things outside of the gameplay just aren't quite right.
Jesus H Christ 343. What is this? I gotta say, they make a half decent game, but things outside of the gameplay just aren't quite right.
343 has people from Valve and Sony working for them?
Better leave it till afternoon then. There's no way they gonna fix it now.
or wait Friday's bulletin
Deputy Moonman
Member
eh i'm not concerned. just playing regular btb right now. if it takes till tomorrow to get the maps fixed i'm indifferent.
r_c_takedown
Neo Member
It doesn't phase me too much, i'm just a little disappointed. If i had known that it was going to take extra time to release for limited edition owners, i wouldn't have bothered even playing H4 tonight, and i would have been in bed by now so i can be ready for work tomorrow.
Instead, here i am, for no reason. Looks like i'll just download it tomorrow night.
Are the skyboxes still .jpgs?
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According to a thread on Waypoint, the maps will be released between 12 and 2pm UK time for LE and map pass owners (being Australian, I have no idea when that is). Not sure how reliable that guy is
Pop
Member
Sigh
I mean I like BTB sometimes but man is H4 catering to casuals hard with all these big friendly maps.
2hrs, 20 mins to go.
Deputy Moonman
Member
yeah i hear ya
Eh, fuck that. Will just wake up early in the morning and download it I think. Hopefully get a game or two in before work
Yeah, basically. Thanks mate
The maps they mostly setup aren't even really big for 8v8. Exile and Ragnarok, of course. Vortex has some weird base issues, Longbow seems pretty good although I've only gotten it for Dominion. It has greater potential than the others, by far. It seems well built for your typical 6v6 Halo, though.
As for the grenade talk, I do agree with Booshka in that with a proper base speed and strafe, I'm also fine with strong grenades. The frags in Halo 4 do what they often did in Halo 2-3 and strip your shields, which is expected. They work okay for cleaning people out of corners or holes where the usual Mauler, I mean Boltshot, users sit. Outside getting vehicles stuck, the plasma nades aren't very useful.
Sad how you have to post this every month.
HollovVpo1nt
Banned
At 8.45 the dude sais that he knew what was going on in the Campaign of Halo 4 without using wiki, as opposed to the campaigns of prior Halo's where he had to wiki what was going on.
What the fuck? It's the other way around brah.
Quality seems to be the same as the other skyboxes in the game. For the most part it's one still imagine that slighty shifts to the left with very low opacity clouds that move over the still image.
I hope that answers your question.
scar tissue
Banned
Yeah, thanks to sprint the maps feel pretty small compare to stuff like Avalanche or Sandtrap.
I'd like to have bigger maps for BTB/dominion and smaller maps for other gametypes, tbh.
The current BTB maps are ill suited for BTB as well as smaller games.
blergh
Halo graphics peaked with Reach. Skyboxes, particle effects, explosions, Textures...
Lighting is better in H4, but that's it.
Yeah it does, thanks.
This makes me sad. Even Halo 3 had really awesome skyboxes... Not sure why the drastic downgrade to 2D .jpgs.
Next gen couldn't come fast enough.
HollovVpo1nt
Banned
Agree 100%. I prefer every aspect of Halo: Reach's visuals apart from the lighting.
SPACECADET
Member
-Game sucks
-maps look like shit
-why can't i get these maps right this second
-i want to play this stupid game
made my night. i'm going to bed.
Halo: Reach's nice visuals were brought down by the ghosting. Have you ever watched someone go into a mancannon? lol
My last post was in reference to Harvest, by the way.
Shatter seems to have a bit more going on, most of it is still a still imagine but there is some kind of volcanic cloud with a lighting storm in it. It kinda looks like a moving comic of sorts, so not quite 3D.
Wreckage has a sandstorm thing going on so there really isn't much happening in the skybox. There's 2 of these things
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080412071107/halofanon/images/7/78/Halo3beta-valhalla.jpg
that shootoff now and then and create a bit of lighting in the sky. Probably the dullest of the three since you barely see anything, though.
Shatter seems to have a bit more going on, most of it is still a still imagine but there is some kind of volcanic cloud with a lighting storm in it. It kinda looks like a moving comic of sorts, so not quite 3D.
Wreckage has a sandstorm thing going on so there really isn't much happening in the skybox. There's 2 of these things
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080412071107/halofanon/images/7/78/Halo3beta-valhalla.jpg
that shootoff now and then and create a bit of lighting in the sky. Probably the dullest of the three since you barely see anything, though.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the lighting was much better in Halo 3 (It was packing a dual framebuffer. Massive resource hog if I remember correctly). Same with water effects (The water in Halo 4 is just 2D. It tricks you into believing it's 'interactive' like 3's if you aren't paying attention)
But at least Halo 4 is native 720p, right?
I'm being too bitter... Halo 4 looks great in campaign, but some of the tradeoffs weren't worth it, IMO.
I kinda agree. Though ONI Sword base (outside at the start of the game + at the end in The Package or whatever it's called ) look amazing.
scar tissue
Banned
Yeah, water and lighting in Halo 3 were something else.
Game still looked like crap a lot of the time (bad animations, blocky faces, aliasing out the wazoo)
Personally, I like Reach the most, visually
Best graphics, superior art design
Too bad the game itself was kinda meh
Poker Face
Member
not surprised how this map pack situation is going.
just tried redownloading the map pass file, nothing. gonna delete and re download now
edit: don't know where they are on my HD, because they aren't under Halo 4. they show up in my custom games and ask if i want to goto the marketplace to buy them, but then nothing is there in relation to the map pack.
sigh
just tried redownloading the map pass file, nothing. gonna delete and re download now
edit: don't know where they are on my HD, because they aren't under Halo 4. they show up in my custom games and ask if i want to goto the marketplace to buy them, but then nothing is there in relation to the map pack.
sigh
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Got to agree. Halo 4 is like babies first animals book compared to the Womens erotica that is Reach
I would put the first level of reach against any level in h4.
Eh, ghosting destroyed that level. Gave me headaches trying to play it. Dat temporal anti aliasing.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Remove film grain, add FXAA, fix frame rate, and increase color. Halo Reach would look glorious.
What a beauty.
There's this huge universe with an alien race which can build their own fucking planets and we're stuck for an entire campaign playing on a dull human colony with boring human architecture. So bad.
Deputy Moonman
Member
no way
I'd put Reach's campaign only above halo 2'sSome of it was okay though...
That looks better than anything we got in Halo 4, IMO. Not that there were many open fields or whatever anyway.
Plus there was lots of grass (I'm a grass guy. Little random patches irritate me)
Timan
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500~mb
ElRenoRaven
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SERIOUSLY? SERIOUSLY? My mind is full of all kinds of WTF at that comment. See that's a prime example of why shit will not change. 343 has plenty of morons telling them shit like that.
Just WTF.
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