Deputy Moonman
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Halo2's movement did feel really good.Steelyuhas said:
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Halo: Reach |OT5| A Monument to All Our Sins
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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http://majornelson.com/2011/07/18/xbox-360-system-update-coming-this-tuesday/
Make sure you save any films you want before the update hits, otherwise it's gonna clear them when you boot up your 360 later today.
Make sure you save any films you want before the update hits, otherwise it's gonna clear them when you boot up your 360 later today.
Barrow Roll
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Whoever posted that image of Jorge "bailing out" of the Saber when you dock at Anchor 9, you've officially ruined this scene for me. I'm trying to do this Daily and I just start giggling when I see him do that leap now.
Barrow Roll
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Oh wait, yep it was that RvB episode. My mistake. But god damn.FyreWulff said:
Gabotron ES
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Lol that's what I did when I took mine xDBarrow Roll said:
xxjuicesxx
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Its amazing I never played the first Halo campaign, good thing though this will be like a completely new game with good graphics to me! Yay!
Also I won a copy of Office 11 for Mac but I don't own a Mac and already have two legit PC Office copies. PM me anyone its just a download code.
Also I won a copy of Office 11 for Mac but I don't own a Mac and already have two legit PC Office copies. PM me anyone its just a download code.
Barrow Roll
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Dawg, get on Reach. I got a few games in me before I go to sleep.xxjuicesxx said:
Barrow Roll
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West coast mang.MrBig said:
Deputy Moonman
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How is this possible? Did you play CE's mutliplayer? Were you abducted by aliens for a short leave of absence? As often as the storyline is discussed in these threads, that's crazy that you've never played through the story that started it all. I think you'll enjoy it.xxjuicesxx said:
squidhands
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Brilliant writing, brilliant musicianship. Best band ever. EVERGhaleonEB said:
This, or partaken of Maynard's spectacular wines.Sikamikanico said:He's a fantastic drummer, I spent this morning listening to Push it (Live) off Salival, amazing version of the song, would love them to do a studio version. If you haven't seen Tool perform, you haven't lived. My favourite band
Those Anniversary screens are looking very sexy indeed. So glad that I've held off on my annual CE campaign run; this is gonna be
better be
Here's what I don't get about idlers in Firefight:
Do they not realize that they can actually finish the Weekly faster if they participate?
It's really annoying when it appears you have a full group of 4 people actually playing. We're cutting through the waves and rounds like a hot chainsaw through butter. We finished Round 2 and there was like 14 minutes left on the game clock or some shit.
And then as soon as Round 3 hits, IDLE TIEM. So now it's 2 people that are still playing against a wave with Mythic and Tilt on, and we go from possibly completing the game in under 10 minutes to playing down until about 3 minutes are left on the clock because the Heretic wave takes forever to clear out with only 2 people.
It's been like this in the past 2-3 games. Looks great for the first 2 rounds, then they go idle and make the game drag out.
So instead of getting 6 Rounds towards the weekly every 20 minutes, they end up with 3 or maybe 4 because apparently actually playing this game is too much effort.
Do they not realize that they can actually finish the Weekly faster if they participate?
It's really annoying when it appears you have a full group of 4 people actually playing. We're cutting through the waves and rounds like a hot chainsaw through butter. We finished Round 2 and there was like 14 minutes left on the game clock or some shit.
And then as soon as Round 3 hits, IDLE TIEM. So now it's 2 people that are still playing against a wave with Mythic and Tilt on, and we go from possibly completing the game in under 10 minutes to playing down until about 3 minutes are left on the clock because the Heretic wave takes forever to clear out with only 2 people.
It's been like this in the past 2-3 games. Looks great for the first 2 rounds, then they go idle and make the game drag out.
So instead of getting 6 Rounds towards the weekly every 20 minutes, they end up with 3 or maybe 4 because apparently actually playing this game is too much effort.
xxjuicesxx
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FyreWulff said:
Logic fail though, because time spent away from the Xbox and time spent actually playing isn't equal.
So it doesn't matter it takes them longer because they aren't sitting, watching, they are doing other things and still getting credits.
Its like if I could get credits being away. It would be irrelevant how much I'm racking up really, as long as my ranks going up. That's what they do.
Shake Appeal
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About two days after launch.
HiredN00bs
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FyreWulff said:
If I were the only one playing in a situation like that I'd just do the same thing. I'm not going to carry them through a round.
ElzarTheBam
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LunaticPuma
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Welcome to bad game design 101 - Filling the Bar and Bad Reward Implementation.
Reach is a bit of an enigma because technically it's got some very nice upgrades to the Halo series with the engine. However some of the game design decisions seem like there made without any oversight. It's like they hired a "B" team to come and fake their last Halo game while all the elders were off on the new project without so much as looking across the office to see what the juniors were up to.
My hope for 343 is that they focus on the actual gameplay and less on extraneous fluff like armor permutations, challenges, and filling bars.
Reach is a bit of an enigma because technically it's got some very nice upgrades to the Halo series with the engine. However some of the game design decisions seem like there made without any oversight. It's like they hired a "B" team to come and fake their last Halo game while all the elders were off on the new project without so much as looking across the office to see what the juniors were up to.
My hope for 343 is that they focus on the actual gameplay and less on extraneous fluff like armor permutations, challenges, and filling bars.
Slightly Live
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xxjuicesxx
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FyreWulff said:
Cmon man.
Really?
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
FyreWulff said:
True, but idlers were not often rewarded in Halo 2. Idlers in Reach actually benefit from it by receiving credits hence bad reward implementation. Idlers in Halo 2 or 3 would maybe get a win in a ranked playlist if lucky.
Credits should be given based on winning and medals in MP with game completion credits being 2-3x as much for winning in ranked playlists and equal for both teams in social playlists. In FF they should be based on quick completion or # of waves completed with big bonuses for completing a full set. Reach doesn't reward playing the game appropriately. It blows my mind that this wasn't obvious to anyone at Bungie.
The Librarian
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Fucking beautiful. Absolutely, positively gorgeous. Hype levels rising.ElzarTheBam said:
xxjuicesxx said:
Yup, really. It's why I stopped playing Ranked Team SWAT in Halo 2. I had almost an idler per game, sometimes 2, from people trying to idle for rank because the games were extremely quick compared to other playlists.
Some people are just so far gone that they'll spend the money to buy a game and then not actually play it.
Hypertrooper
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ElRenoRaven
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Louis Wu said:
Don't remember the name of the Building it was the one of the Xbox campus buildings that had the small cafeteria in it. Might have been the Millenium. Been so long though I can't be sure. That picture is from 04 back when I was still an MVP and went up there for the yearly summit. It was that year I achieved my dream. We saw Bungie that day up on the Second floor of the building. Frankie was in the corner sitting on a desktop talking to some guys with the sun glistening off his bald head, others were gathered around a tv showing off a certain game with a 2 after it. By the door was a bowl of mutant mix at a cubicle. lol
It was a dream come true. Sadly we were forbidden from taking pictures which considering what awesomeness was going on was understandable. Sadly the pictures I did get to take were lost on when I had computer issues but I was lucky enough that at that time we had some great MVPs that I can say I was proud to be a part of and they had copies of some they took.
Hypertrooper
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Yep, the cover is made by Sparth and he works at 343. He did the Halo: Cryptum and the First Strike cover, too. If you want to see more: http://www.sparth.com/Ramirez said:
Gabotron ES
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They hopefully release a spanish translated version this time, readind the english one is not such a big deal but it's not as cool
king picollo
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Ah Halo books, that's a level of fanboi I'm yet to achieve.
Slightly Live
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I had to double take. I thought you said this,
king picollo said:
Miggytronz
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any idea what the update does?
ElRenoRaven
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wwm0nkey said:
Yup the one that they keep making worse remember. I want my original dashboard back goddamn it.
king picollo
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You know what i tell a lie, i read the one that supposedly connects CE with Halo 2.wwm0nkey said:
That was enough to put me off the rest, i didn't think it could give a feel for the action very well.
Hitmonchan107
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The composition of the new cover looks similar to this piece from Sparth:
Maybe it's just me.
I love the new cover so much I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
Maybe it's just me.
I love the new cover so much I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
ncsuDuncan
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I'd like to do an experiment.king picollo said:
Print out a copy of Halo: Cryptum with a cover that simply reads "Cryptum by Greg Bear". Change all instances of "Halo" to "Ringworld" or something.
Give the book to a science fiction fan that has never played Halo (I'm sure there are a few somewhere).
See if the fan can tell it's based on a video game franchise. My guess would be no.
The point I'm trying to make is that dismissing all of the Halo books as "video game novelizations" is unfair. Sure, some of them clearly are, but there's still a ton of good fiction to be found here.
Steelyuhas said:
Any increase in movement speed must have a corresponding increasing in movement acceleration to feel right (I'm sure you know this, just pointing it out). Obviously Halo games need faster base movement speed than the garbage we got for Halo 3 and Reach, but it also needs much crisper strafing.
If 343 fails and doesn't make faster default movement speed and strafe acceleration, at the very least the strafe acceleration needs to be tied to movement speed in the custom options (meaning any increase in speed will not result in "ice skating").
ncsuDuncan
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I wasn't trying to compare Cryptum to Ringworld, I was just saying that it might help for the little experiment if all mentions of the capitalized "Halo" were removed.MrBig said:
Maybe just changing them to the lowercase "halo" would be enough.
I was just trying to make the point that if you strip Cryptum of its Halo references it would still stand as an acceptable science fiction novel. As much as I love The Fall of Reach, I don't think it would work as well for the reader without an existing interest in the games.