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Halo |OT3| Remember Reach?
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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No, of course not. I'll always probably approach it like that, but really I'd be fine with the simple ability to opt out of it.
NullPointer
Member
I would've been fine with this too, if they could get it to work well.
TS x Massacre
Member
Yeah, you'll see the waypoint forums go up in flames shortly.
Also, Drop-In; Drop-Out.. makes me think there's not going to be ranks. And if this is the case, I'll die
This is fine, and your post below, i'm fine with it combatting. However, I don't want this to be like Reach where it's impossibru to play anything other than rumble pit by yourself without getting pissed off/screwed and would only be compounded by joining a losing game with 2 mins left
You're really against DIDO when you're searching for one guy for 15 minutes? One sided objective is the worst when 2-3 people quit out...
Genesis Knight
Member
That would be interesting. I wonder how often it would be used. Most of the time the last one or two people seem intent on dragging out the match as long as possible (as in, they start hiding and stuff.
I don't have that experience often enough to hate it that much. I also don't play with a full party often enough to get that 'dong on incoming kids for an hour' rush you were talking about.
I'm pretty much in the worst of both worlds.
Tha Robbertster
Member
I'm fine with drop in/drop out as long as it stays out of ranked, if there is going to be something like that...
NullPointer
Member
Yeah, that'd be one of my worries. But I think you really see that happening in Reach because you get penalized for quitting.
Although that doesn't seem to keep people from dropping out my firefight matches as soon as a vote passes for a mode/map they don't like (ie. the one that doesn't give max Cr).
Feels bad man.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Halo 4 pistol needs to shoot as fast as the Reach Beta pistol.
PLEASE.
PLEASE.
neoism
Member
if ODST's pistol is in I will use no other pistol.
NullPointer
Member
Stats shouldn't take priority over getting players into games quickly and maintaining balanced teams. Nobody's K/D ratio is worth the hassle to me.
WTF is happening to this blue guy?
Multiplayer freestyle break-dance mode CONFIRMED.
Red spartans animation is awesome. Is he about to strafe?
I think they confirmed that at Halo Fest last year. I know it's been mentioned several times since.
WTF is happening to this blue guy?
Multiplayer freestyle break-dance mode CONFIRMED.
Press RB to drop fresh moves
WTF is happening to this blue guy?
Multiplayer freestyle break-dance mode CONFIRMED.
Serious? He's in the middle of an Evade AA roll. Duh
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Check the box /reggie
Badum tsh!
and yup, bad kids.
http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Career/HaloReach/GameHistory#!/?game=993909526§ion=Unknown
The only way it deals with quitters is by making more quitters. It's like quitter sex begetting little quitter babies. This is how it will go:
Joining... Get in game... What? Got thrown in a game where the team is being dominated and I'm spotting the other team 20? Quit.
The Henery
Member
Didn't some of the guns in the Reach beta do this?
The new Grunt look is getting a lot of hate. They disgust me. And I mean that as a compliment; they look great because they disgust me. I've always wanted the covenant to look genuinely nasty and ugly.
The new spartans look amazing too. The best they've ever looked in multiplayer. I love that pebbled aesthetic they're using in between the armoured plates.
neoism
Member
vanilla>
Well not everyone thinks that way. And let's be honest, even if only 20% of people stay in the match after finding out they joined a losing team, it's way better than what we have in the other games. Which is nothing.
We'll have to wait and see how it works
TS x Massacre
Member
I'm willing to bet most of the people who played Halo before 3.. jumped ship after Reach, im one of the minority who stayed.
The Henery
Member
Can we please make DLC Squad TU settings for next months update? I'd really really appreciate being able to play Noble and Defiant maps with playable settings. Its population is terrible so why not shake it up?
NullPointer
Member
Assholes will be assholes regardless. At least there is something in place to deal with it after the fact this time around.
What has been your experience with join in progress matchmaking in other games? Take CoD... Granted I'm on the side making kids quit, but invariably every single game we push kids out of the game early, we're pushing a second set, and even third set out later. Not every once in awhile... not sometimes... MOST the time.
It does not make for fewer quitters, nor does it deal with the problem of quitters; it produces more fodder for good teams to crush.
Barrow Roll
Member
Rename Super Slayer to Team Slayer, stick it at the top of the list, make a playlist called "Vanilla Slayer" right below it and watch the numbers flip. People don't play Team Slayer because it's Vanilla, they play because it's called Team Slayer.
They're different games with a different fanbase.
I get what you're saying but I'm still glad we have something instead of simply having to quit because I have no other option
NullPointer
Member
I do think you have to match up join-in-progress with the idea of keeping the same set of players between games for best results. Has anything been said about that? Or will it find you a whole new set of players (unless you specifically opt to stay in) each match like it currently does?
Steelyuhas
Member
Well one-sided objective games should be two rounds, not four. Really hoping for that in 4.
I agree though, DIDO has some baggage that comes with it, but I think in the long run, it will make for a better matchmaking experience when you actually play with full teams.
WTF is happening to this blue guy?
Multiplayer freestyle break-dance mode CONFIRMED.
Got shot by the pistol, which is obviously so awesome in Halo 4 that all physics broke due to the impact.
Needs to not have a fucking 8-shot clip.
You're a terrible person for having this opinion.
TS x Massacre
Member
In a game like Halo, where skill is much more obvious, I don't see people sticking around after losing unless it's a close game. In CoD they mix all the teams up and all that garbage, this wouldn't work in Halo unless it was only in "social" if they have a ranked offering.
However, in social/if there is not ranks, i would be open to this idea, donging on the same bad kids game after game could be nice as compared to different bad kids.
NullPointer
Member
Well if Halo 4 defaults to keeping the same players between matches that helps the issue of being continually dropped into games already in progress. I wonder how they're planning on making this work.In a game like Halo, where skill is much more obvious, I don't see people sticking around after losing unless it's a close game. In CoD they mix all the teams up and all that garbage, this wouldn't work in Halo unless it was only in "social" if they have a ranked offering.
However, in social/if there is not ranks, i would be open to this idea, donging on the same bad kids game after game could be nice as compared to different bad kids.
TS x Massacre
Member
Right, makes sense, we'll just have to see how it all plays out.
Default Reach still is default Reach. Its presence is just reduced. (and hopefully entirely gone at some point)
It's more the point out that it'll stay Vanilla because 343 wants to hang on to a promise they've barely kept by a thread. It's already a joke. Team Slayer and Squad DLC are the only two Vanilla playlists left.
The facade should end, TU should go global minus Invasion, delete the redundant Anniversary FFA and Anniversary BTB, and bring back Squad Slayer.
Tha Robbertster
Member
Anyone else having troubles with Reach tonight? I can't seem to load the information for the playlists from xbox live.
Barrow Roll
Member
Wish I could remember how awesome the Pistol apparently was in the Beta. All I really remember was the reticule being so fucking hard to see.
Yeah I keep getting "Gathering Information from Xbox Live..."
It's very slow tonight but it gets there eventually.
