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Halo |OT5| Believe, Again
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Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Tunavi pls.
Maybe not ruined but certainly changed for the worse.
Steelyuhas
Member
Pretty rare for me as well.
Although I did hit it in SWAT yesterday.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE.
/halogafclassic
Yep. AA's are all skill crutches IMO.
Mister Negative
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Sword Base went til there were 30 seconds left. One guy camped red lift side with the sniper rifle and pretty much netted more than 90% of his team's kills. My team decided to camp yellow lift, of course.
We won, but boy oh boy is Reach at its worst tonight.
We won, but boy oh boy is Reach at its worst tonight.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I disagree. Armor lock might be, but the others are just strategies. Using hologram doesn't mean that person is worse than you, moreso if you fall for it you aren't as good as they are possibly?
It adds a different dynamic and more strategy to the game. I don't think Reach had the correct AA's, but I have faith that Halo 4 will.
I'll give you that, I'm fine with Hologram. That's how I want AAs (if they have to be there) to function. No immediate advantage over someone, just a thing that mixes up combat and doesn't dominate the sandbox like Reach's AAs.
I agree. Single instances of Armor Lock were annoying, but rarely did I see more than one person in a game doing it. Evade and Jetpack were and are full-team abuses.
The jetpack did something I thought was impossible by making me hate matches on Headlong. That map is just completely destroyed by that ability.
Mister Negative
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There's just no REASON for it. Bungie just kind of went "Hey yeah jetpacks are cool right?"
Also, the worst part of Sword base is easily the fact that most of it is just unused. There are vast expanses of that map that never see combat, because people just camp the top floor. So stupid. I'd love to see a version of it with the top floor blocked off somehow, just to see what it's like.
Steelyuhas
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Yeah Barrow and I ran into some awful Jetpack abuse today (playing half our games on Cage didn't help). It can be pretty horrendous, which is exponentially worsened by the extreme amount of aim acceleration on the vertical axis. Trying to quickly move your reticle upwards is like trying to lift an anvil.
Hopefully two things for Halo 4:
-Jetpack is more of "boost pack" that just gives you a very short vertical boost. Judging by the duration of the AA's we saw at E3, I'm relatively hopeful for this (think will still suck though no doubt).
-Related to Jetpack, but in no way exclusively related to it, please 343 for the love of god have an option to turn off aim acceleration. All it does in a arena/sandbox shooter is gimp the individual player and make the game more frustrating to play.
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I'm not sure what we're doing with scheduling. I want to go by Risen's idea, but I want to see what kittens wants to do.
User 73706
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Idea for jetpack: get rid of it.
To compensate: make Thruster operate in three dimensions depending on where you're looking. For example, looking straight down and thrusting backwards would send you straight up. Maybe make thruster move in two but have a larger distance, but have jetpack move in three with a shorter range.
To compensate: make Thruster operate in three dimensions depending on where you're looking. For example, looking straight down and thrusting backwards would send you straight up. Maybe make thruster move in two but have a larger distance, but have jetpack move in three with a shorter range.
Mister Negative
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Yeah Barrow and I ran into some awful Jetpack abuse today (playing half our games on Cage didn't help). It can be pretty horrendous, which is exponentially worsened by the extreme amount of aim acceleration on the vertical axis. Trying to quickly move your reticle upwards is like trying to lift an anvil.
Hopefully two things for Halo 4:
-Jetpack is more of "boost pack" that just gives you a very short vertical boost. Judging by the duration of the AA's we saw at E3, I'm relatively hopeful for this (think will still suck though no doubt).
-Related to Jetpack, but in no way exclusively related to it, please 343 for the love of god have an option to turn off aim acceleration. All it does in a arena/sandbox shooter is gimp the individual player and make the game more frustrating to play.
Honestly, if aim acceleration and deadzone are the same as they are in Reach, I'll be satisfied. Just don't take any steps back in that department, that's all I ask.
User 73932
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I am dissapoint.
What was Risen's idea? And would it be possible with <24 hrs notice?
SMH, you are not my son. I am disowning you.
Garrett 2U
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I rage quit earlier today because of jetpacks.
An entire team using jetpack on boardwalk is one of the most annoying things.
It is really the thing that has me worried most for Halo 4.
but you have to unlock jet pack, so only the people who play the most will have jetpacks!!!
Wait... that doesn't sound like a good thing at all...
Each matchup is scheduled at a predetermined date. Leave it up to the captains to get everyone in the match. If someone can't make it, play a man down.
Steelyuhas
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They're certainly not as bad as in Halo 3, and the aim acceleration on the horizontal axis in Reach is really not bad at all, especially if you bump sensitivity up above the default, but it's still awful on the vertical axis, and I really wish there was an option to turn it off. Some people don't even notice aim acceleration, but to others such as myself, it is a very frustrating, and can significantly impact my enjoyment with the game.
I do agree that no steps should be taken back in these departments from Reach. Including and especially FOV!
Was I ever your son?
In that case:
Mister Negative
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Definitely agree on FOV, it was great in Reach. But from what I've seen it seems like the FOV has been taken down just a notch, which is unfortunate.
In Halo 3, I ALWAYS noticed it, and I was definitely a worse player for it. I've never, ever felt dissatisfied with Reach's aim accel and responsiveness. In Halo 3 it was a near constant thing.
Oh boy. Stalker, you hear this? Stalker? Hello?
When is our match again?
11pm EST
How do I know you're not lying.
Thank god you did this less than 12 hours before the match. :_P
We're well oiled and prepped.
Friends Forever.
Been working, fool!
Besides, figured you guys would have arena settings.
edit: suck it, will put them in my fileshare now
Ah, is this the Halogaf tournament?
Good luck to all
Any predictions for the BIG match tonight. Im going for Spain 1-0 Italy.
Going In Dry over Team Plywood 2-3, winning in neutral bomb. Although we got robbed on the other slayer match.
Mister Negative
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Ah, is this the Halogaf tournament?
Good luck to all
Any predictions for the BIG match tonight. Im going for Spain 1-0 Italy.
Spain will win because of course they will, and Balotelli will get torn apart by the media for some reason.
None of the Treyarch games have been. They didn't get the MW2 code from IW due to their stupid little feud and so they were building off the tech they had during World at War for Black Ops, and that game had some significant dips.
Mister Negative
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Treyarch's CoDs always seemed less...polished. Visually, I mean. They always looked a little grittier and not as well done as IW's.
Black Ops 2 seems to be changing that, it actually looks...different, but this is actually pretty big. One of the best parts of CoD has always been the framerate.
I remember back during GI's coverstory on CoD4 they were gushing over how good the graphics were while being able to sustain 60 FPS.
That said, BO2 is probably the first CoD I won't be getting at launch.
Digital Foundry said there was a segment of the demo where the game appeared to run at a locked 30. The dips aren't that extreme though, are they?
No, not usually. It can lose like 15 frames during some segments of the campaign, though. I'd bet they're locking it to 30 during that section so it doesn't tear, it didn't look that impressive to actually lose 30 full frames.
It's always been interesting to me how Treyarch is less stringent about the locked 60 than old IW was--whether it's philosophy or them not being as technically proficient, I don't know. If it means that Call of Duty ends up looking better during the campaign , I'm more than okay with it. I think that the animosity that West and Zampella had towards Treyarch and their unwillingness to work with them more closely really held those games back. It's a shame that the case was settled out of court, because I'd love to know whether the allegations of IW countermarketing against a product from their own parent company were true. It all seems so petty.
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