Blue Ninja
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Quick and dirty.
I don't think the game is that bad, but I can't resist an opportunity to make a .gif, even if it's in a hurry. I'm already five minutes late because of this.
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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo
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Quick and dirty.
User 73706
Banned
Quick and dirty.
I don't think the game is that bad, but I can't resist an opportunity to make a .gif, even if it's in a hurry. I'm already five minutes late because of this.
Hard mode: shop EazyB's face onto Bane's. or Frankie's. :lol
I love doing that haha
Need Kevin Franklin's face and Halo 2/Vista
November 7thOverdoziz said:
Garrett 2U
Member
I'm not sure how much high level design influence Kevin had.
I remember Josh Holmes saying he was the one that really pushed loadouts.
I'm catching up on a few pages, came across this comment was made for the Halo 3 ViDoc that was posted.
I totally agree, my heart skipped. I NEED Destiny in my Veins. Bungie, I'll give you my first born if you give me a trailer for Destiny by the end of the month.
I hope someone holds me to this :3
You better hope it's good!
MS gives up.
Borderlands!?
Steelyuhas
Member
Oh Extraction is dope? That'd be cool to be able to play it in MM.
1v1's are extremely intense.
Moa
Member
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Halo 3 SP environments are pretty garb in some areas. In that regard I think Halo 4 has it beat.
Multiplayer Halo 3 maps are leaps and bounds above the majority of Halo 4's. I don't mean any disrespect but certain affinity make poor maps more often than they make good ones.
Multiplayer Halo 3 maps are leaps and bounds above the majority of Halo 4's. I don't mean any disrespect but certain affinity make poor maps more often than they make good ones.
Misleading title.
Looks much better and a bit more sandbox-y than the first half. The terrible AI shines in that video though :|
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Nah I just didn't change the original line. Sorry it's confusing. I just reordered the maps I had in that original post instead of changing the whole thing. I mean, Adrift is there and everyone knows I dislike Adrift.
Steelyuhas
Member
Ask him for his head instead.
Man, It had seriously better be. I've gotten far too excited for it to suck.
On a Halo related note, Halo 4 is still better than Reach is.
Halo 2 is still better than Halo 3.
Halo CE 4 lyfe.
I haven't played a whole lot of Spartan Ops but the video looks pretty good. Where's the scoring though?
EagleBurnn
Banned
Had to go to an automotive dealership and 30 year-ish old guys were playing Halo 4 during their lunch break. They were having fun and everything. I then thought about how the community was acting, and I came to the conclusion that we're right and the boltshot sucks. Filthy casuals...
HiredN00bs
Member
So began the massacre of the Community Cartographers.
Spartan Ops has no scoring, only at the end of the match will you see stats. I know
MrGreencastle
Member
One of the boxes that had to be thrown off that burning plane that is game development. I bet crunch time was ridiculous on this game, maybe even Halo 2 levels, or more.
But really the scoring got moved to Personal Ordnance.
You know, in the first three minutes of this he hits 3 different buttons. On the third button he almost seems to reference the issue with saying "They're gonna send us back over where we were earlier where I bet there's another computer." It's the way he says "another computer" that gives the impression that even he is annoyed with amount of button presses in the Spartan Ops episodes.
Other than that the actual map design looks really cool. On par with campaign levels. I wonder what the download size will be for the second half of Season 1.
Hypertrooper
Member
MrGreencastle
Member
That's what I thought.
TheOhrenberger
Banned
Borderlands 2. haha.MS gives up.
NullPointer
Member
That looks so much better, and its good to know they're thinking through the ramifications of replaying the same spaces.
Now what this mode needs is some interesting objectives that encourage not only replaying the missions, but replaying them in interesting ways. Challenges could be for optional side objectives (don't kill any sleeping grunts, disarm the light bridge to send enemies to their death, etc.), call for the use of certain AAs or weapons, or better yet, take those truly annoying wargames challenges (like getting X assassinations or perfections) and move those over to Spartan Ops instead.
User 73706
Banned
I always expected Dellis to sound more... jovial or jolly I guess.
One pretty cool moment I noticed during the combat, though--David was fighting a Knight shielded by a Watcher. David runs out of Fuel Rod ammo but two of his buddies came up to that same area and made the Knight flee by teleporting, leaving the Watcher projecting a shield for a few split seconds after as if to say "whaa?" and he immediately jumped up and punched the Watcher right in the face. Halo.
Going to go out on a limb here and say it's for balance reasons. Perhaps the AI will flee out of "respect" if you can lower its shields enough, but not getting enough hits will just make it charge and gut you Reach-style. Similarly, in the Sniper Alley portion of Reclaimer, even on Legendary the Jackal Snipers will all fire a "warning shot" near you rather than just braining you instantly like in Halo 2. It's not restricted to one jackal, too--each one does it. They probably just tried to simplify their balancing mechanics given that they all have potentially instakill weapons.
Knights with instakill weapons fight you no holds barred, though.
One pretty cool moment I noticed during the combat, though--David was fighting a Knight shielded by a Watcher. David runs out of Fuel Rod ammo but two of his buddies came up to that same area and made the Knight flee by teleporting, leaving the Watcher projecting a shield for a few split seconds after as if to say "whaa?" and he immediately jumped up and punched the Watcher right in the face. Halo.
Going to go out on a limb here and say it's for balance reasons. Perhaps the AI will flee out of "respect" if you can lower its shields enough, but not getting enough hits will just make it charge and gut you Reach-style. Similarly, in the Sniper Alley portion of Reclaimer, even on Legendary the Jackal Snipers will all fire a "warning shot" near you rather than just braining you instantly like in Halo 2. It's not restricted to one jackal, too--each one does it. They probably just tried to simplify their balancing mechanics given that they all have potentially instakill weapons.
Knights with instakill weapons fight you no holds barred, though.
NullPointer
Member
AI on that sword elite was weak though, as it is in campaign. For some reason they'll just stop when they get nose-to-nose instead of gutting you, and then either stand around or flee(?).
MrGreencastle
Member
EagleBurnn
Banned
MS gives up.
RIP Halo
Doogington
Member
MS gives up.
It's hard not to see it that way. Two CODs... Borderlands?
I think this a good start at fixing the problems I had with Spartan Ops but I don't see them remedying the other big problem I had with the mode: the respawn system.
I'm fairly sure this has been touched on at least once but I did not like how they ousted the checkpoint system. You die, you wait 9 seconds, then you respawn. However, they removed the biggest part of that which was the penalty for the team wiping out. Instead of you and your team mates having to be more careful as your squad thins down, there now is no worry whether someone dies or not since a full team wipe means nothing (you just spawn and keep marching forward). Instead of what could have been a tense fight turns into a giant slog of you just throwing yourself at the enemies until you win and that just isn't that fun for me. I feel like every single episode felt like this in some way and, really, this issue eclipsed the recycled maps issue for me. The lack of threat, challenge, and punishment was more of an issue than anything else and it doesn't look like that will change.
On a similar note, I really wish they allowed you to turn on skulls (if you can, I must have never seen the option so please correct me if I'm wrong). Not letting you turn on skulls just really ruins any replayability factor as well since you could up the ante even more so.
I like the new map/mission they showed off, the cliff side shoot out looked really cool, but I doubt that would let me gloss over my issue with the respawning.
NobleGundam
Banned
I'd like to have Didact fighting with me in Halo 5/6
looking like this.
NullPointer
Member
Respawning is truly borked. Three elites with fuel rod cannons rush me and toast me in a heartbeat and the game will just respawn me right on top of them again, and again, and again.
MrGreencastle
Member
Wow. That's really kickass.
MS gives up.
Maybe they've just confused 'competitive' with 'repetitive' lol
(Also, Hello world, this is my first post on GAF)
Gabotron ES
Member
Tashi is a CC?
I like your avatar Gordon
I like your avatar Gordon
EagleBurnn
Banned
NullPointer
Member
Not entirely sure there, although it does seem to be the case for the most part. I love fighting prometheans on Legendary as they do seem to be a lot more aggressive, and they will rush you, and knights will fly through the air and cut you down (such a cool way to go). But even still, even on legendary, sometimes they do that blink-blink-blink-rush-blade attack and whiff. Maybe I've just been lucky and backtracked exactly a pixel away of certain death, but sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm still alive ;P
