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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo
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xxjuicesxx
Member
Just because youre bad at Blops II doesnt mean the game sucks...
Yep it's terrible.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I don't like it because they are making the smallest effort they can to evolve the gameplay and I feel the series since CoD4 has gone down hill focusing more on on baiting the players to unlock stuff instead of creating an environment that rewards skill.
However I understand I'm alone in this view and I can also see the appeal of Call of Duty to a mass market. It just stopped doing anything for me after MW2.
Games fantastic when you look at it as a whole it's added features to promote community interaction and that can only be commended.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
CoD gets blasted for remaining the same and hardly updating its 'dated' gameplay mechanics.
Every game on the market still attempts to copy CoD's systems and mechanics.
uhhh
It is sad really, because Cod 4 is over 5 years old now and games are still copying it. Where in the hell is the innovation...
Every game on the market still attempts to copy CoD's systems and mechanics.
uhhh
It is sad really, because Cod 4 is over 5 years old now and games are still copying it. Where in the hell is the innovation...
@Bold
Halo developers should stop trying to evolve its gameplay. If it's not broke don't fix it.
lol
I don't suck at it. Using the MSMC I get like a 2 kd some games... Average around 1.5
Just trying to copy what's popular. America fuck yeah, blow shit up, totally awesome protagonist, sprinting around a wall while calling in a tactical weed bomb and fucking twenty bitches at the same time.
While listening to Lil Wayne and quickscoping a ton of "homosexual little kids who are not good at video games and have had intercourse against their will".
NobleGundam
Banned
BTB EXILE
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I agree to an extent. I felt that equipment was a great way to move the franchise forward but some of the items chosen created a negative effect on the gameplay. However if you took current AA's and turned them into equipment and Gimped the loadout options back to weapons only and re-balance the sandbox Halo could evolve but remain competitive.
Right now people spawning with overpowered weapons and abilities that because of their nature alter map design are negatively impacting Halo. Sprint forces map's to be larger and that's bad it also has detrimental effects on how encounters play out. Players are now given a Fight or Flight choice in which Flight is much more of an option than it previously was which is bad.
Ordnance is a great idea for a single playlist but making it global causes issues. It should never have been implemented across the board Infinity slayer should be an alternative gametype not the default.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Is terrible.
No way. That's one of my favorite BTB maps in Halo 4. Next to Valhalla.
NobleGundam
Banned
Why doesn't Active Camouflage & Jetpack prevents your ability to either Shoot, Melee, and Throw Grenades, or Temporarily Immobilized like the other AA's while using them? That would, at least imo, balance them instead of how they're now.
You must always be red team.
Flinch provides nothing good for the game.
We've balanced the Scorpion this time you guys, we promise. Eight years of it being put in matchmaking and immediately removed because it played like crap? What's a Wraith?
...now lets put it way closer to one of the teams and then give the other team a different stupidly overpowered vehicle to compensate. It's all moot because the power weapon pinata is about to burst open anyway.
What a shame. Playing normal CTF on Exile with just normal-ass Hogs and Ghosts is actually a pretty good experience. Then Big Team ends up being a disaster.
Didn't you also say that Boneyard was one of your favorite maps and praise BTB Slayer on it?
Yeah.
User 73706
Banned
...what if the Gauss Hog got replaced by the Rail Hog?
I know they're meant to be the same thing but hear me out. Requires a charge time, reload times are identical, projectile arcs, no random ricochet function. Maybe just increase the blast radius a bit and damage proportionally.
Hell, you could even make it so firing it slows down the Warthog a bit because it's such a high-velocity projectile.
I know they're meant to be the same thing but hear me out. Requires a charge time, reload times are identical, projectile arcs, no random ricochet function. Maybe just increase the blast radius a bit and damage proportionally.
Hell, you could even make it so firing it slows down the Warthog a bit because it's such a high-velocity projectile.
I like those maps, I have fun on them.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
GoTHaloGAF Assemble
Here's the Game of Throne's Prop Blacksmith "forging" Jamie Lannisters Sword.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=apTVzm09WYc
He throws around some bullshit about "blood grooves" and in the end its just an expensive toy but its a fun watch regardless.
Here's the Game of Throne's Prop Blacksmith "forging" Jamie Lannisters Sword.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=apTVzm09WYc
He throws around some bullshit about "blood grooves" and in the end its just an expensive toy but its a fun watch regardless.
Franklinator
Member
I've been watching GoT over the last week for the first time and I love it so far. I'm about halfway through season 1.
Yep.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
You've had a lot of time to get them at this point.
But to be honest no one wants to play that playlist.
MrGreencastle
Member
What?
So only people who bought the game and map pack before it goes away are allowed to get them?
Balderdash.
(unless they show up in other playlists
)StalkerUKCG
Banned
Nope. That is such a bullshit justification. Playlists that are achievement specific should ALWAYS be active. If someone bought the map pack 2 month from now and was not able to get the achievements tied to it then its bullshit plain and simple.
It's a moot point because you can play crimson maps outside the playlist but saying "eh too late" is ridiculous.
Tip: MP achievements like that suck. Lessons should have been learned by now.What?
So only people who bought the game and map pack before it goes away are allowed to get them?
Balderdash.
(unless they show up in other playlists
Similar to what Fabalon said, I only really touched the Crimson playlist the first 2 days the map pack was out, then I just went back to
Infinity Slayer.xxjuicesxx
Member
I know.
Stop making gametype/map/playlist specific MP achievements...especially DLC playlists.
NobleGundam
Banned
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Stop making MP achievements full stop
GAF > Internet > GAF
What?
So only people who bought the game and map pack before it goes away are allowed to get them?
Balderdash.
(unless they show up in other playlists
They will. They mentioned that in the bulletin.
No, in my experience they show up somewhat regularly outside of the Crimson playlist. It's surprisingly easy to get Wreckage or Shatter in BTB, and Harvest seems to show up in Infinity Slayer and CTF with decent regularity as well.
Thank you.
I've never played a DLC map in playlists outside of Crimson, haha. The one time they came up, everyone voted for Valhalla.
What's wrong with win a match on every new map, kill 100 people on map A, etc. Something that actively makes matches better?
Instead of dumb turret or mantis achievements on shatter, they could have had, win 5 extraction matches. Then people would actually play to win, and long after you've gotten the achievement any n00b who still hadn't would still be trying to win.
On a different note, I still can't believe the excuse they used to make up for their goof last map pack release. I read about it here, and checked all major gaming sites, none had picked it up you could get the map pack for free. I remember when mass effect 2 dlc was accidentally available, sites like kotaku, joystiq had it within seconds.
Only after a day or two when the problem wasn't fixed did sites write a small blurb at the end of their map pack previews of some people getting it free.
Once Microsoft came out with that ridiculous '14 day buy and play reward token' BS did every site from Kotaku to IGN have a full story. Nowhere was this 14 day buy and play reward token ever mentioned on Google, and only showed up after bs angel said the same thing word for word on her bulletin.
I really wonder, are the people who play the dlc maps, the ones who bought limited editions and got the maps, or were sales of the season pass huge? Out of roughly 26 halo players on my friends list, guys (and 2 girls) who played halo 2 and halo 3 with me day after day, for a few years, I'm the last halo 4 player.
Well, I didn't expect it to get better anyway.
I'm playing Super Monday Night Combat on PC, need some more peeps to play with. My name is Booshkakke on there, because lol.
Quad fucking wielding
Nah man. Gotta catch em all
I'm going for campaign achievements now if anyone is interested.
xxjuicesxx
Member
This line of thinking is great and I'm right there with you but allowing MP achievements to exist effects the playlist's...for the worse, and thats a bummer.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Stop giving a shit about Halo 4 full stop.
It's worked wonders for me!
It's worked wonders for me!
Because you'd be relying on those specific maps to actually pop up once the abysmally low-populated dedicated DLC playlist got cut, and this is Halo, so they'll show up once in a blue moon if you're lucky. Folks say it's better now, but that hasn't been my experience.
The Extraction example you mentioned is a better designed achievement because it'd be available to unlock on any Extraction-capable map in matchmaking (unless they tie it to the specific maps like they've been doing - a real dumb decision), and it's totally divorced from the part where you have to purchase something. Well, it would be, if they hadn't paywalled it behind Crimson (which still seems really gross).
Neither Bungie nor 343 have gotten multiplayer achievements right yet. Halo 3 had stuff like Save This Film and Mongoose Mowdown, Reach had all sorts of dumb DLC achievements, and while Halo 4's core achievements are actually pretty smart, the DLC stuff has again been pretty atrocious.
xxjuicesxx
Member
The funniest part is I never actually pulled up the dashboard and looked at what I had to do and I ended up getting most of them in the one night I played of them...some of them I didnt even do what its supposed to be.
They want to get their hooks in for all the people who are OCD for achievements and so they have to have MP achievements because it'll keep them playing the game longer even if the person doesn't like the game and even if it means it will affect player behavior or how playlist are set up.
MrGreencastle
Member
Laughed hard at this. That looks fucking badass!