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User 73706
Banned
I'm pretty sure I was still high when I doodled this out so bear with me here if it's any weirder than usual. Revised another rank among Promethean Knights:
THE PROMETHEAN KNIGHT HACKER
OR
SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR OVERDOZIZ
Keep in mind that in my ideal campaign for these guys to work, each Knight form would have an individual, one-on-one encounter to first introduce them. It'll get to points later on in the campaign where you're getting strong enough weapons or maybe even upgrades that you can handle multiple Knights at once, but on your first encounters they'll probably be noticeably more like minibosses.
Hacker Forms are double entendres - the canon justification here is that, later on into the war, Prometheans were already being dumped into hyper-dense prosthetic combat suits even after "dying," meaning you'd be having a singular consciousness (let's just call them "digital souls" for now) hopping rapidly from body after body upon death against the Flood and occasionally humans. Leaving that much destroyed scrap around would be heavily impractical for infantry combat or retreating, so Hacker Forms were introduced fairly late into the Forerunner-Flood war in an attempt to gather information and clear battlefields, essentially working a permanent graveyard shift. Using the four eye module things mounted to its face, it surveys the area for weapons, vehicles, allies - any interactive equipment, basically - and "scans" it fairly briefly, and proceeds to destroy it. The destruction is surprisingly peaceful while in its ambient form - its wings, in an almost fairy-like fashion, will flutter around the scanned target and gently dismantle it causing the whole Promethean "derezz" effect. After successfully destroying a target it moves on; its pathfinding AI when ambient is intentionally simple to save you some trouble in harder encounters. It can only "see" what the dots touch, which is a good thing because it means you might just be able to assassinate it. If it does spot you, however...
Spotting you will cause it to berserk - it is undoubtedly the most aggressive enemy in the game, emitting an incredibly shrill metallic drone and making a beeline for you, performing a variety of elaborate movements with its hardlight blades. Its armaments are incredibly lethal with significant range when angered - its "wings" convert into a full Hardlight Halberd per each "arm" and its proto-arms turn into "Hardlight Machetes" mostly designed to cover the back of the beast. The easiest way to describe its movement is... well, the way Grievous moves in the animated Clone Wars series. Something like that. It is the only Knight to have legs consisting completely of floating parts, designed for the highest possible agility and flexibility. It also allows it to crouch into a more reserved stance before springing into the air in a large, vertical lunge, designed for getting to players at higher ground or following someone upwards. Or, alternatively, pouncing on unfortunate victims.
Similar to the whole "mining tools are even deadlier on people than rocks" revelation in Dead Space, as a last-ditch effort, the Didact programmed a failsafe into Hackers where if they spotted organic life (at this point Hackers were being deployed alongside 100% artificial Prometheans) they would attack in a frenzy and attempt to eviscerate and "dispose of" whatever they saw, in most cases Flood.
As a bonus, it's without a doubt the most visible and "flamboyant" of the Knights due to its fighting style and luminous parts - it's intended as a warning. If you see hazy, twitchy limelights off in the distance, you know not to let yourself get caught by it. It will be fooled by Holograms pretty easily, and in co-op they have AI that will scale to deal with multiple intelligent targets; they move in a chess-like Knight fashion, however, with three steps forward and one step to the side, so players should take this into account accordingly.
Note that they're immune to the stun effect on the Gravity Gauntlet, and that'll just piss them off even more. If you have either an Energy Sword or a Hardlight Halberd, they'll have a noticeable change in behavior, similar to the way Grunts panic if you pull out a Gravity Hammer in 3. Rather than make a blind charge, it will instead behave a little more like a Brute Chieftan for a bit of fanservice, deciding instead to duel you honorably. If this does happen, literally all other Promethean AI will cease fire or focus on other targets because the Forerunners are honorable dudes. And as a balance measure. The last thing you need is to get pinged by about 50 Promethean units while you're in the midst of fist-fighting motherfucking Promethean Grievous. If you kill it with a melee attack somehow, all Promethean units will retreat either by teleporting or attempting to flee.
Your first encounter with one would be in a very low-lit area with a mostly linear hallway with few places to hide, meaning you'd have to take care of it fast. It has the health of an average Knight, with the exception of taking twice the amount of melees to be killed (as it's designed for CQC).
Successfully killing the bastard will reward you with a Hardlight Halberd with 250% normal ammo - 250 battery, in other words. In co-op Campaign, it'll drop three Hardlight Halberds instead so you and all your buddies can just try and pike everything to death.
THE PROMETHEAN KNIGHT HACKER
OR
SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR OVERDOZIZ
Keep in mind that in my ideal campaign for these guys to work, each Knight form would have an individual, one-on-one encounter to first introduce them. It'll get to points later on in the campaign where you're getting strong enough weapons or maybe even upgrades that you can handle multiple Knights at once, but on your first encounters they'll probably be noticeably more like minibosses.
Hacker Forms are double entendres - the canon justification here is that, later on into the war, Prometheans were already being dumped into hyper-dense prosthetic combat suits even after "dying," meaning you'd be having a singular consciousness (let's just call them "digital souls" for now) hopping rapidly from body after body upon death against the Flood and occasionally humans. Leaving that much destroyed scrap around would be heavily impractical for infantry combat or retreating, so Hacker Forms were introduced fairly late into the Forerunner-Flood war in an attempt to gather information and clear battlefields, essentially working a permanent graveyard shift. Using the four eye module things mounted to its face, it surveys the area for weapons, vehicles, allies - any interactive equipment, basically - and "scans" it fairly briefly, and proceeds to destroy it. The destruction is surprisingly peaceful while in its ambient form - its wings, in an almost fairy-like fashion, will flutter around the scanned target and gently dismantle it causing the whole Promethean "derezz" effect. After successfully destroying a target it moves on; its pathfinding AI when ambient is intentionally simple to save you some trouble in harder encounters. It can only "see" what the dots touch, which is a good thing because it means you might just be able to assassinate it. If it does spot you, however...
Spotting you will cause it to berserk - it is undoubtedly the most aggressive enemy in the game, emitting an incredibly shrill metallic drone and making a beeline for you, performing a variety of elaborate movements with its hardlight blades. Its armaments are incredibly lethal with significant range when angered - its "wings" convert into a full Hardlight Halberd per each "arm" and its proto-arms turn into "Hardlight Machetes" mostly designed to cover the back of the beast. The easiest way to describe its movement is... well, the way Grievous moves in the animated Clone Wars series. Something like that. It is the only Knight to have legs consisting completely of floating parts, designed for the highest possible agility and flexibility. It also allows it to crouch into a more reserved stance before springing into the air in a large, vertical lunge, designed for getting to players at higher ground or following someone upwards. Or, alternatively, pouncing on unfortunate victims.
Similar to the whole "mining tools are even deadlier on people than rocks" revelation in Dead Space, as a last-ditch effort, the Didact programmed a failsafe into Hackers where if they spotted organic life (at this point Hackers were being deployed alongside 100% artificial Prometheans) they would attack in a frenzy and attempt to eviscerate and "dispose of" whatever they saw, in most cases Flood.
As a bonus, it's without a doubt the most visible and "flamboyant" of the Knights due to its fighting style and luminous parts - it's intended as a warning. If you see hazy, twitchy limelights off in the distance, you know not to let yourself get caught by it. It will be fooled by Holograms pretty easily, and in co-op they have AI that will scale to deal with multiple intelligent targets; they move in a chess-like Knight fashion, however, with three steps forward and one step to the side, so players should take this into account accordingly.
Note that they're immune to the stun effect on the Gravity Gauntlet, and that'll just piss them off even more. If you have either an Energy Sword or a Hardlight Halberd, they'll have a noticeable change in behavior, similar to the way Grunts panic if you pull out a Gravity Hammer in 3. Rather than make a blind charge, it will instead behave a little more like a Brute Chieftan for a bit of fanservice, deciding instead to duel you honorably. If this does happen, literally all other Promethean AI will cease fire or focus on other targets because the Forerunners are honorable dudes. And as a balance measure. The last thing you need is to get pinged by about 50 Promethean units while you're in the midst of fist-fighting motherfucking Promethean Grievous. If you kill it with a melee attack somehow, all Promethean units will retreat either by teleporting or attempting to flee.
Your first encounter with one would be in a very low-lit area with a mostly linear hallway with few places to hide, meaning you'd have to take care of it fast. It has the health of an average Knight, with the exception of taking twice the amount of melees to be killed (as it's designed for CQC).
Successfully killing the bastard will reward you with a Hardlight Halberd with 250% normal ammo - 250 battery, in other words. In co-op Campaign, it'll drop three Hardlight Halberds instead so you and all your buddies can just try and pike everything to death.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Quick, somebody distract heckfu..
Wife, get that gif!
Its mind. I understand Le Wahrer Machine.
Unification through separation.
Wife, get that gif!
Its mind. I understand Le Wahrer Machine.
Unification through separation.
Wait, what's this?
I'm not sure why this was pitched as a balance patch when almost everything on there is a bu fix. Not that fixing bugs is a bad thing, but it wasn't really presented that way when they spoke about it.
I cannot fathom why Random Transport is being given the spotlight in that Spartan Ops playlist when it's one of the worst missions in the season.
Why is Team Objective getting snubbed with Majestic's release? Landfall could be a good King map but instead they put it in three Slayer-only situations?
I cannot fathom why Random Transport is being given the spotlight in that Spartan Ops playlist when it's one of the worst missions in the season.
Why is Team Objective getting snubbed with Majestic's release? Landfall could be a good King map but instead they put it in three Slayer-only situations?
User 73706
Banned
I think there's a potential Achievement on that mission.
10 feet = 1 World Unit , .1 unit = 1 foot
Still bullshit. Looks like I will never play Infinity Slayer ever again.
People complain about Boltshot and that 343 isn't doing anything about it despite it being one of the largest problems in the entire sandbox.Halo 4 TU
343 does something about it.
People still complain.
Oh well, I guess you can't please everybody.
The only achievement that appears on that map to my knowledge is on the mission Hacksaw, which is a much, much better mission than Random Transport.
Edit: No One Left Behind appears on Hacksaw, nothing is attached to Random Transport except a pile of misery.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
I agree.. just consistently poor marketing with this game.
No wonder Extraction wasn't a playlist because of that game winning glitch. Also, that map pack barely features any gametypes that interest me. Infinity Slayer? Is IS with Team Throwdown settings yet..? I feel like this game is getting messier and tighter at the same time.
Destiny sniper reload animation from the PS4 announcement
Destiny looks like the baby of Halo and Mass Effect.
Can it still kill in one shot from a decent range?
Is it still a Shotgun you can spawn with?
People are still mad because it is still a 1-shot kill weapon that is more powerful than certain power weapons.
10 feet = 1 World Unit , .1 unit = 1 foot
While the distance obviously needed nerfing I think the biggest fix to the Boltshot would be not being able to control when it fires. That's how I thought it worked when it was first announced and was terribly disappointed when I discovered that you could release it sooner once it was charged. If you had to learn the timing and keep it on the enemy till it shot, it would be much more balanced.
It seems I never will.
Anyways, I am happy about the Boltshot nerf. Whenever I hear that charge, I run away.
Screaming.
fixed
It's a shotgun. It didn't need to be nerfed. It needed to not be allowed in loadouts. Maybe they can't make that happen for technical reasons, so they figured nerfing it was the next best thing.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Eh, I picked that mission cause I love the beginning where you are launched out of the portal right into the middle of the enemies. Also, it would've been rude to stack it with only my missions. 
Regarding TU concerns about sandbox balancing, dun worry. We'll have more info in the coming weeks. Unfortunately I really can't say more than that right now.
Regarding TU concerns about sandbox balancing, dun worry. We'll have more info in the coming weeks. Unfortunately I really can't say more than that right now.
Eh, I picked that mission cause I love the beginning where you are launched out of the portal right into the middle of the enemies. Also, it would've been rude to stack it with only my missions.
tu
That mission is memorable for me because of that beginning alone. Fun stuff.
That's the biggest reason I don't like it, really. You get launched onto that structure and are immediately pinged by the three jackal snipers there and even if you survive you're at the mercy of that Elite General who is standing right next to you. I know you have that invulnerability for a second when you land, but they hit you so quickly that I died almost immediately my first time playing. I play solo so that probably colors my perception of it, but I really didn't enjoy my time with it. Later on when a bunch of enemies got dropped onto my head from a drop pod because I was standing on the center structure like a sane person instead of wandering around on the ground floor, that didn't help.Eh, I picked that mission cause I love the beginning where you are launched out of the portal right into the middle of the enemies. Also, it would've been rude to stack it with only my missions.
tu
No.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Why is the Majestic Map Pack Preview Twitch offline. That should be up 24/7.
Create a channel of fans. What are you doing 343?!
Create a channel of fans. What are you doing 343?!
Not enough bandwidth.
Well, spawning with a OHKO weapon isn't a problem as long as it's situational and restrictive enough that it does not dominate or overlap ranges with other weapons.
Looking at the picture comparison above now, I don't think it's enough of a nerf, but the scaling over distance may be enough to balance it into it's own niche. It's not unfathomable that nerfing the range and scaling over distance could make people feel it's useless if you need to be right up on someone for it to work. I don't think people have used it post-nerf enough to make a judgment and do not care much for acknowledging progress after asking for it for so long.
Oh it's been fixed? That's good.
It's at least 3 seconds when I play regular Grifball.
I feel like this edit got lost in the shuffle.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Eh, I picked that mission cause I love the beginning where you are launched out of the portal right into the middle of the enemies. Also, it would've been rude to stack it with only my missions.
Regarding TU concerns about sandbox balancing, dun worry. We'll have more info in the coming weeks. Unfortunately I really can't say more than that right now.
I'm loving the more frequent/personal communication from you guys, good stuff. Everything from what you're doing now to those little comments Frankie leaves in bs angel's funnily-written bulletins.
That's why I personally liked it; it felt different and you're thrown right into chaos from the beginning.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Is Majestic maps not in Team Throwdown or did I just read it wrong?
Doogington
Member
No waypoint fixes for CTF/Regicide/Flood? No other customs updates? Unless they're planning on a massive DLC, seems like Halo 4 will never have the options of the previous games. Back to Reach.
Bregmann Roche
Member
I think you read it right. My guess is Throwdown would require those maps to get some tweaks which we will probably see a few weeks after they are out in the wild.
Or 343 may be waiting to see what the adoption rate is amongst Throwdown players so as to avoid wasting time on tailoring maps for a playlist that nobody would play them in anyways.
Rumble Pro sounds great. As for the TU, I had a feeling it would be like this. Some people thought they could fundamentally change so much after launch, it's just not possible nor cost feasible.
Here's hoping a slayer pro variant with no personal ordnance at all is implemented. Stick with allies only radar so we can at least somehow know if they died close by.
Here's hoping a slayer pro variant with no personal ordnance at all is implemented. Stick with allies only radar so we can at least somehow know if they died close by.
My guess is the former.
NobleGundam
Banned
Sorry if already posted.
http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2013/02/20/The-Halo-Bulletin-22013.aspx
Edit: beaten...
http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2013/02/20/The-Halo-Bulletin-22013.aspx
Edit: beaten...
Garrett 2U
Member
I wonder if we're gunna get video rendering.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Still not DMR nerf even hinted at in the Title Update list of changes... I swear if there's no DMR nerf I'm selling Halo 4 and giving up on Halo and 343.
Won't you only get like 20 cents waiting this long.