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matchmaking better work more like 2 or 3 in 4 because I can't take another shitfest like reach
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Halo |OT2| Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power
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yep
matchmaking better work more like 2 or 3 in 4 because I can't take another shitfest like reach
HiredN00bs
Member
Exactly. TrueSkill works. Most playlists in Reach use it with very loose restrictions, and DNFs and guests also diminish results.True skill works in Arena, I have to believe that whatever makes it work there isn't turned on in the other playlists.
Trueskill restrictions should scale by real-time skill distributions, there should be fewer playlists overall, and guests should be restricted to certain playlists.
guests being able to play pretty much every list is one of the worst decisions they made with reach
Steelyuhas
Member
True skill works in Arena, I have to believe that whatever makes it work there isn't turned on in the other playlists.
Yeah it's just scaled to be very important in Arena, including impacting search times.
It's basically the same difference between Ranked and Social playlists in Halo 3.
HiredN00bs
Member
It was a nice idea, giving people the freedom to share the entire multiplayer buffet with friends and family. Perhaps if they had scaled back playlists allowing guests over time it would have been better.
Arena also forces you to play the minimum amount of games for TS to figure you out before it'll show your division. So the people that are playing it are at least playing til they get a division, which means TS has a better idea about more of the population in that list.
Also, re: the Grade thing. Apparently a couple people at HBO found a post that Reach is (supposed) to have a minimum rank of Sergeant before you can play campaign co-op. So I guess Reach does support minimum rank requirements to play a playlist, and I somehow set it off. TheMoreYouKnow.gif
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Strange. Is this so that people will play the campaign before having it spoiled for them? Or that they'll learn the bare basics of gameplay before playing co-op? I remember that Bungie implemented Campaign matchmaking a week or two after launch to avoid spoiler players -- maybe this is a similar measure.
Granted I haven't played The Arena in a long time, but I never felt the search times were any worse than the other playlists.
aw, punkin.
Tha Robbertster
Member
lol
That strafing actually looked better than the normal strafing in Reach
ElzarTheBam
Member
lol
That strafing actually looked better than the normal strafing in Reach
Is your throat better?
You really need to stop shoving 'things' down there.
Tha Robbertster
Member
I can now talk for more than 1 minute without enduring helish pains! I may actually come online today to play that game you hate.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Mass effect 3, skyrim, left 4 dead? All equally terrible.
It will be like 3 and Reach, Trueskill isn't going anywhere. Just would like a decent amount of ranked; limit the unranked things so things aren't out of control, i.e. enough of the awful duplicate playlists. Do a Team Training and if possible, like DLC, make it so a player can be more slayer-oriented or objective based, so he/she will be more likely to be matched up with a slayer game. Training can be your typical 4v4 Slayer/Objective stuff with guests enabled, no party restrictions, etc.
That thread (the people talking not having enough time to be competitive) reads like my future, I got a new job, and at some point im most likely going to be asked to move around/ put in a lot of time into work. Im determined not to let that get in the way of Halo 4, I know its going to happen at some point though.
I had to quit Halo for eight months (going abroad for school/work) and I made it back without too much trouble, the only thing is I can't play competitive anymore. I used to have a team on Gamebattles, and playing with them (whether it was GB customs, random customs, MLG playlist, or scrub MM) was fun, now I'm all by myself (well, since this month, my roommate is on the Xbox with me
) My friends list is more or less empty and I'm almost always the only one on Halo. EuroHaloGAF, hit me up!Devo, I'd play with you (I mostly play Classic, that or SWAT and MLG), but the 9 hour difference might be tough to handle
Hahaha, oh wow. Please tell me he doesn't try to play MM with that connection..
Blue Ninja
Member
Well fuck you, Elzar. Fuck you right in the ear.
Jk.
Not just the ear. I'll hire some kind of robot to do it. Then again, you might like that.
Also, my granddad's awesome. "Your GF broke up with you? Go get wasted."
Tha Robbertster
Member
ElzarTheBam
Member
IMO he gave the best advice out of all of us.
Blue Ninja
Member
"If she's worthy of you, she'll come back to you. If she does, don't jump her, make her feel what she did to you. If she doesn't, well, get wasted again."
With age truly comes wisdom.
Garrett 2U
Member
I think it is time to bring this back.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Tha Robbertster
Member
What do you guys think, will we get some new Halo 4 stuff before we hit the new OT?
I love how your gramps also implies that you should get some revenge :lol
Blue Ninja
Member
So do I, and he's absolutely right. The man grew up during war, he knows what the fuck he's talking about. :lol
True, Journey is the only game worth playing this year!
Seriously, buy a PS3 for this 3 hour game, people.
The Librarian
Banned
Mass Effect 3 is, more often than not, a good game until you get to the ending which leaves you with a very bad taste in your mouth. Left 4 Dead is a quality game but it didn't have any staying power for me. Skyrim is an ocean three inches deep.
#OhSnap
Tha Robbertster
Member
What you're forgetting here, is that Elzar has a particularly bad taste when it comes to games. So anything he says about that subject should be taken with a grain of salt.
Also, anyone wants to play some MLG right now? I don't want to play CTF with randoms on my team.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I really do wanna play journey, I must admit.
Left 4 dead was soured for me by idiots I often played with.
Playing castlevania Harmony of despair with Krow and xand at the moment, seems like a great game, awesome music as well.
Patiently waiting for bioshock infinite and the obvious.
My guess it will be the same info dump we got during GDC.
squidhands
Member
This is some mesmerizing shit. Thanks for hosting it on a site that bypasses my work's filters.I think it is time to bring this back.
I think it is time to bring this back.
I saw this during the vidoc too. The BR's reticle implies its not as accurate as the H2 BR. Hopefully its at least better than the H3 BR.
Yeah that's what I'm thinking too... :/
Didnt jessica say she would work on getting some images or vid of one of the new multiplayer maps for this week's bulletin? I hope so!
Also, even though I wasn't able to join the HaloGaf march madness tourney, I'm only 2 picks behind you David... And you have UNC winning it all! No way man!
(Although I have Kansas which also looks unlikely)
I think it'll end up being the one game I constantly (annoying;y) push people towards playing this year. So powerful, and such an amazing, fresh co-op experience. The music is Shadow of the Colossus levels of greatness. The environments are just...
Yeah. We're going to play it again tomorrow and hope we get paired with a new player so we can see them experiment too.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Vids would be awesome, but I'm pretty sure she said images and even that was a maybe. If you truly loved me Jessica, you would make good on that 'promise'.
I think it is time to bring this back.
sogood.gif
I'll just leave that on my other monitor all day.
I wouldn't make any assumptions based on the reticule we are seeing from the alpha. A no-spread hitscan BR is going to be pretty accurate at the proper ranges, I imagine.
Is there anywhere I can find a video of most of the matches at the redbull lan?
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
That gif is awesome but I hope there are less pre-canned animations and more natural looking physical reactions. I think I remember Reach having almost the exact same death animation going up against the shotgun nearly every time (correct me if I'm wrong), where his arms kinda shoot forward and his body arcs back and just falls over. I'm pretty sure halo 3 didn't have that, which is probably one of the reasons I love that shotgun so much more.
Hypertrooper
Member
So Frankie is the new head of Lionhead Studios?
The medals are so weird.I think it is time to bring this back.
I'm teasing, I just kept reading that part like Molyneux was telling me about it
We poke fun, because we care.
Hydranockz
Member
Placeholders can be so weird.
Kibbles
Member
I think it is time to bring this back.
The hype has returned.
Figured as much.