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Halo |OT9| One Final Effort Is All That Remains
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HiredN00bs
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The whole tournament was a lot of fun, and every game we played in it was competitive. Thank you, monsterfracas, for organizing it, and thank you to all the players who participated, and thanks to my teammates who performed excellently. I look forward to the next HaloGAF tournament.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
On CONSOLES? Pre-order cancelled. I don't want to play a broken game.
Zeouterlimits
Member
The fact that it's a Major Nelson tweet too... oh boy.
I do think it's different in a competitive game. Not different enough for a solid excuse. It either was something you considered important or it wasn't.
Why couldn't the paper boy rubber band the Sunday paper in with all the coupons?
It didn't have enough band width.
Next thing you know you'll be able to change your vertical sensitivity.
Madness.
Poker Face
Member
hey but at least we have forge 2.02!
Better warm up my BXR for those midget pyschos.
YourExWife
Member
Let's see if we can't get this page back on track then, eh?
Rickenslacker
Banned
I don't think it's different in a competitive game at all, it's about preference and comfort. Plenty of people have been disappointed that the new features have altered their preferred control scheme, namely the sprint and crouch implementation. You shouldn't have to go into a game just hoping that they got a preset for your preference.
Zoso Achilles
Member
Am I helping? I wonder if it will have a spectator mode...
HiredN00bs
Member
I think it has to do with usability, ironically enough. If this is the case, they should make custom controls available through some kind of backdoor at least for the competent people who absolutely need it (such as disabled gamers).
YourExWife
Member
New IGN headline: "343i 'Couldn't Care Less' About Disabled Gamers. Custom Controls 'Waste of Bandwidth'."
I totally agree with the top choice.
I was watching Conan and the segment where he reviews games came on.....I hope he'll do that for Halo considering he's in the game. Could be really funny, what do you say Frankie and Ellis?
Zeouterlimits
Member
That was denied months ago, no? You sure you didn't mention this before (and I responded in kind)?
Reagan's BR
Banned
Kyle was right.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Ten bucks theres no button glitches like a bxr or dubshot and bl2 has a feature that 343 can't pull off. Great stuff all around though.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Meanwhile, Gearbox puts deceased in their game as tribute NPC.
Gearbox for Halo 5, pls
Zeouterlimits
Member
$10?
What are your terms? How do we prove that there aren't any?
I'm guessing you're right, but I want to play this out. What's $10
Zeouterlimits
Member
More passive aggressiveness? Bleurgh.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Ignore it.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
There's nothing to say, really. I mean, I think Frankie's explanation for excluding button customization in Halo 4 didn't quite add up, but I don't think anyone at 343 owes us further explanation. They could have made it happen, surely, but it apparently wasn't a priority. Some of us dislike it, and the frustration of learning a new control scheme may persist for a while, but ultimately we'll adapt and it'll be a moot issue.
Zoso Achilles
Member
Jokes, talking about BL2 after heckfu's post confirmed button mapping.
The Real Napsta
Member
What does it matter what country it's from?
xxjuicesxx
Member
A glitch people will learn to do that is used advantageously that wouldn't have been able to have been pulled off on default controls except they allowed button mapping and because of that the glitch is available.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Or map editors or a ranking system or a custom game browser or options to drop the flag or a spectator mode...
who cares? Forge has better lighting.
xxjuicesxx
Member
It's funny cause all that stuff as of now isn't available.!
Well this isn't their game, I would venture to say they're focusing on getting Halo 4 out of the door for us nerds instead of answering the same questions they have a million times already.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Sounds fair. Discovering/hearing about it will be hard. End date? Paypal okay?
Ah, heh. Just wanted to be sure my memory wasn't completely lost.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Forge 2.0: Now with 2 shades of grey.
The Real Napsta
Member
bobs...onGaf
Member
What? I have seen you mention that before but didnt get it. I guess they showed an in engine version of Seattle? Or did they just talk about it one time.
Would actually be pretty cool to see real places in engine, but yeah I can think of a thousand other things I want them to do first.
A game that barely has any customization has button mapping.
B = Melee
RB = Reload
X = Sprint
Reagan's BR
Banned
When did they say they started working on this game? 08? 09? Plenty of time to add this feature.
Where are those gifs from? HahaA game that barely has any customization has button mapping.
B = Melee
RB = Reload
X = Sprint
I believe one of the updates stated that forge objects would be UNSC themed, with some Forerunner themed objects. Still no mention on the extent of palettes though.
Reagan's BR
Banned
They modeled their favorite restaurants in down town Seattle and then set up a grunt that would drive to them. They would figure out what restaurant they would eat lunch at by letting people place marines on the map to keep the grunt from reaching a particular place.
Instead of modeling buildings they should probably remodel the sniper.
Here is the video of those two modders/cheater's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZJHb7cXw6w&feature=youtu.be
Enjoy it, because it's hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZJHb7cXw6w&feature=youtu.be
Enjoy it, because it's hilarious.
Zeouterlimits
Member
My impression - 08 - setup and focus on other projects, expanded Universe stuff, helping Bungie etc
09 - Preproduction, skeleton team
10 - 12 Huge growth in staff, 18 months of 250+ people working damn hard
Trying not to defend or condemn, but I can't but read via twitter and elsewhere that a lot of the team has been crunching for months, so it's more a question of what they chose to be important.
Which is completely fair to criticise.
See, I get where you're coming from, but that doesn't strike me as entirely fair.
The (rudimentary I'll bet) restuarant modelling likely happened during some late night crunch when you're trying to build a space to test something out and you let loose a bit of steam and stress by trying to make it fun, lighten the atmosphere in the room.
I'd have to assume that really isn't why buttons aren't remapable. It's (I hope) because people sat around a table and decided it's not something they want to spend time on. They want to, oh I dunno, change grifball dramatically.
I certainly don't agree with the decision, but I wouldn't blame the guy who modelled a few buildings either (or that he was allowed do it).