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Halo |OT15| Beta-tested, GAF approved
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User 73706
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whoa whoa what's with the name callin' ya butt nut
I voted for Nader just so I could keep filthy hackers like yous offa' my interbases
Quick Halo question, when do Matchmaking updates roll out
Action Sack is gonna be my bitch in 2 hours
Action Sack is gonna be my bitch in 2 hours
In like 2 hours. Usually every monday verrrry early.
hey fuck you man
Hydranockz
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What's the population for Halo 2 like right now?
Let's be fair now. Halo 3 population too. It's still playable on console.
Hydranockz
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Please...have a seat. This might be hard to hear.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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People, there are real issues with Halo here. Get your damn priorities in order because Halo needs saving!
User 73706
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People, there are real issues with Halo here. Get your damn priorities in order because Halo needs saving!
I saw what you did there.
Wake Up John Kramer?
I Want To Play A War Game?
HollovVpo1nt
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Hey correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't you one of the people who got early acces to Halo 4 before it was released? Just wondering, did thát much change since then? I vaguely recall you were generally positive about the experience.
Kibbles
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Figured :-( Liesss
No, that's not what it was. They'll exist. On Waypoint. And nowhere else.
It's really good for the first 2 or 3 season but then goes downhill. You will still watch it out of obligation to finish the series though
Completely unrelated, but after starting to play through Mass Effect 3 on PC again, I've come to the conclusion that 343i should outsource parts of Halo 5 to those at Bioware responsible for the cinematography in that game.
And while they're at it, they should hire Bioware's art director too.
Some of the environments in Halo 4 are rather dull to look at, IMO.
And while they're at it, they should hire Bioware's art director too.
Some of the environments in Halo 4 are rather dull to look at, IMO.
NobleGundam
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Will Saber3D Engine be used for Halo 2 Anniversary, IF 343/MS actually does confirm its development?
I think that was pretty much a one-off, since it was designed to sit on top of the Halo PC code.
TBH if they're doing H2A then they shouldn't bother with a graphics switch capability.
Yah. In CEA the feature was trivial at best. Sure, in my first play through I may of switched a few times, but once the novelty factor wore off I never used it.
The Henery
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Staggering really. I remember seeing Reach at around 90,000 at night consistently and thinking that was very average for a multiplayer Halo game. Quite sobering that a Master Chief, mainline, big budget Halo game is only doing 50 to 60 K at its daily zenith. Directly affects the quality of the skill matching and connection before anyone wheels out the 'as long as I can get a game I'm happy' sop. FFA pro, Doubles and Throwdown are really good too. Shame the sort of Halo fan who enjoy those types of playlist were hounded out in the first few months by random mortar cannons and instant kill-bodyshot snipers falling from the clouds, weapon unlock exp systems, instant respawn and active camo. They probably thought Halo wasn't remotely catered to them anymore, left in exasperation and are now not aware of the proper Halo playlists available to them.
I'd wager that's precisely what happened. I would definitely say that one of the biggest factors that kept me playing daily in the Halo 3 era was trying to get my level 50. Halo 4's CSR isn't slated to go live for more than a month, so there's another factor to population loss. If any of that lost audience is willing to pay attention to what's left if this new trilogy, I hope 343i has learned their lesson on what needs to be in a Halo game at launch for it to not lose 90% of its player base within 4 months.
That still strikes me as the most odd thing about this game, how an entire studio of so-called Halo fans completely missed that.
Yeah, that's why I don't look at the thread for days at a time.
Doogington
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Fiesta is so bad. So, so bad. I just wanted to try Lightning CTF but it has yet to come up.
Edit: Oh, it's not there. Someone made a mistake, perhaps? Again. Do they ever playtest anything over there because every week there's a new mistake that someone overlooked that is caught within minutes of the playlist going up. And for whatever reason, they can't fix anything until next Monday.
Edit: Oh, it's not there. Someone made a mistake, perhaps? Again. Do they ever playtest anything over there because every week there's a new mistake that someone overlooked that is caught within minutes of the playlist going up. And for whatever reason, they can't fix anything until next Monday.
StalkerUKCG
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I like how this thread is. Halo discussion holds together community discussion. Its nice we only ever go off topic for 2 pages at a maximum we always return to halo talk in one way or another.
Devo pls post more, What is devo playing?
SLRP
Edit: FFS more top of page bullshit posts. Sorry.
This map pleases my eyes
Fiesta is really weird now. Instead of just spawning with a random weapon like before, which would mean no custom loadouts, you pick your loadout at the start and are given immediate personal ordnance choices on spawn (and every time you get a kill, it seems). So since it allows your own loadouts, you can potentially have ammo or dexterity'd camo snipers refreshing ammo after every kill (edit: it's infinite ammo, so this is a horrible example. Sorry!). Also, radar is disabled for whatever reason, must have been too casual an experience with it turned on. Wait, what? All that aside, it felt wacky and was kinda fun, so mission accomplished, I guess. Fiesta isn't really something to pick apart.
So I picked the Binary Rifle after my first kill, picked up an Incineration Cannon a few seconds later, and that was all she wrote. Without camo, though.
Wonder what happened to Lightning CTF. Announced and then dropped off the face of the earth immediately.
edit: Yeah, okay, Binary Slayer is pretty all right.
So I picked the Binary Rifle after my first kill, picked up an Incineration Cannon a few seconds later, and that was all she wrote. Without camo, though.
Wonder what happened to Lightning CTF. Announced and then dropped off the face of the earth immediately.
edit: Yeah, okay, Binary Slayer is pretty all right.
That's what happens when you multiply fiesta * fiesta. It's genuinely fiesta squared, because it was designed on top of Infinity.
Sounds like we've found the terminator between the global loadout system and the need for a gametype to control weapon spawns on it's own terms.
Barrow Roll
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So true, ain't even funny at this point.
Loved playing Firefight on that. It's a shame so few people had it... and that Bungie or 343i removed Firefight Limited.
Was actually looking forward to twitch CTF. Also would help on the light rifle commendation.
The Henery
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Can't check on my phone but I'm sure 343 warned in the bulletin that some of the gametypes might make it in, some might not and there'll be more added at a later date.
Yeah, here are the quotes in question:
Just a little weird that they'd choose that of all things to be transparent about when we're seeing some playlists being stealth updated with Majestic maps and not a word is said about 'em.
What the hell?! I know it's fiesta, but that still is pretty dumb.
What?!
This sounds like the worst possible gametype.
Now let's see how this will become the standard slayer for Halo 5
Its action sack bro, I dont know what you guys were expecting
Fun gametypes like in Halo 3 for example.
Not K/D and commendation boosting gametypes that are completely broken.
Poker Face
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Well I was expecting a normal fiesta experience. Not one with ordnance drops shoehorned in
Zeouterlimits
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Wow, interesting change. Is Fiesta regular doable in customs?
Fiesta doesn't work like classic Fiesta? They couldn't even get that right? :/
I really hope for Halo 5 343i reverts back to the way Halo Reach handled player weapon spawns and map weapon spawns. Load out choices would be limited but at least players would spawn with Plasma Pistols or Boltshots and game types like Fiesta could work as they originally did.
I really hope for Halo 5 343i reverts back to the way Halo Reach handled player weapon spawns and map weapon spawns. Load out choices would be limited but at least players would spawn with Plasma Pistols or Boltshots and game types like Fiesta could work as they originally did.
As far as I can tell, there is no option to make the spawn weapon random, no. Maybe I'm missing it, but it isn't under the Game Loadouts section, which is the only place I could think of.
I don't even think this is necessarily better or worse than before, just interesting that they came up with a totally different solution.
Im pretty sure Halo 3 action sack had fiesta in it, and while Halo 3 did have some fun gametypes, most of the fun ones took awhile to actually get put in.
I remember one on Sandbox. Enemy team was in the sky bubble and had to snipe the enemy team down below in the map, and you had to lead your VIP to the objective.
Oh god that was horrible and boring. The concept was fun but it doesn't work in Halo.
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