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The Henery
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Tread lightly dude. I played one game of ranked TS the other day, went up by 6 or so kills, all of a sudden one of the opposing guys starts moving at 500% speed and headshot sniping me through walls with a BR. They're probably revving up the J-tags for Wednesday's revival.
CreateNowSleepLater
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I'll tell you what, after playing in customs with you guys I need a lot of practice.
Great music, voice acting, artstyle and the story arc is very well done. Not much interactivity (it is a Telltale game, so keep expectations in check), but that does not hamper the overall enjoyment.
Here are some FRAP screenshots I made of my playthrough:
User 73706
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It looks like BioLAnds Noirdershock Infinite 2.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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There's still host booting, standby for respawns and network throttling cheating going on too. The last few weeks we've played Halo 3 on Thursday nights we've resorted to customs the host/cheating was that bad.
Halo 3 online sucks in 2013, especially for Aussie parties.
Agreed and solid post mate.
Yeah, kept thinking the whole time I was playing it that (almost) all female characters looked like Elizabeth or at least were made in that style. Not really a complaint though, it fits the noir style very well.
The Henery
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Any game online sucks for Aussies. I assume you were playing ranked? I played Halo 3 regularly for about a month leading up to GTA's release and never saw cheating in Social.
User 73706
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All those girls are elizabeth and that dude looks like John Marston and Hugh Jackman had a baby baptized in cougar's blood.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Both ranked and social, party leader changes things up. Reach and 4 are far better at anti-host bridging and regional host selection/country player matching. All suffer from low populations pools for local Aussie players though, I don't blame the games for that. Being a 50 in ranked objective from Australia in 3 prepared me for population drops in Reach and Halo 4
We've had cheating in both with more prevalence in ranked of course.
Zeouterlimits
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Yeah, I'm waiting on another episode or two to come out before jumping into Fables, want to see if reviews pick up a small bit.
Sounds about right, we inverters are pretty dang skeevy.
HigherLevel
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Just curious. How many people apart of HaloGAF who are getting a PS4 first, would buy an Xbox One on the spot if Halo 5 was like Halo 2/3?
Zeouterlimits
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I'm almost surely getting a PS4 first, with Destiny probably.*
If Halo 5, was really as good as Halo 3's Campaign & Multiplayer (how do you quantify something so subjective), then yes, I would want to play it.
But there is no way to know that before release, at release or even the first few weeks after. It takes time for the hype to settle down and people understand how they feel about each component of the package.
*Pending a lack of PC version unveiling
I'd really want an Xbox One, but the more I think about it, I dunno if $500 + $60 for live and another $60 for the game would be worth it.
If there was a bundle or a deal on Black Friday, I'd probably bite. I love Sony's exclusives, but they don't come close to old school Halo. I'd still use the PS4 as my primary console though (especially if the rumors about superior multiplats prove true).
gAg CruSh3r
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I will get one sooner or later but I'm not a big fan of Sony's exclusive games. I will be getting a XboxOne first but Halo 5 I will get no matter what. To be honest Halo 2 was the better Halo then Halo 3.
Halo 4 feels a lot better now and I hope they have some kind of feel between Halo 4 and Halo 2. I just want AA gone bring back power ups. Just keep sprint. No ordnance drop (keep only in customs) unless it's weapons drop. Please for the sake of Halo; more and better area maps.
User 73706
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I'm not getting either console right off the bat, but Halo 5 could be CE2 for all I care. It doesn't mean shit if people don't come back to play it. I think that's part of the reason why Halo 4 and to a lesser extent Reach sucked so much; people just started leaving the community.
CreateNowSleepLater
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Would have picked it up for Christmas with a true return to Halo. Now I'll wait for a sale or for Borderlands 3. Maybe get it for Destiny. Halo isn't a console mover for me anymore.
respect haha did they just randomly announce a gig?
X and Y man, do it!
Orochinagis
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I will go for the PS4 this time,Halo is the only game I care on Xbox and the Xbone is at $800 no way I would buy the console at that price and most of the services are blocked for Mexico till next year like always.
See you starside Halo, I will wait for a price reduction.
EDIT: Forgot to mention Xbox One games will cost $90 vs PS4 games at $60
User 73706
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Poker Face
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is anyone buying an xbox one?
I am. All my friends and I have always played together on Xbox so we are all getting One. I'm the only one getting it at launch though. Most are getting it like a few weeks to a month later.
User 73706
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I'll probably get the inevitable Slim 1TB HD version release that'll be out next year.
Orochinagis
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MS is ajusting theirs prices according to the region they are selling the games (RIP Microsoft points) so screw mexico because we pay more taxes even the digital versions are more expensive than the retail game while Sony doesnt care and you can buy their games according the US prices also you can buy the digital version in dollars to avoid regional taxes.
Whoever gets the Boltshot one is immediately deemed a BK.
Eventually. I really have no interest in a PS4, even before all this 180 stuff.
I wouldn't be surprised, and I don't understand why gamers should be either. We were barely getting 720p on many games this gen (I just realized Skyrim seems to shave a few pixels off the top and bottom of my screen) . At worst, we'll have to wait a year or two. But I highly doubt we'll be seeing 1080p60 from all the PlayStation's games, especially later on in the lifecycle. They may simply have more horsepower to hide the fact right now with games that aren't heavily optimized for the hardware.
I have to laugh at all the people doing bicubic resamples of images to simulate upscaling in the other thread. People who want to pretend like the rest of the console wars never showed that graphics ultimately don't matter. Get the console that fits you and shut the hell up.
Hate me all you want, I love the design of the Boltshot. It does a fairly good job hewing to the Forerunner aesthetic and Forerunner weapons we saw previously, and it was a surprisingly fun weapon to use in campaign.
In a similar mindset. Dunno if they'll actually have a slim within a year but at least they'll prolly have updated SKUs and should have ironed out any possible manufacturing issues (I doubt we're going to have a RRoD situation on our hands if they feel confident enough to boost clock speeds though. The advantage of a humongous case.)
Also I want a white stormtrooper one.
StalkerUKCG
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I'd love the AR version but its way too expensive
Yeah the Dark Soul's images on the other thread are a bit ridiculous, but I think the power differences still do and will matter late in then gen. It could mean 720/30FPS on Xbox and 720/60FPS on PS4. Though like you said, get the console that fits you.
User 73706
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I honestly feel like the Boltshot was too "chunky" for how small it was to be Forerunner tech. If we got another Promethean pistol, I'd rather it be a little bit more skeletal and angular compared to how blocky and thick the Boltshot was. A more fully-realized version of this, for example:
It would obviously depend on the developer, but I think most multiplats wouldn't go that route. I dunno if the gameplay ramifications would complicate things, but I don't think it might always be as simple as "well we coded it to run at twice the frame rate". We'll certainly see down the line, though--that will be interesting.
I honestly feel like the Boltshot was too "chunky" for how small it was to be Forerunner tech. If we got another Promethean pistol, I'd rather it be a little bit more skeletal and angular compared to how blocky and thick the Boltshot was. A more fully-realized version of this, for example:
Fair point. I think it's got a great silhouette but you're right about the "chunk" (which is sort of odd considering that they didn't make the Forerunner structures or design on a macro scale bulky at all--it's far more streamlined than Bungie's Steelrunner designs.)
FUNKNOWN iXi
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This is why Halo is where it is today, because of this refusal to accept that this mentality is false.
Bold 1: Reach Anniversary was complete crap and it's shocking to see you use the same argument Ozzy did many moons ago. Also funny to see Ozzy like your post lol
Bold 2: You're talking about leading in a game where it's universal agreed that Halo 3's netcode was complete shit on an inconsistent, burst-fire weapon? And who says no one would want to learn the Pistol again.. It's such a satisfying weapon once you get better with it and no other weapon has come close feeling as rewarding.
Bold 3: Yeah people want Halo back, but the there are people who want Halo back. I am one of those people.
Remember, if they did bring the Pistol back it doesn't have to be a weapon you spawn with if it remains anything close to what it was, considering if 343 didn't balance the other weapons properly anyway.
As far as this comment, let's remember we're playing a game and people don't have the memories of a goldfish. After you shoot a weapon a few times, you know what it does. A Rocket doesn't have to be gigantic just like a skill-based precision weapon that has the potential to kill fast doesn't have to be a rifle.
Stop treating your fanbase like idiots.
ALSO, how many times must I say to you people that I understand a complete rip of the H1 Pistol in any current Halo sandbox would be overpowered? Et tu, Fyre?
User 73706
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High skill curves and a 3SK utility weapon you get every spawn does not compute.
I would consider it but would wait for the game to get into savvy Halo fan's hands to confirm. It would have to hit on all the right notes though which has a 99.99% chance of happening, unfortunately. Plus, I'd have to be able to buy an Xbox One without a Kinect.
...that's a really good chance
aHebrewMenagerie
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Play me 1v1 in Halo CE and we'll fix that programming.
But back to FUNKOWN's post, I personally don't want a weapon like the pistol in a Halo game unless the game had a skill curve that could hold it. Dumping the CE pistol into a game like Halo 2 or 3 would be a disaster; it would become the all-powerful killing machine that ignoramuses currently think it was in CE. The reason the CE pistol worked was because of the entire weapon sandbox and player movement; it simply wouldn't work in any of the "modern" Halo games.
Well you convinced me on my impulse. I just went down the street and picked up Pokemon X. Once H3 is alive and kicking I'll pick up a 3 month sub for live.
Here's how my night is gonna go, eat, drink, play.
thezerofire
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did you mean 99.99% chance of not happening?
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