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ElzarTheBam
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Halo 2 was kind of a mess in general. I don't think we'll ever know what Halo 2, fully realized, would have been like.
For example, they made Containment and the Banshees were on by default.. there's entire components of the map designed around balancing and gating the banshee.
And then someone left a gigantic hole in the map's invisible player walls that you could literally fly a banshee into and out of the map, so they had to turn of the banshee on Containment.
Love it!
TS x Massacre
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I actually really like it.
Feels good, man.
Poker Face
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Hypertrooper
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Looks amazing.
Franklinator
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Ha, you were beaten to your own video. Good stuff
Vire
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Thanks mastrbiggy! Super cool of you to record for us.
Was that oddball assassination on a new map or just really bad lighting from the camera?
(Looked kinda like Adrift I guess)
Gabotron ES
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Can't see shit from my phone, someone gif it or something pls.
Ah, yes, that glitch. I remember it was fun doing that in local splitscreen... we never figured out any applications for that though.
Nothing beats Tank Flipping in Coagulation though.
Could someone upload it to YouTube pls. I can't watch it on my iPhone.
Nevermind, I have an idea.
As much as I didn't like it versus Coag or Waterworks, I'd still take it over any BTB we've gotten since. No middle hill dominance, no middle structure BS with terrible weapon/item placement, no Forge, none of that.
Carrying the flag is just one small piece of CTF, though. Will we have flag contesting? Will there be a small timer bar above the flag, for instance:
Is Sudden Death going to be a major turd in the toilet, again?
Franklinator
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The guy with the oddball initially had out his pistol, sprinted, and then pulled out the oddball to assassinate, it appeared. Dunno how I feel about that if that's exactly what I saw.
Those kills look extremely satisfying.
For matchmaking it would have been put flag carrier on banshee -> Airlift them through the hole and off the map, get free kills because the other team can't cap your flag for rest of the game.
Same reason the banshee was taken off Headlong. I'd just like to see a Halo 2 where nobody could escape the maps. That was the big change from H2 to H3, you actually played the game now instead of a race to the skybox.
When the fuck did that happen? That's... absurd. I loved those gametypes, specifically because the map was designed for those gametypes.
OdysseusVA
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Looks weird holding both the flag and pistol. Why not just place the flag on the players back and limit them to their pistol?
Latvian Hitman
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Ahhhhhhhhhh. My favorite big team map of all time... *sigh*
Too bad they had to do this for the campaign too, escaping the campaign levels was so much fun.
night shift?
So what I see looks pretty interesting.
Hopefully we get the next days the whole panel. Good night Gaf, it's late here.
Congratulations again to Hyper
TS x Massacre
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Nope.
The blue guy in front of the red guy THREW it to the assassin blue guy while he was sprinting!
the guy has an armor effect on.
ElzarTheBam
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So, it looks like, if you pick the ball, it replaces your primary and gives you a pistol and an oddball instead?
Woah, I need to see it again.
Mister Negative
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Carrying flag in the left hand, using the pistol in the right. Called it (in my brain).
Flag running will still be possible! You just have to press the left trigger instead of the right
Franklinator
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That's much better then. Thanks!
I wonder how easy it is to throw the oddball to someone.
TS x Massacre
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No problem man!
I wonder if you throw it like a grenade now to pass it to your teammates.. really friggin cool.
Mister Negative
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Is that a new map in that oddball video? Looked Covie inspired, almost similar to Assembly.
Haha I thought nobody saw my stealth editing. And yes, you are right.
ElzarTheBam
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Just saw it with the brightness up, very cool.
Gabotron ES
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Someone youtube/gif the assasination plz! D:
GodfatherX
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replaying Reach single player for the first time since i beat it in 2010, also playing on a brand new tv, and im seeing a lot more motion blur then i remember. Is there a lot of motion blur in Reach or could it be a possible tv issue?
Tossing the oddball like that is cool as fuck. With one problem. When you're about to die with the oddball you can just throw it away. Not sure how to fix that...
One more thing. Obviously we're not going to be hurling flags like that, but it'd be nice if 343 let us throw them again. Halo 2 style.
One more thing. Obviously we're not going to be hurling flags like that, but it'd be nice if 343 let us throw them again. Halo 2 style.
Mister Negative
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Playball 2.0.
Or what about throwing it to a guy which is in a gunfight. Ultimate trolling...
Well, couldn't they just make the throw different for the flag? You do only have one hand to throw it with. 343 could just make flag juggling an actual thing.
Poker Face
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hahaha just keep throwing at the guy trying to snipe.
It was one of the updates in 2007 I believe. It made sense to exactly nobody at the time.
edit: here's a post on HBO with me griping about it. I'm going to assume that was a link to an update thread on Optimatch though, which is going to make it unreachable
http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive26.pl?read=783233
The Henery
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Assassinations look siiiiiiiiiiick. The flag/pistol combo looks a little 'off' aesthetically.
Does that mean juggling is in?
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