Meh I need something sooner. Can anyone recommend any headsets for me? That price range is about my limit.
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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
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Hypertrooper
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Btw. here is the Forward Unto Dawn Avatar Prop, you'll get with the purchase:
What is your limit?
i'm literally dying at home and classes start tomorrow ughhhh fuck my life.
Yeah, I've got the X11s and they're okay. Nothing spectacular when compared to Astros and that kind of high-end stuff, but serviceable.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Me, Over, Bobs' and OddOne are on reach, anyone want to join us for customs? I will make it clear that we will be playing silly, wacky stuff, with a sprinkling of seriousness.
Just send a message to my GT if your interested.
Just send a message to my GT if your interested.
The DSS2 makes a world of difference to a Stereo headset, Bestbuy has an exclusive DX12 for $119.99 but this is basically the same
http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Surround-Headset-Xbox-360-6306200/dp/B006W41X18/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1346872147&sr=8-7&keywords=TURTLE+BEACH+DX12
You know, funnily enough, apparently Boston gets more rain annually than Seattle. Not sure about cloud cover in general.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
TheOddOne plays Halo? I don't I've ever played with him before.
It's already on xbox.com http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/P...awn-Ship/00001000-fe55-4203-c477-11ed4d530919Btw. here is the Forward Unto Dawn Avatar Prop, you'll get with the purchase:
Go there if you want to watch it attempt to crash-land ON YOUR FACE.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
WARNING - WALL OF TEXT.
PAX 2012 Impressions - HaloGaf, Halo 4, Based Frankie, and BS Angels.
PAX 2012 was my second PAX. The first, a blurred stupor of lights and sounds, was in 2010. 2010 was the year Reach was set to launch, and PAX 2010 was the first time I got to see Reach in person. Halo 4...is not Reach. It is a better game all around. My time was very limited with Halo 4, so take this write-up however you see fit, but the game immediately and thoroughly felt better than Reach ever has.
I almost didn't get to play Halo 4. The line was up to 4 hours long all weekend, and by Sunday afternoon I was worried I would miss my chance. I happened to stop by the Halo 4 booth earlier in the day and grab Jessica. I had a nice 15 minute chat about PAX, the game, and working at 343/dealing with online communities in general (as I do community stuff for THQ). At that time the line was still around the 3 hour mark, however. Around 4pm I finally came back to the Halo 4 area, waved Jessica over, and asked what the deal with the line was. She noted that it was now as short as it had been all weekend, and let me jump under the rope to get over to the end of the line. I waited about 35 minutes, and was finally able to get into a game of CTF.
I immediately sat down and jumped into the options. I am an inverted (the CORRECT way to play
) player so I changed that over, got my sensitivity to 4, and switched to bumper jumper. The bumper jumper layout is similar to reach, but puts sprint on "X" and your AA on "A" (if I remember right). After getting that all set up I had enough time to get one "class" set up. My class consisted of BR, Promethean Pistol, thruster pack AA, shield regen speed for the tactical package, and something radar-based for my support upgrade.
The game starts. I run around for the first 5 seconds in a drunken stupor before finally gaining my senses and going off about my Halo business. The first thing I noticed was that the reticule placement seemed different. I was assured it was in the same place as previous games (slightly below center) but it, combined with the new UI, looked a bit odd right off the bat. I adapted quickly though.
I then proceeded to test out my AA, the thruster pack. As soon as I hit the button I knew that this AA could be one of the most useful in the game. Even with it being a brand new AA, it clicked for me right away and 5 minutes later I was using it as though it had existed for years in Halo. Let me be clear here; thruster pack is NOT evade. It pushes you a shorter distance, only has one use before recharge, and doesn't alter your hitbox from what I could tell. That aside, I found myself using it a great amount to avoid a grenade, or jump into cover quickly. You can't run away with it, but you certainly can use it to get to cover in more open levels easier. After using thruster, I believe I will be starting off Halo 4 using it day 1.
Sprint. Sprint has been a point of discussion and turmoil within HaloGaf for eons now. My view on the subject is well known, I like sprint. I think it adds much needed speed to Halo. Anyways, playing Halo 4 reconfirmed my views. Never did I see people using it to run away, and if it ever happened the player never got away. You won't see people using it to get away from fights, but more to get back into them. Spawning, then being able to run back across the map and get back into the fray a lot faster is fantastic.
The Ghost. The Ghost is one of my all time favorite Halo vehicles, so needless to say the first one I saw was mine. To my surprise the Ghost now has acceleration. You no longer go from 0 to whatever within a second, you gradually build speed over 2-3 seconds. I didn't like or dislike this new acceleration, but it will be something to get used to for those who typically jumped into a ghost and sped off. I think the new acceleration will prevent people from escaping in ghosts as easily too.
Weapons. Out of all the weapons I used I found out one thing. Halo 4 is NOT all about melee. From my short experience with it not once did I feel the urge to stop shooting, and run up to the person for a melee. If I did melee, it was usually a last ditch effort to avoid certain death. Halo 4 relies on your shooting skill much more than previous games did. Melee-happy folks will be sorely disappointed. As has been confirmed by others the BR and DMR felt great, and felt like they each had very specific range usages. Once using the BR I was instantly familiar with it. Yes, it does have that slight bullet drop, but not once was I hindered by it. I felt 100% confident landing my shots. The DMR is the DMR. It has a slight bloom, but feels infinitely better than the Reach base DMR. The Promethean Pistol feels decent as well. Not uber powerful, but helpful in a tight spot. It has a nice charge attack too that packs a punch. Grenades still feel good in Halo 4, but are not quite the mini-nukes we have in Reach. Chucking a random nade to save your ass won't really work anymore, you have to be very tactical about their use.
Map. I enjoyed the new map 343 showed off at the event. I didn't get the proper time to explore it, but it felt like it had a good amount of scenario-specifc areas. Areas for long range battles, short range battles, vehicles, etc. Each side had a handful of Warthogs, but I never felt "left out in the open" as I do constantly on some of Reach's maps with vehicles. No one really got the tank going more than once in our game, so I cannot speak to spawn kills. I only got spawn killed once, and it was by a person not a vehicle.
Overall I feel good about Halo 4. I am still wary of the power-ups 343 has introduced, but once I picked my shield regen and started playing I completely forgot those "perks" existed. Never did I feel that I lost a kill due to some invisible ability the other player had, and this is what excited me the most in my time with the game. The "perks" seem to give you a slight edge in one area or another, but do nothing for you if you aren't competent at the game already, and only slightly help you in very specific scenarios otherwise.
I want to thank 343 for being great to HaloGaf last weekend, and Frank & Jessica specifically for chatting with me about the game. Thanks to Duncan, and all the other HaloGaf guys who showed up for making everyone feel welcome, and being awesome overall.
TL;DR
I don't think I can go back to Reach now... SLRP
PAX 2012 Impressions - HaloGaf, Halo 4, Based Frankie, and BS Angels.
PAX 2012 was my second PAX. The first, a blurred stupor of lights and sounds, was in 2010. 2010 was the year Reach was set to launch, and PAX 2010 was the first time I got to see Reach in person. Halo 4...is not Reach. It is a better game all around. My time was very limited with Halo 4, so take this write-up however you see fit, but the game immediately and thoroughly felt better than Reach ever has.
I almost didn't get to play Halo 4. The line was up to 4 hours long all weekend, and by Sunday afternoon I was worried I would miss my chance. I happened to stop by the Halo 4 booth earlier in the day and grab Jessica. I had a nice 15 minute chat about PAX, the game, and working at 343/dealing with online communities in general (as I do community stuff for THQ). At that time the line was still around the 3 hour mark, however. Around 4pm I finally came back to the Halo 4 area, waved Jessica over, and asked what the deal with the line was. She noted that it was now as short as it had been all weekend, and let me jump under the rope to get over to the end of the line. I waited about 35 minutes, and was finally able to get into a game of CTF.
I immediately sat down and jumped into the options. I am an inverted (the CORRECT way to play
) player so I changed that over, got my sensitivity to 4, and switched to bumper jumper. The bumper jumper layout is similar to reach, but puts sprint on "X" and your AA on "A" (if I remember right). After getting that all set up I had enough time to get one "class" set up. My class consisted of BR, Promethean Pistol, thruster pack AA, shield regen speed for the tactical package, and something radar-based for my support upgrade. The game starts. I run around for the first 5 seconds in a drunken stupor before finally gaining my senses and going off about my Halo business. The first thing I noticed was that the reticule placement seemed different. I was assured it was in the same place as previous games (slightly below center) but it, combined with the new UI, looked a bit odd right off the bat. I adapted quickly though.
I then proceeded to test out my AA, the thruster pack. As soon as I hit the button I knew that this AA could be one of the most useful in the game. Even with it being a brand new AA, it clicked for me right away and 5 minutes later I was using it as though it had existed for years in Halo. Let me be clear here; thruster pack is NOT evade. It pushes you a shorter distance, only has one use before recharge, and doesn't alter your hitbox from what I could tell. That aside, I found myself using it a great amount to avoid a grenade, or jump into cover quickly. You can't run away with it, but you certainly can use it to get to cover in more open levels easier. After using thruster, I believe I will be starting off Halo 4 using it day 1.
Sprint. Sprint has been a point of discussion and turmoil within HaloGaf for eons now. My view on the subject is well known, I like sprint. I think it adds much needed speed to Halo. Anyways, playing Halo 4 reconfirmed my views. Never did I see people using it to run away, and if it ever happened the player never got away. You won't see people using it to get away from fights, but more to get back into them. Spawning, then being able to run back across the map and get back into the fray a lot faster is fantastic.
The Ghost. The Ghost is one of my all time favorite Halo vehicles, so needless to say the first one I saw was mine. To my surprise the Ghost now has acceleration. You no longer go from 0 to whatever within a second, you gradually build speed over 2-3 seconds. I didn't like or dislike this new acceleration, but it will be something to get used to for those who typically jumped into a ghost and sped off. I think the new acceleration will prevent people from escaping in ghosts as easily too.
Weapons. Out of all the weapons I used I found out one thing. Halo 4 is NOT all about melee. From my short experience with it not once did I feel the urge to stop shooting, and run up to the person for a melee. If I did melee, it was usually a last ditch effort to avoid certain death. Halo 4 relies on your shooting skill much more than previous games did. Melee-happy folks will be sorely disappointed. As has been confirmed by others the BR and DMR felt great, and felt like they each had very specific range usages. Once using the BR I was instantly familiar with it. Yes, it does have that slight bullet drop, but not once was I hindered by it. I felt 100% confident landing my shots. The DMR is the DMR. It has a slight bloom, but feels infinitely better than the Reach base DMR. The Promethean Pistol feels decent as well. Not uber powerful, but helpful in a tight spot. It has a nice charge attack too that packs a punch. Grenades still feel good in Halo 4, but are not quite the mini-nukes we have in Reach. Chucking a random nade to save your ass won't really work anymore, you have to be very tactical about their use.
Map. I enjoyed the new map 343 showed off at the event. I didn't get the proper time to explore it, but it felt like it had a good amount of scenario-specifc areas. Areas for long range battles, short range battles, vehicles, etc. Each side had a handful of Warthogs, but I never felt "left out in the open" as I do constantly on some of Reach's maps with vehicles. No one really got the tank going more than once in our game, so I cannot speak to spawn kills. I only got spawn killed once, and it was by a person not a vehicle.
Overall I feel good about Halo 4. I am still wary of the power-ups 343 has introduced, but once I picked my shield regen and started playing I completely forgot those "perks" existed. Never did I feel that I lost a kill due to some invisible ability the other player had, and this is what excited me the most in my time with the game. The "perks" seem to give you a slight edge in one area or another, but do nothing for you if you aren't competent at the game already, and only slightly help you in very specific scenarios otherwise.
I want to thank 343 for being great to HaloGaf last weekend, and Frank & Jessica specifically for chatting with me about the game. Thanks to Duncan, and all the other HaloGaf guys who showed up for making everyone feel welcome, and being awesome overall.
TL;DR
I don't think I can go back to Reach now... SLRP
Where is the wallpaper?
I feel like this should be put onto the remix CD cover, just put headphones on her or something lol
ElzarTheBam
Member
Hypertrooper
Member
There were many wallpaper worthy stuff in the Panel slides. I hope 343i may consider it to release them.
Franklinator
Member
I would. I have Trittons and my brother has Turtle Beach, and I definitely prefer my headset over his. And that Halo 4 headset looks rad.
I really enjoy mine and they last quite awhile too.
nillapuddin
Member
thats actually a great question
Didn't MC use Promethean Vision during the E3 demo?
bobs...onGaf
Member
We should totally do MLG customs a bit later.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
It's more than just about playing the game at this point, yo.
You should go, you're just a few hours south of NY, right?
edit: More like 3 states down, haha.
YourExWife
Member
The one's I use when streaming/Halo are Trittons. Very good sound quality in my experience.
nillapuddin
Member
yeah but that was contextual, Im wondering how they will handle it, like picking different ones
I guess they will be laying around like in Reach
NobleGundam
Banned
None of the gameplay videos we've seen showed any Spartans switching out (pickup/swap) AA's. Did 343 took out that Editor feature to place them on the maps? If so, kinda interested how campaign plays this out.
I think Heckfu meant the 7.1 Tritton Warhead Headset, becasuse there is no 5.1 headset, I think. You linked the Stereo Headset.
The Tritton Warhead is going to be released on 09.18.2012 and the Halo one will be released on 10.30.2012.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
If AAs are in campaign, please let us keep them if we die in co-op. In Reach co-op, you default back to sprint whenever you respawn. My buddy and I played through the campaign on Legendary on launch day, and we were both extremely frustrated and disappointed when we got a cool AA only to die a few minutes later in the next encounter. We barely had a chance to use the new toys. :-(
Edit : I imagine we'll have the option to place AAs as pick ups in customs. It'd be cool to have auto-turrets as pick ups.
Edit : I imagine we'll have the option to place AAs as pick ups in customs. It'd be cool to have auto-turrets as pick ups.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Booted.
Poker Face
Member
nillapuddin
Member
at the very least it should drop and be pick-up-able again
your right that is very very frustrating in Reach
The speed of the bullet is irrelevant due to the fact that each bullet of the spread is its own packet. That is, each bullet sends its own information from xbox to xbox. This is where and why dropping occurs. Sometimes the Host will not receive all three packets due to various reasons, so when that happens only 2 out of 3 or even 1 out 3 bullets are received by the host and transmitted to the other players in the match.
In the case of Halo 3, poor netcoding led to a plethora of bullets from a burst not being received and that's how you end up with something like 26 bullets in your BR.
Chief has all the abilities.
http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/ac...stop-exclusive/104492?ref=recpdp&cross=800935
Is something like this truly worth 300 bucks?
Is something like this truly worth 300 bucks?
Hypertrooper
Member
I read the interview with Frankie by Das Kalk and Sam. During reading I noticed a worrying bit about Spartan Ops:
Streaming? I hate streaming content. I hate it. I assume the streaming content refers to the CGI cutscenes. At my current location and internet connection, I'll never enjoy the Spartan Ops CGI cutscenes.
Streaming? I hate streaming content. I hate it. I assume the streaming content refers to the CGI cutscenes. At my current location and internet connection, I'll never enjoy the Spartan Ops CGI cutscenes.
They're made by Tritton, they'll probably break as soon as you put them on.
Gunnerdude
Neo Member
Honestly.... No.
I have found very very few reviews on 7.1 and 5.1 headsets that can truely produce the kind of surround sound they are advertising. I would sit on it for an official review or see if they have a similar headset out there with 7.1 before dropping that kind of cash on a wireless system.
No 5.1 or 7.1 headset is worth it since you don't really need 5.1 or above for video games. If you want wireless just get the primers.
So the stereo set that's 60 bucks is fine for games?
I know nothing about headsets...
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
On the topic of headsets -- which of the major companies have the best warranty? If I'm going to drop a few hundred on a headset, I better be able to return it if it breaks.
Gunnerdude
Neo Member
yes, or anything comfortable that fits on your head and produces sound
Here is the best review I've found on headsets in the last couple years ment for high end gaming:
http://www.tested.com/news/feature/627-7-high-end-gaming-headsets-tested-and-reviewed/
Please note this is a dated artical over two years old so there are lots of newer models out but the company reviews remain the same more or less
This is a picture of the Razer Tiamat 7.1 headset.... i still only count 5.....
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
I read the interview with Frankie by Das Kalk and Sam. During reading I noticed a worrying bit about Spartan Ops:
Streaming? I hate streaming content. I hate it. I assume the streaming content refers to the CGI cutscenes. At my current location and internet connection, I'll never enjoy the Spartan Ops CGI cutscenes.
Yup, you and Letters will be frequent Youtube viewers.
Back in Omaha now.
I have a dull headache, but I can't tell if it was Pax Pox from putting the headphones on for Bltiz on the last day or the VRM BWOM BWOM of the Omegathon finale.
in your brain
I have a dull headache, but I can't tell if it was Pax Pox from putting the headphones on for Bltiz on the last day or the VRM BWOM BWOM of the Omegathon finale.
in your brain
I can't really speak for any other companies, but Astro has a 1 year warranty if anything breaks and you can pick up an extended warranty if you want. Their customer service is also some of the best I've ever dealt with.
The Tritton Warhead 7.1 seem to be universally found to be a pretty good product.
IGN likes them for what they're worth
Digital Trends goes a little more in depth with the product
Kotaku's Owen Good offers up a more realistic review based on the fact that it's $300 dolllars
Note: All these reviews are for the Warhead 7.1 which is available now. Unless there is something special about the Halo 4 edition other than the decals on the headset/base, the overall consensus is these are some great headphones.
I would say that is a matter of opinion based on how much you care about surround sound. My A40s have far more depth and directional sound that my stereo headphones.
Speaking of A40s, I'm about to take pics and box them up to sell. Very lightly used if anyone is interested.
I want to get the A50s.I read the interview with Frankie by Das Kalk and Sam. During reading I noticed a worrying bit about Spartan Ops:
Streaming? I hate streaming content. I hate it. I assume the streaming content refers to the CGI cutscenes. At my current location and internet connection, I'll never enjoy the Spartan Ops CGI cutscenes.
what ? shit, I will have the same problem. :/
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