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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo
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MrGreencastle
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I played through the whole campaign expecting a scenario to play out like this...
Cortana: "Watch out! These aren't your ordinary Hunters. Looks like the Didact's Prometheans have been getting a little friendly with our Covie pals. Let's show em how it's done."
And having like super Hunters, or some crazy heavy class enemy like Enforcers or whatever new thing. It never came
Not even a Scarab. Closest thing I got was the Liche, and that was pretend. They've teased with the Harvester, but it isn't real, either... Also, it's pretty much the EXACT same Covenant all the way through. It would have been cool to see how they were evolving as a more "rogue" faction. Remember Halo 2 when the Brutes (RIP) started changing up the game... and the Heretic faction... Shit like that... ElzarTheBam
Member
I laugh AT you.
Also fair warning, as I've seen this happen a lot, I'm getting dead space 3 this week, no one one post any spoilers about it in THIS thread. Thanks.
You're gonna be really disappointed when that thing happens.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Damn you Ply!
That happens when you pretty much scale down to smaller intimate encounters. I would argue that huge scales are a fundamental part of Halo, the go anywhere and handle any situation the way you want are promoted much more. With the smaller scale it kind of loses its uniqueness, grandeur and variety. Like now the encounters are just more tiresome, because you are forced to walk an even more straight line. In a way they also undermines the encounters now, because it is repeated so fast that it just loses its appeal faster (just to add insult to injury, the AI being dumbed down also contributes to it being boring).I played through the whole campaign expecting a scenario to play out like this...
Cortana: "Watch out! These aren't your ordinary Hunters. Looks like the Didact's Prometheans have been getting a little friendly with our Covie pals. Let's show em how it's done."
And having like super Hunters, or some crazy heavy class enemy like Enforcers or whatever new thing. It never came
Budda is the final boss.
Spawn fixes are in for the next refresh.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I looooved fighting heretic Elites in Reach Firefight. It was a nice change of pace. The only real downside was that they were overpowered as hell -- sniper rifles, rocket launches, and best of all: pro pipe. The things they would pull off with the grenade launcher were insane. Another benefit was that, in custom Firefight, you could disable the infinite ammo crates, and add a heretic wave or two to replenish your loadout weapons. Helped the mode feel more like a game of survival, rather than merely score attack.
Sucks that Firefight got ditched. There was so much room for improvement. Could have been truly great.
Sucks that Firefight got ditched. There was so much room for improvement. Could have been truly great.
I don't think you've learned the difference between an unofficial leak and an official announcement. Bungie didn't release or announce anything, all they've ever announced is that they are working on a new game. Besides some concept art after the leak, some geomantic symbols and logos/t-shirts, and the phrase 'per audacia ad astra', Bungie has not announced nor shown anything about the game.
That aside, I'm loving doubles pro. So much fun.
Also to GrizzNKev, I don't know what your problem is. I sent you a PM, looks like you didn't read it. This is now the 8th post or so of yours that I've noticed in the past few days that is either directed negatively towards me or mocks me in some way.
Rofl
"I prepared this post in case you ridiculed me. Why haven't you ridiculed me yet?"
Uh ok, let's make some jokes!
"What a mistake. Bye."
Bye!!!!
I mean like the majority of your posts these past few days in the Halo OT have been directed at me or meant to mock what I said, what gives?
Liche isn't pretend so much as uninspiring.
Halo 2's scarab had a great lead-up, and the battle itself involved a neat chase mechanic and an interestingly-shaped on-board close-quarters combat arena. And the stages of the fight progress fluidly and with excitement.
I don't think that Halo 3's scarabs are necessarily the pinnacle of core gameplay, but they're pretty good, and maintaining that "pretty good" is insanely impressive considering how dynamically they can play out, and so naturally. And that explosion? When they blow up and light the region in a beautiful blue Halo 3 lighting model flash, and the huge bits and pieces physics their way to the ground? Yeah. That explosion.
The liche...
There's no lead-up to it, it just sort of appears and you're all "okay, there's a thing there."
The boarding process isn't that interesting, as unlike both the Halo 2 and Halo 3 scarabs, there's no real interaction with the liche as you approach it, so it's basically just a room encounter which allows you to approach the enemies in the room from several different angles. Which doesn't necessarily make it bad, but it feels like it misses one of the expectations of a large-vehicle-boarding section.
The interior itself is just sort of messy. I guess it looks king of interesting, but it doesn't have much structure to it, and resultantly doesn't produce any kind of unique combat flow.
The destruction process is drawn-out, and the final payoff is almost cartoonishly weak; after drifting for a bit while covered in "broken machinery" effects, the thing vanishes in a puff of smoke.
Overall it fells like it shows up, you kill it, and that's that. Not a horrible moment, but not remotely as memorable as the stuff it references. Which could probably be used to describe quite a few moments in Halo 4, including at least one other in that same level.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
The fook?
HollovVpo1nt
Banned
Serious question, is this dude:
Modelled after Ignazio Abate?
Modelled after Ignazio Abate?
hoooooooooooooly snap
1) I didn't get none PM from y'all. If you want to bro it out via PM I encourage you to do so. That new messages text color makes me feel loved.
2) Lighten up dude. My avatar is an angry orange with arms and legs. I'm just messing around 99% of the time. Honest. I think you're a pretty cool poster, just please stop taking things so seriously.
3) Those last 3 posts of mine you quoted are things that have actually happened and are true. I talked about the weather in Redmond with that Xbox hardware designer today.
I can compliment you. I love your avatar, WW is my favorite Zelda game and favorite GameCube game.
I, eh...
Look Madness, I don't want to be anyone's enemy. If you want me to stop joking around and whatnot, I'll do that for you. I'm not out to hurt your feelings or make you look bad. I respect you as an individual and as a Halo fan; a person of shared interests. I'd be much happier if you had some brutal comebacks for my jokes rather than getting upset about it, but if that's the kind of person you are, then I shall cease.
MrGreencastle
Member
Nice! I love this map's "flow" updates. Amazing how two lights and lifts can do to make the map play quite well. Power weapon cycle is beautiful on this map, too. Is the Needler not considered a power weapon like the sticky and railgun? It spawns Mohawk, but there is no ordnance hud thingy.
TO THE THUNDERDOME!
fyi Dr. Heckathorn, if I hurt your feelings, you're not getting an apology
edit: I am awaiting a glorious shower of PMs and ascension to fame
Mace Griffin
Neo Member
That would be amazing! I completely agree those are the only slight issues with Halo 3. Can you imagine if even just that was Halo 4 multiplayer, how much better would it be?
We shouldn't be trying to accomodate AA's, perks, sprint and unskilful shooting mechanics among various other fundamentally flawed ideas and gimmicks, we should settle for no less than a good proper Halo game.
Dude, it's an internet forum where 10 people thought that there was a legitimate Destiny leak going around in PMs from a person who doesn't work for Bungie. Chill.
Moa
Member
MrGreencastle
Member
Yep. Only reason why I even own Reach and Wars GoD is because I won it on 343day (what happened to that? Don't recall it happening last year). Its just not worth the premium since they aren't released day and date, and a lot of places you can easily get the disc cheaper. Here's hoping next gen gets this right. Steam/Amazon/GMG route or bust.
Moa
Member
I think with the launch of Halo 4, they were probably a bit busy to just give away codes all day.
The main reason it happened is because people assume that if Bungie had a special day, then 343i should too, they really shouldn't -_-
SPACECADET
Member
ice cream sandwiches.
Moa
Member
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Recruit-Armor-Brown/00000ab8-eade-8232-cc1d-445f4d530919
Oh look, the Recruit armour is available to buy.
Limited Edition content
Oh look, the Recruit armour is available to buy.
Limited Edition content
Abandon's Sniper is on a sixty second spawn, that's the only issue I know of, although a fix is in the works.
Timers? What's wrong with the timers?
HollovVpo1nt
Banned
There are some games in which campaign progress is important to me, is those games I backup the save date in cloud storage.
We may mock the prices of digital content, but the numbers suggest that people are willing to pay those prices for the convenience of downloading the game. Why shouldn't Microsoft take those people's money?
If you know the game is cheaper in BestBuy and you buy it from there, then Microsoft still get the sale. This allows them to sell the game to savvy people at a lower price and lazy/rich people at a higher price. It's a great business model.
If you know the game is cheaper in BestBuy and you buy it from there, then Microsoft still get the sale. This allows them to sell the game to savvy people at a lower price and lazy/rich people at a higher price. It's a great business model.
HiredN00bs
Member
$60 is shit. There's no defending it. They should at least do a promotional sale like they did with Reach.
But would that change anything? I mean for Reach, I had first beaten the campaign on heroic, and then started legendary, I'd gotten to the Exodus level before all of a sudden all of my saved game progress was gone.
I looked at my save and it was still there on the hard drive, all of my achievements from heroic and some on legendary were there, but it was as if I never played the campaign.
I haven't had it happen to me in Halo 4, and so does having a "save" in the cloud help? Plus does anyone know why that happened to me in Reach? Still haven't went back and beat it again on legendary.
Dark Orchid
Member
I think the BTB drops only happen on the forge maps. For some reason, all of the canvases have the larger map ordnance even though most forge maps are going to be on the smaller side.
Isaac Clarke gets a gun!
Moa
Member
Check the game type options and see if custom personal ordnance is enabled.
You probably just got unlucky (or lucky) with the ordnance.
I wanna say I dropped a Binary Rifle on Haven earlier today with Mastrbiggy. Gonna have to try more stuff out.
HollovVpo1nt
Banned
Nope, because I backed up my save data, not move it
For instance, in Ninja Gaiden 2, I changed storage device to Cloud Storage and saved my progress, after I did that I changed storage device back to HDD. So if my HDD gets whiped for some reason, I can always load up the save I backed up in the Cloud.I think you can do that with Halo too. Back up your save data to the Cloud, but keep HDD as main storage device to boot/load the game from. If your saves get wiped, acces it from the cloud etc.
Zeouterlimits
Member
There's a long reply to this, but at work and such.
More than the morality of it, it's unmaintainable in this environment, one just has look at some of the competing online services to see how well lower priced big content does.
Played Infinity on Abandon, no crazy drops.
Asked Jazzy, he played Rail Infinity and nothing crazy. He did get Scattershot though which was not in the original personal ordnance. And then he got a Binary on Scythe so my theory has fallen to shit lol
Doubles Pro is godly though. Feels so damn good.
Asked Jazzy, he played Rail Infinity and nothing crazy. He did get Scattershot though which was not in the original personal ordnance. And then he got a Binary on Scythe so my theory has fallen to shit lol
Doubles Pro is godly though. Feels so damn good.
To all these people talking about campaign progress, I believe the way it works is that your campaign progress (i.e how many missions you've completed) is saved online. Your checkpoints are the save that are on console. With Reach and CE:A I lost both my saves for them and I still have access to all my missions and etc.
I believe this is correct given the fact they're tied up to achievements etc.
Rand0m TAG
Member
I cant play infinity anymore, pro is so good. The halo I've been waiting for
No, it doesn't.