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It'd be a band aid solution, but I just might do it. Gonna be obnoxious moving all the USB things around though. I have a mic charger and controller charger plugged in at all times. Not to mention a USB device that said it wasnt compatible but is still holding Mirrors Edge on it.
Do you personally know if this works? The 8 gig flash I had said it was wonky and not compatible. Had minor issues with it, but for the most part it got the job done.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
The headset is £200!, Jesus. I really wanted it but not at that price.
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What is this "everything"? While 343 spent time planning this trilogy out, all signs point to their entire studio consumed by shipping Halo 4. With Halo 5, they need to scale up and launch on a new platform to boot. I would not be surprised if they pushed for two years rather than three, but I haven't seen any indication that will be the case.
No need to be condescending. In the heat of battle it's quite easy to hold that melee a fraction of a second longer, triggering the assassination. I've only done a couple of them on purpose in MP, all the rest are accidental triggers, and a good percentage of those got me killed. An option to turn them off would be neat. (To be clear, I really like assassinations - in Campaign and Firefight. In MP I never considered the animation and medal enough of a reward to go for them, which may change with Halo 4's incentive system encouraging them.)
Flawless.
Likewise. And look at it from their perspective - Yoinks are hilarious. I can see why repeated ones might be considered rude, but they're nothing to rage over.
I think Phil Spencer mentioned 'every couple of years' once in an interview.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Hmm, not personally. I think SanDisk is who makes the official Xbox 360 branded sticks though. I personally have an HP 8GB flash drive for my 360.
bobs...onGaf
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Considering how easy it would be to toggle assassinations and how inconsiquential it would be for them to add that toggle, I can't believe people here are seemingly arguing against a toggle being added. Why question the users ability to simply tap a button when you can hardcode it to suit how they want it to work?
I mean if there are resources to make objective specific animations surely resources exist to program a toggle button
I mean if there are resources to make objective specific animations surely resources exist to program a toggle button
ElzarTheBam
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Especially Myyke!
Portugeezer
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I think they will do it here's why:
- Halo 4 will have join in progress multiplayer. If I don't get CTF I will quit, simple, other people will do the same if no one votes for their game type.
- If I join in progress to a gametype I have no vote in then that is also no fun.
I am just reminding them so that they don't do a massive fuck up.
Your tears are the reason I yoink. It's no different in my opinion than team shooting; if you want to take a minute to assassinate someone it's pretty much fair game to try and 'steal' it.
All those games and you're getting a new console? Teach me that magical budgeting pls.
Review said it works perfect as an Xbox storage device. Thanks for the bargain too, it was really cheap. I ordered it. Gonna be annoying having to have that thing in just to play Halo 4, but whatever.
Well I didn't do it on purpose. And I don't care because of the yoink, I care about the 2 betrayals afterwards, because I should be the one betraying him...
To anser your second question, no I'm not. I know that there are idiots out there, but how stupid do you have to be, to trashtalk, if you are worser then the guy, which you are flaming?
That's logic.
And yeah, yoinking people is not cool and it's not team shooting, because it's a 100% kill.
Kill Stealing is not liked to be seen by many. I like to yoink some kills randoms, but wouldn't do it to friends. But I do it because it is dumb to do such a move which takes this much time IMO
Especially this dumb achievement which requires you to pulldown an assassination on someone who got out on armor lock. I did it once and then got yoinked.
I threw my controller on the floor
Ah, I remember that. I didn't put much stock in the phrasing, myself. (Frankie chastised me a while back when I said I expected a two-year cadence.). I'd love to see a three year spacing, and that is my hope. I just haven't seen much indication that a two year is coming, though I wouldn't be surprised.
I yoink ESPECIALLY to friends.
Hypertrooper
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For the most, a good K/D ratio is more important than winning.
I do too. I don't know why you should not. Yoinking is one of the funny things, you can do in Reach.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I think I have yoinked my friends at least 200 times, since launch.
I actually follow Myyke around, waiting, he hates me.
Yoinking is better with friends.
Mister Negative
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I've never experienced campaign lag in Halo 3. I want to say I've gotten a very, very minimal amount in ODST, enough that it wasn't really a problem. In reach, campaign co-op and firefight are unplayable 99% of the time due to the button lag.
Edit: Yoinking is doing people a favor most of the time, gets you out of that silly animation.
StalkerUKCG
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Didn't you just complain about how difficult it was to do a normal beat down from behind instead of an assassination?
Orochinagis
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Slim Hunter ?
HigherLevel
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Yeah I know Fyrewulff keeps saying 2 year dev cycles are coming but I don't think that will happen. I don't see how you can add create a game of this scale with an entire year less of development time.
I need to re-up. The controller that came with my slim is destroyed from slow turn (right is easily 30% of the speed that left is), my Reach controller has slow walk in such a way that I can't even sprint, and most of the controllers I've had since launch are either worn or damaged.
I'll probably be picking up one of those ballin' UNSC controllers.
I only yoink Sai.
if you know what I mean
No? I said that a handful of items I accidentally did an assassination instead of a normal beat down. I didn't say it was "difficult" to do a normal beat down. When I get an accidental assassination I'm happy when I get yoinked.
I'll do it sometimes but I know some of them are also going for achievements or something like this.
In normal matches I'll do it, especially in Swat.. God who is so stupid to do an really long animation while you can be killed with one headshot.
Yeah I'm with you on this, but like you also said about Assassinations, sometimes you don't want to do it.
Honestly this was the first thing I thought.
Likewise. Especially with the leap to a new platform. If 343 wants to maintain the quality bar - and I believe they do, as Halo 4 is shooting for the stars - I don't see them compressing their dev schedule by a third. Halo 4 is incredibly ambitious, and I don't anticipate they'll aim lower with the rest of the series. You can't do that in two years.
Sadly, people are all about that kill/death ratio. Makes absolutely no sense.
I'm guessing the flash drive is the solution you're using, but I may be able to help. A friend of mine had an old elite xbox (I think it's the 120 gb version) that messed up (ethernet port stopped working). Wonder if I can convince him to give up the hard drive.
Some of the most fun I've had in Reach is yoinking friends that I know will get pissed. So good.
The Librarian
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People can probably name more stuff, but for me, I'd like to see toggle options for two things in Halo 4: assassinations and hitmarkers.
I've explained assassinations, and I've explained my position on hitmarkers, but at the risk of getting annoying and repeating myself, I'll do it one more time. One of the problems I have with hitmarkers in a Halo game is that they're slightly superfluous for multiplayer. Halo games (AND Halo 4) have such a good feedback system in shields with their popping and flaring that I don't see hitmarkers necessary. But that's more of a nitpick than anything.
My main problem with hitmarkers comes with their inclusion in campaign. Hitmarkers scream such a multiplayer aspect that to bring them into campaign might be detrimental to the campaign experience in that it makes the experience more like multiplayer. I know I've been the only one to bring up this point, so it may be just me being silly (or stupid), and so I can understand why hitmarkers are in there. In campaign, too, Halo has had such a good feedback system (Halo 4 looks to continue this trend too) in that enemies react well to being shot – their shields flare up, they flinch – you know, the works. So even in campaign they're a bit superfluous. It's almost like they're a substitute for better feedback, you know?
Of course, I haven't played the campaign yet, so none of what I brought up may matter, but that's been my experience in other games. And I think I'm the only one who has had any problems with hitmarkers being included, so I guess I'm just crazy. And when looking over the entire game, the inclusion of hitmarkers – however I feel about them – will probably amount to little more than a nitpick anyway.
I've explained assassinations, and I've explained my position on hitmarkers, but at the risk of getting annoying and repeating myself, I'll do it one more time. One of the problems I have with hitmarkers in a Halo game is that they're slightly superfluous for multiplayer. Halo games (AND Halo 4) have such a good feedback system in shields with their popping and flaring that I don't see hitmarkers necessary. But that's more of a nitpick than anything.
My main problem with hitmarkers comes with their inclusion in campaign. Hitmarkers scream such a multiplayer aspect that to bring them into campaign might be detrimental to the campaign experience in that it makes the experience more like multiplayer. I know I've been the only one to bring up this point, so it may be just me being silly (or stupid), and so I can understand why hitmarkers are in there. In campaign, too, Halo has had such a good feedback system (Halo 4 looks to continue this trend too) in that enemies react well to being shot – their shields flare up, they flinch – you know, the works. So even in campaign they're a bit superfluous. It's almost like they're a substitute for better feedback, you know?
Of course, I haven't played the campaign yet, so none of what I brought up may matter, but that's been my experience in other games. And I think I'm the only one who has had any problems with hitmarkers being included, so I guess I'm just crazy. And when looking over the entire game, the inclusion of hitmarkers – however I feel about them – will probably amount to little more than a nitpick anyway.
Slightly Live
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It all depends on the 720 launch, if it's really going to hit retail at the end of next year or the year after.
There's won't be a Halo title for launch, for sure, put down GOW4 for that, but you will see Halo 5 the following year at the very least, similar to the 360 window with Gears and Halo.
Heck, if it wasn't for Kinect, I'm also sure we'd be playing Halo 4 as a launch title for the 720 this November.
Mister Negative
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I have no problem with hitmarkers at all in multiplayer, especially with Halo 4's netcode still being a mystery.
Its inclusion in the campaign makes sense from a canonical standpoint, but I'll agree that it's superfluous and I'd probably rather not see it. Even CoD doesn't have hitmarkers in the campaign.
Orochinagis
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Because some people want to see if they are hitting them instead of directly see or hear if the enemy is reacting to the damage, thats why there are still white words with big letters in the middle of the screen. They surely will get lost and confused.
Brolic Gaoler
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I love hitmarkers in SP, a lot of games are doing this now and I just love the feedback it gives.
ElzarTheBam
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A question, can you get hitmarkers on holograms?
To make it clear, I didn't wanted to make an animated assassination, I just tapped the bumper. And you guys are all doing it yoinks on purpose? I don't know guys, but this is something that only noobs are doing in order to get at least 1 kill.
But on a more sirious note, why would you yoink?
joking
But on a more sirious note, why would you yoink?
They've been working on Halo 4 for more than 3 years. I very much doubt Halo 5 will be ready for 2014. But 2014 is a perfect year to release Halo 2 Anniversary since in launched in 2004. Halo 5 will likely launch the year after, IMO.
With the 360, it went this way:
2005: Launch
2006: Gears of War
2007: Halo 3
So if it follows the previous spacing, that would be a three year cycle. It's what I'm hoping for, really.
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Edit: what happened for this weeks Challenge? 50 Rounds of Firefight (which is a LOT of Firefight), for 7,777 cR? Looks like one of Bungie's old ones from launch cycled in while SDCC was in swing. And all the dailies today are for MP. Curses.
Yes. Absolutely I try everytime to yoink someone's kill.
I do it because not only is it hilarious, but because usually in a game when performing an assassination the person is getting shot. It seems that very rarely do you get afforded enough time to perform the whole assassination without taking some fire from someone else.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Please practice safe yoinking.
Hmmmmm.
Htmarkers on holograms would be quite beneficial to the ability.
Mister Negative
Member
Watching one of the videos from comic-con, it doesn't appear that you do, but it's off-screen so it's hard to tell exactly.
Also, another thing I noticed that they mentioned: you can no longer zoom in with weapons that don't have a scope. No more binoculars?
I sometimes Yoink kills from random people (because i don't care about them) and i Yoink kills from my friend usually as retaliation for something else (but if there's no reason to retaliate, i don't Yoink).
I don't have problem with killstealing really, it is annoying in FFA but that's FFA.
NOOOOOOOOO! Must have binoculars, hate how you cannot zoom with non-scoped weapons in CE/Anniversary...
So how many pages should I skip to get past the crying about yoinking and assassinations in general?
You'd think with all those fancy optics in their helmets, they'd have at least 2x magnification as well.
You'd think with all those fancy optics in their helmets, they'd have at least 2x magnification as well.
What? Noooooo!
Sticky detonator's range just got halved. Reach's grenade launcher was even more fun to use at longer ranges. Pull the trigger, zoom in, and detonate.
Why would you remove that?
People doing assassinations are wasting everybody's time just so they can swing their e-dong in front of the person they're killing. I'll happily yoink people so we can move on and kill other dudes.
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