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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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The Henery
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We played a squad like that the other night. "Why doesn't my BR work like theirs?" Down the mic.
Heavies/Slayer, the 343 way!
Seriously. 343 took Heavies and made it the 'standard' BTB experience on Halo 4. I hope to see this change in Halo 5. I can't stand heavies in the slightest. Pretty much every vehicle is on borrowed time unless you play absolutely clueless people.
It's funny. Halo 5 is the first Halo I'll be buying without jumping into it pretty much blinded by hype and hope.
Cragmire stands on it's own for being the worst map put in Reach. Good lord the weapons spawns :lol
Cragmire marked the death of BTB in Halo Reach for me. Mind you the Gulch had put all but the last nail in the coffin.
BTB was mostly flag and bomb until 343 made it practically all slayer/heavies. Then to twist the knife they make things like Boneyard and Spire show up in the first vote since they were default maps from the beginning.
Lol, easiest 36 kills I ever got. Gauss cannon, wraith, rockethog, spartan laser, focus rifle, rockets, Plasma lancher etc. Such a clusterfuck. Funniest part is people still actually think flying the falcon is a good idea on this map. Flying death traps shot out of the sky within seconds.
Pre heavies was beautiful. Vehicles were usable, and fun to work with and against in a game. They were key weapons in controlling a map and winning a game. Now they just feel like a power weapon you get, shoot a few times, then lose it. Basically impossible to run any vehicle unless you're in a team of 6-8. Heavies was fun at first. A great bit of mayhem even but I soon realised that it was pretty crap in terms of balance and quality of gameplay. It was a spamfest most of the time, and never produced any great matches.
I haven't played Reach in a long time... I doubt it's any worse than Halo 4.
Really? I had so much fun playing assault variants on Blood Gulch in Reach. Even going in alone. I'm pretty sure that like 80% of my games played were in BTB actually.
Of course given what 343i did to BTB, it's pretty much dead to me now.
Once you got past the cliff DMRs and sniper behind base, you then had to put up with the in base Shotgunners or Plasma Pistol melee noobs. Killed the map for me. It was some slow war of attrition unless teams were massively unbalanced.
Finally...
Now just wait, until they announce a further partnership and that the next Xbox is going to stream directly to Twitch, if you want to do so, just like the PS4 and UStream.
Edit: US only -.-
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Top 300 channels only, so basically no console streams. Get your shit together Twitch. Your apps suck.
You're right, the coughing was a metaphor for a deep illness about to strike Halo, if you guys had only took heed and listened, Halo would have been saved.
Yeah that's sort of an arbitrary limitation...
Anyone here *not* think we're going to get a Twitch/MS deal as part of the 720? Seems like a better partnership than Ustream simply because Twitch is far more popular over here in the west...
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
FYI I'll be on Halo 4 tonight for some BTB partying. Anyone down to play? Around 7:30 CST?
Zeouterlimits
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Tha Robbertster
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I like paying more for less with my Xbox live subscription.
At least we'll get RTL-XL. Woohoo!
At least we'll get RTL-XL. Woohoo!
StalkerUKCG
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If it does not require a subscription then you will be able to install it via USB in any region. Getting it to launch might be tricky
People in the thread said it is gold required.
I dunno. I'm pretty damn excited.
Microsoft knows that first and foremost, people are looking for a new gaming console. They aren't going to skimp on such a major selling point. I expect any reveal to be equally focused on the entertainment and gaming aspects.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
lol I don't think so. Entertainment? Yes. Kinect? Yes. The thing will be about gaming though. Hell, CoD will be there, Halo might.
Hydranockz
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It needs a Gold sub.
Zeouterlimits
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The 300 channels is a Twitch change, not a MS one it seems, as the Twitch iOS app is now the same.
Hydranockz
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Crazy stuff. Was the search stuff too resource consuming or something?
NobleGundam
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As long it plays Halo and only Halo.
I'll wait awhile before getting it (360 rrod tragedy)
Zeouterlimits
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Revenue from those channels is probably nil, and the viewship is so low for them, especially on any non website device?
Lame decision either way. If it's a twitch side I one, it does make me cautious of how any future version would be on the Nextbox. Top 300 & friends maybe?
Ooh COD and maybe Halo. *blank stare*
I know that wasn't your point. But still.
I'm personally excited about Kinect 2 being in every box. If they can solve the latency issues the voice commands alone would be awesome to add to games (less so the gestures, although I guess if the tracking is better they could also address the issues with it only working with X amount of room. Still seems more iffy.)
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Yeah, gaming will be at the forefront though.
Especially after Sony, I think MS is going to try to showcase a lot of gaming.
TheOhrenberger
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Yeah, gaming will be at the forefront though.
Especially after Sony, I think MS is going to try to showcase a lot of gaming.
I actually think that this reveal is going to be more media focused with some games. E3 is where they'll show the games. That's just my guess though.
When they announced the date they said it would be more hardware on the 21st and then gaming in their E3 presentation.
Halo |OT17| Halo 5: Reach 4 ODST
I'll think about it.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
So were you guys serious about me not being able to make OT17?
Talk to TheOddOne, I believe he had something he was wanting to do.
PS OddOne, I think Wahrer's trying to get your email. He posted something on Twitter last night about the next OT.
Yes. You can't make an OT, you've only been here a short while, man. Once you've been here for years and have a better understanding of how things work and why things don't then you can. I'm not saying I'm qualified as much as I'd love to, but your time has yet to come, young one.
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Don't encourage him!!!
Steelyuhas
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Xbox announcement will have plenty of juicy things talked about, I wouldn't worry about it.
PGR5 with tournaments and direct to Twitch streaming plox
StalkerUKCG
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People in the thread said it is gold required.
I was talking about a secondary sub like netflix does.
I'll give you something juicy
Zeouterlimits
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7 minutes in and this has been
"X must have been tough, ye did it so well, do you agree Josh?"
I expected better of Sess. So far it feels like a glorified happy ending and throwing of Halo 2, 3 and Reach under the bus by Sess.
Up to 9 minutes, ugh.
It was Josh only who brought up the weaknesses with the Didact.
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