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Halo |OT9| One Final Effort Is All That Remains

senador

Banned
It wont be attracting the numbers that the 4v4 and 5v5 playlists do. Just like EVERY other Halo. Stop. Just...OK?

Maybe. Guess we'll see. I almost always agree with you, but not on this point. BTB gets way more than e light players to justify making maps focused for that mode.
 

Doodis

Member
IGN guy has been surprisingly great IMO, he's polite and into it and has a pleasing mix of casualness and Halo knowledge. 343i guy is not bad either, but he's sort of just there, going through the motions to get it over with.
Yeah, Ryan (IGN) is great. He was at OXM for years before. He knows his stuff. Can't believe people are complaining about the commentary.

I guess it is the Internet. If it can be complained about, it will be complained about.
 

Arnie

Member
I wish the footage was of an actual match, rather than a fly through. The best part of each video is the segment of action at the beginning.

Adrift, Haven, and that zombieish map better be stellar Slayer experiences otherwise this game's going to get dull, fast. Unless 343 are hoping Forge environments save the day. Which I hope isn't the case.
 
MLG just let go of the guy that worked on the Halo 4 strategy guide with the Halo pros...wow. For those that don't know Lies he did a lot during Halo 3 and even hired me last year to work on Halo Reach at event. Shit sucks.

Oh that sucks, did they say why they let go of him more specifically? Seems strange to let go of someone who has worked on pretty major as yet released and perhaps subject to change products
 

Vire

Member
I wish the footage was of an actual match, rather than a fly through. The best part of each video is the segment of action at the beginning.

Adrift, Haven, and that zombieish map better be stellar Slayer experiences otherwise this game's going to get dull, fast. Unless 343 are hoping Forge environments save the day. Which I hope isn't the case.

Solace is pretty small also, 4v4. Looks like a great symmetrical map.

I have high hopes for Haven and Solace, the other two I dunno.
 

senador

Banned
I wish the footage was of an actual match, rather than a fly through. The best part of each video is the segment of action at the beginning.

Adrift, Haven, and that zombieish map better be stellar Slayer experiences otherwise this game's going to get dull, fast. Unless 343 are hoping Forge environments save the day. Which I hope isn't the case.

Maybe for you, you seem near impossible to please. :p I imagine the masses will be enjoying the hell out of themselves. I think I'll be right there with them.
 
I wish the footage was of an actual match, rather than a fly through. The best part of each video is the segment of action at the beginning.

Adrift, Haven, and that zombieish map better be stellar Slayer experiences otherwise this game's going to get dull, fast. Unless 343 are hoping Forge environments save the day. Which I hope isn't the case.

Solace looks like it will work well as a smaller competitive multiplayer map.

I do agree though, I do want a very simple arena map in the vein of The Pit or Midship - It will need to be scaled up, but I think it could work.

A lot of the maps shown, Haven, Solace and Adrift included have a lot more pathways and complexity than the arena maps of old. I think theres still a place for the older simpler type of map.
 

Vire

Member
What do Spartan 4s call hissyfits?

Meltdowns.

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Sai-kun

Banned
What do Spartan 4s call hissyfits?

Meltdowns.

Spartan 1: Did you hear about that new base the UNSC is building?
Spartan 2: Yeah... I heard it was pretty...

Complex.

Horrible, horrible pun. At the very least, you can find Solace in the fact that everyone will quote you and post a gif in response. :)
 

Shadders

Member
I've pulled the videos from Youtube. Sorry if anyone was in the middle of watching them, but I got a very polite email from IGN asking me to take them down, so couldn't really say no.

Well.. obviously I could have said no, but I'm too nice a guy for that.
 
There's always this overanalysis whenever vids like those walkthroughs go up about the awkward tension between whoever are participating. I dunno, can't expect everyone to have amazing chemistry, but they just come off as some dudes who probably barely know eachother chatting it up.
 

Arnie

Member
Maybe for you, you seem near impossible to please. :p I imagine the masses will be enjoying the hell out of themselves. I think I'll be right there with them.

If I was impossible to please I wouldn't have pre-ordered the limited edition in the financial state I'm in at the minute. I haven't even bought Fifa yet, which is pretty much sacrilege.

People discussing Solace, I initially didn't know what you were on about but then, after a quick Google, I remember that map. Is that 4v4? It looked really big from footage. Perhaps I'm wrong, but that's another reason I sort of discarded it to the back of my mind, because my initial impressions led me to conclude it was a larger map.
 

Fuchsdh

Member
Woah, damn, didn't realize we were right about to hit |OT10|. One more OT in us before Halo 4? I think so.

The new maps definitely look nice... I'm guessing the pattern is that vegetation is either too taxing or not considered worth the tradeoff in multi. I guess that's okay as long as we get good performance, then.
 
What do Spartan 4s call hissyfits?

Meltdowns.

Spartan 1: Did you hear about that new base the UNSC is building?
Spartan 2: Yeah... I heard it was pretty...

Complex.

Wow... We've come a loooong way :p

Hey everyone I have a joke... What do Spartan 4s do for the holidays?

Ragna-rock around the Christmas tree.

Old Spartan folklore tells of the lone Cyclops who went on a sail, only to be left floating...

Adrift.



I'll find Haven somewhere else :'(.

Okay, I'm done.
I laughed. Screw you guys. Bad jokes are still the best.
 
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