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Wasn't there talks of a Halo 3/Reach playlist consolidation coinciding with Halo 4's launch? Or did that never happen?
Franklinator
Member
It is during this golden era of video games we're going through. It's also apparently an achievement to complete Spartan Assault using the 10000 credits you bought for $40 rather than having skill.
Halo is Pay to Win, it finally happened.
Let's see if the slippery slope continues all the way into Halo 5. Buying Perks and XP fastrack packs on the marketplace to be used in Matchmaking.
Syphon Filter
Member
Didn't they do that with halo 4? you buy a mountain dew or Doritos for more xp.
Next month you will be able to buy the resister armor mod from the marketplace.
They discontinued it so hard all the local stores actually sent their Dukes back. The S controller release was like the OXbox being re-launched
User 73706
Banned
I won't link it because some people hate when my posts turn blue (or i guess yellow on the dark theme) but the first draft of the prelude to my gravity gauntlet Livechamber anthology series is up over at my blog. I could use some criticism.
link
First impressions of SA.
Very buggy. App crashed three times while first trying to play (one time completely locking my system up).
Load times are weird in game. Frame rate drops considerably.
Mouse has a kind of sluggishness to it - you move your mouse and it takes a fair amount of time for your cursor to get there.
Vehicle combat is awful. AWFUL. I can't even drive a Scorpion straight ahead
Combat feels very... eh with keyboard and mouse. Probably should have went with a mobile version
Music is good though.
Edit. What a surprise. Froze my system again. I'll give it one more shot and then I'm going to give up.
Very buggy. App crashed three times while first trying to play (one time completely locking my system up).
Load times are weird in game. Frame rate drops considerably.
Mouse has a kind of sluggishness to it - you move your mouse and it takes a fair amount of time for your cursor to get there.
Vehicle combat is awful. AWFUL. I can't even drive a Scorpion straight ahead
Combat feels very... eh with keyboard and mouse. Probably should have went with a mobile version
Music is good though.
Edit. What a surprise. Froze my system again. I'll give it one more shot and then I'm going to give up.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Feels like Halo.
It's like they setup this domino train wreck nine months ago and they just can't stop it now. No hope for 5. Still playing 4 as I sold Reach.
User 73706
Banned
check your pms
I got it because I had Halo 4 achievements apparently
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I hope for Halo 5 it works with Kinect 2 so you get an achievement for holding up the UPC from your bag of Doritos and pack of Game Fuel and letting Kinect 2 scan it.
EDIT: I was beat!
Oh god what have I done...
EDIT: I was beat!
Only works if you're live streaming it via Twitch.
They did consolidate the Reach playlists, but the fragmentation via the CEA disc plus the fact that they held to their promise to keep vanilla Reach intact mean it's still way too fragmented for its own good, and people who just bought Anniversary are shafted in terms of play options. It's not an ideal situation.
343 has never stated any intention to actually do anything with the 3 lists.
In all seriousness, using the Kinect to scan rebates and codes, plus the automatic settings load for new players, are really awesome if they work as promised. Less a gameplay thing and more of a massive time-saving device, though.
I think someone (Frankie?) mentioned they'd get on it, it was when Halo 3 was announced to be one of the free games for the Games for Gold program.
He didn't make any promises, though. Although with my limited knowledge of the work that goes into this stuff I don't know why they can't. Postrelease support for old titles was one of Bungie's major achilles heels, it would be great for 343i to step up and do a better job on this front.
Unless I'm missing something, there are parts to Spartan Assault that you absolutely cannot get unless you pay for extra credits. I thought they said we could get everything by grinding if we wanted to?
They give you a freebie use of all the equipment in the game, but then you have to pay. There's only one item from each loadout menu that you can buy with exp points. The rest require cR. Oh, and the items only last one match too - So if you do grind and get 1000 points to buy a sniper rifle and you get put in a mission that requires you to be in a vehicle, too bad (not sure if it's the same with bought items. I'm not spending any of my money to find out)
They give you a freebie use of all the equipment in the game, but then you have to pay. There's only one item from each loadout menu that you can buy with exp points. The rest require cR. Oh, and the items only last one match too - So if you do grind and get 1000 points to buy a sniper rifle and you get put in a mission that requires you to be in a vehicle, too bad (not sure if it's the same with bought items. I'm not spending any of my money to find out)
The items you buy with real money last as long as the other upgrades, which is to say one mission.
eh, that's pretty shitty. I was hoping that once you unlocked stuff, you could use it over and over again. Or at the very least could buy items without spending real money.
xxjuicesxx
Member
That sounds really dumb. Lol. What is wrong with these people?
So Jen Taylor is in RoosterTeeth's new anime show thingy.
If there is all this microtransaction bullshit that effects your ability to play the game, why wasn't it free? Or cost like a dollar. If you pay over 5 bucks for a game, you should get some kind of complete experience with just your gameplay, you shouldn't have to feed more money to the machine to progress.
That Ruby thing just started? I swear i watched a trailer for it last year and thought it'd have at least 7 or 8 episodes by now.
Damn, I wish they would. It's not like it's as expensive or time consuming as making an entire new game is. Plus, they need to get as many audiences as they can into it as they transition into next gen with their "failed" Halo 4.
That animation... is pretty bad. I guess Monty isn't so good at doing things that aren't actiony and fast?
User 73706
Banned
I've never been a huge fan of his animation. Everything feels floaty and keyframed to shit.
Orochinagis
Member
lol
Im not surprised for a mobile game, thats how they make money but worried to 343i take a dumb move an implement it for Halo 5.
I'll wait on fushchehchhche to explain to me why this is ok for the Halo franchise.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
So...was anything talked about at Comic Con?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Nailed it.
so good
Hey Frankie and David, why are you guys making such terrible achievements and therefor killing Halo
Also, when is Halo 3 or Reach getting a playlist consolidation update? They're the only Halo multiplayer currently worth playing so you might as well keep it up to date god dammit
Also, when is Halo 3 or Reach getting a playlist consolidation update? They're the only Halo multiplayer currently worth playing so you might as well keep it up to date god dammit
From the other thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIhLBpS6Mw
It actually looks and sounds like a Halo game. I have to say that its nice to see a new Halo product that doesn't have Halo 4 stank all over it (well except for Palmer; a character they want to force down their audience's throat).
Someone at 343 remembers what good Halo games were like apparently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIhLBpS6Mw
It actually looks and sounds like a Halo game. I have to say that its nice to see a new Halo product that doesn't have Halo 4 stank all over it (well except for Palmer; a character they want to force down their audience's throat).
Someone at 343 remembers what good Halo games were like apparently.
xxjuicesxx
Member
I dont think 343 made that game.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Sorry, the rest of that sentence is a 99¢ in-app purchase.
Not even worth a satirical RIP in peace. Seriously, these cheevos are bullshit. The microtransactions in SA is bullshit. P2W in a game you've already paid for is bullshit.
But someone from their studio provided those assets.
Huh? Two thirds of all items in the game are locked behind a paywall. That's worse than Halo 4.
Surprisingly enough though, you don't hear Palmer speak at all. Story is pretty [irrelevant?] as far as I can tell.Here is the booster screen. Even comes with a pretentious glowing "buy credits" button that actually flashes.
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