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Halo |OT17| We Flew Out Members To Make This OT

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Orochinagis

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Demoncarnotaur said:
So, place your bets. IF there is a new Halo announced tomorrow, what will it be?

Halo 4 expansion (ODST style)
Halo 2 Anniversary
Halo Wars 2
Something new/different

My vote is for something ODST like with new SP and Halo 4 MP. That is, if there even is a new Halo game, which Im not expecting.
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Something new or a spin off.
 
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Madness

Member
Actually had a lot of fun playing slayer pro in infinity slayer.

Only gripes are the fact god awful flinch is there making gun play frustrating, especially when 2-3 guys are in play, and the fact that weapons despawn a bit too fast. The excuse was that with infinity/personal ordnance it was to reduce clutter.

I can see how some people might be turned off at the fact there is no radar, but I like it.
 
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Seance

Banned
Demoncarnotaur said:
So, place your bets. IF there is a new Halo announced tomorrow, what will it be?

Halo 4 expansion (ODST style)
Halo 2 Anniversary
Halo Wars 2
Something new/different

My vote is for something ODST like with new SP and Halo 4 MP. That is, if there even is a new Halo game, which Im not expecting.
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Halo4: Crimson
pls god no
 
F

Fracas

#fuckonami
Demoncarnotaur said:
So, place your bets. IF there is a new Halo announced tomorrow, what will it be?

Halo 4 expansion (ODST style)
Halo 2 Anniversary
Halo Wars 2
Something new/different

My vote is for something ODST like with new SP and Halo 4 MP. That is, if there even is a new Halo game, which Im not expecting.
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Same as I said earlier - a vague Halo teaser, with a full unveil at E3.

As for the game? I'd guess either Halo 5 or a spin off featuring the Crimson squad, developed by Certain Affinity. You heard it here first!

Regardless of the outcome, I'd be willing to bet serious dough that there will be a Halo game of some sort in the fall. If not, I don't even want to know what Halo 4 MP numbers are going to look like by then.
 
D

Dongs Macabre

aka Daedalos42
Demoncarnotaur said:
So, place your bets. IF there is a new Halo announced tomorrow, what will it be?

Halo 4 expansion (ODST style)
Halo 2 Anniversary
Halo Wars 2
Something new/different

My vote is for something ODST like with new SP and Halo 4 MP. That is, if there even is a new Halo game, which Im not expecting.
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I'm guessing an ODST style game or something completely different, like Halo Wars.

I would personally love an ODST-style game with some elements from Borderlands 2, like the weapon generation system. /drool Probably won't happen, though.
 
Ozzy Onya A2Z

Ozzy Onya A2Z

Member
Madness said:
Actually had a lot of fun playing slayer pro in infinity slayer.

Only gripes are the fact god awful flinch is there making gun play frustrating, especially when 2-3 guys are in play, and the fact that weapons despawn a bit too fast. The excuse was that with infinity/personal ordnance it was to reduce clutter.

I can see how some people might be turned off at the fact there is no radar, but I like it.
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I'm with you I had a blast in a full party in BTB slayer pro last night. I didn't really feel flinch at all, I'll have to check the loadout and when I play tonight (while trying to stay up to 3AM for the xbox reveal).

The weird thing was I was using the DMR loadout and taking down 2 or 3 guys in one engagement while then going on to get sprees, more than usual I mean. Perhaps it's the adjustment time for the new settings so my enemies aren't out shot so much. It was common last night to go 20k 10a 5d, loving the slayer pro but want radar in for my personal preference. I do think there should be two flavours of this slayer pro variant(s), one with radar and one without.

The chain hog and ghosts were back in action last night, it felt great. Specifically I was driving a very solid slayer-style friend almost an entire game and picked up 20 odd assists (all in one driving session for approx. 7-8 mins), welcome back hog I've missed you. I think we'll find with some tweaks to the on maps weapons the game experience could move up another volume level. For example two of the games last night could have done with some sniper spawns, just one on each team side and it would have been perfect. Although I do have to tip my hate to these settings providing the clean balanced sort of classic gameplay I'm accustomed to with Halo's from the past.

I'll say it again, these settings with CTF added would be pure gold IMO. I'm eager to try on Infinity slayer pro too, I'll give that a go tonight with some mates.
 
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CyReN

Member
Demoncarnotaur said:
So, place your bets. IF there is a new Halo announced tomorrow, what will it be?

Halo 4 expansion (ODST style)
Halo 2 Anniversary
Halo Wars 2
Something new/different

My vote is for something ODST like with new SP and Halo 4 MP. That is, if there even is a new Halo game, which Im not expecting.
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Would be ok with Halo 4 ODST/H2A, REALLY REALLY hope it isn't anything Spartan Ops related unless they go back to classic firefight style/Palmer dies.
 
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Mix

Member
I'm done for the night. Slightly disappointed by the forge playlist as I've only had JiP games and games with idlers and assholes. Sigh, I hope my next foray into the forge pits proves more constructive.
 
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Fuchsdh

Member
CyReN said:
Would be ok with Halo 4 ODST/H2A, REALLY REALLY hope it isn't anything Spartan Ops related unless they go back to classic firefight style/Palmer dies.
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Well personally I think Spartan Ops 1.5 was such an improvement I'd be down with Season 2 by any other name, especially if it broke out some classic Firefight-styled maps to go along with it.
 
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Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
willow ve said:
Forge playlist is awesome. That is all
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Yay! Glad you're enjoying it.

And about static ordnances. That's kind of a CC thing. I don't think there's a single map we've put in MM that doesn't have static ordnance weapons. I think maybe Scythe with normal rifles but that's it.
 
Ozzy Onya A2Z

Ozzy Onya A2Z

Member
Fuchsdh said:
Well personally I think Spartan Ops 1.5 was such an improvement I'd be down with Season 2 by any other name, especially if it broke out some classic Firefight-styled maps to go along with it.
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They just need more polish/time since their first foray with SPOPS, some consequences to your deaths, the return of customisable firefight/waves/settings and less button pushing.

Positive steps would be simple in game cinematics with your customised progressed spartan and then make buttons pushes more like activation of say a crane that loads a sabre that is then flown in the next mission or fuels it up in a tiny cinematic from your button push. Why not load a map that is the next mission? Why not call in reinforcements instead of a button push? Why not escort Forerunner machine parts to a central location to complete a mission? etc...

Having those sort of simple interactions with meaningful carried through outcomes is the cornerstone of redeveloping firefight and SPOPS experience into something more. It can be a separate mode away from campaign with a linked in story and provide replayable options after the first story play through completed e.g. skulls, enemies difficulty, coop scalability. If they reduce the number of missions each week or the release cadence they can spend more time creating an atmosphere with interaction and meaning more akin to a mini or full blown Silent Cartographer for example.

willow ve said:
Who knew symmetrical maps with static ordnance could be so much fun?
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Too true, harks back to the missing classic arena 4v4 symmetrical at launch. I still find it hard to swallow 343i and the team of testers/developers didn't put stock in their asymmetrical maps playing better with 1-sided objectives. It's like half of objective is missing and it hurts the longevity of maps/playlists.
 
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xxjuicesxx

Member
Ozzy Onya A2Z said:
SLRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.
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SLRP. SLRP.
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Aww shit. i am so excited about tomorrow.

Caveat: i just love consoles.

Here's how much I love consoles. When I was a kid, I think like 14 or 15, I found out about the PC Engine before it was launched. I couldn't get any more info (monthly magazines) so I wrote a physical letter to NEC in Japan asking for deets. They sent me all their packaging and manuals and info and a crazy letter that was signed off, 'May the force be with you!'

Never did finish tale of the the monster path, because Japanese text is why.
 
M

m23

Member
Tomorrow will be good. Games or not, I'm just excited to see the new features MS can come up with.

Halo Wars 2 would be cool though.
 
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StalkerUKCG

Banned
Stinkles said:
Aww shit. i am so excited about tomorrow.

Caveat: i just love consoles.

Here's how much I love consoles. When I was a kid, I think like 14 or 15, I found out about the PC Engine before it was launched. I couldn't get any more info (monthly magazines) so I wrote a physical letter to NEC in Japan asking for deets. They sent me all their packaging and manuals and info and a crazy letter that was signed off, 'May the force be with you!'

Never did finish tale of the the monster path, because Japanese text is why.
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But surely you guys have had dev kits for some time. Whats the excitement factor?
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
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You are also at the mercy of your host and DNS and all manner of things you can't control. Try switching to a public DNS, or restarting your stream/PC.
 
F

Fracas

#fuckonami
Deadly Cyclone said:
Anyone know how to fix a choppy stream? I have 20MB up/down for web so that shouldn't be an issue and I dropped to 720p...
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You know which Twitch server you're streaming to? Makes a huge difference
Shogmaster said:
Hey 343! Don't fucking force me to play Slayer Pro when I go to BTB. WTF.

I think I'm done with this game.
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I know, right? I'm just trying to have a good old time, earning my ordnance like everyone else, and then this happens. I don't have the time to learn weapon spawns or gain situational awareness. This is an outrage.

By God and country, I will vote for Complex Infinity slayer until the controller is pried from my cold, dead hands.
 
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