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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
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Rand0m TAG
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when and how?
Der Flatulator
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Pop
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Zeouterlimits
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But I try not to drink soda...
ElzarTheBam
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Otherwise known as a "Full Xand"
.I should be on too.
On the subject of Uni, it was Freshers week in Aberdeen when I was out for the midnight launch of Halo Reach. A drunk Irish student came up to me and my girlfriend while we were waiting outside of GAME and asked if we knew anywhere to get weed, then promptly threw up right in the doorway of the shop. I decided I didn't want to stand next to a pile of puke for half an hour so went home and got Reach the following day lol.
ElzarTheBam
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I'll be on sooner rather then later actually, about 4.30. Gonna get some food first.
Should be, enjoy freshers week (that's what we call it).
Tha Robbertster
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You guys both on tonight? I gotta play some Halo before I go to the introduction week of my university. Won't be online till September starting from the 21th.
StalkerUKCG
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100% completion with no guides
HiredN00bs
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Played 4v4 Halo:CE with family and friends last night. Fuck the Duke. Had to look down at my controller to melee when using that un-ergonomic hunk of plastic.
Still super-fun.
Still super-fun.
Well if you want, you can keep it as a collector's item.. it's probably not very drinkable anymore.
You're better off with a can though, because I did the same with a Pepsi Blue since I knew it would bomb and pulled off the market and it kind of looks.. implodey. Learned my lesson with the American Mountain Dew bottle I collected though.
It's already been confirmed that Grifball won't get a playlist in Halo 4.
Thanks for the heads up Cyren. Going to be on the hunt.
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Serious question, do you think Grifball should get it's own playlist? It has a sizeable community to make me think it won't get hidden in Action Sack.
Rand0m TAG
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nope. make it a dbl exp weekend
i dont want any custom style, mini games to get full playlists in halo. i want all the playlist to involve shooting (i can tolerate infection if they actually make it a zombie like playlist. make the infected spartans look like flood or something)
Agreed. One off game types shouldnt have their own playlists. Especially that junk.
I strongly suspect a Action Sack playlist with Grifball and other community variants in it. I also strongly suspect that it won't be named Action Sack.
Rand0m TAG
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snipers and swat should stay as seperate playlists.
The P of Poland
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I would very much mind it if SWAT no longer had its own playlist.
I would also be most distressed if SWAT didn't have its own playlist.
As someone who has played 745 games of SWAT and 12 games of Team Snipers, I would probably mind.
Frankie said here if Grifball is in H4 it would not have its own playlist, iirc.
The Henery
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If I went into a hybrid playlist and got SWAT instead of Snipes I'd quit every time.
Rand0m TAG
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i have nothing against grifball and infection. i just think that a shooter game shouldnt have playlist that require no shooting. race doesnt deserve its own playlist either. infection i can tolerate but they should go all out with it, visually.
i'd like to clarify that this has nothing to do with me liking competitive halo, it has more to do with keeping what boils down to be mini games out of matchmaking
I laughed.
The reason they're populated is because you can stat boost in them.
Brolic Gaoler
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Yeah. I agree.
If there was a hybrid community playlist with Grifball and all the other carry on, I have a feeling Grifball would be voted everytime.
Making it a double exp weekend is an idea, but odd to put a sizeable community down like that.
Yep. David seemingly confirmed this when I proposed of not having the medals from those playlists count.
MarauderShields
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Combining LD, Grifball, and Race (annoys me that we never got a race playlist) doesnt make sense. Making a rotating weekly playlist could work but these are popular and fun game modes and should be represented in matchmaking.
Of course the best solution would be a custom game browser
I agree with this but I think our wanting it out is selfish. There are a lot of people who play that shit on a regular basis. These gametypes were always popular especially Zombies in Halo 2. But yea if I had a choice that shit would never be in matchmaking.
Anyone else feel like Halo 4 won't have many playlists at launch? I'm not sure I see a SWAT or Snipers playlist being available right away. I do imagine those gametypes will exist in whatever Team Training/Social slayer list there will be. I would love like 7 or less playlists off the start.
Infinity Slayer
Objective
Classic Slayer
Doubles
FFA
BTB
And maybe a Team Hardcore. But then again, you can add Hardcore gametypes into those slayer lists.
I'm not basing this off of anything really. Just my gut and what I want lol
Not saying it does, just it's that sentiment that people use as the stereotypical holier-than-thou "we know what Halo is better than you" crowd. I think there's plenty of room for non-shooting right alongside the classic deathmatch modes. If a playlist can support a population, let it have it--I'm assuming Halo 4 won't have the same bizarre playlist cap that Reach did (although if there's no Firefight I doubt there would be the same issues).
An aside: I've always wanted a skull or mode that allowed me to go through the campaign missions without enemies and just explore without being shot at.
SCII has convinced me of the ills of a custom game browser. Doesn't matter that there's a million players online, if you want to play any of the games after the first page in popularity, good luck getting a full house. The current system is loads and away at least more consistent than the crud we'd have to worry about otherwise. Bungie did the right thing by going with playlists.
I'm fairly sure most of the people that want to play classic don't mind having a healthy mix of good objective modes thrown in there as well.
Edit: I've had the idea of custom search restrictions for a while, but I've never fully fleshed out how I thought they should work. To me, it would be a better system than "playlists", but as I said, it's just a not complete idea.
That would be nice. I'm all for playlists with mixed objective and slayer gametypes. Since you have more maps and gametypes to choose from you can really throw the absolute best working gametypes and be able to fill the playlist. No filler just for variety's sake.
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There are those who said this day would never come...
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Agree as well, one the reason why I like MLG is because is a good mix of Slayer and different objectives games.
Hypertrooper
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I think they will be the same. And Spartan Ops must be tweakable. I cannot see how they will satisfy the Co-Op/Firefight community without settings.
The Real Napsta
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This thread is going to move so slow now.
neoism
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lol he hasn't been on in a while.... did he get a job or something
neoism
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yea permed so what was the post he was banned for....
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