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Halo |OT2| Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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god why did i start this bracket pool just to be embarrassed. you should've joined man!
xxjuicesxx
Member
Just give em the fucking game.
Looks like they already did.
The last few years I've just given up on them. My college basketball experience does nothing for predicting March Madness results. Then I end up getting mad.
HiredN00bs
Member
It's like saying this car sucks so the internal combustion engine is a useless invention. It's super-dumb. Huff justified.
Saying that something ignorant is ignorant isn't being an ass. It's not a "bad" word, and it clearly was not used as an insult in this context.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
There's inevitably going to be a NeoGAF Crew for Max Payne 3, but I thought I'd let folks know that I'm going to make a HaloGAF Crew for Max Payne 3 (our Crew will also carry over to GTA V) so if you're part of HaloGAF and are buying Max Payne 3, shoot me a PM with your GT.
Only person I know so far is Ram.
Only person I know so far is Ram.
Barrow Roll
Member
Tell Ram to get back on Gears 3 and maybe I'll think about Max Payne 3.
hmmmm.....
It worked a minute ago!
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Specifically I am looking for a CTF gametype with no bloom. So basically you cannot create a no bloom gamestype?
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
You can't create it. You have to download it from the file share.
Kibbles
Member
This never ceases to amaze me. Every damn time I come across it again.
oh you.
Dirt
Hypertrooper
Member
I AM WINNING!
That is all right now.
We are playing after Australian's rules, right?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Hey at least next year you cant possibly do WORSE.
Hypertrooper
Member
I'll manage to find a way to get negative points.
Devolution
Member
Stay high, camp low spawns?
High Ground was pretty shit afterall. It was like Narrows and Standoff filled with terrible spawns, no matter it if it's slayer or flag. Spawn, grab Sniper at cave, walk five steps, get grenaded from behind because they just spawned on the side wall.
Powerhouse had great initial promise, but it got shafted by an awful flag placement at launch. Should have re-designed the actual building if it wasn't working for a flag sitting. Not like the actual building had any usage in the campaign.
Powerhouse had great initial promise, but it got shafted by an awful flag placement at launch. Should have re-designed the actual building if it wasn't working for a flag sitting. Not like the actual building had any usage in the campaign.
They have similar visuals, and one base, so I think that's why people say that. That being said, Powerhouse has far too much unused space, and High Ground is a superior map.
Once again, I feel like I'm on a different planet than Striker. 1 Flag High Ground was one of the few highlights of TO in 3. There were so many ways to attack the base, and equipment allowed some pretty nice things for the sandbox as well. Draining the flag room, lifting over the gate/up to laser, dropping bubble shields to cover a guy running to the beach. I still say if we have to have AA's, make them like equipment, one use and done.
No, no you're not.
For Flag, High Ground I liked better. But overall and for slayer I liked Powerhouse more. Too many spawn problems in HG to overcome that.
That side wall on the beach was a prominent spawn, as were the ones behind the cannon and the small ass room in the back where two spikers sat.
That side wall on the beach was a prominent spawn, as were the ones behind the cannon and the small ass room in the back where two spikers sat.
I mostly agree but on Condemned it makes for a nice trap and it's not like the exclusive way to go. I prefer no zero grav areas as well, but I still want someone to eventually figure out a way to do it correctly.
Joke post? I don't there's anyone who actually liked that stupid shi-
Mother of god. They do exist.
There is no way to do it correctly, floating around losing complete control of your character sucks, leave it behind. PLEASE.
Devolution
Member
Take Timberland behind the tool shed please, thanks.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Please give me the ability to add low gravity to all maps. Forge 3.0 will finally give us a good version of Midship.
Gabotron ES
Member
An invasion map set inside a covenant cruiser with a low-g space would have been cool.
I think Trueskill itself is working just fine but it comes down to a bunch of factors. In any given list the game is trying to match you with players you have a good connection with, have the same DLC, and are a close match in Trueskill and to do it all quickly. With the skill requirement there is a bit of flexibility. Based purely on my own experience I think the game isn't matching you up with people of your skill necessarily but instead is trying to balance the team's overall trueskill relative to their opponents. Most games where there is an anchor and someone to carry them it seems to be the case for both sides.
It sucks but you have to sacrifice something. Either longer match times, worse connections, or no DLC. If you want that, there is the option for close skill matched games. I have no idea how well it works though.
It makes me think that H4's best bet for solving some of these issues would be to drastically reduce the number of lists and keep the population as tightly grouped as possible. If we look at the minimum options we could probably get away with we have FFA, 2v2, 4v4, and 8v8 lists. Have Slayer be the top two voting options with an objective being the third choice and enforce large party matching across the board. Fringe lists could come and go as they did in H3.
It sucks but you have to sacrifice something. Either longer match times, worse connections, or no DLC. If you want that, there is the option for close skill matched games. I have no idea how well it works though.
It makes me think that H4's best bet for solving some of these issues would be to drastically reduce the number of lists and keep the population as tightly grouped as possible. If we look at the minimum options we could probably get away with we have FFA, 2v2, 4v4, and 8v8 lists. Have Slayer be the top two voting options with an objective being the third choice and enforce large party matching across the board. Fringe lists could come and go as they did in H3.
Devolution
Member
Steelyuhas
Member
That is all right now.
My worst bracket ever. I mean seriously, so bad.
Yeah that's cutting right to the core of it. When it comes to stuff like snipers and SWAT I definitely agree about keeping it out of regular lists. One thing that I overlooked was Co-op and Firefight lists which shouldn't need more than 3 lists total.
Hydranockz
Member
5-6 player offerings? TO? It seems to me that it goes from 4v4s right up to 8v8s. Or do you think that middle ground just adds to the already large heap of hoppers?
Deputy Moonman
Member
Whether the BTB population would plummet or not, I'm not interested in playing with guests. I would rather wait longer for a good game than shorter for a bad game with a bunch of idiots. Ranked BTB in Halo2 was pretty much my favorite thing ever and then they took it away after I broke into the 30's. So dumb. BTB has never been any good since then thanks to guests.
Devolution
Member
I think the middle ground adds too much honestly and I'd rather have maps either for 4v4 or 8v8.
I hate to say it as 6v6 is probably my favorite team size to play but it isn't distinct enough to really warrant it's own list. Probably one of my favorite lists ever was Squad Battle in Halo 3. 6v6 Slayer, Flag and Bomb. It was glorious.
bobs...onGaf
Member
I think the other option was Recon for no one. It seems like Bungie.net authenticates that a player can use Recon. I guess by just unlocking it for everyone 343 are getting rid of that authentication step.
Might be wrong, but if im right, your post would have had a totally different meaning after Recon was gone.
Tha Robbertster
Member
Why remove doubles? Its population has always bean healthy in 3 and Reach and many people enjoy playing it.
bobs...onGaf
Member
This. People on here keep asking to merge it with Swat, and it makes me facepalm, other than having quicker kill times the gameplay is vastly different.
For 343 to continue having "unlock mode", they would have had to have working Halo 3/ODST stats processing, which we don't even know if H3/ODST stats are ever actually coming back at this point, besides game count summary. Bungie.net actually verifies the Vidmasters to prevent people just unlocking the achievements offline with modding then going on and getting Recon.
Easier to do a global unlock than re-implement the unlock functionality. Microsoft won't even spend the miniscule amount of money to re-prop the Reach stats API on Waypoint, let alone reimplement Halo 3 stats and the Recon unlocker.
I don't mind everyone getting Recon though anyway. After a while, you might as well drop more armor pieces globablly to spice things up. Hell, I'd personally be fine with Eternal flames being globally unlocked after a while. Same with Johnson in ODST and the Gamestop armor in Reach.
Tha Robbertster
Member
Waypoint people make me sad:
or another gem:
Really??
or another gem:
Really??
ElzarTheBam
Member
Waypoint people make me sad
Really??
You underestimate the internet my good friend.
Seriously, in a few months it'll be 3 years since the Recon floodgates opened. I don't think anyone really even notices if you have it on anymore. It was mostly special because of Halo 3's limited selection of armor variants and the fact that it was Bungie and whoever Bungie gave it to only. After the Vidmasters it was "neat, you finished Endure".
It's not like people are going to be able to take screenshots of themselves in the armor anyway
It's not like people are going to be able to take screenshots of themselves in the armor anyway