I would guess that atleast one of the upcoming mappacks is made by CA.
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FUNKNOWN iXi
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I'm going to guess all 3 map packs are being made by Certain Affinity, with 343 handling the SpOps DLC.
343 - Campaign and Campaign spinoffs
Certain Affinity - Multiplayer DLC
Honestly wouldn't have a problem with that
That's exactly what I'm thinking since Lasky in the SpOps cutscenes.
Post-Convention 343, yes. Also, remember BSangel's twitter?
Anyway if you are making .GIFs, there are a few things to watch out for so people's data caps and browsers dont explode.
The image size is the biggest factor Counting towards file size.
Cutting it down slightly cuts the file size quite a lot and nonlinearly. .GIFs have a sweet spot for size.
Ninjas Hijacked my mother.
After that is your use of diffusion if you got smooth gradients.
If you got a lot of motion, you can throw down the color amount and crank the diffusion and no one will know the difference.
If you saw my high speed Nexuiz .GIF, that's a good example.
A robot shat on my horoscope.
If you are cutting together multiple shots into one .GIF, try to keep the shots from the same palette.
Meaning, all the dark blue night time shots in one .GIF and the sunny desert yellow in another.
That way you can cut down your pallette further and still get the same or better quality.
Apple juice!
The next biggest thing inflating size is the actuall frame count.
You could use every other frame and double the frame time to compensate.
This helps especially if you can't avoid big color pallette changes.
Gleamed two things from the opening trailer for the panel:
Hello there Mark VI, good to see you're doing well.
Armored Halo 4 Answer
Hello there Mark VI, good to see you're doing well.
Armored Halo 4 Answer
MaximumFlipFlop
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Great info, Thanks! And I've been trying my best to keep them ~10mb and less to be respectable to others.
Looks like a nondescript, blurry hard surface asset.
And there is a .GIF of that spartan climbing into that mech above.
Same
Try for ~3-4x less.otherwise your getting to the point where you should be posting a YouTube video. (which would end up at least 10x smalle at that rate)
.Gifs are great if you wanna show a short animation or something with a cool parallax motion because those have interesting repetition.
Some of the best .GIFs I've seen are the one where you either can't tell where/when it loops or because you just want to watch all the detail in the motion multiple times rapidly so you can absorb any details you may missed.
I must have watched that Nexuiz Speed Flag Cap .GIF 50 times by now, not to toot my own horn or anything.
If by blurry hard surface asset you mean the back armor of some Mjolnir Mark VI.
To me, what else could it be? Maybe some reference work or something, but that's definitely the back of the Mark VI armor.
Deputy Moonman
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Yeah i hear ya. So far, from what we've seen at E3/RTX, and heard from people that got hands on playtime, the maps look to be a lot better. But it's really hard to nail down what maps will turn out for worse, based on player tendencies for specific maps that only come to light after weeks/months of being online. Sword Base for example was not immediately hated i don't think. Of course, I like sword base lol.
MaximumFlipFlop
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Haha, lol.
I even spliced in some Day Job Orchestra references in my .GIF tech jargon just to see if anyone read it, but it seems now that that was also pretty esoteric.
Maybe I should do Homestarrunner next. Fyrewulff would read it.
Conan O'Brien's suit confirmed?
Might be something to do with the Infinity, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Alright just read back a bit and got a couple of things to add
This "Specialization" every 10 level choice thing. Does that mean we choose between a couple? So completionists are going to do what....
Also, armour unlocks based on skill rather than credits? Does that mean a better player will just get everything quicker? Because it isn't a skill system which goes down (if you start playing worse) I am guessing, so it is just an elongated credit system.
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Hard to believe that hasn't been updated in as long as it has.
Considering the Covenant plays smaller role, i'd say it is logical to assume they're not in.
Brutes and Elites don't have too too different roles in the sandbox, no map in Reach had both Elites and Brutes leading Grunts and Jackals.
Too bad, IMO. Like Brutes.
That said, i hope i'm wrong and they're in.
EDIT i'm more worried about whether Hunters are in or not. IMO at least the four base Covenant species should be in (Elites, Grunts, Jackals, Hunters).
Junior, we got an assignment for you.
Switch to a PolyPhasic Sleep Schedule like the uberman:
and report back to us with your finding's if you haven't died of exhaustion in the process.
We'll have our own little version off a "developer crunch-off"
Be sure to listen to lots of Skrillex when you feel sleepy.
I'm sorry to dissapoint you, but I need my sleep. I was just so hyped ysterday, that I couldn't sleep, but after another 2 hours, I got microsleeps. So, the question was, if I should do the microsleeps trick (sleep for 30 minutes and wake up, because you will feel like you slept 12 hours) or if I should sleep for 1 1/2 hours. Something like the uberman shedule, will never happen to me. Mainly, because I have to work and go to university and I would have to drink too much cofee or something else, that has a higher amount of coffein.
Watch the video around the 2 minutes mark, he is the incredible Hulk. Taking so much damage, but he isn't dieing.
FX guide interviews Method supervisor, Ben Walsh about Halo 4's The Commissioning.
Check out the making of video.
Check out the making of video.
I wouldn't worry too much. They're very iconic and have been in every halo game so far, so I don't think they'd just leave them out.
I know that. But can't help but worrying because: a) that's my nature, b)343i is staying awfully quiet in general.
In general, i'm not worried about Halo 4 though.
Visually i like it. Sound desing seems to be good. Gameplay looks like Halo.
Major worries: Campaign length, multiplayer map desing, playlist management.
Minor worries: Are Hunters in?, weapon balance in multiplayer. EDIT i think i had something else too... guess it is not very important for me since i cannot remember it. If i had something in mind.
EDIT also, it is time for a new avatar... Wish 343i would release new screenshots...
Rickenslacker
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Neat. It really seems this time that the armour selection is going to considerably change your appearance, with entire chest pieces and leggings being replaced.
The Librarian
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*faints*
Listen up people. This is how you jr.I cut together all the clips from the Making of Halo 4 trailer for easy viewing. Hope everyone enjoys. This should make Gif making easier as well
Halo 4 Making of Quick Cuts
Gabotron ES
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Same thing happened to me, Kyle and a couple others here on Boardwalk one time.
That was the weirdest Q&A..
I'm a teacher and having a baby, I can't afford new console.
Why did you leave me in the bar Frank Whaaa!
(I can ask any question) How much will the Xbox cost?
Is Spartan Ops coming with the game?
The best question (the one about loadouts) sounded like it was being asked by a ten year old.
I'm a teacher and having a baby, I can't afford new console.
Why did you leave me in the bar Frank Whaaa!
(I can ask any question) How much will the Xbox cost?
Is Spartan Ops coming with the game?
The best question (the one about loadouts) sounded like it was being asked by a ten year old.
Link/Time of these incidents?
ElRenoRaven
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Meh none of that bothered me. I've learned to just turn off any panel when questions come up because the people that get to ask are complete morons. Hence we don't get any new information from them.
I laughed. Awkward for Frank I'm sure but funny.
Yeah I guess, it's frustrating because they should be the best parts of the panel. I went to a Q&A with Nolan North and Rich Lemarchand (Uncharted lead designer) last year and we submitted questions on little cards as we entered the room, one of the event staff picked the best ones.
It's good because you don't just get people asking questions that have been answered a hundred times already, but also I imagine they filter out all the really hard questions.
New Spartan Ops location:
Yay snow.
So we've seen Lava, Snow, Desert, Forerunner, and Human environments...
I can't wait to see the rolling grass maps...
Reminds me of Installation 04 in Reach
Random item from the collection
What is this? A letter from Bungie? Reminds me of the golden ticket thing.
Animation glitch as you come back to first person,
spartan confuses how to hold flag with pistol.
Not sure what I think about holding a side arm with the flag. Although it doesn't matter, the pistol is useless anyway.
Portugeezer
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LET ME CHOOSE MY FUCKING GAME TYPE! Not vote for mix of game modes in matchmaking.
That is all.
That is all.
That would cause graphical glitches. Can't do.
ArchedThunder
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Now give me a Full Mark V suit 343.
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