Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I'd buy a stealth Halo game. Or a Halo game made by KojiPro.
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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo
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I'd buy a stealth Halo game. Or a Halo game made by KojiPro.
User 73706
Banned
Silentium: Zero Hour featuring The Didact would sell consoles.
Orochinagis
Member
God damn, I saw that movie yesterday, The mexican part was hillarious when butch started to speak spanish.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Or Halo 4. Wolves do not Halo 4.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Have you played Doubles Pro yet?
Amen.
User 73706
Banned
Doubles Pro on Solari is the most fun I've had in Halo 4 since the symmetrical room on Shutdown during my Legendary run.
Haven't yet had a game on there. What's the differences to the map?
User 73706
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The basement is completely eliminated and rather than a large rectangle the map is roughly square in dimensions, cutting out the majority of the outer halls and supplementary fluff. Power weapons such as the Railgun and Sticky Detonator are frequent, consistent spawns, and encourage gameplay drawn to the center of the map for the duration of the match. Probably one of my favorite multiplayer experiences in the franchise, honestly.
Hmm, be interesting to play. The basement in general just doesn't get much love in any game except maybe an oddball match--you can play the game without it beig blocked off and never go there except for initial weapon spawns.
Doogington
Member
Is anyone interested in organizing a customs night? Try out some GAF maps and gametypes while complaining about everything. It'll be great.
Monday will be good, we have Family Day here in Canada so everyone gets time off. My time will be spent playing the new playlist with friends, family can wait.
It will have <1000 players in it within 2 weeks.
I think they will do the whole marketing blitz a week before release.
BlueScrote
Member
I will eat my hat if this happens.
How could it possibly be the most popular at this point in the games life?
No radar playlists never see large populations ever. It will see numbers like Team Doubles
The only chance it had is if the word Slayer was in the title.
Computer
Member
Your probably right. There are too many BK's willing to give up their AR Jetpack combo.
Top of page blah I am a CSR 50 in Team Throwdown beotch. Sounds bad ass uh.
It's a pro playlist, it won't have that much.
But say they made a playlist with set loadouts, AA's, static ordnance, no instant respawn, no JIP, and called in Team Slayer, and then removed Infinity Slayer, that playlist would have a huge population.
Honestly, what they should do is have a Slayer Playlist with 3 voting options.
Infinity Slayer, Slayer, and Slayer Pro.
Regular slayer is basically Reach. You have set loadouts, static ordnance.
Slayer Pro is the same as it is in dubs, and infinity slayer is fiesta crazy
xxjuicesxx
Member
No, maybe when the in-game ranking system is there and Infinity Doubles is out.
Computer
Member
The funny thing is what we call slayer pro now used to just be slayer or slayer BR. I wish the would stop with all the label BS. Your idea of voting on a type of slayer is exactly how it should be for a social playlist. Anything with infinity in it does not deserve its own playlist.
This game is already turning into Halo Reach with too many game types with different settings because the game was fucked from the start.
Major Williams
Member
I love the Halo story.
It was nice to see Osman. Is it weird that I found her
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It was nice to see Osman. Is it weird that I found her
attractive
Bungie had a small issue with that initially in Reach, namely regular settings and then used Classic which was supposed to have sprint as the AA and your AR/Mag starts. But really that's all different it was, it was all the same in regards to your shooting.
Then 343 did the TU, so it became 100, 85, then later no bloom. Total mess and people had wondered why they didn't just lay it all out entirely instead of half-ass it (should've been everywhere except Invasion). Here we are again with a similar situation.
She looks like Elzar. Eww.
BlueScrote
Member
Anything with the "Team Slayer" playlist name is going to do gangbusters since it's what most of the population is familiar with. If "Slayer Pro" had been named "Team Slayer" at launch I bet it's population would be higher since people are so used to just picking the top playlist.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Iv had more fun in Doubles Pro than I have in a long time playing anything else in Halo 4.
User 73706
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It's the voice. I know ONI operatives aren't big fans of black ink but I have a feeling she wouldn't mind a little white-out.
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what am i doing with my life
Alchemical
Neo Member
I remember this and I also remember reading the floods of complaints over on b.net telling them to get rid of Classic as a voting option and / or give it its own playlist. And get rid of bloom. As we all know, it took a hell of a long time for the latter to be implemented, by which time so many had jumped ship, it was difficult to find friends who wanted to play.
I guess something can be said for the speed of the implementation of this playlist, when compared with the timeline of Reach fixes. That said, my number one priority when it comes to 'competitive' playlists (or anything that's supposed to be viewed as such) is a sizeable population. Without the latter, the rest (i.e. settings, maps etc.) fades into oblivion. And I'm certainly not expecting this playlist to draw in massive numbers.
I hazard a guess that the large majority will simply continue to play Infinity
Fiesta-Rock-Paper-Scissors
Major Williams
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Steelyuhas
Member
So, uh if the Valentine's cards from the bulletin are the new maps, why does one clearly have a Warthog and what appears to be a Wraith in the small maps map pack?
I think there are supposed to be two small maps and one medium. I remember someone saying that on here before.
Zeouterlimits
Member
To offer my response:
It's not like Halo 2 & Halo 3 were perfect. They had flaws, and we criticised plenty (but still playing the game every night and having a blast).
So the level of enjoyment people had with 2 & 3 is the base requirement in a sense.
So when we finally, months later, get what's supposed to be our more competitive, closer to classic Halo playlist and it still has things we (I) don't like (e.g. Sprint, and some kind of loadout personal ordinance [I'm unclear on this]) then criticism is to be expected. Nevermind layering in the cynicism has 343 has arguably earned when it comes their level of implementation.
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Played some Team Snipers tonight, alone.
Getting matched against full teams of players, all with some Specializations unclocked [me not having any], having a crappy player and his worse guest... uggggh.
It was however the first time I've felt grateful to have JIP, as those terribad players quit half way through the match, and about a minute or two later, they had been replaced with much better ones.
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What's the reasoning behind us not seeing the maps properly yet? Are they not getting a trailer?
BlueScrote
Member
next bulletin supposedly.
My issues are with the underlying gameplay; the strafe speed, the aim assist, the kill times.
Fixing playlists is meaningless for me until they fix the actual gameplay.
And you are in the distinct minority of most people here.
User 73706
Banned
Does 14 Day Buy and Play work with these maps too?
xxjuicesxx
Member
How is the Pro playlist going to be good when there are no more pros playing this game and all the good players have left (besides like 4 people from here)?
In an unranked playlist...thats social...and not competitive.
And MLG isnt throwing Halo tournaments anymore.
Where is the motivation to even try and play this game competitively? For bragging rights?
"Hey bro, check this game out (Link to waypoint that doesnt work) I shit on a bunch of kids that you cant tell if they are good or bad without thirty minutes of research!"
Get realllllllllll.
In an unranked playlist...thats social...and not competitive.
And MLG isnt throwing Halo tournaments anymore.
Where is the motivation to even try and play this game competitively? For bragging rights?
"Hey bro, check this game out (Link to waypoint that doesnt work) I shit on a bunch of kids that you cant tell if they are good or bad without thirty minutes of research!"
Get realllllllllll.
Garrett 2U
Member
Self-embargos to give IGN exclusives is money in da bank for Microsoft.
I'm lovin it!
There are probably 295838X more people who go to IGN a day than HaloWaypoint.
Computer
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I feel that 5 shots is too much. Feels like shooting a bullet sponge at time espesaly the back of the head as they run away. The BR DMR should be 4 shots with a tad slower fire rate.
EagleBurnn
Banned
Why can't they just have achievements like "Win 5 CTF matches on X" "Kill the ball carrier twice on Y in one match" "Kill 100 players on Z"? They encourage what the player is supposed to do in the game and not dumb antics like constantly going up a ramp with a Warthog hoping to get a kill.
Garrett 2U
Member
I have no problems with the map pack being advertised everywhere, what I dislike is 343 embargo'ing themselves because they sold the exclusive rights to whatever news to whatever news agency.
"Oh we can't talk about why we added perks because Game Informer has exclusivity for this entire month."
"Oh we can't talk about the specializations because IGN has an exclusive article coming out next week."
That kind of stuff disappoints me, when they can't address their community because of self-placed embargos.
Especially when those sources of information are faulty and the info must be re-clarified by 343 after chaos has erupted in the community.
That's just the way it works. You do big reveals to build hype. It's DLC, something they want to sell.
It's the way it works now but it doesn't have to. It's annoying when you can't talk about something you've created because a media outlet bought or obtained through other methods an exclusive on revealing the thing you created.
Parts of this are touched on in this video about preorders that TotalBiscuit made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxWqU5pYwk&feature=youtu.be