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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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About time. What an idiot. I wouldn't hire a guy who will quit out of won games regularly.
Onikaan
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Anyone else been playing 4 since the small update?
Played a match on Exile just now...lots of unregistered shots. Hit a few guys clean in the head with no shields and they didn't drop. Then I hit a dude 7 times with the light rifle and it didn't even break his shield. Went into theater to make sure I wasn't seeing things but right enough, 7 shots. Saw alot of this in Halo 3 but not 4.
Hope this update ain't buggered it.
Played a match on Exile just now...lots of unregistered shots. Hit a few guys clean in the head with no shields and they didn't drop. Then I hit a dude 7 times with the light rifle and it didn't even break his shield. Went into theater to make sure I wasn't seeing things but right enough, 7 shots. Saw alot of this in Halo 3 but not 4.
Hope this update ain't buggered it.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I can't fathom why it was done. Does CoD do it?
Decoping was a recoverable detriment flinching destroys you.
Edit: Greenskull please shut up. I'll go and survey MLG and then we will see that more people prefer Multiplayer. Yea?
Frank and David will have access to stats that give some real insight into the player base split and I'd love to see what they look like.
There is nothing really wrong an XP system. The problem is however that everything is tied to it, from weapon unlocks to perks. An XP system being used to basically to lockdown gameplay or gameplay altering elements is bad idea on paper and in practice. On paper you could see and argue against it putting base traits behind an unlock system, because it creates too much randomization in the player pool and you cant always count on other systems (i.e. Trueskill) to balance it out. It creates a pool of more randomization upon randomization upon even more randomization. You essentially create more problems for yourself, instead of making the margin of error as small as possible (i.e. equal starts). Not to say that there wont be problems with equal starts, but the scope of the problems arising are more contained and understandable (and by that its much easier to look at the pros and cons of fixing the arising problems).
XP systems in other games outside of RPGs are carrot-on-a-stick investment systems. Most people dont mind them, because they actually dont do much. They are just flashy stuff. Nothing really wrong with idea, its still a great way to give the player feedback on the preformed action. They are even fine as basis for a progression system (Yes, you read correctly). But when you put much of the base game behind it, you are doing yourself and the players a huge disservice. There are enough ways to make the game grow, evolve and innovate. Embrace the structure and built from that.
XP systems in other games outside of RPGs are carrot-on-a-stick investment systems. Most people dont mind them, because they actually dont do much. They are just flashy stuff. Nothing really wrong with idea, its still a great way to give the player feedback on the preformed action. They are even fine as basis for a progression system (Yes, you read correctly). But when you put much of the base game behind it, you are doing yourself and the players a huge disservice. There are enough ways to make the game grow, evolve and innovate. Embrace the structure and built from that.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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CoD does have flinch, yes. Although it's still an annoying mechanic in that game you won't run into it nearly as often because the killtimes are much shorter. There's also flinch while not scoping in CoD.
i can't tell you how wrongly i read this
omg
in other news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crKiqbED9sg
some dude said:
the uploader (bless his heart) said:
Poker Face
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343 already said more people play campaign, I don't know why he's doing a survey lol
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Been using the Explosives perk lately. With it, grenades are useful while not the nukes they were in Reach. Its gotten to the point that its worthless using grenades without that perk. I come out surprised when I get at least 5 kills with grenades in a Slayer match.
It sucks were made to be as powerful as mentos in a diet coke bottle just so they tack on that perk and make it useful. Same goes with Flinch and Ammo etc. And just Wtf at having picking up enemy grenades tied to a perk. Embarrassing fucking decisions made for War Games.
Please abort perks in Halo 5.
It sucks were made to be as powerful as mentos in a diet coke bottle just so they tack on that perk and make it useful. Same goes with Flinch and Ammo etc. And just Wtf at having picking up enemy grenades tied to a perk. Embarrassing fucking decisions made for War Games.
Please abort perks in Halo 5.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
But people play multiplayer for longer. Play time will even out across the 2. It ultimately means nothing.
Does a small title update like this wipe their host data? Could it just be everyone is a "good host" for a week or so after the update?
Poker Face
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Well yea, I play multiplayer a whole lot more and that's where the longevity is for me. But more people just play the campaign and never touch the game again.
Barrow Roll
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Orochinagis
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So, The Sarah Palmer figure armor is actually black instead of being silver, bummer =(.
Admit it, you just wanted to see some silver booty
My day is ruined, thanks.
Barrow Roll
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Err, what?
http://www.finalfantasymerchandise.com/blog/forum/viewtopic.php?p=73453#p73453
You is wrong.
I'm sure your son would be bummed if Leonardo had the wrong headband color.
YourExWife
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GG TCKaos
Internet just died. I'm on my phone while waiting for my modem and router to reboot. Yaaaay Charter.
RebornYeti
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Anyone want to play ODST firefight tonight around 8:00 pm MST?
Just got in a weird mood to play that.
Just got in a weird mood to play that.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Remember in the Halo CE tutorial level when you bash down that door giving the player a skill they will use for the rest of the series?
squidhands
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To the bold: NOPE. Custom Loadouts and all that they allow are a gigantic negative factor in multiplayer. Bungie may have dropped the ball when they introduced Loadouts in the first place, but 343 took it to a whole other level of "what the hell were you thinking" when they let you customize a loadout with some of the most abusive abilities and weapons that are in the game. Legendary Slayer should be similar to Throwdown with pre-set loadouts combined with the more passive Armor Abilities, and leave all that other crap that you can spawn with on the field as a pickup where it goddamn belongs.
Yes, do this. I want to hear impressions of what I imagine will be the final product.
Multiple playthroughs? I've done less campaign playing than any other Halo game, which is really, really sad.
I fucking hate Charter, they consistently throttle my speeds while raising the monthly bills. I'm not even using that much of it, if I need to use Internet I just go to the University and use their wi-fi.
Barrow Roll
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Not if you started the game on Heroic or Legendary.
thezerofire
Banned
I don't know how long ago this got fixed, but Fiesta is a ton better now.
I already told you on twitter, drunkcast.
Your new roster sounds like it could be even more hilarious.
I still find myself often wanting to go back and play through levels in Halo 3 more than any other Halo. Hopefully Halo 5 will be the new bar, but we'll see.
I complained the brutes were weak and dumb, and they are, but the fact you get to fight an entire pack of them all at once is what makes them fun, rather than on an individual power level akin to elites. Packs of brutes are more fun than a couple elites.
squidhands
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RebornYeti
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It was like a month ago, I think. And I agree. Action Sack as a whole is probably the best playlist in Halo 4, IMO.
Fiesta? That's Infinity Slayer in Halo 4 right.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Don't worry, we still got dat 400-0 lol
idk.. I don't see anything wrong with Custom Loadouts as long as they limit you take away the Boltshot/Plasma/Pulse Grenade and have any weapon in any slot you want.
If people want to spawn with an AR/Pistol, why not? If people want to spawn with a BR/Suppressor, why not? Seems like they're balancing those weapons properly so taking out the Boltshot and taking away the need for Firepower would go a long way IMO.
Hi.
User 73706
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I would have felt a more interactive sense of cinematic vignette gravitas if the door attacked you, forced co-op buddies to watch, and made you punch the door off of you before switching to third-person to let chief slurp down a bottle of Mountain Dew Game Fuel.
YourExWife
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Scythe blows, especially 4v4.
I'll be severely dissapointed if you don't have a massive role in making a game one day.
I know that feel. I've played maybe a couple of games in the last month. Still haven't even downloaded the latest map pack
Halo 3 is where it is at. Well... when you can find a game that is.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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CreateNowSleepLater
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You know, perks could have still been in there if they weren't so lazy about it. Like maybe team supporting things like regen or something. Ideally, none of this would be there. What they were thinking by removing things core to the gameplay only they know. I think they regret it though. There has to be a way for them to improve the game without hosing the fucking sandbox.
Ironically these progression systems are put in a game to have the player being invested but lack of ranks and these "additions" had the exact opposite effect.
CreateNowSleepLater
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Yep. Let's play everyone on the top walls with DMRs. Great.
User 73706
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"We don't want Shit Mountain to look like robots, because they're not robots..."
I thought it was clever, but that's because I can't come up with stuff like that.
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