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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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No, mail them to Portugal please
hahahahahahahahahahahah. no.
Computer
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Halo 4 really needs a social playlist. Anytime I try to let someone play Halo 4 on my account to get them interested in the game they get annihilated and hate the game. If 343 wants to bring causal or new people to Halo there needs to be a separation of competitive and social.
HigherLevel
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It's simple, do the ranked/social like in Halo 3 with 5.
Also, going back to traditional Halo would help newcomers. Perks, AAs, loadouts, and ordnance only make the game more random and confusing for people who don't know what they're doing. It has the complete opposite effect of what 343 wanted them to have.
Infinity and BTB are the social playlists.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Oh, hey, that's me being useless on the turret.
I'm famous guiz
You cheating on me bro?
Nice, now they just need some Halo Legends on that bish.
This is pretty true. The beauty of halo and the reason it was ultra popular was because a bunch of bros could pick it up and shoot each other up, plain and simple. I don't think 343 should have copied Halo 2 or 3, but the changes they made were so far away from what made Halo people's game of choice. 343 claims to understand the "three prongs of halo mm" or whatever it's called, but adding onto add-ons muddled everything, made the game flow poorly, and required way too much other fluff to attempt to balance it.
StalkerUKCG
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Team Slayer (4v4) (Throwdown settings no objective)
Team Objective (4v4) (Throwdown settings no slayer)
Squad Skirmish (5v5) (Throwdown settings Slayer+Objective)
Big Team Slayer (8v8) (Throwdown settings slayer only)
Big Team Skirmish (8v8 (Dominion, Big Team Objective)
Legendary Slayer (4v4)
Legendary Objective (4v4)
Team Action Sack (6v6) Slayer, Objective, Snipers, Swords basically all the fluff)
Rumble Pit (Regicide, Throwdown slayer, Objectives ect)
Legendary Slayer FFA (legendary settings slayer only)
Weekly Double Playlist (Week 1= Griffball, Week 2=Flood Week 3=Extraction Week 4=Team Regicide)
Pop
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No wonder newcomers don't want to stick around. It's clearly not the halo anyone wants.
the possibilities are endless
xxjuicesxx
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Yea n make everyone sr 130 so the game isn't a grind to unlock all the stuff n so I can get the no flinch perk otherwise i don't feel like getting on.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Not streaming
YourExWife
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OT, but an interesting interview with a friend of mine who's an Indie Dev (and makes damn fun games). Anyone who is familiar with the MS BS that Team Meat and others went through might find some more fodder here. It's unfortunate that he didn't/couldn't elaborate further on some of the details, but he's fairly blunt throughout the article. Entertaining read at the least.
Xona Games Interview
Xona Games Interview
They should have had a Training playlist, but right now it wouldn't matter if you had played hundreds (or thousands) of games played already. Another thing would be to make a new account and let him/her play on that. Delete it after they leave.
Best bet is to go into Team Objective or something. Plenty of AR/Mag users who do nothing but Jetpack in the middle of an open field and spray the AR.
I don't know man, until I fall asleep. I'll probably be on until 4 or 5.
Edit:
SltyPoison
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What happened?
FUBAR McDangles
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omg you weren't supposed to find out this way. I am so sorry. It was just a one time thing, I promise I was going to tell you at some point.
Anyway, so salty got banned. Looks like no contest this weekend.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
*Look on Halo 4, sees most popular playlists are BTB and Infinity*
*Looks at Gaf, sees "It's clearly not the halo anyone wants."*
Does not compute.
(I assume you mean it's not the Halo those that play and leave want, because those that keep playing the game obviously want it.)
Frank! Why didn't you join last night like you said!
It's a legitimate tactic.
I agree. Having a separate ranked hopper gave me something to jump into if I was feeling 'on-my-game' while still allowing me to get hammered and not ruin my future experience elsewhere.
Yeah - they just took social, ranked it, and left it at that. We need both.
Here's what I would want to see;
Ranked - No JiP, no random ordnance, no load-outs
Team Slayer [Team BRs, Team LRs, etc.]
Team Objective [Extraction 1-plot, CTF, KOTH, Oddball]
Team Doubles [BR Doubles, LR Doubles, CTF Doubles]
Rumble Pit [FFA BRs, FFA LRs, etc.]
BTB [Team BRs, Team DMRs, Extraction 1-plot, CTF, etc.]
SWAT [SWAT BRs, SWAT Magnums, etc.]
Snipers [Snipers Pro, and a Beam Rifle variant if they fix it]
Grifball [...grifball... lol]
Infinity - unranked, JiP, random ordnance, custom load-outs
Infinity Slayer [Team Infinity Slayer]
Infinity FFA [Infinty Slayer, Regicide]
Infinity BTB [Big Team Infinity Slayer]
Dominion [Dominion]
Multi-team [Team Infinity Slayer, Oddball, King of the Hill]
Flood [Flood]
Action Sack [Shenanigans]
I think something like that would have just as much draw for casual players while still giving them something to sink their teeth into if they decide they're feeling competitive.
I sense a deeper meaning behind this...
StalkerUKCG
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Can you just give me the Oni patch. Tashi is the worst at posting stuff
Pop
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Why must you do this, every time.
You knew damn well what I meant. Clearly people playing H4 RIGHT NOW are in the two Top playlist. Kids mash A until the a match starts which would be Infinity and BTB has always been popular in Halo. Wasting my damn time responding to this.
Latvian Hitman
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Looks like it will be less bothersome after the weapon tuning update. Those people will actually have to be able to aim their weapon to get kills. I'm pretty happy about this!
lol sorry, it's US only
I thought you said you bought one on eBay now! Lol
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Easy there, just clarifying. It seems that even when 4 had a population the Infinity playlists were most popular. Makes you wonder if it's just because it says "BTB' and "Slayer."
Should switch up the playlist locations and change the names slightly and see what the numbers say.
Also, beating a dead horse, etc.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Nah, I will eventually just messing with ya
Probably self imposed ban since he said hes done with xbox in general.
FUBAR McDangles
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I've got two hours to kill before I have to go to work. Anyone want to go hogging or smanging on 4/Reach/ODST right now?
Latvian Hitman
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The default Team Slayer and BTB playlists have always been the most popular in any Halo game. My belief is that they could take the Infinity settings out of those two playlists entirely and make them much more vanilla, and the numbers wouldn't change. It's not the "Infinity" that makes those two playlists more populated, it's the "Slayer".
xxjuicesxx
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Still waiting on some halo book from tashi apparently he doesn't know how to use a post office
Probably only put three stamps on the package.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=56757374&postcount=256
This is the post that got him banned
xxjuicesxx
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I was just interested in seeing how they are since I usually just make fun of the nerdiness involved in reading video game novels and never actually have them a chance.
CreateNowSleepLater
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For no skilled cowards that break map flow.
Classy.
This ^
Objectives have such a bad reputation in MM because of people padding and the lack of real teams. In Reach I absolutely hated the Slayer/Objective mix playlists - I always seemed to find the full party that wanted to hold the objective and slay, and of course some twit and his guests for my team lol - so I always headed to Slayer-only playlists, even if it meant dealing with 100% bloom and AL.
If there is anything that Reach taught us, it should be that people will play a mediocre game for a while because they spent the money on it, but that the poor experience reduces their interest in future titles from the same dev/franchise. If opened discs could be returned, the population would be a lot worse.
they deliver mail up in buffalo?
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