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[Booties]

So it seems Halsey becomes a Promethean AI and is reuinted with chief. This stirs him out of retirement (or wherever he is) and to save he world from the didacts new doomsday device/undead army.

Or

Chief becomes jaded because he loves Cortana. Kills the Didact. The paradigm repeats itself: chief is the new unpacifiable warlord, Halsey is the new cortana/librarian torn between being at his side or stopping him. Somehow they destroy/save the galaxy/fall in love

I dont understand that pic, she is already wearing her suit so she re utilized the armor machine just to pick up her helmet? wtf

Yeah, she's just really stupid.

 

[Orochinagis]

So it seems Halsey becomes a Promethean AI and is reuinted with chief. This stirs him out of retirement (or wherever he is) and to save he world from the didacts new doomsday device/undead army.

Or

Chief becomes jaded because he loves Cortana. Kills the Didact. The paradigm repeats itself: chief is the new unpacifiable warlord, Halsey is the new cortana/librarian torn between being at his side or stopping him. Somehow they destroy/save the galaxy/fall in love

More like she will be the new cortana or give her brain cells to revive her, Anime style.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Rail is good maps.
Seriously Doubles is the place to be son.

 

[Booties]

More like she will be the new cortana or give her brain cells to revive her, Anime style.

That's what I said?

 

[CyReN]

Rail is good maps.
Seriously Doubles is the place to be son.

Doubles Pro*

 

[Tashi]

Doubles Pro*

Well come Monday, Infinity Doubles will be good times as well.

 

[Garrett 2U]

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I really hope, that the Librarian holds Cortana in those sticks...

SpOps episode 9 image preview spoiler

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There is an orange stick and a blue stick.. I'm guessing it has to do with control of the prometheans.

 

[TheOddOne]

I just went through this week's Spartan Ops last night. I have no idea how they're going to manage to satisfy us at the end of this season unless they pull an ODST and introduce Engineers in the final location or something.

Anyone else get major Combat Evolved vibes from the Apex mission? If they had made the portals/generators/whatever all active at once and let you target them in any order you wanted it would have been perfect.

YES. YES. YES. Oh, GOD YES.

 

[heckfu]

Well come Monday, Infinity Doubles will be good times as well.

Does it still have radar?

 

[ElRenoRaven]

SpOps episode 9 image preview spoiler

Spoiler

There is an orange stick and a blue stick.. I'm guessing it has to do with control of the prometheans.

Spoiler

Oh we're going to push the blue button maybe.

 

[squidhands]

Well come Monday, Infinity Doubles will be good times as well.

Limited Loadouts with passive Armor Abilities like Hologram and Thruster? Jetpack and PV moved to Ordnance slot?

That would be very good times.

 

[Tashi]

Does it still have radar?

Yea

Limited Loadouts with passive Armor Abilities like Hologram and Thruster? Jetpack and PV moved to Ordnance slot?

That would be very good times.

Ya it won't be on the level of Doubles Pro but at least now it's less frustrating. But on second thought it's still going to be annoying to deal with Camo and shit.

 

[HollovVpo1nt]

Well come Monday, Infinity Doubles will be good times as well.

Infinity Doubles, is that multi team?

 

[squidhands]

Ya it won't be on the level of Doubles Pro but at least now it's less frustrating. But on second thought it's still going to be annoying to deal with Camo and shit.

So no limited loadouts. Damn.

 

[Tashi]

Infinity Doubles, is that multi team?

No, it's just Double Team. It's losing Instant Respawn.

 

[fawaz]

So I played some halo 4 for the first time in 50+ days.
Team doubles is a welcome addition; however, the HUD makes it really hard to have any situational awareness. I can never tell where my team mate is or whether he is shooting or being shot at until it's too late.
And PLEASE add some forge maps to the play list(pit remake) all of the current maps are too big, and to be honest suck(heaven is not as good as people make it out to be. It just happens to be a decent symmetrical map in a pile of trash).

 

[Enter The 36 Chambers]

So I played some halo 4 for the first time in 50+ days.
Team doubles is a welcome addition; however, the HUD makes it really hard to have any situational awareness. I can never tell where my team mate is or whether he is shooting or being shot at until it's too late.
And PLEASE add some forge maps to the play list(pit remake) all of the current maps are too big, and to be honest suck(heaven is not as good as people make it out to be. It just happens to be a decent symmetrical map in a pile of trash).

Are you serious?? Dont blame the hud because your bad at the game and you have no situational awareness.

 

[Moa]

So I played some halo 4 for the first time in 50+ days.
Team doubles is a welcome addition; however, the HUD makes it really hard to have any situational awareness. I can never tell where my team mate is or whether he is shooting or being shot at until it's too late.
And PLEASE add some forge maps to the play list(pit remake) all of the current maps are too big, and to be honest suck(heaven is not as good as people make it out to be. It just happens to be a decent symmetrical map in a pile of trash).

Rail is a big map?
Scythe is a big map?

 

[Computer]

So I played some halo 4 for the first time in 50+ days.
Team doubles is a welcome addition; however, the HUD makes it really hard to have any situational awareness. I can never tell where my team mate is or whether he is shooting or being shot at until it's too late.
And PLEASE add some forge maps to the play list(pit remake) all of the current maps are too big, and to be honest suck(heaven is not as good as people make it out to be. It just happens to be a decent symmetrical map in a pile of trash).

I agree Haven is not a very good map its just a good Halo 4 map I feel Adrift is better. Also we need indicators for shots fired and red X's badly.

 

[Omni]

Okay. I'm quite excited for SpOps this week.

Halo 4 is gonna get a little dull once these missions stop next week.

 

[Computer]

So I played some halo 4 for the first time in 50+ days.
Team doubles is a welcome addition; however, the HUD makes it really hard to have any situational awareness. I can never tell where my team mate is or whether he is shooting or being shot at until it's too late.
And PLEASE add some forge maps to the play list(pit remake) all of the current maps are too big, and to be honest suck(heaven is not as good as people make it out to be. It just happens to be a decent symmetrical map in a pile of trash).

I agree Haven is not a very good map its just a good Halo 4 map I feel Adrift is better. Also we need indicators for shots fired and red X's badly.

Are you serious?? Dont blame the hud because your bad at the game and you have no situational awareness.

Most Halo games have indicators to tell you that your teammate is shooting and witch direction.

 

[heckfu]

Yea

._____.

 

[TCKaos]

Here again to give my weekly proclamation that Gunner is fucking bananas. My tool of destruction has been mounted turrets for the last five or so games and it's been so much fun getting it there.

I got Speed Boost with it once and people just gave up when they saw me flying around a corner. sogood.jpeg

 

[Computer]

Here again to give my weekly proclamation that Gunner is fucking bananas. My tool of destruction has been mounted turrets for the last five or so games and it's been so much fun getting it there.

I got Speed Boost with it once and people just gave up when they saw me flying around a corner. sogood.jpeg

Gunner+turret+speed boots may be OP but it is crazy fun. Kevin!.gif

 

[BravoHalo]

(heaven is not as good as people make it out to be. It just happens to be a decent symmetrical map in a pile of trash).

Bold statement.

I'd add that it's likely that Heaven > Haven, but naturally can't comment to what extent.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Frankie's hipster glasses suit him.
Watching his DICE talk with Kiki, up on the YouTube Variety channel now.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_09kOxFIE

 

[Overdoziz]

tashi stop killing halo

 

[fawaz]

Bold statement.

I'd add that it's likely that Heaven > Haven, but naturally can't comment to what extent.

You're probably right.

 

[Duji]

There's a H4 Slayer FFA tournament at my uni in a few hours (the place where they filmed FUD). Top prize is a Razer Abyssus, 2nd is a year of live, 3rd is a Corsair headset. Let's hope I win something.

 

[Hydranockz]

There's a H4 Slayer FFA tournament at my uni in a few hours (the place where they filmed FUD). Top prize is a Razer Abyssus, 2nd is a year of live, 3rd is a Corsair headset. Let's hope I win something.

Good luck man.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Frankie's hipster glasses suit him.
Watching his DICE talk with Kiki, up on the YouTube Variety channel now.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_09kOxFIE

The talk may be a bit boring for us who know the Halo ecosystem, but Frankie's chatter about forums/community is clearly applicable to/about HaloGAF.

Edit: Although he seems to imply they've been harshly scrutinised since Day 1.
I think we grew to be ultimately positive about them for a good while. We happily put Beli343 on our t-shirts.
Things have changed now, in tone at least, but I think we were largely open to the change, especially as it meant we get more of the ip we love, while getting something really new from a dev we grew invested in.

 

[Risen]

But on second thought it's still going to be annoying to deal with Camo and shit.

LOL you think?

You playing tonight? Think I'll be hopping on to run some games tonight.

 

[Tashi]

Bold statement.

I'd add that it's likely that Heaven > Haven, but naturally can't comment to what extent.

lol I'm dying over here

tashi stop killing halo

Can't stop...won't stop

LOL you think?

You playing tonight? Think I'll be hopping on to run some games tonight.

Yea but it's like casual shit. If I'm not trying hard to win, I still have fun. I'll go hard in Doubles Pro though. I might be on testing stuff rather than playing Doubles though.

 

[Karl2177]

Until we get vertical sensitivity adjustment, Rail is bad.

 

[Overdoziz]

The talk may be a bit boring for us who know the Halo ecosystem, but Frankie's chatter about forums/community is clearly applicable to/about HaloGAF.

Edit: Although he seems to imply they've been harshly scrutinised since Day 1.
I think we grew to be ultimately positive about them for a good while. We happily put Beli343 on our t-shirts.
Things have changed now, in tone at least, but I think we were largely open to the change, especially as it meant we get more of the ip we love, while getting something really new from a dev we grew invested in.

I remember the shitload of "Frankie, save us" posts and pictures which completely disappeared once the GI info dropped.

 

[Tashi]

Until we get vertical sensitivity adjustment, Rail is bad.

As if Rail is the only map in Halo's history with multiple levels like that. Jeeeeeeeez

Rail is awesome.

 

[Sr Kitsune]

Spartan Ops Episode 9 Gallery

Removed the other image, never even crossed my mind - apologies.

The only thing I could think about
(Spartan Ops 9 spoiler)

Spoiler

Matrix?

 

[squidhands]

As if Rail is the only map in Halo's history with multiple levels like that. Jeeeeeeeez

Rail is awesome.

Are the snipers designed to spawn so fast? The team that walked all over my face constantly had them.

Rail is unique to the game, I'll give it that. Need more time to play on it with people on my shitty skill level.

 

[Omni]

The only thing I could think about
(Spartan Ops 9 spoiler)

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Matrix?

Or Mass Effect

Spoiler

Control or destroy the Prometheans!

 

[kittens]

Tashi, that is the best dealwithit.gif ever.

 

[Karl2177]

As if Rail is the only map in Halo's history with multiple levels like that. Jeeeeeeeez

It's poor man's Countdown, which itself was a poor man's Construct. None of which are great maps.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

It's poor man's Countdown, which itself was a poor man's Construct. None of which are great maps.

How did you reach this conclusion.

Countdown construct I can kind of see but Rail is pretty unique.

 

[kittens]

I haven't played Rail yet, I don't think. I'm kind of excited to now. I'm a sucker for vertical maps.

 

[Tashi]

Are the snipers designed to spawn so fast? The team that walked all over my face constantly had them.

Rail is unique to the game, I'll give it that. Need more time to play on it with people on my shitty skill level.

I've found that in competitive games the sniper changes hands a lot or doesn't last very long. However, in "mismatches" the sniper seems to chain. It's a common complaint and we ARE going to change it. The thing is, it's not as easy as you would think to just change little things on these maps so it might be some time unfortunately.

It's poor man's Countdown, which itself was a poor man's Construct. None of which are great maps.

To each his own.

 

[Karl2177]

How did you reach this conclusion.

Countdown construct I can kind of see but Rail is pretty unique.

Multi-tier map where the width and height are approaching a 1:1 ratio. Bases either lead up to the center(a la Countdown) or towards the bottom.

If you rotate Countdown 45 degrees and shrink the length by 50%, it's Rail.

 

[Striker]

Are there no good Warlock remakes in Ravine? Seems better option than Rail.

 

[heckfu]

Rail is the third best map in the game; it only ranks behind Exile and the reimagined Haven with the lights added.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Multi-tier map where the width and height are approaching a 1:1 ratio. Bases either lead up to the center(a la Countdown) or towards the bottom.

If you rotate Countdown 45 degrees and shrink the length by 50%, it's Rail.

Its kind of like the Front half of Construct and the Front half of Countdown had a child. I suppose I sort of see it.

Either way Rail is great.

 

[Steelyuhas]

Or Mass Effect

Spoiler

Control or destroy the Prometheans!

Watch that happen lol.

SpOps Ep 9 spoilers

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Cool, another dead character in the Halo universe is magically sort of alive. Ugh, get that shit out of here.

 

[squidhands]

I've found that in competitive games the sniper changes hands a lot or doesn't last very long. However, in "mismatches" the sniper seems to chain. It's a common complaint and we ARE going to change it. The thing is, it's not as easy as you would think to just change little things on these maps so it might be some time unfortunately.

I am very aware of this. The smallest tweaks are the biggest bitch.