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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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343 very busy still working on TU BETA SLAYER in Reach matchmaking please give them another 74 years to get good playlists in halo 4 thank you
EagleBurnn
Banned
What? The maps are too big?
xxjuicesxx
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So its really easy to get a 50 isnt it? I knew it.
ALL TIED UP AT FUN TO FUN
Yeah but no one plays it. Fuck that noise alone.
We'll have an oddball swordbase night soon. I wonder what the search times/population is like.
Bloom is going to suck though. It's the biggest thing preventing me from going back.
They're getting their 50 alright, level 50 in CoD!!!!!!!
halo is dead nobody plays halo anymore 343 killed it. stop playing halo 4 and go play eve online or minecraft or something where the devs actually care about their playerbase
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Ugh. I can't play Reach. No matter the issues with 4, Reach was worse.
Murder Miners, CEA playlist
xxjuicesxx
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Played Reach all night two nights ago. Search times were just as quick as Halo 4 if not quicker. I feel like I stared at the H4 baseball cards longer than the Reach boxes.
It was also less infuriating and I encountered much less bullshit even though we were unable to really get a full team for long.
Although we played a FFA game on Uncaged and I lost by one point to a dude who had 8 melee kills, he ended the game with 2 headshots...yea fuck that lucky spawner.
I'm actually going to hop on tonight too as long as its not GF night.
this. bloom and grenades are just too much.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
This, I could at least play Reach for 1000 hours before I just gave up.
Halo 4 couldn't even get 100 hours out of me.
Reach was a good, high quality game, although I was against the changes. I can't say the same for Halo 4.
I only played Reach because the HaloGAF community was so strong.
H4 killed off the community within about a week.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Orochinagis
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Did anyone noticed how the 3 maps are actually the same in design?
The three maps have the corridors on the sides with some hiding spots and the center is where you can go walking safe with some underground paths. No open areas in the center except for daybreak but only in objetives.
Yep, funny no one wants to use the warthog.
The three maps have the corridors on the sides with some hiding spots and the center is where you can go walking safe with some underground paths. No open areas in the center except for daybreak but only in objetives.
Yep, funny no one wants to use the warthog.
hated the movement in murder miners. felt weird. Not sure if they fixed it.
and the pistol still sucks in the CEA playlist. Not enough ammo, feels inconsistent.
ExigentContact
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I believe you can download Zero Bloom game modes. But zero bloom is just as broken, if not moreso. I kind of like the TU settings even if they came way too late, but movement speed needed an increase.
Wrong thread?
I'll roll with it.
That guy looks like a northmen.
THE KING IN THE NORTH
The problems with zero bloom demonstrate why Bungie implemented bloom, and why the Halo 4 DMR is problematic when combined with things like Reachlike slow player movement.
As methods of making weapons harder to use at range go, bloom kind of sucks, but Halo 4's knee-jerk "let's (effectively) remove bloom but not make the other necessary changes to compensate" is worse; 343i improved the feel of shooting at the cost of causing tons of damage to map movement. Ragnarok? Ugh...
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EagleBurnn
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Agreed. And every map in Reach can be Haven and it would be an improvement.
I would almost say ZB Reach might be the better game. I enjoy the shooting mechanics of 4, but like I said the other day, the Halo meta game of power weapons/spawns is completely absent in 4.
Shame ZB reach is limited to MLG. Shit is way too tryhard for me. Fun sometimes, but I want a playlist I can play a bit more casually while still being competitively viable and fair.
EagleBurnn
Banned
Halo 2 arena maps + Halo 3 BTB + ODST Firefight = Halo 5
I just saved Halo.
I just saved Halo.
ExigentContact
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Confession: I loved the hell out of Heavies Cragmire. Might not be purist Halo, but I don't really want purist Halo when jumping into BTB. I just love the crazy shit that happens and Heavies is the best outlet for that.
Now I wanna play Reach.
But yeah, Halo 4's base competitive settings are better than Arena. Arena had a lot more potential, though. Could have been done so much better. I think a combined permanent number rank and constantly shifting monthly tiers would have worked for Arena.
Poker Face
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Why Halo 3 BTB?
OdysseusVA
Banned
Anyone keeping up with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon? It looks absolutely amazing.
I hate heavies in general, and I blame it for doing a very good job of making me like Reach BTB less and less after 343i took over.
However, Cragmire does irk me less than the other heavies maps. It has something resembling an interesting map flow, and going completely overboard on power weapons and vehicles winds up feeling vaguely more fair and reasonable than half-heartedly going overboard on power weapons and vehicles.
Still helped ruin Reach BTB, though.
I'd go so far as to say that TU Reach is better than Halo 4 in its current iteration.
Yep. Can't wait!
ExigentContact
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+ Reach's custom game options and Forge (fuck no nudge editing) + Halo: CE's speed.
No, bloom is the asshole of the universe, even at 85%.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Streaming some new maps. Disclaimer, I'm not great.
http://www.twitch.tv/deadlycyclone
Warher, I'll have to get with you later this week, a buddy hopped on and wanted to play.
http://www.twitch.tv/deadlycyclone
Warher, I'll have to get with you later this week, a buddy hopped on and wanted to play.
ExigentContact
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Come on. Where Reach was by the time Cragmire entered the scene, it was either leave the boring to bad BTB offerings from the base game or go full-retard. I'm kinda glad they went full-retard because at least I could have laugh at the protracted death of BTB instead of rage at it. Allow me to clarify. I didn't go into Halo: Reach BTB for a purist experience. Halo 3 though, that was the shit when it came to BTB.
Pretty much the peak of Big Team, even with its shitty netcoding.
xxjuicesxx
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The trick is to pace your shots. Its actually not so bad.
As much as I despise bloom, I'd put it on the same level as flinch. They're both terrible ways to balance weapons.
Don't you even
cry...cry...cry.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
The problem was, well you may pace, the guy you're in a gun fight with might not be pacing, and spamming, and bloom might give him the kill by luck even though you're the one playing skillfully.
That's why Bloom was trash.
Seems like Halo 3's netcode really falls apart somewhere between 4v4 and 8v8. Team slayer in Halo 3 feels great most of the time, but big team is always pretty far in the sloppy region.
But yeah, it's awesome. Except for heavies. Heavies was bad for big team in Halo 3 as well.
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