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Halo |OT15| Beta-tested, GAF approved
- Thread starter Booties
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He did leave after Reach shipped. But then he came back when he realized it would be better to start his new project at Bungie than create a new studio. Worked on it in private with a small team for months before he left again.
I asked him if we'll ever see his project on twitter, he said not in the near future, but 'it's in good hands, safe at Bungie'.
Though with Destiny most likely the focus for the better part of a decade, i doubt we'll ever see what it was he started.
The Henery
Member
Great to hear it confirmed the X's are back.
They said they removed the secondary weapon indicator to reduce UI clutter but what about the motion sensor? Is that not part of the UI too? The motion sensor in Halo 4 is the most bloated, busiest, scrambled and over done sensor in the series.
Question: If it's a motion sensor then why does it display inanimate vehicles?
Playing Halo 3 recently, I still prefer a sensor which doesn't display elevation. It's too informative in its current state.
The "special announcement" for Forge has got to be more than just adding options from previous games (though they should be part of it), that wouldn't warrant an announcement at an open industry panel. Hopefully the oft-requested Covie Forge map.
More hopes for the TU:
1) Waypoint markers for your teammates when off screen. Their absence in Doubles in particular really highlights how sorely missed they are.
2) Descoping when shot (at least the option for it in playlists such as snipers, swat and throwdown).
3) New in game UI. At least add headshot count to the lists. Oh and you know, the final score.
4) Huuuuuuuuuge nerf for camo.
5) Flag juggling, no flag waypoint when carrying, abolishing auto pickup.
6) No sprint option in customs.
7) Scope on DMR reduced to 2x.
They said they removed the secondary weapon indicator to reduce UI clutter but what about the motion sensor? Is that not part of the UI too? The motion sensor in Halo 4 is the most bloated, busiest, scrambled and over done sensor in the series.
Question: If it's a motion sensor then why does it display inanimate vehicles?
Playing Halo 3 recently, I still prefer a sensor which doesn't display elevation. It's too informative in its current state.
The "special announcement" for Forge has got to be more than just adding options from previous games (though they should be part of it), that wouldn't warrant an announcement at an open industry panel. Hopefully the oft-requested Covie Forge map.
More hopes for the TU:
1) Waypoint markers for your teammates when off screen. Their absence in Doubles in particular really highlights how sorely missed they are.
2) Descoping when shot (at least the option for it in playlists such as snipers, swat and throwdown).
3) New in game UI. At least add headshot count to the lists. Oh and you know, the final score.
4) Huuuuuuuuuge nerf for camo.
5) Flag juggling, no flag waypoint when carrying, abolishing auto pickup.
6) No sprint option in customs.
7) Scope on DMR reduced to 2x.
thezerofire
Banned
now all 343 needs to do is remove jetpack and camo and promethean vision, have toggles for sprint, implement old CTF again and rebalance the starting weapons
get rid of load outs, ordnaces, and put weapons on map. Yeah, we're almost there...
king picollo
Member
Is that a joke?
User 73706
Banned
Just throwing it out there as a solution to simplify loadouts:
You can either have two guns (no Primary/Secondary Restrictions), or pick the same gun twice to spawn with it, but have maxed out ammo for it.
BR / Carbine / Light Rifle
Assault Rifle / Storm Rifle / Suppressor
Frag x2 / Pulse x2 / Frag x1 Pulse x1
REMOVE DMR
REMOVE Pistol, Plasma Pistol, Boltshot
REMOVE Armor Abilities for everything but Big Team
REMOVE Plasma Grenades from Loadouts
REMOVE Perks, instead add a Mod section to gametypes which is simply a checklist (meaning you can add Dexterity, Stability etc. across the board)
Pistol buffed slightly - improved damage for a 4-shot kill, less bloom
Plasma Pistol buffed slightly - Better battery life
Boltshot unchanged
There are no on-map pickups for loadout weapons, however the Pistol is plentiful as an initial ordnance drop all throughout the map to provide a consistent precision weapon once people are out of ammo on their loadouts. Plasma Pistol, Boltshot and Plasma Grenades also show up on maps, albeit less commonly, to give vehicles a fighting chance.
If the DMR has to return, only allow 4 on the map at any given time and keep them restricted to neutral choke points.
You can either have two guns (no Primary/Secondary Restrictions), or pick the same gun twice to spawn with it, but have maxed out ammo for it.
BR / Carbine / Light Rifle
Assault Rifle / Storm Rifle / Suppressor
Frag x2 / Pulse x2 / Frag x1 Pulse x1
REMOVE DMR
REMOVE Pistol, Plasma Pistol, Boltshot
REMOVE Armor Abilities for everything but Big Team
REMOVE Plasma Grenades from Loadouts
REMOVE Perks, instead add a Mod section to gametypes which is simply a checklist (meaning you can add Dexterity, Stability etc. across the board)
Pistol buffed slightly - improved damage for a 4-shot kill, less bloom
Plasma Pistol buffed slightly - Better battery life
Boltshot unchanged
There are no on-map pickups for loadout weapons, however the Pistol is plentiful as an initial ordnance drop all throughout the map to provide a consistent precision weapon once people are out of ammo on their loadouts. Plasma Pistol, Boltshot and Plasma Grenades also show up on maps, albeit less commonly, to give vehicles a fighting chance.
If the DMR has to return, only allow 4 on the map at any given time and keep them restricted to neutral choke points.
thezerofire
Banned
I don't mind loadouts so much, but I don't think that plasma pistols, boltshots, and plasma grenades should be in there. As long as the starting weapons are well balanced it shouldn't be that much of a problem. Oh and get rid of flinch
while we're at it, just turn the boltshot into a mauler (that's not available in loadous obviously)
Alchemical
Neo Member
I'd just play this every day and I wouldn't do anything else.
thezerofire
Banned
I would actually play the shit out of that
Halo 3 had a bad melee system.
thezerofire
Banned
what about before the patched in the double-melees?
Call of Halo: Modern Spartan
This just in, there is only one person on this planet named Kyle.
just playing with you Madness
Double melee existed pre and post patch. The patch just basically introduced simultaneous deaths.
User 73706
Banned
Bring back Halo 1 + 2 melee system. Three hits to kill, but two of them are on the unshielded Spartan.
Melee's power also scales with running, jumping, etc. but not Sprinting. This also gives Thruster an automatic buff.
Melee's power also scales with running, jumping, etc. but not Sprinting. This also gives Thruster an automatic buff.
Include sliders in Halo 5 for damage per weapon, melee, grenade, speed, jump, gravity, momentum etc.
Allow for properties for every weapon to be adjusted. Damage, firerate, clip size, bloom, spread, autoaim, red reticle distance.
Allow options for no sprint and just about anything else that used to be in the game since Halo CE.
60 fps obviously
Options for different melee systems. Reach, CE, 2-3-4.
Options for vehicle health, tied to player, seperate, how much.
and so on and so on.
THE PEOPLES HALO.
Allow for properties for every weapon to be adjusted. Damage, firerate, clip size, bloom, spread, autoaim, red reticle distance.
Allow options for no sprint and just about anything else that used to be in the game since Halo CE.
60 fps obviously
Options for different melee systems. Reach, CE, 2-3-4.
Options for vehicle health, tied to player, seperate, how much.
and so on and so on.
THE PEOPLES HALO.
Yeah last hope is the Halo Steam PC collection.
Because sadly this will never happen
User 73706
Banned
How fond is Steam on the modding community? I'd imagine very?
I like to think that I'm an optimistic person but even I'll tell you to not get your hopes up for some of those. Especially the DMR scope change.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Samsung Galaxy S2 (because my HTC Evo 4G is broken). This site doesn't play nice with my phone.
Pages randomly scroll up by themselves, Thread loads but not the posts, Keyboard won't pop up when I try to post.My phone just sucks. I should probably not use the default Web Browser/App as well.
Black Mesa, a mod for HL2 was put up on Greenlight and passed.
Although, let's disregard the negatives about Greenlight here though.
I use the same phone, try using the chrome browser. No problems on my endSamsung Galaxy S2 (because my HTC Evo 4G is broken). This site doesn't play nice with my phone.
My phone just sucks. I should probably not use the default Web Browser/App as well.
YourExWife
Member
It was Marathon 4. He basically confirmed it when I asked him.
The Henery
Member
Yeah the problem with that is the ego's of the devs and their vision. A damage slider for individual weapons is something which I've seen requested on forums for years now. It's the thing you'll almost certainly never see in Halo. Bungie gave a really, really weak and frankly phony reason for not including it. Their reasoning was something along the lines of "When people go into a custom game, they need to know how the weapon will perform" (paraphrasing). This doesn't make sense when you can adjust melee damage, jump height, movement speed, only headshots are kills etc in custom games.
Remember in Snyder's blog, the piece about locally buffing a weapon just to see how it played out? "WE CAN'T WORK LIKE THIS".
Maybe they don't want Johnny public rebalancing their weapon sandbox, even in custom games. I could imagine a scenario where somebody would make better individual weapon settings across the board; they'd gain momentum in the community, there'd be demands for their inclusion in MM and suddenly the devs game, and everything they 'intended' would be blanched by a community effort. And you know how highly some value 'developer intent'.
I'm aware that 3, 5 and 7 are unlikely. Doesn't mean I can't hope
Also Booties banned wut
squidhands
Member
"How did you get in here" is hardly a confirmation.
Ultimately they're making the game and you choose to buy it or not. Arguing for the ability to change everything in the game seems like a tall order for a developer to cater to. Also, your conspiracy theory about "forum settings revolution" just seems... odd.Yeah the problem with that is the ego's of the devs and their vision. A damage slider for individual weapons is something which I've seen requested on forums for years now. It's the thing you'll almost certainly never see in Halo. Bungie gave a really, really weak and frankly phony reason for not including it. Their reasoning was something along the lines of "When people go into a custom game, they need to know how the weapon will perform" (paraphrasing). This doesn't make sense when you can adjust melee damage, jump height, movement speed, only headshots are kills etc in custom games.
Remember in Snyder's blog, the piece about locally buffing a weapon just to see how it played out? "WE CAN'T WORK LIKE THIS".
Maybe they don't want Johnny public rebalancing their weapon sandbox, even in custom games. I could imagine a scenario where somebody would make better individual weapon settings across the board; they'd gain momentum in the community, there'd be demands for their inclusion in MM and suddenly the devs game, and everything they 'intended' would be blanched by a community effort. And you know how highly some value 'developer intent'.
I'm aware that 3, 5 and 7 are unlikely. Doesn't mean I can't hope
Also Booties banned wut
User 73706
Banned
Would Aemulus Halysis work as a name for my overall weapon project/multiplayer revision?
It's Latin for "Competitive Halo." :lol
I might just go with Halysis.
It's Latin for "Competitive Halo." :lol
I might just go with Halysis.
Hydranockz
Member
What AAA FPS games have ever had damage sliders for weapons or some equivalent?
TheClimaxan
Member
So happy the X is coming back. Ive said "on my X" hundreds of times during Halo 4 out of habit only to be left sitting in sadness.
Remember that Easter egg on Midnight I teased earlier, that no one found?
Someone found it today.
Watch and be amazed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpi4f4Kvo8Y&feature=player_embedded
Someone found it today.
Watch and be amazed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpi4f4Kvo8Y&feature=player_embedded
TimeEffect
Member
It's nowhere near the excellence of Halo CE, but it's the best CTF I've played since.
Cool method of hiding it, although I wish all the eggs weren't weapon drops
The Henery
Member
I watched and wasn't that amazed to be fair. BR's in Halo.
thezerofire
Banned
not AAA but Brink had metrics for every single possible variable in the game. The devs could adjust weapon fire speed, reload speed, damage per bullet, bullet spread, player movement, etc. with only hot patches, no title updates required. It's just a shame that the game was poop
Watched and be amazed...at how bad 343 is at easter eggs.
The whole concept and actions of shooting the circles, and a Sentinel (whose name is Kenzie) coming down to lead you to something, is honestly awesome, but 3 Battle rifles? Why? So so so much potential in an easter egg, and they give you 3 battle rifles, RIGHT BEFORE THE ROOM WITH ALL THE BATTLE RIFLES AND AMMO.
Hypertrooper
Member
You hyped the shit out of it and that's it? Pretty boring easter egg. I like the way to get it, but only weapon drop? That's boring. It would have been cool if those BRs had Halo 3's BR model or something like that.
Easter Egg starting to disappoint.
The found ones are weapon drops. :/User 73706
Banned
Guys, the egg is bugged.
It was meant to give you a Gravity Gauntlet but we didn't have enough time to put it in.
It was meant to give you a Gravity Gauntlet but we didn't have enough time to put it in.
You hyped the shit out of it and that's it? Pretty boring easter egg. I like the way to get it, but only weapon drop? That's boring. It would have been cool if those BRs had Halo 3's BR model or something like that.
Easter Egg starting to disappoint.
Hey, their is still 2 more known (to me) easter eggs on Midnight left
Rickenslacker
Banned
Wow it's nothing. Would've been neat if they were BRs ripped straight from 2 or 3 though.