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Halo |OT7| You may leave, Juices. And take Team Downer with you.
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Good write up by frankie. I just wish we could fast forward to the time where they really start clarifying things in multiplayer.
Ohh and pax can't come soon enough.
Also it looks like we have a no scope medal now, letss goo!! Credit goes to this waypoint post
https://forums.halo.xbox.com/yaf_postst103272_we-now-have-a-no-scope-medal.aspx
Unless of course this has already been posted.
Ohh and pax can't come soon enough.
Also it looks like we have a no scope medal now, letss goo!! Credit goes to this waypoint post
https://forums.halo.xbox.com/yaf_postst103272_we-now-have-a-no-scope-medal.aspx
Unless of course this has already been posted.
indubitably
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I'm actually looking forward to what I assume is going to be changes to Grifball
Deputy Moonman
Member
Useless weapon is useless weapon confirmed. Why would I carry a crappy back up weapon when I can carry two primary weapons? And what was the pistol's role in the past other than being a crappy weapon outside of CE? The pistol is dead and shouldn't have been included in Halo4. Not a big deal since I can get used to using other weapons, but it's funny that it keeps getting thrown into the Halo games as a useless pile of refuse. Hey look it's the pistol. Still bad? Yep. Carry on.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
any amount of wub is too much wub. I think most of HaloGAF has come to an agreement
HALOGAF HAS SPOKEN
HALOGAF HAS SPOKEN
There will be wub in Halo 4, bet money
Well you can shoot a pistol while holding a flag and shit now right?
Because Firepower isn't the only armor mod, and maybe you find one of the other mods more useful than having two semi-redundant weapons?
I hope it's Skrillex. Or a Breaking Benjamin Skrillex remix.
Man, I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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If the weapon switch animation is faster then technically that last headshot from a pistol will be faster than switching to a primary weapon.
I hope you can find some way to sleep at night since the sounds have you so worried!
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah the purpose of the Magnum appears to mostly be for CTF.
At least they speed up all the Magnum actions for switching too, melee, and grenades. It's helps a bit as long as they are determined to make it a "side arm".
ThisIsHaloGAF
Also, confirmed on the Shuttle being swapped for the Pro tomorrow.I hope the Pro works. Otherwise I'm going to.. have to wait to stream with something else.
I want to say... ODST? I don't want it to be, but the basic design and the shoulders seem to match save for the dented helmet, which is like reverse ODST...
JFO. Calling it.
My face was frozen in a wince the entire time I was watching the video with the music. I don't have the slightest idea what dubstep is, but that music was downright obnoxious. I was so glad to see the video without it right after.
I suspect the changes are to Living Dead.
I'm guessing there will be slim to no spash damage; if there's any I imagine it's similar in size to the missile pod explosions from Halo 3. They were there, but the radius was very small. You gotta nail'em to kill'em.
Frame-by-frame look at the flamethrower pistol thing (via HBO).
I was going to say Forerunner shotgun, but that's the Scattershot. No clue on this one.
I was thinking the same thing. How do you make Living Dead a legitimate competitive playlist? I honestly don't know.
indubitably
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That would make sense, it does have a higher population and may have more potential for being a legitimate game type. It's just that when I think of cult like followings, I think more of Grifball because it has its own competitive league.
Yea they have a pretty huge following online, wish I could have fun with it like I did in Halo 2.
The exact wording leaves a lot of room for interpretation:
Which game modes have a cult following? If we confine this to matchmaking game types and not some custom game I'm not aware of, I'd say the Community playlists (MLG, Grifball, etc.). Living Dead is certainly popular, but it doesn't seem to get a lot of respect; the use of "legit" made me think of it. But if it has a cult following, yeah, it's a pretty big cult.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I hope I'm not the only who is truly saddened when Living Dead and Grifball out populate Objective. It's the downside of the Halo community for me, that's just my opinion.
Maybe it's Team Objective that has the cult following.
What would be the more legitimate component be, then? Finally removing K/D from the postgame stats?
Grifball and living dead shouldn't be permanent playlist in my opinion. They work best as weekend playlists.
RebornYeti
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I'm wondering if the shot will go through multiple targets like the laser and snipe.
Steelyuhas
Member
I laughed, then I realized it was true.
The phrasing certainly makes it sound like a fringe gametype like Zombies, but who knows, maybe he just meant one of the less popular objective gametypes.
Just judging by the footage, I would say no. It looks like a clear impact shot instead of a beam that destroys anything on that line across the map.
I was more lamenting the low population for objectives. But a serious answer would be, eliminating the redundant round on one-sided objective games when a team is ahead 2-0. But then, Reach allows that (it's in Grifball), it's just not implemented.
Or, awarding more space bucks to teams that win objective games quickly, rather than rewarding them for drawing it out. But that wouldn't be a game option, so it doesn't fit.
I still suspect it's Living Dead, though I can't think of what the tweaks would be. Grifball always seemed too limited a game type to really break through, though it has its niche.
On a related note, one way to keep the playlists trim and focused would be to bring back rotating weekend playlists (Grifball, Living Dead, etc.)
Objective in Halo is always going to be that way. Roughly compiled across previous Jeremiah and Shiskha posts, the top influences on reducing a population in a playlist, in rough order of importants with most impact being at the top:
1) DLC requirement
2) Is 100% Objective
3) Ranked (or guests not allowed)
4) Optional Objective gametypes
5) Is 100% BR/DMR start
With an unfortunate stat that (on averagE) when a player gets objectives twice in a playlist that they don't want to play, they never come back to the playlist. This is why a lot of new playlists will start Slayer-only, it's because they're trying to get the most population from the start interested in it. Even having the presence of optional objectives will drop it's population.
Steelyuhas
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I really hope that one-sided objective gametypes become two rounds with unlimited scores, played to a timer. The four-round, one score per round is just flat out dull in my opinion.
I'm curious to see what they do with objective gametypes in Halo 4 in general. Also, cautiously terrified for what new objective gametypes they have.
Pop
Member
You won't even notice that in game, text in the middle of the screen is subliminal. Have you ever played COD or ODST? Probably have and those two both have text in the middle of the screen.
RebornYeti
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Yeah, upon further inspection, I can definitely see that. Now Tashi's question arises: Will it have substantial splash damage, if any at all? I hope there is some, but not a lot. I would like it to be equal to the Concussion Rifle's splash damage - it exists, and can cause some pretty serious damage, but the radius is fairly small.
Demoncarnotaur
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So, did we ever get a better uncompressed version of that video?
:lol
Yeah, its kinda freaking crazy tbh. At this point I fully expect to see the Needle Rifle return..and uh.. Well I suppose the 'Promethean Repeater' will be a starting weapon. Uh, what else.. Maybe that wasn't all the UNSC weapons? We did see a pic of what looked like an SMG.. Man, I dunno, Im beat on what else there may be.
Possible SMG?
'Promethean Repeater'
Good catches, and that helmet is definitely the new JFO.
Bam. Looks to be an SMG to me, or at least the weapon I think is an SMG.
:lol
Yeah, its kinda freaking crazy tbh. At this point I fully expect to see the Needle Rifle return..and uh.. Well I suppose the 'Promethean Repeater' will be a starting weapon. Uh, what else.. Maybe that wasn't all the UNSC weapons? We did see a pic of what looked like an SMG.. Man, I dunno, Im beat on what else there may be.
Possible SMG?
'Promethean Repeater'
Good catches, and that helmet is definitely the new JFO.
Did anyone catch this?
Bam. Looks to be an SMG to me, or at least the weapon I think is an SMG.
Steelyuhas
Member
I'm beginning to think that maybe the 15 primaries included weapons that won't be primaries in the final game because because 15 sounds like a lot when one of our three factions only has 3 primary weapons. You guys think there will be 12 primaries between the covenant and promethean weapon sets?
Pop
Member
It's all about them precision weapons, the other primaries will be worthless.
User 73932
Banned
Might as well get rid of the medals too.
Egh. Why is there a notification for "Railgun kill"? I can't think of any instance where this would be needed. At all.
I can understand the "Headshot" one, I guess... But "Railgun kill"?
Really?
Videos don't do any of the audio justice. It seems like it looses a lot of low end in all these vids.
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Egh. Why is there a notification for "Railgun kill"? I can't think of any instance where this would be needed. At all.
I can understand the "Headshot" one, I guess... But "Railgun kill"?
Really?
Nice that ammo counter turns red to tell you you're empty and screwed.
Or did it always do this in Halo games.
I just realized that the HUD still doesn't show your secondary weapon. I know they said at E3 that would be added later, so I'm surprised it isn't there yet.
Maybe they do it bacause you'll be able to assign different point values to kills with different weapons, so they want that to be visible? That's my best guess, but it does seem a bit pointless. It's not like you won't know what kind of kill you've just gotten.
Egh. Why is there a notification for "Railgun kill"? I can't think of any instance where this would be needed. At all.
I can understand the "Headshot" one, I guess... But "Railgun kill"?
Really?
Der Flatulator
Member
Where have these shots come from? (Been out of the loop lately).
User 73932
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I don't think the rail gun is the gun to alleviate your ceiling problems.
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