User 73706
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Beautiful. Any way you can confirm the Plasma Launcher's existence/nonexistence in Halo 4 or at least the number of handheld Covenant weapons?
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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
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Beautiful. Any way you can confirm the Plasma Launcher's existence/nonexistence in Halo 4 or at least the number of handheld Covenant weapons?
Bringing it back before H4, Reach is dead and we don't have constant H4 news to do a full show on so we can't do much. We may do one if MLG announces Halo 4 is at Dallas, but it's probaly Black Ops at that event if I had to guess.
OdysseusVA
Banned
I've heard this before
I know it's not the right use of the meme, but I love how it's Arbiter explaining things to a bewildered Noble 6.
The P of Poland
Member
It was/is brilliantly fun... when your team has it.
Not so much when you randomly explode.
Hypertrooper
Member
This is the week, guys. I am getting my hoodie this week. I am so excited. You cannot believe how excited I am.
Edge and Kill Screen are the only gaming magazine I am interested in. Both have great features.
Gotcha. I was never a huge huge fan, but I would definitely watch an episode about the new Suddoth league.
User 73706
Banned
Yeah, people tend to forget the Arbiter we all know and love was responsible for glassing Reach so I thought it'd be hilarious to have them together. I can hear Buzz's voice actor chatting with Six about how he's destroying the planet completely casually :lol
SMH... I am not missing that point... that while you have the laser, your team has free reign to utilize vehicles... or more accurately that it MAXIMIZES the use of vehicles.
I just don't have a problem with that being maximized, particularly if more attention is paid to the following:
If you reduce the shots in the laser, and then increase the spawn time of the laser, and THEN ensure that the spawn point is equidistant from bases but NOT in the power position on the map... THAT changes the entire dynamic and actually balances the weapon. Which can be further modified by vehicle spawn times.
You do NOT have that vehicle dominance NECESSARILY, if a laser runs out - there were power drains, missile pods, plasma pistols... etc - all of which become much more important.
I am emphatically NOT talking about nerfing the laser... I am keeping it very strong, as it should be, and modifying it's spawn time, location, and ammount of ammo... the laser is NOT a wild card... nor is any power weapon. It's a power up to fight over that should hurt when lost.
In doubles... why does the developer decrease the ammo count in the sniper? In rockets...?
It reduces the length of time the weapon is dominant and emphasizes the selection process of when and how they are used. They don't become balance breaking unless they have too many shots, are in the wrong location, or spawn too frequently.
It's the same with lasers... or any other power weapon in Halo.
The P of Poland
Member
It really is jarring when you think about it that way... you wonder if he ever regretted that?
Risen, how do you feel about it on the online environment, more specifically the latency area? I know in some games of Reach and all of my Halo 3 BTB games, there is no tiny red beam letting you know that you are milliseconds away from death. One reason why I'm not a fan of the laser was because latency to host usually meant the red beam never showed on my screen.
If a laser has to be in, would anyone oppose the laser having the following traits:
If a laser has to be in, would anyone oppose the laser having the following traits:
- 4 shots
- Larger presence on the screen
- Tiny red beam replaced by a beam rifle esque beam
- More charge time/more time "lazing" target
Late to the party on this post, but it give me some hope. I've been wondering why we haven't seen the jetpack in action yet. PAX happiness?
Garrett 2U
Member
It's hard for me to believe for a second that Black Ops would be at Dallas over Halo.
Especially with Sundance's tweet asking about teams for a small Halo tournament.
bobs...onGaf
Member
You might be right, though I don't know how any spot on a map can be 'equidistant from bases but NOT in the power position', I still feel as though the laser gives the team who get it early a STUPID advantage, and I say that as someone who abused that advantage. It was annoying for the reason that it killed vehicle combat and replaced it with a dynamic where the team who controlled the laser controlled the vehicles. You seem ok with that, I wasn't a fan of it. Controlling all the vehicles felt cheap and easy, and on the flipside, it felt bullshit that the guy who got lucky and snuck away with laser at the start of the match is now in such a power position.
I would much rather go back to the Halo 1 style of sandbox where both teams are free to use vehicles and Infantry can also deal with those vehicles effectively.
Again you could be right in that by modifying spawns and attributes the dynamic can be changed. I think its fair to say that right now this is theoretical and we just will not know. :S
What if there was a power weapon (let's called it super donkey balls gun) that could effectively make most of the other power weapons useless for the team that doesn't have the super donkey balls gun. That way the team that does have the super donkey balls gun can still use the other power weapons to dominate the opposing team even more even though they were already good enough to acquire the super donkey balls gun.
The super donkey balls gun is not a weapon that is especially effective at destroying a buttload of people but it can destroy their tools making them an easy prey for the team that can still use the other power weapons.
And by other power weapons I mean vehicles.
And by super donkey balls gun I mean the Spartan Laser.
Just replace it with a Plasma Launcher already and be done with it.
The super donkey balls gun is not a weapon that is especially effective at destroying a buttload of people but it can destroy their tools making them an easy prey for the team that can still use the other power weapons.
And by other power weapons I mean vehicles.
And by super donkey balls gun I mean the Spartan Laser.
Just replace it with a Plasma Launcher already and be done with it.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Waiting on PAX secret announcements.
Ennio Morricone signed on for Halo 4 DLC soundtrack, something like that
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Challenges better get a huge update in 4. I love challenges, but they have got repetitive, boring, and in many cases not worth the points for the hassle.
I figured at this point in Reach's life cycle, with Halo 4 bearing down, the Reach challenges would go the way of Gears XP weekends and be all out crazy high.
I figured at this point in Reach's life cycle, with Halo 4 bearing down, the Reach challenges would go the way of Gears XP weekends and be all out crazy high.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
They may as well.
Although no matter how bad Halo 4 may be, I will never
ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Outside of my vanilla Team Slayer marathon on November 5th
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I remember the Gears 2 25x XP weekends right before Gears 3 came out
and Monster brings up a good point, that Halo 4 will break the cycle of "Meh, the last Halo was better". No matter what happens, it won't be Reach, and thus is an improvement.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Gun was too weak, you would need to go into the fundamentals of how vehicle combat works to really balance out a lack of laser.
Remove Boost, make seated Spartans more vulnerable (but make the vehicles themselves invulnerable), make Nades flip vehicles, just go copy Halo 1 and be done with it.
Honestly, just give up on Halo, move on and wait a couple of years for any new hotness/ Halo 5.
But lets say it is worse then Reach. No way it could be worse then Reach, but if it was. No, I have complete trust that it will be better, but what if it isn't. The horror, the horror, the horror.
Oh, it could definitely be worse than Reach. I've planned for that.
I can play Halo 3 for the rest of my days.
It must be done. At the very least, Halo 4's midnight launch will be amazing. My first Halo launch, too.
That's like rolling around naked in the snow and then jumping into a jacuzzi.
I'm still not sure where to preorder from. Gonna be gamestop by default but a Microsoft Store opened up in the same area. Do they have any sweet swag?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Bring back Squad Slayer
Bring back Squad Slayer
Bring back Squad Slayer
If I'm not mistaken it's a lot like Beetlejuice and you have to say it thrice.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Not until after H4 releases.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I don't know about anywhere else in the uk, but the shops near me have these in stock, a tad bit early. Picked up 2.
Garrett 2U
Member
If I ever feel like I want to go back to Reach after playing Halo 4, I will smash my Xbox to pieces.
It would be nice to see a 4x credit weekend (or higher) to build hype for Halo 4 coming out. But I'm just a
currently unemployed
You can still do one like once a month. There's enough news. We do a podcast once every 2-3 weeks and they're over 1.5 hrs each. Do it up son!
Barrow Roll
Member
I think juices should change his gamertag to Beetlejuices.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'm cautiously ecstatic about Frankie hinting at a jetpack nerf.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
OdysseusVA
Banned
Franklinator
Member
$25 credit towards your next purchase if you preorder from MS store. Plus whatever midnight launch stuff they're doing because surely they're doing something.
ElzarTheBam
Member
A cheap booze shop, ha!
How are they? I hope they come to the US...
nononnonoonnonononn.
I can't imagine what I'd do.
This needs to happen.
Look at it this way, by the time Halo 7 is out it will be a vastly different game.
The P of Poland
Member
Tell me that you are lying.
Gun was too weak, you would need to go into the fundamentals of how vehicle combat works to really balance out a lack of laser.
Remove Boost, make seated Spartans more vulnerable (but make the vehicles themselves invulnerable), make Nades flip vehicles, just go copy Halo 1 and be done with it.
Honestly, just give up on Halo, move on and wait a couple of years for any new hotness/ Halo 5.
Non.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'd cry myself to sleep on November 6 and then get over it and LAN some Halo 2/3.
The other side of that coin is hitting someone or something with that laser and not killing them, because of latency... that happened to me MUCH more often than not being aware of when the other team had the laser and could use it at any moment.
Overdoziz said:
You make me laugh in real life...
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
How would he even know that. Of course he's joking.
WTF people some of you need to use some common sense.
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