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Halo |OT7| You may leave, Juices. And take Team Downer with you.
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Same here. Plus CoD could offer the greatest gameplay in the world, but I also care about setting & genre, and have zero interest in modern military. I want a great playing Sci-Fi FPS with rayguns and shields and shiny things.
This. So much.
Thanks.
And good god. Competitive Halo's on life support and the plug's about to be pulled.
_Computer_
Banned
Look at all that glorious bandwidth. How did they do. What 343 said can't be done.
I'm all for a balanced game; you're not the kind of person I see reacting well to change.
Halo 4 doesn't look slow. At least the core experience doesn't look slow. It's when you're introducing Hardlight Shield, and perks increasing health regeneration, the games slows down.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
This doom and gloom stuff is absolutely hilarious, also, tiring.
Shake Appeal
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Watching the stream, CoD's gunplay still looks incredibly boring to me.
ElzarTheBam
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Hydranockz
Member
That Death Machine Gun!
Yea, I don't really care for the gameplay in CoD. I'm still just in awe of how well this shoutcaster feature has been implemented for a console game.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
You forgot to add Blops' GIANT medals up top, and all of the crazy pop-ups. Halo UI still looks much better.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Yeah the stream is extremely boring, I dont know why decided these guys where pro's but I kind of wish they just placed a team of good players against crap players and let us watch guys run and gun. Thats what Black Ops is fun for, these guys are too defensive.
Shake Appeal
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Halo UI destroys in those comparisons. The white text is the single blemish.
Tha Robbertster
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Right now, the lobby for Blops 2 looks better than the Halo 4 lobby we've seen (to me of course).
Hydranockz
Member
Dat on screen text.
Wow, look at how both games move the text away from the action. You'll note, when a player is in the reticule, the text is not overlapping anything.
TS x Massacre
Member
Yeah, this hurts bad.
Protip: Treyarch was lurking HaloGAF to lure us over.
Also, lol @ 55k viewers on twitch on a wednesday afternoon for east coasters.
I remember when that used to be us to a degree :'D
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Yeah, lobby maybe, but HUD isn't even close.
Buying both though.
Maybe we should steer this back to Halo.
Bulletin will most likely get published at the end of the work day, so like 6-9 PM EST.
EDIT: Theater mode.
At least we got something to spectate on at least.
Ein Soph Aur
Member
Dat on screen text.
Halo 4 UI looks much better.
I mentioned this in the other thread on the gaming side, but this occured to me this morning and it really bothers me.
Situation: I'm near the enemy base, having worked my way through the map and deep into their territory. I kill someone near the base, and quickly dash into the base and hide in it, working toward the flag. The player I killed had this perk, and can tell his entire team what my new position is, despite no one having seen me move to my new position. They converge and kill me.
Or
I get into the enemy base and snag a flag, killing a couple guys in the process. (Hey, it happens now and then.) One of them has this perk. Now they can see and track me as I escape with the flag, putting a waypoint on the escaping flag carrier.
So long as a couple guys back defending an objective have this perk enabled, they will be able to recon the attacking team's position if they are killed.
Someone please explain to me how this is not game breaking for objectives.
Situation: I'm near the enemy base, having worked my way through the map and deep into their territory. I kill someone near the base, and quickly dash into the base and hide in it, working toward the flag. The player I killed had this perk, and can tell his entire team what my new position is, despite no one having seen me move to my new position. They converge and kill me.
Or
I get into the enemy base and snag a flag, killing a couple guys in the process. (Hey, it happens now and then.) One of them has this perk. Now they can see and track me as I escape with the flag, putting a waypoint on the escaping flag carrier.
So long as a couple guys back defending an objective have this perk enabled, they will be able to recon the attacking team's position if they are killed.
Someone please explain to me how this is not game breaking for objectives.
Genesis Knight
Member
At the end of the day, CoD still has shitty connections and netcode (where I live) and kill times so short that the entire sandbox is scrunched into killtimes of about 2 seconds (+/- .5 seconds).
Halo, even with a bunch of baggage and bloat, still wins for me. In theory.
If Halo 4 ends up being a disappointment I'll probably just take a break from multiplayer FPS games for a while rather than going back to CoD. I'm not that desperate, and there's plenty to do in life other than play video games.
Halo, even with a bunch of baggage and bloat, still wins for me. In theory.
If Halo 4 ends up being a disappointment I'll probably just take a break from multiplayer FPS games for a while rather than going back to CoD. I'm not that desperate, and there's plenty to do in life other than play video games.
I'm glad i didn't tune in. the hardcore tactical cod. Seems like an awful waste of features when its played conservatively.
Holy shit haha
RebornYeti
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Is the Bulletin coming out today? Because I'm still really confused about the Specializations.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
So why not leave this community for the COD one instead?
Genesis Knight
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It is, but I don't know what time. Usually evening I think?
Mister Negative
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And even if the answer to this is "Well we'll disable it in Objective," why can't you just come up with some things that don't have to be chopped and screwed to fit into all the different game modes?
There's also CS:GO, just saying.
_Computer_
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By the way 343. This is how you do game reveals.
If the answer is that it's disabled in objectives, that would be good information to roll out alongside the reveal of the ablilty, so I hope it's clarified soon. Even so, in Slayer game types, say you get killed by the guy who has rockets. Now you can tell your team where the guy who has rockets has moved to, despite not being able to see him.
The player who killed you with rockets is punished because the player he killed has a perk he is not aware of.
Keeping it out of objectives makes it less bad, but I really fail to see how this does not damage the game.
Hydranockz
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Why is that how it works?
It feels like a large assumption.
Ok, all we know is something pops up on the HUD. Does it only pop up when that player is in your field of vision? If a whole team rushes a point and you can see them all, except the guy who killed you last is highlighted by your HUD when you see him.
Now, if if works as you suggest, yeah, it's OP as fuck. I just think 343 have simply not given us enough info to know how it works for sure :/ Let's hope the bulletin clears things up.
I lol'd in my office... my dog looked at me like "you ok bub?"
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Sort of worried about this. Population is going to drop hard.
I'm glad you're not a Slug, or I think we would be writing your obituary right now.
NobleGundam
Banned
Temporarily retire from FPS Games and enter Reality for a change?
You think this is.... A Freaking Game!?!?
Shake Appeal
Member
Oh God, no one told me CoD has SC2-esque Leagues now.
I agree about killtimes. The only mode in CoD I truly enjoy is hardcore because it reduces the UI, removes the radar, and is overall more enjoyable.
HOWEVER, it is not skill based in terms of gunplay because it makes the bullets more realistic and becomes a "you shoot first, you win" scenario. While Halo has always been different, I feel like these specializations and loadouts are giving us the tools to make the game play to our strengths and utilize them.
I realize that what I'm saying is the exact equivalent of lowering the skill gap but what we're sometimes failing to realize is that we have the exact same chance to help ourselves as others have helped augment their Spartan to help them.
Something tells me that no matter what an opponent has, folks like Over, Kyle, and the like will still be able to kill them because they have fantastic situational awareness and gun-savvy. It may be more difficult when they kill someone and a waypoint gets put over their head from the whatever-class that does that, but we also don't know if that class has a downside, i.e., you get waypoints over others heads but they may also have one over theirs indicating that it is in effect and they're using it.
Just tossing out ideas. Cautious optimism.
The rage is building, isn't it?
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