YourExWife
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Why thank you sir
For the record, I didn't make it myself, but I thought that was the best time. Been sitting on that puppy all day.
Welcome and all that. Your name looks familiar. Have we played?
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Why thank you sir
For the record, I didn't make it myself, but I thought that was the best time. Been sitting on that puppy all day.
Welcome and all that. Your name looks familiar. Have we played?
Having way too many playlists really hurts the population. There should only be a few playlists:
FFA
Doubles
Infinity Slayer
Team Objective
Team Hardcore (Classic slayer and objective)
BTB
Action Sack (grifball, infection, etc.)
You're putting a lot of faith in something that, imo, seems like its not gonna happen. And the fact that just because something is hyped doesn't mean its going to deliver.
Remember the insane amount of hype Firefight 2.0 got. ALL THOSE OPTIONS.
THAT NO ONE EVER USES.
Also Dark Knight Rises was great. Not sure where it stands in the trilogy though.
Could you make one where its a HUGE logo? Like the wings reach up to the shoulders?
Garrett 2U
Member
Matchmaking is just going to be a clusterfuck of offensive players using Promethean Vision and defensive players using Active Camo.
Welcome. Hope you enjoy posting here
On Infinity Slayer, it is a separate gametype to Normal Slayer, http://halo.xbox.com/halo4/en-US?#!halo-evolved/gametypes/97da5ab3-e0fd-4a3e-b51f-92fa20029ded
Although I hope it is the same playlist. If they are not, it may be a team slayer/super slayer situation.
EDIT: Girfball and Swat have to be separate playlists, sorry. No way Action Sack can be Swat, Snipers, Zombies and Grifball.
Poker Face
Member
Competitive:
Team Slayer
Team Objective
Team Doubles
Lone Wolves
MLG
Infinity(Social):
Infinity Slayer (rumble pit)
Infinity Team Slayer
Infinity Objective
BTB
Action Sack (Swat/Snipers/Zombies/Grifball)
My biggest concern.
GrimBrother One
Member
Roll Tide, bitches. <3
Crimson Kopite
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Why thank you sir
For the record, I didn't make it myself, but I thought that was the best time. Been sitting on that puppy all day.
Welcome and all that. Your name looks familiar. Have we played?
You still get credit for unleashing it here. You might have played with me when I was Tidebuzz. I decided that I needed to let go of the 5 year old gamertag a few weeks ago. I was probably the guy apologizing profusely after killing a teammate.
That works, I feel with too many playlists the population really stretches out causing people to not get matched up with people of their skill level. Like in Reach.
Steelyuhas
Member
Oh lawd, if Halo 4 MM were to start like that, we've already lost. That would be terrible.
The only difference between infinity and "regular" slayer is personal ordnance or not. For that to make them separate playlists is ridiculous, and would set a horrible precedent for Halo 4 MM.
War Games playlists:
Team Slayer
Rumble Pit
Team Objective
BTB
Team Doubles (I don't really see the point of this at launch do to the map sizes in H4, but I know they will have it there anyway.)
Team Hardcore (possibly not at launch)
Team SWAT*
Team Snipers*
Weekend playlists (rotation of action sack, Zombies, grifball)
*SWAT and Snipers is another situation where they will be there, just being realistic about that.
8 permanent playlists, outside of an argument for a 9th permanent playlist being Multi-Team, I don't see any reason for more playlists than that. I feel like this is a generous list, I would like even less playlists.
Ship it.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Like we saw at E3 with all the Halo pros.
Crimson Kopite
Banned
Sorry, heckfu, Grim just jumped you on the friend leaderboard.
I'm pretty sure that's because the pros don't know how to use the motion tracker.
More like Infinity Slayer gets voted as mode more. Team Slayer never gets picked.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
he likes them young, I hear
Poker Face
Member
I will be using thrusters as well.
The only way (in my opinion) to nerf PV is to make it show last known location, and make you disoriented while using it.
Orochinagis
Member
lol.
higherARC05
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The Real Napsta
Member
Lmfao
Hypertrooper
Member
MLG Pros who played the game for a few matches and did not have the time to experiment. Let's give them more time, maybe they won't use PV after a while anymore.
_Computer_
Banned
Infinity slayer is personal ordinance drops. So in regular slayer the weapons spawn in somewhat random yet predictable places. Everyone in the game will have a heads up on when and where a weapon spawns. Via some kind of on screen display. Is this correct?
In all honesty though, that Firefight customization menu is a jungle. I'm glad to have the options available at least.
The problem is the pro players have too much pride (which I can't really hate). So they are going to play with what they are comfortable and won't try other things. Best Man got a lot of shit for trying to do different things in the game and it showed.
Personally I want to see gameplay from not a Day 1 only player or a pro but someone in between.
Even though prothean vision provides immediate feedback on the exact location of every member of the enemy team no matter where they are on the map and can be used as quickly and as many times as you want, I don't think people will use it. Don't really see why they would, honestly. I trust 343.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
PV won't be used very much. Trust me.
Who would pick that shit over Regen Field or Spartan Lock?
Who would pick that shit over Regen Field or Spartan Lock?
Hydranockz
Member
Interesting double standard. when players like the game it's because they are just on a honeymoon period. Don't like it? Must be bad.
mhi
Member
Eh ?
Don't know how the game is gonna handle playlists but from I saw 'ordinance drops'(maybe they had another name?) work pretty much like care packages in COD. After reaching a certain number of kills w/out dying you get a powerup.
Don't know how the game is gonna handle playlists but from I saw 'ordinance drops'(maybe they had another name?) work pretty much like care packages in COD. After reaching a certain number of kills w/out dying you get a powerup.
Devolution
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Just gimme me a stripped down playlist that isn't full of fucking fluff and cheese.
Devolution
Member
AKA One of the shits I will definitely avoid.
If 343 have nerfed the recharge time, then I think the AA efficiency ability will be very popular.
I can't see myself using much apart from PV.
Not choosing PV because of a personal preference is not balancing, it's just personal preference. It's maybe the single largest reason why using a metric of how much it's used in testing can be flawed. What if people just like other things more? Particularly new things they have yet to try. Pros... or anyone choosing to play something else and use it because they like it more has nothing to do with how over powered or unbalanced an item is, or if another item is "more powerful".
Take a look at the Type 95 with Rapid Fire and Red Dot in MW3. It is by far the most powerful starting weapon in the game. It turns the game into Hardcore because it has the capability to one shot anyone within medium to short range... even on bad connections. It outclasses every other starting gun at all but long ranges.
Yet people choose to use other things... because of personal choice... that doesn't make it balanced, it just means there are other more interesting guns people would like to use based on their play style.
Even without playing the game one can understand the similarity in PV use... I see, as do others, ways in which it is completely overpowered as presented in the pre-release footage. Doesn't mean I'd enjoy using it... nor does it mean I necessarily would just because it is so powerful. I may love the feeling of Thruster Pack... or some other item, and go with it because it's just more fun - not because it is inherently better.
In the same way with Reach, when Evade was in I hardly used it even when it made sense to do so, the same with Jet Pack... even on Uncaged I refuse to use it and rock sprint... because that's how I like to play.
Bring back the beard of cats
Mister Negative
Member
what a ridiculous request.
Frankie said in a bulletin that there will be a place for people who like a more stripped-down Halo game in matchmaking at launch.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I'm imagining 4v4 "classic" on these big-ass maps, with no sprint
Mister Negative
Member
I think they're calling it "Halo 3."
Even if the "Classic" modes had sprint I'd be okay with it. Not happy, but okay with it.
Hypertrooper
Member
At the latest when they notice that some players outplay them with other armor abilities.
About the direct feed gameplay? If theater is in the game and the next build contains the theater mode, 343i should save some good and exciting matches from PAX or other events and upload them. If it is possible of course.
I agree... Thruster's thrust is way too small, hologram is just dumb, hardlight sheild is okay, PV seems pretty good. Autosentry sounds kind of useless, and Regen field sounds okay.
Looks like I'll be using jetpack...
squidhands
Member
Tha Robbertster
Member
That's indeed the sad truth. Weapon spawning is now at random time intervals at semi random locations.
Yeah, makes me sad.
Mister Negative
Member
From what we saw of Thruster, it actually seems very good. Dave Ellis was using it pretty effectively in the GAF/HBO vs. 343 showdown.
I was always thinking about using it or not. Since a lot used PV, very little gameplay of the other AAs was seen (at least for me).
lol, remember when PV was Forerunner vision?
Sorry 343, but a lot of the names for things in Halo 4 are lame
Devolution
Member
You don't like my stylish cat man? Also beardy is in the av.
Why you gotta piss on my hopes and dreams? ;_;
Don't fuck this up Frankie x_x.
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