Syphon Filter
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Perdition reminds me of an older map in previous halo games,can't seem to remember the name though.
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Hypertrooper
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Certain Affinity.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Wait, you know we've known about all 3 packs for months now right (including the size of said maps)? Also other Halo games had 3 packs or more right? How is this just now "milking" and what makes these maps bad aside from your dislike of Halo 4 in general?
You're better than this Kyle.
They keep insisting on adding badly designed structures to maps just so they can use them for Dominion.
If you're talking about your recent Extraction games, you've played nine games of Extraction total, finishing 5 of them, and winning 2 of them. Estimating of the Trueskill minimum amount of games needed, you'll need to play about 60 games in the playlist before TS is sure of your skill.
tl;dr working as designed, as in the system doesn't know enough about you yet and you should probably stop quitting out of games as that's getting recorded as a loss in TS.
Well... I'm kinda disappointed 343 decided to dump a huge swath of BTB maps on us instead of AT LEAST trying to make it even.
Lets look at the playlists.
BTB Playlists: BTB, Dominion.
That's it. Ragnarok and Complex show up in some of the smaller ones but come ON.
That 6 v 6 playlist is probably BTB Objective. But why is it 6 v 6? I would be so hyped for these maps if they would just fix BTB also. Weapons on map. Set loadouts. Please and thanks.
That being said, I'm looking forward to trying them out at PAX. The one ODST like map looks cool.
It's like designing for Invasion all over again.
Lets look at the playlists.
BTB Playlists: BTB, Dominion.
That's it. Ragnarok and Complex show up in some of the smaller ones but come ON.
That 6 v 6 playlist is probably BTB Objective. But why is it 6 v 6? I would be so hyped for these maps if they would just fix BTB also. Weapons on map. Set loadouts. Please and thanks.
That being said, I'm looking forward to trying them out at PAX. The one ODST like map looks cool.
It's like designing for Invasion all over again.
We knew about the release dates since last year for the map packs.
I'm not too much for BTB so I don't know how much I'll get to enjoy these maps.
The base has CA's design aesthetic all right. Reminds me of their Highlands style. Overly busy and chunky.
First of all, that's stalking
Second, It's just not in that playlist
Third, I was joking on that first part but that really is stalking. Please don't do that again.
It's called checking out your story by putting your gamertag into Waypoint.
It would be cool if there's some real nice 4 v 4 areas you could section off in some of these maps. The City one looks perfect for something like that. But I doubt there is.
Does your TrueSkill in other playlists influence your match-ups in new playlists at all? Would make sense if it did.
Perdition
Hopefully they provide a decent selection of forge items so we can block of parts of the map. Looks like a good base map for asymmetrical 4v4.
I made a deal with my girlfriend. I would watch Homeland (didn't tell her i wanted to...) if she watched Game of Thrones. We just started Season 1 of each. Please, no spoilers.
Seriously, don't do that again.
Nope
edit: this is also the reason why Arena did not assign you a division until you played 30 games. They were forcing you to wait until you fed TS enough information before they showed you the division, which was based off your TS. They weren't using the modified hill-climb TS from Halo 3 anymore, they were using a more pure TS, which meant if they let you see your division or (theoretical) 1-50, it would be wildy jumping up and down for your first batch of games. People would just account restart until they got a lucky 50 after ~8 games.
Why? I've seen the same thing done hundreds of times over the years. Someone makes an observation, and that observation is put into the context of their public game history on bungie.net (now Waypoint). There's nothing stalker-y about it.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Surely you're joking Gui?
It was just creepy. Besides I wasn't talking about the Extraction playlist. Happens across all playlists.
Then I suggest you remove your gamertag from your PUBLIC profile here on GAF.
Yet Starcraft can do it after 5 matches. Admittedly, there's a lot that goes into MMR versus TrueSkill, but it would be much better if each game custom tailored their ranking/matching system to what the game actually does instead of just using TrueSkill for every type of game.
Looking it up, Starcraft 2's system appears to be a hybrid ELO-TSstyle system where they have the laddery part in ELO but then also an uncertainty factor where they speed up your ELO climb in early games. Looks neat.
You're required to use TS on 360 titles though, so maybe MS has a TS improvement or replacement in mind for the next Xbox?
Hypertrooper
Member
Damnit. When I thought I could unlock the "Bros to the Close" achievement a marine had died and I didn't notice it, but I retrieved Cortana already. No Revert to last Checkpoint. Shit. :/
bobs...onGaf
Member
That mode was actually fun and didn't pop up enough
squidhands
Member
Oh good, I was hoping for more maps that had fucking tanks on them.
Perdition looks cool though. Reminds me of Halo 2's Metropolis a little. woo.
Map packs and events make money, Ranking system does not. Plus it may just be a small portion (but very vocal) of the Halo community that wants a 1-50 ranking system.
Exactly! Good opinoon there bobs, these are the gametypes I want in AS
Yep, aren't there almost more outsourced maps than inhouse maps now in Halo 4?
Syphon Filter
Member
yea that is what i was thinking and maybe a little bit of turf.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
I would punch that dog in the face if it was mine .. -.-
Turf was the immediate thought for me. I always wanted a larger version if that map, maybe this will scratch that itch.
Those tanks better be symmetrical spawns or a single one in a truly neutral location though, otherwise I suspect we can look forward to more Exile-type frustration.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
These look fantastic! These look way better then all the other BTB maps.
oh dear lord
ElRenoRaven
Member
People, there are real issues with Halo here. Get your damn priorities in order because Halo needs saving!
Looks fine. Ship it. Remember they've let other graphical issues go before so why not those now?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
From that trailers those maps look bad.
metzger203
Junior Member
You should check out District from Halo 2 Vista. Such a shame this map was never available on the Xbox version.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
You should check out District from Halo 2 Vista. Such a shame this map was never available on the Xbox version.
Really, Because I'm going to be honest. It was fucking shit.
SP location with a multistory car pack and some connecting roads does not a MP map make.
Had virtually no map flow, Horrible weapons spawn points and some horrible sections to move around in.
Its basically a shitter bigger version of Terminal.
ElRenoRaven
Member
yea I wouldn't say it was total shit but it wasn't near as good as the maps Bungie made. I agree that it really had no flow to it and the parking garage was the weirdest thing ever to have in the game. It was interesting though to play around in when just screwing around.
Microsoft does in fact. But if you're expecting it to be free, it isn't.
Of course we've known about them for months now.; they were probably done before release.
And yes, all other Halo games had 3 packs or more. Let's look at the release schedule for Halo 3:
December 11, 2007
April 15, 2008
April 9, 2009
February 2, 2010
Halo 4:
December 10, 2012
February 25, 2013
April 8, 2013
This is outsourced garbage they're trying to throw to the fanbase as quick as possible before people stop caring.
It's the evolution of the evolution of Halo.
NobleGundam
Banned
Same here. Im assuming your model is the Arcade bundle? My Xbox does exactly what you've mentioned. Upgrading to the Slim.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Or we felt that the breaks between DLC releases for previous games were too long based on player feedback and behaviors.
"We need more maps!"
"Stop milking the franchise by releasing maps!"
To each their own.
Really?
I would think the person who allowed it to happen would be at fault. Punching a dog in the face though?