ViewtifulJC
Banned
Dual-wielding can come back when the Two Magnum combo is back to awesomeness of Halo 2, before the nerf.
John Woo style, baby
John Woo style, baby
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Halo |OT2| Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power
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no dual wielding.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I'd prefer for weapons to stand on their own merits than needing to be chained along with something else to work. Otherwise you have the stupid scenario where everyone calls the BR overpowered again because the rest of the non-power weapons had to be gimped so that you could use two at once.
D3LI43RED
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
More confirmations. So that leads me to believe you can now hold 3 weapons. Which is why the codpiece had disappeared.
Latvian Hitman
Member
I hope they find a nice compromise between the H3 hog and the Reach hog for Halo 4. I know it was a bit overpowered in 3, (and I admittedly whored the thing on a regular basis)- but they went a little overboard with trying to fix that in Reach. I had a go-cart as a kid that I would ride into battle before I'd hop into that thing. Little orange flag and all.
That's fuckin teaaaaamwooorrrrrrkthanks.
Everyone RT! - https://twitter.com/#!/TheHaloCouncil/status/189432755476627456
ps: Frankie and Ellis can get their vengeance and have a tweet storm the opposite way
Bad? Apparently not everyone got a hold of dual wielding plasma rifles.
This clip sums up after hearing about the GameInformer article then Frankie and Ellis posting tidbits.
ps: didn't mind dual wielding personally. I'll live.
ps: didn't mind dual wielding personally. I'll live.
My man. B_)
Well personally I rarely have those problems myself seeing as I usually get the power weapons before the enemy team does.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Steelyuhas
Member
It is.
I'm guessing there will be a new default control scheme with sprint on the left stick click.
Gud.
squidhands
Member
You could not have a more perfect avatar for anything that you say.
Franklinator
Member
But why hold 3 weapons when you can...quadruple-wield
ViewtifulJC
Banned
You just chime in on the most random things..
What's the FOV of the game? (please don't answer, thanks in advance)
Tashi wielding?
ElzarTheBam
Member
Hobnobbing is such a strong word, I prefer to use the word digestive.
I remember watching that game and the commentators kept playing it lol
Not even if we've unlocked the Akimbo perk?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
That gif is basically HaloGAF's opinion on Halo 4 the past couple days. GI reveal was painful, but the soothing sexy voice of Frankie means the hype is still alive.
Bam!, Megaton out of nowhere.
Captain Blood
Member
I am excited to check it out. I will have to watch some videos and stuff to get an idea of what the hell I am suppose to do but it should be fun. I want to finish ME3 before diving into it though.
Can't say i'm happy with this. I liked the concept a lot... but i understand the decision, neither Halo 2 or 3 did dual wielding well really and Reach's sandbox was improved a bit as DW was left out (but we know that sandbox ended up being one step forward, one step back due to other decisions...). Consider adding dual wielding to Halo 5/6 campaign and very least, campaign and MP sandbox don't have to be the same always.
Yeah, I was one of the few people on HaloGAF who thought dual wielding was fun.
I can understand removing it since it is hard to balance dual wieldable weapons. I liked the bullet hose that was the SMG mixed with the Plasma rifle in Halo 2.
You will be crushed, mercilessly. Again and again.
DotA has a fairly steep learning curve and a playerbase that absolutely hates newbs. I'm not sure if I'd survive playing DotA 2 after 2+ years without playing it regularly in WCIII.
It's Killa KC birthday, awkward lol.
This is an incredible .gif.
Yeah, comboing weapons was fun but the balancing was atrocious and most of the combos were useless and in general the feature was too CQB-centric. Let us dual wield a scoped pistol plus SMG, this would give you tools for both CQB and mid-range fighting, you wouldn't be doing that well either but allows great flexibility.
I hope that someday 343i manages to figure out how to make dual wielding work with core Halo gameplay without issues, a true addition.
EDIT ah well, at least MechWarrior Online comes this year, i can pseudo-dual wield in it (dual arm mounted Gauss Rifles FTW).
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
If we keep up this pace we'll start running out of crumbs.
Steelyuhas
Member
Well it was "Elite Only" (LOL) in Reach, so you'd think it would be gone without Elites in Halo 4 MP.
Poker Face
Member
Basically.
Poker Face
Member
there was something special about dual wielding the halo 2 pistol and the SMG...oh well.
high five for double post
Lol too bad it's fuckin Monday, time to get to work hahahaha
Also, did anyone really expect dual wielding? Lol I would be shocked as fuck it Frankie said it was in.
Totally expecting evade to be toned down and made into a base trait ability.
but we've only had dinner rolls of info so far, when is a giant fresh baked bread loaf coming?
<3
Navidson REC
Member
Wasn't this confirmed earlier? I was so certain of this.
This! I really, really enjoy using the shotgun in Reach. Especially compared to Halo 3's which required you to get a bit too close for comfort for any sort of effectiveness.
Lol just saw this now, fuck you hahaha
I find it pretty hilarious that so many people in here were ripping 343, claiming Halo 4 is fucked. And now, little by little, Frankie and David are winning hearts back lol.
I still haven't scoped out the leak, I'm gonna wait until I buy the magazine. Also, gotta listen to the podcast and see some gameplay before I start forming my opinion. There's just so little to go on.
The Librarian
Banned
Correct.
EdibleExplosives
Member
I actually kinda liked dual-wielding, but I only ever really used it when I was fucking about in custom games. Great news about armor-lock though.
Not as far as I know.
The Antitype
Banned
All the talk about Halo 4 inspired me to jump back into Halo Reach after a long hiatus playing BF3 and GoW3.
Damn I missed this game. I know there are people here that dislike where Bungie took the game in terms of feature-set and balance, but I love it.
The ONLY change I would make is to have Bungie sit down in a room and play BF3 with high-quality headphones, so they could get a sense of what real, meaty, loud weapon sounds can add to a shooter.
But yeah, I love me some Reach. I'll hold it up as the best Halo MP to date, regardless of the flack I take.
Damn I missed this game. I know there are people here that dislike where Bungie took the game in terms of feature-set and balance, but I love it.
The ONLY change I would make is to have Bungie sit down in a room and play BF3 with high-quality headphones, so they could get a sense of what real, meaty, loud weapon sounds can add to a shooter.
But yeah, I love me some Reach. I'll hold it up as the best Halo MP to date, regardless of the flack I take.
Can't wait until they tell us Sprint isn't in, AAs are pick-ups, loadouts are gone and unlocks are only cosmetic. That day will be a glorious one.
Until that day I'm not excited about Halo 4's MP.