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Halo |OT2| Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Right, I forgot why I disliked you. Now I remember, you hate Valhalla.
First of all, there's no way there's going to be a terrain editor in Forge that will be able to reproduce Valhalla.
Second of all, Valhalla is my favorite map of all time. There, I said it.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
What was the excuse about not being able to watch theater with your buddies in Reach?
Because I hate that
Why Bungie
Me:
I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with. I am not an advocate of armor abilities, nor was I advocating for them there.
I am at the 'acceptance' stage here. Halo 4 is going to have armor abilities (or whatever they call them). That's the reality of it. I want the game to play as well as possible and that means designing the maps with them in mind; Reach's many remakes showed that maps made before AA's were in Halo played poorly with them shoehorned in after the fact, with very few exceptions (tough to break a map with Hologram, for instance).
Really interested to see the new Forge, and that's coming from someone who's tried to build maps multiple times in both iterations of Forge, but is yet to produce a finished map. I've sketched out designs, thought deeply about lighting and player space, chosen spawn points and calculated lines of site.
But I still haven't finished a single map. That's my challenge to 343i, usability.
But I still haven't finished a single map. That's my challenge to 343i, usability.
That was the first map I played on Halo 2 mp, loved it so much.
I really enjoyed the story in ME3, it is not just a third person shooter and the enhanced control/combat system contributed significantly to my enjoyment of the game. It felt essentially like a more refined ME2 gameplay wise to me. If there is an issue anyone has with the story it is probably the ending, although I personally enjoyed it.
With regards to your spoilerish thing:
During the single player game you acquire "War Assets", which add up to calculate a numerical "Military Strength". Playing Multiplayer increases what is referred to as your "Galactic Readiness Rating" which by default is at 50%. So for example, if your Military Strength was 1000, then at 50% readiness your Effective Military Strength would actually be 500. You can also convert your Multiplayer characters into War Assets and transfer them into the single player game, further boosting your Military Strength
MrGreencastle
Member
Man, after listening to the Halo 2 soundtrack again, I really wish I could play through campaign with someone online...
As much as people seem to hate it's campaign here, I really love it - co-op especially.
I want to be able to do a run through 1, 2, 3, and 4 online
I love Halo campaign marathons...
As much as people seem to hate it's campaign here, I really love it - co-op especially.
I want to be able to do a run through 1, 2, 3, and 4 online
I love Halo campaign marathons...ViewtifulJC
Banned
First map on Halo 2 was Waterworks, BTB. I finally got XBL, I thought the first thing to do was hop online with as many people as possible.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo2.aspx?gameid=61469434&player=StealthKamakaze
-9, like a fucking BOSS
*so glad there's a website that actually has that game I played from 2005 on it*
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo2.aspx?gameid=61469434&player=StealthKamakaze
-9, like a fucking BOSS
*so glad there's a website that actually has that game I played from 2005 on it*
RebornYeti
Member
Fixed. I want all new maps.
Maybe Valhalla as DLC, but overall I'd rather have new maps.
Colossus was amazing. One of the best CTF maps ever. Flag juggling + throwing + huge lift = Pure fun. Also, a great snipers map.
I wonder if the people who say they like Valhalla never played or played very little of Coagulation. Don't understand how anyone can like such a flawed map so much.
I wonder if the people who say they like Valhalla never played or played very little of Coagulation. Don't understand how anyone can like such a flawed map so much.
The Librarian
Banned
Mine was Team Slayer on Relic (what was that map doing in there? lol) and I went -1. I showed you!
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo2.aspx?gameid=417639899&player=Dax01
EdibleExplosives
Member
I wish I had Live back when Halo 2 was released. I hated the campaign but the multiplayer maps seemed so well designed, even with just 4 player custom games.
Man, after listening to the Halo 2 soundtrack again, I really wish I could play through campaign with someone online...
As much as people seem to hate it's campaign here, I really love it - co-op especially.
I want to be able to do a run through 1, 2, 3, and 4 online
On that note: I really like having Campaign in matchmaking. I don't play it often, but when I do it's very nice to be able to just hop on and have a co-op romp. The 10,000 cR challenge today (which was quite welcome - moar please) was fun and quick to do with matchmaking.
Well, I'm mostly disagreeing with Jetpacks in general being in Halo 4, since they break map flow.
In fact, I don't think you can design a map around the Jetpack AA as it was in Halo Reach without it being completely ridiculous. I've seen several attempts at this in Reach and they are all bad.
Here's something else to think about - it seems as though Halo 4 has loadouts where you can choose your armor abiity, weapon, etc. and then play with that loadout. In Reach you are limited to a predefined set of loadouts that you can choose from instead, and those loadouts could have been specifically tailored to the map and game type (they often aren't, but they could have been).
Now, in Halo 4 it *seems* as though you define your own loadouts, potentially needing to unlock armor abilities and weapon addons or whatever through progression. So, will 343 still be able to limit what you can use based on game type and map? (I'm not thinking about a "classic" playlist that doesn't include armor abilities and extras, but more like basic Halo 4 slayer and objective playlists that include AAs). If you earned the Jetpack armor ability, but Jetpack completely fucks up a map and gametype combination because Jetpacks are stupid, players will still feel like they're entitled to choose whatever loadout they want.
I honestly don't think jetpacks will work the same as they do in Reach. I think they'll just give you a little extra jump height, or greater jump distance, or slow down descent when you're falling, because I think 343 is smart enough to know the problems with them.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo2.aspx?gameid=381139133&player=Will J D
My first game on Halo 2. Went -11
Was a sign of things to come really.
edit: looking back I played so much Objective in Halo 2. I miss those times
My first game on Halo 2. Went -11
Was a sign of things to come really.
edit: looking back I played so much Objective in Halo 2. I miss those times
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I only wish Halo 3 had that matchmaking. It's such a great addition.
Or if Reach had a campaign I'd want to revisit outside a select few missions.
ElzarTheBam
Member
First map was relic, I opened up the teleporter (without knowing the consequences),which allowed the other team to come through easily.
Was called a fucking noob.
Good times.
ActiveRush
Member
I'm confused when is the podcast supposed to come out?
bobs...onGaf
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Haha to be fair the post of mine you quoted was just a joke, I actually hope that there is a classic mode and that the maps are designed for the classic mode. Having maps with areas that you can only traverse with Jetpack for example would add to the rock paper scissors aspect of AA's and make them even more annoying. I agree that maps need to be designed with AA's in mind, but that just means perhaps throwing in more death pits, or raising the distance between ledges to stop easy jetpack access, not the other way round to help encourage AA's.
Then again my logic is flawed, I hate AA's, of course if 343 put them in the game they wont go out of they're way to make them impractical.
This I do agree with. The Reach jetpack demolished map flow, and when I was building maps, I couldn't ever find a way to balance that out. I am worried about the jetpack in Halo 4. I fear that since Reach added it, we'll never be rid of the thing.
My hope is at the least Reach's version is a jump pack, rather than a jetpack with hover capability, as you said.
Well, there's a reason I snipped out most your post before responding. Beneath the layers of sarcasm was a good point.
Hydranockz
Member
Sooo glad you brought this up. Totally agree. I mean, obviously AAs detracted from Reach insome form. What I really hope to se 343 doing is keep the same AAs (cut a few perhaps) but completely rework and refine them.
Hypertrooper
Member
Unfortunately even Vanilla maps are not really designed for AAs.
I'm in a nearly similar position. But I'm going to explain my position with a Halo metaphor:
Right now I'm a Elite who follows the Prophets blindly and hopes that the Great Journey is no big lie.
Edit.: Ghal, read your last post again.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Me too! I was absolutely terrible at Halo during the H2 days, though, so all of my memories are of me getting shit on and rage quitting.
My first game online in Halo 2 was team swat. It was my first time playing something like it, so when I kept getting one shot killed I thought they were cheating or hacking the game lol
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo2.aspx?gameid=435070928&player=Nub In a Tub
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo2.aspx?gameid=435070928&player=Nub In a Tub
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
My first Xbox Live tag seems to be gone forever. Destitute Grain, which I can't for the life of me remember why that was it.
Destitute Grain, which I can't for the life of me remember why that was it.My first online game ever double team, was be doing horribly of course.
"Dude you fucken suck, why do you even play this game when you suck so much ass"
good times.
My first Xbox Live tag seems to be gone forever.
An attempt to get Frank and David to look into your old gamertag, knowing this is probably the most relevant place to ask in all of NeoGAF so you'll be safe? Interesting.
HiredN00bs
Member
Everybody's played with that guy. He's such a dick.
The Librarian
Banned
You're such a pro.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Looks like a game of Reach.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I went +170 in my first game of Halo
campaign.
campaign.
The worse part of it is at the end he sent me a message just saying "Tashi Ceiling".
First Halo 2 game on my gamertag, discounting playing at friends house before. This was actually the first day we got high speed internet, I had my 12 month and router ready to go when the cable guy got to my house to hookup. God I am a nerd.
ElzarTheBam
Member
bobs...onGaf
Member
What was your gamertag back then?
ElzarRevolts
+11 in my first Halo 3 match.
Don't even know what the fuck went on in that game:
Also, can you even look at your first Reach game without going through each page of 25 games?
Team Deathmatch on Crash (cod4beta). Shit felt like being in that MGS4 trailer that was popular at the time. So good.
MrGreencastle
Member
Yes, keep that f34tur3 alive!
Same, I actually got into the Beta legitimately through email, before it become popular kids, and it was revelatory. The weapon handling was eye openingly smooth, as were the animations. Played over 24 hours of the beta.
Needed something to pass the time before I could Finish the Fight.
Needed something to pass the time before I could Finish the Fight.
Have you ever read a GI, or are you just spouting nonsense every time someone brings up a magazine? GI has excellent write ups and articles on things not even pertaining to current videogames. Of course it's not the best medium to stay up to date given it's a monthly thing, but to dismiss the entire thing because the internet is better for seeing current games in motion is ignorance.
Taking off on a man cannon and dying to fall damage would be splendid. We were playing Anny one night and I died to fall damage twice in a row with full shields and despite me crouching, so much fun. I really hope 4 doesn't have fall damage of any kind, not even a stun.
Rickenslacker
Banned
CoD4 was the only one of the Modern Warfare series that I actually played, willing to give it a shot, this was before it all blew up and just switched to its modern combat. Played through the single player. It was alright enough to grab all the cheevs for.
Then I played multiplayer and had to grind out experience to get more options available. I wanted a P90. I had to be level 40 to unlock it. I was level 15 or something. I then sold the game shortly after it getting DLC maps and never touched the series again.
It's why I'm pretty concerned over these supposed progression unlocks in Halo 4. That carrot on a stick dangling didn't work for me when it was fresh, I can't tolerate it at all now. I played the beta of Starhawk for 10 minutes before I realized it had a similar system and I deleted it and never have any intention of getting it because of that.
I accidentally deleted all of my Halo 2 history when I changed back to my original tag. I had backed up all the pages of games with a script, then I forgot to back up that backup before I installed Windows 7. whoops.jpg
I do remember it being 1 Bomb or 1 Flag on Zanzibar as my first game though, for 2.
I do remember it being 1 Bomb or 1 Flag on Zanzibar as my first game though, for 2.
:lol
Didn't think about that. I'm also imagining someone lifting up in Construct and popping straight into armour lock. Jesus christ.
The one time I used the gravity lift on Pinnacle I lost my shields and only had one bar of health left. Yeah, not doing that again.
Sure. Divide your number of games by 25, change the page number to that number.
(My first Reach multiplayer game - I played all the way through Campaign before I jumped on. I could almost be pro...)
Totally different subject - I wonder if Ghal has OT3 ready to go? Looks like we'll hit it sometime tomorrow.
Edit: Holy shit! I went +13 in my first Halo 3 game. WTF?
(Halo 2 wasn't quite as good.
)BackdoorBeauty
Member
Jumping off of the Spire is always kind of thrilling, actually. It wouldn't make much sense if you didn't take any damage from that.
There should be some terminal height damage, but I agree that a Narrows or Valhalla man-cannon should not result in fall damage.