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Halo |OT2| Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power
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Royal 2 and Snakebite are insane. Poor Papa Clutch.
I started playing Mass Effect 3 and I have to say that the setpiece battle far outclass Reach. The Turian moon was just insane.
Story has been just as weird and awkwardly non-enthusiastic about the destruction as Reach though. Still good none the less (and I'm currently at 6 hours which is the total playtime for my first go at Reach but yet I'm still just getting started).
Story has been just as weird and awkwardly non-enthusiastic about the destruction as Reach though. Still good none the less (and I'm currently at 6 hours which is the total playtime for my first go at Reach but yet I'm still just getting started).
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
I've played Living Dead so much without a single Defiant map showing up for the last achievement.
Slowly losing my mind over it.
I'm sure a few people can hop on tonight and get it with you.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'm down. That's how I got my achievement, hah.
I'd also be down to play anything other than Living Dead.
By the way I almost removed you, I'm like who the hell is this 666 guy lol.
Just invite me (gt - cyren ce) whenever you guys are doing it, I'll be playing ME3 until then.
We full partied going after the achievement once. It took 3 games before Condemned even came up as an option (including veto screens)
When we tried, it would never show up, until Letters came in and we got Condemned 3+ times in a row.
He had the magic touch I guess
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah I remember people being worried that everyone would be using it after a while, but it's pretty rare to see it.
Yeah it was fixed that day. By the time I got home and played that afternoon it was back to Forge world and Spire for life!
Could the Banshees be put closer to spawn on Typhoon? I had to deal with my team constantly losing the Banshee last game because no one could figure out where it was or how to get to it, resulting in it being stolen by the other team as soon as it spawned.
There wasn't a moment where there wasn't an enemy Banshee in the sky. It was horrifying.
Hydranockz
Member
Where would you even move it? That's crazy though.
I thought it was gonna fix the login bug, but no, it's still borked. Works properly maybe 15% of the time for me
Every single game. Probably what I see the most of besides Default. I never see people with Pestilence or whatever it's called.
edit: it's not like *everyone* is using it, but I feel like there's almost always 1/2 guy(s) with it.
I got to play my first game on Solitary! SWAT 3v3, it was... slow. And another on Anchor 9, nice to finally get some DLC maps.
Concerning the achievements, I'm still so far from completing Reach's, whereas for Halo 3 I 1000'd within a month IIRC, and then got the DLC achievements rather quickly (except the Mythic Perf, which I got the week before Reach launched
). I really need to do them, and then once I have all of them but one, I can finally use Armor Lock for the first time in MM ever (fuck that achievement, I don't want to use that shitty AA)I don't know, but you could push it to a place that's a bit easier to defend or something? I'm gonna check if there are any other maps that have crates nearby objectives and see if there's any practical use.
Oh, that Anchor 9 game..
I've played 25h of SWAT so far, I should have a proper hidden skill rank giving me close games by now, right?
16 games of SWAT tonight, went positive 14 times, and won only six of those (despite +15 here, +17 there..). I know I'm beating a dead horse, but still, it's frustrating
edit: just remembered, I have a score of 20 despite 21 kills because of one spawn right on the edge of the map.. that was fun.
I've played 25h of SWAT so far, I should have a proper hidden skill rank giving me close games by now, right?
16 games of SWAT tonight, went positive 14 times, and won only six of those (despite +15 here, +17 there..). I know I'm beating a dead horse, but still, it's frustrating
edit: just remembered, I have a score of 20 despite 21 kills because of one spawn right on the edge of the map.. that was fun.
Devolution
Member
Halo 4: don't make so many fucking playlists that matchmaking becomes futile.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Are folks playing tonight? I'll be on around 9pm PST.
Frankie says they're gonna be consolidated and focused. I mean, it can't be worse than Reach's various playlist debacles.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Yup. It's not something 343 started either, it just seems like with Reach Bungie decided to take years of playlist management rules and just chuck them out the window.
Whatever happened to "we don't want to fragment the online population"? When you've hit the maximum amount of playlists the online infrastructure can handle, I think it's time to concede the online population is fragmented.
They removed squad slayer? That was the only playlist I ever bothered to enter besides the specific DLC playlists :/
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
It's totally nonsensical.
Super Slayer: Remove armor lock, remove community Forge maps, give DLC maps higher weighting, and give it a better name than Super Slayer. Then I'll be happy.
And 5v5 Objective is just pure why.
So, Squad Slayer?
Yes, they were all "blah, blah, blah, with the TU data we saw everyone enjoys TU/Vanilla/Dinosaur Shotguns! So we're removing Squad and giving you 4v4 TU Slayer called Super slayer! Also Objective is 5v5 now for no reason."* <---Actual quote
*
Not actual quote but close enough.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, pretty much, haha. Though I barely ever saw DLC in Squad Slayer.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
nobody involved with Halo actually plays Halo, hence the removal of Squad Slayer. It is as it has always been and how it will always be.
also, started ME3 just now. a hearty LOL goes out to Bungie's "end of the world" game. First 5 minutes I've got big ass Reapers ripping apart the city. First 5 minutes of Reach I ran past a pack of flamingos.
also, started ME3 just now. a hearty LOL goes out to Bungie's "end of the world" game. First 5 minutes I've got big ass Reapers ripping apart the city. First 5 minutes of Reach I ran past a pack of flamingos.
Devolution
Member
S'all good, matchmaking is either pissing on noobs or getting pissed on by pros/wannabe pros.
Says the dude with 666 in his GT now.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Whatever, my name is cool.
:'(
:'(
Franklinator
Member
hey. they're moa. get it right
also, glad to see that the beginning of ME3 is cool. but I doubt it's as cool as hanging out with the moa
Gabotron ES
Member
Revenants going full light speed is a well known bug, don't know if it can be fixed by re-doing the floor.
Rickenslacker
Banned
As far as I know, you're shit out of luck. You got a lemon. One of the controllers I had was like that too, made playing Skate impossible.
Thagomizer
Member
Nothing in Halo is as face-meltingly dumb as the Reaper's origins, however.
It's just a big pile of stupid and plothole.
343 added when they took over:
Anniversary Firefight (redundant to FF Arcade)
Anniversary FFA (redundant to Rumble Pit)
Anniversary Squad
Anniversary BTB (redundant to Big Team Battle)
Anniversary Classic
TU Beta (later became Zero Bloom) (yet another Slayer 4v4 list)
The silly choice of making the Anniversary release only have one of the DLC packs on it and thefore splitting in two is what has us in this situation of playlist gluttony. Squad DLC is on it's deathbed but they're not going to delete it because it'll leave one vanilla playlist behind that isn't a fringe gametype (Team Slayer) and their "default Reach will remain default" / "Vanilla Reach will always remain available" line gets even sillier.
Funny, I remember this line being uttered by 343 when asked why they didn't release the original Halo 1 multiplayer. Then they go and fragment Reach anyway. They wrote themselves into this situation and I don't feel sorry for them at all. Having to delete a unique playlist just to make room for the return of your beta list down the line should tell you that maybe it's time to telling everyone on the Anniversary disc to redeem their map pack code and play via normal Reach.
somehow there are huge skyboxes/vistas and the game runs at a steady framerate. I'm not quite comprehending it o_o
also I want to bang Liara this go around. Her boobs are outrageous in ME3. Good work Bioware. A+
Rickenslacker
Banned
That was a really frustrating excuse to listen to, as they also said it's because they didn't have the time to add it under the release deadline. Either way, I haven't even booted up Reach since November, and I haven't touched its multiplayer since before that. Oh if I could live in the parallel universe that actually had a version of Halo CE with decent online play.
Demo ran at a cinematic framerate at times.
I'm glad they didn't do it. Making Halo 1 work online exactly like the original would have required using the same netcode that they did for Anniversary Campaign Co-op.
"Flag's going towards the caves! Well, at least on my box he is.."
Rickenslacker
Banned
I'd settle for the netcode they've been using for multiplayer, of course. Just not something abhorrent like Halo PC's where everything gets incoherent and janky beyond belief.
Some people would push through it (like they do on XBC), but other people would have gone nuclear at having jittery first person movement and upwards of 3 second delays for actions. And they wouldn't have been able to get away with the cheat 4J used when they took Perfect Dark online by disabling all physics objects if you're playing online (to prevent them from desyncing). edit: As an aside, I'm installing a door + frame in a 110 year old house right now. Someone kill me.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I'm saying they should use the mp netcode, not co-op. I mean I'm clearly not a networking engineer but I see it as if Red Faction Guerilla can have smooth multiplayer featuring all the environment destruction, then Halo CE can have its rubbery Warthogs and flags.
But .maps
RFG was made with async multiplayer over the internet in mind. Halo CE was made with the assumption that all the Xboxes were on the same network and just passed around button presses in a frame relay. That's the short explanation.
It's theoretically possible to make Halo 1 work online, as Halo PC shows. But people want it to work EXACTLY like the Xbox version did, and that's not going to happen unless they use lockstep networking. And lockstep introduces stuff like the inability to join-in-progress (under MS's bandwidth regulations) and input latency ala H3/ODST/Reach campaign co-op and Firefight for anybody that is not the host of the game. It's a whole big ball of "nobody wins".
And MS would have to pay to refit ALL of Halo 1's maps to modern graphics levels, instead of just a small selection
Rickenslacker
Banned
I don't think there is a single sane individual on the planet that thinks there won't be some lag in the mix when bringing over a game to online play, so I think it's okay to not play exactly like it would in LAN environments. Lockstep would be worse in that regard because of the input lag and jitter and everything else like you say, so if you bring them up side by side anyone would say that async is closer to being the real experience.
I'm just saying I want performance that's typical of a Halo multiplayer product at this point. People say Halo 3's netcode is intolerable, but I beg of any of those guys to try out Halo PC for one match... my god. I don't even know why it ended up turning out that bad but scuttlebutt at the time said that it was because it was made to support 56k connections.
As far as the game being coded with Xboxes in 2001 in mind and not internet play, well, it's a port. They can completely recode the backend of that for all I care. Of course just saying that as a consumer who wants a certain end product. It's certainly not impossible, but definitely wasn't within reason in the timeframe for development apparently.
Anyhow this is way too much discussion for my off comment there, I'm just a sad CE MP fan is all.