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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
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nillapuddin
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I understand, but Im giving him a break, if I was playing Halo 4 tonight, Id be losing my shit also
Good video, looking forward to more. gotta see Regen, Light Rifle and Sentry in Action.
yes there is... damnit.
dont start shit like this
HigherLevel
Member
Obviously I'm in the minority but the more I see of this game the more I want to play it. It's a totally different beast from Halo 2/3 but unlike Reach it has the core mechanics buried underneath which should make it a much better game IMO.
Seemed like the UI was final, regardless of a local or internet connection, and there didn't seem a space for an overt visual system.
I just would've imagined we'd see something around the service record type space if there was a visual system. Could well be wrong, but my optimism for anything of the sort is at an all time low.
RUH ROH
In fairness I thought he sounded like an utter tool, but I'll take that if the player is actually decent, rather than a video of some mute playing it with his feet.
Garrett 2U
Member
I definitely felt like I saw one? It displayed as blue dots for him though, not as teammates.
les papillons sexuels
Banned
That's funny, because just a few clips after the one you showed is a new technique that I have never seen,
which makes the grenade launcher even more awesome than it already was (The best gun in it's class).
JEEESSUSSS!
You don't even have to shoot the enemy with your nades,
you just immediately become a baller by holding that shit.
*sigh* Maybe you'll be able to do cool things with the sticky launcher?
Halo reach's visual are underrated, that game still looks amazing, even with halo 4 coming out.
Ajemsuhgao
Member
Best fuel rod out of any Halo game, hands down. Fun to use. Powerful, but not OP. You could pull off some amazing shots with that gun. Soooo gooood.
nillapuddin
Member
Boltshot: Forerunner particle dilator used for both its precision at mid-range and its burst functionality when up close
p.s.
Explosives armor mod, same definition as what I came up with from shaky cam earlier.
I stand by my previous statements, buff radius, subtract damage
nah man, thats the sidearm
The Light Rifle IS the H2 E3 BR LOL BBQ
p.s.
Explosives armor mod, same definition as what I came up with from shaky cam earlier.
I stand by my previous statements, buff radius, subtract damage
crosses fingers
nah man, thats the sidearm
The Light Rifle IS the H2 E3 BR LOL BBQ
Ajemsuhgao
Member
So it's a sidearm version of the Halo 2 E3 demo BR?
The P of Poland
Member
These medals are seriously idiotic. Beam Rifle Kill. Vehicle Kill. Flagsassination. Seriously?
HigherLevel
Member
in before FyreWulff mentions how the Reach TU did nothing to fix/change the Banshee and that lack of understanding carried over to 4
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Halo 3. Now. Let's do it.
Garrett 2U
Member
To be fair, the boost speed of the Banshee did look a lot slower, same with the flipping speed.
Plus in Reach, isn't the Banshee invulnerable while doing flips n shit?
It probably won't be like that in Halo 4...
Plus people can spawn with long range precision weapons/plasma pistols to take them out, even at spawn.
Plus in Reach, isn't the Banshee invulnerable while doing flips n shit?
I'm on a boat muthafucka
Plus people can spawn with long range precision weapons/plasma pistols to take them out, even at spawn.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
It's not the Reach banshee.
The flip is slower.
The roll is slower.
The boost appears to take a little longer to get to full speed.
It doesn't seem to have as much vertical aim, ie aiming straight down, as the Reach banshee.
Hopefully they'll have decreased the fuel rod spread.
I wish they had interlinked the dodging moves and boost, but whatever. Changes seem for the better so far.
I don't know why the Banshee is on that map though, it's far too small for it.
No, it's not invincible, just hard to target, and the flips remove any projectile locks, making rockets and the plasma launcher useless.
The gamebreaker is the fuel rod. That thing can flip all day as far as I'm concerned if it's just a harassment vehicle with the normal plasma cannons. Hated the Banshee bomb in both 3 and Reach, but the prominence of the Banshee in Reach BTB killed it. It was better in 2 if only because it couldn't murder someone in the blink of an eye. Came with its own suite of problems, but not that particular one.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Wait did they confirm no visual ranking system ?!
The P of Poland
Member
"They just want you to feel so good, about everything you're doing"- Naked Eli.
nillapuddin
Member
To be honest I was really thinking they would, it seems (to me) like an obvious method of keeping the Banshee in check, and a good decision overall.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
SR-5, SR-6, that seems pretty visual ranks to me
Yeah In that video and the Bravo one from earlier today we saw that you magically get a pistol with the flag, even if you didn't have one before.
Also I gotta say not being able to drop the flag is the stupidest thing in the world, ever, of all time. Although the build still isn't final (medals don't show up during the game) so maybe I can delude myself by holding out hope that flag dropping will still be added.
Wifiplayer13
Member
It must magically appear out of thin air. I suppose Twilight might have a reasonable answer for this occurrence.
Garrett 2U
Member
Ah yes. It seems pretty obvious that the balance for the fuel rod would be a long recharge time.
Would make people more conservative with their fuel rod shots and force them to use the plasma guns.
It'd be nice if it was a ranking system where wins = exp = rank up, with a soft wall at SR-20, where you slowly become more liable to win games in order to advance and losing games gives you a penalty and slowly becomes more exponential where at the end game a loss is about .75 to 1.5 of a win.
Edit - SR-N are the ranks used to denote level of persistent progression? wtf? why not just use military ranks and keep SR competitve.
New warthogs have those tanks of H2O on the back. Maybe water is combustible now?
Warthogs have always been hydrogen-powered.
Whole meta-game looks more obnoxious every few hours.
It would be nice.
But I think we know their philosophy precludes systems that track anything to do with winning.
It would be nice.
But I think we know their philosophy precludes systems that track anything to do with winning.
HigherLevel
Member
Yeah it was nice to hear some enthusiasm after all the posts here today lol. Dude wasn't being a douche, he was just excited, don't know why he was getting all the hate.
That's kinda what I assumed they'd do if they brought the FRG back, but it doesn't seem to have a very long recharge. Honestly, I think the maneuverability of the vehicle makes the fast, easy FRG kill a big issue regardless of how they tweak the recharge. The plasma cannons force the Banshee to slow down and behave very predictably, even for just a second, so it can get a bead on a target and take it down. There's no reason to stop flipping with a fire-and-forget explosive. The two elements just don't seem compatible, in my eyes at least.
The far-flung future seems like a really crappy place to live...
As far as I'm concerned he can shout whatever he wants, he's the only one that has actually taken the time to show us something that isn't a BR and PV.
Ajemsuhgao
Member
Still no gif of super saiyan Spartan IV. I am disappoint.
Well, yeah I know that. They added the water cans on the back of the Warthog for 4.
I was just making a joke about water being combustible when shot.
Yes, same here, I realize my last post was really negative, but I still have to say I'm really really liking the look of the game overall. It's just that there have been a lot of insane decisions dropped on us all at once so it gets hard to focus on the good stuff.
I'm really glad to see the Beam Rifle back, Exile looks Great, I'm glad we're finally finding about all the weapons and perks and abilities. I just hate that this is how we have to learn about them. Even a tiny bit of explanation, or introduction, or context from 343 regarding all the new additions and changes would make a world of difference. I realize the Halo 4 panel isn;t until tomorrow, but but would it really hurt to just explain anything about what's going on with the game? If you don't do that right away, all you end up with is the mess of kneejerk reactions based on partial information that we've seen here today.
I recall Bungie usually doing a good job of explaining what things were, how they worked, and why before giving them to people to play, it's just to bad 343 can't do the same. I understand there are resource and schedule limitations, but 343 really needs to put something out there ahead of time so they can control the massage, rather than letting everything be judged out of context based on off-screen potato-cam footage on message boards.
mhi
Member
Some of the best ones:
KILL: A Generic Kill
GRENADE KILL: Kill an opponent with a grenade explosion
FLAG DEFENSE; Kill an opponent that is CLOSE to your flag
FLAG ASSIST: Help a team mate capture a flag (What's considered help ?)
FLAG DRIVER: Drive a flag carrier CLOSE to your capture point
Thankfully it looks like the actual medal graphic doesn't show up on the hud midgame.
KILL: A Generic Kill
GRENADE KILL: Kill an opponent with a grenade explosion
FLAG DEFENSE; Kill an opponent that is CLOSE to your flag
FLAG ASSIST: Help a team mate capture a flag (What's considered help ?)
FLAG DRIVER: Drive a flag carrier CLOSE to your capture point
Thankfully it looks like the actual medal graphic doesn't show up on the hud midgame.
Rickenslacker
Banned
He earned every damn one of those medals.
I don't because not having to switch between plasma cannons and the fuel rod made it severely over powered.
I'm not saying he didn't, they just didn't come up on screen. No medals did in fact.
Sorry about the double post.
Zoso Achilles
Member
I don't know if this has been clarified in the last two hours, but there is no way that is true. Concussion riffle is 3sk to body, minimum. You'll only kill someone with 2 shots if you land a melee or something.
I was joking, because basically he completed one action and earned four different pats on the back.
Garrett 2U
Member
Medals: Melee kill, kill with flag, flagsassination, assassination.
"FLAGSASSINATION!"
FLAGSASSINATION +15
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