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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
- Thread starter The Librarian
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No, this one is if Blood Gulch and Sidewinder had a baby and only their good genes got passed on. It's my fave map.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
A pre-order exclusive ability would be taking it to a whole new level, though. It's not the same as helmets or weapon skins.
: deep breath : I'M SO EXCITED.
Gunnerdude
Neo Member
So before it was Exile it was Stinkles' Canyon?
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
You have my full and undivided attention.
Meh, that is a bit harsh. Although I know what you're saying because there has been a lot of pre-order exclusives. Had me going for a second I do admit.
ElzarTheBam
Member
You had me at sidewinder.
GodfatherX
Member
did they take down the b roll? it will not load for me in chrome, ff, or safari...and the downloaded zip is just an empty file
Time for hibernation... Wake me up on November 6th.
Seriously though, as an avid BTB battle player, I'm stoked to know that we'll get at least two good BTB maps.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Gunnerdude
Neo Member
What a VIP treatment
Oh I'm aware, hence the winky face
The screen shot was more to show off the vertical names much to the chagrin of Kylej and others it would seem.
Us Juniors due pay attention sometimes.
Here's hoping for one more. Longbow seems to double as a BTB map and a 5v5.
What a VIP treatment
Not the mlg guy. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.
ugh
WHEW... I can rest comfortably now that I know there is a station for H4. Was so worried I wouldn't be more over saturated with useless content rather than an abundance of game play footage that accurately details the games many new features.
GodfatherX
Member
it finally loaded, map looks amazing
User 73706
Banned
Sword Base was the redheaded stepchild of Boarding Action and Prisoner according to Bungie. Hopefully Exile being the direct child of Blood Gulch and Sidewinder means it lucked out genetically. :lol
Sword Base defense force reporting for duty. If you don't like it, play SWAT, then like it.
Franklinator
Member
Haha, I think SWAT is the worst part about Sword Base.
Gunnerdude
Neo Member
Thats all I can stand to play on that map anymore....
So Exile is your favorite Halo 4 map, then you go on to say you like Sword Base.
I don't know what to believe.
I don't really think the unlimited scoring is even necessary. Just having a 2 round limit would go a long way to helping it out. Unlimited scoring is weird because at the point that a single score has been made and the attackers have to try again, the sort of natural barrier that most of the asymmetric objective maps have between the sides has been broken by defenders falling back and trying to cut off the score, so the attackers have a harder time with the 'soft reset' because they might not have the same resources that they would at the start of the round. It's a little different in a symmetric gametypes because both sides are being played at once. I can't say for certain because I haven't ever tried it, but I suspect there would be a lot of base trapping, and it would remove one of the cool things that something like 1 Flag Zanzibar had -- the opening move was decisive, much moreso than in a longer round where a huge bet wouldn't pay off quite as well.
Reach's asymmetric failure is twofold: the asymmetric maps are poor and the opening moves take a long time to play out. Make better maps and have good player traits and that problem decreases quite a bit.
Garrett 2U
Member
Promise me no maps in Halo 4 are being primarily designed for SWAT.
Then, and only then, will I allow Sword Base the slightest decency!
ArchedThunder
Banned
The Halo Wars player in me is getting mad about the name Exile.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
I think if Sword Base didn't have those windows blocking the sides of the bases and instead provided some little cover (like Boarding Action), it would be a much better map for some other gametypes.
Spawn on the front base ... steal enemy's empty front base and build turrets to troll
Profit.
<3 HW
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Dat Halo 4 line.
Started with MGS Rising. Game is fun as hell.
Started with MGS Rising. Game is fun as hell.
perfect response.
The P of Poland
Member
GAF doesn't like it when people say nice things about Sword Base...
SWAT doesn't make poor map design any less poor nor playable. Live up to the mistake, Swordbase is a bad map.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
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Can someone youtube the vids? The place I am at has most sites blocked, but youtube is still allowed.. Thanks!
nillapuddin
Member
Okay, I really dont see why the vehicles that can be color manipulated are not in MP
Adding the red and blue to the hogs and gooses is very very cool. It should be in MP in my mind, hands down
Adding the red and blue to the hogs and gooses is very very cool. It should be in MP in my mind, hands down
Poker Face
Member
take a picture of da linez!
I promise.
Garrett 2U
Member
Four words for you: Halo Council dot com
http://youtu.be/zqJAEtfHIMI
<3 Okay, Sword Base is playable in SWAT.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Rage...
building...
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
lol Do you just wait around for the ample time to drop a shitbomb?
Wifiplayer13
Member
This map looks incredible. Dat flagsassination. Dat Gauss hog. So good.gif
November 6th can't come soon enough!
bobs...onGaf
Member
As someone who read the entire conversation your posts where the ones lacking in clarity. It was pretty clear what he meant the whole way through but you seemed so confuse matters by just continuously pointing towards the trueskill algorithm, would have been a lot cleaner if your first post basically said: trueskill works great to find matches as this maths proves, but so far developers have failed to really utalise the data to provide a good ranking system.
Sorry to step in, but your tone with the guy is overly harsh and concending. I do agree with you abouy what you said, Btw regarding trueskill.
Anyway can't wait to check the new halo goodness.
Nah, I just speak the truth; whether or not you guys chose to believe it.
Looks very pretty, reminded me of Halo 3 a bit with all the color and lack of AA spam, just people shooting their guns and running each other over with vehicles.
Best thing was the single piano note when the logo pops up at the end, felt like Marty was back for a split sec.
Masterful trolling Tashi, I loled for real.
Best thing was the single piano note when the logo pops up at the end, felt like Marty was back for a split sec.
Masterful trolling Tashi, I loled for real.
Poker Face
Member
while I do like how exile looks, i still think haven looks the best out of what we've seen
Franklinator
Member
Uh, that would confuse players who won't know if they can enter a vehicle that has the other team's color on it. They already have enough to worry about, such as having to remember if they're carrying the flag or not.
nillapuddin
Member
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