StalkerUKCG
Banned
Friend found out i was down because i lost my job, bought me skyrim on steam.
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Halo |OT3| Remember Reach?
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Him
I really hope we get a chance to fight the Prometheans. Not sure if its spoiler to talk about them, but for those of you who have read the forerunner books and seen the terminals in Anniversary, you should know what I'm talking about. They seem like real badasses who would easily kick an elites ass.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Next armor for Master Chief in Halo 5, with a lot more polygons and details.
I wanted this for Reach and I want it for Halo 4: we must be able to look like Shredder from TMNT: Ooze.
Yeah. Same naming methodology applies to objects (Halo, Shield World, Ark). Name by function.
I mean they could go with the Oogy-Boogy, but I like the non nonsense nomenclature. You know just from the name what their role is.
Was it Mountain Dew?
Hooray! I am done with finals!
Tomorrow is the day.
I am going to send this out as a PM tomorrow as well.
Right now I am in the process of getting a Voice Chat server up and running with dedicated hosting.
The only problem is that microsoft updated GFWL (Xbox live for PC) and that broke the in-game voice chat, so this will be done with another, external program.
I am still figuring out which program, but they all work from the PC with the Xbox 360 Mics, even the wireless one's if you got a receiver, and many have apps you can use on your iPhones and Androids if you don't have a headset or can't/don't want to use one on your pc.
Instructions:
ROLL CALL!
Vlad356 (That's Me, your host)
Wwm0nkey
Mastrbiggy
Rickenslacker
NullPointer
Franklinator
Zap
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Woorloog
Boomwood
Recarpo
Zeouterlimits
Kibbles
Silly.Mikey
Havok
Blamite
StalkerUKCG
And another squad's worth of players from various H2v Communities.
I need you guys to tell me what game types, weapon loadouts and maps you would like to play and other suggestions.
This way I can set it all up so we can get in the game ASAP.
I suggest a playlist with a mix of Objective Big Team on the Vista exclusive and Stock/DLC One sided maps, Some even sided BTB as well as some FFA on medium sized and large maps. I dont have any weapon load outs picked out yet, or party game-types like zombies or POT but those are possible.
We can do some smaller 4v4s later in smaller parties.
Tomorrow is the day.
I am going to send this out as a PM tomorrow as well.
Right now I am in the process of getting a Voice Chat server up and running with dedicated hosting.
The only problem is that microsoft updated GFWL (Xbox live for PC) and that broke the in-game voice chat, so this will be done with another, external program.
I am still figuring out which program, but they all work from the PC with the Xbox 360 Mics, even the wireless one's if you got a receiver, and many have apps you can use on your iPhones and Androids if you don't have a headset or can't/don't want to use one on your pc.
Instructions:
ROLL CALL!
Vlad356 (That's Me, your host)
Wwm0nkey
Mastrbiggy
Rickenslacker
NullPointer
Franklinator
Zap
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Woorloog
Boomwood
Recarpo
Zeouterlimits
Kibbles
Silly.Mikey
Havok
Blamite
StalkerUKCG
And another squad's worth of players from various H2v Communities.
I need you guys to tell me what game types, weapon loadouts and maps you would like to play and other suggestions.
This way I can set it all up so we can get in the game ASAP.
I suggest a playlist with a mix of Objective Big Team on the Vista exclusive and Stock/DLC One sided maps, Some even sided BTB as well as some FFA on medium sized and large maps. I dont have any weapon load outs picked out yet, or party game-types like zombies or POT but those are possible.
We can do some smaller 4v4s later in smaller parties.
Wohoo!
And now i need to find out (again) what's CST compared to Finland's time... 6-8 hours i guess.
I'll say this now but i don't think i'll be playing but a few games as my laptop will very likely overheat if i play any longer, Halo 2 Vista uses CPU a lot more than some games for reason or other.
EDIT Loadouts: BR start with some alternative weapon, reasonable amount of grenades. Would prefer as vanilla Halo 2 as possible.
Steelyuhas
Member
They need to have an option in the server browser to filter for DICE servers.So, someone brought up BF3 servers earlier.
Interesting, according to EA, the game is tooo popular for Dedis:
IIRC, Vanilla Halo 2 was a lot of things.
8v8
Containment - Multi Flag, Neutral Bomb
Waterworks - Multi Bomb, Neutral Flag
Coagulation - Multi Flag, Multi Bomb, Neutral Bomb, Gulch Wars
Terminal - One Bomb
Relic - One Flag
Headlong - One Bomb, Land Grab
4v4
Ivory Tower - One Bomb Fast/Rapid Assault, One Flag Fast
Lockout - Slayer BRs, King, Oddball
Midship - Multi Bomb, Multi Flag CTF, Slayer BRs, King
Turf - 3 Plots, 1 Flag Fast, Team Duals
Warlock - Oddball, Neutral Bomb, 2 Flag, King
Zanzibar - One Flag, One Bomb
Beaver Creek - 2 Flag, Multi Bomb, King
Sanctuary - 2 Flag, Slayer BRs
Colossus - 2 Flag
Burial Mounds - One Bomb
Ascension - One Flag Fast
This is Halo 2 matchmaking nostalgia in a nutshell. Ideally everything but the smallest maps would be BR starts, some with Human Weapons on Map to eliminate the plasma pistol. I think the Vista maps are kind of awful, so I didn't include them. Slayer works well enough on any of the symmetric maps. You will need to change the default heavy vehicle to the Wraith on all those big maps except Containment, none on Headlong, none on Relic.
Well, i meant that no modifications to movement speed or whatever settings Halo 2 had. I don't remember anymore... Though now that i think of this, Halo 2 didn't have many settings concerning players, right? Shields and invulnerability but was there anything else?
Regardless, BR starts, default weapons on maps, need Spectre on some map.
EDIT the above list looks good.
And no District or whatever the city map in Vista version was called, it has framerate issues on my laptop (and for anyone else who has older hardware i guess), to the point it is nigh unplayable (otherwise the game works fine). Though if people want to play that, ok, i'll try dropping details to low and see if it'll help.
EDIT 2, CST is UTC -6. Finland is UTC +3 (DST). 2am... oh well. I'm awake now, i can be awake tomorrow at this time.
You can search for DICE servers using some specific search terms, but the entire thing is completely shameful.
We GOTTA play each of the new maps at least once.
I was thinking we should do some non-BR start objective games on one sided objective maps. What maps like this have decent default weapon layouts?
Sure, let's try them out though i doubt they're that good. Actually, i'll go try the game with lowest details right now to see if it'll help with the frigging frame rate issues...
Plasma War, let's play that on some map.
Oh and FFA Phantom Pistols on Waterworks.
EDIT will someone stream our games? Just wondering.
Maybe Turf, Warlock, Ivory Tower. Midship is a no go, Plasma Rifle starts. Everything else is just asking for Halo 2-launch-playlist management-bitching trouble.
I just don't think either District or Uplift are good objective maps. They might be fine for Slayer, but they're messy as hell. District in particular...it's got so much space that I don't think should exist. Stuff like Ninja CTF might mix it up a bit, but I don't know that anybody actually liked that gametype.
I will be, here.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Team BR's Lockout, done
OdysseusVA
Banned
They do, but it's useless.
So, smaller maps will be a challenge if everyone shows up. We may have to split into multiple lobbies.
I'm hoping everyone will stick to BTB at first with the bigger teams. It pretty difficult to get a good 8v8 game with actual teams in H2v so I hope no one is gonna be a jerk and split off to start their own MLG.
Everyone here's skill level is 'MLG pro' in Halo 2 right?
Ok. This time i won't be surprised... once when i playing Reach with HaloGaf, someone from the party was streaming the game. It was a bit odd see myself playing from both my TV and my laptop.
Also, tested District with low details. No difference in frame rate nor did the occasional frame rate drops vanish. This is only an issue on District, no other map has this on my laptop.
And i really cannot play but a few games, playing Halo 2 Vista a few minutes makes the CPU run rather hot. I suppose i could let this thing cool every few games, wouldn't be nice to drop from a game due my laptop overheating. (Happened already today, i was playing Tiberian Sun... i don't understand how TS can stress this laptop so much...)
Uh, no? My skill level on Halo 2 is about "total noob", as i haven't played it that much (multiplayer that is, i have no idea how many times i've played the campaign, too much that's for sure). But Halos are similar enough it is easy and fast to adapt.
Is it some ad? I'm not getting anything. EDIT double checked, no warnings for me.
Had this same issue. Ended up downloading an external framerate limiter, turning on triple buffering and forcing vsync in the driver. Only that combination fixed it.
Reach MLG has anni maps?
I'll drop by, see if i can actually play this online. If i can't, i'll have enough to time fix it if it is fixable...
They don't even look alike.
Well.. no.. but nothing in the trailer looks identical to anything in the games today. It has a similar form factor, it's hunched, looks feral... they both crawl. Also, the only image we have of the H4 Crawler is very low res and blurry. I think they look fairly similar tbh.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
The older creatures are bipeds, the new one is not. They look nothing alike. =P
MrGreencastle
Member
Yeah... my copy still hasn't arrived despite my ordering it weeks ago - love being Canadian some times.
Hopefully this Halo 2 Vista thing becomes a trend.
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Loving all the speculation on that blurry-ass image. I don't see what you guys are seeing at all.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Looks like a lost planet enemy to me to be honest...
You're telling me you don't see a tophat?
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Me and woorloog are having fun on Ascension.
MrGreencastle
Member
fortunately 343 seems to have learned from the mistakes of the pa-
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UNSC, design your bases better. Put some drywall up or something jeez.
MrGreencastle
Member
fortunately 343 seems to have learned from the mistakes of the pa-
Yeah... I don't know about that map just yet. I mean, sure it looks pretty, I guess (never really liked that look, personally), but I still think it might be too distracting to say the least.
Wraparound looks to be more what I like, but I get that not everyone is the same.