Der Flatulator
Member
Any chance of a person of the Internet getting a chance to see/read 343i's Static Lighting and Forge Dynamic Lighting GDC lectures?
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Halo |OT15| Beta-tested, GAF approved
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Much better than Forge Island because it has flat and open spaces alone. And thank god.Revised
They're slowly learning, even if there's still no goddamn full on environment editor.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Middle island in forge island has a slant to it
Yea WTF. Explain yourself.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Halo is saved. Dat Forge World boost right on Bioshock Infinite weekend (pretty clever I guess)
Bioshock Infinite is awesome, game looks ridiculous. Columbia is so cool, these settings they place you in are awesome, and the music and sound goes so well with it. Its put together so well. I wish all games would put that much effort into their world. I've sat and listened to the friggen radio in certain parts, looked at every Fink oldschool video thinger so far I've found.
Combat is really good. I'm really mixing up all the vigors and weapons almost equally as they all are effective against certain things.
Shields forever too. Put all my upgrades into them. I love how each of their items are part of the world.
No talking about story.
Do you seriously believe that? 343i didn't have to do half the things that they did to bring people in.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Woah, it's out already?
Wow, no flag auto-pick up! How much is this game?
Amazingly almost every game I played in Forge FFA has been Pro. I don't know if it's just a coincidence or if people just prefer Pro over Infinity or what but either way it helped a bit.
xxjuicesxx
Member
can we stop posting pictures of WU wtf is a WU first off n second off noone cares. seriously?
El bought.
Pop
Member
For shame 343i, all my feels
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Are the maps made for 8 players? The spawns are so bad I'm sick of the game starting with a guy directly in my cross hairs, and pretty often you spawn right next to someone, who's probably one shot because he just killed/someone else. Also some of the maps have ridiculous sight lines, easy to one-shot a weak guy across the map because there's no cover.
Oh and just a personal grief, WAAAAAY too Automatic friendly. Screw the AR. I also think 2 nades are way too much for this playlist where the rooms are already small and limited, grenades are spammed really often.
edit: quoted wrong part
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I wasn't asking how I personally can improve. I am an average player so a lot of people would automatically throw me in that group.
I've been playing the game since Halo:CE. My group of friends all tried the multiplayer but it felt kind of empty to us, so we were mainly campaign focused.
We grabbed Halo 2 and went through the campaign again and briefly tried local multiplayer but again didn't grab hold. Later in the game's lifespan I ended up playing a lot at work with a group, but again customs all the time and those people loved rockets and were a bunch of dirty screen watchers. I had finally picked up an Xbox by this time jumping from the PS side and thought about jumping in but that late in the game and the terrible attitude that I seemed to sense from forums about the general type of halo player kept me away.
With Halo 3 I jumped in full bore, but I didn't have a consistent group so was frequently running solo. But even with that would sometimes run into people better than me who happened to also be cool and would give me some suggestions which lead me to try to improve my overall play. I know everyone here has had a perfect experience with 1-50, but mine was more akin to what Stinkles has mentioned a few times, so that resonates with me. That doesn't mean I don't think ranks can't work, but need serious improvement.
I got to the point I like watching twitch streams and seeing high-level play and I also like seeing ridiculous stuff (green screened kitten feed behind gameplay, all day please). I went and tried to find and learn the callouts, learned the weapon placements and timed spawns. I played Halo 3 consistently until the Reach beta and Reach until 4. The biggest thing for me was network performance. Reach was so much better for me in that regard (except near the end) that even though I think 3 is great it is hard to go back to because it is like I'm shooting an arrow over a wall and hoping it hits my brother because it is that inconsistent. (But I still do go back). Reach to 4 was the same thing, I don't get as many random moments (due to network performance).
So even though I am an average player and what many would consider casual I don't jump to the next shiny thing (or I do, but I also stick with Halo). I have that desire to play better and play with others who are 'serious' though I don't always have a consistent group to do that.
My question was how do you make the game competitive, consistent, fair, encouraging teamwork and individual agency, rewarding strategic and tactical thinking and engage a more casual audience in such a way that they want to learn how to play 'right'. Telling them they should have started a decade ago does not seem effective.
It seems the effort to make the game accessible has been directed at compressing a skill gap and putting in more flashy diversions. Another method could be to help people understand what they are in for and prepare them for that, but how do you actually do that?
I used the terms earlier because that is how that audience is often referred to, which all are meant to be derisive. I think that is too bad and that there should be another way.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I wasn't asking how I personally can improve. I am an average player so a lot of people would automatically throw me in that group.
I've been playing the game since Halo:CE. My group of friends all tried the multiplayer but it felt kind of empty to us, so we were mainly campaign focused.
We grabbed Halo 2 and went through the campaign again and briefly tried local multiplayer but again didn't grab hold. Later in the game's lifespan I ended up playing a lot at work with a group, but again customs all the time and those people loved rockets and were a bunch of dirty screen watchers. I had finally picked up an Xbox by this time jumping from the PS side and thought about jumping in but that late in the game and the terrible attitude that I seemed to sense from forums about the general type of halo player kept me away.
With Halo 3 I jumped in full bore, but I didn't have a consistent group so was frequently running solo. But even with that would sometimes run into people better than me who happened to also be cool and would give me some suggestions which lead me to try to improve my overall play. I know everyone here has had a perfect experience with 1-50, but mine was more akin to what Stinkles has mentioned a few times, so that resonates with me. That doesn't mean I don't think ranks can't work, but need serious improvement.
I got to the point I like watching twitch streams and seeing high-level play and I also like seeing ridiculous stuff (green screened kitten feed behind gameplay, all day please). I went and tried to find and learn the callouts, learned the weapon placements and timed spawns. I played Halo 3 consistently until the Reach beta and Reach until 4. The biggest thing for me was network performance. Reach was so much better for me in that regard (except near the end) that even though I think 3 is great it is hard to go back to because it is like I'm shooting an arrow over a wall and hoping it hits my brother because it is that inconsistent. (But I still do go back). Reach to 4 was the same thing, I don't get as many random moments (due to network performance).
So even though I am an average player and what many would consider casual I don't jump to the next shiny thing (or I do, but I also stick with Halo). I have that desire to play better and play with others who are 'serious' though I don't always have a consistent group to do that.
My question was how do you make the game competitive, consistent, fair, encouraging teamwork and individual agency, rewarding strategic and tactical thinking and engage a more casual audience in such a way that they want to learn how to play 'right'. Telling them they should have started a decade ago does not seem effective.
It seems the effort to make the game accessible has been directed at compressing a skill gap and putting in more flashy diversions. Another method could be to help people understand what they are in for and prepare them for that, but how do you actually do that?
I used the terms earlier because that is how that audience is often referred to, which all are meant to be derisive. I think that is too bad and that there should be another way.
Oh man in so you can combine gametypes in MM and I am playing Infection Flag, 2 zombies at the start and their goal is to infect everyone before the humans score.
If you can't find it for some reason, here you go
If you can't find it for some reason, here you go
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Are those playing Infinite playing on Xbox? Still looks amazing?
GF borrowed Tomb Raider from work for me for 2 weeks Going to dig into that or Bioshock one tomorrow.
GF borrowed Tomb Raider from work for me for 2 weeks Going to dig into that or Bioshock one tomorrow.
Yeah, this was also something that made me angry. I'd get rushed by two people and somehow manage to kill them both and before I can catch my breath one of them spawns behind me. So frustrating.
xxjuicesxx
Member
I'm playing on PC on Ultra graphics. 60fps smooth. So good.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
So you can throw the flag?
Oh my.. We're seeing the evolution of Halo through Murder Miners.
Oh and if you are a zombie you can use your tenticle grab to move the flag to you since you yourself can not hold it when a zombie. Its kind of like having a dollar on a string lol
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Ermahgerd! I hope the update comes out soon.
The Carbine in BSI has the same reticle as the DMR. It's as if I'm in a dream world and playing a 60 fps Halo game when I'm using that gun. Feels good man.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Yea I like the carbine/sniper. When I'm low on either I'll roll shotgun or machine gun. I also love setting traps. Game has some awesome stuff going on in it.
Testing things out right now but it should be soon. Seriously though....Zombie Flag.....holy shit.
Well spawns are really hard to do in FFA and we literally didn't have time to work on the spawns much.
Map makers have been updating their maps but we don't know when the maps will get updated in MM. Remember, there were almost 300 maps we had to go through and play on. There were 8 finalists. They were fixed as best as they could be so dick head jetpackers can't break it and so they had predictable ordnance drops. I'm not trying to make excuses but understand this is the Forge Contest playlist and not the final FFA playlist for all of Halo 4.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Forge ISLAND is about 65 wang units.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Kansas lost! *Dances*
Murder Miners Zombie CTF
(Really nice toss at 18 seconds)
Also HARPOONING PEOPLE IS THE BEST THING EVER!
(Really nice toss at 18 seconds)
Also HARPOONING PEOPLE IS THE BEST THING EVER!
Hydranockz
Member
Poor Juices. I'm clinging on to Syracuse but there are 6 gaffers with Louisville to contend with
I'll have the full calculations on who needs what to win tomorrow(I guess today now).Poor Juices. I'm clinging on to Syracuse but there are 6 gaffers with Louisville to contend with
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I have to give it to Halo 4. Hit detection feels much better than Halo 3.
User 73706
Banned
Really? It's been out for months and I haven't detected a hit yet. Just look at the population charts.
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FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Finally a way to show my idea of how to save CTF. Looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Just played the game again and the UI improved drastically. Still trying to get the right aim settings down..
Does the game still freeze every 3 matches
It is A LOT of fun, speaking of which Murder the Flag match.
Not sure if I should upload the harpooning video or not, its like 2 seconds long.
Nope, last updated fixed a lot of freezing issues.
