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Halo |OT7| You may leave, Juices. And take Team Downer with you.
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VivaciousJazzy
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Nothing about windows 8 looks appealing to me :/
Garrett 2U
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PAX Prime is in 2 weeks. Hype.
Hopefully the Halo 4 build there has all the armor abilities (namely Active Camo and Jetpack).
Would love some reassurance on those.
Hopefully the Halo 4 build there has all the armor abilities (namely Active Camo and Jetpack).
Would love some reassurance on those.
I downloaded it today, I'm going to set it up dual booting on my laptop which is pretty old... so I'm not sure how it'll go. I'll be building myself a desktop at the end of the year so I want to decide whether to go with Win 8 or 7.
It's the performance for me really. I certainly do prefer certain UI elements of 7 over 8.
Well Windows 8 is more optimized than Windows 7.
have fun if it is, shoot me a pm
EDIT: It is not there, I talked to a friend who was yesterday there as a press member, he says there was no Halo 4 booth
I seem the be one of the few pro-Metro. Don't get why people are so against change.
It looks kinda awkward and clunky with a mouse. It looks amazing for a tablet, however. I like the efforts towards unifying apps across all the platforms as well, seems like a logical step in the right direction.
Der Flatulator
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I'm a linux kinda guy; I create more than I consume.
As a consumer, Metro is amazing, wonderful UI (Which is why I own a Windows phone).
As a creator, I'm still skeptical. The only real reason I use Windows (7) these days is for Visual Studio (XNA and some SQL stuff I have to do in C#)
As a consumer, Metro is amazing, wonderful UI (Which is why I own a Windows phone).
As a creator, I'm still skeptical. The only real reason I use Windows (7) these days is for Visual Studio (XNA and some SQL stuff I have to do in C#)
I'm just used to the original is all.
Well a good benchmark has come in and it turns out it's actually almost neck and neck with W7:
Still I do feel it's running better for me as I stated in the W8 thread:
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Is this different from the Customer Preview version I've been running for the past few months?
If so, where do I grab the updated version?
Not sure if it's the same but: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx
Via the article I found about it: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/46925/get-windows-8-now-free
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Ta, will check it out.
Firefight Limited + Automated Defences could have been epic!
They could have just gone the OS X route of alternating releases where the second release is more a refinement of the previous one...
I give Microsoft props for being ballsy and trying something new, the problem is that they just utterly fail at doing anything right. They build their own tablet and don't involve any of the Xbox guys? They go for creating one Windows OS to rule them all, and then create Windows RT as well?
Would be cool if Firefight had a class based playlist.
ElzarTheBam
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At 16 to 30 seconds in that trailer, it sounds like it's gonna turn into the back to the future theme.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Hitmonchan107
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So is it 100 percent confirmed that Halo 4 will be there? I'm flying in from Florida mostly to experience Halo 4 for myself, and I don't want to get there, be disappointed and head straight for the bar. Disappointed drinking is the worst drinking.
Hypertrooper
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There is a big Halo 4 panel. I do think it will be on the show floor as well.
We get to try it out next week in Toronto, I can`t wait! There is so much other stuff to do at FanExpo, but I may just keep standing in line to play Halo 4.
When the horns come in, good god.
Hitmonchan107
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I really hope so. I need to play this game.
So I finally caught up with the bulletin and whatnot... and I have to say that this:
still sounds fucking stupid. Not to mention overpowered.
Saying that, I honestly still don't understand the need for it... at all. Someone keeps sneaking behind you? Use the god damn motion tracker! Someone is camping around a corner? Use PV or whatever it's called. At this rate 343i might as well make every wall invisible.
Other than that, I'm not really concerned about multiplayer any more. At the very least it could be fun for a while.
/rant.
still sounds fucking stupid. Not to mention overpowered.
Saying that, I honestly still don't understand the need for it... at all. Someone keeps sneaking behind you? Use the god damn motion tracker! Someone is camping around a corner? Use PV or whatever it's called. At this rate 343i might as well make every wall invisible.
Other than that, I'm not really concerned about multiplayer any more. At the very least it could be fun for a while.
/rant.
The Henery
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It is a huge problem but they're not looking for solutions (using the simple Forge tools at their disposal) yet, curiously, they're not going to remove it from matchmaking despite the fact it causes blue team players to regularly quit (sometimes before the game begins!) due to the imbalance of their spawn and the relentless subjugation from the red teams ludicrously favourable teleporter exit placement.
Zeouterlimits
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Metro, both in my usage and in concept doesn't feel designed for a desktop setup, which is where I use Windows.
I'm sure it would be great on a phone/tablet.
Yeah I don't understand why they didn't just make a Windows 8 tablet/phone and then blend in the best elements of Metro and fully integrate them in Windows 8 for desktop.
Can someone explain why Windows still doesn't have font smoothing? It's been 12 years since OS X came out, guys. If you wanted to make your UI look better that's the biggest obstacle.
On-topic: Are people going to be able to record the PAX panel for us remote peeps?
The Elite
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One week until I get my hands on Halo 4. Can't wait! Getting to Fan Expo on Thursday. I'm hoping the lineup won't be too long.
Halo 4 is on the show floor at Fan Expo next week in Canada. I received an email from MS yesterday. I have to imagine it will be at PAX as well.
Halo 4 is on the show floor at Fan Expo next week in Canada. I received an email from MS yesterday. I have to imagine it will be at PAX as well.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I can't wait to see the new build at PAX. Hopefully they have specializations in the mix.
Got an 8GB card from Amazon for my camera. Should be good to go for PAX coverage.
Got an 8GB card from Amazon for my camera. Should be good to go for PAX coverage.
Don't forget to pack your resume.
Yes, the Elgato Game Capture HD is perfect for streaming because it features hardware h.264 encoding. You are only limited by the performance of your computer, and your upstream bandwidth. Keeping in mind you also need bandwidth for the 360.
This is my first attempt so the settings still need considerable tweaking (15fps / 1200Kbps).
I haven't used it yet, but the built in PVR seems like a killer feature. Before, if you wanted to share that once in a lifetime assassination you would have to leave your friends behind, go into theater mode, load the game film, FF to the right spot, record and save your a clip, setup your capture gear, capture the clip, encode to h.264, open a browser and navigate to your YT channel, upload the clip.
With the Game Caprure HD you find the clip in the timeline, set start and endpoints, click the YouTube button and fill out the upload form right in the software (you can set defaults for the upload form). This can be done while searching for players. By the time the next match is over your video is ready to share, assuming your Youtube upload doesn't cause you to red bar (mine did).
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Kyle, I already sent a box of 200 ahead. Why so salty?
Just because I find it would be cool to work on Halo, after all the community stuff I've done in the industry so far doesn't mean I cannot still critique Halo. You don't have to hate a developer to be able to critique their game.
Also, SLRP.
EDIT: OddOne's Gif sums it up.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Slow news day? I don't think I've ever seen HaloGaf this slow. I guess it's warranted after the 30 pages we put on over the last few days.
You're cool.
what is there left to say? we want the game.
Is nearly 19,000 posts in 22 days not enough for you?
User 73932
Banned
Hey, the seats on these planes fold into beds. What witchery is this?!
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Oh, slow is fine by me. Just eerie considering how fast things were moving a day ago. I'll just keep enjoying my coffee.
The Real Napsta
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Lmfao
Lol ya it does, here it is for comparison
God, that UI looks like shit. It looks like someone is running a cheap Linux mock up of Windows 7 on a computer designed for Windows 95Yeah I don't understand why they didn't just make a Windows 8 tablet/phone and then blend in the best elements of Metro and fully integrate them in Windows 8 for desktop.
Can someone explain why Windows still doesn't have font smoothing? It's been 12 years since OS X came out, guys. If you wanted to make your UI look better that's the biggest obstacle.
On-topic: Are people going to be able to record the PAX panel for us remote peeps?
Also, music wise, the trailer right here sounds like the One Final Effort theme.
hey. be safe.
squidhands
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Am I right in surmising that the armor mods give us a visual queue (i.e. armor attachments) so our opponents can tell what we're using? That's what I'm getting from all the description of the Specializations in the Bulletin. If that's the case, it's a great idea.
sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum already; this thread moves at incredible speeds now with so many people.
sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum already; this thread moves at incredible speeds now with so many people.
You can't box me in, Plywood. This is how I am, take it or leave it.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I honestly couldn't tell. I know that you don't have to use the armor you unlock in that 10 levels of specialization rank-up, but I couldn't see a way to tell who is using what...
There a jungle map again yet? Hoping Halo has a neat jungle MP map. It's something that hasn't been done a lot in Halo at least.
Also, since when did "taking a resume with you" become some kind of joke? How dare people have jobs and ambitions! How dare they want to work for a cool company! /offtopic
ElzarTheBam
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