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Halo |OT5| Believe, Again
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He later came in and said something about how they make sure weapon drops fall when they're supposed to or something just as vague.
To be honest, we still don't know for sure how it works.
Der Flatulator
Member
I hate the word Random. There is no such thing as random. The only instance of something that is random in the history of the universe is the big bang, and only because we don't know enough about it to prove otherwise.
When you say "random" in this context, it is still obviously deterministic, however in the case of weapon spawn times, I think the spawn time would be determined NOT by pseudo-random number generation, but either one of the following:
- The spawn times are scripted on a map basis
- The spawn times are determined based on team scores
You unlock that at Field Marshall.
The problem with "pro" game-types is that they limit the sandbox, and maybe even AAs.
That's not what i want. Sure, they're occasionally fun but...
Base settings with no radar is the best IMO.
Der Flatulator
Member
Hence the 'hope'. Hopefully the only differences are:
1- No personal ordnance
2- No radar
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Sniper shops approaching Ellis levels of win.
The Librarian
Banned
There are a couple of things lacking from the showfloor gameplay (stuff I wish I could see more of):
1. Longbow
2. Sticky Detonator
3. Needler
Edit: Also, given this discussion over weapon drops, I've given up trying to understand how they work in Halo 4. It's so confusing. I'll need to play.
1. Longbow
2. Sticky Detonator
3. Needler
Edit: Also, given this discussion over weapon drops, I've given up trying to understand how they work in Halo 4. It's so confusing. I'll need to play.
Der Flatulator
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1) I did the last one in mspaint
2) Nowhere near the 'win factor' of the JEllis stuff. That was brilliant.
Definitely. I've only seen ~20s of Longbow gameplay, MLG pros are pathetically bad with the Sticky Detonator, and they refused to use the needler. Made me sad.
Hydranockz
Member
Needler is picked up in the first video Cyren linked.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Yes.
Frankie, please deliver us an uncompressed audio and video of a match on longbow.
Please?
Poker Face
Member
Yea hoping 343 has at least one "pro" playlist. No ordnance drops, just weapons on map, with BR/DMR starts.
Weapons or power ups drop in? I don't see how it's confusing.
Someone shop Ellis in the little sniper tv thingy
Gabotron ES
Member
Sniper's scope looks like a cinema projector.
Mister Negative
Member
What worries me most about "randomness" is not the timing, but the positioning. I fear unbalanced power weapon spawns. Someone assuage me.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
ElzarTheBam
Member
Devin Olsen
Member
Seems like a legit review.
Portugeezer
Member
Fits in perfectly.
That's exactly what i don't want. Base settings (including weapon drops, perks and so on), just no radar.
EDIT one big fault in Reach is that the lists differ too much from each other.
squidhands
Member
I don't like any kind of radar enhancement. Over the years, the Halo radar has become more and more detailed, and I just don't see a need to make it even more powerful.
Press X to retweetYou forgot the live twitter integration!
The Librarian
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The one on Adrift or Haven? I said stuff that I think is "lacking," stuff that I want to see more of. I didn't say the Needler was never used, but in the two Gamespot videos he linked, nobody sticks with the Needler long enough to get a good sense at how it plays.
K
kittens
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Sniper is cool, yall are dumb. Although, yeah, it takes up too much screen real estate.
And yes to vanilla no radar gametypes.
And yes to vanilla no radar gametypes.
squidhands
Member
who did you bribe to get the perma-junior moniker lifted?
Holy shit, this.
Bornstellar
Member
So this is an interesting thread at HBO:
http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1143538
Hoovaloov noticed that if you play the Halo 4 video in the main banner ad on ESPN.com (make sure your adblocker is off
I pulled out the actual takeover file:
http://adsatt.espn.go.com/ad/sponsors/utilities/espn/halo4_microsoft/content_takeover14.swf
The text shown in various places is... odd.
These strings are in the SWF itself:
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Proin suscipit malesuada elementum.
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These strings are displayed by one of the parts, reversed; I simply captured them and flipped the video to read them:
!diag proc 10
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rogue proc 10
proc 7 8 9
linvntry terminal
862..293.342.3487.2
thanksshk terminal
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!attach act drop
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Smarter people than me will need to figure out what it's all about.
Sticky Detonator was seen plenty.
Too bad no one could get kills with it. Seems like a shit weapon to be honest. Completely defensive.
Hydranockz
Member
You have a timestamp.
Cool. Must be still hitting a server with it still cached. Shows up in another browser.
It was a bug. I was never actually perma-juniored, I should have been promoted ever since I hit 300 :lol
lolol
Der Flatulator
Member
Now with Social integration.
Hire me 343, I've got more!
Hire me 343, I've got more!
Gabotron ES
Member
Fyre is a member now, about time
Wait, what?
lol
Tell me, is your inbox still limited to 999 like it was sometime ago? Or did they fake that?
The Librarian
Banned
I don't understand how weapon drops work. It's probably because we've had to piece together stuff Frankie and Ellis have said, resulting in a mish-mash of information, but I'm sitting here past E3, after having seen gameplay videos, and I don't understand how the system works. Do they or do they not have random timers? How is it predictable?
Perhaps a bulletin going into great detail about how everything fits together would clear things up for me.
1000 now and the New Topic button works now (but I'm not going to use it)
Apparently all juniors are supposed to have 999 PMs now.
Ah, i had just 50PMs when i was junior.
Der Flatulator
Member
I wish it was that
Why are you complaining?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
The Halo 4 Sniper is the first thing iv seen about H4 that i dislike.
I wish it was that
Use the pic as an avatar, then you can at least pretend to have "special member" tag.
Though arguably that would be pretty lame...
Der Flatulator
Member
^^Your 6,666th post. It's a sign!
Yup.
Hey guys, look what you get once you reach General!
Swap the GPS with a screen that has XVideos. Ship it.
MP vidoc.
lol, your avatar makes that so funny, somehow.
*"yup", and keeps eating popcorn*
Though i do not understand how the Chief can eat popcorn with helmet, but considering Shepard has no issues drinking with helmet on, i assume the Chief can eat without issues... somehow...
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