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Halo |OT15| Beta-tested, GAF approved
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xxjuicesxx
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Frankie are you still reading? Why are we getting more big maps? Can you get in there and go yell at some people? Can you answer my PM?
Streaming functionality isn't going to make a lick of difference for Halo's popularity (or any game for that matter). If Halo wants to regain the top spot it needs to become "fun" again. Fundamentally, it needs to speed up in ALL facets of gameplay and streamline the experience rather than further convolute it.
Not enough bandwidth for small maps. Due to limitations and the original design of the engine, large maps actually take less processing power to create than small maps. However, you can view heatmaps of small maps on waypoint. Soon.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Give me your address, I'll bring the lube and wine.
YourExWife
Member
no dick pics? There goes the child support!
Lol, saw that coming.
Hydranockz
Member
Merkin is a dude. Calling him 'that' is disgusting.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Did I say first? Silly me. I meant everyone that quotes me gets something special.
prepare your anuses
No need for actual wine either, just the bottle.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
You need wine when participating in a tradition sip n'sert
I completely forgot about all that noise in ODST's visors.
YourExWife
Member
At first I was like
But then I was like
But then I was like
Sr Kitsune
Member
Fortunately, Kinect 2.0 (alone) will save the new xbox.
Right...
(It better have the same online services/features the PS4 have, or it may be the day I'll start to get used to the playstation controller layout once again. Halo 5/Forza 5, or new IP's (not Kinect only) better be amazing enough)
User 73706
Banned
"It's kinda like that scene from Pan's Labyrinth, except the bottle's my dick."
At first I was like
But then I was like
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Fuck, I just got my final achievement, General rank yesterday. Such a grind!!
We should get a group going and do a tournament or something like that.
Do a draw to make teams of three and then do like a knockout tournament if theres enough interest.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Doesn't really matter when they announce if it ends up untrue or different from the perception.
Oh did it? I bought WoL digitally. It's a whole new campaign, 20 missions I think. Not sure about training missions. There are like 3 or 4 new units for each race. Really cool for the most part. They also updated the AI you can practice against and also added an unranked mode.
YourExWife
Member
You wanna fight punk?
Wahrer Machine said:
Only shit I can access at work
I'm waiting for a model to finish running so I can GTFO.
xxjuicesxx
Member
http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/mlg-professional-video-games-engage-viewers-longer-than-super-bowl
I just saw it was 40, I'll probably get it and try to get into Starcraft again once I'm done with Bioshock Infinite. Its so hard people are so good its daunting.
I just saw it was 40, I'll probably get it and try to get into Starcraft again once I'm done with Bioshock Infinite. Its so hard people are so good its daunting.
CoD is alive.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Dat lowwwwww.
Msg me.
Dat lowwwwww.
Msg me.
like 300k people weren't good and couldn't adapt
Doogington
Member
Things that would make me go back to Halo 4:
Xs - Check
Weapon rebalance - possible check?
Updated/new playlists - New playlists mostly weekly, though fixes often take much longer than one would think. Looking at you, Throwdown.
(Bring back a basic Halo style team slayer and call it just that.)
Assault - no word on this
(It's practically there already!)
Asymmetrical gametypes - no word on this
(Assault/CTF/Dominion could all benefit greatly)
New gametypes - No, using in game settings doesn't not warrant calling your variant a BRAND NEW GAMETYPE.
New forge map - hinted
(Yeah, a new forge map would make me go back just to make maps that no one would ever see. I just like making them.)
Custom game options - "People care about those?"*
(Put back everything taken out at least)
I have no expectations.
*Paraphrased from memory, but that's the impression I got.
Xs - Check
Weapon rebalance - possible check?
Updated/new playlists - New playlists mostly weekly, though fixes often take much longer than one would think. Looking at you, Throwdown.
(Bring back a basic Halo style team slayer and call it just that.)
Assault - no word on this
(It's practically there already!)
Asymmetrical gametypes - no word on this
(Assault/CTF/Dominion could all benefit greatly)
New gametypes - No, using in game settings doesn't not warrant calling your variant a BRAND NEW GAMETYPE.
New forge map - hinted
(Yeah, a new forge map would make me go back just to make maps that no one would ever see. I just like making them.)
Custom game options - "People care about those?"*
(Put back everything taken out at least)
I have no expectations.
*Paraphrased from memory, but that's the impression I got.
Welp. Got a Reach chart handy. Preferably one that shows population 4 months after release?
I don't even know what Community is. What channel does it air on?
Silly.Mikey
Banned
All of those should be there already. As for the weapon re-balancing, only the covy carbine needs a tweak imo. Ive got no issues with the rest of them.
Asymmetrical gametypes should have never been taken out to begin with, neither should the Xs or most of the custom options.
All things that were there before and for some reason were removed because of someones bright idea.
I believe someone at HBO pulled up some stats, but the problem is the numbers were calculated differently.
That sucks.
The Henery
Member
I find it hard to comprehend how it's come to a point where I have zero hype for a brand new Halo DLC map pack. I watched that IGN vid and, while it looked ok, the thought of several players running around with fuel rod cannons, binary rifles, sniper rifles, rockets, incineration cannons etc all at once in the inevitable Infinity only playlist made me huff.
Morbidly anticipating the achievement list though. 343 have been surprisingly resourceful and innovative when it comes to inventing test tube trolling horrors for achievements.
Go play Halo 3 again. I played at a weekend and happily got mostly green bar games, with manageable latency. First game was Avalanche CTF and it's still absolutely brilliant. In the first few minutes a Hog got grenaded from near snipe propelling it into the man cannon, flying into the base. There were panicked rushes back to base to prevent a flag pull. Sniper headshots (replete with medal!) were rewarding because they're much harder to pull off. And the flag juggling. Oh the flag juggling, it was like MLG settings only in the regular Halo game!
Morbidly anticipating the achievement list though. 343 have been surprisingly resourceful and innovative when it comes to inventing test tube trolling horrors for achievements.
I just want my favorite gamemode back
Go play Halo 3 again. I played at a weekend and happily got mostly green bar games, with manageable latency. First game was Avalanche CTF and it's still absolutely brilliant. In the first few minutes a Hog got grenaded from near snipe propelling it into the man cannon, flying into the base. There were panicked rushes back to base to prevent a flag pull. Sniper headshots (replete with medal!) were rewarding because they're much harder to pull off. And the flag juggling. Oh the flag juggling, it was like MLG settings only in the regular Halo game!
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Is the CEO of MLG's name really Sundance? Lol what the fuck.
Also hilarious at them calling it a sport.
Careful, he's a GAF member
At this point 343 should just drop the price of the season pass and possibly the crimson map pack, maybe even majestic.
What's the point of the new maps when the playlist has like sub 200 people at times.
Plus the playlist has dropped so low, you need something to bring people in. I played almost all day yesterday, I don't think more than 60k played at all. I tried to jump into spartan ops and each episode except the first on chapter 8 had around 160 people.
What's the point of the new maps when the playlist has like sub 200 people at times.
Plus the playlist has dropped so low, you need something to bring people in. I played almost all day yesterday, I don't think more than 60k played at all. I tried to jump into spartan ops and each episode except the first on chapter 8 had around 160 people.
Definitely hit ne up when you get it. I'm gonna try to get good at HotS.
looooool. At almost any given point, Call of Duty had around 1% of the SC2 viewers.
^scrub has to try to get good. I already am and I don't even have the game yet.
We all know Reach had higher numbers about this same time after release. But anyway according to this http://www.twitch.tv/ninja/b/283713122 rebroadcast of Ninjas on 4/15/2011 at 5:30am Central there were just over 111,000 online in Reach according to the ticker.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Sortof, yet at any point 20,000-30k were watching it lol. Which is half of the people at any one time actually playing Halo.
So some numbers seem small like 1-2% but are big, and each little bit helps.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Theyre not gonna drop the price yet. Too soon. Same with Gears 3, they did discount it, but a good few months in.
I havent played 4 since Majestic came out but I was getting a lot of Crimson maps in regular playlists. Moreso than Reach DLC anyways.
Here's Halo 3 in June, July, and August 2009. If you want, you can make your own graph.
August 2009: http://www.2shared.com/document/oIR1VWEl/August_MM_Stats.html
July 2009: http://www.2shared.com/document/DGkzFOxh/July_MM_Stats.html
June 2009: http://www.2shared.com/document/9nXWkMnI/June_MM_Stats.html
What did they end up deciding what HoTS became? (an expansion or a standalone title)
I still have WoL and I don't know where it is and I don't have it installed, so if it's an expansion I'm probably boned if I can't find my copy.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Castles cant come out yet, I havent even had the Majestic Map Pack PM'd to me.