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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo

MrGreencastle

MrGreencastle

Member
Computron said:
The best voices -- voices that truly matter -- never
allow themselves be heard. This lesson is worth
learning again and again.

Forever.

Your voice moves as whispers, murmurs and urges
inside larger winds. Only the trusted few can absorb
what is necessary. Wise and sly and perfect, your
instructions drop, leaving nothing but the hard sweet
rime of enlightenment.

The path is set. Your voice is unleashed. Except now
it is gone...

And maybe it never was.
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DESTINY
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So much fun. Monday's gonna be tighter than this week leading up to it.
 
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Computron

Member
Hooray for Fourier (Heh, it rhymes) transforms!

I wonder what else they will throw at us?



This is exactly what I needed for this week...

Cant wait for tomorrow!
 
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blamite

Member
In Destiny news, it's now Tuesday.

blamite said:
Tuesday is now.

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FyreWulff

Member
"Why am I not hearing anyone talking?"

*realize 4 games later voice chat was somehow globally turned off*

edit: one dose of grifball a day is good enough for me

edit2: wtf it just said a gamertag was online that wasn't even on my FL.
 
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The Henery

Member
xxjuicesxx said:
But with each removal you might not be effected but other communities are. That means lower population, which in turn effects other communities. Including yours (The MP side)

Your concerns align with mine too, mostly gameplay settings and options, means more people who play a heavy amount of MP and are competitive need to be in the chairs controlling what gets selected before the game starts.
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Agreed with retaining core options so as not to alienate the speedrunners, griffball, infection, screenshot crowd. The Armour Ability and Infinity people, however, can be thrown out with the trash, bagged up with the refuse and flushed into the effluence. A big statement needs to be made in the future of Halo that this franchise just isn't for them and shoo them off to another franchise. Heard Crysis has got camo. Send them there.
 
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HollovVpo1nt

Banned
Caja 117 said:
Big difference here you never spawned with equipment, and they were a one time use item, AA like sprint and Jet pack broke the maps, while AA like cammo and Amor lock were spamed left and right by players with no limit of use.
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When you say it like that, I think it would be nice to have some sort of energy modules to recharge AA's scattered on the map that respawn over a certain period of time, something like the health vials and armor shards in Unreal Tournament.
 
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Striker

Member
Caja 117 said:
Big difference here you never spawned with equipment, and they were a one time use item, AA like sprint and Jet pack broke the maps, while AA like cammo and Amor lock were spamed left and right by players with no limit of use.
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I don't think Sprint broke maps, but you can explain that if you want. AL was near useless after 343 patched it. Camo and Jetpack will always be shit in these games, no excuse there.

Still, both types of items stalled gameplay, and introduced more randomness/bullshit that was never necessary. Pickups like the OS and Camo were predictable and set on timers and lasted a set duration. You knew what was going to happen in these scenarios, and you knew when the person had these powerups.
 
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Caja 117

Member
Striker said:
I don't think Sprint broke maps, but you can explain that if you want. AL was near useless after 343 patched it. Camo and Jetpack will always be shit in these games, no excuse there.

Still, both types of items stalled gameplay, and introduced more randomness/bullshit that was never necessary. Pickups like the OS and Camo were predictable and set on timers and lasted a set duration. You knew what was going to happen in these scenarios, and you knew when the person had these powerups.
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I m not defending equipment, but equipment did not hurt the game as much because it was a one time use, it was limited to as much as 2 players having equipment, opposite from everyone in the team having AA all the time.


About sprint, it actually broke small, medium sized maps, maps like zealot and countdown felt as good or decent maps when you played it on MLG because of the no sprint.
 
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IHaveIce

Banned
Striker said:
I don't think Sprint broke maps, but you can explain that if you want. AL was near useless after 343 patched it. Camo and Jetpack will always be shit in these games, no excuse there.

Still, both types of items stalled gameplay, and introduced more randomness/bullshit that was never necessary. Pickups like the OS and Camo were predictable and set on timers and lasted a set duration. You knew what was going to happen in these scenarios, and you knew when the person had these powerups.
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Eventhough equipment did add to randmoness it was never that bad like AAs, also there were never all equipments on one map, while in Reach and Halo 4 ou can choose every AA on every map.

Never complained about OS and Camo as pickups, they were handled as powerweapons and that was damn fine

EDIT: I think we can all agree we could live without it. Now Deadly Cyclone will come and prove me wrong :J


/I kid
 
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Omni

Member
A few decent matches of Halo 2. Damn it's gonna suck when it gets shutdown. I may not play it all the time like BF3 or H4, but I always come back to it.
 
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Caja 117

Member
IHaveIce said:
Eventhough equipment did add to randmoness it was never that bad like AAs, also there were never all equipments on one map, while in Reach and Halo 4 ou can choose every AA on every map.

Never complained about OS and Camo as pickups, they were handled as powerweapons and that was damn fine

EDIT: I think we can all agree we could live without it. Now Deadly Cyclone will come and prove me wrong :J


/I kid
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And speaking of camo as a
Pickup, one of the main reasons camo AA is my most hated AA, is because it killed camo as a pickup.

Halo 4 wouldve had been a lot better if camo would had been a ordnance drop either global or personal instead of been AA.
 
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Havok

Member
TheOddOne said:
Coming to a mobile near you. Compare with your friends! Earn XP by login in! Be a true Spartan! Exclusive to Windows Phone!
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Given that the Halo 4 SmartGlass thing didn't work on Microsoft's flagship WP7 device for months and months after it launched ("This device is missing key features: touch." No, it's not, you morons) while the iOS version worked fine, I think you might be overestimating how much of a shit Microsoft actually gives about Windows Phone.

Heck, even now that it does work it might be one of the most poorly optimized applications I've ever seen. It's a choppy, crashy disaster.
 
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TheOddOne

Member
Havok said:
Given that the Halo 4 SmartGlass thing didn't work on Microsoft's flagship WP7 device for months and months after it launched ("This device is missing key features: touch." No, it's not, you morons) while the iOS version worked fine, I think you might be overestimating how much of a shit Microsoft actually gives about Windows Phone.

Heck, even now that it does work it might be one of the most poorly optimized applications I've ever seen. It's a choppy, crashy disaster.
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I wonder if Halo 5...*Sign* why bother, it is not going to happen.
 
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FyreWulff

Member
Halo 2 PC must be getting it's revenge. They announce taking it down on the 15th and GFWL is all kinds of messed in the days leading up to H2's re-demise.
 
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Zeouterlimits

Member
FyreWulff said:
Halo 2 PC must be getting it's revenge. They announce taking it down on the 15th and GFWL is all kinds of messed in the days leading up to H2's re-demise.
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*sharkWulff [dolphinWulff?] sits in his leather computer chair, twirling his fine moustache and grinning viciously at his enacted revenge*
 
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HiredN00bs

Member
FyreWulff said:
Halo 2 PC must be getting it's revenge. They announce taking it down on the 15th and GFWL is all kinds of messed in the days leading up to H2's re-demise.
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1. Edit Halo 2's boxart over Gerard Butler's head in the Law Abiding Citizen trailer
2. Convert the sections with him threatening Jamie Fox and then the cars blowing up into an animated GIF
3. Post
4. Obtain lulz
 
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SorryForPoorEnglish

Neo Member
Caja 117 said:
And speaking of camo as a
Pickup, one of the main reasons camo AA is my most hated AA, is because it killed camo as a pickup.

Halo 4 wouldve had been a lot better if camo would had been a ordnance drop either global or personal instead of been AA.
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Theres one AA that i hate more as Camo in the multiplayer ... Jet pack -.-
The only list where i could imagine it is in custom / fun gametypes.
 
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Akai__

Member
Deadly Cyclone said:
I think their mobile app is just shitty. My friends on their iphone 5s were able to watch other streams but not mine. No idea why. Seems they could watch 480p on other streams, but not mine in 720p or 1080p.

Does the app not support 720p/1080p viewing?
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I send you a PM, but you didn't get it, right? Mobile is somehow broken for me.

In short, streams, who have like thousand of subscribers are working fine, because they are favoured.

However, if your viewers are reporting bugs like black screen/audio stutter etc. it will get fixed eventually, that's what I was reading in the TwitchTV support Forums.
 
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Deadly Cyclone

Pride of Iowa State
CrazY CroaTia said:
I send you a PM, but you didn't get it, right? Mobile is somehow broken for me.

In short, streams, who have like thousand of subscribers are working fine, because they are favoured.

However, if your viewers are reporting bugs like black screen/audio stutter etc. it will get fixed eventually, that's what I was reading in the TwitchTV support Forums.
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I don't have any new PMs it seems!

Yeah, in looking on their site it appears the "black screen on non-partnered streams via mobile" is a huge issue. Kind of sucks.
 
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