YourExWife
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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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Don't worry, you'll still be wrong somehow, knowing him.
Poker Face
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Just gonna assume it was an oversight.
There really hasn't been any advertisement for ranks, with the exception of the bulletins. Kind of expected a short YouTube video to promote it.
I really wish it was me being negative and not mistakes being made.
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User 73706
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Just throwing it out there: I'd love for them to have different Ordnance holders depending on type.
Bonus points if they simplify the Ordnance to be static but show class, not weapon. That way bks can see if a power weapon's up but only the experienced users will know if it's Rockets or a Sniper.
Bonus points if they simplify the Ordnance to be static but show class, not weapon. That way bks can see if a power weapon's up but only the experienced users will know if it's Rockets or a Sniper.
But what is it being dropped from?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Pretty sure they're looking at it for Halo 5, not 4. Also, that's fine by me as long as Halo 5's armor is decent and there is a good selection.
User 73706
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Grenades, Basic Ordnance (basically limited to precision weapons - that spawn at your base, hence the name), and Initial Ordnance all just spawn on the map. Save for Grenade holders you could modify each holder to fold any weapon in Forge. Delayed Ordnance, likely late-game power weapons or supplementary junk like the Huntshot would be the only weapons that drop in.
Promethean ones might teleport in, though.
Twilight Gap
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I miss weapons on the ground, like a sniper leaning quietly against a rock, or a pair of plasmas resting gently along a ramp.
Ordnance really only works for games like Dominion.
Ordnance really only works for games like Dominion.
YourExWife
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Yeah, as much as I dislike ordnance I think it could create a cool visual dynamic for the maps.
For human, timed, drop-in ordnance, you'd get a pelican fly-by. Covenant would be a.. Lich maybe? Just to make it more Halo 4-like. And Forerunner stuff would just phase in.
I could see people bitching about the CoD similarities, but... they've already gone this far. Why not take it all the way?
Blue Ninja
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Hammerspace. It's an alternate dimension they discovered, like slipspace. The Forerunners used it, and now humanity has Reclaimed it.
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User 73706
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The Delayed Ordnance just straight-up drops in. Why do you think the Covenant version's designed like an elite drop pod?
It'd be cool for Invasion if Pelicans brought vehicles in or something.
ElzarTheBam
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Halo Threech
Where's the gravity well joke?!
On Invasion maps, you have a covie battlecruiser and a UNSC frigate in the airspace above fighting, and the weapon/vehicle drop-ins are fully observable scripted events, terrain permitting.
Twilight Gap
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H3 for Co-Op, Reach for solo.
Both have their share of good and bad infantry and vehicle combat, and both have their share of tough and annoying AI. Halo 3 definitely carried the more epic feeling throughout, and you can't forget the scarab battles that Reach didn't have. It was a lot more fun with 2 players than alone, and vice versa for Reach.
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The Covenant worked perfectly as a climax.
Tip of The Spear felt like it was originally designed to be the highest action part and the cutscene was great, but it fell flat once gameplay started.
Demoncarnotaur
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Its dead here for there being a new mappack. Anyways, I played each of them once.. I really like Perdition. The others are pretty cool as well, but Im a little iffy with Daybreak.
Well done, but man the modded version with all the rocks was easier on the eyes.
Well done, but man the modded version with all the rocks was easier on the eyes.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Did you read my post sir? I said it'd be fine by me given the armor/skins that came with the game were of quality and quantity. If they want to release more armor and skins down the road as opposed to just never releasing any more, I'd be fine with that. I'd also be fine with them releasing new armor after ship for free, but we know that won't happen.
Yo.
Also lol at the last few pages. Everything went worse than expected, just as expected.
Want people to play a game first and give proper feedback, not give 'forum' feedback based on how they imagine it will play.
Why does it still piss me off that my long standing emblem was part of a pre-order bonus form a retailer who isn't even in my country? Are these ever going to be unlocked?
YourExWife
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Of course I read it. I just have this sneaking suspicion that if they released none, released more, released gameplay-changing DLC, releasing stuff free or not, etc, etc, whatever the case it would be "fine by you". That's why the avatar quote. You didn't need to say any of that for everyone to know that's how you felt.
Hypertrooper
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I am in for getting Crimson, Majestic and Castle.
Hydranockz
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Are you implying he could never have a problem with what 343 do?
Deadly Cyclone
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Believe it or not, not everything is "fine by me." We just tend to cover the topics that are generally things I agree with. The discussion on microtransactions is a larger gaming trend, so my agreement (with clauses) does not necessarily feed into the "loves everything 343" stereotype that has been dropped on me. Notice I never just said "fine by me" and left it at that, I added my thoughts on what would make this a solution I could get behind. A compromise if you will. More to the fact that I understand the business side of DLC and as long as customer demands are met in the $60 product I have no qualm with releasing extras as DLC down the line.
Oh well, all good fun. When we playing Halo again with Wahrer so I can do terrible?
BlueScrote
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I don't know if that's a jab at his sandbox posts, his avatar, or both.
Seriously. People will complain about anything.
User 73706
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I don't mind microtransactions under two circumstances. First, they're purely cosmetic - for example, bringing back Hayabusa. Second, they introduce new content rather than splintering the entire game's feature set - I'd be fine with paying for the mystery Defiant DLC armor, but not them deliberately leaving out DLC to make us pay for it later.
YourExWife
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No.
Hey look, you answered Hydranockz for me! It's like you knew what I meant all along!
Pretty sure that's Wahrer's job. Either way, I should be on tonight after work around 1800 MST.
Twilight Gap
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You know any cool maps that you have played or still play?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I read that as 1800MSP and thought "he's not that expensive. He's not Elzar."
My all-time favorite CE map is CMT Snow Grove.
The Henery
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Where can I find out my CSR on the xbox waypoint app? It's probably right in front of me and I'm being silly but I can't see it in any of the menus.
Edit: I'm 99% it's not been updated yet to impart your CSR number.
Edit: I'm 99% it's not been updated yet to impart your CSR number.
Blue Ninja
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Daybreak looks like Reach;
YourExWife
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User 73706
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I should have a blog post up on armor tonight.
One question though: how would you guys feel if we got non-Spartan armor (think Halo 3 ODST) for use in multiplayer, but it was only cosmetic? Player traits, hitboxes, shields, etc. would be unchanged.
One question though: how would you guys feel if we got non-Spartan armor (think Halo 3 ODST) for use in multiplayer, but it was only cosmetic? Player traits, hitboxes, shields, etc. would be unchanged.
Twilight Gap
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I actually played that one yesterday. CE maps are so unique.
Halo 3, pretty much got everything bar the penultimate mission and 'to war' absolutely beautifully right.
You can just feel how lovingly made it is, so many easter eggs, also the AI were programmed so dynamically. Every time I played that campaign it felt like a new experience, noticing things I had never noticed before, like how the Marines would mourn the dead. The combat encounters was the best in the series, whether it were the smaller encounters versus a handful of Brutes, or the massive encounters vs multiple scarabs, each one was impeccable and they're largely the reason I played the game on co-op roughly 40 times.
Then there's the beautiful OST, level design, aesthetic and various other things.
Best FPS ever made.
Zeouterlimits
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Halo 3, and significantly so.
They manage to look better than most of Halo Reach and Halo 4 maps, despite being graphically primitive by todays standards, and play better.
Clean simplicity > Cluttered complexity
Eh I like them both, feel like both should exist (with things getting resupplies rather than just appearing.)
Also, Las Vegas is rainier and colder than where I traveled from. What the hell.
User 73706
Banned
It's too bad it got succeeded by Halo 3: ODST, responsible alone for the downfall in sales of Halo titles. rip hopes of a custom game browser
I root for Liev Schreiber to *not* be a villain in every movie he's in, and usually end up disappointed.
Latvian Hitman
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And "Customer Service Representative" as well.
Twilight Gap
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