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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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Read the OP, it's been up since Dec.
I find the method that I've noticed that Reach and 4 uses to despawn things like Phantoms hilarious where they fly away and instead of actually just completely disappearing after they fly far enough away they begin shrinking until they're nonexistent. It's so cute seeing a little babby Phantom.
Edit: the last Fifa I ever bought was Fifa 05 for the PS2 and that was so I could play it with my uncle, great game. Maybe I'll pick up Fifa 14, if only to get my ass kicked in multiplayer because the AI in 05 was weak sauce and I'm guessing it hasn't improved that much.
Edit: the last Fifa I ever bought was Fifa 05 for the PS2 and that was so I could play it with my uncle, great game. Maybe I'll pick up Fifa 14, if only to get my ass kicked in multiplayer because the AI in 05 was weak sauce and I'm guessing it hasn't improved that much.
The upper back part of Haven's looks really nice and crisp without pixelation, the bottom half looks like crap even without zooming in. I've also noticed how there's this weird fog (that's not part of the skybox image) they have surround the bottom half, maybe it's for that reason they have that there.
lol, it's so weird yet funny. Actually I'm guessing that the hitboxes/collision are nonexistent until the Phantom has grown to its full size, that would explain how it just clips through enemies. Unless you can't stand on them as a spartan either.
RebornYeti
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Anyone playing Halo 4/Reach any time soon? I'm in the mood to dong.
More League tonight!
Which part? The part where Halo 3 gutted Assault into the awful instant arm variant? Or where it dropped the ability to make 3-Plots and turned Territories into a round-based-only gametype? Both of which are problems that were fixed in Reach, which had a really excellent gametype suite, all things considered. Playlist management in both was bad - H3 was when they made the decision to transition Objective to 5v5....and then cut it entirely. They practically mirrored ranked and social splitting the community. Reach wasn't any better but there is a reason that the Halo 3 thread here was always full of "lol playlist management" jokes.
You really think so? Exile's got a lot of problems, but Settler is seriously one of the worst maps in the entire series. I mean, we're talking Orbital levels of garbage here.
At one point during a Spartan Ops mission, a Phantom never actually grew any bigger, so the only thing hovering in midair was the glow from the lift. Me and my coop partner shot at it for a few minutes, but the hitbox was miniscule so we never got it to blow up. They also seem to do that LOD separately for enemies that are inside it, so another time we just saw a bunch fullsized enemies flying through the air until the Phantom grew and surrounded them.
MrGreencastle
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Still the best Zelda:
The DLC maps' skyboxes are a marked improvement over the shipping game. Especially Majestic.
The DLC maps' skyboxes are a marked improvement over the shipping game. Especially Majestic.
To be fair, they're not all horrible, but they aren't especially fun to look at, either. Hopefully that get's more of a priority next time (tm). I really think it matters. Not to mention the part where it all "seams" together (if you can find it) looks like a butthole. ME3 multi was the worst for this.
As long as you don't zoom in the area around Harvest is pretty nice. Edit: Picture looks a lot worse than when I took it. Oh well.
Still the best Zelda:
Correct, one of the best games ever actually.
Twilight Gap
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Harvest has the same color palette as ONI Sword Base/Long Night of Solace.
I like it. From what I've heard though, I wish it played better.
I like it. From what I've heard though, I wish it played better.
MrGreencastle
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Daybreak seems like a Reach homage:
Even Outcast looks like the last level in Reach, Pillar of Autumn. Perdition is totally Halo 2/ODST, though.
Twilight Gap
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Thought the exact same things. Nice to see some of that feeling carrying over.
duh! lucky you, you get to hear my soothing tones for a couple hours tonight.
Still the best Zelda:
*boing*
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I got the specs from HGS, I feel they're spot on, sorry.
MrGreencastle
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I lost my copy during a move a few years back, but someone gave this one to me for free at PAX last year. Pretty awesome. I just wish I could play it on my 3DS on virtual console, that will prompt another playthrough for me I think.
Get some HDAO on that. Don't Google it.
Edit: Actually Google it. I lied.
OdysseusVA
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Im using a Nvidia card right now and I am using HBAO put using Fable: Lost Chapters AO profile.
Im honestly at this point just pushing buttons to see what works and so far a lot of stuff is.
Speedy Blue Dude
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I bought Reach on Demand for $60, in 2011. Same day the game came out in 2010. Don't know why, and I don't regret it either. Reach is amazing.
Sad it's dead as well lol, no one on my friendslist plays Halo now.
Sad it's dead as well lol, no one on my friendslist plays Halo now.
Get one for BF4, boi.m0nkey is going to save Halo. Wish I had a capable PC
I got an ATI card ATM. I got AO working in H2v a while back, however the way many FPS games will render their guns varies quite a bit (Many use tricks with separate depth buffers and cameras and composite the guns/hands to avoid environment clipping and precision errors) so I never got it to work quite right with Halo 2. The HBAO would only affect the terrain and the effect would bleed through the gun. Do you have this problem? (Should be especially noticeable through something like the rocket launcher)
Oh, and custom resolutions have been possible for a long time through some runtime hacks, thats how I get ultrawide-screen aspect ratios. AF and AA can be added/tweaked through your drivers.
Twilight Gap
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Finally getting around to playing Spops. Starting from Episode 4 onward.
Cutscenes are cool I guess...
Cutscenes are cool I guess...
I have NEVER been able to get the game to work on custom resolutions on my Nvidia card for some reason, this is the first time custom resolution has worked. Also yes the AO interacts with the weapons and environment.
Off:
On:
Right now I am working of fixing it turning off when you get to close to it.
Oh wow XD
No doesn't seem to work, but that may be because of the same issue as it disappearing as I get too close?
OdysseusVA
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One of the main reasons for getting BF4 on consoles is Official servers. No need to deal with horrible admins.
Until they shut off most of them and throw everyone into the pits of rented servers again.
User 73706
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So, real talk. You guys are fine with a Campaign weapon sandbox that's way, way more expansive than the multiplayer one, right?
I was thinking of building up three sandboxes:
Campaign / Custom Games
Social Sandbox (20 Weapons)
Ranked Sandbox (12 Weapons)
Social would use the general "Halysis" sandbox with the Gravity Gauntlet and everything you guys have heard of.
I was thinking of building up three sandboxes:
Campaign / Custom Games
Social Sandbox (20 Weapons)
Ranked Sandbox (12 Weapons)
Social would use the general "Halysis" sandbox with the Gravity Gauntlet and everything you guys have heard of.
Unlikely. It probably has more to do with the depth buffer that your profile accesses to generate the AO not including the weapon. That would explain why you can see the environment's AO multiplied through/on-top of your weapon. (That's what I was talking about when I mentioned how many games will set up multiple cameras/depth-buffers/scenes in order to composite their weapons into the main camera. In this way, many games avoid precision errors and having your gun clip through the environment as you brush up against a wall.) You might be able to fix it if you make the AO profile address a different buffer, but IDK what the address would be.
I gots no probs finding the official servers. This issue is blown out of proportion.
Not only are the custom servers just fine most of the time, but the official servers are still plenty up.
OdysseusVA
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So I can browse through an endless list of a bajillion ticket servers instead of being matchmade into one?
same diff
Even Section 8 Prejudice, from a smaller dev, didn't pull that crap. Still plenty of official, sane dedicated servers for that game on all platforms.
Actually I got AO to work on the Gun+Environment now, just have to address the new flicker issue I am getting.
EDIT: Only appears inside the SMG?
OdysseusVA
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Using the search function has never failed me. As for quick match, people should have learned very quickly that it's horrible.
Filled with bots with maybe 1-2 other people.
lol
HGS doesn't exist. It's just some urban legend
I don't play Battlefield 3 on that account.
BF3 server structure is mostly fine. Only thing it really needs is a filter that only shows EA servers only, plus the ability to filter quickmatch so it matchmakes you into official EA servers only.
A score+tickets remaining indicator in the server browser would be nice, too.
A score+tickets remaining indicator in the server browser would be nice, too.
How much have you played? Because the custom servers aren't a big deal. And the official servers are easy to find. I think the game improved because of custom servers.
OdysseusVA
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Agreed, but searching for P24 or official names (Epic Battles, All Out Rush, Classic) works well enough.
YES
Cool, post some video after you get it all working nicely. Can you tweak the AO parameters? Make it stronger, have more samples or wider sampling radius?
Brolic Gaoler
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Come in here after a long work imposed absence and see no Halo talk. So I guess Halo still isn't good yet? I just switched to days for a month so I've finally got some time to play.
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