User 73706
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I just got the best worst idea ever. HaloGAF Animated should be a thing and the pilot involves Team SLRP and Team SALT being on Family Feud or some other game show with the old guard being announcers.
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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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Doogington
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Big Team will be forever deader.
Yep, and since mutliplayer is all just a simulation, it actually makes perfect sense that variables could be altered in that way.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
What if they made War Games CGI cutscenes as a smoke and mirrors way of introducing changes.
"Palmer here, the eggheads are still at it with the DMR. During field testing this week they have reduced its scope from 3x to 2x. Test that weapon Spartans, and report back to Waypoint with your experience."
"Palmer here, the eggheads are still at it with the DMR. During field testing this week they have reduced its scope from 3x to 2x. Test that weapon Spartans, and report back to Waypoint with your experience."
Team HOPE for lyfe
Well if we're talking about cannon than why would they train with a 2x scope if when they actually fight they use a 3x. Just sayin.
Personally I don't think making it a 2x scope is the right thing to do. Than the DMR and the BR are essentially being used for the same thing. The whole point of the DMR is to be a long ranged weapon. Lower the aim assist and we're set.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
That would be cool, but there's still the problem of keeping track of which gametype uses which settings and stuff, like in Reach.
Mace Griffin
Neo Member
I would prefer something skillful and consistent. The problem with the DMR is it is so easy to use, not that it can kill quickly at long range per se. I think making it not hitscan and require leading of shots with less auto aim would be ideal. Reducing scope to 2x would also make it harder to use long range but wouldn't be essential with the above.
I think bloom in Halo games doesn't work well at all as it results in too many lucky kills.
Well, we were talking about canon, but if you wanna talk about a cannon we can do that too...
I think that descoping, bloom, and a much shorter aim assist/magnetism range is what kept it balanced. I mean now you can just sit in your sit and keep firing and with the Rogue (I think) unlockable it's nearly no flinch with a really accurate long range rifle. I mean that alone completely breaks it not counting the fact that before that it really outclassed all the other weapons. Bloom was a necessary evil, nobody ever complains about bloom on the magnum, granted the DMR and magnum aren't the best comparison considering one of them is
a long range weapon, but the mechanic is still necessary to keep the weapon in balance. Now it's nearly perfectly accurate and you can mash RT, before it still punished you a little bit for that compared to now. Finally, aim assist. All I have to say is seeing that image where the DMR's aim assist covered all of Solace makes me realize that 343 either doesn't care about weapon balance or that they don't know what they're doing. Allowing a weapon to completely dominate an entire map's radius is unacceptable and on the other maps it still covers a vast majority of the their size. I mean, on Settler I was sniping kids on the ridge from our spawn base with the thing, even Waypoint kids realize how broken that shit is.
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completely broken
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xxjuicesxx
Member
Bring back Squad Slayer!
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Someone refresh me, what was Squad Slayer? Most seem to praise it as the savior of Halo, I can't even remember what it was.
NobleGundam
Banned
5v5 good maps, decent spawns & weapon placements. Balanced.
Mace Griffin
Neo Member
Its more skillful but in my opinion not by much. Its hitscan and has lots of auto aim. Now if you took the Halo 3 BR and made the spread very tight with no randomness, that would be skillful.
What's wrong with hitscan?
MrGreencastle
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Yeah fuck non hitscan BR. Hated it in Halo 3. BR feels 95% OK in 4.
lol Hitscan is the superior BR
I really like the Halo 4 BR. If the auto aim was toned down a bit and made a 4 shot, it would be better than Halo 3's IMO.
Except the cricket sound.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Mace Griffin
Neo Member
I agree with most of your points but bloom is a flawed mechanic used to balance a flawed weapon. You can reduce the amount of auto aim to make it harder to aim in general at all ranges. You can also make the weapon fire actual projectiles rather than be hitscan so that a player has to lead their shots, the more range the more difficult this becomes. That way the gun is completely consistent but is not overpowered as it is difficult to use, especially at long range. This creates a weapon that also rewards players that are exceptionally good with it as should be the case.
I so don't remember putting my service tag as BTCH, hahaha.
Someone went 0-50? Wow.
Never forget slayer unlimited.
Never forget GAF crying about obj holding.
Never forget Stephen betraying people for yoinking and complaining about objective holding.
Never forget 3 plots on boardwalk over in 2 minutes.
Rip
Mace Griffin
Neo Member
I suspect you hated the spread rather than the non hitscan functionality. No hitscan = more skill, all other factors being equal. I can only see that as a good thing.
Damn, I forgot how satisfying it was to snipe someone in Reach.
Do you know if its going to be 5 v 5?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Hahahaha, I needed that.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Obviously the epitome of balance and skill-based matchmaking everyone wants. And people laugh at me for playing BTB.
I don't. My guess is 4v4
Perfect
Mace Griffin
Neo Member
Hitscan in Halo 4 could work better if there was a small effective reticule such as the exact centre point rather than the full circle as that essentially gives you a very big target to aim at when only the edge needs to be over your target, effectively 3 times the width of a player. If the exact centre of a crosshair was used then that effective target would be exactly the size of the actual target.
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