Portugeezer
Member
Someone on Gaf said it will be MP, don't bullshit me! DONT BULLSHIT ME!
Why? Why do this?
Why? Why do this?
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Halo |OT4| Trust's a Tough Thing to Come by These Days
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Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
LOL I just noticed the grenade indicator...
NullPointer
Member
Huh. So Knights can spawn Watchers. And Watchers can spawn Crawlers? Interesting.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
The Librarian
Banned
Wait. Did Josh just say those new AI are Prometheans? How? Prometheans are living Forerunners. Unless their consciousness is in the AI. Hm.
Confuzzled.
Confuzzled.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
As the nade flies by the grenade indicator popped up and pointed to the grenade swinging around behind chief.
Edit: Wow, GS's interview was SO much better. Not that I'm shocked.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
MP is 6 months after Halo 4.
I feel like I want to punch things
NullPointer
Member
Yup. We've gotten a lot of video out of e3 but not much solid info.
Needs more clarifications stankles!
Portugeezer
Member
No, the thing that killed the Elite, which was the orange lazer looking thing.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Yep, felt pointless.
RebornYeti
Member
IGN is so cool right now.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, that made me scratch my head.
xxjuicesxx
Member
ViewtifulJC
Banned
So, that was definitely worth it. I'm gonna blame, hmm...Elzar, for this one.
Goddamnit, Elzar
Goddamnit, Elzar
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Love the difference between Gamespot and IGN. Same demo, same guests, yet one was actually worth while. The IGN guy just asked the easy and predictable questions. *Yawn*
angelkimne
Member
The interviews are flooding in - but any word yet on scripted sequences? Surely someone has thought to mention them.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Cryptum/Primordiam spoilers
The Didact's war sphinxes had his sons' consciousnesses in them, right?
Steelyuhas
Member
Who do we have to suck off to get some MP?
And, yes of course there is a grenade indicator. There is one in COD, so now there is one in Halo.
And, yes of course there is a grenade indicator. There is one in COD, so now there is one in Halo.
Gabotron ES
Member
Grenade indicators, are you guys serious? smh
Least I need is more shit covering my screen.
Least I need is more shit covering my screen.
ElzarTheBam
Member
RebornYeti
Member
I haven't read any of the novels or anything, but could it just be Promethean technology?
Stinkles said the big enemies we've seen are Promothean Knights, and there are small arms sticking out of the armor as if it is a living being inside a robotic armor exoskeleton.
What I'm confused about is that Cortana says they're not organic. But yeah.
I really don't mind that, noticing 'nades in Reach is very difficult at times. Really miss the glow from Halo CE. The 'nade indicator is the next best thing after glowing frags.
Portugeezer
Member
Waited 40 minutes for this piece of crap gameplay demo, seen it already, no new info given. Fuck you very much.
That, and the grenades were huge.
Regarding weapon drops, this is a relief
"Once on the ground, these pods are marked on the heads-up displays of all nearby personnel who can then acquire the weapons or power-ups for use against enemies. In some simulated matches within War Games, Spartans can earn and manually call in their own ordnance drops."
So in some games they will just randomly come in, but others, you can manually call them in it seems.
According to halo.xbox.com/halo4:
PROMETHEAN KNIGHTS
Residents of the artificial world of Requiem, Promethean Knights represent the central occupying enemy force, legions of extremely capable combatants with both ancient and mysterious origins. While these Prometheans are significantly different from the legendary Forerunner Warrior-Servants of ages past, these Knights are no less harrowing. They are fully weaponized, heavily armored bipedal warriors, easily capable of engaging and terminating perceived threats in almost all environments. They are truly lethal creatures, taken lightly only at ones peril.
"Once on the ground, these pods are marked on the heads-up displays of all nearby personnel who can then acquire the weapons or power-ups for use against enemies. In some simulated matches within War Games, Spartans can earn and manually call in their own ordnance drops."
So in some games they will just randomly come in, but others, you can manually call them in it seems.
According to halo.xbox.com/halo4:
PROMETHEAN KNIGHTS
Residents of the artificial world of Requiem, Promethean Knights represent the central occupying enemy force, legions of extremely capable combatants with both ancient and mysterious origins. While these Prometheans are significantly different from the legendary Forerunner Warrior-Servants of ages past, these Knights are no less harrowing. They are fully weaponized, heavily armored bipedal warriors, easily capable of engaging and terminating perceived threats in almost all environments. They are truly lethal creatures, taken lightly only at ones peril.
343 put the Didact's symbol at the end of the demo. They know damn well the fans have put two and two together. I don't think they'd be shocked at all.
I think you're reading too much into it. He just meant they're all made by the Prometheans.
Constant Overshield and stealing other players' ordnance! Awesome!
They'd be shocked that a games journo asked it, though.
Sounds good; although I think Walshy hit on a few more points.
Good to hear the BR and DMR are both effective weapons.
Pub slayer seems like arcade fun; I imagine objective games and other slayer gametypes would be more 'serious' as in no powerups from ordnance, or no ordnance at all. Will be fun to mix it up a bit though.
The Librarian
Banned
Good points, all.
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I need more of this.
Interesting indeed. I had thought the Promethean Knights were simply AI employed by the Didact or someone else. Seems the relationship is more blurry than I had originally thought.
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I need more of this.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
What the hell is with this misconception that all the bodies "despawn"/"fizzle" when killed in War Games because its a "simulator"?
This is clearly not true, they only fizzle when killed with a promethean weapon otherwise the body stays on the ground pretty much all the MP footage so far has shown the ground littered with bodies.
This is clearly not true, they only fizzle when killed with a promethean weapon otherwise the body stays on the ground pretty much all the MP footage so far has shown the ground littered with bodies.
I need more of this.
You know, it almost looks like the Sticky Detonator's nade has DIRECTIONAL blast, like the Spike Grenade. Really hope it does, would make it more interesting and replace the lack of bounce.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I need more of this.
LOL, look at that little dot move into the kill box on the indicator.
Good points, all.
Interesting indeed.
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I need more of this.
Look at the flip out screen.
It has a tiny radar.
Steelyuhas
Member
Not that big of deal for big either.
Garrett 2U
Member
They really are trying to make every aspect of this game accessible to noobs.
I wonder what the range is on that. Could you drop one of those mines and then run across the map, and still have the radar show you the location? Could be interesting to launch one across a map into an enemy's flag room and let your team know if the room is clear before they get there.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
It's what I thought it was when we saw it on the leaked footage, they simply evolved the indicator on the grenade launcher. The mini radar is a bit much though.
Also be interesting if Camo jams it.
The Pro-Pipe in Reach has "distance to 'nade" indicator AND it has skull symbol for up to a three (IIRC) targets in the detonation radius.
Maybe just trying to make it easier to understand.
The amount of time I see people use the pro-pipe incorrectly, as in no EMP, is staggering.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Where is Louie Wu's Spartan Ops stuff? 