Barrow Roll
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StalkerUKCG
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What you doing on Gears 3?
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Ugh, the Airsassination achievement is a pain to get. I haven't gotten a single Airsassination yet. 
Ugh, the Airsassination achievement is a pain to get. I haven't gotten a single Airsassination yet.
Pro tip: Custom Games.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
I guess it worked!
Ordnance was not in any way a selling point of the game. The game sold because it's Halo.
There obviously aren't any stats to back me up or disprove this, but I'd bet that the vast majority of the crowd they were trying to attract didn't even know of ordnance. Hell, we didn't even know about it until the GI article.
There obviously aren't any stats to back me up or disprove this, but I'd bet that the vast majority of the crowd they were trying to attract didn't even know of ordnance. Hell, we didn't even know about it until the GI article.
Oh boy I remember that night. Waypoint, a guy said he had the scans. No one believed him, it seemed to crazy and made people think "There's no way that could be it!", but then came the screenshots... the oh so dreaded screenshots.
I remember waiting up late that night for some girl on Tumblr to upload the scans and some stupid song would autoplay every time and I had to keep muting it.
Our new sources have only improved a little bit since then.
Flashpoint moment. HaloGAF was basically "no, no, no"ing the entire night.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Any time I get in a party I get demolished. I do so much better with randoms. Bah.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Infinity Rumble on Skyline is so easy to get kills in. You literally spawn behind the person who killed you.
YourExWife
Member
Helps to be with your own kind, eh?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
That was the WORST
sorry, eating Jimmy John's
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Hey, keep to voice chat. We don't need no cross pollination here.
YourExWife
Member
Context? Was Wu at bungie and they showed him the build?
I really miss the Bungie Podcast. I was relistening to some of the old ones before destiny came out. The night before it I was listening to the one with Franky playing Sean Connery. Then, Just before the trailer I was listening to the one with Chris butcher describing the next 10+ years in gaming, going all out with VR and AR predictions, and about asyncronous MMOs that you can play/manage on mobile when your away from your console, etc... Then it was fun to see Destiny for the first time just hours later and see him start off the vidoc.
Damnit, just as i'm going to sleep.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
and BTW, in TTD we get gimped Extraction, 1 extraction point yet in Majestic its done properly. The community asks for 1 flag CTF but cannot get that. WTF man, 1 Extraction point SUCKS. Not having a 1 flag CTF sucks too. Is this really that hard to fix? Get those objective out of TTD.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Yep, look at Majestic. The maps are nice but everyone is holding a power weapon.
YourExWife
Member
You've said a lot of crazy shit, but this? Just plain wrong.
Just got a quadruple noscope with the sniper on Monolith
I am guessing 10XP.
YourExWife
Member
And because it has multiple extraction points, it's not fun.
Sorry Barrow, Domino, and biggy, my internet decided now was a good time to crap out, I'm posting this from my phone. If it comes back up soon I'll hop in again.
Seriously. Multiple extraction sites encourages an incredibly passive experience where you're never really encouraged to go after the enemy sites more than once in a match. The single extraction site forces conflict in a way that default Extraction just doesn't.
I dunno if this was discussed already, but I remember someone from Bungie commenting that they spent a significant amount of development resources getting Long Night of Solace working in Reach. At the time it didn't really make sense because it was just one level, but I guess now that we know players will be flying around in Destiny, it's another highlight on how forward thinking they are with the things they build. LNoS was just one level of one game, and the technology behind that one level is potentially a game-wide feature on their next project.
I also remember people digging through the Reach beta code and finding a gametype option called Dogfight. I guess that would be the multiplayer component of their flight sim tech that they either held back or hadn't quite finished in time for Reach's launch. I wouldn't be surprised if that reemerged as a multiplayer mode in Destiny.
YourExWife
Member
I guess me saying I like 2-point extraction basically puts me on the same level as the weirdos who liked Invasion then.
YourExWife
Member
Whoa...Let's not rush to extremes. It's just a much more boring version of the gametype. Whereas single extraction is intense and requires coordination and some strategy, multi-extraction requires maybe one real fight to gain a lead and then play it boring and safe the rest of the game for your guaranteed win. You get a lead or even simply *extract yours first* and all you have to do is play it safe and ignore the other team from that point onward.
Anybody got naming suggestions for an Action Sack-ey gametype?
Players load-out with Railguns, Boltshots, Pulse grenades, PV, Dexterity, and Shielding
I'm think a Team Slayer variant and a CTF variant. Have PODs set to drop certain AAs and disable the rest of the ordnance. Ammo unlimited, naturally.
I need a new shenanigans-ey gametype to suggest for customs. For some reason, nobody's been going for Infinity Boltshots...
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Players load-out with Railguns, Boltshots, Pulse grenades, PV, Dexterity, and Shielding
I'm think a Team Slayer variant and a CTF variant. Have PODs set to drop certain AAs and disable the rest of the ordnance. Ammo unlimited, naturally.
I need a new shenanigans-ey gametype to suggest for customs. For some reason, nobody's been going for Infinity Boltshots...
Edit: Top of page?
Anus prepared.
Inb4 "Infinity"
YourExWife
Member
If you loadout with a railgun and dexterity, why do you need the boltshot?
Make the movement speed incredible high and gravity also a little bit less. Than it could be a fun crazy shooter like Shootmania.
If not I would name it "Don't play this"
Why do you need a magnum in snipers?
To be an ass with, obviously
And actually having everybody with BS works out kinda nicely, because if a Magnum is the only headshot capable weapon on the field it can be a pain in the right hands, but team-shooting with boltshots is hilarious. It's actually why I like 'Infinity Boltshots' so much. When you isolate the weapons like that, weird shit starts happening. Damage Boost + the BS's pew-pew-pew fire is actually a viable powerplay lol [In BSTF that is]
Edit: Linky
Yeah - I just mean taking the focus off of the main weapon. My intention is gameplay that revolves around the charge/fire/reload rhythm of the Railgun. The BS offers a clean-up option that won't overwhelm the Railgun's effectiveness at longer range. Plus it has a charge-up too, so it's kinda theme-ey. Pulse nades have a timed effect - basically the only reason I would choose them over frags. Well, I guess again the overwhelming the primary focus of the gameplay aspect too, but yeah.. frags probably wouldn't be that bad.
Best suggestion I've seen so far. Kinda prefer 'Infinity Don't Play This' though. Any other ideas? lol
Wow.
YourExWife
Member
I understand it's just a crazy gametype, but one could make a good argument for "team-railgunning" as well, no?
"Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II"
Haha and she was getting really upset that people in the comments on here Tumblr were telling her to hurry up.
Didn't she stop part way through to go and make a sandwich?
Okay - here's a second gametype that needs a name. I'm gonna go crash and come back in the morning to see how many people suggest, "Infinityball". I'm guessing >5.
Base gametype - Grifball
Loadouts hidden
Primary; Scattershot [Unlimited]
Secondary; None
Grenades; None
AA; HLS [Unlimited]
Support; Dexterity
Tactical; None
Grif traits - reduced speed, closer to HLS active walking speed to encourage phalanx-es
(I did this with Boltshots before and it was pretty funny, but now I can't exploit their silly properties for the same shenanigans. The BS nerf killed like half of my customs gametypes.)
Base gametype - Grifball
Loadouts hidden
Primary; Scattershot [Unlimited]
Secondary; None
Grenades; None
AA; HLS [Unlimited]
Support; Dexterity
Tactical; None
Grif traits - reduced speed, closer to HLS active walking speed to encourage phalanx-es
(I did this with Boltshots before and it was pretty funny, but now I can't exploit their silly properties for the same shenanigans. The BS nerf killed like half of my customs gametypes.)
Barrow Roll
Member
No problem, thanks for sticking around. Hopefully we can pick where we left off soon. You getting Judgement?
NobleGundam
Banned
From their FB page:
"Axis Animation 10 minutes ago ·
Talking of behind the scenes, we've got more Spartan Ops Behind the Scenes coming with interview and exclusive footage from the studio - ETA 2 weeks-ish."
"Axis Animation 10 minutes ago ·
Talking of behind the scenes, we've got more Spartan Ops Behind the Scenes coming with interview and exclusive footage from the studio - ETA 2 weeks-ish."
With Extraction I think it has to have an odd number of points to encourage combat. If there's one to fight over then you have to control the one point, if there are three to fight over it's a fight to control the third point or prevent your opponent from extracting two points at once. If it's two points then it's a race to see who can get their point to extract the fastest.
With two points you run the risk of losing your point if you engage the enemy. If you started extracting your point before your opponent started extracting theirs you have absolutely no reason to attack their point. It's much safer just to defend your point and then capture the next point that spawns than it is to attack their point and risk dying, which then gives them an advantage in attacking your point.
Has anyone tried making Domination using Extraction, yet? It seems like it'd be a cool idea.
Also you kids need to get on Halo:CE with Open Sauce. Shit is nice and fixes the widescreen FOV issue. There are even a bunch of Halo 3 styled .yelo maps so you can have bloom and ballin' post processing effects while using a BR on Blood Gulch.
With two points you run the risk of losing your point if you engage the enemy. If you started extracting your point before your opponent started extracting theirs you have absolutely no reason to attack their point. It's much safer just to defend your point and then capture the next point that spawns than it is to attack their point and risk dying, which then gives them an advantage in attacking your point.
Has anyone tried making Domination using Extraction, yet? It seems like it'd be a cool idea.
Also you kids need to get on Halo:CE with Open Sauce. Shit is nice and fixes the widescreen FOV issue. There are even a bunch of Halo 3 styled .yelo maps so you can have bloom and ballin' post processing effects while using a BR on Blood Gulch.
bobs...onGaf
Member
How long are you on for? I would play for sure.
BlueScrote
Member
Agreed on the extraction points. It really only seems to work with one or three points.
Hypertrooper
Member
I am looking forward to it. The CGI cutscene were the best part of SpOps. Did Axis Animation make the Campaign CGI as well?
OT: But I bought Metal Gear Rising today. Woot
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