ALready on, till now it's only Vita but interesting stuff
edit: lol the GC conference of Sony is already better than their E3's.
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ALready on, till now it's only Vita but interesting stuff
edit: lol the GC conference of Sony is already better than their E3's.
Portugeezer
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Pretty shitty that they didn't show COD for Vita, maybe something to do with MS (COD reveal tomorrow). But at E3 we got a logo, now we have a box art, at launch I wonder if they will remember the game.
That's actually a big reason I started playing Arena again in the past few days. Although it can be a very frustrating experience (randoms vs full teams, camping bottom room in Sword Base... or Sword Base at all) it boils down to a system which enforces winning. It's one of the few gametypes in Reach that gets my adrenaline flowing like all of the ranked playlists in 3 used to do.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Dat Killzone Vita game.
thezerofire
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I liked that idea of having ranks but not having a top rank. and maybe having the rank slowly decrease if you don't keep playing ranked playlists
Steelyuhas
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Depends who you ask on that one. Bungie said that the achievements in Reach were made to encourage players to try all the different features and game modes in the game.
No it hasn't, but based on the little that 343 has said, some people (including myself) are interpreting that 343 doesn't think a ranking system is as important as fostering a cheating and cheese free MM experience. Frank did comment at one point that they were playing with a ranking system that showed you a rank, but it was invisible to everyone else, although he emphasized that it wasn't necessarily going to be in the final game.
SLRP
The Librarian
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I'm going to wait a month to see if I can do it online, then I'll decide what to do then. The card expires in March of 2013 anyway, so I may hold off until I get the new card.
That sucks. Is FIFA one of those games where you have to set up a separate online subscription for it or something like that? I hate that.
SSX for 15 bucks used from Gamefly, guys.
Or just be Arena except more immediate. Reset ranks every month/season and have a dual layered ranking system that shows either an aggregate of all your prior rankings or your last ranking, all alongside your current ranking.
Or just be Arena except more immediate. Reset ranks every month/season and have a dual layered ranking system that shows either an aggregate of all your prior rankings or your last ranking, all alongside your current ranking.
retweeted.
No, it's just that there is a ton of hacking going on with EA (specifically FIFA 12) that are stealing people's accounts.
ElzarTheBam
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Yes, worth it. As long as you are aware that it has a terrible online pass system.
Orochinagis
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its your first time seeing COD I suppose ?
Yeah on paper Arena makes sense and should create the same atmosphere previous ranking systems created but it doesn't. My reason for not caring enough to play it is the fact there isn't a "highest rank achieved" that sticks on your "resume"... Yeah it's a stupid reason. I'll agree it is... But that's a big part of it.
The truskill part of it is a whole different argument which I get as well... But having your rank reset every so often is the killer for me personally.
I think the clarity is another issue. I can see an onyx player and have no clue if he is actually better or worse than I am on a consistent basis. Same with a silver player, etc... So why put in the time myself if I don't know whether my earned rank is indicative of my actual skill? 1-50 was a lot more clear. If I was playing a team of 50's, 90% of the time I was going to get my ass handed to me.
Online Passes are a terrible system period. Multiplayer should be included with the game experience, not an added feature you have to pay extra for.
Online Passes are bad and EA should feel bad.
thezerofire
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Arena rankings are fine, as long as they're visible and spread over more than one playlist, but I don't really like the idea of them resetting totally. I'd rather have something that just degraded over time
NobleGundam
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HTR has a 1v1 League going for Reach but Idk for Halo 3. You will get notified by all challengers within their community who wants in against you. And if you decline a challenge it's considered as a forfeit.
They do have a ranking lvl feature to see how well you do per playlist, but your lvl doesn't drop and only increases. This goes for a bracket of the Top Arena players that are all Top 1% Onyx.
Sure it's not perfect, but I can see how they try a lot more to involve the competitive side towards the sites community players.
They do have a ranking lvl feature to see how well you do per playlist, but your lvl doesn't drop and only increases. This goes for a bracket of the Top Arena players that are all Top 1% Onyx.
Sure it's not perfect, but I can see how they try a lot more to involve the competitive side towards the sites community players.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
No, just funny to see the fallout over a tiny amount of text in halo 4 when CoD dumps pop-ups everywhere there is screen real estate.
It doesn't bother me, thus why I play both series'. Just funny.
As long as there is something in the form of a skill based rank that is in multiple playlists, I will be one happy halo player.
I am glad people continue talk about the want for ranks because I believe it would of been so much better for reach to have had arena or another skill based rank being used across multiple playlists.
Halo needs a skill based rank system!
Edit: The one problem with arena was the player did not get instant feedback on what his percent was.
Matchmaking A-Game? We still don't know why they removed Squad Slayer. I'd be happy with 343's D- game.
thezerofire
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The thing I liked about Halo 3 ranks were that there was an overall highest rank, and a games won/games played that was all visible. That way, if you saw someone with a high rank, and a really good ratio of games played to games won, chances are it was legit. If you saw someone with a bad ratio of games played to games won but a high rank, it's probably not legit. And if you saw negative experience, you knew they boosted.
Stuff like that that lets you (semi) accurately judge a person's skill level is good imo.
Stuff like that that lets you (semi) accurately judge a person's skill level is good imo.
If we ACTUALLY get decent news tomorrow, I will give Pixel a lion-cut.
Welp. As promised.
Blue Ninja
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Human weapons trailer
Steelyuhas
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I think he likes it lol
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Last I remember about SSX's online pass system is that you don't get any credits for online shit. You can participate in everything, and get the bragging rights through time competition, but you just don't get the payout.
Obviously you would rather have that than not, but it ain't so bad. Unless things have changed.
ViewtifulJC
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Looks like TheOddOne on a bad hair day
ElzarTheBam
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I know I'm likely in a small subset here, but I really want a ranking system for Spartan Ops. My Firefight Commendations show that I play a shitload of Firefight. But I'm also really good at Firefight. But I don't really have any way to show that off, and it would be neat to be able to do so. I'd also welcome skill based matching in Spartan Ops, so my partners are not the pack of drunken monkeys I get paired with in Reach as a matter of course.
This is my hope for Spartan Ops: I want the thrill of skilled players overcoming great odds to achieve victory. That has implications for skill matching and the structure of the game mode, but all the pertinent details are still unrevealed.
Welp. As promised.
Next time take your bad bets out on yourself. Poor cat!
The Librarian
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Ooh. That's even worse.
Console is still having registration problems. Gah!
ElzarTheBam
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Yes that's true, but credits are also used to level up your boarder and buy gear, and also participate on certain ranges online.
Could be detrimental to your experience.
Zoso Achilles
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I don't see how that's true; I don't have a card attached to my account, haven't for like 3 years now. On the Xbox dashboard in account settings there's "remove payment option" somewhere. It's also somewhere on Xbox.com but when I tried that it started sending emails to an email address I don't have anymore (like what happened to you.)
Whenever I buy something on the marketplace (rarely) I add a card, make the purchase then remove it. I don't trust MS with their auto-renewal, I feel they'll turn it on after I turn it off *paranoid*
dangerbyrnes
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wish my H3 mythic disk wasn't broke, or i had Mythic II dlc. would installing the mythic disk fix the maps not loading problem?
yeah i guess ill give it a try.
ElzarTheBam
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I'm not sure, but it's worth a try? Right.
RebornYeti
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Might hop on Halo 3 in an hour if you guys are still on and have room.
Tha Robbertster
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Oh god Ryan, that's great :lol
Garrett 2U
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That is freaking hilarious!
squidhands
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Remember that when he uses your balls as a scratching post.
HiredN00bs
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I mean, you're just straight-up lying at this point. I can't count the number of times the explanation has been reposted.
Not trolling, do you mind reposting it? I honestly have no idea why they removed it.
dangerbyrnes
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nope, disc won't even install, or run anymore. i think my xbox is scratching my discs cause this is the third game in a row that doesn't work anymore. i managed to install the other ones and now they work, but i cant get this one too, stops at 26%
hm, i wonder why? what does gary do exactly? i have seen him on tested a couple of times, and he posts in the lego thread a lot.
Likewise. I can't ever recall it being explained.
Also, Gary Whitta is at 343.
https://twitter.com/garywhitta/status/235443039491989504
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