I really wanted to try and hit Inheritor before 4, but man, this game really bores me without a party to joke with...
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I really wanted to try and hit Inheritor before 4, but man, this game really bores me without a party to joke with...
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Speaking of, I got into Archer because of mastrbiggy and her character is phenomenal there, haha.
Bregmann Roche
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I'm pretty sure they'll taste the same as they would've in September of 2007. Which is more disturbing than if they gave you slt food poisoning.
That's not a fair standard to hold anyone to.
Legend says that Ram has never been junior'd.
EDIT: Mutombo'D?
lol!
Woorloog, it's just that junior member status didn't exist back when GAF first went up. I could be wrong, but I don't recall anyone ever pointing out junior members until about 4-5 years ago.
One of those GAF legends...? What's the story with this one?
EDIT ah, it figures. Thought about asking if junior status existed back when GAF was Gaming Age Forum.
Is that real life?
neoism
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I normally don't either but this batch has been baad. I didn't post for a year after I got my account lol I had like 300 posts in my first 2 years.
I get that to a point... but man, I'm already taken out of the game for so many sleepy actions. Be it slow shot animations and pacing, melee animations, assassinations, or even abilities and their use.
It feels like this is something that would add more time to already long timed events, and would work to slow interactions down.
How much fun would it be to just stare at each other while we dance around with our armor abilities?
neoism
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nah he is king
I normally don't either but this batch has been baad. I didn't post for a year after I got my account lol I had like 300 posts in my first 2 years.
I think i had like 300 posts in 2 months... I had sensed the general attitude towards juniors and wanted to get rid of that status, just in case. Also, thread posting priviledges, useful.
Why do you keep acting like grenade jumping and trick jumping is the same as jetpacking? Jetpacking is easy and incredibly quick. The only down-side is the fact that it's loud, nothing else. With grenade jumping people can both hear you and you're vulnerable by the damage done by the grenade. And then there's the fact that grenade jumps are a lot harder than just simply jetpacking on top of something. Trick jumping makes you a lot more vulnerable because it's even harder to do than grenade jumps and especially jetpacks most of the time and it usually takes much longer.
The jetpack breaks flow even on hemorrhage and Pinnacle. On Hemorrhage it can negate the flow of the bases. You can jetpack from anywhere around the base up to the base and you can fly from the flag stand up to the top floor. On Pinnacle you can jetpack from red Sniper to red tower, from blue sniper straight up to small tower, from the rocket spawn back up to the blue initial spawn, from the OS bridge up to the middle island, from the bottom of red tower straight up to the top floor of red tower and that's probably only a few of the many ways the jetpack can break those maps.
These maps are obviously not the worst offenders but even on those maps the jetpack can have negative effects. I personally feel like Boardwalk is one of the worst offenders. You can completely ignore the layout of the map and you go anywhere you want. Jetpacking right up to the top Sniper area on that map is just ridiculous. Some for jetpacking away from the rocket spawn, up the plasma launcher spawn, jetpacking from anywhere to the boardwalk/bridge area, up into the pancake house or from anywhere directly to a platform above. And simply putting a roof on top of the map won't fix the problem because there's more to the jetpack than just flying straight up in the air the moment you spawn.
It's also a problem of predictability. You know how when there's no jetpack you can - if you're a skilled player - predict the way the enemy will move around that map? That goes completely out of the window because jetpackers can go anywhere on the map barring places that are blocked off by barriers. Let's say you hear a guy who's jetpacking around the corner and you see a red dot that say that the jetpacker is above your current position. You go around the corner and you have to look up the entire Y-axis before being able to see where he is. With no jetpack you know he is on the ground somewhere making it much easier to locate players quickly. The same issue arises when you're getting shot in the back by a jetpacking and you turn around and try to locate him. It can take an incredibly long time to do so because he can be anywhere in the air. It's frustrating more than anything.
And as a Forger I can tell you that the jetpack limits the way you build your map so much that you're better off ignoring them all together. The jetpack is a Forger's biggest enemy and I image the Halo map designers having similar feelings. The jetpack only works (note: is useless) on a very select few maps and it's not worth catering to. Putting a roof on top of a map doesn't mean it's balanced for the jetpack.
You are so wrong on this subject you made even me create a long-ass post about it.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
NobleGundam
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neoism
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Elzar I'll try to play 3 with you next time your on.. probbaly won't be able to stand the slowness of it though.
Aggrotek
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Boo mode confirmed.
Way too logical, you must think of some ridiculous way to balance the camo AA.
ElzarTheBam
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Elzar I'll try to play 3 with you next time your on.. probbaly won't be able to stand the slowness of it though.
Great! Oh, I'll be on reach in about an hour, join me if you want.
Dunno what was up with the netcode today. It was workable the past couple of days.
Bregmann Roche
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I always thought camo should remove your HUD while you have it activated. That functionality is already in the game, so it would be easy to implement.
Hypertrooper
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Dear Louis Wu,
the link to the Mega Blok Forward Unto Dawn set does not work at your site.
Sincerely Hypertrooper.
Ps. You have already fixed it when you read this. So there is no real point for this post.
the link to the Mega Blok Forward Unto Dawn set does not work at your site.
Sincerely Hypertrooper.
Ps. You have already fixed it when you read this. So there is no real point for this post.
That's a great idea. But would people still use AC then?
xxjuicesxx
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I would love BXR to be an option to come back. There is nothing like getting a double kill and having some randy AR/SMG slut trying to AR/Melee you from behind then they get shut the fuck up with a BXR.
My best kill combo to this day was a double kill being finished up by a dubshot that reloaded me turn around to see someone shooting and coming at me (at P2) and I don't even shoot I just wait for them to come at me and I drop them ridiculously fast with a BXR for the triple. That beat any other kill combo from any other game and that must have been five six years ago...
Gets my Juices going just talking about it. Man I want to dubshot some BK's. Such a skill gap that game had.
My best kill combo to this day was a double kill being finished up by a dubshot that reloaded me turn around to see someone shooting and coming at me (at P2) and I don't even shoot I just wait for them to come at me and I drop them ridiculously fast with a BXR for the triple. That beat any other kill combo from any other game and that must have been five six years ago...
Gets my Juices going just talking about it. Man I want to dubshot some BK's. Such a skill gap that game had.
I think with a disadvantage as huge as not shooting, you could actually make Camo stealthier as long as there was a delay between deactivating it and being able to shoot.
Is that Tsquared?
MaximumFlipFlop
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Enter Camo, lose shields.
SHIP THAT.
or
Your Hud disappears the same way you do. You are fully in Camo, no Hud for you.
or
TAKE IT THE EFF OUT!
SHIP THAT.
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Your Hud disappears the same way you do. You are fully in Camo, no Hud for you.
or
TAKE IT THE EFF OUT!
YES.
Steelyuhas
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To be fair you can't compare population numbers that we can see for H3 and Reach because H3's numbers are reported 30 times slower than Reach's leading to inflated numbers due to backlogging.
Funny enough, Powerhouse is one of the only maps on Reach that the Jetpack doesn't have a devastating effect on.
Just out of curiosity, have you played Prisoner since they fixed the spawns? It was painfully broken before, but now I find it to be an awesome bit of fast paced vertically gameplay that doesn't really exist in the franchise anymore (Talking about the Anni gametype on it specifically.
We both know that even if Anniversary was an awesome 1:1 of CE, it wouldn't have a high population because it requires DLC.
Because no matter if you claim multiplayer was an afterthought, or if the game was multiplayer only, it's a better game.
Well watch 343's presentation, don't watch the Rooster Teeth guys play the stupidest game of Horse I've ever seen. There was nothing remotely interesting in that game of Horse, or anything that showed off cool stuff about H4 Forge in an interesting way.
Those are both changes made to Ivory Tower to make the jetpack even better on a map that it already would have been very good on, while also destroying important things about the maps in H2 (low ceiling for grenade bouncing and smaller area being harder to hold) that makes the Reach version a camp the sniper spawn area.
We don't even know if Assault and Territories are in the game. They mentioned CTF, King, and Oddball as returning objective gametypes, but nothing else.
Now, they probably are in the game though.
Ah, how I miss the concept of an actually difference between average and maximum kill time.
Amazing show, so funny.
Nah... that guy has the tips that will have you fraggin like a pro... stupidnoob.
Presumably you'd still allow melees? That could work.
NobleGundam
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lose all shields or half? If half, then I can see that. invisi elites were way weaker in the game then a regular elite in terms of shield.
Invisi should've remained a power up.
Bregmann Roche
Member
Oh, I know about that, but 343 has probably dredged up legit numbers for both games. If the numbers for Reach are not up to whatever standard 343 has set, they can start to draw some conclusions about how the MP has been received.
Er, no. If you made it stealthier, melee would become overpowered. Maybe 3-hit melee with no beat down or assassination?
Stop... you're going the wrong way... the power up is over there ----->.
Zoso Achilles
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Or camo can just be a pick-up again since things like overshield, speed boost and damage boost already come in that form.
Camo is just less obnoxious as a power up.
Bregmann Roche
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Except 343 has apparently decided that camo is an AA, even though many of its problems are solved by making it a powerup, so we all have to try to twist our tortured minds into the shape of a camo AA that doesn't break the game in some way.
xxjuicesxx
Member
I feel famous.
The Librarian
Banned
Well then my point still stands on King of the Hill.
And now you've given me worry that Assault and Territories aren't in.
Shouldn't the metric for success in a Halo game be how popular the game is across Xbox Live? Just a quick glance at the Unique Users per week/month should be able to show that Reach fell off the wagon.
With 4 their aim should be to still be a top 3 game at least a full year after launch. I know people will counter this with the standard list of excuses (so much competition, so many fickle players, too much Kinectimals). Who cares? The only metric that should be used is "does Halo dominate the landscape like it used to" ... and to give them wiggle room I say this should be top 3 (maybe Halo 5 or 6 will regain the top spot).
neoism
Member
I'd hire you juices.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
It is just my personal belief that all AA's should be forced into tactical use only.
If you use Camo and it were to take out your shields, that would definitely prevent you from using it and engaging at the wrong moment.
If Promethean Vision didn't allow you to shoot while it's in use, or didn't provide life movement data of enemies you sure as hell would use it more carefully.
If Jetpack merely allowed quicker map movement, and no air assault, being defenseless in the air would again make you use it more carefully.
Thrusters should damage you if you thrust into objects, you need to be more aware of your surroundings.
You get my point. The AA's shown have so little downside to their use as of now that they encourage spamming and use at anytime and anyplace. Make AA's more strategic and punish someone who doesn't use them correctly.
If you use Camo and it were to take out your shields, that would definitely prevent you from using it and engaging at the wrong moment.
If Promethean Vision didn't allow you to shoot while it's in use, or didn't provide life movement data of enemies you sure as hell would use it more carefully.
If Jetpack merely allowed quicker map movement, and no air assault, being defenseless in the air would again make you use it more carefully.
Thrusters should damage you if you thrust into objects, you need to be more aware of your surroundings.
You get my point. The AA's shown have so little downside to their use as of now that they encourage spamming and use at anytime and anyplace. Make AA's more strategic and punish someone who doesn't use them correctly.
Reserving this post for when Camo is an AA and nothing about it has changed.
God I hope not.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH WOO????
Hope the switch works, I'll never know if someone was talking to me but just typo'd
This made me laugh. A lot.
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