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wwm0nkey

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Vire said:
Before you party, could you talk about what was discussed in the Fiction panel? Any savory tidbits you have for us plebeians who couldn't go?

Impressions on the Cinematic shown?
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Nothing much but the little part of the Cinematic where Cortana goes ape shit on the Captain of the UNSC Infinity for being a total ass.


Bregmann Roche said:
At some point you have to tell us what it was like to get up out of the audience and ask a question that was actually good. You tread a path on which few had tread before.
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Well I just tried to think of something to ask that didn't sound dumb and could probably be answered via statement or hint. Also considering the first question was "Can I dual-wield" I was pretty confident that my question would be far less stupid than that lol
 
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Overdoziz

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Now that I think of, changing grenades with d-pad sounds incredibly awkward do. Not being able to move while switching is just.. :( There's really no way to have an ideal Bumper Jumper control scheme. I blame having default sprint.
Also, Frankie/David/Bonnie/343, please make it so you don't have to hold down a button to use some AAs. That would improve Bumper Jumper a lot

Edit: The music at the beginning and end of the Sparkcast sounds promising.
 
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Bregmann Roche

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Mister Negative said:
So today was just FUD stuff and the glorious news that Bumper Jumper is once again the superior button layout?
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And monkey proved that it is possible to ask a good audience question at a panel.

monkey: Are there going to be cinematic terminals in Halo 4?
Panel people: Yes.

wwm0nkey said:
Also considering the first question was "Can I dual-wield"
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My god.

Overdoz1z said:
Now that I think of, changing grenades with d-pad sounds incredibly awkward do. Not being able to move while switching is just.. :( There's really no way to have an ideal Bumper Jumper control scheme. I blame having default sprint.
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Using your right hand to reach over and hit the dpad is not that much worse than using it to hit a face button. I think it will be fine especially because of the reduced role of grenades in the game.
 
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kittens

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Louis Wu said:
It's a running joke on the HBO forum that the HBO front page doesn't exist. :(
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I used HBO a ton in the Halo 2 days. If I remember right, HBO and B.net were the main places I got updates on Halo 2 and I Love Bees. I really appreciated the spoiler-free news options.
 
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Steelyuhas

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Louis Wu said:
If I do convert, that's what I WILL do... because that's all Twitter is good for.
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Uses a Twitter post about important Halo 4 information, then says Twitter is only good for instagramming meals.

Liar Wu confirmed. :p

blamite said:
On the RT podcast at RTX, Frank said they're 8 weeks from going gold. Which seems a bit sooner than past games, but I'm probably wrong about that.
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Hmm, content complete by the beginning of August makes sense, but that seems soon to go Gold. If they planned production like that though, it's entirely possible.
 
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AllIsOneIsNone

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Trailer looked pretty good to me, although believability is always more difficult with younger actors. Personally I wish they would've appealed to a more mature audience, but I guess Halo is supposed to be a bit more family friendly than other shooters. For what it is, I like it.
 
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Mister Negative

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Overdoz1z said:
Now that I think of, changing grenades with d-pad sounds incredibly awkward do. Not being able to move while switching is just.. :( There's really no way to have an ideal Bumper Jumper control scheme. I blame having default sprint.
Also, Frankie/David/Bonnie/343, please make it so you don't have to hold down a button to use some AAs. That would improve Bumper Jumper a lot

Edit: The music at the beginning and end of the Sparkcast sounds promising.
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I can't remember ever having to switch grenades in the middle of combat. And in all honesty I can probably get it with my palm if I have to.

Edit: do we have a confirmed layout for bumper jumper? Or are we just assuming it's what's been posted?

Edit 2: Just tried the palm thing, it doesn't work. But reaching over with my right hand is easy as pie. Definitely the way to do it.
 
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Overdoziz

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Mister Negative said:
I can't remember ever having to switch grenades in the middle of combat. And in all honesty I can probably get it with my palm if I have to.

Edit: do we have a confirmed layout for bumper jumper? Or are we just assuming it's what's been posted?

Edit 2: Just tried the palm thing, it doesn't work. But reaching over with my right hand is easy as pie. Definitely the way to do it.
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I'm assuming AAs will be A, Sprint on X and switching grenades with the D-pad. We'll have to wait and see.

On another note; why aren't the panels being streamed?
 
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Sai-kun

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Daniel Cudmore

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Hydranockz

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Mister Negative said:
I can't remember ever having to switch grenades in the middle of combat. And in all honesty I can probably get it with my palm if I have to.

Edit: do we have a confirmed layout for bumper jumper? Or are we just assuming it's what's been posted?

Edit 2: Just tried the palm thing, it doesn't work. But reaching over with my right hand is easy as pie. Definitely the way to do it.
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I just keep throwing nades until the type I want leaves my hands...
 
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blamite

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Has it been mentioned yet that you can't switch grenade types when you have an ordnance drop? Both features use left and right on the d-pad. Could be a problem.
 
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kittens

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blamite said:
Has it been mentioned yet that you can't switch grenade types when you have an ordnance drop? Both features use left and right on the d-pad. Could be a problem.
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They could just use Up on the d-pad to cycle through grenade types. They don't need a separate direction for each grenade.

Vire said:
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That gif makes me dizzy. No like.
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kittens

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blamite said:
Every image of controller layouts I've seen specifically points to left and right for grenade switching.

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Damn, you're right. So if you have an ordnance drop queued up, you can't switch grenades on ANY of the control schemes? That's pretty dumb.

Aggrotek said:
Up still seems to be the answer for the problem though...
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Definitely.

Deadly Cyclone said:
Learning bumper jumper is taking forever. Playing doesn't feel natural at all.
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You'll get used to it. It took me a week to get really comfortable with it, probably. I started off playing some campaign and Firefight to make it a little less frustrating. Once it clicks, there's no going back.
 
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