Devolution
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Where did I ever mention that.
As far as the bxr shit, I found it a rather annoying glitch as I don't feel like doing fighting combos in my FPSes.
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Halo |OT2| Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power
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Where did I ever mention that.
As far as the bxr shit, I found it a rather annoying glitch as I don't feel like doing fighting combos in my FPSes.
Tried MLG before I got off for the night, team of 4 against 4 rando's of course. They were pretty bad though, but good enough to beat randoms.
I guess bleed through is gone in MLG too huh? Seemed that way, can't really say for sure...I did manage to pull this off in the game though, an upload would be boss.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=27130533&player=TJ Ram
HiredN00bs
Member
lol
VivaciousJazzy
Member
Those guys were abusing the pistol pretty hard. It's lame enough, but to resort to it when you're a group of 4 against a bunch of randoms, makes it that much more infuriating. Can't wait til that's gone...
Devolution
Member
First game of the night, 1/4 of our team quits before we start, get farmed in Heavies by people who live in BTB. I quit. Was not going to sit through that. Also the dashboarding lately before games even start, sigh.
Yea, it's pussy shit
HiredN00bs
Member
Current matchmaking settings, v7, or both?
Steelyuhas
Member
Both I think.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
I can't wait for Karen Travis to finally explain the ten year old mystery of why red Spartans fight blue Spartans.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Red vs Blue is now cannon.
HiredN00bs
Member
It's a quaint tidbit that will only serve as troll food.
VivaciousJazzy
Member
Yes both.
Devolution
Member
If I could sum Reach up in one word it would be tedious.
ElRenoRaven
Member
I agree. I also wonder why Green, Orange, pink, yellow, etc all fight? Is that going to be explained too? I mean if they're going to explain why Red and Blue fight then they should explain the others too.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Any good (free) photoshop guides out there for people who know nothing? Particularly for creating art?
Im thinking they just may be going the training simulation route..or something.
Im thinking they just may be going the training simulation route..or something.
Slightly Live
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Why? What's the harm? It's a tiny, tiny bit of additional fiction that will tie in multiplayer into the overall universe. A little bone 343 are throwing to us fiction fans. It won't affect the game in any meaningful way, it won't get in the way of shooting fools so why even care about it?
Just let me enjoy an extra bit of fiction with my shooting.
I seem to remember the last main Halo game including a mechanic that gave shooting some of the weapons more depth. Nobody but me seemed to like it, and now it is gone in Halo 4.
On a slightly different note, I finally got around to finishing Glasslands today. After getting through the first 3/4s of it, I was fully intending to praise it, but the last quarter served to sour me on it a bit.
Go easy on me, an insane billionaire just ruined any chances my beloved Browns had of being good for the next half a decade. This has made me suitably bitter about just about everything right now.
On a slightly different note, I finally got around to finishing Glasslands today. After getting through the first 3/4s of it, I was fully intending to praise it, but the last quarter served to sour me on it a bit.
Up to that point I had liked the different stance towards Halsey. She did some very bad things, but the other books didn't really see fit to bring much attention to that fact, so it was nice to see her from another perspective. But then Karen Traviss seemed to kick that sentiment into overdrive in the last part of the book. I know this is a common complaint about the book, and though the first 75% of it, I was all set to dismiss it as overreaction. "Sure," I thought, "she definitely takes Halsey to task, but it is kind of deserved, and it is interesting to hear these thoughts coming from the principal players. As long as she doesn't drive it into the ground, or go off the deep end with it, I think some fans were jumping the gun with their dissatisfaction." But the vitriol just kept coming. Godwin's Law even comes into play as Halsey is, at one point, compared to Hitler. An intriguing story and some interesting new characters are marred by Traviss' insistence on pounding the reader over the head with how awful Dr. Halsey is. If she can squelch that desire, or at least curb it to a certain extent, I think her next book could be great.
ElRenoRaven
Member
I agree. It just went overboard. If anything it resulted in the opposite effect for me. I actually ended up feeling sorry for Halsey.
HiredN00bs
Member
Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (which was basically a Star Trek mod for Quake III Arena) had you fighting on the holodeck. Brilliant. Nothing like like shit-talking Klingon bots.
*fragged by Duras*
Duras: You have no honor.
Exactly.
I've no problem with it, just felt like people were trolling that tidbit of info.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Speaking of Halo books I finally got around to borrowing Primordium from a friend. Bought Cryptum and didn't like it. I wanted to give Bear another chance though. I should just have skipped Primordium though.
3/4ths of the book really could have been cut and not harmed it one bit. Also can't say I'm a fan of it's ending.
3/4ths of the book really could have been cut and not harmed it one bit. Also can't say I'm a fan of it's ending.
343 GS should have stayed dead damn it.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Primordium Spoilers-
Well, technically the one we know from the games is dead. Just he was a copy made from the new GS introduced in Primordium.
Slightly Live
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You are mistaking authorial intent with the book's plot and characterisation. Do you think Karen Travis beat 343 over the head with her insistence that the book and the characters treat Halsey in such a fashion? Heck no.
I think Frankie explained at one here or on HBO that Halsey's treatment in Glasslands isn't the full picture and it isn't. The story isn't over. It's like watching the original Star Wars films and thinking Lucas is an admirable storyteller. There's more to come. Two more books that continue the story of these characters.
Glasslands paints a very biased and one sided view of Halsey in a very deliberate manner and I'm pretty sure when the story picks up again we'll get to see the other side of things. And Karen Travis will be writing those books too. Do you think her "bias" is going to seep into these other books?
The whole Karen Travis hates Halsey, so the book treats Halsey like dirt notion is just plain stupid. With such statements you are calling into question KT's professionalism as a successful author and 343's ability to manage their own universe's fiction. Over what? The treatment of a child abusing scientist? Come. On.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yea but it just seemed like a cheap ass way to bring 343 GS back. Reminds me of the Nanotech bullshit in Glasslands.
Oh well with that out of my system I'll go to bed now.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Yeah, I guess we will have to see how it pans out.
If he acts just like GS, then it seems cheap, sort of, but if he ends up having his own unique personality then I can accept it. I'm going to assume there are quite a few copies of him floating around on different Halo rings.
I liked the book a lot, and its portrayal of Halsey was fair, if not a bit over done.
The only thing that bugged me was how the ODSTs and other characters seemed to respect Parangosky when she was obviously just as dangerous, and immoral. I just hope book two doesnt paint ONIs devious and intelligent leader so nicely.
Slightly Live
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Cheap? The book establishes an entire fleshed out background for the character to give his re-appearance a payoff and his actions both context and meaning.
Yeah, it was out of the blue but they couldn't bring back Johnson, so he's the next best thing. =)
HiredN00bs
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You seem like a smart guy but a poor writer. You've honestly lost me on this one. Stop using so many goddamn quotation marks and explicitly state your points.
No one here wants fiction to trump gameplay. Certainly, it inspires design, but balance and feedback and fairness and fun are paramount, even if they are subjective qualities. I personally don't think Gandhi-hopping is a particularly interesting function of the game, and I couldn't care less whether Master Chief would do it or not. No one here judges competitive gameplay by the measure of canonical accuracy, so why do you continually insinuate this?
Devolution
Member
Couldn't avoid them dashboarders tonight got damn.
I insinuate it because there seems to be some unwritten criteria a handful of people around here use when they talk about how different mechanics, whether intended by the developers or not, fit into the the multiplayer design of the games in the Halo series. Most of the time this kind of discussion comes up about how these games are played optimally and the conflict this can create with the game's "flavor". A good example of this is people who will post continually about how wrong it feels for the CE pistol to be powerful, seemingly unable to remove the aesthetics from the mechanic. Flag juggling and gandhi hopping are two good examples: they emerged as ways to perform better but were likely absent from the vision the designers had for multiplayer gameplay. The latter two examples are interesting because they are less, uh, offensive, to a lot of players who don't particularly like them, and one of them has even earned some level of disapproval from the designers but has stuck around anyway.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Can't give a shit about Halo right now, Marvel DLC rumoooours.
I miss a lot of the discussions by the time I get up. Dat timezone.
Tha Robbertster
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ElzarTheBam
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Zeouterlimits
Member
Dude worked on Aliens and The Fifth Element. Massive props, RIP.
ElzarTheBam
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bobs...onGaf
Member
Damn, I would love to play some BR Pit right now.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Sadly, I think your Halo 3 skills have peaked.
See what I did there? Do you?
'cause you play SSX now...
Der Flatulator
Member
Anyone know what the 1.4 update for Halo Waypoint for Windows Phone did? I downloaded it today and didn't notice any differences.
HiredN00bs
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I agree that flag-juggling and Gandhi-hopping are interesting points of discussion for the same reason. I think the reason they have stuck around is because they aren't prevalent problems because:
1) most players don't play objective games and if they do, only some will be flag games
2) most players can't be bothered to Gandhi-hop.
and because the mechanics that facilitate these techniques are used in other contexts that are desirable, i.e. throwing a flag to a teammate, crouch-jumping, et cetera, and there isn't an elegant way of squashing the exploit without diminishing some other function.
As for the CE pistol, there are people that like/dislike the aesthetic, and people who like/dislike aspects of its gameplay functionality, with multiple combinations, because these are separate issues, the former being style, and the latter being substance. That CE pistol has haunted the franchise, and each adversarial iteration since has seen a rifle take the role of this common utility weapon, with the no-bloom DMR being the closest thing since. People want the functionality, at least to a certain extent.