I will never understand people who do that. In any context. It is just utterly alien thinking to me.
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I will never understand people who do that. In any context. It is just utterly alien thinking to me.
Unless 343i dramatically improves the openess in Halo (5) or the scale of combats, you can expect a shit ton of eye candy.
There is no reason to doubt X1 can't handle Halo 4 with HD textures + other graphical improvements in addition to stability.
I don't believe this year Halo game will be anything than a Halo 4 technical upgrade with maybe a touch of non-linearity (that Sphinx reveal screams of potential "visit x or y or z planet" rather than" visit x then y then z").
which is fine by me, if they manage to make a competent MP environment...tho I don't play Halo MP anymore and I can live with it fine apparently.
squidhands
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What, i just like Halo 4 Flood design. Besides, i haven't bothered making a new avatar for a long time. Haven't found anything avatar-worthy :/
Is the doom art guy Kenneth Scott?
Why does this happen?
squidhands
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It just worked out nicely that you had an alien avatar.
I'm pretty sure Halo 4 Flood resembles a demon in Doom 3...
Har har.
Thought so.
EDIT sometimes i wonder if my way of thinking is alien to others. Probably is.
Yes (NSFW)
ElzarTheBam
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Hell knights :
The tressfx stuff in tomb raider is amazingly well done, I should download it whilst it is free.
squidhands
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ElzarTheBam
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Great to hear. How far are you?
squidhands
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Probably not far.
rescued Elizabeth from the tower, had her bolt from me for killing people, now about to take the skyrail somewhere (the name escapes me; it's early in the morning here). The misogyny and racism is pretty fucking disturbing.
I read that as "Rescued Elzar..."
Waste of money.
ElzarTheBam
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Not far, you have a lot more awesomness to take in. Enjoy the ride.
And yeah, the
racism
Hey, I'm not a Wii U.
At least a Wii u has tri ultimate... I can't think of any other games on it.
Oh wow, you have sunk so low to insult the Wii-U. Nintendo will rule this world once more and people like you will be exiled to wherever Xand and his cronies are hiding.
You just wait for the Nicholas Cage part
No they won't
squidhands
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ElzarTheBam
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For the JP HaloGAF crowd: for just 100K, you too can SHOOOT HERRRR
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JURASSIC-PA...Original-Screen-Used-Movie-Prop-/390756055657
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JURASSIC-PA...Original-Screen-Used-Movie-Prop-/390756055657
Demoncarnotaur
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Less clutter, direct to the info. Safe zone friendly.
I like this.
Thats my biggest issue with his art.. it is all very good, but often times too similar.
Believe me, if I could I would get that. :lol
FUNKNOWN iXi
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The only good CTF was in CE and Halo 2, the hell with everything after.
Terminal CTF, Offense: Go inside the right building and drop down that little path while your teammate waits up top. Grab the flag, run through that doorway and pass the flag up to your teammate.
What was wrong with this Bungie/343? Why was CTF made into a sluggish shit show with Halo 3 and now, 3 games later, CTF is still crap comparatively. They need to bring back the flag physics from the first two games if they're serious about making it as fun as it once was.
squidhands
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who's good at photoshopping gifs?
I have the technology, not sure if I have the time depending on what you want.
I'd say at a glance that the flood forms in four are pretty much the same head wise
Very nice but for that much I could make myself one of these:
And the auctions not even done so it might sell for a lot more.
nillapuddin
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Im gunna jump on this UI game today
but first
Forge maps REALLY need the ability to chose an image that is used for its Map Card
Really, Really, Badly.
but first
Forge maps REALLY need the ability to chose an image that is used for its Map Card
Really, Really, Badly.
inb4 why it wouldnt work, dont care
User 73706
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Yeah if I lived anywhere a Jeep made sense I would definitely think about plunking down the money for one of those.
In terms of bang for your buck l'd say custom thumbnails would be one of the most significant additions they could make to Forge.
Because they are total hardcore badasses. A small team of very experienced pros, led by Andy O'Neil and Marco Thrush who were key leads on Metroid Prime.
I expected custom thumbnails in Reach with how much they talked about and showed off Forge.
NobleGundam
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Since 343 did multiplayer connected to a canon vision with "War Games".. What's the explanation to the Flood Infected Spartans, are they a hypothetical mashup of what infected Spartans look like similar to Combat forms?
Perhaps there's highly classified records in ONI with evidence of Spartan IV's compromised in investigating a strange anomaly on a ship or planet but then were overwhelmed by an ambush of Flood? Anyways, if 343 does expand on this I'm curious on how they'll handle this part of the lore in future halos.
Perhaps there's highly classified records in ONI with evidence of Spartan IV's compromised in investigating a strange anomaly on a ship or planet but then were overwhelmed by an ambush of Flood? Anyways, if 343 does expand on this I'm curious on how they'll handle this part of the lore in future halos.
Was that the "kill me" one? Do you still have that pic?
Fun fall days are the worst, juices has my back
EDIT: Found it, hahahaha
Orochinagis
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They should had opted for making the flag mark appears every 5 seconds instead of a permanent mark above the player or make it perk exclusive (and maybe make the PV highlight only the flag), make flagnum an special ability and a time penalty for holding the flag for more than 2 mins.
I sometimes tend to die in front of Yourexwife to make him carry the flag or one ally who carry a power weapon
It is a awful map why it was picked over a decent map I don't know. The glaring flaw of the map is that ridge, how it wasn't noticed is beyond me.
I would as well if I could drive and as you said live somewhere where it could be used.Yeah if I lived anywhere a Jeep made sense I would definitely think about plunking down the money for one of those.
Ragnarok Flames
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When we played together, we were pretty efficient at Scoring Ricochet goals and capping Flags.
squidhands
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you could pull the shittiest BTB map from Forge Hub and it would be better than Settler. The base terrain of the map is horrible, so there's nowhere to go but down.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Just rip the ui from halo 2,3 or Reach.
Better yet a hybrid of the 3
Better yet a hybrid of the 3
Due to the way lockstep networking works, it's just passing around button presses. The reason the magic works is because everyone started in the same state (A) and the same sequence of button presses will always result in the current state (B) because everything in the game is deterministic.
You don't need to send the master state to all the clients at the start of the session because they all have a local copy of the initial state, the .map file and the settings file that adjusts some parameters. They all just load that data into RAM and activate it from the same point, because they know everyone else has the same data and the same starting point.
Now, dropping out a player. This is the easier of the two, since you just need to get rid of one play from the button press relay. It still requires a lot of work, but it's definitely less of a headache. FUN FACT ABOUT REACH/QUIRK OF THIS FUNCTIONALITY: get a checkpoint in co-op. Go past the checkpoint for a while, and have someone quit. You'll notice that it'll say "xxxxxx has left the game" each time you revert - because it's literally replaying the player leaving the game to keep everyone's simulation in sync.
Now why can't we just add players to the session? Can't we just add them to the button press relay? Nope. They need to be given the same state as everyone else; not a close estimate, not a good guess, literally 1:1. Or the simulations will drift and the game desyncs.
The game's state can be huge. I don't know the exact size of Halo's game state, but it could be anywhere in size. It is going to be considerably big. Let's just take a rough guess and say it's 40MB-100MB. This is a lot of freaking data to just send over the pipe to someone, considering some people are using 512/512kb DSL still. And nobody can do anything while the data is being sent to the person joining. Not really feasible. So the binary blob of the game state is right out.
Another option is to send the joining client a recording of the game up to that point, and play the record in ultrafast-forward until it gets to the current state. You can do neat tricks like capture snapshots of the game state along the way, but this replay file can get huge, even bigger than the game's state. Remember, drop-in has to work if we've been playing on The Ark for 20 minutes or 200 minutes or even 2000 minutes. If you've played an RTS that lets you join a game in progress, they tend to use this method. Once again though, you're running afoul of Microsoft's bandwidth limits and home user connections. Whoops. So both our "best" methods of allowing someone to join a lockstep session are technically possible, but not feasible.
Asynchronous networking modes like competitive multiplayer care LESS about being out of synch. The game state is not only smaller, it's not even the same size on all the boxes. The host actually has much more information than the clients and doesn't share everything with them to keep as little data as possible from being sent down the wire. This is why you lose sprees and perfections in Halo titles if the host has to move to another box, because only the host determines if you get a spree medal ("oh hey client 10, i see you got 5 hammer kills in a row, please award this medal to yourself and display it on your UI"), and it does not share the ongoing spree data of every player in the game with everyone else. The new host after a bluescreen doesn't have that data available when it's reconstructing the session. The state is small enough that when you join a session, it just needs to send you the bare minimum to get working.. an asynch session can miss a huge chunk of updates but get back on track and "heal" once it digest enough new data on everyone's positions and status.
The tradeoff to the lower sized game state is that it requires a lot more ongoing bandwidth to keep going. So to have AI with full functionality in asynch, they pretty much have the bandwidth cost of a normal player. The more AI you have, the more bandwidth they cost. Versus lockstep, which uses the same bandwidth if you have 10 or 10,000 AI on one screen. On the upside,you have no button latency. But the asynch bandwidth cost for all the AI is too much for most home connections and Microsoft regulations.
Now put the asynch host on an Azure dedi and you've solved the bandwidth problem.
sidenote: this is why party film clips barely worked in halo 3 but full game films tended to work all of the time. The film clips needed all 4 people in the session to start a the same state, which meant the host starting the film, figuring out state frame 0, then sending that state to the other 3 players, then playing all the button presses to the other players. and it could be a pretty hefty binary blob. Connections were so slow you were more likely to time out of the session waiting for the host to send gigantic state files to 3 different clients than actually see the film ever play.
tl;dr a wizard did it
User 73706
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