So it literally feels like Halo. That's a good thing.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Halo |OT15| Beta-tested, GAF approved
- Thread starter Booties
- Start date
So it literally feels like Halo. That's a good thing.
TheOhrenberger
Banned
Bu dum, tsss
Microsoft trolls Oozer. A story in three parts.
"Sweet! These maps looked fun!"
"Awesome, I'm going to have them a couple days early!"
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
amazing.
Immediately they should make sure games don't start unless they are full or at best equal. The countdown should stop if someone backs out. And then, they shouldn't have JiP for games over 40% done already. So many games I've joined just to lose within ten seconds.
And JiP should never be used for any ranked playlist. Penalize any quitter with a loss in rank. If you have connection problems, don't join ranked. I hated having to carry a 3 man team only to lose and go down in rank because someone quit. Or make it so if you quit a ranked game, you can't join another until that one is finished.
And JiP should never be used for any ranked playlist. Penalize any quitter with a loss in rank. If you have connection problems, don't join ranked. I hated having to carry a 3 man team only to lose and go down in rank because someone quit. Or make it so if you quit a ranked game, you can't join another until that one is finished.
Agreed. There needs to be a harsh quit penalty for ranked playlists and any other playlists without JIP.
Let's not forget that it needs to come with an obvious warning to the player, either in the playlist description, or as a pop up message. It should clearly state that quitting will be a punishable offence, with your rank suffering if you choose to quit a game.
Also I'll be goosing soon I think. Watching some clips made me feel all warm inside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka7WSLax4q4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHICGWkXMq8
They're both triple splatters I have had... But I need MOAR!
Yeah. It should be like Halo 3. "Quitting is greatly discouraged in the UNSC" or something like that. Maybe even more specific.
Could everyone who considers human architecture in Halo point to some real-world examples of what they'd rather have?
Right, which is why I said: "maybe more specific". It should appear in a pop-up message similar to that though when you attempt to quit out.
Yes but not having it all is worse. You may not care about rank, but chances are more people who play ranked cared about them then those who didn't.
If there's no consequences at all, people will go crazy. It's why betrayals, general griefing, asshattery have increased since Reach. People grenade your tank, used to betray for sniper, didn't care if you lost trolololololol etc. They would then quit out and do it again.
If the difference between being a level 40 colonel and 39 commander is one quit, you would guarantee the person would think long and hard about whether he'd risk it.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Look at past Halo games, the architecture varies from map to map.
Blackout, Ghost Town, High Ground, Orbital, Longshore, Rats Nest, Last Resort, Condemned, Boneyard, Anchor 9, Breakneck, or even Adrift all have very unique looking architecture with a ton of custom art assets. Other than Adrift it seems all of Halo 4's UNSC maps are built out of the same basic geometry and textures, and are incredibly boring and bland.
I mean, look at ODST for good examples of what Skylines actual gameplace could have looked like..instead, we got the same bright, bland, white UNSC look that Halo 4 has introduced. It just looks so...uninspired.
Doesn't seem to be very strictly enforced.
I'd like to challenge this. I've said from the beginning that Exile is one of my favorite maps and the other day we were playing it and I finally took time to look around...there is a lot of stuff going on that I have never noticed before and it's really awesome. And as poorly as Abandon plays it's a really interesting map to me, too.
Some other games have had more interesting and aesthetically differing maps for sure, but I wouldn't call Halo 4 maps bland and uninspired.
I dont know. The exclusives aren't anything special. Mostly just single player games that have no replay value.
Steelyuhas
Member
I think quitting is just lame. Really.
I've only ever quit 3 or 4 games in Halo 4 and I'm SR 128. It was either out of intense frustration with the game or real life necessity.
I wish people would be more mature about not quitting, or have Halo 4 subtract experience if you quit more often than once in ten games or something.
I've only ever quit 3 or 4 games in Halo 4 and I'm SR 128. It was either out of intense frustration with the game or real life necessity.
I wish people would be more mature about not quitting, or have Halo 4 subtract experience if you quit more often than once in ten games or something.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
I fully agree that Exile looks great, its definitely one of the maps that looks very hand crafted. Same goes for Longbow and that other snowy one.
But then you get maps like Abandon where the architecture looks very out of place and uninspired, and that same architecture pops up on Skyline, Landfall, Harvest, Shatter, Complex (it looks natural on Complex though), etc.
Its just.. blah.
Some of those maps literally look like thy are made out of slightly better looking Forge pieces. The actual architecture art design was MUCH more varied in past Halo titles, but in Halo 4 many maps could be mistook for each other due to the same bland interior art design.
I think they went the mass effect 3 route. Reuse textures and architecture styles, but vary up the lighting, filters and ambience.
Besides, I like when maps are somewhat bland. For example, though it played like shit, I liked the simplicity of the interiors in sword base in Reach.
Besides, I like when maps are somewhat bland. For example, though it played like shit, I liked the simplicity of the interiors in sword base in Reach.
Agree 100%
squidhands
Member
It's pretty sad that Abandon has the best callouts and most unique geometry of all the maps so far, but it plays like dogshit for everything but maybe SWAT.
HiredN00bs
Member
Good God that is an awful thing for a designer to say.
To quote Juices, "ALL TIED UP IN FUN, FUN, FUN"
Steelyuhas
Member
Automatic app updating in that Xbox update from yesterday?
I just fired up my Xbox, and it popped up with "Updating SkyDrive" at the bottom and it appeared to download a new version of the app.
Pretty cool.
I just fired up my Xbox, and it popped up with "Updating SkyDrive" at the bottom and it appeared to download a new version of the app.
Pretty cool.
I wouldn't know. I've only quit once due to incredibly bad laggery.
You make a good point, and it's true. It's hard enough to rank up in Halo 2 and 3. I don't think many people wanted to jeopardize that.
Sr Kitsune
Member
Microsoft trolls Oozer. A story in three parts.
"Sweet! These maps looked fun!"
"Awesome, I'm going to have them a couple days early!"
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Time Traveler?
1:51
2:20
2:04
I would be worried about my xbox. (or is Xbox Live having issues again?)
His Xbox is a T.A.R.D.I.S?
People have been saying that the youtube app got updated too.
I edited in that second picture after my 2nd attempt.Steelyuhas
Member
The Youtube app was updated recently, although I didn't get an automatic update for that.
Guess they snuck more in with that LIVE update.
I imagine Halo swung this sort of downing power back during Halo 3 release/announcement.
Oh, brother.
.0000014 Day Buy and Play
So they did Longbow?
Kind of, but overall structure in that picture looks very different.
It's still recognizable, though.
Although, I guess it doesn't matter much. It's one of my favorite maps in the game.
It was free this time again? I wonder if anyone finished the download?