Hypertrooper
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What Barrow says. Spoilers:
Nick Fury faked Coulson's death that the Avengers rally against Loki. Or another theory is that the Coulson is a android with Coulson's personality. Hoping for the faking theory though
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Pretty much all of them. To understand where I'm coming from, you'll need to understand that I care about the 'details' a lot. Forge World has water that isn't just a .jpg, for example. And that makes me happy. Not to mention that it has lots and lots of foliage and is incredibly vast with big draw distances. No doubt that the Forge pieces in H4 look better than those in Reach (coupled with the lighting) but the base forge maps themselves look like they've come from Halo 2:Vista. The non-forge multiplayer maps in H4 are... Dull. It's like the engine is only capable of rendering rocks and/or random low-poly forerunner pillars. Foliage is so scarce and render distance is horrible. Skyboxes are nothing more than heavily compressed .jpgs (admittedly they're getting better in the DLCs) and the water is atrocious. Worse than CoD's even. General environment textures aren't anything to write home about either.
So, IMO, forge world is better looking than most Halo 4 maps. Questionable bland art direction aside (though it's not like its blue/grey overtone is any worse than Halo 4's piss filter).
Barrow Roll
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I agree with you, but it's a superhero movie so we're not really supposed to think about it, right Heckfu?
Does anyone actually think Halo 5 (or whatever they're calling it) will be anything more than just hunting down Halsey and the Storm faction? Sure 343i could pull some living Forerunners/Precursors out of their ass, but it seems a bit counteractive given what happened in Silentium.
Steelyuhas
Member
I guess so haha
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Ugh, the download is taking so long. Getting a steady ~60KB/s. :/
Hopefully it's worth the wait.
CreateNowSleepLater
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I was messing with Forge tonight, is there a reason why pieces like Station, 45 are not available on Forge Island?
Pffft. Turnips. The real easy money is in art smuggling.
Fig. A - successful delivery to HiredN00bs' extravagant bell vault.
Honestly Microsoft could have announced that day "yeah so we're going to stop doing Halo now" and I would have been happy. The book did such an amazing job at paying everything off and making you feel like you'd come full circle.
So I'm thinking I'm going to boot camp a copy of Windows now that I have a decent Mac that could double as a gaming rig for some old PC games I haven't played in a while... does all the Custom Edition/Opensauce stuff work in Windows 7, or am I better of getting XP? Will XP games not run well in 7?
Works fine in Windows 7. Can confirm.
All them 99k sPffft. Turnips. The real easy money is in art smuggling.
Fig. A - successful delivery to HiredN00bs' extravagant bell vault.
It did have a great sense of conclusion, I'll give it that.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
That seems like an easy enough way to do it.
Just give Halsey a robot arm, make her not follow the rules but not be an antagonist. Stop the freaking glorifying of other at ONI while only painting her as a villain. ONI is much worse IMO. Anyways, bring back the Arbiter and ex-covenant that are loyal to him but friend to UNSC. Have ONI become an enemy. Bring in Forerunners. Bring back the epic Sci Fi Space opera feel of Halo 2. etc.
NobleGundam
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Hey Gabo, can we have that Firefight Mod plz
User 73706
Banned
The weird thing is that we now have a good side and an evil side of pretty much every faction.
UNSC / ONI
Arbiter / Remnant (neo-covenant)
Bornstellar Ecumene / Ur-Didact and Prometheans
Precursors (sorta?) / Flood
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if they kicked Arbiter out and stuck his story in comics for the fat gaf nerds and just let people get tricked into buying another blockbuster where you fight 3 covenant species and the Neo Prometheans again.
But you need a XbOne to play the next Halo.
nillapuddin
Member
Guys,
(Forerunner book spoiler stuff)
(Forerunner book spoiler stuff)
Precursors = Flood
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Ugh, I hope they throw the Arbiter back into the games. I feel like 343 in their hurry to make Halo their own tried to alienate a ton of Bungies story direction.
nillapuddin
Member
Sorry bro
nillapuddin
Member
no worries bud, its my fault, I forgot that not everyone was "current" on books and just spat it out there
I prefer the idea that it's going to be the Master Chief Vs. Everybody. At some point I wanna see a big Two Betrayals-style battle between all the factions and the MC just picking everyone off from the sidelines. No green reticles ever again.
User 73706
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I know.
Even if the Precursors still have a Lovecraftian mantle to follow, they're still something of an organized race compared to the Flood going space viking on everyone.
That would be a kind of hilarious Halo fan tagline for Halo 5.
Was talking this over with someone at FUD, but I can't really see them ever improving Halo's NPCs unless they are villains for at least part of the game. Humans won't be interesting to fight, really, compared to stuff the Covenant/Forerunner/Flood can do, but it would be nice to have them be competent allies or even enemies, as long as the latter is in moderation.
Doppleganger Spartans controlled by Ancient Alien Ancestry.
nillapuddin
Member
true story
YES HOLY SHIT
User 73706
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Reminding me I have a backlog. Darn you!
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
These H3 yelos are great. I still prefer Foundry, though. There's a little health bar underneath the shield bar.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'm probably gonna hop on Reach in a little bit if anyone wants to join in. I could be convinced to play Halo 3, too. And, uhh, Halo 4 as a last resort.
Or Battlefield 3
Yeah that part is nice but everything else about the Yelo versions is better in my opinion.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
On widescreen, there's a slight, but visible stretching of the reticle. Doesn't happen on Foundry.
User 73706
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I know I barely ever post actual content, but I just released an album and one of the tracks is heavily inspired by Halo 3 ODST's Air Traffic Control track. You know, the cool one from the Skyline suite.
Feel free to provide any comments/criticism!
Feel free to provide any comments/criticism!
You should get League of Legends dawg
Franklinator
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Cool, I'll listen as soon as I get the chance and let you know what I think.
K
kittens
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lol no
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
If I'm going to play a MOBA it's going to be Dota 2.
But I'm not going to play a MOBA.
Steelyuhas
Member
Ha, took you long enough.
For the record, I actually enjoyed Avengers for the most part. Yes, it's pretty dumb, but the film was decent enough.
What we were specifically talking about though is Whedon for some reason intentionally writing himself into a corner where he forces himself (or his writing staff for the show) to write some bullshit that shouldn't ever have to be written. A nice "fuck you because reasons" to the audience.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Oh cool, there's a Hornet and Gauss Hog on Death Island. The Hornet is pretty much just a reskin of the Banshee, though.
The Grenade Launcher turrets on Blood Gulch are cool, too.
The Grenade Launcher turrets on Blood Gulch are cool, too.
You'd have more fun cutting your wrists than dealing with the humans in that game.
Have fun!
Did you disable HUD scaling? Also F7 for Opensauce options
Depends on the maps you play on. All of the .yelo maps and some of the newer maps with newer tags have HUDs optimized for widescreen, but obviously the original maps aren't compatible.
Steelyuhas
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Apparently there are perks in BF4...
something something halo etc
There is perks in BF3.
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