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Halo |OT9| One Final Effort Is All That Remains
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Poker Face
Member
i hope your right. most of the maps look pretty big, but i haven't played on any of them, so maybe they just look big and feel fine.
maybe
The Librarian
Banned
Probably pretty obvious beforehand, but I guess Voc was talking about Ragnorok in yesterday's Bulletin:
Sorry, let me clarify; I know what I'm talking about when it comes to Halo game BALANCE.
I didn't compete after Halo CE because I had no faith in the game. I didn't want to waste money competeting in a game I didn't feel adequately rewarded individual ability.
Also, I'm pretty Karma had more than one GT, but I have no solid backing on that. You may be one of those pro stalkers who cares/knows about that stuff. Also, let me just save you some time; I'm totally lying. I never played Karma and I was terrible at Halo 2. I don't know what I'm talking about and Halo 2 was the best game ever.
Thats the only reason Im not pro right now.
BackdoorBeauty
Member
Valhalla is a great choice for a remake.
Yeah. I read that right after the Ranorok news hit, so I kinda smiled at the description. I know that map.
too much eslim
Member
the small maps were revealed first. Due to the AA there will be no small maps. The maps have to be designed around AA and sprint. So look to forge for your small maps.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
You shouldn't use this as an argument/insult because you don't know what was going on in BigShow's life at the time.. Not taking sides but many of these dudes who became pro/famous with Halo 2 (Red Alert (H1 name for Shockwave), Gandhi, TSquared (always had a bad attitude)) were no where near as good as many other people in Halo 1 who for whatever reason couldn't attend tournaments and put as much time into Halo competitively.
Just saying..
Pop
Member
I agree.
I'm lovin' it.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Voc killing stealing on Valhalla in the Bulletin and Cocop's noob shotgun-teleporter combo from the podcast.
Sounds like they're enjoying themselves.
I swear Karma isn't pro anymore, didn't he absolutely blow at H3 and quit?
Genesis Knight
Member
Dynamic shadowing on weapons looks divine.
WAAY the hell late to this party... but man, you sound like a Jewish grandmother here.
My grandmother gave me a red sweater and a blue sweater for my birthday. I opened them both, ran upstairs, put on the red one, came back down.
"What's the matter... you didn't like the blue one?"
The fans Halo deserves, but not the ones it needs right now.
You have it backwards; Halo 3 blew, so Karma quit.
Latvian Hitman
Member
It sounds like it should be less of a problem. We won't know for sure until Nov. 6th.
It looks like most of the vehicles have been buffed in terms of HP and damage dealt, and tuned in other ways to help offset the fact that plasma pistol starts are going to be common on any vehicle map. And it's also looking like maps with heavy vehicles are going to have plenty of them, so you kind of have to buff HP and damage for those frequent encounters as well.
My two concerns with the DMR:
It can tag players in their bases from the hill, where the BR was out of range. That will make a decent part of the map between the hill and the base off limits when the hill is taken because of the extended range. It's also going to result in more cross-map shoot outs - think Hemorrhage - and hamper movement along the sides as players work to approach the hill.
It also means you can't flank the hill as effectively taking the turret/bubble shield side of the map. Again, the hill was out of range of the BR and so just plain going around it on foot or with a Mongoose/Warthog was a viable option. But now players from the hill will be able to tag everyone on the map - end to end, side to side. That's now how the hill was intended to function.
Hydranockz
Member
I will end you
Well at least it's not Reach.
Can't you "tag" them back?
I'd rather play zero-bloom Reach than Halo 3.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Would have been great if his response was "suck it blue"
ncsuDuncan
Member
He was ended 8 years ago, with all of the incessant "it's not CE bitching".
I used to like you.
If anyone's interested, the moderators over at Waypoint are putting on a "Mods vs. the World" event the weekend before Halo 4, whereas copies of Halo 4 will be prizes. Should be pretty neat, go check it out.
You know it's true Fracas <3
You're forgiven <3
Everyone was my age at some point. Youth ftw.
apart from my generations music and fashion.
You know Frankie's not KP, right?
DOH! Didn't see the CHOAM Company tag in there. Never mind.
Der Flatulator
Member
Poker Face
Member
Is it confirmed Halo 4 will be given out as prizes?
I'll endure one final day of Halo: Reach
Waiting for my food in a Pizza place, laughing my ass off! Hahahahaha :lol
Edit: lol duncan
So pooped I cant make this.
But but but... who am I suppose to creep in the matchmaking lobby to see when the mods go searching to have a slightly better chance of getting matched up with them?!
Yup, they've already got four copies to give out, with more on the way. The feats for winning the copies haven't been determined yet, however it'll probably go along the lines of steaking them, getting a perfection or extermination against them, etc.Is it confirmed Halo 4 will be given out as prizes?
I'll endure one final day of Halo: Reach
Perfect use of that clip.
Der Flatulator
Member
Exams on 5th and 6th of November. :/
That is absolutely TERRIBLE timing. That sucks, man...
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
hahah - I tend to find that whichever Halo game people started with and put massive amounts of time into they say is the best.
I started day one with Halo 1 and can say without a doubt that the competitive scene was far more intense than any game in the series. That being said, if the exact style was made today for Matchmaking, the game would tank.
The whole Multiplayer was completely based off whoring those Rockets, some powerups and manipulating the spawns. No matter how disgusting you were with the Pistol, if you couldn't control at least the Rockets, you would get destroyed. I'm not sure if many of people can truly accept that that's bad gameplay for a large majority of Halo's population, especially these days, but it is.
I'm as big a Halo 1 fan as anyone else, but that exact set up of gameplay would simply not work for Matchmaking these days. There was just too much skill and metagame going on in Halo 1 that would turn off so many new players..
..which is then why, if you were heavily involved with the community at the time, you would've saw so many people drop out of Halo shortly after Halo 2 came around. Everything changed. Bungie took the series in a way they thought would appeal to a wider audience by adding massive auto aim/bullet magnetism and just overall weaker gameplay. Not to mention the one man dominance literally vanished over night..
But I digress. Halo 4 is heading towards a place I personally haven't seen in around 8 years - a place with POWERFUL weapons and much more consistent gameplay, so with that I'm truly happy.
Who knows, maybe one day we'll get a Multiplayer remake of Halo 1 on XBLA :b - but until then, 343.. You will have my Sword in battle <3
nillapuddin
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JohnOfMars
Banned
Genesis Knight
Member
It's sold out at Amazon.